The SCOX shareholders are about to be taken to the cleaners.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
Total number of shares outstanding: 12.2 million Total shares being publically traded: 3.9 million
The public 'float' is 3.9 M shares, worth 43.7 Million dollars.
8.3 million shares are held within the company, unisssued or as backing for option and stock grants. SCO has been beating the litigation drum for a while now, making noises to run up the stock. But now...
They are going to court, and David Boies of Boies, Schiller and Flexner probably is not working pro bono (for charity). He'll want to be paid, at his usual rates.
The company has 4.94 million in cash as of the last reported quarter. Their income (available to common) for the past 12 months is -3.4 million. Given that they'll spend almost that much to continue operating at a loss for the next 12 months, they cannot spend all of that on lawyers and remain a viable business.
So, where will the money come from?
Easy. They'll just issue more shares or options to be backed by new shares. What's that do to existing shareholders? It's called dilution. More shares, same business, less value per share.
And, given that the huge runup in stock value from 0.60 to 11/share was driven by speculation of a buyout or settlement for gobs of cash, which isn't going to happen, I'd say the stock has peaked.
I'll be buying put options Monday. (That's a mechanism to short a stock without the unlimited upside risk.
Safari is using some of the low level glyph functions from Quartz. These are available to developers, but are harder to use simply because you have to supply your own layout engine.
In general, developers are better served by using the provided Apple Typography Services (ATS) text support, rather than banging ouit their text one glyph at a time and dealing with layout themselves.
Quartz is a lot like PostScript at this level, in terms of glyph placement, paths, and whatnot.
Sort of like what we do every day. Uranium is a naturally occurring element. In each cubic meter of soil, there's about a nickel-sized quantity of uranium.
Uranium is found naturally in granite. Beware of up-scale kitchen counters! Granite weathers naturally to become a mineral constituent of ordinary soil. Beware of the dirt.
Plants grow in the soil. Some plants concentrate uranium. Beware of the plants.
If you really need something to worry about, meteors fall to earth every day. Beware of falling rocks.
Most of the SNAP power plants were simple radioisotope thermal generators.
The SNAP-10A was an unusual design, built up from the 200 watt SNAP-10 core, but using neutron reflectors and an enriched uranium core to boost output to about 500 watts.
The reactor was self-stabilizing at it's design operating temperature, as it's moderator and neutron reflector assembly had a net negative temperature coefficient of reactivity. As temperature rose, more neutrons leaked out of the core area, and the fission chain reaction was damped.
Initial testing of the SNAP-10A was done at the Idaho National Engineering Lab. A copy of the reactor is still stored at the Oak Ridge Y-12 facility.
Solar sails need light, as in sunlight. The farther one moves from the sun, the less light there is available. It's that pesky inverse square law. Double the distance, and you get only 1/4 the propulsion.
Then, once you get in the neighborhood of Jupiter, you get to maneuver among the moons, in a neighborhood with radiation and relatively dense magnetic fields. That makes a typical metallized film sail tricky to use.
A solar sail, while a romantic sci-fi notion, is impractical for this sort of mission.
Considering both spacecraft were nuclear powered, the similarity is not too surprising. There's a nuclear power plant and some form of nuclear electric propulsion system at one end, a long boom, with heat radiators (the heat 'sink' for the power plant), and a bunch of stuff that we don't want close to a running reactor at the other end.
The spacecraft won't be doing any dumping. On mission completion, nuclear powered spacecraft are required to be placed in a 'safekeeping' orbit, so as to pose no risk to Earth or other planetary bodies.
No. The mission profiles for nuclear powered spacecraft prohibit the use of a return trajectory or orbit that may bring the spacecraft back to Earth.
After mission completion, a nuclear powered spacecraft must be placed in a 'safekeeping' orbit, to reduce potential risks to Earth or other planetary bodies.
The reactor uses slightly enriched uranium, not plutonium, and is launched 'cold'. The uranium 'fuel' is much less toxic than plutonium. This type of fuel cannot be used to construct a fission bomb, as it contains far too low a concentration of U-235 to produce a nuclear explosion.
The reactor is launched 'cold', in a shut down state. That means that during launch, there will be no fission reaction products present. The reaction products are the biggest hazard with nuclear fuel, being both radioactive and chemically reactive, prone to dispersing throughout an environment if released. (Radioactive iodine and cesium isotopes being probably the best known examples.) The reactor is not started up until the spacecraft is on an interplanetary trajectory.
This is not a new technology. The SNAP-10A space reactor power system was launched in 1965. Methods for protecting and encapsulating the fuel elements to prevent dispersal or leakage are well known and tested. (These methods will survive explosions during the launch, as well as uncontrolled re-entry from orbit.)
Actually, the low level Quartz calls for drawing, including text rendering, are all documented. Safari uses the public programming interfaces.
You can find documentation on Quartz, including tutorials, the programmng guide, and reference manuals at:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreTec hnologies/graphics/Quartz2D/quartz2d.html
Feedback and perrformance tuning that benefit Safari are incorporated into the Quartz portion of Mac OS X, so everyone benefits.
Dude, you have GOT to get some new material. You keep cutting and pasting the same tired old story in apple.slashdot.org over and over.
Your 1996 iron is tired and your karma is weak.
Windows has had a hardware accelerated GUI since the introduction of GDI+ [microsoft.com] in Windows XP. OS X didn't have hardware accelerated Quartz until Jaguar.
I don't suppose anybody's ever heard of fact-checking, though....
This turns out not to be the case. Mac OS X graphics have used the 2D graphics accelerator where possible since Mac OS X 10.0.
In Mac OS X 10.2, Quartz Extreme was introduced, which uses OpenGL to accelerate compositing operations on systems where the graphics chipset meets certain requirements (non power of 2 texture support, use of surfaces as textures, and a minimum of 16 Mb VRAM available).
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The SCOX shareholders are about to be taken to the cleaners.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
Total number of shares outstanding: 12.2 million
Total shares being publically traded: 3.9 million
The public 'float' is 3.9 M shares, worth 43.7 Million dollars.
8.3 million shares are held within the company, unisssued or as backing for option and stock grants. SCO has been beating the litigation drum for a while now, making noises to run up the stock. But now...
They are going to court, and David Boies of Boies, Schiller and Flexner probably is not working pro bono (for charity). He'll want to be paid, at his usual rates.
The company has 4.94 million in cash as of the last reported quarter. Their income (available to common) for the past 12 months is -3.4 million. Given that they'll spend almost that much to continue operating at a loss for the next 12 months, they cannot spend all of that on lawyers and remain a viable business.
So, where will the money come from?
Easy. They'll just issue more shares or options to be backed by new shares. What's that do to existing shareholders? It's called dilution. More shares, same business, less value per share.
And, given that the huge runup in stock value from 0.60 to 11/share was driven by speculation of a buyout or settlement for gobs of cash, which isn't going to happen, I'd say the stock has peaked.
I'll be buying put options Monday. (That's a mechanism to short a stock without the unlimited upside risk.
Safari is using some of the low level glyph functions from Quartz. These are available to developers, but are harder to use simply because you have to supply your own layout engine. In general, developers are better served by using the provided Apple Typography Services (ATS) text support, rather than banging ouit their text one glyph at a time and dealing with layout themselves. Quartz is a lot like PostScript at this level, in terms of glyph placement, paths, and whatnot.
Sort of like what we do every day. Uranium is a naturally occurring element. In each cubic meter of soil, there's about a nickel-sized quantity of uranium.
Uranium is found naturally in granite. Beware of up-scale kitchen counters! Granite weathers naturally to become a mineral constituent of ordinary soil. Beware of the dirt.
Plants grow in the soil. Some plants concentrate uranium. Beware of the plants.
If you really need something to worry about, meteors fall to earth every day. Beware of falling rocks.
Most of the SNAP power plants were simple radioisotope thermal generators.
The SNAP-10A was an unusual design, built up from the 200 watt SNAP-10 core, but using neutron reflectors and an enriched uranium core to boost output to about 500 watts.
The reactor was self-stabilizing at it's design operating temperature, as it's moderator and neutron reflector assembly had a net negative temperature coefficient of reactivity. As temperature rose, more neutrons leaked out of the core area, and the fission chain reaction was damped.
Initial testing of the SNAP-10A was done at the Idaho National Engineering Lab. A copy of the reactor is still stored at the Oak Ridge Y-12 facility.
Solar sails need light, as in sunlight. The farther one moves from the sun, the less light there is available. It's that pesky inverse square law. Double the distance, and you get only 1/4 the propulsion.
Then, once you get in the neighborhood of Jupiter, you get to maneuver among the moons, in a neighborhood with radiation and relatively dense magnetic fields. That makes a typical metallized film sail tricky to use.
A solar sail, while a romantic sci-fi notion, is impractical for this sort of mission.
Considering both spacecraft were nuclear powered, the similarity is not too surprising. There's a nuclear power plant and some form of nuclear electric propulsion system at one end, a long boom, with heat radiators (the heat 'sink' for the power plant), and a bunch of stuff that we don't want close to a running reactor at the other end.
The spacecraft won't be doing any dumping. On mission completion, nuclear powered spacecraft are required to be placed in a 'safekeeping' orbit, so as to pose no risk to Earth or other planetary bodies.
No. The mission profiles for nuclear powered spacecraft prohibit the use of a return trajectory or orbit that may bring the spacecraft back to Earth.
After mission completion, a nuclear powered spacecraft must be placed in a 'safekeeping' orbit, to reduce potential risks to Earth or other planetary bodies.
There's more information on space-based reactors to b e used in the Jupiter mission at:
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http://spacescience.nasa.gov/missions/prometheu
The reactor uses slightly enriched uranium, not plutonium, and is launched 'cold'. The uranium 'fuel' is much less toxic than plutonium. This type of fuel cannot be used to construct a fission bomb, as it contains far too low a concentration of U-235 to produce a nuclear explosion.
The reactor is launched 'cold', in a shut down state. That means that during launch, there will be no fission reaction products present. The reaction products are the biggest hazard with nuclear fuel, being both radioactive and chemically reactive, prone to dispersing throughout an environment if released. (Radioactive iodine and cesium isotopes being probably the best known examples.) The reactor is not started up until the spacecraft is on an interplanetary trajectory.
This is not a new technology. The SNAP-10A space reactor power system was launched in 1965. Methods for protecting and encapsulating the fuel elements to prevent dispersal or leakage are well known and tested. (These methods will survive explosions during the launch, as well as uncontrolled re-entry from orbit.)
Actually, the low level Quartz calls for drawing, including text rendering, are all documented. Safari uses the public programming interfaces. You can find documentation on Quartz, including tutorials, the programmng guide, and reference manuals at: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreTec hnologies/graphics/Quartz2D/quartz2d.html
Feedback and perrformance tuning that benefit Safari are incorporated into the Quartz portion of Mac OS X, so everyone benefits.
Dude, you have GOT to get some new material. You keep cutting and pasting the same tired old story in apple.slashdot.org over and over. Your 1996 iron is tired and your karma is weak.
Windows has had a hardware accelerated GUI since the introduction of GDI+ [microsoft.com] in Windows XP. OS X didn't have hardware accelerated Quartz until Jaguar. I don't suppose anybody's ever heard of fact-checking, though.... This turns out not to be the case. Mac OS X graphics have used the 2D graphics accelerator where possible since Mac OS X 10.0. In Mac OS X 10.2, Quartz Extreme was introduced, which uses OpenGL to accelerate compositing operations on systems where the graphics chipset meets certain requirements (non power of 2 texture support, use of surfaces as textures, and a minimum of 16 Mb VRAM available).