Maybe, but probably not in interchangeable packages. The bus-length dependent transmission times mean that the cache needs to be on the processor, the main memory nearby and hopefully user upgradable, the graphics memory on the graphics coprocessor, which as a unit should be upgradable due to shorter dev cycles, etc etc.
There could be some benefit in terms of R&D though if the basic memory design were more interchangeable (i.e. as opposed to SRAM versus DRAM versus Flash versus...)
From the excerpt, that support guy just seems to be a whiner. Example:
Some people are very reluctant to let a call end. I don't know if they've found the experience so trying that they want to do everything they can to make sure they don't need to call back, are afraid to try things on their own or simply can't believe that their computer's fixed and will stay fixed.
Anyone who has dealt with tech support/customer service at a large company already knows why the "insecure user" doesn't want to hang up: they probably had to navigate through a 10-level automated system and wait on hold for 30 minutes to get support on the phone--and they know if they call back again, they'll have to repeat the explanation/troubleshooting of the problem from square 1.
According to theory, the company will only hold cash if it can reinvest it in higher return projects.
Well, I was responding to your statement that the appreciated value of the company was equivilent to paying out a dividend. What if the statement above is not true, that is, the company does not have a higher return project in which to invest the cash? Then there is no equivilence.
In such as case, you shouldn't be investing in them in the first place.
Not necessarily. The entire point of dividends is that the company feels that there is more shareholder value in paying out the cash than investing it elsewhere. Bigger is not always better: there are may small-cap companies that are excellant investments, which nevertheless would have no ability to manage a huge amount of cash. There are a lot of people that think that Microsoft is letting their huge cash reserves go to waste.
From a financial point of view, capital gains, dividends, and stock buybacks are all the same. You can replicate dividends with an appreciating stock.
How can this be true? If a company pays out a dividend of $1 per share, the investor can then reinvest that $1, earning between ~2-10% annually depending on how it is invested. In contrast, if the company simply holds it as cash, the share price in theory appreciates by $1. I, the investor, then sell enough of my holdings to gain $1/share in cash. My remaining shares continue to hold $1 of additional cash as part of their valuation.
But wait, that money is/useless/ as cash. It isn't earning anything! Even if the company is investing it for some return, if they aren't beating the cost of capital, the investor would generally do better to have the dividend. And unless we are talking about a company whose business is investing (insurance, banks, etc), do you trust them to make wise investment decisions?
Historically, companies with large amounts of excess cash have NOT invested it wisely. It tends to get spent on all sorts of whiz-bang ideas that in the end effectively destroy some of that shareholder value when indexed against relevant benchmarks. This is often a stealth "loss" because shareholder value increases, just not as much as it should.
Pre-lightning strike, we can probably think of the system as a giant air-dielectric capacitor. There is probably some amazingly tiny leakage current associated with the potential difference between ground and clouds. (drops of water, air currents, are going to ensure some charge gets moved => current flows)
I agree though, the resistance is so high as to be nonsensical. After all, quality film caps already have resistance in the order of gigaohms, and the dielectric is some millionths of an inch thick.
This is why consumer equipment with MOVs always has a breaker, not a fuse. If (when) the MOV fails short, hopefully the circuit is opened very rapidly.
I think eBay is better simply because they are bigger. Bigger means more sellers, more variety and competition from sellers (good for buyers), more interest and potential buyers (good for sellers). They are also older than most competitors, which means they have a longer record of feedback, something that is very important for pricier transactions.
Most of the microflora in your environment are relatively benign for healthy persons. By killing off all of the benign bacteria, you create an environment which allows any potentially harmful ones to multiply without competition.
There are still a lot of problems with corruption and embezzlement in unions. That doesn't mean unions are bad, but they seldom have the oversight to insure that the elected officials aren't taking advantage of everyone else.
You are forgetting about the 7.65% you pay directly out of your payroll, plus numerous other smaller taxes that aren't "EIT" but have the same effect, such as state unemployment insurance etc.
Was this post moderated to +5 Insightful by homophobics anonymous, or what? Everyone is entitled to their viewpoints, but this post is simply flamebait making ridiculous, unsubstantiated assertions.
"For example, children are being taught gay issues on school time"
I notice that all of your comments here frame the discussion as being about gay men, when the issue clearly encompasses lesbian unions. To me, you sound like a threatened, homophobic male.
The core argument is not that the political decision differs from the conclusion reached by the scientists; they acknowedge that public policy is based on more than scientific facts:
The statement notes that while scientific input to the government is rarely the only factor in public policy decisions, this input should be weighed from an objective and impartial perspective.
Rather, the argument is that the Bush administration is distorting or suppressing the basic facts in order to make their political decision seem grounded in science. There is a difference in saying
It will cost too much money to make water 1% cleaner, saving 10 lives per year, so in the balance it isn't worth it.
Falsifying a report to say making the water 1% cleaner won't save any lives, so we shouldn't do it.
We are forced to make decisions like #1 all the time, because the fact is that there is not enough money or resources in the world to make everything perfect--not to mention that there are often competing interests. However, the congressmen and women making the decisions, as well as the public they represent, has a right to know the basis for those decisions.
What about ateji-derived meanings in Japanese? In this case the meaning comes long after the original ideogram, but you are still basing the usage on phonetics.
Besides that, what is the meaning of "arbitrary" in your linguistic sense? While I could certainly see our alphabet as essentially arbitrary symbols, hanzi/kanji are primarily ideograms or combinations of ideograms...that doesn't seem arbitrary to me.
The question is: Because of DRM-type issues, should we be required to spend thousands of dollars when a $200 printer has the same capabilities, were it not crippled in software?
If you are prototyping circuit boards, and probably if you are doing other kinds of offset-critical printing (graphic arts?), the behavior of purposefully mis-registering the printouts could be a real pain. In these situations, thousandths of an inch do matter.
I don't see how anyone could seriously claim that Reloaded/Revolutions didn't have a "classic, predictable Hollywood ending." The only elements short of standard sappy ending were:
1. tragic death of hero(s) [ed. note: very original!] 2. vague, poorly developed notion that machines are people too 3. humans win the war but fail to totally annihilate enemy
These are only superficial deviations from a standard linear plotline. I don't see how they "make you think" about anything other than extended fight scenes.
The first movie was brilliant, not because it forged new ideas about epistemology or had a nonlinear storyline, but because it did a masterful job of introducing an interesting, different, and believable version of reality. It reminded me of the sense of wonder I had exploring a new world when I read "Otherland."
The latter two were a bunch of fight scenes connected by laughable dialog, with standard Hollywood action movie accessories (sexy people, dance scenes, eye candy, etc) It's hard to believe the same Hollywood outsiders that made The Matrix could create these movies. I think they made a shrewd calculation though--they knew they could turn out crap and still make money, so they did so.
I think the problem is NOT that IT departments are unable to do certain things, it is generally that they have no incentive to go outside of the norm to accomadate your requests.
My experience dealing with corporate IT is that the #1 sin is to fail to follow the procedure. An environment has been created in which doing anything undocumented can get you fired, but as long as you complete valid requests within the allotted time (often 5+ days for support tasks) you will be praised by your management, if not by your customers.
The people driving these attitudes are the IT managers, not the techies.
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Maybe, but probably not in interchangeable packages. The bus-length dependent transmission times mean that the cache needs to be on the processor, the main memory nearby and hopefully user upgradable, the graphics memory on the graphics coprocessor, which as a unit should be upgradable due to shorter dev cycles, etc etc.
There could be some benefit in terms of R&D though if the basic memory design were more interchangeable (i.e. as opposed to SRAM versus DRAM versus Flash versus...)
Plaegerism is not about using work without permission, it is about incorporating non-original material without crediting the source.
Anyone who has dealt with tech support/customer service at a large company already knows why the "insecure user" doesn't want to hang up: they probably had to navigate through a 10-level automated system and wait on hold for 30 minutes to get support on the phone--and they know if they call back again, they'll have to repeat the explanation/troubleshooting of the problem from square 1.
Well, I was responding to your statement that the appreciated value of the company was equivilent to paying out a dividend. What if the statement above is not true, that is, the company does not have a higher return project in which to invest the cash? Then there is no equivilence.
Not necessarily. The entire point of dividends is that the company feels that there is more shareholder value in paying out the cash than investing it elsewhere. Bigger is not always better: there are may small-cap companies that are excellant investments, which nevertheless would have no ability to manage a huge amount of cash. There are a lot of people that think that Microsoft is letting their huge cash reserves go to waste.
How can this be true? If a company pays out a dividend of $1 per share, the investor can then reinvest that $1, earning between ~2-10% annually depending on how it is invested. In contrast, if the company simply holds it as cash, the share price in theory appreciates by $1. I, the investor, then sell enough of my holdings to gain $1/share in cash. My remaining shares continue to hold $1 of additional cash as part of their valuation.
But wait, that money is
Historically, companies with large amounts of excess cash have NOT invested it wisely. It tends to get spent on all sorts of whiz-bang ideas that in the end effectively destroy some of that shareholder value when indexed against relevant benchmarks. This is often a stealth "loss" because shareholder value increases, just not as much as it should.
Pre-lightning strike, we can probably think of the system as a giant air-dielectric capacitor. There is probably some amazingly tiny leakage current associated with the potential difference between ground and clouds. (drops of water, air currents, are going to ensure some charge gets moved => current flows)
I agree though, the resistance is so high as to be nonsensical. After all, quality film caps already have resistance in the order of gigaohms, and the dielectric is some millionths of an inch thick.
This is why consumer equipment with MOVs always has a breaker, not a fuse. If (when) the MOV fails short, hopefully the circuit is opened very rapidly.
I think eBay is better simply because they are bigger. Bigger means more sellers, more variety and competition from sellers (good for buyers), more interest and potential buyers (good for sellers). They are also older than most competitors, which means they have a longer record of feedback, something that is very important for pricier transactions.
Most of the microflora in your environment are relatively benign for healthy persons. By killing off all of the benign bacteria, you create an environment which allows any potentially harmful ones to multiply without competition.
What if the audio is coming through your stereo, not the TV? The the delay does nothing for you.
There are still a lot of problems with corruption and embezzlement in unions. That doesn't mean unions are bad, but they seldom have the oversight to insure that the elected officials aren't taking advantage of everyone else.
You are forgetting about the 7.65% you pay directly out of your payroll, plus numerous other smaller taxes that aren't "EIT" but have the same effect, such as state unemployment insurance etc.
We do have ju-jubes. Of course, in "New England" at least...
Was this post moderated to +5 Insightful by homophobics anonymous, or what? Everyone is entitled to their viewpoints, but this post is simply flamebait making ridiculous, unsubstantiated assertions.
"For example, children are being taught gay issues on school time"
Give me a break.
I notice that all of your comments here frame the discussion as being about gay men, when the issue clearly encompasses lesbian unions. To me, you sound like a threatened, homophobic male.
Others may draw their own conclusions.
- It will cost too much money to make water 1% cleaner, saving 10 lives per year, so in the balance it isn't worth it.
- Falsifying a report to say making the water 1% cleaner won't save any lives, so we shouldn't do it.
We are forced to make decisions like #1 all the time, because the fact is that there is not enough money or resources in the world to make everything perfect--not to mention that there are often competing interests. However, the congressmen and women making the decisions, as well as the public they represent, has a right to know the basis for those decisions.What about ateji-derived meanings in Japanese? In this case the meaning comes long after the original ideogram, but you are still basing the usage on phonetics.
Besides that, what is the meaning of "arbitrary" in your linguistic sense? While I could certainly see our alphabet as essentially arbitrary symbols, hanzi/kanji are primarily ideograms or combinations of ideograms...that doesn't seem arbitrary to me.
The question is: Because of DRM-type issues, should we be required to spend thousands of dollars when a $200 printer has the same capabilities, were it not crippled in software?
If you are prototyping circuit boards, and probably if you are doing other kinds of offset-critical printing (graphic arts?), the behavior of purposefully mis-registering the printouts could be a real pain. In these situations, thousandths of an inch do matter.
Enough said.
I don't see how anyone could seriously claim that Reloaded/Revolutions didn't have a "classic, predictable Hollywood ending." The only elements short of standard sappy ending were:
1. tragic death of hero(s) [ed. note: very original!]
2. vague, poorly developed notion that machines are people too
3. humans win the war but fail to totally annihilate enemy
These are only superficial deviations from a standard linear plotline. I don't see how they "make you think" about anything other than extended fight scenes.
The first movie was brilliant, not because it forged new ideas about epistemology or had a nonlinear storyline, but because it did a masterful job of introducing an interesting, different, and believable version of reality. It reminded me of the sense of wonder I had exploring a new world when I read "Otherland."
The latter two were a bunch of fight scenes connected by laughable dialog, with standard Hollywood action movie accessories (sexy people, dance scenes, eye candy, etc) It's hard to believe the same Hollywood outsiders that made The Matrix could create these movies. I think they made a shrewd calculation though--they knew they could turn out crap and still make money, so they did so.
To answer your question: yes. I also daily feed the catxors.
Of course, there are many products you can by today, like aerogel capacitors, loudspeakers, etc.
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I think the problem is NOT that IT departments are unable to do certain things, it is generally that they have no incentive to go outside of the norm to accomadate your requests.
My experience dealing with corporate IT is that the #1 sin is to fail to follow the procedure. An environment has been created in which doing anything undocumented can get you fired, but as long as you complete valid requests within the allotted time (often 5+ days for support tasks) you will be praised by your management, if not by your customers.
The people driving these attitudes are the IT managers, not the techies.