Just bloody buy Oracle! Last I saw there was like 120million oracle shares trading at around 25$ so the price for buying every share is about 3billion$. Didn't Google make 6.5billion net in 2009?
Yes these are rough figures from a minute or so of googling and I make no claims of them being 100% correct.
I disagree. SETI@home has discovered that they can get many people to use their personal computational power and electricity to process random signals in a vague hope of discovering intelligent life.
Of course most Americans simply follow one or two news sources. Those news sources being the ones that most accurately reflect their own opinions because they're more comfortable when they don't have said opinions challenged. So for the most part, those who feel the war is wrong and being run in a horrible manner will receive cherry picked sections confirming that belief. And those who feel that the war is justified, and even releasing this information is only putting American soldiers in danger will find equally cherry picked sections that confirm those beliefs. In the end relatively few people will be exposed to anything thought provoking to them.
And those that do will have cognitive dissonance, write it off and not think about it again.
Well yea, it is cheaper and easier to blow something up compared to writing something good. It is also easier to sell a 5 sec clip of special effects then a 5 sec clip of storyline. It would also say that it is harder to appreciate special effects with really crappy resolution while the story usually doesn't suffer.
I can't help but be reminded of when my niece (who was 3) used my grandfather's homemade wooden urn as a stool so she could reach the sink to wash her hands. At least my grandfather was being useful.
Their is nothing wrong with pursing the $€£, the problem is being short sighted about it. If a company is only concerned about this quarter or this year they will never invest in the future and eventually be over taken by those that do. Refurbishing factories to be more efficient is expensive in the short term but is usually a good idea in the long run. Investing in research is expensive in the short term but can lead to major profits in the future. You are right exponential growth is not sustainable but continuous growth can continue on for much longer if it is planed for.
I, uh, imagine that when they find an unlicensed pool on Google Earth, and send somebody to tell you, he does, uh, a quick peek around back to make sure the pool is actually still there before he knocks on the door.
Get real! This is the government we are talking about. You get the fine in the mail and then have to fight it to prove that the pool is no longer there. There is no actual going to the houses anymore.
Very true. It is good to see a company that plans for the long term and I applaud their R&D spending and holding onto something because it might be useful in the future. However I have to ask, if this process and glass is 60 years old shouldn't the patent have run out quite a while ago? Shouldn't we have been seeing this before now in uses that Corning couldn't think of?
I agree with your point but I don't see any way the government could do it. Their are so many loopholes, requirements, deductions, exceptions, and what not in the US tax system that no tax service will get it completely correct. It also changes so quickly (exceptions, tax cuts, tax increases, etc) that websites would a hard time keeping up especially at the speed of government. The only government website I use is for my student loans and it is poorly put together and hard to navigate in comparison to banking and credit cards. Personally, I'd trust a 3rd party service (like TurboTax) before I would government software because then I'd at least get some assurance that if there was a bug or miscalculation that had nothing to do with the numbers I put in it would be the problem of someone else instead of being litigated into nothingness by the IRS.
Well to answer your question it is because tables and graphs are scary to those who aren't trained in their use. Kind of like equations. This isn't just a problem with journalists and blogs. I've seen it in academic papers where the data could be easily expressed with a table or a graph or even an equation, instead they waste a lot of space spewing the numbers out. Yes this is in scientific journals with biologists being the worst in my experience.
This is not an industry that rewards trying new things. It does reward poor franchise tie-ins apparently.
Not quite, it rewards games that make money. A few tens of millions of dollars is a huge risk and the Star Wars name draws in the dollars, making the risk much less. Imagine how much money a Star Wars game could make if it was actually a good game?
Well yea! Pigs can be expensive to feed especially on a long journey where they have nothing to graze on. It is much cheaper just to take the pork into space. Of course the problem is getting back into space with all that pork...
Yes that was a bad typo. So lets try this again to appease all the idiots who can't figure it out.
David Prowse the person who was the on screen presence of Darth Vader in A new Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi never got his full compensation for his part in the movies due to the same accounting tricks mentioned here.
I remember a story but could just be a rumor but here it is. They guy who invented the waterbed had his patent rejected. The reason that was given was that the design was already in the public domain because it had already been published in complete detail. The book was Strange in a Strange land by R. Heinlein.
So maybe, just maybe, it would be possible to claim the same thing with all those inventions and save the world from such IP nonsense.
I can see it now....
Scientist: We developed Hyperdrive!!
George: Nope...I did...didn't you see my movie...geesh.
I think George is heading down the path of the Dark Side....
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Just bloody buy Oracle! Last I saw there was like 120million oracle shares trading at around 25$ so the price for buying every share is about 3billion$. Didn't Google make 6.5billion net in 2009?
Yes these are rough figures from a minute or so of googling and I make no claims of them being 100% correct.
I disagree. SETI@home has discovered that they can get many people to use their personal computational power and electricity to process random signals in a vague hope of discovering intelligent life.
Of course most Americans simply follow one or two news sources. Those news sources being the ones that most accurately reflect their own opinions because they're more comfortable when they don't have said opinions challenged. So for the most part, those who feel the war is wrong and being run in a horrible manner will receive cherry picked sections confirming that belief. And those who feel that the war is justified, and even releasing this information is only putting American soldiers in danger will find equally cherry picked sections that confirm those beliefs. In the end relatively few people will be exposed to anything thought provoking to them.
And those that do will have cognitive dissonance, write it off and not think about it again.
Frankly, if nothing else it will help America have some idea as to what is happening, and that there is a war going on.
You would hope but how many Americans actually know about Wikileaks?
seems to favors special effects over storyline!
Well yea, it is cheaper and easier to blow something up compared to writing something good. It is also easier to sell a 5 sec clip of special effects then a 5 sec clip of storyline. It would also say that it is harder to appreciate special effects with really crappy resolution while the story usually doesn't suffer.
I can't help but be reminded of when my niece (who was 3) used my grandfather's homemade wooden urn as a stool so she could reach the sink to wash her hands. At least my grandfather was being useful.
Their is nothing wrong with pursing the $€£, the problem is being short sighted about it. If a company is only concerned about this quarter or this year they will never invest in the future and eventually be over taken by those that do. Refurbishing factories to be more efficient is expensive in the short term but is usually a good idea in the long run. Investing in research is expensive in the short term but can lead to major profits in the future. You are right exponential growth is not sustainable but continuous growth can continue on for much longer if it is planed for.
Wow, you've even lost a vowel.
Se I tol yo Civ wa dangerou
I've already lost to much of my life to the first 4 civs.
I, uh, imagine that when they find an unlicensed pool on Google Earth, and send somebody to tell you, he does, uh, a quick peek around back to make sure the pool is actually still there before he knocks on the door.
Get real! This is the government we are talking about. You get the fine in the mail and then have to fight it to prove that the pool is no longer there. There is no actual going to the houses anymore.
...of being able to download my OS from the internet for free! Not to mention knowing how to install a new hard drive.
Very true. It is good to see a company that plans for the long term and I applaud their R&D spending and holding onto something because it might be useful in the future. However I have to ask, if this process and glass is 60 years old shouldn't the patent have run out quite a while ago? Shouldn't we have been seeing this before now in uses that Corning couldn't think of?
I agree with your point but I don't see any way the government could do it. Their are so many loopholes, requirements, deductions, exceptions, and what not in the US tax system that no tax service will get it completely correct. It also changes so quickly (exceptions, tax cuts, tax increases, etc) that websites would a hard time keeping up especially at the speed of government. The only government website I use is for my student loans and it is poorly put together and hard to navigate in comparison to banking and credit cards. Personally, I'd trust a 3rd party service (like TurboTax) before I would government software because then I'd at least get some assurance that if there was a bug or miscalculation that had nothing to do with the numbers I put in it would be the problem of someone else instead of being litigated into nothingness by the IRS.
Well to answer your question it is because tables and graphs are scary to those who aren't trained in their use. Kind of like equations. This isn't just a problem with journalists and blogs. I've seen it in academic papers where the data could be easily expressed with a table or a graph or even an equation, instead they waste a lot of space spewing the numbers out. Yes this is in scientific journals with biologists being the worst in my experience.
Sounds like my phd program only without the chain to the desk and with more money.
... when exposed to corrected facts in news stories.
Perhaps because we have learned to distrust the news providers?
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner folks!
If they screw over Darth Vader what do you think a bunch of musicians are going to do?
This is not an industry that rewards trying new things. It does reward poor franchise tie-ins apparently.
Not quite, it rewards games that make money. A few tens of millions of dollars is a huge risk and the Star Wars name draws in the dollars, making the risk much less. Imagine how much money a Star Wars game could make if it was actually a good game?
No wait, not the pigs, just the pork.
Well yea! Pigs can be expensive to feed especially on a long journey where they have nothing to graze on. It is much cheaper just to take the pork into space. Of course the problem is getting back into space with all that pork...
Yes that was a bad typo. So lets try this again to appease all the idiots who can't figure it out.
David Prowse the person who was the on screen presence of Darth Vader in A new Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi never got his full compensation for his part in the movies due to the same accounting tricks mentioned here.
Better?
And Star Wars (4-6) - the guy who was actually in Darth Vader's suite never got paid for the role.
I have a fix for this along with:
genocide
hunger
crime
pollution
war
greed
stupidity
and almost everything else.
I call it the Dr. Strangelove solution, however I don't think the money will do any good afterwords. Don't worry the cockroaches will survive.
I remember a story but could just be a rumor but here it is. They guy who invented the waterbed had his patent rejected. The reason that was given was that the design was already in the public domain because it had already been published in complete detail. The book was Strange in a Strange land by R. Heinlein.
So maybe, just maybe, it would be possible to claim the same thing with all those inventions and save the world from such IP nonsense.
I can see it now.... Scientist: We developed Hyperdrive!! George: Nope...I did...didn't you see my movie...geesh. I think George is heading down the path of the Dark Side....
Too late, didn't you see Star Wars prequals?
What part of may differ don't you understand?