Some jargon is BS though. Investing jargon drives me nuts "taxflation", "bear", "bull", "forex", "fundies"...
Ugh. Don't get me wrong, the financial sector jargon is fine. It's very necessary and describes precise concepts. It's just this wishy-washy investing stuff.
IMHO a timetravel plot with some mysterious figure narrating the history of mankind is a deus ex machina. I hated the ending. The only plot device which prevented the weird guy from narrating the whole thing at once seemed to be that he had difficulty speaking English.
I agree that Babylon 5 was a good series though. One of the best things on television.
IMHO, Microsoft should also assume all costs of enforcing piracy or else be guilty of the same practice. The world would be using, developing and expanding OSS if it weren't for the fact that they all have pirated copies of Windows and Office on their PCs.
I only read half your post, but until people start having sex with chimps and producing live offspring, it's not even difficult to say that we're a different species. The definition is nowhere near as fuzzy as you make it out to be.
From what I can see elsewhere, the Smart fortwo gets 60 in theory and 50 in practice. It's also using Diesel which has a higher energy density. When you put regular gas in one, it gets 49 in theory... and I don't know what in practice.
There's not a lot you can shave off the Insight before it becomes impractical. Maybe you can go Diesel and boost the milage, do some creative work with the fuel to ensure it is completely consumed, and finally start losing acceleration, seats and trunk space... turning it into something as impractical as the Smart, only much more fuel efficient. Then to make 100, start cutting safety features.
100MPG is a tough target for a practical vehicle. I think the people who designed the goal wanted something that could be achieved after the second or third competition.
As soon as you come up with a good idea, you'll be sued into submission by a large company's patent warchest
Small companies don't even have the money or time to pursue patent lawsuits, so if a big company did take your idea, you'd be tied up in court until you were broke... or they launched a countersuit (see above)
The iPod is bringing too many people into the Apple store. Microsoft smells blood.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Zune or music credit got bundled with legit copies of Vista... which through the magic of DRM won't be downloadable to an iPod.
I did that for a while, one great drawback is when some twit somewhere posts an "easy" link to your site on some web forum like http://place.wherever.xx/ Then the spiders get it.
I bought my Civic for $500 and got $4k from the insurance company when an SUV rear-ended me.
I replaced it with a Hyundai Accent. A replacemnet Civic would be too expensive, they're holding their value too well, and the new ones aren't as good quality as the old ones. 1992-1996 were the best years for reliabilty, the previous generation has better handling though.
Repairs are very cheap on the Civic. I replaced my engine, clutch and an axel for $1600. The engine needed to be rebuilt at 350,000 km, but it was cheaper to replace the engine than to repair it.
BTW, Hyundai uses timing belts on an interference based engine too. At least in the Accent. I had to replace mine at 100,000 km.
For storage space, comfort, handling, fuel efficiency, rust protection, insurance and cost of repairs, the Civic was better. The Accent has a little more pep, but it guzzles gas for such a small car.
The Civic is a great car, a marvel of economical engineering. I'd even say it is a more impressive feat than any Ferrari and has a huge community following.
Windows is more like a Tiburon. Lots of style, lots of hype, it works... but it sucks, depreciatees fast, is easily 0wn3d and has a mysteriously lousy engine.
I grew up in a town with no public transit. I think the real cost to factor in is buying your children cars as soon as they're of legal age to drive... else they'll have no jobs and no social life. Unless they're in somebody else's car... and then they won't have much of a choice but to go along with whatever the group is doing.
There's a massive difference in interest rates between now and then.
I think this boom is nothing like that boom.
It's a boom though. This guy on Slashdot confirms it.
I just sold my primary residence and I'm not quite sure what to do with the money. Buying another seems too dangrous for the next two years. The stock market has been going in one direction, although there's an idea that the market will pick up the investors who start getting burned in real-estate. But I think it is possible that a real estate collapse will eat most people's nest-eggs and there will be a terrible shortage in investment capital, minimizing the increase in the stock markets, but bumping up interest rates as cash grows in demand.
Idle speculation though. Very idle and uninformed speculation:-)
... the simplest is to buy a house and rent it out to your fellow students. You take advantage of your social connections and don't pay rent.
However, unless you can get a small business loan, you're going to need a hand from somebody who can back the mortgage. The banks don't consider potential rental income when calcuating what you can afford.
If the local real-estate market is too high for you to enter, and you're not entreprenural in nature, then I'd say there's not much you can do with your money which will be secure and liquid. If anyone tells you anything else, IMHO, they're ignoring how the marketplace self-corrects for any "sure thing".
Slashdot Mirror
It's called "swarf!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarf
Some jargon is BS though. Investing jargon drives me nuts "taxflation", "bear", "bull", "forex", "fundies"...
Ugh. Don't get me wrong, the financial sector jargon is fine. It's very necessary and describes precise concepts. It's just this wishy-washy investing stuff.
Eolas doesn't need to cross-license, they don't have any products, just patents. Their business is to license them out and sue people.
If they *did* have products, then Microsoft would sue them into the ground and might only let them live if they decide to cross-license or sell out.
Red, Green and Blue. Everything else is dithering. It's just how exactly the dithering is performed.
IMHO a timetravel plot with some mysterious figure narrating the history of mankind is a deus ex machina. I hated the ending. The only plot device which prevented the weird guy from narrating the whole thing at once seemed to be that he had difficulty speaking English. I agree that Babylon 5 was a good series though. One of the best things on television.
It's a good thing that there's only a 2% chance that that's sexist.
The 2% confused the survey for an order form.
It's not even a new tactic. Afraid of competition? Sell for less than cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidumping
IMHO, Microsoft should also assume all costs of enforcing piracy or else be guilty of the same practice. The world would be using, developing and expanding OSS if it weren't for the fact that they all have pirated copies of Windows and Office on their PCs.
I only read half your post, but until people start having sex with chimps and producing live offspring, it's not even difficult to say that we're a different species. The definition is nowhere near as fuzzy as you make it out to be.
Do you have any references? The best I can find is a 2003 Honda Insight, http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2001cartablef.jsp?i d=18313
From what I can see elsewhere, the Smart fortwo gets 60 in theory and 50 in practice. It's also using Diesel which has a higher energy density. When you put regular gas in one, it gets 49 in theory... and I don't know what in practice.
http://www.motoring.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=7 51&fArticleId=3742155
There's not a lot you can shave off the Insight before it becomes impractical. Maybe you can go Diesel and boost the milage, do some creative work with the fuel to ensure it is completely consumed, and finally start losing acceleration, seats and trunk space... turning it into something as impractical as the Smart, only much more fuel efficient. Then to make 100, start cutting safety features.
100MPG is a tough target for a practical vehicle. I think the people who designed the goal wanted something that could be achieved after the second or third competition.
I just punched myself in and I'm in the 52nd percentile.
I'm really surprised. I think I need a different line of work :-)
Problems with that theory:
Read the GPL very carefully.
It does nothing about *usage* rights. There's a brief mention in the preamble, but that's all.
Software patents cover *usage*.
This causes a problem though. IMHO, Microsoft must sue the *users*, not the distributors.
I think the best response would be for IBM to sue Ballmer personally. As a user of Windows, he's no doubt in violation of many of IBM's patents.
The iPod is bringing too many people into the Apple store. Microsoft smells blood.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Zune or music credit got bundled with legit copies of Vista... which through the magic of DRM won't be downloadable to an iPod.
...or something sickening like that.
Diebold makes ATMs.
Yeah, it's hard to believe.
I did that for a while, one great drawback is when some twit somewhere posts an "easy" link to your site on some web forum like http://place.wherever.xx/ Then the spiders get it.
I bought my Civic for $500 and got $4k from the insurance company when an SUV rear-ended me.
I replaced it with a Hyundai Accent. A replacemnet Civic would be too expensive, they're holding their value too well, and the new ones aren't as good quality as the old ones. 1992-1996 were the best years for reliabilty, the previous generation has better handling though.
Repairs are very cheap on the Civic. I replaced my engine, clutch and an axel for $1600. The engine needed to be rebuilt at 350,000 km, but it was cheaper to replace the engine than to repair it.
BTW, Hyundai uses timing belts on an interference based engine too. At least in the Accent. I had to replace mine at 100,000 km.
For storage space, comfort, handling, fuel efficiency, rust protection, insurance and cost of repairs, the Civic was better. The Accent has a little more pep, but it guzzles gas for such a small car.
The Civic is a great car, a marvel of economical engineering. I'd even say it is a more impressive feat than any Ferrari and has a huge community following.
Windows is more like a Tiburon. Lots of style, lots of hype, it works... but it sucks, depreciatees fast, is easily 0wn3d and has a mysteriously lousy engine.
2647-L1U. It was done a long time ago.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/quickPa th.do?quickPathEntry=2647-l1u
"Colour me impressed."
The 80's called. I hung up on them.
I grew up in a town with no public transit. I think the real cost to factor in is buying your children cars as soon as they're of legal age to drive... else they'll have no jobs and no social life. Unless they're in somebody else's car... and then they won't have much of a choice but to go along with whatever the group is doing.
It's hell growing up in a place like that.
There are a few others, some mentioned often on Slashdot too... http://www.oqo.com/
They're very expensive for the performance, but you're paying for the portability.
There's a massive difference in interest rates between now and then. I think this boom is nothing like that boom. It's a boom though. This guy on Slashdot confirms it. I just sold my primary residence and I'm not quite sure what to do with the money. Buying another seems too dangrous for the next two years. The stock market has been going in one direction, although there's an idea that the market will pick up the investors who start getting burned in real-estate. But I think it is possible that a real estate collapse will eat most people's nest-eggs and there will be a terrible shortage in investment capital, minimizing the increase in the stock markets, but bumping up interest rates as cash grows in demand. Idle speculation though. Very idle and uninformed speculation :-)
... the simplest is to buy a house and rent it out to your fellow students. You take advantage of your social connections and don't pay rent.
However, unless you can get a small business loan, you're going to need a hand from somebody who can back the mortgage. The banks don't consider potential rental income when calcuating what you can afford.
If the local real-estate market is too high for you to enter, and you're not entreprenural in nature, then I'd say there's not much you can do with your money which will be secure and liquid. If anyone tells you anything else, IMHO, they're ignoring how the marketplace self-corrects for any "sure thing".
With ad spots so expensive, I have to wonder why they don't go back to live advertising from the early days of television. Keep the material original.
Spoken like somebody who's never been there :-)