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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (1455)	1/28/2000 5:15:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12254

Unq, A couple of days ago, 68m shares x $125 = $8.5bn which I think is a new world record for Mighty Q! traded in one day. A couple more big days after that means brokers are making a LOT of money. Even with internet trading at $8 per trade [plus the spreads and whatever swindling is done], it's a BIG cash flow for brokers. Today 42.7m x $110 = $4.7bn which is real money to some people. Yes thanks, 3D is my natural environment and I like 'walkabout'. I have to disagree with you about spending inordinate amounts of time on SI and the wealth effects of it. I suspect it is the quality of that SI time rather than the quantity and how that interacts with neurons. On American spelling, I took a course on it as a child [about age 8] and not knowing that there were several 'Englishes' got into a dispute with a teacher on how to spell color, which she incorrectly spelled colour. After a brief dispute [she was ineducable] she suggested I check the dictionary when I got home. After the shock of finding it to be colour in that dictionary, I figured out that the world does things in different ways in different places. My American course was via masses of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics. Apart from spelling and pixilation, I got from it the idea of combining the good aspects of Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Gyro Gearloose and, of course, Gladstone Gander. So I figure out that Fourier Transforms for spectrum improvement would be good, manage my money in a Scrooge-like manner, stumble upon Qualcomm in an act of serendipity and enjoy a 3D life like Donald, adventuring along. Hooray for Walt Disney, who also taught me about pixelated people, via the pixilated parrot when there were only going to be four computers in the whole world and pixels were not on everybody's desk, or home and Major Paradigm Shift had not happened at Microsoft. Only diehard Disney aficiandos would know about the pixilated parrot. Which, if I remember rightly from decades ago, and I've never seen the word used elsewhere, was spelled pixillated, not pixilated. I used to own a canvas canoe [built for me by my wonderful father umpteen years ago] but don't have a fleet or even one boat.<I was surprised to find Auckland has the highest number of boats per capita in the world. Do you own a few of those?> Monday is 'Regatta Day' in Auckland and the harbour is going to be unbelievable. It will be so full of boats that it should be some sort of world record. I'd be surprised if they can conduct America's Cup racing. Then again, it might rain and people will stay home. I hope you all had a nice SuperBowl and lots of homers were scored. I think there will have been a LOT of cellphones which didn't work due to overloading and lots of frustrated cellphone owners. You'd think that Qualcomm or somebody would figure out how to do Cat's Eyes marketing, with 'Current Price Is...' showing $8 $10 or $88 per minute in the eyes of the cats on the handsets of those choosing that pricing plan. They could have a separate channel or something. Never out of touch. Huge profits for the provider, running a network at 90% capacity constantly instead of 20% which they do at present. If SnapTrack is worth $1bn, what do you think it would be worth to run networks at full capacity, with never out of touch customers, instead of 25% or so, with frustrated customers paying excessive minute prices due to low network loadings? Anyway, I guess everyone knows the story by now. Moonies won't, but they just like momo not the boring technical rubbish. Maybe there is some software company doing it and they'll get $10bn from Q! in a year or two for the rights. If anyone wants to make some serious money, go patent the idea! I'm too busy playing 3D. CU later, Mq