IBM has sold their PC business in a complex arrangement where, 'under the deal, IBM will keep an 18.9 percent stake in Levono. Lenovo will pay $1.25 billion for the IBM PC unit and assume debt, which will bring the total cost to $1.75 billion. Lenovo will pay roughtly $650 million in cash and $600 million in securities.' Plus, Lenovo will be able to use the IBM and Think names for 5 years."
Geez. You know someone got tossed into the Gorge Of Eternal Peril before the ink dried on that one.
Add one more company and you have a huge game of three card monte.
There's an article like this every year, and it's dumb.
I've had my writing published (and, yes, got paid for it), but many of my emails at work would be just as foggy to someone not up to speed with the persons and topics involved. It's really just a case of shorthand - saving a few unecessary keystrokes here and there.
Honestly, the number of professional emails I receive where the author is truly battling an inability to write number perhaps 1 in 1000.
Why? I was doing trig by 6th grade. Is there a point to making me look up numbers on sine and cosine tables? Is there a point to making me do square roots and reciprocals by hand? And most of the time you do the basic +-*/ stuff by hand anyway because it's quicker.
No. Calculators are not the problem. The culture is.
Our culture almost literally demonizes intelligence with very few exceptions where the smart person has become wealthy, and even then they are ridiculed. Song wailing screetch-whores, ball bouncing troglodyes and script parsing retards are this society's biggest heros. Scientists and engineers and anyone whose job requires anything beyond calculating a 15% tip are depicted in the entertainment media as dorks and freaks and losers. Being smart in not "cool". It probably never was, but as far as I can tell, it was never the subject of ridicule until the second half of the 20th century.
I have actually overheard parents, on multiple occasions, fret over their child doing "too well" in school and lamenting that their child is turning into a "brain." This is the mindset in this country. The USA has been mongrelizing itself for more than half a century, and it is not going to get any better. And for you PC-Nazi asshats, my use of mongrelizing has nothing to do with race and everything to do with mindsets. We have deep cultural problems in this country concerning work ethics, or ethics of any kind.
The other problem is that no one has an original thought in their heads anymore. I bet you real cash there will be multiple red state blue state comments on this thread despite the fact that there are no red states and blue states. Break it down by House districts, and the map is very amorphous. Even here on Slashdot, where you'd hope people are a little smarter, you see the same blinkered ideologies, intellectual prejudices and mythic hoohah that infects the general population. I used to enjoy discussing current events at work with other engineers and scientists, but all I get back these days is Party slogans, urban myth and monochromatic blithering.
Well, that may actually *be* the best answer: Get and iMac or PC with Photoshop or whatever, and stop dicking around with more involved "solutions" that produce unpredictable results. The OP *did* ask what professionals do, and every freelance pro I have ever met has invested well in his or her equipment because they place a dollar amount on their *time* spent. An hour spent trying to get Operating System Z to scan properly is an hour not spent doing real work.
I think the problem is that "freelance" is open to interpretation. To me it means an independent writer/photographer (not on the staff of any company or service) who generates some noticable fraction of their income from these activities. If that's the case, then the equipment can be a writeoff, and a 20" iMac costs less than the camera that would be bought to produce marketable output.
Why not? One is mostly business oriented and the other is mostly consumer oriented, and both would probably like a piece of the other pie. The PPC chips are an existing bond. I think it might be a good idea.
The real burning question of utmost importance is what do you call the beast?
Ah, you are correct. I took "puta' as "puto", which is commonly used for "faggot" here on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Local dialect issue, I guess.
So, you are not a homophobe. You are just an ordinary run of the mill dumbass.:-)
Have a whack at this one: Siete una macchietta piccola insignificante.
IBM is a company focused on growing its services biz and Apple has none.
Apple is primarily a B2C company and IBM is B2B.
The optimal merger is not between two companies that do the same thing. The optimal merger is between two companies that do different but complimentary things.
You are correct, sir. Current theories require a star of 4 solar masses to reach iron. However, if your intent was to make me feel bad and compare that error to the vast idiocies in the original post, you have failed in your task.
If you could issue bonds, and had legally enforced income from taxpayers, you could go into more debt as well.
Not that I like the high debt, but the old chestnut of comparing your personal debt management to the federal government's is something you are supposed to leave behind in middle school.
Some questions never asked, due to totalitarian "no debate" from Tom "The Exterminator" Delay:
*snore*
What will it really cost?
Thirty-teen million zillion quatloos.
What NASA programs will be cut to fund it?
The Mountain Dew fountain in the programmers lounge will have to be shut down, and "Anime Fridays!" at the Kennedy Space Center will now only occur every other week.
How will other science agencies be affected?
The NIH will have to release all its hyperintelligent mice into the wild.
There is not a single scientific fact that contradicts that the sun one day will burn out and die. This will have extremely bad consequences for us. The first step is obviously to get of this planet, but this only gives human kind a few extra thousand years.
I'm an advocate of long term planning, but worrying about an event several BILLION years in the future is taking things to a ridiculous extreme. The sun has billions of years left, not thousands. And it won't just burnout. It will swell up probably past Earth's orbit for a bit, and then shrink to a white dwarf and stay that way for quite a long time- presumably until much of material is fused into iron.
If we can move planets by then, the Earth could be backed away during the giant stage, and then moved in to huddle close to the dwarf. Assuming platetary mobility, the Earth could even be moved to a more agreeable star. Given the proper engineering and tools, the Earth could *outlast* the Sun.
We must as soon as possible spread out beyond this galaxy to ensure the survival of humans and perhaps life in general.
I think you mean solar system, and not galaxy. Using galaxy when one really means star systems is a common mistake made by those who don't have a clue what the fuck they are talking about.
We must leave. Now. Immediately. The clock is ticking, and NASA has far from the needed funds for this project. In fact, human long-term survival would be best served by all members of humanity gathering around the single goal of Getting us the hell Off This Planet ASAP.
Have you tried hitchhiking?
You don't want more of this?
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THEN DON'T GO SEE IT!
Don't rent it, either. Wait until it's can be seen someplace where your viewing of it does no contribute any extra to it's coffers. Encourage others to give it a miss.
I lost track long ago of the number of times I have heard people say, "It's going to suck! I *have* to see it!" And then the same people wonder wny most movies blow white hot chunks.
If you must have the needs and character of a three year old, at least have some patience (is it *that* emotionally difficult to avoid seeing a suckfest?) and view it in a way that does not encourage Hollywood to make any more.
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Geez. You know someone got tossed into the Gorge Of Eternal Peril before the ink dried on that one.
Add one more company and you have a huge game of three card monte.
I've had my writing published (and, yes, got paid for it), but many of my emails at work would be just as foggy to someone not up to speed with the persons and topics involved. It's really just a case of shorthand - saving a few unecessary keystrokes here and there.
Honestly, the number of professional emails I receive where the author is truly battling an inability to write number perhaps 1 in 1000.
Why? I was doing trig by 6th grade. Is there a point to making me look up numbers on sine and cosine tables? Is there a point to making me do square roots and reciprocals by hand? And most of the time you do the basic +-*/ stuff by hand anyway because it's quicker.
No. Calculators are not the problem. The culture is.
A third of forty is 13 1/3.
I have actually overheard parents, on multiple occasions, fret over their child doing "too well" in school and lamenting that their child is turning into a "brain." This is the mindset in this country. The USA has been mongrelizing itself for more than half a century, and it is not going to get any better. And for you PC-Nazi asshats, my use of mongrelizing has nothing to do with race and everything to do with mindsets. We have deep cultural problems in this country concerning work ethics, or ethics of any kind.
The other problem is that no one has an original thought in their heads anymore. I bet you real cash there will be multiple red state blue state comments on this thread despite the fact that there are no red states and blue states. Break it down by House districts, and the map is very amorphous. Even here on Slashdot, where you'd hope people are a little smarter, you see the same blinkered ideologies, intellectual prejudices and mythic hoohah that infects the general population. I used to enjoy discussing current events at work with other engineers and scientists, but all I get back these days is Party slogans, urban myth and monochromatic blithering.
And so, I root for the ELE asteroid.
A poor Photoshop job?
It's also called "being a nice person" which I realize is an alien concept in this day and age.
Try these: http://icandream.com/crafts/a/ribbon/fish/index.sh tml
I'm 39 and I like making these when I'm relaxing after work. I give them away to the ladies at work, and I am beloved. ;-)
A drunken minor behind the wheel of mom's Ford Excursion costs me far, far more than that should I encounter the illbred little monster on the road.
Hey, just presenting a contrarian view. Was it at least an interesting learning experience?
I think the problem is that "freelance" is open to interpretation. To me it means an independent writer/photographer (not on the staff of any company or service) who generates some noticable fraction of their income from these activities. If that's the case, then the equipment can be a writeoff, and a 20" iMac costs less than the camera that would be bought to produce marketable output.
Man, you are *way* to easy. :-)
The real burning question of utmost importance is what do you call the beast?
So, you are not a homophobe. You are just an ordinary run of the mill dumbass. :-)
Have a whack at this one: Siete una macchietta piccola insignificante.
OK, I'm bored with you.
The optimal merger is not between two companies that do the same thing. The optimal merger is between two companies that do different but complimentary things.
You are correct, sir. Current theories require a star of 4 solar masses to reach iron. However, if your intent was to make me feel bad and compare that error to the vast idiocies in the original post, you have failed in your task.
Usted es un pequeño muchacho pathetic.
Not that I like the high debt, but the old chestnut of comparing your personal debt management to the federal government's is something you are supposed to leave behind in middle school.
*snore*
What will it really cost?
Thirty-teen million zillion quatloos.
What NASA programs will be cut to fund it?
The Mountain Dew fountain in the programmers lounge will have to be shut down, and "Anime Fridays!" at the Kennedy Space Center will now only occur every other week.
How will other science agencies be affected?
The NIH will have to release all its hyperintelligent mice into the wild.
Welcome to the United States of Mexico.
Usted está siendo un tonto.
I'm an advocate of long term planning, but worrying about an event several BILLION years in the future is taking things to a ridiculous extreme. The sun has billions of years left, not thousands. And it won't just burnout. It will swell up probably past Earth's orbit for a bit, and then shrink to a white dwarf and stay that way for quite a long time- presumably until much of material is fused into iron.
If we can move planets by then, the Earth could be backed away during the giant stage, and then moved in to huddle close to the dwarf. Assuming platetary mobility, the Earth could even be moved to a more agreeable star. Given the proper engineering and tools, the Earth could *outlast* the Sun.
We must as soon as possible spread out beyond this galaxy to ensure the survival of humans and perhaps life in general.
I think you mean solar system, and not galaxy. Using galaxy when one really means star systems is a common mistake made by those who don't have a clue what the fuck they are talking about.
We must leave. Now. Immediately. The clock is ticking, and NASA has far from the needed funds for this project. In fact, human long-term survival would be best served by all members of humanity gathering around the single goal of Getting us the hell Off This Planet ASAP.
Have you tried hitchhiking?
Don't rent it, either. Wait until it's can be seen someplace where your viewing of it does no contribute any extra to it's coffers. Encourage others to give it a miss.
I lost track long ago of the number of times I have heard people say, "It's going to suck! I *have* to see it!" And then the same people wonder wny most movies blow white hot chunks.
If you must have the needs and character of a three year old, at least have some patience (is it *that* emotionally difficult to avoid seeing a suckfest?) and view it in a way that does not encourage Hollywood to make any more.
I'm right, aren't I?
I'll pass.
God help us if it's both.
If you like living with legions of giant, evil insects. :-P Although they are occasionally washed away by the hurricanes, I suppose.
Isn't the limited human lifespan one of the things keeping us from the Soylent Green scenario?
At what life expectancy does the next generation shift from being our greatest hope to our greatest threat?