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• • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

    by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

    Automate spam using fancy tools

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by JaredOfEuropa ( 526365 ) writes:

      Automate spam using fancy tools

      Good 5 word summary of what passes for “tech industry” these days.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by penandpaper ( 2463226 ) writes:

        Needs more buzz words to really hit the mark.

        Ai cloud analytic marketing solutions.

        I have no idea what it does but it is needed for a more streamlined business. The salesperson from salesforce said as much and they were very convincing so it must be true!
  • CRM (Score:3)

    by JBMcB ( 73720 ) writes:

    They make CRM software.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… [wikipedia.org]

    If you are a medium or large company that sells to other companies, CRM is very useful.
  • Re: (Score:3)

    by nightflameauto ( 6607976 ) writes:

    They’re real good at convincing sales people that they’re valuable additions to your software repository. One of our sales folks left for a bit, then came back to the company with a sweeping plan to get Salesforce installed to “clean up our processes.” We’ve had it for years and the only thing I’ve ever seen it do is gather walk-in information for those that are dumb enough to hand over personal details just for daring to enter one of our stores. Then it uses that information to relentlessly hound the ca
• The Dow is dumb (Score:5, Interesting)

  by Anubis IV ( 1279820 ) writes: on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:48PM (#60440213)

  If you’re wondering why a company engaging in a 4-for-1 stock split affects an index, it’s because the DJIA is weighted by stock price, not by market cap or any other sort of weighting that would actually make sense. I.e. If I’m included in the DJIA and my company’s one and only available stock is worth $1 million, my company carries more weight in the index than a company with 1 million stocks each worth $100, which is lunacy.

  Someone doing a 4-for-1 split is like swapping dollar bills for quarters. It’s the same value. But the Dow doesn’t see it that way.

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by NotEmmanuelGoldstein ( 6423622 ) writes:

    … which is lunacy.

    Why? The DJ index is only 30 corporations, obviously not representative of any industry or other grouping of capitalists. It’s job has always been showcasing the feel-good growth of share price. Using it to measure more than where late-adoptors are parking their money, is the lunacy.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by ceoyoyo ( 59147 ) writes:

    I was vaguely surprised to learn how primitive the DJIA was. Then I remembered it’s run by business dudes.

    I was once forced to take a business course in undergrad. They were talking about linear programming, in the context of price optimization. Solving the problem started with “draw a very accurate graph on graph paper” and ended with “now take out your ruler and measure….”

    Until that point I thought staring with your mouth open was just a figure of speech.
• Obsolete Index (Score:2)

  by nealric ( 3647765 ) writes:

  The Dow was a pretty important measure of the stock market 50 or 75 years ago, but it’s not all that relevant today. It gets cited by market watchers more as a matter of tradition than anything else. The S&P 500 is a far more important index because it is the one that many index funds are tied to (including the ones in a huge portion of 401k plans). It’s really the one to watch.
• I guess spamming does pay after all (Score:2)

  by Indy1 ( 99447 ) writes:

  Spammerforce gets big name recognition now….

  Thats ok, they’re still firewalled on my mail server.

  204.14.232.0/21
  13.108.0.0/14
  136.147.0.0/16
• Honeywell (Score:2)

  by PCM2 ( 4486 ) writes:

  What on Earth does Honeywell do these days?

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