I don't know how much overlap there is there. It seems the most vocal complainers are a small minority, and always have been. Not talking about people bitching at the water cooler, but people like Tipper Gore or many of the Christian complainers.
These are the same sort of people that support the War on Drugs. It's not about kids to them, it's about making sure their puritanical views get forced on other people.
Seems mostly like people that the ratings are designed for, i.e. the ones that don't care to look into whether a game is appropriate for their kids or not, aren't looking at the ratings anyway.
I was talking to another parent about video games, and they were surprised by all the stuff that was in GTA. I asked them if they knew the game was rated M, and they said they didn't.
It seems to me that my kid looks at the ratings more than I do. He knows if he asks for a game that's rated M he's probably not going to get it.
One thing that killed their PE was constant dilution via secondary offerings, convertible debentures, and compensation stock options.
If you invested in Red Hat, you really invested in them.. Your money went straight into the companies asset sheet through their extreme dilution.
Red Hat is making good on it now for us long-term investors finally at least. They are buying back the convertible debentures and some of the stock. This should bring their PE down even if the P part stays constant.
It's going to take a while though, Red Hat effectively borrowed billions of dollars from their stockholders and they aren't going to pay it back overnight.
Used to be if you did "ssh user@bob" where bob was a local machine in your local DNS server, Linux would do "AAAA bob." (notice the dot on the end) which would get sent to the root DNS servers asking for a TLD named bob. Then it would do "A bob.", another root query that would always fail. Finally it would add your search domain and do "AAAA bob.yourdomain.com.", which would also fail because no one runs IPv6. Then it would finally do the right thing and do "A bob.yourdomain.com.", which your name server can resolve.
I didn't notice this either until our internet connection went down and internal DNS resultion started taking 20 seconds to succeed.
They've changed it to be slightly less braindead now, but IIRC it still does at least one query that end up at the root name servers, for each internal name resolution request.
I guess it's the same allure in the late 80s and early 90s for carrying around a cell phone. People like things that they think makes them look rich or important.
The DC step in the middle is so you can chop it into a high frequency square wave. You save power and space because you can vary the duty cycle of the square wave for regulation, and the high frequency allows for smaller components.
Yeah, while I might buy that they are a monopsony to some suppliers (maybe even to the labor force, to a slight extent, which was part of the focus of your article), I can't buy that they are any sort of monopoly. That was my main beef with the earlier post.
They have absolutely no monopoly pricing power, and there's no evidence that they kill competition and then raise prices to higher than market prices, their prices are always low.
What small town is that? One where there is no other place to buy food, clothing, or entertainment. I've never seen one.
Small businesses go out of business all the time. The average lifespan is far less than 10 years. It's a very convienent excuse for them to tell people that "WalMart forced them out of business". Sounds a lot better than "I misjudged the market, mismanaged the shop, and totally fucked up".
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easily slipping past firewalls and antivirus software, iDefense, a division of VeriSign, said.
But for $99.95 per system per day you can buy magic beans from iDefense that protect you against them, right?
I don't know how much overlap there is there. It seems the most vocal complainers are a small minority, and always have been. Not talking about people bitching at the water cooler, but people like Tipper Gore or many of the Christian complainers.
These are the same sort of people that support the War on Drugs. It's not about kids to them, it's about making sure their puritanical views get forced on other people.
So if idiot jocks can choose "professional sports" as a "career choice", then I guess "pro gamer" should be a legitimate career choice too.
Wonder when we'll start to see scholarships and special treatment from professors.
Not the solution either.
Seems mostly like people that the ratings are designed for, i.e. the ones that don't care to look into whether a game is appropriate for their kids or not, aren't looking at the ratings anyway.
I was talking to another parent about video games, and they were surprised by all the stuff that was in GTA. I asked them if they knew the game was rated M, and they said they didn't.
It seems to me that my kid looks at the ratings more than I do. He knows if he asks for a game that's rated M he's probably not going to get it.
What I don't get is why they made yum the "preferred" way. Yum is so much slower and more cumbersome than apt.
If you still listen to analysts after the very public events of the last 5 years, you deserve what's coming to you.
One thing that killed their PE was constant dilution via secondary offerings, convertible debentures, and compensation stock options.
If you invested in Red Hat, you really invested in them.. Your money went straight into the companies asset sheet through their extreme dilution.
Red Hat is making good on it now for us long-term investors finally at least. They are buying back the convertible debentures and some of the stock. This should bring their PE down even if the P part stays constant.
It's going to take a while though, Red Hat effectively borrowed billions of dollars from their stockholders and they aren't going to pay it back overnight.
But then that risks degenerating into Medal of Honor style play. You feel like you are just a passive participant in a movie.
Sounds a lot like Kings Quest, the later ones. Easily the worst of Sierra.
You forgot "I for one welcome our new Sony DRM overlords"...
nah, in host.conf, that's all under "bind".. This was all behavior of the glibc bind resolver. Like I said it's slightly less braindead now I think.
Linux used to do similar DNS shenanigans.
Used to be if you did "ssh user@bob" where bob was a local machine in your local DNS server, Linux would do "AAAA bob." (notice the dot on the end) which would get sent to the root DNS servers asking for a TLD named bob. Then it would do "A bob.", another root query that would always fail. Finally it would add your search domain and do "AAAA bob.yourdomain.com.", which would also fail because no one runs IPv6. Then it would finally do the right thing and do "A bob.yourdomain.com.", which your name server can resolve.
I didn't notice this either until our internet connection went down and internal DNS resultion started taking 20 seconds to succeed.
They've changed it to be slightly less braindead now, but IIRC it still does at least one query that end up at the root name servers, for each internal name resolution request.
A distro designed for people too stupid to run real Debian, with absolutely no commercial application support, isn't making any company crap anything.
That's like saying O'Reilly crapped their pants when the "For Dummies" books came out.
I don't even speak Polish!
I guess it's the same allure in the late 80s and early 90s for carrying around a cell phone. People like things that they think makes them look rich or important.
Yes, I did notice he failed to mention compulsory licensing. That is a big part of music copyright law.
You simplified it to the point of being incorrect. :)
The problem doesn't seem to be self-funding, but instead the fee schedule.
Just charge more upfront. It is a monopoly after all, they can charge whatever they want.
If you don't have batteries then you sell power back at wholesale rates, and buy it at retail rates. In many areas at least.
So you really don't want to sell power if you don't have to.
The DC step in the middle is so you can chop it into a high frequency square wave. You save power and space because you can vary the duty cycle of the square wave for regulation, and the high frequency allows for smaller components.
Only with online UPS. With standby ups which a lot of even big ones are these days, it's not running the inverter all the time.
Efficiency. DC loses more energy per foot / mile than AC.
What?
I'm with you on the other ones.
Yeah, while I might buy that they are a monopsony to some suppliers (maybe even to the labor force, to a slight extent, which was part of the focus of your article), I can't buy that they are any sort of monopoly. That was my main beef with the earlier post.
They have absolutely no monopoly pricing power, and there's no evidence that they kill competition and then raise prices to higher than market prices, their prices are always low.
, rent, or lease it.
Don't give them any ideas.
What small town is that? One where there is no other place to buy food, clothing, or entertainment. I've never seen one.
Small businesses go out of business all the time. The average lifespan is far less than 10 years. It's a very convienent excuse for them to tell people that "WalMart forced them out of business". Sounds a lot better than "I misjudged the market, mismanaged the shop, and totally fucked up".