No, it doesn't make the remaining shares any more valuable.
Right now the market cap is ~$500 billion, and the liquid assets are known to be about $100B, so the non-liquid asset part of the company is ~$400 billion. When apple buys back the shares, the number of shares in circulation goes down, but so does the market cap, since now it's ~400 billion + ~90 billion assets. These should exactly match. You can imagine this as the board separating out the bits of the company that are apple's ip, employee capital, buildings etc, and the bits of the company that are just the ownership of a huge wadge of cash. They're getting rid of the latter without touching the former.
You would expect this to not impact the share price in itself.
He means that NeoOffice is a fork. The developers began with a snapshot of the source and started modifying it, so updates and fixes to the original have to be incorperated by hand. OO.o OSX is a part of the OO.o project so gets that sort of stuff automatically.
Whether or not that makes a difference will depend on how much the core changes, and how often the NeoOffice team update. I get the impression that the core to OpenOffice is pretty good, but the integration with OSX is not, which makes this less of a big deal.
this is exactly what happened with the iPod Photo. The iPod was always about convincing people to adopt new technology earlier and at more of a price premium than they otherwise would by dressing it up in snazzy designs and interfaces. Now the vanilla iPod has become commodity it's fallen out of line with Apples core competancy - selling this sort of high-tech stuff
I've found that the mathematics pages on Wikipedia really are attempting to explain to the layman. Granted - to understand the issue you may have to spider around to various other articles - like the (very good) main pages on Groups and Topology. For comparison look at the equivalent pages on mathworld.wolfram.org where the material is presented with far less explanation. Wikipedia here is probably a non-mathematicians best shot at getting the point of the issue.
Whereas 2D screens limited us to representing 3D objects, a 3D screen will allow us to represent 4D objects.
In what way does a 2d screen limit us to 3 dimensions? Can't you draw a 4D hypercube by drawing 2 3d cubes and connecting each of the 8 paires of corresponding vertices?
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No, it doesn't make the remaining shares any more valuable. Right now the market cap is ~$500 billion, and the liquid assets are known to be about $100B, so the non-liquid asset part of the company is ~$400 billion. When apple buys back the shares, the number of shares in circulation goes down, but so does the market cap, since now it's ~400 billion + ~90 billion assets. These should exactly match. You can imagine this as the board separating out the bits of the company that are apple's ip, employee capital, buildings etc, and the bits of the company that are just the ownership of a huge wadge of cash. They're getting rid of the latter without touching the former. You would expect this to not impact the share price in itself.
He means that NeoOffice is a fork. The developers began with a snapshot of the source and started modifying it, so updates and fixes to the original have to be incorperated by hand. OO.o OSX is a part of the OO.o project so gets that sort of stuff automatically. Whether or not that makes a difference will depend on how much the core changes, and how often the NeoOffice team update. I get the impression that the core to OpenOffice is pretty good, but the integration with OSX is not, which makes this less of a big deal.
this is exactly what happened with the iPod Photo. The iPod was always about convincing people to adopt new technology earlier and at more of a price premium than they otherwise would by dressing it up in snazzy designs and interfaces. Now the vanilla iPod has become commodity it's fallen out of line with Apples core competancy - selling this sort of high-tech stuff
I've found that the mathematics pages on Wikipedia really are attempting to explain to the layman. Granted - to understand the issue you may have to spider around to various other articles - like the (very good) main pages on Groups and Topology. For comparison look at the equivalent pages on mathworld.wolfram.org where the material is presented with far less explanation. Wikipedia here is probably a non-mathematicians best shot at getting the point of the issue.
Here's a phone by B&O that came out in europe two years ago: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/serene-bang- -olufsens-upside-down-cellphone-210756.php
Man invents a windscreen wiper that moves water from one part of the screen and squirts it back on somewhere else.
Shwa? Why would the puny weather system bother even Floridian Slashdotters? I for one haven't been out of my mother's basement for twenty five years!
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