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by hop 16y ago
A love letter to Dieter Rams Except its less durable and the unsymmetrical breaks in the steel band take away from its clean, minimal aesthetic. The band's function as an antenna is compromised by conductive fingers. I normally would not
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by hop 16y ago
Thanks Kara Wilson, VP of Collaborative Solutions Marketing. As a corporate division manager myself, you identified the very cornerstones we plan to implement in Q3 - synergy, paradigm shift, and corporate MBA tech speak. Getting signed Ciu
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by hop 16y ago
Quite a different tune than Sergi's initial gung ho, human rights are being violated by sensoring searches, and we aren't evil responce.
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by hop 16y ago
Massive competition from many established companies, $300M+ tooling costs to roll out a new car, low profit margins, high marketing costs, long sales cycles, etc... Auto manufactuing is a bad business to be in, maybe second only to operatin
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by hop 16y ago
Yes, you're very right. I more accurately should have said acting in the shareholders interest, which it certainly is in this type of non-shady way to lessen tax liability. If a director, maybe al gore, was against the idea for the pious s
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by hop 16y ago
The board of directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to do what is in the best interest of the company and shareholders. If the choice is to invest our extra cash thru a CA based corp, pay more tax, have a lower return and ultimately l
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by hop 16y ago
Article title is misleading, they only minimize some capital gains tax on their cash and investments with the nevada entity. And they certainly have a duty to shareholders to do so. They pay hundreds of millions in income tax on their profi
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by hop 16y ago
Oh, certainly not defending it. The knew how many people were coming well ahead of time. I live in Portland, there's only one little Apple store for all of downtown and the eastside - it was a nightmare.
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by hop 16y ago
The iPhone 4 uses a microsim instead of regular sim cards. It takes some time to replace and transfer data to the new one - the whole process takes 15min per person, thus mindlowinly slow lines.
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by hop 16y ago
Can anyone say why this momentary "flash crash" was a big deal? Who cares if people or computers trade securities under market value for a short amount of time? It only affects the idiot that is selling them at that undervalued price. The v
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by hop 16y ago
There were 2000 American car companies started after Ford, now there are three. ~Warren Buffett
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by hop 16y ago
Tesla is a cool project/company, but car companies have never historically been good investments. Massive competition from many established companies, $200M+ tooling costs to roll out a new car, low profit margins, high marketing costs, et
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by hop 16y ago
CNC Machined, you cant die cast with that accuracy or get all that inside geometrey - http://www.apple.com/macmini/design.html
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by hop 16y ago
Foxconn certainly pushes the limits of mass production, but Apple's engineers make their designers visions come to life and figure out how to do manufacturing no one else has done before. Johnny's CNC play ground - http://www.filmmakermaga
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by hop 16y ago
For a unibody macbook pro, they stamp the underside curvature (I think...), then put it in a fixture and hog out the aluminum in similar fashion to this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHTQG_7bdbg , then they finish the sides, add tapped h
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by hop 16y ago
I do lots of crazy CNC machining, own a mechanical engineering/industrial design company, and think this housing is unreal if its really machined from a solid block of aluminum. The undercuts, the thin walls, the perfect finish, a mass prod
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by hop 16y ago
A nuclear event would fit that and could certainly happen in the next 20 years -- - Israel bombing all suspected Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran retaliating with a nuke. - Low level or dirty bomb by any number of terrorists groups in the w
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by hop 16y ago
I pay about $100/month with a $2500 deductible. Doctor visits are a $10 copay. I'm 27.
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by hop 16y ago
Up 60% in a decade? Thats maintaining, not growing for a tech company. Especially for MS, which could completely be attributed to more people being able to afford computers. The market clearly reflects that in their falling P/E over the dec
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by hop 16y ago
I am awed by their business sense How could a CEO inherit a company with as big of moat as Microsoft and not have piles of cashflow - no matter what he did? They spend $9 billion on R&D and what have they shipped? Windows 7, finally?
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by hop 16y ago
Forged steel is much harder than anodized aluminum. My 1st gen aluminum phone got beat up and deformed, this should be much better. Also interesting is the incredible strength and toughness of the glass they showed getting deformed in the b
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by hop 16y ago
Just got a Canon T2i dslr last week and the video quality is amazing - an order of magnitude beyond any consumer video camera I have used - highly recommend going to a store to try it for yourself. Here are some samples on vim - http://vim
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by hop 16y ago
Unless you need 48M in working capital like Zappos did, there are few investors other than venture capitalists.
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by hop 16y ago
Their incentive is to make it look cool, wow an audience, and bring more grant money to the MIT Media Lab. Contrast this with a company that puts the pieces together and ships a useful product - like the iPad UI... I always thought crazy co
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by hop 16y ago
My human sexuality teacher in college complained that engineering profs are paid more money, she had no perception of market value. I'm sure it would go over like the bay of pigs, but if the gov't and colleges starting subsidizing majors ba
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by hop 16y ago
Have a recommendation for finding a place to stay? Is it best to just go down there and figure it out? I have heard the internet is very good down there, do you know? I have been thinking about this for a long time, thanks for the post.
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by hop 16y ago
Its only $499 and you can easily sell it on ebay for most of its value if you don't want it. At least that was my thought process when getting one.
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by hop 16y ago
Costs for tablets will certainly spiral as manufacturing is so simple and Android is free to the OEMs. Tough comparing to iPad to Android #'s b/c everyone needs a cell phone and their lifecycle is about 1.5 years.
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by hop 16y ago
I was advised once to have the company take out big insurance policies on both of us then encourage him to get a crotch rocket or start free soloing rock climbing.
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by hop 16y ago
I got Senneiser HD 202 over the ear headphones and they sound phenominal and block outside really well. I was skeptical b/c they are only $30 at Amazon, but have 4.5/5 stars with 1000+ reviews. You could get three pairs!

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