No way. If they say "You have to upgrade right now because we screwed up...that'll be 100 bucks per machine". Big companies would tell them to shove it and then sue.
There's some truth to it. Think about the cost of operating a good cable tv station like Discovery, or TLC. Everything's taped and most of the programs are just purchased, ready to show. Now think of ESPN. They have to pay the sports leagues TONS of money just for the rights to show games. Then they have to send tons of equipment and many people to every live game. They also are using lots of HD equipment now. ESPN has to charge a lot more to the cable companies.
Those kind of huge deals are always negotiated as dollars per share or some stock swap ratio. That way each shareholder can figure out what it's worth to them. The news agencies multiply it out and report the huge numbers.
The science building at my 15,000 student school has 40-50 projectors mounted to the ceiling of all the rooms. The big rooms have two. They have a Dell workstation and an overhead projector hooked up to them. All the teachers use them and they usually do a great job.
Here's a secret. That PowerPoint slides that your professor is reading to you used to be on his podium. Now you can read along (good for us visual learners) and download it.
Pixar and Disney broke up because Disney didn't respect the fact that Pixar is now a major player in the movie business. Disney wanted a modified version of thier existing deal (Disney can produce unlimited sequels to Pixar films and other crap). Pixar wanted one similar to the Lucas-Fox deal. Some other studio will make a fortune distributing Pixar's future films. Until Eisner is gone (might be soon), Disney will continue sinking.
But we have him now and we have a chance to get rid of him in just 9 months. I'm encouraged by polls that are saying more people will vote for anyone who runs against Bush than will vote for Bush. But if Bush does win in November, then the country has said that they want more wars and deficit spending. A democracy gets the government it deserves.
"The new Dresden facility... will employ 1,000 local workers when it is completed"
Why would the government give a $683M break to AMD to get 1000 jobs? That's two thirds of a million bucks per job. It's amazing that a $2B facility can be staffed by only 1000 people.
Of course you can model things differently. Yes, Navajo, English, and Chinese are all structured very differently, but the point is that you can translate between them. You use the basic concepts that the words stand for and translate based on them.
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Different civilizations use different math systems, but they're all related by basic concepts. Addition is addition, no matter how you write it down. Any two math systems can be translated back and forth.
Professional spammers know that if an address on thier list has the string "spam" in it it's one of two things. 1) An legit address that has had "SPAM" inserted into the middle to trick spammers (I see this all the time here) or 2) A semi-fake address created just to use in public forums. Neither one does the spammer any good.
Don't underestimate the enemy. Just because they're weasels doesn't make them stupid. There's money involved.
When I was growing up, an old neighbor would yell at me to not walk on his lawn. You seem to share his views on lawn walking. What's the big deal? Walking normally on grass doesn't hurt it. When I was a teenager, I would mess with his lawn as punishment for being a dick.
If you build a satellite, you can get insurance that will pay off if it doesn't get into the proper orbit. The insurance will cost significantly more if you launch with a NASA rocket than with a Russian one. The insurance industry ignores national pride and just looks at the numbers.
France has the right idea in using French Guiana as a launch facility. Putting a rocket on a boat and moving it a few thousand miles on Earth is a lot easier than fighting the laws of physics.
I've seem them sponsor boxers before. It's some smart shit. Why pay 2 million for a forgettable 30 seconds when you can get more attention with 50 grand. One of the first boxers to do it was a 3 to 1 underdog. He took the $100k Golden Palace paid him to do it, bet it on himself through them and won $300k. Sweet move.
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No way. If they say "You have to upgrade right now because we screwed up...that'll be 100 bucks per machine". Big companies would tell them to shove it and then sue.
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There's some truth to it. Think about the cost of operating a good cable tv station like Discovery, or TLC. Everything's taped and most of the programs are just purchased, ready to show. Now think of ESPN. They have to pay the sports leagues TONS of money just for the rights to show games. Then they have to send tons of equipment and many people to every live game. They also are using lots of HD equipment now. ESPN has to charge a lot more to the cable companies.
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That must suck so bad, being only the second or third richest person on the planet.
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Those kind of huge deals are always negotiated as dollars per share or some stock swap ratio. That way each shareholder can figure out what it's worth to them. The news agencies multiply it out and report the huge numbers.
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"but don't get fooled by cameras that have the name of some prestigeous optics maker plastered all over them"
Next thing you'll tell me is that the Ferarri notebook computer sucks.
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Be realistic. From a dollars standpoint, the internet is still mostly pornography.
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That would have been really funny 12 years ago.
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"If one has the self-control to not lose their temper with an inanimate object then one's length of time on hold will be increased."
That's a good way to run a Kindergarden, not a business.
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The science building at my 15,000 student school has 40-50 projectors mounted to the ceiling of all the rooms. The big rooms have two. They have a Dell workstation and an overhead projector hooked up to them. All the teachers use them and they usually do a great job.
Here's a secret. That PowerPoint slides that your professor is reading to you used to be on his podium. Now you can read along (good for us visual learners) and download it.
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I see you're new here.
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Pixar and Disney broke up because Disney didn't respect the fact that Pixar is now a major player in the movie business. Disney wanted a modified version of thier existing deal (Disney can produce unlimited sequels to Pixar films and other crap). Pixar wanted one similar to the Lucas-Fox deal. Some other studio will make a fortune distributing Pixar's future films. Until Eisner is gone (might be soon), Disney will continue sinking.
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"If you find this instrument difficult to use, it is because you are stupid, not because the instrument is difficult to use".
That should be standard text in all instrument manuals.
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Disney's biggest lackey, Fritz Hollings (D-SC) is retiring after this term. Good news.
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Good news: They'll be 18 in less than a year IIRC.
Bad news: They're amazingly wealthy and won't be doing Showtime late night movies to pay the rent.
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But we have him now and we have a chance to get rid of him in just 9 months. I'm encouraged by polls that are saying more people will vote for anyone who runs against Bush than will vote for Bush. But if Bush does win in November, then the country has said that they want more wars and deficit spending. A democracy gets the government it deserves.
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A wafer is a 300mm disk. That wafer is cut up into several square CPU cores.
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"The new Dresden facility ... will employ 1,000 local workers when it is completed"
Why would the government give a $683M break to AMD to get 1000 jobs? That's two thirds of a million bucks per job. It's amazing that a $2B facility can be staffed by only 1000 people.
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Doesn't a catalyst eventually get soiled?
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Of course you can model things differently. Yes, Navajo, English, and Chinese are all structured very differently, but the point is that you can translate between them. You use the basic concepts that the words stand for and translate based on them.
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Different civilizations use different math systems, but they're all related by basic concepts. Addition is addition, no matter how you write it down. Any two math systems can be translated back and forth.
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Does downward momentum count? If it does, then yes.
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Professional spammers know that if an address on thier list has the string "spam" in it it's one of two things. 1) An legit address that has had "SPAM" inserted into the middle to trick spammers (I see this all the time here) or 2) A semi-fake address created just to use in public forums. Neither one does the spammer any good.
Don't underestimate the enemy. Just because they're weasels doesn't make them stupid. There's money involved.
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When I was growing up, an old neighbor would yell at me to not walk on his lawn. You seem to share his views on lawn walking. What's the big deal? Walking normally on grass doesn't hurt it. When I was a teenager, I would mess with his lawn as punishment for being a dick.
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If you build a satellite, you can get insurance that will pay off if it doesn't get into the proper orbit. The insurance will cost significantly more if you launch with a NASA rocket than with a Russian one. The insurance industry ignores national pride and just looks at the numbers.
France has the right idea in using French Guiana as a launch facility. Putting a rocket on a boat and moving it a few thousand miles on Earth is a lot easier than fighting the laws of physics.
-B
I've seem them sponsor boxers before. It's some smart shit. Why pay 2 million for a forgettable 30 seconds when you can get more attention with 50 grand. One of the first boxers to do it was a 3 to 1 underdog. He took the $100k Golden Palace paid him to do it, bet it on himself through them and won $300k. Sweet move.
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