told the FBI for years they could not do some things with phone calls (reverse trace I think - ie this number was called at time x - where did it come from) for technical reasons when they could just that it was too much work for them. This was in 60's I think. I read this about 15 years ago so please be gentle with if I got the details wrong. And no I don't remember the book.
"Write-downs of intangible assets may be necessary if the future fair value of these assets is less than carrying value. "
Here is the business model: 1. Court case goes against SCO (ie Linux in the clear) 2. SCO writes down value of all future UNIX licensing - an amazingly huge negative number, eg value all future linux downloads at @$700 pop (eg =$700 * 1m * 100 years and calulate an NPV, and subtract this from your balance sheet 3. Sell the corporate entity with the embedded tax losses to company that has massive cash flows and tax bills for profit.
Research Position Grinham Managed Funds Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Grinham Managed Funds is one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest Hedge Fund Managers. Managing in excess of $1 billion we trade in over 40 futures markets into 9 countries, 24 hours a day.
We are looking for an individual to fill a newly created permanent research position. The primary task will be to undertake research into the detection and exploitation of robust statistically significant patterns within financial time series data. This is a task which has the potential to encompass a diverse range of research directions. Consequently the role will have a broad scope.
The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in physics, statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering or a related field. All levels of experience will be considered. Competency in software development is essential and knowledge of one or more of C/C++, R/S+, Matlab/Octave or related languages will be required. Past research experience in any of the fields of complex systems, statistical and numerical analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, time series modelling or related would be highly regarded. Prior knowledge of or experience in finance is however not a pre-requisite. Applicants should be willing to work closely with other researchers and with I.T. professionals within the company.
This is an exciting, intellectually challenging and rewarding role for someone with enthusiasm and imagination. The work environment is friendly and informal. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Bonuses are linked to the individual's and to the firm's performance.
Individuals who are interested may apply by emailing their resume to: Research@gmf.com.au
"we don't have the seed's planted by a previous empire and barbarian hordes to force us out of stagnation."
Possible but unlikely we will all die in WWIII, so I think China, Russia and South America will be the barbarian hordes "sacking Rome" over the next 20 years as they get their act together, lucky if you are born there in 10 or so years, but kind off sucks right now.
"In January 1997, the deal was done and Prudential Insurance bought the whole issue--$55 million worth" http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID =3450
Apparently the market is till quite small - most deals around $10m-$20m and now more than about $100m a year.
"More feasible, IMHO, is dropping support for SCO's platforms"
How about the reverse? Identify what current SCO platforms do uniquely/better and design a replacemenent. This would work best if it was just software.BEGIN/*Linux/BSD/UNIX/OSX flameware*/... END/*Linux/BSD/UNIX/OSX flameware*/
Does SCO sell hardware, if so what about their hardware is unique. Identify replacements and publish, ideally with code replacement links, so SCO users have a viable replacement.
Maybe not a big impact on SCO/Canopy, but if SCO/Canopy goes down in a big way, the participants in such a project could be looking at some juicy consulting contracts from users now bereft of support and finding people who already know their problem is just a short Googling away.
I am surprised this has not come up before... Downloading kills back catalog bond deals.
http://www.pullmanco.com/article136.htm
"Pullman had helped assemble for David Bowie the first-ever securitization of a music artist's royalties. The sale of those Bowie Bonds in 1997 gave Bowie $55 million upfront; in exchange, the buyer of the bonds had the right to receive the future revenue generated by Bowie's catalog until the principal plus 8% interest was repaid. "
Other bands have done similar deals.
How do you do bond deals ($ for lawyers/bankers/deal makers) if people are downloading the stuff? Specifically would you "lend" money to an artist against a future revenue stream that may be completely demolished? Perhaps but not at an effective interest rate agreeable to the artist/copyright holder.
"Furthermore, what constitutes a measurement? " Very good point.
". If they're really separated by miles,...
They're not really separated by miles"
My beef with this is the (I think and may be sadly wrong) conceptual flaw people have that these particles are separated. With no measurement performed on them they aren't anywhere (Copenhagen Interpretation I know). Measurement performed they are somewhere and at this point the separation between the measurement devices is relevant - but information does not necessarily have to have been sent miles/lightyears/cm.
Slashdot Mirror
What sort of access does the patch have? Has anyone tested the permissions the "kernel" allows it?
Hmmm -
1. send word doc IRM enabled
2. RM software reads it and crashes/overflows/executes stuff for you
3. You own them profitably
I was never elitist any cold beer or living woman (preferably both at the same time) was fine.
was a bit of a shock to me when I got to ANU and found I had to learn a whole ne classification system as I knew my Dewey well.
Ah well - QA was most of what I needed.
told the FBI for years they could not do some things with phone calls (reverse trace I think - ie this number was called at time x - where did it come from) for technical reasons when they could just that it was too much work for them. This was in 60's I think. I read this about 15 years ago so please be gentle with if I got the details wrong. And no I don't remember the book.
You missed the good bit:
/.
"Write-downs of intangible assets may be necessary if the future fair value of these assets is less than carrying value. "
Here is the business model:
1. Court case goes against SCO (ie Linux in the clear)
2. SCO writes down value of all future UNIX licensing - an amazingly huge negative number, eg value all future linux downloads at @$700 pop (eg =$700 * 1m * 100 years and calulate an NPV, and subtract this from your balance sheet
3. Sell the corporate entity with the embedded tax losses to company that has massive cash flows and tax bills for profit.
Maybe Darl & Co has been reading
Who has been getting the shares?
This came through on a list I subscribe to:
:
Research Position
Grinham Managed Funds
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Grinham Managed Funds is one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest Hedge
Fund
Managers. Managing in excess of $1 billion we trade in over 40 futures
markets into 9 countries, 24 hours a day.
We are looking for an individual to fill a newly created permanent
research
position. The primary task will be to undertake research into the
detection
and exploitation of robust statistically significant patterns within
financial time series data. This is a task which has the potential to
encompass a diverse range of research directions. Consequently the role
will
have a broad scope.
The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in physics, statistics,
mathematics, computer science, engineering or a related field. All
levels of
experience will be considered. Competency in software development is
essential and knowledge of one or more of C/C++, R/S+, Matlab/Octave or
related languages will be required. Past research experience in any of
the
fields of complex systems, statistical and numerical analysis, machine
learning, pattern recognition, time series modelling or related would
be
highly regarded. Prior knowledge of or experience in finance is however
not
a pre-requisite. Applicants should be willing to work closely with
other
researchers and with I.T. professionals within the company.
This is an exciting, intellectually challenging and rewarding role for
someone with enthusiasm and imagination. The work environment is
friendly
and informal. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Bonuses are
linked to the individual's and to the firm's performance.
Individuals who are interested may apply by emailing their resume to
Research@gmf.com.au
"we don't have the seed's planted by a previous empire and barbarian hordes to force us out of stagnation."
Possible but unlikely we will all die in WWIII, so I think China, Russia and South America will be the barbarian hordes "sacking Rome" over the next 20 years as they get their act together, lucky if you are born there in 10 or so years, but kind off sucks right now.
Prudential Insurance
"In January 1997, the deal was done and Prudential Insurance bought the whole issue--$55 million worth"
http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?I
Apparently the market is till quite small - most deals around $10m-$20m and now more than about $100m a year.
"More feasible, IMHO, is dropping support for SCO's platforms"
/*Linux/BSD/UNIX/OSX flameware*/ ... /*Linux/BSD/UNIX/OSX flameware*/
How about the reverse? Identify what current SCO platforms do uniquely/better and design a replacemenent. This would work best if it was just software.BEGIN
END
Does SCO sell hardware, if so what about their hardware is unique. Identify replacements and publish, ideally with code replacement links, so SCO users have a viable replacement.
Maybe not a big impact on SCO/Canopy, but if SCO/Canopy goes down in a big way, the participants in such a project could be looking at some juicy consulting contracts from users now bereft of support and finding people who already know their problem is just a short Googling away.
And what the RIAA etc want to protect.
Specifically Bowie already has his money.
I am surprised this has not come up before... Downloading kills back catalog bond deals.
http://www.pullmanco.com/article136.htm
"Pullman had helped assemble for David Bowie the first-ever securitization of a music artist's royalties. The sale of those Bowie Bonds in 1997 gave Bowie $55 million upfront; in exchange, the buyer of the bonds had the right to receive the future revenue generated by Bowie's catalog until the principal plus 8% interest was repaid. "
Other bands have done similar deals.
How do you do bond deals ($ for lawyers/bankers/deal makers) if people are downloading the stuff? Specifically would you "lend" money to an artist against a future revenue stream that may be completely demolished? Perhaps but not at an effective interest rate agreeable to the artist/copyright holder.
Get IBM to sponsor the next /. meetups?
sqrt(-pi) = 1.77245385 i
Note how it takes a named constant
Have you tried searching with results?
for one welcome our newly back from the dead overlord.
Heinlein as planetary dictator? I could think of people with worse ideas on how to run things.
MinX is just outside the new office
..are hot
One elephant is about one CowboyNeal
Note this quote:
"- or paying hundreds of dollars for open relays);
"
Que? Who are they paying for this?
Also try
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html
USENET sci.physics.research
Definitely not having a go at you.
...
"Furthermore, what constitutes a measurement? "
Very good point.
". If they're really separated by miles,
They're not really separated by miles"
My beef with this is the (I think and may be sadly wrong) conceptual flaw people have that these particles are separated. With no measurement performed on them they aren't anywhere (Copenhagen Interpretation I know). Measurement performed they are somewhere and at this point the separation between the measurement devices is relevant - but information does not necessarily have to have been sent miles/lightyears/cm.
The external fuel tanks from the shuttle - which are (almost criminally) wasted.
They could have been left in orbit and recycled into a space station.
But too much work and a safety hazard for NASA.
For a sci-fi look try finding the short story "Tank Farm Dynamo" by David Brin
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/
. au/APPLETS/A pplets.html
Lots of good stuff here
Applets:
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net
Some of the applets/code has/is being used by real physicists looking at this stuff
Shhh - otherwise the Devil will try a buffer overflow attack
it is not too early
As it is Gods Own Beer - the relevant choice would be a install compiled direct from Linus' own tree.