It's a little like selling bus tickets to the Smiths for $2 each and selling the same bus tickets to the Johnsons for $8.
Yeah, I think you're right. And you know what? That's OK. The Smiths use the bus a lot, so they buy a monthly pass and pay less per ride than the Johnsons, who only ride one per week and pay full fare.
Now, I generally self-identify as liberal, with streaks of libertarianism, and am not a big fan of corporations. But taking the stance that we should treat every company (or every taxpayer for that matter) exactly the same a too idealistic for the real world.
so how likely do you expect the share price to rise above $38? What magical thing would FB have to do for such a rise?
They need whatever voodoo Linked In is using. Linked In has a P/E of over $600 and a profit margin of about 2%, yet it's trading at close to $100 with a market cap of about $10B.
FB has twice the EPS, profit margin of 20% last quarter (down from 30% same quarter last year), and it's debt to equity ratio is lower.
Ask/.ing this? It might well be the worst call ever.
Asking/b/ might be worse.
told "the road goes this way" (right into a brick wall), forcibly hurled into the ditch, pissed on, and buried under a pile of severed donkey penises that someone (quite inexplicably) had close by.
But is this is the response you expect at/., then I guess they're about the same.
We are Australian - our economy is doing just fine thanks to us exporting dirt to china, unlike America's economy which relies on exporting crap (ie. Movies, TV and reality drama) to the rest of the western world.
Because fuckers like you won't pay for our culture.;)
You realize that those clothes are made in the Marianas Islands and other US territories with much less stringent labor regulations than the actual states' part of the United States and wage rates comparable to those of China, right?
Even assuming they bankrupt all competitors and then raise their prices, new competitors will come out of the woodwork to eat their lunch. It's not a sustainable long-term strategy.
This is a ridiculous argument.
It's not a ridiculous argument, but I think it's weaker than the hypothesis chrb puts forth up above.
The barriers to entry are not solely related to the cost of physical capital investment. They are probably not small in this industry, but I doubt they are high enough to be a significant barrier to entry by themselves. However, if China were able to gain very large market share, such that they become technological leaders in the industry thanks to their much higher spending on R&D, that could act as another barrier to entry which coupled with cost of capital could tip the scales in their favor.
So, sure a US company could be founded in 10 years to compete with the Chinese, but they would be 10 years behind them in the quality and/or efficiency of their product.
Actually, Facebook's profit margin and debt-equity ratio are about the same as Google's. However, their revenue and profit are around 1/10 of Google (IIRC) while their estimated valuation is about 1/5 (?), so they are likely overvalued.
by Impy the Impiuos Imp (442658) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 16, @06:04PM by Lev13than (581686) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 16, @06:22PM
18 minutes. I'm not sure you should be proud that you found (knew?) the route that fast.
it would certainly make railroading a lot less interesting for the prosecution
I think you would find just the opposite. If the prosecutor faced jail time for losing a case, he or she would probably go to more extreme lengths to insure a conviction.
I remember doing "networking via scraps of paper" at school.
When I visited the Miraikan Museum in Odaiba, Toyko, back in ~2005 they had a mechanical IP network that routed 2 byte messages of black and white wooden balls over rails and Archimedes screws. The first byte was the "IP" address (I think there were 4 or 5 nodes) and the second byte was the message. You set up your message in the staging area of your workstation, then pulled the release lever. The balls would roll down the track past an eye that would read the colors and various gates would be opened/closed to route the message. I can't remember is the scanning and routing was done by computer or if they had come up with a more elegant, all mechanical solution. (I want to say the latter.)
Actually, isn't there a shiney new law on the books that makes intentionally spoofing an ip address illegal?
It would be interesting to see someone press charges for this, especially since the connection to microsoft is being publicized.
I'm quite sure the US and/or Russian governments will promise not to press any charges if the devs agree to use this tool to block "terrorist" content.
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I see 2 problems with the 6-strike policy:
1) There's no incentive for an ISP to do this -- it will lose them paying customers without benefit.
Comcast owns NBC/Universal.
I-15 through Utah carries something like 60% of the drugs coming out of LA destined for the rest of the country.
Who fucking cares? I mean, seriously. Why are we turning ourselves into (the bad parts) of the UK because people want to get high?
It's a little like selling bus tickets to the Smiths for $2 each and selling the same bus tickets to the Johnsons for $8.
Yeah, I think you're right. And you know what? That's OK. The Smiths use the bus a lot, so they buy a monthly pass and pay less per ride than the Johnsons, who only ride one per week and pay full fare.
Now, I generally self-identify as liberal, with streaks of libertarianism, and am not a big fan of corporations. But taking the stance that we should treat every company (or every taxpayer for that matter) exactly the same a too idealistic for the real world.
Why do you think that stocks are likely to beat inflation?
Historically, they have. The S&P has returned 7% after inflation since 1950.
I would very much like to subscribe to your newsletter. And also transfer my funds to your account to help you and your uncle.
so how likely do you expect the share price to rise above $38? What magical thing would FB have to do for such a rise?
They need whatever voodoo Linked In is using. Linked In has a P/E of over $600 and a profit margin of about 2%, yet it's trading at close to $100 with a market cap of about $10B.
FB has twice the EPS, profit margin of 20% last quarter (down from 30% same quarter last year), and it's debt to equity ratio is lower.
Ask /.ing this? It might well be the worst call ever.
Asking /b/ might be worse.
told "the road goes this way" (right into a brick wall), forcibly hurled into the ditch, pissed on, and buried under a pile of severed donkey penises that someone (quite inexplicably) had close by.
But is this is the response you expect at /., then I guess they're about the same.
and b) have to let you know the password. It's a far simpler solution than monitoring network traffic, as you say.
That's brilliant. Then you just turn them into the FB (c)ops for sharing their password and get their account shut down.
We are Australian - our economy is doing just fine thanks to us exporting dirt to china, unlike America's economy which relies on exporting crap (ie. Movies, TV and reality drama) to the rest of the western world.
Because fuckers like you won't pay for our culture. ;)
People still print ads? On paper?
It's that stuff you see outside, under the daystar.
What is "outside"? Do you mean the unwalled green and blue room?
Even the clothing section has made in USA.
You realize that those clothes are made in the Marianas Islands and other US territories with much less stringent labor regulations than the actual states' part of the United States and wage rates comparable to those of China, right?
Even assuming they bankrupt all competitors and then raise their prices, new competitors will come out of the woodwork to eat their lunch. It's not a sustainable long-term strategy.
This is a ridiculous argument.
It's not a ridiculous argument, but I think it's weaker than the hypothesis chrb puts forth up above.
The barriers to entry are not solely related to the cost of physical capital investment. They are probably not small in this industry, but I doubt they are high enough to be a significant barrier to entry by themselves. However, if China were able to gain very large market share, such that they become technological leaders in the industry thanks to their much higher spending on R&D, that could act as another barrier to entry which coupled with cost of capital could tip the scales in their favor.
So, sure a US company could be founded in 10 years to compete with the Chinese, but they would be 10 years behind them in the quality and/or efficiency of their product.
Work: The new /. smoke break.
It seems like network owners have the right to shape their traffic
Unless that right is taken away, that is.
So, you're saying that network owners have the right to shape traffic, but the government should take that right away?
Actually, Facebook's profit margin and debt-equity ratio are about the same as Google's. However, their revenue and profit are around 1/10 of Google (IIRC) while their estimated valuation is about 1/5 (?), so they are likely overvalued.
by Impy the Impiuos Imp (442658) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 16, @06:04PM
by Lev13than (581686) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 16, @06:22PM
18 minutes. I'm not sure you should be proud that you found (knew?) the route that fast.
it would certainly make railroading a lot less interesting for the prosecution
I think you would find just the opposite. If the prosecutor faced jail time for losing a case, he or she would probably go to more extreme lengths to insure a conviction.
His parents bailed him last time, and they can't afford to do so again.
Did they post bail or pay a bond (not sure how these things work)? I thought you get the bail back once the trial concludes.
Interestingly, the article (whoops, TFA) says "former LulzSec member," not "alleged former LulzSec member." I wonder, did he admit being a member?
I bet 90% of capitol hill doesn't know what 'keynesian' means.
Not true. Roughly 50% of Congress knows it means "socialist."
How is Apple any better, in terms of using your information to make money?
Well, relative to Google they probably aren't better, which makes them..... better.
Most of my neighbors call it Cal or just Berkeley. They only use the UC when talking of one of the "lesser" campuses.
I remember doing "networking via scraps of paper" at school.
When I visited the Miraikan Museum in Odaiba, Toyko, back in ~2005 they had a mechanical IP network that routed 2 byte messages of black and white wooden balls over rails and Archimedes screws. The first byte was the "IP" address (I think there were 4 or 5 nodes) and the second byte was the message. You set up your message in the staging area of your workstation, then pulled the release lever. The balls would roll down the track past an eye that would read the colors and various gates would be opened/closed to route the message. I can't remember is the scanning and routing was done by computer or if they had come up with a more elegant, all mechanical solution. (I want to say the latter.)
Actually, isn't there a shiney new law on the books that makes intentionally spoofing an ip address illegal?
It would be interesting to see someone press charges for this, especially since the connection to microsoft is being publicized.
I'm quite sure the US and/or Russian governments will promise not to press any charges if the devs agree to use this tool to block "terrorist" content.
There hasn't been a reduction in national debt since Eisenhower was in office, and we were in the low billions of debt.
This graph indicates that the national debt was reduced* from 1998 to 2001.
*At least, capable of being reduced. What exactly was done with that budget surplus I'm not 100% sure.