Wait... just checking... are you blogging the experience too? Because that would be a hat trick.
(A hat trick is a sports term from a game called hockey, played on ice by the guys that beat us up in high school, to save you from hitting Wikipedia)
Don't worry, men will once again walk on the moon and beyond. They just probably won't be Americans. We've dropped that ball *big time*.
Last year's *total* NASA budget was $16.8B. The cost of the Apollo program, adjusted for 2006 dollars, was about $135B ($25B 1969 USD). We're not going to the moon again any time soon, unless there's a drastic change in our spending priorities. Regardless of what any politician tries to sell you.
Which is not the point at all. Of course stocks are risky. However, that does not change the fiduciary duty of a publicly traded corporation to its shareholders, and if the shareholders can make a valid argument that the company is not acting in the best long-term interest of the shareholders, which incidentally seems a quite valid argument in this case, then they have completely valid grounds to sue.
Well, it's not like Yahoo is a saint here. They happily accepted lots of people's money for shares of their corporation.
Look, if a company becomes publicly traded, it should surprise no one that the people buying shares of the company are doing so because they believe it will be profitable for them to do so. And once the leap to being a public company was made, Yahoo did indeed incur a fiduciary duty to those people.
Now, what you have to ask is, does Yahoo stand a chance of good return on shareholder investment without the Microsoft deal? Do they have a growth future? Because if not, then the shareholders being pissed off and suing over this is not only natural but completely expectable.
It's an excellent book and a relatively quick read as well. I burned through it and its sequels, highly recommended. It's good of Tor to be releasing one of its higher profile, better selling books in this way.
Check out softbank and docomo's web pages. My "free" handset from Softbank has a 320x240 display, two 2-megapixel cameras, bluetooth (duh), and is of course 3G with a nice high speed data connection. The current gen of phones, before you even have to pay extra, have "PC-style" (stupid marketing term) image capable web browsers, QC-code readers, kanji dictionaries, and do on. Then come the phones you pay extra for, which get super awesome pretty fast. (Link is for a phone series with a TV tuner, DVR, 3" 16x9 VGA+ display, GPS (and sweet-ass moving map app), 4Mbit data rate, etc).
Docomo is offering FOMA, a 4-7Mbit data service, which pretty much renders wireless hotspots superfluous, since you can buy PC-card FOMA modems that work with your docomo data plan at lots of places, even convenience stores I think.
That said, Apple is missing out on a major market here; the iPhone would sell like crazy.
Years ago, just after WoW's beta, I used to run it using cedega. There were still crashing bugs that would hose my friends machines and require rebooting back then; I would just restart cedega when one happened to me. In fact, I don't remember if I *ever* played WoW using a real Windows install. I quit fairly soon after beta though, less than a year.
Why is it so surprising that Mercury is much different volcanically than the moon? Mercury is substantially closer to the sun (duh), and is in a funky spin resonance/tidal lock with it. Temperature also varies by several hundred degrees across its surface. It doesn't seem that shocking to me that it has different seismic and volcanic parameters than the moon.
The PSP actually sells really well. And there's a ton of great games for it. It doesn't sell as well as the DS, but the DS is a huge runaway hit. This does not mean the PSP has failed at all; it's actually a great product that has sold, what, 20 million units now? It's actually doing incredibly well despite the common perception that it has failed.
Don't conflate the DS's mega-spectacular success with the PSP failing. Apples and Oranges. I know a ton of people that own both.
Scroll down to the table, and you'll see that detection ranges for something like Arecibo at more than a couple LY requires transmitters in the terawatt range.
Also it's going to be hard to find people willing to pay maybe 15 times the usual amount to get there a few hours faster. This at least is demonstrably false. People already pay 2-3x to fly Biz class and 10+x to fly first class. And as any of us plebes with lots of FF miles in economy will tell you, it's usually tough to get upgraded because those cabins are full with paying customers.
If they build it, they won't have trouble selling seats. The Concorde was too close to a normal flight for the extra expense. Half as long or less was cool but not earth shattering. When you're talking 10 or more to 1, however, people will get their companies to pay for this every time.
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And while I appreciated a different take on BioShock, I still feel like they just don't get how casual gaming has totally changed the market and the value system. Well, one of them DID pick a flash game (DTD) as his GOTY, after all. Not picking a Wii game != dissing casual games.
In all seriousness, this has the potential for racial profiling written all over it. An audit of the eventual deployed system would probably be very interesting, and equally unlikely for "security reasons".
FiOS is still quite slow in comparison to the home fiber options in Japan. NTT's B-Flets is 100Mbit and has been available there for a while for less than $50/mo. Not sure about the upstream, I *think* it's symmetric based upon what friends tell me, but I have no cites to back that up.
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Wait... just checking... are you blogging the experience too? Because that would be a hat trick. (A hat trick is a sports term from a game called hockey, played on ice by the guys that beat us up in high school, to save you from hitting Wikipedia)
That would constitute a "drastic change in our spending priorities" as I mentioned, yes? :)
Don't worry, men will once again walk on the moon and beyond. They just probably won't be Americans. We've dropped that ball *big time*.
Last year's *total* NASA budget was $16.8B. The cost of the Apollo program, adjusted for 2006 dollars, was about $135B ($25B 1969 USD). We're not going to the moon again any time soon, unless there's a drastic change in our spending priorities. Regardless of what any politician tries to sell you.
That's an interesting argument and it sounds completely reasonable to me.
Jack Thompson sues court for defaming him!
Which is not the point at all. Of course stocks are risky. However, that does not change the fiduciary duty of a publicly traded corporation to its shareholders, and if the shareholders can make a valid argument that the company is not acting in the best long-term interest of the shareholders, which incidentally seems a quite valid argument in this case, then they have completely valid grounds to sue.
Well, it's not like Yahoo is a saint here. They happily accepted lots of people's money for shares of their corporation. Look, if a company becomes publicly traded, it should surprise no one that the people buying shares of the company are doing so because they believe it will be profitable for them to do so. And once the leap to being a public company was made, Yahoo did indeed incur a fiduciary duty to those people. Now, what you have to ask is, does Yahoo stand a chance of good return on shareholder investment without the Microsoft deal? Do they have a growth future? Because if not, then the shareholders being pissed off and suing over this is not only natural but completely expectable.
Or as Scott Adams put it, "[The holodeck] will be society's last invention."
It's an excellent book and a relatively quick read as well. I burned through it and its sequels, highly recommended. It's good of Tor to be releasing one of its higher profile, better selling books in this way.
Check out softbank and docomo's web pages. My "free" handset from Softbank has a 320x240 display, two 2-megapixel cameras, bluetooth (duh), and is of course 3G with a nice high speed data connection. The current gen of phones, before you even have to pay extra, have "PC-style" (stupid marketing term) image capable web browsers, QC-code readers, kanji dictionaries, and do on. Then come the phones you pay extra for, which get super awesome pretty fast. (Link is for a phone series with a TV tuner, DVR, 3" 16x9 VGA+ display, GPS (and sweet-ass moving map app), 4Mbit data rate, etc).
Docomo is offering FOMA, a 4-7Mbit data service, which pretty much renders wireless hotspots superfluous, since you can buy PC-card FOMA modems that work with your docomo data plan at lots of places, even convenience stores I think.
That said, Apple is missing out on a major market here; the iPhone would sell like crazy.
As much as I would like to see them lose out to the Goog here, it's important to remember:
MSFT:
market cap: $283.4 billion
P/E: 17.32
Google:
market cap: $161.39 billion
P/E: 38.83
I wouldn't be calling them "on the ropes" just yet. Then again, I did just get those numbers from Google :)
FTA: This story originally appeared on Nov. 13, 2007. So it's not just pure speculation, it's a reprint of (old) pure speculation.
Years ago, just after WoW's beta, I used to run it using cedega. There were still crashing bugs that would hose my friends machines and require rebooting back then; I would just restart cedega when one happened to me. In fact, I don't remember if I *ever* played WoW using a real Windows install. I quit fairly soon after beta though, less than a year.
Yeah, and where are Weird and Gilly?
Why is it so surprising that Mercury is much different volcanically than the moon? Mercury is substantially closer to the sun (duh), and is in a funky spin resonance/tidal lock with it. Temperature also varies by several hundred degrees across its surface. It doesn't seem that shocking to me that it has different seismic and volcanic parameters than the moon.
This submission was worthy simply for attributing the acronym DOH to the Dept of Homeland Security.
The PSP actually sells really well. And there's a ton of great games for it. It doesn't sell as well as the DS, but the DS is a huge runaway hit. This does not mean the PSP has failed at all; it's actually a great product that has sold, what, 20 million units now? It's actually doing incredibly well despite the common perception that it has failed. Don't conflate the DS's mega-spectacular success with the PSP failing. Apples and Oranges. I know a ton of people that own both.
Nice guess, but incorrect. The inverse square law pretty much pwns any EM radiation we make normally, stuff like Tsar Bomba being an exception.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html
Scroll down to the table, and you'll see that detection ranges for something like Arecibo at more than a couple LY requires transmitters in the terawatt range.
Finally, someone not just rolling over for this crap. Way to go, Dodd.
True in part, but it says they also want to deploy a similar system in Manhattan.
In all seriousness, this has the potential for racial profiling written all over it. An audit of the eventual deployed system would probably be very interesting, and equally unlikely for "security reasons".
"Police". Hah. As if.
More like,
if(hoodie || !white || hair.length >= stallman.hair.length)
{
UAV.attack();
}
FiOS is still quite slow in comparison to the home fiber options in Japan. NTT's B-Flets is 100Mbit and has been available there for a while for less than $50/mo. Not sure about the upstream, I *think* it's symmetric based upon what friends tell me, but I have no cites to back that up.