You can turn that flabby, wasted muscle tissue into real lean meat in just 4 minutes a day!
EXPERTS ARE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN. Experts in all fields of knowledge are guardians of the status-quo. Anything that differs with their beliefs is immediately dismissed by them as untrue. Their reasoning goes as follows: "I do not even have to waste my time looking into anything that differs with my knowledge and beliefs, because I know absolutely everything there is to be known about my field of knowledge, therefore anything that conflicts with my beliefs must be false." That sort of reasoning of course is dumb circular reasoning and it automatically precludes any new insights because NEW means different, if it would not be different it would not be new. The few "experts" who have dared to think outside the box and have tried the MEATROM just once for 4 minutes have become instant converts and believers in a 4 minute workout for cardio, muscle strength and flexibility.
Because they're not paying *any* of that money to shareholders, there's no incentive to economise.
Paying dividends has nothing to do with being economical, whatever you mean by that.
MSFT has been paying dividends for a while now. It's exactly what companies do when they can't grow much more. You'll be hard pressed to find a company that has opportunities for growth that pays a dividend. The shareholders wouldn't even want it because the potential returns from reinvesting in the company and increasing stock value are larger than the dividends. MSFT has plateaued, it's a mature company with massive market share. There's not a lot it can do with it's money so it pays (and shareholders demand) dividends. Look at their stock price up to about 2000, that's when they stopped growing. A couple years later they had one last split and started paying dividends. Growth has been flat.
GOOG still has avenues for growth. Buying companies is perfectly normal. Paying dividends wouldn't make sense.
Whether paying dividends is better than growing stock values is debatable but I think it has little to do with short term price fluctuations. Investors that are into GOOG for the long haul wouldn't want dividends now if they want to maximize the return on their investment. They'd wait until GOOG hit a price plateau then sell or demand dividends.
There's no bile there. The man has proven himself a shill who will take any position on any given subject if it gets him enough attention. He doesn't have any special information or well-reasoned arguments in this or most anything else he writes. The positive contribution here is raising awareness of the writer's scruples when it comes to tech reporting. I'm no 'GNU/drone', whatever that is. This piece attacks Microsoft/Ballmer because that is what will get the attention of some readers. It hardly has any basis in fact (see I'm defending MS here).
Daniel Lyons is a disingenuous shill-or-hire and attention whore. I contend that he contributes nothing positive to the discussion of technology issues and should be ignored. Now, where was your positive contribution to the discussion?
First, as others have stated this research is questionable based on many published, properly blinded studies.
Second, the point of the flu vaccine is not only to decrease mortality due to the flu. It also, surprise, keeps you from getting the flu. So, you don't spend a week or two in bed missing work, vacation, your kid's birthday or whatever. And, it keeps you from spreading the flu. It's a public health issue more than anything else. If you're vaccinated and come in contact with the flu, it dies and you don't spread it. This spares other people from coming in contact with it including people who aren't vaccinated and might die from it.
Thanks, kdawson, for popularizing this woo-woo riddled crap. This place is start to look the nerd version of the Huffington Post.
I have FiOS for Internet only. No phone or TV service on it. Supposedly, if you bug them enough they'll give you dry-loop DSL, aka naked DSL, which is DSL without the phone service.
OS X ran on Intel the entire time it was in development. They didn't mention or release an Intel version until 10.4. I wouldn't put it past Apple Inc. to have an internal version of OS X for PPC, or anyother architecture, ready for the right moment.
Chip supply is a major weakness/obstacle for Apple. Smart business practice will have options should the current supplier have trouble with yields or other issues, not to mention forward looking technology ideas. Apple is not just smart about tech, they're smart about business. They won't risk their whole business on the fortunes of Intel. Let me repeat that, they won't risk their whole business on the fortunes of Intel. And t
Google also owns Postini which is outside of GMail. I know that my university used Postini before and after Google bought them and nothing changed. A Google solution might not involve GMail.
No fix necessary. They wouldn't pretend to cut back because that would leave them holding a lot of inventory which they absolutely do not want. They cut back the production artificially, yes. But, no company would produce 1000 units and say they have 100. That's suicide.
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I took a business class in which Nintendo was used as real world example for how they controlled prices for a release of Zelda. If I remember correctly it went something like this:
Nintendo tells retailers "we're going to produce X amount by Christmas, give us your orders." Wal-Mart tells them, "we're big and will sell a lot of games, give us a huge number of them at a ridiculously low price. Otherwise, we won't carry it and you won't sell enough of them to make any money."
Nintendo hates this, of course. So, they cut back sharply on production of the game. Closer to Christmas they tell the retailers, "oops, we only have Y amount. It's not enough for what we already know everybody wants. Give us your desired quantities with your _best_ price in Z days."
Walmart just lost their leverage. Nintendo sells fewer cartridges but at a significantly better price than Walmart was offering. Not as good as they originally wanted but better than Walmart's offer.
Something similar is probably happening here. The Wii could easily move in huge volume but the retailers would want a lower price. As long as:
Are you referring to TIGER/LINE data? Yes, that's free but companies such as Navteq and TeleAtlas have better quality/more up-to-date data. 99% of people who pay for it care about accuracy.
While I like what they're doing, this would require far more work than he needs to put into it. You might as well tell him to take the TIGER/LINE data, load it into PostgreSQL+PostGIS, write a geocoder, setup UMN MapServer and use OpenLayers in the web client. It's all Free! Of course he'll need to install Proj.4 if he wants to do any reprojections and he'll definitely need GDAL/OGR, FreeType, GD (or AGG if you want anti-aliasing).
Don't get me wrong, I love all the Free Software out there for GIS on the web but someone who just wants to show points on a map is better off with Google Maps/Live Earth/etc.
Obviously, they'll be produced by the Republican Party. So, who will be the new Terminator? McCain? Giuliani? Huckabee? Romney? Maybe Santorum in preparation for '12 or '16?
David & Lucile Packard Foundation $450,000.00 2000 - 2000
That's the David and Lucile Packard Foundation which has little or nothing to do with HP. The only connection is that they share a founder. It's the Packards' private money (most probably made at HP), I believe.
I learned in a business class that Nintendo did something like this with one of the Zelda games. They told retailers we can produce (e.g.) 2,000,000 units. Walmart came to them and said, 'Look, we're going to sell loads of this so we want a huge amount at (e.g) $14 each." Nintendo didn't want to give in to that so they said, 'Ooops we can't make as many as we said and Walmart wants 1,000,000, KMart 800,000, EBGames 200,000 but we can only make 1,500,000. So, all of you send us your best price by Friday and we'll see what we can do." That turned the tables on Walmart and, while they didn't sells as many units as they could have, they got a better return.
I'm guessing they're doing something similar right now.
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EXPERTS ARE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN. Experts in all fields of knowledge are guardians of the status-quo. Anything that differs with their beliefs is immediately dismissed by them as untrue. Their reasoning goes as follows: "I do not even have to waste my time looking into anything that differs with my knowledge and beliefs, because I know absolutely everything there is to be known about my field of knowledge, therefore anything that conflicts with my beliefs must be false." That sort of reasoning of course is dumb circular reasoning and it automatically precludes any new insights because NEW means different, if it would not be different it would not be new. The few "experts" who have dared to think outside the box and have tried the MEATROM just once for 4 minutes have become instant converts and believers in a 4 minute workout for cardio, muscle strength and flexibility.
All it takes is a LEAP OF FAITH and $14,615
Because they're not paying *any* of that money to shareholders, there's no incentive to economise.
Paying dividends has nothing to do with being economical, whatever you mean by that.
MSFT has been paying dividends for a while now. It's exactly what companies do when they can't grow much more. You'll be hard pressed to find a company that has opportunities for growth that pays a dividend. The shareholders wouldn't even want it because the potential returns from reinvesting in the company and increasing stock value are larger than the dividends. MSFT has plateaued, it's a mature company with massive market share. There's not a lot it can do with it's money so it pays (and shareholders demand) dividends. Look at their stock price up to about 2000, that's when they stopped growing. A couple years later they had one last split and started paying dividends. Growth has been flat.
GOOG still has avenues for growth. Buying companies is perfectly normal. Paying dividends wouldn't make sense.
Whether paying dividends is better than growing stock values is debatable but I think it has little to do with short term price fluctuations. Investors that are into GOOG for the long haul wouldn't want dividends now if they want to maximize the return on their investment. They'd wait until GOOG hit a price plateau then sell or demand dividends.
There's no bile there. The man has proven himself a shill who will take any position on any given subject if it gets him enough attention. He doesn't have any special information or well-reasoned arguments in this or most anything else he writes. The positive contribution here is raising awareness of the writer's scruples when it comes to tech reporting. I'm no 'GNU/drone', whatever that is. This piece attacks Microsoft/Ballmer because that is what will get the attention of some readers. It hardly has any basis in fact (see I'm defending MS here).
Daniel Lyons is a disingenuous shill-or-hire and attention whore. I contend that he contributes nothing positive to the discussion of technology issues and should be ignored. Now, where was your positive contribution to the discussion?
No, he'll always be "the shill for SCO" to me and not worthy of the click-through.
First, as others have stated this research is questionable based on many published, properly blinded studies.
Second, the point of the flu vaccine is not only to decrease mortality due to the flu. It also, surprise, keeps you from getting the flu. So, you don't spend a week or two in bed missing work, vacation, your kid's birthday or whatever. And, it keeps you from spreading the flu. It's a public health issue more than anything else. If you're vaccinated and come in contact with the flu, it dies and you don't spread it. This spares other people from coming in contact with it including people who aren't vaccinated and might die from it.
Thanks, kdawson, for popularizing this woo-woo riddled crap. This place is start to look the nerd version of the Huffington Post.
You bastard. Now I have to go watch another MST3K on Netflix (no plug intended). I was rationing them.
I have FiOS for Internet only. No phone or TV service on it. Supposedly, if you bug them enough they'll give you dry-loop DSL, aka naked DSL, which is DSL without the phone service.
OS X ran on Intel the entire time it was in development. They didn't mention or release an Intel version until 10.4. I wouldn't put it past Apple Inc. to have an internal version of OS X for PPC, or anyother architecture, ready for the right moment.
Chip supply is a major weakness/obstacle for Apple. Smart business practice will have options should the current supplier have trouble with yields or other issues, not to mention forward looking technology ideas. Apple is not just smart about tech, they're smart about business. They won't risk their whole business on the fortunes of Intel. Let me repeat that, they won't risk their whole business on the fortunes of Intel. And t
Google also owns Postini which is outside of GMail. I know that my university used Postini before and after Google bought them and nothing changed. A Google solution might not involve GMail.
http://www.civil.ge/ is still accessible and a good source of information. The U.S. press is doing an awful job of reporting this.
The USGS uses volunteers with GPS to keep the National Map up-to-date.
It doesn't matter if they're building and selling more than ever. It's a matter of whether they're building as many as they can. I doubt they are.
No fix necessary. They wouldn't pretend to cut back because that would leave them holding a lot of inventory which they absolutely do not want. They cut back the production artificially, yes. But, no company would produce 1000 units and say they have 100. That's suicide.
I took a business class in which Nintendo was used as real world example for how they controlled prices for a release of Zelda. If I remember correctly it went something like this:
Nintendo tells retailers "we're going to produce X amount by Christmas, give us your orders." Wal-Mart tells them, "we're big and will sell a lot of games, give us a huge number of them at a ridiculously low price. Otherwise, we won't carry it and you won't sell enough of them to make any money."
Nintendo hates this, of course. So, they cut back sharply on production of the game. Closer to Christmas they tell the retailers, "oops, we only have Y amount. It's not enough for what we already know everybody wants. Give us your desired quantities with your _best_ price in Z days."
Walmart just lost their leverage. Nintendo sells fewer cartridges but at a significantly better price than Walmart was offering. Not as good as they originally wanted but better than Walmart's offer.
Something similar is probably happening here. The Wii could easily move in huge volume but the retailers would want a lower price. As long as:
you'll have a hard time finding a Wii.
Are you referring to TIGER/LINE data? Yes, that's free but companies such as Navteq and TeleAtlas have better quality/more up-to-date data. 99% of people who pay for it care about accuracy.
Not that you have to but you could use a SSH tunnel to do the replication. You don't have to expose MySQL to the Internet.
Cyrus includes Sieve if you want to filter on your server.
They changed the name to MacPorts.
While I like what they're doing, this would require far more work than he needs to put into it. You might as well tell him to take the TIGER/LINE data, load it into PostgreSQL+PostGIS, write a geocoder, setup UMN MapServer and use OpenLayers in the web client. It's all Free! Of course he'll need to install Proj.4 if he wants to do any reprojections and he'll definitely need GDAL/OGR, FreeType, GD (or AGG if you want anti-aliasing).
Don't get me wrong, I love all the Free Software out there for GIS on the web but someone who just wants to show points on a map is better off with Google Maps/Live Earth/etc.
He doesn't need their Enterprise offering as long as the site is free. His only data is point data which the free API handles fine for his purposes.
Hey, if Michael Crichton can influence the global warming debate, why not a real doctor?
Obviously, they'll be produced by the Republican Party. So, who will be the new Terminator? McCain? Giuliani? Huckabee? Romney? Maybe Santorum in preparation for '12 or '16?
That's the David and Lucile Packard Foundation which has little or nothing to do with HP. The only connection is that they share a founder. It's the Packards' private money (most probably made at HP), I believe.
I learned in a business class that Nintendo did something like this with one of the Zelda games. They told retailers we can produce (e.g.) 2,000,000 units. Walmart came to them and said, 'Look, we're going to sell loads of this so we want a huge amount at (e.g) $14 each." Nintendo didn't want to give in to that so they said, 'Ooops we can't make as many as we said and Walmart wants 1,000,000, KMart 800,000, EBGames 200,000 but we can only make 1,500,000. So, all of you send us your best price by Friday and we'll see what we can do." That turned the tables on Walmart and, while they didn't sells as many units as they could have, they got a better return.
I'm guessing they're doing something similar right now.
... is, of course, E.M.I. by the Sex Pistols.