Standard & Poor's (S&P) announcement provides a timely opportunity for effected companies to conduct an objective, third-party review of their ERM programs prior to the official S&P risk management reviews. Senior management of S&P-rated companies needs to demonstrate an ability to incorporate risk information as a part of the strategic...
How bad is 2008 vs. S&P's 183-year history? Here's a graphWow, this sucksWhat more can you say?RE: How bad is 2008 vs. S&P's 183-year history? Here's a graphI posted this on a Y! message board and I'll post it here as well:I think the only "hope" is that if history...
Here's a fantastic graph taken from, of all places, DailyKos, to illustrate the information found in the study "A New Historical Database For The NYSE 1815 To 1925: Performance And Predictability" by Yale's William N. Goetzmann and Roger G. Ibbotson and UC Boulder's Liang Peng. ...
The rating agency said the potential effect of ERM on ratings will vary by industry and by the nature of the business. "While all types of firms may experience extraordinary volatility by making poor risk management decisions," S&P said, "Their ratings process will take into account sector-specific risk management." The...
congratzunlike you, im not a mac fan. even so, i recognize how important jobs is to the tech industry. without apple's OS (and linux, bsd, blah blah blah), windows wouldnt be any more different tha, oh say, windows 98 since there would be no reason for microsoft to add better...
RE: Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samplesyawnWho can I trust *now*....Even Ed Bott said '7' was more secure!The Windows Infect Season is not over yet.. Nothing's changed.... That people even USE Windows these days is quite remarkable.... It must be the power of habit...
What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...
RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...
Valid points, though.You mention good schools and employees, but there are GREAT schools in the north east. There are a lot of companies and a large population from which to pull employees, too. When you compare the weather in San Francisco to the weather in the north east, the choice...
The MicroSD card is not only expandableIt is hot-swappable. So basically your storage is only limited to how many cards you can afford.Competition is GREAT!I am glad Android is taking off, the future is Linux driven devices/appliances.To the naysayers that Linux distro devices/appliances are a 'niche' I guess Google is...
Power of the Linux distro model!Yes, the claimed 'niche' Operating System as theMS fans scream does not appear to be a 'niche'anymore...;)Sorry butMS fans by their nature will consider anything that is not a PC to be a niche product.The whole point of Android is it can be done either...
Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...
RHEL is the standard of Linux distro'sRHEL is the defacto standard for the Enterprise and small business.Secure, Reliable and Robust the ultimate server OS.And this transcends to virtualization how?MS IS the defacto standard. Yet Hyper-V has a long long way to go.
I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...
New Type of TheftI can just see the headlines.Hard drive stolen, just drove away.But realistically mobile servers will be helpful but this will affect an industry that builds these data centers.Again MS is trying to create unemployment.Nothing wrong with automating jobsEspecially jobs that can be automated easily.However, I doubt this...
MSN, why bother?I remember what a turd-fest the original MSN was. When I got my DSL from Qwest a few years back, MSN was the service provider. So my last peek at MSN was in June 2007 and I never went back there -- it was still a crap-fest. How...
Way to keep your spirits high there, Mr. Negativity!RE: MSN's new home page; Nice, but it won't lure new usersExcite has the most customizable home page off all. The new MSN doessn't offer anything and Yahoo is only slightly better. JerryB
So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...
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