Yeah, I didn't sleep too well that first night, I have this window that occasionally comes unlatched in the wind, and every time it banged I was sure infected were going to come streaming in to the house. X2 was excellent, RotK was excellent, Mystic River was quite good, I still would like to catch Last Samurai and Master & Commander, but overall this was a great year for movies.
chrisd did the polls for some time, I think there was someone before him, but that was before I was even lurking here, stopped doing the polls earlier this year, it was right around the time the poll came out with all the cowboyneal choices.
As far as single scenes go the fight in the Frenchman's stairway was probably my favorite of the three, although the lobby scene from the first is also a masterpiece. The stairwell fight is just gorgeous, and Juno Reactor fits it well. Three was an interesting end and ok movie, but not as fulfilling as some of the theories I read on the internet, so it was a bit of a letdown. The docking battle was cool, but the club entrance felt like a rehash, and I didn't care for the final Neo/Smith fight.
When you have to divide it by 362 million shares, and the only number most investors will ever look at is EPS. Keep in mind that's probably pre-tax so it goes to ~$850,000. However if apple made about $50 million pre-tax selling iPods (not too unimaginable given $230 million in revenue since iTMS launched) that isn't a bad return on their investment.
I know in our organization's case it's the little third party add in/links to excel that haven't been replicated for any other office suite. Their data programs that tie into VB or DDE and the companies that create them haven't had enough demand for them in any other format, yet.
I'd guess that it's terribly complex to simulate the nuance and other features that make politics interesting. Who wants to play SimCampaign1.0 featuring random voting? Until only a few years ago (say 1999, for simplicity), most game makers had really weren't thinking about networked gmaes that would have sampled voting. Now it seems like something that might be a cool tie in for the sims online or something. Get elected to the city council and get paid 50 simoleans a week (have zoning control over a small hood) or something.
Tips arouse because it's cheaper and easier for customers to evaluate the service recieved. Employers could send secret diners, and constantly moniter service levels, but that is pretty pricy. As a result most of the wage is paid by the diner directly, tipping is payment of the remainder of the wage, realize that a small tip probably brings them up to minimum wage, (ok for poor service) but only an incompetent server (even McDondald's pays minimum wage did you recieve that level of service) should get no tip. Good service should get a good tip, that rewards those who provide excellent service.
I have a friends and one friend's kid (haven't gone and got the Barbie yet) left. And I'm flying home and wanted to get my folks knives, so that one will wait till I get home, last time's dangerous gift passed through security, cause the security guy was cool and had just brought a sword home, I'm not gambling on being so lucky this time.
I've seen two animations that I really liked, both were animated charts, one with gif files and the other with a macro, the most impressive one showed in a clear and consise manner how treasury yield curves changed over a 15 year period. On a side note, I get a ton of slides, Adobe seems to support some sort of export from PowerPoint to pdf.
I don't know if it's the cold, the people, or something else, but I've walked up to the ticket line at 10-11 for the midnight showing second Matrix, both LOTR, the second Star Wars, and never seen anyone in costume for any of them. Usually the kids who camp out all day, make the local paper. Even though there are some bad things about Montana, popular movie premeres aren't one.
Well here's a great distribution channel, I can get the funding, find some unsigned talent, and we'll talk. On a more serious note, with new distribution channels becoming more availible, how hard would it be to start a record company? Would a band who's expecting bank for signing be willing to forgo a big upfront payment for better future payments (or likely less upfront) if they don't meet great success? I figure a few hundred thousand should be more than enough to start a shoestring label, but would need some better acts than the local stuff around here.
London drug is the coolest store ever, or maybe Canadian Tire. I loved the fact that the London drug i went into was filled with cheap stuff, until you walked to the left a little (past the greeting cards) and they had resonably quality electonics in the corner (including a seculded booth for speaker demos). For those from the US London drug is sort of like a Walgreens, Osco, or Rite Aid, with a nice stereo/computer shop (HD tvs and low end audiophile stuff) attached to it.
True, but in the small cap world, indexing is not really indexing. It's too expensive even for large funds to buy and keep balanced all 2000 stocks in the small cap index so they buy a representative sample of the really small stocks. Small cap index managers try to stay close to the index, but do have limited choices in what they buy. It's hedge funds and small cap active funds who are the big investors.
That means that their clients have created significant short exposure to the bank, who doesn't want to be holding the bag on a highly volatile stock, so they are adding a long position to offset their current short position. The bank could care less about the case, company's prospects, or any other fundamentals. They are only looking not to be on the wrong side of a short squeeze.
As you point out, it is increasingly likely to become a short squeeze. For everyone baffeled by the term short squeeze, you're not betting on SCO's likelihood of success or failure at this point, your playing a tough game of manipulation with a whole host of players. It is quite possible that one big player has loaned most of those shares, and will effectivly call their loan (or prices will tick up 20% and deliver the shorts a margin call), causing mass chaos when they are all trying to repurchase 20% of the company at the same time. It's sort of like a run on the bank, only shorts are the bank. Usually they result in large and rapid price increases.
Incidently the market is currently predicting less than 10% chance (calcing the exact chance depends on potential dilution) of them winning the case at this point (assuming they either get the result of bankruptcy or winning $3 billion in damages with no future cash flows).
Look at the difference between geeks calling each other geeks, and someone else using the term. One shows camaraderie the other derision. Or look at the uproar around here when someone in the media uses hacker instead of cracker.
I liked the ending summary. Think of all the shortcuts taken by startups that are still in use today and were never thought through (because they never imagined being so wildly successful). Compare any UNIX varient's security (developed by large established companies for use in a networked environment) with Windows (developed by a startup for home users that wasn't going to be networked) its cheaper and used everywhere. Now realize which companies are likely to drive innovation in biotech, startups who will base their existance on their product suceeding in only a few years, so the early investors can flip the company in an IPO. They won't have time to think about what their products will be doing in 5 or 10 years.
The article assumed that readers would be familiar with the 2006 development of time machines, and revocing of the prohibition of ex post facto laws in Section 9 of Article 1 of the Constitution.
You would have thought that SCO would have the brains not to fight the IBM lawyers, the only ones I know of who outlasted/outfought the government in an antitrust case, while the company continued growing.
As the resident office geek, I'm the go to guy when it comes to questions about computers. Recently 6 of the staff upgraded their computer. You know who is the happiest about their purchase? The gal who bought an old HP workstation. It's only a P3 700 or thereabouts, but it was loaded with ram, built like a tank and has a fast 10,000 RPM drive. She got a steal on it, and doesn't game, so it uses the visualize card. Processor speed is overrated, take the money you save and by fast harddrives and more ram.
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Yeah, I didn't sleep too well that first night, I have this window that occasionally comes unlatched in the wind, and every time it banged I was sure infected were going to come streaming in to the house. X2 was excellent, RotK was excellent, Mystic River was quite good, I still would like to catch Last Samurai and Master & Commander, but overall this was a great year for movies.
chrisd did the polls for some time, I think there was someone before him, but that was before I was even lurking here, stopped doing the polls earlier this year, it was right around the time the poll came out with all the cowboyneal choices.
As far as single scenes go the fight in the Frenchman's stairway was probably my favorite of the three, although the lobby scene from the first is also a masterpiece. The stairwell fight is just gorgeous, and Juno Reactor fits it well. Three was an interesting end and ok movie, but not as fulfilling as some of the theories I read on the internet, so it was a bit of a letdown. The docking battle was cool, but the club entrance felt like a rehash, and I didn't care for the final Neo/Smith fight.
Wafer, its a piece of unlevened (no yeast) bread, that Jews ate during the passover, which was occuring at the same time Jesus was crucified.
When you have to divide it by 362 million shares, and the only number most investors will ever look at is EPS. Keep in mind that's probably pre-tax so it goes to ~$850,000. However if apple made about $50 million pre-tax selling iPods (not too unimaginable given $230 million in revenue since iTMS launched) that isn't a bad return on their investment.
I know in our organization's case it's the little third party add in/links to excel that haven't been replicated for any other office suite. Their data programs that tie into VB or DDE and the companies that create them haven't had enough demand for them in any other format, yet.
I'd guess that it's terribly complex to simulate the nuance and other features that make politics interesting. Who wants to play SimCampaign1.0 featuring random voting? Until only a few years ago (say 1999, for simplicity), most game makers had really weren't thinking about networked gmaes that would have sampled voting. Now it seems like something that might be a cool tie in for the sims online or something. Get elected to the city council and get paid 50 simoleans a week (have zoning control over a small hood) or something.
Tips arouse because it's cheaper and easier for customers to evaluate the service recieved. Employers could send secret diners, and constantly moniter service levels, but that is pretty pricy. As a result most of the wage is paid by the diner directly, tipping is payment of the remainder of the wage, realize that a small tip probably brings them up to minimum wage, (ok for poor service) but only an incompetent server (even McDondald's pays minimum wage did you recieve that level of service) should get no tip. Good service should get a good tip, that rewards those who provide excellent service.
It's pretty easy he drives a 250 GTO, well actually he never drives it he just wipes it nightly with a diaper.
I have a friends and one friend's kid (haven't gone and got the Barbie yet) left. And I'm flying home and wanted to get my folks knives, so that one will wait till I get home, last time's dangerous gift passed through security, cause the security guy was cool and had just brought a sword home, I'm not gambling on being so lucky this time.
Only if I were selling $149 PCs...Hey! Wait a minute, this is a total ripoff.
I've seen two animations that I really liked, both were animated charts, one with gif files and the other with a macro, the most impressive one showed in a clear and consise manner how treasury yield curves changed over a 15 year period. On a side note, I get a ton of slides, Adobe seems to support some sort of export from PowerPoint to pdf.
I don't know if it's the cold, the people, or something else, but I've walked up to the ticket line at 10-11 for the midnight showing second Matrix, both LOTR, the second Star Wars, and never seen anyone in costume for any of them. Usually the kids who camp out all day, make the local paper. Even though there are some bad things about Montana, popular movie premeres aren't one.
Well here's a great distribution channel, I can get the funding, find some unsigned talent, and we'll talk. On a more serious note, with new distribution channels becoming more availible, how hard would it be to start a record company? Would a band who's expecting bank for signing be willing to forgo a big upfront payment for better future payments (or likely less upfront) if they don't meet great success? I figure a few hundred thousand should be more than enough to start a shoestring label, but would need some better acts than the local stuff around here.
London drug is the coolest store ever, or maybe Canadian Tire. I loved the fact that the London drug i went into was filled with cheap stuff, until you walked to the left a little (past the greeting cards) and they had resonably quality electonics in the corner (including a seculded booth for speaker demos). For those from the US London drug is sort of like a Walgreens, Osco, or Rite Aid, with a nice stereo/computer shop (HD tvs and low end audiophile stuff) attached to it.
That's a feature I'd enjoy possibly with an odometer counter showing how many exploits I've personally missed out on by using open office.
True, but in the small cap world, indexing is not really indexing. It's too expensive even for large funds to buy and keep balanced all 2000 stocks in the small cap index so they buy a representative sample of the really small stocks. Small cap index managers try to stay close to the index, but do have limited choices in what they buy. It's hedge funds and small cap active funds who are the big investors.
That means that their clients have created significant short exposure to the bank, who doesn't want to be holding the bag on a highly volatile stock, so they are adding a long position to offset their current short position. The bank could care less about the case, company's prospects, or any other fundamentals. They are only looking not to be on the wrong side of a short squeeze.
As you point out, it is increasingly likely to become a short squeeze. For everyone baffeled by the term short squeeze, you're not betting on SCO's likelihood of success or failure at this point, your playing a tough game of manipulation with a whole host of players. It is quite possible that one big player has loaned most of those shares, and will effectivly call their loan (or prices will tick up 20% and deliver the shorts a margin call), causing mass chaos when they are all trying to repurchase 20% of the company at the same time. It's sort of like a run on the bank, only shorts are the bank. Usually they result in large and rapid price increases.
Incidently the market is currently predicting less than 10% chance (calcing the exact chance depends on potential dilution) of them winning the case at this point (assuming they either get the result of bankruptcy or winning $3 billion in damages with no future cash flows).
Look at the difference between geeks calling each other geeks, and someone else using the term. One shows camaraderie the other derision. Or look at the uproar around here when someone in the media uses hacker instead of cracker.
I liked the ending summary. Think of all the shortcuts taken by startups that are still in use today and were never thought through (because they never imagined being so wildly successful). Compare any UNIX varient's security (developed by large established companies for use in a networked environment) with Windows (developed by a startup for home users that wasn't going to be networked) its cheaper and used everywhere. Now realize which companies are likely to drive innovation in biotech, startups who will base their existance on their product suceeding in only a few years, so the early investors can flip the company in an IPO. They won't have time to think about what their products will be doing in 5 or 10 years.
The article assumed that readers would be familiar with the 2006 development of time machines, and revocing of the prohibition of ex post facto laws in Section 9 of Article 1 of the Constitution.
If you die in 90 days, you get your money back, what a great deal.
You would have thought that SCO would have the brains not to fight the IBM lawyers, the only ones I know of who outlasted/outfought the government in an antitrust case, while the company continued growing.
As the resident office geek, I'm the go to guy when it comes to questions about computers. Recently 6 of the staff upgraded their computer. You know who is the happiest about their purchase? The gal who bought an old HP workstation. It's only a P3 700 or thereabouts, but it was loaded with ram, built like a tank and has a fast 10,000 RPM drive. She got a steal on it, and doesn't game, so it uses the visualize card. Processor speed is overrated, take the money you save and by fast harddrives and more ram.