Sign that a company is jumping or is about to jump the shark: Build a huge lavish HQ.
Although, Google didn't mind when SGI did it.. they got a great deal on the real estate.
Apple actually has revenue and cash in the bank.
What do you say about a small company like LinkedIn putting up brand new buildings instead of just moving into existing vacant buildings in the area.
Note, a high Australian dollar means that we should be paying less for our imports not more!. Sadly we aren't. The excuse from the retailers has been that they originally imported goods when the AUS dollar was low and anyway the dollar to go back to "normal" at some point soon. Of course, the ignore the fact that we've have had a strong AUS dollar for a number of years now.
You do realize that there is more to it than just the exchange rate, right?
Import duty. Private copying levy. Etc.
blocks that self assemble == replicators
Yet.....
Who wants to watch a series of movies where the hero is going to go over to the dark side and....
Doctor Horrible was a good example.
Meanwhile, Slashdot found the perp within 53 minutes.
Found? Even when the perp did a news interview long before this was even posted on Slashdot?
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/9112799-artist-behind-fake-drone-signs-explains-head-turning-project/
First I've ever heard of them also.
When I saw the reference in tweets, I thought it was about some hotel in competition with W.
I hate M$ as much as the rest. but when did they start taking 30% of anything you do?
Yup. All that credit card processing, servers, electricity, internet connection, etc. you should get for free I guess.
Many at NASA in the 1970s should be flogged for over-promising and under-budgeting a single-stage-to-orbit "truck".
Keep in mind that Congress and the Air Force were back seat designers on the Space Shuttle. It wasn't all NASA's fault.
Freedom of speech implies that the speech is true.
Not in North America. Courts in both countries have stated that while lying may make you a scum bag, it is still free speech.
While it's likely that deflation makes Bitcoin unsuitable as a currency, that doesn't make it a scam, just flawed.
Did you stock up on Flooz as well?
Why is that child allowed to act?
He is Steven Spielberg's illegitamate child.
Or lover.
What I do not understand is WHY people need to 'share' and 'edit' word processor documents or spreadsheets 'on line' anyway. Why?
For the same reason that many of these same people think they need to write their e-mail as a Word document.
Or send pictures as a presentation file.
T-mobile is horrible because the minutes expire after a year
Incorrect.
The prepay account expires a year after you add money to the account.
If you add $10 to the account before the end of the year period, it continues on.
My primary metric is cost, so I'm on Virgin Mobile in spite of the limited coverage.
Virgin Mobile runs on Sprint's network.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
