It would be nice if there was a favorable reaction to high fuel prices such as some manufacturing coming back home.
We can only hope that the trend continues. Manufacturing has been declining since the 1950's. Yet, manufacturing production has been increasing in the United States throughout the time. The main displacement of manufacturing jobs has been, and will continue to be, technology. What you're hoping for really makes little sense. It reminds of the following example:
100 Guys are working on a dam by digging up land with shovels. A man comes up to the manager and says, "How about you buy several tractors instead, and then you can have faster progress and only hire 10 people instead of 100?" The manager responds, "No, no.. if that was to happen, we'd have a lot of people unemployed. I can't do that." The man replies, "If unemployment is your concern, then you should hire 900 more men and give them spoons."
But why would they think it was a bad thing to expose? The whole "Look what we can do with so little" angle seems appealing; efficiency is something to boast about nowadays. On one hand, you're right, efficiency is admirable. But on the other hand, if Google has insane amounts of processing power, it would likely mean much higher barriers to entry for its competitors. The threat of Google's power in processing such data could deter others from even attempting to compete with Google. After all, when Google started it was only funded with a few hundred thousand dollars.
Every time I Google something, Wikipedia comes near the top most of the time. Maybe that's why Google doesn't want to disclose its processing power, it may very will be a lot smaller than people assume.
For those of you who don't know, that use of the LDS acronym is a refrence to Star Trek IV (the source of all this transparent aluminum talk). LDS is not an acronym, it's an abbreviation. An acronym is pronounced as a word like PETA, NASA, and MILF.
There's a difference between sun worshippers and people who go out in the sun, just as there's a difference between binge drinking and a glass of wine on a saturday night.
All things in moderation. Including moderation.
Actually, from a pure consumer standpoint, this change makes no difference. Netflix already has a pricing model such that, the CHEAPEST plan is 3 DVD / time. If you move from 3 to 4 out at a time, you actually pay more and from 4 to any other number, the price is the same (per DVD at a time). Indeed, which is why I am currently on the 3 DVD plan. However, I logged in last night to update my Que and I got an offer to upgrade my 3 DVD plan ($16.99) to a 4 DVD plan for an additional $1.86 -- which, if you do the math, makes the 4 DVD plan even cheaper. I'm debating on what to do, since I don't even utilize the 3 DVD plan very efficiently.
People and companies are attributing the success of the iPhone to its Touch technology. Yes, it was the first one to come out with it in a successful design, but the iPhone is succesful mainly because it capitalizes on Apple's software platforms. The iPhone brings together iTunes, iPod, & Telephone, and Web capabilities in a unified architecture that is based on OSX format. A Nokia or Blackberry with a touch screen will not be able to support anything remotely close to what Apple is offering. Yes, they will look similar and offer 'me-too' capabilities, but just b/c users can touch the screen and the phone can play music, doesn't mean it will be remotely competitive to the iPhone.
Just wondering if you could put one of the quantum photons in an optical switch, and perhaps use the the reading of the other photon to flip a bit. That might actually be useful. If this were viable, NASA could have something better than radio for their next generation of probes.
Now if they're only watching the thing bounce around randomly on its own, and it happens to be in synch with its paired photon - I'm not sure how useful that could be. Now, can someone untangle the that for me?
As an intelligence analyst with a top secret and above clearance (some of the classifications have names which are themselves classified) working in "the system", I'm pretty sure there's not much more. With all due respect, having Top Secret clearance doesn't automatically give you access to all Top Secret documents. You still have to have a 'need to know' authority to get access to certain files. So I can't really see how you can use that as evidence to your conjecture of there not being much more beyond what they released.
Two and a half thousand people out of work, and your post is emphasising the stock drop? Way to give a shit about your fellow man, dude. Thousands of people died in Africa today, while your dumb ass is typing it up on Slashdot. Belittling others is your contribution to man kind? Insightful my ass. Go utilize a Kleenex, jerkoff.
So make some sanctions against 'sloppy' work. I dissent with the judge's ruling. This is clearly grossly negligent conduct by the lawyers. Any minimal due diligince in this case would have eliminated the error immediately.
I get snail mail advertisements all the time; to me they are spam. What's the difference between unsoliticed snail-mail marketing and unsolicited email 'spam'?
All the man said was that the students stopped "hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system."
If you infer any more from that statement than that the kids stopped hacking to install games or trash the os, that's about you and whatever you're bringing to your reading of the article. That's not all he said. The implication here is that departure from windows has a positive externality of kids not messing up the computers or putting games on them, which the author outright states when he said that it was "An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students ease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system."
Unless reading comprehension is a difficult matter for the reader, you don't have to bring anything to this article to infer this implication.
An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system.'" Are we to infer that non-windows operating systems are unhackable?
I'm not a business major or anything of the sort, but applying the little I know and some common sense, I think there are many situations where a buyout would be good for both companies.
If history dictated that there is no net benefit, then it just wouldn't happen. You make a very good point. As I said before, Buyouts tend to do little in terms of Adding value to a company. However, you are correct in your observation that a merger and/or buyout would allow the company to sustain its own livelyhood, for instance. The benefit may simply be observed in the fact that the company continues to exist, though still, without adding more value for its underlying equity.
Why do I have a feeling MSFT is going to come out ahead with this deal
As for if this will stand in the EU... that is another question all-together. Actually, if you take the history of all buy-outs, the Net benefit for the firm doing the buying is roughly 0%. Though it's a historical average, where some companies may deviate, the company buying the firm tends to have no benefits in the long run. Even in the recent tech world AMD/ATI, TimeWarner/AOL, EBAY/SKYPE come to mind...
The same thing happened to Cablivision, when the Dolan family wanted to buy them out for $36/share. Some major shareholders like ClearBridge Advisors, who owned 31.4 million shares at the time, or 13.6 percent of Cablevision voted against the buyout. When the buyout didn't go through, price fell to $30, and is now ~$23/share.
Remember, Yahoo was trading at ~$19/share, before Microsoft's offer inflated the price to ~$31. Microsoft, essentially, bid up the price. If the merger is voted against, the price will likely fall back toward $19 (I say this because aside from Microsoft's offer, nothing materially changed with Yahoo. In fact, they are projected to miss their quarter numbers which they will be reporting in a couple of weeks).
Also, Microsoft can start buying up Yahoo shares on the open market in a hostile bid (from Shareholders willing to sell their shares), which are currently trading below $31/share. So I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft will get Yahoo below their current offer...
Corn production increases due to growing ethanol demand (think bio-fuels), has caused more farm land to be allocated for corn, than wheat, and thus increase in wheat prices. Though, now that wheat prices have increased, expect more farm land to be devoted to wheat. Even if the increase in price is due to weather, which in part it appears to be, the economic incentive to increase wheat production automatically exists as a result of a price influx, ie... future prices will likely go down and/or stabalize.
Google maps has a feature that allows people to post pictures of various 'landscapes'. Streetview is bad enough, what if users start posting 'shower views'?
So if I offer you $10 for your car and no one makes anymore offers, then your car is somehow worth $10???? This is idiotic.
Yahoo believes that there company is worth more than market value, even more than market value +62%. They are choosing to to sell it as such, and will even try to convince the shareholders not to sell.
Company's Value != what other are willing to pay for it, if you don't want to sell it. You're not understanding how the market works. Yes, if you don't want to sell the car for $10 then it is because YOU think it's worth more than $10. However, there's more than 2 parties in this transaction. Yahoo doesn't control all shares of the company. Shareholders, the other owners, also control shares of Yahoo. If the Shareholders want to sell their shares for $31, or less, they will do so - and if Microsoft accumulates Enough shares of Yahoo, they will end up owning Yahoo whether or not Jerry Yang thinks it's 'too cheap'.
This is why Yahoo's price is trading BELOW Microsoft's offer, not above. Microsoft is the highest bidder, and since Yahoo is rejecting them all the other 'bidders'/'the stock market' are willing to pay less for Yahoo's shares than Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft's original $31 per share offer represented a 62% premium to where Yahoo's shares had been trading before the offer. The market determines price, and they were valuing Yahoo at $19/share, whether or not Jerry Yang, or you, thought otherwise!
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100 Guys are working on a dam by digging up land with shovels. A man comes up to the manager and says, "How about you buy several tractors instead, and then you can have faster progress and only hire 10 people instead of 100?" The manager responds, "No, no.. if that was to happen, we'd have a lot of people unemployed. I can't do that." The man replies, "If unemployment is your concern, then you should hire 900 more men and give them spoons."
Every time I Google something, Wikipedia comes near the top most of the time. Maybe that's why Google doesn't want to disclose its processing power, it may very will be a lot smaller than people assume.
Accidental Astrophysicist?! ...that's like saying I accidentally got a bitch pregnant -- She, uhh, jumped, tripped, and landed on my dick.
People and companies are attributing the success of the iPhone to its Touch technology. Yes, it was the first one to come out with it in a successful design, but the iPhone is succesful mainly because it capitalizes on Apple's software platforms. The iPhone brings together iTunes, iPod, & Telephone, and Web capabilities in a unified architecture that is based on OSX format. A Nokia or Blackberry with a touch screen will not be able to support anything remotely close to what Apple is offering. Yes, they will look similar and offer 'me-too' capabilities, but just b/c users can touch the screen and the phone can play music, doesn't mean it will be remotely competitive to the iPhone.
Biotech.
Now all we need is a hole in the ground and Gerard Butler.
So make some sanctions against 'sloppy' work. I dissent with the judge's ruling. This is clearly grossly negligent conduct by the lawyers. Any minimal due diligince in this case would have eliminated the error immediately.
I get snail mail advertisements all the time; to me they are spam. What's the difference between unsoliticed snail-mail marketing and unsolicited email 'spam'?
Unless reading comprehension is a difficult matter for the reader, you don't have to bring anything to this article to infer this implication.
On the subject of MSFT, take a look at the following link http://www.ifa.com/Library/Support/Data/returnsandstandarddeviationsformodelportfolios.asp#bigchart20_dow Go to chart #5. You'll see microsoft over its existance has turned a $1 investment into $140 (and that's year to date / post-'99 bubble).
Too bad Apple no longer uses IBM processors, this would've been a great marketing scheme for Steve Jobs.
The same thing happened to Cablivision, when the Dolan family wanted to buy them out for $36/share. Some major shareholders like ClearBridge Advisors, who owned 31.4 million shares at the time, or 13.6 percent of Cablevision voted against the buyout. When the buyout didn't go through, price fell to $30, and is now ~$23/share.
Remember, Yahoo was trading at ~$19/share, before Microsoft's offer inflated the price to ~$31. Microsoft, essentially, bid up the price. If the merger is voted against, the price will likely fall back toward $19 (I say this because aside from Microsoft's offer, nothing materially changed with Yahoo. In fact, they are projected to miss their quarter numbers which they will be reporting in a couple of weeks).
Also, Microsoft can start buying up Yahoo shares on the open market in a hostile bid (from Shareholders willing to sell their shares), which are currently trading below $31/share. So I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft will get Yahoo below their current offer...
Corn production increases due to growing ethanol demand (think bio-fuels), has caused more farm land to be allocated for corn, than wheat, and thus increase in wheat prices. Though, now that wheat prices have increased, expect more farm land to be devoted to wheat. Even if the increase in price is due to weather, which in part it appears to be, the economic incentive to increase wheat production automatically exists as a result of a price influx, ie... future prices will likely go down and/or stabalize.
...sounds more like an Internet Ditch.
Google maps has a feature that allows people to post pictures of various 'landscapes'. Streetview is bad enough, what if users start posting 'shower views'?
This is why Yahoo's price is trading BELOW Microsoft's offer, not above. Microsoft is the highest bidder, and since Yahoo is rejecting them all the other 'bidders'/'the stock market' are willing to pay less for Yahoo's shares than Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft's original $31 per share offer represented a 62% premium to where Yahoo's shares had been trading before the offer. The market determines price, and they were valuing Yahoo at $19/share, whether or not Jerry Yang, or you, thought otherwise!