I switch to Win7 only to play games on Steam. (When I have the option, because the employers PC is Win7 only)
Otherwise, Linux all the way for me. Mostly because most of my hardware sucks on Win7, even though my hardware is Vista compatible and all drivers have WHQL cert. Audio still is an issue on Win7.
Supply lock is a myth. In fact the massive orders that Apple made have reduced the price of 9.7" screens, but they are available in considerable quantities. The only supply problems are those that Apple itself faces - since they order in the millions.
And I siggest you read the The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. Both show how Apple succeeds. And foretell that they will be screwed when they will not have non-consumption to compete against.
In cases where it requires the same ultra high precision and reliability - yes. But those cases are not common. And most of those an be covered by lesser hardware.
As I said, if it gets the investors actively interested in the company's long term success, I'm for it. That is the thing I am advocating for. HFT and to some degree the stock market are detrimental to that purpose.
I'm not an expert, so my individual beliefs might be out of line with my goal.
When you want your financial transactions to be 100% correct you will dish out that money. I mean, being a former IBMer, I can't see a lot of value in mainframes outside of the banks. But in the banks I can't see any other solution being as good as IBMs Mainframe.
Then I would say yes, as long as a person gets the same treatment. I get a tax break of 100% of taxes if I hold onto a financial instrument for more than 1 year.
Dividends should be taxed if not reinvested, though.
Are those: A - companies that aren't publicly tradable; B - companies that hold stock in non publicly tradable companies?
In case of A : If they are reinvesting their profits into themselves and are creating new jobs - why not?
Giving your CEO a pay hike is not investment.
I would call the guy a fraud, if there was enough evidence that it was he that actually lied.
In most cases I know, the banks paid their staff for the value of mortgages they gave out.(Though this is not US, but I suspect that that is also the case in US) So the average Joe that came into the bank with all his paperwork in order to get a mortgage might not have lied.
And no, I can't really compare that to the rampant lies that the brokers spit out to get your money out and the tricks they applied to get the crap they sold look like candy. What they did was fraud, because they did it intentionally not accidentally.
The liquidity doesn't matter for the issuer, it matters for the investor. If it is difficult to sell your investment (say if you want the money for something else, or decide you can invest it more effectively in another company, etc) because of little or no liquidity, then you will be less likely to invest.
A) Buying stock is not investment into a company. It's investing into a financial instrument, aka speculation.
B) High liquidity matters for the speculator, people that invest into companies can safely live with a sale happening slowly(as they are happy with their investment). And yes, I am advocating for more though out investment, not this financial instrument(tied to a company's name) speculation.
They have to bring in some money back, buy nice things and so on... But if they all move there, the offshore country will have to raise taxes to cover for the rise in population.
That is how countries with sane tax codes have it.
If you don't require a non-standard deduction there is literally only one form I have to fill out. And all standard deductions are already in that form pre-filled by the tax authority.
It seems that the more Americans bitch and bitch about a problem, the less they are prepared to do anything about it. Hell, I don't even need an accountant to do my accounting, though I have my small consultancy... Why? Because the government goes out of it's way to help me pay my taxes properly. And my tax authority considers fine administration to be a bigger expense than fine prevention, even including the fines themselves.
And the poor bastard who bought mortgage backed securities on a promise from a salesman without realizing what he was buying or doing due diligence feels cheated.
What they did with the lies when selling should be considered fraud. Mostly because they did not divulge the information in a comprehensive manner. Yet while they contribute to the election campaigns, no one will ever call them for what they are.
I see this BS all the time "but is you do X, there will be less liquidity"...
Let me tell you something, sonny - Facebook has almost 0 liquidity by that measure. Yet there are companies that even make money off that "noexistent liquidity". And Facebook gets what issuing shares is all about - raising capital.
I'm all for value generating activities, but the stock market should be a place for companies to raise investments not a gambling arena. Currently HFT generates exactly 0 value, what is does is scrape a bit from everyone to make money. It's as value generating as the "we take the fractions left over from transfers and place them into our bank account" from Office Space only legal.
Do you really think that the global economy needs more parasites like that?
Don't worry, soon they will be exporting their higher value work overseas. Chinese EE university programmes produce a lot of well trained talent. Their overall engineering disciplines are on the rise, while in "the west" it's on a serious decline.
Apple is also doing it "right" by keeping most of their moneyz in their offshore operations and countries with low corporate income tax.
No they didn't. There is still enough 9.7" 1024x768 IPS LCD panels to go around. What they did, is reduce the price of those screens to something reasonable. There is a reasonable amount of 7" LCD panels to go around, but the numbers are comparable to 9.7". There is no massive surplus of 7" panels.
I have hundreds of offers from big and small manufacturers with 9.7" IPS LCD, some manufactured by LG and Foxconn. I work as a procurement manager during Asian work hours(Europe - Asia) and ordinary working hours I'm a developer.
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I switch to Win7 only to play games on Steam. (When I have the option, because the employers PC is Win7 only)
Otherwise, Linux all the way for me. Mostly because most of my hardware sucks on Win7, even though my hardware is Vista compatible and all drivers have WHQL cert. Audio still is an issue on Win7.
Supply lock is a myth. In fact the massive orders that Apple made have reduced the price of 9.7" screens, but they are available in considerable quantities. The only supply problems are those that Apple itself faces - since they order in the millions.
net income != profit. Apple's profit is about so low that we can actually call it zero.
And I siggest you read the The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. Both show how Apple succeeds. And foretell that they will be screwed when they will not have non-consumption to compete against.
In cases where it requires the same ultra high precision and reliability - yes. But those cases are not common. And most of those an be covered by lesser hardware.
As I said, if it gets the investors actively interested in the company's long term success, I'm for it. That is the thing I am advocating for. HFT and to some degree the stock market are detrimental to that purpose.
I'm not an expert, so my individual beliefs might be out of line with my goal.
When you want your financial transactions to be 100% correct you will dish out that money. I mean, being a former IBMer, I can't see a lot of value in mainframes outside of the banks. But in the banks I can't see any other solution being as good as IBMs Mainframe.
Then I would say yes, as long as a person gets the same treatment. I get a tax break of 100% of taxes if I hold onto a financial instrument for more than 1 year.
Dividends should be taxed if not reinvested, though.
Are those: A - companies that aren't publicly tradable; B - companies that hold stock in non publicly tradable companies?
In case of A : If they are reinvesting their profits into themselves and are creating new jobs - why not?
Giving your CEO a pay hike is not investment.
What you have actually created is a system that rewards people who took unreasonable risks and now suffer no consequences for those risks
The banks and the bankers. In fact they are better off than anyone by the looks of it.
and penalizes people who avoided taking risks.
The middle class.
I would call the guy a fraud, if there was enough evidence that it was he that actually lied.
In most cases I know, the banks paid their staff for the value of mortgages they gave out.(Though this is not US, but I suspect that that is also the case in US) So the average Joe that came into the bank with all his paperwork in order to get a mortgage might not have lied.
And no, I can't really compare that to the rampant lies that the brokers spit out to get your money out and the tricks they applied to get the crap they sold look like candy. What they did was fraud, because they did it intentionally not accidentally.
The liquidity doesn't matter for the issuer, it matters for the investor. If it is difficult to sell your investment (say if you want the money for something else, or decide you can invest it more effectively in another company, etc) because of little or no liquidity, then you will be less likely to invest.
A) Buying stock is not investment into a company. It's investing into a financial instrument, aka speculation.
B) High liquidity matters for the speculator, people that invest into companies can safely live with a sale happening slowly(as they are happy with their investment). And yes, I am advocating for more though out investment, not this financial instrument(tied to a company's name) speculation.
They have to bring in some money back, buy nice things and so on... But if they all move there, the offshore country will have to raise taxes to cover for the rise in population.
That is how countries with sane tax codes have it.
If you don't require a non-standard deduction there is literally only one form I have to fill out. And all standard deductions are already in that form pre-filled by the tax authority.
It seems that the more Americans bitch and bitch about a problem, the less they are prepared to do anything about it. Hell, I don't even need an accountant to do my accounting, though I have my small consultancy... Why? Because the government goes out of it's way to help me pay my taxes properly. And my tax authority considers fine administration to be a bigger expense than fine prevention, even including the fines themselves.
And the poor bastard who bought mortgage backed securities on a promise from a salesman without realizing what he was buying or doing due diligence feels cheated.
What they did with the lies when selling should be considered fraud. Mostly because they did not divulge the information in a comprehensive manner. Yet while they contribute to the election campaigns, no one will ever call them for what they are.
Fuck liquidity - investors need to stand besides their investments more than they do today. Maybe then we will see less quarter results obsession.
I see this BS all the time "but is you do X, there will be less liquidity"...
Let me tell you something, sonny - Facebook has almost 0 liquidity by that measure. Yet there are companies that even make money off that "noexistent liquidity". And Facebook gets what issuing shares is all about - raising capital.
I'm all for value generating activities, but the stock market should be a place for companies to raise investments not a gambling arena. Currently HFT generates exactly 0 value, what is does is scrape a bit from everyone to make money. It's as value generating as the "we take the fractions left over from transfers and place them into our bank account" from Office Space only legal.
Do you really think that the global economy needs more parasites like that?
The law is the law and applies to Apple as well as NT-K. So it's lost sales, not triple lost sales. EC can issue penalties in the billions though....
They aren't locking up anything. They got most of the components for a while, until new manufacturing facilities and backup one's were online.
Don't worry, soon they will be exporting their higher value work overseas. Chinese EE university programmes produce a lot of well trained talent. Their overall engineering disciplines are on the rise, while in "the west" it's on a serious decline.
Apple is also doing it "right" by keeping most of their moneyz in their offshore operations and countries with low corporate income tax.
ASUS Transformer? Worse quality?
what the cheap chinese knockoffs never manage.
As opposed to the original cheap* Chinese devices? http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/all/1
And please, the fact that Apple charges you, the consumer, 0.6-2.5 times more for the device does make the device cheap.
No they didn't. There is still enough 9.7" 1024x768 IPS LCD panels to go around. What they did, is reduce the price of those screens to something reasonable. There is a reasonable amount of 7" LCD panels to go around, but the numbers are comparable to 9.7". There is no massive surplus of 7" panels.
I have hundreds of offers from big and small manufacturers with 9.7" IPS LCD, some manufactured by LG and Foxconn. I work as a procurement manager during Asian work hours(Europe - Asia) and ordinary working hours I'm a developer.
On the other hand, criminal cases can be in a suspended state for centuries.
You do realise that in this case the claims were not grounded in software anything?