When you have a violent revolution, the odds are the person or group willing AND capable of exerting the most violence will rise to the top. Once they rise to the top, they are unlikely to give up their power or hold democratic elections.
Like what happened in the American revolution, or maybe the French revolution, or any of the other democratic revolutions over the last couple of centuries?
Well, if the competition was selling $200 phones made in Asia, then yes, that would be a problem. This is not just an Apple issue. Most all the major consumer electronics manufacturers use the Chinese labor force.
While the article focussed on Apple, the same problems exist for just about any product that is on the shelf at your local Buy-n-Large. This is not an Apple-centric problem, but a free trade centered problem, I think. Why would a multinational corporation favor one country over another? Remember, if corporations are people, they are sociopaths, potentially immortal sociopaths.
Yeah, but $65 in expense would go through some multiplier to get to the final cost to the consumer. In the musical instrument field (the only market where I have experience) the cost to price ratio is somewhere in the 4x to 5x realm. I'm sure that the multiplier is much smaller in the consumer electronics realm, but I'm sure it's still at least 2x.
If you buy pretty much anything, actually, it's not just Apple stuff. Almost all of the stuff on sale in your local Buy-n-Large is from China, or maybe Mexico.
While the article focussed on Apple because they are the flavor of the year, the same could be said for just about everything that can be bought in the US. Almost everything for sale is made overseas or in Mexico. As long as people are obsessed with getting the cheapest shiny widget above all else these sort of conditions will prevail.
Brain teasers are just like any other interviewing tool - what matters is how you use the tool.
As an interviewer, if you use brain teasers to determine *how* the candidate is attempting to solve the problem, you are probably doing it right.
I completely agree. One of the best hires I ever made was someone who completely botched all the puzzles I gave him in that part of the interview, but did it with such good humor and aplomb that I thought there was something there.
Puzzles are a good way to give me a window onto the process by which someone goes about a problem. It's not just about getting the product right.
The market is fragmenting so fast its with all these "App" platforms, that there will be a great incentive for the first to create the "write once" , "run everywhere" tool chain. This will of course take a few years, but so many different platforms cannot be sustained.
Has this ever worked well? This sort of least common denominator approach seems like it pleases no one.
This wasn't really about religion, per se. This was about creationism trying to pass itself off as science. From a scientific point of view, creationism / intelligent design are nonsense.
To be fair, the ROKR was a Moto product that just tried to license some of the Apple/iTunes magic. It was a crappy phone, with pretty limited music support. It's not surprising that it failed. What is surprising is that Apple let themselves be associated with it.
And this is different from the last ten years, while the Bush tax cuts in place, exactly how? Businesses are not American. They are loyal to no place. There is a class war going on, and the businesses are winning.
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I use a wheel barrow in my back yard.
The US just got lucky with Geo. Washington.
When you have a violent revolution, the odds are the person or group willing AND capable of exerting the most violence will rise to the top. Once they rise to the top, they are unlikely to give up their power or hold democratic elections.
Like what happened in the American revolution, or maybe the French revolution, or any of the other democratic revolutions over the last couple of centuries?
Well, if the competition was selling $200 phones made in Asia, then yes, that would be a problem. This is not just an Apple issue. Most all the major consumer electronics manufacturers use the Chinese labor force.
While the article focussed on Apple, the same problems exist for just about any product that is on the shelf at your local Buy-n-Large. This is not an Apple-centric problem, but a free trade centered problem, I think. Why would a multinational corporation favor one country over another? Remember, if corporations are people, they are sociopaths, potentially immortal sociopaths.
Yeah, but $65 in expense would go through some multiplier to get to the final cost to the consumer. In the musical instrument field (the only market where I have experience) the cost to price ratio is somewhere in the 4x to 5x realm. I'm sure that the multiplier is much smaller in the consumer electronics realm, but I'm sure it's still at least 2x.
If you buy pretty much anything, actually, it's not just Apple stuff. Almost all of the stuff on sale in your local Buy-n-Large is from China, or maybe Mexico.
While the article focussed on Apple because they are the flavor of the year, the same could be said for just about everything that can be bought in the US. Almost everything for sale is made overseas or in Mexico. As long as people are obsessed with getting the cheapest shiny widget above all else these sort of conditions will prevail.
Columbus was sponsored by the Portuguese crown in a search for wealth in trade routes.
It was Spain, wasn't it?
The South/Tea Party will break off well before Cali.
Yes, Please.
I just hate it when I find myself in agreement with Darrell Issa.
Brain teasers are just like any other interviewing tool - what matters is how you use the tool. As an interviewer, if you use brain teasers to determine *how* the candidate is attempting to solve the problem, you are probably doing it right.
I completely agree. One of the best hires I ever made was someone who completely botched all the puzzles I gave him in that part of the interview, but did it with such good humor and aplomb that I thought there was something there.
Puzzles are a good way to give me a window onto the process by which someone goes about a problem. It's not just about getting the product right.
I can't hear the replies, the whooshing sound it too loud.
I wish I had mod points. +1 funny
Fail. That's: 1 + Forth-sightful.
Actually, wouldn't it be: 1 Forth-sightful +
You got it wrong: bad coders create bad code. Good coders know how to create good code. In any language.
My favorite programming adage: "You can create bad Fortran in any language."
The market is fragmenting so fast its with all these "App" platforms, that there will be a great incentive for the first to create the "write once" , "run everywhere" tool chain. This will of course take a few years, but so many different platforms cannot be sustained.
Has this ever worked well? This sort of least common denominator approach seems like it pleases no one.
The Acorn Archimedes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes This was some sort of outgrowth of the BBC Micro - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
This wasn't really about religion, per se. This was about creationism trying to pass itself off as science. From a scientific point of view, creationism / intelligent design are nonsense.
To be fair, the ROKR was a Moto product that just tried to license some of the Apple/iTunes magic. It was a crappy phone, with pretty limited music support. It's not surprising that it failed. What is surprising is that Apple let themselves be associated with it.
Which would you rather have? $100 each from one thousand people, or $1 each from one million people?
If I had to do a similar amount of work for each transaction in both cases, I'll take $100 from 1000 people, please.
Yeah, but why?
You are confusing patents with copyright. Very different things.
Most of the Tesla reviews praise its handling. It's been discontinued so that they can move production to a cheaper sedan.
And this is different from the last ten years, while the Bush tax cuts in place, exactly how? Businesses are not American. They are loyal to no place. There is a class war going on, and the businesses are winning.