I know I wouldn'd hire a manager who disclosed this stuff on Slashdot.
Not that it's a trade secret or anything, but it shows a startling lack of discretion.
And they change daily.
When I was there for a few months last summer, all British news sites (BBC, Guardian, etc.) were blocked. Google groups are blocked. The SF Chronicle would be up and down depending on the day, as would Yahoo news.
In general, web access is completely problematic.
Earlier posters are correct - unless you are trying to do something to educate the masses, you'll be fine. They aren't after knowledgeable individuals or foreigners, they want to make sure it's not easy to join an emerging movement. Even if they were, it would only result in a bribe unless you were to be made into an example.
By the way, China is lovely. The people are very sweet and warm. If you can, learn some Mandarin or Cantonese before you get there.
- Manages records as a base data type well
- Makes it simple to write readable code
- Has nice control structures for large data sets
It sucks at a lot of things (don't write a UI in it, for example!) but there isn't much better at traversing a database.
I agree with you completely. The author started out with an opinion, and then crafted the facts to fit. It's a lame article.
In fact, the reason that Apple had such high margins is that we couldn't make Macs fast enough in around 1990, so we charged what the market would bear. In retrospect, the right manufacturing partners with the right business arrangement (such as HP or IBM) could have put Macs everywhere. The author's assertion that businesses wouldn't use Macs is simply untrue - many did and others would have if they were from IBM. At that point Apple's market share was approaching 20% (although it was still single digits in the corporate markets.) I think the main reason Apple didn't do licensing is that while gross margin would have gone up, total revenue would have dropped, and they didn't want to explain that to the markets.
The later Umax deals et al were too late - the margins weren't there anymore to allow another manufacturing tier, and IBM and HP had moved on.
When I was doing the Mandatory Startup Thing in 2000, we decided to do a 10:1 stock split because we were offering 2000 shares and other companies were offering 10,000, even though our stock represented a higher percentage of the company. After the split, we were offering 20,000 shares.
It was easier to do this than educate a bunch of young engineers on simple arithmetic.
Seriously. If it weren't for the Onion, the Economist would be the wittiest magazine in the English language, in addition to all of the other deserved praise.
Ya gotta hate 'em, but they know how to do this.
No direct slams at open source or linux, just very friendly, helpful suggestions that offering users choice is better than not, isn't it?
They've been doing this for decades. If it weren't for the other crap, you know, the illegal immoral stuff, I might even like the bastards.
It was a scary moment - some terrorist almost killed him! Fortunately, some Homeland Security guys took out the nutcase.
It could have been a disaster.
It's kewl. It's a 3D app launcher, file system and media player. It's commercial and Windows, but hey, like's like that sometimes.
http://download.com.com/3000-2346-10188001.html?ta g=lst-0-1
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I know I wouldn'd hire a manager who disclosed this stuff on Slashdot. Not that it's a trade secret or anything, but it shows a startling lack of discretion.
So what's their point?
And they change daily. When I was there for a few months last summer, all British news sites (BBC, Guardian, etc.) were blocked. Google groups are blocked. The SF Chronicle would be up and down depending on the day, as would Yahoo news. In general, web access is completely problematic. Earlier posters are correct - unless you are trying to do something to educate the masses, you'll be fine. They aren't after knowledgeable individuals or foreigners, they want to make sure it's not easy to join an emerging movement. Even if they were, it would only result in a bribe unless you were to be made into an example. By the way, China is lovely. The people are very sweet and warm. If you can, learn some Mandarin or Cantonese before you get there.
- Manages records as a base data type well - Makes it simple to write readable code - Has nice control structures for large data sets It sucks at a lot of things (don't write a UI in it, for example!) but there isn't much better at traversing a database.
I went to their website, and looked at the display, and the PICTURE WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS MY MONITOR. Do not fall for this scam, people.
I agree with you completely. The author started out with an opinion, and then crafted the facts to fit. It's a lame article. In fact, the reason that Apple had such high margins is that we couldn't make Macs fast enough in around 1990, so we charged what the market would bear. In retrospect, the right manufacturing partners with the right business arrangement (such as HP or IBM) could have put Macs everywhere. The author's assertion that businesses wouldn't use Macs is simply untrue - many did and others would have if they were from IBM. At that point Apple's market share was approaching 20% (although it was still single digits in the corporate markets.) I think the main reason Apple didn't do licensing is that while gross margin would have gone up, total revenue would have dropped, and they didn't want to explain that to the markets. The later Umax deals et al were too late - the margins weren't there anymore to allow another manufacturing tier, and IBM and HP had moved on.
When I was doing the Mandatory Startup Thing in 2000, we decided to do a 10:1 stock split because we were offering 2000 shares and other companies were offering 10,000, even though our stock represented a higher percentage of the company. After the split, we were offering 20,000 shares. It was easier to do this than educate a bunch of young engineers on simple arithmetic.
... and they will be less inclined to aggressively pursue (translation: throw more money at) loosely concocted scams er lawsuits.
Seriously. If it weren't for the Onion, the Economist would be the wittiest magazine in the English language, in addition to all of the other deserved praise.
Ya gotta hate 'em, but they know how to do this. No direct slams at open source or linux, just very friendly, helpful suggestions that offering users choice is better than not, isn't it? They've been doing this for decades. If it weren't for the other crap, you know, the illegal immoral stuff, I might even like the bastards.
It was a scary moment - some terrorist almost killed him! Fortunately, some Homeland Security guys took out the nutcase. It could have been a disaster.
It's kewl. It's a 3D app launcher, file system and media player. It's commercial and Windows, but hey, like's like that sometimes. http://download.com.com/3000-2346-10188001.html?ta g=lst-0-1
They took the Santa Cruz out of SCO a long time ago...