MSFT has split many times but not since around 2000 when it hit it's high of around $60. Since then it's been stuck in the trading range you see it in.
Wrong-wrong.
MSFT split in January 2003. Check out Yahoo Finance if you don't believe me.
The U.S. could satisfy 90% of its electrical demand with wind turbines on 3% of our farmland
There are about 371 million acres of farmland in the US. 3% of that is about 17,000 square miles.
Sure! Sounds easy! Let's cover an area the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined with wind farms. That's *really* cheap.
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I remember reading in Car and Driver once that the fighter jockeys out in Colorado would seek out cars likely to have radar detectors and light them up with their ground-acquisition radar.
You can imagine what happens to a Valentine One when it's being painted by an F-16...
Right on, but what brilliance-boy was saying in the parent was basically Linux is the best Unix. Period. For everyone. Statements like that just make the idiocy-meter go off the charts.
Well, yeah, you're right in your myopic worldview. For the rest of us that exist in the real world, we realize that maybe, JUST MAYBE you might consider the best Unix the one that runs really well on a many processor box for a medical database or bank transactions or high-end webserver or one of many many many uses for big iron...
Read interface a loooong time ago...it's pretty good, but has the problem that many Stephenson books have (esp the Diamond Age) - whole chunks of plot feel like they're missing...
Hmmm...It's two procs on a die, right? I seem to remember when I was at IBM they showed it off, and there were only four dies on a package...has it changed, or am I getting senile?
IBM uses RISC Power4 procs I believe...They're really badass - two procs per chip, four chips in a "package" giving you eight processors on the surface area about the size of a dinner plate...like I said, badass.
Wealth doesn't evaporate. If I give you $100 for a share of stock, and then the stock falls to $1, I myself am poorer, but you are richer by an equal amount. If it goes up to $1000, and I sell, I am richer, but someone else is poorer by that amount. If I don't sell, nothing of course happens.
The army actually worked on this in the fifties (the glorious nuclear age). There were a couple of problems. One was that containment is VERY heavy, especially when you're talking about a something hurtling along at five hundred miles an hour. The second was that there's only so far a pilot can fly. nuclear power in a plane was overkill by several orders of magnitude.
Is this a photo satellite? 3 meter resolution for something like that is nothing - I seem to remember reading that the lastest US satellites could resolve on a pack of cigarettes (giving it a few centimeter) resolution. Hell, over on terraserver, there's like ten meter resolution, and that data's years and years old.
Me neither. But I think it's a fantastic idea. One of the main reasons I bought a PS2 was because I could also use it as DVD player. I'd just love that TiVo PS2 idea...
I know they make no money off the hardware as it is, so I would think licensing would be a good way to farm off the production and distribution costs while still retaining control of the hardware design (unlike Sega becoming a game-only house) and keeping the Nintendo brand strong...
Lexis costs so darn much because they pay each content provider for the rights to search and reproduce the articles. Google only searches free content, so all they have to pay for are their devs, hardware, marketing et al. Lexis pays huge fees to the Washington Post, South China Morning Post, and so on...
Moral of the story? There's not going to be a Lexis-killing Google anytime soon. However, Lexis licensing Google's search for their archives would be a wet dream...
I would too. In a hearbeat. A ThinkPad A-series with OSX would be heaven...
One obtsacle would be MSFT's investment in Apple, another would be device incompatability (Apple couldn't even get OSX.0 to work on its own devices/drives, let alone every videocard, keyboard, DVD-ROM, CD-R et al...). Then there's the Alitivec enhancements that would be thrown out, making it a bit slower on Intel hardware...
But by far the biggest obstacle has got to be Apple's high profit margins (30% last quarter)...If you could get OSX on some cheapo $600 box, there'd be far less of a reason to buy an Imac or iBook or even titanium...they'd have to slash prices to compete and would just get killed.
Yeah, there's a Japanese architect whose name I now forget that does a lot of work with cardboard. After the earthquake he came in and build lots shelters for the displaced people using cardboard tubes - even beer cases! There's an epoxy process that allows rain and other weather resistance, and it apparently holds up quite well...he's even built some [very expensive] homes out of cardboard...
Fighters scrambled from MA to deal with the second plane. Remember, nobody knew what was happening until the first one hit, and the second one only hit after eight minutes. Besides, the contents of the silo don't have to go very far to clear the blast area - they don't have to make it all the way to their targets before the first one hits.
One of my teachers worked for the structural engineer who built the WTC. They were constructed to withstand the impact of a 707 (the largest airplane at the time of their design, about the size of a 737). The 747 is quite a bit bigger than the 767s that actually hit it, *and* has bigger fuel tanks.
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MSFT has split many times but not since around 2000 when it hit it's high of around $60. Since then it's been stuck in the trading range you see it in.
Wrong-wrong.
MSFT split in January 2003. Check out Yahoo Finance if you don't believe me.
The U.S. could satisfy 90% of its electrical demand with wind turbines on 3% of our farmland
There are about 371 million acres of farmland in the US. 3% of that is about 17,000 square miles.
Sure! Sounds easy! Let's cover an area the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined with wind farms. That's *really* cheap.
I remember reading in Car and Driver once that the fighter jockeys out in Colorado would seek out cars likely to have radar detectors and light them up with their ground-acquisition radar.
You can imagine what happens to a Valentine One when it's being painted by an F-16...
Now all we need to do is get PATRIOT II thrown out...and the DMCA...and PATRIOT I...
I bet the pepper spray was conceived with Mogadishu in mind - i.e. civilians getting the way of operations.
IIRC, the quote is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Apocalypse."
"There was an unconnected fax machine with the intelligence of a computer and a
computer with the intelligence of a retarded ant"
Right on, but what brilliance-boy was saying in the parent was basically Linux is the best Unix. Period. For everyone. Statements like that just make the idiocy-meter go off the charts.
Well, yeah, you're right in your myopic worldview. For the rest of us that exist in the real world, we realize that maybe, JUST MAYBE you might consider the best Unix the one that runs really well on a many processor box for a medical database or bank transactions or high-end webserver or one of many many many uses for big iron...
yeah, when I was in Tokyo, I thought about getting the Cowboy Bebop movie...then I realised the DVD was US$60....
The box set. I just got it, and it blew me (a jaded anime fan) away. It's worth the cash (and cheaper than all eight DVD's seperately)
Read interface a loooong time ago...it's pretty good, but has the problem that many Stephenson books have (esp the Diamond Age) - whole chunks of plot feel like they're missing...
Great paperback, tho.
DeLoreans don't rust! They're made out of stainless steel...
Hmmm...It's two procs on a die, right? I seem to remember when I was at IBM they showed it off, and there were only four dies on a package...has it changed, or am I getting senile?
IBM uses RISC Power4 procs I believe...They're really badass - two procs per chip, four chips in a "package" giving you eight processors on the surface area about the size of a dinner plate...like I said, badass.
patents and copyrights, apart from being guardians of intellectial property, are different things.
Bad example! No cookie!
Wealth doesn't evaporate. If I give you $100 for a share of stock, and then the stock falls to $1, I myself am poorer, but you are richer by an equal amount. If it goes up to $1000, and I sell, I am richer, but someone else is poorer by that amount. If I don't sell, nothing of course happens.
The army actually worked on this in the fifties (the glorious nuclear age). There were a couple of problems. One was that containment is VERY heavy, especially when you're talking about a something hurtling along at five hundred miles an hour. The second was that there's only so far a pilot can fly. nuclear power in a plane was overkill by several orders of magnitude.
Is this a photo satellite? 3 meter resolution for something like that is nothing - I seem to remember reading that the lastest US satellites could resolve on a pack of cigarettes (giving it a few centimeter) resolution. Hell, over on terraserver, there's like ten meter resolution, and that data's years and years old.
Me neither. But I think it's a fantastic idea. One of the main reasons I bought a PS2 was because I could also use it as DVD player. I'd just love that TiVo PS2 idea...
I know they make no money off the hardware as it is, so I would think licensing would be a good way to farm off the production and distribution costs while still retaining control of the hardware design (unlike Sega becoming a game-only house) and keeping the Nintendo brand strong...
Lexis costs so darn much because they pay each content provider for the rights to search and reproduce the articles. Google only searches free content, so all they have to pay for are their devs, hardware, marketing et al. Lexis pays huge fees to the Washington Post, South China Morning Post, and so on...
Moral of the story? There's not going to be a Lexis-killing Google anytime soon. However, Lexis licensing Google's search for their archives would be a wet dream...
I would too. In a hearbeat. A ThinkPad A-series with OSX would be heaven...
One obtsacle would be MSFT's investment in Apple, another would be device incompatability (Apple couldn't even get OSX.0 to work on its own devices/drives, let alone every videocard, keyboard, DVD-ROM, CD-R et al...). Then there's the Alitivec enhancements that would be thrown out, making it a bit slower on Intel hardware...
But by far the biggest obstacle has got to be Apple's high profit margins (30% last quarter)...If you could get OSX on some cheapo $600 box, there'd be far less of a reason to buy an Imac or iBook or even titanium...they'd have to slash prices to compete and would just get killed.
But I can dream anyway. It would be GREAT!
Yeah, there's a Japanese architect whose name I now forget that does a lot of work with cardboard. After the earthquake he came in and build lots shelters for the displaced people using cardboard tubes - even beer cases! There's an epoxy process that allows rain and other weather resistance, and it apparently holds up quite well...he's even built some [very expensive] homes out of cardboard...
Fighters scrambled from MA to deal with the second plane. Remember, nobody knew what was happening until the first one hit, and the second one only hit after eight minutes. Besides, the contents of the silo don't have to go very far to clear the blast area - they don't have to make it all the way to their targets before the first one hits.
One of my teachers worked for the structural engineer who built the WTC. They were constructed to withstand the impact of a 707 (the largest airplane at the time of their design, about the size of a 737). The 747 is quite a bit bigger than the 767s that actually hit it, *and* has bigger fuel tanks.