Exactly... Capitalism is the movement to hoard capital investments to gain consideration not normally available in the "free market".
In this case EA uses capital to buy up competing small outfits that don't need DLC so it appears "the free market" has chosen this path. In reality just a handful of very large players are grasping at straws.. But they have so much money "free market players" are steamrolled.
People bringing up charges against you FAR IN EXCESS of the crime committed mean he was more like "pushed" into depression.
The charges were increased because he had a LEGAL viewpoint that cause the people passing laws to CHANGE THEIR MINDS. So he did EXACTLY what they intended, and those new Internet anti- bullying laws should be used.
They got wast they wanted, he's shut up. They know nothing will happen because they do this for a living.
The share price is inflated. Making the comparison of Apple to Exxon was a valid point, but it also shows Apple is sitting on WAY too much cash.
First, if Apple is sitting on a full year's income, they have more cash than any BANK would consider reasonable... Without making any products, they should be making 10% interest on the CASH... Which is nearly a quarter of profits.
Apple is a tiny company compared to Exxon. The majority of their employees are retail or support. Apple does comparatively little "blue sky" research hiring a narrow band of engineering talent compared to Exxon.
Exxon's market cap is based on single digit profit margins and single digit growth... Apple makes "just profits". Apple is not demonstrating that giving them MORE money, they hire MORE engineers and make MORE product lines.
In fact Apple does the opposite. They have very small 1000 teams that create a new product then quickly move to staffing the line at operations-only levels. Apple is fantastic at growing PROFITS but they are not growing "base" and in fact actively fight against it.
Apple is making 30% profit off $150B of operations... They are SITTING on $150B and making less than "savings" off the money. Investors could take half that war chest and build ANOTHER Apple sized company in cash.... Then try for 30% margins on SALES.
A better analogy is that Apple's parents paid fir them to to grow up and go to fancy college... Now the parents want Apple's spare money to set up another kid to do cool things. Apple is as PRODUCTIVE as they are ever going to get... Time for them to pay off mom n dad so some little sibs get a chance.
But the alternate side is that the $130 Billion isn't Tim Cook's money., its stockholder's money. Apple did just fine for most of a decade on a mere 30-40 billion in cash. There is no "reasonable" way Apple can spend that much money. They would have to go YEARS without sales, or go on a crazy spree and buy Microsoft or Sony... Or some other small failing company, they'd have too much change from Yahoo... Apple shouldn't have that much cash because it makes them too easy for lawyers to shake down, or the government to fine.
It's the Shareholder's money and maybe they want to spread it around... How much interest is Apple getting on that??
The problem is unlocking the money that's intertwined in foreign accounts to get around the taxman. That's why the complex schemes.
Microsoft spent half a decade pissing away its biggest profits on the CEO's poor management and "take over the world" projects before they started shelling out dividends. Microsoft just used the Shareholder's own money to cover their poor performance for 5 years... And stocks went down anyway.
Considering Apple could easily pay out $10 per share, per year right now before STARTING to make a dent in their cash pile, that is $10 million a medium size institutional investors could use to bankroll NEW companies.... For effectively free. Every year.. Returns are WAY better doing that.
"Employees should be valued for their flexibility and knowledge of the business"
I agree, but if you aren't AT the business you aren't showing off that knowledge IF the business... And gaining more.
Now a good boss should be able to know your ability and work results... Because they're "your boss" but bosses are just like employees, pulled 20 directions too so bosses miss your hard work.
I think in Yahoo's case this is taking inventory time, now that the mothership is getting on track the new boss wants the rest of the minions on track too. It's an open joke Yahoo has lost it's way... Somebody has to be the "bad guy" and start fixing it.
You miss the point that Secure Boot will eventually be REQUIRED for things like HIPAA or PIC compliance. Certain agencies simply won't allow "insecure" machines and by not pushing back extra hard, Red Hat just gave up territory that won't ever get back.
How many business are going to take an admin seriously if he has to manually load a certificate to run Linux or BCD?.. When the same computer would run Windows Enterprise out-of-the-box without Mumbo-Jumbo?
How does BSD get around the problem tha a UEFI motherboard is permenantly "rooted" unless you get a certified key from M$ ?
Certified key wont actually encrypt your system (at the RAM/CPU level) unless you load Microsoft's unlocking code BEFORE you start your Kernel so your kernel is signed to the system.
Linus is mad because Red Hat had the resources to build and certify THEIR OWN keys to Microsoft's "standard" but they choose to RENT A Key instead. Ted Hat was the only company big enough to negotiate or pay lawyers to FORCE the issue. And they rolled over.
Linus was actually just fine with all the other companies that "just barely" complied with the letter of the GPL... He has always been more pragmatic about USING Linux and not so much every little bit be "Free Software"... Except now Microsoft just locked EVERYBODY OUT to charge RENT. Oops!
This isn't "ideological bs" any more. In order to BOOT AND RUN Linux on newer Hardware "sold for Windows 8" you must have a signed bios loader. Red Hat COULD have petitioned for their OWN code to be used, but instead "rent" a key from Microsoft.
Pnce the old stock flushes, We are just a few month away from EVERY MOTHERBOARD SOLD to require Microsoft's PERMISSION to boot another OS. Not just Dells or HPs pre-configured, but companies are now pushed to sell only "Windows Motherboards" whether you decide to buy Windows or not!
Even APPLE hardware isn't locked down THAT tightly. We've already had cases where the ol' "API works for Windows" bit not the signed Microsoft alternate-OS key... Out of Samsung notebooks.
We are back to 1999 and using obscure bugs in the "open" hardware to lock Alternate OSes out of the hardware market... For good. Hope you like Rasperry Pi because niche, custom hardware is the only stuff that will FREELY run Linux from this point on.
Because he needs a building permit to add the space to his house. As soon as you say "home office" that means a certain portion of the upgrade gets taxed as "commercial" property.... As well as Copier, fax, computers used for "work" purposes. Depending on local laws.
To be fair, THESE are the kind of teams Yahoo wants to build more of. Highly focused and delivering products.
If you can work from home too much, why not just ship your job off to a contractor? If you're just doing maintenance then you're not VALUABLE.
That does exclude the class of employees like Sales or Support people that work best bring available at home in the customer's time zone when the company only has one small office on the west coast.
Of agree, are you collaborating or working?? I think that so many workers fall into positions where part of the job is "heads down" but bosses wanted fewer managers so workers go to their own meetings now.
The problem with cubes is that people get used to just walking in... Or talking over the partitions... And don't get the non-verbal cue you are in "heads down" mode to send a quick email first.
A. Taxes... Cities really like their zoning and extra taxes for "home business offices".
B. control... Usually the inspection board is packed with minor real estate owners... The ones who you should rent an office from. Many "bedroom communities" and HOAs don't like having people around all the time... They're the same bosses that want you in an office.
It's like the Joker said... It's expected some cars will crash, and some driver might get hurt. It's not expected that people on the other side of the chain link fence 10 feet away are going to get hurt.
There is $100k+ of engineering per seat keeping drivers safe in these crashes. There $100k (maybe) of safety structure between cars and spectators. People pay for front row seats to experience the cars... If they pile up more safe brick walls, people can't see the cars... They can just watch on TV.
Sony is probably going to bake that into the developer handbook. That ought to add $10-$15 per game... And another "Xbox live" service mandatory with monthly fees to handle all the extra (forced) traffic. And an extra $15 for the special "sharing" button added to a $55 controller.
I'd add this is what brokers are for. If this is $100k+ you don't do these things yourself. Normally, you would call the company you bought the boat from, and they would have to get you the correct paperwork... It's THEIR MISTAKE. Then you go sit in the agent's office wasting YOUR time, not hers until its right.
This is where he's way to paranoid because he does web news and all that JuJu crap. He's totally correct lawyers will cause all sorts of grief over typos... But in reality that doesn't happen very often. Also, customs agents aren't your mom, they won't wait, and won't tell you what to do... They expect you to know the hoops.
My company ships stuff to Canada and Mexico. The paperwork has to exactly correct from the MANUFACTURER, no changing..So good luck getting that turned around on your own.
And the agent isn't going to wait... If its not right, you go back to the bottom of the queue. That's pretty standard... If the agent is a bit rough about it.
It "no big deal" until the IRS or the boat licensing authority gets ahold of that slip and it doesn't MATCH EXACTLY... Then he gets accused of defrauding taxes and such. A COMPANY has lawyers that can defend that type of clerical error. YOU don't.
To be totally fair, this is over dramatized. Obviously, without the paperwork, she can't clear the boat. So that means lock it back up until the correct paperwork is redone... And you go to the bottom of the queue for wasting her time.
Why couldn't he promise that? Bush2 UNILATERALLYand without Congress permission started using Gitmo as a political prison, why would the next President need PERMISSION to close it???
Both Clinton and Obama (Carter too) have had huge double standards placed on them being Commander-in-Chief. If they pull bac military force they are weak. When they use it for anything other than killing A-rabs or Commies they are imperialist.
USPS isn't self funding.... Congress has to pass a tax for it to operate. USPS runs off TAXES on every stamp you buy!!! That is why it is unfair to private companies.
(That is the way "old people" view USPS... As a tax and not a paid service)
Because individual prices of goods went up or down... A bag of flour might be a nickle today and a dime because of drought next year... But it would go BACK to a nickle after the drought. So if you saved a dollar, you could wait for your individual purchase to move into price range... You would always have the dollar.
In the fiat money scheme, when the sack of flour goes up, your wages are pulled up... But things never go DOWN because deflation is easily measurable for little people. Today, if you don't USE the dollar, prices will be $1.02 in 12 months... It never goes down because the big investments won't let it.
The gold standard was more like paying with credits on Xbox live.. When items were more rare it took more credits. Of course being tied to a shiny rock you can dig up, or go raid Indians of their tombs has its own problems too.
Most union plumbers and electricians are much like IT people... Except they have a contract that makes the company PAY for an on-site worker if they want 1-hour or less support around the clock... They don't tolerate this "pertetually on call" business.
At that point these are ROBBERS not Burglars and when they surprise somebody at home BAD THINGS happen. In that case you're better off not being there because they have more experience hurting people than you do... You WON'T get a second chance even if you were armed.
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Exactly... Capitalism is the movement to hoard capital investments to gain consideration not normally available in the "free market".
In this case EA uses capital to buy up competing small outfits that don't need DLC so it appears "the free market" has chosen this path. In reality just a handful of very large players are grasping at straws.. But they have so much money "free market players" are steamrolled.
People bringing up charges against you FAR IN EXCESS of the crime committed mean he was more like "pushed" into depression.
The charges were increased because he had a LEGAL viewpoint that cause the people passing laws to CHANGE THEIR MINDS. So he did EXACTLY what they intended, and those new Internet anti- bullying laws should be used.
They got wast they wanted, he's shut up. They know nothing will happen because they do this for a living.
The share price is inflated. Making the comparison of Apple to Exxon was a valid point, but it also shows Apple is sitting on WAY too much cash.
First, if Apple is sitting on a full year's income, they have more cash than any BANK would consider reasonable... Without making any products, they should be making 10% interest on the CASH... Which is nearly a quarter of profits.
Apple is a tiny company compared to Exxon. The majority of their employees are retail or support. Apple does comparatively little "blue sky" research hiring a narrow band of engineering talent compared to Exxon.
Exxon's market cap is based on single digit profit margins and single digit growth... Apple makes "just profits". Apple is not demonstrating that giving them MORE money, they hire MORE engineers and make MORE product lines.
In fact Apple does the opposite. They have very small 1000 teams that create a new product then quickly move to staffing the line at operations-only levels. Apple is fantastic at growing PROFITS but they are not growing "base" and in fact actively fight against it.
Apple is making 30% profit off $150B of operations... They are SITTING on $150B and making less than "savings" off the money. Investors could take half that war chest and build ANOTHER Apple sized company in cash.... Then try for 30% margins on SALES.
A better analogy is that Apple's parents paid fir them to to grow up and go to fancy college... Now the parents want Apple's spare money to set up another kid to do cool things. Apple is as PRODUCTIVE as they are ever going to get... Time for them to pay off mom n dad so some little sibs get a chance.
But the alternate side is that the $130 Billion isn't Tim Cook's money., its stockholder's money. Apple did just fine for most of a decade on a mere 30-40 billion in cash. There is no "reasonable" way Apple can spend that much money. They would have to go YEARS without sales, or go on a crazy spree and buy Microsoft or Sony... Or some other small failing company, they'd have too much change from Yahoo... Apple shouldn't have that much cash because it makes them too easy for lawyers to shake down, or the government to fine.
It's the Shareholder's money and maybe they want to spread it around... How much interest is Apple getting on that??
The problem is unlocking the money that's intertwined in foreign accounts to get around the taxman. That's why the complex schemes.
Microsoft spent half a decade pissing away its biggest profits on the CEO's poor management and "take over the world" projects before they started shelling out dividends. Microsoft just used the Shareholder's own money to cover their poor performance for 5 years... And stocks went down anyway.
Considering Apple could easily pay out $10 per share, per year right now before STARTING to make a dent in their cash pile, that is $10 million a medium size institutional investors could use to bankroll NEW companies.... For effectively free. Every year.. Returns are WAY better doing that.
"Employees should be valued for their flexibility and knowledge of the business"
I agree, but if you aren't AT the business you aren't showing off that knowledge IF the business... And gaining more.
Now a good boss should be able to know your ability and work results ... Because they're "your boss" but bosses are just like employees, pulled 20 directions too so bosses miss your hard work.
I think in Yahoo's case this is taking inventory time, now that the mothership is getting on track the new boss wants the rest of the minions on track too. It's an open joke Yahoo has lost it's way... Somebody has to be the "bad guy" and start fixing it.
You miss the point that Secure Boot will eventually be REQUIRED for things like HIPAA or PIC compliance. Certain agencies simply won't allow "insecure" machines and by not pushing back extra hard, Red Hat just gave up territory that won't ever get back.
How many business are going to take an admin seriously if he has to manually load a certificate to run Linux or BCD? .. When the same computer would run Windows Enterprise out-of-the-box without Mumbo-Jumbo?
How does BSD get around the problem tha a UEFI motherboard is permenantly "rooted" unless you get a certified key from M$ ?
Certified key wont actually encrypt your system (at the RAM/CPU level) unless you load Microsoft's unlocking code BEFORE you start your Kernel so your kernel is signed to the system.
Linus is mad because Red Hat had the resources to build and certify THEIR OWN keys to Microsoft's "standard" but they choose to RENT A Key instead. Ted Hat was the only company big enough to negotiate or pay lawyers to FORCE the issue. And they rolled over.
Linus was actually just fine with all the other companies that "just barely" complied with the letter of the GPL... He has always been more pragmatic about USING Linux and not so much every little bit be "Free Software" ... Except now Microsoft just locked EVERYBODY OUT to charge RENT. Oops!
This isn't "ideological bs" any more. In order to BOOT AND RUN Linux on newer Hardware "sold for Windows 8" you must have a signed bios loader. Red Hat COULD have petitioned for their OWN code to be used, but instead "rent" a key from Microsoft.
Pnce the old stock flushes, We are just a few month away from EVERY MOTHERBOARD SOLD to require Microsoft's PERMISSION to boot another OS. Not just Dells or HPs pre-configured, but companies are now pushed to sell only "Windows Motherboards" whether you decide to buy Windows or not!
Even APPLE hardware isn't locked down THAT tightly. We've already had cases where the ol' "API works for Windows" bit not the signed Microsoft alternate-OS key... Out of Samsung notebooks.
We are back to 1999 and using obscure bugs in the "open" hardware to lock Alternate OSes out of the hardware market... For good. Hope you like Rasperry Pi because niche, custom hardware is the only stuff that will FREELY run Linux from this point on.
Because he needs a building permit to add the space to his house. As soon as you say "home office" that means a certain portion of the upgrade gets taxed as "commercial" property.... As well as Copier, fax, computers used for "work" purposes. Depending on local laws.
To be fair, THESE are the kind of teams Yahoo wants to build more of. Highly focused and delivering products.
If you can work from home too much, why not just ship your job off to a contractor? If you're just doing maintenance then you're not VALUABLE.
That does exclude the class of employees like Sales or Support people that work best bring available at home in the customer's time zone when the company only has one small office on the west coast.
Of agree, are you collaborating or working?? I think that so many workers fall into positions where part of the job is "heads down" but bosses wanted fewer managers so workers go to their own meetings now.
The problem with cubes is that people get used to just walking in... Or talking over the partitions... And don't get the non-verbal cue you are in "heads down" mode to send a quick email first.
A. Taxes... Cities really like their zoning and extra taxes for "home business offices".
B. control... Usually the inspection board is packed with minor real estate owners... The ones who you should rent an office from. Many "bedroom communities" and HOAs don't like having people around all the time... They're the same bosses that want you in an office.
It's like the Joker said ... It's expected some cars will crash, and some driver might get hurt. It's not expected that people on the other side of the chain link fence 10 feet away are going to get hurt.
There is $100k+ of engineering per seat keeping drivers safe in these crashes. There $100k (maybe) of safety structure between cars and spectators. People pay for front row seats to experience the cars... If they pile up more safe brick walls, people can't see the cars... They can just watch on TV.
You better believe it!
Sony is probably going to bake that into the developer handbook. That ought to add $10-$15 per game... And another "Xbox live" service mandatory with monthly fees to handle all the extra (forced) traffic. And an extra $15 for the special "sharing" button added to a $55 controller.
Or people are laments like me... I don't have 80 hours of play time to pull off what ends up being a 60 minute play thru.
Watching play thrus is the only way I ever see the end of $50 games anymore.
People watch GOLF.
Watching video games is way more exciting.
People PAY to watch Golf.....
I'd add this is what brokers are for. If this is $100k+ you don't do these things yourself. Normally, you would call the company you bought the boat from, and they would have to get you the correct paperwork... It's THEIR MISTAKE. Then you go sit in the agent's office wasting YOUR time, not hers until its right.
This is where he's way to paranoid because he does web news and all that JuJu crap. He's totally correct lawyers will cause all sorts of grief over typos... But in reality that doesn't happen very often. Also, customs agents aren't your mom, they won't wait, and won't tell you what to do... They expect you to know the hoops.
Next time HIRE a Broker so you don't screw up!
My company ships stuff to Canada and Mexico. The paperwork has to exactly correct from the MANUFACTURER, no changing..So good luck getting that turned around on your own.
And the agent isn't going to wait... If its not right, you go back to the bottom of the queue. That's pretty standard... If the agent is a bit rough about it.
It "no big deal" until the IRS or the boat licensing authority gets ahold of that slip and it doesn't MATCH EXACTLY... Then he gets accused of defrauding taxes and such. A COMPANY has lawyers that can defend that type of clerical error. YOU don't.
To be totally fair, this is over dramatized. Obviously, without the paperwork, she can't clear the boat. So that means lock it back up until the correct paperwork is redone... And you go to the bottom of the queue for wasting her time.
Why couldn't he promise that? Bush2 UNILATERALLYand without Congress permission started using Gitmo as a political prison, why would the next President need PERMISSION to close it???
Both Clinton and Obama (Carter too) have had huge double standards placed on them being Commander-in-Chief. If they pull bac military force they are weak. When they use it for anything other than killing A-rabs or Commies they are imperialist.
USPS isn't self funding.... Congress has to pass a tax for it to operate. USPS runs off TAXES on every stamp you buy!!! That is why it is unfair to private companies.
(That is the way "old people" view USPS... As a tax and not a paid service)
Because individual prices of goods went up or down... A bag of flour might be a nickle today and a dime because of drought next year... But it would go BACK to a nickle after the drought. So if you saved a dollar, you could wait for your individual purchase to move into price range... You would always have the dollar.
In the fiat money scheme, when the sack of flour goes up, your wages are pulled up... But things never go DOWN because deflation is easily measurable for little people. Today, if you don't USE the dollar, prices will be $1.02 in 12 months... It never goes down because the big investments won't let it.
The gold standard was more like paying with credits on Xbox live.. When items were more rare it took more credits. Of course being tied to a shiny rock you can dig up, or go raid Indians of their tombs has its own problems too.
Most union plumbers and electricians are much like IT people... Except they have a contract that makes the company PAY for an on-site worker if they want 1-hour or less support around the clock... They don't tolerate this "pertetually on call" business.
At that point these are ROBBERS not Burglars and when they surprise somebody at home BAD THINGS happen. In that case you're better off not being there because they have more experience hurting people than you do... You WON'T get a second chance even if you were armed.