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I have a touch device on my laptop -- it is called a wireless mouse.
I wonder what RR and the BOD are really considering.
I was wondering the same thing about the Duke. Maybe he lost his URL and can't find his way back
It is hard to see how HP can fashion a tort claim with Oracle. Failing to provide software support for someones product is not a tort. A better path to achieve significant damages would be for HP to try to find an antitrust claim with treble damages against. Oracle but is hard to construct an antitrust theory that will hold water.
The best legal strategy is to file a contract claim to force Oracle to continue delivering Itanium database software. The relief that HP needs is the ability to continue selling Itanium systems. And for that, HP needs an enterprise strength database like Oracle.
Punitive damages are not available in a contract case like the one between HP and Oracle. Punitive damages are available in a personal injury or some other tort case under the theory that punishing the wrongdoer for misconduct will result in better conduct.
Will WoW and Star Wars play satisfactorily using a PC with a Sandy Bridge i5 2320 and integrated graphics? I just purchased such a PC and will set it up later today. But I am not a gamer, unless you count playing Words with Friends on my Android smart phone
Note that the yield to maturity for Intel after you buy the 30 year bonds at market price is -- cough,cough -- 1.54%. I guess the market thinks pretty highly of Intel, better even than the US Treasury. And probably more highly still than a SE Arizona rancher overrun by border crossing immigrants and rattle snakes
The double taxation of dividends theory is total Bullshit. The theory is just an attempt by the idle to avoid paying a fair share of the bill for living in a civilized society.
Corporations receive government benefits and in return should pay income taxes on earnings and other appropriate taxes. Individuals receive government services and should pay taxes on income -- earned income, dividends, capital gains and income from any source should be treated virtually equally -- and other appropriate taxes.
Of course, the devil is in the details.
Here is a portion of Intel's application to register the ULTRABOOK Trademark. If you run the Basic Word Mark Search on the word Ultrabook you will also capture some abandoned applications. I hope this link works and does not time out
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=4002:1ibsjb.1.1
Word Mark ULTRABOOK
Goods and Services: IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computers; tablet, netbook, notebook and laptop computers; portable computers; handheld computers; wireless communication devices for voice, data or image transmission over the Internet; computer hardware; data processors; programmable data processors; semiconductors; microprocessors; semiconductor devices; integrated circuits; computer chipsets; computer software, namely, computer operating systems, computer utility software, and other computer software used to maintain and operate a computer system
Some legal nit pickery: You can not get a copyright protection for a name. You can however protect a name as a trademark and Intel is attempting to do just that.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:g7bu3p.2.1
what is a "Defense of Latches"?
Short answer version: You sat on your legal rights too long and lost 'em.
There is a workaround if you want to bypass installing updates on a shutdown. Run Windows Update and then uncheck all the updates. You can then shutdown without installing any updates.
The available evidence says that the Bulldozer launch will make the Barcelona launch look like a shining success.
HP's CEO carousel continues: Whitman officially in, Apotheker out
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hps-ceo-carousel-continues-whitman-officially-in-apotheker-out/58793?tag=nl.e589
Some people think that the only legacy app a person needs is Angry Birds. I guess that works for "some" and fpg.
Do component shops like Fry's and New Egg have a remainder bin for crap processors ??
This sounds like an April Fools joke.
When currency is deposited in a bank, there will be an electronic entry in a back account and the currency is physically placed in a vault. The Fed on the other hand, generates an electronic entry on its books and then transfers the electronic entry to a bond holder, increasing the money supply. It then books the bond as an asset. When the Fed sells the bond the electronic money used to buy the asset just disappears and the money supply decreases.
Old bills are returned to the US treasury in exchange for new bills that were printed as part of its normal operations. The old bills are burned by the Treasury and there is no effect on the money supply, only an exchange of paper.
There are many definitions of money supply and physical currency is only one aspect of the money supply as far as the US economy is concerned. using the concept that printed currency and other components of the money supply are the same is useless for economic analysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#United_States
A significant difference for the electronic money created by the Fed is that the electronic money disappears when the Fed sells the bonds that it purchased from the US Treasury or banks. This allows the Fed to increase or decrease the money supply per its statutory charter. Currency issued by the US Treasury does not disappear as it moves about in the economy.
Physical currency plays a much smaller part in today's economy. On a global scale huge amounts of money are whizzing around in electronic transfers. Turning to the subject of this board, virtually all of Intel's revenue arrives as an electronic transfer to one of its bank accounts and virtually all of its payments are made electronically.
The financial activity of individuals has also changed to a largely electronic basis. Auto deposit puts your paycheck in your bank account and you have electronic Bill Pay, ATM/Debit cards, credit cards and even old fashioned checks passed around to distribute the funds electronically. I hope that you do not require a link to establish that statement :)
Oops, I attempted to provide a link but my clip board had the wrong link. Here is the correct link:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/07/who-owns-treasury-debt/
You state that I did not present any sources of information for my conclusion that the Fed does not print money and go on to conclude that your informed opinion is better than my opinion that "presents nothing". I reviewed your original post and strangely it seems that you do not cite any sources for your opinion that the Fed prints money.
Stranger still is that I did indeed present "something" that explains how the Fed regulates the money supply. The link to Quantitative Easing at Wikipedia explains how Quantitative easing works and includes a discussion of how the Fed regulates the money supply using this tool.
By the way, the outfit that does print money is the US Treasury. It has the printing presses, the paper, the ink and the printing plates.
Epistemic closure is common in the political discussions that you continually instruct us to avoid. But I think that we should aim for a higher standard on this board.
In the past you stated in a discussion that included your Fed printing money theory that the Fed held the majority of the federal debt. At the time I pointed out that you were clearly wrong on the share of federal debt held by the Fed but did not have to time to find and site a source. Well, I have since found the time and the correct answer is that the Fed holds about 14% of the federal debt, just a tad short of a "majority".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
Perhaps the numerous financial experts that you use to obtain your information on the Fed are ill informed.
You are correct. Elmer is not correct about his "printing money" explanation and is just distributing some of his ideological talking points. Of course one dare not identify the source of the misguided theories because that would be partisan and forbidden.
Here are some facts: The Federal Reserve can not print money. The Federal Reserve can expand the money supply by buying bonds as you point out and that is called Quantitative easing.
Here is a good explanation of Quantitative Easing and how it can be used in theory to expand the economy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
Dunno if you heard but AMD had a cash flow loss of $168 million, 32% of net income, at the end of Q1.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=AMD
How long is that going to last with $602 million cash?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AMD
Your claim was "the Fed holds the majority of the Treasuries". I repeat you are absolutely mistaken.
If you are correct show some evidence. I don' have time at the moment to disprove your mistaken statement. Maybe later.
Partisan politics is perfectly OK as long as it is your brand of partisan politics. Right? And you started the thread.
Start with this partisan question: given that the amount of funds is on August 2 immediately less than the amount of money needed to pay the government, which bills will you NOT pay?
You are absolutely mistaken. Try finding any kind of support for this statement. You know the kind of thing that you always ask for, a link.
The debt ceiling has nothing to do with increasing the "increasing your credit limit". It has everything to do with paying commitments for current bills and obligations that were all approved by the US Congress.
Any suggestion otherwise is just buying into the ultra-right wing insanity. Even the old guard conservatives think that the ultra-right is barking at the moon crazy.
Other than the fact that you are totally wrong and spouting the Republican talking points, what happened to your no politics rule on moderation?
Or is that no politics except my brand of politics?
Sounds like ARM and the Tablet Invasion is eating Intel alive, NOT.
Also too, Fusion
More on the AMD story.
AMD will probably state at the earnings cconference that the board is pleased with the progress of the CEO search and get ready for this, just like BullDozer, the CEO search is "on schedule according to plan".
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/20/BUGK1KCE11.DTL
AMD profit rising, but still no new CEO
Sounds like they paid 24 bucks a share and sold for around 100.
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The Oracle disclosures are arguably in the nature of conclusions and it is not likely that an NDA was violated. As a practical matter Intel would not take legal action in any event.
I think that there are probably a few grains of truth that Intel is lowering its emphasis on Itanium products and Intel may well let Itanium fade away somwhere done the road. The Itanium business plan has fallen way short of its original goals.
It is not at all clear to me why it makes any sense for Intel to continue the development of Itanium processors when HP is basically its only customer.
The fact that Oracle stock rose after the purchase of Sun does not, without more, show that the increase was due to the Sun purchase. See logical fallacy: post hoc ergo proctor hoc.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/posthocf.html
The answer in my view is that Sun was not worth the price paid by Oracle.
But most acquisitions in the high tech field are not worth the price. See for example the acquisition of McAfee by Intel. Or for that matter was there any value at all in the entire $10 billion batch of acquisitions by Intel during the Craig Barrett era?
It has always seemed to me that most all of the tech acquisitions ego based displays of manhood by executives sitting on piles of cash.
Windsock
Retired Curmudgeon
And how did Hector the Wrecker with his Motorola pedigree work out at AMD?
I think that you are correct. But Clafin's track record of failure as CEO at 3Com and then head of the IBM PC Division is not very encouraging.
I have not found anything on the Korean FTC appeal either but these things can take years to get a decision.
AMD can't find a captain for the sinking ship.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/amd-ceo-candidates-spurn-overtures-to-lead-comeback-at-chipmaker.html
AMD CEO Candidates Spurn Overtures
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has approached at least three candidates to succeed ousted Chief Executive Officer Dirk Meyer and been rebuffed, slowing the chipmakerās effort at a turnaround.
Oracle Corp. (ORCL) Co-President Mark Hurd, EMC Corp. Chief Operating Officer Pat Gelsinger and Carlyle Group Managing Director Greg Summe spurned approaches by Sunnyvale, California- based AMD, according to people familiar with the search, who asked not to be named because the talks are private.
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At what point do they simply become a virtual entity?