Exactly. If you look at it the wrong way you can get ~33%. If you decide to take the view point of looking at it the right way you'll get 50% more.
By your logic it would be equally reasonable to say that 40 is 50% less than 60, which is is just plain silly.
Maybe you should see this movie to catch the reference..
Seeing as how he mentioned a dead parrot and all, I'm guessing he actually did get the reference. Just a hunch though. I mean it could just be a wild coincidence.
If I understand it correctly, it seems that in this case it's even stronger than that - She is saying "They haven't even asked me and I'm thinking of throwing this out."
I must say that from reading your submissions I'm less cynical about the judicial system.
OK, the cost is small, but even so, is it really worth it? What you get in return for your investment is systems that boot faster, and a small savings in power. Is there really any reason you need to be able to boot your servers in 30 seconds instead of 3 minutes?
Amazingly, I think he answered your question before you even asked it when he said "I never have to worry about getting paged due to the inevitable mechanical failure of magnetic drives."
I'm not aware of any industry on earth that will make money if people can just take the products for free.
It's been amply demonstrated that money can be made despite that. What they want is to keep things how they were, which was good for them and almost nobody else, including most of the people who actually made the music. The world is changing and they want to somehow magically stop that instead of changing themselves.
Or these politically apathetic, copyright-infringing youth could just, you know, stop infringing copyright?
Or we could just, you know, have reasonable copyright law. How anyone can respect the current law is beyond me. For instance, If I labor for years and invent a device that cures cancer I get a 17 year patent. If I then spend a few minutes to write a story about how I did it I get a copyright for the rest of my life + 70 years.
But once you start talking about putting your brain in another body is a whole nother mess in itself because it trivializes the point of having a body in the first place.
Compared to your brain, which body it's in is a whole lot less important. Put your brain in a replacement body and it's still you, just with some weird body. But put a replacement brain in your body and you cease to be.
PLEASE! The CIO of the biggest software company in the world leaving is news
Of course it is. But it's not that they are announcing it, it's that they are going out of their way to say that he did something wrong. That's just not done unless it's something they really need to distance themselves from.
The harassment I don't get, though. I mean, if they want some free sex, couldn't they just go to a bar and say, "Yeah, I'm a VP of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and I make nine thousand dollars an hour. Let's take my jet and go screw in the hot tub at my 4th summer place."
Your dick will always get you in trouble. Once it starts thinking, logic goes out the window. How many men have thrown away careers because of it?
Looking at it now, I think I overdid it a bit. But when I had a Newton that's about how reliable the recognition was. It would always give you actual words, just usually not the ones you were thinking of.:-)
Do you really think people will continue to pay $10 for something they can get for nothing? Neither do I. In the end, this incident is a gimmick with no sustainability.
When you go out to dinner how much do you tip? 15%? 20%? Why pay that when you can get it for nothing? Is it out of guilt? For future service? Either of those motives work well enough in this case. And unlike the waiter they don't need everybody to do it. Just a reasonable portion.
Comparing it to current sales and profits is not very meaningful. The industry is changing, and so is the profit model.
10% nominal is about right, but then there's taxes and inflation. If only I had held on to the AAPL I bought at 15...
AAPL has been bery bery good to me:-)
And this morning I scooped up some puts, figuring the Google phone OS announcement would be worth a short-term drop. I got the drop I was looking for, though I don't know if it was the announcement that did it. Anyway, I cashed them out mid-afternoon, picking up a couple of points. That was about the only thing that went right though. I'm still net long AAPL, and plan to stay there at least until January.
You're right about the taxes and inflation - especially the inflation. Taxes can be mitigated, but inflation is a constant drag.
Back to the $100 thing - if at 25 years old he started with zero dollars, and invested $100 every month into his IRA, and earned 9%, at 65 he would have $468,000. If he can hold out until he's 70 he'd have $740,000. Or he could make a bunch of phone calls and text some messages. I know which one I'd rather have.
hiring and training those who will tow the party line.
It's Toe the line. As in "put your foot right there and don't cross over." The way you wrote it they'd have to be dragging around some festive rope or something.
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Exactly. If you look at it the wrong way you can get ~33%. If you decide to take the view point of looking at it the right way you'll get 50% more.
By your logic it would be equally reasonable to say that 40 is 50% less than 60, which is is just plain silly.
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We've actually got all those things, but it was determined that you were too dumb to appreciate them and so no one has told you yet.
Seeing as how he mentioned a dead parrot and all, I'm guessing he actually did get the reference. Just a hunch though. I mean it could just be a wild coincidence.
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But the notion that it will actually be ready by 2009 or 20010 seems unlikely, based on recent history..
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Yes, I made a typo in the second year. I noticed it in the preview, but left it in out of cuteness. Think of it as my version of typing M$.
Based on your post I'm thinking that in addition to the "Post Anonymously" checkbox there should be a "Post as Straw Man" checkbox.
I must say that from reading your submissions I'm less cynical about the judicial system.
The "ting, tang, walla walla bing bang" part will be more difficult of course, and probably not until version 2.0 at least.
It's just the "all the way home" part you have to be worry about.
Amazingly, I think he answered your question before you even asked it when he said "I never have to worry about getting paged due to the inevitable mechanical failure of magnetic drives."
Well, one of the tags is !hd. But that's a stretch.
It's been amply demonstrated that money can be made despite that. What they want is to keep things how they were, which was good for them and almost nobody else, including most of the people who actually made the music. The world is changing and they want to somehow magically stop that instead of changing themselves.
Or we could just, you know, have reasonable copyright law. How anyone can respect the current law is beyond me. For instance, If I labor for years and invent a device that cures cancer I get a 17 year patent. If I then spend a few minutes to write a story about how I did it I get a copyright for the rest of my life + 70 years.
Compared to your brain, which body it's in is a whole lot less important. Put your brain in a replacement body and it's still you, just with some weird body. But put a replacement brain in your body and you cease to be.
It's getting damn difficult. Stuff you'd never imagine. Check out a bottle of apple juice, for instance.
Peripatetic. But that's neither here nor there.
Say, how come he never sings that mmm-bop song?
Of course it is. But it's not that they are announcing it, it's that they are going out of their way to say that he did something wrong. That's just not done unless it's something they really need to distance themselves from.
Your dick will always get you in trouble. Once it starts thinking, logic goes out the window. How many men have thrown away careers because of it?
Or just go inside.
Looking at it now, I think I overdid it a bit. But when I had a Newton that's about how reliable the recognition was. It would always give you actual words, just usually not the ones you were thinking of. :-)
When you go out to dinner how much do you tip? 15%? 20%? Why pay that when you can get it for nothing? Is it out of guilt? For future service? Either of those motives work well enough in this case. And unlike the waiter they don't need everybody to do it. Just a reasonable portion.
Comparing it to current sales and profits is not very meaningful. The industry is changing, and so is the profit model.
It's not bread at oil. In fact I'm oozing one now to white this past.
AAPL has been bery bery good to me :-)
And this morning I scooped up some puts, figuring the Google phone OS announcement would be worth a short-term drop. I got the drop I was looking for, though I don't know if it was the announcement that did it. Anyway, I cashed them out mid-afternoon, picking up a couple of points. That was about the only thing that went right though. I'm still net long AAPL, and plan to stay there at least until January.
You're right about the taxes and inflation - especially the inflation. Taxes can be mitigated, but inflation is a constant drag.
Back to the $100 thing - if at 25 years old he started with zero dollars, and invested $100 every month into his IRA, and earned 9%, at 65 he would have $468,000. If he can hold out until he's 70 he'd have $740,000. Or he could make a bunch of phone calls and text some messages. I know which one I'd rather have.
It's Toe the line. As in "put your foot right there and don't cross over." The way you wrote it they'd have to be dragging around some festive rope or something.