A shock absorber is a piston in a fluid column. It's force is dependent on the velocity through the working fluid. A spring on the other hand produces a force proportional to its displacement not its velocity.
Confusion could arise because modern cars don't use separate units but instead use a strut assembly which is a shock + spring.
While you are probably correct that the DRM & Linux people have little to do with it you are way off base as to what is the real problem at Sony. Sony finds themselves on the wrong side of pretty much every quickly evolving high tech consumer device.
They were very slow to move away from CRT production which they were very strong in. The ramped up their LCD production just as the bottom fell out of LCD pricing. They are now attempting to catch up in the OLED space which ironically wouldn't exist in its current state without Sony R&D.
They were slow to move from tape to CD to digital music and lost the entire market.
Their once dominant position in the console market is gone. They are actually being out innovated by Microsoft. This isn't even the Microsoft of 15 years ago that was trying. They are losing to the Vista Microsoft.. it boggles the mind.
tldr; They are losing tons of money because they have become really slow in the fastest moving consumer markets.
Because Microsoft believes, and correctly so, that no matter what they do to their OS PC manufacturers will still preload it on all of their hardware. This will lead to more developers targeting metro apps which, in time, will lead to a more robust ecosystem for their phone platform.
No, I don't. I was responding to the assertion that the 10% of people that do use Office are the "productive" part of a company. This has not been my experience. In fact I would go as far as saying that the use of Office is negatively correlated with productivity.
Right. And if they had said that they couldn't verify ALL of the documents or verify that the contents of ALL of the documents their statements would have been self consistent. As is however, they both claim and disavow ownership at the same time.
They seem to be a bit confused about the authenticity of the documents:
"Therefore, the authenticity of those documents has not been confirmed." (in bold none the less) then at the bottom:
"How did this happen? The stolen documents were obtained by an unknown person who fraudulently assumed the identity of a Heartland board member and persuaded a staff member here to “re-send” board materials to a new email address."
Err so they are your documents but you cannot confirm that they are your documents?
My experience is exactly the opposite. Perhaps this is due to all of the companies I have worked in being fairly high tech.
The only people in any of the companies I have ever worked in that used Office, at all, have been in sales and legal. Research people tend towards far more powerful tools such as R and MatLab for analysis and LATEX for reporting. Developers tend towards in line documentation if they can be bothered to doc at all. Accounting I guess could use excel but I have never been anywhere that didn't use peachtree or quickbooks.
Honestly, Office seems to be used mostly for one sales drone to send another sales drone a power point about how many sales they have in their sales.
First time I have heard Apple being called a marketing company but I would assume it is because, at least in the mobile hardware side, they don't actually make anything. I have no idea where their PCs are made of if they actually own that production or if it is all OEM/ODM as well.
There's a large misconception about Microsoft being a patent troll. In fact, they have never used their patents to bully other companies. Only time they've used their patents is when other companies have tried to bully them..
So you are claiming that HTC and Samsung have been trying to bully MS? How about B&N?
I hope you are least getting paid for being this wrong.
The 800 has been on sale in Nokia's strongest smartphone markets since november. The 900 is the exact same phone with a larger screen and FFC. It will change nothing.
$5B is the amount FB will pocket with the sale of shares at the IPO price. The $100B number is the market value of all share @ the ipo price, give or take. I have heard as low as $75B.
I am not complaining about anything. As I said above, I couldn't care less. I don't own shares of Apple at this time and even if I did, I doubt I would care. I am just telling you what I have heard. No need to shoot the messenger:)
Me?!? No, I couldn't care less how much cash Apple sits on. The investment community however believes strongly in CAPM. What Apple is doing is equivalent to an individual putting cash under the mattress. From their point of view there are only two options, a) give it back to investors (dividends) b) invest in something that will improve returns. Holding cash or cash equivalent of this scale, from their point of view, is hurting their investors.
No doubt, because you could just use a Windows PC or Android phone/tablet and be pretty close to where you were. Of course the same could be said for Exxon. Royal Dutch, BP and Chevron all make fossil fuel derivatives that aren't just similar to Exxon but identical.
Or not spending it. Apple is notorious in investment circles for their lack of spending. Their cash on hand has now become a real issue. I think the stat I heard just after the conference call was they now have move cash on hand than the market value of the bottom 400 of the S&P 500 COMBINED. Amazing stuff really.
I would say "kinda". The bigger story isn't the blowout story. For most nerds, it is that a tech company is now the largest company in the world when measured by market cap. Apple passed Exxon in after market trading.
An ancillary story would be the rise of mobile and a potential sea change in how we interact with our computing devices. These are good times for nerds me thinks!
Sorry for sounding a bit like an Apple fanboi. I actually think Apple is bad for nerds long term.
I assume I am missing something here. The article states in the second paragraph:
"The Lumia handsets, which went on sale in Europe in November, probably sold 1.3 million units globally to operators and retailers by the end of last year, according to the average estimate of 22 analysts compiled by Bloomberg. The projections range from 800,000 to 2 million and only one analyst predicted sales of fewer than 1 million handsets."
How are these estimates any different than any other estimates? In fact, since this is an aggregate it probably includes those very same estimates that you claim are somehow flawed.
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That's pretty amazing since the original iPhone didn't have apps at all. The apple app store its self didn't exist until mid 2008.
Nerds! You made me unmod :(
A shock absorber is a piston in a fluid column. It's force is dependent on the velocity through the working fluid.
A spring on the other hand produces a force proportional to its displacement not its velocity.
Confusion could arise because modern cars don't use separate units but instead use a strut assembly which is a shock + spring.
While you are probably correct that the DRM & Linux people have little to do with it you are way off base as to what is the real problem at Sony. Sony finds themselves on the wrong side of pretty much every quickly evolving high tech consumer device.
They were very slow to move away from CRT production which they were very strong in. The ramped up their LCD production just as the bottom fell out of LCD pricing. They are now attempting to catch up in the OLED space which ironically wouldn't exist in its current state without Sony R&D.
They were slow to move from tape to CD to digital music and lost the entire market.
Their once dominant position in the console market is gone. They are actually being out innovated by Microsoft. This isn't even the Microsoft of 15 years ago that was trying. They are losing to the Vista Microsoft.. it boggles the mind.
tldr; They are losing tons of money because they have become really slow in the fastest moving consumer markets.
Because Microsoft believes, and correctly so, that no matter what they do to their OS PC manufacturers will still preload it on all of their hardware. This will lead to more developers targeting metro apps which, in time, will lead to a more robust ecosystem for their phone platform.
No, I don't. I was responding to the assertion that the 10% of people that do use Office are the "productive" part of a company. This has not been my experience. In fact I would go as far as saying that the use of Office is negatively correlated with productivity.
Right. And if they had said that they couldn't verify ALL of the documents or verify that the contents of ALL of the documents their statements would have been self consistent. As is however, they both claim and disavow ownership at the same time.
They seem to be a bit confused about the authenticity of the documents:
"Therefore, the authenticity of those documents has not been confirmed." (in bold none the less)
then at the bottom:
"How did this happen? The stolen documents were obtained by an unknown person who fraudulently assumed the identity of a Heartland board member and persuaded a staff member here to “re-send” board materials to a new email address."
Err so they are your documents but you cannot confirm that they are your documents?
My experience is exactly the opposite. Perhaps this is due to all of the companies I have worked in being fairly high tech.
The only people in any of the companies I have ever worked in that used Office, at all, have been in sales and legal. Research people tend towards far more powerful tools such as R and MatLab for analysis and LATEX for reporting. Developers tend towards in line documentation if they can be bothered to doc at all. Accounting I guess could use excel but I have never been anywhere that didn't use peachtree or quickbooks.
Honestly, Office seems to be used mostly for one sales drone to send another sales drone a power point about how many sales they have in their sales.
First time I have heard Apple being called a marketing company but I would assume it is because, at least in the mobile hardware side, they don't actually make anything. I have no idea where their PCs are made of if they actually own that production or if it is all OEM/ODM as well.
There's a large misconception about Microsoft being a patent troll. In fact, they have never used their patents to bully other companies. Only time they've used their patents is when other companies have tried to bully them. .
So you are claiming that HTC and Samsung have been trying to bully MS? How about B&N?
I hope you are least getting paid for being this wrong.
The 800 has been on sale in Nokia's strongest smartphone markets since november. The 900 is the exact same phone with a larger screen and FFC. It will change nothing.
$5B is the amount FB will pocket with the sale of shares at the IPO price. The $100B number is the market value of all share @ the ipo price, give or take. I have heard as low as $75B.
Why do you say that kernel is a distant relative? I was under the impression that little had changed outside the driver model.
I have never used Good, but I would assume if the app is crap and a lot of people still use it then it must do something both unique and desirable.
I am not complaining about anything. As I said above, I couldn't care less. I don't own shares of Apple at this time and even if I did, I doubt I would care. I am just telling you what I have heard. No need to shoot the messenger :)
Me?!? No, I couldn't care less how much cash Apple sits on. The investment community however believes strongly in CAPM. What Apple is doing is equivalent to an individual putting cash under the mattress. From their point of view there are only two options, a) give it back to investors (dividends) b) invest in something that will improve returns. Holding cash or cash equivalent of this scale, from their point of view, is hurting their investors.
Assume you didn't mean to reply to me? Obviously if you can't afford $400 then you can't afford $100k.
No doubt, because you could just use a Windows PC or Android phone/tablet and be pretty close to where you were. Of course the same could be said for Exxon. Royal Dutch, BP and Chevron all make fossil fuel derivatives that aren't just similar to Exxon but identical.
Right, but this is not a small move. They were roughly equal value only varying by noise.
Honestly, if you can't afford more than 1 share of Apple you shouldn't be playing in the market.
The only number I heard about iTunes was that it was 1.5X the entire revenue of Yahoo! who reported just before Apple.
Or not spending it. Apple is notorious in investment circles for their lack of spending. Their cash on hand has now become a real issue. I think the stat I heard just after the conference call was they now have move cash on hand than the market value of the bottom 400 of the S&P 500 COMBINED. Amazing stuff really.
I would say "kinda". The bigger story isn't the blowout story. For most nerds, it is that a tech company is now the largest company in the world when measured by market cap. Apple passed Exxon in after market trading.
An ancillary story would be the rise of mobile and a potential sea change in how we interact with our computing devices. These are good times for nerds me thinks!
Sorry for sounding a bit like an Apple fanboi. I actually think Apple is bad for nerds long term.
Wouldn't 2% be a rather significant boost for WP7 sales if that were just Nokia though?
I assume I am missing something here. The article states in the second paragraph:
"The Lumia handsets, which went on sale in Europe in November, probably sold 1.3 million units globally to operators and retailers by the end of last year, according to the average estimate of 22 analysts compiled by Bloomberg. The projections range from 800,000 to 2 million and only one analyst predicted sales of fewer than 1 million handsets."
How are these estimates any different than any other estimates? In fact, since this is an aggregate it probably includes those very same estimates that you claim are somehow flawed.