Well, it's not about fairness or what will be the reality at Apple, but whether the stock holders think it might have hit its highest point and it is time to sell. That can be an avalanche. So Apple could be doing 1% worse, but the stock might have tanked.
Why is this comment modded Insightful when the quote has been manipulated to give it another meaning?
It’s a world where academics and researchers might find the data required to solve some of mankind’s biggest problems, but also where criminal syndicates operate, and terrorist handbooks and child pornography are freely distributed.
At the same time, the underground web is the best hope for those who want to escape the bonds of totalitarian state censorship, and share their ideas or experiences with the outside world.
The problem with AAPL is, if Steve Jobs drops dead tomorrow, it will implode in catastrophic ways. But if a piano falls out of the sky and takes out Balmer, MSFT will go up.
You have to understand the slashdot memes. These are constructed around the state of technology over a decade ago.
So, PHP is always bad, Javascript and Ajax are always bad, and when someone mentions MySQL, the karma whores come out to bash it and mention PostgreSQL.
They don't need an argument, the authors and upvoters are operating in old-man auto-bot mode. Like I said, it typically involves notions which were fixed years ago if they did exist to begin with.
These are elitist-wannabees, using simple rules of engagement, to show you how smart they are. Similar to grammar nazi. It is actually a quite lower-class thing to do. As Hannibal Lecter would say, you have to wonder if they still hear the lambs screaming.
Yes, they are all stupid monkeys, these people running the biggest sites, and you are sooo smart, yet can only point to "a book". The rest of my reply is in a book too, and has been given many, many times over.
What on earth are you talking about. Google has been censoring the search results in China. They erased Tank Man, for money. That makes them very evil, by choice, by committee. They changed after the attacks on their servers. The One Million Dollar question is: Do you think they do this for Tank Man, and to free the Chinese people, or for their own economic/political purposes?
Isn't their corporate motto "Do no evil"? So isn't also part of their corporate objective?
Hello? No. Why are you confusing what the ad broker (who sells your views and privacy to advertisers and lobbies in Washington to take privacy rights from you) advertises itself by, with their corporate objective. The corporate objective is to make lots of money by selling views to advertisers. Then it is better to advertise yourself as a Do no evil corp, in order to harvest more viewers who are sympathetic and simple to your marketing. They are very evil and cynical.
The magic word in OEM land is tactile vibrations. You can use it for feedback, and even have things like a circle drawn on your screen and you can feel it. That said, as a keyboard collector I know it will never get as good as 25 years ago. This is the borderland between typewriters and computers shipped with cheap $5 rubber dome boards, when they didn't yet realize you cannot compete if you ship your computer with a $250 keyboard. It is one of the few technologies which became worse and worse over the years. If you like cars and have lots of money, you can buy a Ferrari. If you like keyboards, uh, not so good. You can only buy cheap chinese cars, some with spoilers and wild lights or designs, but all crappy motors.
An inferiority complex would be someone who entered a discussion and can only come up with ad hominem arguments. It's like I'm having a discussion with a 12 year old. Here's a message from your dad: get off the computer, you need to do your homework.
It really sounds like you think the USA is the end of the world. How long will it take you to realize I don't live there? Typical bigot. I studied Computer Science started in 1989 (not even 100,000 Internet users worldwide at that point), and when I was finished I worked for the first ISP (Demon Internet), drove around in vans to the PoPs, installed ISDN-30 PoPs, and we invented vPoPs. Of course this was all later. In the beginning, there was no ISDN. A campus on ISDN? Never heard of it. It had a short life time anyway, you cannot get low bandwidth here, that is something for a country like the USA.
FYI, Mr. Arrogant, I lived through these technologies. Dual ISDN is lame, we had dedicated lines. But you guys have always been behind on bandwidth, I guess.
It all depends on your situation and how big your shop is. Obviously, if it is big and makes 10 million a year, that translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars for IE6 customers. If it "only" takes 50K to make it work for IE6, you know what to do. Likewise, for small shops it might not be worth it.
Depends on the audience. For starters, for a webshop, you are absolutely right. They shouldn't even piss away 2% of their customers. If you are not selling, things are different. IMO you shouldn't be held hostage by and pay for those companies who keep using IE6 because they don't want to pay for an upgrade. It is a bit ridiculous that the world is paying zillions in development costs so these companies can avoid it. They are parasites.
You made no points. So what is it you want? It's ok to give up privacy because everybody does, and people who don't are bad? Why would you post something like that unless you are corrupted?
Let me fix that for you. Their web interface is a usability nightmare compared to native mail apps, and running a javascript mail client from a browser is far less efficient.
As a time traveler from the future I must tell that we did not find any ASCII texts.
We did find a lot of these peculiar mechanical magnetic rotating devices with strange connectors on them.
We examined the surface of these disks but it seems all information was lost long ago.
Chrome the fastest growing? Looking at the numbers, it seems growth is also flattening out. Perhaps a headline: "Chrome will not make it if they continue this way" is more accurate of their situation.
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Well, it's not about fairness or what will be the reality at Apple, but whether the stock holders think it might have hit its highest point and it is time to sell. That can be an avalanche. So Apple could be doing 1% worse, but the stock might have tanked.
Do you have any spare pianos?
It’s a world where academics and researchers might find the data required to solve some of mankind’s biggest problems, but also where criminal syndicates operate, and terrorist handbooks and child pornography are freely distributed.
At the same time, the underground web is the best hope for those who want to escape the bonds of totalitarian state censorship, and share their ideas or experiences with the outside world.
Interested? You’re not alone.
The problem with AAPL is, if Steve Jobs drops dead tomorrow, it will implode in catastrophic ways. But if a piano falls out of the sky and takes out Balmer, MSFT will go up.
You have to understand the slashdot memes. These are constructed around the state of technology over a decade ago. So, PHP is always bad, Javascript and Ajax are always bad, and when someone mentions MySQL, the karma whores come out to bash it and mention PostgreSQL. They don't need an argument, the authors and upvoters are operating in old-man auto-bot mode. Like I said, it typically involves notions which were fixed years ago if they did exist to begin with. These are elitist-wannabees, using simple rules of engagement, to show you how smart they are. Similar to grammar nazi. It is actually a quite lower-class thing to do. As Hannibal Lecter would say, you have to wonder if they still hear the lambs screaming.
Yes, they are all stupid monkeys, these people running the biggest sites, and you are sooo smart, yet can only point to "a book". The rest of my reply is in a book too, and has been given many, many times over.
What on earth are you talking about. Google has been censoring the search results in China. They erased Tank Man, for money. That makes them very evil, by choice, by committee. They changed after the attacks on their servers. The One Million Dollar question is: Do you think they do this for Tank Man, and to free the Chinese people, or for their own economic/political purposes?
Isn't their corporate motto "Do no evil"? So isn't also part of their corporate objective?
Hello? No. Why are you confusing what the ad broker (who sells your views and privacy to advertisers and lobbies in Washington to take privacy rights from you) advertises itself by, with their corporate objective. The corporate objective is to make lots of money by selling views to advertisers. Then it is better to advertise yourself as a Do no evil corp, in order to harvest more viewers who are sympathetic and simple to your marketing. They are very evil and cynical.
The magic word in OEM land is tactile vibrations. You can use it for feedback, and even have things like a circle drawn on your screen and you can feel it. That said, as a keyboard collector I know it will never get as good as 25 years ago. This is the borderland between typewriters and computers shipped with cheap $5 rubber dome boards, when they didn't yet realize you cannot compete if you ship your computer with a $250 keyboard. It is one of the few technologies which became worse and worse over the years. If you like cars and have lots of money, you can buy a Ferrari. If you like keyboards, uh, not so good. You can only buy cheap chinese cars, some with spoilers and wild lights or designs, but all crappy motors.
An inferiority complex would be someone who entered a discussion and can only come up with ad hominem arguments. It's like I'm having a discussion with a 12 year old. Here's a message from your dad: get off the computer, you need to do your homework.
Oh, you are out of arguments, so now I'm no longer an ignorant newbie, but I'm weird. Jesus man, get a grip on yourself.
It really sounds like you think the USA is the end of the world. How long will it take you to realize I don't live there? Typical bigot. I studied Computer Science started in 1989 (not even 100,000 Internet users worldwide at that point), and when I was finished I worked for the first ISP (Demon Internet), drove around in vans to the PoPs, installed ISDN-30 PoPs, and we invented vPoPs. Of course this was all later. In the beginning, there was no ISDN. A campus on ISDN? Never heard of it. It had a short life time anyway, you cannot get low bandwidth here, that is something for a country like the USA.
FYI, Mr. Arrogant, I lived through these technologies. Dual ISDN is lame, we had dedicated lines. But you guys have always been behind on bandwidth, I guess.
Why are you advertising for an ad agency? Don't you have a mind of your own?
I've never seen a 128kbps limit in those days, what a strange limit.
Yes, that is useful. According to Google, their black information sucking hole is of no harm to your privacy.
It all depends on your situation and how big your shop is. Obviously, if it is big and makes 10 million a year, that translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars for IE6 customers. If it "only" takes 50K to make it work for IE6, you know what to do. Likewise, for small shops it might not be worth it.
Depends on the audience. For starters, for a webshop, you are absolutely right. They shouldn't even piss away 2% of their customers. If you are not selling, things are different. IMO you shouldn't be held hostage by and pay for those companies who keep using IE6 because they don't want to pay for an upgrade. It is a bit ridiculous that the world is paying zillions in development costs so these companies can avoid it. They are parasites.
You made no points. So what is it you want? It's ok to give up privacy because everybody does, and people who don't are bad? Why would you post something like that unless you are corrupted?
Let me fix that for you. Their web interface is a usability nightmare compared to native mail apps, and running a javascript mail client from a browser is far less efficient.
Don't you get it? They just want their cut, and don't want Paypal to walk with it. The rest is noise.
As a time traveler from the future I must tell that we did not find any ASCII texts. We did find a lot of these peculiar mechanical magnetic rotating devices with strange connectors on them. We examined the surface of these disks but it seems all information was lost long ago.
You were right, I was wrong.
This is a flattening curve. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=3
Chrome the fastest growing? Looking at the numbers, it seems growth is also flattening out. Perhaps a headline: "Chrome will not make it if they continue this way" is more accurate of their situation.