Floyd Norris: Does Moodyâs Need a New Scale?
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Now they tell us. Moody's is seeking comment on whether it should come up with a different rating scale for structured finance products. Moody's states, with considerable understatement: "Some market participants have asserted that structured and non-structured securities possess inherently different risk characteristics, such that, for example, AAA-rated structured securities may not have the same [...].
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Does the rising number of crashes require a change in strategy?
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Tycho:  It's been a couple weeks discussing reviews and reviewers around here, but somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that their job is essentially impossible.  The 7-9 scale they toil under is largely the result of an uneasy peace between the business and editorial wings of the venue.  No matter what score they give it, high or low, they're reviled equally by the online chorus.  Apparently, even when they do it right they're doing it wrong.
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In an effort to have a definitive resource to point to when people ask about PHP scaling, Sebastian Bergmann is asking for suggestions and information on the topic in his latest blog entry.    In "The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP", Harry Fuecks suggests that PHP really needs [someone] to get together and write a detailed paper on how it works and why PHP scales so we can all live happily ever after.   I could not agree more.    Sebastian even notes that just recently, such a document would have come in very handy in a discussion. Unfortunately, he hasn't had the experience needed to make such a paper himself, so he's asking the community to help on the project and give suggestions/comments/offers of help in the comments of this blog posting.
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A new comparison of four dietsâincluding mineâis misleading and riddled with problems.
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NEW YORK, Aug 18 - Moody&#39;s Investors Service said on Wednesday it raised the senior unsecured debt rating of Dell Inc. (DELL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) with a stable outlook citing the firm&#39;s strong balance sheet and solid operating and financial ...
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NEW YORK, Nov 12 - Moody&#39;s Investors Service revised Occidental Petroleum Corp&#39;s (OXY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the international oil and gas company&#39;s outlook to positive and affirmed its ratings.
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Sept. 30, 2004 -- Researchers are saying that caffeine withdrawal should now be classified as a psychiatric disorder. A new study that analyzes some 170 years&#39; worth of research concludes that caffeine withdrawal
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Standard & Poorâs and the Moodyâs Corporationâs proposals to restore the credibility of their ratings have met with skepticism from some of their toughest critics.
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By James Ragland, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 18--The alarm industry certainly knows how to fight.   Not sure anyone can say they're playing dirty.
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Nielsen/NetRatings plans to drop its old methods of counting pageviews to gauge Web site popularity, instead opting for a system where it would measure how long a user stays on a site. The change will shake up Web rankings quite a bit.
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By R.A. Dyer, and Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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Paul Jones has posted a teaser concerning his talks(s) at the upcoming php|works conference this year. One is about organizing your applications to make them easier to maintain and work better and the other is a follow up to some previous benchmarks he created comparing several of the popular PHP frameworks.   About The Benchmarking Talk - Easy one-liner: "Statistical Histories for Fun and Profit." And I do mean profit: the better your apps runs on a given stack, the more eyeballs you get on your ads (or, the more users you can handle).   He will be talking about why benchmarking your app is important, how to benchmark a framework and, the thing everyone's waiting for - his benchmark stats comparing several popular frameworks.   Paul also requests that, if possible, one developer from the teams of each of the other frameworks (besides Solar of course) could be in attendance to critique the talk and help point out issues either with the talk or in his methods.
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Chris Hartjes has posted an update on the Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler package for the Zend Framework, including writing the unit tests to ensure it's complete functionality.   In my spare time I've been banging away at writing the required unit tests for the Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler component that Derek and I had started. I finished all the unit tests for the user based functions, which is a nice milestone. Then I decided to go back and actually read the comments made from the proposal. Oops. I discovered there were a bunch of changes that the folks at Zend said needed to be made in order to accept them. I agree with most of them.   He also lists some of these comments/changes/suggestions for the package that were given to help it fit in better with the rest of the framework.
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Moody&#39;s Investors Service on Thursday said it may downgrade the debt ratings for Penn National Gaming Inc. (PENN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Argosy Gaming Co.
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Beware: Book value isn't as helpful a measure as it used to be.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.