Not necessarily - average PC buyers do not buy on actual performance, and haven't for years. See: Pentium 4 sales - the NetBurst architecture that didn't perform anywhere close to as good as what AMD was offering at the time, yet everyone bought them because of the Intel brand at a higher price.
Intel's been building a massive brand recognition since the 486, even though the vast majority of PC buyers couldn't even tell you what Intel makes other than "chips".
It wouldn't be that hard for Dell to just sell the Dell brand, regardless of what's inside the box. They've already been doing that with their shoddy dielectric-bursting capacitors as it is.
You can't yet due to the current release of Apple's Java being up to date. However, this announcement from November says that Java SE 7 for Mac OS X will come from Oracle, building largely on Apple's codebase from the existing implementation.
It was put forth in an editorial piece, thus it's opinion and not actionable under the first amendment. You know, that law that allows you to call Glen Beck a clown without the threat of a lawsuit.
Bob Metcalfe (former Xerox PARC researcher, founder of 3Com, co-inventor of Ethernet) predicted exactly this scenario 15 years ago. His timetable might have been off, but this just shows that either his theory is sound, or these grad students aren't nearly as original as they thought.
Note: Metcalfe has also "predicted" some rather stupid and amazingly incorrect things, but they usually didn't have much to do with networking.
Actually, if they could use that parcel of land between PDX and the Ikea on the corner of NE Alderwood and NE Mt. St. Helens Ave, that would practically be the perfect distribution center for Amazon - a grey water port that does a ton of business with Japan and Korea just down Marine Drive / Columbia Blvd, easy access to two different rail lines that run east / west via the Union Pacific yard in North Portland, and FedEx, UPS, and DHL air shipping next door at PDX.
The Port of Portland would love to toss some of that mountain of money they have at a win like this too, but the City of Portland has their head so far up their ass that they wouldn't get it done. They mayor is way too busy on poorly planned junkets to Spain to try to save tens of windmill manufacturing jobs, rather than approach something like this for thousands of jobs - Amazon isn't 'green' enough.
Current plans for MAX expansion include building a new bridge over the Willamette between the Ross Island Bridge and the Marquam bridge to carry Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) Streetcars, TriMet busses, pedestrians, and bicycles at enormous expense; and then parallel the Union Pacific line through inner southeast Portland to a terminus in Milwaukie. Total projected cost: $1.4B, half of which is for a bridge which won't be used by 85% of the surface transportation of the Portland area; and they are intent on spending that money whether it makes financial sense or not, and whether they have it or not.
Never mind the Sellwood Bridge, a mere half-mile upriver, which scores a 1 out of 100 on the structural fitness scale, and carries 35,000 people a day. It's got weight limits on it that prevent fire trucks from even being able to go over it.
The balls of it all of course, is still going through with this after admitting that they built the "Green" line MAX in the wrong place, and flushed a couple hundred million on the WES commuter rail that runs from Wilsonville to Beaverton, which has weekly ridership measured in the low hundreds; to say nothing of continuing rounds of bus service cuts needed to fund the operating expenses of all the LRVs and Streetcars that don't serve nearly as many people, and don't go nearly as many places.
Any more, it looks like Tri-Met is just another money faucet for the likes of Hoffman Construction and Bechtel Corporation, and it's sad. They could have a truly first-class public transportation system.
For the umpteenth time, Apple did not depreciate Java, they depreciated their own packaging and distribution of Java. Now, they recommend you run Sun (Oracle) Java, just like every other platform known to mankind.
If they prove destruction of evidence, they prove obstruction of justice. A hard drive can be disposed of in incredibly suspicious circumstances out of the want of thoroughness just as easily as the want of a conspiratorial cover-up.
Because locomotives don't use any unsustainable fuel whatsoever. Certainly not diesel or coal, whether it's being burned in the train, or in a fixed power plant and transmitted to the train.
Oh, and don't worry about the problem of securing thousands of miles of track against having a small IED placed against it and derailing a passenger train at 250 mph.
Having recently moved from Oregon to Ohio, I drove across 2300-ish miles of North America. In doing so, I saw some of the most impressive freight trains I've ever seen racing across the midwest - hundreds of cars per train laden with ISO shipping containers, boxcars with break-bulk cargo, grain cars, etc. Some of these trains were over a mile long.
If there's one thing the rail companies know how to do right, it's move shedloads of stuff over thousands of miles efficiently.
That odd bend in Interstate 205 as it moves through East Portland is due to a small neighborhood that didn't want to be mowed over by freeway construction, so they incorporated into the township of Maywood Park, and then used the newly-created city status to sue the Oregon Department of Transportation over it, and block the freeway construction for a decade.
Finally ODOT had enough and just moved the right-of-way to the exact edge of the Maywood Park incorporation boundary and built anyway, with a few concessions to the city such as a sunken grade, a noise abatement wall, and the attempt to preserve as many trees as possible.
"and if the return from this project is greater than the interest rate"
It won't be. Rail transit, be it streetcars, light rail, subway, inter-city heavy rail, transcontinental passenger service, or this new high-speed rail always costs more per passenger mile than other forms of transportation.
Projects like this exist to make companies like Bechtel Corporation billions of dollars, and that's it.
You're absolutely right. There sure wasn't a / an:
Apple II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series) Macintosh II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II_series) iPhone 4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4)
How many shareholders? And they own what percent? Enough to assert ownership of the company, or just some loudmouthed self-aggrandizing wallstreet asshole with write access to a PR newswire?
If there was enough shareholder concern to publish a plan (where enough = anywhere close to 50%), there would be one published. Until then, it's just the same horseshit that has always surrounded Apple and their secrecy.
And when 51% of the shareholders vote that the board needs to have a succession plan, they'll create one. Just because one financial services company says that an unspecified amount of shareholders wants it, doesn't mean the board of directors has to do shit.
It could be one guy with less than 1% of the company, and the statement would still hold true.
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Perhaps it was industry-wide, but no company out there handled it worse than Dell.
See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/dell-lawsuit-pattern-of-deceit/10165
You might call me a troll, I call you an apologist.
Not necessarily - average PC buyers do not buy on actual performance, and haven't for years. See: Pentium 4 sales - the NetBurst architecture that didn't perform anywhere close to as good as what AMD was offering at the time, yet everyone bought them because of the Intel brand at a higher price.
Intel's been building a massive brand recognition since the 486, even though the vast majority of PC buyers couldn't even tell you what Intel makes other than "chips".
It wouldn't be that hard for Dell to just sell the Dell brand, regardless of what's inside the box. They've already been doing that with their shoddy dielectric-bursting capacitors as it is.
No, because they're still under Microsoft's thumb as a Windows licensor.
You can't yet due to the current release of Apple's Java being up to date. However, this announcement from November says that Java SE 7 for Mac OS X will come from Oracle, building largely on Apple's codebase from the existing implementation.
Google is hard.
It was put forth in an editorial piece, thus it's opinion and not actionable under the first amendment. You know, that law that allows you to call Glen Beck a clown without the threat of a lawsuit.
It's not like his schtick is new. See: Joseph McCarthy.
I'm glad that no centrists or left-leaning individuals ever make sweeping generalities about people that have views which differ from their own.
Bob Metcalfe (former Xerox PARC researcher, founder of 3Com, co-inventor of Ethernet) predicted exactly this scenario 15 years ago. His timetable might have been off, but this just shows that either his theory is sound, or these grad students aren't nearly as original as they thought.
Note: Metcalfe has also "predicted" some rather stupid and amazingly incorrect things, but they usually didn't have much to do with networking.
Because we've been down this road before, with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. See: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html
$200,000,000,000 in excise taxes later, we have exactly NOTHING to show for it. Do you have your 45Mbps up-and-down service? Neither does anyone else.
Actually, if they could use that parcel of land between PDX and the Ikea on the corner of NE Alderwood and NE Mt. St. Helens Ave, that would practically be the perfect distribution center for Amazon - a grey water port that does a ton of business with Japan and Korea just down Marine Drive / Columbia Blvd, easy access to two different rail lines that run east / west via the Union Pacific yard in North Portland, and FedEx, UPS, and DHL air shipping next door at PDX.
The Port of Portland would love to toss some of that mountain of money they have at a win like this too, but the City of Portland has their head so far up their ass that they wouldn't get it done. They mayor is way too busy on poorly planned junkets to Spain to try to save tens of windmill manufacturing jobs, rather than approach something like this for thousands of jobs - Amazon isn't 'green' enough.
Current plans for MAX expansion include building a new bridge over the Willamette between the Ross Island Bridge and the Marquam bridge to carry Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) Streetcars, TriMet busses, pedestrians, and bicycles at enormous expense; and then parallel the Union Pacific line through inner southeast Portland to a terminus in Milwaukie. Total projected cost: $1.4B, half of which is for a bridge which won't be used by 85% of the surface transportation of the Portland area; and they are intent on spending that money whether it makes financial sense or not, and whether they have it or not.
Never mind the Sellwood Bridge, a mere half-mile upriver, which scores a 1 out of 100 on the structural fitness scale, and carries 35,000 people a day. It's got weight limits on it that prevent fire trucks from even being able to go over it.
The balls of it all of course, is still going through with this after admitting that they built the "Green" line MAX in the wrong place, and flushed a couple hundred million on the WES commuter rail that runs from Wilsonville to Beaverton, which has weekly ridership measured in the low hundreds; to say nothing of continuing rounds of bus service cuts needed to fund the operating expenses of all the LRVs and Streetcars that don't serve nearly as many people, and don't go nearly as many places.
Any more, it looks like Tri-Met is just another money faucet for the likes of Hoffman Construction and Bechtel Corporation, and it's sad. They could have a truly first-class public transportation system.
And grammar pedantry doesn't change the fact that the GP post is complete FUD.
For the umpteenth time, Apple did not depreciate Java, they depreciated their own packaging and distribution of Java. Now, they recommend you run Sun (Oracle) Java, just like every other platform known to mankind.
Stop spreading FUD please.
If they prove destruction of evidence, they prove obstruction of justice. A hard drive can be disposed of in incredibly suspicious circumstances out of the want of thoroughness just as easily as the want of a conspiratorial cover-up.
Because locomotives don't use any unsustainable fuel whatsoever. Certainly not diesel or coal, whether it's being burned in the train, or in a fixed power plant and transmitted to the train.
Get serious.
Yeah, terrorists have never used trains before...
Oh, and don't worry about the problem of securing thousands of miles of track against having a small IED placed against it and derailing a passenger train at 250 mph.
Having recently moved from Oregon to Ohio, I drove across 2300-ish miles of North America. In doing so, I saw some of the most impressive freight trains I've ever seen racing across the midwest - hundreds of cars per train laden with ISO shipping containers, boxcars with break-bulk cargo, grain cars, etc. Some of these trains were over a mile long.
If there's one thing the rail companies know how to do right, it's move shedloads of stuff over thousands of miles efficiently.
Eminent Domain and the interstate commerce clause don't always work. Example: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Portland&aq=&sll=39.143849,-84.615004&sspn=0.012764,0.024676&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon&ll=45.553848,-122.555323&spn=0.046098,0.098705&z=14
That odd bend in Interstate 205 as it moves through East Portland is due to a small neighborhood that didn't want to be mowed over by freeway construction, so they incorporated into the township of Maywood Park, and then used the newly-created city status to sue the Oregon Department of Transportation over it, and block the freeway construction for a decade.
Finally ODOT had enough and just moved the right-of-way to the exact edge of the Maywood Park incorporation boundary and built anyway, with a few concessions to the city such as a sunken grade, a noise abatement wall, and the attempt to preserve as many trees as possible.
"and if the return from this project is greater than the interest rate"
It won't be. Rail transit, be it streetcars, light rail, subway, inter-city heavy rail, transcontinental passenger service, or this new high-speed rail always costs more per passenger mile than other forms of transportation.
Projects like this exist to make companies like Bechtel Corporation billions of dollars, and that's it.
You're absolutely right. There sure wasn't a / an:
Apple II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series)
Macintosh II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II_series)
iPhone 4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4)
etc.
The Librarian of Congress didn't say it's ok for you to do it to your PS3, that's why.
The DMCA is an excellent law, after all.
If given infinite resources, you could work on all slices of pie at once.
However, resources are finite, and should be put to use where their impact can be the greatest. This is simple common sense.
They already went the MBA route with:
John Sculley
Michael Spindler
Gilbert Amelio
We saw how well those worked out...
How many shareholders? And they own what percent? Enough to assert ownership of the company, or just some loudmouthed self-aggrandizing wallstreet asshole with write access to a PR newswire?
If there was enough shareholder concern to publish a plan (where enough = anywhere close to 50%), there would be one published. Until then, it's just the same horseshit that has always surrounded Apple and their secrecy.
And when 51% of the shareholders vote that the board needs to have a succession plan, they'll create one. Just because one financial services company says that an unspecified amount of shareholders wants it, doesn't mean the board of directors has to do shit.
It could be one guy with less than 1% of the company, and the statement would still hold true.