IBM's software division (as well as Oracle and other big software companies) all have pretty similar profit structures (30%-50% operating margin). By and large software companies that are in business are pricing at something higher than marginal cost (economic profits).
I always prefered the exactness of it. I recall many a call to expert friends for help getting an IDE CDRom to boot (can't be cable select, change it to slave or was it master). It was so much easier to use my controller to change the boot device from 1 to 4.
That said, I always found it to be considerably faster as well. Having a SCSI drive in my old 300MHz PII Kayak let me play Diablo and Quake III long after the machine was hoplessly obsolete (It's still in service as my boss' folks email/word system) not bad for a machine I paid $100 for four years ago. I loved that thing, it was a quality system. Knock HP's consumer grade stuff all you want those workstations rocked. /nostalga
The only major issue is that almost everyone's retirement owns at least a small portion of MS and it's priced at a level that doesn't leave much room for error (the average Joe investor believes MS to be one of the best companies ever). I'm not joking about retirement accounts either. If you have any large cap funds they are exceedingly likely to own a portion of MS (it's one of the biggest companies in their index and volatile enough that most money managers prefer to keep a market weight 3-4% of funds in it). They can do all sorts of things right, but if they don't keep the Windows/Office gravy train flowing (and find something to replace it eventually) that value will begin to bleed off to a leve that assumes less goes right (see Novell).
He means profit after taxes and the like, but that does not include equity (and any remaining option compensation). MS usually runs in the high 40% operating margin range (depending on XBox and MSN sales compare to Windows and Office sales) and their investment portfolio makes an additional $2-$4 billion (depending on how equities do) a year. Equity compensation eats about $3-4 billion/year but gets ignored for comparability to competitors.
Bad form to reply to my post but if you are still reading this, energy return on soybean oil is 3.2:1. I'm sure pulling oil out of the ground and delivering it to the station is higher (probably north of 5-10:1) but that is a level that we could actually survive. Algae and mustard should have improved energy returns.
Discover (and perhaps AmEx Blue) used to offer single use credit card numbers. You could set them to be used at a single merchant (recurring or in limited amounts) or one time use only.
What does the descriptor stateful (or stateless) mean in this sense?
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Most Qwest residential packages are in the 256-512kbps range. 200 users on a T-1 is pretty light surfing, but feasible (in most of Qwest's regions). The rocky mountain area is retiree heaven (those social security and pension checks are pretty decent to great money here) if you can put up with the cold. Incidentally health care for retirees is top notch as well (all the retirees have attracted lots of arthritis doctors and such).
There is a considerable difference between an economic profit (which a free market will eliminate) and an accounting proft, namely opportunity cost. Not that any executive wants to live off a company that makes 0 economic profit, but you still can make decent money.
It seems like this would be a good idea for those "greatest hits" compilations that go for $5 now, instead of someone else picking my compilation, I get to pick from the whole library.
He simply needed a McKinsey consultant to explain virtualization paradgims which whould have allowed him synergistically combine his resources to offer new products and services.
Unfortunatly there will probably never be another integrated semi company formed, certainly not one tied to the PC market. Almost everyone (except Intel (and the analog guys) will be using an outside supplier at least some of the time. Not too many companies can afford a $3 billion fab.
I agree, if anything this would drum up sales to folks who were undecided between a 300D and similar SLR cams from Nikon. Opening up new features on a camera I'd never consider buying would definitly push me into the Canon camp.
I hate scrabble, but some friends turned me on to something they called speed scrabble. The tiles and scoring system remain similar to Scrabble. You deal out 7 pieces to each player who is independantly trying to make a connected series of words (like their own scrabble board) once they achieve this they announce their success (we shouted take two) and all players draw two tiles). Repeat until the tiles are exhausted (a game is pretty quick with more than 6 players). Once all the tiles are distributed and someone has all their words in a connected group, all players add their word score and subtract unused tiles. It's quick and rewards nonlinear thinking and pretty fun. I lost all night, but still enjoyed myself.
My family still plays games when we get together mostly cards now (Penochle, or (Liverpool or Shanghai) Rummy we used to play hearts or Oh heck. Mom loves clue, I never found it very interesting, we all started playing pente (something like go or Othello). Risk was fun but we only did two player games. I loved Axis & Allies (and later Warhammer) but found Shogun/Samurai Swords to be more interesting. The game was different each time since players select territories, also the battle mechanism was different. Warhammer rocks but takes forever to setup and play and the learning curve is steep. Scotland Yard was fun, but Mr. X rarely escaped, the family is pretty smart and would set up very effective dragnets. Apples to Apples is a newer interesting game. I'd like to try Settlers of Katan (heard many good things about it).
You're right of course, I had a guess on how much margin there was in veg. oil. So, I looked up the contract price for soybean oil (it's traded on one fo the Chicago exchanges). A recent price was $0.295/lb. Looking for density of soybean oil I found.92 g/cc (which I believe is about 7.7 lb/gallon). So wholesale (60,000 lb lots) soybean oil costs about $2.26/gallon (It's a bit lower than I was expecting, guessing about $3, but still higher than gas (wholesale unleaded gas is about $1.35/gal now). It's renewable and growing soybeans pulls the carbon out of the air, so net carbon is 0 (carbon in the oil has been underground for some time. I've no idea how much fuel is required to produce a gallon of soybean oil.
Fuel systems have become complex enough that you tighen your gas cap on newer cars. The engines have gotten smaller and require a sealed system to operate correctly. This wasn't the car company trying to rip her off (although I'd guess they didn't have to hook her up to the machine after the 6th time). She needs to learn a bit about how to operate her complext machinery. Dollars to doughnuts she has a virus invested machine.
/fine print
*You must own your own oil well and be good at avoiding revenuers to succeed.
The costs of gasoline are not in the making of it (refining and distribution account for 10%-20% of the cost, it's mostly taxes and oil costs. Oil is expensive, but still cheaper than grown oils.
It's still too expensive. Next time you go to the grocery store look at the price of a gallon of vegetable oil. Figure 20% is single serving size costs (bottling & extra shipping costs). Now add $0.60/gallon in taxes (close to the national average) and see what gas would have to be to make that cost effective (and that's the subsidized price. No subsidies and it gets more expensive. One of the reasons gas is pricy in Chicago and California is that both require an ethanol mix rather than MTBE. Sugar cane has one of the better sunlight/energy storage ratios but it doesn't grow in many places that are not foreign to us.
Oil is still exceedingly cheap to pull out of the ground, which is why it has been wildly popular.
Computer sciences (gov consulting), Schlumberger (oil services different I realize). It all depends on how close you want it to be (Is sun or IBM a good match for MS?-Both make OSs but I doubt most users of Solaris or AIX would be happy swapping with a Windows install or viseversa). Neither of the companies I mentioned are as close a match as IBM and MS, but I still want my 10 points.
They weren't really goggles it was small enough to slip into a pocket pretty easily. It was about the size and shape of a small clamshell phone with two lenses on it (like a small toy viewfinder really). 100 college kids in the room and one person could have slipped out early when the lights were out. They were pretty trusting of us. The tech was R&D for the military, too (speaker claimed general use for the Military was 1G ahead of consumer tech--although I don't know if that still holds). The prof sent all the equipment around (two or three pieces IIRC). Was an amazing display of technology, the only other one I recall (these were pretty regular) was the guy doing RFID tags in 1998. They were testing them in warehouses at the crate level (~$0.10 ea.)
Sounds good. I'll have to try it soon. I've found that if you snap them holding the ends the point at which they break is a good indicator of where it gets tender.
I've found Alton to be an excellent resource for establishing the basics, at some point every chef learned how to saute, and some seasonings went with fish and chicken. After that they learned more about experimentation and expression and became artists. Alton isn't trying to teach people how to move to artists (like most of the programming on the food network) he's showing people the basics. From their curiousity can build on that knowledge and his viewers can develop their own style. In his case the geek set, learning the basics involves a lot of science (we like to understand how things work not just that if I heat the oil on medium and drop the meat in for 5 min it cooks). I know with everything if I understand how a process works from interest rate calc derivation to quantum physics to custard formation, I'm a whole lot more likely to remember the steps involved and correctly apply them. The love of fine food comes after you've baked the salmon served it with wine, a nice salad, and asparagus with hollandaise sauce and you take a bite.
I heard a story about a guy with a Ferrari or Lambroghini in the 80s who had some night vision goggles and would drive by speedchecks at 150+ for laughs. The story went that he did it a few too many times and they put up a barrier to see what it was and there were little pieces of car+driver all over the road. I'm pretty sure it's an urban legend, but it made for an interesting story. I got to use a gen 4 or 5 (lab prototype NVG in the late 90s) you could have read or driven with this it was amazing (about the size of a credit card). Even cooler, though, was the scope off a stinger missle. It was as big as an old camcorder (the full size VHS ones). But you could see all sorts of stuff (studs in the walls), the recently turned off lights, and of course the people. Looking back it was impressive that they passed all of this around in a crowded dark lecture hall.
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IBM's software division (as well as Oracle and other big software companies) all have pretty similar profit structures (30%-50% operating margin). By and large software companies that are in business are pricing at something higher than marginal cost (economic profits).
I always prefered the exactness of it. I recall many a call to expert friends for help getting an IDE CDRom to boot (can't be cable select, change it to slave or was it master). It was so much easier to use my controller to change the boot device from 1 to 4.
/nostalga
That said, I always found it to be considerably faster as well. Having a SCSI drive in my old 300MHz PII Kayak let me play Diablo and Quake III long after the machine was hoplessly obsolete (It's still in service as my boss' folks email/word system) not bad for a machine I paid $100 for four years ago. I loved that thing, it was a quality system. Knock HP's consumer grade stuff all you want those workstations rocked.
The only major issue is that almost everyone's retirement owns at least a small portion of MS and it's priced at a level that doesn't leave much room for error (the average Joe investor believes MS to be one of the best companies ever). I'm not joking about retirement accounts either. If you have any large cap funds they are exceedingly likely to own a portion of MS (it's one of the biggest companies in their index and volatile enough that most money managers prefer to keep a market weight 3-4% of funds in it). They can do all sorts of things right, but if they don't keep the Windows/Office gravy train flowing (and find something to replace it eventually) that value will begin to bleed off to a leve that assumes less goes right (see Novell).
He means profit after taxes and the like, but that does not include equity (and any remaining option compensation). MS usually runs in the high 40% operating margin range (depending on XBox and MSN sales compare to Windows and Office sales) and their investment portfolio makes an additional $2-$4 billion (depending on how equities do) a year. Equity compensation eats about $3-4 billion/year but gets ignored for comparability to competitors.
Bad form to reply to my post but if you are still reading this, energy return on soybean oil is 3.2:1. I'm sure pulling oil out of the ground and delivering it to the station is higher (probably north of 5-10:1) but that is a level that we could actually survive. Algae and mustard should have improved energy returns.
Discover (and perhaps AmEx Blue) used to offer single use credit card numbers. You could set them to be used at a single merchant (recurring or in limited amounts) or one time use only.
What does the descriptor stateful (or stateless) mean in this sense?
Most Qwest residential packages are in the 256-512kbps range. 200 users on a T-1 is pretty light surfing, but feasible (in most of Qwest's regions). The rocky mountain area is retiree heaven (those social security and pension checks are pretty decent to great money here) if you can put up with the cold. Incidentally health care for retirees is top notch as well (all the retirees have attracted lots of arthritis doctors and such).
There is a considerable difference between an economic profit (which a free market will eliminate) and an accounting proft, namely opportunity cost. Not that any executive wants to live off a company that makes 0 economic profit, but you still can make decent money.
It seems like this would be a good idea for those "greatest hits" compilations that go for $5 now, instead of someone else picking my compilation, I get to pick from the whole library.
He simply needed a McKinsey consultant to explain virtualization paradgims which whould have allowed him synergistically combine his resources to offer new products and services.
Unfortunatly there will probably never be another integrated semi company formed, certainly not one tied to the PC market. Almost everyone (except Intel (and the analog guys) will be using an outside supplier at least some of the time. Not too many companies can afford a $3 billion fab.
If anything they should have bought AMD when they signed the partnership.
I agree, if anything this would drum up sales to folks who were undecided between a 300D and similar SLR cams from Nikon. Opening up new features on a camera I'd never consider buying would definitly push me into the Canon camp.
I hate scrabble, but some friends turned me on to something they called speed scrabble. The tiles and scoring system remain similar to Scrabble. You deal out 7 pieces to each player who is independantly trying to make a connected series of words (like their own scrabble board) once they achieve this they announce their success (we shouted take two) and all players draw two tiles). Repeat until the tiles are exhausted (a game is pretty quick with more than 6 players). Once all the tiles are distributed and someone has all their words in a connected group, all players add their word score and subtract unused tiles. It's quick and rewards nonlinear thinking and pretty fun. I lost all night, but still enjoyed myself.
My family still plays games when we get together mostly cards now (Penochle, or (Liverpool or Shanghai) Rummy we used to play hearts or Oh heck. Mom loves clue, I never found it very interesting, we all started playing pente (something like go or Othello). Risk was fun but we only did two player games. I loved Axis & Allies (and later Warhammer) but found Shogun/Samurai Swords to be more interesting. The game was different each time since players select territories, also the battle mechanism was different. Warhammer rocks but takes forever to setup and play and the learning curve is steep. Scotland Yard was fun, but Mr. X rarely escaped, the family is pretty smart and would set up very effective dragnets. Apples to Apples is a newer interesting game. I'd like to try Settlers of Katan (heard many good things about it).
You're right of course, I had a guess on how much margin there was in veg. oil. So, I looked up the contract price for soybean oil (it's traded on one fo the Chicago exchanges). A recent price was $0.295/lb. Looking for density of soybean oil I found .92 g/cc (which I believe is about 7.7 lb/gallon). So wholesale (60,000 lb lots) soybean oil costs about $2.26/gallon (It's a bit lower than I was expecting, guessing about $3, but still higher than gas (wholesale unleaded gas is about $1.35/gal now).
It's renewable and growing soybeans pulls the carbon out of the air, so net carbon is 0 (carbon in the oil has been underground for some time. I've no idea how much fuel is required to produce a gallon of soybean oil.
Fuel systems have become complex enough that you tighen your gas cap on newer cars. The engines have gotten smaller and require a sealed system to operate correctly. This wasn't the car company trying to rip her off (although I'd guess they didn't have to hook her up to the machine after the 6th time). She needs to learn a bit about how to operate her complext machinery. Dollars to doughnuts she has a virus invested machine.
This is like an ad in huge print.
/fine print
Refine your own gas for $0.25/gallon*.
*You must own your own oil well and be good at avoiding revenuers to succeed.
The costs of gasoline are not in the making of it (refining and distribution account for 10%-20% of the cost, it's mostly taxes and oil costs. Oil is expensive, but still cheaper than grown oils.
It's still too expensive. Next time you go to the grocery store look at the price of a gallon of vegetable oil. Figure 20% is single serving size costs (bottling & extra shipping costs). Now add $0.60/gallon in taxes (close to the national average) and see what gas would have to be to make that cost effective (and that's the subsidized price. No subsidies and it gets more expensive. One of the reasons gas is pricy in Chicago and California is that both require an ethanol mix rather than MTBE. Sugar cane has one of the better sunlight/energy storage ratios but it doesn't grow in many places that are not foreign to us.
Oil is still exceedingly cheap to pull out of the ground, which is why it has been wildly popular.
Computer sciences (gov consulting), Schlumberger (oil services different I realize). It all depends on how close you want it to be (Is sun or IBM a good match for MS?-Both make OSs but I doubt most users of Solaris or AIX would be happy swapping with a Windows install or viseversa). Neither of the companies I mentioned are as close a match as IBM and MS, but I still want my 10 points.
They weren't really goggles it was small enough to slip into a pocket pretty easily. It was about the size and shape of a small clamshell phone with two lenses on it (like a small toy viewfinder really). 100 college kids in the room and one person could have slipped out early when the lights were out. They were pretty trusting of us. The tech was R&D for the military, too (speaker claimed general use for the Military was 1G ahead of consumer tech--although I don't know if that still holds). The prof sent all the equipment around (two or three pieces IIRC). Was an amazing display of technology, the only other one I recall (these were pretty regular) was the guy doing RFID tags in 1998. They were testing them in warehouses at the crate level (~$0.10 ea.)
Sounds good. I'll have to try it soon. I've found that if you snap them holding the ends the point at which they break is a good indicator of where it gets tender.
I've found Alton to be an excellent resource for establishing the basics, at some point every chef learned how to saute, and some seasonings went with fish and chicken. After that they learned more about experimentation and expression and became artists. Alton isn't trying to teach people how to move to artists (like most of the programming on the food network) he's showing people the basics. From their curiousity can build on that knowledge and his viewers can develop their own style.
In his case the geek set, learning the basics involves a lot of science (we like to understand how things work not just that if I heat the oil on medium and drop the meat in for 5 min it cooks). I know with everything if I understand how a process works from interest rate calc derivation to quantum physics to custard formation, I'm a whole lot more likely to remember the steps involved and correctly apply them. The love of fine food comes after you've baked the salmon served it with wine, a nice salad, and asparagus with hollandaise sauce and you take a bite.
I heard a story about a guy with a Ferrari or Lambroghini in the 80s who had some night vision goggles and would drive by speedchecks at 150+ for laughs. The story went that he did it a few too many times and they put up a barrier to see what it was and there were little pieces of car+driver all over the road. I'm pretty sure it's an urban legend, but it made for an interesting story.
I got to use a gen 4 or 5 (lab prototype NVG in the late 90s) you could have read or driven with this it was amazing (about the size of a credit card). Even cooler, though, was the scope off a stinger missle. It was as big as an old camcorder (the full size VHS ones). But you could see all sorts of stuff (studs in the walls), the recently turned off lights, and of course the people. Looking back it was impressive that they passed all of this around in a crowded dark lecture hall.