It's always great when some random guy on Slashdot who probably knows nothing about the topic espouses exactly the opposite of what all the experts say.
I agree, but I hadn't expected someone to prove it so quickly!
Apple has a price to earnings ratio over 20. Microsoft's is 13, and Exxon's is 13.5.
A high PE ratio suggests bad value.
A company that has more earnings, ie a bigger value in the denominator in the P/E ratio is obviously more valuable than a company with low earning (all other things being equal).
It appears Sony were still losing $18 per console back in Feb but should be on the profit side now, see here.
That said, I was talking about the overall profitability of the business, not just the profit on hardware. From what I have read SCE in particular seem so far in the hole this gen it's difficult to see them get net positive. (Of course it helped Sony win the format war with Blu Ray, which no doubt brings the company as a whole revenue in other areas).
For the year, Wii sales totaled 20.5 million for cumulative sales reaching 70.9 million — the largest ever for game consoles for Nintendo.
At the moment Nintendo's problem is a mere reduction in profit.
Pachter's advice is to join the ranks of the PS3/Xbox360 but the makers of those consoles have struggled to turn any profit in the relevant sections of their company.
Hotels do the same thing. It's not a crime. It's supply-and-demand. Demand goes up; hotel price goes up. Demand goes down; price goes down, in order to attract people.
The weekly price cycle for petrol in Australia isn't really supply/demand related, there is no supply shortfall on weekends nor any great increase in demand.
The reason it exists is for price differentiation, to extract as much money as possible from the various sections of the customer base.
In a supermarket you'll see multiple packets of pasta ranging (lets says) 90c from $1.80. The price sensitive part of the customer base will buy the cheaper one while other parts may choose to pay more for what is essentially the same thing.
That isn't really possible with petrol so a weekly price cycle exists. On cheap Tuesdays (or is it Wednesday now) the price is lower and price sensitive customers flock to the service stations. Less price sensitive customers (at least those not in immediate need of fuel) will avoid the lengthy queues and go on a more expensive day. Thus the petrol stations extract more money for the same product out of customers who are prepared to pay more.
This only works because all petrol stations "magically" fall into the same cycle and have the same "cheap" day (which is where allegations of price fixing come in).
2560x2048 resolution doesn't exactly help me see my web pages or documents any better
I think for people who are mostly a "consumer" of information (and that is most people) you are pretty much spot on, there are diminishing returns.
On the other hand if you are in some way producer, especially of something remotely complex, then the increased resolution is definately useful as it provides room to both see what you are producing and have the relevant tools available (eg an IDE or photoshop) and possibly some additional reference material.
RTFA yesterday and the what the article says doesn't matter. The picture of the back of the device
Which of the five or so pictures of the back of the phone that show the apple logo in the linked article are you talking about? They look to be the same device to me.
the only part that displays the Apple logo or any other Apple info
There's also some Apple text on one of the internal shots.
Plus with as many phone cases as there are out there, the best camouflage (assuming you're trying to protect against someone noticing the iPhone UI on a non-iPhone looking body) would be a case, even if it was poorly fitting.
Like the case they talk about in the article as being camouflage perhaps?
The camouflage case
The case it came inside was a fully developed plastic case to house this phone to disguise it like a 3GS. This wasn't just a normal case; it had all the proper new holes cut out for the new
switches and ports and camera holes and camera flash. But it looks like something from Belkin or Case-Mate. It's a perfect disguise.
There's even a fucking picture so you don't have to read....
Well it is limited to your country, and also your home.
"What" is limited and "who" is limited? Distributers etc may be limited as to where and to who they may sell but that is by contract, not a question of rights.
The copyright owner has sole right to make copies. As then owners of those copies they are entitled choose to only provide those copies to people who agree to certain contracted provisos, such as what countries the goods may be sold to.
However that is irrelevant to the eventual end customer though because the customer enters no such contract. He or she merely gets the physical item in exchange for money and can do whatever he or she wishes with it except when prohibited by law (such as making a non fair use copy)*.
they are giving you at least two rights
Which rights are they?
[*] obviously the specifics may vary between different legal jurisdictions, however I believe my statements fit the general case for most "western" legal systems at least.
There is no such thing as buying a movie... unless maybe if you are the producer.
Since you only get a license for limited use.
That's funny, all the times I've bought a DVD I've never recieved such a license.
Can you tell me what law necessitates that I have a licence to watch a DVD?
On the contrary, it's *very* easy to escape: don't log in.
In a literal sense that is easy, but on the other hand it requires you to opt out of what tends to be a fairly normal part of socialising for kids these days and doings so would reinforce the ostracisation rather than alleviate it.
I could just as easily suggest that you too had an "easy" escape, you could have simply never left home, however it's a solution which has it's own problems.
Which bits are useful probably depends on what's happening. In the most recent race for example Lewis Hamilton appeared to lose a small piece of his front wing. McLaren were very quickly able to determine the performance impact of the "modification" and determine that is wasn't serious enough to spend time changing the nose cone. Is the engine running too hot, are the tire pressures too low, is the front not generating enough downforce etc etc etc? There are a lot of variables that can effect the cars real world performance and they need to be managed if the team is going to get the most of their car.
Secondly the current rules means that teams get very little track time for testing so all the data they can retrieve during a race will be useful in confirming (or not) their existing modeling/wind tunnel results and informing them for future developments. Teams frequently bring new part designs to each race and the first time they will be used on the car will be that race weekend. Without the sensor data there would be no way to quantitatively confirm that the new designs are more effective than the previous ones.
It's my understanding that SSDs tend to fail on write which is detectable allowing the SSD to both be aware of the problem and write the data to another cell.
As such I don't think failures should be either less predictable or more unforgiving than with mechanical disks.
I can already see all the comments how MS would be favoring IE with this (summary conveniently left that one out), but as it is they're promoting the other browsers almost double more.
I think you'd need user testing to determine that.
Do people choose the first one on the list or do they read the whole list and then maybe select the last one more often?
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I agree, but I hadn't expected someone to prove it so quickly!
A high PE ratio suggests bad value. A company that has more earnings, ie a bigger value in the denominator in the P/E ratio is obviously more valuable than a company with low earning (all other things being equal).
I guess it must just come naturally then.
It appears Sony were still losing $18 per console back in Feb but should be on the profit side now, see here. That said, I was talking about the overall profitability of the business, not just the profit on hardware. From what I have read SCE in particular seem so far in the hole this gen it's difficult to see them get net positive. (Of course it helped Sony win the format war with Blu Ray, which no doubt brings the company as a whole revenue in other areas).
At the moment Nintendo's problem is a mere reduction in profit.
Pachter's advice is to join the ranks of the PS3/Xbox360 but the makers of those consoles have struggled to turn any profit in the relevant sections of their company.
Great ping times, test it now!
The weekly price cycle for petrol in Australia isn't really supply/demand related, there is no supply shortfall on weekends nor any great increase in demand.
The reason it exists is for price differentiation, to extract as much money as possible from the various sections of the customer base.
In a supermarket you'll see multiple packets of pasta ranging (lets says) 90c from $1.80. The price sensitive part of the customer base will buy the cheaper one while other parts may choose to pay more for what is essentially the same thing.
That isn't really possible with petrol so a weekly price cycle exists. On cheap Tuesdays (or is it Wednesday now) the price is lower and price sensitive customers flock to the service stations. Less price sensitive customers (at least those not in immediate need of fuel) will avoid the lengthy queues and go on a more expensive day. Thus the petrol stations extract more money for the same product out of customers who are prepared to pay more.
This only works because all petrol stations "magically" fall into the same cycle and have the same "cheap" day (which is where allegations of price fixing come in).
I think for people who are mostly a "consumer" of information (and that is most people) you are pretty much spot on, there are diminishing returns.
On the other hand if you are in some way producer, especially of something remotely complex, then the increased resolution is definately useful as it provides room to both see what you are producing and have the relevant tools available (eg an IDE or photoshop) and possibly some additional reference material.
or articles.
Then you are as bad at reading his post as he is at reading artcles.
Which of the five or so pictures of the back of the phone that show the apple logo in the linked article are you talking about? They look to be the same device to me.
There's also some Apple text on one of the internal shots.
Like the case they talk about in the article as being camouflage perhaps?
There's even a fucking picture so you don't have to read....
Why does it seem unlikely?
It's ancestors could feasibly have not needed water to exist but produced it as a by product to some other useful function.
I can only assume you're talking about the work required to staff the dole office for all the attending Kiwis? ;)
oops.
In the game the score wraps around to zero again so the "score" in this case is calculated by taking note of the number of times the score wraps.
Fred Flintstone style?
"What" is limited and "who" is limited? Distributers etc may be limited as to where and to who they may sell but that is by contract, not a question of rights. The copyright owner has sole right to make copies. As then owners of those copies they are entitled choose to only provide those copies to people who agree to certain contracted provisos, such as what countries the goods may be sold to.
However that is irrelevant to the eventual end customer though because the customer enters no such contract. He or she merely gets the physical item in exchange for money and can do whatever he or she wishes with it except when prohibited by law (such as making a non fair use copy)*.
Which rights are they?
[*] obviously the specifics may vary between different legal jurisdictions, however I believe my statements fit the general case for most "western" legal systems at least.
That's funny, all the times I've bought a DVD I've never recieved such a license. Can you tell me what law necessitates that I have a licence to watch a DVD?
In a literal sense that is easy, but on the other hand it requires you to opt out of what tends to be a fairly normal part of socialising for kids these days and doings so would reinforce the ostracisation rather than alleviate it. I could just as easily suggest that you too had an "easy" escape, you could have simply never left home, however it's a solution which has it's own problems.
Which bits are useful probably depends on what's happening. In the most recent race for example Lewis Hamilton appeared to lose a small piece of his front wing. McLaren were very quickly able to determine the performance impact of the "modification" and determine that is wasn't serious enough to spend time changing the nose cone. Is the engine running too hot, are the tire pressures too low, is the front not generating enough downforce etc etc etc? There are a lot of variables that can effect the cars real world performance and they need to be managed if the team is going to get the most of their car. Secondly the current rules means that teams get very little track time for testing so all the data they can retrieve during a race will be useful in confirming (or not) their existing modeling/wind tunnel results and informing them for future developments. Teams frequently bring new part designs to each race and the first time they will be used on the car will be that race weekend. Without the sensor data there would be no way to quantitatively confirm that the new designs are more effective than the previous ones.
It's my understanding that SSDs tend to fail on write which is detectable allowing the SSD to both be aware of the problem and write the data to another cell. As such I don't think failures should be either less predictable or more unforgiving than with mechanical disks.
Torpedos?
I think you'd need user testing to determine that.
Do people choose the first one on the list or do they read the whole list and then maybe select the last one more often?
You clearly haven't drunk my homebrew.
And by that I mean the stereotype that Australians are easy going people who don't take themselves too seriously.