The original joke went over my head. I recognised it as a joke- but whereas I have heard of the tulip bubble, I wasn't thinking of it at the time and didn't make the connection.
My reply was joking around- but it was not an extension of the original joke- any resemblence is pure lucky coincidence!;)
I wonder how much the bad PR accumulated from stupid patents hurts companies like Apple- or if it even feels any affect,
Don't say any public exposure is good exposure. Toyota found out that that was not the case when their cars decided they didn't want to stop.
When it comes time that I decide to buy a smart phone [as if I will ever have that much money:( ] I will weigh the pros and cons of each option; however, I won't deny- I have a bad taste in my mouth about apple so I may be less inclined to buy their product if I find it not to be too much better than a competitor... if Apple is way better than anyone else- I will overlook the minor inconvenience of their patent faux pas.
Can we really trust robot telescopes? How do we know they won't be sending SOS [save our sircuitry] signals to extraterrestrial robotic civilizations without our knowledge?
It is only a matter of time before the robot telescopes invite an invasion force of galactical roomba warlords to enslave humanity.
Well apart from the established price for tulips and daffodils are actually quite similar; however the labour to produce extra tulips is greater than that of daffodils.
Therefore, assuming you count the cost of your time- there is a greater profit margain out of daffodils.
Profit = Income - Costs
If income is approximately the same for both- then the product with the lower costs gives you the greater profit.
Therefore- the "root" to wealth lieth not with tulips.
Yahoo could have been on a gold-mine if they marketed launch better- it was an excellent radio system and could have been much bigger than Pandora is now.
Launch's sorting-routines were much better- it varied music played better. Pandora annoys me- I like one bluegrass song- and then rather than playing the occasional bluegrass song mixed in with other genres- I never hear bluegrass for a month- and then all of a sudden it decides to play 10 in a row.
I think Pandora when deciding what to play- picks one song you liked= and then plays 10 similar songs in a row so you end up with much less variation. Launch was more random what it played.
Anyhow- I think Launch could have been huge, and possibly saved Yahoo if they marketed it correctly and not neutered it right when people were finally beginning to use it.
Microsoft is the bumbling idiot politician who maybe steals a little bit of public money on the side- but tries to make good policies and move things along.
Facebook is like an evil genious- hell bent on world domination and destroying anything that gets in its way- turning innocent people into mindless zombies along the way.
It is about football (for now)- but it has much wider implications.
For other sports, yes, but this has the ability to change how the whole information distribution across Europe changes.
Now Europe, for TV distribution sake, is one. What shows in Greece can be shown in England- What shows in Germany can be shown in Spain.
Local broadcasters cannot hold a monopoly on individual countries on anything. This could eventually turn into a big euro-fight of the media distributors and we could see a lot of mergers and aquisitions- and big european-wide media giants emerge.
Iran doesn't have nukes (yet).- but they certainly have missiles capable of reaching Israel (whom our countries count as an ally).
They could hit Turkey (who want to be part of the EU).
They could certainly hit their neighbours- Saudi Arabia, also nominally an ally of ours- and don't forget they just had one of the ambassadors of that country slain.
There is the whole Sunni, Shiite (sp?) split... y'know kinda how Protestants and Catholics were killing each other for centuries.
Iran doesn't have to hit us to bring us to war. They don't have to hit us to disrupt our oil supply and way of life.
Iran does have the capacity to be a major PITA if they get hold of nukes.
You would hope that PopSci, and all the other major news organizations that reported on this would know that a chimp is not a monkey.
I think even the dumbest journalist should know that a chimp isn't a monkey.
However, I don't know that Iran ever said what species they were launching. It could be there is no difference in translation and monkey/ape don't have seperate words.
I'm sure he isn't happy- because if it applies to Footie it applies to F1 too.
Also- as a part owner in a football team- he will lose out. TV rights will go down- and so less money will trickle back to the clubs- his investment. (and all English football clubs value) will go down as a result.
A quick note to catch the Americans up on what matters most in the world:
Pubs in Britain had to pay more to show English games than pubs overseas because Sky (who held the British rights) charged more.
English football league is the richest in the world (most watched sports league in the world as a result)- in part because the TV money is so much higher there so it gets the best quality players. A certain % of Sky's money there goes back to the clubs.
The English league will now lose some of the monetary advantage it had because Sky will have to compete with cheapo-European networks.
Recently Liverpool Football Club asked to be able to negotiate their own TV rights outside of the league. Their argument : we're a big club- we have more fans- more people turn on the telly to watch us than some of the smaller clubs- we should get more money than smaller clubs that no-one watches.
This was quickly shot down by everyone else who said it was a terrible idea. ESPECIALLY from the smaller clubs who would as a result get less money- but even some of the big clubs who would get more money as a result were not in favour.
This is actually how it works in Spain- where clubs like Real Madrid, and Barcelona have budgets that dwarf anyone else. Real Madrid and Barca are the big teams- they negotiate their own TV deals- and as a result have been (even before now) making more money than even the English teams- despite the Spanish league being poorer (wealthwise) in general.
Liverpool have a point though- now England is losing their advantage as a league- Real Madrid and Barcelona are going to have way more money than any club in England- because they get to negotiate their own deals. Being in England is no longer an advantage- so the wealth gap to the big Spanish teams will grow.
The tide of power that had been in England for a number of years is now going to shift back to Spain again because their clubs will have much bigger budgets.
I didn't RTFA- [I don't read any articles that require me to log in first] so if I'm misunderstanding the synopsis- apologies in advance.
I've often considered writing a novel, there is an idea I've been burning to write for years. My terrible grammer has always held me back from writing.
IF I were to write though, I would not trust Amazon to publish for me. IF I write- I'd want my work to be available to as many people as possible- I wouldn't want to be limited by one vendor (as I suspect signing for Amazon would ultimately do).
Signing for Amazon would be the ultimate statement of "I've grown as much as I can, now I'll sell-out".
It is good news Private corporations are active in space.
First and foremost- this makes the government somewhat accountable. If the government(s) has(have) a monopoly on space they can get away with activities we may not want them to.
As the technology evolves we will require both public and private activity (new technologies often require the ingenuity of the private sector built on the foundations of the public sector). Ironically- the roles seem reversed here- but I suspect the same will hold true.
If you launched a pepper in space and set it orbiting the earth- it would travel at a fast enough speed. That it could pass right through the skull of an astronaut.
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To clarify my comment... and confession.
The original joke went over my head. I recognised it as a joke- but whereas I have heard of the tulip bubble, I wasn't thinking of it at the time and didn't make the connection.
My reply was joking around- but it was not an extension of the original joke- any resemblence is pure lucky coincidence! ;)
I wonder how much the bad PR accumulated from stupid patents hurts companies like Apple- or if it even feels any affect,
Don't say any public exposure is good exposure. Toyota found out that that was not the case when their cars decided they didn't want to stop.
When it comes time that I decide to buy a smart phone [as if I will ever have that much money :( ] I will weigh the pros and cons of each option; however, I won't deny- I have a bad taste in my mouth about apple so I may be less inclined to buy their product if I find it not to be too much better than a competitor... if Apple is way better than anyone else- I will overlook the minor inconvenience of their patent faux pas.
Can we really trust robot telescopes? How do we know they won't be sending SOS [save our sircuitry] signals to extraterrestrial robotic civilizations without our knowledge?
It is only a matter of time before the robot telescopes invite an invasion force of galactical roomba warlords to enslave humanity.
Well apart from the established price for tulips and daffodils are actually quite similar; however the labour to produce extra tulips is greater than that of daffodils.
Therefore, assuming you count the cost of your time- there is a greater profit margain out of daffodils.
Profit = Income - Costs
If income is approximately the same for both- then the product with the lower costs gives you the greater profit.
Therefore- the "root" to wealth lieth not with tulips.
The best thing about Yahoo was Launch.
Yahoo could have been on a gold-mine if they marketed launch better- it was an excellent radio system and could have been much bigger than Pandora is now.
Launch's sorting-routines were much better- it varied music played better. Pandora annoys me- I like one bluegrass song- and then rather than playing the occasional bluegrass song mixed in with other genres- I never hear bluegrass for a month- and then all of a sudden it decides to play 10 in a row.
I think Pandora when deciding what to play- picks one song you liked= and then plays 10 similar songs in a row so you end up with much less variation. Launch was more random what it played.
Anyhow- I think Launch could have been huge, and possibly saved Yahoo if they marketed it correctly and not neutered it right when people were finally beginning to use it.
Daffodils are a better investment.
Unless you take the time to dig up your tulip bulbs each year- the number of tulips each consecutive year goes down.
Daffodils on the other hand increase the size of their investment- you plant 10 this year- you'll have 15 next year.
Muscari bulbs would be better yet. You plant one this year- you'll have 12 trillion of them next year... they're like the tribbles of the bulb-world.
Bitcoin crashes after CmdrTaco leaves Slashdot.
I don't think that is just a coincidence.
If the universe spins... what is it spinning in? "Space"?
Does space therefore exist outside the universe (other than in some theoretical brane)?
Worlds most relaxing music?
I want chicken,
I want liver,
Meowmix, Meowmix,
Please deliver
I've never joined facebook or wanted to.
Now I'm tempted to- just to create a bunch of BS so that it is confused about my real data.
Fill in a bunch of fake data- connect via a proxy- then unregister myself before people start giving me friend requests.
Just stay on long enough to screw up FB's data on me.
Spokeo is amusing in how BAAAD it is- looking up myself it has more things wrong than right.
Scary that it gets anything right- but Spokeo just makes silly guesses based on, who knows what.
Facebook is waaaaaaay more evil than Microsoft.
Microsoft is the bumbling idiot politician who maybe steals a little bit of public money on the side- but tries to make good policies and move things along.
Facebook is like an evil genious- hell bent on world domination and destroying anything that gets in its way- turning innocent people into mindless zombies along the way.
It is about football (for now)- but it has much wider implications.
For other sports, yes, but this has the ability to change how the whole information distribution across Europe changes.
Now Europe, for TV distribution sake, is one. What shows in Greece can be shown in England- What shows in Germany can be shown in Spain.
Local broadcasters cannot hold a monopoly on individual countries on anything. This could eventually turn into a big euro-fight of the media distributors and we could see a lot of mergers and aquisitions- and big european-wide media giants emerge.
Iran doesn't have nukes (yet).- but they certainly have missiles capable of reaching Israel (whom our countries count as an ally).
They could hit Turkey (who want to be part of the EU).
They could certainly hit their neighbours- Saudi Arabia, also nominally an ally of ours- and don't forget they just had one of the ambassadors of that country slain.
There is the whole Sunni, Shiite (sp?) split... y'know kinda how Protestants and Catholics were killing each other for centuries.
Iran doesn't have to hit us to bring us to war. They don't have to hit us to disrupt our oil supply and way of life.
Iran does have the capacity to be a major PITA if they get hold of nukes.
The article doesn't say it merely refers to a "monkey".
It shows a picture of an American chimp at NASA- but doesn't say that the Iranians were launching a chimp.
You would hope that PopSci, and all the other major news organizations that reported on this would know that a chimp is not a monkey.
I think even the dumbest journalist should know that a chimp isn't a monkey.
However, I don't know that Iran ever said what species they were launching. It could be there is no difference in translation and monkey/ape don't have seperate words.
They failed to launch a monkey?
Does that mean Ahmadinejad is still on Earth?
I'm sure he isn't happy- because if it applies to Footie it applies to F1 too.
Also- as a part owner in a football team- he will lose out. TV rights will go down- and so less money will trickle back to the clubs- his investment. (and all English football clubs value) will go down as a result.
A quick note to catch the Americans up on what matters most in the world:
Pubs in Britain had to pay more to show English games than pubs overseas because Sky (who held the British rights) charged more.
English football league is the richest in the world (most watched sports league in the world as a result)- in part because the TV money is so much higher there so it gets the best quality players.
A certain % of Sky's money there goes back to the clubs.
The English league will now lose some of the monetary advantage it had because Sky will have to compete with cheapo-European networks.
Recently Liverpool Football Club asked to be able to negotiate their own TV rights outside of the league. Their argument : we're a big club- we have more fans- more people turn on the telly to watch us than some of the smaller clubs- we should get more money than smaller clubs that no-one watches.
This was quickly shot down by everyone else who said it was a terrible idea. ESPECIALLY from the smaller clubs who would as a result get less money- but even some of the big clubs who would get more money as a result were not in favour.
This is actually how it works in Spain- where clubs like Real Madrid, and Barcelona have budgets that dwarf anyone else. Real Madrid and Barca are the big teams- they negotiate their own TV deals- and as a result have been (even before now) making more money than even the English teams- despite the Spanish league being poorer (wealthwise) in general.
Liverpool have a point though- now England is losing their advantage as a league- Real Madrid and Barcelona are going to have way more money than any club in England- because they get to negotiate their own deals. Being in England is no longer an advantage- so the wealth gap to the big Spanish teams will grow.
The tide of power that had been in England for a number of years is now going to shift back to Spain again because their clubs will have much bigger budgets.
I didn't RTFA- [I don't read any articles that require me to log in first] so if I'm misunderstanding the synopsis- apologies in advance.
I've often considered writing a novel, there is an idea I've been burning to write for years. My terrible grammer has always held me back from writing.
IF I were to write though, I would not trust Amazon to publish for me. IF I write- I'd want my work to be available to as many people as possible- I wouldn't want to be limited by one vendor (as I suspect signing for Amazon would ultimately do).
Signing for Amazon would be the ultimate statement of "I've grown as much as I can, now I'll sell-out".
As interesting as this is, I wouldn't be surprised if we produce batteries before long that can store enough power for a lifetime.
Might be cheaper and easier to use a next-generation battery than a bio-generator.
Perhaps more reliable too.
Why do that?
Embed your iPhone into your chest cavity- put a speaker in your ear.
Rename it "I, Phone"
It is good news Private corporations are active in space.
First and foremost- this makes the government somewhat accountable. If the government(s) has(have) a monopoly on space they can get away with activities we may not want them to.
As the technology evolves we will require both public and private activity (new technologies often require the ingenuity of the private sector built on the foundations of the public sector). Ironically- the roles seem reversed here- but I suspect the same will hold true.
If you launched a pepper in space and set it orbiting the earth- it would travel at a fast enough speed. That it could pass right through the skull of an astronaut.
So yes, peppers can kill you.
Why would so many Americans move to Eastern Europe?
Eastern European women!