I have no doubt that the FBI's public proclamation of successfully unlocking the San Bernardino and now this intentionally leaked memo are part of a concerted effort to embarrass Apple by discrediting their encryption and privacy technology. I mean when was the last time you heard of the government bragging about having the ability to hack phones? You would expect the opposite since they wouldn't want such capabilities known. In the end Apple will win because this entire episode will motivate them to double down on their stated encryption/privacy policies and work even harder to lock down the phone to prying eyes.
Businesses where minimum or near-minimum wages predominate typically have high labor costs as a percentage of total costs. For example the average labor cost for a fast food restaurant is 25-30% of total costs.
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But you can legislate wage-push inflation, which is exactly what happens when minimum wage increases. The result is rising prices for everything that has to touch domestic human hands. This will have a regressive effect on the economic class that the minimum wage is supposed to help, since a much larger portion of their salary is non-disposable. As Friedman said there is no such thing as a free lunch.
By any reasonable measure the $8.8 billion of damages attributed to Google's profit from Android is beyond obscene and unreasonable. Which means it must have been calculated from the same formula that Oracle uses to rape their database customers with.
Agreed. The same lesson was demonstrated during the Madoff incident. Trillions of dollars lost by corrupt bankers selling toxic-waste MBS to unsuspecting pension funds yet the only person in the financial industry who did time for the entire financial crisis was the one guy who stole from Wall Street.
The premature death of Moore's law due to physics has been falsely predicted for about three generations of fabs. Those predictions were wrong then and they're wrong now. The profit motive and billions of dollars always found a way to find a solution to intractable technical problems - that profit motive is now disappearing (for Intel specifically) due to conditions in their markets.
At $5B+ for a single fab and the market for computers continuing its backward slide it's no surprise that Intel is putting the brakes on its capital expenditures.
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Each has secrets that can destroy the other.
On what basis have you made the determination that a 15% increase in costs would not translate into a 15% increase in prices?
I have no doubt that the FBI's public proclamation of successfully unlocking the San Bernardino and now this intentionally leaked memo are part of a concerted effort to embarrass Apple by discrediting their encryption and privacy technology. I mean when was the last time you heard of the government bragging about having the ability to hack phones? You would expect the opposite since they wouldn't want such capabilities known. In the end Apple will win because this entire episode will motivate them to double down on their stated encryption/privacy policies and work even harder to lock down the phone to prying eyes.
Winner takes all!
That's true but the quip is funnier in the opposite sequence :)
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First part is to block Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Second part is to not provide internet access in the first place (at least to the non-elite).
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For obvious reasons :)
But you can legislate wage-push inflation, which is exactly what happens when minimum wage increases. The result is rising prices for everything that has to touch domestic human hands. This will have a regressive effect on the economic class that the minimum wage is supposed to help, since a much larger portion of their salary is non-disposable. As Friedman said there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Considering he's never been wiling to admit when he's wrong.
By any reasonable measure the $8.8 billion of damages attributed to Google's profit from Android is beyond obscene and unreasonable. Which means it must have been calculated from the same formula that Oracle uses to rape their database customers with.
That might match the 20+ UI features that Apple duplicated from Android.
Who spend their time diddling away at ridiculous bills when there are real problems to be solved.
Since Apple sued Samsung for using curved edges.
IMO there's no need to qualify it with "aren't much better for you".
And that's being generous.
Agreed. The same lesson was demonstrated during the Madoff incident. Trillions of dollars lost by corrupt bankers selling toxic-waste MBS to unsuspecting pension funds yet the only person in the financial industry who did time for the entire financial crisis was the one guy who stole from Wall Street.
Apple could start rebuilding its own Xservers but it wouldn't be able to afford the purchase price :)
The irony is sweet with this one:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
$2B in revenue and $288M in earnings for the year. Still nothing to sneeze at.
The premature death of Moore's law due to physics has been falsely predicted for about three generations of fabs. Those predictions were wrong then and they're wrong now. The profit motive and billions of dollars always found a way to find a solution to intractable technical problems - that profit motive is now disappearing (for Intel specifically) due to conditions in their markets.
At $5B+ for a single fab and the market for computers continuing its backward slide it's no surprise that Intel is putting the brakes on its capital expenditures.
at an Office Depot, threatening to throw himself into a paper shredder. He's taking the news very badly.
I'm not referring to security breaches.