No, the chart at the bottom of TFA shows they've made profits for several years and except last year and this year, used to pay (very small) taxes on those profits. they've just been getting better at playing the system as their profits are rising.
Reading the comments, it seems clear everyone has deep scorn for people using the Mac OSX Server.app services anyways as they can all be replicated better and faster and easier using mumble mumble for the price of a sandwich.
So, what are the details? For those of us who do in fact use the Server.app services, what specifically do you recommend?
I use:
Websites: to serve small internal websites for myself and my collaborators to share non-secret internal info. Mail: to set up temporary email addresses that people can use to sign up for events and then are destroyed once the event happens. Calendar: to sync all of the iCal users in my group to the group calendars. SFTP: to let internal users send files to the group server when they are in the field. File Sharing: for storing backing up our main file systems. etc.
Nothing complicated; nothing that requires vast configuration. Just services that OSX Server has provided us for years on machines we already have. (We're a Mac based shop in general.)
You also have to be careful about who is teaching and how they are doing it. Plus how that's different from the environment where you actually use this knowledge.
Otherwise, you end up with the situation in Starman:
"I learned how to drive by watching you! Green means go, red means stop, yellow means go very fast!"
It's long, but that transcript is really worth a read. First the judge thoughtfully skewers every argument the government presents, and tries to get to the fundamental principles involved. Then he thoughtfully skewers every argument Apple presents and tries to get them to throw away all of the marketing nonsense and just say what they think the actual issues are. Then he takes it all into consideration and says he'll go try to find the proper balance in his ruling.
No matter how that case comes out, that's one judge who is doing his job.
On the other hand, the media is often sensationalizing a few outlying cases. A single research group was caught falsifying global warming data? A few dozen others were publishing real data.
In this case, 100 papers were retracted for fraud. The most recent two issues of the planetary astronomy journal I frequently publish in which few of you have even heard of comprised 100 articles total. 100 articles retracted is a *tiny* tiny percentage of the reliable peer reviews published.
Fraud is bad. When found, punish it. But this single incident does not signal the end of science.
Actually he does have a right. He got into the shareholder's meeting by being a shareholder. It's his company too. Let him express his views to the board.
Finally a stable wormhole for our FTL travel needs. Now, since Sagitarius A is 26,000 lightyears away, all we need to do is build some sort of wormhole network to get us there, and then FTL travel will be ours!
We have complete understanding of how to knock someone so far out that you can cut into them for hours in an operating room, even to the point of removing their heart for a transplant. Why the heck to people have to go from fully conscious to dead in a single shot? Knock them out completely painlessly, and then kill them while they can feel nothing. I've never understood lethal injections at all!
"three secretaries and a graphics arts department."
Sure, with an unlimited budget, my thesis would also have been a work of art. It must have been nice to prepare your thesis in an environment where money was no object.
Certainly they all deserve tolerance. But they do not all deserve support. Tolerate their presence sure, but you don't have to put money into their pockets by going to see their movies. That's not tolerance, that's active support for them.
This again? The statement makes sense: Han was talking about the distance traveled (his path bringing him closer to a black hole than the typical route) and not the amount of time spent.
I'm also happy our state tied for first, but you can't take a number like "only 44% passed" and know that it means much of anything. After my high school career, I was ready to commit seppuku when I receive my first Astrophysics grade in college. A 63% seemed like the worst thing I had ever done, clearly indicating I was unfit for my chosen profession. Until I found out that 63% was the highest grade in the class.
Tests don't measure anything other than how good you are at passing that particular test. A well-crafted test will spread students out allowing educators to understand where the better students still have room to grow, and where the weaker students are lacking. If everyone passes a test with flying colors, it doesn't mean everyone knows all they need. I merely means the test is useless.
Doesn't that spoil the patent though? I mean if 25 years from now we discover the unobtanium needed to make your antigrav copter patent work, well too late, no anti-grav copter patent for you, because it was patented 25 years ago and has entered the public domain since.
>They spend money on quality materials where others do not. But it doesn't justify a 100% premium over their competitors.
Actually, that is pretty much the *only* thing that *does* justify such margins. In just about every other manufacturing industry, there's the cheap crap you can buy at a discount, and the high-quality, well-made stuff that has a much greater than >100% price premium. Toasters, Dining Room Tables, Cars... You name it, and paying for quality has always been profitable.
The only question that remains is whether you think Apple is providing the quality. Given your statement above, it is.
If your professor goes from teaching 100 people to 100,000 people without much increase in workload, then either your professor sucked when teaching 100, or you are missing the point of attending his class entirely.
It's not just a matter of reading the notes and listening to the lecture. The professor needs to respond to problems the students are having, adjust pacing based upon performance, and be able to handle individual questions from students. That's why good professors hate classes that large (100). It's a lot of work.
What is this "Google Chef" situation that this story seems to pull up everywhere it is posted. Everything I read about the actual Google chef seems to indicate he was a great guy who did amazing things during the formation of the Google. What's the "situation"?
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> Suffice it to say, mistakes like this don't typically happen in the well-to-do, perfectly manicured world of Silicon Valley startups.
Um... have you ever been to Silicon Valley? It's all seat of the pants fixes to last-minute crazy error all the time...
No, the chart at the bottom of TFA shows they've made profits for several years and except last year and this year, used to pay (very small) taxes on those profits. they've just been getting better at playing the system as their profits are rising.
It is time for all biologists to pay for a century of torturing planaria! Go forth legions of wormy vengeance!
Reading the comments, it seems clear everyone has deep scorn for people using the Mac OSX Server.app services anyways as they can all be replicated better and faster and easier using mumble mumble for the price of a sandwich.
So, what are the details? For those of us who do in fact use the Server.app services, what specifically do you recommend?
I use:
Websites: to serve small internal websites for myself and my collaborators to share non-secret internal info.
Mail: to set up temporary email addresses that people can use to sign up for events and then are destroyed once the event happens.
Calendar: to sync all of the iCal users in my group to the group calendars.
SFTP: to let internal users send files to the group server when they are in the field.
File Sharing: for storing backing up our main file systems.
etc.
Nothing complicated; nothing that requires vast configuration. Just services that OSX Server has provided us for years on machines we already have. (We're a Mac based shop in general.)
So what should I replace these services with?
You also have to be careful about who is teaching and how they are doing it. Plus how that's different from the environment where you actually use this knowledge.
Otherwise, you end up with the situation in Starman:
"I learned how to drive by watching you! Green means go, red means stop, yellow means go very fast!"
>Does no one else think cars + computers + network connectivity = bad?
Not half as bad a wireless pacemakers.
It's long, but that transcript is really worth a read. First the judge thoughtfully skewers every argument the government presents, and tries to get to the fundamental principles involved. Then he thoughtfully skewers every argument Apple presents and tries to get them to throw away all of the marketing nonsense and just say what they think the actual issues are. Then he takes it all into consideration and says he'll go try to find the proper balance in his ruling.
No matter how that case comes out, that's one judge who is doing his job.
On the other hand, the media is often sensationalizing a few outlying cases. A single research group was caught falsifying global warming data? A few dozen others were publishing real data.
In this case, 100 papers were retracted for fraud. The most recent two issues of the planetary astronomy journal I frequently publish in which few of you have even heard of comprised 100 articles total. 100 articles retracted is a *tiny* tiny percentage of the reliable peer reviews published.
Fraud is bad. When found, punish it. But this single incident does not signal the end of science.
Actually he does have a right. He got into the shareholder's meeting by being a shareholder. It's his company too. Let him express his views to the board.
Finally a stable wormhole for our FTL travel needs. Now, since Sagitarius A is 26,000 lightyears away, all we need to do is build some sort of wormhole network to get us there, and then FTL travel will be ours!
We have complete understanding of how to knock someone so far out that you can cut into them for hours in an operating room, even to the point of removing their heart for a transplant. Why the heck to people have to go from fully conscious to dead in a single shot? Knock them out completely painlessly, and then kill them while they can feel nothing. I've never understood lethal injections at all!
Always communicating with each other and sharing their ideas. What's wrong with them!
"Scientists can't help communicating with each other and sharing ideas.'" Where the heck did that sentence even come from?
The new iPad Mini comes in 16, 32, 64, AND 128 GB models. Just like the full-sized ones.
"three secretaries and a graphics arts department."
Sure, with an unlimited budget, my thesis would also have been a work of art. It must have been nice to prepare your thesis in an environment where money was no object.
Certainly they all deserve tolerance. But they do not all deserve support. Tolerate their presence sure, but you don't have to put money into their pockets by going to see their movies. That's not tolerance, that's active support for them.
This again? The statement makes sense: Han was talking about the distance traveled (his path bringing him closer to a black hole than the typical route) and not the amount of time spent.
The retcon is strong in this one...
I'm also happy our state tied for first, but you can't take a number like "only 44% passed" and know that it means much of anything. After my high school career, I was ready to commit seppuku when I receive my first Astrophysics grade in college. A 63% seemed like the worst thing I had ever done, clearly indicating I was unfit for my chosen profession. Until I found out that 63% was the highest grade in the class.
Tests don't measure anything other than how good you are at passing that particular test. A well-crafted test will spread students out allowing educators to understand where the better students still have room to grow, and where the weaker students are lacking. If everyone passes a test with flying colors, it doesn't mean everyone knows all they need. I merely means the test is useless.
Doesn't that spoil the patent though? I mean if 25 years from now we discover the unobtanium needed to make your antigrav copter patent work, well too late, no anti-grav copter patent for you, because it was patented 25 years ago and has entered the public domain since.
>They spend money on quality materials where others do not. But it doesn't justify a 100% premium over their competitors.
Actually, that is pretty much the *only* thing that *does* justify such margins. In just about every other manufacturing industry, there's the cheap crap you can buy at a discount, and the high-quality, well-made stuff that has a much greater than >100% price premium. Toasters, Dining Room Tables, Cars... You name it, and paying for quality has always been profitable.
The only question that remains is whether you think Apple is providing the quality. Given your statement above, it is.
Um no. The Christmas star was seen in the East, not the North. The North star has nothing to do with Christ. It never has.
If your professor goes from teaching 100 people to 100,000 people without much increase in workload, then either your professor sucked when teaching 100, or you are missing the point of attending his class entirely.
It's not just a matter of reading the notes and listening to the lecture. The professor needs to respond to problems the students are having, adjust pacing based upon performance, and be able to handle individual questions from students. That's why good professors hate classes that large (100). It's a lot of work.
What is this "Google Chef" situation that this story seems to pull up everywhere it is posted. Everything I read about the actual Google chef seems to indicate he was a great guy who did amazing things during the formation of the Google. What's the "situation"?
Oh, oops. I is p0wned.
Wait, when did they arrest someone for having too much disk space?
You pay taxes on the $80,000, not the full $280,000, assuming you kept the receipts for the original $200,000 spent so you can take it as a deduction.