The most common way of pricing an option is using the Black-Scholes Model. I don't really know much about the mathematical specifics of the model, but I'd expect that the "price" of an option as calculated by the Black-Scholes formula when the option was issued would translate into the "expense" that the company incurred. This is because it would be essentially equal to the amount that the people who were issued the options could sell them for- and compensation == expenses, to paraphrase the Warren Buffet quote that a previous poster brought up.
Tell your dad to stay the hell out of my damned cornfields! I keep on findin' circles all over the place! And his mower sure has bright lights- it's kept me an' the missus up on more than one occasion.
No kid, finish your water- it ain't "contaminated".
On top of that, I looked at their website and it appears that the new blimps they're selling aren't even Zeppelins: they aren't rigid airships and they aren't filled with hydrogen.
Whether a spatial interface is useful or not depends on how many levels of nested directories you have
Damn straight. And I'm a Java developer, who'll often have to be dealing with deep directory trees that represent java package structures. In my experiences, I have found that by far the fastest way to work with lots of nested directories is with the vertical-columned multi directory view. (the same one used in the file choosers in Mac OS X) It has all the advantages of spacial browsing: it's easy to drag & drop between directories, the "state" of the directories is saved, but its much less messy than an expanded-tree style file browser. Also, I have one of those Intellimice with a side-scrolling switch that enables me to move up and down the directory tree extremely fast.
I occasionally use it in java to type in public constant variable identifiers, which are in all caps by convention. Words in all caps are still common in some languages, like DTD.
Yeah, VNC/Terminal Services/X forwarding will work, but I'd expect that the remote access protocol that Shareaza uses is lightweight enough such that it could work over a low-bandwidth connection, such as that of a 56k modem or cellphone. For more authenticity I'd love to pirate MP3's from, say, the deck of a sailboat via a Sidekick.
Yeah, but what popular filesharing app DOESN'T have a vomit-inducing moniker?
KaZaA - Might have been good, but then they alternated that case of the letters to make them look all quirky and fun.
Morpheus/Grokster - Embarrassing misuse of hacker lingo.
All the other *ster's - just ripoffs of Napster, which wasn't the greatest name to start with anyways.
WinMX - Oooh! That name is so creative! No other piece of software ever used the Win prefix in its name to denote that it runs on Windows!
eDonkey and its variants - now thats a dumb-"ass" name
Gnutella - named after a hazelnut spread with the approximate taste and consistency of crankcase sludge- with a "GNU" thrown in to keep RMS happy.
KCeasy - Is this a play on the name "Ken Kesey"? Even if it isn't, I believe these people were on acid when they decided they would add their software to the long list of open source apps with cryptic, semi-acronymical names. Yes, I'm talking in your direction, giFT.
NOT on sourceforge.net. As soon as the DMCA notices arrive at sourceforge, it'll be taken down.
Yeah, except FreeNet is still alive and kicking on SourceForge, despite all the publicity it's gotten. So is DC++. There are also many other filesharing apps hosted on SF that I won't even take the time to name.
About the only thing Shareaza has to worry about is getting its donation box shutdown by PayPal. -If they plan to have a donation box, that is.
Think of having a pen that could double as a PDA with a nice hi res, low power, display that doesn't strain the eyes.
I really hope you're talking about making flexible "roll up" screens using OLED technology (which could be done, theoretically). How would a display the size of a pen, no matter what the resolution, NOT strain your eyes?
One big advantage that I would expect OLED's to have over LCD's that no one has been talking about is refresh rate. Unlike LCD's, OLED's don't rely on a structural transformation of the molecules in the display to shift a pixel from one state to the next.
This should mean that the pixels can switch from "on" to "off" much faster, hopefully fast enough for the screen to be used for gaming.
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The year 2025 returned your call, it left a message:
"Sure, as long as you don't need it bundled with Duke Nukem Forever. I'm afraid that still hasn't hit the shelves yet."
One thing about nanotech that people need to understand: all it is is precision chemistry. The stuff that the press hypes as "nanomaterials" are just molecules produced using nanotech. But there's nothing that makes nanotech inherently more dangerous than "old school" chemistry. Some of the chemicals that are produced are dangerous. Some are not. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be careful about what we develop using nanotech, but rather that it doesn't pose any fundamentally new dangers.
Buckballs may be toxic, but so are a zillion other carbon-containing chemicals: benzene, gasoline, DDT, etc.
Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.
Sweet- open source genomes! Do they accept patches? I really want to write a 1337 alpha-channel-transparency feature for HIV. HIV has a big install base, but I think it would be bigger if it was prettier to look at. Also, some videoconferencing support would rock.
From the headline and summary, I was expecting it to be a fake prop computer (like the kind you see in furniture stores) that had been retrofitted with electronics so that it actually worked. Now THAT would have been a pretty damn postmodern casemod. *sigh*, well I guess this compute-writer thing is OK too.
Bullshit. That's like saying if you broadcast pirate TV shows, noone would watch Survivor or American Idol.
Well, if you pirate Survivor and American Idol and then re-broadcast them immediately afterwards, minus the commercials, maybe people will watch your crappy little television station, assuming they get decent reception. Of course, by doing this you'll be making yourself an even bigger target for the FCC.
This thread is getting really bizarre. This "host-healing worm" you describe reminds me of that episode of Futurama where Fry gets infected with space worms that turn his body into their palace and treat it as such, giving him superhuman healing abilities, as well as increasing his intelligence and muscle build. This begs the question: will viruses ever stop being viruses and start being symbiotic entities that live in our computers similar to the e. coli bacteria in our intestines (which we need to digest food properly)? Someone earlier mentioned that there are few viruses out there that reformat hard disks, because doing so puts people on guard, preventing future infections. And someone else mentioned that he knows someone whose hard drive is full of strange executables that are undoubtedly of malicious origin, but the person doesn't care as long as the computer still runs the same. Following these trends to their head, I believe the "virus" (if you want to call it that) of the future will be something that infects a machine, and then does everything it can that is invisible to the user to improve the state of the computer: it would run windows update periodically to defend against other worms, perform hard disk defrags and other performance optimizations to give it more computing resources to work with, all the while giving the user's packets and tasks a higher priority so as to not set off any alarms. This is the type of worm that would "earn" its place on the computer by being so inocuous that the user wouldn't even have to worry that it's there.
Viruses have already evolved to parasites, and soon they will be symbiotes.
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The most common way of pricing an option is using the Black-Scholes Model. I don't really know much about the mathematical specifics of the model, but I'd expect that the "price" of an option as calculated by the Black-Scholes formula when the option was issued would translate into the "expense" that the company incurred. This is because it would be essentially equal to the amount that the people who were issued the options could sell them for- and compensation == expenses, to paraphrase the Warren Buffet quote that a previous poster brought up.
Here's a direct link to that story.
Tell your dad to stay the hell out of my damned cornfields!
I keep on findin' circles all over the place! And his mower sure has bright lights- it's kept me an' the missus up on more than one occasion.
No kid, finish your water- it ain't "contaminated".
... and that's ignoring the fact that the Navy will no doubt be using aimbots.
Kim Jong Il: A headshot from the other side of the map?! WTF?!! OMFG!!! GAY CHEETR!!!
Just wait 'til the Army starts putting their wallhacking radar vision into widespread use...
With all this convergence, will my possessions need me anymore?
Where the hell do you live!? Soviet Russia?
In Conspicuous Consumerist USA, I need POSSESSIONS!
On top of that, I looked at their website and it appears that the new blimps they're selling aren't even Zeppelins: they aren't rigid airships and they aren't filled with hydrogen.
I was hoping that somebody had gotten over the bad rap that hydrogen got after the Hindenburg accident, considering it really was the highly flammable skin of the Hindenburg that ignited.
If they used hydrogen, the blimp would be able to carry more than just 12 people.
If I wanted a soft, helium-filled airship that could only hold ten passengers, I could have just gotten one of these.
From their website:
Fare per Person: EUR 335,00 Monday to Friday; EUR 370,00 on weekends and holidays.
Please visit www.zeppelinflug.de for booking.
Whether a spatial interface is useful or not depends on how many levels of nested directories you have
Damn straight. And I'm a Java developer, who'll often have to be dealing with deep directory trees that represent java package structures. In my experiences, I have found that by far the fastest way to work with lots of nested directories is with the vertical-columned multi directory view. (the same one used in the file choosers in Mac OS X) It has all the advantages of spacial browsing: it's easy to drag & drop between directories, the "state" of the directories is saved, but its much less messy than an expanded-tree style file browser.
Also, I have one of those Intellimice with a side-scrolling switch that enables me to move up and down the directory tree extremely fast.
I occasionally use it in java to type in public constant variable identifiers, which are in all caps by convention. Words in all caps are still common in some languages, like DTD.
Yeah, VNC/Terminal Services/X forwarding will work, but I'd expect that the remote access protocol that Shareaza uses is lightweight enough such that it could work over a low-bandwidth connection, such as that of a 56k modem or cellphone. For more authenticity I'd love to pirate MP3's from, say, the deck of a sailboat via a Sidekick.
Yarrrgh!
Yeah, but what popular filesharing app DOESN'T have a vomit-inducing moniker?
KaZaA - Might have been good, but then they alternated that case of the letters to make them look all quirky and fun.
Morpheus/Grokster - Embarrassing misuse of hacker lingo.
All the other *ster's - just ripoffs of Napster, which wasn't the greatest name to start with anyways.
WinMX - Oooh! That name is so creative! No other piece of software ever used the Win prefix in its name to denote that it runs on Windows!
eDonkey and its variants - now thats a dumb-"ass" name
Gnutella - named after a hazelnut spread with the approximate taste and consistency of crankcase sludge- with a "GNU" thrown in to keep RMS happy.
KCeasy - Is this a play on the name "Ken Kesey"? Even if it isn't, I believe these people were on acid when they decided they would add their software to the long list of open source apps with cryptic, semi-acronymical names. Yes, I'm talking in your direction, giFT.
NOT on sourceforge.net. As soon as the DMCA notices arrive at sourceforge, it'll be taken down.
Yeah, except FreeNet is still alive and kicking on SourceForge, despite all the publicity it's gotten. So is DC++. There are also many other filesharing apps hosted on SF that I won't even take the time to name.
About the only thing Shareaza has to worry about is getting its donation box shutdown by PayPal. -If they plan to have a donation box, that is.
Spinning, eh? That shouldn't be. Perhaps they should take away your swiveling chairs.
Think of having a pen that could double as a PDA with a nice hi res, low power, display that doesn't strain the eyes.
I really hope you're talking about making flexible "roll up" screens using OLED technology (which could be done, theoretically). How would a display the size of a pen, no matter what the resolution, NOT strain your eyes?
One big advantage that I would expect OLED's to have over LCD's that no one has been talking about is refresh rate.
Unlike LCD's, OLED's don't rely on a structural transformation of the molecules in the display to shift a pixel from one state to the next.
This should mean that the pixels can switch from "on" to "off" much faster, hopefully fast enough for the screen to be used for gaming.
The year 2025 returned your call, it left a message:
"Sure, as long as you don't need it bundled with Duke Nukem Forever. I'm afraid that still hasn't hit the shelves yet."
One thing about nanotech that people need to understand: all it is is precision chemistry. The stuff that the press hypes as "nanomaterials" are just molecules produced using nanotech. But there's nothing that makes nanotech inherently more dangerous than "old school" chemistry. Some of the chemicals that are produced are dangerous. Some are not. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be careful about what we develop using nanotech, but rather that it doesn't pose any fundamentally new dangers.
Buckballs may be toxic, but so are a zillion other carbon-containing chemicals: benzene, gasoline, DDT, etc.
how long until spammers steal the data from your honorable study for marketing purposes?
Soon I'll find messages in my inbox with the subject:
Tap in2 half a million miles of surplus p.u.s.s.y with our product!
Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.
Sweet- open source genomes! Do they accept patches? I really want to write a 1337 alpha-channel-transparency feature for HIV. HIV has a big install base, but I think it would be bigger if it was prettier to look at. Also, some videoconferencing support would rock.
From the headline and summary, I was expecting it to be a fake prop computer (like the kind you see in furniture stores) that had been retrofitted with electronics so that it actually worked.
Now THAT would have been a pretty damn postmodern casemod.
*sigh*, well I guess this compute-writer thing is OK too.
Bullshit. That's like saying if you broadcast pirate TV shows, noone would watch Survivor or American Idol.
Well, if you pirate Survivor and American Idol and then re-broadcast them immediately afterwards, minus the commercials, maybe people will watch your crappy little television station, assuming they get decent reception. Of course, by doing this you'll be making yourself an even bigger target for the FCC.
..that the "revised security plan" will make heavy use of the recent advances in obscurity technology.
President Bush: Well, a city-size asteroid has landed on Fallujah. It's so sad but so conv- I mean what are the odds!?
I don't think he wasn't talking about smoking hemp, but rather referring to the fact that it can be made into hats.
Groovy.
This thread is getting really bizarre. This "host-healing worm" you describe reminds me of that episode of Futurama where Fry gets infected with space worms that turn his body into their palace and treat it as such, giving him superhuman healing abilities, as well as increasing his intelligence and muscle build.
This begs the question: will viruses ever stop being viruses and start being symbiotic entities that live in our computers similar to the e. coli bacteria in our intestines (which we need to digest food properly)?
Someone earlier mentioned that there are few viruses out there that reformat hard disks, because doing so puts people on guard, preventing future infections. And someone else mentioned that he knows someone whose hard drive is full of strange executables that are undoubtedly of malicious origin, but the person doesn't care as long as the computer still runs the same.
Following these trends to their head, I believe the "virus" (if you want to call it that) of the future will be something that infects a machine, and then does everything it can that is invisible to the user to improve the state of the computer: it would run windows update periodically to defend against other worms, perform hard disk defrags and other performance optimizations to give it more computing resources to work with, all the while giving the user's packets and tasks a higher priority so as to not set off any alarms. This is the type of worm that would "earn" its place on the computer by being so inocuous that the user wouldn't even have to worry that it's there.
Viruses have already evolved to parasites, and soon they will be symbiotes.