A particular company is "worth" so much. That worth is usually defined by the vast majority of professional investors as the time-value of all future earnings (or some finite horizon, like 5 years) plus the market value of all assets including land, inventory, intellectual property, trademarks, etc. less actual (accounts payable) or expected (lawsuits) amounts due. Divide that over the number of shares outstanding and voila you have a stock price.
In FB's case, the future earnings may be pretty dang low, but think about their assets: the voluntarily provided demographic specifics several HUNDRED MILLION people. That's a marketer's wet-dream. That's a huge asset that would be almost impossible to (legally) obtain in any other way, making it an incredibly valuable resource. They just haven't figured out how to/really/ tap into it without causing an uproar, thus expected earnings are low.
Love it or hate it (and I personally hate it), they do have some potential for big big earnings, even if they just hock their user list & details.
An IPO is where a company sells shares in order to raise money - ideally to fund expansion or let early investors cash in on profits. If the IPO price hasn't moved, it means that the finance nerds priced it EXACTLY where the market thinks the company is valued right now. Give those guys a bonus, as the investors didn't leave any money on the table.
I think the global warming shills have quit denying the obvious (that "the Earth is getting hotter"), and have moved on to point #2: that the cause is man-made. The point #3 is "the human race can do something about it". As I understand it, it's this #3, which would (in their minds) invariable mean taxes, or an upset to the business/government status quo, that they largely want to avoid.
Well, if you are shipping up a spool of feed material wire (a la MakerBot), or even powder cartriges, then they'll likely be able to better tolerate a brutal high-g launch than delicate, precision tuned parts manufactured on earth. Now you can use linear induction launch methods (rail gun launchers) and high-g launch systems to more cheaply get the raw materials into orbit, and transform them once they're up there. Plus, its very likely you'd save on packaging overhead (less padding & whatnot), lowering your overhead further.
As an aside, car manufacturers are also moving towards higher voltage because that gives them easier access to drive high-power systems like power steering. Currently most power steering is pneumatically driven, which comes with a hefty overhead cost in terms of manufacturing and maintenance. With a high-voltage bus to drive it, the complex machinery simplifies it to an electric motor and some gears.
Why not put an RFID tracker on each car? They're relatively cheap and you can store some encrypted identifier in it. Pillar or mat sensors would pick up when the car crosses the line, though it might be a challenge finding sensors that'd pick up a car at 60mph...
Absolutely. *GETTING* to orbit, from a mass and technology point of view, isn't a huge hurdle any more. It's getting there affordably. Elon stated a $50M Falcon has $200,000 worth of fuel, or 0.4% of the launch price. All the rest is split between building/refurbishing the rocket in the first place, launch prep (largely labor driven), fixed overheads (buildings) and profit. If you soft-land, theoretically you're "building" once, and doing a lot less "refurbishing" because there was no jolt from a parachute landing, or corrosive salt-water to clean up. SpaceX is hammering launch prep costs already by being able to setup and launch a rocket in days not weeks/months. By reducing these costs, you're able to sell cheaper and launch more frequently, which drives the overhead allocation to any one lauch down as well.
In summary, while you may get a lower mass fraction to orbit by having soft-landing lower stage, the amount of money/equipment lost per launch is less, making the whole setup cheaper. Drop some extra coin on fuel to get more into orbit, it's still cheaper than a smaller, higher mass-fraction throw-away rocket.
From what I know of trademark law (just a few IP classes in my MBA), you're spot on. You need to continuously use and defend your trademark or lose it. Of course, whether the word "scrolls" in a fantasy game setting would dilute you trademark brand is another question.
Well, technically executives have to public announce trading activity to the SEC of any stock they have privileged (insider) information about. That's why you'll see trading activity listed on things like a 10-K filing. It's a huge frigging clue if an executive shorts his stock a couple of weeks before a quarterly or annual report. It's much more common for them to cash in options or stock around the holidays or summer vacation.
Forks? What, you think we're civilized? No - we just wrap our artery-clogging fuel, ie food, in foil or wax paper and shove it in our pie-holes while driving our 6-ton SUVs with our knees 3 blocks to the gym.
Using uranium as a guide, the spot price of uranium is $85 / lb, or about $0.19 / gram. Thorium is more abundant than uranium, geologically diversified (less transport costs), and doesn't need to be radioactively treated (a la U-233) in order to be usable. It does, however, need chemically separated using sulfuric acid in a non-trival process. Even if the treatment and packaging were 100x-1000x the raw material cost, you're still way ahead of heat & pressure treated dead dinosaur guts.
I'll second this. I actually took classes from Dr. Davidson (lead researcher) over a decade ago, and he was shooting for the same goal back then. The approach seems to have changed - using CVD now instead of cut, polished, and etched diamond crystal (just like silicone) - but it doesn't sound like they're any closer to having solved some of the more practical or marketable problems outlined above.
My wife and I just moved and decided that paying $150 for Comcast Silver + HBO + HD "Bonus" was just too much. We moved out to Portland and subscribed to Verizon ViOS and cut our "media" bill to $85/month (we got a higher tier). I got "permission" to build a sweet HTPC and hooked it up to our 46" TV.
With Hulu, Netflix, a vast library of personal DVDs on a jukebox system, and a fat pipe to the Internet, we've been doing quite well. Unfortunately we like our sports and ESPN360 isn't really there yet. When we want some background noise, Aussies rule Footie has been great, but we're really noticing the lack of NASCAR, March Madness, and are worried about actual coverage of June the World Cup. We're actually looking at satellite to at least get the World Cup without worries.
What the heck? You mean they're somehow pretending to NOT be a Microsoft front?
I've gone to CodePlex several times for various curiosities, such as a graphics engine or neato research oriented OS. Every time I've gone to CodePlex I've only seen Microsoft Research spinouts or code built for Microsoft stacks.
I thought it was just Microsoft's "community" site from the get go - never knew they were trying to avoid that branding.
Naw, you gotta get more specific with Google - that's in American dollars!
Try: .002 canadian cents per KB times 35893 KB in canadian dollars
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Hell, nothing beats some of the Smash Brother Melee games we had in my dorm. Once we even rented out the campus movie theater (big lecture hall) and had a 32-person tournament. Nothing beats 50-75 folks chanting "Jiggily-PUFF" when the little pink ball gets a baseball bat:D
I'll admit I've primarily (98%+) worked with Microsoft technologies, including.Net 2.0, so I won't compare what it has to different languages, but I want to make some counter-points.
# DataSet and DataAdapter are overly complex.Yup, but there's a direction M$ is going. A DataTable boils down to nothing more than an object[][]. Roughly equivalent to a recordset in COM+ ADO. One big leap is row-level events, which has been infinitely useful to me, as I tend to pass around DataTables a lot in my line of work. I've also found the self-adapting O(n log n) "Select" method very useful (look up what it does using.Net Reflector). DataSets let you have constraints/relationships between data, and provide a WONDERFUL mechanism to convert to/from XML (especially if you have a good schema handy). Soon, M$ is going to integrate LINQ, or "Language Integrated Query", which can really help with CRUD or basic iterative queries. For us, offloading from the DB server is a typically priority #1.
Resource files? Totally botched! I still have no idea how to create a stupid resource file containing some bitmaps, and have it bundled into the application.Yeah, blows. But here you go:
System.Reflection.Assembly m_assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
System.Drawing.Bitmap m_bitmap = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(m_assembly.GetManifestResour ceStream("Images\my_bitmap.bmp"));
Just be sure the bitmap is included in your project and the "Build Action" is "Embedded Resource"
Microsoft didn't bother to implement it for ArrayListUm... checked System.Collections.Generic.List?
As far as educational works go, I'm all for the textbooks. Grade school & high school, of course. But what I'd really like to see is the "Canonical works" of each field. I'm talking about the standard books that are used to teach each major in the United States.
Here here! I'm sick and tired of seeing editions 7 through 15 of the same calculus book, where the only "improvement" are the renumbering of the problems in a section, and maybe a few new ones. This subject matter is so standardized by now that there is no reason to charge the public school system or 1st year college students $105 for a textbook that gets forcibly outdated so the publisher can make more money.
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A particular company is "worth" so much. That worth is usually defined by the vast majority of professional investors as the time-value of all future earnings (or some finite horizon, like 5 years) plus the market value of all assets including land, inventory, intellectual property, trademarks, etc. less actual (accounts payable) or expected (lawsuits) amounts due. Divide that over the number of shares outstanding and voila you have a stock price.
In FB's case, the future earnings may be pretty dang low, but think about their assets: the voluntarily provided demographic specifics several HUNDRED MILLION people. That's a marketer's wet-dream. That's a huge asset that would be almost impossible to (legally) obtain in any other way, making it an incredibly valuable resource. They just haven't figured out how to /really/ tap into it without causing an uproar, thus expected earnings are low.
Love it or hate it (and I personally hate it), they do have some potential for big big earnings, even if they just hock their user list & details.
An IPO is where a company sells shares in order to raise money - ideally to fund expansion or let early investors cash in on profits. If the IPO price hasn't moved, it means that the finance nerds priced it EXACTLY where the market thinks the company is valued right now. Give those guys a bonus, as the investors didn't leave any money on the table.
I think the global warming shills have quit denying the obvious (that "the Earth is getting hotter"), and have moved on to point #2: that the cause is man-made. The point #3 is "the human race can do something about it". As I understand it, it's this #3, which would (in their minds) invariable mean taxes, or an upset to the business/government status quo, that they largely want to avoid.
Well, if you are shipping up a spool of feed material wire (a la MakerBot), or even powder cartriges, then they'll likely be able to better tolerate a brutal high-g launch than delicate, precision tuned parts manufactured on earth. Now you can use linear induction launch methods (rail gun launchers) and high-g launch systems to more cheaply get the raw materials into orbit, and transform them once they're up there. Plus, its very likely you'd save on packaging overhead (less padding & whatnot), lowering your overhead further.
Am I the only one who is waiting for an xkcd comic to come from this?
TV? Bah - it's public domain. Someone, anyone, can convert that puppy to any format they want and copyright / DMCA be damned.
As an aside, car manufacturers are also moving towards higher voltage because that gives them easier access to drive high-power systems like power steering. Currently most power steering is pneumatically driven, which comes with a hefty overhead cost in terms of manufacturing and maintenance. With a high-voltage bus to drive it, the complex machinery simplifies it to an electric motor and some gears.
I live in Oregon / New Jersey you insensitive clod!
(FYI: Those states require, by law, that gas is pumped by an attendant.)
Okay - how about they pull money from football so the Tide can smack 'em next year? I'm all for that :)
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Why not put an RFID tracker on each car? They're relatively cheap and you can store some encrypted identifier in it. Pillar or mat sensors would pick up when the car crosses the line, though it might be a challenge finding sensors that'd pick up a car at 60mph...
Absolutely. *GETTING* to orbit, from a mass and technology point of view, isn't a huge hurdle any more. It's getting there affordably. Elon stated a $50M Falcon has $200,000 worth of fuel, or 0.4% of the launch price. All the rest is split between building/refurbishing the rocket in the first place, launch prep (largely labor driven), fixed overheads (buildings) and profit. If you soft-land, theoretically you're "building" once, and doing a lot less "refurbishing" because there was no jolt from a parachute landing, or corrosive salt-water to clean up. SpaceX is hammering launch prep costs already by being able to setup and launch a rocket in days not weeks/months. By reducing these costs, you're able to sell cheaper and launch more frequently, which drives the overhead allocation to any one lauch down as well.
In summary, while you may get a lower mass fraction to orbit by having soft-landing lower stage, the amount of money/equipment lost per launch is less, making the whole setup cheaper. Drop some extra coin on fuel to get more into orbit, it's still cheaper than a smaller, higher mass-fraction throw-away rocket.
From what I know of trademark law (just a few IP classes in my MBA), you're spot on. You need to continuously use and defend your trademark or lose it. Of course, whether the word "scrolls" in a fantasy game setting would dilute you trademark brand is another question.
Well, technically executives have to public announce trading activity to the SEC of any stock they have privileged (insider) information about. That's why you'll see trading activity listed on things like a 10-K filing. It's a huge frigging clue if an executive shorts his stock a couple of weeks before a quarterly or annual report. It's much more common for them to cash in options or stock around the holidays or summer vacation.
Forks? What, you think we're civilized? No - we just wrap our artery-clogging fuel, ie food, in foil or wax paper and shove it in our pie-holes while driving our 6-ton SUVs with our knees 3 blocks to the gym.
Using uranium as a guide, the spot price of uranium is $85 / lb, or about $0.19 / gram. Thorium is more abundant than uranium, geologically diversified (less transport costs), and doesn't need to be radioactively treated (a la U-233) in order to be usable. It does, however, need chemically separated using sulfuric acid in a non-trival process. Even if the treatment and packaging were 100x-1000x the raw material cost, you're still way ahead of heat & pressure treated dead dinosaur guts.
I'll second this. I actually took classes from Dr. Davidson (lead researcher) over a decade ago, and he was shooting for the same goal back then. The approach seems to have changed - using CVD now instead of cut, polished, and etched diamond crystal (just like silicone) - but it doesn't sound like they're any closer to having solved some of the more practical or marketable problems outlined above.
And damnit it was invented by Americans, or at least Dan Quayle, so quit fighting it and get an American name!
My wife and I just moved and decided that paying $150 for Comcast Silver + HBO + HD "Bonus" was just too much. We moved out to Portland and subscribed to Verizon ViOS and cut our "media" bill to $85/month (we got a higher tier). I got "permission" to build a sweet HTPC and hooked it up to our 46" TV.
With Hulu, Netflix, a vast library of personal DVDs on a jukebox system, and a fat pipe to the Internet, we've been doing quite well. Unfortunately we like our sports and ESPN360 isn't really there yet. When we want some background noise, Aussies rule Footie has been great, but we're really noticing the lack of NASCAR, March Madness, and are worried about actual coverage of June the World Cup. We're actually looking at satellite to at least get the World Cup without worries.
What the heck? You mean they're somehow pretending to NOT be a Microsoft front?
I've gone to CodePlex several times for various curiosities, such as a graphics engine or neato research oriented OS. Every time I've gone to CodePlex I've only seen Microsoft Research spinouts or code built for Microsoft stacks.
I thought it was just Microsoft's "community" site from the get go - never knew they were trying to avoid that branding.
Old news. Wired magazine already covered the abundance of oil shale in the US.. Funny that they mention this as a viable source of oil once the price per barrel hits $70.
How appropriate given today's Sinfest cartoon (somewhat safe for work)
Try:
Hell, nothing beats some of the Smash Brother Melee games we had in my dorm. Once we even rented out the campus movie theater (big lecture hall) and had a 32-person tournament. Nothing beats 50-75 folks chanting "Jiggily-PUFF" when the little pink ball gets a baseball bat :D
Here here! I'm sick and tired of seeing editions 7 through 15 of the same calculus book, where the only "improvement" are the renumbering of the problems in a section, and maybe a few new ones. This subject matter is so standardized by now that there is no reason to charge the public school system or 1st year college students $105 for a textbook that gets forcibly outdated so the publisher can make more money.