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        <title><![CDATA[Hmmm]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-345089-3460366]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I guess Apple makes better toys than Microsoft.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gkoval@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sitting under the tree with a coconut?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well at least your MS fanboy colors are clearly up the mast. Point of correction though, MS didn't save Apple it was a face saving measure to resolve a long running law suit. Secondly as XP is well known as X Pretend - run your photocopiers Redmond - Apple seems to have been the free research dept for MS for years. Only failed when they didn't release anything ahead of Vista - oops wasn't supposed to mention that word... or ME I suppose. The world is better for both of them being there so unless we want to sit under a tree with a coconut long may they both survive.Oh, and Apple is also worth more than Google and MS combined.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:05:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes there is]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Generally just contact the OEM and they will sell you a simple OS install CD, usually like $9.99.  Of course if you had created the DVD's when you purchased your computer, just restart them.Both HP and DELL have this kind of a set up and their systems don't require a key.  It may be embedded in the OS, but it probably knows upon installation what the manufacturer of the system is that you are installing on.  Some of this may no longer be valid as I have not had to re-install a Windows 7 system on an OEM.BTW-Dell uses the phrase &quot;Recovery Disk&quot;, which sounds like what you are referring to.  On some of the Dells I have worked on, that is the Windows OS.  If you have a friend with a DELL OS or Recovery disk, you can legally install from their system since it checks the laptops chipset to ensure you are running a real Dell computer, given that you both own the same version of Windows.Don't forget, create the DVD's, backup your system, image your computer.  The responsibility is on you.  It's like a car, you expect it to work for a while, but without some maintenance, it will breakdown.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jakesty]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:28:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re Too Big To Fail]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes, like Enron.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[itadmin@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:33:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pure bubble]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It simply is small investors' blindness for other opportunities.I can hardly wait to see the burst.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ScarF]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:50:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[jakesty: Why drag Google into this?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Google is trying desperately to be relevant in other IT areas beyond their search engine.  They're being somewhat successful in the smartphone market, but, it's turning out that, they may have done it at the expense of stealing IP from others.  However, I don't fault them for trying other areas, because, it's best to be diversified when a competitor could come along and take away whatever advantage you had in your 1 main product.  Same with Apple, which has been my argument.Apple may be &quot;branching&quot; out to other areas, but if you examine closely what they're doing in those areas, they're just building infrastructure to support those other 2 or 3 products which have made them successful.  iPhones and iCloud are built to support the iPhones and iPads and iPods, and they're not really meant to branch out from the Apple products franchise.  So, essentially, Apple is looking to increase the infrastructure surrounding their &quot;mobile&quot; products, and Macs are just being tangentially included (and recruited) as further support for their mobile devices.BTW, though Google might be slightly in the same boat as Apple, with its main product being their search engine, they are better positioned than Apple for a more secure future, because, their search engine is still 70% of the overall market in which they operate.  But, with time, they're going to have to be more successful in their efforts to diversify (and without stealing IP).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:43:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas: Try to keep up, because, you're not reading what I have stated]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and what I stated, before my last post, is this: The Apple bubble is based on current exuberance about all things Apple, but, basically, that exuberance came about because of 2 or 3 products which the public fell in love with and where the competition was virtually non-existent, but, the competition is getting bigger, and thus, the Apple bubble will have to blow. It's right up there, look it up.It's what I said, and it's what I meant.  In fact, it's an argument which I've been making about Apple for many months and in any discussion surrounding Apple's market cap and how it's basically a bubble.  Now, go and take a course in reading comprehension.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:26:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You're having a hard time understanding the meaning of &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot;]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-345089-3459112]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[and when it comes to &quot;facts&quot;, there are far too many people who will use the word to try to give their argument credibility when in fact, it had none to begin with.  That's why I say that, some &quot;facts&quot; will cease being facts as soon as the real facts are disclosed.  It's like in the global warming argument, where some people will trot out their &quot;facts&quot; in an attempt to disarm the opposition immediately and to try to win over the clueless masses by claiming that their side is working with &quot;facts&quot;.  So, if someone makes the claim that, &quot;it's a well-known fact that global warming is caused by CO2 and the overuse of fossil-fuels by humans&quot;, that might remain a &quot;fact&quot; in the minds of many, until the other side trots our their arguments to disprove those original &quot;facts&quot;.  You have to pay a lot more attention to the real world and what is really happening out there, or you'll end up like many who don't know the truth or facts surrounding the issues which affect us all. And, again, a lot of what you said in your original post is not &quot;fact&quot;.  They may be facts in your mind, but not in reality.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:16:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I used the housing bubble for context and comparison purposes,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and hopefully, you saw some parallels.Now, why even be dismissive about the CRA?  It's not just an acronym; it's the root of most of the problems that are besieging the economy right now.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:06:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas: Like I said, when you have nothing to say or contribute,]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-345089-3459086]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[just stay away and don't make a fool of yourself.Most of your posts are non-contributory, and senseless and useless and intrusive and childish and annoying, in any and all  discussions.So, stop being a pest.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:01:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am nearly there, myself]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The problem with &quot;there&quot;, though, is that there is no &quot;there&quot;, when dealing with &quot;is&quot;. Same with, &quot;when&quot;. The changes of language -- system-wide -- remain a mopping-up operation with me. With you, you but begin. Others, I think they have no clue.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:39:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If he knows Nothing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You are screwed, blued, and tattooed. Take care with English -- Santee English.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:26:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Santee:]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Like that cricketI was telling him what he knew, not what I know.For all I know, he knows nothing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:18:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ice-cream store in Chicago]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Like my little place in Santee -- I'll take whatever you have to tell, rather than the &quot;differentiator&quot; crap I see spewed here, including your own.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think you're losing more credibility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You almost had it until the last statement, &quot;whatever facts might have existed for a short period of time, will soon cease being &quot;facts&quot;. &quot;.Just based on your own definitions of facts, how can something cease to be so?  Unless they're proven untrue, they will always be a fact.Besides a lot of what I said is proven facts, just simplified for people like you to nit pick a Harvard Business Review case study on why you think you're right.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jakesty]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:50:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[So what did you think I said?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Without throwing a bunch of acronyms out there like the CRA I just stated the &quot;lax lending practices&quot;.  Sure the CRA was a lot more than that, but this isn't really the place to discuss the housing debacle.  I was just trying to see how a Housing Bubble could be compared to a business bubble.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jakesty]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:43:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[@adornoe-The same could have been said about Google]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[but that shoe has not dropped yet, for years, and people who bet against them have lost out on a lot of opportunity.I would also say that if you forgot iTunes, they would easily be one of the key differentiators that has helped to make iWhatever successful. And they still seem to be much more successful than the competition.Apple's downfall will initially be Steve Jobs health.  The company should still survive but it won't be like it is today.  Just like Berkshire Hathaway and Warrent Buffet.  That's another I'd be scared of putting my money into.BTW-wife and I own an ice cream store in Chicago, guess what, a hot summer's day is not when we sell the most ice cream, but I get your analogy.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:33:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Apple &amp;gt; Wintel in market cap]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sir, I admire both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Together, they have lifted IT literacy in just 3 decades far beyond all that was possible in prior decades and in no comparison to any other industry domain. Steve may be arrogant. Bill isn't lagging behind even by an inch. It is their arrogance and self worth and self pride that made them achieve what they have and helped many millions around the world with competing products. We need a lot of Bill gates + Steve Jobs around in corner in the world.They create jobs, net real value to human beings, hats off to them. Hats off to American spirit.I have been a WINTEL user for 2.5 decades. One issue that irritates me about BILL GATES. The operating system MS-Windows easily gets corrupted if you browse through web sites or even receive mails, no matter what AVTK you use.When i buy a PC or note book, the cost of operating system is built in. ( i have paid RO.40 equal to USD 104) every time i bought a new PC / note book towards license of operating system.  We get a recovery disc but not a copy of the MS-Windows. If the machine gets corrupted, the only solution is format your hard disc at low level and re-load the operating system. If by any chance we lose the key (as happened to me) there is no way of having a legal copy unless you are ready to pay again. This is unfair and usurious.  There must be a way of getting the key for the purchased machine at a small price. This bites me now, because, i am retired and back in India and every cent counts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[samynarayana@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:37:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;you meant&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Adornoe stomps with abandon outside the pale, and I fear he is lost to us. Don't you go joining him beyond the stakes of fundamental understanding, piling predicate after predicate on initial predication of what I see as epistemological impossibility.Capice?______________Exactly three.First, I added, &quot;.., and I fear he is lost to us.&quot;Second, I added, &quot;...what I see...&quot;Third, I excised the &quot;an&quot; of, &quot;...an initial...&quot;All, titivation. I am struck frequently by how what I may write thoughtfully in longhand appears, first, in the spare TR text box; then, in full glory of the formal, published font. Something happens betwixt first and last. I am thinking that, in the rush to print, few here experience what I do. They go headlong instead with head up ass.The paid bloggers, they are another story.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:40:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nuh-uh]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's not what you said, and it's not what you meant either.You're just trying to wriggle your way out from under my foot. But you know what? I'm not stepping on you, you can go.Just don't go spouting nonsense, or I'll have to set you straight again.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:41:40 -0700</pubDate>
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