Finally, I do believe that Yahoo! is worth more than that ammount, because there are countries where no competition exists (see Romania). In a blog from one of the Fedora Art Group members, the blogger said that over 90% of the email addresses in Romania were Yahoo! ones. I can confirm this with the Messenger part. I've never seen anyone giveout a GTalk or MSN id in Romania, only Yahoo!. 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. Also, look at the current trading price = MSFT's offer is $31, yet YHOO is trading at under $28. By your logic it should be trading above $31, but it isn't because Market thinks it's worth less than what Microsoft is offering them, and if they keep rejecting Microsoft, then their stock will go down - regardless of what they believe their stock is worth.
Looks like Yahoo has a lot of computer programmers, and not enough financial analysts. Company's 'value' = that which others are willing to pay for. It's like me selling soap on ebay and asking for $50 when the highest bidder is only offering $15. Guess what, either I take the $15 or I don't sell my soap.
If I was a shareholder, I would be very mad. If Microsoft is going to do a hostile take over by buying their shares on the open market, they'll probably get Yahoo for less than their current offer. Same thing happened with Cablevision a few months ago. When the Dolan family offered a buy-out for $36, some 'major' shareholders rejected the offer, pompously saying that Cablevision is worth more. Well guess what, the market didn't think so. The second the buyout was rejected, the stock plummeted below $30 and is now at $23!
A week prior to the collapse of Bear Stearns, analysts started rumors that Bear Stearns liquidity was no longer there. Though their liquidity may not have been at the top of their peer group, the liquidity was more than enough for their day to day operations. However, the analyst 'rumors' ended up being a self-fulfilling prophesy. When the word came out as liquidity concerns, those holders with whom Bear Stearns had debt demanded payment on their debt immediately. Just like a run to the banks, when everyone demands their money back - the bank cannot meet those demands immediately. The rumors ended up causing a huge 'bank run', which Bear Stearns obviously could not meet - and that's what caused the collapse... panic. Unlike a bank, however, Bear Stearns does not have any of their money FDIC insured.
As for the bailout, you have obviously not educated yourself as to the deal behind it either. It's a 'bailout' in the loosest of terms. After the liquidity concern was reported, Bear Stearns was trading from ~$57 down to ~$30. Over the weekend, Hank Paulson (Secretary of Treasury) decided that he would not put $30 billion of taxpayer money at risk, unless JPMorgan paid a really low price for Bear Stearns. The reason? Moral hazard. Specifically, Paulson wanted to use Bear as an example that would scare all the other banks that borrowed $32 for every dollar of equity to buy CDOs and other difficult-to-value securities. Paulson wanted to wipe out Bear shareholders so they would be reluctant to seek government help if they got into trouble.
And that was as a result of misunderstanding JP Morgan's loan to assist liquidity. JP Morgan only provided it for the weekend, whereas Bear Stearns CEO thought it was for 28 days. So Bear Stearns had an option of either filing for Bankruptcy on Monday, or take the $2 buyout deal. So with a heavy hand, they had to take the buy-out.
I don't think you get it, this is like a car dealer with two identical cars on the lot, one's an upgrade and costs half as much as the other but to legally buy it you need an older version of the same car. The thing is, the dealer isn't checking if you have the older car so you can buy the cheaper one and save on money. I DO get it. My point is, even with the 'free' upgrade, you're still getting Windows.
but the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers Dave: Excuse me, but the car you sold me is missing a gas tank.
Salesman: Yes, we know. This is an upgradable model. We sell them to sophisticated buyers, hence the discount.
Dave: So I can upgrade for free?
Salesman: You're sophisticated, you'll figure it out.
Dave: Well, what does it upgrade to?
Salesman: All updated GPS maps can be downloaded directly from the dealer's website.
Dave: Great! And what about the gas tank?
Salesman:..................
Dave: Sir?!?!
I live in fairly large metropolitan area (> 1 million) which is served by Verizon, however because most of the rest of the state is served by another provider our little island is treated by Verizon as one of their "ugly stepchildren." It appears unlikely that we'll get FiOS from Verizon before 2020, if then. If I read that 2 days ago, I would've beleived you. I live in a suburban area which has always been slow in adopting broadband. Cable companies kept promising "within the next year" for mroe than half a decade. I ended up upgrading to DSL, then Cable. I've been checking availability of Verizon Fios for about a year now, with a similar message. However, I decided to check yesterday and it is available!
Not sure about national deployment, but Verizon definately beat my expectations. It's a huge project and they seem to be systematically achieving their goal.
Also, a problem with optical cables has been that they have to be kept straight to sustain signal strength. This obstical has recently been eliminated by Corning, so deployment in major cities (where there are apartment buildings, and lots of 'turns' for optical cables to make) is now practical for verizon to undertake.
Besides, by 2010-2011 Verizon will be deploying 4G wireless network so you'll get the high bandwidth one way or another...
I have mixed feelings about this: on one hand, this is a really clever idea and a cool hack. On the other hand, the fact that DRM makes something like this necessary is truly infuriating. DRM has never been a road block to innovation. At worst, it is a nuisance that will eventually be bypassed.
Further research is indeed needed. For instance, the current postulate for Ball Lightening is still not verified, though some have infamously postulated its origins come from the Tea-Bag phenomenon.
And the rest of the industry doesn't need extreme speeds - there are microcontrollers, integrated buffers, logic gates, comparators, operational amplifiers and loads of other $0.05 crap you got in your toaster oven, blender, wirst watch, remote-controlled toy car, printer, Hi-Fi, etc., etc. And there is an obvious priority for those: cheap and reliable. So the silicon is not going anywhere. And let's not forget Solar Cells, which are increasing production like crazy (and is causing silicon prices to increase).
A remote controlled cart with a loud speaker and a watergun is supposed to be a crime deterrent? I think a better crime deterrent would be the robot from Rocky IV.
Similarly, from our frame of reference inside the Universe, 13.73 billion years have elapsed. From another frame of reference, it is 6000 years old and not a minute more. Both measurements are perfectly valid and correct. Yes, but I don't think that point applies here. The universe is more or less Homogeneous. That would mean that from anywhere in the universe the same general observations would be observed about its origins.
Consider a balloon and the various points on that balloon. As the balloon begins to expand, all the points on the balloon expand equally to each other (as we assume space expands from the big bang). While the rotation of a particular planet and/or solar system to another may alter time with respect to each other, they would still be observing the same expansion affect, and therefore would draw the same conclusion about the timing of the origin/big bang.
That's interesting. And is reminiscent of a policy at the University I attend (University of Maryland - College Park). Re-using your own work was considered plaigarism.
Further more, and even more out there, on all of our papers, assignments, and exams we had to sign an academic honesty agreement stating that we did not cheat or receive unsanctioned outside help. If you didn't sign this agreement, your grade would not be counted. ie, UMD students are forced to testify against themselves!
Half Life 2 has Haptics controller for it (as well as other less popular games) Novint Falcon. I think it's sold at CompUSA, though they went out of busines...
Also, Immersion technologies make Haptic controllers (BMW contol wheel, XBOX Steering Wheel, Vibration in the PS3 - which, Sony claimed couldn't fit into their controller but it was a patent problem - Immersion sued Sony & won... now the PS3 has vibration). They also make haptic stuff for surgery simulations. Carnegie Melon be jealous...
A friend of mine ordered the Iron Key a few months ago. It didn't work at all, so he sent it back for a replacement. The replacement broke after 3 days. I would think reliability should be incorporated into the 'security' factor. If the data is lost, even if its into thin air, that's not very secure at all. SO the question is: was my friend's experience with the Iron Key an isolated incident/bad luck, or is there indeed a reliability problem (and thus a security problem) with the Iron Key??
I would have to agree. Observations tend to provide "eureka" information that theory might miss or not become main stream for a while. Running models can extol supercomputers to a point - and peer reviews may be a big obstacle to the progress of science in many ways. I hope CERN offers us some groundbreaking material.
Maize has a large genome (slightly smaller than human) that is highly repetitive (about 80%) Humans have about 22,000 genes. Plants tend to have in teh range of 40,000 genes - on average. THis is suprising initially, but human genes are more complex. Single genes can make at least 2 proteins, sometimes much more. Plants, on the other hand, have to produce a lot of chemicals for defence, since they can't run away from predators - which is the primary reason for increased gene count. Maze, it seems, is one the lower end for plant life in terms of gene count.
I have Cablevision, and I have noticed that I was throttled after downloading torrent files. The interesting thing was that they throttled my upload speed only, which I didn't even notice until I tried to upload a file to a friend of mine and it was capped at 17kb/sec. I guess that isn't as egregious, and definately more surreptitious, which is why they probably have been keeping their throttling under the radar...
Unless you have a vast HD-DVD collection, getting a Blu-Ray burner, blu ray dvd media, as well as the time investing into converting it's likely not worth it. I think it'd be cheaper to setup a stream from your HD capable computer to your TV...
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If I was a shareholder, I would be very mad. If Microsoft is going to do a hostile take over by buying their shares on the open market, they'll probably get Yahoo for less than their current offer. Same thing happened with Cablevision a few months ago. When the Dolan family offered a buy-out for $36, some 'major' shareholders rejected the offer, pompously saying that Cablevision is worth more. Well guess what, the market didn't think so. The second the buyout was rejected, the stock plummeted below $30 and is now at $23!
As for the bailout, you have obviously not educated yourself as to the deal behind it either. It's a 'bailout' in the loosest of terms. After the liquidity concern was reported, Bear Stearns was trading from ~$57 down to ~$30. Over the weekend, Hank Paulson (Secretary of Treasury) decided that he would not put $30 billion of taxpayer money at risk, unless JPMorgan paid a really low price for Bear Stearns. The reason? Moral hazard. Specifically, Paulson wanted to use Bear as an example that would scare all the other banks that borrowed $32 for every dollar of equity to buy CDOs and other difficult-to-value securities. Paulson wanted to wipe out Bear shareholders so they would be reluctant to seek government help if they got into trouble.
And that was as a result of misunderstanding JP Morgan's loan to assist liquidity. JP Morgan only provided it for the weekend, whereas Bear Stearns CEO thought it was for 28 days. So Bear Stearns had an option of either filing for Bankruptcy on Monday, or take the $2 buyout deal. So with a heavy hand, they had to take the buy-out.
Great. I can finaly call tech support saying, "we've got a tea bag situation here..." and not get in trouble.
Not sure about national deployment, but Verizon definately beat my expectations. It's a huge project and they seem to be systematically achieving their goal.
Also, a problem with optical cables has been that they have to be kept straight to sustain signal strength. This obstical has recently been eliminated by Corning, so deployment in major cities (where there are apartment buildings, and lots of 'turns' for optical cables to make) is now practical for verizon to undertake.
Besides, by 2010-2011 Verizon will be deploying 4G wireless network so you'll get the high bandwidth one way or another...
Further research is indeed needed. For instance, the current postulate for Ball Lightening is still not verified, though some have infamously postulated its origins come from the Tea-Bag phenomenon.
It's one Hal of an idea!
In other words, Ars Technica finds this reform patently absurd?
Judge Says: Overrated.
In other news, "Lucky Charms originated in Palau about 1,000BC."
That's not Wise... they're Lays!
A remote controlled cart with a loud speaker and a watergun is supposed to be a crime deterrent? I think a better crime deterrent would be the robot from Rocky IV.
Consider a balloon and the various points on that balloon. As the balloon begins to expand, all the points on the balloon expand equally to each other (as we assume space expands from the big bang). While the rotation of a particular planet and/or solar system to another may alter time with respect to each other, they would still be observing the same expansion affect, and therefore would draw the same conclusion about the timing of the origin/big bang.
Further more, and even more out there, on all of our papers, assignments, and exams we had to sign an academic honesty agreement stating that we did not cheat or receive unsanctioned outside help. If you didn't sign this agreement, your grade would not be counted. ie, UMD students are forced to testify against themselves!
Also, Immersion technologies make Haptic controllers (BMW contol wheel, XBOX Steering Wheel, Vibration in the PS3 - which, Sony claimed couldn't fit into their controller but it was a patent problem - Immersion sued Sony & won... now the PS3 has vibration). They also make haptic stuff for surgery simulations. Carnegie Melon be jealous...
...but can it run Aero in Vista?
A friend of mine ordered the Iron Key a few months ago. It didn't work at all, so he sent it back for a replacement. The replacement broke after 3 days. I would think reliability should be incorporated into the 'security' factor. If the data is lost, even if its into thin air, that's not very secure at all. SO the question is: was my friend's experience with the Iron Key an isolated incident/bad luck, or is there indeed a reliability problem (and thus a security problem) with the Iron Key??
I would have to agree. Observations tend to provide "eureka" information that theory might miss or not become main stream for a while. Running models can extol supercomputers to a point - and peer reviews may be a big obstacle to the progress of science in many ways. I hope CERN offers us some groundbreaking material.
I have Cablevision, and I have noticed that I was throttled after downloading torrent files. The interesting thing was that they throttled my upload speed only, which I didn't even notice until I tried to upload a file to a friend of mine and it was capped at 17kb/sec. I guess that isn't as egregious, and definately more surreptitious, which is why they probably have been keeping their throttling under the radar...
Unless you have a vast HD-DVD collection, getting a Blu-Ray burner, blu ray dvd media, as well as the time investing into converting it's likely not worth it. I think it'd be cheaper to setup a stream from your HD capable computer to your TV...