We are talking about Jobs. Even without him, I presume that Jonathan Ives can still do industrial design at a high level.
And as far as losing it's "lead", even after Apple played catch up with the iPod (it wasn't the prime mover in portable music devices at launch time), they still haven't lost it.
They take software principles and apply it to hardware. From one product release to the next, there's incremental improvements, hardly anything dramatic.
The mark of a good company is whether it can develop talent so there's a decent succession plan in place in case of accidents, etc. (colloquially we call it a "truck factor" - what happens if person X gets hit by a truck...).
Some companies are better at it than others. That tends to factor into the overall stock price as well. Wall St. doesn't like major upheavals.
Really? Not that I am invested in AAPL, but it's got a PE of ~23. Going by Benjamin Graham's rule of thumb it needs to grow at 7.5%. What with the healthy product stream (iPads, new customer base with CMDA iPhone), that doesn't seem terribly overpriced.
It depends on what time period you are talking about. The first Japanese cars here were cheap, and it showed. Then their quality improved. Now that they are popular and they feel they have beaten the competition, they have gotten more relaxed towards quality...
And the current J.D. Powers survey shows Buick and Cadillac to be tied with Honda in reliability (Toyota has dropped to 8th place overall) and last I checked, those were still American cars.
No, I don't think that Netflix had a "very good system already". I don't do pattern recognition for a living (my field is CFD), and I had a system that beat Netflix after about 1 month of reading papers and figuring out how to compute the SVD for a large sparse matrix.
What they *really* need is a good way to filter the errors out of the data that they have. Errors in the data introduce larger errors in your predictions...
I love this quote from TFA: "Companies do not make money by giving researchers access to data. "
Wrong! Netflix released data to get a better recommendation system. The better they can pick movies for you, the more you will like their service. The $1million prize is peanuts compared to the increase in revenue a better system can bring.
I wonder if anyone has estimated the value of the man hours invested in this contest?
Does that translate into the "meaning of meaning"? I had philosopher friends who kept asking if "There was any there there". Is this something similar?
...maybe not Moore's law, but economy of scale can definitely reduce costs.
I think there was a (senior) VP of HP that tried to bring the former chip manufacturer's strengths to bear on this problem. Essentially using their fabs to make solar panels (picture the needs for vast amounts of silicon wafers and large scale glass manufacturing). And to turn those panels into "cookie cutter" plants that utility companies could purchase.
Unfortunately, it got torpedo'd. Thinking too far outside the box I guess....
Well, wouldn't Apple's VoiceOver tech let people dial their phone by just talking to it, rather than having to physically type in numbers? that with a hands free set would eliminate a bunch of phone distractions.
Then if women would just put their make-up on at home, the world would be a better place.
I guess I missed the math class that covered this, and since I am trying to correct you, I in turn will make a mistake ( think of the grammar nazis...). But here goes:
I have the choice of 26 letters for the first letter, and 26 letters for the second. To me that's not a series, it's just 26*26 = 676. Still not 10000, but double your number...
It works both ways you know. If they thought it was good enough, they would push Leopard out trying to put a stake through the heart of the undead OS named Vista. Market share counts in pushing share price up. Software delays don't.
I am guessing since it runs OS X that hamachi/samba would be an option, and you can just mount a partition from your home machine to make it "hold" enough music for yourself.
Don't think about it like an iPod - think about it like the tiny computer it is.
Why not netboot the macs (keeps the "image" consistent), and have a file server that has the users' home directory on it (old school "roaming profile")? Wouldn't that do the same thing? (excuse my lack of windows networking expertise, I have managed to avoid that...)
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We are talking about Jobs. Even without him, I presume that Jonathan Ives can still do industrial design at a high level.
And as far as losing it's "lead", even after Apple played catch up with the iPod (it wasn't the prime mover in portable music devices at launch time), they still haven't lost it.
They take software principles and apply it to hardware. From one product release to the next, there's incremental improvements, hardly anything dramatic.
The mark of a good company is whether it can develop talent so there's a decent succession plan in place in case of accidents, etc. (colloquially we call it a "truck factor" - what happens if person X gets hit by a truck...).
Some companies are better at it than others. That tends to factor into the overall stock price as well. Wall St. doesn't like major upheavals.
Really? Not that I am invested in AAPL, but it's got a PE of ~23. Going by Benjamin Graham's rule of thumb it needs to grow at 7.5%. What with the healthy product stream (iPads, new customer base with CMDA iPhone), that doesn't seem terribly overpriced.
perhaps you havent seen the shift microsoft has made since WinMo6.
No, I think he means the Kin. Another aborted attempt at a user interface...
Dang, man! Are you replying to every single comment? That's quite the astroturfing campaign you are running....
simple answer is to have debian update more often... ;-)
Wow, never would've thought that Dell would be in the same business as RedHat...(that would be "we sell services" model).
At least in the case of RedHat, the underlying software is better.
"I think the recent improvements in alternative energy are a direct result of the global warming scare..."
You are naive. Recent improvements in alternative energy are because normal energy sources are getting more expensive.
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither." - Benjamin Franklin
"Those who sacrifice security for liberty deserve neither, either." -- BlowChunx
It depends on what time period you are talking about. The first Japanese cars here were cheap, and it showed. Then their quality improved. Now that they are popular and they feel they have beaten the competition, they have gotten more relaxed towards quality...
And the current J.D. Powers survey shows Buick and Cadillac to be tied with Honda in reliability (Toyota has dropped to 8th place overall) and last I checked, those were still American cars.
No, I don't think that Netflix had a "very good system already". I don't do pattern recognition for a living (my field is CFD), and I had a system that beat Netflix after about 1 month of reading papers and figuring out how to compute the SVD for a large sparse matrix.
What they *really* need is a good way to filter the errors out of the data that they have. Errors in the data introduce larger errors in your predictions...
I love this quote from TFA:
"Companies do not make money by giving researchers access to data. "
Wrong! Netflix released data to get a better recommendation system. The better they can pick movies for you, the more you will like their service. The $1million prize is peanuts compared to the increase in revenue a better system can bring.
I wonder if anyone has estimated the value of the man hours invested in this contest?
... semantic meaning...
Does that translate into the "meaning of meaning"? I had philosopher friends who kept asking if "There was any there there". Is this something similar?
No wonder HTML is in trouble.
Your ISP will just disallow UDP packets to your house.
Then of course, P2P will just institute TCP/IP port knocking to randomize and protect itself.
Apple Customers value Shiny.
You may want to strike the word "Apple" from that. After looking at Compiz Fusion, and the latest KDE beta, I think linux users value shiny as well.
...excuse my ignorance, but I thought the limit only applied to the maximum bet (meaning no "all in" bets).
You mean a compiler like this?
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http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na
...maybe not Moore's law, but economy of scale can definitely reduce costs.
I think there was a (senior) VP of HP that tried to bring the former chip manufacturer's strengths to bear on this problem. Essentially using their fabs to make solar panels (picture the needs for vast amounts of silicon wafers and large scale glass manufacturing). And to turn those panels into "cookie cutter" plants that utility companies could purchase.
Unfortunately, it got torpedo'd. Thinking too far outside the box I guess....
...of course, you are assuming the poster is *male*. Which gives us our USRDA of stereotyping in your post. Nicely done!
Well, wouldn't Apple's VoiceOver tech let people dial their phone by just talking to it, rather than having to physically type in numbers? that with a hands free set would eliminate a bunch of phone distractions.
Then if women would just put their make-up on at home, the world would be a better place.
I guess I missed the math class that covered this, and since I am trying to correct you, I in turn will make a mistake ( think of the grammar nazis...). But here goes:
I have the choice of 26 letters for the first letter, and 26 letters for the second. To me that's not a series, it's just 26*26 = 676. Still not 10000, but double your number...
It works both ways you know. If they thought it was good enough, they would push Leopard out trying to put a stake through the heart of the undead OS named Vista. Market share counts in pushing share price up. Software delays don't.
I am guessing since it runs OS X that hamachi/samba would be an option, and you can just mount a partition from your home machine to make it "hold" enough music for yourself.
Don't think about it like an iPod - think about it like the tiny computer it is.
Why not netboot the macs (keeps the "image" consistent), and have a file server that has the users' home directory on it (old school "roaming profile")? Wouldn't that do the same thing? (excuse my lack of windows networking expertise, I have managed to avoid that...)
Just wait and your competitors will make a better cross platform app that will hurt your bottom line. Then you will start "innovating"...