105 was the bottom of the expected range, until the day before when the lowered the price by $20, and the number of shares by a few million.
So then it went up $15 the first day, instead of dropping $5.
So it's still funny business as usual. Had they not changed all the numbers the day before, it would have been completely different, and very likely would not have moved much.
Re:basic... very basic.
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Millions of people need SOME kind of dialup anyway.
Now they can get what looks to me like a very good "mom and dad" PC for $300 WITH A MONITOR. No harm in that.
Small efficent cars will never have a chance in America until genetic engineering is commonplace...
Too many men have have a small dick.
Once we solve that, the SUV's will not be a problem. Or we could just educate women I suppose. "If he's raping the planet, how well to you think he will treat YOU?"
I've never met a geek that likes having a day job, and wouldnt rather go work on their own projects. Have you?
In Google's case, figure that employees 1-200 are almost guarenteed to leave within a couple months. Many more can retire in not so long.
Remember that unless they stay in the valley, even 500k (at 5% = $2K/month) is more then enough to live a VERY nice life off of the interest alone... Of course in the valley, 2k/month will barely pay for the gas for their SUV:)
Seriously, if anyone can recommend a really good cell PHONE that would be kinda useful.
Seems noone makes phones anymore, just PDA's with keys too small to use and a crappy phone in it.
How about this for starters #1 Keys (only 12 please) I can actually dial with. #2 Talk time ~6 hours becasue some days just never end #3 Reception all over the city, not just within a mile of downtown.
Oh, and small is not a "feature" it's a defect, see #2.
"X800XT-PE may not be worthy of being included on the same graph"
Later...
If you would have told me a year ago that I could play DOOM 3 on a GeForce 3 64MB video card and 1.8GHz AthlonXP and have a good gaming experience, I would have called you crazy, but that is exactly what we are seeing.
Translation:
Save your money, DOOM 3 has the most insane graphics, and still plays just fine on the ~$150 cards. Which means most other games are totally fine. (I play Lineage 2 on a Rage fury pro with 32MB, and it's an Unreal 2 based game)
Also, nVidia designed more for DOOM type games, just like every reviewer has been saying for 6 months.
You could use Linux and give up your games, and 90% of your other apps...
OR...
Ditch IE and Outlook (together responsible for 99% of Windows problems right now) install Services for UNIX on your Windows XP/2003 box and run all of your Windows apps and games PLUS all of your UNIX apps.
Sorry, but Windows still controls the applications universe.
Do I want to shuffle papers all day, make and remake long term plans, work 70 hours weeks becasue I'm salaried, never have time for my friends and family, and get no credit ever becasue the CEO and other vicious MBA take it becasue they are trained to...
No, a geek should not try to be a MBA, and a MBA should not try to be a geek. They should however, understand each other.
Now if they could just do this nationally, and allow nationwide searches of the data, then at least we can catch the criminals fool enough to leave DNA behind... This is a GOOD thing.
All they do is process it and record the CODIS score which is completely useless for anything but ID. If fact, knowing your CODIS for family members is a good thing, since there are alot of ways you can die where DNA is all that's left.
It can't reveal that you have geek genes and so women shouldn't risk sex with you, so slashdoters can all relax.
And a cheak swab is not exactly "invasive", the fingerprinting process is much more likely to involve the police having to beat you to unconsciousness.
For the first time in history, a corporation has screwed over a university...
Get over it people, corporations are legally required to earn money for their shareholders by any means possible. They do this to universities EVERY DAY.
It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers.
Sounds like someone found an old copy of VMS and installed it:)
Yea, flame away, but you know I'm right. You'd think Linux (or Windows, or OSX) would have some of those features after 30 freaking years...
Legacy System: One that doesnt have downtime while being moved across the country.
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Sorry charlie, pick only 2.
105 was the bottom of the expected range, until the day before when the lowered the price by $20, and the number of shares by a few million.
So then it went up $15 the first day, instead of dropping $5.
So it's still funny business as usual. Had they not changed all the numbers the day before, it would have been completely different, and very likely would not have moved much.
Millions of people need SOME kind of dialup anyway.
Now they can get what looks to me like a very good "mom and dad" PC for $300 WITH A MONITOR. No harm in that.
Granted, other ISP's are cheaper.
Small efficent cars will never have a chance in America until genetic engineering is commonplace...
Too many men have have a small dick.
Once we solve that, the SUV's will not be a problem. Or we could just educate women I suppose. "If he's raping the planet, how well to you think he will treat YOU?"
That happens in all IPOs.
:)
I've never met a geek that likes having a day job, and wouldnt rather go work on their own projects. Have you?
In Google's case, figure that employees 1-200 are almost guarenteed to leave within a couple months. Many more can retire in not so long.
Remember that unless they stay in the valley, even 500k (at 5% = $2K/month) is more then enough to live a VERY nice life off of the interest alone... Of course in the valley, 2k/month will barely pay for the gas for their SUV
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I still like PGPfone tho... for pure historical reasons.
It's ment to look like an old faded newspaper... like the newspapers of years gone by that had ads for IT jobs in the USA ;)
Seriously, if anyone can recommend a really good cell PHONE that would be kinda useful.
Seems noone makes phones anymore, just PDA's with keys too small to use and a crappy phone in it.
How about this for starters
#1 Keys (only 12 please) I can actually dial with.
#2 Talk time ~6 hours becasue some days just never end
#3 Reception all over the city, not just within a mile of downtown.
Oh, and small is not a "feature" it's a defect, see #2.
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"X800XT-PE may not be worthy of being included on the same graph"
Later...
If you would have told me a year ago that I could play DOOM 3 on a GeForce 3 64MB video card and 1.8GHz AthlonXP and have a good gaming experience, I would have called you crazy, but that is exactly what we are seeing.
Translation:
Save your money, DOOM 3 has the most insane graphics, and still plays just fine on the ~$150 cards. Which means most other games are totally fine. (I play Lineage 2 on a Rage fury pro with 32MB, and it's an Unreal 2 based game)
Also, nVidia designed more for DOOM type games, just like every reviewer has been saying for 6 months.
At least you caught the smiley :) We all know Linux doesnt scale that well... yet.
But I sure don't miss the old days.
No, but PostgreSQL and Linux can :)
This is /. so I assume you ment a free beer...
How else will they know what to set the From: address to in their advertising? ;)
You could use Linux and give up your games, and 90% of your other apps...
OR...
Ditch IE and Outlook (together responsible for 99% of Windows problems right now) install Services for UNIX on your Windows XP/2003 box and run all of your Windows apps and games PLUS all of your UNIX apps.
Sorry, but Windows still controls the applications universe.
1. No.
2. Oh hell no. It's genetic.
*laughs*
More like...
Do I want to shuffle papers all day, make and remake long term plans, work 70 hours weeks becasue I'm salaried, never have time for my friends and family, and get no credit ever becasue the CEO and other vicious MBA take it becasue they are trained to...
No, a geek should not try to be a MBA, and a MBA should not try to be a geek. They should however, understand each other.
Maybe because Microsoft built in all those tools, and Linux & friends have good or good-enough tools to do all the things Veritas does?
Wasn't IBM selling these over a year ago? Oh yes they were...
/. cover it then too? Over 200 DPI don't ya know :)
And didn't
Now if they could just do this nationally, and allow nationwide searches of the data, then at least we can catch the criminals fool enough to leave DNA behind... This is a GOOD thing.
All they do is process it and record the CODIS score which is completely useless for anything but ID. If fact, knowing your CODIS for family members is a good thing, since there are alot of ways you can die where DNA is all that's left.
It can't reveal that you have geek genes and so women shouldn't risk sex with you, so slashdoters can all relax.
And a cheak swab is not exactly "invasive", the fingerprinting process is much more likely to involve the police having to beat you to unconsciousness.
For the first time in history, a corporation has screwed over a university...
Get over it people, corporations are legally required to earn money for their shareholders by any means possible. They do this to universities EVERY DAY.
The Linegae 2 devel code was already "accidently" leaked to blackmailers once by the Chinese team...
But even if you're not doing business there, they will steal it anyway, so it's not really a choice.
Sounds like someone found an old copy of VMS and installed it :)
Yea, flame away, but you know I'm right. You'd think Linux (or Windows, or OSX) would have some of those features after 30 freaking years...
Legacy System: One that doesnt have downtime while being moved across the country.
None, since Google already supports Folding@Home :)
*laughs* that's sooooooo 1997...
see also: piles of dot-bombs
While renting out unused machines is not even close to a new thing, it's the LoTR machines, so it's way cool here on /.
This is what all that "on demand" hype is about after all... *yawn*
but machines with that much memory in each aren't the norm, so it is a rather sweet cluster.