No, gold mines produce and sell gold. GLD shares produce nothing. People buy it anyway.
Buying settlements on Mars, similarly, won't be producing anything, at least not initially. That wouldn't stop people from throwing money at it, like they do at gold depository receipts.
The finance industry does not always concern itself with cashflow (returns). Purely-speculative asset prices are more than enough to draw billions in investment dollars.
Take precious metals, for example. The GLD fund pays no dividend, has no cash flow, no earnings, no return--it's just a piece of paper saying some lump of metal in a vault on the other side of the planet has your name on it. Yet people have sunk $70 BILLION into it.
This "book," or rather, this arranged collection of papers, can be read simply by clicking links on the web page in the summary. The only reason to buy it would be for the convenience of the printed form (at a $100 price!). No pdf or kindle version seems to be available.
Are you nuts? A Mars landing would have FAR more viewers than any sporting event. Hell, most people don't even know the rules of American football! And to keep funding a mars program going forward, you could sell the rights to sporting events on Mars where the gravity is much lower... but really, there would be a land rush as rich guys and hedge funds all scramble to purchase Mars real estate after colonization has been demonstrated to be possible.
An explodable house is a liability. Its market value is negative.
If your renter renders your property valueless, you should sue him and get the settlement from that liability insurance you required he purchase (right?).
You seem to be a bit out-of-date in your thinking. Most of the bugs today are in the applications, on the platforms. SQL injection doesn't care about the operating system.
Nobody would have ever heard of this thing, except that there was nothing else going on in the news when the story broke. This one of thousands of facebook clones. Once it actually does something noteworthy, let's look at it again. Until then, who cares?
They have more cargo capacity, higher clearance, and higher seating, and better off-road capability than wagons/hatchbacks, but they have better handling, better fuel economy, and lower cost than SUVs. That is a pretty substantial list of advantages, and explains why they are selling at such a dramatic rate.
One more thing: you don't understand why higher seating is beneficial, you must live in the middle of nowhere. In the city, being able to see past the truck on your left or the bushes on the corner translates into much better visibility (and hence, safety).
I can't speak for the RAV4 specifically, but these small "crossover" SUVs really seem to be the way of the future with respect to vehicles. They have all of the advantages of cars (easy to drive, easy to park, affordable) combined with all of the advantages of SUVs (lots of cargo capacity, good visibility). I recently purchased a BMW X3 and so far I am absolutely loving it. I can't see any reason to go back to a regular car now that every auto maker has some form of crossover SUV.
You can write an assembler in assembly but you can't write a fully-working interpreter in the language it interprets... at least, not the first time around.
If you're looking for a very high-level language and your main target is web development, you probably should give Ruby a try. Ruby/Python/Perl have similar features, but Ruby definitely has the edge for web-related capabilities.
I'm pretty sure google uses Chevy Cobalts for their StreetView data. This makes a lot of sense, as it would be expensive to lift a much heavier van to the moon.
Wow, what a funny rant! First of all, the USA is not the only country with labor regulations. The primary difference between us and, say, India, is SAFETY regulation. but that doesn't matter at all in office work. So what specifically is it you think makes such a huge regulatory difference?
The last thing I'd like to do, was defend Oracle. But arguments need to be correct, complete, and relevant.
Welcome to the internet! You must be new here. But don't worry; there are only a few simple ground-rules. First of all, understand that the highest form of argument is to compare your opponent to Hitler. Failing that, rephrase your opponent's position in terms of a car analogy. And most important of all--discredit your opponent in every post by referring to him as a "troll."
To complicate the matter, being correct, complete, and relevant doesn't matter a bit if your opponent has citations. There is no citation more trust-worthy than an obscure blog. Build a library of biased, inflammatory blogs which tend to back your own positions; this is your only defense.
Now go to it! I'll get you started: "A language specification is like an engine schematic. This is the Free World; we don't just give our engine designs away. Remember Volkswagen got its start when Hitler shared specifications... I mean, are you even being serious, or are you just trolling? As you can see in this blog..."
Slashdot does the opposite. It redirects SSL connections to HTTP. They must want their users' accounts to be hijacked... and their privacy to be invaded.
Everyone says "mismanaged," but the only thing that really matters is the bottom line. If they mangle the hell out of Sun, but still manage to grow their own stock valuation by $7.4B in the next 20 years or so, they profited from the purchase.
Oracle doesn't sell to "the community." They sell to PHBs and banks. Do they need top coders or community goodwill to do that? Probably not. It's all marketing and backroom deals in the big-contract software world.
Is this supposed to be satire or something? You mention Hitler, you've got some off-topic racism thrown in there, then you advocate genocide... it's just a bit too silly and evil to be real... right?
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No, gold mines produce and sell gold. GLD shares produce nothing. People buy it anyway.
Buying settlements on Mars, similarly, won't be producing anything, at least not initially. That wouldn't stop people from throwing money at it, like they do at gold depository receipts.
The finance industry does not always concern itself with cashflow (returns). Purely-speculative asset prices are more than enough to draw billions in investment dollars.
Take precious metals, for example. The GLD fund pays no dividend, has no cash flow, no earnings, no return--it's just a piece of paper saying some lump of metal in a vault on the other side of the planet has your name on it. Yet people have sunk $70 BILLION into it.
This "book," or rather, this arranged collection of papers, can be read simply by clicking links on the web page in the summary. The only reason to buy it would be for the convenience of the printed form (at a $100 price!). No pdf or kindle version seems to be available.
Are you nuts? A Mars landing would have FAR more viewers than any sporting event. Hell, most people don't even know the rules of American football! And to keep funding a mars program going forward, you could sell the rights to sporting events on Mars where the gravity is much lower... but really, there would be a land rush as rich guys and hedge funds all scramble to purchase Mars real estate after colonization has been demonstrated to be possible.
An explodable house is a liability. Its market value is negative.
If your renter renders your property valueless, you should sue him and get the settlement from that liability insurance you required he purchase (right?).
You seem to be a bit out-of-date in your thinking. Most of the bugs today are in the applications, on the platforms. SQL injection doesn't care about the operating system.
You know, there is a reason nobody has entrusted the management of a large bond portfolio to you...
Nobody would have ever heard of this thing, except that there was nothing else going on in the news when the story broke. This one of thousands of facebook clones. Once it actually does something noteworthy, let's look at it again. Until then, who cares?
They have more cargo capacity, higher clearance, and higher seating, and better off-road capability than wagons/hatchbacks, but they have better handling, better fuel economy, and lower cost than SUVs. That is a pretty substantial list of advantages, and explains why they are selling at such a dramatic rate.
One more thing: you don't understand why higher seating is beneficial, you must live in the middle of nowhere. In the city, being able to see past the truck on your left or the bushes on the corner translates into much better visibility (and hence, safety).
Higher seating position gives better visibility.
I can't speak for the RAV4 specifically, but these small "crossover" SUVs really seem to be the way of the future with respect to vehicles. They have all of the advantages of cars (easy to drive, easy to park, affordable) combined with all of the advantages of SUVs (lots of cargo capacity, good visibility). I recently purchased a BMW X3 and so far I am absolutely loving it. I can't see any reason to go back to a regular car now that every auto maker has some form of crossover SUV.
It does not "beg the question." To beg the question is to employ circular reasoning.
You can write an assembler in assembly but you can't write a fully-working interpreter in the language it interprets... at least, not the first time around.
I don't think you understand what a scripting language is.
If you're looking for a very high-level language and your main target is web development, you probably should give Ruby a try. Ruby/Python/Perl have similar features, but Ruby definitely has the edge for web-related capabilities.
I'm pretty sure google uses Chevy Cobalts for their StreetView data. This makes a lot of sense, as it would be expensive to lift a much heavier van to the moon.
That's a completely bogus number.
Wow, what a funny rant! First of all, the USA is not the only country with labor regulations. The primary difference between us and, say, India, is SAFETY regulation. but that doesn't matter at all in office work. So what specifically is it you think makes such a huge regulatory difference?
I don't know a single person, not one, who makes his OS choice based on what "gnome developers" recommend. Why was this bit even added to the summary?
Welcome to the internet! You must be new here. But don't worry; there are only a few simple ground-rules. First of all, understand that the highest form of argument is to compare your opponent to Hitler. Failing that, rephrase your opponent's position in terms of a car analogy. And most important of all--discredit your opponent in every post by referring to him as a "troll."
To complicate the matter, being correct, complete, and relevant doesn't matter a bit if your opponent has citations. There is no citation more trust-worthy than an obscure blog. Build a library of biased, inflammatory blogs which tend to back your own positions; this is your only defense.
Now go to it! I'll get you started: "A language specification is like an engine schematic. This is the Free World; we don't just give our engine designs away. Remember Volkswagen got its start when Hitler shared specifications... I mean, are you even being serious, or are you just trolling? As you can see in this blog..."
Not all of us are dumb enough to use our real names, Mr. Hasler.
I would prefer that my ISP, employer, etc. does not know what I post to slashdot.
Slashdot does the opposite. It redirects SSL connections to HTTP. They must want their users' accounts to be hijacked... and their privacy to be invaded.
Everyone says "mismanaged," but the only thing that really matters is the bottom line. If they mangle the hell out of Sun, but still manage to grow their own stock valuation by $7.4B in the next 20 years or so, they profited from the purchase.
Oracle doesn't sell to "the community." They sell to PHBs and banks. Do they need top coders or community goodwill to do that? Probably not. It's all marketing and backroom deals in the big-contract software world.
Is this supposed to be satire or something? You mention Hitler, you've got some off-topic racism thrown in there, then you advocate genocide... it's just a bit too silly and evil to be real... right?