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    fulfillment of the requirement needed in NURSING INFORMATICS Lecture ________________________________ REACTION PAPER (Pirates of Silicon Valley) Submitted by: DONATO‚ Marklin Kay A. BSN III- A Schedule: 5-6 pm MTW Submitted to: Mr. John Kelvyn Lerma NI Instructor September 2010 Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 film based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It is a made-for-television docudrama written and directed

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    Silicon Valley Technologies‚ a simulation of a technology based corporation‚ gathered their top twenty managers for an off site management meeting. The top management teams included The President‚ Director of Special Projects‚ three Vice Presidents‚ eight Directors and seven Managers. The purpose of this simulation was to handle diverse problems within Silicon Valley Technologies with all the real life complexities that arise when running an organization. My position was as the Director of Special

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    "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." I had come across this line by a famous cubist painter and sculptor‚ Pablo Picasso‚ and made me comprehend that it is the gyrating concept of the motion picture Pirates of Silicon Valley. The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a flick about the rivalry between Steve Jobs‚ the co-founder of Apple Computers‚ and Bill Gates‚ the co-founder of Microsoft. The movie draws out the historical development of these two large computer companies‚ from the time when Bill

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    Pirates of Silicon Valley Paper Business Policy and Strategy Pirates of Silicon Valley Computers‚ it’s what our world revolves around now both inside and outside of the classroom. Has one ever wondering who created this gadget? Where did this computer come from? These questions are answered in the movie Pirates of the Silicon Valley. The movie Pirates of Silicon Valley portrays how Steve Jobs and Apple got started and how Bill Gates and Microsoft got started. The movie is told through the viewpoint

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    This is the story of the growth of the personal computer industry. The movie while based on historical fact‚ did alter things a bit for dramatic reasons. The Movie begins with IBM in the early 1980’s‚ the big brother in the computer world that everyone else feared. Everyone dressed alike at IBM‚ company songs and jingles filled the air‚ and men in suits were everywhere. Steve Jobs along with his friend who he calls "Waz" delight in working with computers. They eventually form their own company

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    The movie Pirates of Silicon Valley is a film based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger. The film was narrated by Steve Wozniak‚ co-developer of the Apple computer. The movie took off with Steve Jobs talking in a melodramatic way to the audience‚ it seems but as the angle of the scene shifts‚ it was shown that he was actually talking to a director and that they were currently in the middle of shooting a commercial which is for the Apple Computer

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    COST OF CAPITAL Directed Silicon Valley Medical Technologies - SIVMED was found in San Jose‚ CA‚ in 1982 by Kelly’s O’Brien‚ David Roberts‚ and Barbara Smalley. O’Brien and Roberts‚ both MDs‚ were on the research faculty at the UCLA Medical School at the time; O’Brien specialized in biochemistry and molecular biology‚ and Roberts specialized in immunology and medical microbiology. Smalley‚ who has a PhD‚ served as department chair of the Microbiology Department at UC-Berkeley. The company

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    Business Ethics Ethics Issues in “Pirates of Silicon Valley” The film‚ “Pirates of Silicon Valley‚” is a review of the building of both Apple Computer and Microsoft as told through the lens of people that worked with both Steve Jobs at Apple and Bill Gates at Microsoft. The film addresses both the inner working of the two companies and the ethical issues that arise from their leaders‚ Jobs and Gates‚ desire to be the most important person in their chosen industry. While the film primarily

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    1. What specific items of capital should be included in the SIVMED’s WACC? Should before-tax or after-tax values be included? Should historical or new values be used? Why? Answer: WACC covers computation of SIVMED’s cost of capital in which each category of capital is proportionately weighted. All capital basis - common stock‚ preferred stock‚ bonds or any other long-term borrowings – should be listed under SIVMED’s WACC. We determine WACC by multiplying the cost of the corresponding capital

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    The movie starts by revealing the core of Steve Job’s personality. He speaks to the camera saying‚ "I don’t want you to think of this as just a film - some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds - no. Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise‚ why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness‚ like an artist or a poet. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing. That’s how you have to

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