and of course Republicans, in a desperate attempt to defend their oil buddies to the bitter end, will do their best to cut funding for promising projects and make laws to kill the ones that are left over. Why any sane rational person would ever vote Republican is beyond me.
For me, one of the biggest letdowns of this new generation of Macbook Pros was the fact that the optical drive was still a necessity, there wasn't an option to swap out the optical drive with an SSD. Come on Apple, it's 2011, how many people actually use optical drives anymore, esp. on the go? External USB dvd burners are now a dime a dozen, there is no reason I need to carry one with me everywhere I go.
The trick to being a good dictator is to satisfy a hard-core minority of your supporters so that they will control the majority.
You mean the army. Thats pretty much how most of the dictators roll, they wrest control of the army away from any civilian government and the rest is cake. Thats definitely how the North Korean regime stays in power. No matter how big the personality cult, I would be willing to bet that if Kim Jong Il pissed off the wrong general he would be meeting an "unfortunate accident" in the very near future.
Except for the fact that there are some pretty nasty bugs with time machine and large backups, ie lots of data corruption. Apple never really addressed this issue, and that fact doesn't exactly inspire confidence in them in the enterprise sphere.
Essentially what they are selling is the training video, the software is included as a "service" and like you said they do say that it's open source, though a bit sheepishly of course. Just someone looking for something to get outraged about, nothing to see here.
Wikileaks is already preparing for the deluge of sensitive German diplomatic information that is bound to come in when someone hacks the new Windows machines. I give it a month, tops.
These programs don't even remove the biggest English language security threat. After you run them Windows is STILL installed meaning you are STILL vulnerable to getting pwned. Big rip off if you ask me.
That really depends on what you want out of your gaming experience though. While I find that yes, the Zelda games aren't incredibly innovative per se, they are probably the most well put together single player games in existence. Everything from start to finish feels polished and you just want to explore. Thats as much the mark of a good game as anything that is "innovative"
The reason the helium is becoming scarce on earth is because it's too light and escapes from the earth's atmosphere. So how do we stop that? Simple, make it heavier like we did to our own fat asses. If there is one thing we are great at it, it's getting fat, why can't we extend that to Helium? "So Mr. Helium 3, would you like to supersize that today?"
By the time we are done with helium it won't even be able to get off the floor, let alone escape the atmosphere.
Did you have a queen and larvae? Ants get a lot of chemical signals from the queen and her many, many larvae. Without those signals they probably will just mindlessly dig because they never get the signals to "change course"
Which party is trying to stick it's nose in my personal business? Which party is trying to dictate what I can do in the bedroom? Which party is trying to restrict access to birth control? Which party is trying to tell women what they can do with their own bodies? Hint, it sure as shit ain't the democrats.
Fake or not, this plan wouldn't even have been feasible in the US were the SEC has completely dismantled shareholder rights. According to the SEC, shareholders have 0 say in what the CEO and board gets paid or even who is on it.
When Obama actually tried to introduce an SEC that would allow shareholders to have a NON-BINDING vote on CEO pay the Republicans screamed bloody murder. Apparently according to Republican philosophy you only have to work hard and actually earn your keep if you aren't already rich. The people who have gotten to the top(often times not even on their own merit) are allowed to plunder the company as they see fit. CEO pay is increasing 2x as fast as the S&P 500 and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it. At least it seems in Finland shareholders have SOME power.
I actually said that...... but it's actually difficult to do as Apple doesn't release a whole lot of information other than the basics(revenue, profit etc)
Actually overall revenue/head isn't all that useful a statistic no matter how you slice it. For example Apple could increase it's revenue per head by shedding it's retail business but overall revenue and profits, which at the end of the day are the true measures of success, would suffer. If you are going to compare revenue/head then you should make the comparison as close as possible.
No, Apple may still very well lose that comparison, I actually don't give a shit as I don't hold any Apple stock(and obviously no share in Valve as its a privately held company), but if you are going to go and make claims like this then you should make the control variables be as close as possible.
It's actually a lot more complicated than this. China buys a TON of natural resources from Canada(and info on said resources is probably one of the most likely targets). Canada is probably in even more of a bind vis a vis China then the United States is. While Canada's government isn't nearly as indebted to the Chinese as the Americans are, the Canadian economy depends much more on selling to China than the US economy does. Of course on the flip side if you eliminate access to Canadian resources all of a sudden Chinese manufacturing becomes much more uncompetitive.
No, you have to sort of separate out the retail from the non-retail aspects of Apple to get a fair comparison because Valve doesn't have any sort of real "retail" presence. To get truly accurate numbers you would have to suss out the profitability of the retail section vs. the rest of the company but those numbers aren't easy to come by as Apple doesn't really release figures in that granularity.
One thing on the profitability per employee thing, at least with Apple the figure most likely includes retail employees as well. With the latest figures I could find and from my back of the envelope calculations Apple made 14 billion with about 50k employees, for a profit of roughly $280k/employee. Meanwhile valve made, according to the article $55 million on 250 employees, for a profit/employee of $220k. Right off the bat, unless Forbes is using different numbers than I am, you see a discrepancy. Furthermore, if we limit the discussion to non-retail employees(of which Apple has about 35k), then the profit/employee jumps to over $400k/employee, much higher than Valves. Still an amazing company, but there are some "interesting" numbers in the article....
This was whatever the latest and greatest XP as of 2009, so not all that ancient history. Microsoft has such a confusing maze of menus and settings that override each other it's no wonder nobody bothers to lock down their windows systems, it's so easy to either fuck something up beyond repair or completely miss something because Microsoft made it as difficult as possible to understand.
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and of course Republicans, in a desperate attempt to defend their oil buddies to the bitter end, will do their best to cut funding for promising projects and make laws to kill the ones that are left over. Why any sane rational person would ever vote Republican is beyond me.
Well obviously you never took statistics, there are such thing as statistical anomalies and you are one of them. Um, congrats?
For me, one of the biggest letdowns of this new generation of Macbook Pros was the fact that the optical drive was still a necessity, there wasn't an option to swap out the optical drive with an SSD. Come on Apple, it's 2011, how many people actually use optical drives anymore, esp. on the go? External USB dvd burners are now a dime a dozen, there is no reason I need to carry one with me everywhere I go.
both good software engineers and good social engineers are a rare bread anyway
I know it costs more, but you just cannot beat fresh baked!
The trick to being a good dictator is to satisfy a hard-core minority of your supporters so that they will control the majority.
You mean the army. Thats pretty much how most of the dictators roll, they wrest control of the army away from any civilian government and the rest is cake. Thats definitely how the North Korean regime stays in power. No matter how big the personality cult, I would be willing to bet that if Kim Jong Il pissed off the wrong general he would be meeting an "unfortunate accident" in the very near future.
Except for the fact that there are some pretty nasty bugs with time machine and large backups, ie lots of data corruption. Apple never really addressed this issue, and that fact doesn't exactly inspire confidence in them in the enterprise sphere.
Essentially what they are selling is the training video, the software is included as a "service" and like you said they do say that it's open source, though a bit sheepishly of course. Just someone looking for something to get outraged about, nothing to see here.
Wikileaks is already preparing for the deluge of sensitive German diplomatic information that is bound to come in when someone hacks the new Windows machines. I give it a month, tops.
These programs don't even remove the biggest English language security threat. After you run them Windows is STILL installed meaning you are STILL vulnerable to getting pwned. Big rip off if you ask me.
That really depends on what you want out of your gaming experience though. While I find that yes, the Zelda games aren't incredibly innovative per se, they are probably the most well put together single player games in existence. Everything from start to finish feels polished and you just want to explore. Thats as much the mark of a good game as anything that is "innovative"
The reason the helium is becoming scarce on earth is because it's too light and escapes from the earth's atmosphere. So how do we stop that? Simple, make it heavier like we did to our own fat asses. If there is one thing we are great at it, it's getting fat, why can't we extend that to Helium? "So Mr. Helium 3, would you like to supersize that today?"
By the time we are done with helium it won't even be able to get off the floor, let alone escape the atmosphere.
Did you have a queen and larvae? Ants get a lot of chemical signals from the queen and her many, many larvae. Without those signals they probably will just mindlessly dig because they never get the signals to "change course"
Maybe the OPs backspace key is busted.
Which party is trying to stick it's nose in my personal business? Which party is trying to dictate what I can do in the bedroom? Which party is trying to restrict access to birth control? Which party is trying to tell women what they can do with their own bodies? Hint, it sure as shit ain't the democrats.
Whew, doesn't look like there are any Lynx vulnerabilities so I'm safe!
Depends, would motorboating them hurt?
Fake or not, this plan wouldn't even have been feasible in the US were the SEC has completely dismantled shareholder rights. According to the SEC, shareholders have 0 say in what the CEO and board gets paid or even who is on it.
When Obama actually tried to introduce an SEC that would allow shareholders to have a NON-BINDING vote on CEO pay the Republicans screamed bloody murder. Apparently according to Republican philosophy you only have to work hard and actually earn your keep if you aren't already rich. The people who have gotten to the top(often times not even on their own merit) are allowed to plunder the company as they see fit. CEO pay is increasing 2x as fast as the S&P 500 and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it. At least it seems in Finland shareholders have SOME power.
I actually said that...... but it's actually difficult to do as Apple doesn't release a whole lot of information other than the basics(revenue, profit etc)
Actually overall revenue/head isn't all that useful a statistic no matter how you slice it. For example Apple could increase it's revenue per head by shedding it's retail business but overall revenue and profits, which at the end of the day are the true measures of success, would suffer. If you are going to compare revenue/head then you should make the comparison as close as possible.
No, Apple may still very well lose that comparison, I actually don't give a shit as I don't hold any Apple stock(and obviously no share in Valve as its a privately held company), but if you are going to go and make claims like this then you should make the control variables be as close as possible.
Q: How can you tell the difference between a spear phisher and an actual sys admin?
A: The spear phisher is polite.
It's actually a lot more complicated than this. China buys a TON of natural resources from Canada(and info on said resources is probably one of the most likely targets). Canada is probably in even more of a bind vis a vis China then the United States is. While Canada's government isn't nearly as indebted to the Chinese as the Americans are, the Canadian economy depends much more on selling to China than the US economy does. Of course on the flip side if you eliminate access to Canadian resources all of a sudden Chinese manufacturing becomes much more uncompetitive.
No, you have to sort of separate out the retail from the non-retail aspects of Apple to get a fair comparison because Valve doesn't have any sort of real "retail" presence. To get truly accurate numbers you would have to suss out the profitability of the retail section vs. the rest of the company but those numbers aren't easy to come by as Apple doesn't really release figures in that granularity.
One thing on the profitability per employee thing, at least with Apple the figure most likely includes retail employees as well. With the latest figures I could find and from my back of the envelope calculations Apple made 14 billion with about 50k employees, for a profit of roughly $280k/employee. Meanwhile valve made, according to the article $55 million on 250 employees, for a profit/employee of $220k. Right off the bat, unless Forbes is using different numbers than I am, you see a discrepancy. Furthermore, if we limit the discussion to non-retail employees(of which Apple has about 35k), then the profit/employee jumps to over $400k/employee, much higher than Valves. Still an amazing company, but there are some "interesting" numbers in the article....
This was whatever the latest and greatest XP as of 2009, so not all that ancient history. Microsoft has such a confusing maze of menus and settings that override each other it's no wonder nobody bothers to lock down their windows systems, it's so easy to either fuck something up beyond repair or completely miss something because Microsoft made it as difficult as possible to understand.