The glass is actually less than empty in Lucent's case. Consider these key stats. Particularly near the bottom where it says "Book value per share" and notice that this number is negative. This means that if the company closed the doors and sold off all of its assets (factories, accounts receivable, existing inventories, patent rights, etc) it would still owe. This is a Bad Thing. Furthermore, free cash flow is also negative, to the tune of 680 million. This number is money coming in minus money going out; a pretty straight foward calculation. While you can have negatives in other accounting statements like the balance sheet, as long as free cash flow is positive the company can still have a decent chance.
No, salvage rights work because the prior owner has officially abandoned whatever. And usually has already filed an insurance claim and been paid off. The artists in question have probably not officially abandoned their rights to payment.
record companies had failed to maintain contact with the performers... Prominent artists who were owed royalty payments included: David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Dave Matthews, Sean Combs and Gloria Estefan.
Really, how hard is it to track down some of the people on this list? All the record company has to do is call any Enquirer reporter.
Monopoly rents are simply higher than the price would be with competition and not an unlimited amount. So no, $1,000 would be unreasonable. As it is, the retail price of Windows XP Pro *is* $299.
Not really. Don Estridge, who headed IBM's Personal Systems division when the PC was introduced was the one who insisted to the top brass that the PC be an open design. It was after he was killed in the L1011 windshear crash in Dallas that his replacement thought in terms of trying to make a system around a proprietary system. If Don were still alive there's good odds that MCA would have been open as well. MCA was technically superior and too bad it wasn't adopted widely; it's bad rap is purely due to its closed nature.
If IBM had its way, your PC would be a glorified 3270 emulator connecting to some AS/400
You seem unaware that IBM went out of its way to make the original ISA architecture royalty free. The PC revolution happened because anyone could make a compatible hardware system. After enough other players made their fortunes they got together to make standards such as PCI and AGP without some individual company mandating it. But the ball started rolling with IBM's freely giving away the specs and rights to make compatible ISA.
These CEOs are traitors - they are betrying their country and their people for money.
Hmm, the CEOs in the (semi) capitalist country are maximixing profits for their shareholders. Exactly what country and people are being betrayed here? Either the shareholders (OWNERS) of the company are hurt or the workers. Why is the workers group more important than the owners group? Who will own a company whose interests are subjugated to the workers? Please see stunning triumphs of socialism such as the former Soviet Union.
Oh no! A company is moving from a downtown highrise to a lower rent building in the burbs! Oh no! A company is moving from the burbs to a rural part of the state! Oh no! A company is moving from a rural part of this state to another state! Oh no! A company is moving from this country to another country!
Which is these are OK and which is too much? So where is the line and why not the one before? If any one of them is OK then they should ALL be OK. Why should a company be forced to stay put forever in the same place?
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Just cause it says 9700 pro doesn't mean that it is
I think the more important point is that there isn't an option. Compare to the Alienware notebook with modular video so you can choose between ATI or NVidia and then upgrade in the future.
Market capitalization means (in theory) what all the assets are worth plus future revenues. What does that mean? Well, if a company owns a fabrication factory with 5 billion bucks but no one buys the product, they're still worth $5 billion because they can sell the factory. Market cap has this kind of assets built into it. Notice that the book value per share is only 1.69. This means that almost 8 billion of that 13 is in fixed assets like factories. Less than half of the stock price is the value of the company's future revenue. Since most companies hope to operate indefinitely, this is a pretty sad ratio and a sign that the market is iffy on the company's future. Compare to a company like Coke which has a ratio of just over 6. No one is worried about Coke going out of business so the part of the stock price that represents the factories, etc, is only 1/6 of the price. The rest is all relying on future revenue.
What's really important is a little lower down on that form:
Cash Flow Statement
From Operations (ttm): 383.00M
Free Cashflow (ttm): -64.00M
Which means that despite bringing in 383 million bucks, the expenses add up to 447 million. Unlike the balance sheet where one time charges, depreciation, etc, can be easily used to try to trick the numbers into looking good, cash flow is simply the money in minus money out. While it can also have subtle tricks to it, they are not nearly as big as on other financial statements. If I were an investor I'd be really worried about this company because of its cash flow. And probably a lot of its investors are worried about it or it would have a better price to book value ratio.
Mount Ararat is named in the Bible as the resting place of the Ark
Sorry, it's not. The ark came to rest "in the mountains of Ararat." This is much different from the singular "Mount Ararat". The plural can refer to the mountains in a certain kingdom, perhaps, or an entire mountain chain. And then only much afterwards was one single mountain called "Mount Ararat" and people made the backwards connection erroneously.
I said that part of the war was securing access to their oil, which is true.
You, and all the other war-for-oil types, neglect to mention that the USA imports only 18% of its oil and all of that is from South America. Middle East oil goes to Europe, Japan, etc. So any wars the USA fights in the MidEast is to promote regional stability and the energy interests of our allies.
the library and admin building 100% and other areas are approaching rapidly
Forget making the list with only a couple of buildings at 100%. My school's campus has outdoor WAPs for 10s of thousands of square yards of coverage *between* buildings on the main campus and it didn't even make this list.
a bunch of old 386's in the attic and I'm pretty sure that I can lock down my bandwidth down to about 1 bit an hour
Yours is only one of many suggestions to use a "slow" old computer to do this on the theory that it can't handle much bandwidth. Au contraire. I used a 386-20Mhz as a Linux based firewall for my cable internet connection for several years. It easily held up to the 3Mb/sec I got on good days. I assure you that just because a 386 can't run UT2004 does not mean it can't saturate even the fastest home broadband connection.
Not only that but there's also only support for the lastest Windows. Try to get an older IOmega product to work with Win2k/XP or even 98. They seem to write drivers for whatever OS is in current use, include instructions that won't work with any other version, and then abandon the product.
"It is a shame that the refurbished computers can't be loaded with low cost Lindows"
I'll tell you why they can't as until recently I worked at a nonprofit MAR member. People who run the local community center / church / shelter / adult day care / whatever nonprofit have NO IDEA about computers other than they've heard that Microsoft Windows is what they're supposed to have. At $5 per MAR license or $0 for [insert distro here] Linux, they'd rather pay. There is no amount of patient explaination that will change their minds, I assure you as one who has tried. They also want to pay for MS Office rather than OpenOffice for the same reason. Never heard of it? Don't want it and don't want to know! And all of my persuasions were based on cost and performance on older computers, not a fanatical open source agenda.
Your car puts out less pollution using whatever unit you measure. Miles traveled, hours operated, gallons burned
Bzzzt, wrong-o. Coasting downhill with engines off, both vehicles will put out zero pollution so miles taveled is not a valid comparison. Likewise for almost any other except per unit of fuel which is the only valid comparison for pollution output.
It has a 43cc 2 stroke engine which takes a mix of oil and gas just like a lawnmower
In other words, it spews pollution. There's absolutely no emissions controls on these kinds of engines. My car, at several thousand pounds heavier, puts out a tiny fraction of this thing's pollution per unit of fuel burned.
Wireless is shared bandwidth so if there are a lot of people using it, performance becomes absolutely miserable. Even if people flock to the statium to use wireless networking, as opposed to watching the sports, I don't think this is worth the bother. Sure, before the game starts some people might want to use their wireless PDAs to check up on stocks, etc, this isn't going to be used very much. I think the heaviest users are going to be living line of sight to the stadium with Pringles cans pointed that way.
the USA alone has the potential to grow more than enough food to feed every single person on the planet. The problem is one of distribution
Nevermind distributing it from the USA. Most countries are in need of food aid because bad government policies discourgage if not outright prevent the local land from producing enough. From North Korea to Zimbabwe the local land is perfectly capable of producing enough food. Communist/Stalinist bullies around the world are the source of the problem.
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To see the glass half full for a moment
The glass is actually less than empty in Lucent's case. Consider these key stats. Particularly near the bottom where it says "Book value per share" and notice that this number is negative. This means that if the company closed the doors and sold off all of its assets (factories, accounts receivable, existing inventories, patent rights, etc) it would still owe. This is a Bad Thing. Furthermore, free cash flow is also negative, to the tune of 680 million. This number is money coming in minus money going out; a pretty straight foward calculation. While you can have negatives in other accounting statements like the balance sheet, as long as free cash flow is positive the company can still have a decent chance.
Someone I know at AMD says that a lot of the people working there have these laptops; of course, they were heavily discounted for employees.
They don't do too well in close proximity to a Tesla coil
Tesla coils are all very fun for the kids but for real entertainment put a CD in the middle of a Jacob's Ladder.
But I'm on a Ford Tempo budget..
When they come out with hydrogen fuel cell laptops, please be sure not to get the Ford Pinto version.
No, salvage rights work because the prior owner has officially abandoned whatever. And usually has already filed an insurance claim and been paid off. The artists in question have probably not officially abandoned their rights to payment.
record companies had failed to maintain contact with the performers ... Prominent artists who were owed royalty payments included: David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Dave Matthews, Sean Combs and Gloria Estefan.
Really, how hard is it to track down some of the people on this list? All the record company has to do is call any Enquirer reporter.
Monopoly rents are simply higher than the price would be with competition and not an unlimited amount. So no, $1,000 would be unreasonable. As it is, the retail price of Windows XP Pro *is* $299.
Not really. Don Estridge, who headed IBM's Personal Systems division when the PC was introduced was the one who insisted to the top brass that the PC be an open design. It was after he was killed in the L1011 windshear crash in Dallas that his replacement thought in terms of trying to make a system around a proprietary system. If Don were still alive there's good odds that MCA would have been open as well. MCA was technically superior and too bad it wasn't adopted widely; it's bad rap is purely due to its closed nature.
If IBM had its way, your PC would be a glorified 3270 emulator connecting to some AS/400
You seem unaware that IBM went out of its way to make the original ISA architecture royalty free. The PC revolution happened because anyone could make a compatible hardware system. After enough other players made their fortunes they got together to make standards such as PCI and AGP without some individual company mandating it. But the ball started rolling with IBM's freely giving away the specs and rights to make compatible ISA.
These CEOs are traitors - they are betrying their country and their people for money.
Hmm, the CEOs in the (semi) capitalist country are maximixing profits for their shareholders. Exactly what country and people are being betrayed here? Either the shareholders (OWNERS) of the company are hurt or the workers. Why is the workers group more important than the owners group? Who will own a company whose interests are subjugated to the workers? Please see stunning triumphs of socialism such as the former Soviet Union.
Oh no! A company is moving from a downtown highrise to a lower rent building in the burbs!
Oh no! A company is moving from the burbs to a rural part of the state!
Oh no! A company is moving from a rural part of this state to another state!
Oh no! A company is moving from this country to another country!
Which is these are OK and which is too much? So where is the line and why not the one before? If any one of them is OK then they should ALL be OK. Why should a company be forced to stay put forever in the same place?
Just cause it says 9700 pro doesn't mean that it is
I think the more important point is that there isn't an option. Compare to the Alienware notebook with modular video so you can choose between ATI or NVidia and then upgrade in the future.
Market capitalization means (in theory) what all the assets are worth plus future revenues. What does that mean? Well, if a company owns a fabrication factory with 5 billion bucks but no one buys the product, they're still worth $5 billion because they can sell the factory. Market cap has this kind of assets built into it. Notice that the book value per share is only 1.69. This means that almost 8 billion of that 13 is in fixed assets like factories. Less than half of the stock price is the value of the company's future revenue. Since most companies hope to operate indefinitely, this is a pretty sad ratio and a sign that the market is iffy on the company's future. Compare to a company like Coke which has a ratio of just over 6. No one is worried about Coke going out of business so the part of the stock price that represents the factories, etc, is only 1/6 of the price. The rest is all relying on future revenue.
What's really important is a little lower down on that form:
Cash Flow Statement
From Operations (ttm): 383.00M
Free Cashflow (ttm): -64.00M
Which means that despite bringing in 383 million bucks, the expenses add up to 447 million. Unlike the balance sheet where one time charges, depreciation, etc, can be easily used to try to trick the numbers into looking good, cash flow is simply the money in minus money out. While it can also have subtle tricks to it, they are not nearly as big as on other financial statements. If I were an investor I'd be really worried about this company because of its cash flow. And probably a lot of its investors are worried about it or it would have a better price to book value ratio.
And all I want to know is what "Irregardless" means... Mmmmm, multiple negatives...
Mount Ararat is named in the Bible as the resting place of the Ark
Sorry, it's not. The ark came to rest "in the mountains of Ararat." This is much different from the singular "Mount Ararat". The plural can refer to the mountains in a certain kingdom, perhaps, or an entire mountain chain. And then only much afterwards was one single mountain called "Mount Ararat" and people made the backwards connection erroneously.
I said that part of the war was securing access to their oil, which is true.
You, and all the other war-for-oil types, neglect to mention that the USA imports only 18% of its oil and all of that is from South America. Middle East oil goes to Europe, Japan, etc. So any wars the USA fights in the MidEast is to promote regional stability and the energy interests of our allies.
3. No second mouse button
No, no, no, the mouseclops is what kept me from buying any Apple product thus far. *shiver*
the library and admin building 100% and other areas are approaching rapidly
Forget making the list with only a couple of buildings at 100%. My school's campus has outdoor WAPs for 10s of thousands of square yards of coverage *between* buildings on the main campus and it didn't even make this list.
a bunch of old 386's in the attic and I'm pretty sure that I can lock down my bandwidth down to about 1 bit an hour
Yours is only one of many suggestions to use a "slow" old computer to do this on the theory that it can't handle much bandwidth. Au contraire. I used a 386-20Mhz as a Linux based firewall for my cable internet connection for several years. It easily held up to the 3Mb/sec I got on good days. I assure you that just because a 386 can't run UT2004 does not mean it can't saturate even the fastest home broadband connection.
There's no Mac or Linux support
Not only that but there's also only support for the lastest Windows. Try to get an older IOmega product to work with Win2k/XP or even 98. They seem to write drivers for whatever OS is in current use, include instructions that won't work with any other version, and then abandon the product.
"It is a shame that the refurbished computers can't be loaded with low cost Lindows"
I'll tell you why they can't as until recently I worked at a nonprofit MAR member. People who run the local community center / church / shelter / adult day care / whatever nonprofit have NO IDEA about computers other than they've heard that Microsoft Windows is what they're supposed to have. At $5 per MAR license or $0 for [insert distro here] Linux, they'd rather pay. There is no amount of patient explaination that will change their minds, I assure you as one who has tried. They also want to pay for MS Office rather than OpenOffice for the same reason. Never heard of it? Don't want it and don't want to know! And all of my persuasions were based on cost and performance on older computers, not a fanatical open source agenda.
Matsushita Industries comes pretty close.
Your car puts out less pollution using whatever unit you measure. Miles traveled, hours operated, gallons burned
Bzzzt, wrong-o. Coasting downhill with engines off, both vehicles will put out zero pollution so miles taveled is not a valid comparison. Likewise for almost any other except per unit of fuel which is the only valid comparison for pollution output.
It has a 43cc 2 stroke engine which takes a mix of oil and gas just like a lawnmower
In other words, it spews pollution. There's absolutely no emissions controls on these kinds of engines. My car, at several thousand pounds heavier, puts out a tiny fraction of this thing's pollution per unit of fuel burned.
Wireless is shared bandwidth so if there are a lot of people using it, performance becomes absolutely miserable. Even if people flock to the statium to use wireless networking, as opposed to watching the sports, I don't think this is worth the bother. Sure, before the game starts some people might want to use their wireless PDAs to check up on stocks, etc, this isn't going to be used very much. I think the heaviest users are going to be living line of sight to the stadium with Pringles cans pointed that way.
the USA alone has the potential to grow more than enough food to feed every single person on the planet. The problem is one of distribution
Nevermind distributing it from the USA. Most countries are in need of food aid because bad government policies discourgage if not outright prevent the local land from producing enough. From North Korea to Zimbabwe the local land is perfectly capable of producing enough food. Communist/Stalinist bullies around the world are the source of the problem.