I don't think Qantas can't implement any of your suggestions as they all sound like government decisions.

You grossly underestimate the infrastructure requirements to provide a service like netflix across the world. It's far easier, and more profitable, licensing to many companies (netflix, itunes, blockbuster, hulu, amazon, etc.) and sit back collecting royalties while focusing on their primary business, which is creating content.

If I deposit $100 into an FDIC insured bank account, in all but the most ridiculous extreme cases, I'll be able to withdraw $100 whenever I'd like. Whether or not the bank is speculating with my money doesn't particularly concern me as long as I have access to the funds I deposited. With Bitcoin, this is must less likely to happen as the value fluctuates wildly in very short amounts of time.

Exactly. Just look at the bottom of the device and if you see a single button, it's the iPad. Lawyers who have been fighting over this for this long should be able to at least distinguish that.

I just did this two weeks ago on a Dell laptop. From start to fully functional OS, starting with a non-dell windows xp CD, including sound, network (both wireless and ethernet), and graphics drivers totaled about 2 hours. The total time is misleading as well because more than an hour of that was formatting and waiting for the installer to copy the files over.

Dell's site was easy to navigate for my old laptop (Dell D620) and had all the drivers broken down by category. It was a complete no-brainer, and I'm quite certain my mom could've done it without issue.

Amazon already has a CDN; it's called cloudfront. Since Amazon is already in the CDN business, I can't see how your question makes any sense. Are you suggesting people will flock away from limelight and akamai just because they want to serve some kindles faster? lol....

My mistake.. the last sentence should be "... Q1 2011 profit number ..." instead of "... Q2 2011 profit number ..." -- sorry.

Regarding Zynga, how about doing as suggested and read the details? (I won't comment on Groupon, as I've never believed in their product at all)

Their quarterly revenue actually went up by more than $30M over the previous quarter; $279M vs $242M. They didn't launch a new game the entire year, until May 31st. (one month before the end of Q2) Since then, they have also launched a new Indiana Jones themed game, Adventure World. Keep in mind that Zynga will be one of the early players on Google's new social network, already launching their biggest game, Cityville, on the platform.

They had higher than normal hiring expenses, including a $10M payment as part of an executive's sign-on bonus. They also paid out $10.6M in a stock warrant. Both of these are quite likely to be one time events, and neither of them made many appearances in the media. If you take those two payments out, you are back at ~$22M in profit, which would be an increase in year over year, and almost double Q1 2011's profit of $11.8M. My source outlines most of this for you, in case you'd rather not read through the details yourself. I knew the Q2 2011 profit number, but here is another source for you to check out in case you don't believe me.

Do you live in New Zealand? From my understanding, it's quite expensive to do many high bandwidth activities at home due to their low caps.

To say that poker is pure skill is simply untrue. A perfect example that comes to mind is Chris Moneymaker winning the 2003 WSOP? You can honestly say, straight faced, that he was the best poker player in that tournament? I didn't think so.

Perhaps you should watch some more poker on TV, or head down to your local card room more often; poker is not all skill. All it takes is a little luck on one or two hands and the tides turn. In that moment when you shoved all in with AK suited, and you get a ridiculous call with 4-3 off, the skill it took to get you to that point is thrown out the window when the flop comes 443.

you took my reply as a serious answer. that's so cute.

tell them to go home and get on their PC?