Mike In Syracuse

The Return of the $70 per Hour Meme

Sorry Phillipp10- my bad; I thought the "9 posts" was 9 replies to your post here, I just realized it's your posting history. So the good news is the site isn't getting spammed! Sorry for the confusion.


On Nov 19 11:36 AM Mike In Syracuse wrote:

> I agree with Phillipp10, who seems to be the victim of some kind
> of automated post-spammer that left 9 bogus comments on his post.
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> Anyway, Phillip is right: you HAVE to count the costs to GM of its
> retiree commitments. GM will no doubt be supplying the cash for that
> "UAW-run trust" so we'll have to read the associated 10-Ks to know
> what the final cost of all this will be, but I think you have it
> backwards: you are trying to be deceptive if you want to ignore the
> present-day costs of GM's retirement programs.

The Return of the $70 per Hour Meme

I agree with Phillipp10, who seems to be the victim of some kind of automated post-spammer that left 9 bogus comments on his post.

Anyway, Phillip is right: you HAVE to count the costs to GM of its retiree commitments. GM will no doubt be supplying the cash for that "UAW-run trust" so we'll have to read the associated 10-Ks to know what the final cost of all this will be, but I think you have it backwards: you are trying to be deceptive if you want to ignore the present-day costs of GM's retirement programs.

Apple, Microsoft Run for the Clouds in the New Client Software War

Wow. I so totally disagree with these statements

"Yep, that's right, the iPhone and the Air are the beginning of the end, just because there's not too much more innovation needed down there in the hardware space. "

and

"There's only about two to three more years left in the client hardware innovation business before the end-points go pure commodity, even with Apple's intellectual property. The hardware becomes a basic catcher's mitt for the packets, a single chipset that grabs the several important signals and processes them into a basic Web UI and supports the runtime, virtualized most likely."

This kind of thinking to me reflects such fundamental ignorance of engineering and perhaps computer technology in general that I didn't bother to read the rest.

Saying that all worthwhile innovation in hardware is done (so much so in fact that all hardware will be FREE! ha!) is like saying no one will ever need more than 640K of RAM, only less accurate.