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811.
by gamble 17y ago
I have to give this guy some respect as the only honest franchisor I've ever seen: "We make 6 percent of sales on the franchises. All franchises work the same way: People say they want to sell your product. So you give them a Franchise Deve
812.
by gamble 17y ago
As the article mentions in the last paragraph, vanilla cell phones were luxuries until quite recently, even in the west. I wouldn't be surprised if smartphones are ubiquitous in the third world within the next decade.
813.
by gamble 17y ago
One of the things I most respect about Apple is that recognize the purpose of a business is to turn a profit - preferably by selling products people want - not obsessing about market share. The iPhone doesn't have a huge market share and li
814.
by gamble 17y ago
People always approach this problem from the seller's side, presumably because the seller is more aware of how much money goes to the agent. But the real issue is that people use an agent to buy their home, and agents won't show private sal
815.
Why PC power management sucks(apenwarr.ca)
2 points by gamble 17y ago|0 comments
816.
by gamble 17y ago
Android gives app developers enough rope to hang themselves, or at least waste the battery by constantly firing up the radio or GPS. I agree that you don't need a task manager to conserve memory, but there's no automatic solution for overac
817.
by gamble 17y ago
Too many announcements. =) I agree - the gaming network will be a big deal, especially since it will provide an alternative channel for developers to market their games. It gives the iPhone the social marketing aspect of Facebook games.
818.
by gamble 17y ago
The 3G is slow enough already...
819.
by gamble 17y ago
Wolf cubs, maybe. =)
820.
by gamble 17y ago
Sure - just like the iPad isn't going to kill off the Kindle overnight. Still, when a competitor can put out a product that halves your market share in its first week on the market, you sit up and take notice. Everything Google's done in th
821.
by gamble 17y ago
...and Apple bought a mapping company last year: PlaceBase.
822.
by gamble 17y ago
Nothing. But likewise, Google's core competence in search doesn't help them at all, while iAd will be baked into the development kit, App Store, and millions of devices.
823.
by gamble 17y ago
I suspect that apps will be the big market for iAd, at least initially. You'll be able to see the reviews, screenshots, and buy the app directly from within another app.
824.
by gamble 17y ago
The beauty of iAds is that it plays to Apple's strengths. In particular, they're the one handset manufacturer that has a unified platform large enough to support an advertising platform and an OS capable of rich interactive ads. Google coul
825.
by gamble 17y ago
A good HTML 5 authoring tool is going to be so valuable, that whoever has the balls to built it is going to look pretty smart in a couple of years... and Adobe is either going to buy them, or ride Flash down into irrelevance.
826.
by gamble 17y ago
Absolutely. There's a reason that task manager apps are popular downloads for every phone that offers multitasking. You won't see them on iPhone OS 4.0.
827.
by gamble 17y ago
iAd is the ultimate FU to Google. The cheap way to pay them back for Android would have been to banish Google from the iPhone. Instead, they're attempting to transform mobile advertising into something where Google's technical strengths are
828.
by gamble 17y ago
Italy in 1913 was nominally an ally of Germany and Austria, but in truth more closely allied with France. It's possible that the French and Italian authorities wanted to avoid a public spectacle that would inflame nationalists in both count
829.
by gamble 17y ago
The story is entertaining, but the con-man angle tacked at the end is highly dubious. Even if there was reason to believe that Valfierno even existed, its hard to swallow a century-old third-hand tale from an admitted con-man without a shre
830.
by gamble 17y ago
The whole point of SVN was to bring CVS up-to-date. People use it because, for whatever reason, they want a modern CVS. I'm not sure you can improve it without sacrificing the familiarity that's really SVN's primary asset.
831.
by gamble 17y ago
Yes, when Aljazeera first began broadcasting the American press had nothing but praise for them. It was only when they refused to parrot the party line on Iraq and 9/11 that the media turned against Aljazeera.
832.
by gamble 17y ago
Like real estate agents, most recruiters eventually realize that it's more lucrative to increase the quantity of placements they make, not the quality.
833.
by gamble 17y ago
Reducing the dimensions of integrated circuits is a relatively straight-forward extension of a 50 year-old technology. It doesn't mean that the underlying science is advancing at an exponential rate.
834.
by gamble 17y ago
Seconded. The Innovator's Dilemma is a classic, and remarkably free of the usual business press BS. It's particularly interesting today, as we're waiting to see who will survive the transition to SSD. Five years ago, who would have thought
835.
by gamble 17y ago
Yikes. If there's anything I've learned, it's to avoid people in the third category at all costs. These are the guys who see every transaction as a zero-sum game, and the people who will stick a knife in you the moment an opportunity presen
836.
by gamble 17y ago
The speed issue is mostly a shortcoming of the 3G. The 3G is so slow under iPhone OS 3.0, I'd have a hard time recommending it to anyone. The 3GS doesn't have the same problem, but as I don't have a N1 it's hard for me to compare them.
837.
by gamble 17y ago
Which is exactly why the crimes are so loosely defined. The prosecutor loads up a defendant with every conceivable charge, in the expectation that they'll plead guilty to avoid an absurdly long sentence. Only the bravest, most foolish, or t
838.
by gamble 17y ago
The conviction rate for federal crimes in the US is around 95%, a level typically associated with countries like Japan or Russia that are routinely criticized for their kangaroo courts.
839.
by gamble 17y ago
"Beijing has pointed out many times that a contraction in the Chinese trade surplus does not necessarily mean an equivalent contraction in the US trade deficit. All it requires is an equivalent contraction in the rest of the world’s net tra
840.
by gamble 17y ago
Think that's something? Check of The Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray. Hell hath no fury like a geek scorned.

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