Here's an excerpt from the AP feed: Microsoft shares rose 85 cents, or 3.5 percent, to close at $25.30 in Friday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The company reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings after financial markets closed on Thursday.
For the quarter ending March 31, the Redmond, Wash.-based company earned $2.56 billion, or 23 cents per share, up from $1.32 billion, or 12 cents per share, a year ago.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were looking for the company to post earnings of 32 cents per share on sales of $9.83 billion in the latest quarter. The company would have met earnings expectations, except for legal charges of 5 cents a share and a 4-cent-per-share charge for the expense of stock-based compensation required under new accounting rules.
Revenue is important but profit even more so. MSFT closed up today 3.48%
Real estate are typically leases in commercial retail space which can be sublet. Payroll I'll grant you, but the average wage has be close to minimums for retail store employees (the bulk of the company).
Brick and mortar isn't going away any time soon. There's a lot more to the "shopping experience" than just driving to the store to buy something. Heck, my wife (and many others) can tell you that.
Well, reading TFA, it would seem that video on demand from cable is in this race, and looks to be the odds on winner...
Really? Do you think you'll be able to watch the movie as many times as you want in a given period for a fixed fee? Can you "lend" your copy to a friend? I'm also pretty sure that they will devise some way to "force" you to watch advertising (granted, DVDs do this too, but it appears that may be changing based on recent proposed legislation).
I'm sorry, but I believe that saying Video on Demand will replace DVDs is a lot like saying eBooks will replace paper (and I'm a big eBook proponent).
I don't know a single person that uses Netflix so that's rather difficult. I also haven't heard it *anywhere* other than on Slashdot. I wouldn't even know it existed otherwise.
They have 1.5 million customers. Clearly somebody is using it. In our little corp headquarters office or 25 people I can think of 4 people who use it (myself included) and the other 3 are definitely not in the Slashdot demographic.
It's pretty clear that Blockbuster has the size, relationahsips, channel, and most importantly, money to crush Netflix. Each day that passes is, in reality another day that the value of the company decreases. Rather than "talking with Amazon" or thinking they can get a bazillion dollar deal, Netflix should get off their collective butts and start shopping around.
Who would buy them? Well Walmart is an obvious choice. The current offerring sucks. Barnes & Noble? Target? I'm sure there are others, these are the only ones that immediately jump to mind.
I had the privelege to listen to Adams speak at a lunch in San Jose back in '96. He was a very engaging and entertaining speaker and was very approachable afterwards to just chat.
The detachable battery provides a nice, replaceable module, don't you think? Assuming they can get their hands on your phone for say, 30 seconds or so.
My first exposure to list ( and a mirror of book )
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Practical Common Lisp
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· Score: 3, Informative
Whenever I think of Lisp, I'm transported back in time to 1975 where I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to learn this as my 2nd programming language after Fortran IV (on a DECsystem-10, no less).
I never revisited Lisp. Perhaps now that I have the book, I'll give it a shot.
You can download a copy here if the main site is too busy. ~
Well, since posting the mirror, it's been downloaded over 13,000 times. Either the machine can handle a boatload of simultaneous connections, or it's taking a lot less than 45 minutes to download, thank you very much.
So, if you do and they then sic the attack-lawyers on you, why are you surprised? Because they didn't do it previously? Guess what? They can pick and choose.
When people ask me for professional advice, I recommend that they use the right tool for the right job. In some cases, for some people, that's Open Source and in other cases, it isn't.
Uh, no. Actually not. Most CI professionals realize that the effort taken to protect information should be proportional to the value of the information being protected. This guy acts like he has the formula to Coca-Cola on his machines.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you need to bone up on how to read financial statements and pick stocks.
For example, MSFT has a P/E of 24.5. Dor a good explanation of P/E, look here
By comparison, AAPL's is 40 and that other Slashdot darling, GOOG's, is at 88!
Here's an excerpt from the AP feed:
Microsoft shares rose 85 cents, or 3.5 percent, to close at $25.30 in Friday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The company reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings after financial markets closed on Thursday.
For the quarter ending March 31, the Redmond, Wash.-based company earned $2.56 billion, or 23 cents per share, up from $1.32 billion, or 12 cents per share, a year ago.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were looking for the company to post earnings of 32 cents per share on sales of $9.83 billion in the latest quarter. The company would have met earnings expectations, except for legal charges of 5 cents a share and a 4-cent-per-share charge for the expense of stock-based compensation required under new accounting rules.
Revenue is important but profit even more so. MSFT closed up today 3.48%
Real estate are typically leases in commercial retail space which can be sublet. Payroll I'll grant you, but the average wage has be close to minimums for retail store employees (the bulk of the company).
Brick and mortar isn't going away any time soon. There's a lot more to the "shopping experience" than just driving to the store to buy something. Heck, my wife (and many others) can tell you that.
Well, reading TFA, it would seem that video on demand from cable is in this race, and looks to be the odds on winner...
Really? Do you think you'll be able to watch the movie as many times as you want in a given period for a fixed fee? Can you "lend" your copy to a friend? I'm also pretty sure that they will devise some way to "force" you to watch advertising (granted, DVDs do this too, but it appears that may be changing based on recent proposed legislation).
I'm sorry, but I believe that saying Video on Demand will replace DVDs is a lot like saying eBooks will replace paper (and I'm a big eBook proponent).
I don't know a single person that uses Netflix so that's rather difficult. I also haven't heard it *anywhere* other than on Slashdot. I wouldn't even know it existed otherwise.
They have 1.5 million customers. Clearly somebody is using it. In our little corp headquarters office or 25 people I can think of 4 people who use it (myself included) and the other 3 are definitely not in the Slashdot demographic.
It's pretty clear that Blockbuster has the size, relationahsips, channel, and most importantly, money to crush Netflix. Each day that passes is, in reality another day that the value of the company decreases. Rather than "talking with Amazon" or thinking they can get a bazillion dollar deal, Netflix should get off their collective butts and start shopping around.
Who would buy them? Well Walmart is an obvious choice. The current offerring sucks. Barnes & Noble? Target? I'm sure there are others, these are the only ones that immediately jump to mind.
Do you really need Google for this? Or is Google validation going to substitute for your own common sense?
I had the privelege to listen to Adams speak at a lunch in San Jose back in '96. He was a very engaging and entertaining speaker and was very approachable afterwards to just chat.
The mirror is here
The detachable battery provides a nice, replaceable module, don't you think? Assuming they can get their hands on your phone for say, 30 seconds or so.
hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, is it?
Whenever I think of Lisp, I'm transported back in time to 1975 where I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to learn this as my 2nd programming language after Fortran IV (on a DECsystem-10, no less).
I never revisited Lisp. Perhaps now that I have the book, I'll give it a shot.
You can download a copy here if the main site is too busy.
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The article is loaded with spoilers, but nice to hear that the reviewer is positive about the movie.
The mirror is here.
How can building the sources from scratch versus installing a precompiled distro be an improvement in "userability"?
mirror here
Won't Gentoo lose all of it's coolness factor if anybody who can click a mouse can install it?
Well, since posting the mirror, it's been downloaded over 13,000 times. Either the machine can handle a boatload of simultaneous connections, or it's taking a lot less than 45 minutes to download, thank you very much.
So, if you do and they then sic the attack-lawyers on you, why are you surprised? Because they didn't do it previously? Guess what? They can pick and choose.
Cue "Sound of Crickets Chirping".
When people ask me for professional advice, I recommend that they use the right tool for the right job. In some cases, for some people, that's Open Source and in other cases, it isn't.
Uh, no. Actually not. Most CI professionals realize that the effort taken to protect information should be proportional to the value of the information being protected. This guy acts like he has the formula to Coca-Cola on his machines.
Maybe because everybody else is talking about the Super Bowl Ad and you and the GP poster are talking about their homepage?
And this guy is set up very secure.
Is he mentally ill? Let's just say he doesn't sound like the type of person I'd want to have a beer with.
In fact, he sounds a lot more like the type of person who has food, water & weapons buried in the woods for the coming Apocalypse.
PG-13 You don't need the audio though it is amusing. :)
Ouch. Not to self: Always check both browsers. IE, I'm sad to say, does the right thing with it. Firefox users will need to "Save As".
but first, like any good Slashdotter, I must pick nits and point out that waaaaay back in the last century, SRI held the top spot too.
The ad is here. Be gentle.
...but at least he's a brilliant asshole!
:)
You Mac zealots amaze me. Now you're saying light shines out of Steve Job's ass.