There is no way on the planet Google is worth 1 billion US dollars.
Err, with ~ $100 million in profits, valuing Google with a P/E ratio of 10 (historically low even for a non-growth company) would give it a market cap of $1 billion.
Note that Yahoo is valued at $28 billion, with profits that are double Google's.
You may not think Google is worth $1 billion, but I think you'd be in the minority. One million... I mean one BILLION dollars isn't what it used to be- just ask Dr. Evil.
I agree with parent. Note also that this project may serve as very cost-effective advertising for this lab. I wouldn't consider this money wasted, by money very well spent (given that they have the lab & the expertise, the marginal cost of the exercise was probably pretty low).
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I had asked my good friend, who works on the campaign, about this last time; he said Dean's a busy dude, and after the Lessig blog had some other constituencies to cover before he'd have a chance to circle back.
And while it'd be cool if he did an interview, I don't think he exactly *needs* to...
the truth of the matter is - there is tons of small office stuff written in VB and VBA
I agree. I am not a huge MS fan, but one thing they have done well (security issues aside- oops) is structure Office so that you can automate tasks and add functionality. Any of the Office apps, esp. Excel, can act as a rudimentary application development platform, b/c you can easily build a GUI and then tie it to the built-in machinery (XL functions, etc.). I rely on this heavily for my work. I can then share the 'applications' with my co-workers and clients, who can use and partially modify the app w/o any special training.
I'd love to get away from Office, but to start, I need a replacement with comparable (or better) scripting capabilities.
Can someone explain why the parent (straight out of the Limbaugh/Coulter line of commentary) got modded up, but the somewhat 'liberal' responses got modded down? Esp. if \. is leftish?
Now that you mention it, Professor Bush actually has looked into the fluid dynamics of wine, as well.
He's a cool guy- I took a fluids class he taught a few years back. He's one of those people who can use mathematical intuition to understand physical phenomena.
I think that this has already been done in many parts of the country. The cost savings due to better efficiency and less maintenance make for a no-brainer business case. The payback time is really short.
Q: Why is IBM being so slow to respond?
A: IBM is still coming to terms with the fact that a company such as SCO would be so entirely suicidal and stupid. They are not used to dealing with complete and utter morons.
I think that:
IBM has contacted relevant clients and told them to chill.
IBM is letting SCO hang themselves with their public statements (which they are doing quite nicely), which I think will prove useful in demonstrating in court how full of shit SCO is.
That's only 21900 pounds of wood per household per year!!! Yay!?!
That's about 100 trees per year per house (assuming 10m height, 15cm diameter, dry density of 500 kg/m3). Not exactly something you can do in your back yard (at least, my back yard).
1. Dean is not anti-war, he's just anti-"pre-emptive", sexed-up war.
2. I don't think Bush would get 500 electorals against anyone right now. Economy? Middling. Unemployment? Yikes. Bad news from Iraq & Afghanistan? More yikes. Pissed off soldiers (who's pay Bush is cutting)? Very bad.
Bush is very much in danger of losing the big Middle, unless we have another crisis, which is the only thing that keeps his approval ratings up.
1) Inelastic - demand does not flucuate tremendously due to price. While higher prices due lead to decreased demands and energy conservation, electricity is almost a need - unlike eggs which competes against food - for heating, cooling, lighting and computers.
Sort of- but significant (residential, at least) consumers like heating and clothes drying can be served by sources other than electricity. Also, I'd argue that the average US household could reduce electricity use 20% with minimal investment (and a reasonable return on investment). Why don't they? Beats the crap out of me. Probably not enough 'mind-share'.
2) Barriers to entry - additional competitors face tremendous barriers to entry. Plants and transmission lines are incredibly expensive and governments are the only ones that can build and invest in the system without an immediate payback demanded by investors. Plus, in a truly free electicity market, switching providers would be incredibly expensive because each provider would have their own lines to your house. That is why in most deregulation systems the supply of electricity is deregulated but tranmission is still a government monopoly.
Transmission lines, probably yes, plants, no. And its possible for different generators to sell you electricity over one set of lines. My town (which hsa a municipal electrical company) just changed who it buys electricity from; the wires are the same. There's the electrical side (complex) and the financial side (also compex).
Deregulation seems like a good thing in theory, but in practice it kind of worries me.
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This may explain why so many bad ones get granted?
I lost track-
Is Sun good (Open Office support, Java), or evil (SCO, Java)?
From the article:
Which is a ratio of the vertical distance traveled by the tip of the wing during the flapping stroke (f A) over the speed of the animal (U).
So I think he got it.
And yes, it's safe to assume that Strouhal numbers fall within a range spanning four orders of magnitude (1/100 to 100).
I am always amazed by Apple's ability to simultaneously dazzle and aggravate.
Awe and shock?
Err, with ~ $100 million in profits, valuing Google with a P/E ratio of 10 (historically low even for a non-growth company) would give it a market cap of $1 billion.
Note that Yahoo is valued at $28 billion, with profits that are double Google's.
You may not think Google is worth $1 billion, but I think you'd be in the minority. One million... I mean one BILLION dollars isn't what it used to be- just ask Dr. Evil.
I agree with parent. Note also that this project may serve as very cost-effective advertising for this lab. I wouldn't consider this money wasted, by money very well spent (given that they have the lab & the expertise, the marginal cost of the exercise was probably pretty low).
I had asked my good friend, who works on the campaign, about this last time; he said Dean's a busy dude, and after the Lessig blog had some other constituencies to cover before he'd have a chance to circle back.
And while it'd be cool if he did an interview, I don't think he exactly *needs* to...
Dude, if your girlfriend goes to Dartmouth, consider yourself dumped.
- Class of '94
I agree. I am not a huge MS fan, but one thing they have done well (security issues aside- oops) is structure Office so that you can automate tasks and add functionality. Any of the Office apps, esp. Excel, can act as a rudimentary application development platform, b/c you can easily build a GUI and then tie it to the built-in machinery (XL functions, etc.). I rely on this heavily for my work. I can then share the 'applications' with my co-workers and clients, who can use and partially modify the app w/o any special training.
I'd love to get away from Office, but to start, I need a replacement with comparable (or better) scripting capabilities.
Can someone explain why the parent (straight out of the Limbaugh/Coulter line of commentary) got modded up, but the somewhat 'liberal' responses got modded down? Esp. if \. is leftish?
NFW.
It may make auditing easier, but it makes vote selling and voter intimidation much, much easier as well.
Yikes.
Double yikes.
Now if votes were associated with an ID, but voters only knew their own ID (see the Digicash post)... that sounds pretty good.
The better question is, what becomes scarce?
Err, energy?
He's a cool guy- I took a fluids class he taught a few years back. He's one of those people who can use mathematical intuition to understand physical phenomena.
discarded [fluorescent] bulbs release approximately 2-4 tons of mercury per year in the United States...
And that sucks. But you have to balance that against the 49 tons that are emitted (directly to the atmosphere) by coal burning power plants annually.
I don't have time to do the arithmatic right now, but the reduced atmospheric emissions may make fluorescents a wash in this department.
I think that this has already been done in many parts of the country. The cost savings due to better efficiency and less maintenance make for a no-brainer business case. The payback time is really short.
Solar? It takes energy to produce those acres of panels, and you are displacing wildlife in the process.
I think that solar panels are net energy gainers after about 2 years. And you can put 'em on top of buildings (see Sun Power Electric).
The real problem with solar is that manufacturing costs are still too damn expensive (which is tied to the energy consumption).
You missed the 'up to'. The technology isn't mature yet.
I think that:
- IBM has contacted relevant clients and told them to chill.
- IBM is letting SCO hang themselves with their public statements (which they are doing quite nicely), which I think will prove useful in demonstrating in court how full of shit SCO is.
In sum, SCO's FUD is ultimately helpful to IBM.That's about 100 trees per year per house (assuming 10m height, 15cm diameter, dry density of 500 kg/m3). Not exactly something you can do in your back yard (at least, my back yard).
1. Dean is not anti-war, he's just anti-"pre-emptive", sexed-up war.
2. I don't think Bush would get 500 electorals against anyone right now. Economy? Middling. Unemployment? Yikes. Bad news from Iraq & Afghanistan? More yikes. Pissed off soldiers (who's pay Bush is cutting)? Very bad.
Bush is very much in danger of losing the big Middle, unless we have another crisis, which is the only thing that keeps his approval ratings up.
Sort of- but significant (residential, at least) consumers like heating and clothes drying can be served by sources other than electricity. Also, I'd argue that the average US household could reduce electricity use 20% with minimal investment (and a reasonable return on investment). Why don't they? Beats the crap out of me. Probably not enough 'mind-share'.
2) Barriers to entry - additional competitors face tremendous barriers to entry. Plants and transmission lines are incredibly expensive and governments are the only ones that can build and invest in the system without an immediate payback demanded by investors. Plus, in a truly free electicity market, switching providers would be incredibly expensive because each provider would have their own lines to your house. That is why in most deregulation systems the supply of electricity is deregulated but tranmission is still a government monopoly.
Transmission lines, probably yes, plants, no. And its possible for different generators to sell you electricity over one set of lines. My town (which hsa a municipal electrical company) just changed who it buys electricity from; the wires are the same. There's the electrical side (complex) and the financial side (also compex).
Deregulation seems like a good thing in theory, but in practice it kind of worries me.
Of some interest, the internet in North America seems not to have been affected much.
It may be a coincidence, but didn't SCO's rhetoric get more interesting after the Iraqi Information Minister left his post?
you can throttle them when they screw up
you can physically chew them out
as if you walked over to their cubicle to yell
Can I please come work for you? You seem to have advanced management skills.