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Shawn Smith — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:33:18 -0400

I disagree.

I work in technology, and I live and breath online, but people like me tend to forget that there are millions of others in the U.S. (much less the world) without reliable access to the Web. I'm not sure what the solution is financially, but newspapers should not disenfranchise those people.

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Shawn Smith — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:29:33 -0400

I make $250k/year and live in a 650 sq foot, 1-bedroom apartment. It's plenty for me. If and when my girlfriend (who makes about 100k/year and lives in a 500 sq foot, 1-bedroom apartment) and I get married, we'll move into something a little bigger, but probably not much.

When you have a big house, you're forced to fill it with lots of crap you don't need, and everyone I know who lives in a big house spends 99% of their time in a small part of it - usually the kitchen and some kind of tv/rec room off the kitchen. No one ever sets foot in the formal living room or dining room for example.

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Shawn Smith — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:51:55 -0400

It's easy to think of Apple as a hardware company, and this leads companies like Dell down silly roads to candy-colored laptops. But this is a red herring.

One commenter wrote, "lipstick on a pig," and that's apt. The pig in this case is Windows.

Software, you see, is Apple's secret sauce. Macbooks sell in white, black and silver because of Mac OS. Not the box. Not the LCD. It's the software. Ditto for every single other Apple product.

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Shawn Smith — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:36:23 -0400

Interesting, but I don't know if there's such a thing as a "typical" mutual fund. I suppose many investors use mutual funds as a way to diversify in general, but I see mutual funds (and ETFs) as a convenient way to focus a percentage of my assets in particular sectors or markets.