It is sort of a lie, what was said by WorldCom was that port growth was growing at 100% every 3-4 months, ie that new connections measured by max capacity were being added at that rate, but traffic was not growing nearly that fast. A network guy at AT&T did a study in 2000 or 2001 that showed the internet traffic level did grow at that rate for a few months in 1995 or 1996 when it was easier to grow that fast, but it was never sustained. The media picked up on the quote and not knowing what it meant assumed that internet traffic was growing at that rate. Funny how a mistruth became the centerpiece and only real point of an entire industry for that long. WorldCom's books cooking was primarily them ammortiizing the fees they pay the bells for long distance access. On a long distance call about 5 cents/ minute goes to the local phone company for access to their lines. They were calling this a cost that should be added to their balance sheet and then expensed over a period of several years. Another odd point, have you noticed that nearly all the scandals that occured this year and last year had some involvement in telecommunications. Tyco, Enron, WorldCom they all were involved to different degreees in the industry. It looks to me like the collapse of the industry's revenues made it much more difficult to hide whatever monkey business managment was trying.
There are people doing this, there was an article in the Journal after Thanksgiving about a B.C. venture firm, that bought most of 360 Networks or Communications for $17 million and the assumption of some of the parent's debt. Global Crossing sold theirs to a Singapore telecomm firm, KPN/Qwest in Europe sold most of their network earlier this year. If you wanted to try it on your own at a much smaller level, you could look at a company like TouchAmerica symbol:TAA they have no debt, poor prospects and a market cap of $50 million or less. Its almost like your own start up, however there is a guy back east who has been buying quarterly. I think he's up to 10% of the company now.
The problem is really that there isn't a good way to connect with your customers without going through the bells or a cable company, and both of those want most of the proceeds of any transactions, and have many choices of who to use for long distance transmissions, AT&T Sprint and WorldCom would still be pretty vigorous in competiting with your start up.
But yeah I'm interested. I think it might be easier to try a take over of a failing telecomm firm. All we really need is a good way to connect our fiber to a few thousand customers.
All electronics will give you a price break for as few as 10 or 100. It's not wholesale, but I think they were pretty competitive for a few hundred lights. They do tend to get you on shipping, so combine orders with friends.
I think you are joking, but this is a real problem. What sort of creature steals christmas lights? There was this house in my home town that used to put up several hundred thousand lights, creating a winter wonderland. However they stopped when someone stole something like 10% of the lights they put up.
I think the major difference between a Model T and the strap yourself in cars of today is that we are all very familiar with the user interface that cars present. All Ford, and the others did was standardize on a few symbols, and a basic layout. The rest doesn't seem like design so much as familiarity. We have been using cars for about a century, and almost every driver gets a pretty solid couple of months of driver education that also teaches them about how to drive.
What I mean is that the Model T didn't have a complicated UI that was simplified into the cars of today, most modern drivers would probably feel right at home with in a Model T, once they found the starter button. I think the difference is that most people are not comfortable with their PC whatever OS it happens to be running. I think that is more a result of the complexity of the beast rather than just poor UI.
I'm pretty much a beginner at linux, and that was the one book I wanted. I did come from a Dos based environment and mostly wanted a reference that explained all the commands and options, so I can look up ls when I'm thinking of dir. I'll second the distro book, a nicer manual would make Lycoris quite a bit more accesable to us noobs. I did check out the Corel Linux manual and Sam's Learning Linux in 24 hours, both were useful but Linux in a Nutshell was by far the best.
Welcome to life, most people will not go through the effort of paying for and carring out a study unless they have a significant interest in the results of the study and a pretty darn good idea of what the studies results will be (favorable to their side). You and I just don't care enough about the result to carry out the study.
That being said, since both sides do carry out studies on this on a regular basis, try to find as much as you can from each side. Read up on their methodology, as both sides usually do some things that are not even close to good study practices. However, they will usually give you some bit of the real truth.
My own thoughts are that America has a lethal violence problem. We are more swift to react with violence with almost any tool at hand, cars knives, guns, blunt objects, and well you get the picture. I would guess that this is related to the individualism and risk taking that is central to the culture of the country. Part of the reason the US has guns and issues is that we are rapidly moving from a very population sparce country to a more densely populated country. Canada probably has a better record because it is that much less populated. Europe likely disarmed because it is much more dense. However, this does not explain Australia's recent gun bans.
INTJ here and I have to report the same experience in school, I would read the texts in the first week and ace the tests, but utterly bomb anything that requred paying attention. Teachers generally hated me. By the way there was a mac board that found a huge majority the mac users surveyed were NTs. So are you guys mac users? I am thinking an emac will be my next system. It would have been the current one if it had been introduced.
For a company like BMW, the ads do not have to make everyone in a population buy one. They have to make everyone in the population want one, and keep the a hip image to the few potential consumers of their products. Just the fact that both of you brought up BMW is enough, if a potential consumer reads that there are two people who liked them, and associate good thoughts with the car, they just became that much more desirable. It's all about having something that eveyone wants and only a few can have, the ads reinforce this image quite well. Plus their uniqueness gets them mentioned in places that would never have brought up the brand.
It was a friendly takeover. A hostile take over almost always requires a proxy fight as the purchasing company attempts to replace the current managment friendly board with a new more open to offers board. They generally sprout significant advertising to shareholders similar what happened during the HP purchase. Computer Associates recently fended off a hostile takeover from Carl Ichan and another billionare. The AT&T board was seeking offers, and there was some competition in addition to Charter and Adelphia, AOL, Disney, even Microsoft were sought for bids, Comcast made the most favorable offer, and probably overpaid for the subs, but that is another story.
It is true that there will probably be some layoffs associated with the merger, although most of them will be in the redundant areas, such as administration and accounting and other jobs that scale better than most operational positions. Not knowing the size of the Tivo initiative, I can't comment on the possibility of it going away, it is surprising how much can get ignored by managment especially in a very large company. Comcast will have many cable offices and it could be years before the decree from tbe home office comes down and bans them.
In the US, I know that farmers and other industrial users can get permits for stills at a nominal fee (I think its around USD 20, and the price becomes competitive with gasoline at around USD 1.50 per gallon or so) to distill fuels. However, the production of spirits for consumption is highly regulated and taxed.
A windows alternative, although not at all free is Peachtree. If you look hard enough at staples you are likely to get a significant discount like free after rebate. I have no idea about gimmicks like this, but would guess that since their trailing Quicken they might have a better value proposition.
Sun's StarOffice is profitable. There was an article in BW on Sun a while ago, and McNealy confirmed this. While that doesn't mean huge marketshare gains, it does mean that someone besides MS is selling an office suite in decent numbers. Also, Corel WP suite is now included on all the major OEM's budget systems, of course that was a win over MS Works, but it sure looks like a sign of things to come.
GoBe failed because their major marketing happened here, and as much as we all like software, none of us buy enough to keep a company in busienss. Look at how much MS, Sun, IBM and the others market to business purchasers. There are no businesses that are easy to get into, look at all the failing.coms most of them had no established competitors.
I'm finishing up Atlas Shrugged, it's an excellent book, and might just make an interesting movie or more likely a mini-series, but I am certainly not expecting the movie to contain even 1% of the monologes that the deserters used. Rather there would likely be one or two summary speeches and several short references to them, similar to the quick songs in the extended version of lord of the rings did not even come close to covering all the songs in the book.
That being said I like your idea of changing the setting of a story when the medium is changed. Although one result of the setting of the Wietnam War was that many people will believe that the war looked and felt like that.
Sounds a lot like Sun's PCI systems, they are a PCI card that you can plug into your sun workstation, so run Windows on it without emulation. They always seemed like a pretty cool idea to me.
Yields are what drive costs in the semi business. The companies calc their costs per wafer, and price their chips based on yeilds and number of chips per wafer. yields are the most common reason for cost decreases, as the company gets the manufacturing process working smoothly yields can get pretty high, I think I have heard of yields in the 80%-95% for silicon microprocessors, especially towards the end of its life. More exotic materials like GaAs have lower yields and conversly higher prices. 50% yeild is a good sign, it means that the chip is into manufacturing, and seems to be getting more and more ready for market. I recall an interview with either Ruiz or Sanders stating that, AMD is planning to retain a price performace lead, but the company does expect to get a premium price for the premium product.
He is comparing them because DEC was selling 533 MHz Alpha systems at the same time Intel was only offering 200 Mhz Pentium, Intel might have had some PPro systems as well. Now the DECs did cost a pretty penny. A 1.25 GHz 21264C Alpha blows away a 3 GHz P4 in SPEC's floating point benchmark. In integer benchmarks the P4 is pretty much at the head of the pack.
Last time I looked, the 500 MHz 21164 systems were going for something like $200 on ebay. If you were lucky you could find a 500-600 Mhz 21264 system for the same price from someone who didn't know what they had.
Since were burning karma one of our econ texts had a story about a couple who lived close enough to the border to make regular trips up would arb the exchange rate. They would buy a sack of quarters at the canadian price, and then break the coin wrappers and wrap them with mostly American quarters. They would then take their mixed quarters and trade them in at the bank for US dollars. Anyway they were sorta hippies and their cost of living was low, and between this and a small farm they met all their expenses. Its sorta amazing what people will think up to benefit themselves.
It does if you sell enough of them, this would be the point that the dot com managment teams missed, you can make low margins up on volume, you can't make up negative margins on volume. Incidentally, grocery stores do the equivilent of selling a $194 computer for about $199, they just do it many many times a year. This is measured on an operating basis, I assum your $198 includes your manufacturing facility and marketing and distribution costs.
I think cars are cheap in Canada because while there are many assembly plants there, there isn't a car company located there with enough influence to get a tariff put on imports. There are quite a few folks around here who head up to Canada to buy a car, the local dealers get pretty mad when they want local warantee work though.
If you can shop in Oregon or Montana, and possibly New Jersey, or if your online seller has no presence in your state you can skip out on the sales tax. Mail order houses only have to collect taxes if they have a corporate owned office in the state their customers are in, that is why most big bricks and morter companies set up a subsidiary company to handle online sales.
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It is sort of a lie, what was said by WorldCom was that port growth was growing at 100% every 3-4 months, ie that new connections measured by max capacity were being added at that rate, but traffic was not growing nearly that fast. A network guy at AT&T did a study in 2000 or 2001 that showed the internet traffic level did grow at that rate for a few months in 1995 or 1996 when it was easier to grow that fast, but it was never sustained. The media picked up on the quote and not knowing what it meant assumed that internet traffic was growing at that rate. Funny how a mistruth became the centerpiece and only real point of an entire industry for that long.
WorldCom's books cooking was primarily them ammortiizing the fees they pay the bells for long distance access. On a long distance call about 5 cents/ minute goes to the local phone company for access to their lines. They were calling this a cost that should be added to their balance sheet and then expensed over a period of several years.
Another odd point, have you noticed that nearly all the scandals that occured this year and last year had some involvement in telecommunications. Tyco, Enron, WorldCom they all were involved to different degreees in the industry. It looks to me like the collapse of the industry's revenues made it much more difficult to hide whatever monkey business managment was trying.
There are people doing this, there was an article in the Journal after Thanksgiving about a B.C. venture firm, that bought most of 360 Networks or Communications for $17 million and the assumption of some of the parent's debt. Global Crossing sold theirs to a Singapore telecomm firm, KPN/Qwest in Europe sold most of their network earlier this year. If you wanted to try it on your own at a much smaller level, you could look at a company like TouchAmerica symbol:TAA they have no debt, poor prospects and a market cap of $50 million or less. Its almost like your own start up, however there is a guy back east who has been buying quarterly. I think he's up to 10% of the company now.
The problem is really that there isn't a good way to connect with your customers without going through the bells or a cable company, and both of those want most of the proceeds of any transactions, and have many choices of who to use for long distance transmissions, AT&T Sprint and WorldCom would still be pretty vigorous in competiting with your start up.
But yeah I'm interested. I think it might be easier to try a take over of a failing telecomm firm. All we really need is a good way to connect our fiber to a few thousand customers.
All electronics will give you a price break for as few as 10 or 100. It's not wholesale, but I think they were pretty competitive for a few hundred lights. They do tend to get you on shipping, so combine orders with friends.
I think you are joking, but this is a real problem. What sort of creature steals christmas lights? There was this house in my home town that used to put up several hundred thousand lights, creating a winter wonderland. However they stopped when someone stole something like 10% of the lights they put up.
I think the major difference between a Model T and the strap yourself in cars of today is that we are all very familiar with the user interface that cars present. All Ford, and the others did was standardize on a few symbols, and a basic layout. The rest doesn't seem like design so much as familiarity. We have been using cars for about a century, and almost every driver gets a pretty solid couple of months of driver education that also teaches them about how to drive.
What I mean is that the Model T didn't have a complicated UI that was simplified into the cars of today, most modern drivers would probably feel right at home with in a Model T, once they found the starter button. I think the difference is that most people are not comfortable with their PC whatever OS it happens to be running. I think that is more a result of the complexity of the beast rather than just poor UI.
I'm pretty much a beginner at linux, and that was the one book I wanted. I did come from a Dos based environment and mostly wanted a reference that explained all the commands and options, so I can look up ls when I'm thinking of dir. I'll second the distro book, a nicer manual would make Lycoris quite a bit more accesable to us noobs. I did check out the Corel Linux manual and Sam's Learning Linux in 24 hours, both were useful but Linux in a Nutshell was by far the best.
Welcome to life, most people will not go through the effort of paying for and carring out a study unless they have a significant interest in the results of the study and a pretty darn good idea of what the studies results will be (favorable to their side). You and I just don't care enough about the result to carry out the study.
That being said, since both sides do carry out studies on this on a regular basis, try to find as much as you can from each side. Read up on their methodology, as both sides usually do some things that are not even close to good study practices. However, they will usually give you some bit of the real truth.
My own thoughts are that America has a lethal violence problem. We are more swift to react with violence with almost any tool at hand, cars knives, guns, blunt objects, and well you get the picture. I would guess that this is related to the individualism and risk taking that is central to the culture of the country. Part of the reason the US has guns and issues is that we are rapidly moving from a very population sparce country to a more densely populated country. Canada probably has a better record because it is that much less populated. Europe likely disarmed because it is much more dense. However, this does not explain Australia's recent gun bans.
INTJ here and I have to report the same experience in school, I would read the texts in the first week and ace the tests, but utterly bomb anything that requred paying attention. Teachers generally hated me. By the way there was a mac board that found a huge majority the mac users surveyed were NTs. So are you guys mac users? I am thinking an emac will be my next system. It would have been the current one if it had been introduced.
For a company like BMW, the ads do not have to make everyone in a population buy one. They have to make everyone in the population want one, and keep the a hip image to the few potential consumers of their products. Just the fact that both of you brought up BMW is enough, if a potential consumer reads that there are two people who liked them, and associate good thoughts with the car, they just became that much more desirable. It's all about having something that eveyone wants and only a few can have, the ads reinforce this image quite well. Plus their uniqueness gets them mentioned in places that would never have brought up the brand.
It was a friendly takeover. A hostile take over almost always requires a proxy fight as the purchasing company attempts to replace the current managment friendly board with a new more open to offers board. They generally sprout significant advertising to shareholders similar what happened during the HP purchase. Computer Associates recently fended off a hostile takeover from Carl Ichan and another billionare. The AT&T board was seeking offers, and there was some competition in addition to Charter and Adelphia, AOL, Disney, even Microsoft were sought for bids, Comcast made the most favorable offer, and probably overpaid for the subs, but that is another story.
It is true that there will probably be some layoffs associated with the merger, although most of them will be in the redundant areas, such as administration and accounting and other jobs that scale better than most operational positions. Not knowing the size of the Tivo initiative, I can't comment on the possibility of it going away, it is surprising how much can get ignored by managment especially in a very large company. Comcast will have many cable offices and it could be years before the decree from tbe home office comes down and bans them.
In the US, I know that farmers and other industrial users can get permits for stills at a nominal fee (I think its around USD 20, and the price becomes competitive with gasoline at around USD 1.50 per gallon or so) to distill fuels. However, the production of spirits for consumption is highly regulated and taxed.
Reading your post, DP is the acronym for dangling participle.
It's billg of course.
A windows alternative, although not at all free is Peachtree. If you look hard enough at staples you are likely to get a significant discount like free after rebate. I have no idea about gimmicks like this, but would guess that since their trailing Quicken they might have a better value proposition.
Sun's StarOffice is profitable. There was an article in BW on Sun a while ago, and McNealy confirmed this. While that doesn't mean huge marketshare gains, it does mean that someone besides MS is selling an office suite in decent numbers. Also, Corel WP suite is now included on all the major OEM's budget systems, of course that was a win over MS Works, but it sure looks like a sign of things to come. .coms most of them had no established competitors.
GoBe failed because their major marketing happened here, and as much as we all like software, none of us buy enough to keep a company in busienss. Look at how much MS, Sun, IBM and the others market to business purchasers. There are no businesses that are easy to get into, look at all the failing
I'm finishing up Atlas Shrugged, it's an excellent book, and might just make an interesting movie or more likely a mini-series, but I am certainly not expecting the movie to contain even 1% of the monologes that the deserters used. Rather there would likely be one or two summary speeches and several short references to them, similar to the quick songs in the extended version of lord of the rings did not even come close to covering all the songs in the book.
That being said I like your idea of changing the setting of a story when the medium is changed. Although one result of the setting of the Wietnam War was that many people will believe that the war looked and felt like that.
Sounds a lot like Sun's PCI systems, they are a PCI card that you can plug into your sun workstation, so run Windows on it without emulation. They always seemed like a pretty cool idea to me.
Yields are what drive costs in the semi business. The companies calc their costs per wafer, and price their chips based on yeilds and number of chips per wafer. yields are the most common reason for cost decreases, as the company gets the manufacturing process working smoothly yields can get pretty high, I think I have heard of yields in the 80%-95% for silicon microprocessors, especially towards the end of its life. More exotic materials like GaAs have lower yields and conversly higher prices. 50% yeild is a good sign, it means that the chip is into manufacturing, and seems to be getting more and more ready for market. I recall an interview with either Ruiz or Sanders stating that, AMD is planning to retain a price performace lead, but the company does expect to get a premium price for the premium product.
He is comparing them because DEC was selling 533 MHz Alpha systems at the same time Intel was only offering 200 Mhz Pentium, Intel might have had some PPro systems as well. Now the DECs did cost a pretty penny. A 1.25 GHz 21264C Alpha blows away a 3 GHz P4 in SPEC's floating point benchmark. In integer benchmarks the P4 is pretty much at the head of the pack.
Last time I looked, the 500 MHz 21164 systems were going for something like $200 on ebay. If you were lucky you could find a 500-600 Mhz 21264 system for the same price from someone who didn't know what they had.
Since were burning karma one of our econ texts had a story about a couple who lived close enough to the border to make regular trips up would arb the exchange rate. They would buy a sack of quarters at the canadian price, and then break the coin wrappers and wrap them with mostly American quarters. They would then take their mixed quarters and trade them in at the bank for US dollars. Anyway they were sorta hippies and their cost of living was low, and between this and a small farm they met all their expenses. Its sorta amazing what people will think up to benefit themselves.
It does if you sell enough of them, this would be the point that the dot com managment teams missed, you can make low margins up on volume, you can't make up negative margins on volume. Incidentally, grocery stores do the equivilent of selling a $194 computer for about $199, they just do it many many times a year. This is measured on an operating basis, I assum your $198 includes your manufacturing facility and marketing and distribution costs.
I think cars are cheap in Canada because while there are many assembly plants there, there isn't a car company located there with enough influence to get a tariff put on imports. There are quite a few folks around here who head up to Canada to buy a car, the local dealers get pretty mad when they want local warantee work though.
If you can shop in Oregon or Montana, and possibly New Jersey, or if your online seller has no presence in your state you can skip out on the sales tax. Mail order houses only have to collect taxes if they have a corporate owned office in the state their customers are in, that is why most big bricks and morter companies set up a subsidiary company to handle online sales.