I pay 3-4 months of my salary each year to the government. In reality, they borrow money on my behalf and really spends 5-6 months worth of my pay check. Well, how about that for tips?
20k stipend from the govt is just enough to make an existing teacher more content, but far from enough to attract highly qualified college graduates to consider a career in teaching versus going to Wall Street. Compare this to a similar non profit program Math for America. The program gives up to 100k stipends, requires the applicants to take a relatively brainy test and eligibility is geared towards applicants who have never taught in classrooms before. I find this program extremely compelling, and put it in one of my list of supported charities.
On Wednesday, Lower Merion spokesman Doug Young called Levin's lawsuit 'solely motivated by monetary interests and a complete waste of the taxpayer's dollars.'
I'm appalled by the sheer lack of concern of the privacy issue raised by this lawsuit, and the respect for students indicated by this official statement. I'd start a campaign to vote out the current admin if my children were given this kind of treatment.
The conclusion is that the public is not yet ready to accept this type and extent of mandatory location tracking by Apple on their devices (despite apple's statement denying tracking location per se, it can be inferred from the database). The outcry caused Apple to reverse their decision and allow users to opt-out.
Sure, phone companies may have better tracking data, however, the law protects cell phone location records from misuse or illegal access. The iphone tracks my rough whereabouts for months, years, guess what law enforcement will do if they have the option of jail breaking my phone, or get a warrant for the cell location records?
I think it is worthy for iphone owners to go "hysterical" by taking necessary steps to disable this kind of tracking, or have apple correct this excessive tracking.
As a person who has been receiving the "non-american" pay for the past few years in the IT industry, after familiarizing with the compensation norm, I may be 5-10% below the median. This is mostly attributed to asking conservatively in order to get the foot in the door. I also survived multiple rounds of layoffs (so far), and thought that the wage to productivity ratio has to do with it.
Even so I feel pretty comfortable affording the current standard of living. As long as it is still legal for a foreign person to find work in the US, and personally knowing many current foreign students who are willing to go through the same experience that I did, Americans are expected to continue to feel the same wage pressure and competition from this group of foreign graduates, who will take up real, secure jobs that other Americans probably can use to fulfill the American dream. In my opinion, the h1b sweat shops are simply a proxy for contracting to overseas and does not really mattters.
A detestable practice when taken to the extreme. Especially when in electronic world where consumer's data is increasingly used to exploit the consumers themselves, rather than help businesses provide better services.
IANAL, It looks like price discrimination is only illegal if it hampers competition, but not if it only unfairly treats a certain segment of consumers.
Don't underestimate a world's population of teenagers, young people who are more willing to part with the paycheck from their few years of working life, or high income folks who have abundant discretionary cash. I think even without Jobs, they can easily continue to market to these groups as long as there's no worthy competition.
Apple don't need to make sense to everyone in the world, just those who are easy on their money.
If valuing based on dividends, you need to consider the possibility of the company growing for several years, and, upon reaching mature state, starts to pay dividends. In a few years time, earnings may have grown several times due to reinvestment and growth, and the resulting annual dividend payout would be a sizable amount. You'd get a justifiable price today by discounting the hypothetical payout.
However, many things could happen between now and then. Management can hoard the money and give themselves big bonuses, buy out/crush competition at significant premium, issue more stocks thus diluting the dividends, or the company could grow in size but keeping profits low (thus low dividends if any). These factors have to do with the quality of governance, safeguarding shareholders interests.
A shrewd investor should gauge the real possibility of the company being run into the ground by its management and board of directors.
Bear in mind that analog SD will be turned off next year. No more fuzzy picture, more HD programming, HD sports coverage and you can even read the small prints in Cialis commercial.
When more people are forced to move to 1080i/p, it makes a ton more sense for the competition to lower the price of bluray players to compete for the additional market share. Before then, it doesn't make much business sense when not enough people are buying HDTVs.
From Wikipedia:
Official English texts issued by the government of the People's Republic of China use astronaut while texts in Russian use ÐоÑмонÐÐÑ (kosmonavt).
So, Taikonaut or yuhangyuan, etc, might be coined by Americans trying to be PC. Maybe we should just call it what it is, and possibly stop offending the Chinese.
The set off point is not whining about losing, as most Americans aren't really staking their national and racial pride on medal counts. It is about exposing the rogue-like disregard of common sporting rules by such a superpower as China, in events as visible as the Olympics.
But didn't Apple spend a whole ton of money to write and maintain Mac OS X? Don't they specifically state that it's only to be run on Apple hardware? On other words, isn't OS X a specific benefit of owning an Apple system and licensed as such?
Why is it OK to break Apple's license? Would you be saying "good for them" if the news article was about someone breaking the GPL?
That's why Apple is Microsoft-esque, not by the week, but right from the beginning. There's nothing wrong with hoarding rights to your cash cow and IP (marketing efforts gone in packaging OSX and Mac's Intel based hardware). It is just standard big business practice.
I work in the basement of a house filled with abestos. Even though working in this condition can cause cancer, I ought to suck it up and learn some skills so that I can get a job else where?
This is a stretch of the case of a employer clearly violating the law. The free market should allow employees to "exploit" their wrongdoing, such as class action lawsuit and claiming punitive damages. Even if the employee leaves, wages are still owed, it is up to the person to claim it by his own means, litigation or negotiation.
Cry me a river.... Whiny sobs.... Oh wait, a violation of state law took place here. He probably did not like the job anyway, he can either quit and receive nothing or go to court on the basis of illegal practices by his employer and work for weeks/months/years under the protection of anti-retaliation law and then leave after receiving some settlement money?
Someone pulled the 100k/year figure out of nowhere, I think that salary amount would have exempted any IT professionals from any overtime pay.
I'm a Chinese and the stereotype of Chinese eat dogs doesn't offend me. It is a lame joke at best, take it easy. There are worse than these, such as the TV ads encouraging people to behave more "civilized" for 2008 Olympics.
Why do they keep on spewing out nonsense claims that have no legal bearing whatsoever? They are stealing my attention and wasting my productive time (at work). Get the freaking law passed already and let me know when it is actually illegal to copy my own CDs!
There's also tremendous value to business to be the first one to find a cure for AD. Maybe their existing drugs will become obsolete, but exclusive patents will feed the company for years to come, not to mention all the accolades and awards that come with the accomplishment.
In a competitive market, which I believe the "innovate-or-go-under" drug industry is pretty damn near, this type of collusion to stop inventing treatments can hardly be pulled off.
If you have short and myriad number of methods with no comments, it'll be fine as long as your company keeps you around, hire the elite 10% of developers that can read them or have programmers that only have the capacity to work with a small portion of the code base at a time. With many undocumented short methods, the way to understand code, is to procedurally spaghetti through lots and lots of methods and class files just to see how one thing gets done. Very often, adding some complexity in the local level can simplify the overall complexity at the global level (number of methods, inheritance levels and class files).
If this approach combines with non-descriptive method names, reading code will be like reading the alphabet soup.
Some code needs to be together and duplicated *gasp* when it makes sense, it is better for performance when it is fine tune-able for each implementation and not cause grief when people have to code around the shared utilities.
How much bandwidth can I get for $15 per month in those foreign markets? I'm getting 100-300 kB/s down and 20 kB/s up. I'm not complaining because this is sufficient for 95% of my internet usage. From a clueless customer perspective, I'm getting a great deal for my $15 worth of broadband.
Off the top of my head, I can easily throw out a handful of acronyms representing some linux domain knowledge that is required in order to effectively run a linux system. A handful is just an understatement if one really wants to learn linux. As it is, a way for linux to be adopted by more people is to start a community linux administrator project, where some linux administrator will manage a number of home users systems remotely for a small stipend. Otherwise, I don't see how linux can go further than the market of highly technical users. I'd not unleash linux on less technical power user, because it is not "configuration-easy". They may turn out complaining that linux is "not configurable" or "configure" the system into a complete mess.
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I pay 3-4 months of my salary each year to the government. In reality, they borrow money on my behalf and really spends 5-6 months worth of my pay check. Well, how about that for tips?
20k stipend from the govt is just enough to make an existing teacher more content, but far from enough to attract highly qualified college graduates to consider a career in teaching versus going to Wall Street. Compare this to a similar non profit program Math for America. The program gives up to 100k stipends, requires the applicants to take a relatively brainy test and eligibility is geared towards applicants who have never taught in classrooms before. I find this program extremely compelling, and put it in one of my list of supported charities.
On Wednesday, Lower Merion spokesman Doug Young called Levin's lawsuit 'solely motivated by monetary interests and a complete waste of the taxpayer's dollars.'
I'm appalled by the sheer lack of concern of the privacy issue raised by this lawsuit, and the respect for students indicated by this official statement. I'd start a campaign to vote out the current admin if my children were given this kind of treatment.
The conclusion is that the public is not yet ready to accept this type and extent of mandatory location tracking by Apple on their devices (despite apple's statement denying tracking location per se, it can be inferred from the database). The outcry caused Apple to reverse their decision and allow users to opt-out.
I think it is worthy for iphone owners to go "hysterical" by taking necessary steps to disable this kind of tracking, or have apple correct this excessive tracking.
Even so I feel pretty comfortable affording the current standard of living. As long as it is still legal for a foreign person to find work in the US, and personally knowing many current foreign students who are willing to go through the same experience that I did, Americans are expected to continue to feel the same wage pressure and competition from this group of foreign graduates, who will take up real, secure jobs that other Americans probably can use to fulfill the American dream. In my opinion, the h1b sweat shops are simply a proxy for contracting to overseas and does not really mattters.
A detestable practice when taken to the extreme. Especially when in electronic world where consumer's data is increasingly used to exploit the consumers themselves, rather than help businesses provide better services.
IANAL, It looks like price discrimination is only illegal if it hampers competition, but not if it only unfairly treats a certain segment of consumers.
Don't underestimate a world's population of teenagers, young people who are more willing to part with the paycheck from their few years of working life, or high income folks who have abundant discretionary cash. I think even without Jobs, they can easily continue to market to these groups as long as there's no worthy competition. Apple don't need to make sense to everyone in the world, just those who are easy on their money.
If valuing based on dividends, you need to consider the possibility of the company growing for several years, and, upon reaching mature state, starts to pay dividends. In a few years time, earnings may have grown several times due to reinvestment and growth, and the resulting annual dividend payout would be a sizable amount. You'd get a justifiable price today by discounting the hypothetical payout.
However, many things could happen between now and then. Management can hoard the money and give themselves big bonuses, buy out/crush competition at significant premium, issue more stocks thus diluting the dividends, or the company could grow in size but keeping profits low (thus low dividends if any). These factors have to do with the quality of governance, safeguarding shareholders interests.
A shrewd investor should gauge the real possibility of the company being run into the ground by its management and board of directors.
Bear in mind that analog SD will be turned off next year. No more fuzzy picture, more HD programming, HD sports coverage and you can even read the small prints in Cialis commercial. When more people are forced to move to 1080i/p, it makes a ton more sense for the competition to lower the price of bluray players to compete for the additional market share. Before then, it doesn't make much business sense when not enough people are buying HDTVs.
Feed it to the trees... by releasing in the forest. *duck*
From Wikipedia: Official English texts issued by the government of the People's Republic of China use astronaut while texts in Russian use ÐоÑмонÐÐÑ (kosmonavt). So, Taikonaut or yuhangyuan, etc, might be coined by Americans trying to be PC. Maybe we should just call it what it is, and possibly stop offending the Chinese.
The set off point is not whining about losing, as most Americans aren't really staking their national and racial pride on medal counts. It is about exposing the rogue-like disregard of common sporting rules by such a superpower as China, in events as visible as the Olympics.
But didn't Apple spend a whole ton of money to write and maintain Mac OS X? Don't they specifically state that it's only to be run on Apple hardware? On other words, isn't OS X a specific benefit of owning an Apple system and licensed as such?
Why is it OK to break Apple's license? Would you be saying "good for them" if the news article was about someone breaking the GPL?
That's why Apple is Microsoft-esque, not by the week, but right from the beginning. There's nothing wrong with hoarding rights to your cash cow and IP (marketing efforts gone in packaging OSX and Mac's Intel based hardware). It is just standard big business practice.
Apple is just not that different from Microsoft.
I work in the basement of a house filled with abestos. Even though working in this condition can cause cancer, I ought to suck it up and learn some skills so that I can get a job else where? This is a stretch of the case of a employer clearly violating the law. The free market should allow employees to "exploit" their wrongdoing, such as class action lawsuit and claiming punitive damages. Even if the employee leaves, wages are still owed, it is up to the person to claim it by his own means, litigation or negotiation.
Someone pulled the 100k/year figure out of nowhere, I think that salary amount would have exempted any IT professionals from any overtime pay.
I'm a Chinese and the stereotype of Chinese eat dogs doesn't offend me. It is a lame joke at best, take it easy. There are worse than these, such as the TV ads encouraging people to behave more "civilized" for 2008 Olympics.
Why do they keep on spewing out nonsense claims that have no legal bearing whatsoever? They are stealing my attention and wasting my productive time (at work). Get the freaking law passed already and let me know when it is actually illegal to copy my own CDs!
Slashdot is also pleased to announce the recent addition of paid product placement ads embedded in vaguely related posts!
Unfortunately, PCs running Windows and Linux is also cheapened by the same percentage.
One old gas powered lawn mower running for an hour emits as much pollution as driving 650 miles in a 1992 model automobile That was in 1992, with OBD2 in 1996 and other technological improvements since then, in my opinion, the PZEV's improvement over other standard vehicles is overrated and an implicit assumption in this article.
There's also tremendous value to business to be the first one to find a cure for AD. Maybe their existing drugs will become obsolete, but exclusive patents will feed the company for years to come, not to mention all the accolades and awards that come with the accomplishment. In a competitive market, which I believe the "innovate-or-go-under" drug industry is pretty damn near, this type of collusion to stop inventing treatments can hardly be pulled off.
If you have short and myriad number of methods with no comments, it'll be fine as long as your company keeps you around, hire the elite 10% of developers that can read them or have programmers that only have the capacity to work with a small portion of the code base at a time. With many undocumented short methods, the way to understand code, is to procedurally spaghetti through lots and lots of methods and class files just to see how one thing gets done. Very often, adding some complexity in the local level can simplify the overall complexity at the global level (number of methods, inheritance levels and class files). If this approach combines with non-descriptive method names, reading code will be like reading the alphabet soup. Some code needs to be together and duplicated *gasp* when it makes sense, it is better for performance when it is fine tune-able for each implementation and not cause grief when people have to code around the shared utilities.
How much bandwidth can I get for $15 per month in those foreign markets? I'm getting 100-300 kB/s down and 20 kB/s up. I'm not complaining because this is sufficient for 95% of my internet usage. From a clueless customer perspective, I'm getting a great deal for my $15 worth of broadband.
Off the top of my head, I can easily throw out a handful of acronyms representing some linux domain knowledge that is required in order to effectively run a linux system. A handful is just an understatement if one really wants to learn linux. As it is, a way for linux to be adopted by more people is to start a community linux administrator project, where some linux administrator will manage a number of home users systems remotely for a small stipend. Otherwise, I don't see how linux can go further than the market of highly technical users. I'd not unleash linux on less technical power user, because it is not "configuration-easy". They may turn out complaining that linux is "not configurable" or "configure" the system into a complete mess.