I think the whole situation mirrors, at a larger scale, a common situation that occurred in the 90s. While computer careers opened up big time, just because you had technical skills you didn't necessarily end up in a well-paying job; through poor social skills, lousy geographical location, or just plain bad luck you might have missed the gravy train. I'm sure there are people here who are on one side or the other of a technical income divide; one guy might be making close to minimum wage at radio shack, while his friends, with similar backgrounds and expertise, become IT pros.
IAAL (but not one licensed in Wisconsin) and I don't think he'll win this. Though if I were his lawyer I'd sue for all his overtime he spent at home, and try to get them to stipulate that he spent hundreds of hours of overtime at home, then use that stipulation at a later lawsuit.
or Microsoft finds the patent officer who is considering the patent and pays them 10 Million under the table to deny the patent.
Microsoft? They're not huge DRM supporters by nature, they just implement it because they think that's the only way copyright holders will use Microsoft networks/products to distribute their music/movies/whatever.
It refers to people who show up to the ER for relatively trivial stuff because they can't be bothered to actually make an appointment. Most are on public assistance and aren't going to pay for it anyway so they don't give a s*** about abusing the system.
If they're on public assistance and can't pay for it anyway, the emergency room is going to be their sole source of medical care.
I'm only in my first year of law school, and already many of my classmates have adopted a "smarter-than-thou" attitude toward staff, undergraduates around campus, and the world in general. Just because lawyers don't wear smarmy t-shirts doesn't mean they're not insufferably arrogant toward the "unelite."
Wait until grades come out. Unless your law school is heavy into grad inflation, a lot of those people will be getting a rude awakening when they find out that law school tends to grade on a much lower curve than they were probably used to in undergrad.
And what US scientist uses Imperial units anyway? Engineers, sure, but I've never met a scientist (and I am one) in the US who didn't strongly prefer metric.
No, you're missing the point. This forum is to bash Americans for being unbelievably backwards. Please keep your reality to yourself.
You said he expected perfection. The quality control at Apple obviously hasn't produced perfection. Logically, he can't really expect too much out of them considering they continuously fall short.
Do people really think Apple can maintain their mighty 3% marketshare without Steve Jobs?
It's like I've entered like a parallel universe where nobody remembers anything. Apple has ALWAYS struggled. Just because they succeed in one market doesn't mean they're some sort of divinely graced company. Even under Jobs' leadership they've had plenty of failures.
Well I was using hunger as an example. My point still stands, that you can't blame a 6 year old for their own poverty, whatever form that poverty takes.
California (USA), one can flip burgers at McDonalds and support oneself through a community college education. There is no reason that someone in the United States cannot better their lot in life.
However, hard working, enterprising people in Mexico do not have the same level of opportunity - to the point that they will risk the hazards of the desert and coyotes in order to get a shot at the opportunities in the United States.
I emphatically disagree. Parts of California, maybe. A bunch of places around the country, maybe. But there are areas in this country where people just can't--the jobs don't exist. There are towns in the rust belt that still haven't recovered since the loss of our manufacturing base 4 DECADES ago. A lot of people are stuck in a place with no job prospects, you have no money to relocate. They do have at least some shelter due to social relationships--they can live with parents or close friends. To give that up for possible homelessness in an economically stronger area is too much of a risk.
On the other hand, it is possible in some places in Mexico to move up the ladder. It's harder than here, but it's not impossible.
I don't care what anyone says, there is no excuse for any person in the U.S to be living in poverty except by their own choice.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. A sizeable portion of the people living in poverty in the US are children. Please explain to me how it's the 6 year olds fault he went to bed hungry last night. Come on, do it.
If you don't get the right start in life you have trouble down the road. This isn't due to laziness or unintelligence, you just haven't gotten the tools necessary to even know what you have to do.
Right, but whether the lawsuit existed or not they'd still be paying themselves. Just saying the fact that they're suing doesn't necessarily put money directly in their pockets.
You can alway ask the court for leave to amend your claims against the other party, but the other side gets to argue against it. I doubt SCO will win on this front.
And for the younger folks out there, this is a textbook statement illustrating what unsubstantiated conjecture masquerading as an 'opinion', mixed in equal parts with pure cynicism, sounds like.
Wow, touched a nerve there I see. If the explanation isn't "ego", kindly explain the whole insane fury he has over any leaks, even ones that ultimately don't interfere with either the bottom line or the quality of the product. Explain the whole ATI fiasco.
Can Apple take over Cisco? Reuters says that Apple has a market cap of $82B, while Cisco has a market cap of $174B, but Steve Jobs has done stranger things before...
Companies routinely buy out companies that are larger than them. It requires the shareholders of the larger company thinking their shares will be worth more afterwards, and a lot of sort-of-loans on the balance sheets, but it's done.
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So many good memories of the David Crane Ghostbusters game from the 80s...
This looks a bit too FPSish though.
I think the whole situation mirrors, at a larger scale, a common situation that occurred in the 90s. While computer careers opened up big time, just because you had technical skills you didn't necessarily end up in a well-paying job; through poor social skills, lousy geographical location, or just plain bad luck you might have missed the gravy train. I'm sure there are people here who are on one side or the other of a technical income divide; one guy might be making close to minimum wage at radio shack, while his friends, with similar backgrounds and expertise, become IT pros.
Sure...if you want to provide free software. In this case it seems obvious he wants the proprietary source code to be his to sell.
IAAL (but not one licensed in Wisconsin) and I don't think he'll win this. Though if I were his lawyer I'd sue for all his overtime he spent at home, and try to get them to stipulate that he spent hundreds of hours of overtime at home, then use that stipulation at a later lawsuit.
or Microsoft finds the patent officer who is considering the patent and pays them 10 Million under the table to deny the patent.
Microsoft? They're not huge DRM supporters by nature, they just implement it because they think that's the only way copyright holders will use Microsoft networks/products to distribute their music/movies/whatever.
It refers to people who show up to the ER for relatively trivial stuff because they can't be bothered to actually make an appointment. Most are on public assistance and aren't going to pay for it anyway so they don't give a s*** about abusing the system.
If they're on public assistance and can't pay for it anyway, the emergency room is going to be their sole source of medical care.
I'm only in my first year of law school, and already many of my classmates have adopted a "smarter-than-thou" attitude toward staff, undergraduates around campus, and the world in general. Just because lawyers don't wear smarmy t-shirts doesn't mean they're not insufferably arrogant toward the "unelite."
Wait until grades come out. Unless your law school is heavy into grad inflation, a lot of those people will be getting a rude awakening when they find out that law school tends to grade on a much lower curve than they were probably used to in undergrad.
And what US scientist uses Imperial units anyway? Engineers, sure, but I've never met a scientist (and I am one) in the US who didn't strongly prefer metric.
No, you're missing the point. This forum is to bash Americans for being unbelievably backwards. Please keep your reality to yourself.
It hasn't ended yet. The "experts" listed in the blog aren't the ones making the ultimate legal decisions.
You said he expected perfection. The quality control at Apple obviously hasn't produced perfection. Logically, he can't really expect too much out of them considering they continuously fall short.
Let me be clearer. Jobs has a reputation for driving his employees hard and not accepting anything less than perfection.
Not from his Quality Control department. Apple is notorious for shoddy design and workmanship in their first generation of anything they make.
Do people really think Apple can maintain their mighty 3% marketshare without Steve Jobs?
It's like I've entered like a parallel universe where nobody remembers anything. Apple has ALWAYS struggled. Just because they succeed in one market doesn't mean they're some sort of divinely graced company. Even under Jobs' leadership they've had plenty of failures.
Well I was using hunger as an example. My point still stands, that you can't blame a 6 year old for their own poverty, whatever form that poverty takes.
California (USA), one can flip burgers at McDonalds and support oneself through a community college education. There is no reason that someone in the United States cannot better their lot in life.
However, hard working, enterprising people in Mexico do not have the same level of opportunity - to the point that they will risk the hazards of the desert and coyotes in order to get a shot at the opportunities in the United States.
I emphatically disagree. Parts of California, maybe. A bunch of places around the country, maybe. But there are areas in this country where people just can't--the jobs don't exist. There are towns in the rust belt that still haven't recovered since the loss of our manufacturing base 4 DECADES ago. A lot of people are stuck in a place with no job prospects, you have no money to relocate. They do have at least some shelter due to social relationships--they can live with parents or close friends. To give that up for possible homelessness in an economically stronger area is too much of a risk.
On the other hand, it is possible in some places in Mexico to move up the ladder. It's harder than here, but it's not impossible.
It is full of the worst kind of sloppy reasoning, fringe economics, weird conspiracy theories and outright bullshit I have ever seen.
You already said it was libertarian, you don't have to be redundant.
I don't care what anyone says, there is no excuse for any person in the U.S to be living in poverty except by their own choice.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. A sizeable portion of the people living in poverty in the US are children. Please explain to me how it's the 6 year olds fault he went to bed hungry last night. Come on, do it.
If you don't get the right start in life you have trouble down the road. This isn't due to laziness or unintelligence, you just haven't gotten the tools necessary to even know what you have to do.
of resources from the industrial age doesn't exist any longer and there are no limits
Woohoo!
unfortunately, I think this book is out of print
D'oh!
Steve Jobs wanted to make the announcement during MacWorld. That's the only reason.
I'm a MINI owner in Miami, I WANT MY FOB!!
I think I remember this being common knowledge back when I was studying anthropology.
Right, but whether the lawsuit existed or not they'd still be paying themselves. Just saying the fact that they're suing doesn't necessarily put money directly in their pockets.
You can alway ask the court for leave to amend your claims against the other party, but the other side gets to argue against it. I doubt SCO will win on this front.
And for the younger folks out there, this is a textbook statement illustrating what unsubstantiated conjecture masquerading as an 'opinion', mixed in equal parts with pure cynicism, sounds like.
Wow, touched a nerve there I see. If the explanation isn't "ego", kindly explain the whole insane fury he has over any leaks, even ones that ultimately don't interfere with either the bottom line or the quality of the product. Explain the whole ATI fiasco.
Can Apple take over Cisco? Reuters says that Apple has a market cap of $82B, while Cisco has a market cap of $174B, but Steve Jobs has done stranger things before...
Companies routinely buy out companies that are larger than them. It requires the shareholders of the larger company thinking their shares will be worth more afterwards, and a lot of sort-of-loans on the balance sheets, but it's done.
This wont help either, the average european household has way less money to spend than the average US one.
Plus the simple European folk tend to use turnips as their currency, and I think the yen-turnip exchange rate is particularly unfavorable this year.