Baloo, I'm sending you a walmart friend invite. Keep in mind that we're should all register underage. Use a real secondary email address to be your "parent's address. Etc.
Hey quokkapox, I'm sending you an email invite for the hub at walmart. I am recommending that we use underages, and use a different email addy for your parents. I don't know about you, but I can still get in trouble with my dad for doing immature stuff, even though I'm forty.
Hey Flynns, I'm sending you an email invite for the hub at walmart. I am recommending that we use underages, and use a different email addy for your parents. I don't know about you, but I can still get in trouble with my dad for doing immature stuff, even though I'm forty.
You have no idea how well this describes George W. Bush.
Bah! George Bush was born with connections and a silver coke spoon. He went to elite schools where they teach you the secret handshake. If he had had to make a career on self developed handshake skills alone, he'd never have been more than a third rate oil man.
Which reminds me of a joke. What do politicians and chronic masturbators have in common? They both spend a lot of time shaking hands with the unemployed. Ha.
What personal risks are they actually taking? Few, if any, since they most likely achieved their positions based on not sticking their own necks out. You can count "maverick" executives on one hand if you were in a wood shop accident.
Jobs is more than adequately compensated by stock options and stock grants, not to mention (in this day of raising gas prices) free fill-ups of jet fuel for his gulfstar. (I'm sure you already know this.)
However, Jobs is a great example of a CEO that is not primarily motivated by money. He understands money, he understands his duties towards stockholders; there is no doubt. And he clearly has a terrific ego, but I think the important thing is that his ego is rewarded when Apple succeeds. Money is just one of many ways of keeping track.
Step 2. is to develop a really awesome handshake, a handshake that will inspire trust, confidence, loyalty, and all that good bullshit. A proper handshake will also get you invited to join the right country clubs, so you can line up that next executive position on the golf course.
When I was a kid, we had plenty of toys to play with that "excited our imaginations". However, it was just as fun to play with a cardboard box. (And we liked it that way!)
I'm sure there are still plenty of kids that get bored with whatever toy and turn to playing with the box in which it came.
I take back my statement. I think you and the AC are right. I'm still kind of stuck in old pre-intel Apple, where we had to patiently wait for incremental improvements to equipment. The level playing field doesn't just mean Apple can compete in terms of easily comparable performance, it has to compete.
Where did you hear that Shake was discontinued? They just came out with a new version, didn't they? Do you mean that they're ceasing development for linux and windows?
Here. Have a sip of this kool aide, then tell me what you think. No? You're not feeling it? Step over here, then. Over here, next to this portable reality distortion field. It runs off of Steve Job's urine. Pretty amazing, huh? Now. Are you ready to admit that an Apple computer, with the exact same specs and components as another brand machine, is faster? Way faster? Just nod your head.
I'd be surprised if we saw merom based MBPs any sooner than a year. Anyway, right after I posted, a new story appeared on what we might expect from WWDC.
Yeah, he's more of what I would call a power-user or sophisticated user. Nothing wrong with that, but as you say, it doesn't really make him a techie in the way we understand the word.
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Baloo, I'm sending you a walmart friend invite. Keep in mind that we're should all register underage. Use a real secondary email address to be your "parent's address. Etc.
Hey quokkapox, I'm sending you an email invite for the hub at walmart. I am recommending that we use underages, and use a different email addy for your parents. I don't know about you, but I can still get in trouble with my dad for doing immature stuff, even though I'm forty.
Hey Flynns, I'm sending you an email invite for the hub at walmart. I am recommending that we use underages, and use a different email addy for your parents. I don't know about you, but I can still get in trouble with my dad for doing immature stuff, even though I'm forty.
O'Reilly's (no relation) has a great site for Mac tech/programming at MacDevCenter.
Also, Server Logistics, a Mac based web hosting company with cred, offers pre-packed mySQL for free. Gotta love that Aaron Faby.
You have no idea how well this describes George W. Bush.
Bah! George Bush was born with connections and a silver coke spoon. He went to elite schools where they teach you the secret handshake. If he had had to make a career on self developed handshake skills alone, he'd never have been more than a third rate oil man.
Which reminds me of a joke. What do politicians and chronic masturbators have in common? They both spend a lot of time shaking hands with the unemployed. Ha.
Five major occurrences. You're forgetting when NeXT bought Apple for negative 400 million dollars.
What personal risks are they actually taking? Few, if any, since they most likely achieved their positions based on not sticking their own necks out. You can count "maverick" executives on one hand if you were in a wood shop accident.
Interesting point. It's not like you can just turn a lifestyle like that on and off like a faucet.
Mod parent up insightful! It all makes sense now.
Ballmer wants to be chairman at MS, but he doesn't know how to put it into words. It's all just a cry for help!
Jobs is more than adequately compensated by stock options and stock grants, not to mention (in this day of raising gas prices) free fill-ups of jet fuel for his gulfstar. (I'm sure you already know this.)
However, Jobs is a great example of a CEO that is not primarily motivated by money. He understands money, he understands his duties towards stockholders; there is no doubt. And he clearly has a terrific ego, but I think the important thing is that his ego is rewarded when Apple succeeds. Money is just one of many ways of keeping track.
Personally, I'd rather suck eggs than suck seed.
Step 2. is to develop a really awesome handshake, a handshake that will inspire trust, confidence, loyalty, and all that good bullshit. A proper handshake will also get you invited to join the right country clubs, so you can line up that next executive position on the golf course.
I'd shoot you with a hand gun, then eat the banana, thereby disarming you, the assailant. Now, did we already do grapes?
Not only that, but Apple offers you a glass of wine and plays soft music. So what if the soft music is DRMed? =)
It depends. Is the poo in the white box a shiny glossy black?
And let's not forget, that compression is supposed to happen on the fly. Yeesh! Jackson (OP), do you work at CC or BB by any chance? =)
You get off my lawn, Andrew Kismet! I know your mother! I'm going to call the police if you kids don't get off my lawn! =)
You had sticks?
When we were kids, we had to attack each other with pieces of fruit! And tigers.
When I was a kid, we had plenty of toys to play with that "excited our imaginations". However, it was just as fun to play with a cardboard box. (And we liked it that way!)
I'm sure there are still plenty of kids that get bored with whatever toy and turn to playing with the box in which it came.
Don't even get me started on bubble wrap.
Even if this experiment doesn't pan out, there are other viable challengers to The Amazing Randi. Behold, the Power of the Vagina !
I take back my statement. I think you and the AC are right. I'm still kind of stuck in old pre-intel Apple, where we had to patiently wait for incremental improvements to equipment. The level playing field doesn't just mean Apple can compete in terms of easily comparable performance, it has to compete.
One man's funny is another man's troll.
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I am a troll, you insensitive clod!!
Where did you hear that Shake was discontinued? They just came out with a new version, didn't they? Do you mean that they're ceasing development for linux and windows?
Here. Have a sip of this kool aide, then tell me what you think. No? You're not feeling it? Step over here, then. Over here, next to this portable reality distortion field. It runs off of Steve Job's urine. Pretty amazing, huh? Now. Are you ready to admit that an Apple computer, with the exact same specs and components as another brand machine, is faster? Way faster? Just nod your head.
I'd be surprised if we saw merom based MBPs any sooner than a year. Anyway, right after I posted, a new story appeared on what we might expect from WWDC.
Yeah, he's more of what I would call a power-user or sophisticated user. Nothing wrong with that, but as you say, it doesn't really make him a techie in the way we understand the word.