And yet, despite dividends being too small, they are greater than the cash reserve, managing to shrink it by over 30 billion since they began giving them out. Something does not compute when a company turns a profit of $16 billion, hands $7 billion out in dividends, yet looses $8 billion in cash assets....
But the main reason they got to the point that abandoning MIPS saved them is because they abandoned MIPS development upon the Intel announcement of IA64. If they had not done that, and a series of ill timed lawsuits against MIPS core vendors, they would not have gotten to that point.
The last time SGI bought a supercomputing company things did not go well. SGI has managed to shoot themselves in the foot constantly for over a decade. At one time, they were an industry leader (even have an Indy sitting before me now) now they're in trouble and know it. Their abandonment of MIPS and embrace of Itanium gained them short term benefits, but gutted the long term profitability and flexibility of the company. Now they're desperate for growth before the stockholders abandon them utterly.
Suggestion SGI, invest in new CPU's, the market is wide open for a solid x86 competitor now that PowerPC's given up the ghost there. Partner with Sun, use the OpenSPARC, make a consumerish-model that fits into customized Opteron motherboards, do something other than stand there admiring your own navel!
Quite agreed, but with the popularity of the movie 300, the battle of Thermopylae is more in peoples minds than Marathon.
I would actually classify it closer to a classic Ghenghis Kahn "fake spear" attack, but that is because the RIAA's legal strategy is based on slow, while the lawyers fighting them are skilled at rapid legal maneuvering.
Nothing of the sort. Rather, the case is, should Universities be used as an internet police force for their own students or not. If the Universities did not fight such actions, then they could be held responsible for illegal internet activity that happened to occur under their watch. So, a hacker rootkits a students windows box to spread the Storm Virus, they'd be liable despite not owning the box, nor even having the person responsible being a student at their university (possibly not even being in the country).
I do actually know the Geneva Accords, and they do cover situations where there lacks an organized army, such as in an insurgency. When captured, such people are to be held in CIVILIAN custody, and prosecuted using CIVILIAN authority. Military prisons are strictly frowned upon for private citizens taking up arms against an occupying force.
Funny how the RIAA got what it wanted, only to them find themselves facing something they did not expect, a prepared defense with direct experience against their tactics. One could almost say that they've fallen into a classic military maneuver, put a small token defense up first to bring the enemys offense to the front, to have it fall back, leading the enemy onto terrain of ones choosing, where you then spring the trap. Classic Sun Tzu.
I see Xerxes vs 300 Spartans in a legal sense here, so long as the defense does not leave the goat path to open up their backs they will do well.
Over the past 4 weeks I've noticed a rash of almost hourly attempted breakins to our servers.
Here's a sample: ftp attempts for 5 hours straight: Feb 12 10:27:02 localhost proftpd[24841]: localhost.localdomain (::ffff:82.186.102.42[::ffff:82.186.102.42]) - no such user 'Administrator' Feb 12 10:27:02 localhost proftpd[24841]: localhost.localdomain (::ffff:82.186.102.42[::ffff:82.186.102.42]) - USER Administrator: no such user found from::ffff:82.186.102.42 [::ffff:82.186.102.42] to::ffff:192.168.10.26:21 Feb 12 10:27:02 localhost proftpd[24841]: localhost.localdomain (::ffff:82.186.102.42[::ffff:82.186.102.42]) - Maximum login attempts (3) exceeded
ssh attempts almost constant since last friday:
Feb 11 01:37:07 localhost sshd[13953]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass; user unknown Feb 11 01:37:07 localhost sshd[13953]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.31.37.13 Feb 11 01:37:07 localhost sshd[13953]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): error retrieving information about user ajith
When I catch them, the majority of the IP #'s match up to systems which have been rootkitted. The stream of odd login names always catches me off guard, sometimes in english, sometimes japanese or chinese. Does anyone know of someone that keeps track of these things, so I can send my logfiles to?
So tens of thousands can dictate to hundreds of millions?
If those tens of thousands do not watch out they might find themselves without any legal protections at all. People managed without copyright laws for, oh, a good 99% of the time we've walked on the planet, didn't we?
And here I was thinking that computers turned people into homicidal maniacs ready to climb the clock tower with a high powered rifle. Glad this guy turned me straight...
quite right, nor any evidence she hadn't. Don't forget, their children now stay with her mother due to the case, which means if she were as he has indicated, that is a manipulator, would she not have done such small things to give that impression?
Then again, he could be a cold blooded killer. Either scenario is equally likely in my mind based on the evidence presented thus far.
It is a case without a body, nor evidence that the wife is dead and had not, as she threatened to do so I understand, returned home to her native Russia. The DA had better have some better evidence than a fart in the face, which is all I'd picked up thus far.
And the next sound you shall hear are millions of nerds rushing into their offices to compile a new kernel on a sunday afternoon... along with the millions of cell phones ringing as the bosses read this...
Sitting here thinking on it, perhaps what IBM should do is analyze all bits of OS/2 to see what they do own. This is not just an exercise. One of the things I know IBM co-owns with Microsoft is the kernel, for example. Once they know what they ownint he free and clear, remove all bits that they do not own, and begin replacing them with pieces of Linux, writing layers to give them a new, IBM distribution. Call it Linux/2, or Linux OS/3. Compatibility with legacy OS/2 apps, features like SOM, a window-manager based on PM, and Linux brings with it Windows compatibility from WINE. Would be a nightmare scenario for Microsoft.
That is $23.4B of Cash + Short Term Investments, aka STOCKS. Look at MSFT's stock portfolio, oh my, 95% stock in... MSFT!
Their actual liquidity remains less than $7 billion, leaving about $17 billion in MSFT stock, which if this were to happen would plummet like a rock. That is the $17 billion they need to pay for small things like payroll....
You may be right, but have you ever checked on microsoft's cash assets? A large portion of them are: Stock, specifically microsoft stock, used for quick liquidation.
So, you have "get stock" or "get cash paid for with stocks", both of which would flood the market with loose shares almost immediately. Since these deals do typically require the largest stockholders to accept in stock... well, you can imagine the position they are in.
You're ignoring, they're offering $31 "equivelent" in Microsoft stocks. Not in cash in hand. How will the stock market respond when suddenly there's this extra 20% in loose Microsoft stocks floating out there?
Hello stock price freefall!
$40 as a minimum is quite reasonable when you consider the massive devaluation which will occur the moment the deal goes through.
Why for? They entered into his personal property, it is not harassment unless it is done on purpose for public display. If anything he could sue them for harassment for the embarassment.
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And yet, despite dividends being too small, they are greater than the cash reserve, managing to shrink it by over 30 billion since they began giving them out. Something does not compute when a company turns a profit of $16 billion, hands $7 billion out in dividends, yet looses $8 billion in cash assets....
But the main reason they got to the point that abandoning MIPS saved them is because they abandoned MIPS development upon the Intel announcement of IA64. If they had not done that, and a series of ill timed lawsuits against MIPS core vendors, they would not have gotten to that point.
The last time SGI bought a supercomputing company things did not go well. SGI has managed to shoot themselves in the foot constantly for over a decade. At one time, they were an industry leader (even have an Indy sitting before me now) now they're in trouble and know it. Their abandonment of MIPS and embrace of Itanium gained them short term benefits, but gutted the long term profitability and flexibility of the company. Now they're desperate for growth before the stockholders abandon them utterly.
Suggestion SGI, invest in new CPU's, the market is wide open for a solid x86 competitor now that PowerPC's given up the ghost there. Partner with Sun, use the OpenSPARC, make a consumerish-model that fits into customized Opteron motherboards, do something other than stand there admiring your own navel!
Quite agreed, but with the popularity of the movie 300, the battle of Thermopylae is more in peoples minds than Marathon.
I would actually classify it closer to a classic Ghenghis Kahn "fake spear" attack, but that is because the RIAA's legal strategy is based on slow, while the lawyers fighting them are skilled at rapid legal maneuvering.
Nothing of the sort. Rather, the case is, should Universities be used as an internet police force for their own students or not. If the Universities did not fight such actions, then they could be held responsible for illegal internet activity that happened to occur under their watch. So, a hacker rootkits a students windows box to spread the Storm Virus, they'd be liable despite not owning the box, nor even having the person responsible being a student at their university (possibly not even being in the country).
I do actually know the Geneva Accords, and they do cover situations where there lacks an organized army, such as in an insurgency. When captured, such people are to be held in CIVILIAN custody, and prosecuted using CIVILIAN authority. Military prisons are strictly frowned upon for private citizens taking up arms against an occupying force.
Funny how the RIAA got what it wanted, only to them find themselves facing something they did not expect, a prepared defense with direct experience against their tactics. One could almost say that they've fallen into a classic military maneuver, put a small token defense up first to bring the enemys offense to the front, to have it fall back, leading the enemy onto terrain of ones choosing, where you then spring the trap. Classic Sun Tzu.
I see Xerxes vs 300 Spartans in a legal sense here, so long as the defense does not leave the goat path to open up their backs they will do well.
Last time I checked, the members of Hamas and Al Qaeda *are* civilians, or have they been accepted into a nations army, and if so which one?
My router is a SPARC running OpenBSD... which only allows SSH access from the internal LAN. I love my router...
Over the past 4 weeks I've noticed a rash of almost hourly attempted breakins to our servers.
::ffff:82.186.102.42 [::ffff:82.186.102.42] to ::ffff:192.168.10.26:21
Here's a sample:
ftp attempts for 5 hours straight:
Feb 12 10:27:02 localhost proftpd[24841]: localhost.localdomain (::ffff:82.186.102.42[::ffff:82.186.102.42]) - no such user 'Administrator'
Feb 12 10:27:02 localhost proftpd[24841]: localhost.localdomain (::ffff:82.186.102.42[::ffff:82.186.102.42]) - USER Administrator: no such user found from
Feb 12 10:27:02 localhost proftpd[24841]: localhost.localdomain (::ffff:82.186.102.42[::ffff:82.186.102.42]) - Maximum login attempts (3) exceeded
ssh attempts almost constant since last friday:
Feb 11 01:37:07 localhost sshd[13953]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass; user unknown
Feb 11 01:37:07 localhost sshd[13953]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.31.37.13
Feb 11 01:37:07 localhost sshd[13953]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): error retrieving information about user ajith
When I catch them, the majority of the IP #'s match up to systems which have been rootkitted. The stream of odd login names always catches me off guard, sometimes in english, sometimes japanese or chinese. Does anyone know of someone that keeps track of these things, so I can send my logfiles to?
So tens of thousands can dictate to hundreds of millions?
If those tens of thousands do not watch out they might find themselves without any legal protections at all. People managed without copyright laws for, oh, a good 99% of the time we've walked on the planet, didn't we?
And here I was thinking that computers turned people into homicidal maniacs ready to climb the clock tower with a high powered rifle. Glad this guy turned me straight...
The man is worth how much, and is a foreign born, and you expect him to not keep his passport on him?
heck, I kept mine on me for years.
quite right, nor any evidence she hadn't. Don't forget, their children now stay with her mother due to the case, which means if she were as he has indicated, that is a manipulator, would she not have done such small things to give that impression?
Then again, he could be a cold blooded killer. Either scenario is equally likely in my mind based on the evidence presented thus far.
It is a case without a body, nor evidence that the wife is dead and had not, as she threatened to do so I understand, returned home to her native Russia. The DA had better have some better evidence than a fart in the face, which is all I'd picked up thus far.
And the next sound you shall hear are millions of nerds rushing into their offices to compile a new kernel on a sunday afternoon... along with the millions of cell phones ringing as the bosses read this...
Sitting here thinking on it, perhaps what IBM should do is analyze all bits of OS/2 to see what they do own. This is not just an exercise. One of the things I know IBM co-owns with Microsoft is the kernel, for example. Once they know what they ownint he free and clear, remove all bits that they do not own, and begin replacing them with pieces of Linux, writing layers to give them a new, IBM distribution. Call it Linux/2, or Linux OS/3. Compatibility with legacy OS/2 apps, features like SOM, a window-manager based on PM, and Linux brings with it Windows compatibility from WINE. Would be a nightmare scenario for Microsoft.
Um, no. You didn't read.
That is $23.4B of Cash + Short Term Investments, aka STOCKS. Look at MSFT's stock portfolio, oh my, 95% stock in... MSFT!
Their actual liquidity remains less than $7 billion, leaving about $17 billion in MSFT stock, which if this were to happen would plummet like a rock. That is the $17 billion they need to pay for small things like payroll....
Actually if said helicoptor did drop them, then inflation would, infact, make those $100 bills less valuable.
If it were just loose shares, I'd agree with you. But we're talking a LOT of loose shares, 1.1 BILLION loose shares.....
You may be right, but have you ever checked on microsoft's cash assets? A large portion of them are:
Stock, specifically microsoft stock, used for quick liquidation.
So, you have "get stock" or "get cash paid for with stocks", both of which would flood the market with loose shares almost immediately. Since these deals do typically require the largest stockholders to accept in stock... well, you can imagine the position they are in.
You're ignoring, they're offering $31 "equivelent" in Microsoft stocks. Not in cash in hand. How will the stock market respond when suddenly there's this extra 20% in loose Microsoft stocks floating out there?
Hello stock price freefall!
$40 as a minimum is quite reasonable when you consider the massive devaluation which will occur the moment the deal goes through.
Why for? They entered into his personal property, it is not harassment unless it is done on purpose for public display. If anything he could sue them for harassment for the embarassment.
**calls up RIAA**
Hey, you want to know the biggest mp3 copying racket inside the US?.....