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   by sunchild 17y ago

   "I'd be very interested in what you think a non-fanciful market cap number is - and how you arrive at it!" Market cap is defined as "a measurement of size of a business enterprise (corporation) equal to the share price times the number of s
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   Any suggestions of ethical gadget bloggers would be appreciated. I don't give Gizmodo pageviews because of this incident. I don't give Engadget pageviews because it feeds Calacanis' troll ego.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   So you assume comparable P/E to other much larger and more established companies, in order to arrive at a fanciful market cap number, in order to prove...something. No wonder these bubbles keep bursting.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   Yes, you definitely missed the point.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   [1] Wishful thinking? [2] Fickle user group.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   What is the basis for the "P" in your "P/E" calculus?
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   "facebook has a population" Every time I hear this meme repeated, I get the (depressing) image of roughly 400,000,000 stub accounts that were created to check out FB, and promptly abandoned to gather dust.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   Oddly enough, all of the things that you mentioned are useless to me.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   Fair question. I base my opinion (and it's an opinion) on history. I'm a relatively old man. I've been hearing about technologies that are going to take over the world for decades, and none have delivered for more than a few years. I rem
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Here's my counter-prediction: 5 years from now, both Facebook and Techcrunch will be as relevant as MySpace is today.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    The facebook tie-in makes zero sense to me. Why isn't this aimed at business users?
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    I'm very puzzled by the connection to Facebook. Why wouldn't Microsoft enable this kind of collaboration for business users first?
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Well, I won't argue with you that the more honorable response to accidentally killing children would probably be to break down in tears, go home and commit ritual seppukku. However, these guys are paid to carry out the nasty state business
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    The style in which it was written can only be described as "infuriatingly circumspect".
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    "There’s no easy way to kill somebody. You don’t just take somebody’s life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. That stays with you. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. That’s why so many soldiers
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    "...according to almost every person as well as almost every religion/philosophy, on completely different planes of existence..." This whole thread is OT, but this statement is extremely dubious. You have no basis for evaluating another be
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Also, this ... http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/04/20/teenager-beat-iphone-...
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    I actually did the same. I rarely get disgusted enough to resort to censorship, but Denton's craven, smug pageview whoring is just begging for the ban hammer. Also, putting comments down for the day reminded me that Gawker Media is nothing
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    I like the spirit of this. Personally, I'd love to see lawyers move toward plain text (to make it easy to process legal documents as raw data) rather than toward more sophisticated presentation text, but that's just my bias. Of course, the
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    I was responding to this comment: "If you want this, lobby for patent reform."
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Setting aside your attack on "Steve", the point I'm making is that no one WITHOUT A PATENT has developed an iPhone, or anything remotely close. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Ironically, this little NYC scene (including the author of this article) is also very incestuous and prone to logrolling.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    And the phone also would not exist.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Yahoo is focused on squandering money on overhyped, flash-in-the-pan products, in order to hasten its demise. Words like "stock momentum" and "focused on local" are apparently euphemisms for "lost in the woods".
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    By that logic, no one can impose any restrictions on anything ever.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    It was the "sheets" part that I was referring to, but fair down-voting as it was a trivial gripe!
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    I had a BillG review a few years earlier, when he came to my high school to review student work in the new math/science building that he and Paul Allen funded. I demoed (one-on-one!) an RPG that I made in Hypercard on a Mac Plus. ;) To hi
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    It gets a little silly to talk about "phones" in this context. Making and receiving one-to-one voice communications is already just one of many features, and arguably already not the main feature.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    "You lose the ability to separate your valuable data from the application, and it encourages lock-in within each app." Most users of MS Word will be familiar with this.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    The author thinks third party apps that open browser "sheets" are using an Apple "API". There goes any credibility he had.