Also, you can phone up your bank, if their site's not working for you and scream:
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU DON'T SUPPORT GOOGLE?"
and they'll get with the Google.

Try that with StarForce..

Also: Include the kazillions earned via merchandising! Cars made tons!

Steve Jobs becoming majority share holder of Disney

No, no, no! He is the *largest* (single) shareholder! A stake of around 7% from what I last heard...a majority shareholder would have > 50%+1!

How can you fudge numbers up like that - this is slashdot dammit!

Sure, but AMD is an anagram of MAD!

And that's the problem. Companies with shareholders are required by law to compete as hard as they can.

That's actually not true.

A common economic theory is that what's best for a company is to aim to Maximise Shareholder Value, and that the best way to do that is to compete as hard as they can. But it's not law.

But even then, "as hard as they can" doesn't include anti-competative behaviour (or other unlawful things, like bombing AMD offices) because the EU will go and sit on you.

Only a 2 I'm affraid.

No, it's because it's a necessary simplification of an uncertain future. Mark-to-market ftw, as the kids say.

You, sir, win.

When you order two fingers of whiskey in a bar, do you tell the bartender "pour me a binary?"

no.

I am so sorry. Never knew e-waste was such a problem.

I'll never throw out a pdf again!