Taxes.. and they market view.. and the cost of doingit
if they where to issue dividens.. they would have to cut checks.. alot of them.. to alot of people.. this costs money. a good amount.. then the people get them would have to pay taxes on them (and ms would have to send tax forms for them) all of this transfering of money ot 9b shares is expensive.
if they buy back.. then they only have to deal with the paperwork and movement of mony for 1b or less shares. then their stock price will also go up as the amount avaliable is lessened. ontop of that the people who keep invested see their wealth increase and don't have to pay taxes on that at the moment.. and theones that want to cut their losses get to sell their shares. on top of that with the new higher stock price if MS needs quick funds they can just resell some of the shares they are holding at the new increased market price
when dealing in the volume of shares that they are dividens just don't make sence.. they sound nice.. but they don't add any value to the company.
i was just using drives as an example becuase the grandparent point them out
yes you have to factor allthat in - but in reality most equipment could be run at a higher temp without issues for the planned lifespan..
while it's nice to say we run it colder so they last longer.. well turns out in this day and age things get replaced so fast we don't need them to last longer.
when you start evaluating DC's and realize that most now days are tracking floorspace turn over when planning new equipment - you realize that stuff doesn't stay in there nearly as long as you would think.
your right in that you reduce the life span of the dives.. but then how many of the drives ever make it to the end of their life span anyways>?
i know places that replace hardware based on when it was purchased.. after x years it is replaced>
even if it had a failure and was replaced - the counter doesn't get reset..
if you can run it for less money with the side effect of shorting the life span.. as long as that lifespan is still > x then you just saved money.
take for instance a drive that
at 60f will last 10 years at 90f will last 5 years at 110f will last 2 years
if you are going to replace it 3 years after you buy it.. then why not let it get up to 90f ? sure it cuts the life span down.. but not to the point where it will fail before schedualed replacement.
and in the run time you just saved the cost to cool it from 90f to 60f.. this can be alot of savings depending on the DC
i find the msdn extreamly useful.. just a pain to find what i want.. the search on the MSDN is pointless.. so i just end up searching site:msdn.microsoft.com xyz on google.. and there it is.. except here recently google keeps linking to the jap lang version instead of the eng
that's what i have to do.. although it is a pain when i am using someone elses computer and they have their av set to clean/delete as the actions apon finding it..
yea the very useful 7th sphear tools always gets flagged.. but in reality they are nothing more than port scanning and port hammering tools.. very useful for testing
i have to listen to things without words i know.. if not i will start typeing the words
so i listen to alot of instrumental/clasical/music in a language i don't know.. (have to cycle them cause if you listen to it enough you will start to pick it up unknowningly)
if i where to listen to the Comedy chan - i would have some very intresting code
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i agree most will quit looking.. unless the item is so amazing it is worth the time.. then you run into whom ever has it is broken beyond anyones ability to defeat..
one game i play has a decent balance.. the uniques are rare - very rare.. but if you play enough you are bound to have a chance at one.. sadly the ingame economy sucks because of this..
either youhave the best posiable and the cost is extreamly crazy or even if it is still damned good but not the very perfect best - it isn't worth much at all..
thats the way i feel.. it shouldn't be reqired to be secret who someone votes for - do i recommend makeing it easy for people to seach for people who voted for X? no.. but to look at person A and say he voted for X is fine..
if nothing i was just thinking using the IRS tax forms for people as the ballot.. say the last page is the ballot - it isn't tied to the tax form but you must submit it completed with your taxes - IRS looks if form is filled out they take it and throw it in the box - then they proccess your tax filings.. if it isn't filled out they send it back to you.. if you failed to file they come after you like normal.. and it means you didn't vote..
they take all the ballots from the box and count the votes.. the only way it can be tied to you is the person who takes the ballot from the forms and puts it in the box.. they would know.. and if they decided to mark the ballot then it would be followable..
but in reality it seems better than the crap we have now aka dead people voteing - people voteing multiple times..
the IRS is already equiped to handel alot more information from every single person - this would be a trivial ammount.. ontop of that thoughs who pay taxes - though who actualy support the government get to have a say in what happens.
i started paying taxes at 14.. i couldn't vote for 4 years.. that is taxation without repersentation.. i paid taxes and had no say in them when i feel i should have.. and on the flip side thoughs who don't pay have no repersentation.
should we allow people from other nations who don't support our community to have a say in how it is run? (take that how you will)
people need to grow spines and realize they need to stand up for what they belive - not.. lets hide everything.. point fingers - and say someone else will fix it
if it wasn't for the whole.. not wanting to tie the vote to the person.. i would suggest moveing the election schedual around and put the ballat as a page on IRS tax forms.. it has to be filled out to file them.
the IRS takes it's job seriously.. if you pay taxes you vote..
but then people seem to want each vote to count but also don't want any names attached to the votes..
the heatsinks i am talking about would be the block you would use to transfer heat from the IC to the coolant.. piping arround the coolant is pointless as we are talking about full submersion here
but epoxy isn't a good thermal conductor.. so even if your layer is only.001mm thick it is still an insulator between he heat source and the coolant..
infact epoxy makes a very good insulator - there for the heat would not go through it at all (to any reasonable measure) until it has blead out through the rest of the board.
what you would need to do is take your heat sources and place passive heat sinks connected via thearmal conductive glue - then epoxy the rest of the board leaving the heat sinks exposed for the coolent to move heat from
only issue is you need to seal the epoxy edge and the heat sink edge - that isn't going to be easy as the epoxy isn't going to expand or contract nearly as much as the heatsink is.
sealing something for full emersion into a conductive fluid and having it work.. is no simple matter
i was thinking more along the lines of ifthey can see the hosts connecting to the command and control checking for commands they know what boxes are infected and can use the same exploite the bot net used to infect them to reinfect them with the patchs..
i know it isn't the best solution.. but really we need to be more proactive in stoping these things.
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i like their debuging tools and yes javascipt is faster on it.. but it had some issues.. we use a javascript to preload image on the page (for hover overs and the like) it looks at the document and graps all the image refrences and then loads them into an array - (makeing the browser download them into cache).. but for some reason their javascript engine does not like that script at all.. it works but gives alot of resource errors when dealing with images that have relitive paths.. not sure why.. every other browser runs it fine (IE/Opera/FF/saf)
if it starts getting large i will bother to try and debug it for chrome.. although i doubt the bug is in the script it's self, and rather how it is compileing it to run. cause all the errors i am getting are where it sees the url to the image but the url doesn't have the file extention on it
yea i know it is almost a taboo thing.. everyone thinks about doing it.. but no one does.. but in reality.. if they can monitor these bot nets and the command and control servers.. why not hijack the command and control servers to distribute the patchs to the bots it controls.. use their own power to take them out.
while the idea of spreading them in the wild seems bad because of the load on nutral or non effected hosts.. if they used the botnet to patch the botnet.. then that should elminate the issue with the nutral hosts.
code green.. was a vigilante patcher virus for code red.. it used the same exploite to infect and patch..
i agree we need more of this realy.. cause damnit.. even if MS does patch all the holes people arn't going to install them.. even the OEM's arnt' going to do it.
i recently got a laptop from dell that was running an over 1 year out of date on patchs image driectly from them.. there is no excuse for that.. they should be patching their images monthly at the least
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Taxes.. and they market view.. and the cost of doingit
if they where to issue dividens.. they would have to cut checks.. alot of them.. to alot of people.. this costs money. a good amount.. then the people get them would have to pay taxes on them (and ms would have to send tax forms for them) all of this transfering of money ot 9b shares is expensive.
if they buy back .. then they only have to deal with the paperwork and movement of mony for 1b or less shares. then their stock price will also go up as the amount avaliable is lessened. ontop of that the people who keep invested see their wealth increase and don't have to pay taxes on that at the moment.. and theones that want to cut their losses get to sell their shares. on top of that with the new higher stock price if MS needs quick funds they can just resell some of the shares they are holding at the new increased market price
when dealing in the volume of shares that they are dividens just don't make sence.. they sound nice.. but they don't add any value to the company.
you can buy outlook by it's self.. you don't have to get the full office suite
i've used it.. and some times still do to send quick messages to people..
i was just using drives as an example becuase the grandparent point them out
yes you have to factor allthat in - but in reality most equipment could be run at a higher temp without issues for the planned lifespan..
while it's nice to say we run it colder so they last longer.. well turns out in this day and age things get replaced so fast we don't need them to last longer.
when you start evaluating DC's and realize that most now days are tracking floorspace turn over when planning new equipment - you realize that stuff doesn't stay in there nearly as long as you would think.
your right in that you reduce the life span of the dives.. but then how many of the drives ever make it to the end of their life span anyways>?
i know places that replace hardware based on when it was purchased.. after x years it is replaced>
even if it had a failure and was replaced - the counter doesn't get reset..
if you can run it for less money with the side effect of shorting the life span.. as long as that lifespan is still > x then you just saved money.
take for instance a drive that
at 60f will last 10 years
at 90f will last 5 years
at 110f will last 2 years
if you are going to replace it 3 years after you buy it.. then why not let it get up to 90f ? sure it cuts the life span down.. but not to the point where it will fail before schedualed replacement.
and in the run time you just saved the cost to cool it from 90f to 60f.. this can be alot of savings depending on the DC
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i find the msdn extreamly useful.. just a pain to find what i want.. the search on the MSDN is pointless.. so i just end up searching site:msdn.microsoft.com xyz on google.. and there it is.. except here recently google keeps linking to the jap lang version instead of the eng
that's what i have to do.. although it is a pain when i am using someone elses computer and they have their av set to clean/delete as the actions apon finding it..
yea the very useful 7th sphear tools always gets flagged.. but in reality they are nothing more than port scanning and port hammering tools.. very useful for testing
i bet the nuke weapons design got the best bang-for-the-buck.. but then again... they did such a large bang that it didn't matter the number of bucks
i still think it wouldn't be that hard to shift the resources we have now for voteing and cover the work.
could it happen over night? no.. government doesn't work that fast..
could we do it in a year.. i think so if people supported it - and while not perfect i do think it would be better than what we have now..
everyone should be required to vote.. even if it is a "none of the above"
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has a nice selection of eltronica and techno - they have alot of nice streams - i listen to them often - and they are nice to buy from too
they can handel the tax code for the diffrent areas this is a small taks compared to the diffrent local taxes within the state..
if by IRS you thought i ment just the feds.. i ment both the fed and state.. each would handel their own parts of the election ballot..
i have to listen to things without words i know.. if not i will start typeing the words
so i listen to alot of instrumental/clasical/music in a language i don't know.. (have to cycle them cause if you listen to it enough you will start to pick it up unknowningly)
if i where to listen to the Comedy chan - i would have some very intresting code
it's alittle diffrent than your normal MMO..
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i agree most will quit looking.. unless the item is so amazing it is worth the time.. then you run into whom ever has it is broken beyond anyones ability to defeat..
one game i play has a decent balance .. the uniques are rare - very rare.. but if you play enough you are bound to have a chance at one.. sadly the ingame economy sucks because of this..
either youhave the best posiable and the cost is extreamly crazy or even if it is still damned good but not the very perfect best - it isn't worth much at all..
i fully agree.. but that would count as a vote - which means you can show that everyone had their say - and certian people didn't talk twice+
thats the way i feel.. it shouldn't be reqired to be secret who someone votes for - do i recommend makeing it easy for people to seach for people who voted for X? no.. but to look at person A and say he voted for X is fine..
if nothing i was just thinking using the IRS tax forms for people as the ballot.. say the last page is the ballot - it isn't tied to the tax form but you must submit it completed with your taxes - IRS looks if form is filled out they take it and throw it in the box - then they proccess your tax filings.. if it isn't filled out they send it back to you.. if you failed to file they come after you like normal.. and it means you didn't vote..
they take all the ballots from the box and count the votes.. the only way it can be tied to you is the person who takes the ballot from the forms and puts it in the box.. they would know.. and if they decided to mark the ballot then it would be followable..
but in reality it seems better than the crap we have now aka dead people voteing - people voteing multiple times..
the IRS is already equiped to handel alot more information from every single person - this would be a trivial ammount.. ontop of that thoughs who pay taxes - though who actualy support the government get to have a say in what happens.
i started paying taxes at 14.. i couldn't vote for 4 years.. that is taxation without repersentation.. i paid taxes and had no say in them when i feel i should have.. and on the flip side thoughs who don't pay have no repersentation.
should we allow people from other nations who don't support our community to have a say in how it is run? (take that how you will)
people need to grow spines and realize they need to stand up for what they belive - not.. lets hide everything.. point fingers - and say someone else will fix it
if it wasn't for the whole.. not wanting to tie the vote to the person.. i would suggest moveing the election schedual around and put the ballat as a page on IRS tax forms.. it has to be filled out to file them.
the IRS takes it's job seriously.. if you pay taxes you vote..
but then people seem to want each vote to count but also don't want any names attached to the votes..
the heatsinks i am talking about would be the block you would use to transfer heat from the IC to the coolant.. piping arround the coolant is pointless as we are talking about full submersion here
but epoxy isn't a good thermal conductor.. so even if your layer is only .001mm thick it is still an insulator between he heat source and the coolant..
infact epoxy makes a very good insulator - there for the heat would not go through it at all (to any reasonable measure) until it has blead out through the rest of the board.
what you would need to do is take your heat sources and place passive heat sinks connected via thearmal conductive glue - then epoxy the rest of the board leaving the heat sinks exposed for the coolent to move heat from
only issue is you need to seal the epoxy edge and the heat sink edge - that isn't going to be easy as the epoxy isn't going to expand or contract nearly as much as the heatsink is.
sealing something for full emersion into a conductive fluid and having it work .. is no simple matter
i was thinking more along the lines of ifthey can see the hosts connecting to the command and control checking for commands they know what boxes are infected and can use the same exploite the bot net used to infect them to reinfect them with the patchs..
i know it isn't the best solution.. but really we need to be more proactive in stoping these things.
i like their debuging tools and yes javascipt is faster on it.. but it had some issues.. we use a javascript to preload image on the page (for hover overs and the like) it looks at the document and graps all the image refrences and then loads them into an array - (makeing the browser download them into cache).. but for some reason their javascript engine does not like that script at all.. it works but gives alot of resource errors when dealing with images that have relitive paths.. not sure why.. every other browser runs it fine (IE/Opera/FF/saf)
if it starts getting large i will bother to try and debug it for chrome.. although i doubt the bug is in the script it's self, and rather how it is compileing it to run. cause all the errors i am getting are where it sees the url to the image but the url doesn't have the file extention on it
yea i know it is almost a taboo thing.. everyone thinks about doing it .. but no one does.. but in reality.. if they can monitor these bot nets and the command and control servers.. why not hijack the command and control servers to distribute the patchs to the bots it controls.. use their own power to take them out.
while the idea of spreading them in the wild seems bad because of the load on nutral or non effected hosts.. if they used the botnet to patch the botnet.. then that should elminate the issue with the nutral hosts.
code green .. was a vigilante patcher virus for code red.. it used the same exploite to infect and patch..
i agree we need more of this realy.. cause damnit.. even if MS does patch all the holes people arn't going to install them.. even the OEM's arnt' going to do it.
i recently got a laptop from dell that was running an over 1 year out of date on patchs image driectly from them.. there is no excuse for that.. they should be patching their images monthly at the least