
這是我喜歡的一幅圖畫,是從財富雜誌2006年10月剪下來,它描述了不同層次的能力。
一般來講,是用四分法,可分為:
財富今次最有趣是加了兩項:
- 知道自己醒
- 太知道自己唔醒(然後跌落河,重新開始過!)
大家共勉。
My home PC is running at WIN98SE, with an old P3 grade Celeron 850MHz CPU and 256M RAM. Frankly speaking, I am still satisfied with its performance (fast boot up and power off time) because I just mainly use it for Internet web browsing. I even recently install GIMP to touch those photos taken by Canon CHDK hack (See my Yahoo Blog in Chinese)
I used to have an old CD writer (model: Philips PCRW1208) but it has been faulty for more than 1 year and I do not use it any more. Recently, I got an impulse to install Ubuntu (a Linux distribution). Since the old BIOS does not support booting from USB flash drive, I need a working CD-ROM drive to proceed.
Although I can buy an old CD-ROM drive (about HK$50), I think if I can use DVD disk to my hard disk backup as well, I will feel better because my recent digital photo file sizes grow at nearly 1GB per month.
After gathering information from Internet, I confirm a DVD drive can be installed in my old PC via IDE without any additional drivers. In order to minimize the risk, I just bought the cheapest model (LG GSA-H54N) which costs just HK$190. Although it is cheap, it still supports all prevailing DVD formats (DVD ± R/RW as well as Double Layer). However, I cannot use the bundled software (Nero Express, PowerProducer and PowerDVD) because they all need at least WIN2K or above. Worst still, the original Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 (now acquired by Roxio) bundled with the old Philips driver does not recognize the new drive.
Fortunately, I can find free burning software on Internet which still supports WIN98SE. I downloaded ImgBurn Version 2.3.2 as well as InfraRecorder version 0.44.1. Although both applications can recognize my new drive, InfraRecorder still disables the OK button in the BURN dialog (though the revision history stated that 0.44.1 did solve this problem!)
Finally, after some trial, I successfully use ImgBurn to burn DVD-R and DVR+RW on my new LG drive. (Just one comment, the User-interface of ImgBurn is quite technical and I need to take some time to get along with.)
Back to my Ubuntu installation. After backing up my important files in the hard disk, I start the Ubuntu installation (on the same hard disk with my WIN98SE but in a separate partition). Everything is fine except the following:
So far, I am very satisfied with my recent adventure with my old PC.
The PEG ratio is only a rule of thumb despite its wide use, and has no accepted underlying mathematical basis...
自問讀過少少數學,起碼也要再看看究竟!(有興趣的可打打以下書釘:http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/invfables/ch7new.pdf)但始終不明白其道理。
好罷,自己翻看舊的財務書本,refresh 自己的理論基礎:
用 Discount Model,可將公司以價值寫成以後的盈利現在值總和:
不過如果Earning 是以每年 g (growth rate) 增長的話,即
你要留意這裡 g 是永久而不是單指一兩年的,所以 g 不可能大過 r,否則這間公司遲早就會大過全球經濟總值!但是當 r 和 g 是非常接近時,PE可以是很高的!
不過到現在,我還是不明白為何股民會用100倍的市盈率去買阿里巴巴,也許這就是我不能在股市賺大錢的原因罷了!
以前上過小小法律課堂,知道這是源於Case Law的Negligence案例。坦白講,我豪不覺得出示一個這樣的「小心地滑」的告示牌就可使管理者免除任何責任!如果公廁永遠是濕漉漉,商場的雲石地磚永遠是豪華式的光滑,就算有n個告示牌也沒有用。
最可惡是你可否留意門口還有一塊用非常細字體寫的細則牌 ,列明這樣那樣,人們根本不會留意,但如果有任何事件發生,管理者又可以大條道理說已公告天下……
另外,不少管理者只鑽研如何將這些告示牌的條文寫得更可滴水不漏地保障自己,而不是如何改善管理,以減少事件發生的機會!
近一兩年,大陸興起用「溫馨提示」的小告示牌。以前直是覺得有點「溫馨」,不過迎來由於濫用,也溜於人云亦云。