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My point was not to assume that this makes sense economically just because Apple did it. They have other ways of getting their money back and if they lose, it's just a rounding error http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=AAPL&annual

You sure have seen the Beyond Petroleum ads, haven't you? http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/15/beyond-petrole...

But for 99.99% of "smart people," college is probably the best bet. Even if you had a few $million, that can go very easily over the course of decades with a few bad investment decisions, medical bills or whatever. A safe job usually provides a steady income for decades and decades.

Thiel is set for life and then some, but even if he loses the money he has a top college education to fall back on. So it's easy to make experiments with other people's lives.

No matter what, do not expect to work for Thiel's funds without a degree and from a top college http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-14/wall_street/3...

I understand that just because you can do it, you shouldn't do it, but Google is different, they did not make the film and their platform should be open to all but illegal stuff (child pppron for example).

I am upset that certain people call me an infidel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafir . Google should remove those videos that cal everyone else an unbeliever or else ;).

Wait until it starts, it will at least double the initial projections. It sure makes you wonder if it's just payback to certain groups or spending to create (very expensive) jobs for a while.

Like it or not, Microsoft wins a lot of points for supporting older versions for a decade plus. They might lose a few bucks on a new Windows license but make it back on reputation and other enterprise tools.

I suspect your comment too will seem obviously wrong in sixty-five years. Geez

Personally I'd want better battery life (who wouldn't) but would not buy a phone for a stylus and 5.5 inch screen is too big for me.

Devil's advocate: How has Kindle Fire hurt consumers? It hasn't but it has hurt Google. This is the same (minus the market share) like Microsoft saying to Samsung, Sony and Acer "Release Android phones and no Windows licenses for you" or something to that effect, considering the Google Apps /vs Android code.

Lots of speculation from all of us, but assuming that the story is true, you are wrong. First Google says that Android is open source and free to improve so what's the big deal?

Secondly, Google holds a large percentage of the-mobile market through the official Android so anti-trust is listening. A clear case of anti-competitive behavior since Google would not be able to control the non-official forks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4476508

Who's we? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_statistics

Personally I use it on a separate browser but wanted to point out that you (and me) are in the minority.

Now replace Redmond with ...http://farm1.staticflickr.com/29/43356340_36deb98522.jpg :)

I doubt people could tell the difference between 7 million and 10 million pixels, unless you want to put it on a billboard

Android has cost billions but what if Apple and Microsoft shared the mobile market and replaced the default SE with Bing or Yahoo? That was Google's worry and that's why they spent billions for years. That huge expense was essentially hidden by filling web search pages with ads in commercial niches to the point of making them unusable. When earnings grow by double digit questions are few

I'd put my money on this one ^^, if I had to choose. If growth is 50% month to month founders can learn to "agree to disagree" over a lot of things. Quora was way too overhyped to begin with and maybe they bought their own hype

Maybe I am getting it wrong but does it matter how you die? Generally speaking (averaged out,) if you live in US and do what the average person does, you will get in accidents and deal with the pressures that push some to suicides (around 10 to 22 per 100,000 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/suicide-rates-rise-... .) Even if you are careful, the recently licensed teenager, to stereotype, can ram his car into yours.

Lives can be ruined by exposing private messages, website visited etc., so Wikileaks dropped a lot of notches in my opinion.

on another note, here's a random message from the files:

|whats up listen tomorrow let me go alone to overnite ok its not cause i dont want you to go is that i need to think about somethings that i need to clear my mind dont get mad or trip i need to do this fo

Is it me or this is wrong? It cheapens whatever mission Wikileaks had. I do not want my private messages broadcast all over the world, especially when I'm a private citizen.

Remember: HTC's loyalties are with their shareholders, not to fight a war against Apple on behalf of Google or Android fans. If their board determined that selling bottled water was better than making phones, they have a duty to pivot. Google (Motorola) is different, they have a much larger stake in Android.

Glasses are another animal, both price and the cool factor are hurdles. Not cool > http://www.freetechnologyadvise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/...