Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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My only expectation of him is that he will prove that everyone who had great confidence in him was right.
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I went and cashed in all my pennies to come here. It's cheap entertainment. We spent, what, maybe $40 tonight? Cheaper than going to the movies.
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If unearned revenue keeps sliding, it suggests the growth story for Microsoft has gotten long in the tooth and that would raise more worries about the valuation.
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Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.
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All of a sudden we're getting really material misses that are coming right in the middle of regular earnings. It catches you completely off-guard.
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Lawyers involved in NTP and other patent cases think a deal will come before year-end, or even pre-Christmas, and be valued between $750 million and $1.25 billion. The stock could rally sharply on a deal.
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Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.
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That's as good a defense as we've seen on film all season and thought we'd have problems with them, but we were one block away a few times in the first half from tying the game up.