I can make a box that squawks when you push a button. That is the uninteresting part of the question.
Even now as you paste a definition, you are simply asserting that mammals are some combination of conscious and perceptive, or that they have experiences (the alternative that I am vaguely proposing here is that they are merely reactive).
Sure, Apple is a healthy company with a healthy hardware business, and it would be pretty difficult to project exactly what would happen if they decided to become a software company, though I suspect that they would lose hardware revenues faster than they gained OS revenues, making the transition difficult (and it is tough to say if they would be able to maintain the marketing power of their current platform).
(Apple does provide enough information in their 10-Q to bracket what they make on hardware pretty tightly; they also provide the number of units sold, so a per unit income range is available there)
Our 'addiction' to economic growth comes from the fact that there are billions of people who would like to quadruple (for starters) their consumption (because they see it as the path to increasing their standard of living) and because there are millions of new people being born every year.
If you think it is an addiction, I suggest you farm your own food without using petroleum inputs. Good luck finding steel that fits that definition, and don't worry, we won't make fun of you when you give up.
Apple doesn't break out their revenues and income by product segment, so a direct comparison is difficult; also, they don't publish a fancy Annual report, just a 10-Q for the SEC, which is available here (and probably lots of other places), so no linking to the pertinent section:
The big difference is that Microsoft is selling OEM's licenses to Windows, with essentially no production costs (just development costs) and Apple has to buy all the parts for those computers from somebody, with costs that comprise a substantial portion of the eventual revenue that they bring in.
It's possible that computer hardware sales are more lucrative than other Apple products, but I doubt that it is a factor of 2 or whatever. So Microsoft could halve the revenue they are bringing in for OS sales and still probably be making more income on those revenues than Apple makes.
I think the biggest reason Apple doesn't want to license OS X for sale is that they would lose control over the experience ("It just works" is a big marketing point for them). Next in line is that they have significant hardware operations that would face lower margin competitors, likely eroding their revenues.
Java and Javascript are only nearly identical in that they both contain Java in their names.
Javascript is much closer to Ruby than it is Java (but the built in objects aren't generally as rich, and people scream and whine about the prototype based object system).
Well, "knowing" gets messy, but when there are severe documented effects among a large population that all share a single mutation and no documented effects among an even larger population that does not share that mutation, fixing the mutation is not going to have adverse consequences (especially if it is done in an embryo so that development proceeds normally).
Cystic fibrosis is a classic example, it is caused by improper production of a single protein. Restoring production of that protein won't have wild, unpredictable effects on the complex system, it will restore it to "normal" function.
Bananas certainly are not going to go extinct. Neither is the currently commercially popular variety. It is simply reaching a point where the fungus is aggressive enough against it that it will not be commercially viable to grow it.
There are hundreds of other varieties of bananas, many of which are far more resistant to the fungus. One of them is quite likely to show up in grocery stores.
Care to flesh out your prediction? I'm looking for info, not sniping (last time I looked at the trends, it wasn't going to be anywhere near that soon; I didn't look real close, and I guess if spinning disc hits a wall it would speed things up).
No support for Unicode (yet) would probably be the biggest caveat. I've had good luck with it, but I haven't exercised it in particularly interesting ways.
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I can make a box that squawks when you push a button. That is the uninteresting part of the question.
Even now as you paste a definition, you are simply asserting that mammals are some combination of conscious and perceptive, or that they have experiences (the alternative that I am vaguely proposing here is that they are merely reactive).
Sure, Apple is a healthy company with a healthy hardware business, and it would be pretty difficult to project exactly what would happen if they decided to become a software company, though I suspect that they would lose hardware revenues faster than they gained OS revenues, making the transition difficult (and it is tough to say if they would be able to maintain the marketing power of their current platform).
(Apple does provide enough information in their 10-Q to bracket what they make on hardware pretty tightly; they also provide the number of units sold, so a per unit income range is available there)
Our 'addiction' to economic growth comes from the fact that there are billions of people who would like to quadruple (for starters) their consumption (because they see it as the path to increasing their standard of living) and because there are millions of new people being born every year.
If you think it is an addiction, I suggest you farm your own food without using petroleum inputs. Good luck finding steel that fits that definition, and don't worry, we won't make fun of you when you give up.
Except Microsoft makes about $0.75 of income on every $1 of OS sales that they do. See the client segment here:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fr_dis.html
Apple doesn't break out their revenues and income by product segment, so a direct comparison is difficult; also, they don't publish a fancy Annual report, just a 10-Q for the SEC, which is available here (and probably lots of other places), so no linking to the pertinent section:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=107357&p=irol-sec
It is probably reasonably fair to compare Microsoft's above operating income for client sales to Apple's overall operating margin of about 20%:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL
The big difference is that Microsoft is selling OEM's licenses to Windows, with essentially no production costs (just development costs) and Apple has to buy all the parts for those computers from somebody, with costs that comprise a substantial portion of the eventual revenue that they bring in.
It's possible that computer hardware sales are more lucrative than other Apple products, but I doubt that it is a factor of 2 or whatever. So Microsoft could halve the revenue they are bringing in for OS sales and still probably be making more income on those revenues than Apple makes.
I think the biggest reason Apple doesn't want to license OS X for sale is that they would lose control over the experience ("It just works" is a big marketing point for them). Next in line is that they have significant hardware operations that would face lower margin competitors, likely eroding their revenues.
Says who?
What kind of idiot owns fine china?
So between Ruby and Java, which one is closer to Scheme, in your opinion?
(As an aside, I don't really see what anything you posted has to do with the part of my post that you quoted; it certainly doesn't contradict it)
I bet the average age is closer to 30 than it is to 20 at this point. And a bunch of those people have jobs that provide pretty decent compensation.
Java and Javascript are only nearly identical in that they both contain Java in their names.
Javascript is much closer to Ruby than it is Java (but the built in objects aren't generally as rich, and people scream and whine about the prototype based object system).
So you criticize the traditional media for their bias, but you won't go further because you need to protect a (silly) number in a database?
If I thought I could destroy the internet in 5 minutes, I would do it just so I could watch it go down.
The infamy would be worth *any* legal consequences.
The clone springs, fully grown, from a pouch sown into the thigh of an existing Steve Jobs.
If you are already waiting for it, it doesn't sound like they need to actually make it.
Oh boo hoo.
'old school html only' is a preference if you are logged in. Not exactly that, but that idea (Preferences -> Classic Index -> General).
There is a bit of ajax for messages now, though it is probably actually an improvement.
And then you remembered your password?
Well, "knowing" gets messy, but when there are severe documented effects among a large population that all share a single mutation and no documented effects among an even larger population that does not share that mutation, fixing the mutation is not going to have adverse consequences (especially if it is done in an embryo so that development proceeds normally).
Cystic fibrosis is a classic example, it is caused by improper production of a single protein. Restoring production of that protein won't have wild, unpredictable effects on the complex system, it will restore it to "normal" function.
Bananas certainly are not going to go extinct. Neither is the currently commercially popular variety. It is simply reaching a point where the fungus is aggressive enough against it that it will not be commercially viable to grow it.
There are hundreds of other varieties of bananas, many of which are far more resistant to the fungus. One of them is quite likely to show up in grocery stores.
There are lots of disorders that are simple point mutations of a single gene. Fixing those won't have any bizarre results. None whatsoever.
(That's assuming that the editing can be done in a safe, precise manner, but that isn't about understanding the genetics)
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw
Care to flesh out your prediction? I'm looking for info, not sniping (last time I looked at the trends, it wasn't going to be anywhere near that soon; I didn't look real close, and I guess if spinning disc hits a wall it would speed things up).
Perhaps in this environment more interesting companies don't have to resort to posting on some website?
If someone tried to bring the politics of Wikipedia to my local government, I would be inclined to solve the problem with a shotgun.
The book is about Python so it probably isn't that out of place that there is reasonable support for csv files included in the standard install:
http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html
No support for Unicode (yet) would probably be the biggest caveat. I've had good luck with it, but I haven't exercised it in particularly interesting ways.
Nah, they are poisoning us too.