Like, how much school do we really need? Should we presume that every kid needs to be taught the same subjects? Does it actually benefit a kid to be forced to sit and pay attention for hours on end in a cinder-block cell, until their natural curiosity is ground out of them, and they associate the very idea of learning with submission to arbitrary and incompetent authority figures?
I remember seeing prototypes of 250 DPI displays back in 1990, and 300 DPI in 1994, but the first one I saw shipped to a large number of customers was the iPhone 4's Retina Display. If this product is ready for mass production, that's great, but I'm going to reserve my enthusiasm until they're shipping it.
Apple has always been the biggest customer for Xserve. Not sure what they're using now, but when the iTMS store was launched, all of the machines serving the store pages in iTunes were Xserves, with some combination of Sun and IBM systems to run the back-end order processing SAP services.
NeXT jumped on the Java bandwagon early on, porting their flagship WebObjects framework from Objective-C to Java.
That was back when Sun and NeXT were still working together on OpenStep, and Sun was listening to what NeXT was telling them was needed for Java to be a viable language for NeXTSTEP apps. The high water mark of that collaboration was the Java bridge for Cocoa. Of course, once it was possible to compare Java and Obj-C apps side by side, the marketing hype around Java proved to be bullshit, and Obj-C won out for Cocoa developers.
It's not import restrictions that help Germans to export more goods. It's the fact that German manufacturers don't pay VAT on exported goods. That makes them cheaper to overseas customers. Compare this to the burden that American manufacturers have, where the USA still charges them the same amount of tax, whether the goods they produce are exported or sold domestically.
a country who refuses to open it's books to external scrutiny
Are you talking about China or the United States? We've been trying to get the Federal Reserve to submit to an audit since it was founded, but they always manage to buy off enough congressmen to keep it from happening.
No, they've had phenomenal success by rolling back a large portion of their bureaucratic interference in their economy. Limiting trade *never* benefits a country overall, although it can benefit those who are politically connected.
Apple's biggest acquisition ever was buying NeXT for around $400M. Since then, the companies they've bought have been strategic additions that complemented existing lines of business. Acquiring a company is far more expensive than just the cash you fork over. There's the cost of integrating operations, the amount of time and attention required from the senior management, and of course the opportunity cost, because there are plenty of other things you could be doing with that money.
The new bogeyman: fragmented FRAGMENTED FRAGMENTED!!!
You can try to laugh it off, but android has exactly the same problem that all the other phones had before the iPhone was on the market. If you wrote a Java app for mobile use, you had to deal with a plethora of configurations, including different UI per carrier on the same model of phone. The only way to make any amount of money on a mobile app was if you got a big carrier to bundle it.
I absolutely agree with this one. Microsoft is not a growth company anymore, and it's time for them to quit pissing away tens of billions of dollars of their shareholders' money on debacles like Xbox, Zune, and Bing.
Maybe because if you have just a semi-successful career there, it looks awesome on a resume?
I think you're a bit out of date on that. It may have been true a decade ago, but today? If I were a kid fresh out of school, and I had offers from Microsoft and some random startup, I'd take the startup. If I had offers from Microsoft and Google, going with MS would be nuts.
>We seem to be a lot better at finding the balance than they were.
No, it's just that we don't have quite as much bureaucratic interference in the market as they did (yet).
We have one major institution that practices soviet-style central planning, and it just dropped us into the second great depression. It turns out, that the Federal Reserve isn't any better at picking interest rates than the soviet industrial planning bureaus were at setting production goals and prices.
when has a soldering iron ever been required for owning or even building a non-Apple home computer?
Let me guess: you weren't born yet in 1975?
Before the Apple II came out, the microcomputer companies like MITS and Ohio Scientific offered kits, and if you wanted an assembled and tested unit, you paid a lot more.
This ongoing talk that all of Apple's products are "ground breaking" in some way or another is drivel,
No, it's accurate, and pretending otherwise makes you look like a fool.
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Like, how much school do we really need? Should we presume that every kid needs to be taught the same subjects? Does it actually benefit a kid to be forced to sit and pay attention for hours on end in a cinder-block cell, until their natural curiosity is ground out of them, and they associate the very idea of learning with submission to arbitrary and incompetent authority figures?
-jcr
The supply of silicon isn't the issue, it's the cost of purifying it.
-jcr
I don't understand why Obama is so hung up on the ACTA.
Follow the money. Obama's all for anything that a big enough contributor wants.
-jcr
I remember seeing prototypes of 250 DPI displays back in 1990, and 300 DPI in 1994, but the first one I saw shipped to a large number of customers was the iPhone 4's Retina Display. If this product is ready for mass production, that's great, but I'm going to reserve my enthusiasm until they're shipping it.
-jcr
Because 1) Apple's already got a massive data center here, and 2) it's a good idea to put redundant data centers on opposite sides of the country.
-jcr
Apple has always been the biggest customer for Xserve. Not sure what they're using now, but when the iTMS store was launched, all of the machines serving the store pages in iTunes were Xserves, with some combination of Sun and IBM systems to run the back-end order processing SAP services.
-jcr
Apple used to support Cocoa apps written in Java.
Yep, and they realized their mistake a couple of years ago. When they dropped the Cocoa/Java bridge, they inconvenienced dozens of people.
-jcr
NeXT jumped on the Java bandwagon early on, porting their flagship WebObjects framework from Objective-C to Java.
That was back when Sun and NeXT were still working together on OpenStep, and Sun was listening to what NeXT was telling them was needed for Java to be a viable language for NeXTSTEP apps. The high water mark of that collaboration was the Java bridge for Cocoa. Of course, once it was possible to compare Java and Obj-C apps side by side, the marketing hype around Java proved to be bullshit, and Obj-C won out for Cocoa developers.
-jcr
It's not import restrictions that help Germans to export more goods. It's the fact that German manufacturers don't pay VAT on exported goods. That makes them cheaper to overseas customers. Compare this to the burden that American manufacturers have, where the USA still charges them the same amount of tax, whether the goods they produce are exported or sold domestically.
Nice try, though.
-jcr
a country who refuses to open it's books to external scrutiny
Are you talking about China or the United States? We've been trying to get the Federal Reserve to submit to an audit since it was founded, but they always manage to buy off enough congressmen to keep it from happening.
-jcr
Ok, this should be amusing: explain what you believe those two figures prove.
-jcr
No, they've had phenomenal success by rolling back a large portion of their bureaucratic interference in their economy. Limiting trade *never* benefits a country overall, although it can benefit those who are politically connected.
-jcr
Apple's biggest acquisition ever was buying NeXT for around $400M. Since then, the companies they've bought have been strategic additions that complemented existing lines of business. Acquiring a company is far more expensive than just the cash you fork over. There's the cost of integrating operations, the amount of time and attention required from the senior management, and of course the opportunity cost, because there are plenty of other things you could be doing with that money.
-jcr
They sued NOKIA (have no clue why
Because they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to protect their IP.
-jcr
The new bogeyman: fragmented FRAGMENTED FRAGMENTED!!!
You can try to laugh it off, but android has exactly the same problem that all the other phones had before the iPhone was on the market. If you wrote a Java app for mobile use, you had to deal with a plethora of configurations, including different UI per carrier on the same model of phone. The only way to make any amount of money on a mobile app was if you got a big carrier to bundle it.
-jcr
For that matter, wouldn't any non-volatile, high speed memory device do the job?
-jcr
So, you would rather take a crapshoot over the sure thing?
Absolutely. The crapshoot isn't going to damage my resume.
-jcr
2. Pay a large dividend.
I absolutely agree with this one. Microsoft is not a growth company anymore, and it's time for them to quit pissing away tens of billions of dollars of their shareholders' money on debacles like Xbox, Zune, and Bing.
-jcr
If I'm wrong, I'm sure you can point out any errors you see with something better than a "nu-uh". Give it your best shot.
-jcr
Maybe because if you have just a semi-successful career there, it looks awesome on a resume?
I think you're a bit out of date on that. It may have been true a decade ago, but today? If I were a kid fresh out of school, and I had offers from Microsoft and some random startup, I'd take the startup. If I had offers from Microsoft and Google, going with MS would be nuts.
-jcr
we would all work for them given the chance.
Speak for yourself.
-jcr
>We seem to be a lot better at finding the balance than they were.
No, it's just that we don't have quite as much bureaucratic interference in the market as they did (yet).
We have one major institution that practices soviet-style central planning, and it just dropped us into the second great depression. It turns out, that the Federal Reserve isn't any better at picking interest rates than the soviet industrial planning bureaus were at setting production goals and prices.
-jcr
I still think the share price will drop $100 the day Jobs dies.
It might, and if it did, I'd buy all I could get my hands on.
-jcr
Hats off to the people who made this happen. I can't wait to buy shirts made out of spider silk.
-jcr
when has a soldering iron ever been required for owning or even building a non-Apple home computer?
Let me guess: you weren't born yet in 1975?
Before the Apple II came out, the microcomputer companies like MITS and Ohio Scientific offered kits, and if you wanted an assembled and tested unit, you paid a lot more.
This ongoing talk that all of Apple's products are "ground breaking" in some way or another is drivel,
No, it's accurate, and pretending otherwise makes you look like a fool.
-jcr