It does seem like movie studios are really missing the boat on flexible pricing. They're so busy preserving their movie theatre/DVD/TV progression they're missing out on a really fine grained pricing structure.
Apple's guidance historically comes it at about 10-15% under actual performance. 50% might have happened once or twice in a quarter with an unexpectedly good product launch, but it's not the norm.
A 16% increase in earnings per share over this quarter last year... clearly the steepest decline they've had in a long time.
It already happened in the smartphone market. Android makes up the dominant part of the market by unit count. Apple makes more profit than everyone else put together.
Apple's strategy has always been to make a quality product and sell it to those people who care about such things, and are willing to pay for it. They've said so on several occasions.
"I'm sure if you had asked accountants at Apple 2 months into the quarter they could have told you a much more accurate number of where they would be at the end of the quarter."
Apple's guidance was 1 billion LESS than they reported.
Right after "disappointing" announcements is a great time to buy Apple stock.
Apple has a giant pile of money so they don't need to sell any stock, so they're quite well insulated from their stock price. The stock going down means absolutely nothing except a) a good deal for sane investors and b) a loss for insane ones.
You know what's even more insane? Apple beat their projection by 1 billion dollars. They missed all right, on the positive side. They just didn't miss by as much as they usually do.
If it affects a subset of users it must be interacting with something that is specific to those users. If it has a trigger then it's interacting with that trigger. Software is deterministic.
I don't think Apple really cares if Google and Amazon are paying people (or nearly so) to take their tablets. Dominant marketshare is only really critical if you intend to do evil things with it a la Microsoft.
If it were actually a problem with the OS then it would happen to everyone. I've got a mini (on 10.6) that has happily sat beside my TV for something like five years now, connected through wifi. I've never noticed a problem with it. The bluetooth was flakey for a while after I replaced the hard drive in it, but after opening it up again and making sure the antenna was well connected it seems to be fine.
It seems like you have some kind of interaction happening between two or more of the hardware, OS, and installed software, which is irritating as hell when it happens to you (and usually causes people to complain on discussion boards) but it isn't indicative of a universal fault in the OS.
Not a warehouse, an AMAZON warehouse. Certainly warehousing is an honorable profession, but by some accounts working in an Amazon warehouse is a tough job made awful. I suspect one of those warehouse or dock workers would take a particularly dim view of Amazon's reported extensive use of temp agencies.
Clearly having to use Bluetooth AND USB is MUCH simpler than the wires and possibly a transistor or two interface you can make to an iPod.
It's clear you're not able to have a civil conversation AND can't process points of view that differ from your own, so I don't see any future in this conversation.
From adult sailing students to neuroscience grad students, I've found that if you depend on someone learning the concept at home and then coming in prepared, you're going to be burning all your "interactive activity" time on actually teaching the material.
A MUCH better approach is to teach the material in as interactive a format as you can pull off, allow some digestion, then have a hands on session.
Recorded video is probably the worst possible format for learning. Books you can highlight and go at your own pace. Real teachers respond to the class and answer questions. Videos do none of that.
People in education research have been talking for a lot longer about what a crappy method of teaching lecturing is, particularly when the lecturer doesn't respond to the class. Note that a video lecture is essentially the very worst kind of lecture because the lecturer CAN'T respond to any kind of feedback from the class.
A "flipped classroom" might be better than the very worst kind of lecturing, but no decent teacher actually teaches that way, and most of the poor ones don't either.
I doubt that's what that sentence was meant to mean. But since you bring it up, doesn't your description "you're teaching your stuff like a tape recorder, without looking into the classroom and gauging whether they are following you and without allowing them to ask questions" precisely describe video teaching?
Some of the people criticizing it are researchers in the field, with quantitative experimental data to back it up.
Yes, there are talking heads on both sides who are just noise. But there's real data to suggest that learning through videos is not very effective and can, in some cases, actually be detrimental. Kahn is unfortunately both famous now, has advocated pure "Kahn education" and doesn't seem particularly concerned about criticisms of his methods or content.
Kahn's videos and others like them are kind of like Wikipedia - they're a fantastic resource, great for introducing people to a concept (with caveats) or as a supplement, but are not a replacement for teaching in person by a decent teacher knowledgeable in the subject.
As for the "precise explanation of mathematical concepts to be mere nitpicking"? Maybe it is, really? By that, I mean, most people are really only interested in learning math as long as it allows them to accomplish something.
Unfortunately true. I work in a field (medical imaging) where certain complicated procedures can now be done by pushing the right button on a computer. So that's what the neuroscientists want to learn how to do - push the right button and get on with it. That will give you very nice, believable results... that are often completely wrong. Quite often getting a superficial introduction without at least enough in depth knowledge to know what you don't know is more dangerous than nothing at all.
Only when you count their time as six to eight hours a day. My father was a teacher. He got to the school around eight because teachers had to be there in case kids showed up early, and to prepare lessons. He left around five thirty on days he wasn't doing computer club, extra help sessions, science fair, science olympics or something else. Later on those other days. Then he marked and prepared most of Saturday, and took Sunday off (usually). All together, probably sixty hours plus a week. This for someone who has an MSc and wrote one of the first word processors for a personal computer.
I realize not all teachers do that, particularly (it seems) in the US's broken public education system, but certainly some do. Most of them here.
This isn't to replace GPs. It's so that smaller hospitals can benefit from some of the things that a large hospital can offer.
As an example, suppose you're walking along and suddenly have trouble speaking. Your significant other / friend / whatever is concerned and takes you to your small local hospital. The doctors at that hospital suspect you're having a stroke, but no specialized stroke neurologist works there. So they call one, who examines you using the robot. He determines you are having a stroke, and imaging confirms it is ischemic. Since it's within the three hour window, he orders a local nurse to give you an IV injection of tPA, a clot busting drug. She does, monitors you, and you improve.
Without the robot you would have to have been transferred to a larger hospital to see someone qualified to order tPA treatment, and by the time that happened it might well have been outside the three hour window.
You're making the classic know-it-all mistake. Nowhere did I say they should give up advertising. I said it would be nice to see them do something that DOESN'T involve advertising for once.
Maybe someone clever can do it, but I don't think it's nearly the slam dunk you think it is. USB connectors must have a certain amount of friction in order to not become disconnected too easily. Magsafe adapters must NOT have any friction, so that if you pull hard enough to dislodge the magnet, they disconnect. Magsafe adapters are almost flat so that a pull from any direction will disconnect them. USB connectors are very penetrating, so a pull from most directions will NOT disconnect them.
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It does seem like movie studios are really missing the boat on flexible pricing. They're so busy preserving their movie theatre/DVD/TV progression they're missing out on a really fine grained pricing structure.
"All I want is a flat rate, one stop shop for streaming anything ever made."
Bittorrent?
Apple's guidance historically comes it at about 10-15% under actual performance. 50% might have happened once or twice in a quarter with an unexpectedly good product launch, but it's not the norm.
A 16% increase in earnings per share over this quarter last year... clearly the steepest decline they've had in a long time.
It already happened in the smartphone market. Android makes up the dominant part of the market by unit count. Apple makes more profit than everyone else put together.
Apple's strategy has always been to make a quality product and sell it to those people who care about such things, and are willing to pay for it. They've said so on several occasions.
"I'm sure if you had asked accountants at Apple 2 months into the quarter they could have told you a much more accurate number of where they would be at the end of the quarter."
Apple's guidance was 1 billion LESS than they reported.
"become slightly less profitable"
Apple's third quarter profits were up year over year from something like $7 and change per share to $9 and change.
Investors dumped the stock because profits didn't go up as much as their guesses. Apple themselves guessed a little low, as usual.
Right after "disappointing" announcements is a great time to buy Apple stock.
Apple has a giant pile of money so they don't need to sell any stock, so they're quite well insulated from their stock price. The stock going down means absolutely nothing except a) a good deal for sane investors and b) a loss for insane ones.
You know what's even more insane? Apple beat their projection by 1 billion dollars. They missed all right, on the positive side. They just didn't miss by as much as they usually do.
Probably true, but entirely irrelevant to what I said. Let me guess... salesman?
If it affects a subset of users it must be interacting with something that is specific to those users. If it has a trigger then it's interacting with that trigger. Software is deterministic.
Windows has been doing driver signing since... Vista wasn't it? And Microsoft certainly supports code signing as well.
Code signing is a security feature, not an evil plot.
"With google and amazon selling tablets at cost"
I don't think Apple really cares if Google and Amazon are paying people (or nearly so) to take their tablets. Dominant marketshare is only really critical if you intend to do evil things with it a la Microsoft.
If it were actually a problem with the OS then it would happen to everyone. I've got a mini (on 10.6) that has happily sat beside my TV for something like five years now, connected through wifi. I've never noticed a problem with it. The bluetooth was flakey for a while after I replaced the hard drive in it, but after opening it up again and making sure the antenna was well connected it seems to be fine.
It seems like you have some kind of interaction happening between two or more of the hardware, OS, and installed software, which is irritating as hell when it happens to you (and usually causes people to complain on discussion boards) but it isn't indicative of a universal fault in the OS.
Not a warehouse, an AMAZON warehouse. Certainly warehousing is an honorable profession, but by some accounts working in an Amazon warehouse is a tough job made awful. I suspect one of those warehouse or dock workers would take a particularly dim view of Amazon's reported extensive use of temp agencies.
Wow, you're just charming, aren't you?
Clearly having to use Bluetooth AND USB is MUCH simpler than the wires and possibly a transistor or two interface you can make to an iPod.
It's clear you're not able to have a civil conversation AND can't process points of view that differ from your own, so I don't see any future in this conversation.
From adult sailing students to neuroscience grad students, I've found that if you depend on someone learning the concept at home and then coming in prepared, you're going to be burning all your "interactive activity" time on actually teaching the material.
A MUCH better approach is to teach the material in as interactive a format as you can pull off, allow some digestion, then have a hands on session.
Recorded video is probably the worst possible format for learning. Books you can highlight and go at your own pace. Real teachers respond to the class and answer questions. Videos do none of that.
Your suggestions include getting rid of junk degrees (why, if enough people are interested why not offer them?) and create a sports degree??
People in education research have been talking for a lot longer about what a crappy method of teaching lecturing is, particularly when the lecturer doesn't respond to the class. Note that a video lecture is essentially the very worst kind of lecture because the lecturer CAN'T respond to any kind of feedback from the class.
A "flipped classroom" might be better than the very worst kind of lecturing, but no decent teacher actually teaches that way, and most of the poor ones don't either.
I doubt that's what that sentence was meant to mean. But since you bring it up, doesn't your description "you're teaching your stuff like a tape recorder, without looking into the classroom and gauging whether they are following you and without allowing them to ask questions" precisely describe video teaching?
Some of the people criticizing it are researchers in the field, with quantitative experimental data to back it up.
Yes, there are talking heads on both sides who are just noise. But there's real data to suggest that learning through videos is not very effective and can, in some cases, actually be detrimental. Kahn is unfortunately both famous now, has advocated pure "Kahn education" and doesn't seem particularly concerned about criticisms of his methods or content.
Kahn's videos and others like them are kind of like Wikipedia - they're a fantastic resource, great for introducing people to a concept (with caveats) or as a supplement, but are not a replacement for teaching in person by a decent teacher knowledgeable in the subject.
Unfortunately true. I work in a field (medical imaging) where certain complicated procedures can now be done by pushing the right button on a computer. So that's what the neuroscientists want to learn how to do - push the right button and get on with it. That will give you very nice, believable results... that are often completely wrong. Quite often getting a superficial introduction without at least enough in depth knowledge to know what you don't know is more dangerous than nothing at all.
Only when you count their time as six to eight hours a day. My father was a teacher. He got to the school around eight because teachers had to be there in case kids showed up early, and to prepare lessons. He left around five thirty on days he wasn't doing computer club, extra help sessions, science fair, science olympics or something else. Later on those other days. Then he marked and prepared most of Saturday, and took Sunday off (usually). All together, probably sixty hours plus a week. This for someone who has an MSc and wrote one of the first word processors for a personal computer.
I realize not all teachers do that, particularly (it seems) in the US's broken public education system, but certainly some do. Most of them here.
This isn't to replace GPs. It's so that smaller hospitals can benefit from some of the things that a large hospital can offer.
As an example, suppose you're walking along and suddenly have trouble speaking. Your significant other / friend / whatever is concerned and takes you to your small local hospital. The doctors at that hospital suspect you're having a stroke, but no specialized stroke neurologist works there. So they call one, who examines you using the robot. He determines you are having a stroke, and imaging confirms it is ischemic. Since it's within the three hour window, he orders a local nurse to give you an IV injection of tPA, a clot busting drug. She does, monitors you, and you improve.
Without the robot you would have to have been transferred to a larger hospital to see someone qualified to order tPA treatment, and by the time that happened it might well have been outside the three hour window.
You're making the classic know-it-all mistake. Nowhere did I say they should give up advertising. I said it would be nice to see them do something that DOESN'T involve advertising for once.
Maybe someone clever can do it, but I don't think it's nearly the slam dunk you think it is. USB connectors must have a certain amount of friction in order to not become disconnected too easily. Magsafe adapters must NOT have any friction, so that if you pull hard enough to dislodge the magnet, they disconnect. Magsafe adapters are almost flat so that a pull from any direction will disconnect them. USB connectors are very penetrating, so a pull from most directions will NOT disconnect them.