After 20% down payment the mortgage on that house would be nearly 4,000 a month (at 4%, a good rate). That's not counting insurance and taxes. He's NOT poor by any proper definition of that word.
You keep mentioning how they "get paid" but never refute it. You also cleverly do not include my mention that I don't use the service. The copyright holders that get extra clicks should be paying google for the adsense , not the other way around. you are quite simply incorrect on this matter.
I do not work for google company. (disclaimer)
I've never seen a single advertisement on Google news. It may be different in Germany, but otherwise I don't see how they are making money. It's a free service. Perhaps re-enforcing their brand image, but not 'making all the money'.
I am far more likely to read more details (even with the 3-2 score type of thing you mention) than to skip.
(Haven't used Google News in a long time, had to re-check just now to confirm the no advertisement thing).
NASA peaked at 4.41% of federal budget in 1966. That is nowhere near ~5% of GDP. Also what other than Apollo 1 disaster are you referring to as "sheer amount of failures"? It was overwhelmingly successful by most any reasonable assessment.
I had a big ISA card with POTS plugs on the back in a new (at the time) computer with Windows 3.1 that could receive and print faxes. Gosh that was a very long time ago.
Wow, way to move the goal posts!
Your original comment was:
owned cheifly by China and Japan
Now you claim 47% of ALL debt is
owned by foreign entities
While ignoring UK, Brazil and about 30 other countries! Whee! you got called on the carpet and keep shifting around what you said to keep your own piece of mind!
There's only one thing learned from the Shuttle debacle. Namely, don't let NASA build and fly its own launch vehicle.
The shuttle was a bit of a boondoggle, but you are blaming NASA, when in all honesty it had many congress-critters and Air-force fingers involved in its design and deployment. It's rather disingenuous to place all the decision responsibility solely in the hands of NASA.
Guess I'll jump in and say my goodbyes as well. Been a long time lurker from almost the beginning. Truely a day to remember. Thanks for the good times and memories taco.
-90% of German (or American) plants would not withstand impact of a plane bigger than a Cessna
False:
In the United States, the design and thickness of the containment and the missile shield are governed by federal regulations (10 CFR 50.55a), and must be strong enough to withstand the impact of a fully loaded passenger airliner without rupture.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part050/part050-0055a.html/
You don't think building a satellite that can withstand the harshness of space, using the best tech that was available at the time back before the 2004 launch date, (it was built long before then) and results are still being evaluated, and.... there was no foresight??? Wow. Seems to me there were some smart cookies that work on these things and they thought a lot of this through as best they could using "decades of research and testing" to their best advantage. Oh, that's right, its USA, bash on.
I was rather curios about the 'dead code' elimination... That would seem to me to be one of the first things to go solve, if nothing is pointing to that particular code portion, simply do not compile it. I must be missing something where that would not be one of the first targets to eliminate.
Their chat client is king in Asia. I have no idea how they make money on that though. I have gmail for personal/friends, but still use my yahoo mail for my business and spam accounts. The community games section seems popular too, again I have no idea how that makes money.
I still read slashdot in classic mode. Even got an email from them asking for commentary. I keep trying the 2.0, but it just isn't as good as the classic system.
I was really thinking of a 'Phone Home' system. I've been stuck with the task of licensing software before, and I had to be honest with management (showing them how many DRM systems have been broken before) that all licensing systems rely on security through obscurity in the end... since you have to give them the software/content to begin with. That was rather uncomfortable for me, but it was the honest truth. I didn't really have a comment regarding chip producers, so maybe I'm off-topic on that idea.
The Smoking Gun has been posting police photos since about 10 years ago already. That does not change any questions about privacy, but this is hardly 'news'.
Slashdot Mirror
VS 2013 $499.00 direct from Microsoft. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Visual-Studio-Professional-2013/productID.284832200/
Confederate States of America? Gosh you should be supporting this (and are also very old).
After 20% down payment the mortgage on that house would be nearly 4,000 a month (at 4%, a good rate). That's not counting insurance and taxes. He's NOT poor by any proper definition of that word.
You keep mentioning how they "get paid" but never refute it. You also cleverly do not include my mention that I don't use the service. The copyright holders that get extra clicks should be paying google for the adsense , not the other way around. you are quite simply incorrect on this matter. I do not work for google company. (disclaimer)
I've never seen a single advertisement on Google news. It may be different in Germany, but otherwise I don't see how they are making money. It's a free service. Perhaps re-enforcing their brand image, but not 'making all the money'. I am far more likely to read more details (even with the 3-2 score type of thing you mention) than to skip. (Haven't used Google News in a long time, had to re-check just now to confirm the no advertisement thing).
NASA peaked at 4.41% of federal budget in 1966. That is nowhere near ~5% of GDP. Also what other than Apollo 1 disaster are you referring to as "sheer amount of failures"? It was overwhelmingly successful by most any reasonable assessment.
I had a big ISA card with POTS plugs on the back in a new (at the time) computer with Windows 3.1 that could receive and print faxes. Gosh that was a very long time ago.
Your original comment was:
owned cheifly by China and Japan
Now you claim 47% of ALL debt is
owned by foreign entities
While ignoring UK, Brazil and about 30 other countries!
Whee! you got called on the carpet and keep shifting around what you said to keep your own piece of mind!
This is fun!
The shuttle was a bit of a boondoggle, but you are blaming NASA, when in all honesty it had many congress-critters and Air-force fingers involved in its design and deployment. It's rather disingenuous to place all the decision responsibility solely in the hands of NASA.
Guess I'll jump in and say my goodbyes as well. Been a long time lurker from almost the beginning. Truely a day to remember. Thanks for the good times and memories taco.
I wasn't aware Fukushima was hit by a Cessna. I'll have to try my Google-foo to find more info on that.
False:
In the United States, the design and thickness of the containment and the missile shield are governed by federal regulations (10 CFR 50.55a), and must be strong enough to withstand the impact of a fully loaded passenger airliner without rupture. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part050/part050-0055a.html/
The very fact that the Drake equation got you to discuss its particulars in detail is evidence that it is not entirely useless.
You don't think building a satellite that can withstand the harshness of space, using the best tech that was available at the time back before the 2004 launch date, (it was built long before then) and results are still being evaluated, and .... there was no foresight??? Wow. Seems to me there were some smart cookies that work on these things and they thought a lot of this through as best they could using "decades of research and testing" to their best advantage. Oh, that's right, its USA, bash on.
I was rather curios about the 'dead code' elimination... That would seem to me to be one of the first things to go solve, if nothing is pointing to that particular code portion, simply do not compile it. I must be missing something where that would not be one of the first targets to eliminate.
Hmm, yea I forgot about that award. Already have it, but might as well get a refresh on that one.
Their chat client is king in Asia. I have no idea how they make money on that though. I have gmail for personal/friends, but still use my yahoo mail for my business and spam accounts. The community games section seems popular too, again I have no idea how that makes money.
I still read slashdot in classic mode. Even got an email from them asking for commentary. I keep trying the 2.0, but it just isn't as good as the classic system.
OT: My login did that yesterday, now it is back to classic discussion again today.
I was really thinking of a 'Phone Home' system. I've been stuck with the task of licensing software before, and I had to be honest with management (showing them how many DRM systems have been broken before) that all licensing systems rely on security through obscurity in the end... since you have to give them the software/content to begin with. That was rather uncomfortable for me, but it was the honest truth. I didn't really have a comment regarding chip producers, so maybe I'm off-topic on that idea.
I presume mysidia was thinking of the concept of the 'One Time Pad' stored in a database:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad/URL
The Smoking Gun has been posting police photos since about 10 years ago already. That does not change any questions about privacy, but this is hardly 'news'.
Once again Trailer Park Boys were ahead of their time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkiO20AlQE High Definition Piss Jugs
Probably the only thing that would work for you would be a form of "Wiggle Stereoscopy"
http://www.isnichwahr.de/r16975-beeindruckende-stereo-bilder.html/ Is an example.
Probably not too helpful, but really the only thing I am aware of that might work.