Stop being ridiculous. The argument of whether or not he needs a house is moot as he already has a house. If he walks away from it, we'll assume he can't pay for it, and now he's in financial ruin. His credit turns to garbage, so all sorts of things are more expensive now, and the real kicker is he has no money for his kids' tuition. (assuming he did in the first place)
Sure, you can get by on the regular day-to-day parenting stuff on minimal means. You can't, however, pay for a decent education and provide for your children while they're in school without significant amounts of money, either cash or credit. How do you propose he deals with his kids future, assuming they're less than 10 years away from college given the submitter's age.
Why would the parent company sell when it knows it's close to being winning the case and possibly being awarded $1.6B while still retaining the rights to the name? Apple will have to both pay them for the rights moving forward, as well as pay whatever the court judgement awards. There's no way I'd sell to Apple for less than $2B. They're in a very strong position if the Chinese courts decide in their favor.
If they're doing all the porting, then I'd guess the payouts to the studios would be even less. Do you have more insight as to how the payment model works for the studios who develop the games and have them included in the bundles?
It should be noted that the percentage of Linux users is quite small; somewhere around 20-25%.
Even if we assume it reaches $2M, that would only leave ~$400k-500k in Linux sales. I don't know what the development time is for the games in the bundle, but I'll assume it's 3-6 months. If we have 5 studios with games in the bundle (and everything is evenly split), you're only looking at a maximum of $100k in 3-6 months, per studio, being generated from Linux sales. That'd be great for a couple of guys in an apartment, but for a 5+ member team, I don't see how they could be very successful with Linux-only games. (at least not where I live near Seattle, and definitely not in the bay area where I recently moved from)
In all 3 of my last visits to a doctor (two in the hospital, one in a medical group office) the doctors dictated their notes about my visit after we were finished.
Actually, I've only ever seen one doctor type their report, and I found it to be very unpleasant. As we were talking, he would type his notes along with my answers into the computer station that was in the examination room. The whole process felt very impersonal and definitely slowed the process. It seemed much more akin to a conversation I'd have with my tax professional where I'm giving him answers and he's filling in forms.
Really? I found it on youtube in about 10 seconds
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After essentially living at Children's as a teenager while spending time with my cousin who eventually succumbed to leukemia, I have a very very special place in my heart for the incredible amounts of good being done at these hospitals.
Sure, that worked really good for the industrial revolution. Welcome to your 112 hour work week, don't like it? Fuck off, there's a line of people behind you waiting for a job.
The 19th Century thinking here is remarkable. It makes me wonder who are the conservatives.
Really? What happened to so much of US manufacturing? I'm pretty sure it went overseas to those sweatshops you're calling '19th century thinking'.
You grossly underestimate the infrastructure requirements to provide a service like netflix across the world. It's far easier, and more profitable, licensing to many companies (netflix, itunes, blockbuster, hulu, amazon, etc.) and sit back collecting royalties while focusing on their primary business, which is creating content.
If I deposit $100 into an FDIC insured bank account, in all but the most ridiculous extreme cases, I'll be able to withdraw $100 whenever I'd like. Whether or not the bank is speculating with my money doesn't particularly concern me as long as I have access to the funds I deposited. With Bitcoin, this is must less likely to happen as the value fluctuates wildly in very short amounts of time.
Exactly. Just look at the bottom of the device and if you see a single button, it's the iPad. Lawyers who have been fighting over this for this long should be able to at least distinguish that.
I just did this two weeks ago on a Dell laptop. From start to fully functional OS, starting with a non-dell windows xp CD, including sound, network (both wireless and ethernet), and graphics drivers totaled about 2 hours. The total time is misleading as well because more than an hour of that was formatting and waiting for the installer to copy the files over.
Dell's site was easy to navigate for my old laptop (Dell D620) and had all the drivers broken down by category. It was a complete no-brainer, and I'm quite certain my mom could've done it without issue.
Amazon already has a CDN; it's called cloudfront. Since Amazon is already in the CDN business, I can't see how your question makes any sense. Are you suggesting people will flock away from limelight and akamai just because they want to serve some kindles faster? lol....
Regarding Zynga, how about doing as suggested and read the details? (I won't comment on Groupon, as I've never believed in their product at all)
Their quarterly revenue actually went up by more than $30M over the previous quarter; $279M vs $242M. They didn't launch a new game the entire year, until May 31st. (one month before the end of Q2) Since then, they have also launched a new Indiana Jones themed game, Adventure World. Keep in mind that Zynga will be one of the early players on Google's new social network, already launching their biggest game, Cityville, on the platform.
They had higher than normal hiring expenses, including a $10M payment as part of an executive's sign-on bonus. They also paid out $10.6M in a stock warrant. Both of these are quite likely to be one time events, and neither of them made many appearances in the media. If you take those two payments out, you are back at ~$22M in profit, which would be an increase in year over year, and almost double Q1 2011's profit of $11.8M. My source outlines most of this for you, in case you'd rather not read through the details yourself. I knew the Q2 2011 profit number, but here is another source for you to check out in case you don't believe me.
To say that poker is pure skill is simply untrue. A perfect example that comes to mind is Chris Moneymaker winning the 2003 WSOP? You can honestly say, straight faced, that he was the best poker player in that tournament? I didn't think so.
Perhaps you should watch some more poker on TV, or head down to your local card room more often; poker is not all skill. All it takes is a little luck on one or two hands and the tides turn. In that moment when you shoved all in with AK suited, and you get a ridiculous call with 4-3 off, the skill it took to get you to that point is thrown out the window when the flop comes 443.
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I don't like the realities of the situation either, but that's just how it is right now. Luckily I don't have to worry about that for quite some time.
Besides, if he's been an IT guy for 20 years, he's got at least $50K in the bank.
In what world are you living in?
Stop being ridiculous. The argument of whether or not he needs a house is moot as he already has a house. If he walks away from it, we'll assume he can't pay for it, and now he's in financial ruin. His credit turns to garbage, so all sorts of things are more expensive now, and the real kicker is he has no money for his kids' tuition. (assuming he did in the first place)
Sure, you can get by on the regular day-to-day parenting stuff on minimal means. You can't, however, pay for a decent education and provide for your children while they're in school without significant amounts of money, either cash or credit. How do you propose he deals with his kids future, assuming they're less than 10 years away from college given the submitter's age.
Why would the parent company sell when it knows it's close to being winning the case and possibly being awarded $1.6B while still retaining the rights to the name? Apple will have to both pay them for the rights moving forward, as well as pay whatever the court judgement awards. There's no way I'd sell to Apple for less than $2B. They're in a very strong position if the Chinese courts decide in their favor.
If they're doing all the porting, then I'd guess the payouts to the studios would be even less. Do you have more insight as to how the payment model works for the studios who develop the games and have them included in the bundles?
It should be noted that the percentage of Linux users is quite small; somewhere around 20-25%.
Even if we assume it reaches $2M, that would only leave ~$400k-500k in Linux sales. I don't know what the development time is for the games in the bundle, but I'll assume it's 3-6 months. If we have 5 studios with games in the bundle (and everything is evenly split), you're only looking at a maximum of $100k in 3-6 months, per studio, being generated from Linux sales. That'd be great for a couple of guys in an apartment, but for a 5+ member team, I don't see how they could be very successful with Linux-only games. (at least not where I live near Seattle, and definitely not in the bay area where I recently moved from)
In all 3 of my last visits to a doctor (two in the hospital, one in a medical group office) the doctors dictated their notes about my visit after we were finished.
Actually, I've only ever seen one doctor type their report, and I found it to be very unpleasant. As we were talking, he would type his notes along with my answers into the computer station that was in the examination room. The whole process felt very impersonal and definitely slowed the process. It seemed much more akin to a conversation I'd have with my tax professional where I'm giving him answers and he's filling in forms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
N-Control did end up firing this guy.
I also would highly recommend Child's Play.
After essentially living at Children's as a teenager while spending time with my cousin who eventually succumbed to leukemia, I have a very very special place in my heart for the incredible amounts of good being done at these hospitals.
Sure, that worked really good for the industrial revolution. Welcome to your 112 hour work week, don't like it? Fuck off, there's a line of people behind you waiting for a job.
The 19th Century thinking here is remarkable. It makes me wonder who are the conservatives.
Really? What happened to so much of US manufacturing? I'm pretty sure it went overseas to those sweatshops you're calling '19th century thinking'.
I don't think Qantas can't implement any of your suggestions as they all sound like government decisions.
You grossly underestimate the infrastructure requirements to provide a service like netflix across the world. It's far easier, and more profitable, licensing to many companies (netflix, itunes, blockbuster, hulu, amazon, etc.) and sit back collecting royalties while focusing on their primary business, which is creating content.
If I deposit $100 into an FDIC insured bank account, in all but the most ridiculous extreme cases, I'll be able to withdraw $100 whenever I'd like. Whether or not the bank is speculating with my money doesn't particularly concern me as long as I have access to the funds I deposited. With Bitcoin, this is must less likely to happen as the value fluctuates wildly in very short amounts of time.
Exactly. Just look at the bottom of the device and if you see a single button, it's the iPad. Lawyers who have been fighting over this for this long should be able to at least distinguish that.
I just did this two weeks ago on a Dell laptop. From start to fully functional OS, starting with a non-dell windows xp CD, including sound, network (both wireless and ethernet), and graphics drivers totaled about 2 hours. The total time is misleading as well because more than an hour of that was formatting and waiting for the installer to copy the files over.
Dell's site was easy to navigate for my old laptop (Dell D620) and had all the drivers broken down by category. It was a complete no-brainer, and I'm quite certain my mom could've done it without issue.
Amazon already has a CDN; it's called cloudfront. Since Amazon is already in the CDN business, I can't see how your question makes any sense. Are you suggesting people will flock away from limelight and akamai just because they want to serve some kindles faster? lol....
My mistake.. the last sentence should be "... Q1 2011 profit number ..." instead of "... Q2 2011 profit number ..." -- sorry.
Regarding Zynga, how about doing as suggested and read the details? (I won't comment on Groupon, as I've never believed in their product at all)
Their quarterly revenue actually went up by more than $30M over the previous quarter; $279M vs $242M. They didn't launch a new game the entire year, until May 31st. (one month before the end of Q2) Since then, they have also launched a new Indiana Jones themed game, Adventure World. Keep in mind that Zynga will be one of the early players on Google's new social network, already launching their biggest game, Cityville, on the platform.
They had higher than normal hiring expenses, including a $10M payment as part of an executive's sign-on bonus. They also paid out $10.6M in a stock warrant. Both of these are quite likely to be one time events, and neither of them made many appearances in the media. If you take those two payments out, you are back at ~$22M in profit, which would be an increase in year over year, and almost double Q1 2011's profit of $11.8M. My source outlines most of this for you, in case you'd rather not read through the details yourself. I knew the Q2 2011 profit number, but here is another source for you to check out in case you don't believe me.
Do you live in New Zealand? From my understanding, it's quite expensive to do many high bandwidth activities at home due to their low caps.
To say that poker is pure skill is simply untrue. A perfect example that comes to mind is Chris Moneymaker winning the 2003 WSOP? You can honestly say, straight faced, that he was the best poker player in that tournament? I didn't think so.
Perhaps you should watch some more poker on TV, or head down to your local card room more often; poker is not all skill. All it takes is a little luck on one or two hands and the tides turn. In that moment when you shoved all in with AK suited, and you get a ridiculous call with 4-3 off, the skill it took to get you to that point is thrown out the window when the flop comes 443.
you took my reply as a serious answer. that's so cute.
tell them to go home and get on their PC?
In my experience, "smartphone customers" and "value their freedom" are mutually exclusive in the US.
A quick macports search shows both of them available. Am I missing something here?
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