flomo

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by flomo 16y ago
I agree where you're coming from, but you are giving it way too much credit. The thing to realize about this pickup stuff is that it is a product. A product which is being marketed to the most socially-retarded members of the "everyone's a
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by flomo 16y ago
The quality/competitiveness of Apple's mid-1990s computers is subjective and invariably turns into a back-and-forth. However, Windows 95 demolished Apple's profit margins, and that's what counts.
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by flomo 16y ago
Nope, IBM's open source efforts are generally 'lipstick on a pig' sex-appeal marketing efforts rather than something they are seriously invested in. What IBM doesn't tell you in their PR is that mainframes are still very much the profit eng
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by flomo 16y ago
FWIW, these were used quite a bit back in the dark-ages. Always thought of them as a halfway point between pure CSS and Netscape's idea of implementing stylesheets in Javascript.
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by flomo 16y ago
Probably worth more than a mention. What if there was a new social network exclusive to college students (i.e. no parents or future bosses or people from high school)? It might not supplant facebook, but it is a model that has been proven t
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by flomo 16y ago
Very doubtful that anyone ever made any money from NeXT, and that includes Steve Jobs.
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by flomo 16y ago
Macintosh's high margins have always been derived from a strictly segmented product line, even pre-Jobs. There's simply too many "holes" in their line to support a consumer-based clone strategy without it turning into a race to the bottom.
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by flomo 16y ago
If you accept the other poster's theory that the crack is a reconstructed binary, then the crack itself is copyright infringement.
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by flomo 16y ago
"Academic success" is required to enter many highly paid occupations: law, medicine, finance, etc. So I would disagree it is a useless indicator, it is directly related to one's future income.