It's a public company! Stock price has EVERYTHING to do with reality! What is the #1 concern of the BoD? Here's a hint: It starts with "stock" and ends with "price."
They're a public company. This information is available to anyone who wants to look for it. I already *know* the info, I don't need to re-learn it. But if you want to... let your fingers do the walking
I didn't say that all their REVENUE came from the iPod, I said all of their PROFIT(Income) did. You're either really bad at business, or English. I'm not sure which.
Every dime of profit that Apple has earned the last few years has come from the iPod. Remove the iPod from their stable, and they break even, and in some quarters even post a loss. The company would be a backwater. Stagnate. And a stock price that matches.
One one hand, you can't be surprised. The iPod defines a whole market. On the other, well, they better pray they can fend off 'ipod killers' because killing the iPod is not much different than killing Apple, and there's no shortage of companies that wouldn't mind doing that.
It's a good thing that ReadyBoost doesn't store your swap file then, isn't it?
Do your homework. It stores a cache of system files. Not your swap file. Yes, it "swaps" system files to the flash drive, but that's different than a "swap file" and it's funny that I have to explain that on Slashdot, of all places.
This is a HIGH TECH company we're talking about. Who's going to get out of their aeron chairs and leave their grape-feeding brazillian fan-women behind to go on the roof and scrape bird shit?
This is what the not-operator is for.
No bird shit?
-"Bird Shit"
simple as that.
No bird shit or tree sap?
-"Bird Shit"|"Tree Sap"
See how easy it is?
What, exactly, do you think those server farms do all day?
This is more of the "I was picked on in high school and my parents told me that in the real world the geeks would rule the dumb jocks" mentality.
Do you know what really happens after highschool? The geeks become software devs, and the "dumb jocks" go become sales guys that make 10x the devs for talking to other "dumb jocks" all day and selling them stuff.
Here's a clue: Who you know > What you know.
And apprantly, you fail on BOTH of those measures. Nowhere in my OP did I mention the structured enviornment of high school. I only discussed the unstructured nature of the SOCIAL NETWORKS in highschool. I don't suppose you're quite smart enough to grasp that, though. My reccomendation for you is to go find some pretty pictures of horseys or something that will keep you interested for a little while.
Seriously, I'm only replying here for the humor of it all.
What makes you, AC, assume that I'm a PHP developer? Have I written articles on PHP? Yes. Have I written articles about lotsa languages? Yes. Can you read one article and use that to make some greater judgement about? Only if you're the usualy Slashdot moron.
Congrats: Everyone of the replies to this post has further cemented my faith in it's accuracy.
Slashdot rants about Myspace all boil down to this:
The cool kids with friends are on myspace. We hate them. We're supposed to be so much better and more successful now that high school is over, but we're still the same geeks we've always been. I hate teh cool kids. And football sucks, too! Call me in 3 days, I have to go to my basement and install debian on my NeoPet.
The crux of this argument, is that someone teased the OP, and horrible MySpace didn't even try to prevent such a thing from happening!
Here's a clue:
The reason MySpace flourished, leaving FaceBook et al in their wake, is that MySpace took a hands-off approach. This same unrestricted, hands-off style has spawned successful financial markets, communities, and entire economies. It's really amazing to see what happens when you just let go of something and let it grow organically.
Which really makes MySpace a much better reflection of life than Facebook or anything else. People aren't authenticated in (real life) social networks. Comments aren't filtered by a moderator. Bad people are dealt with by market forces: if you're a bad person, you don't have friends. MySpace works the same way.
So, what happened was, you got teased by somebody, your friends laughed, and you ran to the teacher and told. Much to your dismay, the teacher didn't scold the bad kid for making fun of you, and decided instead to let the community (like the market) police and adjust itself.
It strikes me that you're the type of guy who is happy to be removed from the ruthlessness of open social networks like High School and, to some extent, College. You seek order in your social network. Unfortunately, order goes against the model of these things. Therefore, the act of applying order reduces the energy in the social network, making it less like a spontaneous living thing and more like a web-app backed by database of nicknames, profiles and pictures.
Slashdot loves to deride MySpace. My personal belief, is that stems from MySpace being like high school, and we all know how much nerdy progrmamer types L-O-V-E-D high school. People post about how horrible the skins are, how rediculous the comments, how stupid the technology, how annoying the music, how useless the profile questions, how trivial the blogs. And they make moronic conclusions like 'MySpace users must like things that are unreadable.'
Unfortunately for these people, there are lots of us who aren't self-conscience introverts. Above all, we enjoy EXPRESSING OURSELVES. And we enjoy sharing in the ways that our friends express their selves. "readability" isn't the most important thing about a Myspace. In fact, if you were to stack rank them, I'd guess readability to be, maybe, in the top 50 most important things about a myspace. There isn't volumes of text to read. On blog pages, where there is a lot of text, skins aren't used.
As much as I personally hate it, the usual basement-dwelling, final-fantasy-playing, non-showering, black t-shirt wearing stereotype of slashdot users is glaringly reinforced whenever MySpace is brought up.
I understand that most myspace pages fail to implement the IGeek interface. That causes problems for the usualy/. types. But if you look inside yourself to your inner CPerson base class, maybe you'll see the appeal that the site has to its millions of users.
All that being said, I, personally don't have a myspace. My reasons are simple: I spend enough time on the PC at work, I don't need to use it for socializing after work. I find the cell phone, text messages, and a local bar to be a better fit for my life.
"If you're having crashing problems, you should start up a new profile and re-install your extensions one by one to see which one is causing you the grief."
I think this is the point. He shouldn't *have* to do this. And if you actually read his post, his suggestion is to run extensions in a sandbox that won't crash the broswser. He only mentioned the seperate instances solution as an alternative way of accomplishing what he's looking for, which is a stable browser.
Part of building a successful plugin interface is making sure a rouge plugin won't crash the entire application.
Besides, It wouldn't use 4x as much ram, even if they did open new instances for each new window. I'm sure that a lot of libraries, etc, could run in shared space.
Google is no more an advertising company than Time Warner. In both cases, they make a large part of their revenue selling adverts on their various wares.
So it's more like a Content company putting the smack down on a content company. Search results are content. They've developed technology to serve their content. So has Time Warner.
Seriously, their office suite launched, what, a week ago? Even if you look at the seperate components, the spreadsheets have been live for only a few months.
Lotsa Gems. Like this one from the first page of results:;; #### this is a horrible piece of shit function that should;; not exist. In FSF 19.30 this function has gotten three times;; as long and has tons and tons of dumb shit checking;; special-display-buffer-names and such crap. I absolutely;; refuse to insert that Ebolification here. I wanted to delete;; this function entirely but Mly bitched.
What part of 'I cannot plug my iPod into a friends computer and transfer my songs to his computer or his songs to my computer' do you not understand? That was what my entire OP was about.
You, incorrectly I might add, suggested that I was wrong about this, but I think I've demonstrated that to be false. You were, in fact, the one that posted incorrect info into this thread. And you were so blinded by either your superiority-complex or your fanboi-ism that you were certain that you were right and I was wrong. So certain, in fact, that you labeled me a troll for posting CORRECT INFORMATION.
I'll give you a little time to remove your foot from your mouth. You can spin it how you like, but the only person to post false info in any of these posts is you. In fact, you did so twice. First, by asserting that my OP was wrong (which it wasn't) and second, by asserting that I can't pick and choose which songs I want to transfer to my iPod.
I was wrong by... oh yea, that's right... I wasn't wrong at all.
You're wrong about the shuffle again, bro. But you'll probably get mod'ed insightful. I can select whatever songs I want and add them to the shuffle. I didn't spread any misinformation at all. I said "when I plug my iPod..." and then I described what happens.
You're a joke, dude. You're exactly the type of person that I referenced in my "sucking on steve jobs' iRod" remark and you knew it and you took offense to it. I'm not surprised.
First, I'm only rated "Troll" because of the usual slashdot fanboi's. I have Excellent karma, with pleanty to burn by TELLING THE TRUTH.
What I like the best is that you were so ANGRY when you wrote the post that you actually said "YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT, TROLL"
Well, leaving aside the fact that I was only marked as troll because I, GASP!, supported Microsoft in this argument (and we all know how wrong that is on slashdot. The people with mod points on/. are the dumbass linux geeks that can't make a living in the windows world and therefore have lots of freetime to setup their OS and mod-down and MSFT supporters).
Anyway, leaving that aside, you, the fanboiest of fanbois, we're W-R-O-N-G!!!!!!!!!!!
Read my post. Did you read it? It said "If I plug my iPod into..."
Ok. Now, go read this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300 657
See, that's a document on APPLES WEBSITE that explains that, I, the sane one who does not let dumbass allegience to one company over another cloud my judgement, am right. And you, the guy who got so angry that you actually ATTACKED ME VERBALLY because I insulted a huge megabilliondollar corp that doesn't actually care about you in the slightest, are TOTALLY WRONG.
So please, Go read that article, and then don't reply to me so that way you can act like you didn't even see this and can then continue living in your fantasy world where you are the super awesome guy who knows what he's talking about and I'm the dumb troll who "doesn't know shit."
You have no idea how much pleasure I've taken in writing this post.
Score 4, Informative. Yes, very informative you were.
And it's obvious by my EXCELLENT KARMA that I'm a complete and total troll. HAHAHAHA
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> Yeah, a lot of words are commonly used in business, but it doesn't mean they're actual
> words, or that they are being used correctly.
Like "Honesty," "Integrity" and "Ethics" for example.
Are you this stupid in real life or do you just drop too many packets when you get online?
He posted REVENUE. He even LABELED IT AS REVENUE. He didn't post INCOME.
Go troll under someone elses bridge. Mine is troll-free. Thanks.
It's a public company! Stock price has EVERYTHING to do with reality! What is the #1 concern of the BoD? Here's a hint: It starts with "stock" and ends with "price."
They're a public company. This information is available to anyone who wants to look for it. I already *know* the info, I don't need to re-learn it. But if you want to... let your fingers do the walking
Yes, go to www.Microsoft.com
This is basic high school economics.
Revenue != Income.
I didn't say that all their REVENUE came from the iPod, I said all of their PROFIT(Income) did. You're either really bad at business, or English. I'm not sure which.
Every dime of profit that Apple has earned the last few years has come from the iPod. Remove the iPod from their stable, and they break even, and in some quarters even post a loss. The company would be a backwater. Stagnate. And a stock price that matches.
One one hand, you can't be surprised. The iPod defines a whole market. On the other, well, they better pray they can fend off 'ipod killers' because killing the iPod is not much different than killing Apple, and there's no shortage of companies that wouldn't mind doing that.
The Key Bank Promo was UNBELIEVABLE.
Deposit $50 into a new checking account, get a 2GB 2nd Gen Nano, keep $50 in account for 6 months, withdraw $51.15 and close account.
(It's possible--even likely--that other banks have a similar offer, but Key is the largest one i've seen do it)
It's a good thing that ReadyBoost doesn't store your swap file then, isn't it?
Do your homework. It stores a cache of system files. Not your swap file. Yes, it "swaps" system files to the flash drive, but that's different than a "swap file" and it's funny that I have to explain that on Slashdot, of all places.
If you actually believe this it's a lot worse than if you don't.
Your incredibly myopic if you think that B2B sales is *anything* like B2C.
Do you eat some special cereal to prepare you for a day of dumbass remarks or is it just natural?
This is a HIGH TECH company we're talking about. Who's going to get out of their aeron chairs and leave their grape-feeding brazillian fan-women behind to go on the roof and scrape bird shit?
This is what the not-operator is for.
No bird shit?
-"Bird Shit"
simple as that.
No bird shit or tree sap?
-"Bird Shit"|"Tree Sap"
See how easy it is?
What, exactly, do you think those server farms do all day?
I think a "..duh.." is in order here.
Yea, totally. A 20th century stage play is SURELY a good representation of outside sales.
/. members.
I swear to god. You'd need an unsigned int to store the collective IQ of
This is more of the "I was picked on in high school and my parents told me that in the real world the geeks would rule the dumb jocks" mentality.
Do you know what really happens after highschool? The geeks become software devs, and the "dumb jocks" go become sales guys that make 10x the devs for talking to other "dumb jocks" all day and selling them stuff.
Here's a clue: Who you know > What you know.
And apprantly, you fail on BOTH of those measures. Nowhere in my OP did I mention the structured enviornment of high school. I only discussed the unstructured nature of the SOCIAL NETWORKS in highschool. I don't suppose you're quite smart enough to grasp that, though. My reccomendation for you is to go find some pretty pictures of horseys or something that will keep you interested for a little while.
Ahhahahahahahahhahahhaha
Seriously, I'm only replying here for the humor of it all.
What makes you, AC, assume that I'm a PHP developer? Have I written articles on PHP? Yes. Have I written articles about lotsa languages? Yes. Can you read one article and use that to make some greater judgement about? Only if you're the usualy Slashdot moron.
Learn some basic logic, AC.
Congrats: Everyone of the replies to this post has further cemented my faith in it's accuracy.
Slashdot rants about Myspace all boil down to this:
The cool kids with friends are on myspace. We hate them. We're supposed to be so much better and more successful now that high school is over, but we're still the same geeks we've always been. I hate teh cool kids. And football sucks, too! Call me in 3 days, I have to go to my basement and install debian on my NeoPet.
Puh-leese.
I really love this post.
/. types. But if you look inside yourself to your inner CPerson base class, maybe you'll see the appeal that the site has to its millions of users.
The crux of this argument, is that someone teased the OP, and horrible MySpace didn't even try to prevent such a thing from happening!
Here's a clue:
The reason MySpace flourished, leaving FaceBook et al in their wake, is that MySpace took a hands-off approach. This same unrestricted, hands-off style has spawned successful financial markets, communities, and entire economies. It's really amazing to see what happens when you just let go of something and let it grow organically.
Which really makes MySpace a much better reflection of life than Facebook or anything else. People aren't authenticated in (real life) social networks. Comments aren't filtered by a moderator. Bad people are dealt with by market forces: if you're a bad person, you don't have friends. MySpace works the same way.
So, what happened was, you got teased by somebody, your friends laughed, and you ran to the teacher and told. Much to your dismay, the teacher didn't scold the bad kid for making fun of you, and decided instead to let the community (like the market) police and adjust itself.
It strikes me that you're the type of guy who is happy to be removed from the ruthlessness of open social networks like High School and, to some extent, College. You seek order in your social network. Unfortunately, order goes against the model of these things. Therefore, the act of applying order reduces the energy in the social network, making it less like a spontaneous living thing and more like a web-app backed by database of nicknames, profiles and pictures.
Slashdot loves to deride MySpace. My personal belief, is that stems from MySpace being like high school, and we all know how much nerdy progrmamer types L-O-V-E-D high school. People post about how horrible the skins are, how rediculous the comments, how stupid the technology, how annoying the music, how useless the profile questions, how trivial the blogs. And they make moronic conclusions like 'MySpace users must like things that are unreadable.'
Unfortunately for these people, there are lots of us who aren't self-conscience introverts. Above all, we enjoy EXPRESSING OURSELVES. And we enjoy sharing in the ways that our friends express their selves. "readability" isn't the most important thing about a Myspace. In fact, if you were to stack rank them, I'd guess readability to be, maybe, in the top 50 most important things about a myspace. There isn't volumes of text to read. On blog pages, where there is a lot of text, skins aren't used.
As much as I personally hate it, the usual basement-dwelling, final-fantasy-playing, non-showering, black t-shirt wearing stereotype of slashdot users is glaringly reinforced whenever MySpace is brought up.
I understand that most myspace pages fail to implement the IGeek interface. That causes problems for the usualy
All that being said, I, personally don't have a myspace. My reasons are simple: I spend enough time on the PC at work, I don't need to use it for socializing after work. I find the cell phone, text messages, and a local bar to be a better fit for my life.
you're an idiot. go read wikipedia. you'll learn something
"If you're having crashing problems, you should start up a new profile and re-install your extensions one by one to see which one is causing you the grief."
I think this is the point. He shouldn't *have* to do this. And if you actually read his post, his suggestion is to run extensions in a sandbox that won't crash the broswser. He only mentioned the seperate instances solution as an alternative way of accomplishing what he's looking for, which is a stable browser.
Part of building a successful plugin interface is making sure a rouge plugin won't crash the entire application.
Besides, It wouldn't use 4x as much ram, even if they did open new instances for each new window. I'm sure that a lot of libraries, etc, could run in shared space.
Google is no more an advertising company than Time Warner. In both cases, they make a large part of their revenue selling adverts on their various wares.
So it's more like a Content company putting the smack down on a content company. Search results are content. They've developed technology to serve their content. So has Time Warner.
They're the same.
No, that's incorrect. Days of the week remained consistent. It changes which day the 13th lies on.
Seriously, their office suite launched, what, a week ago? Even if you look at the seperate components, the spreadsheets have been live for only a few months.
My favorite query so far is "piece of shit"
;; #### this is a horrible piece of shit function that should ;; not exist. In FSF 19.30 this function has gotten three times ;; as long and has tons and tons of dumb shit checking ;; special-display-buffer-names and such crap. I absolutely ;; refuse to insert that Ebolification here. I wanted to delete ;; this function entirely but Mly bitched.
Lotsa Gems. Like this one from the first page of results:
Do you have some sort of mental defect?
What part of 'I cannot plug my iPod into a friends computer and transfer my songs to his computer or his songs to my computer' do you not understand? That was what my entire OP was about.
You, incorrectly I might add, suggested that I was wrong about this, but I think I've demonstrated that to be false. You were, in fact, the one that posted incorrect info into this thread. And you were so blinded by either your superiority-complex or your fanboi-ism that you were certain that you were right and I was wrong. So certain, in fact, that you labeled me a troll for posting CORRECT INFORMATION.
I'll give you a little time to remove your foot from your mouth. You can spin it how you like, but the only person to post false info in any of these posts is you. In fact, you did so twice. First, by asserting that my OP was wrong (which it wasn't) and second, by asserting that I can't pick and choose which songs I want to transfer to my iPod.
I was wrong by... oh yea, that's right... I wasn't wrong at all.
You're wrong about the shuffle again, bro. But you'll probably get mod'ed insightful. I can select whatever songs I want and add them to the shuffle. I didn't spread any misinformation at all. I said "when I plug my iPod..." and then I described what happens.
You're a joke, dude. You're exactly the type of person that I referenced in my "sucking on steve jobs' iRod" remark and you knew it and you took offense to it. I'm not surprised.
Cya.
First, I'm only rated "Troll" because of the usual slashdot fanboi's. I have Excellent karma, with pleanty to burn by TELLING THE TRUTH.
/. are the dumbass linux geeks that can't make a living in the windows world and therefore have lots of freetime to setup their OS and mod-down and MSFT supporters).
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What I like the best is that you were so ANGRY when you wrote the post that you actually said "YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT, TROLL"
Well, leaving aside the fact that I was only marked as troll because I, GASP!, supported Microsoft in this argument (and we all know how wrong that is on slashdot. The people with mod points on
Anyway, leaving that aside, you, the fanboiest of fanbois, we're W-R-O-N-G!!!!!!!!!!!
Read my post. Did you read it? It said "If I plug my iPod into..."
Ok. Now, go read this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30
See, that's a document on APPLES WEBSITE that explains that, I, the sane one who does not let dumbass allegience to one company over another cloud my judgement, am right. And you, the guy who got so angry that you actually ATTACKED ME VERBALLY because I insulted a huge megabilliondollar corp that doesn't actually care about you in the slightest, are TOTALLY WRONG.
So please, Go read that article, and then don't reply to me so that way you can act like you didn't even see this and can then continue living in your fantasy world where you are the super awesome guy who knows what he's talking about and I'm the dumb troll who "doesn't know shit."
You have no idea how much pleasure I've taken in writing this post.
Score 4, Informative. Yes, very informative you were.
And it's obvious by my EXCELLENT KARMA that I'm a complete and total troll. HAHAHAHA