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Comment Re:Margin compression (Score 2) 251

Aaaaand not even that. After adjusting for channel inventory reduction (in order to increase retail efficiency or prep for new product cycle) the actual sales are pretty flat (down 3%). Here's the statement from Wells Fargo analyst Maynard Um, as quoted by AppleInsider.

"As for the iPad, shipments were down 14 percent year over year, but when adjusting for reductions in channel inventory, the true drop-off was just 3 percent. Um believes iPad sales were likely soft in the U.S. and Europe, as Apple highlighted double-digit growth in China, Japan, Canada, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, and India."

Comment Samsung Ads (Score 4, Insightful) 112

Does anyone else notice that many Samsung ads seem less about the products and more about making other people feel bad? I don't own an iPhone, but whenever I see a Samsung ad insulting some apple user all I can think is, "Boy those guys are jerks." If I need a product and the Samsung one is superior I'll probably buy it, but it would cross my mind that I don't want to be a jerk like the people in their ads.

Comment Re:suicide (Score 1) 828

I believe I drowned once when I was young, and I don't remember it being an unpleasant experience. I just remember looking up at the pretty light show of the sun shining through water and then my dad's arm grabbing me and a lot of coughing. In my teens I swam competitively for something like 8 years, but never really tried breathing water again. At this point I think it would be unpleasant since my body now realizes that breathing water is bad. Naturally my mother was never told of this incident to protect my fathers continued existence, so the specifics are lost to posterity.

Comment Re:Incredibly useful human group dynamics experien (Score 2, Informative) 272

I can verify this. I've seen people put MMO/Guild Master on their resume. We laugh at them. And as a guild member and a leader in the corporate world I can tell you that while there may be parallels, the one in no way prepares you for the other. Don't put it on your resume. Don't talk about gaming in interviews. Even as a gamer I wouldn't hire you. Why? I know from personal experience 99.999% of WoW players are morons and whiners who stand in fire and cry about gearscore and dps charts, so statistically you would probably be a terrible employee.

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