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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: November 2007
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Time to Just Give Up. After the success of the Xbox and Xbox Live! How about 3.0 or 3.11? Well, Windows 1.0. Did exist, they just weren't that great compared to the market leading Mac OS. Units compared to the Xbox's 24 million. I mean, for a brand new console against two companies that had both been making consoles for over ten years (Sony/Nintendo), 24 million is ...
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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: January 2008
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Thursday, January 31, 2008. Is a 1 trillion dollar a year Company Possible? Back to the present. I was reading about Walmart in Fortune. Say whatever you want about them; they are growing an absolutely gargantuan company - $352 billion in sales in 2006, at an 11% growth rate. As I said in my CompUSA Who? Article, Walmart has to gain. 106 million dollars a day. Let me put this in the proper pers...
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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: December 2007
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Sunday, December 23, 2007. 60 Years Since it all Started. In 1947, the transistor. Now commonly known as the 'Edison Effect', while inventing the incandescent light bulb. Thermionic emissions are the flow of electrons, or charge carriers, from a surface (like a piece of metal). In the case of the light bulb, the thermionic emissions are created when an electric current passes through the filame...
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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: Is a 1 trillion dollar a year Company Possible?
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Thursday, January 31, 2008. Is a 1 trillion dollar a year Company Possible? Back to the present. I was reading about Walmart in Fortune. Say whatever you want about them; they are growing an absolutely gargantuan company - $352 billion in sales in 2006, at an 11% growth rate. As I said in my CompUSA Who? Article, Walmart has to gain. 106 million dollars a day. Let me put this in the proper pers...
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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: Is Universal Health Care really the answer?
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Sunday, February 10, 2008. Is Universal Health Care really the answer? I recently watched the movie. Go to MooreWatch.com. Relationship. In a corollary relationship, two things are somehow related (like, it's hot outside, so people are eating ice cream. Yeah, the heat might have something to do with it, but the day's temperature didn't. A long lifespan. There are other factors in play. Could it...
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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: February 2008
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Sunday, February 10, 2008. Is Universal Health Care really the answer? I recently watched the movie. Go to MooreWatch.com. Relationship. In a corollary relationship, two things are somehow related (like, it's hot outside, so people are eating ice cream. Yeah, the heat might have something to do with it, but the day's temperature didn't. A long lifespan. There are other factors in play. Could it...
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Ridiculously Proprietary Incorporated: CompUSA Who?
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A blog about my thoughts on business, technology, history and all the ridiculous irony that goes along with it. Thursday, December 20, 2007. I'm going to start this post a little differently, with a disclosure. Since I own no stock in any of the companies I talk about, nor do I work for any of them, I feel I can make any observations I want. While that is true about every other article I've written, I have worked at this company. I was hired by CompUSA. If you were to fly to Afghanistan and arrive in a r...