I don’t know. I knew a Polish physics professor who had defected in the 60’s. He though it would be a great idea to detonate a few nuclear bombs to increase earth’s tilt so the USSR would be where the North Pole is now.
Serious question / theory – how much work does it take to tune Ubuntu to run on a laptop? I am thinking specifically of power consumption.
Assume 1. that it takes the same amount of time and dollars to tune a OS to run on a specific laptop and 2. That we are going to sell a lot more Win8 and Ubuntu.
With development dollars speared across fewer computers this would increase Dell’s price of offering free computers. Then factor in bloatware (sigh) and shorter production runs (Had drive images, I would think, would be simple. Different documentation maybe?).
(And I would guess no Win7/8 tag – if so they would offer it as a dual boot - I would guess)
I think it’s just pressure – and I am not sure how valuable a tempura gauge would be. I thinking my body temperature would throw off the readings to the point that they were meaningless.
Brokerage systems that interface with the exchange – that is a different story. Like I said, I have seen systems which make the sloppy shortcut of coding “Sell to open” as negative buys.
It's a future - so yes - For derivatives, for every long trade there has to be a short side. Technically it’s “Selling to Open” but I have seen systems treat it as a buying a negative quantity.
Why spend time building something up when some capricious law is just going to tear it down or otherwise gimp it? Well, under this declaration, you know nothing is coming down the pike for the next 2 years.
Ah, law and semantics. IANAL but I would be willing to bet that while
InterTrade falls under Irish laws
is regulated under Irish sport books laws
is not overseen by the Irish financial authorities as a “regulated exchange” (stocks, options, futures, etc.).
London’s market is overseen by GB’s financial regulators – so that is o.k.
We can debate the moral difference between sport gambling and option trading – I think there is a difference. However, as it stands now, there are huge technical differences between the two, hence this is coming from the CFTC and not Justice’s vice division.
To put a finer point on this, Standardized derivative contracts that trade on an exchange are heavily regulated. Option and future markets tend to be abused by inside traders, fast talking high pressure brokers, etc.
Most derivative contracts (by notional amount), however, trade OTC and are lightly regulated. Think SWAPs, CDOs, etc. However, the traders are large companies which are heavily regulated and are (supposed) to have sophisticated risk and capital controls.
I think it was because I said the correct thing in a snarky way – and I kind of regret the tone I used. But, I think, the thrust is correct. We need to know the user base and inform said user base.
If the small business targeted had a strong social message (software for unemployed born-again Christen organic fair trade coffee farmers by people who care) might imply a non-profit background and thus free service.
On the other hand, if the software is to handle section 1256(d) of the tax code and you are getting these requests – well – you are now working with a user bases which is just used to free stuff.
In either case you know your marketing plan has failed. How you fix it will depend on said user base.
All loss leaders is a sub-category of discount marketing strategy, but not all discount marketing strategies are loss leaders.
This is generate excitement on Cybermonday – Make people think they are getting a bargain – retain market share (buy from us – not the kindle version on Amazon,). Etc.
A loss leader is, by definition, sold at a loss. If you are selling something at a loss you can’t make it up in volume - it's by selling something else. The classic example is Gillette advertising cheap razor handles (with a few starter blades). They would sell them at a loss, but make up by selling razor blades at the full price. Another example is a convenience store that advertises the lowest priced milk but makes their profit from people stooping in a buying gas.
And it is probably not a loss leader – those are used to suck costumers into a store with the hope that they will buy some full priced items. It you are selling your e-books at a loss, you are not going to make it up by selling in volume. More likely a marketing ploy.
I assume this works because H20 is a polar molecule and we are applying a very strong magnetic field.
Do you know, from a chemistry viewpoint, how this would be different than cooking with a microwave? I know that we are knocking around water molecules very different. But would a turkey cooked using a microwave taste any different?
(speculation – microwaves only knock around water molecules – this would knock around all polar molecules.)
I am missing something here. Induction heats metal so it’s great for getting a fry pan hot in a hurry. But unless the Turkey is made out of metal, I don’t see much happening here.
Sharp wants to get rid of it’s employees voluntary, so the severance package has to be sweet. This is particularly true in Japan, where the chance of a older worker finding new, full time employment is slimmer than in other countries.
And it’s early retirement – which implies their pensions kick in. Maybe not at 100% - but it should be kicking out income for the rest of their lives.
If I had to guess, I would guess the issue was with the long term contracts. An easy fraud is to classify future, optional service fees and upgrades as sales realized today.
I have heard of cases where the sales manager had 2 contracts in their desks – the one signed by the customer and the one submitted to accounting. When the outside auditors do their due diligence the sales manager pulled out the fake contract.
Early retirement is one way to cut the work force – however, if done poorly it can lead to a brain drain. The more oversubscribed it is the more likely this will happen.
Also, you want to downsize as efficiently / cheaply as possible. The oversubscription suggests that the HR people could have gotten the size reduction they needed with less generous terms.
You could have bought options or futures on any of the major indexes. The general consensus was that Obama was going to win. Nate Silver calculated above 80% - about as close to a sure thing as one could get.
Or do we just have a little 20/20 hindsight cognitive basis going here?
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I don’t know. I knew a Polish physics professor who had defected in the 60’s. He though it would be a great idea to detonate a few nuclear bombs to increase earth’s tilt so the USSR would be where the North Pole is now.
This seems a lot less radical.
Why would there have to be extraordinary evidence? Why couldn’t Sagan be on this team and have a negative opinion of it?
Why is it hard to believe that
That there was a team to study a project and
That a member thought the plan was a bad idea?
If you are going to pack a team with a bunch of ideological yes men – why form a team?
Serious question / theory – how much work does it take to tune Ubuntu to run on a laptop? I am thinking specifically of power consumption.
Assume 1. that it takes the same amount of time and dollars to tune a OS to run on a specific laptop and 2. That we are going to sell a lot more Win8 and Ubuntu.
With development dollars speared across fewer computers this would increase Dell’s price of offering free computers. Then factor in bloatware (sigh) and shorter production runs (Had drive images, I would think, would be simple. Different documentation maybe?).
(And I would guess no Win7/8 tag – if so they would offer it as a dual boot - I would guess)
IIRC, that was back in the 90s. I think Microsoft had to drop that policy during the monopoly investigation around 2000. (Can anybody confirm?)
Global wages rises.
I think it’s just pressure – and I am not sure how valuable a tempura gauge would be. I thinking my body temperature would throw off the readings to the point that they were meaningless.
For exchanges I would hope so.
Brokerage systems that interface with the exchange – that is a different story. Like I said, I have seen systems which make the sloppy shortcut of coding “Sell to open” as negative buys.
Since I doubt you can buy -6 shares, .
It's a future - so yes - For derivatives, for every long trade there has to be a short side. Technically it’s “Selling to Open” but I have seen systems treat it as a buying a negative quantity.
Why spend time building something up when some capricious law is just going to tear it down or otherwise gimp it? Well, under this declaration, you know nothing is coming down the pike for the next 2 years.
Ah, law and semantics. IANAL but I would be willing to bet that while
InterTrade falls under Irish laws
is regulated under Irish sport books laws
is not overseen by the Irish financial authorities as a “regulated exchange” (stocks, options, futures, etc.).
London’s market is overseen by GB’s financial regulators – so that is o.k.
We can debate the moral difference between sport gambling and option trading – I think there is a difference. However, as it stands now, there are huge technical differences between the two, hence this is coming from the CFTC and not Justice’s vice division.
To put a finer point on this, Standardized derivative contracts that trade on an exchange are heavily regulated. Option and future markets tend to be abused by inside traders, fast talking high pressure brokers, etc.
Most derivative contracts (by notional amount), however, trade OTC and are lightly regulated. Think SWAPs, CDOs, etc. However, the traders are large companies which are heavily regulated and are (supposed) to have sophisticated risk and capital controls.
I think it was because I said the correct thing in a snarky way – and I kind of regret the tone I used. But, I think, the thrust is correct. We need to know the user base and inform said user base.
If the small business targeted had a strong social message (software for unemployed born-again Christen organic fair trade coffee farmers by people who care) might imply a non-profit background and thus free service.
On the other hand, if the software is to handle section 1256(d) of the tax code and you are getting these requests – well – you are now working with a user bases which is just used to free stuff.
In either case you know your marketing plan has failed. How you fix it will depend on said user base.
Only then can start figuring out how to increase the IQ of said users.
IIRC, The Secret Service investigates counterfeit money, not counterfeit items in general. Customs investigates the import of counterfeit items.
All loss leaders is a sub-category of discount marketing strategy, but not all discount marketing strategies are loss leaders.
This is generate excitement on Cybermonday – Make people think they are getting a bargain – retain market share (buy from us – not the kindle version on Amazon,). Etc.
A loss leader is, by definition, sold at a loss. If you are selling something at a loss you can’t make it up in volume - it's by selling something else. The classic example is Gillette advertising cheap razor handles (with a few starter blades). They would sell them at a loss, but make up by selling razor blades at the full price. Another example is a convenience store that advertises the lowest priced milk but makes their profit from people stooping in a buying gas.
[Is] that capitalism?
People paying more for something that it is intrinsically worth? Yes, but in this case it's (possibly) also a loss leader.
Well, actually, it’s economics. We only buy stuff that is worth more than it is intrinsically worth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus
And it is probably not a loss leader – those are used to suck costumers into a store with the hope that they will buy some full priced items. It you are selling your e-books at a loss, you are not going to make it up by selling in volume. More likely a marketing ploy.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0135.html
I assume this works because H20 is a polar molecule and we are applying a very strong magnetic field.
Do you know, from a chemistry viewpoint, how this would be different than cooking with a microwave? I know that we are knocking around water molecules very different. But would a turkey cooked using a microwave taste any different?
(speculation – microwaves only knock around water molecules – this would knock around all polar molecules.)
I am missing something here. Induction heats metal so it’s great for getting a fry pan hot in a hurry. But unless the Turkey is made out of metal, I don’t see much happening here.
Commodore 64, among others. The best example would be Dr.J. Vs. Larry Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_on_One:_Dr._J_vs._Larry_Bird
Sharp wants to get rid of it’s employees voluntary, so the severance package has to be sweet. This is particularly true in Japan, where the chance of a older worker finding new, full time employment is slimmer than in other countries.
And it’s early retirement – which implies their pensions kick in. Maybe not at 100% - but it should be kicking out income for the rest of their lives.
If I had to guess, I would guess the issue was with the long term contracts. An easy fraud is to classify future, optional service fees and upgrades as sales realized today.
I have heard of cases where the sales manager had 2 contracts in their desks – the one signed by the customer and the one submitted to accounting. When the outside auditors do their due diligence the sales manager pulled out the fake contract.
HP has asked the USA and UK to start a criminal investigation - not civil.
And Meg did thrown in the phrase “deliberate misrepresentation”, which crosses the big red line between window dressing and outright fraud.
So, yeah, grab some popcorn and what the show.
Early retirement is one way to cut the work force – however, if done poorly it can lead to a brain drain. The more oversubscribed it is the more likely this will happen.
Also, you want to downsize as efficiently / cheaply as possible. The oversubscription suggests that the HR people could have gotten the size reduction they needed with less generous terms.
But she was on the board and did vote in favor. So, the primary fault should be assigned to the old CEO, but she has to take some of the blame.
You could have – so why didn’t you?
You could have bought options or futures on any of the major indexes. The general consensus was that Obama was going to win. Nate Silver calculated above 80% - about as close to a sure thing as one could get.
Or do we just have a little 20/20 hindsight cognitive basis going here?