The joinpoint trend in US cancer mortality with associated annual percentage change (%) for cancer of the thyroid between 1975-2008, All Races Trend Period -2.1% 1975-1988 0.7% 1988-2008
So unless you want to share your thyroid cancer cure with the rest of us... then the death rate will be similar.
Out of the two million people who live within a 50-mile (80-kilometer) radius of the Fukushima plant, about one million live in areas contaminated with cesium-137 to levels greater than 1curie per square kilometer.2 Scaling to the six million people in areas contaminated to similar levels by the Chernobyl accident, one might expect around 1,000 extra cancer deaths related to the Fukushima Daiichi accident, that is, a 0.1 percent incidence rate.
Pretending that all of those people exposed to radiation from Fukushima don't count because they haven't died yet, is dishonest at best.
5 billion in revenue 1 billion in net income 2 billion in cash (1.3 billion in operating cash flow) no debt
They have a problem with falling revenues, and as a result, falling profits. Their profits declined 5.3% yoy -- so instead of 1.10 billion, they only made 1.05 billion.
Yahoo has the resources to build their company.. they just don't have a vision. And this guy... he doesn't have a vision either.
He is slashing and burning... he is not going to lead Yahoo anywhere.. he's just destroying the company further.
I said successfull... that site has an alexa rank of 2.3m. Judging from the sites I run, 250k is about 1250-2000 visitors a day. So I can only imagine what 2.3m is in visitors.
One other thing: if you're doing this just so you can create a video section.. maybe try something a little different. Instead of posts by companies, try covering trade shows, etc.. the videos with timothy that were posted in the beginning I thought were great.
Your site.. feel free to disagree.. but I think you're making a huge mistake with these ads.
There has to be some separation between the ads and the content. No one is going to visit a site explicitly to see ads. And if the content becomes the advertising, users will leave.
I can't think of a single successful site that has advertising as the content. Nytimes, washpost, wsj, digg,... There's always separation between the content and the ads.
I have to agree. This is just too blatant. I meant the "story" doesn't even have an angle. If they were to put just the tiniest bit of thought into it, they could have made it interesting. I'm sure a database admin company could tell us how to deal with scaling up.. or design tips.. or if mysql is better than pgsql.
Instead it's literally: "hey! here's some company and what they sell."
That is even more interesting than the article. I like this line:
In contrast, the 50 percent of the population with the lowest expenses accounted for only 3 percent of overall U.S. medical spending, with annual medical spending below $664 per person. Thus, those in the top 5 percent spent, on average, more than 17 times as much per person as those in the bottom 50 percent of spenders.
Also says the top 1% take up 22% of the total spending.
"No" is a strong word. Huawei was founded in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei (he's still the CEO of the company). Right out of University, he joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) working on military technology. He joined the Communist Part of China in 1978, and retired from the PLA in 1982. He was an elected member of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (1980's).
In China, companies are not directly owned by the government, but they are controlled by Communist Party members... When people say X is a Chinese government subsidiary, this is what they are referring to (the close ties of the company to the Communist Party).
1) Foreign companies cannot own more than 49% of a Chinese company. All of those American companies in China? They own 49% of those facilities.. a Chinese 'partner' is required to operate in China.
2) Huawei is a government controlled corporation.
3) Huawei had 28 billion USD in revenue in 2010. Which means (by revenue) it is larger than Facebook, Google, and Amazon. It is 2/3rd the size of Cisco (and has 2x the number of employees). It is 40% the size of Microsoft.
When I first started using Linux (about '97).. I emailed Torvalds to say that I thought Linux needed to advertise because a lot of people didn't know it existed. He actually responded and politely explained how the project is put together/why that wasn't going to happen.
They definitely don't do that. What you're missing is what happens behind the scenes. When you call your bank, and say you don't recognize a charge, they:
1) (optional) submit an information retrieval request to the merchant. They merchant has a certain amount of time to respond (a couple of weeks usually). The merchant must provide all of the information they have for the order. If they fail to do this, your bank will nearly always go to step 2:
2) submit a reversal of the charge. This pulls the money from the merchant's bank account. They then reverse the charge on your statement.
Note, that this entire process is in the hands of YOUR bank. Their loyalty is to you (they make no money from the merchant.. all of their money comes from you, since you're their customer)... so they nearly always side with you and against the merchant.
Also note, your bank lost nothing here. They recovered every dime from the merchant's account.
The only case where your bank will lose money on your account, is if you declare bankruptcy/refuse to pay.. and they will jack up your interest rates for that. But fraud? They really don't care about that.. that's the merchant's responsibility (literally says so in the merchant credit card agreement).
What if MS disappears tomorrow? Wow.. then RH would be larger overnight!
In the time RH has grown from 100 million to 1 billion in revenue, MS has grown from 23 billion to 70 billion. There's no indication that RH will ever catch up to MS, or that MS will start rapidly shrinking.
And Windows 8? MS has already say it will be similar to Vista, in that they are going to take some big risks to see what works for Windows 9. So they aren't really expecting it to be as popular as their previous releases. Besides, they have had bad releases before, and it has not destroyed the company: ME and Vista, for example. Because of their support policy, people are not forced to upgrade to the latest release.. so if people want to skip a release they can.
If Microsoft stopped growing today.. and RH kept growing at the rate they did last year (23% revenue growth)... it will be 21 years before they reach Microsoft's size.
I wouldn't call that "little"... 20 years is an eternity in software.
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the mortality rate for thyroid cancer has been virtually unchanged since 1980
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/thyro.html
The joinpoint trend in US cancer mortality with associated annual percentage change (%) for cancer of the thyroid between 1975-2008, All Races
Trend Period
-2.1% 1975-1988
0.7% 1988-2008
So unless you want to share your thyroid cancer cure with the rest of us... then the death rate will be similar.
How about the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.. estimated 1000 extra cancer deaths
Out of the two million people who live within a 50-mile (80-kilometer) radius of the Fukushima plant, about one million live in areas contaminated with cesium-137 to levels greater than 1curie per square kilometer.2 Scaling to the six million people in areas contaminated to similar levels by the Chernobyl accident, one might expect around 1,000 extra cancer deaths related to the Fukushima Daiichi accident, that is, a 0.1 percent incidence rate.
Pretending that all of those people exposed to radiation from Fukushima don't count because they haven't died yet, is dishonest at best.
Normally you would be right.. but Yahoo isn't a weak company. It just hasn't kept up with Google.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO+Key+Statistics
5 billion in revenue
1 billion in net income
2 billion in cash (1.3 billion in operating cash flow)
no debt
They have a problem with falling revenues, and as a result, falling profits. Their profits declined 5.3% yoy -- so instead of 1.10 billion, they only made 1.05 billion.
Yahoo has the resources to build their company.. they just don't have a vision. And this guy... he doesn't have a vision either.
He is slashing and burning... he is not going to lead Yahoo anywhere.. he's just destroying the company further.
there are often interesting things to report on at trade shows (CES, Macworld, etc)
interviews with people have authority on a subject would be good too (like iphone security from someone at ossec..)
I said successfull... that site has an alexa rank of 2.3m. Judging from the sites I run, 250k is about 1250-2000 visitors a day. So I can only imagine what 2.3m is in visitors.
One other thing: if you're doing this just so you can create a video section.. maybe try something a little different. Instead of posts by companies, try covering trade shows, etc.. the videos with timothy that were posted in the beginning I thought were great.
Your site.. feel free to disagree.. but I think you're making a huge mistake with these ads.
There has to be some separation between the ads and the content. No one is going to visit a site explicitly to see ads. And if the content becomes the advertising, users will leave.
I can't think of a single successful site that has advertising as the content. Nytimes, washpost, wsj, digg, ... There's always separation between the content and the ads.
I have to agree. This is just too blatant. I meant the "story" doesn't even have an angle. If they were to put just the tiniest bit of thought into it, they could have made it interesting. I'm sure a database admin company could tell us how to deal with scaling up.. or design tips.. or if mysql is better than pgsql.
Instead it's literally: "hey! here's some company and what they sell."
That is even more interesting than the article. I like this line:
In contrast, the 50 percent of the population with the lowest expenses accounted for only 3 percent of overall U.S. medical spending, with annual medical spending below $664 per person. Thus, those in the top 5 percent spent, on average, more than 17 times as much per person as those in the bottom 50 percent of spenders.
Also says the top 1% take up 22% of the total spending.
No.. you obviously skipped the conversion from yuan to USD.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-17/huawei-2010-profit-gains-30-on-higher-international-sales.html
Although, you are right about Google and Amazon: Google $1B in sales more than Huawei in 2010, and Amazon had $6 billion more than Huawei.
There is no evidence of that.
"No" is a strong word. Huawei was founded in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei (he's still the CEO of the company). Right out of University, he joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) working on military technology. He joined the Communist Part of China in 1978, and retired from the PLA in 1982. He was an elected member of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (1980's).
Sun Yafang, the chairman of the board, worked at the Ministry of State Security (MSS) Communications Department before joining Huawei.
In China, companies are not directly owned by the government, but they are controlled by Communist Party members... When people say X is a Chinese government subsidiary, this is what they are referring to (the close ties of the company to the Communist Party).
Buy Huawei? How does that work exactly?
1) Foreign companies cannot own more than 49% of a Chinese company. All of those American companies in China? They own 49% of those facilities.. a Chinese 'partner' is required to operate in China.
2) Huawei is a government controlled corporation.
3) Huawei had 28 billion USD in revenue in 2010. Which means (by revenue) it is larger than Facebook, Google, and Amazon. It is 2/3rd the size of Cisco (and has 2x the number of employees). It is 40% the size of Microsoft.
No foreign company is buying Huawei anytime soon.
Wow.. really? Huge multinational companies are buying equipment from developing countries because it's cheaper?! What is the world coming to?
When I first started using Linux (about '97).. I emailed Torvalds to say that I thought Linux needed to advertise because a lot of people didn't know it existed. He actually responded and politely explained how the project is put together/why that wasn't going to happen.
They definitely don't do that. What you're missing is what happens behind the scenes. When you call your bank, and say you don't recognize a charge, they:
1) (optional) submit an information retrieval request to the merchant. They merchant has a certain amount of time to respond (a couple of weeks usually). The merchant must provide all of the information they have for the order. If they fail to do this, your bank will nearly always go to step 2:
2) submit a reversal of the charge. This pulls the money from the merchant's bank account. They then reverse the charge on your statement.
Note, that this entire process is in the hands of YOUR bank. Their loyalty is to you (they make no money from the merchant.. all of their money comes from you, since you're their customer)... so they nearly always side with you and against the merchant.
Also note, your bank lost nothing here. They recovered every dime from the merchant's account.
The only case where your bank will lose money on your account, is if you declare bankruptcy/refuse to pay.. and they will jack up your interest rates for that. But fraud? They really don't care about that.. that's the merchant's responsibility (literally says so in the merchant credit card agreement).
especially since each coin stays in circulation for up to 30 years (last paragraph of the article).
$15-$50 is the typical range for a chargeback fee. I would say $25 is about average.
What if MS disappears tomorrow? Wow.. then RH would be larger overnight!
In the time RH has grown from 100 million to 1 billion in revenue, MS has grown from 23 billion to 70 billion. There's no indication that RH will ever catch up to MS, or that MS will start rapidly shrinking.
And Windows 8? MS has already say it will be similar to Vista, in that they are going to take some big risks to see what works for Windows 9. So they aren't really expecting it to be as popular as their previous releases. Besides, they have had bad releases before, and it has not destroyed the company: ME and Vista, for example. Because of their support policy, people are not forced to upgrade to the latest release.. so if people want to skip a release they can.
interesting formula.. thanks for the link
hundreds of billions? exaggerate much? A Windows Server Standard 2008 license is $700... for $1100, you can get 10 licenses. (from newegg)
cheapest RH subscription: $350 without any support
So even if every one of those RH clients bought Windows licenses 1 at a time, that $1b would only be $2b.
good catch.. I think I saw 500.. and filled in the rest subconsciously :)
Ack.. that should be 279 million (MS 1990 profit) vs 144 million (RH)
I agree with much of what you posted.. but even in 1990, when Microsoft passed $1B in revenue, they had a profit margin 2x of RH: 337 million vs 144 million
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/26/business/microsoft-net-increases-76.2.html
And I assume by posting that, you didn't know that IBM is 47% larger (by revenue) than Microsoft?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM+Key+Statistics
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
If Microsoft stopped growing today.. and RH kept growing at the rate they did last year (23% revenue growth)... it will be 21 years before they reach Microsoft's size.
I wouldn't call that "little"... 20 years is an eternity in software.