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by tanzam75 13y ago
The wings were dictated by DoD requirements, and the size of the Shuttle almost doubled. But the idea of putting it on the side of the fuel tank, where insulation could fall down and damage it -- that configuration predated the DoD-driven d
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In fact, missile technology diverged from launch vehicle technology quite early on. With missiles, you want a storable propellant so that you can launch-on-demand -- not launch-after-fueling. Thus, hypergolics and solid propellants. As war
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> What's more interesting is that he still has a wicked attention to detail, and you still see that he's the same person that gave the interview in the original post.) I remember seeing this memo back when it originally came
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by tanzam75 13y ago
.NET applications should not just churn at random. There needs to be real memory pressure (was there?). I wonder if something went wrong with the native image generation during setup? It may be trying to JIT it every time on startup. Tha
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by tanzam75 13y ago
I like it. I don't know if you can use this kind of test on fresh-out-of-college hires, because a lot of professors don't teach security, and there may be plenty of other bad habits to break anyway. But on any experienced hire --
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> First off: that's not what the statute says. And again you've failed to provide any documentation for your claims (as adventured has also failed to do). As I've already stated, it doesn't matter what the statute s
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> I've asked you to provide references. You haven't. Google. I even gave you the phrase to Google for: "unreasonable restraint of trade." In fact, add the term "every contract," and you'll find thous
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> To the extent that a law not prosecuted is a law that doesn't exist, you're correct, however I've provided the statutory citation which states that "every" contract, etc., in restraint of trade, "is decla
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by tanzam75 13y ago
That's an interesting anecdote. But that still isn't an antitrust violation. You need market power in order to restrain trade. Otherwise, you're just fantasizing about seizing control of a market without actually having the
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> In my example, the dilution happened in 2009 but affects GAAP profitability in 2013. Then Twitter should restate its non-GAAP results for 2009-2013 to subtract out the stock grants from previous quarters' results. The numbers h
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by tanzam75 13y ago
This wasn't even a market carve-up. It was a proposal for IBM to single-source from Intel and Microsoft. That's perfectly legal for a new product that's starting out with 0% market share. It was legal for Microsoft to singl
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by tanzam75 13y ago
But GAAP is handling it correctly. The dilution that stockholders will experience from stock-based compensation is very much real. And the earnings should reflect that. Non-GAAP numbers are almost always done to deceive investors. In the
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When a stock becomes hard-to-borrow, the options will become more expensive. The theta will be equal to the accumulated interest charge until expiration. Options can give you access to short-sales if your broker cannot locate shares to bor
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by tanzam75 13y ago
No, thanks, I prefer to drink water. Sounds like you bought too much Kool-Aid. You must be tired of drinking it. I recommend that you return it to the store. Office 365 (not 360) already generates over a billion dollars in annual revenue
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by tanzam75 13y ago
I agree that the default was wrong in Windows Vista. I disagree that an icon would've been OK -- as Joel Spolsky pointed out, he had no idea what the icon would do. That's why he opened the fly-out menu, and that's why a lo
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> They're doing some interesting things, but I know dozens of people that rarely if ever touch an MS operating system every day, unthinkable a decade ago, and they're missing out on nothing. I knew plenty of Mac users in 2004
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It's simply astonishing that the "Vista shut down menu" meme continues to come up after all this time, and that the wrong lessons continue to be drawn. Between Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft changed exactly one thing.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
No, it functions fine as a phone. You said you were looking for an MP3 player with FM radio, and couldn't find one. I just meant that you could've found what you needed by expanding your search to include phones.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Where are all the people? Looks like an estate agent showing us around. In the first scene, we see fog outside the windows. According to the Weather Underground, it was foggy in Seattle on February 1 and 2, with rain on the 1st. The
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> I agree that google doc products are inferior to MS Office. (I find that Libre Office is good enough for me.) It's a funny argument to bring up though. Ignoring the cheaper, inferior alternative is exactly what led to Microsoft&#
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Microsoft acquired Interix in 1999. That was a much more complete POSIX subsystem than the one that originally shipped with NT. Another lost opportunity. Microsoft could've captured the academic and web-developer market that eventual
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> I tried to buy one not long ago and was sad that they had been discontinued. I don't know if this is still the case today (or even relevant in the world of smartphones) but I could not for the life of me find an MP3 player with a
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Apple is much more cyclical than Google or Microsoft. They get a much larger boost from the holiday season. So you should look not only at Q1, or at Q4, but at all four quarters. AAPL earnings for quarters ending: 2012-12-29 $13.078
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by tanzam75 13y ago
ERP software is notorious for doing this. Many a growing company has found itself forced to change its business processes to align with the SAP way of doing things, instead of the other way around. At the top end of the scale, companies are
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Wow, hedging against patent trolls by backing them is some sick and twisted logic. But not unexpected for Mark Cuban. This is the man who owes his status as a billionaire to hedging. If he hadn't hedged out his Yahoo exposure a
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Well I don't see how it is a Win for MS when their ad revenue is ~3% that of Google. In a sense, aren't they paying more ? How do you figure? Microsoft earned $3.2 billion in the Online Services division in fiscal year 2013
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> Much of Apple's cash is stashed in Ireland, where the corporate income tax rate is 12.5%. If it were 5% in the US, no doubt that money would return quickly. Apple did not pay 12.5% tax on the cash that is now in Ireland. They u
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In addition, most of those other countries charge VAT. The whole point of VAT is to reduce tax evasion by charging tax at every step of the production chain. Thus, countries with VAT tend to have lower corporate tax rates, because they hav
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Circuit breakers have pretty dramatic attenuation. You go through at least two to get from your power sockets to your neighbor's. Yes, but not enough attenuation to block powerline communications. This is not a theoretical conce
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> This generation, the xbox one hardware is being sold for profit. IHS estimates the Xbox One's BOM + manufacturing cost = $471. Add in the retailer's margin plus the cost of the retail supply chain, and Microsoft is probabl

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