You'll still have KDE-3.3 months before most people can get it in thoer shrinkwrapped distros.
Yeah, but by the time gentoo finishes compiling, those shrinkwrapped distros will have KDE 3.3.27. You know, the stable release that 3.3.0 is pretty much the beta for.
"Even the reporters were laughing" - that's not such a rare amazing feat, y'know. Reporters in these events are rude and boisterous. It's like a locker room. This is like saying "Even the hyenas were laughing".
...wasn't that the reporters *laughed*, it's that they *got the joke*. In other words, the journalists (not a group known for "getting" technology concepts) realized that the people making this decision were, well, retarded, for effectively taking MS's word that their software is better.
You're completely wrong. Avoiding this price spike, and avoiding the "hot IPO as a perk to their other customers", was the whole point of the dutch auction. There will be no price spike, and you or I could go buy some shares right away.
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I don't have faith in this remaining a Dutch auction. Are they bound by that at this point?
If you really believe this, what are you whinging about? You will make a mint.
Because by the time the shares get to the actual public, they won't be that cheap. The brokerages use the opportunity to get in on a hot IPO as a perk to their other customers. So the rich DO get richer here.
Go review your.BOMB economy history, this is exactly how the netscape IPO went.
The fact is, it would have been a pretty major upset for Thorpe to lose to Phelps. It was always goignt o be a race between Hoogie and Thorpe, NOT Thorpe and Phelps - it was only moron commentators who were talkign up the clash that begged to differ.
You're absolutely right - the commentators needed to talk up Phelps' attempt for 7 golds - Particularly here in America - which obviously is now over.
That said, Phelps did make it a decent race, as his time was closer to Thorpe's than it was to the 4th place finisher. As you mention, he did set a personal best in his attempt, and there's no shame in that. He also had a real chance at silver (vdH was closer to Phelps than Thorpe).
But ultimately, this was a one-man race from the beginning. And there are some of us Americans whose memories include Sydney and what Thorpe did there. He's not an all around swimmer, but he kills in the free.
Windows 98 is 6 years old and isn't sold with computers anymore. This test just shows remaining Windows 98 users they should keep up to date or upgrade to XP.
First, no it doesn't - they didn't do the necessary control experiment, which would be leaving an unpatched, no-AV machine with XP hanging around on the broadband network. Do that and your box is fried a lot faster than 98.
...I have some Win 98 boxen around here, as well as some Win XP/2K. I have MANY more problems from the newer boxes, mainly because most of the newer worms are no longer "compatible" with the older machines.
Yes, it's security by obscurity, but that's good in addition to having current antivirus signatures! With the XP/2K machines, we can't patch them fast enough to keep them clean on our notoriously insecure university network. The 98 machines are dedicated to running some specific lab hardware, and are sufficient to the task. They aren't getting replaced, or upgraded. Well, I did upgrade them from 95, but even I'm not that crazy.;)
Too bad it also means fewer jobs to make the money to buy the cheap items... Since it takes fewer people to make the same # of items it did 10 years ago.
If you had made that analysis 200 years ago, then we'd have 99% unemployment by now since it currently takes 1 person and a lot of machines to do the work of 100 1800's laborers. The long term outcome isn't fewer jobs, it's more stuff since demand will keep up and lower prices mean a better-stretched dollar.
In this way, low margins are a sign of a very efficient world economy. Nothing bad here that I see.
There's a reason why insurance companies make a profit. The same reason why I don't gamble at casinos would make me prefer to gamble on self insurance- I have at least a rudimentary understanding of probability.
To do this cost thing right, you have to examine risk, because not all dollars are created equally. Same reason I'd bet $1 with 50/50 odds to win $1.10, but I wouldn't risk $50,000 to win $55,000 - playing odds in your favor is worth it if a dollar lost is of the same value as the dollar gained. But when doubling my money isn't as good as getting cleaned out is bad, you don't take the bet.
In other words, I'd have to be rich to self-insure.
It was. Now it is mandated, therefore it is a tax, and therefore it is government. That means we can bypass the whole "well, it's a private company so they can deep fry your rights in wombat shit" argument.
Actually, you're allowed to self insure if you can afford it - usually requires a decent amount of cash in escrow or something. However, would you rather drive knowing that if some dipshit hits you, you're screwed?
I think Mississippi counts as "the south" in anbody's book.
Of course, it would have to be one of those rare nice summer days as soon as I open my mouth. Trust me, it's rare. The south in summer is freaking miserable. Humidity by 4pm is usually 100% accompanied frequently by pop-up thunderstorms. I'm from KY, and everything south of that is even worse.
(Or better yet, why does the vendor not integrate such protection if they're relying on network-connected Windows systems for device control/interaction?)
Part of the reason is probably that they have legacy equipment. Remember, internet propagation of virii is only about 5 years old (Melissa, the first self-propagating internet worm hit in March or April 1999 if I recall). So older stuff wouldn't even be thinking this way.
those that do need externally initiated inbound communication can *still* set up the necessary rules to allow such communication to take place. And yes, it is just this simple.
With Windows? There are lots of ways around a windows firewall (including timing; the network is currently enabled before the firewall on a reboot. Genius there).
Your sig mentions that you are looking for a posting as an "multivariate data analyst", perhaps you would be the person to at least investigate the data:)
Ha! I would if I could get someone to hire me for it; the uncreative bastards require something called an "MBA" or an "Economics degree" for some reason.
Assuming you have some spare time (looking for employement because between jobs for instance) it might be something that could lead you into a whole new area of expertise, and possibly open up new avenues for yourself.
You ever get a company, gimme a call.;) Seriously, I'd willingly do it, but HR departments don't typically do more than a keyword match on resumes, and as I'm a chemist...;P I'm in grad school finishing the ol' Ph.D. right now. I'm looking in finance, but I'm having a hard time finding people who will give out-of-field math geeks a chance.
And a comparison to patents/company by year. I think that would show the real trend of patents.
I agree, but I think you can do better than a simple ratio, as I'd want to eliminate non-patenting companies (like farms), and patents not assigned to companies. - I'd look at:
the fraction of companies that pantented *anything* in a given year vs. time.
the fraction of patents assigned to companies (as opposed to individual inventors) vs. time
patents per employee at patenting companies vs. time
patents/yr vs. inflation-adjusted revenue/yr for each company in the fortune 500, and for all of the fortune 500 companies. Will show if the top companies are receiving more patents given their productivity
contested vs. assigned patents, by year of assignment. I'd love to see that!
I'd be surprised if someone hasn't looked into these things - if not, someone should.
Except during The Panic of 1870(?) and The Great Depression of 1929. I say (?) because I'm not entirely certain of the date.
Quite right, among other times (early 70s, the 90's bomb and the current doldroms). But because the timeline is so long and we have such a large amount of data, these end up correcting themselves and being blips. Over teh long haul, an exponential fits very well.
In math terms, fitting an exponential to stock data results in a better goodness of fit than any other model.
If 10,000 patents were all that were issued from 1790 to 1836 (40 years) and considering we are up to patent number 7,000,000 (approx) right now, it would be interesting to have a graph of patents granted over time from 1790 to the present. My guess is that it would be an exponential curve.
Of course it would. The population has grown exponentially, as has effectively every other non-ratio metric associated with our country. GDP has gone up exponentially, food consumption has gone up exponentially, the stock market...you get the idea.
A much more insightful study would be patents/person by year. I would imagine that this figure has also gone up, though likely not quite with an exponential dependence. Most interesting would be sharp jumps in this curve that one might associate with specific events, like WWII, certain presidents getting elected, new USPTO directors, and so on.
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Completely imbelievable.
Don't you mean "Cudos?" Hey, wait a minute...
Yeah, but by the time gentoo finishes compiling, those shrinkwrapped distros will have KDE 3.3.27. You know, the stable release that 3.3.0 is pretty much the beta for.
...wasn't that the reporters *laughed*, it's that they *got the joke*. In other words, the journalists (not a group known for "getting" technology concepts) realized that the people making this decision were, well, retarded, for effectively taking MS's word that their software is better.
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I don't have faith in this remaining a Dutch auction. Are they bound by that at this point?
Because by the time the shares get to the actual public, they won't be that cheap. The brokerages use the opportunity to get in on a hot IPO as a perk to their other customers. So the rich DO get richer here.
Go review your .BOMB economy history, this is exactly how the netscape IPO went.
'Twas, I forgot to mention that.
You're absolutely right - the commentators needed to talk up Phelps' attempt for 7 golds - Particularly here in America - which obviously is now over.
That said, Phelps did make it a decent race, as his time was closer to Thorpe's than it was to the 4th place finisher. As you mention, he did set a personal best in his attempt, and there's no shame in that. He also had a real chance at silver (vdH was closer to Phelps than Thorpe).
But ultimately, this was a one-man race from the beginning. And there are some of us Americans whose memories include Sydney and what Thorpe did there. He's not an all around swimmer, but he kills in the free.
And how about "cites," unless they're going in your bibliography (and even that's grammatically incorrect).
Windows 98 is 6 years old and isn't sold with computers anymore. This test just shows remaining Windows 98 users they should keep up to date or upgrade to XP.
First, no it doesn't - they didn't do the necessary control experiment, which would be leaving an unpatched, no-AV machine with XP hanging around on the broadband network. Do that and your box is fried a lot faster than 98.
...I have some Win 98 boxen around here, as well as some Win XP/2K. I have MANY more problems from the newer boxes, mainly because most of the newer worms are no longer "compatible" with the older machines.
Yes, it's security by obscurity, but that's good in addition to having current antivirus signatures! With the XP/2K machines, we can't patch them fast enough to keep them clean on our notoriously insecure university network. The 98 machines are dedicated to running some specific lab hardware, and are sufficient to the task. They aren't getting replaced, or upgraded. Well, I did upgrade them from 95, but even I'm not that crazy. ;)
If you had made that analysis 200 years ago, then we'd have 99% unemployment by now since it currently takes 1 person and a lot of machines to do the work of 100 1800's laborers. The long term outcome isn't fewer jobs, it's more stuff since demand will keep up and lower prices mean a better-stretched dollar.
In this way, low margins are a sign of a very efficient world economy. Nothing bad here that I see.
Anyone paying that little attention should be starring in their own "Cheech and Chong" movie.
Naturally. You can't hack a dead OS nobody runs. FreeBSD - the ultimate in "security through obscurity."
;)
This is why I use a font that puts a / through the middle of the 0. ...to the Scandinavians.
To do this cost thing right, you have to examine risk, because not all dollars are created equally. Same reason I'd bet $1 with 50/50 odds to win $1.10, but I wouldn't risk $50,000 to win $55,000 - playing odds in your favor is worth it if a dollar lost is of the same value as the dollar gained. But when doubling my money isn't as good as getting cleaned out is bad, you don't take the bet.
In other words, I'd have to be rich to self-insure.
You got FP!
Actually, you're allowed to self insure if you can afford it - usually requires a decent amount of cash in escrow or something. However, would you rather drive knowing that if some dipshit hits you, you're screwed?
Of course, it would have to be one of those rare nice summer days as soon as I open my mouth. Trust me, it's rare. The south in summer is freaking miserable. Humidity by 4pm is usually 100% accompanied frequently by pop-up thunderstorms. I'm from KY, and everything south of that is even worse.
And no, Austin ain't the south. ;)
Except that a dry 84 degrees never occurs in the south, assuming we're talking the southern part of the US. If it''s 84, teh humidity is 90%+.
Part of the reason is probably that they have legacy equipment. Remember, internet propagation of virii is only about 5 years old (Melissa, the first self-propagating internet worm hit in March or April 1999 if I recall). So older stuff wouldn't even be thinking this way.
those that do need externally initiated inbound communication can *still* set up the necessary rules to allow such communication to take place. And yes, it is just this simple.
With Windows? There are lots of ways around a windows firewall (including timing; the network is currently enabled before the firewall on a reboot. Genius there).
Ha! I would if I could get someone to hire me for it; the uncreative bastards require something called an "MBA" or an "Economics degree" for some reason.
Assuming you have some spare time (looking for employement because between jobs for instance) it might be something that could lead you into a whole new area of expertise, and possibly open up new avenues for yourself.
You ever get a company, gimme a call. ;) Seriously, I'd willingly do it, but HR departments don't typically do more than a keyword match on resumes, and as I'm a chemist...;P I'm in grad school finishing the ol' Ph.D. right now. I'm looking in finance, but I'm having a hard time finding people who will give out-of-field math geeks a chance.
I agree, but I think you can do better than a simple ratio, as I'd want to eliminate non-patenting companies (like farms), and patents not assigned to companies. - I'd look at:
the fraction of companies that pantented *anything* in a given year vs. time.
the fraction of patents assigned to companies (as opposed to individual inventors) vs. time
patents per employee at patenting companies vs. time
patents/yr vs. inflation-adjusted revenue/yr for each company in the fortune 500, and for all of the fortune 500 companies. Will show if the top companies are receiving more patents given their productivity
contested vs. assigned patents, by year of assignment. I'd love to see that!
I'd be surprised if someone hasn't looked into these things - if not, someone should.
Quite right, among other times (early 70s, the 90's bomb and the current doldroms). But because the timeline is so long and we have such a large amount of data, these end up correcting themselves and being blips. Over teh long haul, an exponential fits very well.
In math terms, fitting an exponential to stock data results in a better goodness of fit than any other model.
Of course it would. The population has grown exponentially, as has effectively every other non-ratio metric associated with our country. GDP has gone up exponentially, food consumption has gone up exponentially, the stock market...you get the idea.
A much more insightful study would be patents/person by year. I would imagine that this figure has also gone up, though likely not quite with an exponential dependence. Most interesting would be sharp jumps in this curve that one might associate with specific events, like WWII, certain presidents getting elected, new USPTO directors, and so on.
...free beer. WHAT? You're kidding. What's the company's name? AGI? I'm applying.