Why would you be the only person with a paltry 10,000 shares in FooBarCo? Home mortgages of all sorts (including those with terms not falling on 15, 20, and 30 year boundaries) are bunched and resold in the bond markets. Why can't 10 year stock options with a fixed exercise price be sold this way?
Bravo--but there's a downside to ESO's you left out, that they are typically exercizable for only about 6 weeks of every quarter (until you leave your job, at which point you are usually free of restriction). In my anecdotal experience employers will declare blackout periods from 4 weeks prior to 1 week after quarterly earnings announcements, and other corporate events cause other unscheduled trading blackouts.
I complete agree that Black-Scholes is largely BS. What really needs to happen is to allow employees to sell a subset (10%?) of their vested options on the open market--that will create a fair valuation of them.
The metric system is based on distance--a meter was defined as 1/10,000,000th the distance from the equator to a pole. A kilogram was the weight of a distilled cube of water at 4 degrees C, 10cm per side. Later these were replaced with reference constants based on physical properties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
Nielsen cheerfully tells you what shows are watched, but won't tell you whether the audience kept the commercials on, or whether they muted them, skipped forward, or changed channels for 3 minutes.
Actually reporting what commercials are viewed to completion with sound-on would radically change televsion programming and advertising.
You want a remote UI? How about running X against an OS that does not run the UI in ring 0? VNC, feh. Just another kludge trying to make windows viable outside the singleton computer deployment.
Say what you will about Windows as an operating system, but the application development toolchain is really, really slick.
I think you're confusing cause and effect--think of it this way--would Microsoft's development platform be usable without all the visual IDE support? Try doing.net or com in text editor.
(somewhat OT, but you can't or shouldn't move your work email to gmail, so...)
For those of you who want powerful search of your 10000s of messages locked up in a work exchange server, try Lookout soft . I've used it with about 12000 messages on the exchange server and local outlook folders, and never had a search take more than 0.2 seconds. Still free while in beta mode.
Child, you've got some war jones going on. Being at "war" makes you feel good, doesn't it?
The Brits seem to have managed their IRA terrorism problem without suspending civil society--law and order worked for htem.
The Italians broke the Red Brigades without declaring war, and believe me the Red Brigades did more to Italy than the Saudi terrorists did to the US. Google "Aldo Moro" for a free clue.
Um, the story got legs when some of the implicated grunts' parents went to Colonel Hackworth (see hackworth.com), because their kids were (are) going to get major time in Leavenworth, while the army brass and Bush cabinet who set the "softening up prisoner" policies and arranged the command structure of the prison such that reservists were taking orders from CIA and contractors weren't even being asked about it.
Here's the full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08IMAG. html
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Why would you be the only person with a paltry 10,000 shares in FooBarCo? Home mortgages of all sorts (including those with terms not falling on 15, 20, and 30 year boundaries) are bunched and resold in the bond markets. Why can't 10 year stock options with a fixed exercise price be sold this way?
Bravo--but there's a downside to ESO's you left out, that they are typically exercizable for only about 6 weeks of every quarter (until you leave your job, at which point you are usually free of restriction). In my anecdotal experience employers will declare blackout periods from 4 weeks prior to 1 week after quarterly earnings announcements, and other corporate events cause other unscheduled trading blackouts.
I complete agree that Black-Scholes is largely BS. What really needs to happen is to allow employees to sell a subset (10%?) of their vested options on the open market--that will create a fair valuation of them.
The metric system is based on distance--a meter was defined as 1/10,000,000th the distance from the equator to a pole. A kilogram was the weight of a distilled cube of water at 4 degrees C, 10cm per side. Later these were replaced with reference constants based on physical properties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
Look, you fucking moron. "Scholar" is a goddamned ENGLISH WORD. What's next? Copyright/trademark infringement on the basis of using the word "the"?
Remove your head from your ass, forthwith. There exist innocent bystanders who may not recognize the need to clout you.
Can you imagine what would happen if we were to find large metallic unnatural object stuck in a commit.
Oh, I don't know. Ask any experienced DBA what he thinks of BLOBs.
NYT has a tendency to editoralize or fabircate news
Care to back that up with some facts or links? Just what in the story might be fabricated?
Nielsen cheerfully tells you what shows are watched, but won't tell you whether the audience kept the commercials on, or whether they muted them, skipped forward, or changed channels for 3 minutes.
Actually reporting what commercials are viewed to completion with sound-on would radically change televsion programming and advertising.
You want a remote UI? How about running X against an OS that does not run the UI in ring 0? VNC, feh. Just another kludge trying to make windows viable outside the singleton computer deployment.
If Windows were ported to PPC I would switch, to a different processor, that is.
Charles Babbage would be proud.
In case anyone's interested, skydiving is a cheaper way of obtaining a similar experience. The primary difference with skydiving is the lack of walls.
That and the big flat thing rushing towards you at ~140 mph.
...giving the library volumes of cultural stuff like Brahms, the pipers of Scotland...
Pipers of Scotland??? Are ye daft, laddie? Does ya thenk thee RIAA wants te gie te Gitmo?
Say what you will about Windows as an operating system, but the application development toolchain is really, really slick.
.net or com in text editor.
I think you're confusing cause and effect--think of it this way--would Microsoft's development platform be usable without all the visual IDE support? Try doing
Maybe California can buy its power back?
They did register windowsupdate, but did it on RealNames(tm).
Apparently KPMG hasn't heard of winter.
What to do will 100,000-plus useless CDs?
Send them to AOL!
Says it all--if you put your coders next to your phone-talkers, well, your biz deserves to fail.
I've you'd like a Gmail account, send me an email at chrislamothe@gmail.com and as I get invites I'll hook you up.
Congratulations! You have discovered how to convert gmail accounts into karma! Now if only you could demonstrate how to go the other direction...
(somewhat OT, but you can't or shouldn't move your work email to gmail, so...)
For those of you who want powerful search of your 10000s of messages locked up in a work exchange server, try Lookout soft . I've used it with about 12000 messages on the exchange server and local outlook folders, and never had a search take more than 0.2 seconds. Still free while in beta mode.
Coding and parenting are just the same--make one mistake, and support it for the rest of your life.
Get bent, you wanker.
The Microsoft music player will feature a complete selection of air guitar tunes, encoded in the new MT format.
Child, you've got some war jones going on. Being at "war" makes you feel good, doesn't it?
The Brits seem to have managed their IRA terrorism problem without suspending civil society--law and order worked for htem.
The Italians broke the Red Brigades without declaring war, and believe me the Red Brigades did more to Italy than the Saudi terrorists did to the US. Google "Aldo Moro" for a free clue.
Um, the story got legs when some of the implicated grunts' parents went to Colonel Hackworth (see hackworth.com), because their kids were (are) going to get major time in Leavenworth, while the army brass and Bush cabinet who set the "softening up prisoner" policies and arranged the command structure of the prison such that reservists were taking orders from CIA and contractors weren't even being asked about it.
. html
Here's the full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08IMAG