There are spin offs and spin offs in Wall Street parlance. A real spin off would distribute all of the shares in a subsidiary to the current shareholders. Leaving two distinct public entities, I think this is what HP did with Agilent. Also cited by the market press as a spin off is when a company sells or distributes a smaller percentage of a subsidary, but keeps either the majority or a large minority stake. This is what GM has done with Hughes, but they did recently decide that they will sell the rest, I think they would consider about any reasonable cash offer, since their pension will need a considerable cash infusion, and their 0% financing has reduced their cash flow generation for the near future.
Traditionally they would have to fit the profile of big ears, boulbus nose, thin extremities, a pot belly, and a place of residence under a bridge. However, the new LOTR movies might change the legal profile of trolls. Oh, the other kind, I think you need a fishing lure or something.
Once you add in things like payroll (stops after about 80,000) state and local taxes and other more regressive taxes. Our tax structure is quite flat, most people pay about 17% of their income in taxes across all classes. The middle two quartiles pay about 18%, top is 17% and bottom is 16% or 17%. What annoys me about the tax code is that it is a huge entitlement to accountants and tax prep firms, and the new dividend laws would just add to the complexity with constantly changing cost basis on stocks, without benefiting the markets much, most investments are in tax sheltered accounts anyway. I like Freedman's proposal eliminate the corp income tax, but pass their earnings on to their owners pro rata like a subchapter S Corp.
On my own personal rant, what business does the government have deciding that money spent on mortgages and children is more valuable than money spent by singles on rent and whatever else I decide to buy. The mortgage deduction is truly unfair.
They seem to be used in reference designs as a quick stand in for what would be an ASIC if you actually go to market. The FPGA saves a ton of design and fab time for all the little stuff that could be handled by chips if you decide to produce it.
The others are considered by the analysts to be proprietary, not the chips but the systems, it would be quite difficult for you to build a POWER, or SPARC system, but anyone can assemble an PC compatable. It is not really the Intel part that is open, but the old IBM part that is open and what makes x86 so much cheaper.
Linux and Windows are both benefiting from the fact that x86 is now very competitive on a performance basis, and extremly competitive with HP Sun SGI and IBM on a price performace basis. When you buy a $20,000 server the price difference between a Red Hat AS support contract and a Windows Server license is much smaller than the difference between buying an Dell 2 way P4 Xeon and an HP rp2470 (two way PA-8700). I realize that there are other considerations, especially the RAM addressing over 4 GB, but the Dell will save you a boatload of money even if you buy a Windows license.
If they are on one of the following labels then the artist would be affiliated with an RIAA member.
The list of members is available here. Good luck finding one who isn't affiliated with one of these labels, and has distribution beyond their local hangout.
Like TQM, kan bans (japanese for note card or ticket), and a host of prior managment fads, six sigma will undergo something similar to a bubble. They all are adopted by knoledgeable and good managment teams at the beginning, and because they really are good ideas provide excellent results. However, following this more and more marginal managment teams begin adopting them as the great white hope that will transform their company or department from a flailing failure to an efficient production force. This too shall pass, give it a few years and we will have some new and better managment gimmik that will revolutionize the art of getting people to produce as much as possible.
IMHO, great managers are born and not made, there are just some people who have the right mix of charisma, leadership, and care of their employees to cajole the best mix of production with morale, and no amount of schooling will take a bad manager and turn them into a good one.
Don't get me wrong, six sigma is a good idea, just like all of its predicesors it certainly has a place in many operations, but it is not a panecea that will solve all of our current managment problems. Anyway, I have rambled enough for the night.
In college I went to a school that used laptops, and generally used my laptop from a couch, (not a reccommeded practice, as I started in engineering and finished in business but that is another story) and what I used for a portable desk was a 1 sq ft plank (about 900 sq cm for you metric folks) that I got from a dumpster behind one of the big office stores. It was originally used to show the two finishes that a desk came in, so you might see if any office supply or furniture stores have similar sample products that have been discontinued, for a cheap solution.
There are two main expenses in restructuring, a corporate euphamism for layoffs, severance and lease termination fees. Usually the bulk is severance, but it does depend on the lease structure. Occasionally there are non cash restructuring expenses usually writing down of assests. $20 million is pretty small, I think Nortel had a cash restructuring charge in the billions. They also had writedowns in the $10s of billions, but that isn't a cash expense. A write-down is just the company recognising that something they bought wasn't worth what they paid for it.
I think your comparison of fashion shows is one of the best linux analogies I have heard. You many not know, but designers rarely try to sell the clothes they display at fashion shows. Those are just to get their name out, possibly get a photo in a mag to remind people they exist, convince the fashonistas to wear their brands, and show how creative they are. However, when the designers sell clothing they tone it down a bit, and sell something similar to what we have bought for the past 50 yearsbut retaining some flair to show it is the designer's work. There are minor changes from year to year, mostly to keep Gucci boutiques from offering the same clothes as the Gap, or heaven forbid K-Mart, but really they don't get that wild in their design of the clothes they are selling. This is less true of women's clothing, but quite true about men's. I don't thing a chainmail mesh suit would sell very well, outside of an SCA convention or something. I think the lesson that developers can learn is that while Linux can still have the fashion shows, but really needs to make a toned down offering that is similar, but certainly can retain flair and differences, to the operating systems that everyone has been using for the past decade, if they want to really take some share from Windows.
My limited experience with Linux brought me to this conclusion, I got it installed successfully, but it was a huge pain to read about the 15 text editors that were bundled with the software, and 6 window managers, and everything else that came with it. What I would have apreciated more was a classification system that expalained that all 15 programs were text editors, or window managers, and I would need one, and could check out the others later if I so desired. (realise that I use text editors to leave myself electronic notes, office suites are my main working tool, and I have checked out most of the competition there, for both windows and Linux). I will definitly be checking out your distribution, I'd love somthing with a little more freedom than a Lindows or Lycoris, but a few less choices than a Mandrake or something else. Good show.
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Any one have a wav file of that, I would love that to be my double click sound.
Sorry, I only saw the video. I think it was more about schedualing and things of that nature, the foreman would be working in the rear torpedo room on the electrical system, and his welding team will be waiting for him before they are transfereed to Deck 2 and stuff, I don't think the blueprints were delivered to the forman via palmpilots.
I don't think.net is supposed to deliver any new functionality (beyond java, xml, html, and scripting), than what other companies offer, it us just supposed to make it easier to impliment the functionality. I'm certianly no programmer, I can usually get a hello world out and that's about it, but in this case, I got to see a day on.net at an MS conference last winter.
The ISR jokes were as far as I know originated by a Russian comidian named Yakov Smirnoff, who used them during his peak popularity in the 1980s. He is now in Branson MO. His web page appears to be down, so here is a basic bio page on him.
More recently, I think it was on an episode of "The Family Guy" that featured a Russian made car that spouted off ISR one liners. I am not sure of the exact show, but I asked the question earlier and got those two respones.
One of microsoft's test sites was a shipbuilder, the.Net features allowed the managers to setup MS Project schedules, and foremen could fire up their PocketPC handhelds and see what their teams were working on that day. Other examples would be allowing you to check on flight status with your cell phone or PDA.
Its really just a buzzword laden branding strategy, that MS is using to try to convince people that web services, are all that and a bag of chips. Web services seem to be a fancy name for using xml to provide more useful data to end users of the data.
Those Integras really are amazing machinery aren't they. I drive a 97 GS-R (Type Rs don't make it to Montana too often), and I just love every minute I get to drive it.
It's pretty amazing how we humans optimize around rules. I recall that a few years ago they were rapidly shortening the halibut season in the pacific, and boats became larger and better able to remove more halibut from the water in a shorter period of time, the actual catch did not decline by much, it just cost more to get them.
I think F1 has to follow the EU's ban on tobacco advertising in 2005 or 2006.
I enjoyed reading the flames on his articles, so I left him on, and I haven't seen an article from him for months. I think the Commodore toting kid in Afghanistan was the final nail in his coffin.
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I am beginning to wonder if open betas are really the right way for software development to be moving. Recently someone mentioned how easy it is to get beta software these days, and I realized that they were right, it wasn't long ago that beta software was something you had to apply for and hope to be chosen to recieve. I think that this uniqueness prevented less knowledgable users from gaining access to the software, at least without some effort, which meant that if you got it you generally knew what it could do, and were prepared to deal with the consiquences. Perhaps more software should go back to a more closed beta to prevent these sorts of situations from occuring.
Incidentally, did you know that SPAM is concidered a treat in Hawaii? They have some resturants that feature it in $20 a plate dishes, and it usually sells out on paydays. I have heard that it was popular at truck stops as well.
That is interesting, most electrostatics have a woofer at the bottom to provide bass response. The one you linked doesn't which makes the frequency response that much more impressive. Electrostatics generally have a much better sound stage, meaning that they do a better job of giving sounds a specific place. However they are usually very directional, if you are not sitting in exactly the right spot, they generally don't sound nearly so impressive.
As I understand it, and I am certainly no expert on ram signaling, RDRAM's serial arrangement works well better in consoles because they benefit from the speed increases, without suffering from the main drawback of increased lag times, because most consoles have quite a bit les RAM than a PC. RDRAM signal's each ram unit in sequential order, which sometimes means long lags when retriving data from a ram bank that was just signaled, you have to wait for the signal to reach each of the other banks. However, you benefit from much higher throughput once the correct ram bank is found. This was one reason why the much larger sized AV files performed so much better on early P4s with the Rambus chipsets. Consoles with their much smaller ram requirements have much shorter lag times than a PC with a Gig of ram, and benefit quite a bit from the higher throughput. The dual banks of ram were one method to reduce the lag, since it allows two signals to proceed at the same time reducing the maximum number of cycles before data can be transmitted.
Of course my knoledge of these subjects is strictly from an hobbist point of view, any engineers or others with more knowledge are free to in form me of any errors.
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There are spin offs and spin offs in Wall Street parlance. A real spin off would distribute all of the shares in a subsidiary to the current shareholders. Leaving two distinct public entities, I think this is what HP did with Agilent. Also cited by the market press as a spin off is when a company sells or distributes a smaller percentage of a subsidary, but keeps either the majority or a large minority stake. This is what GM has done with Hughes, but they did recently decide that they will sell the rest, I think they would consider about any reasonable cash offer, since their pension will need a considerable cash infusion, and their 0% financing has reduced their cash flow generation for the near future.
Watch out, the next X-box won't be X-box 2, it will be the X-box type R and it will have stickers for each internal component.
Traditionally they would have to fit the profile of big ears, boulbus nose, thin extremities, a pot belly, and a place of residence under a bridge. However, the new LOTR movies might change the legal profile of trolls. Oh, the other kind, I think you need a fishing lure or something.
RMS also prefers that you use .GNU/nano over pico.
Once you add in things like payroll (stops after about 80,000) state and local taxes and other more regressive taxes. Our tax structure is quite flat, most people pay about 17% of their income in taxes across all classes. The middle two quartiles pay about 18%, top is 17% and bottom is 16% or 17%. What annoys me about the tax code is that it is a huge entitlement to accountants and tax prep firms, and the new dividend laws would just add to the complexity with constantly changing cost basis on stocks, without benefiting the markets much, most investments are in tax sheltered accounts anyway. I like Freedman's proposal eliminate the corp income tax, but pass their earnings on to their owners pro rata like a subchapter S Corp.
On my own personal rant, what business does the government have deciding that money spent on mortgages and children is more valuable than money spent by singles on rent and whatever else I decide to buy. The mortgage deduction is truly unfair.
They seem to be used in reference designs as a quick stand in for what would be an ASIC if you actually go to market. The FPGA saves a ton of design and fab time for all the little stuff that could be handled by chips if you decide to produce it.
The others are considered by the analysts to be proprietary, not the chips but the systems, it would be quite difficult for you to build a POWER, or SPARC system, but anyone can assemble an PC compatable. It is not really the Intel part that is open, but the old IBM part that is open and what makes x86 so much cheaper.
Linux and Windows are both benefiting from the fact that x86 is now very competitive on a performance basis, and extremly competitive with HP Sun SGI and IBM on a price performace basis. When you buy a $20,000 server the price difference between a Red Hat AS support contract and a Windows Server license is much smaller than the difference between buying an Dell 2 way P4 Xeon and an HP rp2470 (two way PA-8700). I realize that there are other considerations, especially the RAM addressing over 4 GB, but the Dell will save you a boatload of money even if you buy a Windows license.
I think that HP is planning to use various members of the Sopranos cast in a new ad campaign for HP's linux offerings.
If they are on one of the following labels then the artist would be affiliated with an RIAA member. The list of members is available here. Good luck finding one who isn't affiliated with one of these labels, and has distribution beyond their local hangout.
Like TQM, kan bans (japanese for note card or ticket), and a host of prior managment fads, six sigma will undergo something similar to a bubble. They all are adopted by knoledgeable and good managment teams at the beginning, and because they really are good ideas provide excellent results. However, following this more and more marginal managment teams begin adopting them as the great white hope that will transform their company or department from a flailing failure to an efficient production force. This too shall pass, give it a few years and we will have some new and better managment gimmik that will revolutionize the art of getting people to produce as much as possible.
IMHO, great managers are born and not made, there are just some people who have the right mix of charisma, leadership, and care of their employees to cajole the best mix of production with morale, and no amount of schooling will take a bad manager and turn them into a good one.
Don't get me wrong, six sigma is a good idea, just like all of its predicesors it certainly has a place in many operations, but it is not a panecea that will solve all of our current managment problems. Anyway, I have rambled enough for the night.
In college I went to a school that used laptops, and generally used my laptop from a couch, (not a reccommeded practice, as I started in engineering and finished in business but that is another story) and what I used for a portable desk was a 1 sq ft plank (about 900 sq cm for you metric folks) that I got from a dumpster behind one of the big office stores. It was originally used to show the two finishes that a desk came in, so you might see if any office supply or furniture stores have similar sample products that have been discontinued, for a cheap solution.
There are two main expenses in restructuring, a corporate euphamism for layoffs, severance and lease termination fees. Usually the bulk is severance, but it does depend on the lease structure. Occasionally there are non cash restructuring expenses usually writing down of assests. $20 million is pretty small, I think Nortel had a cash restructuring charge in the billions. They also had writedowns in the $10s of billions, but that isn't a cash expense. A write-down is just the company recognising that something they bought wasn't worth what they paid for it.
I think your comparison of fashion shows is one of the best linux analogies I have heard. You many not know, but designers rarely try to sell the clothes they display at fashion shows. Those are just to get their name out, possibly get a photo in a mag to remind people they exist, convince the fashonistas to wear their brands, and show how creative they are. However, when the designers sell clothing they tone it down a bit, and sell something similar to what we have bought for the past 50 yearsbut retaining some flair to show it is the designer's work. There are minor changes from year to year, mostly to keep Gucci boutiques from offering the same clothes as the Gap, or heaven forbid K-Mart, but really they don't get that wild in their design of the clothes they are selling. This is less true of women's clothing, but quite true about men's. I don't thing a chainmail mesh suit would sell very well, outside of an SCA convention or something.
I think the lesson that developers can learn is that while Linux can still have the fashion shows, but really needs to make a toned down offering that is similar, but certainly can retain flair and differences, to the operating systems that everyone has been using for the past decade, if they want to really take some share from Windows.
My limited experience with Linux brought me to this conclusion, I got it installed successfully, but it was a huge pain to read about the 15 text editors that were bundled with the software, and 6 window managers, and everything else that came with it. What I would have apreciated more was a classification system that expalained that all 15 programs were text editors, or window managers, and I would need one, and could check out the others later if I so desired. (realise that I use text editors to leave myself electronic notes, office suites are my main working tool, and I have checked out most of the competition there, for both windows and Linux). I will definitly be checking out your distribution, I'd love somthing with a little more freedom than a Lindows or Lycoris, but a few less choices than a Mandrake or something else. Good show.
Any one have a wav file of that, I would love that to be my double click sound.
Sorry, I only saw the video. I think it was more about schedualing and things of that nature, the foreman would be working in the rear torpedo room on the electrical system, and his welding team will be waiting for him before they are transfereed to Deck 2 and stuff, I don't think the blueprints were delivered to the forman via palmpilots. .net is supposed to deliver any new functionality (beyond java, xml, html, and scripting), than what other companies offer, it us just supposed to make it easier to impliment the functionality. I'm certianly no programmer, I can usually get a hello world out and that's about it, but in this case, I got to see a day on .net at an MS conference last winter.
I don't think
The ISR jokes were as far as I know originated by a Russian comidian named Yakov Smirnoff, who used them during his peak popularity in the 1980s. He is now in Branson MO. His web page appears to be down, so here is a basic bio page on him.
More recently, I think it was on an episode of "The Family Guy" that featured a Russian made car that spouted off ISR one liners. I am not sure of the exact show, but I asked the question earlier and got those two respones.
One of microsoft's test sites was a shipbuilder, the .Net features allowed the managers to setup MS Project schedules, and foremen could fire up their PocketPC handhelds and see what their teams were working on that day. Other examples would be allowing you to check on flight status with your cell phone or PDA.
Its really just a buzzword laden branding strategy, that MS is using to try to convince people that web services, are all that and a bag of chips. Web services seem to be a fancy name for using xml to provide more useful data to end users of the data.
Those Integras really are amazing machinery aren't they. I drive a 97 GS-R (Type Rs don't make it to Montana too often), and I just love every minute I get to drive it.
It's pretty amazing how we humans optimize around rules. I recall that a few years ago they were rapidly shortening the halibut season in the pacific, and boats became larger and better able to remove more halibut from the water in a shorter period of time, the actual catch did not decline by much, it just cost more to get them.
I think F1 has to follow the EU's ban on tobacco advertising in 2005 or 2006.
I enjoyed reading the flames on his articles, so I left him on, and I haven't seen an article from him for months. I think the Commodore toting kid in Afghanistan was the final nail in his coffin.
I am beginning to wonder if open betas are really the right way for software development to be moving. Recently someone mentioned how easy it is to get beta software these days, and I realized that they were right, it wasn't long ago that beta software was something you had to apply for and hope to be chosen to recieve. I think that this uniqueness prevented less knowledgable users from gaining access to the software, at least without some effort, which meant that if you got it you generally knew what it could do, and were prepared to deal with the consiquences. Perhaps more software should go back to a more closed beta to prevent these sorts of situations from occuring.
Incidentally, did you know that SPAM is concidered a treat in Hawaii? They have some resturants that feature it in $20 a plate dishes, and it usually sells out on paydays. I have heard that it was popular at truck stops as well.
I also got a free Sensor in the mail shortly after HS graduation.
That is interesting, most electrostatics have a woofer at the bottom to provide bass response. The one you linked doesn't which makes the frequency response that much more impressive. Electrostatics generally have a much better sound stage, meaning that they do a better job of giving sounds a specific place. However they are usually very directional, if you are not sitting in exactly the right spot, they generally don't sound nearly so impressive.
As I understand it, and I am certainly no expert on ram signaling, RDRAM's serial arrangement works well better in consoles because they benefit from the speed increases, without suffering from the main drawback of increased lag times, because most consoles have quite a bit les RAM than a PC. RDRAM signal's each ram unit in sequential order, which sometimes means long lags when retriving data from a ram bank that was just signaled, you have to wait for the signal to reach each of the other banks. However, you benefit from much higher throughput once the correct ram bank is found. This was one reason why the much larger sized AV files performed so much better on early P4s with the Rambus chipsets. Consoles with their much smaller ram requirements have much shorter lag times than a PC with a Gig of ram, and benefit quite a bit from the higher throughput. The dual banks of ram were one method to reduce the lag, since it allows two signals to proceed at the same time reducing the maximum number of cycles before data can be transmitted.
Of course my knoledge of these subjects is strictly from an hobbist point of view, any engineers or others with more knowledge are free to in form me of any errors.