If it *really* works out more often than not, it's not "risk"
I'm no ameteur, just pointing out that taking a flyer can go either way. Microsoft, RIM and Nokia might make awesome comebacks, people may kick themselves for not buying them, or maybe they'll shrink into irrelevance. I set stop limits to take profit and use options to cover positions. Manually triggering your set-points is time consuming and error-prone.
A well diversified portfolio will track the market in your areas of interest. A well diversified high-risk portfolio shoudl be more volatile, but show greater gains when stretched out longer over time. People like measuring peak to trough and trough to peak though, which is thoroughly unrealistic.
The past few years in the market have been a crapshoot though. I've mostly been standing back until I see some kind of pattern.
I was forced to use a BB for work for years. I have a shoebox full of useless BBs that I can't even sell.
BB OS 10 won't run on your 9900. You can add it to your shoebox.
The camera, keyboard and call quality was nice. The MDM set the bar for the industry.
The industry passed the last of BB's advantages some time in 2011. There are much better devices out there now. Get an iPhone, it will not only have a better camera, microphone and display, but Apple won't abandon it next year. Your skills and knowledge will also be relevant when all those law firms finish evaluating iOS and start migrating.
Yep. Corel was overhyped and drained post-dot-com, they had good products and their stock was worth almost nothing, so I grabbed some.
The same was true for Nortel. They lost 60% of their value and seemed to be plateauing. They had a strong installbase, and a huge patent portfolio.
I figured, "from risk, comes opportunity"
Corel continued to make good products as their stock fell to pennies, they were purchased by the Canopy group, all the shares were delisted.
Nortel turned out to be lying about their financials, and their debt stretched them too thin into non-competitiveness.
Corel is still in business, there was another IPO, when normal investors could buy, the stock wasn't pennies anymore. No point in throwing good money after bad.
Point is, it's called risk, because you can lose too. The trick seems to be to keep taking chances and learn from your mistakes, but it's no guarantee. There's a good strong random element to success.
I'd like to preserve the battery life on my older Macbook battery by removing the battery and stashing it in my drawer. Trouble is, that magnetic connector means I can't do that without risking data loss.
I've used barrel plugs for years on Thinkpads and I've never had a problem. They're cheaper, don't attract dimes, staples or paperclips, more durable, and less prone to accidental removal. I never tripped on a laptop power cord, nor has anyone tripped on my cord in a cafe or hacking session.
The end result is that the design solves a theoretical problem for me and replaces it with a real one.
Apple has a lot of contrived simplicity. Sacrificing functionality for form.
I'd like to see more companies trashing Apple over this. Microsoft seems to be doing some interesting work minimalizing UIs, getting rid of stupid drop-shadows and 3d effects. Stripping out cruft from design is good. Stripping out badly implemented features is good. Polishing UIs is good... but there are limits.
lack of ports, lack of removable batteries, magnetic connectors, highly proprietary ports, these are all bad design, but somehow Apple tries to sell it as "minimalism". The design aestetic translates badly into other areas too... from fixie bicycles to food trucks, minimalism has given way to conspicuous consumerist minimalism, where people pay extra for brands which provide an appearance of the slick and polished root of the object or experience, when in reality, they're products desgined to appeal to the aestetic and are the opposite of minimalism, they're burdened with fashionable design limitations.
Sadly, aside from MacOS, Apple is *still* doing better in usability, despite their design baggage. There's potential here for a competitor to give Apple a run for their money.
Trouble with laws like this is that it creates a large incentive for him to keep it quiet, melt them down and collect the raw value of the metal. Good for him for reporting it. I wonder if other caches went unreported?
Crash tests I've seen for Smarts show they're less survivable than most compacts.
Seems the lack of significant weight or crumple zones has them bounce around like ping-pong balls on a pool table. The car is intact, but human occupants get scrambled.
However, in an April 2009 40 mph frontal offset crash test between a Fortwo and a Mercedes C class, "the Smart went air- borne and turned around 450 degrees" causing "extensive intrusion into the space around the dummy from head to feet". The IIHS rated the Smart Fortwo "Poor," noting that "Multiple injuries, including to the head, would be likely for a real-world driver of a Smart in a similar collision."[58]
If this were an American company suing an American company, the ruling would be done around 2020. Then the damages would be minimized when a new government is sworn in.
Agreed, but he also brought the company back from the brink, admitted to a lot of mistakes in his career and has done a lot of 180 degree turns along the way. I'd expect he would have softened on this issue when he would have realized the damage to the brand.
Hopefully Tim Cook can keep Apple cool and innovative while he sues their predecessors for "copying" them.
He started this fight, got really p***ed off at Samsung, but I somehow doubt he'd try to legislate the competition out of the market. He knew that the Apple brand was far too valuable to risk damaging it on peanuts like this.
This may be the turning point for Apple. Jobs' influence on the products in the pipeline is running low and now the brand is being trashed by the CEO.
Being unaffected by material like this doesn't mean you're strong.
That depends on how you define "strong." I see a lot of people don't understand subjectivity.
What I find funny about this thread is that PTSD victims go around accusing everyone else of being "weak", "shallow" etc. The coping skills they developed while under traumatic stress aren't appropriate when the stress is removed. When they encounter people who have difficulty with things they consider "normal" they balk.
Then, like this discussion thread, they seem angry and mal-adjusted because people cite problems in their lives which the PTSD victim considers "trivial".
Sadly, until they completely heal, they won't be able to function normally in society. Pushing people away, treating people roughly and generally being mizerable in the process.
The alternative wasn't to spend $289 on a Windows license on top of the premium for your Mac, the alternative is to buy a Windows machine, pocket the difference and forget the Mac.
The old trick for DIY was to get the OEM license on the same receipt as the motherboard, CPU and HDD. Then it's a "system". This is a frustration for Linux builders because it means that if you don't buy the OEM license off the bat, you can't go back and add it later.... so some people (myself included) would get the OEM license, even if we don't use it.
This change means that there's one less reason to buy Windows. If you get stuck while using Linux, you can add it to Virtualbox later.
This also just made switching to a Mac about $200 easier, you can't get an OEM license for Windows with a Mac at the Apple store.
Their meeting was in Jobs’s conference room, where Gates found himself surrounded by ten Apple employees who were eager to watch their boss assail him. Jobs didn’t disappoint his troops. “You’re ripping us off!” he shouted. “I trusted you, and now you’re stealing from us!” Gates just sat there coolly, looking Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
" more interested in governing well and taking on serious issues than..."
Why do condescending posts with weasel words like these get attention in U.S. politics?
As an outside observer, Romney demonstrated that he's a dangerously ignorant and unqualified in how he pre-campaigned in England and Israel. He doesn't even have any power and he already embarrassed the country twice. He's not even qualified to be an aide to an ambassador.
Good leadership would be for him to hang his head in shame, forget national leadership and stick to positions of domestic politics.
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If it *really* works out more often than not, it's not "risk"
I'm no ameteur, just pointing out that taking a flyer can go either way. Microsoft, RIM and Nokia might make awesome comebacks, people may kick themselves for not buying them, or maybe they'll shrink into irrelevance. I set stop limits to take profit and use options to cover positions. Manually triggering your set-points is time consuming and error-prone.
A well diversified portfolio will track the market in your areas of interest. A well diversified high-risk portfolio shoudl be more volatile, but show greater gains when stretched out longer over time. People like measuring peak to trough and trough to peak though, which is thoroughly unrealistic.
The past few years in the market have been a crapshoot though. I've mostly been standing back until I see some kind of pattern.
I was forced to use a BB for work for years. I have a shoebox full of useless BBs that I can't even sell.
BB OS 10 won't run on your 9900. You can add it to your shoebox.
The camera, keyboard and call quality was nice. The MDM set the bar for the industry.
The industry passed the last of BB's advantages some time in 2011. There are much better devices out there now. Get an iPhone, it will not only have a better camera, microphone and display, but Apple won't abandon it next year. Your skills and knowledge will also be relevant when all those law firms finish evaluating iOS and start migrating.
Yep. Corel was overhyped and drained post-dot-com, they had good products and their stock was worth almost nothing, so I grabbed some.
The same was true for Nortel. They lost 60% of their value and seemed to be plateauing. They had a strong installbase, and a huge patent portfolio.
I figured, "from risk, comes opportunity"
Corel continued to make good products as their stock fell to pennies, they were purchased by the Canopy group, all the shares were delisted.
Nortel turned out to be lying about their financials, and their debt stretched them too thin into non-competitiveness.
Corel is still in business, there was another IPO, when normal investors could buy, the stock wasn't pennies anymore. No point in throwing good money after bad.
Point is, it's called risk, because you can lose too. The trick seems to be to keep taking chances and learn from your mistakes, but it's no guarantee. There's a good strong random element to success.
I wasn't aware that the crown pays anything. Why would they?
I bought Nortel and Corel.
" And (seriously, since I clearly don't understand) how does that impact data loss?"
If you have a laptop on your desk with a magnetic power cord and no battery, it's very easy to knock the connector off.
I'd like to preserve the battery life on my older Macbook battery by removing the battery and stashing it in my drawer. Trouble is, that magnetic connector means I can't do that without risking data loss.
I've used barrel plugs for years on Thinkpads and I've never had a problem. They're cheaper, don't attract dimes, staples or paperclips, more durable, and less prone to accidental removal. I never tripped on a laptop power cord, nor has anyone tripped on my cord in a cafe or hacking session.
The end result is that the design solves a theoretical problem for me and replaces it with a real one.
Apple has a lot of contrived simplicity. Sacrificing functionality for form.
I'd like to see more companies trashing Apple over this. Microsoft seems to be doing some interesting work minimalizing UIs, getting rid of stupid drop-shadows and 3d effects. Stripping out cruft from design is good. Stripping out badly implemented features is good. Polishing UIs is good... but there are limits.
lack of ports, lack of removable batteries, magnetic connectors, highly proprietary ports, these are all bad design, but somehow Apple tries to sell it as "minimalism". The design aestetic translates badly into other areas too... from fixie bicycles to food trucks, minimalism has given way to conspicuous consumerist minimalism, where people pay extra for brands which provide an appearance of the slick and polished root of the object or experience, when in reality, they're products desgined to appeal to the aestetic and are the opposite of minimalism, they're burdened with fashionable design limitations.
Sadly, aside from MacOS, Apple is *still* doing better in usability, despite their design baggage. There's potential here for a competitor to give Apple a run for their money.
Trouble with laws like this is that it creates a large incentive for him to keep it quiet, melt them down and collect the raw value of the metal. Good for him for reporting it. I wonder if other caches went unreported?
"when Apple released the iPHone in 1997"
Ballmer's lost decade is messing with your measure of time.
Microsoft compiled their apps for different architectures before, I don't think it would be *that* hard for them to do it again.
Crash tests I've seen for Smarts show they're less survivable than most compacts.
Seems the lack of significant weight or crumple zones has them bounce around like ping-pong balls on a pool table. The car is intact, but human occupants get scrambled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)#Safety
Maybe this is just an inflatable facility. Requesting it be blurred a *little* makes it seem more realistic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_tank
Every activity starts with a shopping trip.
After Romney's behaviour in England and Israel, do you really think he'll be a good representative on the world stage?
Domestic company wins.
If this were an American company suing an American company, the ruling would be done around 2020. Then the damages would be minimized when a new government is sworn in.
Agreed, but he also brought the company back from the brink, admitted to a lot of mistakes in his career and has done a lot of 180 degree turns along the way. I'd expect he would have softened on this issue when he would have realized the damage to the brand.
Hopefully Tim Cook can keep Apple cool and innovative while he sues their predecessors for "copying" them.
He started this fight, got really p***ed off at Samsung, but I somehow doubt he'd try to legislate the competition out of the market. He knew that the Apple brand was far too valuable to risk damaging it on peanuts like this.
This may be the turning point for Apple. Jobs' influence on the products in the pipeline is running low and now the brand is being trashed by the CEO.
1. Invent Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600
2. Time travel to 1982
3. Profit!
Being unaffected by material like this doesn't mean you're strong.
That depends on how you define "strong." I see a lot of people don't understand subjectivity.
What I find funny about this thread is that PTSD victims go around accusing everyone else of being "weak", "shallow" etc. The coping skills they developed while under traumatic stress aren't appropriate when the stress is removed. When they encounter people who have difficulty with things they consider "normal" they balk.
Then, like this discussion thread, they seem angry and mal-adjusted because people cite problems in their lives which the PTSD victim considers "trivial".
Sadly, until they completely heal, they won't be able to function normally in society. Pushing people away, treating people roughly and generally being mizerable in the process.
I don't consider that "strong".
The alternative wasn't to spend $289 on a Windows license on top of the premium for your Mac, the alternative is to buy a Windows machine, pocket the difference and forget the Mac.
The old trick for DIY was to get the OEM license on the same receipt as the motherboard, CPU and HDD. Then it's a "system". This is a frustration for Linux builders because it means that if you don't buy the OEM license off the bat, you can't go back and add it later.... so some people (myself included) would get the OEM license, even if we don't use it.
This change means that there's one less reason to buy Windows. If you get stuck while using Linux, you can add it to Virtualbox later.
This also just made switching to a Mac about $200 easier, you can't get an OEM license for Windows with a Mac at the Apple store.
Ballmer is an idiot.
"be the adult in the room ..."
" more interested in governing well and taking on serious issues than..."
Why do condescending posts with weasel words like these get attention in U.S. politics?
As an outside observer, Romney demonstrated that he's a dangerously ignorant and unqualified in how he pre-campaigned in England and Israel. He doesn't even have any power and he already embarrassed the country twice. He's not even qualified to be an aide to an ambassador.
Good leadership would be for him to hang his head in shame, forget national leadership and stick to positions of domestic politics.
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