According to their 10K filing with the SEC: "The Company’s effective tax rates were approximately 24.2%, 24.4% and 31.8% for 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively."
DisplayPort has much higher bandwidth than DVI or HDMI (over four times single-link DVI and 1.7 times HDMI). DVI already can only drive a 30 inch display with a dual-link connection. DisplayPort doesn't have that problem. I imagine now that there's been a big push to get mobile screens up toward 300ppi resolution, there will be a push to do the same on laptop and desktop displays. Eventually, you'll need the bandwidth to deal with the extra pixels on large screens.
Pushing for higher bandwidth connectors is a good thing. Otherwise, we'll trade VGA for DVI as the obsolete technology that won't ever die.
Arlington, VA has recently replaced alot of their parking meters with them as well. Each space has an individual meter that works exactly like the old one did, except it can take a credit card as well. Problem solved.
Opera's made a very good living on their Mobile version, but I think they're in major trouble there now, thanks to WebKit. WebKit is a very good browser core, and it's free and open source (plus, it doesn't hurt that it lets mobile phone makers imitate Safari on the iPhone, since they're all based on the same core).
Look at the players that have adopted WebKit-- Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Google for Android. In two years, it's taken somewhere between 50%-60% of the mobile browser marketâ" about half of that appears to be iPhone/iPod Touch.
Opera's problem is that, even if a "new smartphone takes over," if it comes from Palm, Nokia, or runs Android, it's going to have a WebKit-based browser on it, not Opera.
$3 million in revenue from Twitter in the last two years, versus what I count as roughly $100 billion in revenue over the past two years for Dell. That's not enough to qualify as a drop in the bucket. If I were Dell, I would laugh in Twitter's face if they demanded money-- they'd probably generate just as many sales by slipping fliers under people's windshields in parking lots.
The Blackberry OS has a lovely feature that tells you when the battery is too low to attempt to make a phone call-- but yet, it can power the backlight, let me read email I've already received, etc. for hours beyond that point.
I discovered this "feature" at 3 AM, on the side of I-55 in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi, sitting in a rental car with a flat tire.
Hey guys, when I buy a phone, I want it to be to expend its last bit of battery power WHILE MAKING A PHONE CALL.
"His bonus reflected the performance of Goldman Sachs (Charts), which reported record net earnings of $9.5 billion, or $370,000 per employee at the world's largest investment bank."
Lesson 1. You don't want people to know things about you? Don't put it on the internet.
Lesson 2: Don't entrust private data to a company that can change its privacy policies whenever it damn well pleases, or that voluntarily hands things over to state agencies when requested.
They went with Intel because, especially for portables, Intel has a better chip that they can count on being able to buy. My week-old MacBook easily runs circles around every Mac I've ever owned-- the Core Duo is a damn nice chip for the money.
...if it loses. If Blu-ray wins, it's Sony making an absolute killing by developing the standard for hi-def DVD content. The author ignores that, and that the situation he described with Betamax is apples and oranges with Blu-ray (i.e. Sony making deals with dozens of companies to get Blu-ray drives and discs out).
If you have an AIM account, they have your birthday, email address, geographic location, and now an index of people with the largest social circles. What's to stop them from using that same information to create lists of "influential people" and sell those lists to marketers?
In my experience, operations like file uploads and filling out forms failed routinely. Maybe that's improved (both on Sharepoint and Safari et al.'s ends)-- I haven't bothered installing and configuring our copy at the office. Maybe I'll give it a second look.
In this instance the university is acting as a landlord. If the university advertises services as part of their housing, they should be expected to deliver. If not, why not let the universities shut off the heat and water to the dorm's when there is a budget pinch.
Because housing codes don't guarantee you the right to broadband. Lack of heat and water, however, are condemnable deficiencies.
It's interesting timing that just this week the Supreme Court ruled for the FCC when they ruled that cable modems are not "telecommunications services, " but rather "information services." Might that exempt them from any proposed taxes?
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According to their 10K filing with the SEC: "The Company’s effective tax rates were approximately 24.2%, 24.4% and 31.8% for 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively."
DisplayPort has much higher bandwidth than DVI or HDMI (over four times single-link DVI and 1.7 times HDMI). DVI already can only drive a 30 inch display with a dual-link connection. DisplayPort doesn't have that problem. I imagine now that there's been a big push to get mobile screens up toward 300ppi resolution, there will be a push to do the same on laptop and desktop displays. Eventually, you'll need the bandwidth to deal with the extra pixels on large screens.
Pushing for higher bandwidth connectors is a good thing. Otherwise, we'll trade VGA for DVI as the obsolete technology that won't ever die.
Arlington, VA has recently replaced alot of their parking meters with them as well. Each space has an individual meter that works exactly like the old one did, except it can take a credit card as well. Problem solved.
Opera's made a very good living on their Mobile version, but I think they're in major trouble there now, thanks to WebKit. WebKit is a very good browser core, and it's free and open source (plus, it doesn't hurt that it lets mobile phone makers imitate Safari on the iPhone, since they're all based on the same core).
Look at the players that have adopted WebKit-- Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Google for Android. In two years, it's taken somewhere between 50%-60% of the mobile browser marketâ" about half of that appears to be iPhone/iPod Touch.
Opera's problem is that, even if a "new smartphone takes over," if it comes from Palm, Nokia, or runs Android, it's going to have a WebKit-based browser on it, not Opera.
$3 million in revenue from Twitter in the last two years, versus what I count as roughly $100 billion in revenue over the past two years for Dell. That's not enough to qualify as a drop in the bucket. If I were Dell, I would laugh in Twitter's face if they demanded money-- they'd probably generate just as many sales by slipping fliers under people's windshields in parking lots.
That's why my first two troubleshooting questions are always:
1. Is it plugged in and turned on?
2. Are you sure?
Or banking on no longer being in the consumer laptop business, and using this as a scheme to extra a bit more money before they exit.
So in Slashdot's world "not entirely accurate" is the same thing as "completely, utterly, bloody false." Good to know.
The Blackberry OS has a lovely feature that tells you when the battery is too low to attempt to make a phone call-- but yet, it can power the backlight, let me read email I've already received, etc. for hours beyond that point.
I discovered this "feature" at 3 AM, on the side of I-55 in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi, sitting in a rental car with a flat tire.
Hey guys, when I buy a phone, I want it to be to expend its last bit of battery power WHILE MAKING A PHONE CALL.
Try reading that again.
"His bonus reflected the performance of Goldman Sachs (Charts), which reported record net earnings of $9.5 billion, or $370,000 per employee at the world's largest investment bank."
Lesson 1. You don't want people to know things about you? Don't put it on the internet. Lesson 2: Don't entrust private data to a company that can change its privacy policies whenever it damn well pleases, or that voluntarily hands things over to state agencies when requested.
They went with Intel because, especially for portables, Intel has a better chip that they can count on being able to buy. My week-old MacBook easily runs circles around every Mac I've ever owned-- the Core Duo is a damn nice chip for the money.
See the United States circa 100 years ago.
...if it loses. If Blu-ray wins, it's Sony making an absolute killing by developing the standard for hi-def DVD content. The author ignores that, and that the situation he described with Betamax is apples and oranges with Blu-ray (i.e. Sony making deals with dozens of companies to get Blu-ray drives and discs out).
The first is "is it plugged in?"
The second is "are you sure?"
After the 1900 hurricane that killed between 6000 and 12000 people, the city of Galveston rebuilt while raising the entire city by up to 17 feet.
It looks like everything south of the search bar is draw in Javascript, which apparently Safari doesn't support.
I don't have direct deposit, you insensitive clod!
The sad thing is, I'm not kidding.
It looks like Firefox (but uglier), will only run on Windows, and still has shitty standards support? Wow, sounds great. Sign me up.
If you have an AIM account, they have your birthday, email address, geographic location, and now an index of people with the largest social circles. What's to stop them from using that same information to create lists of "influential people" and sell those lists to marketers?
Maybe because it's a developer preview and not a shipping product?
In my experience, operations like file uploads and filling out forms failed routinely. Maybe that's improved (both on Sharepoint and Safari et al.'s ends)-- I haven't bothered installing and configuring our copy at the office. Maybe I'll give it a second look.
Of course, it doesn't work worth a damn with Mac (or I assume Linux browsers). Or at least it didn't last time I was forced to use it (early 2004).
Because housing codes don't guarantee you the right to broadband. Lack of heat and water, however, are condemnable deficiencies.
It's interesting timing that just this week the Supreme Court ruled for the FCC when they ruled that cable modems are not "telecommunications services, " but rather "information services." Might that exempt them from any proposed taxes?