PeterB

How Soon Can Apple's Market Cap Surpass Microsoft's?

Additional note re the operating system: I think the original Mac operating system was quite different from the recent ones. I doubt if the interconnection of computers was much thought about when it was developed. I worked at NeXT Computer (during Steve Job's absence from Apple), though on hardware, not software, but that computer, one of the first to include Ethernet connections, originally 10Base-2 and later 10Base-T, ran a Unix version, which I believe became the basis for the later Mac software.

And my NeXT stock option is still around, making me long on Apple, and enjoying the major rise on that logarithmic chart!

How Soon Can Apple's Market Cap Surpass Microsoft's?

Au contraire; thank you for using a logarithmic scale, since the ratio between the values plotted is much better represented on such a scale (a constant distance is a constant ratio), especially on values that scan a factor of about 100. I rescued a logarithmic chart of the Dow Jones index from my stockbroker, because it was the first one I had seen. Anyone dealing with financial matters had better understand Napier's invention, just as physicists, engineers, sound experts, and many others do.


On Apr 24 04:06 PM User 401648 wrote:

> Why on earth would you make the graph Y-axis logarithmic? There is
> no logical reason to do so. People who did not notice or do not understand
> log scale will completely misinterpret the data. Perhaps that is
> what you intended?

Skype for iPhone: Beginning of the End For Mobile Phone Revenue Growth?

I get VOIP service on all our cell phones as well as our landline through a service called Tel3 (tel3advantage.com), where I dial a local number, it recognizes the callerID, (or I can log in via our primary number and a password), and I get Skype-like rates to any phone anywhere. From the landline, I use it for everything beyond local calls (so my POST is local only; NB 911 works as normal), and for the cell phones all international calls. Only problem is that it is from US only, though I have called it from abroad, to call another international number, only paying the semi-exhorbitant roaming rate + Tel3, rather than the full exhorbitant rate. Quality is usually very good, and they have a try-again routine that reroutes the occasional bad one.

Smart Grid: Powering Us Out of Recession

I don't see how ultracaps can trim the blades on windmills. And running a flashlight for an hour is far away from running even a house for a few hours.


On Mar 12 01:51 PM andychoka wrote:

> The leader in ultracaps is a small growing company named Maxwell
> Technologies (seekingalpha.com/symbo...). Ultracaps have
> become the leading method to trim blades on windmills also.