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In the time it takes to find a house -- any house, maybe even the wrong house -- in the newspaper and then go see it, well in that amount of time using the Internet you can find the house, order an inspection, get a loan, and make an offer on the darned thing.
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If Bill had been able to do something about Vista, he would have. I think the answer is "no," that Microsoft's bullying didn't really gain the company much in the long run and certainly hurt Gates' wealth, which is a number that has been very important to him over the years.
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All heat is recycled, no carbon dioxide is released (that's the theory) and all that gets pumped out of the plant is some excess electricity (not sure how much of that), hydrogen, all those algae products, and of course oxygen.
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Given the code Apple already has for its iWork applications, how much more effort would it take to webify those apps, too? And that's just in the U.S. What about those other 69 countries that will have iPhone service by the end of the year and the 62 that will allow Apple's App Store?
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This automobile life expectancy means that any technology improvement has to trickle into the market because only about 10 percent of the total fleet is replaced each year with new cars -- the only cars that are likely to have the latest technology.
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And by treating all teams equally it means the easiest (and only sure way) to make money from the Google Lunar X Prize is to pay the $10,000 registration fee then do nothing more, just waiting for that check to arrive for an equal share of the media dollars.
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But the bigger question is why IT even has to work this way at all? One of the real miracles of the PC revolution was that it often was led by super-users -- enthusiasts who had a PC at home before they had one at work and who led their co-workers as much through example as skill.
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Into this knowledge vacuum come the vendors, who want to sell stuff, and the consultants like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and the Yankee Group, who need IT managers to feel uncertain about every decision except the decision to buy something, anything.
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AND it's probably the only place you'll see a Carly Fiorina interview. For a final data point in this WiMax story, look at this week's announcement from Cablevision about their planned WiFi build-out in the footprint of their existing cable TV network in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
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While Final Cut Pro probably makes a lot of money for Apple, the other professional apps probably just break even. Sony's Vegas editing package is hardly competitive, so that company might well want all the apps to shore up its own hardware sales, not just in computers but also broadcast equipment.
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