I know they are a huge company...but I really don't see how they can afford to keep losing money like they do. A few billion to Sun here, millions to BeOS here, $440 million for some patents, losing millions on X-Box, millions in lawsuits and fines, funding SCO, etc. It seems that eventually they'd run low on cash to throw away on stupid crap...but I've never had billions of dollars so I guess I wouldn't know.
I don't think you realize how much cash they have. I seem to remember that a couple quarters ago their reported current assets (cash-on-hand + liquifiable securities) was in the $50 billion range. And they're still adding billions to that every year. All of these settlements are a pittance to them.
I don't understand why manufacturers continue to attach jacks to the main boards with just solder. There is no way around it, they will crack. It could be after a year or so, or as these owners have found, just over a month. If they'd just put a bit of epoxy under the jack, so that is what actually holds it to the board, and the solder is there to conduct the electricity, like it was designed to, the problem would be solved.
I've had the same problem with my Compaq Laptop (I know, I know, I should have known it was a peice of shit - it said Compaq on it). Power connector is attached to the motherboard with nothing but solder. After re-soldering it a couple of times, I've now got it completely encased in glue. Works like a charm.
How about 2 Mediums Cokes? Your definition is some-what foolish.
I'm going to guess from the name English isn't your first language? Don't pluralize adjectives. Medium, in that instance, is an adjective modifying the noun, Cokes. Two medium cokes.
Actually that assumes that all Dish Network Subscribers watch all these stations.
Not quite. It just assumes that the same proportion of Dish Networks customers as everywhere else watch these channels...So yeah, I'd expect to see an 8+% drop..
I imagine even if he wasn't, its the sort of thing that wouldn't raise his insurance premiums one iota(at least not directly). Sorry, but I'm -really- tired of hearing doctors, driving $100,000 cars, living in multi-million-dollar homes, with trophy wives and 6 weeks vacation on some private island...whine about how rough it is that their insurance just costs so gosh darn much.
I know quite a few doctors. They do well, but they should after what they have to go through in school and residency. They don't do that well. Your average GP is not driving a $100,000 car and owning a private Island. Hell, I doubt many brain surgeons are doing that. Most of them live in fairly average houses, drive nice, but not particularly ostentatious cars and have spouses that work just like everyone else.
I hope to hell some lawyer becomes a multi millionaire because he took that hospital to the cleaners. I also hope that the doctors all lose their license and live a life of abject poverty and suffering. They deserve it.
Welcome to americas entitlement society. Has it ever occured to you that this might not be "their negligence" or "their fault"? That sometimes shit just happens?
If anything should serve as a base between here and Mars it should be ISS (after all it's a big reason we built the thing.) ISS should also be exploited as a place where returning astronauts (or samples) can be studied, safely, without risk to life on Earth (as low as that risk might be.)
Unfortuantely, due to political compromises made to bring the Russians on board, the ISS is in an orbit that makes it nearly worthless as a jumping off point.
The and the last few episodes were amongst the best they had. Futurama didn't die a natural death - Fox killed it by putting it after football. As a die hard fan, I quit even trying to watch it on fox. The final straw for me was the month where I made a point to get home by 6:00 - Only to have it canceled by football for 4 straight weeks. After that, I just started Kazaaing for it.
Apparently not that bad, how do you think we found out they were stealing and what they were stealing? a russian came to our side for 'political' reasons and gave us _everything_. the amount of information and detail was shocking.
Yeah, but the Russian in question was a French asset...they passed the goods along to us, but we didn't recruit him.
It all has to do with campaign contributions. Ellison is a well known donor to democrats so he must be punished by Ashcroft. Just like Martha Stewart. Martha stewart is on trial because she prevented a 60 thousand dollar loss. Ken Lay and Bernie Ebbers were never even tried for ripping of tens of billions of dollars from people. Bernie Ebbers alone accounted for nine billion dollars of fraud by worldcom.
These things take a long time. The Enron investigation is still proceeding. The only way to get these people is often to get someone else to testify against them, so you have to put pressure on those who you can nail to start with and work your way up the tree.
Secondly, this is _so_ anti-competitive. They're buying a competitor for the stated purpose of discontinuing their product line, reducing the number of large players in the market to about 3.
Maybe the Japanese can get away with this awful corporate indignity because they didn't "elect" Bush to head their country. If we say our prayers and vote with our brains in November, we might begin to approach the level of corporate accountability of Japan, Inc, and Junior will be free to follow his outsourced job to friendlier shores.
Are you kidding me? They're getting away with it because it's a foriegn company. Japanese corporations get away with things we'd never dream of in this country. They have no trouble with overreaching corporations as long as they're there own. Japanese trade policy has always seen Japanese Companies and government working hand in hand to pry open foreign markets by every means nessecary, and the nature of the complaints has Japanese coporate complaint all over them.
Obligatory election year post: No, a minority of the electorate voted for Bush, and a majority of Supreme Court justices finished it off by appointing him president.
Ok, since you apparently can't let go of this. Do you actually _know_ what the Supreme Court decision that gave Bush the election was? Do you know what they actually decided, without consulting Google?
Bush won under to rules that existed. Deal, or try to change the rules.
One of the good things about Microsoft Windows is that is you've written a driver for Windows 98's to the WDM standard, it's still pretty much supported under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. That is to say that there isn't a lot of retrofitting that needs to be done to get a legacy driver working under the latest Microsoft OS.
What version of Windows have _you_ been running? I've got quite a few drivers that work just fine under 98 and break in XP/2000. Including a couple for which there are no XP/2000 drivers..(stupid scanner)
Still, I think it's a testament to Microsoft that an.EXE can run under Windows 95, 98, 2K and XP and most of the time, it's just going to work. You can't say the same about versions of Linux.
I don't know, I mostly don't have a problem running Linux binaries I aquire elsewhere running on Linux. No more than I have say, running my old games...
They look the same, but could you use the phony diamonds for industrial uses that real diamonds are used for? ie. diamond-tipped drill bits? Would they hold up?
Somebody apparently didn't read the article. They aren't "phony" diamonds. They're _real_. Purer than the real thing in fact. On top of which, diamonds used in diamond tipped drill bits are _already_ industrial (read: artificially manufactured) diamonds. The only difference here is that traditional methods generate only diamond dust or a thin film.
Geostationary orbit satellites only last about 10-15 years before the satellites run out of fuel. I don't know if a Martian equivalent would need more or less fuel due to the lower gravity.
Less I'd imagine, but not directly due to the lower gravity - it's drag that causes them to use fuel, and since Mars has less atmosphere than earth, I would imagine there would be less drag at geostationary heights. (Although geostationary orbit on mars would be closer to the surface).
They're selling yellow diamonds. I thought the Russians had a process years ago for adding some metal to the stew that hoovered up the nitrogen that caused the yellow color, producing clear diamonds.
Those guys are using the Russian process for creating the diamonds, but if I recall correctly, the yellow color is the result of intentional doping - Yellow diamonds are actually quite a bit more rare , and thus far more valuable than clear ones.
Then they decided they could save $10-20 per box if they cut down the size of the packaging, and they would pass on the savings to the customers. Well, as far as I can tell the packaging size has gone down while the prices remain high.
The new smaller boxes actually had nothing to do with saving money on packaging and everything to do with WalMart saying "Do it, or we don't sell it".
Only 6 months of use out of these things and VT is tossing them out like yesterday's trash. Gee, thanks for doing this after delaying my order for 6 weeks back when the G5s were originally supposed to be shipping to the rest of us. Apparently you didn't need them that badly after all.
I'm fairly sure Virginia Tech wanted the 1u cases all along (makes more sense). However, they needed the cluster up in time to make the Top 100 list. Being on that list brings in _lots_ of research money. So yes, they did need them.
Just for the record, calcium carbonate (yes, it's the same stuff Tums is made of) is actually a buffer, not a base
A buffer _is_ a weak acid or base...A buffer is an acid or base with an equilibrium point that leaves most of the molecules whole, instead of with H+/OH- ions floating about.
The USA arranged for the USSR to buy defective computer chips that caused a major disaster in a nuclear facility. A disaster that could have caused unpresidented and irreversible environment damage, cost thousands of lives, and cause hundreds of thousands of cases of Cancer.
Who said anything about a nuclear facility? Hell, even the Slashdot summary specifically says "Non-Nuclear".
If this is true, then the logical conclusion to your argument is that people would willingly pay a premium to return a DVD (rather than throwing it away).
I agree with the grandparent, although like both of you I offer no evidence whatsoever.
I think that most people don't really grasp intellectual property. (I believe)They're think they're paying for the DVD, a physical object. The rental model backs up the pricing scheme for DVD's. They understand it. I can pay $X for something, or I can pay $X/Y to borrow it for a bit. This is how they rent cars, skis, brush chippers, etc. The fact that they have to return it makes them feel as though they've paid money to borrow something valuable for a bit.
If they rent a DVD thats just timed to stop working, they now own a piece of junk after two days. Which becomes "I paid money to buy a piece of junk", and comes with a feeling of being ripped off. Cause they'll know it didn't _have_ to degragde.
Think that's depressing? Daily high temps at both landing sites (0 deg C) exceed the forecasted daily highs here (Northern MN, USA) by a dozen degrees or more.
I hear you. I'm in Grand Forks ND and our predicted high for today is in the -20 range. As a side note, my 9 year old Ford Taurus still starts, without plugging in the block heater. (If you don't know what a black heater is, you've never lived anywhere that gets really cold in the winter).
I think 100 F was the temperature of the human body (as accurately as they could tell at the time).
No, 96 was. It works out very nicely for calibration of the thermometer - 96 - 32 = 64. hence, you can take two easily obtainable temperatures, and mark all of the remaining degrees by dividing in half. Or at least this is what I've been told.
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I don't think you realize how much cash they have. I seem to remember that a couple quarters ago their reported current assets (cash-on-hand + liquifiable securities) was in the $50 billion range. And they're still adding billions to that every year. All of these settlements are a pittance to them.
I don't understand why manufacturers continue to attach jacks to the main boards with just solder. There is no way around it, they will crack. It could be after a year or so, or as these owners have found, just over a month. If they'd just put a bit of epoxy under the jack, so that is what actually holds it to the board, and the solder is there to conduct the electricity, like it was designed to, the problem would be solved.
I've had the same problem with my Compaq Laptop (I know, I know, I should have known it was a peice of shit - it said Compaq on it). Power connector is attached to the motherboard with nothing but solder. After re-soldering it a couple of times, I've now got it completely encased in glue. Works like a charm.
Yes. Down the lane. Meant to catch it with my heel, caught it on my foot near the big toe. Limped for a week.
I'm going to guess from the name English isn't your first language? Don't pluralize adjectives. Medium, in that instance, is an adjective modifying the noun, Cokes. Two medium cokes.
Not quite. It just assumes that the same proportion of Dish Networks customers as everywhere else watch these channels...So yeah, I'd expect to see an 8+% drop..
I know quite a few doctors. They do well, but they should after what they have to go through in school and residency. They don't do that well. Your average GP is not driving a $100,000 car and owning a private Island. Hell, I doubt many brain surgeons are doing that. Most of them live in fairly average houses, drive nice, but not particularly ostentatious cars and have spouses that work just like everyone else.
Welcome to americas entitlement society. Has it ever occured to you that this might not be "their negligence" or "their fault"? That sometimes shit just happens?
Unfortuantely, due to political compromises made to bring the Russians on board, the ISS is in an orbit that makes it nearly worthless as a jumping off point.
The and the last few episodes were amongst the best they had. Futurama didn't die a natural death - Fox killed it by putting it after football. As a die hard fan, I quit even trying to watch it on fox. The final straw for me was the month where I made a point to get home by 6:00 - Only to have it canceled by football for 4 straight weeks. After that, I just started Kazaaing for it.
Yeah, but the Russian in question was a French asset...they passed the goods along to us, but we didn't recruit him.
These things take a long time. The Enron
investigation is still proceeding. The only way to get these people is often to get someone else to testify against them, so you have to put pressure on those who you can nail to start with and work your way up the tree.
Secondly, this is _so_ anti-competitive. They're buying a competitor for the stated purpose of discontinuing their product line, reducing the number of large players in the market to about 3.
Are you kidding me? They're getting away with it because it's a foriegn company. Japanese corporations get away with things we'd never dream of in this country. They have no trouble with overreaching corporations as long as they're there own. Japanese trade policy has always seen Japanese Companies and government working hand in hand to pry open foreign markets by every means nessecary, and the nature of the complaints has Japanese coporate complaint all over them.
Ok, since you apparently can't let go of this. Do you actually _know_ what the Supreme Court decision that gave Bush the election was? Do you know what they actually decided, without consulting Google?
Bush won under to rules that existed. Deal, or try to change the rules.
What version of Windows have _you_ been running? I've got quite a few drivers that work just fine under 98 and break in XP/2000. Including a couple for which there are no XP/2000 drivers..(stupid scanner)
.EXE can run under Windows 95, 98, 2K and XP and most of the time, it's just going to work. You can't say the same about versions of Linux.
Still, I think it's a testament to Microsoft that an
I don't know, I mostly don't have a problem running Linux binaries I aquire elsewhere running on Linux. No more than I have say, running my old games...
Somebody apparently didn't read the article. They aren't "phony" diamonds. They're _real_. Purer than the real thing in fact. On top of which, diamonds used in diamond tipped drill bits are _already_ industrial (read: artificially manufactured) diamonds. The only difference here is that traditional methods generate only diamond dust or a thin film.
Less I'd imagine, but not directly due to the lower gravity - it's drag that causes them to use fuel, and since Mars has less atmosphere than earth, I would imagine there would be less drag at geostationary heights. (Although geostationary orbit on mars would be closer to the surface).
Those guys are using the Russian process for creating the diamonds, but if I recall correctly, the yellow color is the result of intentional doping - Yellow diamonds are actually quite a bit more rare , and thus far more valuable than clear ones.
Then they decided they could save $10-20 per box if they cut down the size of the packaging, and they would pass on the savings to the customers. Well, as far as I can tell the packaging size has gone down while the prices remain high.
The new smaller boxes actually had nothing to do with saving money on packaging and everything to do with WalMart saying "Do it, or we don't sell it".
I'm fairly sure Virginia Tech wanted the 1u cases all along (makes more sense). However, they needed the cluster up in time to make the Top 100 list. Being on that list brings in _lots_ of research money. So yes, they did need them.
A buffer _is_ a weak acid or base...A buffer is an acid or base with an equilibrium point that leaves most of the molecules whole, instead of with H+/OH- ions floating about.
Who said anything about a nuclear facility? Hell, even the Slashdot summary specifically says "Non-Nuclear".
If this is true, then the logical conclusion to your argument is that people would willingly pay a premium to return a DVD (rather than throwing it away).
I agree with the grandparent, although like both of you I offer no evidence whatsoever.
I think that most people don't really grasp intellectual property. (I believe)They're think they're paying for the DVD, a physical object. The rental model backs up the pricing scheme for DVD's. They understand it. I can pay $X for something, or I can pay $X/Y to borrow it for a bit. This is how they rent cars, skis, brush chippers, etc. The fact that they have to return it makes them feel as though they've paid money to borrow something valuable for a bit.
If they rent a DVD thats just timed to stop working, they now own a piece of junk after two days. Which becomes "I paid money to buy a piece of junk", and comes with a feeling of being ripped off. Cause they'll know it didn't _have_ to degragde.
I hear you. I'm in Grand Forks ND and our predicted high for today is in the -20 range. As a side note, my 9 year old Ford Taurus still starts, without plugging in the block heater. (If you don't know what a black heater is, you've never lived anywhere that gets really cold in the winter).
No, 96 was. It works out very nicely for calibration of the thermometer - 96 - 32 = 64. hence, you can take two easily obtainable temperatures, and mark all of the remaining degrees by dividing in half. Or at least this is what I've been told.
If everyone else jumped off a bridge....