If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
Right. I play in currencies, which unlike stocks is by far riskier and has a much nastier bite, requiring you to understand not only companies, but government policy and how it will effect your trading. But make less money? No, hardly that. The riskier the game, the higher the payoff. And it doesn't get riskier than the currency market.
Except its not. Higher risk does not automatically guarantee higher payoff.
The real soul searching will happen when the first private astronauts or passengers die. Note this fatality rate is comparable early airplane travel and climbing Mount Everest.
Airplan travel fatality rate is a LOT lower than 2%.
Now, I don't like Steve Ballmer, but to say that he is an incompetent CEO is absurd. Under his watch, company revenues and profits have increased VERY significantly and that's what the CEO is responcible for. I can sympathize with the shareholder gripes that MSFT stock price hasn't really gone anywhere over the past decade, but that's because the starting point (10-12 years ago) was a completely ridiculous overvaluation of the tech boom. I can easily name several other major companies whose stock has gone nowhere for a long time despite company earnings growing consistently and their future looking as bright as ever.
I'll always use a PC and will never use a mobile phone or tablet or whatever else it is that I'm supposed to have...
And I'm supposed to do serious work and study on a tablet? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You need to understand that 90% or more of home PC users don't DO "serious work" in the first place, hence, why smartphones and tablets are exploding in popularity.
What always confuses me is why anybody ever buys anything from Sony. They started to go mental in the mid-90's, and then went full retard in the early '00's. At this point surely you'd have to be a masochist to willingly purchase a Sony product and subject yourself to such treatment?
Now, I really really hate a lot of things that Sony has been doing for the past 10-15 years and I wouldn't touch Vita and a lot of their other products with a ten foot pole, but I find their TVs to be really really good value for the money and I am extremely happy to own one.
The UK is free to block Google entirely if they so choose. And good riddance to them
The UK is also free to legislate how Google conducts business in the UK. Google is free not to conduct business in the UK if they so choose. And good riddance to them, and any other company that doesn't respect local laws.
So you are suggesting every single multinational with a heavy presence on the Internet obey different laws of 100+ different countries simultaneously? How exactly do you propose they accomplish this? What happens when the laws of different countries contradict each other?
Installing additional hardware on a computer is most definately a function that SHOULD require administrative priviledges on a computer. Sounds like "working as intended".
In 2005, Chris Putnam had created a Facebook worm, eventually the worm got traced back to him and Facebook hired him. Facebook has also previously hired Geohot, of the iphone/sony hack fame.
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Are you retarded, braindead or both?
Are you seriously proposing we tax people based on how/when their stock holdings increase in value without the person actually making a sale? How do you propose we deal with decrease of value then? Or alternatively.... you made a nice home purchase in that nice neighborhood of yours, too bad it went up in market value, now you have to sell it off and move elsewhere just to pay your tax bill.
So you not only sued Microsoft, you actually won 500 million. Regardless of whether this was a dick move on your part or not, good for you, you are now set for life (or 3). Now why on Earth would you risk it all by going into litigation again?
So can I now demand a refund from from Ford for including a specific component into a car that I have no intention of ever using? If the idea of giving money to Microsoft as a part of your notebook purchase is for some reason completely unbearable, just buy an Apple machine and shut the hell up.
If a company wishes to not sell specific configurations of their products no one should force them.
Sorry, some corporations if left to their own devices are incapable of doing what is right, ethical and lawful.
Corporations have no obligations whatsoever to do what YOU feel is right and/or ethical. Their one and only reason for existance is to provide value to their shareholders within the existing legal framework.
The notion is ridiculous. If you have a website that's publically accessible from all over the world, then by your definition you "do business" in every single country of the world. The idea that this means you must now adhere to laws of every single country able to access the website is blantantly insane.
You should learn a few things about investing before making a fool out of yourself. The fact that AAPL shares are above 400$ bares no meaning at all on whether the price is "sky high" or not. Berkshire Hathaway class A shares are over 100,000$ each and their price is not "sky high" either. It's all about the actual valuation metrics of the company relative to the share price and according to them, AAPL was actually pretty fairly priced before the earnings release.
Or are you going to be making even more of a fool out of yourself by sticking to your guns and saying that a PE of 15 for a company with projected 30% revenue growth is "sky high"? Except that it was actually even cheaper then that, because the revenue growth ended up being twice higher.
I am an equity investor and I have blacklisted myself from investing or holding any interest in companies that appear to support SOPA. I have also been motivating my colleagues to do the same and while some don't care, some do.
There's no fsck.. So unless you're 100% sure your Linux machine never crashes and your power supply is never interrupted - don't.
If this is the case, whats the fucking point really? BTRFS was heralded are the replacement for ZFS, but you are seriously telling me that after all this time, you can still lose a large amount of data and end up with a corrupt filesystem after such a trivial thing as a powerloss? Really? It seems like I am still stuck with FreeBSD and Solaris11/OpenIndiana if I want to use a decent filesystem, because even Windows hasn't had such issues in over a goddamn decade.
They don't price and value their product on their own merits, but on the merits of who, how and where it is to be used. If McDonald's operated this way, the results would be interesting wouldn't they.
No, you are confused. Noboby in their right mind prices their products based on their own merits. You price your products based on what the market will bear and pocket the profit. Economics 101.
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No, selling or not selling is irrelevant. "Distributing" is the key.
I think quite a few of 3-letter agencies would beg to differ.
So what am I supposed to do about all the kernel panics and absurdly slow IO and transfer speeds?
If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
Right. I play in currencies, which unlike stocks is by far riskier and has a much nastier bite, requiring you to understand not only companies, but government policy and how it will effect your trading. But make less money? No, hardly that. The riskier the game, the higher the payoff. And it doesn't get riskier than the currency market.
Except its not. Higher risk does not automatically guarantee higher payoff.
... Yemen request the extradition of the US citizens responcible for this crime?
The real soul searching will happen when the first private astronauts or passengers die. Note this fatality rate is comparable early airplane travel and climbing Mount Everest.
Airplan travel fatality rate is a LOT lower than 2%.
Now, I don't like Steve Ballmer, but to say that he is an incompetent CEO is absurd. Under his watch, company revenues and profits have increased VERY significantly and that's what the CEO is responcible for. I can sympathize with the shareholder gripes that MSFT stock price hasn't really gone anywhere over the past decade, but that's because the starting point (10-12 years ago) was a completely ridiculous overvaluation of the tech boom. I can easily name several other major companies whose stock has gone nowhere for a long time despite company earnings growing consistently and their future looking as bright as ever.
Me too.
I'll always use a PC and will never use a mobile phone or tablet or whatever else it is that I'm supposed to have...
And I'm supposed to do serious work and study on a tablet? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You need to understand that 90% or more of home PC users don't DO "serious work" in the first place, hence, why smartphones and tablets are exploding in popularity.
What always confuses me is why anybody ever buys anything from Sony. They started to go mental in the mid-90's, and then went full retard in the early '00's. At this point surely you'd have to be a masochist to willingly purchase a Sony product and subject yourself to such treatment?
Now, I really really hate a lot of things that Sony has been doing for the past 10-15 years and I wouldn't touch Vita and a lot of their other products with a ten foot pole, but I find their TVs to be really really good value for the money and I am extremely happy to own one.
The UK is also free to legislate how Google conducts business in the UK. Google is free not to conduct business in the UK if they so choose. And good riddance to them, and any other company that doesn't respect local laws.
So you are suggesting every single multinational with a heavy presence on the Internet obey different laws of 100+ different countries simultaneously? How exactly do you propose they accomplish this? What happens when the laws of different countries contradict each other?
Installing additional hardware on a computer is most definately a function that SHOULD require administrative priviledges on a computer. Sounds like "working as intended".
I'd hardly call a 5 year average net profit margin of 8,81% particularly fat.
In 2005, Chris Putnam had created a Facebook worm, eventually the worm got traced back to him and Facebook hired him.
Facebook has also previously hired Geohot, of the iphone/sony hack fame.
Are you retarded, braindead or both?
Are you seriously proposing we tax people based on how/when their stock holdings increase in value without the person actually making a sale? How do you propose we deal with decrease of value then? Or alternatively.... you made a nice home purchase in that nice neighborhood of yours, too bad it went up in market value, now you have to sell it off and move elsewhere just to pay your tax bill.
So you not only sued Microsoft, you actually won 500 million. Regardless of whether this was a dick move on your part or not, good for you, you are now set for life (or 3).
Now why on Earth would you risk it all by going into litigation again?
So can I now demand a refund from from Ford for including a specific component into a car that I have no intention of ever using?
If the idea of giving money to Microsoft as a part of your notebook purchase is for some reason completely unbearable, just buy an Apple machine and shut the hell up.
If a company wishes to not sell specific configurations of their products no one should force them.
Sorry, some corporations if left to their own devices are incapable of doing what is right, ethical and lawful.
Corporations have no obligations whatsoever to do what YOU feel is right and/or ethical.
Their one and only reason for existance is to provide value to their shareholders within the existing legal framework.
... that the fact that a specific website is accessible from country XYZ, does NOT mean this website must comply with the local laws of country XYZ.
The notion is ridiculous. If you have a website that's publically accessible from all over the world, then by your definition you "do business" in every single country of the world. The idea that this means you must now adhere to laws of every single country able to access the website is blantantly insane.
PE, more commonly abbreviated as P/E stands for Price/Earnings, usually for (TTM) - the trailing 12 months.
You should learn a few things about investing before making a fool out of yourself. The fact that AAPL shares are above 400$ bares no meaning at all on whether the price is "sky high" or not. Berkshire Hathaway class A shares are over 100,000$ each and their price is not "sky high" either. It's all about the actual valuation metrics of the company relative to the share price and according to them, AAPL was actually pretty fairly priced before the earnings release.
Or are you going to be making even more of a fool out of yourself by sticking to your guns and saying that a PE of 15 for a company with projected 30% revenue growth is "sky high"? Except that it was actually even cheaper then that, because the revenue growth ended up being twice higher.
I am an equity investor and I have blacklisted myself from investing or holding any interest in companies that appear to support SOPA. I have also been motivating my colleagues to do the same and while some don't care, some do.
There's no fsck.. So unless you're 100% sure your Linux machine never crashes and your power supply is never interrupted - don't.
If this is the case, whats the fucking point really? BTRFS was heralded are the replacement for ZFS, but you are seriously telling me that after all this time, you can still lose a large amount of data and end up with a corrupt filesystem after such a trivial thing as a powerloss? Really? It seems like I am still stuck with FreeBSD and Solaris11/OpenIndiana if I want to use a decent filesystem, because even Windows hasn't had such issues in over a goddamn decade.
But doesn't Apple's Mobile Safari used the very same WebKit?
They don't price and value their product on their own merits, but on the merits of who, how and where it is to be used. If McDonald's operated this way, the results would be interesting wouldn't they.
No, you are confused. Noboby in their right mind prices their products based on their own merits. You price your products based on what the market will bear and pocket the profit. Economics 101.