A 10 year note yields about 4.1% and was over 4.5% earlier this year and is risk free. Certainly people who invest in IBM are taking risk. What profit margin do our friends in Euroland think is fair for the company that employs them to earn?
This was *all* done in the 1980s. Reference Heechee Reendezvous, ISBN: 0345300556, 1985. Robin dies, he is downloaded and learns to interface with 'the real world' via hologram. He even manages to survive for another book.
good points, but couldn't some of this 'testing' also be done unmanned too? You don't need a guy up there to make sure things are working 24/7, you can have remote sensing which they already do have (I hope).
It also seems that by the time NASA puts anything in space it is many years behind current tech. Have they considered taking a more modular approach to things to make it easier to upgrade/replace stuff?
Agreed. Its a total money pit. Sadly we can't get what is already spent back, but better to stop throwing good at bad. There are a lot of other (better) things that can be done by NASA with that coin.
on a related note.. has anybody else noticed a decrease in spam the past week or so? I've done nothing new on my side but volume is down at least 50% if not a bit more.
So you are calling our troops Germans? or Italians? Or Japanese? Last I checked those are the only countries that have a proven record of genocidal agression.
and that you are a clueless fuck. You fire as many times as she said and that car is going to be torn to pieces. You think our troops are like most in that part of the world that shoot in the sky?
The Italians fucked this up for themself and are refusing to own up to it. God forbid the leftists admit *they* did some thing wrong and Berlusconi stand up to them and take the political heat.
please leave FORTRAN alone. It's quite healthy in its latest versions, it does what it should very well and the external codebase is well vetted. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying you have to go code in it.
And you have to love that 'what java has done for c' comment.
I've read a few articles over the years on lisp but really have done nothing with it, but my first impression on seeing car and cdr as you have defined is 'character read and card read'. God bless my FORTRAN COBOL upbringing for that:)
The original submitter has probably taken this from the physnews@aip.org news release:
"The key component of the UCLA device is a pyroelectric crystal, a class of materials that includes lithium niobate, an inexpensive solid that is used to filter signals in cell phones. "
not only that, at nearly $500 for most of these devices you can buy at least 5 if not more 1GB CF cards (depending on the speed you require). Even using a Canon 1DS which makes 14MB raw files you can fit nearly 80 images a card. A 20D would fit 128 each. And these are cameras meant for pros. I can fit over 300 on a 1GB microdrive using my G2.
A handfull of CF cards takes up way less space and is a lot less to go wrong than one of these hard drive devices.
And the ooh and ah of seeing the picture on the tv. I can do this already with my G2 so big deal.
well hopefully they are awake enough to hit the stop if the train starts to go with someone or something stuck. Beyond that its just a safety thing. Somebody to get on the horn if there is fighting (or worse) and hopefully somebody bright enough to keep people in order should there be a fire or other emergency. Granted many probably would fail, but at least the chances of useful help are above 0 unlike an automagic system.
yes and the poster has their head up their ass too. Read the article. Two were making 150k the other 250k a year. Given the large wealth they have in the stock do you think they really give a rats about 60K in taxes?
Does the poster think the same thing about Steve Jobs?
When high ranking execs take no salary it is to say to the shareholders 'we only do well for ourself if we do well for you'. The could easily have turned around and said the company is a success we should be getting paid at least 1M in salary a year, sucking cash out of the company instead of the stock market.
Slashdot posters need to spend less time at democraticunderground.com and dailykos
check me on this.. but its dark by the time people get home from work regardless of this change (at least in November when civil twilight is now around 5pm)
While I agree with you about travel inside the US, I disagree about passports for Canada. Canada has lax controls and very liberal safe haven laws and it really doesn't bother me that we ask Canadians to do what we ask of other countries. But it would be unfair for us to apply the standard one way, hence the new requirement for US citizens.
my point was to challenge assertion that we should all leave our pcs on 24/7 becuase that way they are less likely to break. Now at least you have made a somewhat fact based response but lets face it - 99.9% of people are doing this because they have 'heard it is better'.
I was actually hoping somebody in the industry could point to a definitive study - these companies all do Q&A and somebody at somepoint must have studied this. You would think. Or not.
If there is no real basis to believe it provides a tangible benefit(and I'm sure somebody can argue there are negatives to leaving something on all the time), think of all the energy that can be saved. 40 watts x 8 hours x how many thousands or millions of PCs? The cost and environmental effect when scaled is huge.
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Around 435 ish it overtakes IBM. Either way, its in the
top 45 by market cap. For now.
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm): 8.51%
Operating Margin (ttm): 11.02%
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm): 7.97%
Return on Equity (ttm): 27.82%
A 10 year note yields about 4.1% and was over 4.5%
earlier this year and is risk free. Certainly people
who invest in IBM are taking risk. What profit margin
do our friends in Euroland think is fair for the company
that employs them to earn?
This was *all* done in the 1980s. Reference Heechee
Reendezvous, ISBN: 0345300556, 1985. Robin dies, he is
downloaded and learns to interface with 'the real world' via
hologram. He even manages to survive for another book.
Who is this guy kidding? Might as well call it Firepig and
gets worse each release. In XP I regularly get mem usage > 75MB and Peaks > 150.
good points, but couldn't some of this 'testing' also be done
unmanned too? You don't need a guy up there to make sure
things are working 24/7, you can have remote sensing which
they already do have (I hope).
It also seems that by the time NASA puts anything in space
it is many years behind current tech. Have they considered
taking a more modular approach to things to make it easier
to upgrade/replace stuff?
Agreed. Its a total money pit. Sadly we can't get what
is already spent back, but better to stop throwing good at
bad. There are a lot of other (better) things that can be
done by NASA with that coin.
and lets not forget the DMCA
on a related note.. has anybody else noticed a decrease in
spam the past week or so? I've done nothing new on my side
but volume is down at least 50% if not a bit more.
So you are calling our troops Germans? or Italians? Or Japanese? Last I checked those are the only countries that
have a proven record of genocidal agression.
and that you are a clueless fuck. You fire as many times
as she said and that car is going to be torn to pieces. You
think our troops are like most in that part of the world that
shoot in the sky?
The Italians fucked this up for themself and are refusing to
own up to it. God forbid the leftists admit *they* did some
thing wrong and Berlusconi stand up to them and take the political heat.
yes, and I'm supposed to verify that it has not been changed
how?
please leave FORTRAN alone. It's quite healthy in its latest
versions, it does what it should very well and the external
codebase is well vetted. Nobody is holding a gun to your
head and saying you have to go code in it.
And you have to love that 'what java has done for c' comment.
I've read a few articles over the years on lisp but really :)
have done nothing with it, but my first impression on seeing
car and cdr as you have defined is 'character read and card
read'. God bless my FORTRAN COBOL upbringing for that
but probably one of the worst headlines ever
/. is just now something to check when eating lunch or dinner
sad
The original submitter has probably taken this from the
physnews@aip.org news release:
"The key component of the UCLA device is a pyroelectric
crystal, a class of materials that includes lithium niobate,
an inexpensive solid that is used to filter signals in cell
phones. "
From the sounds of it, the driver "support" still sucks and
this is probably why it is still beta.
not only that, at nearly $500 for most of these devices
you can buy at least 5 if not more 1GB CF cards (depending
on the speed you require). Even using a Canon 1DS which
makes 14MB raw files you can fit nearly 80 images a card.
A 20D would fit 128 each. And these are cameras meant for
pros. I can fit over 300 on a 1GB microdrive using my G2.
A handfull of CF cards takes up way less space and is a
lot less to go wrong than one of these hard drive devices.
And the ooh and ah of seeing the picture on the tv. I can
do this already with my G2 so big deal.
well hopefully they are awake enough to hit the stop if the
train starts to go with someone or something stuck. Beyond
that its just a safety thing. Somebody to get on the horn
if there is fighting (or worse) and hopefully somebody
bright enough to keep people in order should there be a fire
or other emergency. Granted many probably would fail, but
at least the chances of useful help are above 0 unlike an
automagic system.
the conductor does not drive the train. please come to nyc
and check again.
why I do like many of the apple products, I can do without
the agenda. As you said, they are hardly cheap, including
the mini.
yes and the poster has their head up their ass too. Read
the article. Two were making 150k the other 250k a year.
Given the large wealth they have in the stock do you think
they really give a rats about 60K in taxes?
Does the poster think the same thing about Steve Jobs?
When high ranking execs take no salary it is to say to the
shareholders 'we only do well for ourself if we do well for
you'. The could easily have turned around and said the
company is a success we should be getting paid at least
1M in salary a year, sucking cash out of the company instead
of the stock market.
Slashdot posters need to spend less time at democraticunderground.com and dailykos
check me on this.. but its dark by the time people get home
from work regardless of this change (at least in November
when civil twilight is now around 5pm)
Exactly the reason why they should bail on that POS
ISS. Or are they planning on getting Tom Hanks & Shelley
Long to do a Money Pit II?
While I agree with you about travel inside the US, I disagree
about passports for Canada. Canada has lax controls and very
liberal safe haven laws and it really doesn't bother me that
we ask Canadians to do what we ask of other countries. But
it would be unfair for us to apply the standard one way, hence
the new requirement for US citizens.
my point was to challenge assertion that we should all leave
our pcs on 24/7 becuase that way they are less likely to
break. Now at least you have made a somewhat fact based
response but lets face it - 99.9% of people are doing this
because they have 'heard it is better'.
I was actually hoping somebody in the industry could point
to a definitive study - these companies all do Q&A and
somebody at somepoint must have studied this. You would
think. Or not.
If there is no real basis to believe it provides a tangible
benefit(and I'm sure somebody can argue there are negatives
to leaving something on all the time), think of all the
energy that can be saved. 40 watts x 8 hours x how many
thousands or millions of PCs? The cost and environmental
effect when scaled is huge.