Richard Doherty
Richard Doherty
James Richard Doherty, known as Richard Doherty, is a British military historian and author from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland...
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It's a tremendous opportunity, ... There's no lower cost, high bandwidth way to reach consumers.
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We think it's going to be a very strong earnings call, with no heavy expenditures, and we expect earnings and growth to continue with the transition to Intel. We haven't seen any slowdown in sales since the close of the quarter.
few foolish hear last next
It would be foolish to say these will be the last (companies) we will hear from in the next few weeks.
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is firing a shot across Intel's bow, or maybe below the waterline.
folks hands popping rubbing time wild
Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,
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Real can still be fleet of foot, but Microsoft has to be more cautious because of all of the iterations of software they have to support,
bill cheering gates people software
Bill Gates is a very accomplished software architect. A lot of people are cheering them on and a lot of people are very leery.
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Sony has never been good in its thinking about how quality can be diluted. That was their problem with Beta over VHS. VHS wasn't as high-quality as Beta, and they just presumed consumers would go with the best quality. It's the same thing with flat-panel displays.
battle enemy month people video
Every month this battle wages, more people are getting used to getting video in other ways. That's the real enemy of this indecision.
chip commitment result
This new commitment to the chip will result in more training, for starters.
policies
We are still working out the policies for that.
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We essentially are giving up holiday 2006, and for notebook makers that is going to impact their bottom line quite a bit. The first quarter is the slowest quarter of the year for any PC (sales).
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Microsoft doesn't seem to be that accomplished at spotting threats. The routine of the last few years has been, if a company spots a virus, they let Microsoft know and the company takes its 'own sweet time,' as it's been put to me, in dealing with that.
higher might
That was higher than we thought they might have gone.