I was thinking that Wal~Mart was one of the comapnies that did a pretty good job of not selling M rated games (or R rated movies) to those under 18. When I worked there, one summer in college, all manner of products brought that up (spray paint, some glue, lots of medicines, some content items). The other thing that surprised me was how few people knew the music was edited, if I noticed I was selling edited music, I would usually remind the buyer, well over 50% of the time they would be surprised and choose something else.
Would it be possible to set up a holding company effectivly doubling the number of owners of a company? I think the cutoff is 500 shareholders, could you set up the ABC-Google corp which counts as 1 shareholder of google, but holds shares for 500 or more (this firm does not need to have any revenues) owners? I think their going public because they got a cut rate fee from the underwriters, who want to kick start the IPO market, and some insiders want to diversify.
Back in college we took a business computing class, it was required, and I occasionally learned something about an office feature. One of the more interesting points was that an ideal search should have about 100 results if you have more or less than that your search terms were not specefic enough or were too specific, at that point it is easy to sort the remainder by hand.
If you want to retain ownership, but still raise capital you can always keep super voting stock. Ford, Comcast, Liberty Media, Viacom, and a whole host of other companies maintain very tiny holdings of the public stock, but will remain family owned basically forever.
Keep in mind that Sergey and co. don't own the remaining 2/3, well more than half the remainder is owned by VCs who will be selling as soon as their lockout ends. Float will probably be well over 60% once the selling insiders make their move. I guess this means the market has recovered offically, it will be interesting to see if another bubble forms.
If you are just interested in the learning, rather than credit, you can usually "audit" classes which means the prof won't kick you out if he finds you there. It's a pretty reasonable fee for auditing classes if you wanted to pick up some skills.
State schools are definitly a great deal, if you can qualify for in-state or some sort fo state exchange tuition. Out west, most of the state schools allow a limited number of students to attend each others school at in state or close too it prices. Depending on what you want to study, Virginia, Washington, Califorina, and Michegan all offer education that usually ranks in the top 25 for a whole lot less. Note that you usually only have to live in a state for a year to establish residency. While not as prestigous, the smaller population states generally offer very low instate and out of state tuition.
While all are quite excellent, it seems like there is a bigger contingent of engineer/tech types at the Air Force Academy (nuclear engineers are probably more of a focus at Annapolis). Note that with any of the government programs your summers generally belong to Uncle Sam. It seems like West Point has more of a reputation for focusing on the social sciences.
I personally know two people who didn't pay a dime for private school. One went ROTC, it was her goal long before college to join the Navy, and the other had a 4.0, president of several local and state organizations, and was the junior miss, in short she worked well over 50 hours a week preping for college, she got two big scholarships one from the school and one from a local organization, and many many smaller ones. The initialed intelegence organizations have some excellent programs for paying for college, but you would have had to apply in November, full ride, cool internships, and a job when you graduate, but the degrees are pretty much limited to languages and EE/CS/Math, when I was looking. If you change majors the government sends a bill, or makes you serve somewhere else to pay them back, so be absolutely sure that you like your chosen career field.
The Chinese manufacturers are already beginning to introduce their own brands, I'd guess that Wipro and Infosys will begin offering their own self developed products in a few years.
Most of that has to do with the falling dollar relative to the Yen and some vicious protectionist bills that were passed/threatened, making it economical to build them here. The tariff on importing a V8 used to be well more than 100%, why do you think SUVs are the main profit center of US manufacturers.
Exactly, one of my favorite stories comes out of the auto industry following WWII, Japanese auto makers were invited to visit Ford's Rouge River plant, which was at the time the most advanced auto factory in the world, coal, ore, silica, and rubber went in one side and cars came out the other, and they usually had a year's inventory on hand. The Japanese auto makers were very impressed, but admitted that they could not build anything like this yet, and went on to innovate most of JIT inventories, because they couldn't afford what was considered state of the art.
I think AMD is trying to make a chip that will sell well to consumers, look it's faster, while simultainously providing a cheap method for businesses to get 64 bit memory addressing. That's the golden market their really after, the consumer market just provides a sales channel to keep everything running at full speed. Honestly, I'd guess that AMD is much more excited about SUN and IBM currently tepid interest than all the reviews showing 15% more speed than a P4.
The only thing that killed the turbos was the Yen dollar exchange rate in the mid 90s. Let's say that a Supra or 300GT would have cost about 5,000,000 Yen through the entire decade of the 90s. In 1990, the car would be priced at a relativly low $32,000. However by 1995, you needed almost $59,000 to get the same 5 million yen. Too many american consumers would rather have a Corvette, and they begin to approach the price of something really nice from Europe at this point. This is obviously simplistic, as the car's yen price likely rose through the decade. However it does get the point across, now that the yen is weaker, and the cars are smaller (mostly turbo 4s rather than twin turbo V6s). They have returned at a price point more palatable to the average American car buyer. If the dollar keeps falling they are likely to go away, how many people will pay $35,000 to $40,000 for an STi or Evo? I don't think either is make over here yet. That's mostly what killed any possiblity of a vibrant Japanese supercar market in the US. Honda keeps making the NSX mostly to refine and improve their alumninum technonlogies, the additional attention drawn doesn't hurt either.
You might want to double check that, the constitution places all treaties, once ratified, just below the constitution as the second highest law in the land. Additionally, you are allowed to get away with a whole lot once, just wait till our next banana case comes up, and Europe thumbs their nose at us when we want a trade concession in the future.
It actually requires a pretty active monitary policy to keep a peg going. China's central bank buys an aweful lot of US dollar's and US government bonds. At what point they stop our currency will fall like a rock, (50% against the yuan would be a low end estimate. Oddly enough the major beneficiary of such an action would be Europe, who would compete on a more equal footing with Chinese exports.
Think of it this way in purely free floating currency markets when a company starts buying too many exports (as we are now) their currency becomes less valuable eventually building up enough of a disincentive to reduce their purchases (if for no other reason than they run out of money). The peg means that China is spending all the excess dollars that they get from exports on dollars assets (mostly treasury bonds). At some point in the future (a decade or two) they can't continue, or we can't pay the interest, and the build up of the difference snaps back to normalicy. This was the same basic phenomenon that George Soros used to become a billionare. It's rumored that his fund (that he had significant holdings in) made well over 1 billion in one day!
It is used on a significant number of office PCs and with Dell selling the same systems in both home and office, it's likely that some of the systems they sell for office use are actually intended for home use. Finally, piracy is much easier on Win2k systems, so that is probably a good chunk of those win2k numbers.
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The quick and dirty of the third arguement is that femist values have resulted in a large part of the current generation of little boyz being drugged into submission. Go check out the number of kids on Ritalin these days, most of what gets them on it is what was considered normal boy activity when we were kids. Except in math and it's increasing there too, girls are starting to really excel in school items, partly because school has changed, I can't tell if the changes are for the better or the worse, but they are different.
In a more clear manner, he is saying unless you want to blow the price of a new Pentium on a bottle of sparkling wine, avoide the prestige name houses. They have some cheaper stuff, but it is not nearly as good. The less well known houses, are more likely to give you a much better bottle for the same price as the value bottles from a well known house, and that's very good advice.
Oddly enough the oldest recipe named french toast, used a batter of sugar orange juice, and wine. The history of french toast was explained in Slate, around the time the House changed the name to freedom toast.
We always called correction fluid white out, after a competing product. I don't know why it's white out, seems like black out or ink out would be a better descriptor. If I produced it it would be oops.
I've found that part of the problem is that none of the audio formats (AAC is better in some regards) focus on really good sound, they are all trying to optimize for halfway decent sound at 64 or 128kbps, while that is a noble goal, it would be nice to have a format that focused on getting 99% or 95% of CD sound at 256kbps or 384kbps. That doesn't seem like it should be out of the balpark. Ogg vorbis was particularly bad with sub 50 hz sounds. I'm living with AAC at 256kbps (average it's vbr) that sounds acceptable for the tradoffs in organization even for my classical and jazz.
Cable companies do this better than others, most of 'em never really make a profit, but check on free cash flow sometime. That's the key to a successful business. Intangibles ammortization, preferably for intangibles that you never outlay cash. Deferred taxes are taxes you'll never pay if your smart enough. It's a little tougher once you go public, because EPS is such an important measure of success, but still possible.
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I was thinking that Wal~Mart was one of the comapnies that did a pretty good job of not selling M rated games (or R rated movies) to those under 18. When I worked there, one summer in college, all manner of products brought that up (spray paint, some glue, lots of medicines, some content items). The other thing that surprised me was how few people knew the music was edited, if I noticed I was selling edited music, I would usually remind the buyer, well over 50% of the time they would be surprised and choose something else.
Would it be possible to set up a holding company effectivly doubling the number of owners of a company? I think the cutoff is 500 shareholders, could you set up the ABC-Google corp which counts as 1 shareholder of google, but holds shares for 500 or more (this firm does not need to have any revenues) owners? I think their going public because they got a cut rate fee from the underwriters, who want to kick start the IPO market, and some insiders want to diversify.
Back in college we took a business computing class, it was required, and I occasionally learned something about an office feature. One of the more interesting points was that an ideal search should have about 100 results if you have more or less than that your search terms were not specefic enough or were too specific, at that point it is easy to sort the remainder by hand.
If you want to retain ownership, but still raise capital you can always keep super voting stock. Ford, Comcast, Liberty Media, Viacom, and a whole host of other companies maintain very tiny holdings of the public stock, but will remain family owned basically forever.
Keep in mind that Sergey and co. don't own the remaining 2/3, well more than half the remainder is owned by VCs who will be selling as soon as their lockout ends. Float will probably be well over 60% once the selling insiders make their move. I guess this means the market has recovered offically, it will be interesting to see if another bubble forms.
If you are just interested in the learning, rather than credit, you can usually "audit" classes which means the prof won't kick you out if he finds you there. It's a pretty reasonable fee for auditing classes if you wanted to pick up some skills.
State schools are definitly a great deal, if you can qualify for in-state or some sort fo state exchange tuition. Out west, most of the state schools allow a limited number of students to attend each others school at in state or close too it prices. Depending on what you want to study, Virginia, Washington, Califorina, and Michegan all offer education that usually ranks in the top 25 for a whole lot less. Note that you usually only have to live in a state for a year to establish residency. While not as prestigous, the smaller population states generally offer very low instate and out of state tuition.
While all are quite excellent, it seems like there is a bigger contingent of engineer/tech types at the Air Force Academy (nuclear engineers are probably more of a focus at Annapolis). Note that with any of the government programs your summers generally belong to Uncle Sam. It seems like West Point has more of a reputation for focusing on the social sciences.
I personally know two people who didn't pay a dime for private school. One went ROTC, it was her goal long before college to join the Navy, and the other had a 4.0, president of several local and state organizations, and was the junior miss, in short she worked well over 50 hours a week preping for college, she got two big scholarships one from the school and one from a local organization, and many many smaller ones. The initialed intelegence organizations have some excellent programs for paying for college, but you would have had to apply in November, full ride, cool internships, and a job when you graduate, but the degrees are pretty much limited to languages and EE/CS/Math, when I was looking. If you change majors the government sends a bill, or makes you serve somewhere else to pay them back, so be absolutely sure that you like your chosen career field.
The Chinese manufacturers are already beginning to introduce their own brands, I'd guess that Wipro and Infosys will begin offering their own self developed products in a few years.
Most of that has to do with the falling dollar relative to the Yen and some vicious protectionist bills that were passed/threatened, making it economical to build them here. The tariff on importing a V8 used to be well more than 100%, why do you think SUVs are the main profit center of US manufacturers.
Exactly, one of my favorite stories comes out of the auto industry following WWII, Japanese auto makers were invited to visit Ford's Rouge River plant, which was at the time the most advanced auto factory in the world, coal, ore, silica, and rubber went in one side and cars came out the other, and they usually had a year's inventory on hand. The Japanese auto makers were very impressed, but admitted that they could not build anything like this yet, and went on to innovate most of JIT inventories, because they couldn't afford what was considered state of the art.
I think AMD is trying to make a chip that will sell well to consumers, look it's faster, while simultainously providing a cheap method for businesses to get 64 bit memory addressing. That's the golden market their really after, the consumer market just provides a sales channel to keep everything running at full speed. Honestly, I'd guess that AMD is much more excited about SUN and IBM currently tepid interest than all the reviews showing 15% more speed than a P4.
The only thing that killed the turbos was the Yen dollar exchange rate in the mid 90s. Let's say that a Supra or 300GT would have cost about 5,000,000 Yen through the entire decade of the 90s. In 1990, the car would be priced at a relativly low $32,000. However by 1995, you needed almost $59,000 to get the same 5 million yen. Too many american consumers would rather have a Corvette, and they begin to approach the price of something really nice from Europe at this point. This is obviously simplistic, as the car's yen price likely rose through the decade. However it does get the point across, now that the yen is weaker, and the cars are smaller (mostly turbo 4s rather than twin turbo V6s). They have returned at a price point more palatable to the average American car buyer. If the dollar keeps falling they are likely to go away, how many people will pay $35,000 to $40,000 for an STi or Evo? I don't think either is make over here yet. That's mostly what killed any possiblity of a vibrant Japanese supercar market in the US. Honda keeps making the NSX mostly to refine and improve their alumninum technonlogies, the additional attention drawn doesn't hurt either.
You might want to double check that, the constitution places all treaties, once ratified, just below the constitution as the second highest law in the land. Additionally, you are allowed to get away with a whole lot once, just wait till our next banana case comes up, and Europe thumbs their nose at us when we want a trade concession in the future.
It actually requires a pretty active monitary policy to keep a peg going. China's central bank buys an aweful lot of US dollar's and US government bonds. At what point they stop our currency will fall like a rock, (50% against the yuan would be a low end estimate. Oddly enough the major beneficiary of such an action would be Europe, who would compete on a more equal footing with Chinese exports.
Think of it this way in purely free floating currency markets when a company starts buying too many exports (as we are now) their currency becomes less valuable eventually building up enough of a disincentive to reduce their purchases (if for no other reason than they run out of money). The peg means that China is spending all the excess dollars that they get from exports on dollars assets (mostly treasury bonds). At some point in the future (a decade or two) they can't continue, or we can't pay the interest, and the build up of the difference snaps back to normalicy. This was the same basic phenomenon that George Soros used to become a billionare. It's rumored that his fund (that he had significant holdings in) made well over 1 billion in one day!
It is used on a significant number of office PCs and with Dell selling the same systems in both home and office, it's likely that some of the systems they sell for office use are actually intended for home use. Finally, piracy is much easier on Win2k systems, so that is probably a good chunk of those win2k numbers.
This site would really suck if it weren't for the trolls, not the goatse and page wideners, although they mostly switched over to the journal/zoo system a while ago. There is a whole lot less noise there than at -1.
The quick and dirty of the third arguement is that femist values have resulted in a large part of the current generation of little boyz being drugged into submission. Go check out the number of kids on Ritalin these days, most of what gets them on it is what was considered normal boy activity when we were kids. Except in math and it's increasing there too, girls are starting to really excel in school items, partly because school has changed, I can't tell if the changes are for the better or the worse, but they are different.
It's always nice to see someone who actually knows about a subject commenting. Moderators do your duty.
In a more clear manner, he is saying unless you want to blow the price of a new Pentium on a bottle of sparkling wine, avoide the prestige name houses. They have some cheaper stuff, but it is not nearly as good. The less well known houses, are more likely to give you a much better bottle for the same price as the value bottles from a well known house, and that's very good advice.
Oddly enough the oldest recipe named french toast, used a batter of sugar orange juice, and wine. The history of french toast was explained in Slate, around the time the House changed the name to freedom toast.
We always called correction fluid white out, after a competing product. I don't know why it's white out, seems like black out or ink out would be a better descriptor. If I produced it it would be oops.
I've found that part of the problem is that none of the audio formats (AAC is better in some regards) focus on really good sound, they are all trying to optimize for halfway decent sound at 64 or 128kbps, while that is a noble goal, it would be nice to have a format that focused on getting 99% or 95% of CD sound at 256kbps or 384kbps. That doesn't seem like it should be out of the balpark. Ogg vorbis was particularly bad with sub 50 hz sounds. I'm living with AAC at 256kbps (average it's vbr) that sounds acceptable for the tradoffs in organization even for my classical and jazz.
Cable companies do this better than others, most of 'em never really make a profit, but check on free cash flow sometime. That's the key to a successful business. Intangibles ammortization, preferably for intangibles that you never outlay cash. Deferred taxes are taxes you'll never pay if your smart enough. It's a little tougher once you go public, because EPS is such an important measure of success, but still possible.