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by tanzam75 13y ago
> And Netflix's DVD side of the business (the one Reed Hastings wants to kill somehow) is turning in 50% margins. DVD rental is a high-margin but stagnating market, while streaming is a low-margin but growing market. The stock mar
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It includes all the revenues, including sales, membership fees, and interest income. Minus all the expenses, including cost of goods, sales and marketing, corporate overhead, debt service, and taxes. Net income is literally the "botto
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> Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales? That $1.7 billion is net income, which is a
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The opposite model as Xbox and Playstation. The console is the up-front purchase, which equates to Costco's membership fee. But Xbox and Playstation lose money up-front. Instead, Costco operates on the Wii or the iPhone model, where y
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The guy's lost touch with reality. > Internet Explorer dropped from a high of more than 85 percent to roughly 12 percent today (53 percent use Google’s Chrome and 29 percent use Mozilla’s Firefox). > creating a new version of
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What you describe sounds a lot like the labor-day (trudoden) accounting system for collective farms in the Soviet Union. They actually did pay wages to the workers according to the number of labor-days worked. (Note: It wasn't litera
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No, SP2 was the big security patch for XP. Most notably, the firewall was on by default. This blocked a whole class of remote-control attacks, because you weren't exposing every single service just by connecting a network cable. SP3
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> Windows laptops are packed full of hardware and software crap that nobody really wants. Fingerprint readers are unsafe toys. 17 inch monitors make it impossible to use comfortably on your lap. Doesn't matter how many cells are in
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> I remember a friend who owned a MS phone (winphone?) around the time that iphone began. ... It kept crashing, freezing, and locking up on him and he returned it 3 times already. The problems with your friend's phone were probabl
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And then Microsoft makes money by selling 50-100 Remote Desktop CALs to replace those 50-100 physical desktops. The price per CAL is about 90% of the price per license of Windows. But add in the base price of the Windows Server license, a
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> Since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a huge percentage of its wealth still in MSFT stock, I think Bill Gates can make a case to himself that picking the best possible leader for MSFT will save hundreds of thousands of margi
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> A CEO gets to take credit for anything good that happens during his tenure? Yeah, but a CEO also gets blamed for everything bad that happens during his tenure.
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> Kinect was invented by an Israeli company before being bought out by Microsoft. No. The sensor was developed by PrimeSense. However, the key part of Kinect is the software, which was based on machine learning work done at Microsoft
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As I said, it depends on the particular circumstances. For example, suppose it captures a neutron. Copper has two natural isotopes, copper-63 and copper-65. Copper-64 has a half-life of hours, and decays into Nickel-64 or Zinc-64, both of
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Irradiated just means that it has been exposed to radiation. Doesn't necessarily mean the copper is itself particularly radioactive. Depends on the specific circumstances.
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> In a similar vein, here is a video from the US Navy in the 1950s which describes how mechanical computers work (for calculating trajectories of missiles being shot from ships.) Guns, not missiles. At 0:50, the narrator refers to &qu
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McDonalds claims that the Big Mac cost 49 cents at introduction. [1] Also, imports have helped to keep inflation low. The Big Mac cannot be imported. Thus, you would expect it to show a higher rate of increase than overall prices. Source:
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> The CPI is dastardly manipulated figures. (hedonic adjustments, substitutions) That's not manipulation. That's just trying to calculate an accurate number. If you do no substitutions, then you will end up being a Collectib
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> 4.31% per year is likely what the US government reports. They traditionally under report inflation (although to a greater degree over the past 20 years). Quite the opposite, in fact. The US government has traditionally overreported
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You actually do have to show a monopoly. A monopoly is prohibited from doing certain things that would be perfectly legitimate if a smaller competitor did it. Example 1: The EU required Microsoft to offer a version of Windows with a browse
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The lead that Youtube has over Dailymotion is enormous. It's higher than the ratio of PCs to Macs at the time of the Microsoft antitrust case. (Which is why the DOJ defined the market as the one for x86 PC operating systems. That exc
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> and the DR-DOS Windows thing (where Windows would run on DR-DOS if it pretended to be MS DOS, but not otherwise). Only in a beta, not in a released version: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive&#x2F
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Nokia is getting $250 million each quarter from Microsoft, minus the price of the OS licenses, minus the foregone revenue from supplying Nokia Maps for free to non-Nokia Windows Phones. With 7.4 million Lumias sold last quarter, at $25 per
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> ... that doesn't seem to have held Google back. To the contrary. Google's map data in Belarus also comes from volunteers. For all we know, most of the volunteers who supplied the data for Google Maps and OpenStreetMap may
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Thanks, that was an extremely interesting read. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason behind the Yahoo acquisitions. For example, why Xobni? The two founders have already left Xobni. So if it was an acquihire, then who was Yahoo trying
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> Speaking of efficiency, what does a Greyhound Bus or Amtrak train get as far as passenger miles/gallon? The DOE has calculated normalized energy usage among the various modes to BTUs per passenger-mile. Data for 2011: http:&#x2
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British Airways' profit on the Concorde was an accounting trick. They took a 100% writeoff of all Concorde capital investments in 1979, and another 100% writeoff in 1983. Write-offs are not charged against operating expenses, but sho
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Similar. You intentionally underexpose the film when you shoot, pretending that it has a higher ASA rating than it actually does. You then increase the time and/or the temperature when developing the film, to compensate for the underex
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It is quite common to push-process Kodak Vision 500T one stop to ASA 1000. Of course, Stanley Kubrick shot Barry Lyndon before the widespread availability of T-grained film. Thus, the high-speed film available in 1975 would've been mu
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Kubrick was shooting on Kodak 5254, pushed one stop to ASA 200. Today, you could shoot the same scene at ASA 800 with an f/1.4 lens, which is readily available.

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