> It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc. Of course it's MBA-speak. MBA-speak does not mean that they invented the word, or that only MBAs use…
> Edit: Nadella said re: how MS looks at acquisitions (http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11920306/microsoft-ceo-sat...) "Is this asset riding secular usage and technology trends?" - anyone know what that means? In…
Before 2013, Visa and Mastercard forbade credit card surcharges. However, cash discounts were allowed. The problem was the Most Favored Nation clause in the credit card contracts. Merchants could offer cash discounts,…
> Windows 7 was the VM, not the host. Oh. Then I agree with you that Microsoft screwed up the licensing -- but it's a different screw-up. Windows 7 Ultimate is just like Windows 7 Enterprise, except for the…
> I spent HOURS on the phone trying to acquire a license for Windows 7 Enterprise, I needed it for Hyper-V. I'm not sure why you're trying to do that. Windows 7 cannot run Hyper-V. You can install the Hyper-V Manager on…
> It's a shame that Google Maps is inferior to my iGo tablet running Windows Mobile from 10 years ago. And it didn't need to have continuous wireless data access. ... How was iGo capable to deliver superior maps so many…
> Even if you don't allow them to be sold off, nothing is stopping someone from entering an agreement where they have to pay the same amount monthly to a person X in exchange for a lump sum received now. So they still…
> Structured settlement cases became more popular in the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. The increased popularity was due to several rulings by the IRS, an increase in personal…
I don't see why structured settlements should be allowed to be sold off at all. The whole point of choosing a structured settlement is to prevent the person from spending a one-time windfall. So why allow that…
> It would take only one nuclear device being "detonated" in low orbit, to wipe out nearly all of the satellites in a large area of that space. The resulting EMP may wreck quite a few ground-based systems too, IIRC from…
> I wonder how robust the GPS system is. Could an unexpected space phenomenon bring it down? What would happen if a rogue nation started shooting down the satellites? GPS is not the only system. We currently have about…
> His business means rockets are going to go from $400 million to $150 million. That's nice and all, but it's not an extraordinary revolution. Rockets didn't cost $400 million before SpaceX. You could already get a…
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi by land area. Michigan is larger if you include part of the Great Lakes.
Japan had been allied to Germany. The Wehrmacht had been one of the most effective fighting forces the world has ever known. The Imperial Japanese Army had been formed on the Prussian model back in the 19th century. The…
> I think that the real problem is that most people will not pay for 5 different streaming services. Remember, the median family income in the US is only about 50k, which I'm guessing is less than most people here make…
I can believe that their technology works. I've been hearing about this sort of stuff for ten years before I first heard of Theranos. Search for "lab on a chip." There are grad students working on this sort of stuff at…
Since NT 6.0 (Vista), graphics drivers run primarily in user mode. There is still a kernel mode component, the miniport driver, but it is kept small to reduce the likelihood of crashes. There are some other drivers that…
Well, corporations are launching new products all the time. Each new product can be thought of as a VC investment in a new startup. However, the VC investors have to share the winnings with the founders, while the large…
You don't even need an annual fee. Even a one-time fee is sufficient deterrent to blanket extension of copyright. The old 56-year copyright term used to be split into two 28-year periods. You basically paid a one-time…
> A), ambitious and unrealistic are not mutually exclusive. It was ambitious and unrealistic to attempt a moon landing in under a decade. That's absolutely not true. It was ambitious and totally realistic to attempt a…
> Why? If you apply game theory, one of the three will try to defect and undercut the other two. Because they're playing a repeating game. AbbVie and Merck are big pharma companies. They don't particularly want to get…
> The thing is, that's not happening at all. Nearly all US insurers are covering the new therapies. There are a couple that are holding out and only doing individual approvals. So what are all the news articles about? A…
Why not take a page from the financial industry? Solvadi could be paid for with monthly payments, say, 90% of the average price of conventional Hepatitis C treatment. Once the total payments add up to the price of…
The British National Health Service can make that trade-off. Because the NHS covers the entire population, it knows that it will recoup the high up-front cost by avoiding other treatment later in the patient's life. An…
There was a polio outbreak in China in 2011 that was traced back to Pakistan. Prior to that outbreak, the last case of polio in China had been in 1999. The outbreak was contained after 21 confirmed infections plus…
> It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc. Of course it's MBA-speak. MBA-speak does not mean that they invented the word, or that only MBAs use…
> Edit: Nadella said re: how MS looks at acquisitions (http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11920306/microsoft-ceo-sat...) "Is this asset riding secular usage and technology trends?" - anyone know what that means? In…
Before 2013, Visa and Mastercard forbade credit card surcharges. However, cash discounts were allowed. The problem was the Most Favored Nation clause in the credit card contracts. Merchants could offer cash discounts,…
> Windows 7 was the VM, not the host. Oh. Then I agree with you that Microsoft screwed up the licensing -- but it's a different screw-up. Windows 7 Ultimate is just like Windows 7 Enterprise, except for the…
> I spent HOURS on the phone trying to acquire a license for Windows 7 Enterprise, I needed it for Hyper-V. I'm not sure why you're trying to do that. Windows 7 cannot run Hyper-V. You can install the Hyper-V Manager on…
> It's a shame that Google Maps is inferior to my iGo tablet running Windows Mobile from 10 years ago. And it didn't need to have continuous wireless data access. ... How was iGo capable to deliver superior maps so many…
> Even if you don't allow them to be sold off, nothing is stopping someone from entering an agreement where they have to pay the same amount monthly to a person X in exchange for a lump sum received now. So they still…
> Structured settlement cases became more popular in the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. The increased popularity was due to several rulings by the IRS, an increase in personal…
I don't see why structured settlements should be allowed to be sold off at all. The whole point of choosing a structured settlement is to prevent the person from spending a one-time windfall. So why allow that…
> It would take only one nuclear device being "detonated" in low orbit, to wipe out nearly all of the satellites in a large area of that space. The resulting EMP may wreck quite a few ground-based systems too, IIRC from…
> I wonder how robust the GPS system is. Could an unexpected space phenomenon bring it down? What would happen if a rogue nation started shooting down the satellites? GPS is not the only system. We currently have about…
> His business means rockets are going to go from $400 million to $150 million. That's nice and all, but it's not an extraordinary revolution. Rockets didn't cost $400 million before SpaceX. You could already get a…
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi by land area. Michigan is larger if you include part of the Great Lakes.
Japan had been allied to Germany. The Wehrmacht had been one of the most effective fighting forces the world has ever known. The Imperial Japanese Army had been formed on the Prussian model back in the 19th century. The…
> I think that the real problem is that most people will not pay for 5 different streaming services. Remember, the median family income in the US is only about 50k, which I'm guessing is less than most people here make…
I can believe that their technology works. I've been hearing about this sort of stuff for ten years before I first heard of Theranos. Search for "lab on a chip." There are grad students working on this sort of stuff at…
Since NT 6.0 (Vista), graphics drivers run primarily in user mode. There is still a kernel mode component, the miniport driver, but it is kept small to reduce the likelihood of crashes. There are some other drivers that…
Well, corporations are launching new products all the time. Each new product can be thought of as a VC investment in a new startup. However, the VC investors have to share the winnings with the founders, while the large…
You don't even need an annual fee. Even a one-time fee is sufficient deterrent to blanket extension of copyright. The old 56-year copyright term used to be split into two 28-year periods. You basically paid a one-time…
> A), ambitious and unrealistic are not mutually exclusive. It was ambitious and unrealistic to attempt a moon landing in under a decade. That's absolutely not true. It was ambitious and totally realistic to attempt a…
> Why? If you apply game theory, one of the three will try to defect and undercut the other two. Because they're playing a repeating game. AbbVie and Merck are big pharma companies. They don't particularly want to get…
> The thing is, that's not happening at all. Nearly all US insurers are covering the new therapies. There are a couple that are holding out and only doing individual approvals. So what are all the news articles about? A…
Why not take a page from the financial industry? Solvadi could be paid for with monthly payments, say, 90% of the average price of conventional Hepatitis C treatment. Once the total payments add up to the price of…
The British National Health Service can make that trade-off. Because the NHS covers the entire population, it knows that it will recoup the high up-front cost by avoiding other treatment later in the patient's life. An…
There was a polio outbreak in China in 2011 that was traced back to Pakistan. Prior to that outbreak, the last case of polio in China had been in 1999. The outbreak was contained after 21 confirmed infections plus…