Have YOU sent spiders out to index all the video files on the internet? If so, will you update the list with regularity? No, it's not exceptional, but it is a great service.
An option is never worth nothing as long as it is an option. Just because you won't necessarily get a payout doesn't mean it's worthless. In fact, just because you almost completely 100% sure WON'T get a payout STILL doesn't mean it's worth nothing. Just very little.
Hey man, I agree. All I said was "there's no logic." I think every so often there should be an attempt by state and federal congresses to rebuild the punishment system in their jurisdictions in terms of actual severity so that it means something. It's too politically constructed.
But where's the justification? I mean, these guys were criminals and bad people and I don't particularly want them in society with me. But come on--rapists don't go away that long for one count, and this was just attempted. There's just no logic to it.
Eh, it's a nice thought, and I understand the point about writing code very well, but I'm reasonably sure your school'd coders are a pretty damn small subset of the population. The rest of the kids will have been entering a workforce in which typing skills, desktop familiarity, etc., are important skills, and are probably not as intelligent as the average code-contest winner (therefore less able to derive such skills merely from sitting and thinking about it). We're talking about everyone here, not just code classes.
Okay, look, I *really* don't mean to troll here. This would NEVER happen. EVER. AAPL right now has a P/E of 95--it's the stock's highest valuation since the bubble, and it's above the consensus price targets according my little friend Bloomberg over here. This means that IBM would have an extremely difficult time getting a decent return out of such an acquisition, and you can trust me (if you can trust an M&A banker at all -_^)--IBM doesn't like to pay huge multiples.
IBM could gear up and go all consumer on our asses if it wanted, but it's not going to because the company is committed towards moving away from things it is historically weak in. It could gear its PC unit up-scale and sell value-added, noncommoditized PCs if it wanted, but it doesn't because they're not particularly useful to enterprises.
It would NOT be possible for IBM to suddenly leverage Macs from 5% to 80% market share, and if it tried such a pitch to a valuable customer, well, HP would be up one valuable customer and IBM down one Sales Manager and one Palmisano.
I love how the man can remember a story from two years ago, but can't remember if the same post was made two hours ago...
In the interest of not being modded a troll, I'd like to note that it seems like a great idea, except that it's, well, insufficiently closed for my personal needs... Where's the privacy?
It seems like the sort of thing that a boyscout troop could collectively carry around and set up in the middle of nowhere for long-term shelter, if it had end walls.
Dude, you're totally wrong. Yeah, HP spun off Agilent, but they are now, like IBM, predominantly a services company. If IBM's PC line goes to crap or is too risky for companies to implement, HP computers and lower-end servers will snatch the high-Q market share directly. It could be a huge boon to HP, depending on where the IBM line goes.
I'm a banker focusing on enterprise software M&A and private placements. In this and previous gigs I've used analyst research from Gartner et al. all the time. Though I don't consider Gartner to be too much more than a great way to buy some market attention, people in the financial community pay a great deal of heed to quantifiably positive reviews from the company because they act as a good proxy for market acceptence, and thus marketability and company value. That is, if you know nothing about a company but analysts like Gartner love it, it's worth taking a good look at.
With that said, the most focused-on chunk of a Gartner report is often the "magic quadrant." This is a cartesian plain that ranks companies based on their "ability to execute" (Y) and "vision" (X). Those sort of standardized metrics which easily place each company relative to other competing companies offer a load of perspective into a technology's value. It's never exact and always a bit subjective, but the multidimensional ranking is extremely useful and makes companies much easier to look at.
Yeah, but you get your foot in the door, and then there's the whole thing about learning: a better program may make YOU better, and thus more prepared for interviews and more able to accumulate the best experience quickly.
You're a fucking idiot. You hate skins because they give people choice? Hate them because they're laggy or because they're an inefficient use of space, but not because they increase people's options. Jesus christ.
Won't be too long before every IM conversation is thoroughly archived and documented by mainstream clients, and before you're online, everywhere, all the time, even in the US.
I work 9-11:00 or 12:00 as a banker and write a comic book for an hour or two after that most nights. It's all in how hard you push yourself to do the things you want to do.
No. It doesn't exist yet. They've signed an agreement, and the company hasn't even made a press release about it on the site, just linked to MTV coverage. My guess is that the agreement is for development, or optioning, and is DEFINITELY non-exclusive. If there was a system, they'd have mentioned something about "enabling users to..." rather than just allowed journalists to speculate.
Don't forget the phones. I don't know if there'll be much adoption, but it could be the first really big phone trend in two years. Or it could drive people to get utterly sick of white apple plastic. Who knows?
I assume you didn't rtfa--the study was conducted by a Piper Jaffray analyst, i.e. on wall street. So yes, in fact, wall street does think there is.
However, if what you meant was that the market consensus is that there is causality, don't be so sure. The number of switchers alone, regardless of the cause, is probably enough to move the stock like that; historically it swings wildly on market and mindshare reports, rather than on eps.
Jackson had some serious cult successes under his belt (Bad Taste, Dead Alive) and had (depending on your taste for that sort of thing) already proved himself competent of forging cult classics.
You're shitting me, right? Prior to LOTR, the ONLY big movie Jackson had made was a complete flop (Frighteners). It was his ONLY movie with name-brand actors, his ONLY hollywood production, and his ONLY real work with computer animation, and it got killed at the box offices. The reasons Jackson was chosen were 1. he was a great guy and backed by robert zemeckis, and 2. he owned half of a New Zealand FX studio and had a lot of clout in the area and was just about the only person in the world who could make the movies at a reasonable cost. NZ was an comparatively cheap and underutilized location the likes of which one NEEDED to shoot the movie, and Jackson owned the film community there.
First, Disney. Then, next time there's a major economic boom and everyone is feeling rich, a few small metropolises will try to draw publicity with half-assed implementations. Finally after five or six such failures, someone will get it right in maybe fifty years.
But that's the US! There's tremendous room for such a system in developing nations, european cities, and especially in command economies like China where occasionally over-powered leaders get big ideas and throw loads of taxpayer money at things like this. Problem for this company, though, is that the Chinese tend to use Chinese systems, not western ones.
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Have YOU sent spiders out to index all the video files on the internet? If so, will you update the list with regularity? No, it's not exceptional, but it is a great service.
An option is never worth nothing as long as it is an option. Just because you won't necessarily get a payout doesn't mean it's worthless. In fact, just because you almost completely 100% sure WON'T get a payout STILL doesn't mean it's worth nothing. Just very little.
Hey man, I agree. All I said was "there's no logic." I think every so often there should be an attempt by state and federal congresses to rebuild the punishment system in their jurisdictions in terms of actual severity so that it means something. It's too politically constructed.
But where's the justification? I mean, these guys were criminals and bad people and I don't particularly want them in society with me. But come on--rapists don't go away that long for one count, and this was just attempted. There's just no logic to it.
Eh, it's a nice thought, and I understand the point about writing code very well, but I'm reasonably sure your school'd coders are a pretty damn small subset of the population. The rest of the kids will have been entering a workforce in which typing skills, desktop familiarity, etc., are important skills, and are probably not as intelligent as the average code-contest winner (therefore less able to derive such skills merely from sitting and thinking about it). We're talking about everyone here, not just code classes.
Okay, look, I *really* don't mean to troll here. This would NEVER happen. EVER. AAPL right now has a P/E of 95--it's the stock's highest valuation since the bubble, and it's above the consensus price targets according my little friend Bloomberg over here. This means that IBM would have an extremely difficult time getting a decent return out of such an acquisition, and you can trust me (if you can trust an M&A banker at all -_^)--IBM doesn't like to pay huge multiples.
IBM could gear up and go all consumer on our asses if it wanted, but it's not going to because the company is committed towards moving away from things it is historically weak in. It could gear its PC unit up-scale and sell value-added, noncommoditized PCs if it wanted, but it doesn't because they're not particularly useful to enterprises.
It would NOT be possible for IBM to suddenly leverage Macs from 5% to 80% market share, and if it tried such a pitch to a valuable customer, well, HP would be up one valuable customer and IBM down one Sales Manager and one Palmisano.
We'll get to purchase valuable martian real estate from its ignorant bacteria after infecting them with trojan horses!
I love how the man can remember a story from two years ago, but can't remember if the same post was made two hours ago... In the interest of not being modded a troll, I'd like to note that it seems like a great idea, except that it's, well, insufficiently closed for my personal needs... Where's the privacy? It seems like the sort of thing that a boyscout troop could collectively carry around and set up in the middle of nowhere for long-term shelter, if it had end walls.
Dude, you're totally wrong. Yeah, HP spun off Agilent, but they are now, like IBM, predominantly a services company. If IBM's PC line goes to crap or is too risky for companies to implement, HP computers and lower-end servers will snatch the high-Q market share directly. It could be a huge boon to HP, depending on where the IBM line goes.
And I've got one that's six years old and works great.
We can judge by this anecdotal evidence that 50% of toshibas suck and 50% are great.
Also that you don't understand statistics.
holy crap, the mods are roasting you! I thought your comment was worthy of note; you've got my support!
A slightly different perspective:
I'm a banker focusing on enterprise software M&A and private placements. In this and previous gigs I've used analyst research from Gartner et al. all the time. Though I don't consider Gartner to be too much more than a great way to buy some market attention, people in the financial community pay a great deal of heed to quantifiably positive reviews from the company because they act as a good proxy for market acceptence, and thus marketability and company value. That is, if you know nothing about a company but analysts like Gartner love it, it's worth taking a good look at.
With that said, the most focused-on chunk of a Gartner report is often the "magic quadrant." This is a cartesian plain that ranks companies based on their "ability to execute" (Y) and "vision" (X). Those sort of standardized metrics which easily place each company relative to other competing companies offer a load of perspective into a technology's value. It's never exact and always a bit subjective, but the multidimensional ranking is extremely useful and makes companies much easier to look at.
based on one of its own franchises
what part don't you understand?
Yeah, but you get your foot in the door, and then there's the whole thing about learning: a better program may make YOU better, and thus more prepared for interviews and more able to accumulate the best experience quickly.
You're a fucking idiot. You hate skins because they give people choice? Hate them because they're laggy or because they're an inefficient use of space, but not because they increase people's options. Jesus christ.
Won't be too long before every IM conversation is thoroughly archived and documented by mainstream clients, and before you're online, everywhere, all the time, even in the US.
Apparently the Korean word for "cold" is the same as the Japanese one. Huh.
I work 9-11:00 or 12:00 as a banker and write a comic book for an hour or two after that most nights. It's all in how hard you push yourself to do the things you want to do.
is in a lot of trouble
Only if someone cares enough to sue.
Usually there's some parodying of both, as opposed to just one. It's pretty clear that in the example of the comic only one was being parodied.
I hear two wrongs make a right.
No. It doesn't exist yet. They've signed an agreement, and the company hasn't even made a press release about it on the site, just linked to MTV coverage. My guess is that the agreement is for development, or optioning, and is DEFINITELY non-exclusive. If there was a system, they'd have mentioned something about "enabling users to..." rather than just allowed journalists to speculate.
Don't forget the phones. I don't know if there'll be much adoption, but it could be the first really big phone trend in two years. Or it could drive people to get utterly sick of white apple plastic. Who knows?
I assume you didn't rtfa--the study was conducted by a Piper Jaffray analyst, i.e. on wall street. So yes, in fact, wall street does think there is.
However, if what you meant was that the market consensus is that there is causality, don't be so sure. The number of switchers alone, regardless of the cause, is probably enough to move the stock like that; historically it swings wildly on market and mindshare reports, rather than on eps.
Jackson had some serious cult successes under his belt (Bad Taste, Dead Alive) and had (depending on your taste for that sort of thing) already proved himself competent of forging cult classics.
You're shitting me, right? Prior to LOTR, the ONLY big movie Jackson had made was a complete flop (Frighteners). It was his ONLY movie with name-brand actors, his ONLY hollywood production, and his ONLY real work with computer animation, and it got killed at the box offices. The reasons Jackson was chosen were 1. he was a great guy and backed by robert zemeckis, and 2. he owned half of a New Zealand FX studio and had a lot of clout in the area and was just about the only person in the world who could make the movies at a reasonable cost. NZ was an comparatively cheap and underutilized location the likes of which one NEEDED to shoot the movie, and Jackson owned the film community there.
First, Disney. Then, next time there's a major economic boom and everyone is feeling rich, a few small metropolises will try to draw publicity with half-assed implementations. Finally after five or six such failures, someone will get it right in maybe fifty years.
But that's the US! There's tremendous room for such a system in developing nations, european cities, and especially in command economies like China where occasionally over-powered leaders get big ideas and throw loads of taxpayer money at things like this. Problem for this company, though, is that the Chinese tend to use Chinese systems, not western ones.