In one year, they've just about doubled their stock price, in the worst economy this country has seen in over 60 years. That's a pretty good reason to own it (and then subsequently not own it).
Now only if Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and other pillars of the Democratic Party hadn't killed the Integral Fast Reactor project in 1992, we'd probably have several of these up and running today.
This asshole blowing himself up in an airport which happens to be in Moscow has as much to do with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as the 9/11 hijackers flying into the WTC and the Pentagon had to do with the Tom Clancy novel where some asshole flies a jumbo into the Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress.
What you say is completely true, but can we stop with the FAA-mandated bullshit? There's no way security would allow some $30 phone from Radio Shack on the plane if there was even a remote chance that leaving it on would cause the plane to smack into a mountain at 500 mph.
It just sounds so ridiculous to everyone sitting in the "non-pointy" end of the plane when it's even postulated. Instead, the FAA should just require all personal items to be stowed in the overhead bin, or under the seat in front of you during takeoff and landing. Wait, don't they already?
As an aside, I always pay attention to the safety briefing on Delta flights, due to the hot hot HOT chick wagging her finger at me.
You may not like any of Apple's products, but a healthy Apple makes for an industry that is pushed in a much better direction for all.
Smartphones, for the most part, were absolute crap before the iPhone came along. Now we have plenty of good competitors. This is one of many areas that Apple has influenced the entire industry in a positive way.
Sculley was hired by Jobs specifically for the marketing savvy that he showed at Pepsico. Pepsi had just rebranded itself as the sugarwater for energetic youths, rather than the sugarwater for tired old fuddy-duddys. That was exactly what Jobs was looking for with Macintosh. He wanted the young tech crowd to get going on Mac, and leave the IBM PC for old has-beens.
Was he right? Jobs himself says that hiring Sculley was the biggest mistake of his professional career.
It should be noted that Microsoft made quite the profit from that investment, as well. Also: Office for Mac (which was part of that deal) is still developed today specifically because Microsoft sells it at a profit. They are under no obligation to continue development, other than obligation to their shareholders to create as much value as they can.
If Apple would just sign a deal with VMware to allow installation on ESX, that would make me as happy as a pig in shit. They can sell software licenses all day long to craploads of companies that already have deployed VMware, and it gives them a low cost of entry right now that they wouldn't otherwise have for supporting iPads and iPhones in the enterprise.
A company posting record profits in the worst economic climate our generation has ever seen should not be called undervalued at their current valuation.
Now only if we could monetize the cost of having useable fuel sitting around for hundreds of thousands of years in order to compare the cost of reprocessing...
Clearly what's true in the 1970s is still true today. I mean, it's a good thing all of us have extra rooms in our houses to hold computers so that we can access this website. Otherwise the Commies might invade!
The problem with Pu is that only the 239 isotope is suitable for weapons, and if you have too much 240 or 241 (more than about 3%) then it isn't stable enough to fission when you want it to. Pu-240 and -241 spontaneously fission, leaving daughter products that absorb your neutrons.
Isotopic separation isn't done with Plutonium because the atomic weights of the isotopes are too similar. Cascading centrifuges won't get the job done, and chemical separation won't get the job done.
In order to create Pu-239 for weapons purposes, you have to use a ridiculously short fuel cycle in a specially configured reactor - it's quite obvious to the inspectors that will undoubtedly be required to be present should you sign contracts with the IAEA to get this fuel.
Oh forget that. Halliburton is evil, therefore even when they do their jobs properly and attempt to prevent a massive ecological disaster though technology and expertise, they're doing it out of evil motives!
I'm sure Dick Cheney was on the rig tossing the centralizers over the side!
For a proper show of force, you don't show them the launch. You show them the landing.
If this was a USN launch, they were likely trying to hit some 55-gallon drums with targets painted on them in the South Pacific. Here's an example of a "show of force" which is pretty damn effective: a Minuteman-III launch from Vandenberg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChhYOO1s-nY
The video actually has footage of the dummy warheads striking in the Marshall Islands. You don't ever want to witness this.
FYI - it's not enough for the missile crew to put a hundred-kiloton warhead within yards of the intended target, they want to put it right in your lap.
For what it's worth, I work in a large enterprise (3000+ locations nationwide) where I am currently working with Apple Strategic Accounts to create a Mac OS X standard that plugs into our existing management infrastructure.
Apple does not recommend using Open Directory on anything above a small-to-medium sized business. They have whitepapers written and extensive support available for extending the Active Directory schema to support MCX policy.
We do have some Xserves in some places, but only a few of them. The big loss here is that there will be no dual-power supply solution for Xsan now, without going Windows Server or Linux running StorNext as your MDCs.
Having a software-controlled SAN isn't of much use if all it takes is a power supply to crap out in order to limit availability.
60 Ghz, if I recall, is the resonance frequency of atmospheric oxygen. Using this off a battery-powered device will either mean having the device VERY close to the other stuff you want it talking to, or torching the battery by way of increased broadcast wattage.
To me, it seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
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What's the point? This: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL+Interactive#chart1:symbol=aapl;range=1y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined
In one year, they've just about doubled their stock price, in the worst economy this country has seen in over 60 years. That's a pretty good reason to own it (and then subsequently not own it).
Now only if Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and other pillars of the Democratic Party hadn't killed the Integral Fast Reactor project in 1992, we'd probably have several of these up and running today.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor
This asshole blowing himself up in an airport which happens to be in Moscow has as much to do with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as the 9/11 hijackers flying into the WTC and the Pentagon had to do with the Tom Clancy novel where some asshole flies a jumbo into the Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress.
There's no causality here.
Yep, there's a bit more of that "change" and "hope" from the 2008 campaign. Another corporate weasel appointed to look after corporate interests.
What you say is completely true, but can we stop with the FAA-mandated bullshit? There's no way security would allow some $30 phone from Radio Shack on the plane if there was even a remote chance that leaving it on would cause the plane to smack into a mountain at 500 mph.
It just sounds so ridiculous to everyone sitting in the "non-pointy" end of the plane when it's even postulated. Instead, the FAA should just require all personal items to be stowed in the overhead bin, or under the seat in front of you during takeoff and landing. Wait, don't they already?
As an aside, I always pay attention to the safety briefing on Delta flights, due to the hot hot HOT chick wagging her finger at me.
You may not like any of Apple's products, but a healthy Apple makes for an industry that is pushed in a much better direction for all.
Smartphones, for the most part, were absolute crap before the iPhone came along. Now we have plenty of good competitors. This is one of many areas that Apple has influenced the entire industry in a positive way.
Sculley was hired by Jobs specifically for the marketing savvy that he showed at Pepsico. Pepsi had just rebranded itself as the sugarwater for energetic youths, rather than the sugarwater for tired old fuddy-duddys. That was exactly what Jobs was looking for with Macintosh. He wanted the young tech crowd to get going on Mac, and leave the IBM PC for old has-beens.
Was he right? Jobs himself says that hiring Sculley was the biggest mistake of his professional career.
Someone gets an earful of hurt?
It should be noted that Microsoft made quite the profit from that investment, as well. Also: Office for Mac (which was part of that deal) is still developed today specifically because Microsoft sells it at a profit. They are under no obligation to continue development, other than obligation to their shareholders to create as much value as they can.
If Apple would just sign a deal with VMware to allow installation on ESX, that would make me as happy as a pig in shit. They can sell software licenses all day long to craploads of companies that already have deployed VMware, and it gives them a low cost of entry right now that they wouldn't otherwise have for supporting iPads and iPhones in the enterprise.
A company posting record profits in the worst economic climate our generation has ever seen should not be called undervalued at their current valuation.
Or, instead of storing a material that is 99% fuel and 1% neutron poison, you remove the 1% and recycle the 99%.
It's called nuclear fuel reprocessing, and it's being stopped by antiquated "anti-proliferation" concerns.
Political NIMBY-ism. See: Yucca Mountain.
(Yucca Mountain would be made obsolete if we would reprocess the "waste" and load it back into the reactor, btw.)
Now only if we could monetize the cost of having useable fuel sitting around for hundreds of thousands of years in order to compare the cost of reprocessing...
Clearly what's true in the 1970s is still true today. I mean, it's a good thing all of us have extra rooms in our houses to hold computers so that we can access this website. Otherwise the Commies might invade!
The problem with Pu is that only the 239 isotope is suitable for weapons, and if you have too much 240 or 241 (more than about 3%) then it isn't stable enough to fission when you want it to. Pu-240 and -241 spontaneously fission, leaving daughter products that absorb your neutrons.
Isotopic separation isn't done with Plutonium because the atomic weights of the isotopes are too similar. Cascading centrifuges won't get the job done, and chemical separation won't get the job done.
In order to create Pu-239 for weapons purposes, you have to use a ridiculously short fuel cycle in a specially configured reactor - it's quite obvious to the inspectors that will undoubtedly be required to be present should you sign contracts with the IAEA to get this fuel.
Psh. The political Right is compared to Nazism. The Left is compared to Stalin.
Get it right!
Oh forget that. Halliburton is evil, therefore even when they do their jobs properly and attempt to prevent a massive ecological disaster though technology and expertise, they're doing it out of evil motives!
I'm sure Dick Cheney was on the rig tossing the centralizers over the side!
The article is talking about a recently discovered protein that inhibits plaque growth.
You are talking about Xylitol, which is not a protein.
This article is not about Xylitol. QED.
For a proper show of force, you don't show them the launch. You show them the landing.
If this was a USN launch, they were likely trying to hit some 55-gallon drums with targets painted on them in the South Pacific. Here's an example of a "show of force" which is pretty damn effective: a Minuteman-III launch from Vandenberg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChhYOO1s-nY
The video actually has footage of the dummy warheads striking in the Marshall Islands. You don't ever want to witness this.
FYI - it's not enough for the missile crew to put a hundred-kiloton warhead within yards of the intended target, they want to put it right in your lap.
For what it's worth, I work in a large enterprise (3000+ locations nationwide) where I am currently working with Apple Strategic Accounts to create a Mac OS X standard that plugs into our existing management infrastructure.
Apple does not recommend using Open Directory on anything above a small-to-medium sized business. They have whitepapers written and extensive support available for extending the Active Directory schema to support MCX policy.
We do have some Xserves in some places, but only a few of them. The big loss here is that there will be no dual-power supply solution for Xsan now, without going Windows Server or Linux running StorNext as your MDCs.
Having a software-controlled SAN isn't of much use if all it takes is a power supply to crap out in order to limit availability.
60 Ghz, if I recall, is the resonance frequency of atmospheric oxygen. Using this off a battery-powered device will either mean having the device VERY close to the other stuff you want it talking to, or torching the battery by way of increased broadcast wattage.
To me, it seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
You can do this with some of the management suites out there.
We'll be virtualizing all browsers on Windows 7 - be it IE6, 7, or 8.
Hate to break it to you, but the only server that doesn't have some form of asshat on it is the one that you admin yourself.
Insert link to Internet comic regarding anonymity breeding douchebags here.
There was a statistic quoted unofficially somewhere that Flash was responsible of upwards of 80% of the crash reports that Apple gets from Safari.
Wonderful software.