But the company would do much better I think on a whole if they go rid of Jobs. His moronic ideas of company doctrine will eventually kill the company. Anyone for a vote of no confidence?
Let me check Apple stock price and get back to you.
I did a fair amount of research on Toyota and the Prius when I was buying, and here are my conclusions:
Sludge had been a problem in some engines in the early to mid 2000s, but it is not widespread.
Hybrid batteries have been very reliable, have a 100,000 mile warranty--and very few have been replaced even after that period. Those few that have failed prematurely have been replaced at no cost to the consumer. What more do you want?
And the out-of-control thing (which as not even on the radar when i was researching last summer) is still not sorted out, which is why this discussion is even here.
You sat in one in an Auto show, and that qualifies you to say these things?
I own a 2010 Prius, and have for 8 months.
It will shift into neutral at any speed, like any other car out there. You need to hold the shift paddle in the neutral position for a few seconds, no longer than it takes to maneuver a mechanical column shifter into the neutral notch. The delay is a feature, not a bug...it keeps you from inadvertently shifting, just like the need to pull the lever on a column shifter toward you in order to shift it.
And furthermore, shifting into neutral at highway speed will NOT destroy the engine. If it could, then the standard manual transmission could not exist.
Faced with the choice of destroying the engine or crashing into a highway barrier at full throttle, I'll gladly take crashing into the barrier in order to save the engine.
Pedal-based emergency/parking/hand brake is not a new-fangled Prius thing. They are extremely common in America, in any automatic transmission car larger than a subcompact in my experience. My parent's 1970s land yachts had them, too.
I think you referring to the Lockerbie Bombing, Pan Am Flight 103. But yes, PETN was involved, though it was a time bomb in baggage in a baggage compartment, not ready-mixed by an individual in the cabin.
Apple got into the music business alright, some 25 YEARS after originally taking on the Apple name for a tiny garage-based company in a business that at the time seemed very unrelated to selling Beatles music. And ultimately Apple Computer PAID an undisclosed sum (translation: a boatload of cash) for the right to use the name in music marketing. Apple and Apple did have an agreement prior to the most recent one, its just that Apple Comp eventually grew out of it, and it had to be settled again, and indeed it was.
Actually, Apple DID grab a very related trademark: the iCal name was already in use for some time by another software calendar maker, Brown Bear software. The Brown Bear software site now explicitly states http://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalfaq.html that Apple is using the iCal mark by license, and brownbear is still selling their own product with the iCal name. All without benefit of any headline lawsuit that I ever saw.
The "but my electricity does not come from a coal plant" argument is moot.
Every power plant's output gets pooled into the electric grid, http://www.eere.energy.gov/de/grid_architecture.html , so there's no real way to precisely account for where "my" electricity comes from.
Indeed. Ultimately, the case was about illegally being required to show ID; it had nothing to do with Circuit City procedures. No victory for geeks here. Moreover, the former is probably the the more important case--and that one he yielded. No victory for libertarians, either.
Also, I don't get what's the deal with "windmills chop birds". Yes, they do sometimes. But birds fly into skyscrapers quite often too, and for some reason that doesn't seem to stop anybody from building them. There are also types of windmills that rotate slower, and are less dangerous to birds.
Well, for one thing, we don't build skyscrapers in continuous lines along the mountain ridges which huge numbers of birds follow as they migrate.
The model T was introduced at $850 in 1908. (It came down as low as $300 during its run, but the RIAA is referring to the cost of CD's at their mass-market introduction.) Using several inflation calculators available on the internet, in 2005 dollars, that translates to about $17,000.
You point is still valid, but as a/. reader, I am contractually compelled to nitpick. *grin*
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Whoo-hoo, that's a great idea! Now, instead of a single, central, easily regulated and maintained water supply we can have hundreds or thousands of separate water supplies, each with their own, probably increased, potential for contamination. Just think of all the new economic opportunities generated by the upsurge of water-borne illness and poisoning from contaminated water!
IANA epidemiologist, but I believe most water-borne illnesses are due to direct introduction of previously infected human or animal waste in the water supply, e.g., cholera, giardia. So unless your neighbor (or the local beaver) is defecating in your collection system, you are pretty safe from that threat.
I've seen several "It's recursive" comments, but no real figures. Here it goes:
Doing the Tax Man Dance, we see that the total cost to Oracle to award this guy his prize and pay his taxes would be $168,488.
Original Prize = $138,000
Taxes due on original prize = $25000, a rate of about 18%.
We'll assume the tax rate is just one bracket of 18% for all levels of income.
Stage one: Oracle pays $25000 for taxes. Tax on stage one: $4500
Stage two: Oracle pays $4500 for Stage one taxes, Tax on stage two: $810
Stage three: Oracle pays $810 for stage two taxes, tax on stage three: $146
Stage four: Oracle pays $146 for stage three taxes, tax on stage four: $26
Stage five: Oracle pays $26 for stage four taxes, tax on stage five: $5
Stage six: Oracle pays $5 for stage five taxes, tax on stage six: $1
Stage seven: Oracle pays $1 for stage six taxes, tax on stage seven, $0.18, round to to the nearest $1, tax dance over.
Grand total out of pocket for Oracle: $168,488
Out of pocket for Major Tom, $0
To be totally transparent, without any accounting voodoo, then Oracle should make the payments in sequential years over the next seven years. They would write the appropriate tax check in time for the winner to submit with his yearly return, beginning the year after he actually recieves his prize (i.e, takes his ride). Uncle Sam gets his money, Major Tom gets his ride, Oracle gets extra Good Guy publicity! Win-Win-Win!
The amount of area affected is important, too. IANAD, but even though only first-degree, having such burns over nearly the entire body would represent a serious threat. One rule of thumb I have seen is that any burn larger than the palm of your hand (approx. 1% of your body surface area) should be seen by a doctor, regardless of burn degree.
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Lucky guess. He had a 1 in 7 chance of being right, and pulled it off.
Lexmark sucks.
Let me check Apple stock price and get back to you.
Sludge had been a problem in some engines in the early to mid 2000s, but it is not widespread.
Hybrid batteries have been very reliable, have a 100,000 mile warranty--and very few have been replaced even after that period. Those few that have failed prematurely have been replaced at no cost to the consumer. What more do you want?
And the out-of-control thing (which as not even on the radar when i was researching last summer) is still not sorted out, which is why this discussion is even here.
Just sayin'.
I own a 2010 Prius, and have for 8 months.
It will shift into neutral at any speed, like any other car out there. You need to hold the shift paddle in the neutral position for a few seconds, no longer than it takes to maneuver a mechanical column shifter into the neutral notch. The delay is a feature, not a bug...it keeps you from inadvertently shifting, just like the need to pull the lever on a column shifter toward you in order to shift it.
And furthermore, shifting into neutral at highway speed will NOT destroy the engine. If it could, then the standard manual transmission could not exist.
Um, the cameras on these units are not hidden. Just not obvious at first if you don't know its there.
Oh, wait...
Pedal-based emergency/parking/hand brake is not a new-fangled Prius thing. They are extremely common in America, in any automatic transmission car larger than a subcompact in my experience. My parent's 1970s land yachts had them, too.
I think you referring to the Lockerbie Bombing, Pan Am Flight 103. But yes, PETN was involved, though it was a time bomb in baggage in a baggage compartment, not ready-mixed by an individual in the cabin.
Apple got into the music business alright, some 25 YEARS after originally taking on the Apple name for a tiny garage-based company in a business that at the time seemed very unrelated to selling Beatles music. And ultimately Apple Computer PAID an undisclosed sum (translation: a boatload of cash) for the right to use the name in music marketing. Apple and Apple did have an agreement prior to the most recent one, its just that Apple Comp eventually grew out of it, and it had to be settled again, and indeed it was.
Actually, Apple DID grab a very related trademark: the iCal name was already in use for some time by another software calendar maker, Brown Bear software. The Brown Bear software site now explicitly states http://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalfaq.html that Apple is using the iCal mark by license, and brownbear is still selling their own product with the iCal name. All without benefit of any headline lawsuit that I ever saw.
The "but my electricity does not come from a coal plant" argument is moot. Every power plant's output gets pooled into the electric grid, http://www.eere.energy.gov/de/grid_architecture.html , so there's no real way to precisely account for where "my" electricity comes from.
It's registered to nis now, though hard to say was because of your initial search or from another slashdotter attempting to follow up.
Not monetizing? If I buy it from Godaddy.com, I can register $9.99 (or less), if I buy it from NSI, I pay $19.95.
Sounds like making money to me, albeit not by advertising.
Yep, just looking out for the consumer.
But of even more interest than the eyebrows and lashes was the discovery a thin mustache and goatee...
I'd like to filter all the comments with the word "fuck" in them.
Indeed. Ultimately, the case was about illegally being required to show ID; it had nothing to do with Circuit City procedures. No victory for geeks here. Moreover, the former is probably the the more important case--and that one he yielded. No victory for libertarians, either.
She's mormon? How well does that pay?
Well, for one thing, we don't build skyscrapers in continuous lines along the mountain ridges which huge numbers of birds follow as they migrate.
The model T was introduced at $850 in 1908. (It came down as low as $300 during its run, but the RIAA is referring to the cost of CD's at their mass-market introduction.) Using several inflation calculators available on the internet, in 2005 dollars, that translates to about $17,000.
/. reader, I am contractually compelled to nitpick. *grin*
You point is still valid, but as a
IANA epidemiologist, but I believe most water-borne illnesses are due to direct introduction of previously infected human or animal waste in the water supply, e.g., cholera, giardia. So unless your neighbor (or the local beaver) is defecating in your collection system, you are pretty safe from that threat.
Doing the Tax Man Dance, we see that the total cost to Oracle to award this guy his prize and pay his taxes would be $168,488.
Original Prize = $138,000
Taxes due on original prize = $25000, a rate of about 18%.
We'll assume the tax rate is just one bracket of 18% for all levels of income.
Stage one: Oracle pays $25000 for taxes. Tax on stage one: $4500
Stage two: Oracle pays $4500 for Stage one taxes, Tax on stage two: $810
Stage three: Oracle pays $810 for stage two taxes, tax on stage three: $146
Stage four: Oracle pays $146 for stage three taxes, tax on stage four: $26
Stage five: Oracle pays $26 for stage four taxes, tax on stage five: $5
Stage six: Oracle pays $5 for stage five taxes, tax on stage six: $1
Stage seven: Oracle pays $1 for stage six taxes, tax on stage seven, $0.18, round to to the nearest $1, tax dance over.
Grand total out of pocket for Oracle: $168,488
Out of pocket for Major Tom, $0
To be totally transparent, without any accounting voodoo, then Oracle should make the payments in sequential years over the next seven years. They would write the appropriate tax check in time for the winner to submit with his yearly return, beginning the year after he actually recieves his prize (i.e, takes his ride). Uncle Sam gets his money, Major Tom gets his ride, Oracle gets extra Good Guy publicity! Win-Win-Win!
Math is funny that way.
The amount of area affected is important, too. IANAD, but even though only first-degree, having such burns over nearly the entire body would represent a serious threat. One rule of thumb I have seen is that any burn larger than the palm of your hand (approx. 1% of your body surface area) should be seen by a doctor, regardless of burn degree.
One word: Hummer
Goodness! How those commercials twist the knickers of the geeks 'round here! Methinks they hit a nerve? *wink*