...who posted a couple of days ago on the PS2 ariticle how MS was going to get killed by Sony yesterday, and could never mark down the X-Box to compete like to now post their retractions?
All companies have to pay out dividends eventually, otherwise the price of the share would be zero (since the price of the share is basically the net present value of the the stream of expected dividends).
The price of a stock in theory is the present value of the discounted future cash flows you receive from the stock (i.e. dividends) plus the present value of what you can sell the stock when you are done holding it. MS should never have to pay out a dividend and it shouldn't make a difference in its stock. Look at zero-coupon bonds.. they behave basically the same way.
As of 9.30pm EST, 76% rated themseleves as either very good or excellent. Either:
a) Web surveys are seriously flawed b) Americans think they know everything c) All of the above
How about self-selection bias? Most people likely to read a science story on CNN.com are most likely more interested and informed about science than the general population.
FWIW, if the description of what happened is accurate, Best Buy has entered into a binding contract to sell the cards at the advertised price, and if they don't want to honor it, the people affected should take them to court (or contact their local Attorney General's office, which is what they appear to be doing). It's Best Buy's obligation to make sure their prices are accurate.
Oh yeah? What state did you pass the bar in again?
I read this whole thing and it was obviousy a typographical error and these people are trying to get something for nothing. Best Buy should have continued to tell them all to get stuffed.
Why don't you just admit you are paying for software, buying software, whatever you want to call it, instead of going through all these stupid semantic games?
I think people know exactly what the problem is on a human level. Unfortunately the law doesn't let us do the rational thing, which is hunt down and kill people who leave open mail relays, etc...
Well, according to Boeing's site, a 707's max takeoff weight is 336,000 lbs, and a 767's max takeoff weight is 450,000 lbs. So holding speed constant a 767 would hit something with 76% more force than a 707. (Right, square of the differences if I remember my physics correctly).
Add in the fact that at least one of the places was reported to be going around 500 MPH when it hit, which is almost full throttle for one of those as opposed to the low speed collision that they looked at when designing the buildings, and they easily withstood a collision with 3 to 4 times the force they were designed to withstand.
If Sun wins the suit, they stand to get treble damages, because MS has already been found guilty of abusing a monopoly.
Good point, but how the hell is Sun going to prove that they suffered any economic damage. I mean, they give away Java. Its not loike the are losing any revenues from Microsofts actions.
I can't see them getting a dime out of this... and 3 X 0 is a big fat 0.
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With the settlement, the large number of civil lawsuits pending, possible EU action, and the question now raised in the US about whether business practices of not paying dividends are in fact allowable or an illicit tax haven there are several chances for justice to be done.
Stick to software development Alan, you obviously don't know shit about corporate finanace. There is nothing being said anywhere about it possibly being illegal for a company not to pay dividends.
Why do otherwise intelligent people feel compelled to talk about things they obviously don't know a damn thing about?
If 2% of your customer base, and therefore contribute only 2% of your revenue use up 50% of your bandwidth, wouldn't it be instantly worth losing that 2% of incoming revenue while decreasing your bandwidth costs by 50%?
It depends it is the answer. It mostly depends on your marginal cost of supplying the service to one additional customer. If your fixed costs are the same reguardless of the number of customers you have, and the fixed cost of adding an additional customer is near zero (which is it for most cable companies), as long as you are not near bandwidth saturation on your network then you really shouldn't give a shit, and you should take on those additional customers. If you are in a bandwidth-limited situation, then maybe you start taking a look at those customers that are taking a disproportional part of the bandwidth.
Either way, I don't see why broadband companies don't move to a pay per byte (or gigabyte or whatever) model of billing. One of these days light users are going to get pissed off about subsidizing heavy users.
I mean, remember how great Kenneth Branagh was as young Obi-Wan in Episode I? And that appearance by Han Solo's father? And Charles Bronson as a Jedi? Or any of the hundereds of other rumors about the last movie that were a bunch of crap...
My buddy Ben Frankline summed this up the best: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I think history also will show that Ben Franklin never flew on an airplane. Ben Franklin also had quaite a bit to say about private property rights... and you don't have a right to get on someone else's airplane and they certainly have a right to demand you do certain things to board their airplane.
I say bring this stuff on... it makes a good first pass at passenger screening. Certainly better than "Are you carrying a bomb? Are you sure?"
love the fact that patent wars might erupt between the PVR folks while at the same time theyre battling copyright wars with everyone else....Damn, I love capitalism
Yes, too bad we don't have socialism, so we could wait for the government Digital Video Recorder to come out so we could record all of Fearless Leader's stirring speaches. I mean, just look at all the great stuff coming out of North Korea these days... amazing!
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US participation in WW2 didn't last that long.
To help save bandwidth, we are encouraging listeners to share the song on peer-to-peer networks
Huh? There is no bandwidth saved. What they mean is, we want to shift the cost of distributing this thing to other people.
Well, whatever political party you registred with is public information in my state, so your first point doesn't really bother me.
Actually the second point doesn't really bug me either now that I think of it.
The potential ability for this company to collect a lot of data on "typical" viewing habits is a bit scary
Yeah, if someone knew I watched a lot of Junkyard Wars, Iron Chef, and Enterprise, why they could... er, they could, um...
...that the court didn't admit that all of the stern comments from /. caused them to rule in this way.
...who posted a couple of days ago on the PS2 ariticle how MS was going to get killed by Sony yesterday, and could never mark down the X-Box to compete like to now post their retractions?
The guy is glad no charges are being pressed( for ...impersonation, he dressed up as a construction worker)
Where is it a crime to impersonate a construction worker?
Ok, ok, other than a Village People concert?
All companies have to pay out dividends eventually, otherwise the price of the share would be zero (since the price of the share is basically the net present value of the the stream of expected dividends).
The price of a stock in theory is the present value of the discounted future cash flows you receive from the stock (i.e. dividends) plus the present value of what you can sell the stock when you are done holding it. MS should never have to pay out a dividend and it shouldn't make a difference in its stock. Look at zero-coupon bonds.. they behave basically the same way.
As of 9.30pm EST, 76% rated themseleves as either very good or excellent.
Either:
a) Web surveys are seriously flawed
b) Americans think they know everything
c) All of the above
How about self-selection bias? Most people likely to read a science story on CNN.com are most likely more interested and informed about science than the general population.
SPECIAL PRE-ORDER! 129.99 $200 SAVINGS!!" is most obviously not a typo
So you really think they meant to sell these things for a rediculously low price? If so, why weren't they happy about these people trying to buy them?
FWIW, if the description of what happened is accurate, Best Buy has entered into a binding contract to sell the cards at the advertised price, and if they don't want to honor it, the people affected should take them to court (or contact their local Attorney General's office, which is what they appear to be doing). It's Best Buy's obligation to make sure their prices are accurate.
Oh yeah? What state did you pass the bar in again?
I read this whole thing and it was obviousy a typographical error and these people are trying to get something for nothing. Best Buy should have continued to tell them all to get stuffed.
Yeah, taking something down because you don't like the message is really cool. Why don't you go burn some books afterwords to complete the day?
Why don't you just admit you are paying for software, buying software, whatever you want to call it, instead of going through all these stupid semantic games?
I think people know exactly what the problem is on a human level. Unfortunately the law doesn't let us do the rational thing, which is hunt down and kill people who leave open mail relays, etc...
A 757/767 isn't much more massive than a 707
Well, according to Boeing's site, a 707's max takeoff weight is 336,000 lbs, and a 767's max takeoff weight is 450,000 lbs. So holding speed constant a 767 would hit something with 76% more force than a 707. (Right, square of the differences if I remember my physics correctly).
Add in the fact that at least one of the places was reported to be going around 500 MPH when it hit, which is almost full throttle for one of those as opposed to the low speed collision that they looked at when designing the buildings, and they easily withstood a collision with 3 to 4 times the force they were designed to withstand.
I don't need to "upgrade" to something even more bloated and bug ridden.
The Office XP executables are actually quite a bit smaller than the corrisponding exe's for previous versions of office.
But hell, don't let me stop you from ranting...
For all those of you just tuning in...
If Sun wins the suit, they stand to get treble damages, because MS has already been found guilty of abusing a monopoly.
Good point, but how the hell is Sun going to prove that they suffered any economic damage. I mean, they give away Java. Its not loike the are losing any revenues from Microsofts actions.
I can't see them getting a dime out of this... and 3 X 0 is a big fat 0.
With the settlement, the large number of civil lawsuits pending, possible EU action, and the question now raised in the US about whether business practices of not paying dividends are in fact allowable or an illicit tax haven there are several chances for justice to be done.
Stick to software development Alan, you obviously don't know shit about corporate finanace. There is nothing being said anywhere about it possibly being illegal for a company not to pay dividends.
Why do otherwise intelligent people feel compelled to talk about things they obviously don't know a damn thing about?
If 2% of your customer base, and therefore contribute only 2% of your revenue use up 50% of your bandwidth, wouldn't it be instantly worth losing that 2% of incoming revenue while decreasing your bandwidth costs by 50%?
It depends it is the answer. It mostly depends on your marginal cost of supplying the service to one additional customer. If your fixed costs are the same reguardless of the number of customers you have, and the fixed cost of adding an additional customer is near zero (which is it for most cable companies), as long as you are not near bandwidth saturation on your network then you really shouldn't give a shit, and you should take on those additional customers. If you are in a bandwidth-limited situation, then maybe you start taking a look at those customers that are taking a disproportional part of the bandwidth.
Either way, I don't see why broadband companies don't move to a pay per byte (or gigabyte or whatever) model of billing. One of these days light users are going to get pissed off about subsidizing heavy users.
... perhaps text mode only with lynx or w3m.
Or is that going too low?
Yes, that's too low... they have this great technology called "the newspaper" for people who are still at that level of technology.
I mean, 16 bit processors are finally being used for many missions and 8 bit processors are still common.
Yes, but a) they are cheap, b) they are known to be reliable, and c) they are plentiful and easy to get radiation hardened versions of.
Most embedded processors don't need to be more complex than that... it just adds unneeded complexity.
Giving someone a loan guarantee doesn't give you an ownership position in them.
I mean, remember how great Kenneth Branagh was as young Obi-Wan in Episode I? And that appearance by Han Solo's father? And Charles Bronson as a Jedi? Or any of the hundereds of other rumors about the last movie that were a bunch of crap...
My buddy Ben Frankline summed this up the best: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I think history also will show that Ben Franklin never flew on an airplane. Ben Franklin also had quaite a bit to say about private property rights... and you don't have a right to get on someone else's airplane and they certainly have a right to demand you do certain things to board their airplane.
I say bring this stuff on... it makes a good first pass at passenger screening. Certainly better than "Are you carrying a bomb? Are you sure?"
love the fact that patent wars might erupt between the PVR folks while at the same time theyre battling copyright wars with everyone else....Damn, I love capitalism
Yes, too bad we don't have socialism, so we could wait for the government Digital Video Recorder to come out so we could record all of Fearless Leader's stirring speaches. I mean, just look at all the great stuff coming out of North Korea these days... amazing!