sootzoo

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by sootzoo 14y ago
Yes, pretty much. The company is going private, and though the board and shareholders have to approve the sale, they can do so without your explicit approval, of course, just a majority (hence the bump in valuation of 25%). So those shares
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by sootzoo 14y ago
More specifically, Microsoft is loaning $2 billion to the consortium of interests buying Dell, as is Michael Dell (~$3.5B) and Silver Lake (~$1B).
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by sootzoo 14y ago
Silver Lake is buying for $13.65 a share: > Under the terms of the deal, the buyers' consortium, which also includes Microsoft, will pay $13.65 a share in cash. So the stock probably won't sell above that number, but won't be far off fr
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by sootzoo 14y ago
He's a great writer especially on aviation. For example, his writeup of the mid-air collision of an Embraer regional jet and a 737 over Brazil ( http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/air_crash200901 ) was nothing short of fantastic. It
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Ask the pilot: Can someone with no flight training safely land an airliner?(salon.com)
4 points by sootzoo 14y ago|0 comments
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by sootzoo 14y ago
Spin awareness is definitely weird at first, and I wholeheartedly agree that it's less scary after a bit of experience. Question: did you cover spin recovery? I was under the impression this was basically never done until CFI or CFII.
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by sootzoo 14y ago
I assume you mean: in a simulator, in a light aircraft (e.g. a small Cessna or Piper or something similar). In a heavy aircarft, e.g. passenger airliner? Has this even happened?
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by sootzoo 14y ago
Previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618316
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by sootzoo 14y ago
These days, wouldn't this be more the domain of the "copyright czar" ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/intellectualproperty ), Victoria Espinel?
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Mark Penn, Microsoft’s New Strategist, Hopes to Boost Bing(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by sootzoo 14y ago|0 comments
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by sootzoo 14y ago
Not to go off-topic, but there are absolutely programs (and some may even be CS programs) which require "3 major papers" in lieu of a doctoral dissertation for award of the PhD. This surely has its disadvantages, but I have known colleagues
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The Relevance of Algorithms(culturedigitally.org)
1 points by sootzoo 14y ago|0 comments
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Teaching to the World From Central New Jersey(chronicle.com)
70 points by sootzoo 14y ago|8 comments
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by sootzoo 14y ago
He's not running with GC permanently disabled, he's only disabled the automatic GC because of the huge overhead required (claiming 1-second pauses every few seconds). He also mentions it's trivial to enable manual GC and run that via setInt
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by sootzoo 14y ago
Indeed, iGoogle is on its way out, another "more wood/fewer arrows" casualty: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/07/igoogle-will-be-dis...
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by sootzoo 14y ago
There are some frustrating limitations. In my region (Philadelphia), they will literally have one street with full service and on the next block, they'll only sell you DSL. They announced not long ago they were "scaling back" their buildout
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by sootzoo 15y ago
Not endemic to PHP, of course, as it seems MSFT took the same approach with a recent ASP.NET security update. The workaround described in their KB ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661403 ) is to add a similar configuration override and th
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by sootzoo 15y ago
which hasn't stopped anyone from using it in their own apps anyway (e.g. Facebook)
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by sootzoo 15y ago
Switch to Profile view, click Edit Profile, and click the (probably shaded/barely visible) "Send an email" button underneath your profile picture. There are a number of privacy options here, although, notably, "anybody on the web" still mea
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by sootzoo 15y ago
How often does one refer to somebody by URL? You may have noticed (I have, anyway) that FB now "helpfully" defaults to an @-mention if you start typing a person's name, essentially offering it as an auto-complete option. As long as G+ doesn
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by sootzoo 15y ago
The "send email" button, which is disabled/confusing to enable on most profiles, probably fits the "direct message" bill. Having a G+ profile implies you have (if not necessarily use) GMail, after all, and G+ does claim that your actual e-m
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by sootzoo 15y ago
Adding to this, if I comment on FB about any other member and use the @-mention feature, but they're not authorized to see the original post, they won't be able to read what I wrote or what anybody else did either. Compare that to G+, where
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by sootzoo 15y ago
well, us mere mortals will have to stick to international treasury ETFs like BWX or fear plays like good old GLD/VIX. even if you could directly invest in greek bonds, you probably would not want to do this...