Simply selling off these stocks would not result in an improvement of the investors situation, in fact it makes it worse as they have even less security or growth in cash.
I don't think anybody is suggesting that investors should sell Microsoft and put the cash in their mattress. But that is not the only alternative to holding Microsoft. You can buy Ford, Walmart, RedHat, US treasures, corporate and municipal bonds, etc. etc.
The idea behind investing in blue chip stocks is to keep them for a very long time as they are not meant to grow quickly.
Plus selling stocks means you pay tax on the income in most western nations meaning that $100,000 earned from selling MSFT does not equal buying $100,000 of bonds.
Over the long term, MSFT has been stable for the last 8 or so years, there was a huge boost when Windows XP and Server 2000 were released which when back down to about what it is today, if you bought in 95, you're stocks are still worth more a lot more then when you bought them, even in 97. If you want to see a truly non-performing stock try QANTAS ASX:QAN. In the last 3 years it went from almost A$6 to A$1.70.
The vast majority of iPod/iPhone/iPad owners have never met Steve Jobs; they've never watched an Apple video stream of a Steve Jobs keynote. They may have seen him on the cover of Time once, but they never read the article, because that's boring business-stock-market-computer-geek stuff.
There in lies the problem.
Keeping the rabid fanboys deluded is easy, its the average people who will first realise that Apple isn't all it's cracked up to be. No one really knew Steve Jobs, they only knew of Steve Jobs. This is what gave his personality power, Fanboys would shout sound bites of Jobs from the rooftops and the somnambulent public listened. They weren't interested in what was said, only that it came from one with a reputation of a demi-god. No-one really needed to know Steve Jobs or even anything about Steve Jobs but they believed and loved Steve Jobs because it was popular and made them feel special. Job's charisma was more important then what he said, few can actually recall anything Jobs has said, but most will say he was innovative and imaginative (when in real life, Apple copied a lot of what they "innovated").
Can the Reality Distortion Field continue to hold now the cult of personality is gone. That I highly doubt.
They haven't even read the tell-all biography that every tech news site has been posting exposes on, because, well, nobody reads books anymore.
Actually, the only people who I know that have read Steve Job's "tell-all biography" are non-Apple fanboys. Apple fanboys dismiss it as being untrue in order to avoid facing it. Meanwhile I know normal people who wont buy another Mac because of what they read in that biography, they are actually surprised to find out Steve Jobs in reality was an arsehole. This same person lavishly praised Job's after his death, but has retracted those comments after reading the bio.
Um. Google *can* and does remotely delete apps from phones:
Um, only through the Google market. Install an application from an APK and they cant do anything. Not like you can install an application package file on an Iphone without Apple's Express permission.
Hey, dont let the facts in the way of a good baseless rant.
You Brits don't have a thing to worry about. Hollywood will use cheap CGI and how does Eddie Murphy as Doctor Who sound?
Directed by Michael Bay,
Lindsey Lohan will be the doctors Companion.
The TARDIS will literally be made of explosions.
I toyed with the idea of dressing the Doctor as a Pimp for Lohan's benefit, but given some of the outfits worn by the previous Doctor's that would be too much like the old BBC series.
As I read, I read to myself in my head, not sounding out letters, but the words as I go. Whenever I see this example of transposition, that voice in my head starts to sound like it has Down syndrome.
You learn to recognise words by shapes, it's not prefect, but context is oslo used by your brain to tell you what the word said. We read entire sentences, not just words.
However I stop on words I've never encountered before, normally non-english or names. Sometimes I try to sound these out in my head but often enough I have to vocalise them especially Spanish, Asian words are the worst for me as the spelling is never how it's pronounced in real life. I.E. a few Thai words (English spelling = English pronunciation), Parn = Pam, Porn = Pon, Suvarnabhumi = Sue-wan-na-poom
that voice in my head starts to sound like it has Down syndrome.
Mine sounds like a clown and he's very,. very angry all the time.
The file lacks any kind of header information, doesn't know if it's Arthur or Martha. It should at least contain references AlwaysRight.h, ShortTempered.h and OccasionalSex.h.
Replace that file with this line:
PRINTF "whatever you like dear, I'm sure it will look lovely."
My last GF was Thai, so I could load LBFM.h but had to remember not to load call any of the functions on any entity but the GF to early or a conflict with Knife.h would cause serious damage to my hardware.
Many people fail to execute the simple solution, as it might require them to admit they were wrong to buy it in the first place. It's a well known psychological shortfall who's proper term I can't recall atm. Like anti-buyers-remorse.
It's called Buyers Remorse, much the same as when a normal person becomes an Apple fanboy because they cant admit that their purchase did not meet their imagination so they need to attack anyone who disagrees with them and create an imaginary world around their purchase. Also Choice Supportive Bias.
But this isn't about Buyers Remorse. Most people buy blue chip stocks like MSFT for the long term. Not only are they supposed to grow in value (gradually year after year) but provide dividends each year. So MSFT is meant to be for long term financial security rather then short term gain. Stock holders are upset because they feel the long term security of MSFT is threatened, not because the share price has fluctuated. Simply selling off these stocks would not result in an improvement of the investors situation, in fact it makes it worse as they have even less security or growth in cash.
it's not like the bank can start doing real profit from that too much.
sounds like gimmick marketing towards younger folk. customers should ask for the same deals without it or threaten to switch banks.
Actually, you can profit from personal data quite a bit. You sell it to marketing companies who sell the analysed results of that data to the companies who sell products which can be specifically targetted at such individuals. Seeing as you know who they are and how to contact them, that data is quite valuable.
Now under Australian law, banks are not permitted to do anything untoward with personal data. They have your credit card records, everything you bought, where you shop frequently and so forth. A small fraction of that data would be worth a large fortune on the open market. This looks like Comm bank's attempt to get around government regulation on selling personal data. Seeing as it's collected with the "knowledge" and "consent" (why isn't there a HTML entry for air quotes) of the user, they can sell the data to third parties who can harass^W advertise specific products to specific people.
I trust banks as far as I can throw them, Comm bank doubly so after this.
I mean, hell, Apple could buy pretty much every outstanding share of Samsung and LG outright, but doing so would not only be dumb on their part, but would drop the stock price into the dirt.
Once a company tries to forcefully take over another company by buying up it's shares, share prices skyrocket. There can be no avoiding this with a publicly listed company as this move has to be announced in advance. Just look at what happened to Yahoo shares when Microsoft announced they were just thinking of buying Yahoo.
Considering that during a hostile takeover, the buying price of the shares has to be in excess of the perceived value of the shares in order to get people to sell. Note this is the perceived value, not the current share price so it will be higher then the current share price.
This alone would stop Apple from even trying to buy out Samsung (which would have to be a hostile takeover).
Finally, we have organisations like the SEC, ASIC and other financial regulatory agencies that can flat out say, "no you cant buy them".
I would not kill a person, and I would not wear fur. But I would do either in a video game. Video games have not influenced me to murder people or wear fur, because I can tell the difference between games and reality.
This,
Further more, why do people keep giving organisations like PETA and NewsCorp the time of day. Seriously, it's obvious to a half retarded monkey that they are just trolling you, so why give them what they want.
Really? I was willing to stick with 2.3 but bailed out when I found that even the $300 Android tablets had awfully low res screens (lower than my tiny damn phone, in fact), and incredibly unresponsive and massively frustrating touch-screens.
I guess you didn't see the Archos range.
Or the other tablets that came out, even the Samsung Galaxy Tab (original 7" version) was around $200 at one stage.
All of these have capacitive touchscreens and 1 GHz processors. More then capable, but 2.x really wasn't built for a 7" display.
Right now, you'll start seeing honeycomb tablets for $300.
This is really what most of us care about at this point. Maybe 1% of us will actively use the code personally.
But that 1% matters as they are the device manufacturers.
Cheap Elocity or Archos tablets running ICS on display at your local Tesco's or Best Buy. Hell, I might buy one just for my car, the fact that the $200 tablets were all running 2.2 was the only thing stopping me (lets be honest, on a 7" screen 2.x was crap).
Just like Google promised, they were quite open about why they didnt release the Honeycomb source (not that it stopped ROM cookers) and that the changes in 3.x would be released in 4.0.
It's nice that a large company actually adheres to its word.
There's no reason that Apple's products need to be so fragile.
The problem is people feelings.
Whenever the debate over breakable phones happen, I inevitably hear the words "$ANDROID_PHONE _feels_ cheap and plasticy, like it's going to fall apart and Iphone _feels_ solid" I facepalm.
If I drop my phone our of my pocket, 1 metre onto concrete, HARDNESS IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The more flexible plastic which has more tensile strength so it will adsorb the impact, not to mention the components that are meant to come apart (I.E. battery cover) which serves to dissipate the kinetic energy. Tensile strength is what will save a phone in an impact, the hard casing of the iphone works against it's durability. If only people stopped relying on their "feelings" and used their brains when considering survivability.
I've dropped my HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone. The back came off the Dream but apart from that, it still works fine. The Moto was the same the first time, but the second time the slider for the keyboad broke, the phone itself still works, no cracked screens of cases, but the keyboard will eventually come off. Haven't dropped my HTC Desire Z yet, I guess it's because nothing better with a physical KB has come out:)
I've got an old Nokia 6500 C, metal and plastic case, survived half a dozen drops. 3 years and still working.
You seem to have come down with a bad case of selective memory. A Google fan could've made the same statement, just replacing "XBox" with "Android". However, in both cases, it'd be pointing out one success while ignoring multiple failures.
Android, multiple failures?
I dont think you know what that word means, either of them.
Android went from strength to strength to become the most prolific mobile OS's out there. In the console world, Android is more akin to Nintendo, The Xbox and PS fans put it down, said no-one wanted to buy it and it sold like hotcakes. So much so they are looking to release a new console whilst Sony and Microsoft continue to count their losses hoping to be back in the black within a year or two.
Also the GGP is vastly overestimating Bing's market share, estimates range from 9-11% and most of that is at the detriment of Yahoo.
The Military doesn't need custom cell phones. It needs a supply chain for disposable cell phones that they can replace easily if they break.
This is a terrible idea as it promotes more waste, a problem the US military already has. Cheap disposable phones are a nightmare for any organisation, I once worked for a company who had this philosophy, the disposable phones cost more then getting proper phones because people would just keep losing/breaking them.
Now even in peace time there are a shit load of places you dont want to be with a broken device you depend on, the US military does a lot of international peacekeeping (one of the few decent missions they have left). Hell, US marines have just announced they will maintain a permanent presence in Darwin. I know you're an American who has no idea where Darwin is, Darwin is a city in the North of Australia. it's 2000 KM's from the next nearest city through one of the harshest climates on earth. This is no exaggeration. 45 Degree C days, Deserts, poisonous snakes and spiders. Beyond this, if you get near a water source, it's likely to be croc infested. Crocs dont think twice about taking out a man who's disturbed them and they are frighteningly good at it. 3-4 metres are not unusual and that's just the fresh water versions, salt water crocs are bigger and meaner. I can assure you, 2 days walk from Darwin is not somewhere you want tot be with a "disposable" comms or navigation device, US Marine or not.
.Let the Corporate Enforcement Officers (AKA Police) make the first violent or unlawful move, and make sure you have the video camera running when they do. And when they do, the Court of Public Opinion shall judge them.
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sadly my team has never won a premiership and I don't think my team will *ever* win a premiership while I'm alive
Freo fan I take it.
Any group of fans who refer to 'the others' as 'the haters' is a fucking cult.
See Sig.
Simply selling off these stocks would not result in an improvement of the investors situation, in fact it makes it worse as they have even less security or growth in cash.
I don't think anybody is suggesting that investors should sell Microsoft and put the cash in their mattress. But that is not the only alternative to holding Microsoft. You can buy Ford, Walmart, RedHat, US treasures, corporate and municipal bonds, etc. etc.
The idea behind investing in blue chip stocks is to keep them for a very long time as they are not meant to grow quickly.
Plus selling stocks means you pay tax on the income in most western nations meaning that $100,000 earned from selling MSFT does not equal buying $100,000 of bonds.
Over the long term, MSFT has been stable for the last 8 or so years, there was a huge boost when Windows XP and Server 2000 were released which when back down to about what it is today, if you bought in 95, you're stocks are still worth more a lot more then when you bought them, even in 97. If you want to see a truly non-performing stock try QANTAS ASX:QAN. In the last 3 years it went from almost A$6 to A$1.70.
There in lies the problem.
Keeping the rabid fanboys deluded is easy, its the average people who will first realise that Apple isn't all it's cracked up to be. No one really knew Steve Jobs, they only knew of Steve Jobs. This is what gave his personality power, Fanboys would shout sound bites of Jobs from the rooftops and the somnambulent public listened. They weren't interested in what was said, only that it came from one with a reputation of a demi-god. No-one really needed to know Steve Jobs or even anything about Steve Jobs but they believed and loved Steve Jobs because it was popular and made them feel special. Job's charisma was more important then what he said, few can actually recall anything Jobs has said, but most will say he was innovative and imaginative (when in real life, Apple copied a lot of what they "innovated").
Can the Reality Distortion Field continue to hold now the cult of personality is gone. That I highly doubt.
They haven't even read the tell-all biography that every tech news site has been posting exposes on, because, well, nobody reads books anymore.
Actually, the only people who I know that have read Steve Job's "tell-all biography" are non-Apple fanboys. Apple fanboys dismiss it as being untrue in order to avoid facing it. Meanwhile I know normal people who wont buy another Mac because of what they read in that biography, they are actually surprised to find out Steve Jobs in reality was an arsehole. This same person lavishly praised Job's after his death, but has retracted those comments after reading the bio.
I'd hope the AFL-CIO would shape up if enough members threatened to quit.
Well they've had players quit before. I dont see what the CIO can do about that when keeping players is up to the clubs.
What, we aren't talking about the Australian Football League's Chief Information Officer?
Wait, wait,
Isn't Syria one of those evil countries who American companies aren't meant to trade with or ship technology to?
How do they get Mac's and app developer licenses if there's an embargo?
Um. Google *can* and does remotely delete apps from phones:
Um, only through the Google market. Install an application from an APK and they cant do anything. Not like you can install an application package file on an Iphone without Apple's Express permission.
Hey, dont let the facts in the way of a good baseless rant.
I remember the horrible mess that was the US version of The Office, as well as the Australian show Kath & Kim.
The Australian version of Kath & Kim was the original version.
And it did suck, not in a good way like a filipina hooker, I mean horribly.
As an Australian, I would like to apologise profusely for releasing thing horror on the world, we are deeply, deeply ashamed.
You Brits don't have a thing to worry about. Hollywood will use cheap CGI and how does Eddie Murphy as Doctor Who sound?
Directed by Michael Bay,
Lindsey Lohan will be the doctors Companion.
The TARDIS will literally be made of explosions.
I toyed with the idea of dressing the Doctor as a Pimp for Lohan's benefit, but given some of the outfits worn by the previous Doctor's that would be too much like the old BBC series.
Man, if you're wxxxxxg, I don't want to hear about it.
He's waxing?
I dont really want to hear about it either but you know, his personal grooming techniques are no concern of mine.
As I read, I read to myself in my head, not sounding out letters, but the words as I go. Whenever I see this example of transposition, that voice in my head starts to sound like it has Down syndrome.
You learn to recognise words by shapes, it's not prefect, but context is oslo used by your brain to tell you what the word said. We read entire sentences, not just words.
However I stop on words I've never encountered before, normally non-english or names. Sometimes I try to sound these out in my head but often enough I have to vocalise them especially Spanish, Asian words are the worst for me as the spelling is never how it's pronounced in real life. I.E. a few Thai words (English spelling = English pronunciation), Parn = Pam, Porn = Pon, Suvarnabhumi = Sue-wan-na-poom
that voice in my head starts to sound like it has Down syndrome.
Mine sounds like a clown and he's very,. very angry all the time.
There's your problem.
The file lacks any kind of header information, doesn't know if it's Arthur or Martha. It should at least contain references AlwaysRight.h, ShortTempered.h and OccasionalSex.h.
Replace that file with this line:
PRINTF "whatever you like dear, I'm sure it will look lovely."
My last GF was Thai, so I could load LBFM.h but had to remember not to load call any of the functions on any entity but the GF to early or a conflict with Knife.h would cause serious damage to my hardware.
Many people fail to execute the simple solution, as it might require them to admit they were wrong to buy it in the first place. It's a well known psychological shortfall who's proper term I can't recall atm. Like anti-buyers-remorse.
It's called Buyers Remorse, much the same as when a normal person becomes an Apple fanboy because they cant admit that their purchase did not meet their imagination so they need to attack anyone who disagrees with them and create an imaginary world around their purchase. Also Choice Supportive Bias.
But this isn't about Buyers Remorse. Most people buy blue chip stocks like MSFT for the long term. Not only are they supposed to grow in value (gradually year after year) but provide dividends each year. So MSFT is meant to be for long term financial security rather then short term gain. Stock holders are upset because they feel the long term security of MSFT is threatened, not because the share price has fluctuated. Simply selling off these stocks would not result in an improvement of the investors situation, in fact it makes it worse as they have even less security or growth in cash.
it's not like the bank can start doing real profit from that too much.
sounds like gimmick marketing towards younger folk. customers should ask for the same deals without it or threaten to switch banks.
Actually, you can profit from personal data quite a bit. You sell it to marketing companies who sell the analysed results of that data to the companies who sell products which can be specifically targetted at such individuals. Seeing as you know who they are and how to contact them, that data is quite valuable.
Now under Australian law, banks are not permitted to do anything untoward with personal data. They have your credit card records, everything you bought, where you shop frequently and so forth. A small fraction of that data would be worth a large fortune on the open market. This looks like Comm bank's attempt to get around government regulation on selling personal data. Seeing as it's collected with the "knowledge" and "consent" (why isn't there a HTML entry for air quotes) of the user, they can sell the data to third parties who can harass^W advertise specific products to specific people.
I trust banks as far as I can throw them, Comm bank doubly so after this.
Patent lawyers have replaced Personal Injury lawyers as the scum of the earth.
Why are you insulting ambulance chasers like that?
I mean, hell, Apple could buy pretty much every outstanding share of Samsung and LG outright, but doing so would not only be dumb on their part, but would drop the stock price into the dirt.
Once a company tries to forcefully take over another company by buying up it's shares, share prices skyrocket. There can be no avoiding this with a publicly listed company as this move has to be announced in advance. Just look at what happened to Yahoo shares when Microsoft announced they were just thinking of buying Yahoo.
Considering that during a hostile takeover, the buying price of the shares has to be in excess of the perceived value of the shares in order to get people to sell. Note this is the perceived value, not the current share price so it will be higher then the current share price.
This alone would stop Apple from even trying to buy out Samsung (which would have to be a hostile takeover).
Finally, we have organisations like the SEC, ASIC and other financial regulatory agencies that can flat out say, "no you cant buy them".
I would not kill a person, and I would not wear fur. But I would do either in a video game. Video games have not influenced me to murder people or wear fur, because I can tell the difference between games and reality.
This,
Further more, why do people keep giving organisations like PETA and NewsCorp the time of day. Seriously, it's obvious to a half retarded monkey that they are just trolling you, so why give them what they want.
I guess you didn't see the Archos range.
Or the other tablets that came out, even the Samsung Galaxy Tab (original 7" version) was around $200 at one stage.
All of these have capacitive touchscreens and 1 GHz processors. More then capable, but 2.x really wasn't built for a 7" display.
Right now, you'll start seeing honeycomb tablets for $300.
Now how long before CyanogenMod 9 is released.
This is really what most of us care about at this point. Maybe 1% of us will actively use the code personally.
But that 1% matters as they are the device manufacturers.
Cheap Elocity or Archos tablets running ICS on display at your local Tesco's or Best Buy. Hell, I might buy one just for my car, the fact that the $200 tablets were all running 2.2 was the only thing stopping me (lets be honest, on a 7" screen 2.x was crap).
Well here it is,
Just like Google promised, they were quite open about why they didnt release the Honeycomb source (not that it stopped ROM cookers) and that the changes in 3.x would be released in 4.0.
It's nice that a large company actually adheres to its word.
Now how long before CyanogenMod 9 is released.
The problem is people feelings.
:)
Whenever the debate over breakable phones happen, I inevitably hear the words "$ANDROID_PHONE _feels_ cheap and plasticy, like it's going to fall apart and Iphone _feels_ solid" I facepalm.
If I drop my phone our of my pocket, 1 metre onto concrete, HARDNESS IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The more flexible plastic which has more tensile strength so it will adsorb the impact, not to mention the components that are meant to come apart (I.E. battery cover) which serves to dissipate the kinetic energy. Tensile strength is what will save a phone in an impact, the hard casing of the iphone works against it's durability. If only people stopped relying on their "feelings" and used their brains when considering survivability.
I've dropped my HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone. The back came off the Dream but apart from that, it still works fine. The Moto was the same the first time, but the second time the slider for the keyboad broke, the phone itself still works, no cracked screens of cases, but the keyboard will eventually come off. Haven't dropped my HTC Desire Z yet, I guess it's because nothing better with a physical KB has come out
I've got an old Nokia 6500 C, metal and plastic case, survived half a dozen drops. 3 years and still working.
Android, multiple failures?
I dont think you know what that word means, either of them.
Android went from strength to strength to become the most prolific mobile OS's out there. In the console world, Android is more akin to Nintendo, The Xbox and PS fans put it down, said no-one wanted to buy it and it sold like hotcakes. So much so they are looking to release a new console whilst Sony and Microsoft continue to count their losses hoping to be back in the black within a year or two.
Also the GGP is vastly overestimating Bing's market share, estimates range from 9-11% and most of that is at the detriment of Yahoo.
This is a terrible idea as it promotes more waste, a problem the US military already has. Cheap disposable phones are a nightmare for any organisation, I once worked for a company who had this philosophy, the disposable phones cost more then getting proper phones because people would just keep losing/breaking them.
Now even in peace time there are a shit load of places you dont want to be with a broken device you depend on, the US military does a lot of international peacekeeping (one of the few decent missions they have left). Hell, US marines have just announced they will maintain a permanent presence in Darwin. I know you're an American who has no idea where Darwin is, Darwin is a city in the North of Australia. it's 2000 KM's from the next nearest city through one of the harshest climates on earth. This is no exaggeration. 45 Degree C days, Deserts, poisonous snakes and spiders. Beyond this, if you get near a water source, it's likely to be croc infested. Crocs dont think twice about taking out a man who's disturbed them and they are frighteningly good at it. 3-4 metres are not unusual and that's just the fresh water versions, salt water crocs are bigger and meaner. I can assure you, 2 days walk from Darwin is not somewhere you want tot be with a "disposable" comms or navigation device, US Marine or not.
That's in Australia, a peaceful US ally.
.Let the Corporate Enforcement Officers (AKA Police) make the first violent or unlawful move, and make sure you have the video camera running when they do. And when they do, the Court of Public Opinion shall judge them.
Next on the 6 O'Clock news, our brave police take down an unlawful terrorist just in the nick of time. We'll have exclusive video footage of this arrest after the break. Now for a message from our sponsors.
I dunno. Aside from the cold of living in the northern part of the country, Norway isn't that bad.
You mean to imply there is a not cold part of Norway?
Surely you jest.