'speculation within the industry that Microsoft may not include a hard drive in the next version of the Xbox console, in favor of network-based storage that would reduce the console's physical size and cost'
I'm surprised you are consused sith such a crap quote. This snippit of text opens a proposition [no HD], reinforces the proposition [network, etc], but doesn't answer it.
Perhaps including the full quote from TFA "There has been speculation within the industry that Microsoft may not include a hard drive in the next version of the Xbox console, in favor of network-based storage that would reduce the console's physical size and cost." makes it more complete - that they know nothing, rather than anyhalf stared, half finished, empty middled quote as given.
Next minute they'll be spelling you're as your, pluras with 's, too as to. Grammar on/. is crap - not in a nitpicky way but in the way meaning becomes ambigious. And this is a website orientated towards people who can program, so must be required not to be ambigious. Is this why coding is being offshored - because 2 bit college grads are plain crap?
The GNAA and TROLLPOOR are hereby declared the one and the same. The original creation of a frustrated 15 year-old in England (sources report this to be Sir Haxalot/Pingular himself) they have attracted a global following but are on the verge of collapse following their recent and humiliating routing here on/. where they were unable to put up any resistance other than TK/DK/Quackinator(#), a lone script kiddie using multiple accounts, who was forced to give up less than 24 hours ago when his mommy forced him to bed. Even the $699 bot beat their ass that day.
The rank of college misfits that formed the GNAA footsoldiers has ebbed away after their first semester results revealed they almost got their asses kicked out of college, "d00d, we're never going to get a Java programming jon in 'The Valley' at this rate" they said to themselves (daddy kept them in skool with a charitable donation), oblivious that the.com boom had ended 4 years ago, 7 years before their graduation, and that programmers with skill were needed, the day unemployment hit 'The Valley' was the day all below-par low-value-added work got shipped to India where someone would do it better for less and be grateful, despite the anacronous bitching the mediocre-skill-endowed/.ers do.
It is eniveitable some kind of ASCII-art inspired script-kiddie-wannabies will always lurk on/., but the fallacy these people are part of an intelligent movement is forever gone.
Trollkore, GNAA and CLIT are dead, long live the/. troll.'``sword` ` ```.-"`````"-. '' ' 8'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` ``/```sword```\ ' ' 7'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'``sword` ` `|````skull````| ' '6'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` `|,``.-..-.``,| ' '5'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'``sword` ` `| )(__/ \__)( | ' '4'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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'````(@_` ` `(_````^ ^````_) ' '2'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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Don't be taken in by techno-babble. An annuity is stream of equal cash flows over equal intervals over a period of time. Like when you cash in a pension scheme you buy an annuity, that is you buy a regular income on regular periods until your death.
Regarding the parent... annuities are financial liabilities (to the company that issued them, they are finanical assets to whoever they are issued to) and companies which issue them are (in most cases) finacial companies. Annuities are most often sold by pension companies, insurance (or rather assurance) companies may dabble or have a pensions arm as the technicalities of operating these companies is similar, but they are not native insurance instruments.
To convert the statement Annuities are really just accruing debentures underwritten by convertible unsecured suborinated bonds. It is important to know the facts.
Annuities you know what these are.
accruing earning interest, like above annuities have bought a cash flow stream. I wouldn't call this interest, it is a cash flow scheme, not an interest scheme.
debenture an unsecurred bond. Like a bond (a financial instrument that pays regular payments at regular intervals with a lump sum on maturity), the difference being that if a company goes bust the regular payments will cease and lump sum not paid, in contrast a regular bond has first claim on the remaining assets of a company to settle payments that need to be met (straight after the government that is).
I won't convert the rest because I disagree that is what an annuity is ('accruing debentures' is pushing it), the annuity is simply the stream of payments... how a company backs it is up to them.. certainly convertible unsecured bonds are foolish ways to back annuities, pension payments outstanding (annuities) should be discounted by AA-rated bonds, financial regulators like to discount pre-annuity pensions in this way too (though this IMHO to too conservative and overcautious when a stock market can hedge it fine).
You are incorrect, and so is dictionary.com or whatever other shagheap you dug that from. Try looking it up in a real distionary, or getting an education other than in cut-and-paste from the 'I'm feeling lucky' option in Google.
Stand beside Trollkore, a decaying mass will infect all those near. Trollkore have beem dessimated. They are no more. They have been defeated. The GNAA are nowhere to be seen. Trollkore are dead.
In a CircleID article called Letting DNS Loose, Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS and Chief Scientist and Chairman of Nominum, gives a good indication of what is to be expected in the upcoming years when it comes to data riding on DNS: "RFID tags, UPC codes, International characters in email addresses and host names, and a variety of other identifiers could all go into DNS, and folks have occasionally proposed doing just that. It's really just a question of figuring out how to use the DNS -- it's ready to carry arbitrary identifiers." According to
It is not a spelling mistake but a grammar mistake. And I think the parent you think the Beagle has crashed huh? ha shows how dumb you American's are.... was a satire.
France are considering retiring this carrier (already!) and going with the replacement Britian is using for its carriers (these are conventionally powered, at 50,000 tons displacement they are not as big as a NIMITZ (90,000 tons) but bigger than the Charles De Gaul (40,000 tons displacement) and considerably faster).
The nuclear reactor installation in the Charles De Gaul was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation.
This ship took 11 years to build but is in constant need of repair and refit. The French are leaders in naval and nuclear technology, but include the military and it all goes to pieces. But even their previous (Clemencau) carriers were British in origin.
urope need 4 substantial aircraft carriers, 2 from Britain, 1 France, 2 Germany, able to provide global standby capacity as well as 1 ship redundancy. But the days of the cold war are over, wars cannot be fought from carriers, excellent communication with ground is necessary, as well as an experienced (land based) airforce. At least both Britain and France didn't go with that dog of a plane the F-18, never has a plane been so bad at multi-role as this. Britain has wisely decided to use the F-22 for its new carriers, France pressed to adapt the Eurofighter (an acceptable aircraft, but designed in the cold war for air-2-air, not suitable for modern uses).
France are considering retiring this carrier (already!) and going with the replacement Britian is using for its carriers (these are conventionally powered, at 50,000 tons displacement they are not as big as a NITITZ (90,000 tons) but bigger than the Charles De Gaul (40,000 tons displacement) and considerably faster).
The nuclear reactor installation in the Charles De Gaul was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation.
This ship took 11 years to build but is in constant need of repair and refit.
The French are leaders in naval and nuclear technology, but include the military and it all goes to pieces. But even their previous (Clemencau) carriers were British in origin.
Europe need 4 substantial aircraft carriers, 2 from Britain, 1 France, 2 Germany, able to provide global standby capacity as well as 1 ship redundancy. But the days of the cold war are over, wars cannot be fought from carriers, excellent communication with ground is necessary, as well as an experienced (land based) airforce.
At least both Britain and France didn't go with that dog of a plane the F-18, never has a plane been so bad at multi-role as this. Britain has wisely decided to use the F-22 for its new carriers, France pressed to adapt the Eurofighter (an acceptable aircraft, but designed in the cold war for air-2-air, not suitable for modern uses).
On the centre right of that same picture is a trail of rocks arching towards the centre into the (relative) distance. This arch is a curve, and mars is a moderately shperical shape... plus the airbags were spherical. Clearly evidence of life on mars and that life on mars has influenced our earth technlogy.
I was disappointed in the mini iPod announcement but I'm sure people will buy them.
Most people focus on "for $50 more you can get 15 more gigs" but there's more to it than that. People will buy the mini ipods for design.
It is smaller and lighter. iPods are already small. Many consumers value smallness hugely. To a consumer who cares more about unit size, than hard disk size, the mini iPod is better and cheaper.
There is also the cuteness factor. Mini iPods come in color. For students in particular, I think this is going to be a big thing. If you think the mini iPod looks better, and it's cheaper, it's a great deal.
Like many iPod consumers I don't care too much about the size of the hard disk, because 4 gigs is enough for me. I don't need to carry my whole music collection around. Sure, I might do that, but it's not a huge deal to me.
So we're left with a smaller, cuter, cheaper iPod that costs less and carries enough music. I'd buy that.
Go into an apple store and try handling one, see how you like it, you may find that 4 gigs vs 15 gigs becomes the least of your concerns.
But I will close with, still disappointed, really wanted to see a 2 gig in the $99-149 range.
It is not unethical to give the Chinese work and the Chinese willing accept such work, particuraly where the Chinese would likely be paid more than they'd make in a factory or a farm. It is not unethical for you to freely pay for a service, if you didn't want the service you'd not use it.
I think you are trying to get as much use from IBM paying as little as possible. Is that unethical to their workers and shareholders who could get paid more if you didn't do that?
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'speculation within the industry that Microsoft may not include a hard drive in the next version of the Xbox console, in favor of network-based storage that would reduce the console's physical size and cost'
/. is crap - not in a nitpicky way but in the way meaning becomes ambigious. And this is a website orientated towards people who can program, so must be required not to be ambigious. Is this why coding is being offshored - because 2 bit college grads are plain crap?
I'm surprised you are consused sith such a crap quote. This snippit of text opens a proposition [no HD], reinforces the proposition [network, etc], but doesn't answer it.
Perhaps including the full quote from TFA "There has been speculation within the industry that Microsoft may not include a hard drive in the next version of the Xbox console, in favor of network-based storage that would reduce the console's physical size and cost." makes it more complete - that they know nothing, rather than anyhalf stared, half finished, empty middled quote as given.
Next minute they'll be spelling you're as your, pluras with 's, too as to. Grammar on
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The GNAA and TROLLPOOR are hereby declared the one and the same. The original creation of a frustrated 15 year-old in England (sources report this to be Sir Haxalot/Pingular himself) they have attracted a global following but are on the verge of collapse following their recent and humiliating routing here on /. where they were unable to put up any resistance other than TK/DK/Quackinator(#), a lone script kiddie using multiple accounts, who was forced to give up less than 24 hours ago when his mommy forced him to bed. Even the $699 bot beat their ass that day.
.com boom had ended 4 years ago, 7 years before their graduation, and that programmers with skill were needed, the day unemployment hit 'The Valley' was the day all below-par low-value-added work got shipped to India where someone would do it better for less and be grateful, despite the anacronous bitching the mediocre-skill-endowed /.ers do.
/., but the fallacy these people are part of an intelligent movement is forever gone.
/. troll.
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The rank of college misfits that formed the GNAA footsoldiers has ebbed away after their first semester results revealed they almost got their asses kicked out of college, "d00d, we're never going to get a Java programming jon in 'The Valley' at this rate" they said to themselves (daddy kept them in skool with a charitable donation), oblivious that the
It is eniveitable some kind of ASCII-art inspired script-kiddie-wannabies will always lurk on
Trollkore, GNAA and CLIT are dead, long live the
|``skull` ` ``/```sword```\ ' ' 7'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'``sword` ` `|````skull````| ' '6'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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'``sword` ` `| )(__/ \__)( | ' '4'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` `|/````/ \````\| ' '3'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'````(@_` ` `(_````^ ^````_) ' '2'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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' ( )@8@{ {____|-\IIIII/-|____ ____ ____ _____> and CLIT and GNAA
| ````` )_/````\``GNAA```/ ' ' ' ' 'GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
' clit (@`` kore ``---`---`` ` ' ' 'GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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Don't be taken in by techno-babble. An annuity is stream of equal cash flows over equal intervals over a period of time. Like when you cash in a pension scheme you buy an annuity, that is you buy a regular income on regular periods until your death.
Regarding the parent... annuities are financial liabilities (to the company that issued them, they are finanical assets to whoever they are issued to) and companies which issue them are (in most cases) finacial companies. Annuities are most often sold by pension companies, insurance (or rather assurance) companies may dabble or have a pensions arm as the technicalities of operating these companies is similar, but they are not native insurance instruments.
To convert the statement Annuities are really just accruing debentures underwritten by convertible unsecured suborinated bonds. It is important to know the facts.
Annuities you know what these are.
accruing earning interest, like above annuities have bought a cash flow stream. I wouldn't call this interest, it is a cash flow scheme, not an interest scheme.
debenture an unsecurred bond. Like a bond (a financial instrument that pays regular payments at regular intervals with a lump sum on maturity), the difference being that if a company goes bust the regular payments will cease and lump sum not paid, in contrast a regular bond has first claim on the remaining assets of a company to settle payments that need to be met (straight after the government that is).
I won't convert the rest because I disagree that is what an annuity is ('accruing debentures' is pushing it), the annuity is simply the stream of payments... how a company backs it is up to them.. certainly convertible unsecured bonds are foolish ways to back annuities, pension payments outstanding (annuities) should be discounted by AA-rated bonds, financial regulators like to discount pre-annuity pensions in this way too (though this IMHO to too conservative and overcautious when a stock market can hedge it fine).
You clearly lack any concept of irony. Thanks for replying twice as an AC.
FOAD.
"insurance companies, and other stretches of the definition of 'financial institution'" hmmm, insurance company. Non-financial corporation.
You are incorrect, and so is dictionary.com or whatever other shagheap you dug that from. Try looking it up in a real distionary, or getting an education other than in cut-and-paste from the 'I'm feeling lucky' option in Google.
My mouse has 5 buttons.
mmmm, hairdryer, static, nice.
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In a CircleID article called Letting DNS Loose, Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS and Chief Scientist and Chairman of Nominum, gives a good indication of what is to be expected in the upcoming years when it comes to data riding on DNS: "RFID tags, UPC codes, International characters in email addresses and host names, and a variety of other identifiers could all go into DNS, and folks have occasionally proposed doing just that. It's really just a question of figuring out how to use the DNS -- it's ready to carry arbitrary identifiers." According to
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I have invented a method to skip TiVo's IP, therefore I do not have to be exposed to it.
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'``sword` ` ```.-"`````"-. '' ' 8'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` ``/```sword```\ ' ' 7'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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A group is not to be belonged to.
Are you jealous, trollkore loser?
Trollkore has been dessimated, the GNAA is a passing fad. The wikipedia has been written. You will be exterminated, nay assimilated, into oblivion.
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|``skull` ` ``/```sword```\ ' ' 7'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'``sword` ` `|````skull````| ' '6'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` `|,``.-.
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It is not a spelling mistake but a grammar mistake. And I think the parent you think the Beagle has crashed huh? ha shows how dumb you American's are.... was a satire.
France are considering retiring this carrier (already!) and going with the replacement Britian is using for its carriers (these are conventionally powered, at 50,000 tons displacement they are not as big as a NIMITZ (90,000 tons) but bigger than the Charles De Gaul (40,000 tons displacement) and considerably faster).
The nuclear reactor installation in the Charles De Gaul was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation.
This ship took 11 years to build but is in constant need of repair and refit. The French are leaders in naval and nuclear technology, but include the military and it all goes to pieces. But even their previous (Clemencau) carriers were British in origin.
urope need 4 substantial aircraft carriers, 2 from Britain, 1 France, 2 Germany, able to provide global standby capacity as well as 1 ship redundancy. But the days of the cold war are over, wars cannot be fought from carriers, excellent communication with ground is necessary, as well as an experienced (land based) airforce. At least both Britain and France didn't go with that dog of a plane the F-18, never has a plane been so bad at multi-role as this. Britain has wisely decided to use the F-22 for its new carriers, France pressed to adapt the Eurofighter (an acceptable aircraft, but designed in the cold war for air-2-air, not suitable for modern uses).
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France are considering retiring this carrier (already!) and going with the replacement Britian is using for its carriers (these are conventionally powered, at 50,000 tons displacement they are not as big as a NITITZ (90,000 tons) but bigger than the Charles De Gaul (40,000 tons displacement) and considerably faster). The nuclear reactor installation in the Charles De Gaul was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation. This ship took 11 years to build but is in constant need of repair and refit. The French are leaders in naval and nuclear technology, but include the military and it all goes to pieces. But even their previous (Clemencau) carriers were British in origin. Europe need 4 substantial aircraft carriers, 2 from Britain, 1 France, 2 Germany, able to provide global standby capacity as well as 1 ship redundancy. But the days of the cold war are over, wars cannot be fought from carriers, excellent communication with ground is necessary, as well as an experienced (land based) airforce. At least both Britain and France didn't go with that dog of a plane the F-18, never has a plane been so bad at multi-role as this. Britain has wisely decided to use the F-22 for its new carriers, France pressed to adapt the Eurofighter (an acceptable aircraft, but designed in the cold war for air-2-air, not suitable for modern uses).
On the centre right of that same picture is a trail of rocks arching towards the centre into the (relative) distance. This arch is a curve, and mars is a moderately shperical shape... plus the airbags were spherical. Clearly evidence of life on mars and that life on mars has influenced our earth technlogy.
How interesting.
...so we can land these probes in places more interesting than a wide open plain.
Well Beagle 2 tried this (seemingly of its own will!), did you enjoy the pictures?
I was disappointed in the mini iPod announcement but I'm sure people will buy them.
Most people focus on "for $50 more you can get 15 more gigs" but there's more to it than that. People will buy the mini ipods for design.
It is smaller and lighter. iPods are already small. Many consumers value smallness hugely. To a consumer who cares more about unit size, than hard disk size, the mini iPod is better and cheaper.
There is also the cuteness factor. Mini iPods come in color. For students in particular, I think this is going to be a big thing. If you think the mini iPod looks better, and it's cheaper, it's a great deal.
Like many iPod consumers I don't care too much about the size of the hard disk, because 4 gigs is enough for me. I don't need to carry my whole music collection around. Sure, I might do that, but it's not a huge deal to me.
So we're left with a smaller, cuter, cheaper iPod that costs less and carries enough music. I'd buy that.
Go into an apple store and try handling one, see how you like it, you may find that 4 gigs vs 15 gigs becomes the least of your concerns.
But I will close with, still disappointed, really wanted to see a 2 gig in the $99-149 range.
It is not unethical to give the Chinese work and the Chinese willing accept such work, particuraly where the Chinese would likely be paid more than they'd make in a factory or a farm. It is not unethical for you to freely pay for a service, if you didn't want the service you'd not use it.
I think you are trying to get as much use from IBM paying as little as possible. Is that unethical to their workers and shareholders who could get paid more if you didn't do that?
'``sword` ` ```.-"`````"-. '' ' 8'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` ``/```sword```\ ' ' 7'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'``sword` ` `|````skull````| ' '6'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` `|,``.-.
'``sword` ` `| )(__/ \__)( | ' '4'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
|``skull` ` `|/````/ \````\| ' '3'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
'````(@_` ` `(_````^ ^````_) ' '2'` GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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' ( )@8@{ {____|-\IIIII/-|____ ____ ____ _____> and CLIT and GNAA
| ````` )_/````\``GNAA```/ ' ' ' ' 'GNAA & trollkore suck gay ass
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