"Jim McGreedy" Did you mean Jim McGreevey? He actually was the governor. Given his recent coming out of the closet, I doubt the BSA would want much to do with him now.
I would add two things to this, to be fair. First, the cost of XP Pro should be added (which will offer the same range of software and usability (sort of on usability) as OS X). Second, the keyboard should be of the highest quality you can get for a PC, as Apple keyboards are very well built.
It's not a big deal. Here's the thing. If you're the kind of person that even blinks an eye when reading news like this, then you have no business buying stocks. Go get yourself a 2% FDIC-insured savings account. In the grand scheme of things, you only make money in the stock market if you invest for the long term and keep a diversified and balanced portfolio.
I've used bootable versions of Knoppix and MEPIS to *copy* files from NTFS filesystems on XP boxes to USB thumbdrives. However, neither of those distros would let me *delete* anything from the hard drive (I was trying to get rid of some spyware by that method).
But that's the thing...when you start discussing alternatives to the Mac Mini, you are implying that the features of the Mini, including its size, are a consideration. You're paying a premium for the small size, as you would pay a premium for the small size of a laptop. The Mini (and other SFF PC's) are a distinct line of products than regular towers.
It's the equivalent of comparing a compact car to a pickup truck, when your needs can only be met in the first place by a pickup truck. In which case, you should have been comparing various truck lines to one another in the first place.
Oh Christ, this old chestnut again. Take all the parts you bought for 0.5 a Mini and make it fit in a chassis 2 inches high, 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep. Yes, size counts. A Cappucino PC comes closest and costs much more than a Mini.
A "new" workbook can be started with up to 256 blank sheets (the default is 3). However, you can add more. I've gone up to about 800 something in a really complex model.
I have Excel set to start with just 1 blank sheet and then I create more as I go along.
We're pretty much addicted to Bloomberg since we use them for lots of other purposes (ie preferred stock analysis, regular equity analysis, MA transaction searches). We do valuations of privately held companies and largely use publicly traded companies as valuation guidelines. If you go to my website (see sig), I've got links to some publicly available projects I've worked on using Bloomberg and Excel; namely our dividend policy study and my voting stock premium study.
A really fun thing to do wit Bloomberg is to create marketing lists since they give you the names of corporate officers. The corporate officer list (and company address for that matter) are only available as bulk fields, but I figured out how to break them up to create mail merge fields. The only downside is that I still need a secretary to add "Mr." or "Ms." to the spreadsheets!
I'm probably on the Excel crack pipe more than most people here and I would never call anything I do with it "development." I'm just building different types of models for financial analysis. The most complicated stuff I do involves linking to the Bloomberg DDE server to download closed end fund data and running Crystal Ball (a commercial Excel add-in) now and then for Monte Carlo simulations. Furthermore, I only use Excel to store limited types of data, such as weekly dumps of closed end fund data.
"The UCLA researchers placed a lithium tantalate (LiTaO3) pyroelectric crystal so that one side touches a copper disc. A tiny tungsten probe is then placed at the center of the copper disc. When the crystal is subsequently heated, a very large large electric field is produced at the end of the tugsten tip, ~25 billion volts per meter. This field gradient is so high that it strips the electrons from nearby deuterium atoms. The ionized deuterium atoms then accelerated by this field towards a solid target of erbium deuteride (ErD2). They collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target. A measurement of almost 900 neutrons per second was observer. This is 400 times the background!"
The first thought that ocurred to me was, "holy shit, isn't this how that little incident at the Black Mesa Compound got started?"
"This only plays into the retail equivalent of crack addiction in poorer areas: rent-to-own stores. In the name of getting what the Joneses have now we spend two to three times the retail cost in the long run and finish paying just in time for the thing to crap out at its normal end-of-life."
A fool and his money are soon parted, so what else is new? Sorry, I don't feel pity for idiot materialists. Television was, and still is, a luxury appliance. That said, I got my (tube) HD set on clearance at CompUSA.
They did it to my company one time and let me tell you, it's no picnic. But I got revenge by having Michael Jackson pay a surprise visit during one of their camping trips.
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"Jim McGreedy" Did you mean Jim McGreevey? He actually was the governor. Given his recent coming out of the closet, I doubt the BSA would want much to do with him now.
I'd like to propose the "Cleaning Out Spyware and Installing Firefox" badge :)
It's called Qix. That's an old arcade classic from back in the day. I've got a version for Game Boy that I can still play for hours on end.
I would add two things to this, to be fair. First, the cost of XP Pro should be added (which will offer the same range of software and usability (sort of on usability) as OS X). Second, the keyboard should be of the highest quality you can get for a PC, as Apple keyboards are very well built.
Firefox one-ups this already by doing 2 things:
1. Encrypted URLS turn the address bar to a gold color to remind you that you're on an encrypted site. And, more importantly,
2. In the lower right hand corner of the screen, Firefox tells you the name of the site to which the digital signature certificate is assigned.
It's not a big deal. Here's the thing. If you're the kind of person that even blinks an eye when reading news like this, then you have no business buying stocks. Go get yourself a 2% FDIC-insured savings account. In the grand scheme of things, you only make money in the stock market if you invest for the long term and keep a diversified and balanced portfolio.
Anyone remember when this was posted? Man, the earth stood still that day for me.
I find it mildly disturbing that someone modded this as insightful, considering it was a quote from realultimatepower.
I've used bootable versions of Knoppix and MEPIS to *copy* files from NTFS filesystems on XP boxes to USB thumbdrives. However, neither of those distros would let me *delete* anything from the hard drive (I was trying to get rid of some spyware by that method).
Sorry, George. I forgot you were doing a television conference tonight!
And apparently his friend Robin loves Batman with all of his body (including his pee-pee).
Everything below fullscreen will work with regular Quicktime.
Dear CmdrTaco:
Please remove Tiger Direct as a sponsor from your banner ads or I shall use Firefox's Adblock to filter *all* your banner ads. Your choice. Thanks.
Wow, normally that costs extra!
"We slashdotted Google !"
Just think, ten years ago that would have sounded like meaningless drivel.
Ok, well maybe it still is.
I'd compare them to the eMac, not that it's going to give you the best bang for your euro compared to the systems you have listed.
"Not to me it doesn't."
But that's the thing...when you start discussing alternatives to the Mac Mini, you are implying that the features of the Mini, including its size, are a consideration. You're paying a premium for the small size, as you would pay a premium for the small size of a laptop. The Mini (and other SFF PC's) are a distinct line of products than regular towers.
It's the equivalent of comparing a compact car to a pickup truck, when your needs can only be met in the first place by a pickup truck. In which case, you should have been comparing various truck lines to one another in the first place.
Oh Christ, this old chestnut again. Take all the parts you bought for 0.5 a Mini and make it fit in a chassis 2 inches high, 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep. Yes, size counts. A Cappucino PC comes closest and costs much more than a Mini.
"A workbook can have (I think) 256 sheets,"
A "new" workbook can be started with up to 256 blank sheets (the default is 3). However, you can add more. I've gone up to about 800 something in a really complex model.
I have Excel set to start with just 1 blank sheet and then I create more as I go along.
We're pretty much addicted to Bloomberg since we use them for lots of other purposes (ie preferred stock analysis, regular equity analysis, MA transaction searches). We do valuations of privately held companies and largely use publicly traded companies as valuation guidelines. If you go to my website (see sig), I've got links to some publicly available projects I've worked on using Bloomberg and Excel; namely our dividend policy study and my voting stock premium study.
A really fun thing to do wit Bloomberg is to create marketing lists since they give you the names of corporate officers. The corporate officer list (and company address for that matter) are only available as bulk fields, but I figured out how to break them up to create mail merge fields. The only downside is that I still need a secretary to add "Mr." or "Ms." to the spreadsheets!
I'm probably on the Excel crack pipe more than most people here and I would never call anything I do with it "development." I'm just building different types of models for financial analysis. The most complicated stuff I do involves linking to the Bloomberg DDE server to download closed end fund data and running Crystal Ball (a commercial Excel add-in) now and then for Monte Carlo simulations. Furthermore, I only use Excel to store limited types of data, such as weekly dumps of closed end fund data.
Could that have been prevented by room temperature, small scale fusion?
But when I read this in the summary:
"The UCLA researchers placed a lithium tantalate (LiTaO3) pyroelectric crystal so that one side touches a copper disc. A tiny tungsten probe is then placed at the center of the copper disc. When the crystal is subsequently heated, a very large large electric field is produced at the end of the tugsten tip, ~25 billion volts per meter. This field gradient is so high that it strips the electrons from nearby deuterium atoms. The ionized deuterium atoms then accelerated by this field towards a solid target of erbium deuteride (ErD2). They collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target. A measurement of almost 900 neutrons per second was observer. This is 400 times the background!"
The first thought that ocurred to me was, "holy shit, isn't this how that little incident at the Black Mesa Compound got started?"
"This only plays into the retail equivalent of crack addiction in poorer areas: rent-to-own stores. In the name of getting what the Joneses have now we spend two to three times the retail cost in the long run and finish paying just in time for the thing to crap out at its normal end-of-life."
A fool and his money are soon parted, so what else is new? Sorry, I don't feel pity for idiot materialists. Television was, and still is, a luxury appliance. That said, I got my (tube) HD set on clearance at CompUSA.
They did it to my company one time and let me tell you, it's no picnic. But I got revenge by having Michael Jackson pay a surprise visit during one of their camping trips.