In any case, I would argue that the American revolution was not treason, because any duty of loyalty that Americans of English descent may have once had to England was removed by the English government's betrayal of its duty to preserve the liberty and safety of Englishmen in America.
Microsoft came up with a radically different UI for their latest Windows Phone UI. Samsung copied Apple. I'd rather see anyone else who enters this market offer up a new paradigm than copy what's already out there.
Apple's "objective" is to sue every other smart phone maker out of business so they can be the only player left in the market
Nope, just the ones who are infringing their patents. Apple has a fiduciary duty to their shareholders (like me), to protect their property from competitors who infringe it.
I'd have to say that the Microsoft stores are far more similar to Apple stores than this one is. It looks to me like a fairly generic "gee whiz future" kind of styling.
In addition to purchasing stolen goods, they also attempted extortion. All that aside, those assholes have been on my shit list for a lot longer than that, ever since the stunt that got them banned from the Consumer Electronics Show.
Just because a couple of fools are willing to pay an inflated price for a share on a particular day shouldn't mean that you can extrapolate to say the entire company is worth that much times the number of shares.
Apple's P/E ratio is only 15.64. They're greatly undervalued.
If they violate Ecuador's sovereignty by invading the embassy, Ecuador should expel all British government employees from their country at the very least.
Driving a car on the road is a much harder problem than navigating an aircraft. Cars travel in very narrow channels with little separation from oncoming traffic, and collision hazards are everywhere. Going point-to-point means that we'd take nearly optimal routes wherever we're going, meaning less time in transit, further reducing the opportunity for collisions.
That's what makes it a win, economically. We spend insane amounts of money on roads, and if we go to flying cars, roads can all be just for heavy cargo or bicycles. No more need for eight lane highways, and vast amounts of currently extremely valuable urban real estate would be freed up.
Many of these people claim to be experts, and in some cases even "rockstars" and "coding ninjas".
I have yet to meet anyone who actually writes code for a living who refers to themselves in these terms. Usually, I hear it from body shop recruiters or dotcom promoters (e.g "we're looking for a rockstar"). The strange thing is that they generally want a "rockstar" to do trivial work on a half-assed development platform to implement something that nobody needs.
(Successful company A) should buy (failing company B)! It would be great! Yeah, that's the ticket!
What they leave out is the fact that in nearly all cases, the successful company can get anything it wants that the failing company might have, for far less than the cost to buy the failing company (plus the costs of integrating the acquired company into the parent.)
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No, the US government spends vastly more money on this kind of thing. $940K is barely even a rounding error in the federal propaganda budget.
-jcr
A usurper's heir is still a usurper.
In any case, I would argue that the American revolution was not treason, because any duty of loyalty that Americans of English descent may have once had to England was removed by the English government's betrayal of its duty to preserve the liberty and safety of Englishmen in America.
-jcr
Why do you get so upset over four characters at the end of my posts? Are you just incensed that I do what I want, instead of what you want?
Try to work it out in therapy.
-jcr
America was founded on many acts of treason.
I disagree. George III was a Hanoverian usurper.
-jcr
what you're saying is that only Apple should be able to make a sensible UI
I said nothing of the kind. The iPhone's design is good, but it's certainly not the only good design possible.
-jcr
Microsoft came up with a radically different UI for their latest Windows Phone UI. Samsung copied Apple. I'd rather see anyone else who enters this market offer up a new paradigm than copy what's already out there.
-jcr
Apple's "objective" is to sue every other smart phone maker out of business so they can be the only player left in the market
Nope, just the ones who are infringing their patents. Apple has a fiduciary duty to their shareholders (like me), to protect their property from competitors who infringe it.
-jcr
lawyers for the plaintiff will usually be paid on a contingent-fee basis
That's for litigants who can't afford legal fees. Well-funded companies don't do that.
-jcr
That's a typical cut for a lawyer working on a contingency fee. Apple's not short on funds, so they pay lawyers on an hourly fee/retainer basis.
-jcr
I'd have to say that the Microsoft stores are far more similar to Apple stores than this one is. It looks to me like a fairly generic "gee whiz future" kind of styling.
-jcr
In addition to purchasing stolen goods, they also attempted extortion. All that aside, those assholes have been on my shit list for a lot longer than that, ever since the stunt that got them banned from the Consumer Electronics Show.
-jcr
Just because a couple of fools are willing to pay an inflated price for a share on a particular day shouldn't mean that you can extrapolate to say the entire company is worth that much times the number of shares.
Apple's P/E ratio is only 15.64. They're greatly undervalued.
-jcr
I'm afraid you're right. HP as we knew it is done. I just hope that Agilent buys the name back when it goes into receivership.
-jcr
If they violate Ecuador's sovereignty by invading the embassy, Ecuador should expel all British government employees from their country at the very least.
-jcr
The "biggest problem" is power-to-weight ratio.
That's been solved for quite a long time. Check these guys out, for example.
-jcr
Driving a car on the road is a much harder problem than navigating an aircraft. Cars travel in very narrow channels with little separation from oncoming traffic, and collision hazards are everywhere. Going point-to-point means that we'd take nearly optimal routes wherever we're going, meaning less time in transit, further reducing the opportunity for collisions.
-jcr
You could eliminate roads.
That's what makes it a win, economically. We spend insane amounts of money on roads, and if we go to flying cars, roads can all be just for heavy cargo or bicycles. No more need for eight lane highways, and vast amounts of currently extremely valuable urban real estate would be freed up.
-jcr
Moller's been "five years away" from this for close to three decades. He's not going to be the guy to get flying cars to market.
-jcr
Exactly. This isn't a technology story at all.
-jcr
Zing!
-jcr
Many of these people claim to be experts, and in some cases even "rockstars" and "coding ninjas".
I have yet to meet anyone who actually writes code for a living who refers to themselves in these terms. Usually, I hear it from body shop recruiters or dotcom promoters (e.g "we're looking for a rockstar"). The strange thing is that they generally want a "rockstar" to do trivial work on a half-assed development platform to implement something that nobody needs.
-jcr
Ryan's the best choice that was available to Willard, since nobody with any integrity would settle for Willard as the candidate.
-jcr
(Successful company A) should buy (failing company B)! It would be great! Yeah, that's the ticket!
What they leave out is the fact that in nearly all cases, the successful company can get anything it wants that the failing company might have, for far less than the cost to buy the failing company (plus the costs of integrating the acquired company into the parent.)
-jcr
Oh, is that what he was getting at? What I got from that movie is "don't clone dinosaurs unless you've got armored vehicles to wrangle them with."
-jcr
Have your people call my people, we can get this greenlighted next week! What could possibly go wrong?
-jcr