Posts by Guido Esperanto

title ye not

I' m not expert, but my thoughts lie with it being a long term investment, but there in lies the chicken and egg.

As the company performs well, its stock becomes more lucrative inviting people to purchase more and more shares in the company.

The more shares you buy, the more your lock in with Apple, given they pay no dividends. So if you want to get your money back, your only option is to sell shares.

If your a big shareholder and you're seen to be selling up, it makes other investors jittery and the too start to get nervous about their money.

the more people get nervous, then the share price starts to decline.

Id imagine its a similar instance to a 'run on the bank'

people can only get their money back if they sell shares, but if they sell shares, they could turnabout an end of the $40 share price and potentially apple itself.

leverage says you?

a change in the wind says I!

please don't tar the rest of America with your brush

You preach as though America is acting as world police, saving our nation from the blight in the Middle East, that your methods are fair and just.

Only they are not.

These jihadi's you seem to be eradicating from the world, also appears to be a bunch of innocents, reporters and the like, something you like to term "collateral damage".

Your government, while delivering its silver tongue to its thronged masses, like yourself absorbing every word that spouts forth from their lips, is also plotting behind closed doors to entrench itself as a super power, using whatever means necessary to achieve that aim, but thats alright, because its done in your name and that of the greater good?

A lot of Americans are now via the publishing of articles on wikileaks are starting to see contrasting stories, those from the articles and those from the government.

I'm not going to preach on the validity of the articles, there are few who could do so vehemently, but they are starting to allow sensible Americans to move the spotlight from where it currently is

"WAR ON TERROR" to the Whitehouse and to start questioning your government on its methods and its strategies.

That is the positive from this. The people who sense there is some wrongdoing, now potentially have support of their suspicions, they will not blindly tow the governmental line.

Thats the true power of what wikileaks has released, the governments are now starting to fear reprisals and are now directing their aim direct at Assange and his organisation, to discredit him and the site to allow for uninterrupted brainwashing.

But the seed in the minds of sensible Americans has been planted and that is enough.

Wikileaks seeks to undermine the message that past and subsequent governments have and will lie to their subjects to achieve their means.

you and they seem to forget, THEY WORK FOR YOU. THEY ACT IN YOUR NAME. If you let it continue, blood will be on your hands as well.

ironically

but slightly off topic,

this can be taken into account in divorce proceedings when working out settlements.

which is a bit bloody ludicrous

well...

Generation Shift + Low attention span.

The later generations ( as in those born after 1990 (Gen Y) tend to be most socially connected, but also appear to have lower attention spans.

So while you might think you're carefully edited and thought out post on the solution to the meaning of life, a lot of people born circa 1990, will read:

Solution to the meaning of life, by AC

and then move onto the next post.

(http://legalcareers.about.com/od/practicetips/a/GenerationY.htm - a bit more reliable than wikipedia, but not a conclusive source.)

good points

I cringed at the "all costs" part, because while in principle, thats exactly what I want, however as you succinctly put, to what end does "at all costs" go to?.

I believe aim should be taken directly at the source of the material.(the abusers).

I also believe that servers in a jurisdiction where CP is defined should be able to be shutdown, without the quagmire of law that seems to make this difficult (if original article is to be believed), Therefore reducing a network of material.

I do agree with the blocking standpoint. It achieves nothing.

you're close, but you#re not right

That scenario sounds great in a world of fluffy kittens and perpetual smiles.

Truth is the world is a great big competitive place, with one person trying to get one over on another.

Sony could never guarantee the intentions of all those using homebrew and would not any unscrupulous beings impacting on the service recieved by its *psn using customers (*thats actually a facade explanation, truth is they want to protect their profits!). As a result Sony maintain their standard by ensuring only those who comply with their rules, benefit from their services.

Its a hardball game, and while I'm not a fanboi supporter of Sony, I can see it makes total business sense. How many more walled gardens are we seeing. Apple anyone?

The same applies to other facets of our lives, sports, the law (debatable but go with me this time).

I mean what sort of uproar would there be if a paid professional footballer, realised that if he actually picks the ball up (not goalie) and runs,. he can get it to goal far quicker than kicking, passing, dribbling etc.

thems the rules for that sport, you either play with everyone else and abide by those rules, or you create your own subset of the sport and see if you can get everyone to join in.

but to summarise, you are right, it aint gonna happen.

can we have a new measure of speed please

speed of light, appears to be overcooked, with granular variations leading to e-peen contests between the eggheads.

May I offer a more general measure of speed.

How about a Politician Backpedal, I mean in nature, nothing is faster.

So speed of light, is around 30% of a political backpedal.

two reasons

Meat & Veg

abso-fecking-lutely

they are just consultants doing what consultants do best.

They tell you a problem that you already know (you're losing audience), then they vaguely tell you where the source of the problem (mobile devices).

If you give us your monies, we'll narrow that vagueness down to a few hundred options

If you give us more monies we'll narrow it down further.

If you partner us, we'll guide you through a transition, (with obvious golden handshakes for us if we actually fail to improve your business) and tell you where is best to steer your business.

OR....

as an alternative, I'll save you all that money with a simple phrase.

"Make programmes that people, (yes thats the unwashed masses, the working fraternity and everyone else,) will find stimulating (easy now) and they will find interesting"

spouting out reality-tv-clone 4 and milking-a-franchise-8 will not hold everyones interests.

you miss the point

and that point being the energy companies want to ensure their profits are as high as possible, all the time.

Going to the banks will finance the deal sure, but will come with some interest rates and plans for repayments and heavy penalty clauses if such payments are not met etc.

"IF" given the option between paying more for my utilities to fund this upgrade or them go to a bank...its gonna be pay more myself everytime.

With the banks we'll be paying MUCH more!

We may as well all bend over now and relax.

concur on event horizon

I still dont like to watch that movie.

how about?

base a companies worth on its previous year (or even current date) profits + cash in the bank + physical assets

I mean cash in the bank is what my bank manager judges my worth on. So why should companies be any different?

one other "pristine network" aspect

one other "pristine network" aspect, which tends to be more of a negative than a positive.

Ideal networks, (hose that are governed by an ITIL framework, have oodles of political beauracracy and nothing gets approval without several signatures and ass covering) often do NOT have the ability to react to a scenario faster than those companies whose IT bods hold all the cards.

Par example, a new 0 day exploit appears for a particular brand of db, MS SQL , MS will release a patch (eventually) to plug the hole.

The corps, will perform testing to ensure compatibility and maintain performance, while the non-corps, will just install the bloody thing and hope for the best.

Sure it could go wrong and ass-holes start a puckering (those that know will understand!) but nothing gets the heart racing and blood pumping quite like unplanned server downtime.

on your first paragraph

to summarise google is trying to get more for doing less.

sounds perfectly like a business to me.

I find it strange that because google has nurtured its way through the web years people have become so comfortable with it, they believe it serves "their" best interests.

This could not be further from the truth. The interest is google's and their alone. As long as they can best serve the people paying them money, the "freeloaders" can just find another search engine.

And to tip my hat to google, there are no real notable "excellent" alternatives.

Proton pack was my first thought

just dont cross the damn streams.

erm.

.... and from the onset of puberty we wish to have sex with any and every female we see.

/fixed it for you.

your car analogy makes no sense.

When starting your PS3 you are given an option "There is new firmware available do you wish to download?" That presents you with an inherent choice.

By choosing not to download a firmware you relinquish your right to access the PSN. You still OWN your hardware, you just cannot access a service that Sony OWN.

There is nothing to stop you doing whatever you want with that device, aside from the point, you will be doing so without Sony support.

If you decide to modify your Ford car as is your right and that modification causes a failure somewhere and you to crash, what do you think Ford will say?. Will they take ownership and say "yup, he modified our car, so therefore our car is at fault?"

Will they hell. They will grab the popcorn and watch from a distance.

Any modification you make to your own equipment is fine. Just dont expect support from the originating manufacturer. If that means denying you a service then its still your call.

As for being conformist, well I still see the Sun in the sky, so amargeddon isnt yet upon us.

curiosity gets the better of some people

and seeing what "googlemaps shows somethin AMAZIN" is a pull to much for some people.

however those still curious and with a few more braincells, can simply google said group and be presented with a dozen or so explanations including "AMAZIN" pics.

no logins required, curiousity satisfied. no clickjacked. win/win/win