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I’m a Mac convert. I hadn’t used an Apple machine regularly since the Apple IIc when I was a child, but since January of this year I’ve been happily typing away on a Macbook.
Now I could launch into the typical soliloquy on how great my Mac is and how using it will cure Cancer […]
Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.
Prices force you to limit your claims on what other people have produced to the value of what you have produced for other people.
Thomas Sowell HT:Gagliardi
Ebook readers are coming along now, rollable displays, brighter screens. Such is the march of technology. But what about regular books?
No Moore’s Law for Books
Computer processors accelerate at break neck speeds. Phones become smaller, more powerful and possibly even the next greatest thing in the book business or at least an intresting […]
A typical Pro sports stadium is a rigid environment. Events occur in specific time windows scheduled far in advance.
Visitors must obtain prior permission to be onsite at certain times, must enter and exit within a specific time window, and must stay within designated areas at all times.
Vendors can only sell their wares during scheduled […]
In two previous posts, Does Verizon really care about the Network? and Scrounging for Ideas behind the Marketing, we asked what tangible actions customers see to back up the Network and Dropped Call bragging that Verizon and Cingular do.
They don’t provide any statistics that, say, plot a customers signal strength over the month. What […]
3rd Place - From Wii Market Share to Every Living Room
0 Comments Published by Ontologi in Good Ideas, What If?.James Surowiecki’s column in the New Yorker on Nintendo’s new Wii gaming console:
It’s really well suited for just one thing: playing games. But this turns out to be an asset. The Wii’s simplicity means that Nintendo can make money selling consoles, while Sony is reportedly losing more than two hundred and forty dollars on each […]
Previously, we argued that the Cisco-Athletics stadium deal was more likely to constrain the stadium of the future than enable it.
Cisco’s creation of the infrastructure and, at first blush, their desire to build the applications that run on that infrastructure may create an environment that is the exact opposite of the vibrant Silicon Valley Cisco […]
A beautiful perspective on Aircraft taking off. Via Coudal.
Cisco’s Stadium - Enabling or Constraining the Future?
3 Comments Published by Ontologi in Bad Idea..To butcher the old saying: For Cisco, their routers are hammers - and everything else on Earth is a nail - including Pro Baseball Stadiums. CNN published an AP story on a pitch by Oakland A’s owner, Lew Wolff, to city council members in Freemont California to build a new stadium backed by Cisco’s […]
Car companies sell cars and the parts to repair and maintain those cars. What if they built parts to replace components in competitors’ cars?
Could Ford take a 5 year old Nissan truck, rip out the motor and drive system and replace it all with brand new Ford equipment?
Or in other words, does a car […]
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