I don't know how this all works, and I would be very interesting in hearing the truth if i'm wrong, but here is the impression I get of IPOs:
Company A needs to raise some money, so they decide to sell stock to the public. They set an initial price, say $10/share, and then have their initial offering to the public. In the dot com bonanza days, everyone would by up the stock, and then start trading to those who couldn't get in right away, and the stock climbs from 10 to 100 $/share. However Company A only got $10/share, and its the traders who got rich.
So if this is how it works, why not IPO now, if the company needs the money? Unless they don't think they can sell the shares they need to at their initail price, they'll be raising the capital they need. It sounds like those in charge want to IPO in a bull market so they themselves (and the others who are lucky enough to buy at the inital price) get rich. However, how does this benefit the company?
Anyway, I'm majoring in CS, not business... so what do I know? If I'm totally wrong about this, will someone be kind enough to explain how it really works? cuz to me it looks like the bigwigs are sacrificing the good of the company for their own wallets
What sort of extra cirricular activies will be going on in New York? I plan on attending the ufie gathering on tuesday, but I've heard stores of things like free beer. If anyone knows of any cool stuff going on during the week, would you please let us know? I'm not 21 for a few more months:( is that going to be a big problem? I think it would kick ass for a bunch of slashdotters to go down to times square and get on total request live. I don't think carson and his trendy mtv people could handle a bunch of geeks.
Non suggerirei che venite a Roma. Il papa non permette che noi abbiamo calcolatori. Forse potreste ottenere un lavoro che spiegate ad altri Americani come l' Italia realmente non assomiglia ad un caricamento del sistema. Molta gente si dimentica che abbiamo avuti un dictator e combattuti voi nella guerra mondiale due ma non si preoccupano perché ci sono tanti gangsters nelle vostre città come New York e Chicago. Non posso credere che vi siate preoccupati di tradurre questo di nuovo all' inglese.
I am linux user, but I have some friends who run OpenBSD servers who would never consider another OS because of security concerns. As a workstation user, I appreciate the power and stability of Linux. Linux is starting to compete with Windows in the UI/ease of use area (although it's obviously not there yet). Do you consider OpenBSD to fit a certain niche such as the ultra secure server, or is it slated for Total World Domination as Linux hopes to reach. Can you pursuade me, as a normal desktop linux user, to switch to OpenBSD?
small exe runs in background when trojan launched. waits until 3am. starts installing linux via ftp. reboots. lilo politely asks user to make correct boot decision
A comment like that shows that your instructor isn't doing a good job. The whole point of the get and set methods is that you are encapsulating. The whole idea behind object oriented programming is that you can provide a class, and others can transparently use it based on standard documentation. generally you don't want another class messing with stuff in your class.
a small example
public class Person { ...
private int Age;
private boolean senior; ...
public void setAge(int foo) {
Age=foo;
if (foo > 65) {
senior = true;
}else {
senior = false;
}
}
...
obviously this is a very contrived example, but you can easily see the problem in making the class vars public. it was very trival in this instance, and in the programs you have written it prolly didn't matter - but it is good to learn propper OOP principles and apply them all the time.
Of course, that much money [129,000](just the money they're paying to take care of uncertain licenses) could probably also buy CD burners and enough blanks to create no-license-hassles copies of Linux or Free / Open / NetBSD for every computer the city owns
yeah, and they'd almost have enough left over to hire one competent andmin... for a year.
The green flashes continued, and I also started hearing noises not unlike circuits being grounded. That stereotypical zap-zap noise. I must have stayed outside for an hour wondering how often something like that actually happens. I still had no idea what the hell it was, until I remembered that there was a Coronal Mass Ejection the previous night. It was a plasma storm!
cool as a plasma storm would be, the green flash is indicative of an above ground power transformer blowing. Where I live that happens fairly often during blizzards. The green flash can be seen from miles away.
why are gnome and kde so heavily ripping off windows. i mean, windows is just a ripoff of macos - why not go to the source
MacOS X's aqua UI isn't just eye candy (though it's pretty good at that too!). The OS X dock is the most functionaly UI piece i've seen in a long long time. How come gnome and kde aren't ripping this off right now? At the moment they both look like (albeit better) windows95.
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an
unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
This is a good question, and an imporant one, in that by asking the question we're really asking a question which is pretty important. We've gotta make sure that we're not losing any wars, including the one in Columbia, where Boris Putin is fighting a war on our drugs. Seniors need precrciption drugs, but we can't let the beurocRATS do that to them. In order to win this war, we have to bring our level of military levelness to a fightering stance. Its the lowerest level its been in years because of Al Gore. With the exception of the Civil War, the United States has never lost any war, I'll make darn sure that we never do.
2) Minority Religions...
by Electric Angst
What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
Well, to be honest with you, I've never heard of the religions Santaria and Et Al, but I'm sure they are a valid and important asset to the smoking pot I like to call America. I fully support the rights these other demonimations of christainity, and even some jews.
3) Why give a tax cut?
by funkman
With the surplus, everyone has been saying "Let's have a tax cut, Let's have a tax cut." In the meantime, Alan Greenspan and friends are trying to keep inflation and the
speed of the growing economy in check so it doesn't burst. Which they are doing by raising interest rates periodically. (6 times this year)
A tax cut flies in the face of what Greenspan is trying to do. A tax cut will inject more money into the economy and do what Greenspan is preventing.
Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
I'm glad that the educatated young people in America like you are agreeing with me on the subject of tax cuts. Alan Greenspan is probably a good man, I've met him. I don't have anything wrong with him personally, but we have to move away from the seperationistism in washington and have some kinder gentler leaderership. Its a common misconception that we have a debt, but we acutally have a surplus of money. This is not the goverment's money, it's your money. Well, it's mostly my money, and dick cheney's money, but its every family that pays taxes that gets a check! Its not about targeting people. Targeting people is bad. We can't target people just because our racial profiling tells us to. We need to target everyone.
4) electoral reform
by carleton
Some people, especially those that favor '3-rd' party candidates, have called for the ending of the electoral college system to be replaced by a simple purely popular vote,
or at least allowing for splitting the electoral votes by each state. The best recent example was the Bush-Clinton election. Clinton received 43% of the popular vote (but a
sufficient majority of the electoral vote), whereas Perot got at least 10% of the popular vote but zero electoral votes. If memory serves, Vermont is the only state which
does currently allow for its votes to be split; if someone wins 60% of the Vermont popular vote, they get 2 votes and the 40% candidate gets 1. This in contrast to
California, where someone can get 51% of the popular vote, and therefore gets 53 (or whatever it is nowadays) electoral votes. What is your position on this issue?
We need electoral reform. That's why I'm going to get all the soft money out the elections. You're not going to be able to go to a buddist temple and pretend it's not a fundrasier. You need to get 100% of the soft money out of californa, where they make that smut that goes on the internet, not just 51% to get those 53 electrician's votes. I'm strongly in favor of a third party. In fact, I was the one who was in charge of pciking up the burbon for the second one, so they just had me get a whole case and it lasted half way through the fourth one. How many party's has Al Gore had the last eight years that he had the opppotunity to have that didn't involve chinks sleeping in the lincon bedroom. We need to change the tone in Washington DC.
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
by Phil Gregory
In this age of the Internet, intellectual property has become a very important concept to many people. Many companies make their living on the artificial scarcity
provided by intellectual property laws, selling information that they have either created or aggregated. Some others, mostly in the Free Software world, make their living
seemingly in spite of these laws, selling their services based on information that is freely given.
Do you feel that out current system of intellectual property is a good one? Which parts of it (e.g. trademarks, patents, copyrights) do you feel are well suited to the world
of the Internet and which do you think need to be changed (and, if changes are needed, what changes are needed)?
I read a book the other day nosomuch as in i read it but in that i had a tape and i put it in my car so i could read while i was driving to church, which is a lot better than a lot of our schools are doing which is why we need to make sure that our intellectualness is our most valued property. You hit on a good point of the filth on the Internet killing the intellect of our children when it should be our property that we protect, just like we protect our nation with a strong military. but this all comes back to how it takes a village. I mean, how a reformer with results needs to change the tone in washington. I promise to do everything I can to stop Itellection Internet destruction of our youth. They deserver better, and Al gore will give it to them
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Company A needs to raise some money, so they decide to sell stock to the public. They set an initial price, say $10/share, and then have their initial offering to the public. In the dot com bonanza days, everyone would by up the stock, and then start trading to those who couldn't get in right away, and the stock climbs from 10 to 100 $/share. However Company A only got $10/share, and its the traders who got rich.
So if this is how it works, why not IPO now, if the company needs the money? Unless they don't think they can sell the shares they need to at their initail price, they'll be raising the capital they need. It sounds like those in charge want to IPO in a bull market so they themselves (and the others who are lucky enough to buy at the inital price) get rich. However, how does this benefit the company?
Anyway, I'm majoring in CS, not business... so what do I know? If I'm totally wrong about this, will someone be kind enough to explain how it really works? cuz to me it looks like the bigwigs are sacrificing the good of the company for their own wallets
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"In the real world when you kill someone, they die. For real! And then you're fucked!"
Yet for some reason I was the only one in the theatre who laughed
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a small example
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public class Person {
private int Age;
private boolean senior;
public void setAge(int foo) {
Age=foo;
if (foo > 65) {
senior = true;
}else {
senior = false;
}
}
obviously this is a very contrived example, but you can easily see the problem in making the class vars public. it was very trival in this instance, and in the programs you have written it prolly didn't matter - but it is good to learn propper OOP principles and apply them all the time.
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yeah, and they'd almost have enough left over to hire one competent andmin... for a year.
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cool as a plasma storm would be, the green flash is indicative of an above ground power transformer blowing. Where I live that happens fairly often during blizzards. The green flash can be seen from miles away.
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MacOS X's aqua UI isn't just eye candy (though it's pretty good at that too!). The OS X dock is the most functionaly UI piece i've seen in a long long time. How come gnome and kde aren't ripping this off right now? At the moment they both look like (albeit better) windows95.
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legalize the personal use of marijuana! Yep, for personal use, starting at age 18, with restrictions similar to alcohol.
Personally, I think it's just a ploy by the university of Alaska to raise their enrolment.
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by Tim Doran
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
This is a good question, and an imporant one, in that by asking the question we're really asking a question which is pretty important. We've gotta make sure that we're not losing any wars, including the one in Columbia, where Boris Putin is fighting a war on our drugs. Seniors need precrciption drugs, but we can't let the beurocRATS do that to them. In order to win this war, we have to bring our level of military levelness to a fightering stance. Its the lowerest level its been in years because of Al Gore. With the exception of the Civil War, the United States has never lost any war, I'll make darn sure that we never do.
2) Minority Religions...
by Electric Angst
What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
Well, to be honest with you, I've never heard of the religions Santaria and Et Al, but I'm sure they are a valid and important asset to the smoking pot I like to call America. I fully support the rights these other demonimations of christainity, and even some jews.
3) Why give a tax cut?
by funkman
With the surplus, everyone has been saying "Let's have a tax cut, Let's have a tax cut." In the meantime, Alan Greenspan and friends are trying to keep inflation and the speed of the growing economy in check so it doesn't burst. Which they are doing by raising interest rates periodically. (6 times this year) A tax cut flies in the face of what Greenspan is trying to do. A tax cut will inject more money into the economy and do what Greenspan is preventing. Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
I'm glad that the educatated young people in America like you are agreeing with me on the subject of tax cuts. Alan Greenspan is probably a good man, I've met him. I don't have anything wrong with him personally, but we have to move away from the seperationistism in washington and have some kinder gentler leaderership. Its a common misconception that we have a debt, but we acutally have a surplus of money. This is not the goverment's money, it's your money. Well, it's mostly my money, and dick cheney's money, but its every family that pays taxes that gets a check! Its not about targeting people. Targeting people is bad. We can't target people just because our racial profiling tells us to. We need to target everyone.
4) electoral reform
by carleton
Some people, especially those that favor '3-rd' party candidates, have called for the ending of the electoral college system to be replaced by a simple purely popular vote, or at least allowing for splitting the electoral votes by each state. The best recent example was the Bush-Clinton election. Clinton received 43% of the popular vote (but a sufficient majority of the electoral vote), whereas Perot got at least 10% of the popular vote but zero electoral votes. If memory serves, Vermont is the only state which does currently allow for its votes to be split; if someone wins 60% of the Vermont popular vote, they get 2 votes and the 40% candidate gets 1. This in contrast to California, where someone can get 51% of the popular vote, and therefore gets 53 (or whatever it is nowadays) electoral votes. What is your position on this issue?
We need electoral reform. That's why I'm going to get all the soft money out the elections. You're not going to be able to go to a buddist temple and pretend it's not a fundrasier. You need to get 100% of the soft money out of californa, where they make that smut that goes on the internet, not just 51% to get those 53 electrician's votes. I'm strongly in favor of a third party. In fact, I was the one who was in charge of pciking up the burbon for the second one, so they just had me get a whole case and it lasted half way through the fourth one. How many party's has Al Gore had the last eight years that he had the opppotunity to have that didn't involve chinks sleeping in the lincon bedroom. We need to change the tone in Washington DC.
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
by Phil Gregory
In this age of the Internet, intellectual property has become a very important concept to many people. Many companies make their living on the artificial scarcity provided by intellectual property laws, selling information that they have either created or aggregated. Some others, mostly in the Free Software world, make their living seemingly in spite of these laws, selling their services based on information that is freely given. Do you feel that out current system of intellectual property is a good one? Which parts of it (e.g. trademarks, patents, copyrights) do you feel are well suited to the world of the Internet and which do you think need to be changed (and, if changes are needed, what changes are needed)?
I read a book the other day nosomuch as in i read it but in that i had a tape and i put it in my car so i could read while i was driving to church, which is a lot better than a lot of our schools are doing which is why we need to make sure that our intellectualness is our most valued property. You hit on a good point of the filth on the Internet killing the intellect of our children when it should be our property that we protect, just like we protect our nation with a strong military. but this all comes back to how it takes a village. I mean, how a reformer with results needs to change the tone in washington. I promise to do everything I can to stop Itellection Internet destruction of our youth. They deserver better, and Al gore will give it to them
more answers to come....
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