Apple Computer Q3 2005 Conference Call Transcript – Q&A (AAPL)

October 13th, 2005

Just saw the transcripts of the Q&A from Apple’s conference call. This is something I have been waiting for a long time. The conference calls are scripted, well scripted — but the Q&A is where the tough questions are asked e.g. “What are the revenues of (that failed) product from your last year’s acquisition?”

Go ahead, read on and find the hidden gems. Here’s a sample:

Question:“…you talked about constraints in terms of nano shipments. Just wondering to understand what the constraint was. Can you talk about what’s constraining it, is it a component, is it the process?”
Apple:“We would never allow manufacturing capacity to get in the way of shipping a lot of these products so it is a component constraint and I don’t want to go further, with this one.”

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Apple Computer Q3 2005 Conference Call Transcript – Q&A (AAPL)

October 13th, 2005

Just saw the transcripts of the Q&A from Apple’s conference call. This is something I have been waiting for a long time. The conference calls are scripted, well scripted — but the Q&A is where the tough questions are asked e.g. “What are the revenues of (that failed) product from your last year’s acquisition?”
Go ahead, read on and find the hidden gems. Here’s a sample:

Question:“…you talked about constraints in terms of nano shipments. Just wondering to understand what the constraint was. Can you talk about what

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The Argumentative Indian

October 13th, 2005

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s new book, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity explains the inner working of India, and brings that ideology to the Western world. In his book Sen smashes the sterotypes and myths around India, and places the idea of India and it’s Indianess in its righteous and well-deserved context.
Zoo Station quotes from The Guardian, in their review titled, Beyond the call centre:

This is a book that needed to have been written. The perception of India in the West and, indeed, among Indians themselves has never been more amorphous as it is now. The Argumentative Indian will provide a new dimension and perspective to that perception. It would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential a work as Edward Said’s Orientalism.
In this superb collection of essays, Sen smashes quite a few stereotypes and places the idea of India and Indianness in its rightful, deserved context. Central to his notion of India, as the title suggests, is the long tradition of argument and public debate, of intellectual pluralism and generosity that informs India’s history.

A quick byte of trivia: Sen still possesses the blue colored Indian passport, even after living abroad for more than 5 decades.

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LinkedIn: How to virtually add any known connection

October 5th, 2005

It all started when I was looking for a former manager of mine. I had lost all the TPAs (“touch-point attributes”) of him. Then I found him on LinkedIn. The challenge was to get in touch with him without jumping through various degrees of separation. I finally managed to connect with him by guessing his e-mail address!

Here’s what you need to do:

  1. You have to know the name of the person and the name of the company that person is working for (We are not trying to spam, spammers use the name dictionary attack)
  2. Next, the idea is to find out the pattern of e-mail address for that company. Go to Google groups or simply Google search. For example, if your contact works for HP — type “@hp.com”. You will get a lot of results for a large company esp. in technology space. The trick is to filter down the search results by adding an extra keyword in the search parameter; say we add, mySQL (a “commercial” open-source database). One of the result in the top 5 has a link to a forum which gives the answer as firstname.lastname@hp.com. There you go, you now have the e-mail address pattern for your target contact.

    Here are the three most common e-mail patterns:

    • firstname.lastname@example.com (most common on Microsoft Exchange platforms)
    • firstname_lastname@example.com (common among Lotus Notes users)
    • flastname@example.com (common on Unix based mail servers)
  3. Thanks to the pattern, you “know” the person now — Just shoot a LinkedIn invite.

Easy(maybe you already knew!)

Disclaimer: I’m not a spammer, nor I derive any revenue from hacking, spamming or doing anything like that. Nor, there is any hidden idea to discredit LinkedIn or it’s great service. I’m just an ordinary next door geek who wants to make things easy with some automation in life.

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Making strikethrough Text in Microsoft Powerpoint

September 23rd, 2005

I was trying to edit a slide, and wanted to delete and add some important pieces of text. Instead, of completely deleting the text — I wanted to make it strikethrough so that the audience knows what has changed. Here’s what Powerpoint suggests:

Microsoft Office PowerPoint does not include the text effects for strikethrough on the Format menu that come with Microsoft Office Word. You can reproduce these effects by using the Drawing toolbar, however.
1. Display the slide with the text you want to show in strikethrough format.
2. From the Drawing toolbar in the lower-left corner of the screen, choose the Line tool.
3. Draw a line over the text you want to format as strikethrough.

Lame, lame, lame, lame!

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Who’s next on Google Hiring Radar?

September 16th, 2005

Cerf, Apple’s Andy Hertzfeld, Alta Vista founder Louis Monier, Adam Bosworth of BEA/Crossgain, Mac Mozilla Chief Mike Pinkerton, FireFox Lead Engineer Ben Goodger, Java evangelist Joshua Bloch, Microsoft Windows architect Marc Lucovsky, UTF-8 co-creator and original Unix team member Rob Pike, the list goes on and on. Google is hiring the who’s who of the software programming world — people whose text books students read and software evangelists whose products we install.
With DEC Labs gone, XEROX PARC being reborn as Parc, Inc and now the deptt. which invented UNIX at Bell Labs on the chopping block; Google is giving them a breather/opportunity to continue the advancements in software.
Well, Google is not just doing search but also re-search on how to own the content and the content delivery framework.
Next (sometime in a future post): Why Google might buy Akamai?

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RSS is a Data Model not an API

September 7th, 2005

Just saw Nivi’s post on RSS is an API. Agreed RSS gives you access to a web site

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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish

August 29th, 2005

Seth Godin points to the transcript of the commencement address of Apple CEO Steve Jobs to graduating Stanford students: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505
 (I actually read most of it in the latest edition of Fortune magazine).
It’s a nice reminder — connect the dots, ask questions and don’t settle unless you find the right answers.
Other interesting bytes:
1. You’ve got to find what you love.
2. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. (Don’t be trapped by dogma

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India Independence Day 2005: On the streets of Fremont, CA

August 25th, 2005

The City of Fremont, California celebrated India’s 58th Independence day. I was just in time to catch a glimpse of Bollywood actress, Urmila Matondkar, the grand marshal for the parade. Unfortunately, I could not get a vantage point for a nice picture of her. Here are couple of other pictures.
I think this one is Fremont mayor, Gus Morrison. Not 100% sure though.

The Orissa float

For Urmila’s pics, go to Google image gallery (if you really need to see some of her pictures) 🙂

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Peet’s Coffee’s Garuda Blend

August 11th, 2005

Found this unique coffee name, Garuda Blend, while shopping (no, not for me, I drink the instant kind). Garuda Blend is by Peet’s Coffee. As per Hindu mythology, Garuda, the eagle bird, is the mount of the Hindu god, Vishnu.
Reads Peet’s Coffee’s website, “…Anyone who likes Indonesian coffees will appreciate Garuda Blend’s well-balanced flavor. It is named for the great bird that carries the Hindu god Vishnu, guardian of the world.”

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