There was no lying involved. If you read the prospectus of FB before the IPO, it was clear that it already had market saturation and wasn't growing. The risks they outlined for the company was the majority of the prospectus. And then they raised the target for the IPO. Anyone buying into that wasn't being lied to. They were just plain ignorant.
Turns out he has the same "useless superpower" that I have -- the ability to read freakishly fast.
I want that superpower! Seriously, I read freakishly slow and I like to read. The result is that my wife can finish a dozen books by the time I finish one. I've tried all of those speed-reading books and exercises but they usually result in me not having any idea what I just read, which doesn't make reading enjoyable.
then taxes would go up quite a bit for everyone, even people who don't watch much TV.
I agree.
I don't even have a TV. I'd be pretty pissed having to pay a tax so we don't have advertising. Even if that were the case, they'd just put advertising directly in the show (more than they already do). It would feel worse than watching an infomercial.
I'm also surprised that Canadians don't complain about having to pay a CRIA tax on recordable CD/DVD media. Over my childhood I bought so many spindles of CDs and DVDs for backups or moving data (high bandwidth, high latency). I'd be pissed if that was making lawyers rich.
How about people just pay for what they use and stop offloading it to the government to manage.
Autodesk also phones home for their AutoCAD products. It is very annoying. I recommend people to install it in a VM and disable the networking (if they need files or sharing between computers, that can be enabled, but can disable internet access). I think I will recommend a similar thing for Adobe products, not because of phone home but because they don't fix security issues, so allowing their product to access the net is a risk.
Yesterday, April 23, 2012, our security team became aware of the public posting of a single file from the VMware ESX source code and the possibility that more files may be posted in the future. The posted code and associated commentary dates to the 2003 to 2004 timeframe.
So, they have an 8-9 year old version of the source code. That is ESX version 2/2.5, right? If that is the case, not much was lost and most of the code has changed. This is before hardware virtualization and even 64-bit support. Unless the hacker posts something indicating a newer version, then there doesn't seem much to worry about.
Well, if you have solar or another renewable energy source it wouldn't be impossible to think of. But many public utility companies have a policy to not pay out even if you produce more than you consume.
Well, they did it behind his back without contacting him. (Reset your password sounds like it is after the fact). And in addition to that, they got all the details of his site: efficiency.ca
But what I find amazing is filling out NIL for account number and tax ID with a phone # of "519" and this is approved to transfer contacts and results in the release of account information?
That sounds like a phisher's dream to make it that easy. Of course the phisher wouldn't be real info in the new contact section (as long as it can result in the release of username/new password).
A lot of the SEO sites have very low actual value in them. They are avoided by any humans with 10% of a brain. This dilutes Google's actual value as a search engine. If they change how sites are rated to raise usable content-rich sites, then people are more likely to view the site and maybe actually click on an ad and maybe buy something.
It isn't as if all that toner makes it to the page when you are printing either. I'd refuse to be in an office anywhere close to where a printer is frequently used
It is the converse accident. I usually make sense of it with thinking of sets and subsets, but I've met quite a few college folks that couldn't get it and I wonder how they passed Philosophy 101 (i.e. Logic).
Why does it take a representative to be affected before they represent the people? Aren't they supposed to be listening to us complaining and take action? Instead it seems like they only act on what is affecting them.
Oh, like profiling for a crime? They could look at past criminals and their spending histories, and look at all other people with similar ones and correlate all the other uncaught criminals./me goes back to watching Minority Report.
I had AT&T remove text message support to my phone completely. The only ones I receive are from AT&T telling me about my bill (which they don't charge me for). When my wife started getting spam text messages, I called AT&T up again and had text message support removed from that line as well.
I'm too lazy to call about each text message I get, so getting the service removed completely made me happy.
Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me. * Emails cost money if it is larger than some small number of bytes (so email between phones is usually free / close to free, but receiving news letters is not).
I didn't drink coffee until I finished college and started working. From middle school up until that time, I drank soda. I had my part-time job at a place giving out free soda, so I probably drank a gallon a day. Now that I'm on coffee, I have at least 6 cups a day to feel normal. Drinking it before going to sleep has no affect.
Worrying about work and what-not would keep me awake, so I usually try to note down any brilliant ideas when lying in bed and that usually helps.
I used to think the soda kept me up at night, but it really is just the computer (and its addiction).
ref: Google's initial public offering (IPO) took place five years later on August 19, 2004. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share.[46][47] Shares were sold in a unique online auction format using a system built by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, underwriters for the deal.[48][49] The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion.[50]
So Facebook is getting them $5b, for a value ranging from $50b to $100b. Google was $23b. So Facebook could be 2-4x what Google was.
Then there's yellow and red lights. There are intersections where you cannot avoid running a red light. For starters, you don't know how long the green light and yellow light will last before the red. The guidelines for most states for the length of the lights don't even seem to take the speed limit and the width of the intersection into account and the guidelines often aren't followed anyway. Which means that there are many intersections where, even if the light changes to yellow _after_ you've crossed the stop line, you can't make it all the way across before the red light unless you're speeding.
I guess this depends on what is written for the state, but for California (ref: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21453.htm), it isn't a red light violation if you've entered the intersection on yellow (and changes red while still in the intersection). On the other hand, the length of yellow is important if it is short and the speed limit is high as the car won't have enough time to break before reaching the intersection. The width of the intersection shouldn't be important in this case.
Yes, driving safely and obeying the law is complicated. I think Google et al should first invest a lot into the safety part (other drivers don't always obey the law, so more defensive driving would be necessary). After that is problem free, following the endless list of state/country laws should be invested in.
Japan has a significant price difference between using electricity at night (11pm-7am) and during the day. Since usage is down at night, it is much cheaper, so people do things that might require a lot of electricity (e.g. washer, dish-washer).
But I doubt the price difference is enough for people to invest in the batteries & inverter system.
QA at our company would be rated better or worse by the number of bugs we filed that got fixed. So it made more sense to focus on small issues (e.g. typo in some text) than bigger issues (e.g. data corruption in a stress environment). I could file 5-10 easy bugs that get fixed in a day, while someone else suffers trying to explain how to reproduce the data corruption issue.
This wasn't the absolute deciding factor keeping your job, but it had quite some weight to it. I also wrote the report that the managers used to read this data, but before that I wonder what factors they used to judge performance.
I had a coworker that did that for both c++ and python. Who knows, maybe their IDE did it for them, but after they hit the 8th space, it turned into a tab. My tab width is 3, so it is completely unreadable. I refuse to set mine to 8, so I am just slowly cleaning up their mess (whenever I change their code).
Was recently married and finally randomly selected for the first time in the last 10 years of flying. My wife on the other hand has been randomly selected every time in the last 5 years I've been with her. Maybe it is that we always go together that they can't randomly select 2 people in a row so they pick her over me.
Unfortunately there is no penalty to be paid for instant gratification. Hopefuly after this correction, investors will learn that 5-10% is an appropriate ROI.
Why would the investors care? They are as transient as the current CEO and will move on to the next company after the coal has turned to a clinker.
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There was no lying involved.
If you read the prospectus of FB before the IPO, it was clear that it already had market saturation and wasn't growing. The risks they outlined for the company was the majority of the prospectus.
And then they raised the target for the IPO. Anyone buying into that wasn't being lied to. They were just plain ignorant.
Turns out he has the same "useless superpower" that I have -- the ability to read freakishly fast.
I want that superpower! Seriously, I read freakishly slow and I like to read. The result is that my wife can finish a dozen books by the time I finish one.
I've tried all of those speed-reading books and exercises but they usually result in me not having any idea what I just read, which doesn't make reading enjoyable.
He who controls the media, controls the future.
No.
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
then taxes would go up quite a bit for everyone, even people who don't watch much TV.
I agree.
I don't even have a TV. I'd be pretty pissed having to pay a tax so we don't have advertising. Even if that were the case, they'd just put advertising directly in the show (more than they already do). It would feel worse than watching an infomercial.
I'm also surprised that Canadians don't complain about having to pay a CRIA tax on recordable CD/DVD media. Over my childhood I bought so many spindles of CDs and DVDs for backups or moving data (high bandwidth, high latency). I'd be pissed if that was making lawyers rich.
How about people just pay for what they use and stop offloading it to the government to manage.
Autodesk also phones home for their AutoCAD products. It is very annoying.
I recommend people to install it in a VM and disable the networking (if they need files or sharing between computers, that can be enabled, but can disable internet access).
I think I will recommend a similar thing for Adobe products, not because of phone home but because they don't fix security issues, so allowing their product to access the net is a risk.
From the confirmation on VMware site
Yesterday, April 23, 2012, our security team became aware of the public posting of a single file from the VMware ESX source code and the possibility that more files may be posted in the future. The posted code and associated commentary dates to the 2003 to 2004 timeframe.
So, they have an 8-9 year old version of the source code. That is ESX version 2/2.5, right? If that is the case, not much was lost and most of the code has changed. This is before hardware virtualization and even 64-bit support.
Unless the hacker posts something indicating a newer version, then there doesn't seem much to worry about.
Well, if you have solar or another renewable energy source it wouldn't be impossible to think of.
But many public utility companies have a policy to not pay out even if you produce more than you consume.
Well, they did it behind his back without contacting him. (Reset your password sounds like it is after the fact).
And in addition to that, they got all the details of his site: efficiency.ca
But what I find amazing is filling out NIL for account number and tax ID with a phone # of "519" and this is approved to transfer contacts and results in the release of account information?
That sounds like a phisher's dream to make it that easy. Of course the phisher wouldn't be real info in the new contact section (as long as it can result in the release of username/new password).
A lot of the SEO sites have very low actual value in them. They are avoided by any humans with 10% of a brain.
This dilutes Google's actual value as a search engine.
If they change how sites are rated to raise usable content-rich sites, then people are more likely to view the site and maybe actually click on an ad and maybe buy something.
It isn't as if all that toner makes it to the page when you are printing either.
I'd refuse to be in an office anywhere close to where a printer is frequently used
Wow, thanks for that comment (I had to check it out). TRWTF is bmp images.
It is the converse accident.
I usually make sense of it with thinking of sets and subsets, but I've met quite a few college folks that couldn't get it and I wonder how they passed Philosophy 101 (i.e. Logic).
Why does it take a representative to be affected before they represent the people?
Aren't they supposed to be listening to us complaining and take action? Instead it seems like they only act on what is affecting them.
Oh, like profiling for a crime? /me goes back to watching Minority Report.
They could look at past criminals and their spending histories, and look at all other people with similar ones and correlate all the other uncaught criminals.
I came here to say this (except with an 's' instead of 'z').
I had AT&T remove text message support to my phone completely. The only ones I receive are from AT&T telling me about my bill (which they don't charge me for).
When my wife started getting spam text messages, I called AT&T up again and had text message support removed from that line as well.
I'm too lazy to call about each text message I get, so getting the service removed completely made me happy.
Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.
* Emails cost money if it is larger than some small number of bytes (so email between phones is usually free / close to free, but receiving news letters is not).
I didn't drink coffee until I finished college and started working. From middle school up until that time, I drank soda. I had my part-time job at a place giving out free soda, so I probably drank a gallon a day.
Now that I'm on coffee, I have at least 6 cups a day to feel normal. Drinking it before going to sleep has no affect.
Worrying about work and what-not would keep me awake, so I usually try to note down any brilliant ideas when lying in bed and that usually helps.
I used to think the soda kept me up at night, but it really is just the computer (and its addiction).
ref: Google's initial public offering (IPO) took place five years later on August 19, 2004. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share.[46][47] Shares were sold in a unique online auction format using a system built by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, underwriters for the deal.[48][49] The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion.[50]
So Facebook is getting them $5b, for a value ranging from $50b to $100b. Google was $23b. So Facebook could be 2-4x what Google was.
Then there's yellow and red lights. There are intersections where you cannot avoid running a red light. For starters, you don't know how long the green light and yellow light will last before the red. The guidelines for most states for the length of the lights don't even seem to take the speed limit and the width of the intersection into account and the guidelines often aren't followed anyway. Which means that there are many intersections where, even if the light changes to yellow _after_ you've crossed the stop line, you can't make it all the way across before the red light unless you're speeding.
I guess this depends on what is written for the state, but for California (ref: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21453.htm), it isn't a red light violation if you've entered the intersection on yellow (and changes red while still in the intersection). On the other hand, the length of yellow is important if it is short and the speed limit is high as the car won't have enough time to break before reaching the intersection. The width of the intersection shouldn't be important in this case.
Yes, driving safely and obeying the law is complicated. I think Google et al should first invest a lot into the safety part (other drivers don't always obey the law, so more defensive driving would be necessary). After that is problem free, following the endless list of state/country laws should be invested in.
It is a one-man shop, and he even got "Marketting" wrong.
Japan has a significant price difference between using electricity at night (11pm-7am) and during the day. Since usage is down at night, it is much cheaper, so people do things that might require a lot of electricity (e.g. washer, dish-washer).
But I doubt the price difference is enough for people to invest in the batteries & inverter system.
QA at our company would be rated better or worse by the number of bugs we filed that got fixed. So it made more sense to focus on small issues (e.g. typo in some text) than bigger issues (e.g. data corruption in a stress environment).
I could file 5-10 easy bugs that get fixed in a day, while someone else suffers trying to explain how to reproduce the data corruption issue.
This wasn't the absolute deciding factor keeping your job, but it had quite some weight to it.
I also wrote the report that the managers used to read this data, but before that I wonder what factors they used to judge performance.
I had a coworker that did that for both c++ and python.
Who knows, maybe their IDE did it for them, but after they hit the 8th space, it turned into a tab. My tab width is 3, so it is completely unreadable. I refuse to set mine to 8, so I am just slowly cleaning up their mess (whenever I change their code).
Was recently married and finally randomly selected for the first time in the last 10 years of flying.
My wife on the other hand has been randomly selected every time in the last 5 years I've been with her. Maybe it is that we always go together that they can't randomly select 2 people in a row so they pick her over me.
Unfortunately there is no penalty to be paid for instant gratification. Hopefuly after this correction, investors will learn that 5-10% is an appropriate ROI.
Why would the investors care? They are as transient as the current CEO and will move on to the next company after the coal has turned to a clinker.