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Quote: Originally Posted by ErosLWS Office 2011 is the gold standard for office suites, it makes iWork look like Office '97 (except that Excel '97 had more features than Numbers, but that's another issue). Versions, auto-save, and full-screen are…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pooch it didn't create jobs during the last tax holiday, and it won't create jobs during another tax holiday. it didn't spur further investment during the last tax holiday, and it won't spur investment during another …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Linguist All true. I'm actually getting more and more hesitant to buy stuff from a company with all this cash in the bank that still ships all of its production offshore, and then looks for a tax break on repatriating …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Oh, these guys with cash would use it to create US jobs!?? Sure they would. If it made fiscal sense to do so, they would. But it has to make fiscal sense, compared to the cost of having the products manufac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NomadMac The biggest American export to China is our middle class. Apple doesn't even pay a living wage in its stores. Apple isn't going to bring back manufacturing to Elk Grove. Since I know several people livin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell Typically these things get settled for far less. A Trustee would have to sue you in Bankruptcy Court to recover the funds if you refused to pay. This costs money and time that the Trustee will not recover if he o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lamewing I have read the patents Apple is suing HTC about and they are just a vague as these. Remember, this kind of nonsense works both ways. Apple (and any other company) cannot expect to play the patent game and the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jsmythe00 Recent news states the iPad is cannabilizing mac sales. LMAO. Really Apple. They're creating great products to kill off their...other great products. This is why Apple is gonna eventually fail Also, I th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer As a Theoretical Physicist manqué I feel a bit of sadness about the failure of RIM because Lazaridis has done a lot for the subject in founding Perimeter, but it seems like there is no saving RIM - they have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 So you claim. Batteries have caught fire in the past, so it *can* happen. What's so special about battery controller firmware that x86 code couldn't be stored in it? Code is just bits of data - there's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sasparilla At least Apple is still selling the hard copy online if you want it (didn't pull a FCS and shred everything before people could get the last ones they might want) - but the handwriting (Mac Mini doesn't have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lamewing But it is much easier to replace a CD than the internet. Plus, after you use the CD, put it in a sleeve and file it safely away. How is the disc going to fail exactly? In which case your CDs warp and ripple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NomadMac I have plenty of install CDs that are still good. One uses a CD install disk maybe once and it gets put away. Why would they fail? Meanwhile, I have a client moving into a new facility of 50,000 square feet…
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Quote: Originally Posted by doh123 I'd rather have a recovery utility on a bootable USB stick... Create one on a thumb drive for yourself...
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Quote: Originally Posted by JackTheRat If the day ever dawns when AAPL fall short of analyst quarterly expectations by even a few thousand dollars, the naysayers WILL return, they haven't gone away. How long can this growth last? ...21 cons…
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as Microsoft strikes deals with HTC and other vendors around the Android licensing and WP7 licensing. If Redmond is smart they will use the Apple challenges to step in behind and say "hey guys listen, if you reduce or drop Android production, we'll …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hittrj01 I think you hit the nail on the head. The consumer market is such a small piece of the pie, but it's where all the profit is. Businesses, corporation, governments... they don't care about anything but the upfr…
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...to continue to use Foxcomm/HonHai for now, in that they are part of the China ecosystem and are seen as viable and important contributors to the China economy. In fact this may give Apple some special privileges in China (unlikely but not out of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer That's a real stretch where software patents are concerned, the fact is that copyright provided enough protection for software for decades - the extension of the use of patents to software and business pract…
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Quote: Originally Posted by inkswamp And Gil Amelio has a bachelors, masters, and PhD in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. That sound? Me sinking your battleship. ...hence the fallacy of assuming degree ownership by itself …