Funny, The Economist covered short-selling this week and discussed why selling, even naked short-selling, is good for the markets. Hmmm, who would I trust - the 150-year-old Economist, the best newsmagazine in the world, which is staffed by people who've forgotten more about economics and finance than the best MBAs ever learn, or...NPR, staffed by Vasser socialites whose dads contributed to political parties. Hmmm.
Leavenworth is a federal prison. If you have bothered to watch the news there have been more than a few murder/rapist types that have been going there.
Then they must be going there for other crimes, since neither murder nor rape is prosecuted at the Federal level, nor are murderers or rapists sent to Federal prison.
The only exceptions I can think of are RICO Mafiosi and terrorists, which is a pretty small percentage of the prison population.
You have to be kidding me. US Senators might only be paid a base salary of 165K or so, but their ability to generate wealth far exceeds the ability of many corporate CEOs.
Quote from Forbes:
The wealth of the incoming class will hardly raise eyebrows in the Senate, where about half of the current 100 members are also millionaires and the average net worth is $8.9 million, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. By contrast, less than 1% of the U.S. population has a net worth of $1 million or more.
The point you missed is that their net worth was that high before they became Senators.
John Scully took over Apple from Steve Jobs; it's revenues were an astonishing $1 Billion per year. Ten years later, when he was forced out, Apple's revenues had fallen to a piddling $10 Billion per year.
I may be the only one struggling to follow this math...perhaps "astonishing" and "piddling" have different meanings in Cupertino.
Well, why do you think Apple needs only 1/15 the number of employees to have about the same market share as HP?
Which "market" are you referring to? Apple's market share for electronic music delivery (iTunes) is very high. Its market for desktop computing is small. HP's market for corporate servers has to be at least an order of magnitude greater than Apple's, if not more. Ditto for the laptop market. Perhaps you didn't mean market share.
In fact, the purpose of corporations is the public interest, including jobs, nothing else.
Providing the opportunity for profit is merely a means to that end.
In fact, there is no universally accepted theory of the purpose of corporations. You present one. "Just make a profit" is another and is equally valid. You could just as easily say the purpose of corporations is to limit personal liability, since that is, in fact, why they were invented.
The reality is that corporations exist to enrich their stockholders. Period. Anything else is blue-sky "shoulds" that have no grounding in either universal thought, practical experience, law, or common tradition. The idea of a "good corporate citizen" is purely marketing.
They didn't put all the time and effort into making those solutions because SQL scales well, they put the time and effort into it because SQL (and relational databases in general) do not scale at all past a certain threshold. Relational, partitioned SQL is for small to medium sized companies. If you're one of the big boys good luck keeping SQL up to speed with any type of real usage/growth.
Son, SQL databases back the biggest applications/solutions in the entire world, for either interactive or batch work. Period. Saying SQL and relational databases "don't scale" may be the single most ridiculous thing I've ever read in a Slashdot comment.
I know, heresy. But I always thought Watchmen was vastly overrated.
In its day, it may have been novel - though the groundbreakingness is overrated. But I think it's coasting on the teenage memories of a lot of people who haven't read it in 20 years.
The writing isn't that great. The stories aren't that good. The characters are not that interesting. Everything is overdone - in fact, to me it reads like high school prose. Not much subtlety to anything and quite a bit of boring violence. I have nothing against violence, but for example the rape scene is reminiscent of what a young teenage writer would think about if he was trying to write a rape scene. That is one example of many.
And God if there isn't a lot of really tedious exposition!
It's not tripe. It's just not nearly as impressive as everyone thinks.
Side note: I've noticed that the things people remember about the Watchmen are mostly the artwork - Rorschach, the Owl's craft, Doc Manhattan, etc. The art is much better than the writing...I will be nice and refrain from extending that analysis to the rest of Alan Moore's work;-)
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However, if you have 5 mbit connection, it would be quite a feat to ensure you didn't use more than your 1 mbit/s
QoS at your router, the P2P apps' limiting, your O/S limiting...not really much of a feat.
Absolutely destructive and devaluing of stocks.
Funny, The Economist covered short-selling this week and discussed why selling, even naked short-selling, is good for the markets. Hmmm, who would I trust - the 150-year-old Economist, the best newsmagazine in the world, which is staffed by people who've forgotten more about economics and finance than the best MBAs ever learn, or...NPR, staffed by Vasser socialites whose dads contributed to political parties. Hmmm.
...I mean, that Aladdin software was awesome, along with the CB chat and playing Hundred Years' War and the discussion forums and...
Wait. I sense you're talking about something different.
(and I sense I'm the only one here who will get that joke, since it's predicated on remembering a late 1980s pre-Internet computer network)
Leavenworth is a federal prison. If you have bothered to watch the news there have been more than a few murder/rapist types that have been going there.
Then they must be going there for other crimes, since neither murder nor rape is prosecuted at the Federal level, nor are murderers or rapists sent to Federal prison.
The only exceptions I can think of are RICO Mafiosi and terrorists, which is a pretty small percentage of the prison population.
You have to be kidding me. US Senators might only be paid a base salary of 165K or so, but their ability to generate wealth far exceeds the ability of many corporate CEOs.
Quote from Forbes:
The point you missed is that their net worth was that high before they became Senators.
...as opposed to ancient gamers? Preindustrial gamers? Renaissance gamers? Pre-war gamers?
John Scully took over Apple from Steve Jobs; it's revenues were an astonishing $1 Billion per year. Ten years later, when he was forced out, Apple's revenues had fallen to a piddling $10 Billion per year.
I may be the only one struggling to follow this math...perhaps "astonishing" and "piddling" have different meanings in Cupertino.
Your attempt to minimize this by implying that Microsoft is a perfectly normal monstrously profitable behemoth is revealing.
...revealing what? Don't hold us in suspense!
HP outsources massively as well. From people I've talked to, working in HP's IT department is not much fun.
Well, why do you think Apple needs only 1/15 the number of employees to have about the same market share as HP?
Which "market" are you referring to? Apple's market share for electronic music delivery (iTunes) is very high. Its market for desktop computing is small. HP's market for corporate servers has to be at least an order of magnitude greater than Apple's, if not more. Ditto for the laptop market. Perhaps you didn't mean market share.
In fact, the purpose of corporations is the public interest, including jobs, nothing else.
Providing the opportunity for profit is merely a means to that end.
In fact, there is no universally accepted theory of the purpose of corporations. You present one. "Just make a profit" is another and is equally valid. You could just as easily say the purpose of corporations is to limit personal liability, since that is, in fact, why they were invented.
The reality is that corporations exist to enrich their stockholders. Period. Anything else is blue-sky "shoulds" that have no grounding in either universal thought, practical experience, law, or common tradition. The idea of a "good corporate citizen" is purely marketing.
(And yes, I like it that way.)
Their corp laptops aren't half bad either.
Of course, they aren't half good, either.
What's the simple trick?
They didn't put all the time and effort into making those solutions because SQL scales well, they put the time and effort into it because SQL (and relational databases in general) do not scale at all past a certain threshold. Relational, partitioned SQL is for small to medium sized companies. If you're one of the big boys good luck keeping SQL up to speed with any type of real usage/growth.
Son, SQL databases back the biggest applications/solutions in the entire world, for either interactive or batch work. Period. Saying SQL and relational databases "don't scale" may be the single most ridiculous thing I've ever read in a Slashdot comment.
The grade-school English used by Slashdot's "editors" is so sad.
There's a lot of corporative GWT-apps
So you're saying they're fat clients...
I'm sure you are right! Because you use a lot of exclamation points! And that means you must be right!
almost most often
Parse error.
The City of Portland, Oregon spent $300,000 making all of the firefighter living quarters handicap-accessible.
Firefighters. A job for which running into a burning building and carrying someone out is a pre-req.
...but then again, I work with Oracle.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word.
You mean "for all intents and purposes". Perhaps observations on the state of language are not your strong suit.
cough Louisiana purchase
I know, heresy. But I always thought Watchmen was vastly overrated.
In its day, it may have been novel - though the groundbreakingness is overrated. But I think it's coasting on the teenage memories of a lot of people who haven't read it in 20 years.
The writing isn't that great. The stories aren't that good. The characters are not that interesting. Everything is overdone - in fact, to me it reads like high school prose. Not much subtlety to anything and quite a bit of boring violence. I have nothing against violence, but for example the rape scene is reminiscent of what a young teenage writer would think about if he was trying to write a rape scene. That is one example of many.
And God if there isn't a lot of really tedious exposition!
It's not tripe. It's just not nearly as impressive as everyone thinks.
Side note: I've noticed that the things people remember about the Watchmen are mostly the artwork - Rorschach, the Owl's craft, Doc Manhattan, etc. The art is much better than the writing...I will be nice and refrain from extending that analysis to the rest of Alan Moore's work ;-)
just look at all the folks at the renaissance festival
My eyes! My eyes! It burns!
...I'd try to think where I'd last seen it and look there.
In this case, AMD should be looking at 2005.