Yes there is actually. Say you have a company that is getting off the ground and you need to raise $50M to build a factory or whatever, then there are three ways to finance the factory:
Self-Financed: Have the company start really small and save up enough to money to buy it. Problem is that this could take a really long time. Decades maybe.
Debt-Financed: Talk to banks or venture capitalists to arrange a loan. Problem is that you owe people money, and interest as well.
IPO: Sell $50M worth of shares and use that to finance the factory. It's fast and it leaves the company debt free.
No not really. Out of a net worth of ~$50B, Billy G probably has very, very, very little hard currency. Having millions or billions of dollars of hard currency is stupid, as hard currency doesn't collect any interest.
I wouldn't be surprised if some people who save their money under their mattresses have more currency than Bill.
If you didn't spend your budget the state will cut it. If you need the money next year you are SOL.
That exactly what the parent is complaining about. The government has a rather silly system for determining budgets. It solely uses past data to determine budgets instead of using past data in combination with expected future requirements. The whole system needs to change.
You can't just have anybody order whatever they want and expect the state to pay the bill. You have to have a beuracracy.
True. Kinda. There need to be rules, but too often in places like government and universities the rules are stifling. People have to have some freedom in order to get things done efficiently and to make decisions that find a good solution for the problem at hand.
Someone else pointed this out but is modded down too low.
Take someone with a $24K budget who only needs to spend $1K a month. In December there's a spending bubble, he spends $13K in order to use up his allocated budget.
The average monthly spending is therefore $2k, and the new yearly budget he's assigned is $24k. Taking the average monthly payment doesn't depress the bubble at all.
What is needed is to do what is often down when working with statistics, and highest X numbers and the lowest X numbers. This was discrepencies are eliminate and a more typical of usual type average is found.
Destroying the seat of government of a widely respected nation won't have nearly the same impact that destroying the Statue of Liberty would?
The seat of government of one of the most widely respected nations in the world, a member of the G7 and NATO (I believe). The place where the prime minister, house of commons, and senate work?
Compared to a 200 year old statue symbolic? Amusingly enough a statue symbolic of the freedoms slipping away in the US. I'll bet the French will get a real kick out of that.
Well duh, who said Harry Potter wasn't a story for kids?
That being that doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable for adults. For children's books they're extremely well-crafted. They're not high-literature, but they're fun and well-done.
I'm an adult and an avid SF/Fan/Other reader. I'll read Plato, Machiavelli, Hemmingway, Tolstoy for fun. I've acted as a book reviewer for a magazine.
But that didn't preclude me from picking up the Potter books and having fun.
Why should I be required to spend $x on backup media, when I've already bought the non-transferrable rights to the book? I should be allowed to re-get it whenever and whereever I want.
Idiotic Ranting. If you buy a dead-paper book and it gets worn out, lost, stolen, or damaged that's your tough luck. The publisher is under no obligation to give you a new one.
Why are you demanding that right of electronic publishers?
1) Columbus _did_ make it back. I believe he made a total of three voyages to the new world.
2) WTF do you mean "you can't sail to India that way"? Why not? From the viewpoint of the 15th century: there's Europe, there's India, and there's an ocean in between. Therefore, logically _of course_ it's possible to sail from Europe to India.
3) People knew the world was round; what was not known was how big it was. Some thought the ocean was uncrossable, some didn't. A lack of modern scientific methods, peer reviews, and modern mathematics meant some people were wrong, some right, and no conclusive way to prove anything.
4) He was lucky? Well yes no shit. He's also lucky he didn't get stuck for too long in the doldrums, or that a storm didn't capsize your point.
Columbus took a gamble. It paid off. I wouldn't call him an idiot.
Here's the thing though, the rate of growth after a stock split is typically higher than before. For example:
Given a $100 stock. That price might rise to $105 within a month. However if the stock splits 10 to 1, there are now ten $10 stocks. Instead of the price increasing to $10.50, it often bounces much higher perhaps $12.
So without the split the investor is $5 richer. After they're $20 richer. I've come across a few reasons for the little bounce. The main one being physcological, ie investors for some reason think the new price is too low.
So yes, owning stock going through a split can be very profitable.
What are you talking about? Zappa died in 1993, and did a lot of great music just before then.
Zappa died in '93. His first album (FZ and the Mothers of Invention?) was put out in the mid sixties. Zappa's creative/popular height was in the 60's and 70's.
It's like the Beach Boys. Yes, they released music in the 90's but that doesn't change the fact that they are a 60's band.
TeraGrid is distributed across several sites, however, most jobs will run at only one site and consume 'x' CPUS. The job scheduler running at the head of the cluster will simply schedule each job to run on the best resource available.
Most applications will face a performance plateau at
Most scientific applications are network intensive, and 2 CPUs with a local, high-bandwidth/low-latency connection (GigE, IB, Quadrics) could very well outperform 100 CPUs distributed across the internet.
Only for very, very easily parallelized applications (like SETI, rendering farms) is DC a viable model. There are very few applications that work like that though.
Military action, though politically dangerous, is usually beneficial to the economy,
No. Military spending implies taking money away from existing infrastructure plans or reducing the real income of consumers (ie through tax cuts).
1) Spending on infrastructure is an investment. Spending $100billion on education theoretically will pay for itself in the long term by creating a highly skilled workforce whose impact on the economy is greater than $100B.
Spending $100B on missiles is a sunk cost. The economy will never, ever recoup that money.
Granted there is the multiplier effect, that spending $100B on missiles results in increased spending. BUT that is also true of the $100B spent on education, PLUS the long term investment from the education spending.
2) Decreasing real income by raising taxes or causing inflation because some the economy is direct towards the military, necessitates a decrease in real income.
War is only profitable if you can plunder from the vanquished.
While flour dust might be "explosive" I don't believe that the 2 kilo bag of flour in my neighbour's pantry poses any risk to my safety or that of my house.
A basement full of manufactured explosives (some of which may be big enough to launch a 30lb rocket 60miles) is probably a risk. I'd appreciate that a certified expert verifies that the conditions it is stored in my neighbour's basement is safe.
If my neighbour can't get a permit then it's been deemed non-safe.
Lifting is the hard part. The hard part is "holding" it. Holding something straight out from you side with a straight arm at shoulder level is hard.
I'm a fencer. I happily do several 2 or 3 hour practices a weeks. I have a reasonably strong arm (the left one less so). But I can't hold a -book- in the described fashion for more than 40 seconds or so.
Having worked in an office with a E450 I can indeed vouch that it is bloody noisy. Inside a small confined space like a car it would probably be as bad as the engine itself.
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Yes there is actually. Say you have a company that is getting off the ground and you need to raise $50M to build a factory or whatever, then there are three ways to finance the factory:
I could buy a can of RC Cola for $50.
Where can you find it? Please tell me where!!!.
RC Cola beats the pants off of Coke or Pepsi. But I can't find it anymore, not in convienence stores nor in supermarkets.
No not really. Out of a net worth of ~$50B, Billy G probably has very, very, very little hard currency. Having millions or billions of dollars of hard currency is stupid, as hard currency doesn't collect any interest.
I wouldn't be surprised if some people who save their money under their mattresses have more currency than Bill.
The parent was wrong. So are you.
Internet is no more a proper noun than is car, refrigerator, restaurant.
You don't say "The Refrigerator is broken and the Food is bad, so let's jump in the Car and go to the Restaurant" do you?
If you didn't spend your budget the state will cut it. If you need the money next year you are SOL.
That exactly what the parent is complaining about. The government has a rather silly system for determining budgets. It solely uses past data to determine budgets instead of using past data in combination with expected future requirements. The whole system needs to change.
You can't just have anybody order whatever they want and expect the state to pay the bill. You have to have a beuracracy.
True. Kinda. There need to be rules, but too often in places like government and universities the rules are stifling. People have to have some freedom in order to get things done efficiently and to make decisions that find a good solution for the problem at hand.
Someone else pointed this out but is modded down too low.
Take someone with a $24K budget who only needs to spend $1K a month. In December there's a spending bubble, he spends $13K in order to use up his allocated budget.
The average monthly spending is therefore $2k, and the new yearly budget he's assigned is $24k. Taking the average monthly payment doesn't depress the bubble at all.
What is needed is to do what is often down when working with statistics, and highest X numbers and the lowest X numbers. This was discrepencies are eliminate and a more typical of usual type average is found.
Right....
Destroying the seat of government of a widely respected nation won't have nearly the same impact that destroying the Statue of Liberty would?
The seat of government of one of the most widely respected nations in the world, a member of the G7 and NATO (I believe). The place where the prime minister, house of commons, and senate work?
Compared to a 200 year old statue symbolic? Amusingly enough a statue symbolic of the freedoms slipping away in the US. I'll bet the French will get a real kick out of that.
Well duh, who said Harry Potter wasn't a story for kids?
That being that doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable for adults. For children's books they're extremely well-crafted. They're not high-literature, but they're fun and well-done.
I'm an adult and an avid SF/Fan/Other reader. I'll read Plato, Machiavelli, Hemmingway, Tolstoy for fun. I've acted as a book reviewer for a magazine.
But that didn't preclude me from picking up the Potter books and having fun.
Why should I be required to spend $x on backup media, when I've already bought the non-transferrable rights to the book? I should be allowed to re-get it whenever and whereever I want.
Idiotic Ranting. If you buy a dead-paper book and it gets worn out, lost, stolen, or damaged that's your tough luck. The publisher is under no obligation to give you a new one.
Why are you demanding that right of electronic publishers?
Um...
1) Columbus _did_ make it back. I believe he made a total of three voyages to the new world.
2) WTF do you mean "you can't sail to India that way"? Why not? From the viewpoint of the 15th century: there's Europe, there's India, and there's an ocean in between. Therefore, logically _of course_ it's possible to sail from Europe to India.
3) People knew the world was round; what was not known was how big it was. Some thought the ocean was uncrossable, some didn't. A lack of modern scientific methods, peer reviews, and modern mathematics meant some people were wrong, some right, and no conclusive way to prove anything.
4) He was lucky? Well yes no shit. He's also lucky he didn't get stuck for too long in the doldrums, or that a storm didn't capsize your point.
Columbus took a gamble. It paid off. I wouldn't call him an idiot.
Here's the thing though, the rate of growth after a stock split is typically higher than before. For example:
Given a $100 stock. That price might rise to $105 within a month. However if the stock splits 10 to 1, there are now ten $10 stocks. Instead of the price increasing to $10.50, it often bounces much higher perhaps $12.
So without the split the investor is $5 richer. After they're $20 richer. I've come across a few reasons for the little bounce. The main one being physcological, ie investors for some reason think the new price is too low.
So yes, owning stock going through a split can be very profitable.
What are you talking about? Zappa died in 1993, and did a lot of great music just before then.
Zappa died in '93. His first album (FZ and the Mothers of Invention?) was put out in the mid sixties. Zappa's creative/popular height was in the 60's and 70's.
It's like the Beach Boys. Yes, they released music in the 90's but that doesn't change the fact that they are a 60's band.
This is supposed to be a government by the people, for the people, but is now controlled by the corporations.
Technically corporations are people too.
That was funny, if only I had mod points.
;-)
Assuming you are joking of course. Sometimes you just can't tell
TeraGrid is distributed across several sites, however, most jobs will run at only one site and consume 'x' CPUS. The job scheduler running at the head of the cluster will simply schedule each job to run on the best resource available.
Most applications will face a performance plateau at
Most scientific applications are network intensive, and 2 CPUs with a local, high-bandwidth/low-latency connection (GigE, IB, Quadrics) could very well outperform 100 CPUs distributed across the internet.
Only for very, very easily parallelized applications (like SETI, rendering farms) is DC a viable model. There are very few applications that work like that though.
Military action, though politically dangerous, is usually beneficial to the economy,
No. Military spending implies taking money away from existing infrastructure plans or reducing the real income of consumers (ie through tax cuts).
1) Spending on infrastructure is an investment. Spending $100billion on education theoretically will pay for itself in the long term by creating a highly skilled workforce whose impact on the economy is greater than $100B.
Spending $100B on missiles is a sunk cost. The economy will never, ever recoup that money.
Granted there is the multiplier effect, that spending $100B on missiles results in increased spending. BUT that is also true of the $100B spent on education, PLUS the long term investment from the education spending.
2) Decreasing real income by raising taxes or causing inflation because some the economy is direct towards the military, necessitates a decrease in real income.
War is only profitable if you can plunder from the vanquished.
I'm just curious, when designing a website then for the UK market must I take into account colour blindness??
If a complaint comes in that some users cannot use the colour scheme of the site am I forced to change?
If so, that's way too much overhead.
And that proves what exactly? That Japan is brutal, violent country?
A couple murders, a couple assaults with weapons, a couple fistfights. Oh, and someone's underwear being hidden.
That's more peaceful than a day in Washington, D.C..
They extradited a Canadian citizen to Syria the other year.
While flour dust might be "explosive" I don't believe that the 2 kilo bag of flour in my neighbour's pantry poses any risk to my safety or that of my house.
A basement full of manufactured explosives (some of which may be big enough to launch a 30lb rocket 60miles) is probably a risk. I'd appreciate that a certified expert verifies that the conditions it is stored in my neighbour's basement is safe.
If my neighbour can't get a permit then it's been deemed non-safe.
"lifting"
Lifting is the hard part. The hard part is "holding" it. Holding something straight out from you side with a straight arm at shoulder level is hard.
I'm a fencer. I happily do several 2 or 3 hour practices a weeks. I have a reasonably strong arm (the left one less so). But I can't hold a -book- in the described fashion for more than 40 seconds or so.
Such as?
Having worked in an office with a E450 I can indeed vouch that it is bloody noisy. Inside a small confined space like a car it would probably be as bad as the engine itself.
Well, Sun is planning on taking their UltraSparc processors to 32-core within the next couple years.
And Sun already has dual-core UltraSparcs. Ramping up to 32-core chips in a couple years.