If you were a soldier?
If you were a soldier you would have known how they train soldiers on maps. Just a plain old stupid paper map. Nothing on the map indicates where an enemy currently is. They expect you to use some common sense when moving in hostile territory and not drive around with your sub woofers blazing In Da Club at 200 decibels.
When soldiers are using laptop based maps its the same fricking thing. A static map that may be a little more current than a paper map. But guess what, if your battery runs out you are going back to the compass and paper map method.
Unprofitable macs? That is the dumbest thing I have heard ever.
Apple has over 4 billion in the bank. That money did not come from the iPod. It came from the computers. Their margins on desktop computers are some of the highest in the industry.
I don't know who modded you up, because your statements are pure BS. Go review prior Apple conference calls where they talk about margins on desktops.
Any form of sex is based on hormonal urges. Just between men and women it is of a procreative nature.
Once the hormones wear off due to age, chemical or whatever then you can argue true love.
Re:Great opportunity to make $$$
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AFAIK you are not allowed to short IPO stocks for a certain period of time. I think that will also depend on which board the stock is listed.
The RIAA will force internet radio stations (legit ones) to put in little blurbs over the music saying this is broadcast from such and such station. I think they use that somewhat in Europe.
Certain banks will allow you to go into the negative and then charge you overdraft fees regardless of who initiated the money transfer request.
Almost need a whole new type of bank account just to deal with the punks at Paypal.
I've put faith in those online auctions and have not been scammed in over 150 plus auctions. Mostly sales, a few purchases.
If you are careful with who you buy from and walk away from deals too good to be true you should be fine.
As for readily exploitable mechanisms like Paypal its a fricking bank account. If you lose your check book, your credit card number or even your SS number you can get exploited. Its not like it is all that much easier through paypal.
Email scams have been asking for bank account numbers and what not in addition to paypal passwords. Run and hide in a cave and have no contact with the outside world and then your "financial assets" will be safe.
The movie industry is another industry that needs to pull its head out of its ass like the music industry.
Give the consumer what they fucking want.
I understand their desire to want to protect their copyrights, patents, trade secrets and what not. But too many companies are forgetting that without a consumer they don't have squat. Too many consumers as well have to play the droll roll of mindless consumption addict without really thinking.
Would it be so hard for the movie makers to put a compressed Quicktime or WiMP file on the DVD so that one can move the movie to their Laptop, PDA or whatever? People would love that and the movie industry would spur the hardware side.
No matter how much DRM and encryption they use there will be illegal trade of those movies. By giving people what they want you give them less of an incentive to download the thing.
Has RFID users formed their own lobby yet?
Retailers have their own. Notice how powerful Walmart is in that respect. They will just lobby the US Congress to create an over-riding law allowing RFIDs to be used as the retailers see fit.
Vote smarter next time around and everyone vote!
Ok, Mr. I was right behind Michael Eisner when he told Disney to shove off. If that were the case why didn't Eisner say so at the analyst meeting? Because it was not the case. Jobs cut them off first, your saying otherwise doesn't change a thing. Ask your buddy Eisner.
Then you state that Disney has a lock on the sequels and seem to imply the sequels is where the money is. Guess what shmedley, Finding Nemo was not a sequel. Where did it rank in terms of box office gross 2003?
Finding Nemo a non-sequel movie smashed records.
Monsters Inc a non-sequel movie also did well.
Certainly it is hit or miss, but you seemed to miss out on the hits which were not sequels. Yeah Pixar owes Disney 2 movies. Which 2 is anyones guess. Since Disney is the name marketing the movie if it sucks, guess what? Disney takes the flack, not Pixar.
USB became popular because Apple pushed it. Home video editing became popular after Apple worked with it and made it easy.
By Palm ignoring a trend setting platform it runs the risk of writing itself out of history.
Just as in luxury cars the high end features eventually trickle down to every day models. Palm will be lost. Now the funny thing to happen would be Microsoft making their Pocket PC fully syncable and compatible with Mac Office products and Mac OS.
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You say "you can't deploy strategic weapons there" as if it is some sort of physical impossibility.
It is not. How often are US Nuclear subs in that area?
If some country does have weapons there, say bio-weapons which could be mounted on a missile in 5 minutes, what is going to be done about it if no one knows?
Actually its not just about Mr CEO and MR and Mrs Shareholder. It is about YOU too!
You want cheaper software and cheaper goods?
Well than shutup because you just encouraged Company X to send jobs to cheaper countries.
Their labor pool is evolving as we speak. Before you could smack your servants around in India and yell at them for the smallest thing. Now the servants come to your house and watch TV for an hour before they do anything. You yell at them they don't come back the next day.
The improvements India is experiencing is just like the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Soon servants over there will only be for the extreme rich.
Pull your head out of the clouds and don't get lost in the example.
If you don't like that example read the other examples someone posted as how the dominant species does not always exploit the non-dominant one.
More often than not we do nothing to them and ignore them. With the amount of ants on the planet verses the amount of humans, we don't even bother with a fraction of their population.
It does not prove your point.
Neither is there a planned extermination of all the ants and neither is there planned exploitation on a large scale. Thinking otherwise only shows you don't know how many ants there are on this planet.
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How can the natural history of OUR planet be any indicator of what goes on elsewhere?
Maybe the magnetic fields in our neck of the woods makes us more aggressive? Maybe the nature of our planet made us cruel?
We have evolved enough to where we don't always prey on the weak. For instance going back to the anthill example. We really don't pay much attention to the ants now do we? Not to the point where we feel the need to exploit them.
Are they more advanced than us? If not why haven't we dominated them as we should according to your theory?
Re:The same physics still applies
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You talk about the physics of scale in your write up which is well written indeed.
Of course you are also thinking in a strict 3 dimensional scale.
Think outside of the box. Something greater than us does not alway mean greater in terms of physical size.
If you posit ghosts are real (big if) do you see ghosts and do they see you?
Dial by IP?
Lets see which IP will you dial me by today since I get on the internet through a DSL service provider who periodically switches my IP address.
Fixed IP you say? Well certainly the IPv4 will run out then. You going to remember an IPv6 address? For all your friends?
Maybe we don't need phone numbers, but dialing by IP is not very well thought out either.
In college they used to let us fill up as many sodas as we wanted with our meals in the dorms. I thought that was cool and always filled up 2-3 classes with pepsi or coke. It got to the point that I got way too jumpy. People would walk into the bathroom and I would get startled. I said forget that and quit cold turkey. Yeah it sucked back then. But it has been 10+ years for me with very minimal caffeine which I get from chocolate (which I eat a little here and there only) and from tea. I don't drink coffee or any caffeinated drinks at all. I buy caffeine free pepsi for drinking at home, though mostly I drink juice or water.
If at a restaraunt and I want a soda I alwasy go for the sprite, 7-Up or Sierra Mist. No caffeine for me. And you know what, I love it. I get my needed sleep and have no need for coffee or caffeine beverages to keep me awake at work. I sip water at work and have no problems with staying awake. You should try it!
It is all buzz word compliant. I bet if you had set up shop in some low cost city in the US and claimed you had outsourcing capability you would have had plenty of contracts lined up. Heck, call your company Outsource Synergies. Of course you don't have to let them know that what is outsourced is your ATT billing and only because ATT did so. You can hire local programmers, admins at a decent wage and still make a profit. It is all about the buzz word. In certain cases the buzz word does become the reality without necessarily having to be.
Yes Gates has the money to buy up all the linux companies that are publically traded. What the heck good would that do him? First off he can try. And as you point out there would be the Justice dept to deal with. Of course does it matter who owns red hat or some other linux company? Does that make linux any less than free since Gates owns the company? NO!
As for your putting a little more credence in what financial analysts are saying, that is all fine and dandy. Maybe you have been asleep for the past few years where many of those analysts have been fired and face possible criminal charges for what they have done.
A clue you have not.
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If you were a soldier? If you were a soldier you would have known how they train soldiers on maps. Just a plain old stupid paper map. Nothing on the map indicates where an enemy currently is. They expect you to use some common sense when moving in hostile territory and not drive around with your sub woofers blazing In Da Club at 200 decibels. When soldiers are using laptop based maps its the same fricking thing. A static map that may be a little more current than a paper map. But guess what, if your battery runs out you are going back to the compass and paper map method.
Unprofitable macs? That is the dumbest thing I have heard ever. Apple has over 4 billion in the bank. That money did not come from the iPod. It came from the computers. Their margins on desktop computers are some of the highest in the industry. I don't know who modded you up, because your statements are pure BS. Go review prior Apple conference calls where they talk about margins on desktops.
Any form of sex is based on hormonal urges. Just between men and women it is of a procreative nature. Once the hormones wear off due to age, chemical or whatever then you can argue true love.
AFAIK you are not allowed to short IPO stocks for a certain period of time. I think that will also depend on which board the stock is listed.
The RIAA will force internet radio stations (legit ones) to put in little blurbs over the music saying this is broadcast from such and such station. I think they use that somewhat in Europe.
Certain banks will allow you to go into the negative and then charge you overdraft fees regardless of who initiated the money transfer request. Almost need a whole new type of bank account just to deal with the punks at Paypal.
I've put faith in those online auctions and have not been scammed in over 150 plus auctions. Mostly sales, a few purchases. If you are careful with who you buy from and walk away from deals too good to be true you should be fine. As for readily exploitable mechanisms like Paypal its a fricking bank account. If you lose your check book, your credit card number or even your SS number you can get exploited. Its not like it is all that much easier through paypal. Email scams have been asking for bank account numbers and what not in addition to paypal passwords. Run and hide in a cave and have no contact with the outside world and then your "financial assets" will be safe.
The movie industry is another industry that needs to pull its head out of its ass like the music industry. Give the consumer what they fucking want. I understand their desire to want to protect their copyrights, patents, trade secrets and what not. But too many companies are forgetting that without a consumer they don't have squat. Too many consumers as well have to play the droll roll of mindless consumption addict without really thinking. Would it be so hard for the movie makers to put a compressed Quicktime or WiMP file on the DVD so that one can move the movie to their Laptop, PDA or whatever? People would love that and the movie industry would spur the hardware side. No matter how much DRM and encryption they use there will be illegal trade of those movies. By giving people what they want you give them less of an incentive to download the thing.
Has RFID users formed their own lobby yet? Retailers have their own. Notice how powerful Walmart is in that respect. They will just lobby the US Congress to create an over-riding law allowing RFIDs to be used as the retailers see fit. Vote smarter next time around and everyone vote!
Ok, Mr. I was right behind Michael Eisner when he told Disney to shove off. If that were the case why didn't Eisner say so at the analyst meeting? Because it was not the case. Jobs cut them off first, your saying otherwise doesn't change a thing. Ask your buddy Eisner. Then you state that Disney has a lock on the sequels and seem to imply the sequels is where the money is. Guess what shmedley, Finding Nemo was not a sequel. Where did it rank in terms of box office gross 2003? Finding Nemo a non-sequel movie smashed records. Monsters Inc a non-sequel movie also did well. Certainly it is hit or miss, but you seemed to miss out on the hits which were not sequels. Yeah Pixar owes Disney 2 movies. Which 2 is anyones guess. Since Disney is the name marketing the movie if it sucks, guess what? Disney takes the flack, not Pixar.
If you can afford a 9 million dollar fighter jet you can afford to fly and keep it hangared in the Bahamas.
USB became popular because Apple pushed it. Home video editing became popular after Apple worked with it and made it easy. By Palm ignoring a trend setting platform it runs the risk of writing itself out of history. Just as in luxury cars the high end features eventually trickle down to every day models. Palm will be lost. Now the funny thing to happen would be Microsoft making their Pocket PC fully syncable and compatible with Mac Office products and Mac OS.
You say "you can't deploy strategic weapons there" as if it is some sort of physical impossibility. It is not. How often are US Nuclear subs in that area? If some country does have weapons there, say bio-weapons which could be mounted on a missile in 5 minutes, what is going to be done about it if no one knows?
In case you haven't heard Sports and Finance are more popular than porn on the internet.
Actually its not just about Mr CEO and MR and Mrs Shareholder. It is about YOU too! You want cheaper software and cheaper goods? Well than shutup because you just encouraged Company X to send jobs to cheaper countries.
Their labor pool is evolving as we speak. Before you could smack your servants around in India and yell at them for the smallest thing. Now the servants come to your house and watch TV for an hour before they do anything. You yell at them they don't come back the next day. The improvements India is experiencing is just like the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Soon servants over there will only be for the extreme rich.
Pull your head out of the clouds and don't get lost in the example. If you don't like that example read the other examples someone posted as how the dominant species does not always exploit the non-dominant one.
More often than not we do nothing to them and ignore them. With the amount of ants on the planet verses the amount of humans, we don't even bother with a fraction of their population. It does not prove your point. Neither is there a planned extermination of all the ants and neither is there planned exploitation on a large scale. Thinking otherwise only shows you don't know how many ants there are on this planet.
How can the natural history of OUR planet be any indicator of what goes on elsewhere? Maybe the magnetic fields in our neck of the woods makes us more aggressive? Maybe the nature of our planet made us cruel? We have evolved enough to where we don't always prey on the weak. For instance going back to the anthill example. We really don't pay much attention to the ants now do we? Not to the point where we feel the need to exploit them. Are they more advanced than us? If not why haven't we dominated them as we should according to your theory?
You talk about the physics of scale in your write up which is well written indeed. Of course you are also thinking in a strict 3 dimensional scale. Think outside of the box. Something greater than us does not alway mean greater in terms of physical size. If you posit ghosts are real (big if) do you see ghosts and do they see you?
Dial by IP? Lets see which IP will you dial me by today since I get on the internet through a DSL service provider who periodically switches my IP address. Fixed IP you say? Well certainly the IPv4 will run out then. You going to remember an IPv6 address? For all your friends? Maybe we don't need phone numbers, but dialing by IP is not very well thought out either.
In college they used to let us fill up as many sodas as we wanted with our meals in the dorms. I thought that was cool and always filled up 2-3 classes with pepsi or coke. It got to the point that I got way too jumpy. People would walk into the bathroom and I would get startled. I said forget that and quit cold turkey. Yeah it sucked back then. But it has been 10+ years for me with very minimal caffeine which I get from chocolate (which I eat a little here and there only) and from tea. I don't drink coffee or any caffeinated drinks at all. I buy caffeine free pepsi for drinking at home, though mostly I drink juice or water. If at a restaraunt and I want a soda I alwasy go for the sprite, 7-Up or Sierra Mist. No caffeine for me. And you know what, I love it. I get my needed sleep and have no need for coffee or caffeine beverages to keep me awake at work. I sip water at work and have no problems with staying awake. You should try it!
It is all buzz word compliant. I bet if you had set up shop in some low cost city in the US and claimed you had outsourcing capability you would have had plenty of contracts lined up. Heck, call your company Outsource Synergies. Of course you don't have to let them know that what is outsourced is your ATT billing and only because ATT did so. You can hire local programmers, admins at a decent wage and still make a profit. It is all about the buzz word. In certain cases the buzz word does become the reality without necessarily having to be.
Yes Gates has the money to buy up all the linux companies that are publically traded. What the heck good would that do him? First off he can try. And as you point out there would be the Justice dept to deal with. Of course does it matter who owns red hat or some other linux company? Does that make linux any less than free since Gates owns the company? NO! As for your putting a little more credence in what financial analysts are saying, that is all fine and dandy. Maybe you have been asleep for the past few years where many of those analysts have been fired and face possible criminal charges for what they have done. A clue you have not.
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