Does this mean Mac OS X is doomed as well? Where then is Apple going with the Apple system? Some say Apple is going to be a consumer electronics company and not a OS company.....You can't say Windows (or desktop OS's) are dead and then expect Apple to exist in the same way. So is Apple's OS in it's final days as well? This line of thinking makes no sense to me.
One it is the gaming demographic. Until Apple catches up on games it will be behind in the youth market. Most people I know that use Macs art 35+....Second Macs are probably the computer of choice in Churches. Almost every church group I know of (the directors, not youth) all use Macs.
I once read a statistic that said the creative markets are #1 for Apple and Church groups are #2 in terms of percentage of users (not shear installed numbers)....hmmmm maybe Apple can bridge the red/blue divide.
It means more divorce, more women having affairs, less sexually satisfied women who will seek out the men who acutally can give orgasms to them and are not pussies....They will become a super race of dominant men evolved more highly because they will be the only ones women want to be with.
Anyone have problems with the display of FireFox 2.0. I mouse over the tabs multiple times with out clicking on them and they go nuts. Displaying icons from the toolbar in them, messing up the site icons etc....Very strange. Anyone have a fix??
Hire people to make the software (even open source) = Wages to pay
Hire people to make the software but not pay them = slavery
Charge more for the product than the wages you pay = PROFIT
Ok that was way too simple but the bottom line is no one ever said OSS was non-profit or even small profit. In fact by driving down costs these providers can get richer than with proprietary software. The model is buy low and sell high. Economics 101
I must say Microsoft has behaved poorly in the past but to basically say, "you must have a insecure, hole filled operating system so we can sell our security packages for more money from the consumers pockets" is asinine. Anyone that supports these companies can NOT at the same time bash MS for security flaws.
Hey the best thing would be for MS to have a completely secure Windows OS (impossible for any OS really). Of course that would put those companies out of business. Tough I say.
Can I sue the State of California for causing pollution in Washington (my home) by licensing too MANY cars and building too MANY highways?? So 30% is caused by cars, well why isn't CA suing power companies or farms (the other 70%)?? Lets sue them and watch the tech center of America get their electricty shut off...My god, how about lets sue the oil companies for drilling oil or Boeing and Airbus for building planes which do more damage than autos due to where they pollute (high altitudes)....How about lets sue Hollywood for doing damage to the worlds culture for making bad movies that sterotype cultures?
What the hell is wrong with America!!! The government creates the problem in the first place. How about stop licensing new cars in CA and make people trade the rights to purchase one. Kind of like the pollution credits. No more NEW licensees just the ability to sell your right to own a car to someone else and make money....Why not? Because it would make cars cost 50% more....Or tax oil at 10.00 per gallon and force working and middle class people from their cars! My point is this is idiotic!
It is far clearer that the Democrats steal elections in my home State of Washington....It is not statistics but actual votes that were fraudent. Dead people, people voting twice etc...The more people counted and recounted the more the Democrats "found" new votes in Democratic districts won by Democrats. This wasn't the opposition finding new votes or uncounted ones to over turn things for the real winner ( ie Gore) after the winner was declared ( Bush in Flordia and Ohio) but it is a clearly a manufactered election by one party. Ohio, maybe tactics were used, but this was a stolen election in WA in black and white .
Today in scanning the BBC headlines many of Bush's like minded are winning in Europe. The far right has picked up in Germany (even farther right than the current government) and in Sweden the conservatives have been elected removing the socialists than have ruled the last 10 years....Interesting....
Bottom line is politics are dirty everywhere. Politics starts wars. Politics is a dishonest business no matter what society you live in. People that believe in the virtue of politians or their staffs are dangerously naive. It is about getting things done in ones interest. Google is buying the most effective and efficent way to do this. No different than any other business, NGO, non-profit, individual etc...does. I do it in my own business. Only with local officials. Lobby them, golf with them, remember big dates in their lives and boom, I get my permits, trade missions, etc...expedited. It is called getting things done. Google is doing this.
What are you talking about?? All my lawyers say I have the absolute right to do it. As much as you have the right to refuse. I have NOT to hire that person. Very clearly. The EEOC would only step in if I apply this in a non standard way. Some people get credit checks, others don't. That is an EEOC case. Everyone gets the same treatment, no issue!
There was a case in the mid 90's. I am trying to find it on the Westlaw server where a guy was stealing blank vendor checks from a business and the vender sued the business that employed the guy for failure to properly do a check that would show a guy who had massive debts. They won because the jury said he was more likely to steal than other applicants with better credit and therefore the business put people at risk for theft....Crazy but true.
But there was a case in the mid 90's. I am trying to find it on the law server where a guy was stealing blank vendor checks from a business and the vender sued the business that employed the guy for failure to properly do a check that would show a guy who had massive debts. They won because the jury said he was more likely to steal than other applicants with better credit and therefore the business put people at risk for theft....Crazy but true.
You seem to forget that you can exclude medical debt. I do for applicants....Even the total debt is not the issue for me. It is collections, chronically late payments, failure to pay etc that get a "no way". That tells me something about the person. So rack up debt all you want but PAY IT BACK...You seem to forget that I can ask the applicants to explain their credit history if I really like the applicant otherwise
Wrong! Only if you don't apply the same standard to others. If you have 1000 black applicants and 1 white and apply the same standards and a white and black are even and you hire the white you might have a problem. If no black applicants match the white and you hire him, no legal problem. That is why if you don't have an education, good credit etc....you are heading to permanent underclass status regardless of race.
Otherwise the government is FORCING you to hire a non qualified applicant which IS unconstitutional by law.
I check credit on my applicants. It is not make or break, but given two almost equal applicants it for me breaks ties. It is a historical judgement. If there are collections, no way, but large debts I generally ask the applicant to explain if I really want to hire him/her. Medical issues I throw out. Large medical bills are hard to pay for even higher income, but late payments, especially any collections, etc....their resume gets the trash or they are not hired in the tie breaking phase. I also check facebook and myspace, and do an extensive background check.
Totally agree....Most people would never know and EVEN if they did would not care less. That is why companies can do this. Very simple.
Amazing what you can do really. I just had a friend show me that he can use his MacBook (running windows) to hack myspace and download every link people click in a particular users account....It is crazy how much really is there to see whether it is hacked or programmed by a company to send info.
Private equity "buy outs" are designed to enrich the private equity firms by moving cash/equity/assets to the pockets of the shareholders or partners in the firm and then saddling the company "bought" with huge debts to finance operations. This harms the employees, suppliers, and customers.
Private Equity is nothing but a wealth transfer "out" of a company and into the buy out firms pockets.
I know my brother works for a partnership. He is very open out things and always says it is a very simple idea.
yah because all the companies that now control those industries got government funding when they really didn't need it. Seed money perhaps but not full funding. They buy the Republicans and Democrats and get to take societies money. I say help the poor and keep university students from going into debt for life instead of giving our money to corporations to make billions and then charge me for the airwaves, outragous international roaming, the internet etc...or bombard me with banner ads, video ads that make noise and the like. How about paying society back in the form of a rebate to me or a massive tax to the government. It is a transfer of wealth from working people to the owners (shareholders) of these companies and their suppliers.
Governments wage war, hmmmm if we demanded nothing but basic defense, education and a safety net (not welfare) and nothing more I would not be paying the telecom execs salary or the oil exec salary and their shareholders wealth with our tax money subsidizing them.
Oh yah and the government wouldn't have the money to wage war!
I don't know if I agree but you make the point for low taxes and very little government involvement in any part of our lives. For example government controlled health care means government controlled experimentation on sick people. etc.. etc...
Apple wants games developers....In fact I would not be surprised if they someday make some sort of console that ties future iPods, iPhones, the Mac and media to it. Apple is more and more a digital consumer company that sells, iPods, music (someday movies) and since the game industry is bigger than either one it will sell to that. Apple is a digital media company. Most people around the world when you say Apple, think iPod. Not Mac.
I switched my small consulting business to Linux for very little cost, can expand rapidly, don't have licensing fees, and can find low cost IT labor....This means MORE PROFIT for me and my investors....Low cost input, high value output, nothing is more capitalistic.
Or the EU and countries like Norway will force Apple to open up Fairplay (I am sure it would apply to all) and the content won't be an issue, because no matter what device you have (me iPod Vid 60) you can purchase at any online store and use it on any device. Competition means price wars!!! I love the iPod but I hate the AAC locked files. (don't give me the burn a disc shit, a waste of time and environmentally unsound because of the wasted disc)
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Does this mean Mac OS X is doomed as well? Where then is Apple going with the Apple system? Some say Apple is going to be a consumer electronics company and not a OS company.....You can't say Windows (or desktop OS's) are dead and then expect Apple to exist in the same way. So is Apple's OS in it's final days as well? This line of thinking makes no sense to me.
One it is the gaming demographic. Until Apple catches up on games it will be behind in the youth market. Most people I know that use Macs art 35+....Second Macs are probably the computer of choice in Churches. Almost every church group I know of (the directors, not youth) all use Macs.
I once read a statistic that said the creative markets are #1 for Apple and Church groups are #2 in terms of percentage of users (not shear installed numbers)....hmmmm maybe Apple can bridge the red/blue divide.
It means more divorce, more women having affairs, less sexually satisfied women who will seek out the men who acutally can give orgasms to them and are not pussies....They will become a super race of dominant men evolved more highly because they will be the only ones women want to be with.
Anyone have problems with the display of FireFox 2.0. I mouse over the tabs multiple times with out clicking on them and they go nuts. Displaying icons from the toolbar in them, messing up the site icons etc....Very strange. Anyone have a fix??
Wrong. You can post opinions but not WRONG information about someone causing them harm or ridicule. That is the issue.
Hire people to make the software (even open source) = Wages to pay
Hire people to make the software but not pay them = slavery
Charge more for the product than the wages you pay = PROFIT
Ok that was way too simple but the bottom line is no one ever said OSS was non-profit or even small profit. In fact by driving down costs these providers can get richer than with proprietary software. The model is buy low and sell high. Economics 101
I must say Microsoft has behaved poorly in the past but to basically say, "you must have a insecure, hole filled operating system so we can sell our security packages for more money from the consumers pockets" is asinine. Anyone that supports these companies can NOT at the same time bash MS for security flaws. Hey the best thing would be for MS to have a completely secure Windows OS (impossible for any OS really). Of course that would put those companies out of business. Tough I say.
Can I sue the State of California for causing pollution in Washington (my home) by licensing too MANY cars and building too MANY highways?? So 30% is caused by cars, well why isn't CA suing power companies or farms (the other 70%)?? Lets sue them and watch the tech center of America get their electricty shut off...My god, how about lets sue the oil companies for drilling oil or Boeing and Airbus for building planes which do more damage than autos due to where they pollute (high altitudes)....How about lets sue Hollywood for doing damage to the worlds culture for making bad movies that sterotype cultures?
What the hell is wrong with America!!! The government creates the problem in the first place. How about stop licensing new cars in CA and make people trade the rights to purchase one. Kind of like the pollution credits. No more NEW licensees just the ability to sell your right to own a car to someone else and make money....Why not? Because it would make cars cost 50% more....Or tax oil at 10.00 per gallon and force working and middle class people from their cars! My point is this is idiotic!
It is far clearer that the Democrats steal elections in my home State of Washington....It is not statistics but actual votes that were fraudent. Dead people, people voting twice etc...The more people counted and recounted the more the Democrats "found" new votes in Democratic districts won by Democrats. This wasn't the opposition finding new votes or uncounted ones to over turn things for the real winner ( ie Gore) after the winner was declared ( Bush in Flordia and Ohio) but it is a clearly a manufactered election by one party. Ohio, maybe tactics were used, but this was a stolen election in WA in black and white .
This is like the Democrats of the Chicago era.
Today in scanning the BBC headlines many of Bush's like minded are winning in Europe. The far right has picked up in Germany (even farther right than the current government) and in Sweden the conservatives have been elected removing the socialists than have ruled the last 10 years....Interesting....
Bottom line is politics are dirty everywhere. Politics starts wars. Politics is a dishonest business no matter what society you live in. People that believe in the virtue of politians or their staffs are dangerously naive. It is about getting things done in ones interest. Google is buying the most effective and efficent way to do this. No different than any other business, NGO, non-profit, individual etc...does. I do it in my own business. Only with local officials. Lobby them, golf with them, remember big dates in their lives and boom, I get my permits, trade missions, etc...expedited. It is called getting things done. Google is doing this.
What are you talking about?? All my lawyers say I have the absolute right to do it. As much as you have the right to refuse. I have NOT to hire that person. Very clearly. The EEOC would only step in if I apply this in a non standard way. Some people get credit checks, others don't. That is an EEOC case. Everyone gets the same treatment, no issue!
There was a case in the mid 90's. I am trying to find it on the Westlaw server where a guy was stealing blank vendor checks from a business and the vender sued the business that employed the guy for failure to properly do a check that would show a guy who had massive debts. They won because the jury said he was more likely to steal than other applicants with better credit and therefore the business put people at risk for theft....Crazy but true.
But there was a case in the mid 90's. I am trying to find it on the law server where a guy was stealing blank vendor checks from a business and the vender sued the business that employed the guy for failure to properly do a check that would show a guy who had massive debts. They won because the jury said he was more likely to steal than other applicants with better credit and therefore the business put people at risk for theft....Crazy but true.
You seem to forget that you can exclude medical debt. I do for applicants....Even the total debt is not the issue for me. It is collections, chronically late payments, failure to pay etc that get a "no way". That tells me something about the person. So rack up debt all you want but PAY IT BACK...You seem to forget that I can ask the applicants to explain their credit history if I really like the applicant otherwise
Wrong! Only if you don't apply the same standard to others. If you have 1000 black applicants and 1 white and apply the same standards and a white and black are even and you hire the white you might have a problem. If no black applicants match the white and you hire him, no legal problem. That is why if you don't have an education, good credit etc....you are heading to permanent underclass status regardless of race.
Otherwise the government is FORCING you to hire a non qualified applicant which IS unconstitutional by law.
I check credit on my applicants. It is not make or break, but given two almost equal applicants it for me breaks ties. It is a historical judgement. If there are collections, no way, but large debts I generally ask the applicant to explain if I really want to hire him/her. Medical issues I throw out. Large medical bills are hard to pay for even higher income, but late payments, especially any collections, etc....their resume gets the trash or they are not hired in the tie breaking phase. I also check facebook and myspace, and do an extensive background check.
Totally agree....Most people would never know and EVEN if they did would not care less. That is why companies can do this. Very simple.
Amazing what you can do really. I just had a friend show me that he can use his MacBook (running windows) to hack myspace and download every link people click in a particular users account....It is crazy how much really is there to see whether it is hacked or programmed by a company to send info.
Private equity "buy outs" are designed to enrich the private equity firms by moving cash/equity/assets to the pockets of the shareholders or partners in the firm and then saddling the company "bought" with huge debts to finance operations. This harms the employees, suppliers, and customers.
Private Equity is nothing but a wealth transfer "out" of a company and into the buy out firms pockets.
I know my brother works for a partnership. He is very open out things and always says it is a very simple idea.
yah because all the companies that now control those industries got government funding when they really didn't need it. Seed money perhaps but not full funding. They buy the Republicans and Democrats and get to take societies money. I say help the poor and keep university students from going into debt for life instead of giving our money to corporations to make billions and then charge me for the airwaves, outragous international roaming, the internet etc...or bombard me with banner ads, video ads that make noise and the like. How about paying society back in the form of a rebate to me or a massive tax to the government. It is a transfer of wealth from working people to the owners (shareholders) of these companies and their suppliers.
Governments wage war, hmmmm if we demanded nothing but basic defense, education and a safety net (not welfare) and nothing more I would not be paying the telecom execs salary or the oil exec salary and their shareholders wealth with our tax money subsidizing them.
Oh yah and the government wouldn't have the money to wage war!
I don't know if I agree but you make the point for low taxes and very little government involvement in any part of our lives. For example government controlled health care means government controlled experimentation on sick people. etc.. etc...
Apple wants games developers....In fact I would not be surprised if they someday make some sort of console that ties future iPods, iPhones, the Mac and media to it. Apple is more and more a digital consumer company that sells, iPods, music (someday movies) and since the game industry is bigger than either one it will sell to that. Apple is a digital media company. Most people around the world when you say Apple, think iPod. Not Mac.
I switched my small consulting business to Linux for very little cost, can expand rapidly, don't have licensing fees, and can find low cost IT labor....This means MORE PROFIT for me and my investors....Low cost input, high value output, nothing is more capitalistic.
Or the EU and countries like Norway will force Apple to open up Fairplay (I am sure it would apply to all) and the content won't be an issue, because no matter what device you have (me iPod Vid 60) you can purchase at any online store and use it on any device. Competition means price wars!!! I love the iPod but I hate the AAC locked files. (don't give me the burn a disc shit, a waste of time and environmentally unsound because of the wasted disc)
Let the games begin!!!