I had "Check ID" in large black letters on the FRONT of my credit card. About half of the time, they didn't and one time they took my card, read "Check ID" outloud, laughed a little and proceeded to not check my ID
welcome our chess playing urg alkjdlkwmne ---------- 'lo all, we hve descph3rd U'r lanugage from th!s thing U call the 'net.' We hoope U get our l33t! commun!casion. struth afk ---------- overlords.
Apple seems to be like the Cathloic church. 20 years (or so) to decide that two buttons would be good, and how many years to decide the earth was round?
Actually a survey of 6000 people with a 20% affirmative rate with a confidence level of 99% has a margin of error of 1.33% for a population of infinite size. At the same level of confidence, the number of people who'd buy instead of "borrow" has a margin of error of 3.22%.
6000 is a lot of surveys. The approx. 1200 "piraters" is still a large basis for a survey. Unless the survey was biased, the selection of the surveyed was biased or something of the like, the numbers are probably fairly accurate.
At first I thought, "Who the heck cares about iTunes?" It's an okay player; I've used better. But then I remembered using Sony's player back when they were giving away free music with Big Macs. I should have known that anything that comes free with all that fat would be a bloated monstrosity.
So, yes, it does suck that the player is not iTunes, but more for the relative badness of Sony's player than the goodness of iTunes.
Yeah, but a clip that goes on your car's window and a wire to your phone make sense.
Attach at beginning of journey, charge on the way to wherever, and remove when you get there.
Of course then the question is, would the added energy consumption due to air resistance associated with the turbine justify not using AC adapter in your lighter to charge your phone?
"TT is the only futures-focused ISV that is profitable, and has been so for two years."... "TT is on pace to have $50 million in revenue and $6 million in profit for 2004."
The article said they are having difficulties with reporting their stock based compensation. There are new (and quite ridiculous) laws concerning stock option expensing. There are various methods to calculate the value of stock options, and every way is more "correct" than the others, and even more "wrong." They are probably having a disagreement with their auditors on their estimates of the value of their stock options.
There is probably nothing wrong with the Accounting department.
Being publicly traded and being available on a regulated stock exchange (NASDAQ, NYSE) are two different things. People who own the stock if it gets de-listed will have to find buyers in a different market.
There are several non-regulated stock markets out there. http://www.otcbb.com/Is one.
Because of my obsession with computer games, I feel that darkness will lead to me being eating by a grue, I can keep my pets alive by feeding them monsters I've killed, my words are back by the power of nuclear weapons, and XYZZY is magic word that will transport me back to the dungeon.
Companies have to strive to make it more difficult for illegal things to happen to them to keep their business up. Right now its only 4% of sales that being lost to illegal ripping, every day more people learn to work around the current protections and that number may increase dramatically over the years if companies do not actively strive to make it more difficult.
IMHO, no system is unhackable, does that mean that companies shouldn't spend time, money and effort to make it more difficult for it to be hacked? Or would you prefer your bank not invest in security?
Yeah, after MCI is forced to pay $500M in cash and 10M in stock to investers victims of the fraud, and various people got fired, banned from holding office in any publicliy traded company, fined, sued, and had to "repay" any "ill-gotten gain."
If that's business as usual, I don't want any part of it.
I used to work in the benchmarking biz for a computer company. When an older system was "just fine" for our customers, we had software developers make more complicated software and had benchmark designers make more complicated benchmarks to show how people needed newer systems.
The fish grows to fit its pond.
There's a fine line between my sarcasm above and the truth.
20% system 20% various useful programs, like browsing, mail, games etc... 60% itunes (for crying out loud, why does a 5 MB MP3 take 60+ MB of memory to play?)
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I had "Check ID" in large black letters on the FRONT of my credit card. About half of the time, they didn't and one time they took my card, read "Check ID" outloud, laughed a little and proceeded to not check my ID
welcome our chess playing urg alkjdlkwmne
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'lo all, we hve descph3rd U'r lanugage from th!s thing U call the 'net.' We hoope U get our l33t! commun!casion. struth afk
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overlords.
I read 2000-3000 (about.com) to replace, but warantees out there for the emissions and battery pack are in the 80K-100K range.
Since you can save that much on gas getting to 80-100K miles, it might not be that bad.
Dang, and I have mod points, too.
And completely worthless for folks like me.
Apple seems to be like the Cathloic church. 20 years (or so) to decide that two buttons would be good, and how many years to decide the earth was round?
Actually a survey of 6000 people with a 20% affirmative rate with a confidence level of 99% has a margin of error of 1.33% for a population of infinite size. At the same level of confidence, the number of people who'd buy instead of "borrow" has a margin of error of 3.22%.
6000 is a lot of surveys. The approx. 1200 "piraters" is still a large basis for a survey. Unless the survey was biased, the selection of the surveyed was biased or something of the like, the numbers are probably fairly accurate.
And they couldn't track what you read without cookies?
Is it just irony that the example is on a "Adwords" page.
Are there other examples out there?
At first I thought, "Who the heck cares about iTunes?" It's an okay player; I've used better. But then I remembered using Sony's player back when they were giving away free music with Big Macs. I should have known that anything that comes free with all that fat would be a bloated monstrosity.
So, yes, it does suck that the player is not iTunes, but more for the relative badness of Sony's player than the goodness of iTunes.
The Big Macs, at least, tasted good.
Did you get any of the names and numbers? Where do I buy them??
Yeah, but a clip that goes on your car's window and a wire to your phone make sense.
Attach at beginning of journey, charge on the way to wherever, and remove when you get there.
Of course then the question is, would the added energy consumption due to air resistance associated with the turbine justify not using AC adapter in your lighter to charge your phone?
"TT is the only futures-focused ISV that is profitable, and has been so for two years." ... "TT is on pace to have $50 million in revenue and $6 million in profit for 2004."
Informative?? -1 Half-truths.
1999
The article said they are having difficulties with reporting their stock based compensation. There are new (and quite ridiculous) laws concerning stock option expensing. There are various methods to calculate the value of stock options, and every way is more "correct" than the others, and even more "wrong." They are probably having a disagreement with their auditors on their estimates of the value of their stock options.
There is probably nothing wrong with the Accounting department.
Being publicly traded and being available on a regulated stock exchange (NASDAQ, NYSE) are two different things. People who own the stock if it gets de-listed will have to find buyers in a different market.
There are several non-regulated stock markets out there. http://www.otcbb.com/Is one.
Because of my obsession with computer games, I feel that darkness will lead to me being eating by a grue, I can keep my pets alive by feeding them monsters I've killed, my words are back by the power of nuclear weapons, and XYZZY is magic word that will transport me back to the dungeon.
I just have to figure out how to pronounce XYZZY.
too late
Companies have to strive to make it more difficult for illegal things to happen to them to keep their business up. Right now its only 4% of sales that being lost to illegal ripping, every day more people learn to work around the current protections and that number may increase dramatically over the years if companies do not actively strive to make it more difficult.
IMHO, no system is unhackable, does that mean that companies shouldn't spend time, money and effort to make it more difficult for it to be hacked? Or would you prefer your bank not invest in security?
http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/worldcom.htm
Yeah, after MCI is forced to pay $500M in cash and 10M in stock to investers victims of the fraud, and various people got fired, banned from holding office in any publicliy traded company, fined, sued, and had to "repay" any "ill-gotten gain."
If that's business as usual, I don't want any part of it.
Duh, both of them
I used to work in the benchmarking biz for a computer company. When an older system was "just fine" for our customers, we had software developers make more complicated software and had benchmark designers make more complicated benchmarks to show how people needed newer systems.
The fish grows to fit its pond.
There's a fine line between my sarcasm above and the truth.
20% system
20% various useful programs, like browsing, mail, games etc...
60% itunes (for crying out loud, why does a 5 MB MP3 take 60+ MB of memory to play?)
There's no Google Local link on my Bork, Bork, Bork! language page.
I feel slighted.
How many operations are done in every Megahertz? I'm curious to know how something can be completed in an inverse of time.
And yes, I am the kind of person to correct your grammar too.