Actually, ReplayTV had that feature. In collaboration with the media industry, TIVO didn't implement this feature so that they wouldn't get sued. However, Tivo can manually fast forward.
They actually would have preferred not to go IPO. However, due to a SEC regulation, it was more beneficial for them to do it. I think [off the top of my head], if a company has over 1000 stockholders [ie stocks they give to employees] and $XXX in revenue, they have to make their financial information public. This gives the competitor an edge without any benefit to google, if they didn't IPO.
Google was a profitable company to begin it. It is not going IPO to bring in more capital.
They are cutting it to 5.5m from 6.1m that was originally for sale. The total available shares is 14.1m. In other words, they are selling 39% rather than 43% of the company. The rest of the shares that they are not offering for sale is kept by google.
I think what they are doing is right in mind. Let's look at it this way: setting the price high will limit the type of investors that join the foray. The people that can afford to buy at such a high price know a little more about what they are doing and can handle a big loss. On the otherhand, if you set it at $8.50 per se, everyone and their grandmothers would buy into this. If the stock were to go down a little bit, these people would be bailing immediately leading to a further decline.
By setting it to a higher amount, they are limiting it to certain types of investors.
Now Google is a slave to Wall Street and will have to cut out anything that investors don't approve of and add in anything that it wants. Google claims it wants to focus on the long term. They are naive to think that they won't have to shuffle all their finances at the end of the quarter just to meet an artificial earnings expectation or risk having their stock price drop.
Err..you do realize the shares that they are selling are non-voting shares right? Basically the owners of these shares have no voting rights in the company. There are Class A and Class B shares. The shares that are going IPO are part of the class that has no voting rights. A number of other companies, like New York Times and Ford, also do this.
Now they are going to lose a lot of money when their stock goes way down due to the horrible over valuation of their stock.
How would they lose money if the stock goes down? Revenue/income is not affected by the price of their stock. The only thing it may affect may be the amount of credit that creditors would extend them. But Google is a cash rich company. If they had a choice, they would have preferred not to go public. But because of some SEC regulations, it was more advantageous [business/competitive-wise] for them to go public.
Basically Slate reporter is asking someone to do something illegal to fix the worm problem. No company would want to accept the liabilities for this. If some hard drive crashed or some other malfunction, these companies would be huge targets for lawsuits. If some guy is arrested for having kiddie porn on his computer, he could use the worm as an excuse [this happend a couple months ago].
Basically, the "I broke into your house to lock your doors" excuse will not hold up in court.
Also, since you brought up literacy requirements, why don't we just get rid of this stupid electoral college? Even the Iraqis said that it was a stupid idea when we tried to implement it there.
That's quite a confusing ballot. Does the X over the person's face mean that you're not voting for him? Or does it mean that's the one that you're voting for?
What if you draw mustaches on the candidate? Does that count?
Sorry, just be facetious...
How about electricity costs and costs from the heat generated?
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Well, technically, the shares that they are offering are non-voting shares. So they could not be ousted by vote of the shareholders. This was stated in their "IPO Manifesto."
All that is already public information. Do a whois on any website and you can get a lot more than that. Everyone that registers a domain have to provide such information anyways.
What about Auto Mechanics? A lot of your argument can also be said about mechanics. Most people don't know what is wrong with their car, they just know that it doesn't work. Some problems also take a while to identify. Also sometimes, they have to go "drive it around for a couple of days and see if the problem arises again"
That's fine and dandy...if the entire military was composed of college educated soldiers. Chances are they only graduated from high school if they even reached that far...
I don't know what they gain by being platform-exclusive though. At least make it for more than one console. Those are fixed hardware configurations. It does seem like they'd lose out.
It's comes down to one thing: MONEY I'm sure Sony is giving them a kickback for an exclusive deal. I mean, most people don't buy a game system for it's hardware, but rather the available game selections.
Why just drives? Why not just have dual located redundant servers? With DB and hard drive technologies now a days, you can get offsite mirrors in realtime, half-hourly, hourly or daily... depending on the amount of $$ that you want to put in.
If only the trading of music files were a liquid market. This would be a perfect arbitrage situation. Basically, buy it from one country at a cheaper rate [relative to another country's rate] and sell it there and make the profit. I mean, the profit in Foreign Exchange market works are fractions of a cent, a difference of 20 cents in some cases for music file would be an enormous take on the arbitrage.
argh..this is how I know I've spent too much time working in this industry...
A US corporation can only remain a US country if a majority of its employees are US citizens. So if HP, etc. start employing Indians or Chinese, they should be forced to become either an Indian or Chinese company (and listed on their stock exchanges as well...)
Most multinational companies already list on foreign stock exchanges in addition to their home exchange. Also companies can be registered as a company in multiple countries. Much of this is a requirement of the laws [us and abroad]. Also listing on an exchange is a financial action rather than a legal one. You typically list on an exchange in a country where you need to or you think you can raise funding.
Now here's a counterpoint to your argument. If you want HP or Microsoft and other multinationals to only list as a foreign corporation, the entire US economy would disappear. If a company moves its headquarters to another country, the US government loses out on all the tax revenue from the corporations, same thing as using a tax haven like Bermuda as your corporate headquarters. Many of the large companies have threatend to do this in the past if they don't receive preferential treatment.
Has anyone pondered the idea that we have just entered the Matrix? 1999 could have been the year that the "machines" have resetted us back to that year. Since they are automatrons, for simplicity, they've assumed that if a variable is constant for a given time, it must be a constant [ie earth's rotation]
There really was a movie History of the World: Part I The joke at the end of the movie was a "preview" for the sequel...which after 22 years, still hasn't been made...
If you read through the veil of marketting mumbo-jumbo, you can see what this really is. Basically, they are going to have a system like iTunes. You buy a song and have the rights to it. Now by using this CRF file, they are letting people think it's P2P [but not]. Secondly, this in the end helps out the music industry, without much benefit to the users.
To the music industry this idea has 2 functions. First it helps spread the word on particular music. [ie FREE ADVERTISING] It's viral marketting all over again. Secondly, it helps them reduce cost. Instead of building a search engine and maintaining the bandwidth to support the users similar to iTunes, they can piggy back off of other P2P systems and use the bandwidth of the users.
What they save in technical costs they pass a part of it back to the users through these "rewards."
In the end..this is just smoke and mirrors... Instead of all these gimmicks, why don't they just start moving towards the iTunes concept instead of fighting all the way. They are going to end up there eventually...it's time that they face the facts...
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Actually, ReplayTV had that feature. In collaboration with the media industry, TIVO didn't implement this feature so that they wouldn't get sued. However, Tivo can manually fast forward.
They actually would have preferred not to go IPO. However, due to a SEC regulation, it was more beneficial for them to do it. I think [off the top of my head], if a company has over 1000 stockholders [ie stocks they give to employees] and $XXX in revenue, they have to make their financial information public. This gives the competitor an edge without any benefit to google, if they didn't IPO.
Google was a profitable company to begin it. It is not going IPO to bring in more capital.
They are cutting it to 5.5m from 6.1m that was originally for sale. The total available shares is 14.1m. In other words, they are selling 39% rather than 43% of the company. The rest of the shares that they are not offering for sale is kept by google.
Not too hard to understand.
I think what they are doing is right in mind. Let's look at it this way: setting the price high will limit the type of investors that join the foray. The people that can afford to buy at such a high price know a little more about what they are doing and can handle a big loss. On the otherhand, if you set it at $8.50 per se, everyone and their grandmothers would buy into this. If the stock were to go down a little bit, these people would be bailing immediately leading to a further decline.
By setting it to a higher amount, they are limiting it to certain types of investors.
How would they lose money if the stock goes down? Revenue/income is not affected by the price of their stock. The only thing it may affect may be the amount of credit that creditors would extend them. But Google is a cash rich company. If they had a choice, they would have preferred not to go public. But because of some SEC regulations, it was more advantageous [business/competitive-wise] for them to go public.
...too much liability.
Basically Slate reporter is asking someone to do something illegal to fix the worm problem. No company would want to accept the liabilities for this. If some hard drive crashed or some other malfunction, these companies would be huge targets for lawsuits. If some guy is arrested for having kiddie porn on his computer, he could use the worm as an excuse [this happend a couple months ago].
Basically, the "I broke into your house to lock your doors" excuse will not hold up in court.
Also, since you brought up literacy requirements, why don't we just get rid of this stupid electoral college? Even the Iraqis said that it was a stupid idea when we tried to implement it there.
That's quite a confusing ballot. Does the X over the person's face mean that you're not voting for him? Or does it mean that's the one that you're voting for?
What if you draw mustaches on the candidate? Does that count?
Sorry, just be facetious...
a9.com which is run by Amazon using google still seems to be running.
How about electricity costs and costs from the heat generated?
Well, technically, the shares that they are offering are non-voting shares. So they could not be ousted by vote of the shareholders. This was stated in their "IPO Manifesto."
All that is already public information. Do a whois on any website and you can get a lot more than that. Everyone that registers a domain have to provide such information anyways.
I'm thinking it's more of instant gratification. The top jobs on that list you see the result of your work in mins or hours, not months or quarters.
What about Auto Mechanics? A lot of your argument can also be said about mechanics. Most people don't know what is wrong with their car, they just know that it doesn't work. Some problems also take a while to identify. Also sometimes, they have to go "drive it around for a couple of days and see if the problem arises again"
That's fine and dandy...if the entire military was composed of college educated soldiers. Chances are they only graduated from high school if they even reached that far...
Why just drives? Why not just have dual located redundant servers? With DB and hard drive technologies now a days, you can get offsite mirrors in realtime, half-hourly, hourly or daily ... depending on the amount of $$ that you want to put in.
If only the trading of music files were a liquid market. This would be a perfect arbitrage situation. Basically, buy it from one country at a cheaper rate [relative to another country's rate] and sell it there and make the profit. I mean, the profit in Foreign Exchange market works are fractions of a cent, a difference of 20 cents in some cases for music file would be an enormous take on the arbitrage.
argh..this is how I know I've spent too much time working in this industry...
You mean normal watches won't survive in an environment like California? The watches, if you read the article, were for the scientists here on earth.
Sorry..poor attempt a humor...
A US corporation can only remain a US country if a majority of its employees are US citizens. So if HP, etc. start employing Indians or Chinese, they should be forced to become either an Indian or Chinese company (and listed on their stock exchanges as well...)
Most multinational companies already list on foreign stock exchanges in addition to their home exchange. Also companies can be registered as a company in multiple countries. Much of this is a requirement of the laws [us and abroad]. Also listing on an exchange is a financial action rather than a legal one. You typically list on an exchange in a country where you need to or you think you can raise funding.
Now here's a counterpoint to your argument. If you want HP or Microsoft and other multinationals to only list as a foreign corporation, the entire US economy would disappear. If a company moves its headquarters to another country, the US government loses out on all the tax revenue from the corporations, same thing as using a tax haven like Bermuda as your corporate headquarters. Many of the large companies have threatend to do this in the past if they don't receive preferential treatment.
Has anyone pondered the idea that we have just entered the Matrix? 1999 could have been the year that the "machines" have resetted us back to that year. Since they are automatrons, for simplicity, they've assumed that if a variable is constant for a given time, it must be a constant [ie earth's rotation]
FYI mods: the previous is not troll..
There really was a movie History of the World: Part I The joke at the end of the movie was a "preview" for the sequel...which after 22 years, still hasn't been made...
If you read through the veil of marketting mumbo-jumbo, you can see what this really is. Basically, they are going to have a system like iTunes. You buy a song and have the rights to it. Now by using this CRF file, they are letting people think it's P2P [but not]. Secondly, this in the end helps out the music industry, without much benefit to the users.
To the music industry this idea has 2 functions. First it helps spread the word on particular music. [ie FREE ADVERTISING] It's viral marketting all over again. Secondly, it helps them reduce cost. Instead of building a search engine and maintaining the bandwidth to support the users similar to iTunes, they can piggy back off of other P2P systems and use the bandwidth of the users.
What they save in technical costs they pass a part of it back to the users through these "rewards."
In the end..this is just smoke and mirrors... Instead of all these gimmicks, why don't they just start moving towards the iTunes concept instead of fighting all the way. They are going to end up there eventually...it's time that they face the facts...
...but still no plans to profitability...