Comment Going Public (Score 1) 51
Isn't the aim of going public to get investors? Is there anyone on the planet who is going to invest in the failure that is Nook?
Isn't the aim of going public to get investors? Is there anyone on the planet who is going to invest in the failure that is Nook?
Several reviews of Ford and Cadillac models I've read, particularly models with older versions of SYNC/QUE, have been overwhelmingly positive with the exception of the infotainment system.
Every review of BMW models is overwhelmingly positive.... except for the *bleep* infotainment system.
All car owners want entertainment along the journey. Some get their entertainment from music, maps, and the like. The others get their entertainment by hitting the cloverleaf at 90 MPH. Intel can help the first group; Intel can do nothing but frustrate the second group.
They have cell phone shops too. She should buy herself a cell phone in Scotland.
On her first day in a strange country, she's supposed to negotiate a complicated, expensive purchase in a foreign language?
makes your floor sticky from years of dumped soda.
At least, you hope that's soda.....
Samsung and LG claim that the curve provides a cinema-like experience
Then why are the screens in a real-life cinema flat?
The answer, of course is that the camera (either film or digital) uses a flat sensor. Taking a picture with a flat sensor, and then displaying it on a curved screen, is just distorting the image. So the consumer thinks they're cool - but in reality they are watching an inferior picture.
I have seen bathrooms like that in Japan
In Japan you wash yourself - soap down and rinse - *outside* the tub. You only get into the tub after you're clean. So yes, the entire room *is* a shower stall.
That's why the toilet is in a completely different room from the tub.
OpenSSL has basically wrote their own version of libc
The language you use and the libraries you use are different concepts.
C - especially in the (most excellent) Whitesmiths compilers done by completely separated the compiler itself from the libraries; the ones they supplied were completely and totally different from what is now called libc, but everything worked.
This model has been (sadly) broken by things like c99 and c++.
What is this "C dialect" of which you speak? Last I checked, they are using standard compilers for the various platforms.
Writing cross-platform code is tricky, and you need to avoid using some things that appear fine, but work differently on different platforms. That will make your code look a tad peculiar to the regular single-platform programmer; but I'd hardly call it a "dialect".
The lease on my summer car is at 0.003% (yes, really). So the numbers are fairly close to reality.
Also, there is a tax advantage to leasing. You pay tax on each month's payment; for a purchase you pay tax on the entire value of the car. So, if you turn in the car at the end of the lease, you've saved paying sales tax on $25K.
Yes, you *can* do that here in the USA. I've done precisely that with the last 5 phones I've bought.
I don't do car leases because at the end of the lease, I don't get to keep the car.
At the end of a car lease, you can keep the car - if you want to. You just purchase it for it's agreed upon value. It's pretty much a win/win situation. You have a much lower payment over the length of the lease; and then you can buy and keep the car if you like it, or return it if you don't.
In essence - say you are interested in a $50K car. For a purchase, you make payments on a $50K loan. For a lease, you make payments on a $25K loan, and at then end you either buy the car for $25K, or return it.
Didn't people ask the same thing when Apple, a computer company, started selling portable music players? And then again when they started selling phones?
We hear you have a station in space, with air pressure, but zero gravity. Do you have a few minutes to settle an argument?
Encryption is explicitly excluded in the regs.
Unless your name is Icom. Then it's okay.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
