Dude, I saw the various numbers etc. from the story. But what you're saying, and what those numbers said, really doesn't speak at all to what I was talking about.
You ever listen to the business news? Have you ever heard one of these stories? Company X's stock price was down today, they issued a report saying profits grew n% since last year. Wall Street analysts were expecting (n+4)%.
You know, just parading this fact about the growths of sales and profits doesn't strike me as the most thoughtful use of statistics I've ever seen.
What's really important from the business mind of RIAA is, how does that growth compare to last year's growth? How did we compare to Wall Street's estimates? In fact, their rate of growth could be slowing, due to the expanding use of mp3's.
So, this isolated fact really tells me nothing, and in the larger scheme of things, this fact could be used to boost the RIAA's case in court.
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but anyway they could reverse-engineer it, right? Isn't there one of those big mothers laying on its side outside JSC in Houston?
Possible newbie question: I've checked out the national access pages for AOL, netzero, freewwweb. They all have downloadable software for connecting: Problem: This software is only available for Windows or Mac. Is there a national ISP that you can dial into for Linux? Specifically, I use RedHat 6.0 with netcfg, and it'd be nice if I could get some kind of PPP dial-up number.
I wonder how the economy will do now that the Y2K has passed. (At least the date, though the diagnostics will continue for awhile I'm sure.)
I kept reading how much money the world's businesses have spent on Y2K fixes. Citigroup supposedly spent something like $900 million over the last couple years.
So, they're not having to spend so much money on this fix anymore, how does that bode for having that much more money to invest in actual business expansion?
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Poems about Columbine
Some students there have been working through their feelings about the event, and expressing them in poems.
It's interesting, b/c one of the students was friends with Dylan Klebold, and she has something to say about other than "YOU MONSTER!!!!"
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You ever listen to the business news? Have you ever heard one of these stories? Company X's stock price was down today, they issued a report saying profits grew n% since last year. Wall Street analysts were expecting (n+4)%.
What's really important from the business mind of RIAA is, how does that growth compare to last year's growth? How did we compare to Wall Street's estimates? In fact, their rate of growth could be slowing, due to the expanding use of mp3's.
So, this isolated fact really tells me nothing, and in the larger scheme of things, this fact could be used to boost the RIAA's case in court.
ps. JSC = Johnson Space Center
Possible newbie question: I've checked out the national access pages for AOL, netzero, freewwweb. They all have downloadable software for connecting: Problem: This software is only available for Windows or Mac. Is there a national ISP that you can dial into for Linux? Specifically, I use RedHat 6.0 with netcfg, and it'd be nice if I could get some kind of PPP dial-up number.
I wonder how the economy will do now that the Y2K has passed. (At least the date, though the diagnostics will continue for awhile I'm sure.)
I kept reading how much money the world's businesses have spent on Y2K fixes. Citigroup supposedly spent something like $900 million over the last couple years.
So, they're not having to spend so much money on this fix anymore, how does that bode for having that much more money to invest in actual business expansion?