I share the shareholders frustration. I believe the real issue for Microsoft is that their continuum phone plans were delayed over a year because Intel dropped their new x86 super low power mobility chip. This chipset wopuld have provided the power and compatibility to run a full version of Windows 10 on the phone and be used as a 'desk top" alternative when travelling. Instead Intel bought the rights to produce ARM chipsets. But these needs considerable hardware tweaking by Intel and software work by Microsoft before they have the chipset and software to run on a full Windows 10 phone. In short Intel last minute giving up on competing with ARM frustrated Microsoft's continuum roll out schedule.
If they fire their ceo by telephone, just how do and will they treat the rank and file employees? Does the Chairman know what damage he has just done to Yahoo as a 'place to work"' by acting in this manner? By all means replace a senior exec, if that's necessary, but do it in a formal and respectful manner, or suffer the widespread consequences amongst your employees.
I am presuming that you are British? In the UK being "arrested" merely means being questioned. It has little to no long term consequences. In other countries being "arrested" means actually being formally charged with an offence. An ""arrest" record stays on your record forever and many job interviewers specifically ask if one has ever been "arrested". As this is a public record it means answering it in the affirmative and hoping that the interviewer listens to your side of the experience. But many would just move on to another candidate. Thus an arrest record can be devastating.
Business 101 lesson is to treat your most valuable asset, your customer, with respect.
Hiking rates 60% all of a suddden and then having you PR say: " 'We knew there would be some people who would be upset" is astoundingly disrespectful and followed up with with "we don't care if your upset" comment. Amazing.
If Netfix wants to increase prices in this manner it's their perogative and they intrinsically accept the risk of losing some/many customers not because they can't afford you pricing, but rather because they dislike being treated as dispensible commodities instead of loyal customers. The point is they could have come out and communicated to customers that the existing rate was for a transitional period while the streaming offerings grew in range. Now that point has been reached they wish the separate products to stand alone in pricing so that Netflix is more properly remunerated in the future. You might still lose some customers, but this way you would not alienate many and suffer extremely negative PR. Whosoever signed off on Netflix's approach to this matter needs a long course in remedial learning on how to keep your customers happy and feeling respected and wanted while at the same time adjusting prices upwards. It's NOT that difficult.
The physical edition of the NYTimes costs the reader/subscriber around $48 for the same paper which can now be delivered digitally to ones Tablet for $20.00. (I make the presumption here that the daily digital edition can be downloaded to ones tablet rather than necessitating an always online link). This is a saving of $28.00 per 4 weeks which over a year is a saving of $364.00 which can be put towards the cost of buying a good tablet.
I don't know the internal math, but printing and distributing the physical paper must eat up quite a lot of the $48 charge, so it's quite likely that the NYT ends up with a similar net revenue and they get a better way to distribute to more potential subcribers outside the Metroplitan NY area, so perhaps their worldwide subscrber base will expand.
We have seen court cases were the Judge was entirely ignorant of even the most basic workings of the internet. So many users of VCRs wer/aree unable to program their machine so that the blinking 12:00 light stayed on.
Does this Judge and others really think that everyone who buys and uses a wireless modem understands how to and is capable of changing or setting up security parameters on such a modem.
I think NOT.
Sorry to ask this, as it's so eay to offend. IF God created man, to always live on earth i.e. everyone coming back to earth after Jesus Christ returns it bewgs a simple question. Where and how will everone live on a totally over populated single planet with no personal space and no room to grow food? Or is the "easy" answer that there are really so few "decent" people that in reality the returning few will have more space than today?
I doubt that Sprint charges Amazon more than a very small amount of money per Kindle activated. After all the minor usage of Sprint's data network, to downloan a book, hardly uses any capacity on the network. When the individual fee is multiplied by the numbers of Kindle it's a nice bonus payment for Sprint to receive. Overall it would not surprise me if Amaon breaks even on the Kindle hardware. That makes it a terrifice deal as a driver of ebook sales for them.
My comments related to the fact that Fox has a history of playing new series "out of sequence" giving a very false impression of a series. This did happen to me with Firefly...so I switched off. Much later I found out the real storyline and had to buy the DVDs to see the series in the right order. By then the series had already been cancelled. Whether one individially likes a particuar series isn't the point. What is the point is that showing eps out of order creates plot confusion and IMHO makes potential viewers turn to another channel. Having huge weeks of gaps between first run episodes also causes viewers to seek other shows. So I kmention of Firefox was not intended to create a discussion on the individual merits of that series, rather the way in which it was shown helped its downfall and cancellation.
Actually that series was called "Firefly" and the one episode depicting cattle being transported was played out of sequence and helped create missunderstandings about the premis of the series. That was the whole point of my reference.
The sad thing is that Fox has financially backed and brought numerous very innovative shows to the TV screen over the last 15 years. The problem is not in the sourcing or early backing of shows, more it is that they (Fox) insist on too much control over the airing/scheduling. They unilaterally decide to air shows in the wrong order for the story line. This confuses viewers who then take more time to "get into" a show and then Fox kills the show because instant ratings were not achieved. Firefly was a classic example of this. They put promising shows like Fringe on hiatus for no good reasons so fans move on to view other shows, which are aired more consistently and then don't return immediately to the early hit show which loses viewership and then becomes a sudden candidate for cancelation. The weird thing is that THIS trend of poor management of shows is so clearly seen and understood by outsiders and NOT by Fox as they do not change their style.
Instead of filling in an "I95" on the plane one has to spend a few seconds giving the same details on line once and it lasts a couple of years.... What's the big deal to this? It actually saves time if you visit more than once in 2 years. Sometimes the planes run out of paper I95s and create more inconvenience. A while ago I visited Australia and had to apply for a paper visa, in my passport, via one of their embassies. If I had been given the choice of doing it all online I would have jumped at the convenience.
Move along people. Borders and immigration stuff exists worldwide. What the US does today the EU will do tomorrow and vice versa. That's the world we live in.
Jobs is a one of a kind visionary corporate leader, who sees the big picture and can define a course for Apple to remain innovative and profitable. Remember that the iPod was a loss maker when first introduced!
Now that's the good news for Apple. The bad news is that such leaders seldom leave any room for a second visionary leader in the wings. This type of leader demands creative freedom, to run with their ideas, without being second guessed all the time by someone with perhaps a divergent view of the future. Both may be valid visions, but two separate approaches can seldom coexist in corporate life, especially when producing cutting edge electronics.
Ergo the possibility of replacing Jobs with a new innovative leader from within the existing Apple structure isn't good. The next level is probably filled with more corporate talents, to round off Job's weaknesses, rather than visionary leaders "in waiting".
When Apple gets serious, about the eventual successor to Jobs, look for moves to buy smaller innovative companies with CEOs who want a bigger opportunity within a few years.
Just my 2 Cents.
Since 9/11 you take photos of any Federal building, or transportation center, in NYC, Washington, or any other major City in the USA and you WILL be approached by Police and questioned and likely TOLD to delete the material and you WILL be arrested if you fail to comply. It's SOP for the Police/Homeland Security. Now Amtrak full well knows this so the wording of their photo competition should specifiacally have asked photographers NOT to use major stations without first requesting approval (which one is unlikely to get). This photographer clearly did not requst prior approval and did not cmply with the police request. An arrest was therefore the logical conclusion. I do not think the individual afficer(s) acted unreasonably as he/she is merely carrying out their orders in a logical manner. Whether one likes the restriction, or not, refusal to comply with a police officer was a bad idea.
I would add a third vote for the excellency of the academic experience in Singapore and the cultural diversity of Singapore and the Region.
Outside of this consider some great schools in Canada and the UK. I know that Canadian fees are likely equal to, or lower, than in the USA for a comparative College.
Re the UK the UK Gvt Sponsors each University to take many thousands of UK students. There is a limit, however, so excellent Universities find themselves in the position that they may have 500-1,000 UNSPONSORED positions. They cannot raise the charges to UK students, thus it becomes extremely attractive to them to take on overseas students whom they charge more than UK students, but rather less than the cost in the USA. And you get a great education and experience. I believe that a month or so ago the NYTimes Sunday magazine had a LONG article on this so you might wish to search their database. Many of these UK University are active in overseas recruiting.
Looks as thought the Prosecution backed down 95%, which shows they really had no case. But the Prosecution still wanted a conviction on ANY charge and likely threatened to go back with all the Felony charges if this teacher did not agree. Faced with this option it's no wonder she took the smaller fall. But someone higher up the Justice chain needs to review this case as it looks as though the Prosecution used their office and FEAR as they means to get this last conviction. i.e. this looks like completely flawed use of the Justice system.
The really bad people here were the school administrators, IMHO, who did not keep up-to-date which would have prevented the porn pop=ups. Why is the Prosecutors office ignoring the bigger crime and going after one teacher? That's insane and needs review IMHO.
Meantime this teacher now has a criminal mrecord and a "prior" which will follow her for the rest of her life. Any job interview will mean she will have to detail the offense and her "arrest record".
We have a lot to thank JY and his co-founder for all that Yahoo has brought to us. But he didn't make a good ceo. He upset Mr Softy, so they took a walk and thought he was getting into a neat relationship with Google. But I think the latter just played along until MS walked, then they dumped Yahoo under the pretence of anti-trust stuff. Google had this excuse up their sleeves to use as soon as MS walked, IMHO. Yahoo needs a ceo who can reawaken MS interest, or a leader who charts a really new innovative course. I wsh all Yahoo the best, it' still my homepage.
The article says this kid and a "peer" accessed the info. How come there are no charges against this "peer"? Does this indicate the basis of the changes relate more towards the "intent to profit"? It would seem that this case may be more complicated than the facts on the table suggest.
I think the going rate for the XP O/S, in these machines, is close to $40.00. It's just about money for free to Microsoft and there is no way Vista would be put on these machines so it doesn't take away sales.
The second Atom chip will be faster, but has not been released by Intel yet. I believe it's a simple matter of swapping it for the existing Atom. Ergo for about $40-50 one can upgrade the CPU eventually
Ok for more figures try 2006 data at a mean of 86 billion barrels of oil in reserve.
http://www.mms.gov/revaldiv/PDFs/2006NationalAssessmentBrochure.pdf
The final amount will likely be far far higher than that, once drilling actually starts. Can't be too soon for me. Oh and natural gass reserves keep expanding exponentially as well. The largest fields haven't even been tapped yet.
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I share the shareholders frustration. I believe the real issue for Microsoft is that their continuum phone plans were delayed over a year because Intel dropped their new x86 super low power mobility chip. This chipset wopuld have provided the power and compatibility to run a full version of Windows 10 on the phone and be used as a 'desk top" alternative when travelling. Instead Intel bought the rights to produce ARM chipsets. But these needs considerable hardware tweaking by Intel and software work by Microsoft before they have the chipset and software to run on a full Windows 10 phone. In short Intel last minute giving up on competing with ARM frustrated Microsoft's continuum roll out schedule.
Would this mean that portable USB powered Hard Drives are also prohibited? And also what about a spare battery?
As these guys routinely lie about what they do can we believe that they have dropped this program?
If they fire their ceo by telephone, just how do and will they treat the rank and file employees? Does the Chairman know what damage he has just done to Yahoo as a 'place to work"' by acting in this manner? By all means replace a senior exec, if that's necessary, but do it in a formal and respectful manner, or suffer the widespread consequences amongst your employees.
I am presuming that you are British? In the UK being "arrested" merely means being questioned. It has little to no long term consequences. In other countries being "arrested" means actually being formally charged with an offence. An ""arrest" record stays on your record forever and many job interviewers specifically ask if one has ever been "arrested". As this is a public record it means answering it in the affirmative and hoping that the interviewer listens to your side of the experience. But many would just move on to another candidate. Thus an arrest record can be devastating.
Business 101 lesson is to treat your most valuable asset, your customer, with respect. Hiking rates 60% all of a suddden and then having you PR say: " 'We knew there would be some people who would be upset" is astoundingly disrespectful and followed up with with "we don't care if your upset" comment. Amazing. If Netfix wants to increase prices in this manner it's their perogative and they intrinsically accept the risk of losing some/many customers not because they can't afford you pricing, but rather because they dislike being treated as dispensible commodities instead of loyal customers. The point is they could have come out and communicated to customers that the existing rate was for a transitional period while the streaming offerings grew in range. Now that point has been reached they wish the separate products to stand alone in pricing so that Netflix is more properly remunerated in the future. You might still lose some customers, but this way you would not alienate many and suffer extremely negative PR. Whosoever signed off on Netflix's approach to this matter needs a long course in remedial learning on how to keep your customers happy and feeling respected and wanted while at the same time adjusting prices upwards. It's NOT that difficult.
The physical edition of the NYTimes costs the reader/subscriber around $48 for the same paper which can now be delivered digitally to ones Tablet for $20.00. (I make the presumption here that the daily digital edition can be downloaded to ones tablet rather than necessitating an always online link). This is a saving of $28.00 per 4 weeks which over a year is a saving of $364.00 which can be put towards the cost of buying a good tablet. I don't know the internal math, but printing and distributing the physical paper must eat up quite a lot of the $48 charge, so it's quite likely that the NYT ends up with a similar net revenue and they get a better way to distribute to more potential subcribers outside the Metroplitan NY area, so perhaps their worldwide subscrber base will expand.
We have seen court cases were the Judge was entirely ignorant of even the most basic workings of the internet. So many users of VCRs wer/aree unable to program their machine so that the blinking 12:00 light stayed on. Does this Judge and others really think that everyone who buys and uses a wireless modem understands how to and is capable of changing or setting up security parameters on such a modem. I think NOT.
As my headline says if the new music doesn't interest people why by the CDs? Me. I prefer to have hardware (CD) back up for all my music.
Sorry to ask this, as it's so eay to offend. IF God created man, to always live on earth i.e. everyone coming back to earth after Jesus Christ returns it bewgs a simple question. Where and how will everone live on a totally over populated single planet with no personal space and no room to grow food? Or is the "easy" answer that there are really so few "decent" people that in reality the returning few will have more space than today?
I doubt that Sprint charges Amazon more than a very small amount of money per Kindle activated. After all the minor usage of Sprint's data network, to downloan a book, hardly uses any capacity on the network. When the individual fee is multiplied by the numbers of Kindle it's a nice bonus payment for Sprint to receive. Overall it would not surprise me if Amaon breaks even on the Kindle hardware. That makes it a terrifice deal as a driver of ebook sales for them.
My comments related to the fact that Fox has a history of playing new series "out of sequence" giving a very false impression of a series. This did happen to me with Firefly...so I switched off. Much later I found out the real storyline and had to buy the DVDs to see the series in the right order. By then the series had already been cancelled. Whether one individially likes a particuar series isn't the point. What is the point is that showing eps out of order creates plot confusion and IMHO makes potential viewers turn to another channel. Having huge weeks of gaps between first run episodes also causes viewers to seek other shows. So I kmention of Firefox was not intended to create a discussion on the individual merits of that series, rather the way in which it was shown helped its downfall and cancellation.
Actually that series was called "Firefly" and the one episode depicting cattle being transported was played out of sequence and helped create missunderstandings about the premis of the series. That was the whole point of my reference.
The sad thing is that Fox has financially backed and brought numerous very innovative shows to the TV screen over the last 15 years. The problem is not in the sourcing or early backing of shows, more it is that they (Fox) insist on too much control over the airing/scheduling. They unilaterally decide to air shows in the wrong order for the story line. This confuses viewers who then take more time to "get into" a show and then Fox kills the show because instant ratings were not achieved. Firefly was a classic example of this. They put promising shows like Fringe on hiatus for no good reasons so fans move on to view other shows, which are aired more consistently and then don't return immediately to the early hit show which loses viewership and then becomes a sudden candidate for cancelation. The weird thing is that THIS trend of poor management of shows is so clearly seen and understood by outsiders and NOT by Fox as they do not change their style.
Instead of filling in an "I95" on the plane one has to spend a few seconds giving the same details on line once and it lasts a couple of years.... What's the big deal to this? It actually saves time if you visit more than once in 2 years. Sometimes the planes run out of paper I95s and create more inconvenience. A while ago I visited Australia and had to apply for a paper visa, in my passport, via one of their embassies. If I had been given the choice of doing it all online I would have jumped at the convenience. Move along people. Borders and immigration stuff exists worldwide. What the US does today the EU will do tomorrow and vice versa. That's the world we live in.
Jobs is a one of a kind visionary corporate leader, who sees the big picture and can define a course for Apple to remain innovative and profitable. Remember that the iPod was a loss maker when first introduced! Now that's the good news for Apple. The bad news is that such leaders seldom leave any room for a second visionary leader in the wings. This type of leader demands creative freedom, to run with their ideas, without being second guessed all the time by someone with perhaps a divergent view of the future. Both may be valid visions, but two separate approaches can seldom coexist in corporate life, especially when producing cutting edge electronics. Ergo the possibility of replacing Jobs with a new innovative leader from within the existing Apple structure isn't good. The next level is probably filled with more corporate talents, to round off Job's weaknesses, rather than visionary leaders "in waiting". When Apple gets serious, about the eventual successor to Jobs, look for moves to buy smaller innovative companies with CEOs who want a bigger opportunity within a few years. Just my 2 Cents.
Since 9/11 you take photos of any Federal building, or transportation center, in NYC, Washington, or any other major City in the USA and you WILL be approached by Police and questioned and likely TOLD to delete the material and you WILL be arrested if you fail to comply. It's SOP for the Police/Homeland Security. Now Amtrak full well knows this so the wording of their photo competition should specifiacally have asked photographers NOT to use major stations without first requesting approval (which one is unlikely to get). This photographer clearly did not requst prior approval and did not cmply with the police request. An arrest was therefore the logical conclusion. I do not think the individual afficer(s) acted unreasonably as he/she is merely carrying out their orders in a logical manner. Whether one likes the restriction, or not, refusal to comply with a police officer was a bad idea.
I would add a third vote for the excellency of the academic experience in Singapore and the cultural diversity of Singapore and the Region. Outside of this consider some great schools in Canada and the UK. I know that Canadian fees are likely equal to, or lower, than in the USA for a comparative College. Re the UK the UK Gvt Sponsors each University to take many thousands of UK students. There is a limit, however, so excellent Universities find themselves in the position that they may have 500-1,000 UNSPONSORED positions. They cannot raise the charges to UK students, thus it becomes extremely attractive to them to take on overseas students whom they charge more than UK students, but rather less than the cost in the USA. And you get a great education and experience. I believe that a month or so ago the NYTimes Sunday magazine had a LONG article on this so you might wish to search their database. Many of these UK University are active in overseas recruiting.
Looks as thought the Prosecution backed down 95%, which shows they really had no case. But the Prosecution still wanted a conviction on ANY charge and likely threatened to go back with all the Felony charges if this teacher did not agree. Faced with this option it's no wonder she took the smaller fall. But someone higher up the Justice chain needs to review this case as it looks as though the Prosecution used their office and FEAR as they means to get this last conviction. i.e. this looks like completely flawed use of the Justice system. The really bad people here were the school administrators, IMHO, who did not keep up-to-date which would have prevented the porn pop=ups. Why is the Prosecutors office ignoring the bigger crime and going after one teacher? That's insane and needs review IMHO. Meantime this teacher now has a criminal mrecord and a "prior" which will follow her for the rest of her life. Any job interview will mean she will have to detail the offense and her "arrest record".
We have a lot to thank JY and his co-founder for all that Yahoo has brought to us. But he didn't make a good ceo. He upset Mr Softy, so they took a walk and thought he was getting into a neat relationship with Google. But I think the latter just played along until MS walked, then they dumped Yahoo under the pretence of anti-trust stuff. Google had this excuse up their sleeves to use as soon as MS walked, IMHO. Yahoo needs a ceo who can reawaken MS interest, or a leader who charts a really new innovative course. I wsh all Yahoo the best, it' still my homepage.
The MIT post a lot of excellent material on PDE. http://search.mit.edu/search?__EVENTTARGET=&__EVENTARGUMENT=&site=ocw&client=mit&getfields=*&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=http%3A%2F%2Focw.mit.edu%2FOcwWeb%2Fsearch%2Fgoogle-ocw.xsl&proxyreload=1&as_dt=i&oe=utf-8&departmentName=web&courseName=&q=partial+differential+equation I presume you are not a student of MIT, but the material is open to the public and excellent for the studies you indicate you need. Better than just another text book and more focussed.
The article says this kid and a "peer" accessed the info. How come there are no charges against this "peer"? Does this indicate the basis of the changes relate more towards the "intent to profit"? It would seem that this case may be more complicated than the facts on the table suggest.
I think the going rate for the XP O/S, in these machines, is close to $40.00. It's just about money for free to Microsoft and there is no way Vista would be put on these machines so it doesn't take away sales.
The second Atom chip will be faster, but has not been released by Intel yet. I believe it's a simple matter of swapping it for the existing Atom. Ergo for about $40-50 one can upgrade the CPU eventually
Ok for more figures try 2006 data at a mean of 86 billion barrels of oil in reserve. http://www.mms.gov/revaldiv/PDFs/2006NationalAssessmentBrochure.pdf The final amount will likely be far far higher than that, once drilling actually starts. Can't be too soon for me. Oh and natural gass reserves keep expanding exponentially as well. The largest fields haven't even been tapped yet.