That's a very good post. It's a bit like a Martingale. It's a strategy that almost always makes a little bit of money, but every once in a while you get crushed.
As you say, those small profits are not "free money." It's in exchange for the enormous risk.
No, he said nothing more than "some random bad thing could be done to you." Well duh. But the point is Google already has the data. They could simply make some TOS changes whenever they feel the pressure and then exploit the data of the 98% who don't opt out.
And considering today's plummeting of the stock it's just a little bit closer to reality. You think there won't be some heated meetings this week to figure out how to fix the problems? And you can bet somebody's going to make some scummy suggestions. They won't be followed this time, but they will keep coming up, and each time they'll seem a little less unreasonable.
Maybe you're right. But that the kind of thing that happens when profits decline. It's not about personal wealth. If profits decline the stock tanks, the best people leave, and good replacements can't be had.
Google's ad sense is in a little trouble. CPC (cost per click) has fallen 4%, 8%, and then 16% the last three quarters (year/year). CPC is essentially the value advertisers put on a click, and they are seeing less and less value.
I'm not saying Google is doomed, and I'm not saying they can't solve their ad sense problem. But they are in a challenging period right now. They are spending a huge amount of money on Android that has yet to pay off. Motorola is an albatross around their neck. It was expensive to buy, and it continues to bleed more money every quarter.
Mobile-device advertising is not doing well. That's another problem they have to solve. Google's done some amazing things, and they have some amazing talent, but these are non-trivial problems.
And every man has a penis so they could potentially rape a woman.
Google already has your data. The man with the penis does not already have your pants down.
Had I said something like "Google doesn't have your data, but one day they might collect it in order to exploit it" then your comparisons would be valid. But that's not the case.
What alternative does an IOS have if he wants to install an app that's been rejected from Apple's store
You're right, he'd have to do without. For me that's not nearly enough to make the difference. I like the iPhone. I have several Apple devices and I like how they all work together. It's certainly not perfection. It's not even close. But I like it, especially for my family.
I've been writing software since the Atari 400 was new. I could handle the Android issues. I'd just rather not.
I've never felt like I have been wronged by Google
Right now Google's not hurting, so they can be more selective in what thy do with that data. But when times get tough, and they probably will, Google will resort to all sorts of tricks to keep that cash cow mooing.
Or one of them overpays hugely and never recoups the investment. It is very possible to overpay for a company like Nokia and overpaying is always a bad thing.
Like that would ever happen. Next you'll be saying somebody would be dumb enough to pay $12.5B for Motorola.
Way to let the actual idiot who did it keep his job. Because we have to make sure it happens again.
On the internet all errors are committed by idiots, therefore only idiotic errors are possible, and a good test of idiocy is to determine if the subject has ever made a mistake. If so he's obviously an idiot.
So far nobody has passed. It's a big club.
The Soviet space programme stood and fell with S.P. Korolov - his premature death was the reason the USA won the moon race.
Interesting, thanks. I hadn't heard of him, but considering that he survived torture and forced labor under brutal conditions, maybe "premature" is not an apt description for his death.
What if you're fully vested, but it's a private company with no exit plan?
There are private shares markets. Also, if you can find someone who the CEO can't stand, tell him you're selling your shares to that guy. They will buy you out instead.
In real estate the back of the envelope calculation is comparing monthly rent to the cost, which is why I used it. In the US 1% is more typical, and I doubt you'd find 0.33% anywhere. In my case, a 4% return *before* expenses is just plain awful. Taxes and maintenance would eat most of that that up, not to mention the opportunity cost. The freedom to cleanly walk away with nothing more than a 30 day notice is worth quite a bit.
That's hardly a universal truth. Setting aside that renting in the US would have paid off handsomely in the last half dozen years, in many parts of the world renting make more sense.
In my own situation I pay ~US$320 a month for a modest three bedroom home. I could buy the house. The owner wants ~US$96,000. Why in the world would I buy it when I can rent it for a third of a percent of that? (and that's the norm. The owner's asking price and rent are in line with the market as a whole).
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As you say, those small profits are not "free money." It's in exchange for the enormous risk.
Oddly enough that's still true today.
I think one is sarcastic and the other is the straightforward way of saying the same thing.
As far as I can tell It first appeared here.
Is there a performance hit? The cards I've used seem to be rather slow, even the "high speed" ones.
And considering today's plummeting of the stock it's just a little bit closer to reality. You think there won't be some heated meetings this week to figure out how to fix the problems? And you can bet somebody's going to make some scummy suggestions. They won't be followed this time, but they will keep coming up, and each time they'll seem a little less unreasonable.
Google's ad sense is in a little trouble. CPC (cost per click) has fallen 4%, 8%, and then 16% the last three quarters (year/year). CPC is essentially the value advertisers put on a click, and they are seeing less and less value.
I'm not saying Google is doomed, and I'm not saying they can't solve their ad sense problem. But they are in a challenging period right now. They are spending a huge amount of money on Android that has yet to pay off. Motorola is an albatross around their neck. It was expensive to buy, and it continues to bleed more money every quarter.
Mobile-device advertising is not doing well. That's another problem they have to solve. Google's done some amazing things, and they have some amazing talent, but these are non-trivial problems.
Your joke is much better than mine. :-)
Actually I think that one would.
And if you were already in my house what you said might make sense. But you are not, and it does not.
Google already has your data. The man with the penis does not already have your pants down.
Had I said something like "Google doesn't have your data, but one day they might collect it in order to exploit it" then your comparisons would be valid. But that's not the case.
You're right, he'd have to do without. For me that's not nearly enough to make the difference. I like the iPhone. I have several Apple devices and I like how they all work together. It's certainly not perfection. It's not even close. But I like it, especially for my family.
I've been writing software since the Atari 400 was new. I could handle the Android issues. I'd just rather not.
Right now Google's not hurting, so they can be more selective in what thy do with that data. But when times get tough, and they probably will, Google will resort to all sorts of tricks to keep that cash cow mooing.
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Like that would ever happen. Next you'll be saying somebody would be dumb enough to pay $12.5B for Motorola.
On the internet all errors are committed by idiots, therefore only idiotic errors are possible, and a good test of idiocy is to determine if the subject has ever made a mistake. If so he's obviously an idiot.
So far nobody has passed. It's a big club.
Ages? I know this is Internet Time, but come on.
If there's a "Times to not make someone angry" list, I'd say that'd be in the top five.
Interesting, thanks. I hadn't heard of him, but considering that he survived torture and forced labor under brutal conditions, maybe "premature" is not an apt description for his death.
There are private shares markets. Also, if you can find someone who the CEO can't stand, tell him you're selling your shares to that guy. They will buy you out instead.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. From Apple's mapping attribution page:
© 2006-2012 TomTom
Business listings data © Acxiom, 2012.
Map data © AND.
Property parcel data for USA. © CoreLogic Inc., 2012.
Satellite imagery data © DigitalGlobe, 2012.
Map and postal data © DMTI, 2012. This software contains Postal Code OM Data copied by Apple under a sub-license from DMTI Spatial Inc., a party directly licensed by Canada Post Corporation. The Canada Post Corporation file from which this data was copied is dated 2012.
Business listings data © Factual 2012.
Map data © Getchee, 2012.
© INCREMENT P CORP., 2012, http://www.incrementp.co.jp/gc01info/e/legal01.html.
Map data © Intermap, 2012.
Map data © LeadDog, 2012.
Business listings data © Localeze, 2012.
Mapping data for Australia and New Zealand. © MapData Services Pty Ltd., 2012, PSMA http://www.nowwhere.com.au/lic/NowWhereLic.htm.
Map data © MDA Information Systems, Inc., 2012.
Neighborhood data © Urban Mapping, 2012.
Map data © 2012 Waze.
âoeReviews from Yelpâ Yelp, 2012.
(CanVec)
© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All rights reserved.
http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html
(CGIAR-CSI SRTM)
CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information, http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset, Version 1.0, http://www.flickr.com/
(GeoNames)
GeoNames and contributors, http://www.geonames.org.
(GlobCover)
© ESA 2010 and UCLouvain, http://www.esa.int/esaEO/index.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, http://www.nasa.gov
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2012. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/
(OSDM)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2012. This data has been used with the permission of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth has not evaluated the data as altered and incorporated within this software, and therefore gives no warranty regarding its accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose. http://spatial.gov.au
(OSM)
OpenStreetMap contributors, http://www.openstreetmap.org/
(StatCan)
Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.gc.ca
(TIGER/Line® fi
In real estate the back of the envelope calculation is comparing monthly rent to the cost, which is why I used it. In the US 1% is more typical, and I doubt you'd find 0.33% anywhere. In my case, a 4% return *before* expenses is just plain awful. Taxes and maintenance would eat most of that that up, not to mention the opportunity cost. The freedom to cleanly walk away with nothing more than a 30 day notice is worth quite a bit.
Hey, how about a Spoiler Alert next time? Sheesh Man, show some courtesy.
That's hardly a universal truth. Setting aside that renting in the US would have paid off handsomely in the last half dozen years, in many parts of the world renting make more sense.
In my own situation I pay ~US$320 a month for a modest three bedroom home. I could buy the house. The owner wants ~US$96,000. Why in the world would I buy it when I can rent it for a third of a percent of that?
(and that's the norm. The owner's asking price and rent are in line with the market as a whole).
Those people from 40 years ago? They're the ones in charge now.