Ummm... yeah
You know, I'm looking forward to the point where the use fees are so high that the only way to even get telecom services is through subsidies.
Actually there hasn't been a reported insider sale or buy in about two months. Doesn't look like other than the CFO anybody's really got enough shares to make it worthwhile.
Shorting is basically borrowing the stock from another customer at the same brokerage and selling it at the current price, in expectation that you can buy it back later at a lower price and pocket the difference. So basically what TDW is telling you is they haven't got any shares in any accounts that haven't already been borrowed.
You might have luck with a different broker, but when I tried it I got the same result.
Its probably for the best anyhow, if IBM does wind up buying them out to shut them up it could be bad news for shorts.
Couldn't you just put newborns in the simulation originally and simulate parents for them?
Just kill everyone over 12 months old and the problem likely takes care of itself.
no such luck... I'm in MI, heart of the UAW. If you even drive a foreign car its liable to get keyed all to hell by union workers. Back in the reign of Bush Sr. there was a riot in the south end of town where layed off UAW workers torched foreign made cars.
at the same time don't forget that even though the car industry was pronounced dead in the early 80's it still employs directly or indirectly, millions every year, many of the companies are profitable, and in fact many Japanese auto makers are off-shoring jobs TO the US to make them.
If it wasn't impossible to get in the union without a relative or a bribe that's where I'd be right now.
Still probaly a good idea for younger candidates (I only say that because I'm a younger candidate and all my hobbies except chess involve programming computers or soldering something).
Being "too into it" might burn you out, but the guys who were never into it in the first place won't last either.
Yeah, I'm sure the bus speed difference between a P133 and a Pentium 4 is negligible...
Since the program in question is basically the Java Virtual Machine, I'm certain most of us have noticed that a P133 with 32 MB of EDO RAM is just the teensiest bit slower than a P4 with half a gig of RDRAM in running it.
As I said, the last experience I had with WP for Java was on a mid-range Pentium... 5 years ago. It did everything it was supposed to, but was miserably slow.
Now, let us suppose that at least a plurality of the people on slashdot accept the notion that Java apps run at the very least noticably faster when you go from a 5-6 year old Pentium to a modern system with 16x as much RAM, of a far greater speed I might add, AND a processor capable of doing more than 20x the instructions per second.
Now think about the notion that WP for Java would be faster on the faster system... still sound so crazy?
Fortunately this isn't a courtroom, and the fact of the matter is valid logic and court proceedings aren't neccesarily identical. Hearsay isn't a logical fallacy.
The fact of the matter is, when I last used Java WP it was on a Pentium 133... and while it did everything it was supposed to, it was painfully slow. The notion that now, on a Pentium 4 that is 20+ times as fast, the slowness isn't noticable any longer shouldn't require much of a suspension of disbelief.
I don't use WP anymore, and would be lying if I said I did. I know of at least one person in the universe who still does, however, and he says it performs nicely on his P4, I see no reason to doubt him.
everything Corel does is a disaster, that doesn't mean it couldn't have worked:)
Actually I have a buddy who still uses an old WP Java beta and swears it runs wonderfully now that PCs are fast enough to run it properly.
Corel actually had a Java version of Word Perfect Office.
OpenOffice at the very least uses Java within it.
Hotjava is a functional web browser.
Java just isn't popular on the desktop, because you never know what crazy JVM version someone's going to have on their system. But there's definately a place for it.
I hope all the IT people here are having fun talking about how they'd stand up to the big bosses and be really brave and fight against the evil felon.
To me, the right thing to do is have a little talk with Mr. employee about the right and wrong things to have stored on a company computer. Tell him that's not a healthy hobby to begin with, if you like, and tell him in no uncertain terms that if he keeps doing stuff like that on company time you'll have to report him... TO THE COMPANY.
Oh, and all you people who are equating this to homicide, get off your high horse. This is just data, after all. Undesireable data, granted, but data. Saying the guy with the picture of a kid on his computer is supporting child abusers is the same line of thinking as the "Buying an SUV supports terrorists" argument.
The definate right place to report this is HR. All you found was a collection of ones and zeros, not a dead body.
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all we need to do is develop technology to warn him the next two times he says something stupid, and then destroy his brain.
Ummm... yeah You know, I'm looking forward to the point where the use fees are so high that the only way to even get telecom services is through subsidies.
Just remember the thinkgeek poster:
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
Actually there hasn't been a reported insider sale or buy in about two months. Doesn't look like other than the CFO anybody's really got enough shares to make it worthwhile.
Palladium's actually quite a bit cheaper than it used to be. Less than $200US an ounce now compared to over $1,000 at one point.
So why do we need to develop alternatives?
Shorting is basically borrowing the stock from another customer at the same brokerage and selling it at the current price, in expectation that you can buy it back later at a lower price and pocket the difference. So basically what TDW is telling you is they haven't got any shares in any accounts that haven't already been borrowed.
You might have luck with a different broker, but when I tried it I got the same result.
Its probably for the best anyhow, if IBM does wind up buying them out to shut them up it could be bad news for shorts.
oh great, the simulators written in C?
10,000 years of technological advancement since the first simulator and STILL no one's using Smalltalk!
Couldn't you just put newborns in the simulation originally and simulate parents for them? Just kill everyone over 12 months old and the problem likely takes care of itself.
In all fairness she might just be an airhead.
I mean, its not like she made AIMster, she's just the yummy looking barely legal girl used to market it.
" Um, he's Finnish. "
:)
I was under the impression he was just getting started
If SCO's suddenly backing off their claims that they ever claimed to own the code, how do they explain that they were threatening Linux end users?
Like SCO just said, this is all about contract law. And I sure don't remember signing a contract with SCO, do you guys?
or better still... GPL the whole damned thing and tell SCO to take a flying leap.
I mean, Novell's already using the Linux kernel for their stuff... so what do they have to lose?
no such luck... I'm in MI, heart of the UAW. If you even drive a foreign car its liable to get keyed all to hell by union workers. Back in the reign of Bush Sr. there was a riot in the south end of town where layed off UAW workers torched foreign made cars.
at the same time don't forget that even though the car industry was pronounced dead in the early 80's it still employs directly or indirectly, millions every year, many of the companies are profitable, and in fact many Japanese auto makers are off-shoring jobs TO the US to make them.
If it wasn't impossible to get in the union without a relative or a bribe that's where I'd be right now.
Still probaly a good idea for younger candidates (I only say that because I'm a younger candidate and all my hobbies except chess involve programming computers or soldering something).
Being "too into it" might burn you out, but the guys who were never into it in the first place won't last either.
That's great, but what about a low DEB alternator?
Yeah, I'm sure the bus speed difference between a P133 and a Pentium 4 is negligible...
Since the program in question is basically the Java Virtual Machine, I'm certain most of us have noticed that a P133 with 32 MB of EDO RAM is just the teensiest bit slower than a P4 with half a gig of RDRAM in running it.
As I said, the last experience I had with WP for Java was on a mid-range Pentium... 5 years ago. It did everything it was supposed to, but was miserably slow.
Now, let us suppose that at least a plurality of the people on slashdot accept the notion that Java apps run at the very least noticably faster when you go from a 5-6 year old Pentium to a modern system with 16x as much RAM, of a far greater speed I might add, AND a processor capable of doing more than 20x the instructions per second.
Now think about the notion that WP for Java would be faster on the faster system... still sound so crazy?
Fortunately this isn't a courtroom, and the fact of the matter is valid logic and court proceedings aren't neccesarily identical. Hearsay isn't a logical fallacy. The fact of the matter is, when I last used Java WP it was on a Pentium 133... and while it did everything it was supposed to, it was painfully slow. The notion that now, on a Pentium 4 that is 20+ times as fast, the slowness isn't noticable any longer shouldn't require much of a suspension of disbelief. I don't use WP anymore, and would be lying if I said I did. I know of at least one person in the universe who still does, however, and he says it performs nicely on his P4, I see no reason to doubt him.
it doesn't really involve a child though... just an image of a child.
everything Corel does is a disaster, that doesn't mean it couldn't have worked :)
Actually I have a buddy who still uses an old WP Java beta and swears it runs wonderfully now that PCs are fast enough to run it properly.
Corel actually had a Java version of Word Perfect Office.
OpenOffice at the very least uses Java within it.
Hotjava is a functional web browser.
Java just isn't popular on the desktop, because you never know what crazy JVM version someone's going to have on their system. But there's definately a place for it.
I hope all the IT people here are having fun talking about how they'd stand up to the big bosses and be really brave and fight against the evil felon.
To me, the right thing to do is have a little talk with Mr. employee about the right and wrong things to have stored on a company computer. Tell him that's not a healthy hobby to begin with, if you like, and tell him in no uncertain terms that if he keeps doing stuff like that on company time you'll have to report him... TO THE COMPANY.
Oh, and all you people who are equating this to homicide, get off your high horse. This is just data, after all. Undesireable data, granted, but data. Saying the guy with the picture of a kid on his computer is supporting child abusers is the same line of thinking as the "Buying an SUV supports terrorists" argument.
The definate right place to report this is HR. All you found was a collection of ones and zeros, not a dead body.
Couldn't we just run our systems out of on-chip cache?
And then there are those of us who are undrafted rookies willing to take $6 an hour to keep paying the bills.
Yeah, and RJ Reynolds doesn't make money off of smoking...