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by gamble 18y ago
Great article. A friend of mine finally secured her first faculty position in English this summer; you need balls to slog through that many years knowing there's no guarantee you'll be able to find a job at the end. On the other hand, if a
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by gamble 18y ago
It's possible you're right, though I honestly don't understand why anyone would buy something through eBay when they can get an identical item through Amazon for the same price without the hassle and risk of fraud.
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by gamble 18y ago
It's self-defeating if the end result is drowning out the unique and used items that attract eBay's core customers.
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by gamble 18y ago
I continue to use eBay, but only for obscure collectibles and art that can't be found anywhere else. They're still irreplaceable in that respect. Still, it's hard to imagine why they think spamming themselves with fixed-price auctions is go
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by gamble 18y ago
Individual employees of a large organization are the very definition of a hard sale. Several hurdles come to mind: 1. Very few people are self-starters to the degree that they'll learn new software voluntarily. 2. It's rare to find anyone w
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by gamble 18y ago
It's amusing to see Palm try to save itself by becoming more like Apple. Palm is in the position it is today largely because it followed all the dubious advice pundits heaped on Apple during the 90s - split the company into hardware and sof
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by gamble 18y ago
I don't think the Kindle is in any danger of shutting down the ink-and-paper presses yet. 10% of sales, on Amazon, of books available electronically is a vanishingly small percentage of the market. Now if you could rent books via the Kindle
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by gamble 18y ago
The marketing of Android as the 'open' smartphone OS has always seemed a bit ad-hoc to me. When Google originally drew up its plans for Android, long before the iPhone was public knowledge, they were much more worried about WiMo shutting th
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by gamble 18y ago
All of MS's profits come from Windows and Office. The odd quarter excepted, everything else they do operates at a loss. For any other company, habitual 9-10 figure losses would have heads rolling on the floor.
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by gamble 18y ago
It's hard to believe that Knol has already become so popular that it would rank on the first page of generic searches like 'buttermilk pancakes' if Google wasn't giving them a bump.
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by gamble 18y ago
RIM has some solid products, no doubt. It's hard to imagine the iPhone will be able to cut into their core market without a physical keyboard and a BES equivalent. The trouble for RIM is that their current stock price is predicated on conti
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by gamble 18y ago
What a bizarre, convoluted way to justify buying Perforce.
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by gamble 18y ago
The comments turned sharply negative once people had a chance to play with cuil. At the moment, the top story that comes up for 'cuil' on Google News is Time's front-page article trashing them. I can understand the temptation to make a big
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by gamble 18y ago
You can buy them right now from any number of websites. The sticking point is cost - about $100 per bulb. If the money that Philips is devoting to R&D can reduce the price to a reasonable level, they have a good shot at replacing compac
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by gamble 18y ago
It's incredible how quickly HN has transformed into reddit.
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by gamble 18y ago
'Openness' has always seemed like a fragile foundation for a mobile platform. Mobile operators are the least 'open' companies out there, and they hold all the keys in this market. If Android apps really are going to be unrestricted, then th
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by gamble 18y ago
Interesting product. I worked on a web-based LMS (not Blackboard) for several years. The trick with this market is finding a way to squeeze out a profit. There's a very limited amount individual teachers are willing to spend, but selling to