It's not our fault that piracy happened. As intelligent people, we were innovative in our ways to push IT to the edge and allow us to get this content free. But Pirate Bay is at fault because they capitalized on others' misfortunes.
As a frequent user of torrent sites, it stinks to see them be out of commision. But as a hard-working member of society, it's great!
At the end of the day, this site (and many others) are blatantly making it possible to acquire paid digital content for free. Same digital content that our friends and classmates are working to create and make a living off.
Obviously free > paid. But you owe it to society to put yourself in the shoes of the people making the games, the music, the movies and the software you and I were taking for free.
New Yorkers already pay an online tax of 8.625% for many retailers who operate within the state (Amazon Tax). It really sucks!
It's not fair to introduce this tax in the current economic conditions to the rest of the country; people have little disposable income as is. The only good thing is that it sort of levels the playing field for mom-n-pop shops with no online storefront.
You know what else is funny? You can go to puzzlesolver.com and solve the Rubik's cube in about two hours even if you never touched it. This is where natural selection kicks in and determines that Graham's genes should never be passed on.
Apple can put shit on a stick, brand it with the Apple logo and sell it for $299. Palm is the homeless man on the side of the street eating the shit off the stick.
Yes, good. They can be cooled with the Mac owners' snobbery and conceitedness. They can also be backup-cooled with the frappacino as they're aimlessly typing at Starbucks.
The US antitrust regulators like to go by two metrics: Herfindahl Index (HHI) and Market Concentration Ratio (google them up). HHI = s1^2 + s2^2 + s3^2 +... + sn^2 (where sn is the market share of the ith firm)
If the HHI index is > 1800, this usually means it's a monopoly. Nothing is set in stone, but play around with the numbers and you'll get an idea. Basically Microsoft is still considered a monopoly for a long time.
When all of the sudden everyone becomes an economics expert, talks trash and screams Armageddon...it's nice to have someone fair and impartial like NBER. It wasn't easy for them to call a recession since Q1 and Q2 GDP growth was positive, yet unemployment was negative. These were conflicting statistics and until the aggregate numbers were recently revised, meant there was NO recession. But that's why they're economists and not frat-boy b-school analysts.
I agree that we live in a male-dominated society, and on average sexism prevails in every walk of life. But...there is no barrier to women entering computer science or engineering fields. There are no chauvinistic battles that come out of this field, like there are in business, television and other male dominated professions. Maybe I'm speaking from a narrow viewpoint, but in my 20 years of IT education, career searching and professional experience; female IT personnel are not only treated as equals but are in fact sought after.
Ask a 7 year old kid what a computer person does, and they will describe someone working with machines, boxes, TVs and gadgets. From an early age, we are lead to think that boys work with machines, aka play with trucks. When kids are in high school and start making initial career choices, this mentality stays with them and therefore only small fraction of women end up doing what they were raised to believe to be a man's profession.
This has nothing to do with sexism, glass ceilings or modernization. From day one the whole concept of working with computers just seems like something a boy would do.
With that being said, companies are DYING to hire female workers in IT. Hopefully this will help.
I worked at CC from 2000-2002 as a commissioned salesman. CC differentiated themselves by being the only national electronics chain with a loyal, knowledgeable, community-oriented staff. We're not talking 17 y/o high school juniors, but middle-aged sharks who at least knew what they were selling. This worked and stores were in the black, but the 2001-2003 economic conditions caused the clueless management to shift the blame on the sales force and divert to the hourly model.
Since then, the store became a cheap knock-off of Best Buy with no value added to the customer. It was only a matter of time before this happened. They were too late to the online game, and were wiped out by the Neweggs and the Amazons.
RIP another pointless store that takes pride in making people borrow money they can't afford to pay back. Who's next?
Despite what you might think, it's not everyone's intention to jailbreak the iPhone. By integrity, I mean that the iPhone as a small OS would not be a junk anything-goes resource manager, but a stable runtime environment for which people can develop stable applications. That is why Apple has the whole "it just works" thing going for them. That's also why Apple is selling them by the Millions, and Nokia is having trouble growing, you bag of douche.
Riiight. You go ahead and sue Apple for some icon not appearing on your cellphone. Somehow battling for an open cell phone platform doesn't speak volumes about the freedom that your grandfather fought for. The iPhone is a toy, you are making it out to be the constitution. The whole redcoats thing is a little over the top, don't you think?
Face it, if Apple fully opened the OS for the iPhone, it would turn to crap in a matter of weeks. The platform would lose its integrity. You just have to impose limits on technology to make it adaptable and mainstream. I know that's a hard pill to swallow for some, but that's the tradeoff.
Now that the iPhone is hugely popular, developers have an incentive to create quality applications. This would not be the case if the iPhone was completely open from day one.
They're not taking away your right to free speech. It's their platform, nobody is shoving the iPhone down your throat. If you don't want to develop for it, don't!
Remember that just like everywhere else in life, for every batch of good apps, there are just as many apps that compromise the stability and hence the desirability of the iPhone. All that Apple wants to do is have quality apps available to their customers. They're not trying to have control over your life. If you ran a business you'd do the same exact thing. I know this is flamebait, but I'm just tired of people whining about technology products not living up to their ever-so-important expectations.
Actually it demonstrates that your company is in great shape; so great that you think your own shares are cheap and you want a piece of the action. Getting money from stock is not the only way that companies fund their operations. There's cash, bonds, etc...comprende?
Microsoft can loose a lot of money quickly being in the equity markets, especially when the markets move +/- 5% a day. Their CFO concluded that going forward, it will be cheaper and less risky for them to raise new money with bonds, rather than stocks. This is not a sign that they're in trouble, rather a move to hedge against a sharp decline in the overall stock market.
All this means is that debt is a cheaper and more risk-averse way for them to finance their crappy commercials and world takeover plans. In this market, you can see billions in capital evaporate in minutes. Not to side with Microsoft, but it was a good move as the market is about to take a dump.
You're right, but HTC doesn't have billions to wash away, nor does it have rights to a highly-demanded wireless spectrum which Google lost. Maybe I'm wrong, but Verizon could be in this.
Verizon has consistently limited Bluetooth capability in all of their devices up to date. They do not want you to send messages and transfer files to/from their devices without charging you every step of the way. It's that simple.
Oh, Verizon also happens to be a major backer of Android and is in cahoots with Google. Does anyone think there's a chance that there are external influences to this decision?
First, a large factor in obesity can be stress. On a macro level, the country's workforce is brutally overworked. 10 - 12 hour days are a norm. Stress and lack of exercise will release hormones such as cortisol which will only add to the weight problem.
Also, Japan has one of the largest suicide rates. From every direction you're being told what to do, what to eat, how much you should weigh. You cannot complain and many times do not have the ability to quit your job and begin a new life.
While health care costs can be a drag, at the end of the day you can only squeeze so much out of an average person. This weight-fine initiative is ridiculous and inhumane, to say the least.
Dodd got a break on 2 of his home loans, and because of him taxpayer money is used to save a troubled lender. While he's at it he's helping all lenders better measure risk for new loans by giving them an ability to look into every aspect of consumer's credit.
Does this guy have any shame?
In a proxy fight, the proxy, Icahn, will have the permission of all the other interested shareholders to use their votes to elect a new board.
It'll be interesting to see how long it takes this giant bag of douche to destroy an innovative technology company.
I can see how Icahn angers just about everyone on this forum, but look at it from another angle. He buys 59M shares, walks right up to the chief and says fuck you, pay me.
This is a textbook example of greenmail, and he will probably force a nasty proxy battle which will result in him destroying Yahoo by giving it to Microsoft. That's what happens when you take a company public, so everyone including Yang should stop crying. He knew exactly what he was getting into.
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It's not our fault that piracy happened. As intelligent people, we were innovative in our ways to push IT to the edge and allow us to get this content free. But Pirate Bay is at fault because they capitalized on others' misfortunes. As a frequent user of torrent sites, it stinks to see them be out of commision. But as a hard-working member of society, it's great! At the end of the day, this site (and many others) are blatantly making it possible to acquire paid digital content for free. Same digital content that our friends and classmates are working to create and make a living off. Obviously free > paid. But you owe it to society to put yourself in the shoes of the people making the games, the music, the movies and the software you and I were taking for free.
New Yorkers already pay an online tax of 8.625% for many retailers who operate within the state (Amazon Tax). It really sucks! It's not fair to introduce this tax in the current economic conditions to the rest of the country; people have little disposable income as is. The only good thing is that it sort of levels the playing field for mom-n-pop shops with no online storefront.
You know what else is funny? You can go to puzzlesolver.com and solve the Rubik's cube in about two hours even if you never touched it. This is where natural selection kicks in and determines that Graham's genes should never be passed on.
Apple can put shit on a stick, brand it with the Apple logo and sell it for $299. Palm is the homeless man on the side of the street eating the shit off the stick.
Yes, good. They can be cooled with the Mac owners' snobbery and conceitedness. They can also be backup-cooled with the frappacino as they're aimlessly typing at Starbucks.
The US antitrust regulators like to go by two metrics: Herfindahl Index (HHI) and Market Concentration Ratio (google them up). HHI = s1^2 + s2^2 + s3^2 + ... + sn^2 (where sn is the market share of the ith firm)
If the HHI index is > 1800, this usually means it's a monopoly. Nothing is set in stone, but play around with the numbers and you'll get an idea. Basically Microsoft is still considered a monopoly for a long time.
When all of the sudden everyone becomes an economics expert, talks trash and screams Armageddon...it's nice to have someone fair and impartial like NBER. It wasn't easy for them to call a recession since Q1 and Q2 GDP growth was positive, yet unemployment was negative. These were conflicting statistics and until the aggregate numbers were recently revised, meant there was NO recession. But that's why they're economists and not frat-boy b-school analysts.
I agree that we live in a male-dominated society, and on average sexism prevails in every walk of life. But...there is no barrier to women entering computer science or engineering fields. There are no chauvinistic battles that come out of this field, like there are in business, television and other male dominated professions. Maybe I'm speaking from a narrow viewpoint, but in my 20 years of IT education, career searching and professional experience; female IT personnel are not only treated as equals but are in fact sought after.
Ask a 7 year old kid what a computer person does, and they will describe someone working with machines, boxes, TVs and gadgets. From an early age, we are lead to think that boys work with machines, aka play with trucks. When kids are in high school and start making initial career choices, this mentality stays with them and therefore only small fraction of women end up doing what they were raised to believe to be a man's profession. This has nothing to do with sexism, glass ceilings or modernization. From day one the whole concept of working with computers just seems like something a boy would do. With that being said, companies are DYING to hire female workers in IT. Hopefully this will help.
I worked at CC from 2000-2002 as a commissioned salesman. CC differentiated themselves by being the only national electronics chain with a loyal, knowledgeable, community-oriented staff. We're not talking 17 y/o high school juniors, but middle-aged sharks who at least knew what they were selling. This worked and stores were in the black, but the 2001-2003 economic conditions caused the clueless management to shift the blame on the sales force and divert to the hourly model. Since then, the store became a cheap knock-off of Best Buy with no value added to the customer. It was only a matter of time before this happened. They were too late to the online game, and were wiped out by the Neweggs and the Amazons. RIP another pointless store that takes pride in making people borrow money they can't afford to pay back. Who's next?
Despite what you might think, it's not everyone's intention to jailbreak the iPhone. By integrity, I mean that the iPhone as a small OS would not be a junk anything-goes resource manager, but a stable runtime environment for which people can develop stable applications. That is why Apple has the whole "it just works" thing going for them. That's also why Apple is selling them by the Millions, and Nokia is having trouble growing, you bag of douche.
Riiight. You go ahead and sue Apple for some icon not appearing on your cellphone. Somehow battling for an open cell phone platform doesn't speak volumes about the freedom that your grandfather fought for. The iPhone is a toy, you are making it out to be the constitution. The whole redcoats thing is a little over the top, don't you think?
Face it, if Apple fully opened the OS for the iPhone, it would turn to crap in a matter of weeks. The platform would lose its integrity. You just have to impose limits on technology to make it adaptable and mainstream. I know that's a hard pill to swallow for some, but that's the tradeoff. Now that the iPhone is hugely popular, developers have an incentive to create quality applications. This would not be the case if the iPhone was completely open from day one.
They're not taking away your right to free speech. It's their platform, nobody is shoving the iPhone down your throat. If you don't want to develop for it, don't! Remember that just like everywhere else in life, for every batch of good apps, there are just as many apps that compromise the stability and hence the desirability of the iPhone. All that Apple wants to do is have quality apps available to their customers. They're not trying to have control over your life. If you ran a business you'd do the same exact thing. I know this is flamebait, but I'm just tired of people whining about technology products not living up to their ever-so-important expectations.
Actually it demonstrates that your company is in great shape; so great that you think your own shares are cheap and you want a piece of the action. Getting money from stock is not the only way that companies fund their operations. There's cash, bonds, etc...comprende?
Microsoft can loose a lot of money quickly being in the equity markets, especially when the markets move +/- 5% a day. Their CFO concluded that going forward, it will be cheaper and less risky for them to raise new money with bonds, rather than stocks. This is not a sign that they're in trouble, rather a move to hedge against a sharp decline in the overall stock market.
All this means is that debt is a cheaper and more risk-averse way for them to finance their crappy commercials and world takeover plans. In this market, you can see billions in capital evaporate in minutes. Not to side with Microsoft, but it was a good move as the market is about to take a dump.
But isn't the whole point of opening up a mobile platform to expose the base functionality of the device?
You're right, but HTC doesn't have billions to wash away, nor does it have rights to a highly-demanded wireless spectrum which Google lost. Maybe I'm wrong, but Verizon could be in this.
Verizon has consistently limited Bluetooth capability in all of their devices up to date. They do not want you to send messages and transfer files to/from their devices without charging you every step of the way. It's that simple. Oh, Verizon also happens to be a major backer of Android and is in cahoots with Google. Does anyone think there's a chance that there are external influences to this decision?
First, a large factor in obesity can be stress. On a macro level, the country's workforce is brutally overworked. 10 - 12 hour days are a norm. Stress and lack of exercise will release hormones such as cortisol which will only add to the weight problem. Also, Japan has one of the largest suicide rates. From every direction you're being told what to do, what to eat, how much you should weigh. You cannot complain and many times do not have the ability to quit your job and begin a new life. While health care costs can be a drag, at the end of the day you can only squeeze so much out of an average person. This weight-fine initiative is ridiculous and inhumane, to say the least.
Dodd got a break on 2 of his home loans, and because of him taxpayer money is used to save a troubled lender. While he's at it he's helping all lenders better measure risk for new loans by giving them an ability to look into every aspect of consumer's credit. Does this guy have any shame?
3D display from Paycheck to hit the markets.
In a proxy fight, the proxy, Icahn, will have the permission of all the other interested shareholders to use their votes to elect a new board. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes this giant bag of douche to destroy an innovative technology company.
I can see how Icahn angers just about everyone on this forum, but look at it from another angle. He buys 59M shares, walks right up to the chief and says fuck you, pay me. This is a textbook example of greenmail, and he will probably force a nasty proxy battle which will result in him destroying Yahoo by giving it to Microsoft. That's what happens when you take a company public, so everyone including Yang should stop crying. He knew exactly what he was getting into.