Thank you, I was wondering what that abbreviation was as well. Now I'm wondering which economist defined "basis point" to mean "a percent of a percent".
"Basis point" is a finance term used by traders, not an economics term. Economists rarely use the term. Traders say "basis points" because they don't really understand percentages or fractions or other advanced math.
Errm, you are the one to talk, since you obviously don't get the point of the point. Because when most people say "a change of x%", they actually mean a change of x percentage points - IOW they want to talk about the absolute change of a share given in percentages, but actually state a wrong relative change. Traders don't get confused by using percentage points and basis points.
Now one could argue if using "declining 30 bps" in this context was good - but saying "declining 0.3 pps" would have been just as confusing, "declining 0.3 percentage points" would have been much longer (and to half of the nitwits here just as confusing) - and saying "declining 0.3%" would have been plain wrong, even though the nitwits would have "understood". Well, the important thing to the nitwits is the "declined" part anyway - although "loosing" would be much more target group focused.
But nothing inetersting has happened in a while. I actually downgraded to a 2011 late 13" because i could put in an ssd and upgrade the memory. All the new stuff is soldered to the motherboard.
Why would you buy a older, slower machine so you could put in a slower SSD than the one in the newer machine?
The point where CPUs aren't "good enough" is ever narrowing. Intel's delays aren't here or there; Apple needs to come up with something other than "MOAR GIGAHURTZ!!!!!!!!!!"
That would be a fine point if Intel's CPUs finally supported low power DDR4 RAM like they promised 2 years ago. Until than people will complain about Apple not doing 32GB RAM in their notebook unlike others - ignoring that Apple's notebooks last easily 4 times longer on a battery than those notebooks supporting 32 GB RAM, while actually outperforming them on most tasks that supposedly "need" that much RAM.
Soldering RAM and SSD to the mobo is an instant "no-go" for a workstation for me.
Errm, when you say "workstation", you actually mean notebook. You are aware of that fact? Because you a) mention the ""goofy function row display", and b) are obviously wrong if you meant the actual workstation.
You mean slide down to the level of all the other vendors that are eating their lunch in terms of sales numbers despite being limited by all the same excuses you offered?
Well, what are these machines that drive those numbers? And why aren't they eating their lunch as far as profits go? Hint: there is a connection between the two.
Each release is becoming more and more difficult to do it..
Yeah - if you are a moron, it's really hard. IOW Apple did exactly the right thing of protecting really stupid people from running software that clearly are not able to handle properly.
What's annoying about that idea is that people will say Apple did this once and it almost killed them, however back then they needed to sell Macs as that was their main money machine.
Since Macs are now but a tiny slice of sales and profits, it would make sense for Apple to start selling macOS for non-Apple computers. They only need to list the supported CPUs, chipsets/motherboards and GPUs.
Sure, they don't need to sell Macs to make money. But why would they further develop macOS and then give away for free? What would be the point?
Apple reached a top five position in the ranking of PC vendors. This was achieved for the first time only this year, far along in the evolution of the market.
With about $23 billion in revenues per year, Apple places among the top four PC vendors in terms of revenue.
With an estimated $5.5 billion in operating margin Apple is the most profitable PC vendor, capturing over 60% of the available PC hardware profits.
The product has retained an average selling price of over $1200 for at least a decade. At the same time the average pricing of Personal Computers has more than halved.
Although volumes have fallen for three quarters, the product grew volumes and sales for 22 out of 29 quarters. As a result, volumes almost doubled in eight years.
Are you fucking kidding me? If you chose anything but Linux, Linux users will blame you for not choosing Linux. But if you have chosen Linux, be certain to have your ass ripped open for having chosen the wrong distro.
+1 Stagnant hardware is a death sentence in the PC industry. Frankly I am shocked they haven't dropped more. Too much of their desktop hardware is not only stagnant, but has mobile grade stuff on the inside, making the extra Apple tax that much harder to stomach.
Well, good thing they released the MacBook Pro then, which meant they increased sales in Q4 compared to last year, while the whole PC market declined. Yeah, if only hey didn't release new hardware, then Apple would sure be doomed.
Plus, "fair and reasonable" does NOT necessarily mean "the same price."
Hey, you are right for a change. Of course you have to leave out the "Non Discriminatory" part to be right, which means you have to be dishonest to be right. Yeah, sounds like you.
Kind of like how apple wanted all the profits from Samung for their 3 ridiculous patents, instead of just part of the profits the patents represent. Stay hypercritical apple.
The things Samsung copied from Apple aren't essential to a smartphone. Unless you admit Apple created the essential smartphone..
Personally I don't get the whole obsession that some people have over the comparison between Obamas first inauguration and Trumps. I mean I get the agenda that they are trying to push but you really can't legitimately compare the two. It is outright disingenuous, one being a historical event of the first black president in US history and the other we are back to same oll same oll with one out of two of the most disliked candidates in US history.
If anything they should have compared Obamas second term inauguration turnout with Trumps. It would have been a significantly more meaningful comparison but it would not have been the chest beating that they where aiming for.
Hey, why not compare it to Obama's third term inauguration - just to make sure Trump wins.
The sensible thing would have been to release the earpods along side a phone with headphone socket, and then if people were happy with them a year or two later get rid of the socket. But no, they had to ram those damn things up the customer's arse, to ensure good sales of their overpriced and somewhat defective earbuds.
Sorry that your dick falls off if you have to use the adapter. Most people don't have that problem however, so it's not a fucking problem for them.
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Thank you, I was wondering what that abbreviation was as well. Now I'm wondering which economist defined "basis point" to mean "a percent of a percent".
"Basis point" is a finance term used by traders, not an economics term. Economists rarely use the term. Traders say "basis points" because they don't really understand percentages or fractions or other advanced math.
Errm, you are the one to talk, since you obviously don't get the point of the point. Because when most people say "a change of x%", they actually mean a change of x percentage points - IOW they want to talk about the absolute change of a share given in percentages, but actually state a wrong relative change. Traders don't get confused by using percentage points and basis points.
Now one could argue if using "declining 30 bps" in this context was good - but saying "declining 0.3 pps" would have been just as confusing, "declining 0.3 percentage points" would have been much longer (and to half of the nitwits here just as confusing) - and saying "declining 0.3%" would have been plain wrong, even though the nitwits would have "understood". Well, the important thing to the nitwits is the "declined" part anyway - although "loosing" would be much more target group focused.
and he Surface Studio looks amazing.
Yeah - it looks amazing. Sort of. But (unlike the iMac 27" and the Mac Pro) it has no user replaceable parts, and is limited to 32 GB RAM.
It's one thing claiming that "PCs are better than Macs", but then choosing a PC that's provably worse is a really dumb move.
But nothing inetersting has happened in a while. I actually downgraded to a 2011 late 13" because i could put in an ssd and upgrade the memory. All the new stuff is soldered to the motherboard.
Why would you buy a older, slower machine so you could put in a slower SSD than the one in the newer machine?
The point where CPUs aren't "good enough" is ever narrowing. Intel's delays aren't here or there; Apple needs to come up with something other than "MOAR GIGAHURTZ!!!!!!!!!!"
That would be a fine point if Intel's CPUs finally supported low power DDR4 RAM like they promised 2 years ago. Until than people will complain about Apple not doing 32GB RAM in their notebook unlike others - ignoring that Apple's notebooks last easily 4 times longer on a battery than those notebooks supporting 32 GB RAM, while actually outperforming them on most tasks that supposedly "need" that much RAM.
Soldering RAM and SSD to the mobo is an instant "no-go" for a workstation for me.
Errm, when you say "workstation", you actually mean notebook. You are aware of that fact? Because you a) mention the ""goofy function row display", and b) are obviously wrong if you meant the actual workstation.
You mean slide down to the level of all the other vendors that are eating their lunch in terms of sales numbers despite being limited by all the same excuses you offered?
Well, what are these machines that drive those numbers? And why aren't they eating their lunch as far as profits go? Hint: there is a connection between the two.
Each release is becoming more and more difficult to do it..
Yeah - if you are a moron, it's really hard. IOW Apple did exactly the right thing of protecting really stupid people from running software that clearly are not able to handle properly.
It's called a braindead metaphor.
FTFY
What's annoying about that idea is that people will say Apple did this once and it almost killed them, however back then they needed to sell Macs as that was their main money machine.
Since Macs are now but a tiny slice of sales and profits, it would make sense for Apple to start selling macOS for non-Apple computers. They only need to list the supported CPUs, chipsets/motherboards and GPUs.
Sure, they don't need to sell Macs to make money. But why would they further develop macOS and then give away for free? What would be the point?
>> Apple has lost their way specially in laptops. > Not even close to being true.
For me, it sure is true.
Yeah, it's especially true for anyone who never owned one. And the more they sell, the more obvious it is to them.
- Feeling that Apple skewed the entire company to music and phones, which may be where the money is but not what I want.
http://www.asymco.com/2016/11/02/wherefore-art-thou-macintosh/
Apple reached a top five position in the ranking of PC vendors. This was achieved for the first time only this year, far along in the evolution of the market.
With about $23 billion in revenues per year, Apple places among the top four PC vendors in terms of revenue.
With an estimated $5.5 billion in operating margin Apple is the most profitable PC vendor, capturing over 60% of the available PC hardware profits. The product has retained an average selling price of over $1200 for at least a decade. At the same time the average pricing of Personal Computers has more than halved.
Although volumes have fallen for three quarters, the product grew volumes and sales for 22 out of 29 quarters. As a result, volumes almost doubled in eight years.
Or maybe they want more than 16GB of RAM. Crazy talk I know.
Yup - https://www.zdziarski.com/blog...
The current (3 year old) Mac Pro can be user fitted with up to 128 GB RAM very easily.
Other than the OS used to design Macs, you mean (Windows being used to run Solidworks and Altium, which design the mechanicals and electricals).
Oh? Do you know something the second guy in this discussion doesn't know?
Apple Industrial Design Group uses Autodesk Alias 3D for surfaces, Rhinoceros 3D for conceptual design and Nx (unigraphics) for manufacturing design.
All of these of course run on macOS.
Well, MacBook Amature 2016 is a joke enough to move away from apple and stay as far as possible
Yeah, that's why "Mac sales were up in Q4 2016 compared to Q4 2015". Because people are staying away from the machine released in that quarter.
the fragmentation problem
There is no fragmentation problem.
Are you fucking kidding me? If you chose anything but Linux, Linux users will blame you for not choosing Linux. But if you have chosen Linux, be certain to have your ass ripped open for having chosen the wrong distro.
+1 Stagnant hardware is a death sentence in the PC industry. Frankly I am shocked they haven't dropped more. Too much of their desktop hardware is not only stagnant, but has mobile grade stuff on the inside, making the extra Apple tax that much harder to stomach.
Well, good thing they released the MacBook Pro then, which meant they increased sales in Q4 compared to last year, while the whole PC market declined. Yeah, if only hey didn't release new hardware, then Apple would sure be doomed.
Plus, "fair and reasonable" does NOT necessarily mean "the same price."
Hey, you are right for a change. Of course you have to leave out the "Non Discriminatory" part to be right, which means you have to be dishonest to be right. Yeah, sounds like you.
Nowhere in the constitution does the phrase "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" appear wrt patents.
So your claim is that standards are unconstitutional, because they aren't mentioned anywhere in the constitution.
Kind of like how apple wanted all the profits from Samung for their 3 ridiculous patents, instead of just part of the profits the patents represent. Stay hypercritical apple.
The things Samsung copied from Apple aren't essential to a smartphone. Unless you admit Apple created the essential smartphone..
Personally I don't get the whole obsession that some people have over the comparison between Obamas first inauguration and Trumps. I mean I get the agenda that they are trying to push but you really can't legitimately compare the two. It is outright disingenuous, one being a historical event of the first black president in US history and the other we are back to same oll same oll with one out of two of the most disliked candidates in US history.
If anything they should have compared Obamas second term inauguration turnout with Trumps. It would have been a significantly more meaningful comparison but it would not have been the chest beating that they where aiming for.
Hey, why not compare it to Obama's third term inauguration - just to make sure Trump wins.
The sensible thing would have been to release the earpods along side a phone with headphone socket, and then if people were happy with them a year or two later get rid of the socket. But no, they had to ram those damn things up the customer's arse, to ensure good sales of their overpriced and somewhat defective earbuds.
Sorry that your dick falls off if you have to use the adapter. Most people don't have that problem however, so it's not a fucking problem for them.
Momentum. But the bad decisions today indicate an Apple in decline.
Sure. The stock price is based on momentum.
And which moderate conservatives think that a President-elect calling his own spy service Nazis is a good thing?
Well, they understand that for Trump that's a term of endearment.
|large sums of money half a billion. that's a lot less than the trillions invested in the gulf-oil-wars.
Heck, it's a lot less than what got spend on magically making coal "clean" by spraying some chemicals on it.