I agree about being the techie in a non-tech firm - I've had good luck in that area working with distribution centers for the last 5 years. The only downside there is that the DC is just a remote site from the corporate headquarters, where the PHB's centralize the decision-making. At least in insurance, there are some firms headquartered in Indianapolis...
What sort of networking groups do you know of in Indy?
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I think the series could have been summed up as "On a Pale Horse" followed by "Beating a Dead Horse..." Like many authors, Anthony couldn't just let a good book stand on its own, he had to follow up with sequel after sequel after sequel...
Personally, I liked his Tarot books as well, though.
Even worse, how many IT jobs are even posted in the paper anymore. I keep an eye on the total of IT ads in the Indianapolis Star each Sunday, and for the last few months it has run from a low of 3 to a high around 10. I know Indy isn't exactly the Silicon Prairie, but it doesn't look like employers are using the newspapers anymore for tech hiring.
As for personal jobhunting experience, the last two times I placed my resume on boards (Headhunter.net) I was contacted by a recruiter who placed me in a good job. Of course, YMMV...
Forget those warnings - how am I supposed to know when a ballgame is over, if the broadcaster doesn't have to go into the "any rebroadcast of this telecast requires the express permission of (MLB, NFL, NHL, etc.)" spiel???
Another option is to simply leave off the super-short term stints. In these times, it's not unusual for someone to go several months between positions...
If you check out their balance sheet, you'll see that this is short-term/current term debt, as opposed to long term debt (which they haven't carried in a while). This, it is highly likely that this is low-interest debt.
Unless of course, they were late a couple times paying their credit card, in which case it's probably 24.99%!
Swapping high-interest debt for low like you mention can indeed be a good move (GM just did this last year), but that's not what's happening here.
One example is that a company can deduct debt interest as a business expense, so it reduces the tax bill.
Also, there's the opportunity cost to consider. Do you spend your money paying off a 7% loan, or put it into a project that provides a 25% payoff? This move could be a sign that Apple doesn't see many great projects in the near future...
Actually, the Democrats are traditionally known as "tax and spend", which means they pay as they go, whereas the current administration has chosen to borrow and spend...
In these days of historically low interest rates, you can make a very good argument that Apple is making a bad move in paying off this debt. While they will save interest, could they not have spent this money in better ways, i.e. growing the business or increasing the payout to shareholders?
In most takeovers, the acquirer has to overpay - offering a premium to the current price is the incentive for current shareholders to tender their shares. Look at the offer for Disney, and Oracle's latest offer for Peoplesoft - each carries a premium over the market value of the company at the time the offer was made...
Actually, it's very typical for an acquiring company's stock to drop upon the announcement of a deal like this. It's a huge risk, the benefits of which (if they occur) are realized years down the road. In the short term, however, it can cause a cash crunch and provides an obvious distraction from the day-to-day work of improving the existing business.
Rest assured that if Vodaphone announces a deal for Vivendi, the stock will drop once again...
'twas a nod to A Clockwork Orange, in which they use a slang that borrows heavily on Russian. Actually, I imagine that's how many of these languages will survive to some extent - "fossilized" as idioms or slang words in more dominant languages...
They might be looking at this as a business investment - can you imagine the commercial possibilites for supersonic cropdusting? You don't make much on each field, but the volume...
The researchers tested their method on several networks for which the structure was already known---college football conferences, for example. In college football, teams in the same conference face off more frequently than teams in different conferences. When inter-conference games do occur, they're more likely to be between teams that are geographically close together than between teams that are far apart. Plugging in information on frequency of games between pairs of teams in the 2000 regular season, Newman and Girvan tested their method to see if it could correctly sort the colleges into conferences. "There were a few cases where it made mistakes, but it got well over 90 percent of them right," said Newman. "It gave us the structure we were expecting, so that was encouraging."
Finally, something that can help me understand the divisions in the NHL. I've been confused ever since they got rid of Smythe, Norris, and all the rest...
Just because I've been around here a while doesn't mean I'm an expert in the security features of various browsers. I've just started using Mozilla in the last few months, more for the wonders of tabbed browsing than anything else...
The author recommends moving away from Outlook and Internet Explorer, but in reality, is that just recommending "security through obscurity"? Are packages like Firebird really more secure, or is it just that black hats like this are going after the 90%+ out there using MS products due to the size of opportunity?
Not trolling, just asking an honest question here.
Unless you've got money burning in your pocket, I don't see the need for even a hardcore gamer to constantly jump at the absolute latest & greatest cards as soon as they come out. Although if they do, they should understand that they're paying top dollar each and every time.
Besides, the last I recall, it's not like the AGP 8X is getting overwhelmed, is it? That's not exactly the bottleneck in most systems...
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well, there's no telling how many Chinawomen were involved...
I don't know, this could result in space getting overwhelmed - at least if one recalls the old Benny Hill joke:
"Once upon a time, there were two Chinamen...
Now look how many!"
I agree about being the techie in a non-tech firm - I've had good luck in that area working with distribution centers for the last 5 years. The only downside there is that the DC is just a remote site from the corporate headquarters, where the PHB's centralize the decision-making. At least in insurance, there are some firms headquartered in Indianapolis...
What sort of networking groups do you know of in Indy?
I think the series could have been summed up as "On a Pale Horse" followed by "Beating a Dead Horse..." Like many authors, Anthony couldn't just let a good book stand on its own, he had to follow up with sequel after sequel after sequel...
Personally, I liked his Tarot books as well, though.
Even worse, how many IT jobs are even posted in the paper anymore. I keep an eye on the total of IT ads in the Indianapolis Star each Sunday, and for the last few months it has run from a low of 3 to a high around 10. I know Indy isn't exactly the Silicon Prairie, but it doesn't look like employers are using the newspapers anymore for tech hiring.
As for personal jobhunting experience, the last two times I placed my resume on boards (Headhunter.net) I was contacted by a recruiter who placed me in a good job. Of course, YMMV...
Forget those warnings - how am I supposed to know when a ballgame is over, if the broadcaster doesn't have to go into the "any rebroadcast of this telecast requires the express permission of (MLB, NFL, NHL, etc.)" spiel???
The Soylent Green Field Kit!
what makes you think I'm recommending it???
Another option is to simply leave off the super-short term stints. In these times, it's not unusual for someone to go several months between positions...
At least if you tax X and spend X+Y, you end up with less debt than if you give away X, and spend X+Y on top!
If you check out their balance sheet, you'll see that this is short-term/current term debt, as opposed to long term debt (which they haven't carried in a while). This, it is highly likely that this is low-interest debt.
Unless of course, they were late a couple times paying their credit card, in which case it's probably 24.99%!
Swapping high-interest debt for low like you mention can indeed be a good move (GM just did this last year), but that's not what's happening here.
One example is that a company can deduct debt interest as a business expense, so it reduces the tax bill.
Also, there's the opportunity cost to consider. Do you spend your money paying off a 7% loan, or put it into a project that provides a 25% payoff? This move could be a sign that Apple doesn't see many great projects in the near future...
Actually, the Democrats are traditionally known as "tax and spend", which means they pay as they go, whereas the current administration has chosen to borrow and spend...
In these days of historically low interest rates, you can make a very good argument that Apple is making a bad move in paying off this debt. While they will save interest, could they not have spent this money in better ways, i.e. growing the business or increasing the payout to shareholders?
And not Christopher Lee???
I can just see the Yahoo CEO addressing his legions of web crawlers, proclaiming, "A New Power is rising! It's victory is at hand."
There will be no IPO for Google...
In most takeovers, the acquirer has to overpay - offering a premium to the current price is the incentive for current shareholders to tender their shares. Look at the offer for Disney, and Oracle's latest offer for Peoplesoft - each carries a premium over the market value of the company at the time the offer was made...
Actually, it's very typical for an acquiring company's stock to drop upon the announcement of a deal like this. It's a huge risk, the benefits of which (if they occur) are realized years down the road. In the short term, however, it can cause a cash crunch and provides an obvious distraction from the day-to-day work of improving the existing business.
Rest assured that if Vodaphone announces a deal for Vivendi, the stock will drop once again...
'twas a nod to A Clockwork Orange, in which they use a slang that borrows heavily on Russian. Actually, I imagine that's how many of these languages will survive to some extent - "fossilized" as idioms or slang words in more dominant languages...
I'm sure others would think it very horrorshow, my good droog...
They might be looking at this as a business investment - can you imagine the commercial possibilites for supersonic cropdusting? You don't make much on each field, but the volume...
The researchers tested their method on several networks for which the structure was already known---college football conferences, for example. In college football, teams in the same conference face off more frequently than teams in different conferences. When inter-conference games do occur, they're more likely to be between teams that are geographically close together than between teams that are far apart. Plugging in information on frequency of games between pairs of teams in the 2000 regular season, Newman and Girvan tested their method to see if it could correctly sort the colleges into conferences. "There were a few cases where it made mistakes, but it got well over 90 percent of them right," said Newman. "It gave us the structure we were expecting, so that was encouraging."
Finally, something that can help me understand the divisions in the NHL. I've been confused ever since they got rid of Smythe, Norris, and all the rest...
Just because I've been around here a while doesn't mean I'm an expert in the security features of various browsers. I've just started using Mozilla in the last few months, more for the wonders of tabbed browsing than anything else...
My bad - I had finished reading the article, wherein he recommends Firefox and Thunderbird, and thus got mixed up.
But hey, it's Monday morning...
The author recommends moving away from Outlook and Internet Explorer, but in reality, is that just recommending "security through obscurity"? Are packages like Firebird really more secure, or is it just that black hats like this are going after the 90%+ out there using MS products due to the size of opportunity?
Not trolling, just asking an honest question here.
"Have to"???
Unless you've got money burning in your pocket, I don't see the need for even a hardcore gamer to constantly jump at the absolute latest & greatest cards as soon as they come out. Although if they do, they should understand that they're paying top dollar each and every time.
Besides, the last I recall, it's not like the AGP 8X is getting overwhelmed, is it? That's not exactly the bottleneck in most systems...