I have no idea for sure(but like speculating) they leave you hanging at the end, but after the credits roll, there is a 3 min trailer for revolutions, and I would guess that Trinity features in the trailer. I've heard several people complain about the trailer at the end.
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Any institution that is exposed, say more than a few hundred million is going to have their own analysts, who work for them, and are unbiased. They generally laugh at the "used stock salespeople" and their recomendations. Street analysts are useful for doing basic fact checking, and things that don't require an opinion, but the smart ones always leave to work as a portfolio manager or investment banker pretty quickly.
I've found that it doesn't matter a whole lot anymore if the researched company is a banking client or not, most of the analysts I read are not gonna softball their banking clients because that is what everyone is focused on. Instead they softball everyone, because all your trading clients can act on a buy, but only shorts and those that own the stock can act on a sell reccommendation. If you are going to base your decisions on just your broker's research, at least read the analyst's pieces on several companies in the industry, and try to read a few other firm's opinions on the industry or the company, it helps to have several views.
The last estimates I saw were tha Apple pays about 60% as a license fee. If the million/per week keeps up, their gross profit (before employees, bandwidth, credit card fees, taxes, and other expenses) would be about $20 million, if they net more than $10 million on $50 million in revenue this year after all expenses I'd be surprised. Happily for Apple, adding windows users would probably improve revenues and profits significantly and they have been selling additional hardware which is more profitable. Also, Apple doesn't make that much money, they only made about $90 million last year. Most of that came from interest on their $4 billion.
He also has a vested interest in IT investors and customers believing that the industry will undergo harder times. His speach could be summed up, Ariba, i2, and all the tiny competitors will be gone quickly, but Oracle IBM and Microsoft are here to stay. If he can get enough people to believe him, it will become a self fulfilling prophecy, and the big software companies will pick up share from all the little ones. Since once the software is written, there aren't too many costs to sell another copy, his company will make quite a bit more money.
I have two memmories of X-Com, the first terror mission when the Etherials showed up, it was a night mission, and I was feeling cocky after beating down the snakemen, and floaters, and went in at night. All of the sudden I was getting toasted by things that I never saw and I realized something of what combat must be like. It was awful. I also remember getting cocky again with 4 psi masters, who could mind control all the aliens in a big battle, I would line them all up and stun them so I could capture more live ones and other things. I moved a whole battle ship worth of etherials in to a small area ouside my drop ship, and I forgot to mind contol all of them one turn, and they got my blaster guy who then shot up the rest of the squad with one of those purple alien blasters. I only escaped with one surviver and had to rebuild my squads.
Insiders, including McNealy own 2% of Sun, I'd have to check on the company's anti-takeover provisions next week, but suffice to say that Scott and the board would have more than the above 2% ownership would indicate on the success of a hostile takeover. 12 billion (figure 15 billion for an offer premium) is a pretty steep price, but it isn't above most big technology companies ability to finance with a debt offering (Sun has almost 2.5 billion in cash that the new purchasors would get). The problem is more that no one is very interested. HP is too busy with Compaq, IBM doesn't seem to want them, Dell is not interested (keep your eye on Dell to get closer to EMC though), Apple is probably too small, Microsoft doesn't need them, and it wouldn't be a good fit for Cisco (they don't need growth that badly).
At the point where I started dreaming about a game, I actually begin to see those shimmering red numbers from the origial X-Com in tbe lower right corner of my dreams, I decided I needed a break for a few days.
I've noticed a 10 mph or so increase in my driving speed after an evening of Gran Turismo. I don't notice going faster, I just realize that I'm getting places earlier.
Thanks I have seen fiber channel stuff cheap before, but never had any idea what else was required to make it all work. I knew I needed an HBA, but that was it.
Quantum's Snap products are pretty nice from the reviews. I think unlike most of the other x86 stuff theirs is based on linux or BSD, if that is important to you. Dell's storage is pretty popular, too. If you're just looking for disks, try the powervault or build it yourself. If you want a rackmount enclosure buy it with as few drives as possible, then fill it with drives you acquire from someone else. Storage like RAM is an expensive upgrade. For just add on storage, with no NAS, you can get almost a TB for about $0.0067 per MB using Dell for the rack and Newegg for the drives going with just Dell is about $0.0075/MB. The totals are $11k vs. $15k.
I guess I am really a kooky right winger, because I always liked them. I have very little problem with actors having quite different politics or moral code from me, but I get a little tired of the plot preaching that code or behavior to me. That has always been the biggest turnoff of Star Trek has for me. It seemed to get worse as the shows went on, or perhaps, the issues the earlier shows raised were issues that are now pretty much decided (like racial or gender equality).
The point is to teach the kids that you are an adult in the eyes of the law, and if your actions caused harm to another (at least enough that a judge and jury would agree with the damage done) and that you have to pay for your injury of the other party. Not to mention that it was pretty clearly illegal, even if you disagree with the morality of the law, the wording was pretty clear. The fines are designed so that other sharers out there will learn, that if you do this, and you get caught, we will make your life more difficult. If it means that you have to put off school for a year, that's the point. Your actions have consequences. Those damages were pretty small compared to the statitory level of fines, as I'd assume that they were probably sharing a decent number of songs.
The GF 2 MX was a really nice card, it was my first "performance" video card, I think I paid $100 for it, although after that ATI seemed to have much better offerings for the sub $100 video card market.
You should contact ACM the CS professional society. They might be willing to help you set up a better organization, and could probably put you in contact with other groups like yours.
Actually HPs are disguised Cannon technolgoy and possibly some Xerox tech. Lexmark develops their own technology (it's in the second to last paragraph), but licenses it to others, notably Dell's new printer line. I can't recall seeing that HP ever licensed tech from Lexmark, but it is possible.
I'm a lowly businessman, but at a Microsoft presentation they were pushing.NET as cross platform (Windows Mac and BSD). Would.NET games be significantly easier to port to any plaform with a.NET framwork?
Buy em all loophas, those sponges you use with body wash. They will get the side benefit of younger healthier looking skin too. I'm sure I missed the spelling on both but you get the idea.
It always seemed to me like second had Macs generally carried more of a premium to their PC equivelents, than when they were new. Like a BMW or Honda one of the reasons to pay up for a Mac was that you could get quite a bit more for it on the used market if you wanted to sell it. Perhaps my searching is a bit narrow, but a year or two ago, a plain iMac was selling for more than $300, while a nice PC workstation, was only $100 and white box stuff you could hardly give away.
I have heard that penalties for drunk driving are quite strict in Europe, and while drinking is probably more prevalent, drunk driving is very rare. Can anyone with more experience in Europe confirm either point? I know licensing is more difficult in most of Europe. Of course, it could also be a more mature cultural attitude related to drinking in general, but I think the penalties would have some deterant effect.
And like all good advice it's blatently stolen (from Warren Buffet)
Learn accounting, at least enough to read financial statements and the footnotes, it's the language of business.
I can not tell you how much I agree with this, it should not be too hard to either grab an intro accounting book, or audit a class at the closest learning institution. Learning accounting will make your life much easier to see if you are profitable, generating cash, what deals might not be worth trying for lack of proceeds.
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I have no idea for sure(but like speculating) they leave you hanging at the end, but after the credits roll, there is a 3 min trailer for revolutions, and I would guess that Trinity features in the trailer. I've heard several people complain about the trailer at the end.
Any institution that is exposed, say more than a few hundred million is going to have their own analysts, who work for them, and are unbiased. They generally laugh at the "used stock salespeople" and their recomendations. Street analysts are useful for doing basic fact checking, and things that don't require an opinion, but the smart ones always leave to work as a portfolio manager or investment banker pretty quickly.
I've found that it doesn't matter a whole lot anymore if the researched company is a banking client or not, most of the analysts I read are not gonna softball their banking clients because that is what everyone is focused on. Instead they softball everyone, because all your trading clients can act on a buy, but only shorts and those that own the stock can act on a sell reccommendation.
If you are going to base your decisions on just your broker's research, at least read the analyst's pieces on several companies in the industry, and try to read a few other firm's opinions on the industry or the company, it helps to have several views.
You should have flipped it over, Charade was excellent, and if the average /.er saw Audrey Hepburn they'd probably forget Natalie Portman.
The last estimates I saw were tha Apple pays about 60% as a license fee. If the million/per week keeps up, their gross profit (before employees, bandwidth, credit card fees, taxes, and other expenses) would be about $20 million, if they net more than $10 million on $50 million in revenue this year after all expenses I'd be surprised. Happily for Apple, adding windows users would probably improve revenues and profits significantly and they have been selling additional hardware which is more profitable. Also, Apple doesn't make that much money, they only made about $90 million last year. Most of that came from interest on their $4 billion.
He also has a vested interest in IT investors and customers believing that the industry will undergo harder times. His speach could be summed up, Ariba, i2, and all the tiny competitors will be gone quickly, but Oracle IBM and Microsoft are here to stay. If he can get enough people to believe him, it will become a self fulfilling prophecy, and the big software companies will pick up share from all the little ones. Since once the software is written, there aren't too many costs to sell another copy, his company will make quite a bit more money.
I have two memmories of X-Com, the first terror mission when the Etherials showed up, it was a night mission, and I was feeling cocky after beating down the snakemen, and floaters, and went in at night. All of the sudden I was getting toasted by things that I never saw and I realized something of what combat must be like. It was awful. I also remember getting cocky again with 4 psi masters, who could mind control all the aliens in a big battle, I would line them all up and stun them so I could capture more live ones and other things. I moved a whole battle ship worth of etherials in to a small area ouside my drop ship, and I forgot to mind contol all of them one turn, and they got my blaster guy who then shot up the rest of the squad with one of those purple alien blasters. I only escaped with one surviver and had to rebuild my squads.
Insiders, including McNealy own 2% of Sun, I'd have to check on the company's anti-takeover provisions next week, but suffice to say that Scott and the board would have more than the above 2% ownership would indicate on the success of a hostile takeover. 12 billion (figure 15 billion for an offer premium) is a pretty steep price, but it isn't above most big technology companies ability to finance with a debt offering (Sun has almost 2.5 billion in cash that the new purchasors would get). The problem is more that no one is very interested. HP is too busy with Compaq, IBM doesn't seem to want them, Dell is not interested (keep your eye on Dell to get closer to EMC though), Apple is probably too small, Microsoft doesn't need them, and it wouldn't be a good fit for Cisco (they don't need growth that badly).
At the point where I started dreaming about a game, I actually begin to see those shimmering red numbers from the origial X-Com in tbe lower right corner of my dreams, I decided I needed a break for a few days.
I've noticed a 10 mph or so increase in my driving speed after an evening of Gran Turismo. I don't notice going faster, I just realize that I'm getting places earlier.
Thanks I have seen fiber channel stuff cheap before, but never had any idea what else was required to make it all work. I knew I needed an HBA, but that was it.
Quantum's Snap products are pretty nice from the reviews. I think unlike most of the other x86 stuff theirs is based on linux or BSD, if that is important to you. Dell's storage is pretty popular, too. If you're just looking for disks, try the powervault or build it yourself. If you want a rackmount enclosure buy it with as few drives as possible, then fill it with drives you acquire from someone else. Storage like RAM is an expensive upgrade. For just add on storage, with no NAS, you can get almost a TB for about $0.0067 per MB using Dell for the rack and Newegg for the drives going with just Dell is about $0.0075/MB. The totals are $11k vs. $15k.
I guess I am really a kooky right winger, because I always liked them. I have very little problem with actors having quite different politics or moral code from me, but I get a little tired of the plot preaching that code or behavior to me. That has always been the biggest turnoff of Star Trek has for me. It seemed to get worse as the shows went on, or perhaps, the issues the earlier shows raised were issues that are now pretty much decided (like racial or gender equality).
The point is to teach the kids that you are an adult in the eyes of the law, and if your actions caused harm to another (at least enough that a judge and jury would agree with the damage done) and that you have to pay for your injury of the other party. Not to mention that it was pretty clearly illegal, even if you disagree with the morality of the law, the wording was pretty clear. The fines are designed so that other sharers out there will learn, that if you do this, and you get caught, we will make your life more difficult. If it means that you have to put off school for a year, that's the point. Your actions have consequences. Those damages were pretty small compared to the statitory level of fines, as I'd assume that they were probably sharing a decent number of songs.
Only meteors larger than a VW come standard with petri dishes and lockers, for others its an expensive option.
The GF 2 MX was a really nice card, it was my first "performance" video card, I think I paid $100 for it, although after that ATI seemed to have much better offerings for the sub $100 video card market.
You should contact ACM the CS professional society. They might be willing to help you set up a better organization, and could probably put you in contact with other groups like yours.
Actually HPs are disguised Cannon technolgoy and possibly some Xerox tech. Lexmark develops their own technology (it's in the second to last paragraph), but licenses it to others, notably Dell's new printer line. I can't recall seeing that HP ever licensed tech from Lexmark, but it is possible.
I'm a lowly businessman, but at a Microsoft presentation they were pushing .NET as cross platform (Windows Mac and BSD). Would .NET games be significantly easier to port to any plaform with a .NET framwork?
I think that shop vac might be interested in the story as a potential ad.
Buy em all loophas, those sponges you use with body wash. They will get the side benefit of younger healthier looking skin too. I'm sure I missed the spelling on both but you get the idea.
It always seemed to me like second had Macs generally carried more of a premium to their PC equivelents, than when they were new. Like a BMW or Honda one of the reasons to pay up for a Mac was that you could get quite a bit more for it on the used market if you wanted to sell it. Perhaps my searching is a bit narrow, but a year or two ago, a plain iMac was selling for more than $300, while a nice PC workstation, was only $100 and white box stuff you could hardly give away.
Yes, but ads for the Chrysler that featured "fine Corinthian Leather" is probably not in syndication. :)
I have heard that penalties for drunk driving are quite strict in Europe, and while drinking is probably more prevalent, drunk driving is very rare. Can anyone with more experience in Europe confirm either point? I know licensing is more difficult in most of Europe. Of course, it could also be a more mature cultural attitude related to drinking in general, but I think the penalties would have some deterant effect.
And like all good advice it's blatently stolen (from Warren Buffet)
Learn accounting, at least enough to read financial statements and the footnotes, it's the language of business.
I can not tell you how much I agree with this, it should not be too hard to either grab an intro accounting book, or audit a class at the closest learning institution. Learning accounting will make your life much easier to see if you are profitable, generating cash, what deals might not be worth trying for lack of proceeds.
If a smelting operation you wish, I think I can help you, Asarco just mothballed a plant here, and I think they'd let you have it pretty cheap.