Recent content by RSaylors

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    Delete

    Actually the summary should have been: What % of your bank account is 50k?
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    Delete

    It is a function of the marginal utility of 50,000 to the individual making the bet. Actually coming up with 50k to pay you would be do-able, for me, but would mean giving up on my Ph.D. program. For others it would mean losing the kids collage fund, for others it would mean selling off the...
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    CNN = No Grasp of technology whatsoever

    Here's a fact: I can't do what I want on Linux. HAahaha you are joking, right? You don't get to ask the question "is windows better than Linux" and then say "but what you can run is off the table". The question is, given the abilities of Linux and the abilities of windows (which includes...
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    Market share matters when you have to take the market away from your class so that you can score the most points. Part of my job has been disinformation and information-procurement: this is so that I can protect my market share from the rest of the class by responding to their moves. And full...
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    Note to people planning events

    How could you be expected when you know no one?
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    This is among everyone across the world playing right now in their strategic management course. The other groups in my class have an 82 62 and 52.
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    Yep; Scoring is based on balancing things; many people have chosen to maximize one thing over another (like short term profit over long-term market share) but the game balances investor expectations on a number of criteria.
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    http://www.glo-bus.com/stats/top20.html?id=750 My company is Dominion, we are in first place, tied with others, on a video game we have to play for a grade in my cap-stone MBA course.
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    3 monitors: all wide?

    on yea! details! 1.) I have not got a single monitor on hand for this 2.) I have a budget of $500-$700 for a new video card and monitors 3.) My mobo supports pci express 16 2.1 I have been looking at three these: ASUS VW224U Black 22" 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ HDCP Support...
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    DVD Duplicators and DVD Printers

    Ok; so the question here is: 1.) why are we doing this? are you trying to glass-master some stuff you created or are you doing a burn-on-demand system? Glass mastering is something I would recommend you out-source:http://www.mediatechnics.com/pages/duplication.htm If it is a burn on demand...
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    Guess What This Is...

    Hum.. I guess even in the 50s there was a reason to think people might need more than 512kb of memory...
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    3 monitors: all wide?

    I was thinking of going with 3 monitors; all of them flat-panel. The first option is all wide-screen, one land scape the other two smaller but set to portrait. The other option is to get a wide-screen for the center display and two 3:4's for the two off-set screens. My general work flow...
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    Best credit card to get for a student?

    To be clear we are both right. Although they can report your maximum actual credit, when you are starting off they tend to report only what you have utilized previously because that is all the must report; this helps lock you in. But with 30k available you likely would not be hurt too much by...
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    Best credit card to get for a student?

    to watch out for: annual fee, 'minimum' interest charges and 'grace' periods that are shorter than the month is long. to build credit: credit is based off of the kinds of debt you have and your debt to maximum credit utilization ratio. Maximum credt untilization, though, means how much you...