Instead of just writing an option, the company could buy them on the open market and THEN give them to the employee. Basis price? Whatever they paid. Company's loss reported? Basis Price + transaction fee.
If they write the option themselves, the only way to value it would be by comparison, and out of the money LEAPs are extremely illiquid, so recent sales prices may not be trustworthy. You could split the bid and ask, but those are probably not all that reliable either. You'd have to have recent time stamps on the bid and ask.
I'm sure some 500 page manual will cover how to properly account for these options.
The point is that the company, in order to sell that share of stock to the employee, has to buy the share at the market price, unless it already owned the share.
The company can not simply create more shares without shareholder approval. The company can purchase shares on the open market now or at time of exercise, or hold on to existing shares already owned and dole them out at exercise, or buy back the options at an agreed upon price, or buy options on the open market to limit risk of exercise, etc, etc.
None of these increase the total number of shares in the market.
However, they do make the stock worth less to the investor because of the risk of exercise. The amount of the risk depends upon the strategy the company decided upon above. Stock Market theory says that this information is already figured into the stock price.
The Kirkpatrick Air and Space Museum (in the Omniplex) in Oklahoma City has one of the bells. I can't remember if the entire engine is there. But just looking at the Bell, I can only imagine what the rocket must look like. Well, I'll be in Tampa next week, so I'll have to do a little drive over the weekend.
I hear you. I read "Japan is going to employ robots..." and wondered whether the robots were currently 1099 and how converting them to employees was going to do anything about a labor shortage.
Also wondered about their pay scale, 401k and medical benefits, and wondered how much it would cost to build an aluminum suit to my proportions.
>...we are very close to the limits of silicon based CPUs
Crap. Now programmers will have to go back to programming efficiently instead of depending on increasing CPU and cheap memory and disk.
Hey, it's not all bad. "Real" programmers will probably go back to being upper middle class instead of lower middle class.
In my house, the desk is built in. With my 21" CRT monitor on the desk, I almost have enough room left for my keyboard. Id' much rather have a flat panel LCD sitting further back on my desk so I can put the keyboard on the desk and sit at a comfortable distance from the monitor. Unfortunately, flat panel 21" LCD monitors are beyond my price range.
I agree, and the way that the eye recognizes text (basically rapidly moving back and forth and up and down to detect edges) means that the more distinct the edge of the text is, the less your eye has to strain. Overlapping color masks on CRTs intentionally cause analog blur because it presents a more blended picture, but it is harder on the eyes for reading text than an LCD where this pixel is absolutely ON and the next is absolutely OFF.
Since this comes from Best Buy, I probably have to disagree with everything, but in specific I disagree with their statement that DLP sets are more bulky than LCD sets. Among my several reasons for getting DLP over projection LCD was that the DLP set I got was thinner than the LCD projection sets. My 53" DLP is only 15 inches deep. The equivalent size projection LCDs were 18".
>OTOH a jaguar (any jaguar) is a very nice car, with a smooth ride, a comfortable interior, lots of perks, etc
And you can buy a three year old one for about the same price as a three year old Honda Accord. I wonder why that is?
>I can't imagine how bad a PS2 or an Xbox looks on a fixed resolution set... *shudder*
On my DLP, PS2 looks very UNbad. Considering that I have 4 "fixed" resolutions to choose from on the set, and the games I play include options for 16:9 viewing, it looks very, very good indeed.
I do see some artifacts on my non-HD cable signal from what I presume is de-interlacing of the signal. This shows up mostly during fast action scenes. But on HD DVDs or games, the picture is amazing.
I disagree. At any given moment, within 5 miles of a busy airport, assuming 5 large airplanes are aloft in that range (very unlikely) with a cross sectional area of 400 square feet each, the chances of randomly hitting one of the airplanes instead of empty space is a little less than 1 in one million. The chance of hitting
the cockpit window is several hundred times less. The chance of hitting the cockpit window twice (randomly) is 1 in nearly 12 quadrillion.
Of course if you do it for a period of time, the chances go up.
But if you do it in purpose the chances are more like 1 in 1.
>Was he trying to blind pilots?
It doesn't matter. He did.
>Is there any reason to think that was his intent?
Intent is irrelevant when your action causes harm.
>Is there any reason to think that this could have succeeded, had he gotten the pilot and copilot to stare at the beam for several minutes?
Temporary blindness is long enough to throw the wrong switch, or not throw one that you needed to, and get you into a difficult situation in the most intense stage of flight (landing).
You don't play games with consequences that you can't be sure of when there are so many lives at stake.
And his luck is so bad that he accidentally shone it on the
I'm alright with tossing tossers in jail for shining a laser light ANYWHERE on an airplane.
It doesn't matter if he knew it would crash the plane. It is illegal anyway. Just because he doesn't know why it is illegal or the amount of damage his actions can cause does not excuse him from it. Ignorance of the consequence of disobeying the law is even less excuse than ignorance of the law itself.
Sorry for the confusion. He originally had questions about both GPS and geosynchronous satellites. I answered both in the same paragraph, but should have been more clear that I was answering two different questions.
It's a shame this was modded down. I guess the moderators feel that anyone advocating finding a good charity instead of throwing your money into a hole in the ground deserves to be modded down.
But hey, Red Cross is better than United Way. United Way is almost as bad as the U.S. government about giving away your contributions to charities that you personally may not agree with. Plus the United Way has ridiculously high administrative costs.
I read that Red Cross has collected over $18 million. And that is only one of tens of thousands of organizations across the United States. That is pretty significant.
People complaining about who gives money and who doesn't sound to me like spoiled children. Spoiled children complain about who doesn't give them a gift, or gives them only a small gift at Christmas. Good children thank the people who DID get them a gift.
I propose that we make the driver's test about five times more difficult. If you can't pass it, you have to move downtown and use public transportation. Driving is a privelege, but we treat it as a right.
>My point of mentioning the Cross-Bronx Expressway was that the designers "intentionally directed the expressway through poor neighborhoods", see the Wikipedia link.
Oklahoma City is about to redo our crosstown expressway, with apparently the same intent of routing it through the poor Mexican area. Not that there is really a heck of a lot of choice, what with downtown just to the north, and the bypass (which, is naturally much busier than the crosstown) to the south.
>The point of building a new, severly limited access interstate is to move the approximately 45% of traffic coming to-from Mexico that only stops in Texas for gas and lodging out of the major travel ways for intra-state traffic.
So are they going to make the Oklahoma City Immigration office an official office now, instead of a sub-office of the Dallas one?
Also, this could be a humanitarian disaster. The people of Mexico are already dying in truck trailers and railroad cars in Texas. How much worse is it going to be when they try to get all the way to Oklahoma?
Which sounds good for people trying to get across long distances failry quickly, but for freight, having few stops in between, it would seem more economical to use trains instead.
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Instead of just writing an option, the company could buy them on the open market and THEN give them to the employee. Basis price? Whatever they paid. Company's loss reported? Basis Price + transaction fee.
If they write the option themselves, the only way to value it would be by comparison, and out of the money LEAPs are extremely illiquid, so recent sales prices may not be trustworthy. You could split the bid and ask, but those are probably not all that reliable either. You'd have to have recent time stamps on the bid and ask.
I'm sure some 500 page manual will cover how to properly account for these options.
The point is that the company, in order to sell that share of stock to the employee, has to buy the share at the market price, unless it already owned the share.
The company can not simply create more shares without shareholder approval. The company can purchase shares on the open market now or at time of exercise, or hold on to existing shares already owned and dole them out at exercise, or buy back the options at an agreed upon price, or buy options on the open market to limit risk of exercise, etc, etc. None of these increase the total number of shares in the market. However, they do make the stock worth less to the investor because of the risk of exercise. The amount of the risk depends upon the strategy the company decided upon above. Stock Market theory says that this information is already figured into the stock price.
The Kirkpatrick Air and Space Museum (in the Omniplex) in Oklahoma City has one of the bells. I can't remember if the entire engine is there. But just looking at the Bell, I can only imagine what the rocket must look like. Well, I'll be in Tampa next week, so I'll have to do a little drive over the weekend.
I hear you. I read "Japan is going to employ robots ..." and wondered whether the robots were currently 1099 and how converting them to employees was going to do anything about a labor shortage.
Also wondered about their pay scale, 401k and medical benefits, and wondered how much it would cost to build an aluminum suit to my proportions.
>...we are very close to the limits of silicon based CPUs
Crap. Now programmers will have to go back to programming efficiently instead of depending on increasing CPU and cheap memory and disk.
Hey, it's not all bad. "Real" programmers will probably go back to being upper middle class instead of lower middle class.
In my house, the desk is built in. With my 21" CRT monitor on the desk, I almost have enough room left for my keyboard. Id' much rather have a flat panel LCD sitting further back on my desk so I can put the keyboard on the desk and sit at a comfortable distance from the monitor. Unfortunately, flat panel 21" LCD monitors are beyond my price range.
I agree, and the way that the eye recognizes text (basically rapidly moving back and forth and up and down to detect edges) means that the more distinct the edge of the text is, the less your eye has to strain. Overlapping color masks on CRTs intentionally cause analog blur because it presents a more blended picture, but it is harder on the eyes for reading text than an LCD where this pixel is absolutely ON and the next is absolutely OFF.
Since this comes from Best Buy, I probably have to disagree with everything, but in specific I disagree with their statement that DLP sets are more bulky than LCD sets. Among my several reasons for getting DLP over projection LCD was that the DLP set I got was thinner than the LCD projection sets. My 53" DLP is only 15 inches deep. The equivalent size projection LCDs were 18".
>OTOH a jaguar (any jaguar) is a very nice car, with a smooth ride, a comfortable interior, lots of perks, etc
And you can buy a three year old one for about the same price as a three year old Honda Accord. I wonder why that is?
>I can't imagine how bad a PS2 or an Xbox looks on a fixed resolution set... *shudder*
On my DLP, PS2 looks very UNbad. Considering that I have 4 "fixed" resolutions to choose from on the set, and the games I play include options for 16:9 viewing, it looks very, very good indeed.
I do see some artifacts on my non-HD cable signal from what I presume is de-interlacing of the signal. This shows up mostly during fast action scenes. But on HD DVDs or games, the picture is amazing.
Look again. DLP is much cheaper than plasma. It may be more expensive than projection LCD, but the quality looks better to me.
I disagree. At any given moment, within 5 miles of a busy airport, assuming 5 large airplanes are aloft in that range (very unlikely) with a cross sectional area of 400 square feet each, the chances of randomly hitting one of the airplanes instead of empty space is a little less than 1 in one million. The chance of hitting the cockpit window is several hundred times less. The chance of hitting the cockpit window twice (randomly) is 1 in nearly 12 quadrillion. Of course if you do it for a period of time, the chances go up.
But if you do it in purpose the chances are more like 1 in 1.
>Was he trying to blind pilots?
It doesn't matter. He did.
>Is there any reason to think that was his intent?
Intent is irrelevant when your action causes harm.
>Is there any reason to think that this could have succeeded, had he gotten the pilot and copilot to stare at the beam for several minutes?
Temporary blindness is long enough to throw the wrong switch, or not throw one that you needed to, and get you into a difficult situation in the most intense stage of flight (landing).
You don't play games with consequences that you can't be sure of when there are so many lives at stake.
And his luck is so bad that he accidentally shone it on the I'm alright with tossing tossers in jail for shining a laser light ANYWHERE on an airplane.
It doesn't matter if he knew it would crash the plane. It is illegal anyway. Just because he doesn't know why it is illegal or the amount of damage his actions can cause does not excuse him from it. Ignorance of the consequence of disobeying the law is even less excuse than ignorance of the law itself.
Sorry for the confusion. He originally had questions about both GPS and geosynchronous satellites. I answered both in the same paragraph, but should have been more clear that I was answering two different questions.
It's a shame this was modded down. I guess the moderators feel that anyone advocating finding a good charity instead of throwing your money into a hole in the ground deserves to be modded down.
But hey, Red Cross is better than United Way. United Way is almost as bad as the U.S. government about giving away your contributions to charities that you personally may not agree with. Plus the United Way has ridiculously high administrative costs.
I read that Red Cross has collected over $18 million. And that is only one of tens of thousands of organizations across the United States. That is pretty significant.
People complaining about who gives money and who doesn't sound to me like spoiled children. Spoiled children complain about who doesn't give them a gift, or gives them only a small gift at Christmas. Good children thank the people who DID get them a gift.
The Pentagon would have been a legitimate target had we been at war, which we weren't. So that was also murder.
I propose that we make the driver's test about five times more difficult. If you can't pass it, you have to move downtown and use public transportation. Driving is a privelege, but we treat it as a right.
>My point of mentioning the Cross-Bronx Expressway was that the designers "intentionally directed the expressway through poor neighborhoods", see the Wikipedia link.
Oklahoma City is about to redo our crosstown expressway, with apparently the same intent of routing it through the poor Mexican area. Not that there is really a heck of a lot of choice, what with downtown just to the north, and the bypass (which, is naturally much busier than the crosstown) to the south.
>The point of building a new, severly limited access interstate is to move the approximately 45% of traffic coming to-from Mexico that only stops in Texas for gas and lodging out of the major travel ways for intra-state traffic.
So are they going to make the Oklahoma City Immigration office an official office now, instead of a sub-office of the Dallas one?
Also, this could be a humanitarian disaster. The people of Mexico are already dying in truck trailers and railroad cars in Texas. How much worse is it going to be when they try to get all the way to Oklahoma?
Which sounds good for people trying to get across long distances failry quickly, but for freight, having few stops in between, it would seem more economical to use trains instead.
See, Texas is so big, it can't be measured in mere kilometers.