Something is wrong here.. at least compared with apple canada and dell canada's websites.. a similarly configured XPS1710 comes out to $3078 (compared to $3099 with apple) with the following specs:
Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo T7600 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB) 17 inch UltraSharp(TM) Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife(TM) 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM 160GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX - $400 Value
SELinux when in enforcing mode doesn't even trust me as root. Trying to work with it is/was an exercise in Frustration for me and almost gave me reason enough to dump CentOS 5 and go and install Win2000 to create an Oracle db server in VMware.
In summary, turn SELinux off and my life is much happier.
Thank You.. I was going to post the fact that Yes, you can mimic the same functionality of NoScript for FF in IE via the different Zones under the Security tab.
Hell, you can lock down the Internet Zone so that nothing my text shows up.... and leave everything open in your Trusted Sites Zone.
I don't even know if the extra two or three pounds saved would be much of a difference. I body armour I used was in reality, just a flak vest whereby the real stopping power came from the ceramic plates covering the vitals front and back.
The vest itself wasn't that heavy, it was those damn plates. If they can make those lighter, then yeah, it'd make a difference when you're humping 80lbs over 13kms.
I know for a fact that there exists shredders that will turn a piece of paper into particles smaller than a grain of salt. The Canadian Military uses one. I'm sure your respective intelligence agencies probably have a few as well.
How is this a troll? he is completely correct about the memory usage of FF, granted mine is only using 228MB with no extensions its still way too high!
There's a product I use to protect the cyber cafe in my building.. its called Radix protector. It can reset your harddrive to a known state on every reboot. You can manually turn it off if you want to change your system. Otherwise, it'll reset it on every boot.
Its a PCI card that you can buy for like $100 or so. Simply separte your OS onto another drive, install whatever patches you need, and then install Radix and protect that drive. No additional software even has to be installed, everything is driven from the BIOS on the PCI card. No chance in hell will WGA be able to modify your PC again (in fact, no chance the viruses will do much damage since all you need is a reboot and the virus is gone).
Just make sure all your apps/games/documents are on a separate drive. Easy enough.
So f*ckin what? Unless they cough up the dough and give it to those less fortunate they aren't doing sh*t. For all the good FOSS claims to be, its pretty shallow when you compare it against the actual good that the Gates Foundation does.
If you want to look at this way, it shows that no one competitor has the ability to provide a complete solution the way Microsoft can. Which is why Microsoft can fight on all fronts while everyone else can only fight on one front.
Besides, as already noted there are alot of things missing on this map... for me, as a developer is definately Visual Studio. That should probably be portrayed as calvary or something.
And as for Mono, well... its FOSS, but its also encouraging use of.NET over Java... hmm.. a double agent perhaps??
So how does this work? you charge them $0 for a while, and then all of a sudden remove the adjustment so that they get a proper bill?
I can't imagine that the person one the recieving end would be happy....
I don't see whats wrong with just saying that you're too busy at the moment to help out. That's what I did, I built a machine for a family friend but they somehow managed to keep infecting it with viruses and after awhile I got sick of supporting it and that was that.
No, Canadian prices are before tax. The current exchange rate is about 1.15, meaning 1US = 1.15CDN. Therefore it shouldn't cost more than 15% more in Canadian dollars for the same thing in the USD. I'd even go so high and add in the GST (due to customs) and bring it up to 22%. However, if you look at a game at that costs $50 in the US and then $70 here, that's a 40% difference!
We're basically getting ripped-off on the exchange.
No doubt that the company is making money, but keep in mind that GOOG is still fairly young when compared to the likes of MSFT and BRKa.
For a young company, experiencing double digit growth rates is not unheard of. The trick will be how well they do after a number years. Such growth rates are not sustainable if history teaches us anything. That's why I think that alot of the GOOG investors are looking at it with rose-tinted glasses.
I'm not saying the GOOG is a bad company, but what I am saying is that investors are driving up the price so high up to a point where it has no where to go but down.
Ok, that means that they expect their earnings to double while the share price remains the same in order to achieve that kind of PE towards 2007.
If the earnings do double, there is no way the share price is staying at the same spot, thus making today's forward PE meaningless
The BIG difference between BRKa and GOOG is that BRKa's trailing and forward PE is around low 20-ish. That and BRKa's EPS is 4,376 (4 THOUSAND+) vs GOOG's which is 5.
Umm... in case you didn't notice, Berkshire Hathaway's Class A share price is 89 THOUSAND dollars a share. Hell of a lot more than Google's $350/share right now.
I actually prefer the japanese version.. for some reason every voice actor they have doing english dubs sounds wrong to me.. this has held true for every single anime that got dubbed into english.. EXCEPT.. for Ghost in the Shell. There I preferred the english voices over the japanese ones.
That wouldn't be possible. As inflation will continually eat into company profits and thus your dividends if they didn't grow.
And a company that doesn't grow is running the risk of getting push out of that very market by new players. So the only way to survive is to grow and to grow faster than your competitors.
Possibly one of the worse things for Google is to have gone public. They are now answerable to the shareholders and like the grand parent poster says.. will have to keep making astronomic earnings to keep the stock price up. 103:1 PE Ratio? That's unheard of since the dot-com days.. think about what that means.. the stock is trading at 103x their 2006 earnings! No company on the planet and hope to sustain that kind of earning power.
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I posted this on the article comments as well:
Something is wrong here.. at least compared with apple canada and dell canada's websites.. a similarly configured XPS1710 comes out to $3078 (compared to $3099 with apple) with the following specs:
Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo T7600 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)
17 inch UltraSharp(TM) Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife(TM)
2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM
160GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX - $400 Value
Not exactly the same, but pretty damn close.
SELinux when in enforcing mode doesn't even trust me as root. Trying to work with it is/was an exercise in Frustration for me and almost gave me reason enough to dump CentOS 5 and go and install Win2000 to create an Oracle db server in VMware.
In summary, turn SELinux off and my life is much happier.
Thank You.. I was going to post the fact that Yes, you can mimic the same functionality of NoScript for FF in IE via the different Zones under the Security tab.
Hell, you can lock down the Internet Zone so that nothing my text shows up.... and leave everything open in your Trusted Sites Zone.
Bravo, well said. I wish I had mod points right now.
huh? there was a laptop in that pic? all I saw was the girl :P
I don't even know if the extra two or three pounds saved would be much of a difference. I body armour I used was in reality, just a flak vest whereby the real stopping power came from the ceramic plates covering the vitals front and back.
The vest itself wasn't that heavy, it was those damn plates. If they can make those lighter, then yeah, it'd make a difference when you're humping 80lbs over 13kms.
Don't know how long this will stay up.. but here's a screen shot of the memory usage after some light browsing.
http://i11.tinypic.com/5zd4tia.jpg
I know for a fact that there exists shredders that will turn a piece of paper into particles smaller than a grain of salt. The Canadian Military uses one. I'm sure your respective intelligence agencies probably have a few as well.
Just for clarification:
B = blue
Bk = black
Back in the day when I played I used an R, B, W direct damage/speed deck. Lotsa fun.
and how much memory are all these goodies using??
How is this a troll? he is completely correct about the memory usage of FF, granted mine is only using 228MB with no extensions its still way too high!
There's a product I use to protect the cyber cafe in my building.. its called Radix protector. It can reset your harddrive to a known state on every reboot. You can manually turn it off if you want to change your system. Otherwise, it'll reset it on every boot.
Its a PCI card that you can buy for like $100 or so. Simply separte your OS onto another drive, install whatever patches you need, and then install Radix and protect that drive. No additional software even has to be installed, everything is driven from the BIOS on the PCI card. No chance in hell will WGA be able to modify your PC again (in fact, no chance the viruses will do much damage since all you need is a reboot and the virus is gone).
Just make sure all your apps/games/documents are on a separate drive. Easy enough.
So f*ckin what? Unless they cough up the dough and give it to those less fortunate they aren't doing sh*t. For all the good FOSS claims to be, its pretty shallow when you compare it against the actual good that the Gates Foundation does.
If you want to look at this way, it shows that no one competitor has the ability to provide a complete solution the way Microsoft can. Which is why Microsoft can fight on all fronts while everyone else can only fight on one front.
.NET over Java... hmm.. a double agent perhaps??
Besides, as already noted there are alot of things missing on this map... for me, as a developer is definately Visual Studio. That should probably be portrayed as calvary or something.
And as for Mono, well... its FOSS, but its also encouraging use of
one hundreth of a second? Too slow.. try somewhere in the area of 1/8000 sec. That's the max shutter speed of the Canon EOS 30D.
So how does this work? you charge them $0 for a while, and then all of a sudden remove the adjustment so that they get a proper bill?
I can't imagine that the person one the recieving end would be happy....
I don't see whats wrong with just saying that you're too busy at the moment to help out. That's what I did, I built a machine for a family friend but they somehow managed to keep infecting it with viruses and after awhile I got sick of supporting it and that was that.
No, Canadian prices are before tax. The current exchange rate is about 1.15, meaning 1US = 1.15CDN. Therefore it shouldn't cost more than 15% more in Canadian dollars for the same thing in the USD. I'd even go so high and add in the GST (due to customs) and bring it up to 22%. However, if you look at a game at that costs $50 in the US and then $70 here, that's a 40% difference!
We're basically getting ripped-off on the exchange.
No doubt that the company is making money, but keep in mind that GOOG is still fairly young when compared to the likes of MSFT and BRKa.
For a young company, experiencing double digit growth rates is not unheard of. The trick will be how well they do after a number years. Such growth rates are not sustainable if history teaches us anything. That's why I think that alot of the GOOG investors are looking at it with rose-tinted glasses.
I'm not saying the GOOG is a bad company, but what I am saying is that investors are driving up the price so high up to a point where it has no where to go but down.
Exactly, but the big question is whether that price is justified, which I personally don't think so, especially when comparing to BRKa.
Ok, that means that they expect their earnings to double while the share price remains the same in order to achieve that kind of PE towards 2007.
If the earnings do double, there is no way the share price is staying at the same spot, thus making today's forward PE meaningless
The BIG difference between BRKa and GOOG is that BRKa's trailing and forward PE is around low 20-ish. That and BRKa's EPS is 4,376 (4 THOUSAND+) vs GOOG's which is 5.
BRKa is a freakin' steal in comparison to GOOG.
30-ish? Try 69.7 as of 15 mins ago.
Umm... in case you didn't notice, Berkshire Hathaway's Class A share price is 89 THOUSAND dollars a share. Hell of a lot more than Google's $350/share right now.
I actually prefer the japanese version.. for some reason every voice actor they have doing english dubs sounds wrong to me.. this has held true for every single anime that got dubbed into english.. EXCEPT.. for Ghost in the Shell. There I preferred the english voices over the japanese ones.
hear hear!
You don't need to resort to stupidity to get people to switch. If Firefox is the better it will sort itself out.. thus the beauty of the free market.
That wouldn't be possible. As inflation will continually eat into company profits and thus your dividends if they didn't grow.
And a company that doesn't grow is running the risk of getting push out of that very market by new players. So the only way to survive is to grow and to grow faster than your competitors.
Possibly one of the worse things for Google is to have gone public. They are now answerable to the shareholders and like the grand parent poster says.. will have to keep making astronomic earnings to keep the stock price up. 103:1 PE Ratio? That's unheard of since the dot-com days.. think about what that means.. the stock is trading at 103x their 2006 earnings! No company on the planet and hope to sustain that kind of earning power.