It's about taking your January share price of $19 and doubling it into $40 over the course of a few short months, not to mention your shareholders, and perhaps most importantly vested employees. Sure, Jerry has a lot of cash with or without Microsoft but employees with shares could literally double their investments overnight with this deal. I'm sure theres a good bit of internal angst.
People used to speak of Microsoft Millionaires, this could have made a few Yahoo Millionaires. Chances are Ichann will get a shot to do what Jerry should have done.
Mine was stolen in an airport 5 years ago, sadly. I got it at a flea market for ~$3. It was fun to play with although I didn't use it seriously in college by any means.
Damn thieves! Went on eBay to look for a replacement and it was too expensive for me at the time.
A slightly more optomisitic view is "gee, there's no transfer of money, but we do get X thousand hours of free NASA employee labor, and we can advertise that our framework is running the game... so while we're focusing on our commercial game, we can crank this out for the free labor and the advertising potential while our main goal remains Y..."
No, you are not getting paid to build a MMO that you can re-sell **to other customers**. That's the key behind the non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (NRSAA). Namely, you get to keep what you make and you can re-sell it. If NASA was paying for it (reimbursable space act agreement), you'd owe them a deliverable that would become their property, and you would have no further profitability off of the MMO. But under the NRSAA, you get to keep the property you developed, and you can utilize it to profit in other areas.
So you could either use an existing in-house framework, or build up a new framework for this Nasa MMO, and then profit by creating a new MMO or selling a MMO toolkit. There are paths to profitability, they aren't extremely clear, but chances are if you do a good job you can make more than the $3M they initially put up anyways...
California is the most populous state and everyone wants to live here.
Sure, but that doesn't justify inflated housing prices. I know, I looked. I'm an aerospace engineer and considered a job on the west coast. The higher mortgage price and cost of living was not in line with the pay, compared to offers in other areas of the country.
Unemployment rates are woefully underreported, but whatever.
Does not make them an invalid indicator. They should be underreported at roughly the same rate, irrespective of time, unless you have some insight as to why, now, they would mysteriously be more under-reported than 1, 5 or 10 years ago.
The most egregious mistake you make is dismissing the influence of the California and Florida housing markets. Again, this is where people want to live. Not Alabama. More people are giving up and moving to bumfuck nowhere because they can't afford the big life.
Again, understand my argument. I don't give a flying fuck where people want to live, what I'm stating is that the prices have been racing in both areas, not commensurate with pay, availability, amenities, etc. There was no rational reason to explain the housing prices in either area for a lot of the homes that existed.
I live in Huntsville, AL. Very high tech place, lots of aerospace, comp sci and biotech research jobs. Fifth largest research park in the world, second in the nation. More PhD's per capita than silicon valley. The pay is great and the cost of living is rock-bottom. Fuck the "big life". I'm not exactly sure what you can do in California that I can't do here, but whatever. With the money I save over not working on "the coast", I have the toys I want and better yet my shit is paid for.
Regardless, in the middle of this "recession" we are one of the few places in the nation that's still building new houses, that's still having year-over-year house value increases of ~5%, and a projected influx of over 25,000 people over the next 5 or so years, so we must be doing something right...
I used to work for a real estate company (as a courier in college), but statistically even once you factor in their 3-6% overhead, you get more for your house when you go through a Realtor, both in the final selling price and the time to sell (you spend less in mortgage payments, utilities and upkeep, etc.). Cleaning is just the start, a good Realtor has contacts you haven't even thought of.
Also bear in mind that the rate is negotiable. You might have to go through a few realtors before you find one which will deal with you, but there's no law saying they have to accept a certain rate.
I bought a $300 HP notebook (a going-back-to-school loss-leader I think), with an AMD Sempron processor (3000+), nVidia 6100+ video chipset, 512M RAM (shared with video, I added 1G for
Came home, partitioned disc, promptly downloaded XP drivers and dual-booted with XP. Installed all the software I would like (a MMO, Visual Studio, Firefox, etc.) on both and tested it side by side. I didn't get millisecond timers out or anything but to my perception there was little if any difference between the two OS's on the same hardware. So I deleted XP and kept Vista. No complaints almost a year later. Can't tell you much about the kernel but from operating experience, I have no quarrel with Vista. And you are right, you can turn off UAC and most of the crap people bitch about. I've never run into DRM problems. File copies are fine.
No one says "The American built Columbia space shuttle blew up today." For decades growing up, all any of us heard about was the great Apollo program. No one heard about the Russian space stations, the Russian probe to Mars, etc. In fact, the first time American media reported at any length on the MIR was when it started to have problems (well after it was beyond its projected lifespan).
All of those programs were run by a single country. ISS is the international space station. You don't know who contributed what part unless you identify it. People regularly identify Japanese, Russian and other contributions to ISS because it is appropriate, both good and bad.
Now, the Russians have had a string of bad luck the past few months - the computers on ISS (although that might have been induced by new solar panels, who knows who is truly to blame), the explosive bolts on the Soyuz causing non-nominal landings (and now word that the Soyuz docked to ISS, the emergency lifeboat, has the same hardware) and now this. I'm sure they aren't happy about it but it happens. America has had their strings of bad luck as well. How many Redstone rockets exploded on the pad (or within inches of it on ascent) before we ever got a monkey into suborbital space, much less a human?
Shit happens, but I think you are being overly sensitive.
Show me a really good indicator that we are in a recession or a depression. Please.
Yes, **average** home prices are down, but that is being skewed by home prices in Florida and California which were massively overvalued, and now are massively down. In more moderate places like the midwest (where I grew up and still have many ties) and Alabama (where I now live) there is little to no change. Again, this is just my experiance.
The market seems to have leveled off. Unemployment rates have leveled off the last three months. Gas prices? Still cheaper than many places in the UK and Europe, and maybe it's for our good. Not to mention, down over the weekend.
Unless you were just throwing out a cliche for the hell of it, show me.
Coworker of mine is 22 and just got approved for a mortgage. Have you even tried? If so, why were you denied?
I just got a mortgage 3 years ago at 22, but admittedly it would have been during the whole "era", although I got a traditional mortgage through a traditional bank. It's not hard to have good credit in your early 20's.
There are some who claim "it's" over already, based on historical indicators that have proved relatively reliable in past recessions.
no one really knows, I guess, is the answer, but "recession" is such a blanket statement it can't (and doesn't) apply everywhere. For example, Alabama home prices have gone up year-over year aprox. 5%, and the woods and fields around my home are still being torn town and built into subdivisions, even in this so-called "recession". So there are still people out there building and buying houses...
But how much did they spend on this 'extremely lightweight Kapton tube hanging in Kevlar fiber', that looks like it could be replaced with fishline?
Kapton and Kevlar are both used in aerospace engineering. Kevlar is often used to sheath fiber optic cables and in composites. According to Wikipedia, Kapton is used as an aerospace (electrical) insulator and plastic structural support in space. Know what? Being aerospace engineers and all, in a lab environment, they might have just had this stuff lying around, and cut a few lengths as needed. I don't know that for a fact, but chances are...
Now compare that to the cost of sending someone out to buy fishing line (fishing line + gas + vehicle maintenance and insurance + employee time on the clock) and you tell me which is cheaper...
Block ports, specifying usage inbound and outbound, and specify TCP and UDP traffic.
All windows users run as regular users. There's one administrator account, and it's rarely used.
No, no whitelisting or blacklisting - just a few sensible decisions in hardware and software and a wife who doesn't click on every random link she sees. But being non-administrator helps as well.
I set up AV on my parents computer because they still have teenage boys. I hope I don't have to go into details.
I haven't run AV products since leaving for college. I run a router with everything blocked but what I need. I run multiple Windows computers. I have a wife and kids. Yet we don't get viruses.
I'm a firm believer that hardware prevention is much greater than AV detection.
Once a friend challenged me, saying that "there's no way you have no viruses" so I let him run the scanner of his choice on the desktop at home. A few hits, all cookies. No viruses.
And I haven't reformatted Windows in 3 years (replaced the HDD, so kinda had to... )
If you know what you are doing, you don't need AV. Now do my parents have AV? You betcha.
Not all of use use college as a means to employment. A lot of us seek employment after our BS (or during our MS) and then finish up the MS and PhD while working in industry. I'm doing it - I got a "real" job during my first semester of MS work, and am presently done with course requirements for my PhD, working on my dissertation - and I know a lot of people who have done the same thing. You can do it in parallel, and often it's more lucrative. Just watch the stress...
In EQ's case, the trials throw you onto a low population server of their choice, not the server of your choice. IE, to prevent abuse by people who just want multiple accounts on a certain server. You most definitely had a core constituency of players who were not trial players.
(I did this once to try and get my wife into the game... and other random friends)
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It's about taking your January share price of $19 and doubling it into $40 over the course of a few short months, not to mention your shareholders, and perhaps most importantly vested employees. Sure, Jerry has a lot of cash with or without Microsoft but employees with shares could literally double their investments overnight with this deal. I'm sure theres a good bit of internal angst.
People used to speak of Microsoft Millionaires, this could have made a few Yahoo Millionaires. Chances are Ichann will get a shot to do what Jerry should have done.
Mine was stolen in an airport 5 years ago, sadly. I got it at a flea market for ~$3. It was fun to play with although I didn't use it seriously in college by any means.
Damn thieves! Went on eBay to look for a replacement and it was too expensive for me at the time.
Except that you apparently don't know what a singularity is, kinda hard to predict:
a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative does exist
doh?
Geekism is as much faith-based as any other religion.
I'ts gonna be based off of gNewSense, and be called MakesMoreSense, and it'll put the missing bits back in!
debian - ubuntu - gnewsense - MakesMoreSense
But now you are cold because your room isn't heated anymore :( I guess they could offer a solid-state heating prize, AKA, the blanket.
That's a somewhat pessimistic view, sure.
... so while we're focusing on our commercial game, we can crank this out for the free labor and the advertising potential while our main goal remains Y..."
A slightly more optomisitic view is "gee, there's no transfer of money, but we do get X thousand hours of free NASA employee labor, and we can advertise that our framework is running the game
No, you are not getting paid to build a MMO that you can re-sell **to other customers**. That's the key behind the non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (NRSAA). Namely, you get to keep what you make and you can re-sell it. If NASA was paying for it (reimbursable space act agreement), you'd owe them a deliverable that would become their property, and you would have no further profitability off of the MMO. But under the NRSAA, you get to keep the property you developed, and you can utilize it to profit in other areas.
So you could either use an existing in-house framework, or build up a new framework for this Nasa MMO, and then profit by creating a new MMO or selling a MMO toolkit. There are paths to profitability, they aren't extremely clear, but chances are if you do a good job you can make more than the $3M they initially put up anyways...
It's a bastard stepchild at best in the .NET world.
California is the most populous state and everyone wants to live here.
...
Sure, but that doesn't justify inflated housing prices. I know, I looked. I'm an aerospace engineer and considered a job on the west coast. The higher mortgage price and cost of living was not in line with the pay, compared to offers in other areas of the country.
Unemployment rates are woefully underreported, but whatever.
Does not make them an invalid indicator. They should be underreported at roughly the same rate, irrespective of time, unless you have some insight as to why, now, they would mysteriously be more under-reported than 1, 5 or 10 years ago.
The most egregious mistake you make is dismissing the influence of the California and Florida housing markets. Again, this is where people want to live. Not Alabama. More people are giving up and moving to bumfuck nowhere because they can't afford the big life.
Again, understand my argument. I don't give a flying fuck where people want to live, what I'm stating is that the prices have been racing in both areas, not commensurate with pay, availability, amenities, etc. There was no rational reason to explain the housing prices in either area for a lot of the homes that existed.
I live in Huntsville, AL. Very high tech place, lots of aerospace, comp sci and biotech research jobs. Fifth largest research park in the world, second in the nation. More PhD's per capita than silicon valley. The pay is great and the cost of living is rock-bottom. Fuck the "big life". I'm not exactly sure what you can do in California that I can't do here, but whatever. With the money I save over not working on "the coast", I have the toys I want and better yet my shit is paid for.
Regardless, in the middle of this "recession" we are one of the few places in the nation that's still building new houses, that's still having year-over-year house value increases of ~5%, and a projected influx of over 25,000 people over the next 5 or so years, so we must be doing something right
Yes, Vanguard, good catch.
A NASA civil servant is a federal employee. A NASA contractor is not.
I used to work for a real estate company (as a courier in college), but statistically even once you factor in their 3-6% overhead, you get more for your house when you go through a Realtor, both in the final selling price and the time to sell (you spend less in mortgage payments, utilities and upkeep, etc.). Cleaning is just the start, a good Realtor has contacts you haven't even thought of.
Also bear in mind that the rate is negotiable. You might have to go through a few realtors before you find one which will deal with you, but there's no law saying they have to accept a certain rate.
I bought a $300 HP notebook (a going-back-to-school loss-leader I think), with an AMD Sempron processor (3000+), nVidia 6100+ video chipset, 512M RAM (shared with video, I added 1G for
Came home, partitioned disc, promptly downloaded XP drivers and dual-booted with XP. Installed all the software I would like (a MMO, Visual Studio, Firefox, etc.) on both and tested it side by side. I didn't get millisecond timers out or anything but to my perception there was little if any difference between the two OS's on the same hardware. So I deleted XP and kept Vista. No complaints almost a year later. Can't tell you much about the kernel but from operating experience, I have no quarrel with Vista. And you are right, you can turn off UAC and most of the crap people bitch about. I've never run into DRM problems. File copies are fine.
No one says "The American built Columbia space shuttle blew up today." For decades growing up, all any of us heard about was the great Apollo program. No one heard about the Russian space stations, the Russian probe to Mars, etc. In fact, the first time American media reported at any length on the MIR was when it started to have problems (well after it was beyond its projected lifespan).
All of those programs were run by a single country. ISS is the international space station. You don't know who contributed what part unless you identify it. People regularly identify Japanese, Russian and other contributions to ISS because it is appropriate, both good and bad.
Now, the Russians have had a string of bad luck the past few months - the computers on ISS (although that might have been induced by new solar panels, who knows who is truly to blame), the explosive bolts on the Soyuz causing non-nominal landings (and now word that the Soyuz docked to ISS, the emergency lifeboat, has the same hardware) and now this. I'm sure they aren't happy about it but it happens. America has had their strings of bad luck as well. How many Redstone rockets exploded on the pad (or within inches of it on ascent) before we ever got a monkey into suborbital space, much less a human?
Shit happens, but I think you are being overly sensitive.
Show me a really good indicator that we are in a recession or a depression. Please.
Yes, **average** home prices are down, but that is being skewed by home prices in Florida and California which were massively overvalued, and now are massively down. In more moderate places like the midwest (where I grew up and still have many ties) and Alabama (where I now live) there is little to no change. Again, this is just my experiance.
The market seems to have leveled off. Unemployment rates have leveled off the last three months. Gas prices? Still cheaper than many places in the UK and Europe, and maybe it's for our good. Not to mention, down over the weekend.
Unless you were just throwing out a cliche for the hell of it, show me.
Coworker of mine is 22 and just got approved for a mortgage. Have you even tried? If so, why were you denied?
I just got a mortgage 3 years ago at 22, but admittedly it would have been during the whole "era", although I got a traditional mortgage through a traditional bank. It's not hard to have good credit in your early 20's.
There are some who claim "it's" over already, based on historical indicators that have proved relatively reliable in past recessions.
no one really knows, I guess, is the answer, but "recession" is such a blanket statement it can't (and doesn't) apply everywhere. For example, Alabama home prices have gone up year-over year aprox. 5%, and the woods and fields around my home are still being torn town and built into subdivisions, even in this so-called "recession". So there are still people out there building and buying houses...
But how much did they spend on this 'extremely lightweight Kapton tube hanging in Kevlar fiber', that looks like it could be replaced with fishline?
Kapton and Kevlar are both used in aerospace engineering. Kevlar is often used to sheath fiber optic cables and in composites. According to Wikipedia, Kapton is used as an aerospace (electrical) insulator and plastic structural support in space. Know what? Being aerospace engineers and all, in a lab environment, they might have just had this stuff lying around, and cut a few lengths as needed. I don't know that for a fact, but chances are...
Now compare that to the cost of sending someone out to buy fishing line (fishing line + gas + vehicle maintenance and insurance + employee time on the clock) and you tell me which is cheaper...
it's just a third nipple
5E-0W2, I would like to buy your rock...
Block ports, specifying usage inbound and outbound, and specify TCP and UDP traffic.
All windows users run as regular users. There's one administrator account, and it's rarely used.
No, no whitelisting or blacklisting - just a few sensible decisions in hardware and software and a wife who doesn't click on every random link she sees. But being non-administrator helps as well.
I set up AV on my parents computer because they still have teenage boys. I hope I don't have to go into details.
I haven't run AV products since leaving for college. I run a router with everything blocked but what I need. I run multiple Windows computers. I have a wife and kids. Yet we don't get viruses.
... )
I'm a firm believer that hardware prevention is much greater than AV detection.
Once a friend challenged me, saying that "there's no way you have no viruses" so I let him run the scanner of his choice on the desktop at home. A few hits, all cookies. No viruses.
And I haven't reformatted Windows in 3 years (replaced the HDD, so kinda had to
If you know what you are doing, you don't need AV. Now do my parents have AV? You betcha.
Not all of use use college as a means to employment. A lot of us seek employment after our BS (or during our MS) and then finish up the MS and PhD while working in industry. I'm doing it - I got a "real" job during my first semester of MS work, and am presently done with course requirements for my PhD, working on my dissertation - and I know a lot of people who have done the same thing. You can do it in parallel, and often it's more lucrative. Just watch the stress...
- constructing railroad tracks
- fencing material
- structural support for a building
In EQ's case, the trials throw you onto a low population server of their choice, not the server of your choice. IE, to prevent abuse by people who just want multiple accounts on a certain server. You most definitely had a core constituency of players who were not trial players.
(I did this once to try and get my wife into the game... and other random friends)