In the case of AAPL stock, the price has gone up 8x in just two years. In stock traders terms, AAPL and GOOG are definitely bubble stocks -- nobody is doubting that the companies are great, but the stocks have gotten out of hand. A high stock rise like this indicates extreme expectations of where the company will be in a couple years. However, it is highly unlikely that a company as old and large as AAPL can grow that fast.
You may want to note that Apple P/E ratio has dropped from the 80s down to the low 40s (not counting the run up to MWSF) and its forward looking P/E is in the low 30s (not counting MWSF run up). I personally would love see the P/E down under 20 but the stock is trending down in P/E not up which is a good thing.
they first attempted this operation using deionized water. It worked for 5 minutes before developing short circuits
Have to say that is kinda of dumb to try... de-ionized water is a great solvent and would love nothing better then to leach ions from material it comes in contact with.
Apple never said "a year and a half". At WWDC 2005 they said that by WWDC 2006 that they would have some MacIntels shipping and that the full transition would take them into 2007 to complete.
Oh, and the apple one has a fancier bezel....and of course built in 2 port Firewire (400) hub in addition to 2 port USB (2.0). Also the firewire, USB, power and Dual-DVI all come to the monitor via a single cabel, this makes thing a lot cleaner on your desktop or when mounting on a wall.
The Quad PowerMac cooling system is a nice improvement on the prior spin of the cooling system used in the PowerMac. It is much cleaner internally, of course externally you see none of cooling system when you crack the case. Just a nice square block with G5 written on it.
The Quad PM is also likely the quietest of the PM based on my personal experience, even when under heavy load. I think Apple got its liquid cooling system right.
"floating" implies that the dust is randomly moving around despite the affects of gravity and it implies it is "floating" in something (water, "air", etc.). For floating to take place you need some external force that can over come gravity such as Brownian motion and/or electrostatics.
floating |?fl?ti ng | adjective [ attrib. ] 1 buoyant or suspended in water or air : a massive floating platform. 2 not settled in a definite place; fluctuating or variable : the floating population that is migrating to the cities.
Nowhere in his post did he say "pretty much the same architecture"... he said they were similar.
Ummm, yeah he did... does the following help?
There are still lots of Mac zealots going around complaining about X11's supposedly inefficient "network transparent architecture" even though the Mac has pretty much the same architecture and is, if anything, less efficient.
If you don't trust my quoting go reread his original post...
"A patent is a government enforced monopoly over the implementation of an idea" as long as you then proceed to document said implementation/idea in the public domain so that others can benefit from your implementation/idea when they attempt to develop their own....at least that was the original intent of patents.
If patents cover this technology then we all have access to them since patents are in the public domain. This is what patents are about (originally)... to allow others to review the design and think about ways to possibly do it "better" (cheaper, more robust, more efficient, etc.) while still protecting the original inventor from direct / near direct copies of the technology outlined in the patent. Basically if you allow others to see what you are doing (give something) you will be granted protection of the idea(s) outlined in the patent (get something).
Anyway now it is possible that IBM could license others the ability to develop product despite holding a patent because of their general desire to support and protect their linux investment.
Umm... They are playing within the legal system here. They are asking the court that is considering an injunction against blackberry to consider the impact it would have to government operation. Companies and the public sector can do similar filings.
The main issue is what type of shutdown/shipment stop, if any, should happen for a system that has become critical to many folks knowing that the resolution of the patent dispute will take a decently long time (appeals and all). In my opinion no shutdown should take place but some type of escrow setup that Blackberry has to pay fines into. If in the end the patent holds this money would then go to the patent holder... or something like that.
Companies can file similar motions with the court to get the court to consider the impact of a shutdown on the company. With that said some government workers are special as are some public sector workers because the work in fields the are critical to the general public (emergency response, etc.).
For Q3 2005 (the last quarter on record) Apple had revenues of 241 million from "other music products" which as Apple states consists of "Tunes Music Store sales and iPod related services and accessories". For the same quarter Apple saw revenues of 1,103 million and 1,565 million for iPod and Mac sales respectively. Apple's total revenue for the quarter was 3,520 million.
So revenues from iTMS for Q3 was no more then 14.6% of total revenues and likely a decent percentage less then that given the volume of Apple made iPod accessories and their prices relative to songs. Also if you do a little math on their song run sate you can guess that iTMS revenues are around 180-200 million dollars a quarter currently.
To me that doesn't qualify as sizable but it isn't something to sneeze at either.
QuickTime has been wrapped with an Objective-C interface (QuickTime Kit) to make using it from Cocoa easier but it has not be "migrated". It still depends on Carbon and not Cocoa.
Note...
[G5:~] shawnce% otool -L/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Ver sions/A/QuickTime /System/Library/Frameworks/Quic kTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime: /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Ver sions/A/QuickTime (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 106.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/ Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 18.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versio ns/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framewor k/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 368.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Ver sions/A/CoreAudio (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/ Versions/A/AudioToolbox (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Ver sions/A/AudioUnit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versio ns/A/vecLib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 176.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.fra mework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 22.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Vers ions/A/Security (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 222.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Version s/A/IOKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 271.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.fra mework/Versions/A/SystemConfiguration (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.0.0)
[G5:~] shawnce% otool -o/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Ver sions/A/QuickTime /System/Library/Frameworks/Quic kTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime: Objective-C segment can't print objective-C information no (__OBJC,__module_info) section
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The legion of Sterno drinkers will rule the world!
(to bad we will have to share it with a bunch of crying babies)
They are running Threshold on SciFi soon it looks like.
In the case of AAPL stock, the price has gone up 8x in just two years. In stock traders terms, AAPL and GOOG are definitely bubble stocks -- nobody is doubting that the companies are great, but the stocks have gotten out of hand. A high stock rise like this indicates extreme expectations of where the company will be in a couple years. However, it is highly unlikely that a company as old and large as AAPL can grow that fast.
You may want to note that Apple P/E ratio has dropped from the 80s down to the low 40s (not counting the run up to MWSF) and its forward looking P/E is in the low 30s (not counting MWSF run up). I personally would love see the P/E down under 20 but the stock is trending down in P/E not up which is a good thing.
they first attempted this operation using deionized water. It worked for 5 minutes before developing short circuits
Have to say that is kinda of dumb to try... de-ionized water is a great solvent and would love nothing better then to leach ions from material it comes in contact with.
Your post made my day. :)
Apple never said "a year and a half". At WWDC 2005 they said that by WWDC 2006 that they would have some MacIntels shipping and that the full transition would take them into 2007 to complete.
Ummm some folks?... Think a wall arm mount so you have zero foot print on your desk and a movable display.
Oh, and the apple one has a fancier bezel. ...and of course built in 2 port Firewire (400) hub in addition to 2 port USB (2.0). Also the firewire, USB, power and Dual-DVI all come to the monitor via a single cabel, this makes thing a lot cleaner on your desktop or when mounting on a wall.
The Quad PowerMac cooling system is a nice improvement on the prior spin of the cooling system used in the PowerMac. It is much cleaner internally, of course externally you see none of cooling system when you crack the case. Just a nice square block with G5 written on it.
The Quad PM is also likely the quietest of the PM based on my personal experience, even when under heavy load. I think Apple got its liquid cooling system right.
FTL even! :(
Why with FLT flashlights! you know phasers.
"floating" implies that the dust is randomly moving around despite the affects of gravity and it implies it is "floating" in something (water, "air", etc.). For floating to take place you need some external force that can over come gravity such as Brownian motion and/or electrostatics.
floating |?fl?ti ng | adjective [ attrib. ]
1 buoyant or suspended in water or air : a massive floating platform.
2 not settled in a definite place; fluctuating or variable : the floating population that is migrating to the cities.
Umm... what argument? I asked him to better explain his post. I wasn't making any attempt to argue anything, just understand what he was thinking.
...and no that AC wasn't me but assume what you want.
Then you claimed I misquoted him... but I didn't.
Nowhere in his post did he say "pretty much the same architecture" ... he said they were similar.
Ummm, yeah he did... does the following help?
There are still lots of Mac zealots going around complaining about X11's supposedly inefficient "network transparent architecture" even though the Mac has pretty much the same architecture and is, if anything, less efficient.
If you don't trust my quoting go reread his original post...
Can you outline how you see Quartz and X11 being "pretty much the same architecture"? Also put your "less efficient" comment in context?
Some of my favorite foods are Vegans, well... vegetarians at least.
"A patent is a government enforced monopoly over the implementation of an idea" as long as you then proceed to document said implementation/idea in the public domain so that others can benefit from your implementation/idea when they attempt to develop their own. ...at least that was the original intent of patents.
If patents cover this technology then we all have access to them since patents are in the public domain. This is what patents are about (originally)... to allow others to review the design and think about ways to possibly do it "better" (cheaper, more robust, more efficient, etc.) while still protecting the original inventor from direct / near direct copies of the technology outlined in the patent. Basically if you allow others to see what you are doing (give something) you will be granted protection of the idea(s) outlined in the patent (get something).
Anyway now it is possible that IBM could license others the ability to develop product despite holding a patent because of their general desire to support and protect their linux investment.
Umm... They are playing within the legal system here. They are asking the court that is considering an injunction against blackberry to consider the impact it would have to government operation. Companies and the public sector can do similar filings.
The main issue is what type of shutdown/shipment stop, if any, should happen for a system that has become critical to many folks knowing that the resolution of the patent dispute will take a decently long time (appeals and all). In my opinion no shutdown should take place but some type of escrow setup that Blackberry has to pay fines into. If in the end the patent holds this money would then go to the patent holder... or something like that.
Companies can file similar motions with the court to get the court to consider the impact of a shutdown on the company. With that said some government workers are special as are some public sector workers because the work in fields the are critical to the general public (emergency response, etc.).
It doesn't. You cannot play DRMed WMA files on Mac OS X.
Of course this isn't factoring in things like... shipping, labor, stocking, and the cut that retailers get.... as well as R&D costs.
Apple is lucky to make 30%, more likely in the mid to low 20% on margins. Still impressive margins and ones so far supported by the market.
If you review the following Data Summary Q3 2005 (PDF) you find that ...
For Q3 2005 (the last quarter on record) Apple had revenues of 241 million from "other music products" which as Apple states consists of "Tunes Music Store sales and iPod related services and accessories". For the same quarter Apple saw revenues of 1,103 million and 1,565 million for iPod and Mac sales respectively. Apple's total revenue for the quarter was 3,520 million.
So revenues from iTMS for Q3 was no more then 14.6% of total revenues and likely a decent percentage less then that given the volume of Apple made iPod accessories and their prices relative to songs. Also if you do a little math on their song run sate you can guess that iTMS revenues are around 180-200 million dollars a quarter currently.
To me that doesn't qualify as sizable but it isn't something to sneeze at either.
Umm they both work just fine for me...
QuickTime has been wrapped with an Objective-C interface (QuickTime Kit) to make using it from Cocoa easier but it has not be "migrated". It still depends on Carbon and not Cocoa.
Note...