User: covertlaw

GAAP

On: Red Hat In The Black for Q3

That's funny, I seem to remember learning the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles when I took Accounting I five years ago. And I remember my professor said that she learned them fifteen years before that. So what is this recently developed crap all about?

Maybe recently embraced by those who weren't following them, but not recently developed.

Of course, anyone who can get people to invest in them when they've never posted a profit and never will, like the dot-bombs and Sprint PCS, is a pure genius.

Sturdy Computers?

On: Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10

Apple //e has been running good now for 17 years, no crashes yet, still reads the original 5 1/4 inch "An Introduction" DSDD disk too. 128KB RAM with the 80 column extension card, DuoDisk dual drive, real Apple RGB monitor that still has good color.

Macs have nothing on the Apple // series. I've seen too many with broken floppy drives (the original "SuperDrive") and burned out logic boards and power supplies.

The Apple // series was the pinnacle of 'Keep It Simple Stupid' computing. Maybe if NASA kept its newer probes to the Pioneer/Voyager KISS philosophy they wouldn't be crashing into Mars or simply crashing their programs.

Simplicity = reliability

Been there, done that

On: Jet Turbine Locomotives

Union Pacific Railroad did this in 1952. They figured out they were too loud and sucked down too much fuel oil. http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/loco/locohs05. shtml