If you haven't gotten the hint yet: I am saying that I would either already be using Linux (or some other secure and stable OS) or I would be lobbying for a switch to Linux.
Name a part of the US government with a sysadmin user structure that primarily uses Linux, targeted for the end-users.
When would you cover this one? There may be residual value at some point (office space, chairs etc). 20.5->0.25 or so would be my guess of maximal profit.
Book value on SCOX (assets minus liabilities, a measure of how over/undervalued a stock is) is 67 cents per share (adjusted for split) for the quarter ending 4/30/06, or a little over $14 million. It probably won't fall below.67/share.
What I find funny is that according to WSJ, there is one analyst still covering the stock with a buy rating. However, the analyst has not given any forward earnings estimates. Also shocking is just how shorted the stock is: 3.8 million shares, of only 15.1 million shares available to investors (21.09 million shares total outstanding). 25% of SCOX's public float is being shorted! And, if that isn't enough, look at this 8-K SEC filing:
Effective as of July 1, 2006, The SCO Group, Inc. (the "Company"), provided a salary increase for Sandeep Gupta, Chief Technology Officer of the Company. Mr. Gupta's annualized base salary was increased from $150,000 to $165,000. In addition, a one-time bonus of approximately $2,400 was provided for Mr. Gupta.
I do not own SCOX or any of the companies involved in SCO litigation.
How many sites even -offer- USPS as a shipping option?
The largest online retailer uses them for Super Saver and standard shipping. I also see a lot of QVC returns by USPS, and they ship to customers via UPS or USPS.
According to this, not only do you not need to train Vista's speech recognition engine (if you can call it that after this fiasco), but it is also very "easy" to navigate the OS even if you don't know commands like "show numbers" for selecting graphics on a web page in IE (because that's a "duh" command) and "close that."
Rivet acknowledged AMD will lose revenue ATI gets from customer Intel Corp. (INTC), but said the combined company is confident it will make up those lost sales. AMD expects savings of $75 million by the end of 2007 and $125 million in savings in 2008, Rivet added. CEO Ruiz noted that customers were asking AMD to do this deal.
AMD is covering the remaining $2.5b of the deal with a commitment letter from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, with the debt secured by "a pledge of the capital stock of certain material units of the company, accounts receivable and proceeds from any sale by Advanced Micro of its equity interest in Spansion Inc." The CFO is overly optimistic that the company can get rid of that debt "quickly," without layoffs, and with savings of $75m and $125m over the next two years. DJ Newswires says ATYT will no longer work with Intel, and the execs say that they can make up the lost sales with the severing of Intel-ATI ties. Pretty lofty goals, I'd say.
The market's view of this is visible from the fact that ATI is up and AMD is waaaay down.
Wrong. The company doing the takeover (AMD) almost always declines -- rather noticably, too -- and the company being taken over almost always increases -- usually because the takeover bid is at a higher stock price.
AMD is just reporting bad earnings news in a volatile, short-heavy, news-sensitive market. With companies reporting good earnings still trading downward, it's no surprise that reporting bad earnings will earn a company a sound beating on its stock (case in point: Dell). Rumors of the AMD bid weren't even reported by Dow Jones until well after today's close. An analyst quoted in the DJ story mentioned that AMD would have to issue more stock (and dilute current shareholders' stock, a Bad Thing) in order to complete the deal, with ATYT valued at $5.6b, both companies with only about $3b of combined cash, and AMD with $500m of debt.
I don't see how this makes any financial sense for AMD. The stock is at 52-week lows, there's disappointing earnings for the most recent quarter, the phasing out of one of their chip lines is confusing consumers, Intel's Conroe seems to have better prospects, and AMD is spending a lot of money for a new plant that won't be ready for years. They don't seem to have any good news.
I am not a professional investor or analyst, and I don't hold AMD or INTC stock.
There are people who use Netflix for television series on DVD, not "crappy" movies. I don't put many actual movies in my queue, but I find I can usually get through 1-2 seasons of various television shows (Monarch of the Glen, BBC Scotland; House M.D.; The Muppet Show; Rome) and pay much less than the cost of buying the series on DVD. One season usually costs $30-50; I can easily get through it in a month with the $10 one-out-at-a-time plan, and I don't feel rushed watching all of those DVDs.
The Wall Street Journal ran an article today on concerns about long-term sales (subscribers only, I think) for the PS3. Wall Street analysts and industry watchers are concerned that the PS3 just won't succeed with the majority of gamers, especially with the Wii's lower price tag and innovative controller and the time lead that XBox 360 has.
That's pretty rare. As a current subscriber (approx 7 months) I know that Netflix is *very* fast when you are in the trial period, trying to hook you. For the past few months I've noticed it takes two days for them to acknowledge receipt of the DVD and send a new one. Your case is obviously abnormal with the wrong DVD in the right sleeve, but your delivery time could have been because of distance from the nearest warehouse. I've always been within one day's delivery of a warehouse, and when I first subscribed I was literally one zip code over from their warehouse/PO box.
I walked in thinking "OH noes! PST and outlook!" Since the AOL email client stores all the emails on the server, it was pretty painless.
It's called using Outlook/Thunderbird/program-of-choice with IMAP. I use TB on my desktop and laptop so I never have to worry about one computer's inbox being out-of-sync since it pulls e-mails from the server.
Those who actually file for and receive their rebate checks would beg to differ. You certainly can't get rebates successfully if you're stupid and lazy. Rebates are really a tax on those who choose not to be penny-pinchers.
People fall for those schemes, which assume your time, effort, postage, privacy and personal information are worth less than the rebate amount. It's really sad to see people pander to a scheme that is clearly false and misleading advertising.
It's only a scheme (and mail fraud) if the processor doesn't hold to their end of the bargain (get my info, confirm I'm not filing more than once or whatever the limit is, ensure the UPC and receipt are included and correct). Filing a rebate should take no more than ten minutes; for a $10 rebate (once I recently filed for) I'd have to assume my time is worth nearly $60/hr before deciding that the rebate isn't worth my time. $10 for 10 minutes worth of work is very good compensation. Those marketing companies already have my personal info and I can't retract it, so moot point. The only time it's misleading is publishing the after-rebate price larger or before the at-checkout price; I fail to see how any advertised rebate is "clearly false...advertising."
It's good that OfficeMax finally dropped this scheme, but you know they only did so because they got tired of upset customers harassing them looking for rebate checks that never showed up. So don't think for a minute this corporation is listening to consumers' demands in favor of profitability. It obviously became less profitable to mislead consumers than not, so they dropped the program.
I think failure to uphold the deal has been more exception than the rule. Only once did I have to haggle with a rebate company for an error on their side, and quite a few here on/. have had no problems over the years. If you don't do things like write clearly, clearly circle the date, item, and price on the receipt, clip or tape the UPC (and verify it's correct to begin with) to the paperwork, you are giving the processor outs for delaying or denying a rebate.
The people who demanded that retailers stop offering mail-in rebates are the lazy ones. You want the lowest possible price without having to do anything, and at the same time criticize those who are willing to do something extra for a lower price. How does that work?
From TFA, the guy is a business traveller. Now look what happens if you "need help" logging in to BA's website:
As a member of the British Airways Executive Club, On Business or as a registered customer with britishairways.com, you can now log in to manage your account and access our exclusive online services. You log in by entering your details in the boxes at the top right hand corner of the screen.
Login ID Your login ID is either your: > Executive Club membership number or > On Business membership number or > Username
PIN/Password When logging in with the following: > Executive Club membership number, use your 4-digit PIN or > On Business use your login id and password or > username, use your password
Executive Club members If you need a PIN or have forgotten your PIN, then please click here to apply for one >>
On Business members If you have forgotten your password or login id click here for more information >>
Forgotten your password? Enter your username in both the Login ID and the PIN/Password boxes to receive your password prompt.
From what I can tell, if the reporter is in fact not lying, if the "victim" was an Executive Club member, you need the following if you need a PIN, or have forgotten your PIN:
Membership number
First name
Family/Last name
Hmm. This is printed on the boarding pass already. Oh, and if he's an On Business member, you only need the username to retrieve the password, and the website tells you that it's "2 characters 6 digits"; what's the chance of that being the membership number printed on the boarding pass?
I wouldn't call this complete and utter bullshit yet. There are reasonable explanations for how this was accomplished.
Square Enix & PlayOnline recently debuted XBox 360 service for the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, with the new expansion pack Treasures of Aht Urghan. Prior to the 360 release there was an extended open beta for those users. They had a similar miscalculation - they didn't expect as many users as they got. Nonetheless, the worst problem they had with the server? It finally hit a physical limit for characters on the server (each "server," or "world," is a cluster of servers) and SE/POL were forced to delete inactive level 1 characters.
When 360 service actually began, the new expansion pack (and a slew of patches) brought a fair amount of maintenance. The longest maintenance? The scheduled one that would unlock the expansion, which lasted for eight hours. The login servers (everyone, including 360 users, go through these login/lobby servers; this was the case when the 360 version was still in beta) stayed up (in the past, sometimes they did get clogged) and client updates, which have been known to constantly timeout from surging demand, went fairly smooth.
So why am I pointing this out? The game has had substantial growth since the beginning of the year, and the issues plaguing it have resulted in 2-3 unscheduled maintenances, lasting 2-3 hours, to fix critical issues. FFXI's worst outage ever? An 8-hour scheduled maintenance that got completely borked and lasted for 16 hours. Methinks severe network issues are pretty much a thing of the past for MMOs, and WoW is an isolated case.
Yes, it will get installed, but by OEMs, not by Average Joe user or corporations/businesses. Heck, most places I've been to with large computer installations are still using a mix of Windows 2000 and XP (in 2006). Most of those who use Windows Vista will have it by force (or lack of choice, however you want to perceive it).
$25, $50 for a phone on eBay. So I just moved to a new cell phone company, and I plan on staying with them for the next two years (length of the contract, even without buying a phone from them, because it's their cheapest plan). I can get a brand new phone (with maybe a few features I don't need) that comes with a limited warranty for $30 and I have the service when I walk out of the store...or I can mess around with eBay and take a chance on a phone that doesn't get me out of the two-year contract issue.
It's a widespread problem across the entire MSNBC.com website. The site is crappy anyway, and the way they place the ads sometimes breaks the page (ad covers text) ***even*** when using IE.
Actually there was a WSJ article a few weeks ago about how Switzerland is actually giving in to international pressure and losing some of its anonymity benefits. (maybe I can find it) Here we go:
For decades, the ultrarich looking for discreet banking services gravitated to Switzerland, where account secrecy was sacrosanct. But when Swiss authorities acceded to pressure from the European Union to discourage tax evasion, the door opened for a new challenger to woo the world's wealthy: Singapore.
The tiny Asian nation has beefed up account secrecy protections, has changed trust laws and has begun allowing foreigners who meet minimum wealth requirements to purchase land and become residents.
Now private-banking money is flooding in from at least three sources: Asians who have grown rich from the booming Asia-Pacific economy, foreigners seeking to invest and do business in Asia, and Europeans moving money from Switzerland for tax purposes. Swiss banks are expanding in Singapore to get in on the action.
Maybe Google should move their records to Singapore?
Hey, don't shoot the messenger. I just submitted the story...but I thought it should be pointed out that there are versions like "Professional Plus" with convoluted names.
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If you haven't gotten the hint yet: I am saying that I would either already be using Linux (or some other secure and stable OS) or I would be lobbying for a switch to Linux.
Name a part of the US government with a sysadmin user structure that primarily uses Linux, targeted for the end-users.
When would you cover this one? There may be residual value at some point (office space, chairs etc). 20.5->0.25 or so would be my guess of maximal profit.
Book value on SCOX (assets minus liabilities, a measure of how over/undervalued a stock is) is 67 cents per share (adjusted for split) for the quarter ending 4/30/06, or a little over $14 million. It probably won't fall below .67/share.
What I find funny is that according to WSJ, there is one analyst still covering the stock with a buy rating. However, the analyst has not given any forward earnings estimates. Also shocking is just how shorted the stock is: 3.8 million shares, of only 15.1 million shares available to investors (21.09 million shares total outstanding). 25% of SCOX's public float is being shorted! And, if that isn't enough, look at this 8-K SEC filing:
I do not own SCOX or any of the companies involved in SCO litigation.
How many sites even -offer- USPS as a shipping option?
The largest online retailer uses them for Super Saver and standard shipping. I also see a lot of QVC returns by USPS, and they ship to customers via UPS or USPS.
According to this, not only do you not need to train Vista's speech recognition engine (if you can call it that after this fiasco), but it is also very "easy" to navigate the OS even if you don't know commands like "show numbers" for selecting graphics on a web page in IE (because that's a "duh" command) and "close that."
It came off DJ Newswires:
AMD is covering the remaining $2.5b of the deal with a commitment letter from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, with the debt secured by "a pledge of the capital stock of certain material units of the company, accounts receivable and proceeds from any sale by Advanced Micro of its equity interest in Spansion Inc." The CFO is overly optimistic that the company can get rid of that debt "quickly," without layoffs, and with savings of $75m and $125m over the next two years. DJ Newswires says ATYT will no longer work with Intel, and the execs say that they can make up the lost sales with the severing of Intel-ATI ties. Pretty lofty goals, I'd say.
The market's view of this is visible from the fact that ATI is up and AMD is waaaay down.
Wrong. The company doing the takeover (AMD) almost always declines -- rather noticably, too -- and the company being taken over almost always increases -- usually because the takeover bid is at a higher stock price.
AMD is just reporting bad earnings news in a volatile, short-heavy, news-sensitive market. With companies reporting good earnings still trading downward, it's no surprise that reporting bad earnings will earn a company a sound beating on its stock (case in point: Dell). Rumors of the AMD bid weren't even reported by Dow Jones until well after today's close. An analyst quoted in the DJ story mentioned that AMD would have to issue more stock (and dilute current shareholders' stock, a Bad Thing) in order to complete the deal, with ATYT valued at $5.6b, both companies with only about $3b of combined cash, and AMD with $500m of debt.
I don't see how this makes any financial sense for AMD. The stock is at 52-week lows, there's disappointing earnings for the most recent quarter, the phasing out of one of their chip lines is confusing consumers, Intel's Conroe seems to have better prospects, and AMD is spending a lot of money for a new plant that won't be ready for years. They don't seem to have any good news.
There are people who use Netflix for television series on DVD, not "crappy" movies. I don't put many actual movies in my queue, but I find I can usually get through 1-2 seasons of various television shows (Monarch of the Glen, BBC Scotland; House M.D.; The Muppet Show; Rome) and pay much less than the cost of buying the series on DVD. One season usually costs $30-50; I can easily get through it in a month with the $10 one-out-at-a-time plan, and I don't feel rushed watching all of those DVDs.
The Wall Street Journal ran an article today on concerns about long-term sales (subscribers only, I think) for the PS3. Wall Street analysts and industry watchers are concerned that the PS3 just won't succeed with the majority of gamers, especially with the Wii's lower price tag and innovative controller and the time lead that XBox 360 has.
That's pretty rare. As a current subscriber (approx 7 months) I know that Netflix is *very* fast when you are in the trial period, trying to hook you. For the past few months I've noticed it takes two days for them to acknowledge receipt of the DVD and send a new one. Your case is obviously abnormal with the wrong DVD in the right sleeve, but your delivery time could have been because of distance from the nearest warehouse. I've always been within one day's delivery of a warehouse, and when I first subscribed I was literally one zip code over from their warehouse/PO box.
It's called using Outlook/Thunderbird/program-of-choice with IMAP. I use TB on my desktop and laptop so I never have to worry about one computer's inbox being out-of-sync since it pulls e-mails from the server.
Those who actually file for and receive their rebate checks would beg to differ. You certainly can't get rebates successfully if you're stupid and lazy. Rebates are really a tax on those who choose not to be penny-pinchers.
People fall for those schemes, which assume your time, effort, postage, privacy and personal information are worth less than the rebate amount. It's really sad to see people pander to a scheme that is clearly false and misleading advertising.It's only a scheme (and mail fraud) if the processor doesn't hold to their end of the bargain (get my info, confirm I'm not filing more than once or whatever the limit is, ensure the UPC and receipt are included and correct). Filing a rebate should take no more than ten minutes; for a $10 rebate (once I recently filed for) I'd have to assume my time is worth nearly $60/hr before deciding that the rebate isn't worth my time. $10 for 10 minutes worth of work is very good compensation. Those marketing companies already have my personal info and I can't retract it, so moot point. The only time it's misleading is publishing the after-rebate price larger or before the at-checkout price; I fail to see how any advertised rebate is "clearly false...advertising."
It's good that OfficeMax finally dropped this scheme, but you know they only did so because they got tired of upset customers harassing them looking for rebate checks that never showed up. So don't think for a minute this corporation is listening to consumers' demands in favor of profitability. It obviously became less profitable to mislead consumers than not, so they dropped the program.I think failure to uphold the deal has been more exception than the rule. Only once did I have to haggle with a rebate company for an error on their side, and quite a few here on /. have had no problems over the years. If you don't do things like write clearly, clearly circle the date, item, and price on the receipt, clip or tape the UPC (and verify it's correct to begin with) to the paperwork, you are giving the processor outs for delaying or denying a rebate.
The people who demanded that retailers stop offering mail-in rebates are the lazy ones. You want the lowest possible price without having to do anything, and at the same time criticize those who are willing to do something extra for a lower price. How does that work?
Okay, I'll bite.
From TFA, the guy is a business traveller. Now look what happens if you "need help" logging in to BA's website:
As a member of the British Airways Executive Club, On Business or as a registered customer with britishairways.com, you can now log in to manage your account and access our exclusive online services. You log in by entering your details in the boxes at the top right hand corner of the screen.
Login ID Your login ID is either your: > Executive Club membership number or > On Business membership number or > Username
PIN/Password When logging in with the following: > Executive Club membership number, use your 4-digit PIN or > On Business use your login id and password or > username, use your password
Executive Club members If you need a PIN or have forgotten your PIN, then please click here to apply for one >>
On Business members If you have forgotten your password or login id click here for more information >>
Forgotten your password? Enter your username in both the Login ID and the PIN/Password boxes to receive your password prompt.
From what I can tell, if the reporter is in fact not lying, if the "victim" was an Executive Club member, you need the following if you need a PIN, or have forgotten your PIN:
Hmm. This is printed on the boarding pass already. Oh, and if he's an On Business member, you only need the username to retrieve the password, and the website tells you that it's "2 characters 6 digits"; what's the chance of that being the membership number printed on the boarding pass?
I wouldn't call this complete and utter bullshit yet. There are reasonable explanations for how this was accomplished.
Cogito, not cognito (from cogito, cognitare). Latin student so I had to point that out,
Always worked for me...and I'm still on iTunes 4.7.
Square Enix & PlayOnline recently debuted XBox 360 service for the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, with the new expansion pack Treasures of Aht Urghan. Prior to the 360 release there was an extended open beta for those users. They had a similar miscalculation - they didn't expect as many users as they got. Nonetheless, the worst problem they had with the server? It finally hit a physical limit for characters on the server (each "server," or "world," is a cluster of servers) and SE/POL were forced to delete inactive level 1 characters.
When 360 service actually began, the new expansion pack (and a slew of patches) brought a fair amount of maintenance. The longest maintenance? The scheduled one that would unlock the expansion, which lasted for eight hours. The login servers (everyone, including 360 users, go through these login/lobby servers; this was the case when the 360 version was still in beta) stayed up (in the past, sometimes they did get clogged) and client updates, which have been known to constantly timeout from surging demand, went fairly smooth.
So why am I pointing this out? The game has had substantial growth since the beginning of the year, and the issues plaguing it have resulted in 2-3 unscheduled maintenances, lasting 2-3 hours, to fix critical issues. FFXI's worst outage ever? An 8-hour scheduled maintenance that got completely borked and lasted for 16 hours. Methinks severe network issues are pretty much a thing of the past for MMOs, and WoW is an isolated case.
Yes, it will get installed, but by OEMs, not by Average Joe user or corporations/businesses. Heck, most places I've been to with large computer installations are still using a mix of Windows 2000 and XP (in 2006). Most of those who use Windows Vista will have it by force (or lack of choice, however you want to perceive it).
See above post... I still say CowboyNeal should've fixed it to begin with.
Typo. My fault. Of course, maybe the editors could double-check submitted stories...
I always thought this was a free-wheeling, "come and say g'day" kinda place.
You mean "I always thought this was a free-wheeling, 'come and say "where the bloody hell are we?" ' kinda place.
$25, $50 for a phone on eBay. So I just moved to a new cell phone company, and I plan on staying with them for the next two years (length of the contract, even without buying a phone from them, because it's their cheapest plan). I can get a brand new phone (with maybe a few features I don't need) that comes with a limited warranty for $30 and I have the service when I walk out of the store...or I can mess around with eBay and take a chance on a phone that doesn't get me out of the two-year contract issue.
It's a widespread problem across the entire MSNBC.com website. The site is crappy anyway, and the way they place the ads sometimes breaks the page (ad covers text) ***even*** when using IE.
Senator Ron Wyden, D-OR, has proposed quite a bit of legislation regarding technology topics. The CAN-SPAM Act was proposed (later passed and signed) by him and another Senator; other legislation proposed includes protecting consumers from spyware, making permanent a ban on the taxation of Internet access and sales over the Internet first put into place by Wyden in 1998 (but set to expire in 2007), and protecting consumers' right to fair use of digital media.
Actually there was a WSJ article a few weeks ago about how Switzerland is actually giving in to international pressure and losing some of its anonymity benefits. (maybe I can find it) Here we go:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113919488042365741 .html (might need to be a Journal subscriber to access)
From the article:
For decades, the ultrarich looking for discreet banking services gravitated to Switzerland, where account secrecy was sacrosanct. But when Swiss authorities acceded to pressure from the European Union to discourage tax evasion, the door opened for a new challenger to woo the world's wealthy: Singapore.
The tiny Asian nation has beefed up account secrecy protections, has changed trust laws and has begun allowing foreigners who meet minimum wealth requirements to purchase land and become residents.
Now private-banking money is flooding in from at least three sources: Asians who have grown rich from the booming Asia-Pacific economy, foreigners seeking to invest and do business in Asia, and Europeans moving money from Switzerland for tax purposes. Swiss banks are expanding in Singapore to get in on the action.
Maybe Google should move their records to Singapore?
Hey, don't shoot the messenger. I just submitted the story...but I thought it should be pointed out that there are versions like "Professional Plus" with convoluted names.