. It's just as bad as requiring businesses to value their "goodwill" and take an earnings hit when it "goes down".
Goodwill, to first define, is the premium paid for another company above what they are physically worth (buildings, equipment, patents, etc.) Therefore, if Co. A buys Co. B for $20 mil, and there are only $15 mil of physicaly goods, $5 mil is goodwill.
So the question now, is why expense (impairment is the technical term) it if the value of goodwill goes down? Because it is a consistent treatment of company especially intangible goods. If a company has a 15 years of a patent left to amortize, and for whatever reason it is invalidated, or maybe a new advance comes out making that patent obsolete,the comapny should properly impair the value of the patent, just as goodwill is now treated.
Two things we accountants like are comparability and consistancy. impairment of goodwill brings both of these to the table. After all, if SCO had any goodwill in the accounting sense, they should probably write off quite a bit of it, as they have likely drastically reduced the value of said goodwill.
I think it's a horribly dumb idea to pump up corporate profit on paper just so the tax man can take a bite bigger than your real profit out of your fake profit.
Not really. In the USA, there are basically two types of acounting standards: tax and financial accounting. The Congress makes and IRS enforces the tax standard, and the FASB makes (sometimes w/ prodding from the Gov't) and the SEC (only sometimes, unfortunately) enforces the financial accounting. In other countries, tax and financial accounting rules are identical, such as in Germany.
I don't remember the all of the discussion from my advanced accounting class last semester, but I believe this is an issue with the financial standards.
Not sure if this is before or after the news you heard, but for version 3.03, they added additional processing capability in the client so workunits would take longer to process News posting
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Added additional science coverage. We now do a thorough search out to a chirp rate of +- 20 Hz/second. The cost of the additional coverage is that clients will take longer to process a workunit
However, as 3.03 is rather old, I wouldn't be surprised if the new and faster computers and old clients that weren't upgraded negated some of the effect.
Slight correction:
Roundup is not patented, IIRC.
The active ingredient is glyphosate. It's marketed under other names like glyphos and touchdown.
Even though all these chemicals are essentially the same, Monsanto has their contracts written in such a way that if you don't use roundup, the seeds have no warranty, and perhaps other "bad things"
My dad farms, grows roundup ready soybeans, and used to sell ag chemicals, as well as being a professional agronomist.
IIRC, this is essentially the same things that most modern trains use. Sometimes called "electromotive" or diesel/electric locomotives. From what I understand, though, they don't do it for efficiency purposes, they do it because they can get a heck of a lot more torque out of a huge electric motor than they could making a transmission for the diesel. It'd probably be a very difficult engineering job to make a tranny for the torque and speed range that trains need.
Basically, you stick a generator (similar concept to the emergency generator) under the hood and route power as it's needed.
I'm sure parent knows, just trying to explain the differnce to others.
No, it is missing a substantial feature for the end user: you can't right click on a box in minesweeper and have it flag it as a mine. Without a full-featured Minesweeper and Solitare application, this will be doomed to failure.
However, it could possibly be saved by a talking paperclip, or maybe a talking gecko that doesn't complain about car insurance.
The suit was featured in the National Film Board of Canada documentary Project Grizzly, which turned Hurtubise into a cult hero. It was also featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not TV and in the Guinness Book of World Records, for the most expensive animal research suit.
Yes, you can download and burn to a cd, but it's not an official microsoft distribution.
Autopatcher.com carries a cd people have put together than carries many and many of the patches MS has released. I've seen good reviews, along with a decent community around it, but ymmv.
It's just a matter of time before someone figures out that there's a correlation between good health and some non-obvious combination of bacteria and organic waste.
With many infants living in airtight homes with no pets or contact with farm animals, children aren't being exposed to the hair, dirt and bacteria that can help prime their immune systems and make them stronger, new yet controversial research suggests.
However, this isn't a perfect hypothesis. I grew up on a farm, and still have allergies, although some other studies seem to show that any such benefits are frequently counteracted by being around cigarette smoke in the early years, which I also was.
It will be interesting to see how it turns out, though. So, maybe all those people that need anti-bacterial everything (I've seen toys that have triclosan embedded) will pay heed and back off a little bit. On the other hand, prepare to welcome our new bacterial overlords.
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Well, they're not totally hateful as it seems. Not sure why they couldn't have just said this instead of the "nyah, go away opera user" they seemd to have.
Well, you should be paranoid, but not for the "Big oil kills non-oil energy" reasons. Most companies describe themselves in what they do, not the products they make. Southwest Airlines doesn't consider themself an airline, they think of themselves as a form of commuter transportation, competing against buses, cars and trains.
Likewise, oil companies aren't just oil companies anymore. They're energy companies. Whether they get energy from oil, corn, or hot air from corporate board rooms, they want to try to make money off it.
So, I think your second thought was right: They want in on the ground floor to get a stranglehold.
Yes, it is true. A friend worked at MS Great Plains, and IIRC he was not allowed to look at any FOSS while he was working there. He didn't specify if he meant look at it while at work, or at all. But yes, the sword (mostly) cuts that way.
common decency to be a large financial institution
Oh get over it.
It's probably not about getting their $2000 laptop back... that laptop probably had lots of nummy information about people... names, addresses, SSNs about lots of people.. oh, people kind of like you, probably.
This theft could have been a lot more than $2000, when you realize that the kind of information possibly stored on there is worth much more than some crappy laptop.
And that's not all. Since HyperSCSI was released as open-source software last year, it's free and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). "It's not only free as in beer, but also free as in speech," says Jesse Keating.
and
"I would describe it as a beer can with a motor," says Andre Hedrick, president and CTO of iSCSI software vendor PyX Technologies Inc. [Ed. note: I need a beer!] "It will go really fast, but just hope there's not a problem, because there's nothing there to protect you."
It may be too slow to save people from immediate exposure, but at least in the case of biologicals, it could act as a warning to contain the contamination and prevent further exposure, possibly same with radiological weapons.
As a side note, my gf is working with a grad student who is trying to engineer an ornamental plant to be placed in public areas that will turn color when it's been exposed to various biological agents.
At the moment, very difficult.
One of the problems with the device is that they're already fairly large.
Cnn had an article yesterday.
Null said the biggest problem with the backscatter machines may be their size. One version, the BodySearch system made by Billerica, Massachusetts-based American Science & Engineering is about 4-feet by 7-feet by 10-feet -- awfully big for an airport lobby, Null said.
according to this article, they already sprinkle pixie dust on low grade coffees.
quoth the author:
"And not just outwardly "flavoured, specialty" coffees produced by them were sprinkled with pixie dust... if you think that can of Maxwell House Gold isn't flavoured, guess what..."
While this author may think it's totally irresponsible for anyone to post virus code, what about in the bounds of higher education? Is it still morally irresponsible for a student in a computer security course (which covers viruses), to post virus code to a class forum?
If so, this could have a further chilling effect on what we students may do to learn. Any other thoughts?
Actually, heating the testes would lower sperm production, not cooling them, as efficient sperm production occurs at a couple degrees below body temp. Unless, of course, you get cold beer poured down your shorts... that usually decreases the chance of reproducing (that night, at least)
A friend of mine lost his shopper's card for some grocery store. Last year, they had a promotion where every week, they were going to give out $1000 to one card holder. Well... someone must've found his card and used it, because he got the money. Of course, they probably did this promotion to get people to try to register cards in their real names. Anyway, he doesn't care.. he has the money
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Goodwill, to first define, is the premium paid for another company above what they are physically worth (buildings, equipment, patents, etc.) Therefore, if Co. A buys Co. B for $20 mil, and there are only $15 mil of physicaly goods, $5 mil is goodwill.
So the question now, is why expense (impairment is the technical term) it if the value of goodwill goes down? Because it is a consistent treatment of company especially intangible goods. If a company has a 15 years of a patent left to amortize, and for whatever reason it is invalidated, or maybe a new advance comes out making that patent obsolete,the comapny should properly impair the value of the patent, just as goodwill is now treated.
Two things we accountants like are comparability and consistancy. impairment of goodwill brings both of these to the table. After all, if SCO had any goodwill in the accounting sense, they should probably write off quite a bit of it, as they have likely drastically reduced the value of said goodwill.
thng
Not really. In the USA, there are basically two types of acounting standards: tax and financial accounting. The Congress makes and IRS enforces the tax standard, and the FASB makes (sometimes w/ prodding from the Gov't) and the SEC (only sometimes, unfortunately) enforces the financial accounting. In other countries, tax and financial accounting rules are identical, such as in Germany.
I don't remember the all of the discussion from my advanced accounting class last semester, but I believe this is an issue with the financial standards.
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However, as 3.03 is rather old, I wouldn't be surprised if the new and faster computers and old clients that weren't upgraded negated some of the effect.
thng
Roundup is not patented, IIRC. The active ingredient is glyphosate. It's marketed under other names like glyphos and touchdown.
Even though all these chemicals are essentially the same, Monsanto has their contracts written in such a way that if you don't use roundup, the seeds have no warranty, and perhaps other "bad things"
My dad farms, grows roundup ready soybeans, and used to sell ag chemicals, as well as being a professional agronomist.
Basically, you stick a generator (similar concept to the emergency generator) under the hood and route power as it's needed.
I'm sure parent knows, just trying to explain the differnce to others.
However, it could possibly be saved by a talking paperclip, or maybe a talking gecko that doesn't complain about car insurance.
What? He didn't mention slashdot?
Autopatcher.com carries a cd people have put together than carries many and many of the patches MS has released.
I've seen good reviews, along with a decent community around it, but ymmv.
Yeah, so it was a long day at work..
According to some scientists, there is a correlation:
However, this isn't a perfect hypothesis. I grew up on a farm, and still have allergies, although some other studies seem to show that any such benefits are frequently counteracted by being around cigarette smoke in the early years, which I also was.
It will be interesting to see how it turns out, though. So, maybe all those people that need anti-bacterial everything (I've seen toys that have triclosan embedded) will pay heed and back off a little bit. On the other hand, prepare to welcome our new bacterial overlords.
Then maybe shoot Scott 4 times, just to make sure
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Yes, it's a joke too!
Well, they're not totally hateful as it seems. Not sure why they couldn't have just said this instead of the "nyah, go away opera user" they seemd to have.
Polyetheylene glycol also used to be in Dr. Pepper (at least 10 years ago).
Likewise, oil companies aren't just oil companies anymore. They're energy companies. Whether they get energy from oil, corn, or hot air from corporate board rooms, they want to try to make money off it.
So, I think your second thought was right: They want in on the ground floor to get a stranglehold.
What about CSI:Moose Jaw?
Yes, it is true. A friend worked at MS Great Plains, and IIRC he was not allowed to look at any FOSS while he was working there. He didn't specify if he meant look at it while at work, or at all. But yes, the sword (mostly) cuts that way.
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Mmmm.. beer can with motor.As a side note, my gf is working with a grad student who is trying to engineer an ornamental plant to be placed in public areas that will turn color when it's been exposed to various biological agents.
quoth the author:
"And not just outwardly "flavoured, specialty" coffees produced by them were sprinkled with pixie dust... if you think that can of Maxwell House Gold isn't flavoured, guess what..."
HP's closing the calculator division was announced some time ago. Too bad.
While this author may think it's totally irresponsible for anyone to post virus code, what about in the bounds of higher education? Is it still morally irresponsible for a student in a computer security course (which covers viruses), to post virus code to a class forum?
If so, this could have a further chilling effect on what we students may do to learn.
Any other thoughts?
Actually, heating the testes would lower sperm production, not cooling them, as efficient sperm production occurs at a couple degrees below body temp. Unless, of course, you get cold beer poured down your shorts... that usually decreases the chance of reproducing (that night, at least)
A friend of mine lost his shopper's card for some grocery store. Last year, they had a promotion where every week, they were going to give out $1000 to one card holder. Well... someone must've found his card and used it, because he got the money.
Of course, they probably did this promotion to get people to try to register cards in their real names.
Anyway, he doesn't care.. he has the money