I used to work in a university, and one day we had a visit from a chinese delegation (who wanted to start a similar university course back home). They asked a tonne of question, and spent most of the time measuring things. Fast forwards twelve months, and some of the lecturers went to visit the new course. When they got there they found everything had been copied, from the course structure, even down to the spacing of the desks in the cramped windowless rooms (that we considered to be unfit for purpose).
Boca Chica does not currently offer any significant employment opportunities.
Neither does the Antarctic, but that's not a valid argument to open up the area for industry (and there are plenty of people who'd want for that to happen). The space port may be in use for what, 50 to 100 years? Will the site be reverted to it's previous state once the port closes? or will it be opened up as an industrial park (as happened with so many military sites & airfields?). Despite your insistence that's jobs trump the environment, there is a historic precedence that says that once these places are developed, they are rarely allowed to return to their previous state. So ask yourself this simple question: Are you 100% certain this is the best location for a spaceport? The decisions you make today, will have consequences for the environment tomorrow, so it's important that you make the right choice......
"Their work does lots of good for the world."
For the world? Or for Microsoft?
Dude, seriously! You do realise this algorithm has been developed to help Microsoft sort through all of the outstanding 'serious security flaw found in IE6' tickets? Why else do you think they'd need 1033 hard drives, and 250 machines?
.... 4 billion of whom don't have internet access.
I would say that $18 per user is even little bit low for the value and revenue every user brings to Facebook, ads revenue, sales revenue (from in-game coins), and the social effect of having all the users in the service.
Company filings after the market closed on Friday night however revealed the extent to which the banks who led Facebook’s initial public offering - in which $16bn of shares were sold to new investors - were forced to move in to the market and buy shares in order to keep the price above the $38 level. Morgan Stanley, Facebook’s lead financial adviser, ended the day with 162m shares, worth $6.16bn. Other banks including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs also bought shares, ending the day with $3.2bn and $2.4bn holdings respectively.
So 3 banks have purchased $11.76 bn of the $16bn total facebook stock available to prevent the share price tanking. Need I remind you of their past successes:
JP Morgan: $25 Billion bailout from US tax payers.
Morgan Stanley: $10 Billion bailout from US tax payers.
Goldman Sachs: $10 Billion bailout from US tax payers.
All those banks have repaid the bailout loans (from what I can figure out?), but it looks as though they are each going to make a fairly big loss on this IPO. That's not exactly a good sign that things have changed for the better imho....
So what are we going to do when one the size of texas comes heading for DC
Sheesh! Why is it people always need to be reminded of the standard emergency protocol?
Write a tweet, update facebook status, check into foursquare, write a new blog entry, start following the #fucksie hashtag, and re-tweet everything Stephan Fry says.
Careful with arguments like that! The previous poster could improve his odds, by moving to a lightning prone area, and he could start wearing a 400ft tall aluminium hat. He'd only need 182 lighting strikes a year to prove you wrong! Mind you, that would also rule out the existence of a creator. No one would waste time creating something that dumb.....
The simple truth of the matter is that we can never prove it either way
It's impossible to prove/disprove that an advanced alien civilization seeded our planet with the first forms of bacterial life.
It's impossible to prove/disprove that 75 million years ago, Xenu killed billions of people with hydrogen bombs.
Creation stories have absolutely no scientific value to them whatsoever. They say nothing more than: "Once upon a time something happened, and it will never happen again".
So let's compare that to evolution. Evolutionary theory can be validated against a data set that stretches back a few billion years (i.e. the fossil record). It can be used to make useful predictions about mutation rates within organisms, which is extremely useful if you are dealing with a pandemic (and want to know the best way to utilise your available medications, before a mutation renders them useless).
So ask yourself this, if we have 3 creation anecdotes (scientology, creationism, raelism) for which there is no evidence at all, and which cannot make any useful predictions about the future; Should we tell our children that those stories are just as valuable as evolution when planning to deal with a global epidemic/pandemic?
'Master Smith', is the title of a child.
'Mister Smith', is the title of an adult.
'Smith, Master of science' is the title of an educated adult.
'Master' is how a slave refers to his owner.
In my mind, that makes BSE less dangerous than... well, just about everything.
Yes, but what you are failing to understand is that whilst there may have been 180,000 cows who caught the disease, that is a small drop in the ocean compared to the number of animals who were put down to prevent any possibility of transmission. After the disease devastated the export market for British beef, it devastated the beef industry as a whole, and put countless farmers out of business (with numerous reports of farmers taking their own lives). It took decades for the industry to recover. It's a hideous disease.
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I used to work in a university, and one day we had a visit from a chinese delegation (who wanted to start a similar university course back home). They asked a tonne of question, and spent most of the time measuring things. Fast forwards twelve months, and some of the lecturers went to visit the new course. When they got there they found everything had been copied, from the course structure, even down to the spacing of the desks in the cramped windowless rooms (that we considered to be unfit for purpose).
Tell that to the pediatricians.
Boca Chica does not currently offer any significant employment opportunities.
Neither does the Antarctic, but that's not a valid argument to open up the area for industry (and there are plenty of people who'd want for that to happen). The space port may be in use for what, 50 to 100 years? Will the site be reverted to it's previous state once the port closes? or will it be opened up as an industrial park (as happened with so many military sites & airfields?). Despite your insistence that's jobs trump the environment, there is a historic precedence that says that once these places are developed, they are rarely allowed to return to their previous state. So ask yourself this simple question: Are you 100% certain this is the best location for a spaceport? The decisions you make today, will have consequences for the environment tomorrow, so it's important that you make the right choice......
You sir are living in cloud cuckoo land. Hunters care about game, not wildlife.
In space, when people haven't learnt to read, no one can hear you scream........
You say that, but Apple implemented EFI years ago, and then even helped users who wanted to install Windows or other operating systems via BootCamp.
That's because the folks at Apple wanted all of their users to experience the benefits of using MyCleanPC!
/ducks
"Their work does lots of good for the world."
For the world? Or for Microsoft?
Dude, seriously! You do realise this algorithm has been developed to help Microsoft sort through all of the outstanding 'serious security flaw found in IE6' tickets? Why else do you think they'd need 1033 hard drives, and 250 machines?
How do gestures improve the user experience, over say, speech recognition?
The company hired 33 investment banks for the offering, with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) leading the sale.
$176 million fees between them.
Also, these banks are not taking loses on the IPO. Their clients are.
a.k.a. Your pension fund.
Doh! Meant to say $14.80, not £14.80. Force of habit.... :/
there's 6 billions more people out there
.... 4 billion of whom don't have internet access.
I would say that $18 per user is even little bit low for the value and revenue every user brings to Facebook, ads revenue, sales revenue (from in-game coins), and the social effect of having all the users in the service.
The company is valued at $104Billion which places a value of $115 per user, or £14.80 per person on the planet. Facebook already pockets 14% of all advertising money spent in the US, and with companies such as GM pulling out from facebook, you seriously have to question how much more it can grow it's ad revenue.
And who knows what other monetization Facebook will bring to the table once they get to it.
The kind of aggressive/intrusive monetisation that makes it users leave in droves?
but only the people willing to pay that much are ridiculous.
link worth reading
Company filings after the market closed on Friday night however revealed the extent to which the banks who led Facebook’s initial public offering - in which $16bn of shares were sold to new investors - were forced to move in to the market and buy shares in order to keep the price above the $38 level. Morgan Stanley, Facebook’s lead financial adviser, ended the day with 162m shares, worth $6.16bn. Other banks including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs also bought shares, ending the day with $3.2bn and $2.4bn holdings respectively.
So 3 banks have purchased $11.76 bn of the $16bn total facebook stock available to prevent the share price tanking. Need I remind you of their past successes:
JP Morgan: $25 Billion bailout from US tax payers.
Morgan Stanley: $10 Billion bailout from US tax payers.
Goldman Sachs: $10 Billion bailout from US tax payers.
All those banks have repaid the bailout loans (from what I can figure out?), but it looks as though they are each going to make a fairly big loss on this IPO. That's not exactly a good sign that things have changed for the better imho....
I'm sure the TSA will be perfectly reasonable about people carrying those onto planes....
I fear your proposed 24hr emergency response plan, has a small conceptual flaw.....
So what are we going to do when one the size of texas comes heading for DC
Sheesh! Why is it people always need to be reminded of the standard emergency protocol?
Write a tweet, update facebook status, check into foursquare, write a new blog entry, start following the #fucksie hashtag, and re-tweet everything Stephan Fry says.
Meteorite strikes are a thing of the past, now that we have Larry Page & James Cameron protecting us with their zero-G pick axes!
Probably Harmless Asteroid
Are the odds 50:50? (No)
Careful with arguments like that! The previous poster could improve his odds, by moving to a lightning prone area, and he could start wearing a 400ft tall aluminium hat. He'd only need 182 lighting strikes a year to prove you wrong! Mind you, that would also rule out the existence of a creator. No one would waste time creating something that dumb.....
The simple truth of the matter is that we can never prove it either way
It's impossible to prove/disprove that an advanced alien civilization seeded our planet with the first forms of bacterial life.
It's impossible to prove/disprove that 75 million years ago, Xenu killed billions of people with hydrogen bombs.
Creation stories have absolutely no scientific value to them whatsoever. They say nothing more than: "Once upon a time something happened, and it will never happen again".
So let's compare that to evolution. Evolutionary theory can be validated against a data set that stretches back a few billion years (i.e. the fossil record). It can be used to make useful predictions about mutation rates within organisms, which is extremely useful if you are dealing with a pandemic (and want to know the best way to utilise your available medications, before a mutation renders them useless).
So ask yourself this, if we have 3 creation anecdotes (scientology, creationism, raelism) for which there is no evidence at all, and which cannot make any useful predictions about the future; Should we tell our children that those stories are just as valuable as evolution when planning to deal with a global epidemic/pandemic?
Internet Explorer hasn't had the best history when it comes to exploits.
Which makes it even more impressive that Sony can overtake Microsoft as the undisputed exploit king, and that's been achieved without the help of IE!
A review of UPU
'Master Smith', is the title of a child.
'Mister Smith', is the title of an adult.
'Smith, Master of science' is the title of an educated adult.
'Master' is how a slave refers to his owner.
In my mind, that makes BSE less dangerous than... well, just about everything.
Yes, but what you are failing to understand is that whilst there may have been 180,000 cows who caught the disease, that is a small drop in the ocean compared to the number of animals who were put down to prevent any possibility of transmission. After the disease devastated the export market for British beef, it devastated the beef industry as a whole, and put countless farmers out of business (with numerous reports of farmers taking their own lives). It took decades for the industry to recover. It's a hideous disease.