I stopped for gas this morning (in a suburb of Atlanta) and of the 5 or 6 people getting gas I was the ONLY one NOT wearing one (and I'm pretty sure I was the biggest geek onhand).
Read the fine print: "Merrill Lynch does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this report."
Also read this earlier ML report on Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3, gushing about how Microsoft has so much money ("nearly unlimited ability to loss-lead".) ML might be able to swing the stock prices in their favour, but FUDing for dollars is a well known way to get Microsoft to "loss-lead" in their direction.
Pure genius! Think of all of the money being made by stock brokers, stock exchanges etc. - surely Verizon will want a slice of that pie, too. Then there's all of the on-line shopping sites, eBay, gambling etc. etc.
1. Extort money from customers for using your bandwidth.
2. ???
3. Profit!
It would seem that step 2 is "Lose your customers."
The Thief "1st-person sneaker" games are my favourites. Unlike 1st-person shooters which reward fast reaction times (he who has the biggest weapon wins), Thief rewards guile and cunning. Sneaking through a map only to accidentally bump into a monster and have to haul arse out of there really gets the adrenalin flowing. In contrast, Doom 3 was just tedious: "ho hum if I walk in there, I bet the lights will go out and three baddies will jump me. Uh huh..."
The Hitman series aren't too bad either; similar stealth features to Thief, but being able to pull out an Uzi and waste the baddies if things go pear-shaped takes away some the fear element.
If you pronounce the "h", use "a": "a horse", "a hospital", "a hotel".
If you don't pronounce the "h" - i.e. you pronounce the vowel - use "an": "an honour", "an hour".
You would only say "an hot" if you pronounce it Cockney style: "An 'ot news mornin' glory."
If I gave you a board, a piece of string, scissors, and a saw, you could cut the board exactly in half in a short amount of time. How? You'd lay the string out on the board, cut them to match length, fold the string in half, and lay the string out on the board again, making the cut at the end of the string.
Sounds overly complicated to me - I'd just cut it corner to opposite corner.
Agreed, and while you're at it replace your $1 notes (and the rare $2 notes) with coins!
In Australia, we phased out our 1c and 2c coins about 15 years ago; I think it was mainly a cost-saving measure - and nobody wanted to deal with piddly small change. (The remaining coinage contains between 75% and 92% copper, depending on the denomination, so that fact the 1c and 2c coins were copper is coincidental.)
The $1 note was replaced with a $1 coin in 1984, and the $2 note was replaced by a coin in 1988. Again, I believe it was a cost-saving measure - the low denominations had a high turnover rate from wear (like the US $1 note), coins are much more durable. There were other spin-offs e.g. use in vending machines.
Similarly, the old paper notes were replaced with polymer ones from 1992 (though the first, a commemorative $10 note, was released in 1988 for the bicentennial.) Polymer lasts longer and is much harder to counterfeit.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
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Who does this format war even benefit?
The MPAA.
Do analysts represent the official corporate line of their investors?
It stinks of Microsoft payola to me, unless you consider "Google shares: not a licence to print money" to be newsworthy.
At some point the Video cards will hit a price point that you find worth your money.
... or are discontinued.
I stopped for gas this morning (in a suburb of Atlanta) and of the 5 or 6 people getting gas I was the ONLY one NOT wearing one (and I'm pretty sure I was the biggest geek onhand).
Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated.
I bet they're all keyed to "shave and a haircut".
Tell them they are smart, get them involved and make the system that will teach more generations.
Intelligent Design in schools? *ducks*
What spurs? There's no mention of them in the article, nor others that I Googled for.
Read the fine print: "Merrill Lynch does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this report."
Also read this earlier ML report on Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3, gushing about how Microsoft has so much money ("nearly unlimited ability to loss-lead".) ML might be able to swing the stock prices in their favour, but FUDing for dollars is a well known way to get Microsoft to "loss-lead" in their direction.
O'Reilly: Hack!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I call lame-meme.
I call viral marketing - first The Hoff, now Chuck Norris?! Does he had a new album due for release?
Can't blame that one on humans - it's there in the Bible, as God's word.
How convenient.
Mr. Britney Spears?! Boy, have I been out of touch with mainstream pop culture...
Pure genius! Think of all of the money being made by stock brokers, stock exchanges etc. - surely Verizon will want a slice of that pie, too. Then there's all of the on-line shopping sites, eBay, gambling etc. etc.
1. Extort money from customers for using your bandwidth.
2. ???
3. Profit!
It would seem that step 2 is "Lose your customers."
The should rename it the unsuitable satellite.
Do you have business men and teenage girls flying into your car often?
The Thief "1st-person sneaker" games are my favourites. Unlike 1st-person shooters which reward fast reaction times (he who has the biggest weapon wins), Thief rewards guile and cunning. Sneaking through a map only to accidentally bump into a monster and have to haul arse out of there really gets the adrenalin flowing. In contrast, Doom 3 was just tedious: "ho hum if I walk in there, I bet the lights will go out and three baddies will jump me. Uh huh..."
The Hitman series aren't too bad either; similar stealth features to Thief, but being able to pull out an Uzi and waste the baddies if things go pear-shaped takes away some the fear element.
So for geek soapies, the baddy should be JR R Tolkien?
Once again, NASA comes up with the high cost, over-engineered solution to a simple problem...
1. Wrap food carefully, and completely, in foil.
2. Place food parcel carefully on engine block; secure with wire if necessary.
3. Drive home.
For the average commuter, your dinner is now cooked.
Why bother adding the seeker? The result of dropping a dumb pamphet "bomb" is the same, without the addition cost.
That's not a backhoe - this is a backhoe.
[sour grapes] Rejected slashdot submission: [/sour grapes]
...
An hot news story
"A hot news story".
If you pronounce the "h", use "a": "a horse", "a hospital", "a hotel".
If you don't pronounce the "h" - i.e. you pronounce the vowel - use "an": "an honour", "an hour".
You would only say "an hot" if you pronounce it Cockney style: "An 'ot news mornin' glory."
If I gave you a board, a piece of string, scissors, and a saw, you could cut the board exactly in half in a short amount of time. How? You'd lay the string out on the board, cut them to match length, fold the string in half, and lay the string out on the board again, making the cut at the end of the string.
Sounds overly complicated to me - I'd just cut it corner to opposite corner.
That's not a dupe - it's self-repair for your memory.
Agreed, and while you're at it replace your $1 notes (and the rare $2 notes) with coins!
In Australia, we phased out our 1c and 2c coins about 15 years ago; I think it was mainly a cost-saving measure - and nobody wanted to deal with piddly small change. (The remaining coinage contains between 75% and 92% copper, depending on the denomination, so that fact the 1c and 2c coins were copper is coincidental.)
The $1 note was replaced with a $1 coin in 1984, and the $2 note was replaced by a coin in 1988. Again, I believe it was a cost-saving measure - the low denominations had a high turnover rate from wear (like the US $1 note), coins are much more durable. There were other spin-offs e.g. use in vending machines.
Similarly, the old paper notes were replaced with polymer ones from 1992 (though the first, a commemorative $10 note, was released in 1988 for the bicentennial.) Polymer lasts longer and is much harder to counterfeit.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."