There is no rational definition under which Apple is losing anything right now.
Umm, they lost $35B in market cap just a couple of days ago. That's something. Their stock is down about 23% from a couple of moths ago. They're losing something.
Well, I'm going to guess that about 40% of the patents filed in the last 30 years have already expired ("been invalidated").
This is my first time posting to Slashdot in a while, I guess, and I just noticed my old sig from 2 1/2 years ago. I guess Google has done a bit of that identity integration with Chrome already. Yay! IT's tied to Google. Boo!
Steve Jobs merely tread upon a road well worn by those that came before, and he charged as much money as he could to those who weren't in the know.
Wow, that works both specifically and generally. I'm impressed with what you did there.
Money isn't everything to everyone. If you were being paid $500.00 per hour to shovel out a barn, wouldn't you take a job that offered something more fun like programing with python even if it paid $490.00 per hour?
Depends on the job. Which one do I take to wade through the least amount of bullshit?
I'm burnt out enough that I might try the barn for a year just for the variety.
No, client-side Tor only makes outgoing connections to relays. If you configure it as a relay it also passes traffic, but always encrypted so it can't be linked to any particular circuit elsewhere at any other node. Legal hazard for Tor node operators is only an issue for exit nodes, unless things get so bad that cryptography itself is targeted.
(Disclosure: I am a Tor developer)
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Follow up: Why don't you have a Nexus-style hardware program (promoted on the front page of Ubuntu.com) where hardware partners produce Ubuntu desktops / laptops that are certified to receive working updates for 3 years?
No, Chromebooks are Linux on the desktop. Android is Linux in your hand.
The issue here is probably that it is a misnomer to say corporations are holding "cash". The big banks (a.k.a. primary dealers) are moving their cash hordes around constantly but I think most of it has been in the stock market and commodities. I imagine most corporations are doing the same. You would have been a complete chump to actually hold cash for the last three years because the value of dollars have been hammered.
The key distinction is between holding your assets in liquid investments or investing it in your business. Companies are NOT investing it in growing their businesses which is what TFA is referring too. Why should they. Over the last 3-4 years it was incredibly easy to get huge returns just buying in to the stock market as it rallied from 6600 to 13000. It was shooting fish in a barrel for them to just ride the wave as the Fed reinflated the stock market by printing money and handing it to the primary dealers. Contrast the ease with making money gambling in stocks and commodities over the last three years versus doing the hard way, investing in your business, doing R&D, making products. Its why unemployment stays high. Its a lot easier to gamble for money these days than it is to work for it.
As for when the inflation happens, as I said, no one knows. Maybe it won't. The problem is always that everyone has confidence in your currency until they don't. And when they lose it, it is usually sudden and ugly.
Another problem is that, since nearly all central banks are debasing their currency, its a complete crap shoot to figure out which currency is safer than all the others. The Swiss Franc has been the hands down choice for most of the last three years but so much money has fled in to such a small country that its severely imbalanced too.
Let's hope we get lucky and can muddle through. One plus to the Fed's money printing is they are replacing wealth wiped out when the housing bubble collapsed. Unfortunately they are replacing money lost by home owners and pension funds who bought mortgage backed securities, with money pouring in to Wall Street, and Wall Street is just using it to fund their gambling addiction, not to build companies or create jobs.
The origin of most of the cash glut recently isn't direct governent bail outs, most of it is due to the massive liquidity injections (a.k.a money printing) being done by the Fed, ECB and various other central banks. They are in a massive race to the bottom to see who can debase their currency faster, juice their exports, and print money to finance massive sovereign debts.
This money printing is mostly propping up the stock market and corporate profitability. It makes it look like all is well, though in reality the value of the dollars those things are measured in is plunging more than the stock market or corporate balance sheets are actually improving. It is a creating an economy based largely on fantasy, and is creating a global Wiemar Republic.
What the Fed is doing is also referred to as Financial repression. It is artificially suppressing interest rates, punishing savers, especially seniors who shun the stock market, and giving debtors, including the U.S. government a giant finance your debt for free card. China has been using massive financial repression for over a decade to juice their economy too.
When central banks start printing money to finance sovereign debt, it is nearly impossible for it to end well. The only question is when will the house of cards they are building collapse.
Best way to stay 3 versions behind on Skype? Run it on Linux!
One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.
