That iMac base has got to be the ugliest piece of computer equipment ever to leave the Apple factory. It picks up dirt like a hoover so that cleaming white hemisphere that looks pathetic when you take it out of the box becomes a dull grey lump of crap after a few weeks. The material reminds me of those plastic chairs that we had in elementary school.
Why couldn't they have used a material like the G4 case to form the base?
True. Stockholders also get quarterly reports, quite often in flashy magazine-like format with pictures of the CEO and other random people scattered amongst the numbers and future projections.
Within the past 3 or so years there was a law passed that prohibits analysts from working too closely with companies and screwing individual investors out of inside information. If someone could provide a link, that would be cool.
But that conspiracy theory doesn't implicate Microsoft in any wrongdoing.
Perhaps if you said that Gates was telling the analysts to upgrade the company to artificially raise the price temporarily so he could sell out at a nice profit...
1) Any crime you commit is likely to result in physical damage. Not so with Microsoft. 2) It is likely that a crime you commit will be violent. Not so with Microsoft. 3) It is difficult to avoid leaving fingerprints behind. Not so with Microsoft. 4) If you are caught red-handed, it is obvious that you have broken the law. Microsoft is only "caught" after someone thinks they have done something wrong, so A) they are never caught red-handed and B) they are investigated on the basis of rumors, not hard facts
Which all leads us to the point where Microsoft can get away with doing seemingly anything while your sorry ass will get thrown in jail at the drop of a hat.
The only time a company has to make its numbers known publicly is in its quarterly reports to the SEC. Any whisper numbers that are passed around by analysts are simply that - whispers.
And you really answered your own question. Why does an analyst guess wrong 61 out of 63 times (in favor of better stock performance)? Because they can make more money that way.
There is something rotten, but it isn't in Redmond. The stench is coming from Wall Street.
Given cake and a knife only, what is the best way to cut a cake between three people so that no person can complain about receiving an unfairly small portion? And what is the minimun number of cuts necessary?
Three cuts.
Tell the three people the rules:
1) The cake will start with a cut (1) from an edge to the center 2) The knife holder (non-biased third party) will rotate the knife in a clockwise manner 3) At any time, any cake-receiver can say "Stop" and the knife holder will then cut the cake at that point and the person who said "Stop" gets the piece. 4) Continue until all players have their piece (once more for 3 players).
Of course they will complain about their small pieces, but it's their own fault for being too greedy.
Sony's got quite a few Transmeta-based PCs in Japan. My favorite is the thumbpad PC, but I digress...
Transmeta has been promising a lot of things since they were formed those many years ago. Nothing of substance has ever come out, though. Sure we've now got a low-power processor, so what? It comes at the cost of serious lack of speed.
Now they promise 256-bit processors. That's great, but it's completely worthless when any chip that it is attempting to emulate maxes out at 64-bits. Hell, the 64-bit chips haven't even come out yet.
Transmeta is dying. Especially if they've hitched their horse to the floundering Japanese economy.
We see that in our little interviewee Leo DiCaprio here, that we have someone who is clearly intelligent and willing to read specs carefully. Unfortunately, he probably relates badly with customers whose specs are not 100% unambiguous.
Tough call. Keep him on the list and call him back if no one better shows up.
1) Two cubes like they have at the bank. How to represent every day of the month using these two cubes?
2) Room has 3 lights and 3 switches on the outside. You may not peek inside the room, only enter it and exit it. What is the minimum number of times you must enter the room to determine which switch controls which light.
3) How can you build a domed roof on a building with squared walls?
do you have any idea how much that would cost in australia where the power lines go for 1000's of km's across a very large and sparsly populated country
I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but...
I'd agree that approximately 98% of people around the world (give or take a couple percentage points) experience weather. However, in many modern countries (perhaps yours excluded) power is generated using modern techniques that are impervious to all but the most severe weather, and the transmission lines are underground, making them impervious to all but the stupidest backhoe drivers.
This is not a flame, but perhaps you need to expand your worldview to include those areas outside your hick town.
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What's it like to have a name straight out of Star Wars?
Han Solo
Watto
Moshe Bar
Boba Fett
Mace Windu
That iMac base has got to be the ugliest piece of computer equipment ever to leave the Apple factory. It picks up dirt like a hoover so that cleaming white hemisphere that looks pathetic when you take it out of the box becomes a dull grey lump of crap after a few weeks. The material reminds me of those plastic chairs that we had in elementary school.
Why couldn't they have used a material like the G4 case to form the base?
Yeah, nothing quite like it.
True. Stockholders also get quarterly reports, quite often in flashy magazine-like format with pictures of the CEO and other random people scattered amongst the numbers and future projections.
Within the past 3 or so years there was a law passed that prohibits analysts from working too closely with companies and screwing individual investors out of inside information. If someone could provide a link, that would be cool.
But that conspiracy theory doesn't implicate Microsoft in any wrongdoing.
Perhaps if you said that Gates was telling the analysts to upgrade the company to artificially raise the price temporarily so he could sell out at a nice profit...
I'm sure the Financial Times gives a flying fuck about Linux users.
The plural of moose is meese. Go back to grade school.
1) Any crime you commit is likely to result in physical damage. Not so with Microsoft.
2) It is likely that a crime you commit will be violent. Not so with Microsoft.
3) It is difficult to avoid leaving fingerprints behind. Not so with Microsoft.
4) If you are caught red-handed, it is obvious that you have broken the law. Microsoft is only "caught" after someone thinks they have done something wrong, so A) they are never caught red-handed and B) they are investigated on the basis of rumors, not hard facts
Which all leads us to the point where Microsoft can get away with doing seemingly anything while your sorry ass will get thrown in jail at the drop of a hat.
The only time a company has to make its numbers known publicly is in its quarterly reports to the SEC. Any whisper numbers that are passed around by analysts are simply that - whispers.
And you really answered your own question. Why does an analyst guess wrong 61 out of 63 times (in favor of better stock performance)? Because they can make more money that way.
There is something rotten, but it isn't in Redmond. The stench is coming from Wall Street.
Read the article. In jars filled with formaldehyde.
God knows that these lusers are predisposed to interacting with dumb things. Dumb TV. Dumb spouses. Dumb coworkers. Dumb terminals.
It only makes sense.
We'll end up with a group of soldiers who couldn't hit the side of a Jawa transport if their blasters were pressed to its side.
Best bounty hunter in the galaxy, my ass.
The aqua tank seems to be just out of reach. Those last two components are not widely available in this area for a reasonable price. :-(
Interesting. I didn't see that episode. How close was I to the actual quote? Got a link for comparison?
You people ARE nerds! Jebus. I thought everyone was just faking it!
If he had made a Star of David, he would have fulfilled all the criteria, plus two extra triangles for later.
Given cake and a knife only, what is the best way to cut a cake between three people so that no person can complain about receiving an unfairly small portion? And what is the minimun number of cuts necessary?
Three cuts.
Tell the three people the rules:
1) The cake will start with a cut (1) from an edge to the center
2) The knife holder (non-biased third party) will rotate the knife in a clockwise manner
3) At any time, any cake-receiver can say "Stop" and the knife holder will then cut the cake at that point and the person who said "Stop" gets the piece.
4) Continue until all players have their piece (once more for 3 players).
Of course they will complain about their small pieces, but it's their own fault for being too greedy.
Sony's got quite a few Transmeta-based PCs in Japan. My favorite is the thumbpad PC, but I digress...
Transmeta has been promising a lot of things since they were formed those many years ago. Nothing of substance has ever come out, though. Sure we've now got a low-power processor, so what? It comes at the cost of serious lack of speed.
Now they promise 256-bit processors. That's great, but it's completely worthless when any chip that it is attempting to emulate maxes out at 64-bits. Hell, the 64-bit chips haven't even come out yet.
Transmeta is dying. Especially if they've hitched their horse to the floundering Japanese economy.
Heat wasn't the issue with the original Pentiums. Bad math was.
Unless you're clustering a bunch of these in a small space, it should be fine.
Slashdot is a beautiful example of a community of coders who have great code-fu, but tend to seriously lack in the reasoning department.
STFU, assclown.
Source, please.
We see that in our little interviewee Leo DiCaprio here, that we have someone who is clearly intelligent and willing to read specs carefully. Unfortunately, he probably relates badly with customers whose specs are not 100% unambiguous.
Tough call. Keep him on the list and call him back if no one better shows up.
1) Two cubes like they have at the bank. How to represent every day of the month using these two cubes?
2) Room has 3 lights and 3 switches on the outside. You may not peek inside the room, only enter it and exit it. What is the minimum number of times you must enter the room to determine which switch controls which light.
3) How can you build a domed roof on a building with squared walls?
do you have any idea how much that would cost in australia where the power lines go for 1000's of km's across a very large and sparsly populated country
No. Do you?
I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but...
I'd agree that approximately 98% of people around the world (give or take a couple percentage points) experience weather. However, in many modern countries (perhaps yours excluded) power is generated using modern techniques that are impervious to all but the most severe weather, and the transmission lines are underground, making them impervious to all but the stupidest backhoe drivers.
This is not a flame, but perhaps you need to expand your worldview to include those areas outside your hick town.