Except that Tim Cook has said on shareholder calls that they have more cash than they know what to do with. At that point they should distribute more to shareholders.
Seconded. My wife takes our twin two year olds to the library twice a week for library story time and to play with the gigantic Thomas the Tank Engine. Both my wife and my kids like seeing their friends (and nobody has to get snacks or clean up their house for an afternoon playdate).
For the newest versions of Windows (Server 2012, Windows 8) .NET comes installed -- I forget if it's installed by default or installs as a Windows component. If it's the latter you install it from the same screens you install IIS or the SMTP server from.
After you install it updates to the .NET framework show up in the "optional" windows updates.
But if you're producing client-side software that's dependent on the .NET framework then you most certainly will make your installer "bootstrap" the installation of the correct framework for your OS language and hardware.
Depends on what that means. If you base it on their high of ~700, yeah, their current price ~500 looks pretty bad. However, they started out 2012 ~400. 20% gain in a year is pretty rock solid.
Market cap today is is still $472,000,000,000. Cash reserves around $124,000,000,000. Earnings of $8,200,000,000 on $36,000,000,000 in revenue last quarter alone. I think they're doing fine! :)
Apple has an incredibly long and prominent history of having its stock manipulated by traders around the timing of new product events and quarterly earnings statements.
When "today" is near one of those events, you probably don't want to anchor your evaluations of the company to a short-window snapshot of stock performance.
That's all fine and well for people like us that don't necessarily do hard labor for 30-40 years. But those that have to do physical labor aren't actually living longer. The rise in life expectancy is due to a fall in infant death rates and the wealthy living longer because they have access to really good health care.
According to my recruiter's stats he told me that 93% of those that accepted counter-offers from their original company were looking for a job again within 6 months. The two scenarios were a) The company extended the counter offer to keep the employee long enough to carry out the contingency plan (i.e. hire someone to take his place and then fire the guy who they couldn't count on to stick around) or b) all the reasons why the guy wanted to quit are still there, except maybe the money one -- and rarely does someone quit solely over money. People will deal with less money if they love getting up and going to work in the morning.
Moore's law was simply an observation or a prediction about the computing market at that time: That the number of transistors on a chip would need to double every 18 months if the chip manufacturers hoped to get people to buy the next gen. He argued that people/companies wouldn't upgrade their existing equipment for a measly 10-50% increase in performance. They'd need to double performance if they wanted to get rapid turn over to the next generation of products.
We do know what happened to the father according to previous blog posts:
http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war...
tl;dr; he left her for some woman he met online and married her six weeks after his divorce was complete. And now he doesn't pay the soccer mom child support and is engaging her in a grueling custody battle.
