It really isn't so much that they are going to waste it (though that is always a concern). investors/shareholders make money from one of 2 ways (like it or not investors are their to make money), either the shares go up in value or they receive an income as dividend from those shares. Apple doesn't have to provide stellar growth, they can continue on with their excellent profit and earnings with no growth, however to do so they need to change the way they are returning value as without growth shareprice will stagnate which means you have just removed the traditional way that Apple investors were getting value from the shares. buybacks and dividend allow investor returns while also bolstering the shareprice through desirability as an investment. What they are doing makes sound business sense even if like me you despise them.
It isn't dumb, I don't like Apple but it is actually a smart move. They need to return shareholder value as their growth proposition going forward is uncertain or potentially even negative. The choices are return shareholder value through dividend and buybacks or watch the stock slide.
As CFO that would still leave him in deep shit as he signed them off as accurate before submitting them, the SEC won't accept an excuse that he was pressured. It would also leave him in a really bad situation where unless the next person in the job is willing to cover up for him (pretty unlikely) then his next job is going to be calculating his very large lawyer bills trying to keep his arse out of jail.
The 2 are unrelated events. The shares went up because of the very good financial growth MS showed this quarter despite the drop in PC sales.
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Ah, yes, Microsoft is in deep shit now, what with the record revenue and what not. No wonder the CFO ran away. 2013 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop, all hail RMS!
And you expected something different here? Microsoft's latest numbers are actually astoundingly good, better than even most of the optimists predicted. They speak of a very healthy company, not one in decline at all.
it really only did average on the zero day stuff, which is not the strong point of essentials. on the known malware it still does very well. the tests by AV-Test really don't provide a good way for the average user to judge products as most are not under attack from zero day malware and viri.
yep and pretty sure MS don't write the Slashdot summaries around here. The retarded monkeys that translate them into the clickbait that is acceptable here are kept in a cage in the far corner.
When XP first came out people were bitching and moaning how you would drag windows 2000 workstation out of their cold dead hands before they touched it. XP really didn't become a stable hit till Service Pack 2 gave it a complete overhaul
well arguably an Ouya can't replace a Samsung Galaxy S3, while an S3 does most everything an ouya can do as well as being a day to day device that you use for practical purposes. Not saying it is a good argument, but price difference here is irrelevant when an Ouya can't actually replace the device in question.
When I say the majority. I mean computer programmers and admins I work with and My friends external to this environment, heck even my mother and younger sister wear them, off hand I can think of 2 friends that don't wear them and one of them doesn't carry a phone either. I would honestly have more trouble finding people without watches. Average age group would be in the 25-40 range and yes a smart watch would likely be confiscated at security, perhaps I am getting too old, but I didn't get smart watches when they first came out a decade or so ago and this next gen of them I still don't get and I suspect they will go the way of previous gens.
I would say the majority of people I know still wear watches. They don't have battery life measured in days, they can be taken swimming or into environments that you would be scared of damaging a phone, don't need to be turned off on a plane or in a meeting and don't get confiscated at the front door of security rated buildings that don't permit phones or electronic devices inside (a problem for me), easy to check in a theatre without pissing off others etc etc. As for a smart watch, well I can't really seeing them fitting with a large audience. They are "likely" to have limited battery life, are too small for any usefull amounts of information on screen and if they have internet connectivity then it is one more item I have to hand in at building security:-(.
I don't think you have any concept of the sheer volume of artillery that is sitting on that border. It is almost at the point where they could be lobbing rocks and still cause massive damage. As for skyscrapers, please show me these fabulous designs and materials they have been constructed out of that will withstand massive volleys of high explosives.
Not really, even with perfect cooperation from local politics. if you are a company that already has extensive experience with Fab's then you are looking at a couple of years. this is not just some warehouse you are throwing together. On top of that you need the personnel and then time once complete to get the chip yields up. throwing more money at that problem might make it a little shorter but not much. There is simply too much specialised equipment required that all needs to be built as it isn't just lying around as excess shelf stock in someones warehouse. I would think best case would be late 2015
Well that sounds more like a problem with your computer than USB3 itself, USB3 is dependent on the quality of your chips and is far more resource intensive than SATA. I am currently copying ISO images off my Western Digital passport USB3 drive, I am getting just over 80MB/s. Just for shits and giggles I tested it plugged directly into SATA and it is giving me 85MB/s. The absolute peak transfer rate the drive is rated for is 135MB/s (drives are slower at various points in each platter so realistally not achievable). there is no cable/connector you could plug into this drive to make this many times faster, it is technically not possible, you could maybe gain some small fractional boost by a protocol with less overhead but barring upgrading the physical drive itself there is simply no way.
SATA often appears quicker as external drives, especially USB are usually low speed drives for less power consumption as they are usually driven of the limited power of a USB port. in practise in equal comparisons there is very little difference between SATA and USB for speed. both are limited by the physical performance of the drives rather than the technology itself. eSATA can do up to about 300MB/s from memory, while USB3 can theoretically reach 600MB/s but has the overhead of conversion, in reality they are both well and truly limited by drive performance rather than technology of the connection speed.
The limiting factor with external drives is not the transfer rate of the connection, it is the speeds of the drive itself, you could have a 100TB/s connector, it still isn't going to run at any significantly faster rates. Current 7200 speed 4TB drives max out under 200MB/s
And that is just it. Good enough is all most consumers want, especially when their is a price differentiator. At the moment the average consumer doesn't have a desperate need for thunderbolt, that isn't to say it isn't better, just this really is still borderline as to wether it falls through the cracks to become another firewire or niche market. Consumers simply don't demand the absolute best, they demand good enough for the money.
There is a world of difference between a close, slow small boat and a ballistic missile. Even if NK have made the worst possible missiles they won't be close enough or slow enough for this to have any effect whatsoever.
As a user does not lose access to all their old stuff after a password reset then I think it is safe to say that while they "could" do that, they definitely DO NOT.
I disagree, I think they lost a lot more money from always online. people like me that love SimCity but won't buy it because of always online, same problem for steam, I avoid all that shit wherever possible.
I am not sure I would consider ANY of those devices major new entrants, maybe with the exception of steambox but it is looking increasingly likely it will be priced out of the console market. These devices all seem to be aiming at niche markets within the console market, as such I am still somewhat sceptical that any of them can succeed in a way that would have a significant impact (that is not to say they won't succeed in their niche).
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It really isn't so much that they are going to waste it (though that is always a concern). investors/shareholders make money from one of 2 ways (like it or not investors are their to make money), either the shares go up in value or they receive an income as dividend from those shares. Apple doesn't have to provide stellar growth, they can continue on with their excellent profit and earnings with no growth, however to do so they need to change the way they are returning value as without growth shareprice will stagnate which means you have just removed the traditional way that Apple investors were getting value from the shares. buybacks and dividend allow investor returns while also bolstering the shareprice through desirability as an investment. What they are doing makes sound business sense even if like me you despise them.
It isn't dumb, I don't like Apple but it is actually a smart move. They need to return shareholder value as their growth proposition going forward is uncertain or potentially even negative. The choices are return shareholder value through dividend and buybacks or watch the stock slide.
Not really, the Cybermen are far more caring and sensitive than most obsessed with there phones.
As CFO that would still leave him in deep shit as he signed them off as accurate before submitting them, the SEC won't accept an excuse that he was pressured. It would also leave him in a really bad situation where unless the next person in the job is willing to cover up for him (pretty unlikely) then his next job is going to be calculating his very large lawyer bills trying to keep his arse out of jail.
The 2 are unrelated events. The shares went up because of the very good financial growth MS showed this quarter despite the drop in PC sales.
Ah, yes, Microsoft is in deep shit now, what with the record revenue and what not. No wonder the CFO ran away. 2013 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop, all hail RMS!
And you expected something different here? Microsoft's latest numbers are actually astoundingly good, better than even most of the optimists predicted. They speak of a very healthy company, not one in decline at all.
it really only did average on the zero day stuff, which is not the strong point of essentials. on the known malware it still does very well. the tests by AV-Test really don't provide a good way for the average user to judge products as most are not under attack from zero day malware and viri.
yep and pretty sure MS don't write the Slashdot summaries around here. The retarded monkeys that translate them into the clickbait that is acceptable here are kept in a cage in the far corner.
When XP first came out people were bitching and moaning how you would drag windows 2000 workstation out of their cold dead hands before they touched it. XP really didn't become a stable hit till Service Pack 2 gave it a complete overhaul
well arguably an Ouya can't replace a Samsung Galaxy S3, while an S3 does most everything an ouya can do as well as being a day to day device that you use for practical purposes. Not saying it is a good argument, but price difference here is irrelevant when an Ouya can't actually replace the device in question.
When I say the majority. I mean computer programmers and admins I work with and My friends external to this environment, heck even my mother and younger sister wear them, off hand I can think of 2 friends that don't wear them and one of them doesn't carry a phone either. I would honestly have more trouble finding people without watches. Average age group would be in the 25-40 range and yes a smart watch would likely be confiscated at security, perhaps I am getting too old, but I didn't get smart watches when they first came out a decade or so ago and this next gen of them I still don't get and I suspect they will go the way of previous gens.
I would say the majority of people I know still wear watches. They don't have battery life measured in days, they can be taken swimming or into environments that you would be scared of damaging a phone, don't need to be turned off on a plane or in a meeting and don't get confiscated at the front door of security rated buildings that don't permit phones or electronic devices inside (a problem for me), easy to check in a theatre without pissing off others etc etc. As for a smart watch, well I can't really seeing them fitting with a large audience. They are "likely" to have limited battery life, are too small for any usefull amounts of information on screen and if they have internet connectivity then it is one more item I have to hand in at building security :-(.
It has been pretty hard to get a PC less powerful than a ps3 for quite a few years now.
I don't think you have any concept of the sheer volume of artillery that is sitting on that border. It is almost at the point where they could be lobbing rocks and still cause massive damage. As for skyscrapers, please show me these fabulous designs and materials they have been constructed out of that will withstand massive volleys of high explosives.
Not really, even with perfect cooperation from local politics. if you are a company that already has extensive experience with Fab's then you are looking at a couple of years. this is not just some warehouse you are throwing together. On top of that you need the personnel and then time once complete to get the chip yields up. throwing more money at that problem might make it a little shorter but not much. There is simply too much specialised equipment required that all needs to be built as it isn't just lying around as excess shelf stock in someones warehouse. I would think best case would be late 2015
Well that sounds more like a problem with your computer than USB3 itself, USB3 is dependent on the quality of your chips and is far more resource intensive than SATA. I am currently copying ISO images off my Western Digital passport USB3 drive, I am getting just over 80MB/s. Just for shits and giggles I tested it plugged directly into SATA and it is giving me 85MB/s. The absolute peak transfer rate the drive is rated for is 135MB/s (drives are slower at various points in each platter so realistally not achievable). there is no cable/connector you could plug into this drive to make this many times faster, it is technically not possible, you could maybe gain some small fractional boost by a protocol with less overhead but barring upgrading the physical drive itself there is simply no way.
SATA often appears quicker as external drives, especially USB are usually low speed drives for less power consumption as they are usually driven of the limited power of a USB port. in practise in equal comparisons there is very little difference between SATA and USB for speed. both are limited by the physical performance of the drives rather than the technology itself. eSATA can do up to about 300MB/s from memory, while USB3 can theoretically reach 600MB/s but has the overhead of conversion, in reality they are both well and truly limited by drive performance rather than technology of the connection speed.
The limiting factor with external drives is not the transfer rate of the connection, it is the speeds of the drive itself, you could have a 100TB/s connector, it still isn't going to run at any significantly faster rates. Current 7200 speed 4TB drives max out under 200MB/s
And that is just it. Good enough is all most consumers want, especially when their is a price differentiator. At the moment the average consumer doesn't have a desperate need for thunderbolt, that isn't to say it isn't better, just this really is still borderline as to wether it falls through the cracks to become another firewire or niche market. Consumers simply don't demand the absolute best, they demand good enough for the money.
There is a world of difference between a close, slow small boat and a ballistic missile. Even if NK have made the worst possible missiles they won't be close enough or slow enough for this to have any effect whatsoever.
As a user does not lose access to all their old stuff after a password reset then I think it is safe to say that while they "could" do that, they definitely DO NOT.
Microsoft was founded in 1975
Windows was introduced in 1985, so not sure what you are trying to say, last I checked 1985 was in the 80's
I disagree, I think they lost a lot more money from always online. people like me that love SimCity but won't buy it because of always online, same problem for steam, I avoid all that shit wherever possible.
I am not sure I would consider ANY of those devices major new entrants, maybe with the exception of steambox but it is looking increasingly likely it will be priced out of the console market. These devices all seem to be aiming at niche markets within the console market, as such I am still somewhat sceptical that any of them can succeed in a way that would have a significant impact (that is not to say they won't succeed in their niche).