Very unlikely. Covered puts could only be covered by a short position in the stock. To sell a covered put, the employee would have to own a short position in the stock. It's typical that incentive-stock agreements will prohibit the employee from taking or holding any bearish equity/derivative positions. Shorting AAPL would violate that employee agreement.
You probably meant calls, not puts. If you did indeed mean calls, it wouldn't be a covered position unless he owned the underlying stock, which he won't until he vests and exercises. And if he did own the stock, selling the call against it would be considered a bearish move, and thus prohibited by the employee agreement.
Isaac Asimov was constantly approached by wannabe writers who always had the next Great Idea [snip]
This is an excellent comparison. In my dark hours, I sometimes dream about abandoning coding and becoming a fiction writer, where instead of slogging through the multiple lifetimes of work it would take me to build the next Google, I just write an exciting fictional story about the guy who did, sell the screenplay rights, and live on an island. That's gotta be way easier than coding, right?
In reality, I am sure that good fiction is as difficult to write as good code. Same problems, different languages. And so it surely is with any expression of ideas in usable forms.
If you're measuring memory in a multi-process application like Google Chrome, don't forget to take into account shared memory. If you add the size of each process via the Windows XP task manager, you'll be double counting the shared memory for each process. If there are a large number of processes, double-counting can account for 30-40% extra memory size.
To make it easy to summarize multi-process memory usage, Google Chrome provides the "about:memory" page which includes a detailed breakdown of Google Chrome's memory usage and also provides basic comparisons to other browsers that are running.
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Don't you hate it when that happens? You spend all this time researching the best nuclear power plant for your needs, and finally you get one. Then a couple months later they come out with one that's twice as powerful, half the size, and half the price. And it includes this fancy "SSTAR" feature, which of course yours doesn't have.
An enlightened approach to "dealing" with BugMeNot users is to recognize that they are probably an excellent, self-selecting, well-targeted group for advertising purposes. If I know that someone has registered under a BugMeNot-publicized account, he or she:
is more likely than average to be a geek;
is more likely than average to be concerned about privacy;
is more likely than average to be a Mozilla user (because of the excellent BugMeNot context menu extension).
And so on. Any of these profiles is an interesting one for the right kind of advertiser, for which that advertiser should be willing to pay more per click.
August 2001, the middle of the desert in Nevada, while setting up my Burning Man art project. I was furious at myself for making a last-minute untested change to the firmware that killed the visuals, and now I had to reprogram 27 EEPROMs hanging 10 feet in the air by climbing a ladder and plugging a ribbon cable into each one and holding my laptop perfectly steady for 90 seconds while the flash programmer ran. It was a miserable way to spend an hour, and I was convinced I'd wasted five months of effort.
About halfway through I remembered that 802.11b was blanketing the area and wondered whether I had a signal. Although it was over a thousand feet from the camp areas, the conditions were perfect. So I checked e-mail and Slashdot; odd how a geek finds comfort when he's far from home.
First the detective tries this: "When the detective served a search warrant on SBC Ameritech for the source of the calls, the phone company came up dry."
Then after he talks to Mitnick and gives a more specific request: "This time, SBC tracked the calls as far as cell phone carrier Sprint PCS, and identified the specific trunks on which the calls entered the local phone network."
Why does SBC need the help of an ex-hacker to come up with the right terminology to search its own system for evidence of crime? Do phone companies treat law enforcement with the same dull contempt that they do their regular customers?
I can just imagine: "Thank you for calling SBC Ameritech's search warrant compliance department. Please listen carefully to the following options, as they have recently changed. Press 1 if you are tracking an obscene phone caller. Press 2 if you are tracking a bomber. beep Thank you. Please press 1 if the bomber is threatening a commercial address. Press 2 if the bomber is threatening a residential address. beep...."
Ouch, yeah, I just figured that out the hard way (now my computer's down, so I'm writing from an Internet cafe across the street). OK, move step 4 to be first and renumber.
Simple. Just spam 10 million people with the following e-mail:
This is your system administrator. DO NOT DELETE THIS E-MAIL. Your computer has been infected with the latest trojan worm rotovirus. Please take the following steps to remove this infection:
1. Open your computer and remove the hard drive. If you are not able to do this on your own, ask the nearest IS worker for help. Inform him that this is to be done on direct orders from his superior.
2. Attach the hard drive to a bat using duct tape. Beat yourself severely with it.
3. While clutching the hard drive, run screaming down the hall.
4. Forward this e-mail to all your direct reports. Please instruct them to comply IMMEDIATELY.
Thank you for your assistance in stopping this infection.
Sincerely yours,
The Management
OK, so maybe you can't get the hard drive to do it on its own, but if you make the e-mail look official enough, at least 10 people will do it for you.
In the coming days, if communications are not restored, the spacecraft will enter safe modes that cause it to try harder to transmit and will reset subsystems.
They sent the second rover, Opportunity, for just this reason: to hold down the F8 key on the Spirit while it reboots.
Slashdot Mirror
Very unlikely. Covered puts could only be covered by a short position in the stock. To sell a covered put, the employee would have to own a short position in the stock. It's typical that incentive-stock agreements will prohibit the employee from taking or holding any bearish equity/derivative positions. Shorting AAPL would violate that employee agreement.
You probably meant calls, not puts. If you did indeed mean calls, it wouldn't be a covered position unless he owned the underlying stock, which he won't until he vests and exercises. And if he did own the stock, selling the call against it would be considered a bearish move, and thus prohibited by the employee agreement.
Isaac Asimov was constantly approached by wannabe writers who always had the next Great Idea [snip]
This is an excellent comparison. In my dark hours, I sometimes dream about abandoning coding and becoming a fiction writer, where instead of slogging through the multiple lifetimes of work it would take me to build the next Google, I just write an exciting fictional story about the guy who did, sell the screenplay rights, and live on an island. That's gotta be way easier than coding, right?
In reality, I am sure that good fiction is as difficult to write as good code. Same problems, different languages. And so it surely is with any expression of ideas in usable forms.
Ding, ding! Congratulations, you got my point.
Advertisers have ruined just about every great thing I have ever liked.
Then you should patronize only businesses that don't advertise.
Can bees think? A new study indicates that no, they cannot.
The Chromium Blog says:
that Google Goes With Moats.
No, bits are the safest. Who's to say whether we'll have the technology in the future to decode hexadecimal?
YOU drive car!
http://zengarden.20megsfree.com/
Don't you hate it when that happens? You spend all this time researching the best nuclear power plant for your needs, and finally you get one. Then a couple months later they come out with one that's twice as powerful, half the size, and half the price. And it includes this fancy "SSTAR" feature, which of course yours doesn't have.
Hey you got comment #10,000,000! Congratulations!
- is more likely than average to be a geek;
- is more likely than average to be concerned about privacy;
- is more likely than average to be a Mozilla user (because of the excellent BugMeNot context menu extension).
And so on. Any of these profiles is an interesting one for the right kind of advertiser, for which that advertiser should be willing to pay more per click.How do you moderate an entire thread as +1, Funny?
Why did I have to provide a credit card number before the test showed me my score?
August 2001, the middle of the desert in Nevada, while setting up my Burning Man art project. I was furious at myself for making a last-minute untested change to the firmware that killed the visuals, and now I had to reprogram 27 EEPROMs hanging 10 feet in the air by climbing a ladder and plugging a ribbon cable into each one and holding my laptop perfectly steady for 90 seconds while the flash programmer ran. It was a miserable way to spend an hour, and I was convinced I'd wasted five months of effort.
About halfway through I remembered that 802.11b was blanketing the area and wondered whether I had a signal. Although it was over a thousand feet from the camp areas, the conditions were perfect. So I checked e-mail and Slashdot; odd how a geek finds comfort when he's far from home.
First the detective tries this: "When the detective served a search warrant on SBC Ameritech for the source of the calls, the phone company came up dry."
Then after he talks to Mitnick and gives a more specific request: "This time, SBC tracked the calls as far as cell phone carrier Sprint PCS, and identified the specific trunks on which the calls entered the local phone network."
Why does SBC need the help of an ex-hacker to come up with the right terminology to search its own system for evidence of crime? Do phone companies treat law enforcement with the same dull contempt that they do their regular customers?
I can just imagine: "Thank you for calling SBC Ameritech's search warrant compliance department. Please listen carefully to the following options, as they have recently changed. Press 1 if you are tracking an obscene phone caller. Press 2 if you are tracking a bomber. beep Thank you. Please press 1 if the bomber is threatening a commercial address. Press 2 if the bomber is threatening a residential address. beep...."
Ground controllers could not verify the rocket had all its correct flight software loaded, and halted the launch.
I bet they're wishing now they'd kept the About box in the spec.
Go roll your own people.
I'm working on it.
"...but you're also going to get a load of junk"
If by "a load of junk" you mean "a lot of pictures of people pointing at your goofy-looking glasses and laughing," then you're absolutely right.
So the official press release is here. Interesting that it's released March 31, 4:05 p.m. Pacific Time. Greenwich Mean Time is eight hours later.
Hmmmmmmmmm.....
Ouch, yeah, I just figured that out the hard way (now my computer's down, so I'm writing from an Internet cafe across the street). OK, move step 4 to be first and renumber.
In the coming days, if communications are not restored, the spacecraft will enter safe modes that cause it to try harder to transmit and will reset subsystems.
They sent the second rover, Opportunity, for just this reason: to hold down the F8 key on the Spirit while it reboots.
(Oblique Windows joke.)
only outlaws will eat GloFish.