How is Google's stock over valued? They have a forward P/E of 25.31, Yahoo has a forward P/E of 43.03...So Yahoo is actually more expensive, though Google is growing at a faster rate...the only reason Google's stock seems so "expensive" is because they've never split their stock. The huge price of at one time $500+ a share scares off investors that don't know how to measure true valuation. If anything Google is cheap with it's monster growth.
I think the Office 2007 upgrade is one of the best there has ever been in the wake of Office applications. The layout is wonderful in every program. The only complaint I have is the default lack of rulers (for margins) in Word...aside from that I'm very satisfied.
No offense, but why be so defensive? The person simply posted articles related to global warming. Normally, at least I would assume, when someone is presented a set of facts -or said facts-, one begins to only dig deeper for more answers. I was not informed that it is suspected that Mars and Jupiter are also going through similar climate changes as earth. I find that unless all facts -or said facts- are presented then there is no point for discussion. I give kudos to the author, whether his intentions being political or what have you. I'm sure there are many causes behind global warming, why not have all possible causes presented?
People are forgetting the secret to Google's success.
Luck.
So by your definition, anyone who is successful is so because they are lucky?
I have no idea how you were modded up. That's not interesting or insightful in the least.
At my university one of the popular computer labs consists of about 30-40% Linux machines...but you see, no one uses them, except for CompSci people. The room can be packed, people will turn away and go to another computer lab just to use a Windows machine. This is actually frustrating, because my tuition went to that Linux machine that is just collecting dust. They could at least have a dual booting machine to avoid this scenario, I hope the Indiana high schools have dual booting systems instead of strictly Linux.
I figure that's why Warren Buffet jumped on board, it seems that the Charity will be ran like a holdings company, which IMO is better than simply giving away assets to often irresponsible recipients. I love the idea of a more free market approach to charity, if you want to call it "free market".
I've had the exact same experience; I have owned 2 generations of the ipod and supported it fully recommending it to friends. The Zune is a nice piece of hardware; the only disadvantages I see are its size. A lot of people believe thinner or smaller is better, but I disagree...the 30GB drive doesn't matter so much, because of the way the Zune software manages the music, loading your most played songs/highest rated song on first so that you always get the "better" songs anyhow. I have tons of music, and I hardly listen to 60 or so % of it, that being said I can have a MP3 player that has a smaller volume of storage than my actual music cache and be happy. I assume this is true of most music listeners...but I could be wrong.
I think by evolution of God or "God's evolution"; he means how the perspective and ways peoples view God have changed and evolved over time. Seeing as at one time, at least in Abrahamic religions, God was feared and was vengeful; now God is viewed as loving and caring. Of course the Bible sort of goes in a direction of God the overseer to God no were in site to God internally. Then again, maybe I'm just evolved in my views.
To make it more ironic IBM developed the Xbox 360 processors, so the story could go like:
"1000 Xbox 360s powered by IBM processors sell out in 9 minutes bringing down Amazon.com...IBM claims HP powered servers were the cause of the site's shortfall..."
In follow up story:
"IBM finally reeps profits from it's patent one-click-shopping through Amazon.com without going to court"
Why would Universal go after Google? Myspace is owned by News Corp...which just so happens to own rival network and movie studio Fox. Google's Eric Schmidt sits on the board of Apple...Apple has i-tunes...Universal sells videos/music on i-tunes. This law suit has little to do with video, but to do with music that people upload for profile songs. Myspace saw this coming as they added music fingerprinting. Myspace will get a slap on the wrist, and be forced to enforce rules that should have been enforced to begin with. I know plenty of people who will go to a Myspace page just to listen to the music on it. It's like a form of radio, but Universal sees no cut, and Myspace reaps the profits from their mix of advertising. YouTube does not have this problem, at least in my eyes...too many deals have been inked for Universal to suddenly attack Google.
I don't believe he was saying "Vista can't get viruses", but rather UAC (user account control) stops code from executing, thus making him feel safe that even his son could surf the web (with UAC on) without obtaining a virus blindly. I think the biggest weakness with past Windows have been uninformed users thinking that clicking "yes" in dialog boxes to execute an unknown program or script is a witty thing to do. I believe UAC tries to solve this, and most "average" users will be too lazy to turn it off (or won't know how), while advanced users can simply surf responsibly with it off.
Myspace has proven this theory, or study rather, wrong entirely. I've sat for minutes (at least it felt like it) waiting on a myspace page to load on a high speed connection...all because someone told me to look at this or that on the god foresaken website. Though I saw on CNBC where Myspace traffic was falling at a near rapid pace...and all I can say is...about time. I could rant and rant about Myspace, but it would only be treading water, and completely irrelavant to the article.
From my understanding, Japan holds more U.S. T-Notes than China; China really has little bearing on the U.S. dollar. If China was to lose favor with the U.S. dollar their economy would suffer just as America's would (as would Japan or the U.K.). That is the strange thing about currency markets and globalization. If Ben Bernanke and the Fed continue to raise rates, we will see more strength in the dollar; they see the economy as being "too hot" at least that would be why they would raise rates to decrease inflation. We'll just have to wait for the next CPI (Consumer Price Index) and PPI (Producer Price Index) numbers before they will decide what the next move is. I would like to see a stronger dollar myself, but I don't want stocks which generate a large volume of U.S. taxes to fall...making paying debts harder...it's really complicated.
In this case, I agree with you; I was just clarifying that not all political decisions are based on religion when voting for Republicans. The only real problem I personally have with "social" programs (though irrelevant) is that Governments tend to screw up the system, making for lost economic growth, as well as lost funds. Tennessee for instance instituted a socialized healthcare system, but it lost millions upon millions because it was poorly managed; I don't want to see the national debt to pile even higher because of a flawed system & and I don't want to see loss of economic growth.
I never stated that Socialism was "evil". I was simply giving reasons why some people vote red and not blue; it's true that there are some who base their political decisions purely on religion, but that's not the only reason. Socialism has its place, but "free market" Capitalism has proven more effective than an entire socialistic society. France and Germany both have stagnant economies thanks to social programs, too much of anything is a bad thing...when it comes to Capitalism or Socialism. I admit being a Capitalist, but I do see the benefits of some social programs.
There are tons more reasons that people vote Republican other than religious pressures; mainly dealing with taxes, capitalism (as opposed to socialism), pacifism, and governmental powers. Usually (not always) Democrats are for more government restrictions (socialism) against citizens and corporations alike. This Republican regime has shown less of the latter and more of the former, which is sad. My feeling is this is simply a proposition, and a proposition and a passed bill are completely different. It's funny when people believe that Democrats will change the direction of the country. First, the President will veto anything the Democrats propose; second, the Democrats will have a very weak majority. America has always had its issues, and always will; I want to see a lot of the controls on citizens repealed, but that's not likely to happen under any party's control, at least for a while. Anyhow, the idea that religion is the only reason people vote Republican is a rather narrow idea.
I'm in the same boat when it comes to using the adblock extension for Firefox, it's really the only reason I had stayed with it for so long. However, upon installing Vista, I have completely migrated from Firefox to IE7. I began to grow tired of Firefox's bugs (dare I say it), and I have been a Firefox user...well, since it was known as Firebird , or Phoenix. I'm quite happy with IE7 and I don't plan on switching back anytime soon, despite Firefox 2.0. I still keep all browsers on hand, because I develope website designs, but IE7 has taken hold of my regular browsing.
I predicted this a long time ago, even before the YouTube purchase, it only makes sense. Google launches Video Ads a few quarters back, Google Video is moved to the home page of Google. Google purchases YouTube for a large sum of money, Google has to "figure out" how to make advertisements less intrusive. Well this is a no brainer; Google introduces an adsense for video of sorts, even if there are no video advertisements (videos tied to textual ads can work too). Now even if the advertisements are somewhat intrusive, video uploaders still have an incentive to continue to come upload videos; as well as make their videos more competitive (better) to improve revenue. Naturally, because all the "good" videos are on the Google networks (Google Video/YouTube) they receive more viewers. The same idea applies to television, most (you never know) viewers don't pick their favorite networks based off of advertisements, but rather content. Google is in a win-win situation, Google has a huge advertising network and as their quarterly results have shown us, it isn't slowing in growth. Google has a lot of influences on the media companies, so we won't see a lot of lawsuits. Why would you sue a company whose network you advertise on, or makes up a significant portion of you site traffic? Google also owns large stakes in Time Warner...Google as a company knows what it's doing...
It doesn't matter what the operating system is; if it's XP, Vista, OSX, Linux, the next Windows or even the next, it's Apple's responsibility to put checks in place to prevent such things from happening. This is just as much Apple's fault (more so in my opinion) as it is Microsoft's. What if the reverse had been true? What if the Zune shipped with OSX viruses, I bet the tune of Apple would be completely different.
*sigh* yet another/. circle jerk on how Windows is inferior to other operating systems. Reading slashdot when Linux, Microsoft or Apple come up is like watching Fox News during elections.
I personally think the Zune line has a promising outlook, I had long been a fan of the Apple i-pod, but I am looking for alternatives and the Zune has caught my eye. I wonder if the Zune will likely be hacked so that song sharing will be DRM and restriction free? I know that most college students at least around my area simply buy CDs and rip them, or use P2P services, making the i-pod to Zune transition a very easy one. If interfaced with the X-box 360 in future models, the Zune could fly off the shelves, especially if they allow X-box arcade games to be loaded onto certain models. The fact that it currently doesn't have this feature doesn't mean a simple software update can't change that. I actually plan to buy a Zune unless I find out that Apple has an answer besides a new color.
This completely ignores why the dot com bubble even happened. You are comparing a time in which revenues with no profits led to amazingly high P/E ratios to a time when Google is profitable (and is even in the S&P 500) and only trades at 61 times earnings (despite it's massive growth rate). When the bubble popped, there were companies with no profits with little revenue with 80 times earnings or more. It amazes me how many people speak of the market when they don't even know of it, or its occurrences. Along with the high P/E ratios we were headed for a recession in 2000, the current U.S. economy is merely slowing according to recent economic data; a recession is currently out of sight. Aside from the economics of the situation, Google is to me more of a business model than a search engine or advertising company. A small business could build their entire business around Google, much like many do with e-bay.
Why should Microsoft care about this occurrence, it doesn't at all shake Microsoft's market dominance, in fact it inforces it at best. Microsoft spends tons of money on IE yet don't make anything out of it. If I were Microsoft I would be celebrating that someone is taking the browser market out of my hands.
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How is Google's stock over valued? They have a forward P/E of 25.31, Yahoo has a forward P/E of 43.03...So Yahoo is actually more expensive, though Google is growing at a faster rate...the only reason Google's stock seems so "expensive" is because they've never split their stock. The huge price of at one time $500+ a share scares off investors that don't know how to measure true valuation. If anything Google is cheap with it's monster growth.
I think the Office 2007 upgrade is one of the best there has ever been in the wake of Office applications. The layout is wonderful in every program. The only complaint I have is the default lack of rulers (for margins) in Word...aside from that I'm very satisfied.
No offense, but why be so defensive? The person simply posted articles related to global warming. Normally, at least I would assume, when someone is presented a set of facts -or said facts-, one begins to only dig deeper for more answers. I was not informed that it is suspected that Mars and Jupiter are also going through similar climate changes as earth. I find that unless all facts -or said facts- are presented then there is no point for discussion. I give kudos to the author, whether his intentions being political or what have you. I'm sure there are many causes behind global warming, why not have all possible causes presented?
At my university one of the popular computer labs consists of about 30-40% Linux machines...but you see, no one uses them, except for CompSci people. The room can be packed, people will turn away and go to another computer lab just to use a Windows machine. This is actually frustrating, because my tuition went to that Linux machine that is just collecting dust. They could at least have a dual booting machine to avoid this scenario, I hope the Indiana high schools have dual booting systems instead of strictly Linux.
I figure that's why Warren Buffet jumped on board, it seems that the Charity will be ran like a holdings company, which IMO is better than simply giving away assets to often irresponsible recipients. I love the idea of a more free market approach to charity, if you want to call it "free market".
He has already strafed jumped his way into space, he is a fucking Quakemaster. /give flight
I've had the exact same experience; I have owned 2 generations of the ipod and supported it fully recommending it to friends. The Zune is a nice piece of hardware; the only disadvantages I see are its size. A lot of people believe thinner or smaller is better, but I disagree...the 30GB drive doesn't matter so much, because of the way the Zune software manages the music, loading your most played songs/highest rated song on first so that you always get the "better" songs anyhow. I have tons of music, and I hardly listen to 60 or so % of it, that being said I can have a MP3 player that has a smaller volume of storage than my actual music cache and be happy. I assume this is true of most music listeners...but I could be wrong.
I think by evolution of God or "God's evolution"; he means how the perspective and ways peoples view God have changed and evolved over time. Seeing as at one time, at least in Abrahamic religions, God was feared and was vengeful; now God is viewed as loving and caring. Of course the Bible sort of goes in a direction of God the overseer to God no were in site to God internally. Then again, maybe I'm just evolved in my views.
Either way, I'm sure you're isolating a lot of slashdotters.
To make it more ironic IBM developed the Xbox 360 processors, so the story could go like: "1000 Xbox 360s powered by IBM processors sell out in 9 minutes bringing down Amazon.com...IBM claims HP powered servers were the cause of the site's shortfall..." In follow up story: "IBM finally reeps profits from it's patent one-click-shopping through Amazon.com without going to court"
Why would Universal go after Google? Myspace is owned by News Corp...which just so happens to own rival network and movie studio Fox. Google's Eric Schmidt sits on the board of Apple...Apple has i-tunes...Universal sells videos/music on i-tunes. This law suit has little to do with video, but to do with music that people upload for profile songs. Myspace saw this coming as they added music fingerprinting. Myspace will get a slap on the wrist, and be forced to enforce rules that should have been enforced to begin with. I know plenty of people who will go to a Myspace page just to listen to the music on it. It's like a form of radio, but Universal sees no cut, and Myspace reaps the profits from their mix of advertising. YouTube does not have this problem, at least in my eyes...too many deals have been inked for Universal to suddenly attack Google.
I don't believe he was saying "Vista can't get viruses", but rather UAC (user account control) stops code from executing, thus making him feel safe that even his son could surf the web (with UAC on) without obtaining a virus blindly. I think the biggest weakness with past Windows have been uninformed users thinking that clicking "yes" in dialog boxes to execute an unknown program or script is a witty thing to do. I believe UAC tries to solve this, and most "average" users will be too lazy to turn it off (or won't know how), while advanced users can simply surf responsibly with it off.
Myspace has proven this theory, or study rather, wrong entirely. I've sat for minutes (at least it felt like it) waiting on a myspace page to load on a high speed connection...all because someone told me to look at this or that on the god foresaken website. Though I saw on CNBC where Myspace traffic was falling at a near rapid pace...and all I can say is...about time. I could rant and rant about Myspace, but it would only be treading water, and completely irrelavant to the article.
From my understanding, Japan holds more U.S. T-Notes than China; China really has little bearing on the U.S. dollar. If China was to lose favor with the U.S. dollar their economy would suffer just as America's would (as would Japan or the U.K.). That is the strange thing about currency markets and globalization. If Ben Bernanke and the Fed continue to raise rates, we will see more strength in the dollar; they see the economy as being "too hot" at least that would be why they would raise rates to decrease inflation. We'll just have to wait for the next CPI (Consumer Price Index) and PPI (Producer Price Index) numbers before they will decide what the next move is. I would like to see a stronger dollar myself, but I don't want stocks which generate a large volume of U.S. taxes to fall...making paying debts harder...it's really complicated.
In this case, I agree with you; I was just clarifying that not all political decisions are based on religion when voting for Republicans. The only real problem I personally have with "social" programs (though irrelevant) is that Governments tend to screw up the system, making for lost economic growth, as well as lost funds. Tennessee for instance instituted a socialized healthcare system, but it lost millions upon millions because it was poorly managed; I don't want to see the national debt to pile even higher because of a flawed system & and I don't want to see loss of economic growth.
I never stated that Socialism was "evil". I was simply giving reasons why some people vote red and not blue; it's true that there are some who base their political decisions purely on religion, but that's not the only reason. Socialism has its place, but "free market" Capitalism has proven more effective than an entire socialistic society. France and Germany both have stagnant economies thanks to social programs, too much of anything is a bad thing...when it comes to Capitalism or Socialism. I admit being a Capitalist, but I do see the benefits of some social programs.
There are tons more reasons that people vote Republican other than religious pressures; mainly dealing with taxes, capitalism (as opposed to socialism), pacifism, and governmental powers. Usually (not always) Democrats are for more government restrictions (socialism) against citizens and corporations alike. This Republican regime has shown less of the latter and more of the former, which is sad. My feeling is this is simply a proposition, and a proposition and a passed bill are completely different. It's funny when people believe that Democrats will change the direction of the country. First, the President will veto anything the Democrats propose; second, the Democrats will have a very weak majority. America has always had its issues, and always will; I want to see a lot of the controls on citizens repealed, but that's not likely to happen under any party's control, at least for a while. Anyhow, the idea that religion is the only reason people vote Republican is a rather narrow idea.
I'm in the same boat when it comes to using the adblock extension for Firefox, it's really the only reason I had stayed with it for so long. However, upon installing Vista, I have completely migrated from Firefox to IE7. I began to grow tired of Firefox's bugs (dare I say it), and I have been a Firefox user...well, since it was known as Firebird , or Phoenix. I'm quite happy with IE7 and I don't plan on switching back anytime soon, despite Firefox 2.0. I still keep all browsers on hand, because I develope website designs, but IE7 has taken hold of my regular browsing.
I predicted this a long time ago, even before the YouTube purchase, it only makes sense. Google launches Video Ads a few quarters back, Google Video is moved to the home page of Google. Google purchases YouTube for a large sum of money, Google has to "figure out" how to make advertisements less intrusive. Well this is a no brainer; Google introduces an adsense for video of sorts, even if there are no video advertisements (videos tied to textual ads can work too). Now even if the advertisements are somewhat intrusive, video uploaders still have an incentive to continue to come upload videos; as well as make their videos more competitive (better) to improve revenue. Naturally, because all the "good" videos are on the Google networks (Google Video/YouTube) they receive more viewers. The same idea applies to television, most (you never know) viewers don't pick their favorite networks based off of advertisements, but rather content. Google is in a win-win situation, Google has a huge advertising network and as their quarterly results have shown us, it isn't slowing in growth. Google has a lot of influences on the media companies, so we won't see a lot of lawsuits. Why would you sue a company whose network you advertise on, or makes up a significant portion of you site traffic? Google also owns large stakes in Time Warner...Google as a company knows what it's doing...
It doesn't matter what the operating system is; if it's XP, Vista, OSX, Linux, the next Windows or even the next, it's Apple's responsibility to put checks in place to prevent such things from happening. This is just as much Apple's fault (more so in my opinion) as it is Microsoft's. What if the reverse had been true? What if the Zune shipped with OSX viruses, I bet the tune of Apple would be completely different.
*sigh* yet another /. circle jerk on how Windows is inferior to other operating systems. Reading slashdot when Linux, Microsoft or Apple come up is like watching Fox News during elections.
I personally think the Zune line has a promising outlook, I had long been a fan of the Apple i-pod, but I am looking for alternatives and the Zune has caught my eye. I wonder if the Zune will likely be hacked so that song sharing will be DRM and restriction free? I know that most college students at least around my area simply buy CDs and rip them, or use P2P services, making the i-pod to Zune transition a very easy one. If interfaced with the X-box 360 in future models, the Zune could fly off the shelves, especially if they allow X-box arcade games to be loaded onto certain models. The fact that it currently doesn't have this feature doesn't mean a simple software update can't change that. I actually plan to buy a Zune unless I find out that Apple has an answer besides a new color.
This completely ignores why the dot com bubble even happened. You are comparing a time in which revenues with no profits led to amazingly high P/E ratios to a time when Google is profitable (and is even in the S&P 500) and only trades at 61 times earnings (despite it's massive growth rate). When the bubble popped, there were companies with no profits with little revenue with 80 times earnings or more. It amazes me how many people speak of the market when they don't even know of it, or its occurrences. Along with the high P/E ratios we were headed for a recession in 2000, the current U.S. economy is merely slowing according to recent economic data; a recession is currently out of sight. Aside from the economics of the situation, Google is to me more of a business model than a search engine or advertising company. A small business could build their entire business around Google, much like many do with e-bay.
Why should Microsoft care about this occurrence, it doesn't at all shake Microsoft's market dominance, in fact it inforces it at best. Microsoft spends tons of money on IE yet don't make anything out of it. If I were Microsoft I would be celebrating that someone is taking the browser market out of my hands.