I fully agree with parent. It would be nice if we could actually have intelligent debate on television instead of this bogus, polarizing crap. I do not like to listen to MSNBC either for the same reason.
I apologize for the vagueness of the example I am providing here but I think it illustrates the point: Some time ago Mr. Beck talked about a group that was going door to door in some Northeastern state and promoting the use of energy efficient lightbulbs. The claim was that the energy savings would be the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road.
Mr. Beck's objection to this was: "I know, how about instead of taking cars of the road, we keep them on the road, with 200,000 American workers who use them to commute to and from work".
Actually, the "short" doesn't refer to the duration of time before you have to buy it back, but to the fact that you are selling something that you do not have in reality (as in "I am short a few bucks").
Short-selling, by extension, refers to the practice of selling stock in the belief that the price will go down in the future. And being "long on" a stock implies that you hold a positive position in the belief that the price will go up.
A significant portion of Apple's problem is that people who already have PC's are unlikely to replace / add to them with Mac's. Most businesses use PC's. In my company, for example, only the Creative folks get Macs. If I have a PC from work, then chances are that when it comes to my home machine I will go buy a PC. If my wife decides to buy a laptop I will get a PC for her as well.
Most people want uniformity in their lives, and don't want the hassle of having to learn two operating systems etc. Even if Vista sucks, people are likely to wait for it to improve rather than go buy a Mac. If I was replacing all the machines that I use (at work and home) at once, I would definitely want a Mac. But I am never going to replace all machines at once. Most businesses, even when starting up, are not going to chose Macs because it will be difficult to hire IT folks to support them (since there are fewer IT people who know Macs), and it will be additional cost to train the new employees on how to use Macs (since 98% of them have never used a Mac).
Bottom line, however hard Apple tries, it is going to make miniscule chages in its market share as far as Macs go. It is better to break into new markets (iPhones, iPods).
Oh great! Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag and ruining it for the rest of us. So far they thought it was just a collection of tubes.
Now they will start trying to regulate the internet.
The key word in the article is "minor". This would work for small abrasions, but would it really be useful? Think of all the accidents in space we have had so far. None of them would have been prevented by this technology.
Dood,
What is up with that model in the picture? I don't want to be mean, but did she not get enough sleep or something?
Or maybe she's been staring at that monitor for too long.
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I fully agree with parent. It would be nice if we could actually have intelligent debate on television instead of this bogus, polarizing crap. I do not like to listen to MSNBC either for the same reason. I apologize for the vagueness of the example I am providing here but I think it illustrates the point: Some time ago Mr. Beck talked about a group that was going door to door in some Northeastern state and promoting the use of energy efficient lightbulbs. The claim was that the energy savings would be the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road. Mr. Beck's objection to this was: "I know, how about instead of taking cars of the road, we keep them on the road, with 200,000 American workers who use them to commute to and from work".
Actually, the "short" doesn't refer to the duration of time before you have to buy it back, but to the fact that you are selling something that you do not have in reality (as in "I am short a few bucks"). Short-selling, by extension, refers to the practice of selling stock in the belief that the price will go down in the future. And being "long on" a stock implies that you hold a positive position in the belief that the price will go up.
You know CmdrTaco, this reminds me of the time I had to go to the doctor to seek advice about a "friend" who got crabs.
Most people want uniformity in their lives, and don't want the hassle of having to learn two operating systems etc. Even if Vista sucks, people are likely to wait for it to improve rather than go buy a Mac. If I was replacing all the machines that I use (at work and home) at once, I would definitely want a Mac. But I am never going to replace all machines at once. Most businesses, even when starting up, are not going to chose Macs because it will be difficult to hire IT folks to support them (since there are fewer IT people who know Macs), and it will be additional cost to train the new employees on how to use Macs (since 98% of them have never used a Mac).
Bottom line, however hard Apple tries, it is going to make miniscule chages in its market share as far as Macs go. It is better to break into new markets (iPhones, iPods).
They had to discard the data from the other 5000 accidents where no one survived irrespective of where they were seated.
Oh great! Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag and ruining it for the rest of us. So far they thought it was just a collection of tubes. Now they will start trying to regulate the internet.
The key word in the article is "minor". This would work for small abrasions, but would it really be useful? Think of all the accidents in space we have had so far. None of them would have been prevented by this technology.
No, it seems more like a French-Soviet conspiracy.
Ooh, really? Can someone point me to where I can find some?
Dood, What is up with that model in the picture? I don't want to be mean, but did she not get enough sleep or something? Or maybe she's been staring at that monitor for too long.
I am not understanding what all this hullaballoo is about. My english is being most excellent.