An insurance company keeps two sets of books, one on insurance operations and one on investments. most of their tax liability comes out of operations which is why they typically show a loss on paper on their operations and then use that credit as a carry across to the investment side of the house. when I worked for Equitable we paid ZERO tax for many years.
Disgruntled dead enders for the most part. Between the stoners, anarchists, angry trustafarians, millionaire communists and all the rest, who gives a shit.
That seems to be what was once true. What's becoming apparent is that Tim Cooke has a radically different view of where to take Apple than Jobs ever did. For instance I don't see Jobs ever seriously entertaining the idea of introducing products which don't expect to succeed on their own so much as simply take up space and market share in order to chase out competitors as the current roll out of iPad models seems to indicate. Cooke appears to view his product line more like endless rows of vaguely different cereal boxes in the supermarket which are there just to occupy the most shelf space.
They need to sit down and shut up. I think Apple is rapidly turning into a shitty company that litigates not innovates but this is stupid already. What are they going to demand next? Apple employees wear duncecaps?
It's been clear that the Era of Tim is one where Litigation trumps Innovation. Apple is rapidly devolving into the world's biggest patent troll and therefore no longer has to design, create, make or sell anything.
I'd be more worried about the millions of gallons of toxic chemicals that are going to be mixed in the water. We had Hurricane Floyd a few years ago and that was the problem not the hurricane.
Was using the government as a benchmark for anything. Government IT contracts are obscenely bloated with regulatory compliance requirements and perilously thin on security. There's difference between the two.
Government contracts stress first and foremost adherence to standards like COBIT and NIST because....well just because. Then the regulatory monkeys fly in and tell you about the 40 different regs you have to be audited to. And all of a sudden you've torn out your whole storage farm and replaced it with devices that encrypt at the disk level because that's what they demand even though their view of the reg is complete horseshit. So you got them to plunk down another $20 million in 'secure hardware' which is great for the vendor but pointless. Because they don't have a requirement in their bible of standards to implement URL filtering, NIDS or zoned off VPN crossbars. So 'security' is bullshit. But you passed the audits. Which is all they care about.
Products and services are not forces of moral good. Moral good is a force for moral good. And as long as we're bashing capitalism, all those communist countries didn't for one second consider the well being of their captive populations. Did you know for example that there is not a single communist/socialist country which ever permitted trade unions?
Which in PC parlance means they have to be thrown away every 12-18 months. Why is that? Bloat. Plain and simple. When your Andoid tablet or iPad accesses a typically horrible bloatpage with 3 different animated popups, a banner or two, 5 layers of Javascript and the rest, it grinds to a halt. And when the hardware engineers make a tablet that's twice as fast, the marketing douchebags tell the software developers "We need 7 more popups, a dozen more animations, twice as many switches and buttons for that 'user experience' and your new tablet turns into a shitty doorstop practically from day one, requiring you to run out and get a newer better one.
The downside of running everything off the network is that you're running everything off the network and you have no more control over it than you have over your cable TV broadcast content.
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Fire up the President ClusterBot. May as well, the guy we got has as much charm and personality as a machine and is inspiring as a vacuum cleaner.
All Hail
Or just pay it to Mother Government.
I use bubble sheets and pen. Let's hope the scanner works.
Harder than an ATM machine? Harder than a nuclear power plant control room? Harder than a 787 Dreamliner fly by wire system?
It must be because openess doesn't mean shit in the cloud world. It hosts apps that get dialed up and down. What's behind it is unimportant.
An insurance company keeps two sets of books, one on insurance operations and one on investments. most of their tax liability comes out of operations which is why they typically show a loss on paper on their operations and then use that credit as a carry across to the investment side of the house. when I worked for Equitable we paid ZERO tax for many years.
North Carolina does. So why not. Vote Higher Taxes 2012.
Disgruntled dead enders for the most part. Between the stoners, anarchists, angry trustafarians, millionaire communists and all the rest, who gives a shit.
That seems to be what was once true. What's becoming apparent is that Tim Cooke has a radically different view of where to take Apple than Jobs ever did. For instance I don't see Jobs ever seriously entertaining the idea of introducing products which don't expect to succeed on their own so much as simply take up space and market share in order to chase out competitors as the current roll out of iPad models seems to indicate. Cooke appears to view his product line more like endless rows of vaguely different cereal boxes in the supermarket which are there just to occupy the most shelf space.
It's anything but stealthy with all those hardpoints and external pylons.
All the good attacks are at facebook etc. b
They need to sit down and shut up. I think Apple is rapidly turning into a shitty company that litigates not innovates but this is stupid already. What are they going to demand next? Apple employees wear duncecaps?
for using iPhone apps.
No humans involved. Only computers and the occasional tech support call to Bangalore.
Broad St is the only street in NYC where the #'s go UP as you go south.
Because that's all America does anymore.
It's been clear that the Era of Tim is one where Litigation trumps Innovation. Apple is rapidly devolving into the world's biggest patent troll and therefore no longer has to design, create, make or sell anything.
I'd be more worried about the millions of gallons of toxic chemicals that are going to be mixed in the water. We had Hurricane Floyd a few years ago and that was the problem not the hurricane.
But hey, thanks for the science.
Was using the government as a benchmark for anything. Government IT contracts are obscenely bloated with regulatory compliance requirements and perilously thin on security. There's difference between the two.
Government contracts stress first and foremost adherence to standards like COBIT and NIST because....well just because. Then the regulatory monkeys fly in and tell you about the 40 different regs you have to be audited to. And all of a sudden you've torn out your whole storage farm and replaced it with devices that encrypt at the disk level because that's what they demand even though their view of the reg is complete horseshit. So you got them to plunk down another $20 million in 'secure hardware' which is great for the vendor but pointless. Because they don't have a requirement in their bible of standards to implement URL filtering, NIDS or zoned off VPN crossbars. So 'security' is bullshit. But you passed the audits. Which is all they care about.
Products and services are not forces of moral good. Moral good is a force for moral good. And as long as we're bashing capitalism, all those communist countries didn't for one second consider the well being of their captive populations. Did you know for example that there is not a single communist/socialist country which ever permitted trade unions?
In 2 years you will have a choice of iPhone or Samsung. Choose wisely.
Most insurance DOES NOT COVER these devices and certainly at the high end they don't. I know this from personal experience.
Now that Maybach is going out of business, any self respecting wannabe is going to have to get 12 of these for his house.
Which in PC parlance means they have to be thrown away every 12-18 months. Why is that? Bloat. Plain and simple. When your Andoid tablet or iPad accesses a typically horrible bloatpage with 3 different animated popups, a banner or two, 5 layers of Javascript and the rest, it grinds to a halt. And when the hardware engineers make a tablet that's twice as fast, the marketing douchebags tell the software developers "We need 7 more popups, a dozen more animations, twice as many switches and buttons for that 'user experience' and your new tablet turns into a shitty doorstop practically from day one, requiring you to run out and get a newer better one.
The downside of running everything off the network is that you're running everything off the network and you have no more control over it than you have over your cable TV broadcast content.