In the past, companies could issue stock options to employees essentially at no cost to themselves. This would tend to understate employment costs, making them look more profitable than they really were. In addition, the exercise of these options would dilute the value of the stock held by shareholders.
Now they have to expense them using "fair value", which is what an investor would currently pay for an equivalent option. This, in theory, will more effectively represent employment costs.
In Intel's Trusted Wireless platform there is a Trusted Boot ROM, that will prevent non-signed software, including the OS, from loading at all.
This Trusted Boot ROM is loaded during manufacturing with the appropriate keys to decrypt, unlock, or verify the OS code to be loaded. Loading another OS will result in the Boot ROM thinking that the system has been compromised.
Trusted Boot ROM - will ensure that the OS being booted is the one that the manufacturer installed. No more installing NetBSD on your pocketsized wireless gizmo.
Media DRM - files can be created to work only with the OS, ROM and disk in the unit, and only for a specifed length of time.
The features seem to be directed at wireless carriers and content providers, to prevent unauthorized use of their networks and content. So, if you don't like it, use other vendors.
A Cessna at 8000 feet, at night, will be pretty much invisible from the ground. I live on the Jersey shore, beneath flight paths for both JFK and LGA and 757s are hard enough to see at night when they're half that high, not to mention that keeping a pointer on them would be nearly impossible.
I'm inclined to believe that the stargazing story is true, he lied out of fear, and that the PATRIOT act is wholly inappropriate in this case.
"you don't have to worry about where the files are"
this sounds like a Microsoft answer: and it's not a very good one. why can't installing a program on Linux be like installing a program on OSX? Copy an application bundle to the application directory. Done.
It is pretty much all its claimed to be. It does Just Work, but if you want to go nuts tweaking it you can do that, too.
I bought my wife an iMac flat panel, and got myself a used powermac thinking I could use it to experiment on when she had questions or problems, and ended up installing Linux on it because she didn't need me.
She now has an iBook as well, and loves both. AbiWord is an excellent replacement for Word, at least for us. I use OO.o for spreadsheets when necessary.
For enterprise systems you can't build one and test it in any way that will produce meaningful results; UNLESS you start a business, buy the system, run your company with it, and come back to us in five years with your financials.
I want to watch TV (sports in particular) from other countries, but thanks to NTSC/PAL and a lack of willingness by fatcats at cable companies (who believe that's not what the public wants: Self full-filling prophecy) it's not on the menu or ever likely to be.
Get a DISH. They're always trying to get me to pay $45 to watch cricket from New Delhi, or extreme barfighting, or some other abomination. The content is there, if you're willing to pay for it.
From an interview with Air Force CIO John Gilligan, "Do we like what the Navy is doing? Apart from the fact that it's all one big contract, yeah, there are a lot of good things about that. As you may know, they're struggling on some areas -- it's gone a lot slower than they would like, the contractor is having problems, etc. -- so that is why I am caveating the statement. Would we do it exactly that way? No. Do we plan in the future to outsource increasingly some of our infrastructure? Yes. In fact, I'm looking for us to begin that dialogue with industry in earnest about nine months from now. "
How about a federal regulation prohibiting the government from doing business with a convicted monopolist? Hell, if felons can't vote, why should felonious corporations benefit from government contracts?
Not so true. Expenses will be lower on investments through a 401(k), assuming the employer isn't completely braindead. You'll get the lowest management fees on mutual funds, perhaps even professionally managed accounts (like mutual funds, but even cheaper).
Or a directed brokerage account, and you can invest on your own anyway. You'll also have emergency access to the money through loans, which you don't get if you invest in an IRA or some kind of annuity.
wow, haven't seen that in a while. we were taught to do this in grade school with new textbooks. it made them easier to read flat when you were working at your desk.
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System requirements were the first thing I looked for: Windows AND IE. Too bad.
I use a Mac, and don't really like iPhoto. I wish it was iTunes for pictures, but it isn't. I'll stick to folders with names like, "2005017", for now.
C'mon, everyone knows day 2 is for sleeping off the hangover.
In the past, companies could issue stock options to employees essentially at no cost to themselves. This would tend to understate employment costs, making them look more profitable than they really were. In addition, the exercise of these options would dilute the value of the stock held by shareholders.
Now they have to expense them using "fair value", which is what an investor would currently pay for an equivalent option. This, in theory, will more effectively represent employment costs.
or people in line at the airport security checkpoint?
Yes, yes, yes.
In Intel's Trusted Wireless platform there is a Trusted Boot ROM, that will prevent non-signed software, including the OS, from loading at all.
This Trusted Boot ROM is loaded during manufacturing with the appropriate keys to decrypt, unlock, or verify the OS code to be loaded. Loading another OS will result in the Boot ROM thinking that the system has been compromised.
Trusted Boot ROM - will ensure that the OS being booted is the one that the manufacturer installed. No more installing NetBSD on your pocketsized wireless gizmo.
Media DRM - files can be created to work only with the OS, ROM and disk in the unit, and only for a specifed length of time.
The features seem to be directed at wireless carriers and content providers, to prevent unauthorized use of their networks and content. So, if you don't like it, use other vendors.
A Cessna at 8000 feet, at night, will be pretty much invisible from the ground. I live on the Jersey shore, beneath flight paths for both JFK and LGA and 757s are hard enough to see at night when they're half that high, not to mention that keeping a pointer on them would be nearly impossible.
I'm inclined to believe that the stargazing story is true, he lied out of fear, and that the PATRIOT act is wholly inappropriate in this case.
True. Property taxes represented less than 2% of state tax collections in 2002. Sales and personal income were each around 33%, with corp tax at 15%.
IMO property taxes (especially on real estate) are unconscionable; at least the remedy for non-payment is.
I'll bite, but first let's straighten out the chronology:
Xerox - invented GUI, did nothing with it.
Apple - designed usable GUI, built computer around it.
Microsoft - saw Apple GUI and feared it. Designed inferior GUI and forced its OEM partners to distribute it, thus guaranteeing its success.
Apple designed and built a system (remember, there was a hardware component to Apple's GUI - the Toolbox ROM). Microsoft glued pictures onto DOS.
"you don't have to worry about where the files are"
this sounds like a Microsoft answer: and it's not a very good one. why can't installing a program on Linux be like installing a program on OSX? Copy an application bundle to the application directory. Done.
TRUE. DD coffee is actually pretty damned good, and when I forget to order beans for home roasting I'll buy a bag of DD beans to hold me over.
This Wolfgang Puck thing sounds like an abomination, and will likely resemble coffee as Coors Light resembles beer.
another problem is that there is no audio feedback on a cell phone speaker when you talk, so people talk louder to compensate.
It is pretty much all its claimed to be. It does Just Work, but if you want to go nuts tweaking it you can do that, too.
I bought my wife an iMac flat panel, and got myself a used powermac thinking I could use it to experiment on when she had questions or problems, and ended up installing Linux on it because she didn't need me.
She now has an iBook as well, and loves both. AbiWord is an excellent replacement for Word, at least for us. I use OO.o for spreadsheets when necessary.
what is Lowes doing wrong that they were compromised twice like this?
it's a fscking advertisement.
Not that there aren't a few good soundbites in it, but come on, a consultant defending consultants isn't news.
four pages of three sentence paragraphs is LENGTHY?
actually, now we have live coverage of the quake, with MSNBC news bunnies emoting over the destruction as it occurs.
of course, I'll tivo it and watch it later, after South Park, which will have its earthquake episode next Wednesday.
well, when KrustyBurger stopped making the Ribwich my buzz was definitely harshed....
but the difference between PTC and slashdotters is that THEY take their grievances where they will accomplish something, and slashdotters post here.
For enterprise systems you can't build one and test it in any way that will produce meaningful results; UNLESS you start a business, buy the system, run your company with it, and come back to us in five years with your financials.
I want to watch TV (sports in particular) from other countries, but thanks to NTSC/PAL and a lack of willingness by fatcats at cable companies (who believe that's not what the public wants: Self full-filling prophecy) it's not on the menu or ever likely to be.
Get a DISH. They're always trying to get me to pay $45 to watch cricket from New Delhi, or extreme barfighting, or some other abomination. The content is there, if you're willing to pay for it.
From an interview with Air Force CIO John Gilligan, "Do we like what the Navy is doing? Apart from the fact that it's all one big contract, yeah, there are a lot of good things about that. As you may know, they're struggling on some areas -- it's gone a lot slower than they would like, the contractor is having problems, etc. -- so that is why I am caveating the statement. Would we do it exactly that way? No. Do we plan in the future to outsource increasingly some of our infrastructure? Yes. In fact, I'm looking for us to begin that dialogue with industry in earnest about nine months from now. "
I wonder what changed his mind?
How about a federal regulation prohibiting the government from doing business with a convicted monopolist? Hell, if felons can't vote, why should felonious corporations benefit from government contracts?
Not so true. Expenses will be lower on investments through a 401(k), assuming the employer isn't completely braindead. You'll get the lowest management fees on mutual funds, perhaps even professionally managed accounts (like mutual funds, but even cheaper).
Or a directed brokerage account, and you can invest on your own anyway. You'll also have emergency access to the money through loans, which you don't get if you invest in an IRA or some kind of annuity.
wow, haven't seen that in a while. we were taught to do this in grade school with new textbooks. it made them easier to read flat when you were working at your desk.