No... "definitive agreement" means that bidding is done.
Doesn't it mean the boards have agreed the terms of sale?
Sun is a listed company. The shareholders own it, not the Board of Directors who approved this deal.
Unless they somehow managed to get agreement from 50.1% of shareholders before making the announcement (which I imagine would cause all sorts of SEC issues) it's still going to require shareholder approval, no? And, if the decision is still down to the shareholders, IBM could still return to the table, even if it required a hostile approach to the shareholders directly.
I don't know the specifics, but can't IBM make a counter offer?
If they feel the company is worth more than Oracle are paying, they could make a counter offer. Indeed, Sun's board may have announced the agreement in the very hope this happens.
Equally, in those circumstances Oracle could increase their offer. Unless IBM are very keen on the acquisition, it's unlikely they'll want to enter a bidding war.
Not to say they won't have a final stab, especially if Sun is worth more to them now they know the alternative is for Oracle to own Java.
That makes me question the severity of any "defects" that might have existed in any of the goods he returned.
If the faults on the returned laptops were not genuine faults, Amazon's return policy is to charge a 15% fee. Given he returned at least three MacBook Pro's I'm guessing they accepted they were faulty and did not make that charge.
Because, unlike a real utility like water or electric, it doesn't cost big ISPs anything more whether you use the service or not. They peer their costs amongst each other.
So laying cables and Cisco routers, they all come free if you're an ISP, yes? Where do I sign up?
Come off it. You can argue about the size of the caps, then I'll listen, but to pretend that increases usage doesn't impose any additional costs on ISPs in nonsense.
Most ISPs report that a very small number of users use the majority of their bandwidth. When their capacity hits a bottleneck, all their users start to suffer. The ISP has two choices - increase capacity, which could be straightforward by adding a couple of extra routers, or could be very very expensive such as installing new DSLAMs or laying fiber between locations.
So as an ISP what do you do? Eat the cost? Raise the rates for all your customers, even those that use 2GB/month? Kick off the high users for breaking an 'invisible' cap hinted at in your TOS? Or introduce tiered pricing, so those that use most, pay most?
If you want a debate about whether the level the caps are set at are fair. go right ahead. But to pretend that ISPs somehow have unlimited free bandwidth and that extra usage has no additional cost implication is an untruth.
I can see two solutions to the problem. Fairly set caps that accurately reflect the increased costs of increased usage, or a service like water or gas where you pay a connection fee and a per gigabyte fee, possibly with tiers so costs increase faster with very high usage.
There's a problem with this in the US - very limited competition. If you're not competing against anyone else, why try and lower your profit margin? Until the US sorts out local loop unbundling, so there's real competition over the last mile, US customers will continue to be gouged.
Youtube is the most-popular video site. It should be making hand-over-fist in dollars. How can this be?
It's because youtube typically has no adverts on user submitted videos. If google made money off of copyright material they'd be looking at big lawsuits. So they typically only have advertising on licensed content. They need more deals like the one suggested to deliver more advertising revenue.
Ignorance is not an excuse as far as the law is concerned.
Actually for stolen goods I think you might be wrong. Some, and perhaps most or all States have laws against buying or selling goods which you know or have reason to believe have been stolen.
This is made more complicated by the fact that this isn't stolen property or theft in the ordinary sense - the original author hasn't been deprived of his creation. This is an IP argument - who owns the rights to the images.
In general, yes, you can cancel your contract free of charge at that point.
So, if you want to speculate that as they see more of these devices on their network they'll be forced to introduce such terms, now would be the time to sign up.
So an international flight carries 300 passengers.
Lets say 15% pay for internet access - most of first and business class, plus a few in coach.
45 passengers paying $30 per flight is 1350.
The plane typically makes two flights per day. So that's $2700 per day in revenue.
It takes 185 days to turn over $500,000 cost of fitting. Assuming half the cost is for data, you can still pay for the installation in a year - or a little over is you include downtime.
Even if I'm vastly off in terms of use, it should still pay for itself inside a couple of years which is tiny in terms of the lifespan of a jumbo jet.
Why not reuse the same feed over and over again each year?
He mentioned a couple of thousand old feeds. Either he's been serving feeds since the days when RSS was chiseled by hand into stone tablets, or he has distinct feeds which run concurrently - in which case reusing isn't going to work.
I certainly haven't received any notification email and was logged in to Blockbuster.com yesterday evening and received no notice then either.
I for one am glad this was posted - it seems Blockbuster had no intention of telling me themselves.
Still it doesn't necessarily kill the blockbuster deal. You can still get more movies for less than at netflix - if you have the time to watch that many movies. For some folk it's still going to be a deal.
Again, you also missed the point that the poster referred to a student not in school. Attendance at school beyond leaving age is, I believe, a matter for the pupil.
I think your forms for 16-18 year olds are more to do with normal Health and Safety (andprobably insurance concerns) than in-loco parentis.
Although Amazon may pay $2.00 more per game, is that going to make up for the shipping costs to send them the disc and get the new one?
Clicking the link in the summary tells me Amazon pay for shipping, and since most games cost more than $25 games you buy will be eligible for free super saver shipping (or if you're a Prime member, free 2 day shipping).
I think you missed the part about vmware. I don't think they were suggesting XP as the host OS, rather that with whatever host OS they choose, vmware can provide what would be a nice and fast environment for XP.
That excuse is fine in the really sparse states, but most the people don't live in those really sparse areas and yet still many are left with poor service and little choice.
If you compare VA and Scotland you get a broadly similar area. Population sizes are within 15%. VA has high population density in NoVA, Scotland has it in the Central Belt.
Scotland has 99% ADSL coverage with a wide choice of providers, right down to many sparsely populated island communities. The Government is investing to fill in the empty areas.
Cell phone coverage is almost ubiquitous in any medium sized village and along every major road. The cities have decent 3G coverage from multiple providers and that is now extending to the smaller towns with populations around 20k.
The same is decidedly not true in Virginia. I'm not suggesting Scotland is an IT utopia, there are certainly improvements that can be made. Nor is it the only available example, other European countries offer similar or better.
But yes, parts of the US are lagging other similarly sized, populated and developed countries.
What I find strange is that they haven't found a way to monetise their music for home video use. Why is there no simple way to pay $30/$40 to use tracks from their catalogue to accompany video.
Surely it's not beyond the competence of their lawyers to come up with terms that would work.
You were considering applying but hadn't taken time to read their diversity statement, or their culture page? I'm guessing you wouldn't have enjoyed working for a company that is "aggressively non-discriminatory" and which considers "diversity and inclusion" as fundamental. Don't think this will represent any great loss for you, indeed it might have saved you wasting your time.
Nonetheless, I think if Google have a problem with God, it's only with your God. My God would rather I leave the judging of others up to him/her while I stick to loving my neigbour.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't it mean the boards have agreed the terms of sale?
Sun is a listed company. The shareholders own it, not the Board of Directors who approved this deal.
Unless they somehow managed to get agreement from 50.1% of shareholders before making the announcement (which I imagine would cause all sorts of SEC issues) it's still going to require shareholder approval, no? And, if the decision is still down to the shareholders, IBM could still return to the table, even if it required a hostile approach to the shareholders directly.
If they feel the company is worth more than Oracle are paying, they could make a counter offer. Indeed, Sun's board may have announced the agreement in the very hope this happens.
Equally, in those circumstances Oracle could increase their offer. Unless IBM are very keen on the acquisition, it's unlikely they'll want to enter a bidding war.
Not to say they won't have a final stab, especially if Sun is worth more to them now they know the alternative is for Oracle to own Java.
If the faults on the returned laptops were not genuine faults, Amazon's return policy is to charge a 15% fee. Given he returned at least three MacBook Pro's I'm guessing they accepted they were faulty and did not make that charge.
Would you describe a bookshelf as still working if you couldn't put any new books on it?
What use is a electronic reader if you can't add new books to read?
So laying cables and Cisco routers, they all come free if you're an ISP, yes? Where do I sign up?
Come off it. You can argue about the size of the caps, then I'll listen, but to pretend that increases usage doesn't impose any additional costs on ISPs in nonsense.
Most ISPs report that a very small number of users use the majority of their bandwidth. When their capacity hits a bottleneck, all their users start to suffer. The ISP has two choices - increase capacity, which could be straightforward by adding a couple of extra routers, or could be very very expensive such as installing new DSLAMs or laying fiber between locations.
So as an ISP what do you do? Eat the cost? Raise the rates for all your customers, even those that use 2GB/month? Kick off the high users for breaking an 'invisible' cap hinted at in your TOS? Or introduce tiered pricing, so those that use most, pay most?
If you want a debate about whether the level the caps are set at are fair. go right ahead. But to pretend that ISPs somehow have unlimited free bandwidth and that extra usage has no additional cost implication is an untruth.
I can see two solutions to the problem. Fairly set caps that accurately reflect the increased costs of increased usage, or a service like water or gas where you pay a connection fee and a per gigabyte fee, possibly with tiers so costs increase faster with very high usage.
There's a problem with this in the US - very limited competition. If you're not competing against anyone else, why try and lower your profit margin? Until the US sorts out local loop unbundling, so there's real competition over the last mile, US customers will continue to be gouged.
It's because youtube typically has no adverts on user submitted videos. If google made money off of copyright material they'd be looking at big lawsuits. So they typically only have advertising on licensed content. They need more deals like the one suggested to deliver more advertising revenue.
Actually for stolen goods I think you might be wrong. Some, and perhaps most or all States have laws against buying or selling goods which you know or have reason to believe have been stolen.
This is made more complicated by the fact that this isn't stolen property or theft in the ordinary sense - the original author hasn't been deprived of his creation. This is an IP argument - who owns the rights to the images.
So, if you want to speculate that as they see more of these devices on their network they'll be forced to introduce such terms, now would be the time to sign up.
Besides, you're drinking the wrong beer if it needs cylinders of CO2 to move it through the pipes.
Real beer is hand pulled.
Surely the best way for me to reduce the number of cattle is for me to eat more of them?
Steak anyone?
So an international flight carries 300 passengers.
Lets say 15% pay for internet access - most of first and business class, plus a few in coach.
45 passengers paying $30 per flight is 1350.
The plane typically makes two flights per day. So that's $2700 per day in revenue.
It takes 185 days to turn over $500,000 cost of fitting. Assuming half the cost is for data, you can still pay for the installation in a year - or a little over is you include downtime.
Even if I'm vastly off in terms of use, it should still pay for itself inside a couple of years which is tiny in terms of the lifespan of a jumbo jet.
He mentioned a couple of thousand old feeds. Either he's been serving feeds since the days when RSS was chiseled by hand into stone tablets, or he has distinct feeds which run concurrently - in which case reusing isn't going to work.
They used to run TV adverts selling this as a primary feature of their subscription service.
To me that suggests it's not reasonable to change it without prior notice.
I certainly haven't received any notification email and was logged in to Blockbuster.com yesterday evening and received no notice then either.
I for one am glad this was posted - it seems Blockbuster had no intention of telling me themselves.
Still it doesn't necessarily kill the blockbuster deal. You can still get more movies for less than at netflix - if you have the time to watch that many movies. For some folk it's still going to be a deal.
Again, you also missed the point that the poster referred to a student not in school. Attendance at school beyond leaving age is, I believe, a matter for the pupil.
I think your forms for 16-18 year olds are more to do with normal Health and Safety (andprobably insurance concerns) than in-loco parentis.
Clicking the link in the summary tells me Amazon pay for shipping, and since most games cost more than $25 games you buy will be eligible for free super saver shipping (or if you're a Prime member, free 2 day shipping).
Why not as a lawyer?
If they make an untrue statement about you they run the risk of a libel suit. They'd have to be very annoyed or mighty stupid to do that.
Perhaps they were looking at single layer DVD
4.7GB * 250 = 1.175TB
1.175 * 8 = 9.400 Terabits
Since, the summary points out it's 10 terabits per square inch, not terabytes as you seem to be using.
What size is that in a useful unit, like Olympic swimming pools or double-decker buses?
People screamed 'bloatware' about Windows XP because it was windows 2000 with bloatware added.
The problem for Microsoft is that Windows 2k remains a fast stable OS that runs pretty much every product being released for windows today.
I think you missed the part about vmware. I don't think they were suggesting XP as the host OS, rather that with whatever host OS they choose, vmware can provide what would be a nice and fast environment for XP.
Microsoft are cutting up to 5,000 from a total of 90,000 employees - 5.5% of its workforce.
IBM might cut 16,000 from a workforce of 387,000, a cut of 4%.
Intel are cutting up to 6,000 from a workforce of 84,000 - 7% of jobs.
That excuse is fine in the really sparse states, but most the people don't live in those really sparse areas and yet still many are left with poor service and little choice.
If you compare VA and Scotland you get a broadly similar area. Population sizes are within 15%. VA has high population density in NoVA, Scotland has it in the Central Belt.
Scotland has 99% ADSL coverage with a wide choice of providers, right down to many sparsely populated island communities. The Government is investing to fill in the empty areas.
Cell phone coverage is almost ubiquitous in any medium sized village and along every major road. The cities have decent 3G coverage from multiple providers and that is now extending to the smaller towns with populations around 20k.
The same is decidedly not true in Virginia. I'm not suggesting Scotland is an IT utopia, there are certainly improvements that can be made. Nor is it the only available example, other European countries offer similar or better.
But yes, parts of the US are lagging other similarly sized, populated and developed countries.
What I find strange is that they haven't found a way to monetise their music for home video use. Why is there no simple way to pay $30/$40 to use tracks from their catalogue to accompany video.
Surely it's not beyond the competence of their lawyers to come up with terms that would work.
You were considering applying but hadn't taken time to read their diversity statement, or their culture page? I'm guessing you wouldn't have enjoyed working for a company that is "aggressively non-discriminatory" and which considers "diversity and inclusion" as fundamental. Don't think this will represent any great loss for you, indeed it might have saved you wasting your time.
Nonetheless, I think if Google have a problem with God, it's only with your God. My God would rather I leave the judging of others up to him/her while I stick to loving my neigbour.