you don't own a ferrari. if you did, you wouldn't have mangled the spelling so badly. and if you do, indeed, own a ferrary, then it's most likely a ferrari rip-off (like those "rolox" watches street vendors are constantly trying to sell me)
"If a mammal can look at itself in a mirror and recognize itself, its self aware."
"All which is not self aware, is not real, it's junk information, it's noise, it's fake, it's illusion"
my kid is 5 months old - she doesn't yet recognize that the baby in the mirror is her, and therefore is not self aware. therefore, she is junk information, noise (i'll agree with you on this one), fake, and an illusion. she is not real, yet if she starves because i do not feed her, i will be arrested for murder. do you think that my defense of "it's not murder if the victim is not self aware because it's not real, junk information, noise, fake, and an illusion" will keep me out of prison? more importantly, do you think that it is acceptable to kill a small child because they are "junk information, noise, fake, and an illusion"? if not, why?
there's a very serious problem with this approach: it is trivial to brute force. if the question states "how many", then that implies a quick human countable number. guess a number from 1 to 10. is that the correct answer? try a different number 1 to 10. is that it? for your "what color" question, i can think of ~10 legit colors (is it mother-of-pearl or white, navy blue or blue?). once again a brute force approach works pretty well.
if reading words/characters/numbers from an image is solvable by a captcha-cracking program, don't you think it would be pretty trivial to write a brute-force algo?
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just because the ability exists to own broad-market or sector doesn't mean you have to. if you think that a company will outperform the rest of its sector, you are able to buy the single name.
buying a competitor's stock is an interesting thing. recall MSFT purchased AAPL a while back. as i recall (but i don't remember all the details), AAPL was fairly cheap on a P/E basis and the MSFT purchasing pushed the price up a bit. i don't think anybody long AAPL would mind the price being driven up... another example is the recent MSFT bid for YHOO. it's nearly the same, but this time, they are offering to buy the entire company. MSFT bid a ~50% premium, and the YHOO price gapped up by about the same amount the next day. once again, nobody long YHOO is going to complain.
so what's the problem with buying into a direct competitor?
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you, sir, are an idiot. what you're proposing limits the ability to invest in a sector (or even broad-market indices). if i feel that energy companies will continue to make better and better profits, should i be forced to pick an energy company to invest in (XOM)? or should i be able to invest in the entire sector (see XLE).
if you still feel this is the case, please remove all indices and/or mutual funds from your personal and/or retirement accounts, as they all violate your beliefs (for example: multiple financial, consumer goods, drug and technology companies are in the DJI 30)
i've read a number of complaints like this on newegg reviews for network printers lately. if you have a network printer, give it a static ip and your problem will be solved. if you don't have a network printer, then sorry for wasting your time.
Having said that, they did not live in a world with automobiles, nuclear weapons, and the Internet, and so for simple reasons of context they should not be used as gospel.
which gospel writer existed in a world with any of these things? perhaps The Gospel shouln't be seen as "the gospel" either?
And I'm a firm believer that if you cannot pay cash, you probably can't afford it anyways
1) so if i have a large (interest bearing, of course) checking account but choose not to carry large amounts of cash, i can't afford anything?
2) is there something wrong with putting something on plastic and getting all kinds of fun rewards if i can cover it when the cc bill comes in?
3) have you ever paid `cash' for a car? i always found it easier to write a check rather than walk into the bank and withdraw $30k+. besides, the salespeople get awfully suspicious when i walk in with a breifcase full of $100 bills...
exactly. take a long exposure from a moving vehicle. that should blur out all of the people. and cars. and buildings. or are you recommending that they drive 10 feet, stop, take a long exposure, drive 10 feet again?
of course verizon will sell you static ips. you just have to get a business account (costs more, of course). there is no port blocking on business lines. not sure if the link will work, but $80 for 3Mbps / 768Kbps. I currently have 5 static IPs (cost same as 1...) with 20/5 business FIOS with no ports blocked for about the same as the business DSL.
all right except one point - the nyse didn't have a problem during that time. dow jones had the problem (they are a seperate company). if nyse had a problem reporting trades, then the s&p would have shown the same problem. i like to pick on nyse as much as the next guy (you should see some of our slippage numbers...), but this time it was not their fault. why is everyone under the impression that they are?
Didn't the NYSE use Solaris running Oracle or other heavyweight db in the past. I heard they were switching to WinTel systems in recent years. If true, that shows how robust Solaris/Sun/Oracle is compared to the MS solution
how does this say anything about the systems at nyse? nyse was flooding dow jones with too many messages. nyse didn't have a problem - dow jones had the problem. it seems like a lot of folks posting to this story don't know the difference (no - i'm not new here).
i also don't see why this is such a big deal. anyone who actually trades based on index values calculates the values themselves instead of waiting 15 seconds for an index quote to be broadcast. as evidence of this, note that index futures and spdrs (dia in this case - i think this should work. if not, compare it to the ^DJI) were in-line with the actual dji price instead of the broadcast price for the entire time.
i think you are confused (or perhaps it is i who am confused). 'generic' drugs are cloned from a name-brand drug. you sound is if you think it's the other way around... generics are cheaper because they do not include r&d costs. 'blockbuster' drugs are new (and expensive) because of the r&d costs.
typically when a company produces a new drug, they are given a period of exclusivity (based on new patents) so that they can recoup r&d costs (think billions because most r&d never even turns into a new drug). after a few years, generics are released which are 'clones' of the original. the generic company spent $0 on r&d, and therefore can sell at a price closer to manufacturing cost (eg: cheaper).
the consumer is hurt when generic companies (see teva and ranbaxy) challenge patents before exclusivity time (see purdue pharma's oxycotin patent fight) expires. this sounds wrong, but is not. if the r&d company has not covered r&d expenses for a drug before everyone moves over to the generic, then the r&d company cannot fund new projects. at this point, r&d company closes their doors (or massive layoffs ensue). now the drug company with chemists/researchers is out of business, and the drug company with lawyers (to fight r&d competitor's patents) is making more money than ever on their generic. but there is one less r&d firm to prey on in the future...
mr. linux geek speaks about windows vista. interesting. as a rc1 x64 guinea pig, i can tell you the situation is not as bad as you seem to think. i have yet to see hardware which is not supported by x64 out of the box. my only complaint so far is that there's no vista ready version of nero. but there's no x86 support for it either.
It covers selected cities within less than half of US states
verizon only provides land-line service in "less than half of US states". your statement sounds like you blame verizon for not running fiber in states they do not provide service in. it may sound pathetic by the standards of other countries, but other most other countries are smaller and have a higher population density.
do you also complain about the fact that 10,000 acre farms in nebraska don't have cable access and town water?
A secondary problem I see is that consoles are consoles. They're supposed to be a standardized unit in which I can assure myself that everyone is having the same playing experience.
i picked up a used n64 the other day and went to play one of the zelda games. on startup, i got a message stating that i could not play the game because i did not have the n64 expansion card. apparently, consoles have been upgradealbe for a long time now. in the n64 case, not having the upgrade causes certain games to not even play.
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you don't own a ferrari. if you did, you wouldn't have mangled the spelling so badly. and if you do, indeed, own a ferrary, then it's most likely a ferrari rip-off (like those "rolox" watches street vendors are constantly trying to sell me)
"If a mammal can look at itself in a mirror and recognize itself, its self aware." "All which is not self aware, is not real, it's junk information, it's noise, it's fake, it's illusion"
my kid is 5 months old - she doesn't yet recognize that the baby in the mirror is her, and therefore is not self aware. therefore, she is junk information, noise (i'll agree with you on this one), fake, and an illusion. she is not real, yet if she starves because i do not feed her, i will be arrested for murder. do you think that my defense of "it's not murder if the victim is not self aware because it's not real, junk information, noise, fake, and an illusion" will keep me out of prison? more importantly, do you think that it is acceptable to kill a small child because they are "junk information, noise, fake, and an illusion"? if not, why?
there's a very serious problem with this approach: it is trivial to brute force. if the question states "how many", then that implies a quick human countable number. guess a number from 1 to 10. is that the correct answer? try a different number 1 to 10. is that it? for your "what color" question, i can think of ~10 legit colors (is it mother-of-pearl or white, navy blue or blue?). once again a brute force approach works pretty well.
if reading words/characters/numbers from an image is solvable by a captcha-cracking program, don't you think it would be pretty trivial to write a brute-force algo?
just because the ability exists to own broad-market or sector doesn't mean you have to. if you think that a company will outperform the rest of its sector, you are able to buy the single name.
buying a competitor's stock is an interesting thing. recall MSFT purchased AAPL a while back. as i recall (but i don't remember all the details), AAPL was fairly cheap on a P/E basis and the MSFT purchasing pushed the price up a bit. i don't think anybody long AAPL would mind the price being driven up... another example is the recent MSFT bid for YHOO. it's nearly the same, but this time, they are offering to buy the entire company. MSFT bid a ~50% premium, and the YHOO price gapped up by about the same amount the next day. once again, nobody long YHOO is going to complain.
so what's the problem with buying into a direct competitor?
you, sir, are an idiot. what you're proposing limits the ability to invest in a sector (or even broad-market indices). if i feel that energy companies will continue to make better and better profits, should i be forced to pick an energy company to invest in (XOM)? or should i be able to invest in the entire sector (see XLE).
if you still feel this is the case, please remove all indices and/or mutual funds from your personal and/or retirement accounts, as they all violate your beliefs (for example: multiple financial, consumer goods, drug and technology companies are in the DJI 30)
you mean like in the '80s?
i've read a number of complaints like this on newegg reviews for network printers lately. if you have a network printer, give it a static ip and your problem will be solved. if you don't have a network printer, then sorry for wasting your time.
just because you have to have a landline does not mean you have to have a phone connected to it...
which gospel writer existed in a world with any of these things? perhaps The Gospel shouln't be seen as "the gospel" either?
And I'm a firm believer that if you cannot pay cash, you probably can't afford it anyways
1) so if i have a large (interest bearing, of course) checking account but choose not to carry large amounts of cash, i can't afford anything?
2) is there something wrong with putting something on plastic and getting all kinds of fun rewards if i can cover it when the cc bill comes in?
3) have you ever paid `cash' for a car? i always found it easier to write a check rather than walk into the bank and withdraw $30k+. besides, the salespeople get awfully suspicious when i walk in with a breifcase full of $100 bills...
exactly. take a long exposure from a moving vehicle. that should blur out all of the people. and cars. and buildings. or are you recommending that they drive 10 feet, stop, take a long exposure, drive 10 feet again?
of course verizon will sell you static ips. you just have to get a business account (costs more, of course). there is no port blocking on business lines. not sure if the link will work, but $80 for 3Mbps / 768Kbps. I currently have 5 static IPs (cost same as 1...) with 20/5 business FIOS with no ports blocked for about the same as the business DSL.
i thought the porno-popups were an added bonus of running windows... you make it sound like an unwanted behavior.
all right except one point - the nyse didn't have a problem during that time. dow jones had the problem (they are a seperate company). if nyse had a problem reporting trades, then the s&p would have shown the same problem. i like to pick on nyse as much as the next guy (you should see some of our slippage numbers...), but this time it was not their fault. why is everyone under the impression that they are?
Didn't the NYSE use Solaris running Oracle or other heavyweight db in the past. I heard they were switching to WinTel systems in recent years. If true, that shows how robust Solaris/Sun/Oracle is compared to the MS solution
how does this say anything about the systems at nyse? nyse was flooding dow jones with too many messages. nyse didn't have a problem - dow jones had the problem. it seems like a lot of folks posting to this story don't know the difference (no - i'm not new here).
i also don't see why this is such a big deal. anyone who actually trades based on index values calculates the values themselves instead of waiting 15 seconds for an index quote to be broadcast. as evidence of this, note that index futures and spdrs (dia in this case - i think this should work. if not, compare it to the ^DJI) were in-line with the actual dji price instead of the broadcast price for the entire time.
not to mention the fact that none of the names in the dow were halted yesterday.
i think you are confused (or perhaps it is i who am confused). 'generic' drugs are cloned from a name-brand drug. you sound is if you think it's the other way around... generics are cheaper because they do not include r&d costs. 'blockbuster' drugs are new (and expensive) because of the r&d costs.
typically when a company produces a new drug, they are given a period of exclusivity (based on new patents) so that they can recoup r&d costs (think billions because most r&d never even turns into a new drug). after a few years, generics are released which are 'clones' of the original. the generic company spent $0 on r&d, and therefore can sell at a price closer to manufacturing cost (eg: cheaper).
the consumer is hurt when generic companies (see teva and ranbaxy) challenge patents before exclusivity time (see purdue pharma's oxycotin patent fight) expires. this sounds wrong, but is not. if the r&d company has not covered r&d expenses for a drug before everyone moves over to the generic, then the r&d company cannot fund new projects. at this point, r&d company closes their doors (or massive layoffs ensue). now the drug company with chemists/researchers is out of business, and the drug company with lawyers (to fight r&d competitor's patents) is making more money than ever on their generic. but there is one less r&d firm to prey on in the future...
have you tried 'netstat -a' at command prompt?
Food is wasted at fast-food restaurants while people starve outside
that's where organizations like city harvest come into play.
really? i wonder why the radio selection "turn off automatic updates" exists in the "automatic updates" dialog if not to "turn off automatic updates".
mr. linux geek speaks about windows vista. interesting. as a rc1 x64 guinea pig, i can tell you the situation is not as bad as you seem to think. i have yet to see hardware which is not supported by x64 out of the box. my only complaint so far is that there's no vista ready version of nero. but there's no x86 support for it either.
my altair is extremely usefull. without it, i'd have to stand downstairs and hold the door to my office open all day.
verizon only provides land-line service in "less than half of US states". your statement sounds like you blame verizon for not running fiber in states they do not provide service in. it may sound pathetic by the standards of other countries, but other most other countries are smaller and have a higher population density.
do you also complain about the fact that 10,000 acre farms in nebraska don't have cable access and town water?
A secondary problem I see is that consoles are consoles. They're supposed to be a standardized unit in which I can assure myself that everyone is having the same playing experience.
i picked up a used n64 the other day and went to play one of the zelda games. on startup, i got a message stating that i could not play the game because i did not have the n64 expansion card. apparently, consoles have been upgradealbe for a long time now. in the n64 case, not having the upgrade causes certain games to not even play.
but if you commit suicide, you would never get to view the content you just paid so dearly for.