It's not just a bad summary, it's a poorly written article. He starts off with a thesis statement about apple's new releases then he rambles onto something about the remote. It reads like he changed his mind regarding what he was going to write and just clicked submit without cleaning it up.
What is is hard to see, looking at those numbers, is why Disney's stock value is $50Bn and Pixar's is $7Bn.
Really? Disney had theme parks around the world, ABC, ESPN, several movie studios (touchstone comes to mind), and much more. Do they still own the Mighty Ducks hockey team? Disney is enormous. What I can't figure out is why Pixar is worth $7b. They make about $100m a year right? Ignoring the cost of money, that's 70 years to break even.
scott,
We worked together at QAD in support and under Jon Hartman. If you get this send me an email at woodworth_removethis_@acm.org . It would be cool to hear from you.
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Well, if you cannot understand books by reading them and need help... do you really deserve to pass?
I read animal farm in high school and I thought it was a decent book. However, on my own I had *no* idea that it paralleled Russian history. Reading other people's analysis isn't cheating (according to me).
I disagree with this entirely. I work for a company that is outsourcing more and more. Our CEO will spout BS such as, "Anybody on the planet should have an equal chance to earn a position here."
However, the truth is that they're just looking for cheaper labor. I can see it very directly. The budget for my project gets cut and US workers are replaced with cheaper Indian labor. The decisions are made at the project manager (below manager) level. It's simply the obvious answer for them. Honestly, I don't see any other choices either. If your budget is cut you hire cheaper labor.
It's not done as a way to impress investors. It's just done to increase profitability. I wish there was an "Ask Slashdot" regarding how to succeed in the new reality. I'm pretty sure that programming isn't going to get decent money anymore. What about being a "technical leader" or architect?
What people often fail to consider is that American colleges are amoung the best in the world. In Japan, college is considered to be a couple years of fun. In the US, it's generally known that college will be a lot harder than high school.
I'm tired of hearing that because our 8th graders don't understand calc that American engineers have lousy math skills. It's BS. American engineers learn it in college.
2. That's a kill/death-ratio of 42 (not 800). In Vietnam, 5.1 million Vietnamese were killed, compared to 50,000 Americans. That was a ratio of 1 to 100 and you still lost that war.
I wonder how that ratio changes if you include people who have surrendered? I seems like a hundreds of their soldiers have surrendered. You don't have to kill the them to beat them.
There isn't much of a job market because the influx of H1B workers has increased the pool of available employees to unnatural levels. At the same time the number of employees continues to be inflated by importing labor the number of jobs is actually shrinking.
I'm also interested in/. but I don't think they serve to much purely static content. I know that my home page is customized for me. I know that a lot of people choose which topics they are interested in.
Yeah, there's something static about it and they aren't doing a select count(*) from whatever to display how many comments people posted for each page hit but to call it a static page would be off target.
Exactly, his stomach has been pampered with food that has direct origins in either the earth or some sort of animal. American stomachs on the other hand have had to grow tough enough to deal with Ho Ho's, McDonald's food, and pringles.
I respect his enthusiam but he's just not ready for top teir junkfood yet.
You're an artist so I'll guess that you're not very technical. DDR stands for double date rate. It allows the cpu to fetch or store data into ram at twice the rate of SDR.
However on the mac, because of the lousy bus that the DDR plugs into (this is true for every mac) it can still only be accessed at the speeds of SDR ram. Plugging DDR ram into macs was a marketing move that provided *zero* speed boost for the mac.
Using DDR is actually a bit of a negative on the mac. It costs more but it's not faster at all.
Having said that, I still prefer the mac and my slow as hell iBook (which I using right now). Every windows machine I use become crap after 18 months of installing and removing software. On unix machines (like the mac) this is never a problem. I prefer the mac over linux because it seems a bit more refined and the automatic updates are nice.
What he said is true of the original series I units. The current series II units require the guide data. You don't need a landline, I use a USB -> Ethernet dongle for my daily call. The phone line has been disconnected for months.
Vangaurd
FYI, everything that can print had PDF export on the mac. Converting to a PDF is part of the printing process in OSX. What I'm getting at here is that mac users already have PDF export in ppt.
Vanguard
I'm surprised that anybody cares about my earliest memory. Anyway, when I was barely three I remember the basement being dug out for a house that my family was having built. (We moved in later.)
The fact that the house was in the early stages of construction dates the memory. I was just past three. I remember having a conversation where my parents explained that building a house with a basement starts with a giant hole. The idea that building something could start with digging down was tough for me.
First of all, AMD does have diversity in chip manufacturing. They make flash memory.
Second, cutting employees doesn't mean you pay less taxes. The pre-tax charge that you link you has nothing to do with taxes. This pre-tax charge is a one-time expense associated with the restructuring. It mostly represents the severence pay they'll be giving people.
I've read your story submission (which slaughters any reasonable economic theory) and this. You shouldn't try to write about finance until you get an education.
(assuming TiVo doesn't respond with similar features)
I don't mean to be a troll but when is the last time that tivo released any signifigant new features? I bought my series II unit last spring. The only upgrade I've received so far contained "unsupported" use of the usb port to save tivo money on the dial up phone call.
When I bought it, I thought that tivo would quickly respong to replay's commercial skip and program sharing. Nope. Tivo hasn't done much at all. Their next release (whenever that is) should address picture quality. That's nice but c'mon, give me a damn feature every once in a while.
I remember a lesson from my business law course in college. The example they used was this.
If you come home and find that somebody mowed your lawn, you do not own them money because you have no relationship.
If you're at a strip club and you say "no thank you" to a lap dance but she performs anyway, you don't owe a thing because even though they performed a service for which you would normally expect payment, you expressly said you don't want a business relationship.
If you see a kid mowing your lawn and you wave to him (or otherwise prove you know he was doing it), you owe him money. By acknowledging that he was performing a service for which you would normally pay you agree to a business relationship.
If you send a reasonable invoice, you can expect to be paid.
I was having trouble with my modem (really, I was). I called support and they ran a test. They said my signal was weak and that they would send a guy out.
They next day I went from the 13 channels I was supposed to have to getting all of my channels back (50 of them?). The only trouble is that I can't get HBO or digital cable without paying full price and I'm too cheap for that.
If somebody wants more channels, maybe this will work for them?
Sorting the todo list (list of things that will be recorded) Changing skip to tick (15 min increments) to 30 sec fast forward Entering preferences (which shows you like)
Mostly little features that people find useful. Some of the changes you can make (I can't name them) would allow you to break the unit. Personally don't mess with them, I like the stock tivo.
It's not the largest site but it is large. Because our average order size larger, we outsell amazon but we do not get more traffic. If I remember correctly, the largest site in terms of sales is Intel and I'm sure they don't get that much traffic.
FYI, I'm a tech lead on one of the planets largest ecommerce systems. We do about $20B in sales over our website every year.
I'll admit that we don't handle the traffic that amazon or yahoo do. However, your guess that I'm working on a small intranet site was off target.
Vanguard
Slashdot Mirror
Really? Showing me ads that are relevant to me is so horrible?
Why do you think that it has value? Location, location, location.
It's not just a bad summary, it's a poorly written article. He starts off with a thesis statement about apple's new releases then he rambles onto something about the remote. It reads like he changed his mind regarding what he was going to write and just clicked submit without cleaning it up.
What is is hard to see, looking at those numbers, is why Disney's stock value is $50Bn and Pixar's is $7Bn. Really? Disney had theme parks around the world, ABC, ESPN, several movie studios (touchstone comes to mind), and much more. Do they still own the Mighty Ducks hockey team? Disney is enormous. What I can't figure out is why Pixar is worth $7b. They make about $100m a year right? Ignoring the cost of money, that's 70 years to break even.
scott, We worked together at QAD in support and under Jon Hartman. If you get this send me an email at woodworth_removethis_@acm.org . It would be cool to hear from you.
Well, if you cannot understand books by reading them and need help... do you really deserve to pass?
I read animal farm in high school and I thought it was a decent book. However, on my own I had *no* idea that it paralleled Russian history. Reading other people's analysis isn't cheating (according to me).
I disagree with this entirely. I work for a company that is outsourcing more and more. Our CEO will spout BS such as, "Anybody on the planet should have an equal chance to earn a position here."
However, the truth is that they're just looking for cheaper labor. I can see it very directly. The budget for my project gets cut and US workers are replaced with cheaper Indian labor. The decisions are made at the project manager (below manager) level. It's simply the obvious answer for them. Honestly, I don't see any other choices either. If your budget is cut you hire cheaper labor.
It's not done as a way to impress investors. It's just done to increase profitability. I wish there was an "Ask Slashdot" regarding how to succeed in the new reality. I'm pretty sure that programming isn't going to get decent money anymore. What about being a "technical leader" or architect?
What people often fail to consider is that American colleges are amoung the best in the world. In Japan, college is considered to be a couple years of fun. In the US, it's generally known that college will be a lot harder than high school. I'm tired of hearing that because our 8th graders don't understand calc that American engineers have lousy math skills. It's BS. American engineers learn it in college.
2. That's a kill/death-ratio of 42 (not 800). In Vietnam, 5.1 million Vietnamese were killed, compared to 50,000 Americans. That was a ratio of 1 to 100 and you still lost that war.
I wonder how that ratio changes if you include people who have surrendered? I seems like a hundreds of their soldiers have surrendered. You don't have to kill the them to beat them.
Vanguard
There isn't much of a job market because the influx of H1B workers has increased the pool of available employees to unnatural levels. At the same time the number of employees continues to be inflated by importing labor the number of jobs is actually shrinking.
Vanguard
That's ok, I'm fearless.
First post!!!!!
I'm also interested in /. but I don't think they serve to much purely static content. I know that my home page is customized for me. I know that a lot of people choose which topics they are interested in.
Yeah, there's something static about it and they aren't doing a select count(*) from whatever to display how many comments people posted for each page hit but to call it a static page would be off target.
Vanguard
Umm, high gain wireless antenna?
Exactly, his stomach has been pampered with food that has direct origins in either the earth or some sort of animal. American stomachs on the other hand have had to grow tough enough to deal with Ho Ho's, McDonald's food, and pringles.
I respect his enthusiam but he's just not ready for top teir junkfood yet.
Vanguard
You're an artist so I'll guess that you're not very technical. DDR stands for double date rate. It allows the cpu to fetch or store data into ram at twice the rate of SDR.
However on the mac, because of the lousy bus that the DDR plugs into (this is true for every mac) it can still only be accessed at the speeds of SDR ram. Plugging DDR ram into macs was a marketing move that provided *zero* speed boost for the mac.
Using DDR is actually a bit of a negative on the mac. It costs more but it's not faster at all.
Having said that, I still prefer the mac and my slow as hell iBook (which I using right now). Every windows machine I use become crap after 18 months of installing and removing software. On unix machines (like the mac) this is never a problem. I prefer the mac over linux because it seems a bit more refined and the automatic updates are nice.
Vanguard
What he said is true of the original series I units. The current series II units require the guide data. You don't need a landline, I use a USB -> Ethernet dongle for my daily call. The phone line has been disconnected for months. Vangaurd
FYI, everything that can print had PDF export on the mac. Converting to a PDF is part of the printing process in OSX. What I'm getting at here is that mac users already have PDF export in ppt. Vanguard
I'm surprised that anybody cares about my earliest memory. Anyway, when I was barely three I remember the basement being dug out for a house that my family was having built. (We moved in later.)
The fact that the house was in the early stages of construction dates the memory. I was just past three. I remember having a conversation where my parents explained that building a house with a basement starts with a giant hole. The idea that building something could start with digging down was tough for me.
Vanguard
First of all, AMD does have diversity in chip manufacturing. They make flash memory.
Second, cutting employees doesn't mean you pay less taxes. The pre-tax charge that you link you has nothing to do with taxes. This pre-tax charge is a one-time expense associated with the restructuring. It mostly represents the severence pay they'll be giving people.
I've read your story submission (which slaughters any reasonable economic theory) and this. You shouldn't try to write about finance until you get an education.
(assuming TiVo doesn't respond with similar features)
I don't mean to be a troll but when is the last time that tivo released any signifigant new features? I bought my series II unit last spring. The only upgrade I've received so far contained "unsupported" use of the usb port to save tivo money on the dial up phone call.
When I bought it, I thought that tivo would quickly respong to replay's commercial skip and program sharing. Nope. Tivo hasn't done much at all. Their next release (whenever that is) should address picture quality. That's nice but c'mon, give me a damn feature every once in a while.
I remember a lesson from my business law course in college. The example they used was this.
If you come home and find that somebody mowed your lawn, you do not own them money because you have no relationship.
If you're at a strip club and you say "no thank you" to a lap dance but she performs anyway, you don't owe a thing because even though they performed a service for which you would normally expect payment, you expressly said you don't want a business relationship.
If you see a kid mowing your lawn and you wave to him (or otherwise prove you know he was doing it), you owe him money. By acknowledging that he was performing a service for which you would normally pay you agree to a business relationship.
If you send a reasonable invoice, you can expect to be paid.
Vanguard
I was having trouble with my modem (really, I was). I called support and they ran a test. They said my signal was weak and that they would send a guy out.
They next day I went from the 13 channels I was supposed to have to getting all of my channels back (50 of them?). The only trouble is that I can't get HBO or digital cable without paying full price and I'm too cheap for that.
If somebody wants more channels, maybe this will work for them?
Sorting the todo list (list of things that will be recorded)
Changing skip to tick (15 min increments) to 30 sec fast forward
Entering preferences (which shows you like)
Mostly little features that people find useful. Some of the changes you can make (I can't name them) would allow you to break the unit. Personally don't mess with them, I like the stock tivo.
Vanguard
It's not the largest site but it is large. Because our average order size larger, we outsell amazon but we do not get more traffic. If I remember correctly, the largest site in terms of sales is Intel and I'm sure they don't get that much traffic.
FYI, I'm a tech lead on one of the planets largest ecommerce systems. We do about $20B in sales over our website every year. I'll admit that we don't handle the traffic that amazon or yahoo do. However, your guess that I'm working on a small intranet site was off target. Vanguard