From reading various books, I am under the impression that managements usually dislike it when their stock price gets too low. I am not sure why. So my questions are:   Given that the job of management is to manage the operations of the company, why are they concerned about the stock price at all? Is there any disadvantage to the management when stock prices are very low?   The only reason I can think of is that it would be hard to acquire other companies using stock when the stock price is low. However, if management has no intention to do mergers and acquisitions, I don't see why they would care about the stock price at all. I don't see how stock prices can affect regular company operations in any way.
After a company has issued shares, why should it care if the value of the shares fluctuate? Since the shares are now publicly traded, if the value fluctuates, that is strictly a transaction between buyer and seller, none of whom are directly related to the company. E.g. if I sell X an iPhone for $100, why should I care if X is selling the iPhone to Y for 1 dollar or 1000 dollars? I have got my $100, so I need not bother. No?
Point vs Pixel: What is the difference? What is the difference between points and pixels? Should Community Moderators be "elected for life", or have terms? While I applaud the excellent work of , the question has come up:     How long will be the elected moderator’s “mandate”? Is it for life, or are we going to have “moderator elections” regularly?   Of course, any community moderator who wishes to recuse him or herself can certainly do that at any time.   Should we have term limits that require community moderators be cycled out periodically, so others get a chance to moderate? Should we hold regular (say, yearly) moderator elections? Is it better to have a larger pool of community moderators, and let the normal ebb and flow of turnover get us "natural" variability in moderation?   What are your thoughts on this? Does $x^2 - y^2 = 12345678$ (x,y are integers) have any solutions? Why does $1+2+3+\cdots = -\frac{1}{12}$? How should I add users non-interactively? I have a set of users I need to add to a new system as part of a BASH script that preps my server. How can I non-interactively add the user, create their home directory, set the group, and enter a default password?  For example, if I needed to add the following users, how would I go about that?  user: node password: spoon group: ultraMegaPermissions  user:serve password: spoot group: sortaNotMega  user:watcher password: spoogle group: notMega What to do with an Ubuntu disk image that appears as a WinRAR file? I've never used Ubuntu before. Just heard from some friends. "IT'S GREAT!!!", they used to say. So i decided to try it. I downloaded WUBI, and ran it but 'twas takin' too much time. So I decided to download the .ISO Image file separately. It couldn't download more after 150 mB, and got interrupted (and cancelled) itself. I just went to , and further went to , and searched for my question. After having found a related one, which told     "try the torrent way"   So I downloaded it through the torrent. And after that when I opened the .rar file, there wasn't any .ISO image file; just some folders with names like .disc, boot, ISOLINUX, etc. I searched for the .ISO file but nothin' there: ANYONE HELP ME, PLEASE!!! or this will drive me into never thinkin' about Ubuntu again. Access POST values in Symfony2 request object I can't delete more than 5 of my own posts in a single day. Is this a bug, or intended behavior? I'm trying to clean up old, crappy posts of mine.    Similar-looking problem, but it claims to be : Is there a quick way to get to the Control Panel in Windows 8? Obviously in all previous versions of Windows you could simply click START and then select "Control Panel" to get to it, but on Windows 8 there is no such option.  Is there an easy way to quickly get to it without having to press WIN, type "Control Panel", and then press Enter? I'm a web designer and I'd like to make a custom wordpress theme for my upcoming blog. The template is already made in photoshop but I need a good starting point. I don't have too much experience with Wordpress but I want something that is SEO friendly which I can edit without risking getting poor search results.  I Know about Starkers and that there are other blank themes out there, but are they good for SEO? I stand up and I look at two parallel railroad tracks. I find that converge away from me. Why? Can someone explain me why parallel lines seem to converge, please? $\sqrt{1-x^2}$ is not a rational function If $k$ is a field in which $1 + 1 \neq 0$, prove that $\sqrt{1-x^2}$ is not a rational function. Hint. Mimic the classical proof that $\sqrt{2}$ is irrational   It seems rather odd to discuss the square root function in the context of an arbitrary field, but here goes nothing!  Proof:   Suppose that $\sqrt{1-x^2}$ is a rational function in $k(x)$. Then there exist polynomials $p(x)$ and $q(x) \neq 0$ that are relatively prime with $\sqrt{1-x^2} = \frac{p(x)}{q(x)}$; clearly we may take $p(x) \neq 0$. Then $1-x^2 = \frac{p(x)^2}{q(x)^2}$ or $q(x)^2(1-x^2) = p(x)^2$, which says $q^2 | p^2$, and since $q | q^2$, we can infer $q | p^2$. Moreover, since $p|p^2$ and $(p,q)=1$, then $pq|p^2$ or $q|p$, which contradicts the fact that the polynomials are relatively prime. Hence $\sqrt{1-x^2}$ cannot be a rational function.    How does this sound? Aside from the problem of discussing $\sqrt{~~}$ in the context of an arbitrary field, I am worried about not using the fact that $1+1 \neq 0$, at least not explicitly. Where exactly is this assumed used, if at all?  EDIT:  Suppose that $q(x) =1$, and let $f(x) = a_n x^n + ... a_1 x + a_0$. Then $1-x^2 = f(x)^2$. If $x=0$, $1 = a^2_0$ and therefore $a_0$ must be a unit. Letting $x=1$ we get $0 = (a_n + ... + a_1 + a_0)^2$; and letting $x=-1$ we get $0 = (-a_n - ... - a_1  + a_0)^2$. Since we are working in a field, there can be no nonzero nilpotent which means that $a_n + ... + a_1 + a_0$ and $-a_n - ... - a_1  + a_0$ are both zero. Adding the two equations together yields $2a_0 = 0$, and since $1+1 \neq 0$, $a_0 = 0$ which contradicts the fact that $a_0$ is a unit.   How does this sound?  Another attemtpt:  If $f(x)^2 = 1-x^2$, then $2 = \deg(f^2) = 2 \deg (f)$ implies $\deg(f) = 1$. Yet if $x=-1$, we get $f(-1)^2 = 1 - 1 = 0$ and therefore $f(-1)=0$ since there are no nonzero nilpotent elements in a field; similarly, $f(1)=0$. Since $1+1 \neq 0$, $f$ has two distinct roots in $k$ yet is only a $1$-st degree polynomial, a contradiction. sf:INVALID_OPERATION: INVALID_OPERATION: testLevel of NoTestRun cannot be used in production organizations While deploying code in vsCode from sandbox to production I get the below error      sf:INVALID_OPERATION: INVALID_OPERATION: testLevel of NoTestRun cannot   be used in production organizations   As per the error, I need to change the value of testLevel but I am not able to find where and how can I change it to RunLocalTests  Could someone please help me to change the value of testLevel in vsCode Is it better to initialize class member variables on declaration  private List&lt;Thing&gt; _things = new List&lt;Thing&gt;(); private int _arb = 99;   or in the default constructor?  private List&lt;Thing&gt; _things; private int _arb;  public TheClass() {   _things = new List&lt;Thing&gt;();   _arb = 99; }   Is it simply a matter of style or are there performance trade-offs, one way or the other? How to set static IP address? which adjective can I use to describe my neighbor, who is always trying to keep eye on my personal matters like what am I bringing from market or what am I cooking etc?  Regards, I want to copy all images on my computer to a single folder I want to copy all images of any file extension like .jpg, .png, .gif, etc. from all folders and subfolders in my PC hard drive (which has two partitions) to a single folder.  The total number of images I have is 250,000. How is it possible to use the GNU find command to match several file types at a time (one search command)?  The man page says:  -type c     File is of type c:     b      block (buffered) special     c      character (unbuffered) special     d      directory     p      named pipe (FIFO)     f      regular file     l      symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the -follow            option  is in  effect,  unless  the  symbolic link is broken.  If            you want to search for symbolic links when -L is in effect, use            -xtype.     s      socket     D      door (Solaris)   and I want to search for files (f) and symbolic links (l) and pipe it to another process. How can I search for both at the same time?  I have tried  find -type fl | … find -type f -type l | … find -xtype f -type l | …   I know a workaround would be to use a subshell  (find -type f; find -type l) | …   but I just want to know if it is possible. Help removing subsection and subsubsection numbers from Table of Contents TOC Hello I am trying to further modify my TOC.  I got an answer  as to how I could remove the \section numbers on the left side of the TOC and now I would like to expand that.  I would like to remove the left-hand numbering for \subsection and \subsubsection as well but I do not know how.  (I also want to keep these numbers out of the document and I am using \def\sectionformat{} to do that)  Also, my TOC is slightly over one page and so I would like to adjust the spacing from 2 to 1.5,  is there any way to do this?    \documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twoside]{article}     \usepackage{baskervald}     \usepackage[margin=1in,bindingoffset=15.5mm,heightrounded]{geometry}     \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}     \usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago}     \usepackage{filecontents}     \usepackage{microtype}     \usepackage{url}     \usepackage{makeidx}     \usepackage{indentfirst}     \usepackage{setspace}     \usepackage{chngcntr}\counterwithin*{footnote}{section}     \newcommand*{\textsubscript}[1]{$#1{}$}     \DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{references = {Works Cited}}     \DeclareBibliographyCategory{primary}     \makeindex     \addbibresource{bibliography.bib}     \makeatletter     \let\latexl@section\l@section     \def\l@section#1#2{\begingroup\let\numberline\@gobble\latexl@section{#1}{#2}\endgroup}     \def\@seccntformat#1{\ifcsname #1format\endcsname\else\csname the#1\endcsname\quad\fi}     \def\sectionformat{}     \def\subsectionformat{}     \def\subsubsectionformat{}     \makeatother     \author{}     \title{\vspace*{36 pt}\textbf{\emph{\Huge{Big Important Title}}}\vfill}     \date{}     \begin{document}     \tableofcontents     \section{Part I}     Hello World     \end{document} This code always works, even in different browsers:  function fooCheck() {   alert(internalFoo()); // We are using internalFoo() here...    return internalFoo(); // And here, even though it has not been defined...    function internalFoo() { return true; } //...until here! }  fooCheck();   I could not find a single reference to why it should work, though. I first saw this in John Resig's presentation note, but it was only mentioned. There's no explanation there or anywhere for that matter.  Could someone please enlighten me?