Sorry if I'm mis-characterizing what you said, but making the announcement of hypothetical future production to lower current prices will last for, what, an afternoon??? The market will respond to actual data, and simply announcing it will have a really short term blip, if any at all.
Actually, announcing hypothetical future scenarios can in fact have an impact on price for a long period of time. The market moves toward the marginal cost of production. OPEC's spigot obscures that of course but as their excess capacity dwindles it becomes increasingly relevant.
Anyway.. if people realise that X million barrels of oil will come on in 5yr at a cost of $40/bbl (for example) then it implies bad things for oil prices and the market, being a discount mechanism, will in fact take that into account.
To put it more simply with an example think about how high oil prices went. They didn't go that high because we actually didn't have the stuff but people were discounting geopolitical risk as folks in the middle east were "announcing something" like nuclear programs and the like. All of the "actual data" suggested that Iran didn't have a nuclear weapons program but the market was willing to discount all kids of scenarios.
Corn futures trade up and down w/ the weather forecast.. you don't need "actual data". The promise of significant oil production does do something.
Ameritrade is 40% owned by TD bank. TD has $50b (mkt cap) worth of bricks & mortar. Granted it's 1/4 the size of BofA but certainly far from just a website
DSL/cable isn't being offered at a loss. This is simply untrue! Go check out the financial statements of your local exchange carrier (LEC) http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Lots of them make huge coin and are paying out big dividends.
Forget the huge windfall later, most assume that data will eventually be commoditized in the way voice was (i.e., things will get worse).
I would recommend dexadrine. A great drug, this thing is prescribed to kids w/ ADD and special forces pilots often take it as well.
The drug is perfect for studying late: 1) keeps you awake (why special forces likes it) 2) you're not hungry (use to be a diet drug) 3) keeps you focused (why ADD kids get it)
Those three factors are perfect from cramming
Side affects: 1) sometimes you'll end up talking too much 2) can grind your teeth a bit 3) i'm sure there are some health side effects..
AMD isn't slashing prices
Processors (74% of their revenue) saw units increase 27% y/y and pricing increase 6% y/y. Net/net their margins increased 500 bps to 46%.
Intel on the other hand saw revenues, units and ASPs (average selling prices) fall bellow their mid-quarter guidance (what they tell investors to expect in the future). They're looking for margins to continue to go lower (note: this could imply an upcoming price war!)
PLEASE (deserving of caps) stop saying podcasting. Save format/DRM downloading music off the internet shouldn't be associated w/ the iPod. You don't need an iPod to make or listen to a "podcast". Why? Because it's marketing speak.
'podcast' means recorded audio
'podcasting' means streaming audio Come on/., fight it!
Actually, in Italy, they are going after people wearing fake goods.
Italy is home to both designer goods and loads of street vendors. However, the government's cracking down and you face a 2500 euro fine for having so much as a fake wallet! At that rate it's cheaper to just guy the real thing.
GH Hardy (he wrote A Mathematician's Apology) speaking of Ramanujan:
I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Once the DoD attempted to create a plane that would serve as a trainer for the navy
Navy boats would have their ability to interpret their radars tested as the plane would send out hard to deceifer and misleading signals to the ship.
The project failed because the plane had to asses surrounding radio frequencies, boats, planes, &c. in order to know what misleading information to send.
The darn thing would crash everyonce and a while and no one knew why. Turns out that if there were too many planes,boats, &c around it couldn't appropriatly deal with all that information and compute the correct signals.
The same could be happening to these missles,if could be reading in various inputs (ie. planes, heat sources, wind currents, icbm decoys (assuming it traces the icbm throughout it's entire course)) and not be able to deal w/ them, thus crashing
if it was software related it was probably due to a fault in the scheduling algorithm re: data sharing between processes
most problems in RTS come from an excessive amount of world inputs that aren't properly accounted for by data structures
then again.. it could of just ran out of gas
if you're going to stand your ground with wintel and attack reviews from tomshardware & co. then i have to ask what you take issue with.
did you disagree with the test system? the benchmarks used?
i've read tomshardware for years and have found them objective and informative. While their results disagree with your emotion you shouldn't make baseless remarks
"It took Anderson about four hours and 2,000 mouseclicks to download more than 13,000 documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force"
2,000 clicks for 13,000+ documents?? via an html interface.. now that impresses me.. i map ~ 1 click : 1 document
"Pornography, for example, had a role in pushing broadband into more homes."
just giving you guys a reason to rtfa
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry if I'm mis-characterizing what you said, but making the announcement of hypothetical future production to lower current prices will last for, what, an afternoon??? The market will respond to actual data, and simply announcing it will have a really short term blip, if any at all.
Actually, announcing hypothetical future scenarios can in fact have an impact on price for a long period of time. The market moves toward the marginal cost of production. OPEC's spigot obscures that of course but as their excess capacity dwindles it becomes increasingly relevant.
Anyway.. if people realise that X million barrels of oil will come on in 5yr at a cost of $40/bbl (for example) then it implies bad things for oil prices and the market, being a discount mechanism, will in fact take that into account.
To put it more simply with an example think about how high oil prices went. They didn't go that high because we actually didn't have the stuff but people were discounting geopolitical risk as folks in the middle east were "announcing something" like nuclear programs and the like. All of the "actual data" suggested that Iran didn't have a nuclear weapons program but the market was willing to discount all kids of scenarios.
Corn futures trade up and down w/ the weather forecast.. you don't need "actual data". The promise of significant oil production does do something.
Ameritrade is 40% owned by TD bank. TD has $50b (mkt cap) worth of bricks & mortar. Granted it's 1/4 the size of BofA but certainly far from just a website
Offered at a loss
DSL/cable isn't being offered at a loss. This is simply untrue! Go check out the financial statements of your local exchange carrier (LEC) http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Lots of them make huge coin and are paying out big dividends.
Forget the huge windfall later, most assume that data will eventually be commoditized in the way voice was (i.e., things will get worse).
I would recommend dexadrine. A great drug, this thing is prescribed to kids w/ ADD and special forces pilots often take it as well.
The drug is perfect for studying late:
1) keeps you awake (why special forces likes it)
2) you're not hungry (use to be a diet drug)
3) keeps you focused (why ADD kids get it)
Those three factors are perfect from cramming
Side affects:
1) sometimes you'll end up talking too much
2) can grind your teeth a bit
3) i'm sure there are some health side effects..
i disagree! susceptibility to alcohol has resulted in a lot more reproduction than drunk driving has in deaths
He's also been to court twice for DWIs and will be showing up for a third in April!
AMD isn't slashing prices
Processors (74% of their revenue) saw units increase 27% y/y and pricing increase 6% y/y. Net/net their margins increased 500 bps to 46%.
Intel on the other hand saw revenues, units and ASPs (average selling prices) fall bellow their mid-quarter guidance (what they tell investors to expect in the future). They're looking for margins to continue to go lower (note: this could imply an upcoming price war!)
maybe! he! use! to! work! at! Yahoo!
PLEASE (deserving of caps) stop saying podcasting. Save format/DRM downloading music off the internet shouldn't be associated w/ the iPod. You don't need an iPod to make or listen to a "podcast". Why? Because it's marketing speak.
/., fight it!
'podcast' means recorded audio
'podcasting' means streaming audio
Come on
Actually, in Italy, they are going after people wearing fake goods.
Italy is home to both designer goods and loads of street vendors. However, the government's cracking down and you face a 2500 euro fine for having so much as a fake wallet! At that rate it's cheaper to just guy the real thing.
Rob
RTF er.. FAQ
You're allowed to earn up to 10% of your future purchases.
The real hack will be the "client" that taps into the swarm posing as a paying user.
GH Hardy (he wrote A Mathematician's Apology) speaking of Ramanujan:
I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
(London 1940).
The fines could actually serve as an effective deterrent to those contemplating suicides that have an estate they want to give to loved ones.
:. if a someone is ending their life but has allocated their estate to another, they might find the added deterent enough to prevent the suicide.
Once the DoD attempted to create a plane that would serve as a trainer for the navy
Navy boats would have their ability to interpret their radars tested as the plane would send out hard to deceifer and misleading signals to the ship.
The project failed because the plane had to asses surrounding radio frequencies, boats, planes, &c. in order to know what misleading information to send.
The darn thing would crash everyonce and a while and no one knew why. Turns out that if there were too many planes,boats, &c around it couldn't appropriatly deal with all that information and compute the correct signals. The same could be happening to these missles,if could be reading in various inputs (ie. planes, heat sources, wind currents, icbm decoys (assuming it traces the icbm throughout it's entire course)) and not be able to deal w/ them, thus crashing
if it was software related it was probably due to a fault in the scheduling algorithm re: data sharing between processes most problems in RTS come from an excessive amount of world inputs that aren't properly accounted for by data structures then again.. it could of just ran out of gas
if you're going to stand your ground with wintel and attack reviews from tomshardware & co. then i have to ask what you take issue with.
did you disagree with the test system?
the benchmarks used?
i've read tomshardware for years and have found them objective and informative. While their results disagree with your emotion you shouldn't make baseless remarks
"It took Anderson about four hours and 2,000 mouseclicks to download more than 13,000 documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force" 2,000 clicks for 13,000+ documents?? via an html interface.. now that impresses me.. i map ~ 1 click : 1 document "Pornography, for example, had a role in pushing broadband into more homes." just giving you guys a reason to rtfa