It was only 10 seconds, but these sorts of early research-stage victories are the great things that we pay NASA to do. It'll take many years and/or decades to develop the technology sufficiently for interesting applications, but that doesn't take away from the triumph they've achieved. Hats off to NASA!
Aspen Aerogels has some Aerogel products on the market today. I've seen the stuff in action (about 1/10 inch worth protecting someone's hand from an acetylene torch), and it's amazing stuff.
Original Design Manufacturer. They are not just about cheap production labor -- they design the whole computer from motherboard out, create entire product roadmaps etc... and deliver it on a platter to OEMs who want to slap a label on it.
they are taking away all the business from tradition EMS type outsourcers (Solectron, Flextronics, Jabil, et al) in desktop computers and are on the move in laptops
The perspective that it's entirely about cheap production labor is both naive and flat wrong.
The reason the casino can entice people into playing an always losing game is that they offer games with slightly negative expectations (say 48c on the dollar returns), but huge variances/std. deviations
in most mmorpgs, games do have some variance built in, but it's hardly as random as a casino. If you're level 8 and the wombat is level 9, you're going to win 90% of the time with small variance.
In the economic model proposed here, the implication is that you would expend say 100 micrograms of gold worth of energy killing the wombat, in order to loot 99 from its corpse. If it always costs 100 ug to kill the wombat and you always get 99ug, that's not an interesting game, it's just "pay to play", and people already pay a monthly fee and probably aren't keen to pay more than current games' rates.
One alternative would be to make the outcomes more variable, which is inconsistent with what most people consider "fun" (at equal levels say making killing the wombat a coin toss would result in very frustrated players -- especially if death has meaningful consequences).
Another alternative would be to make the loot more variable (you expend 100ug of energy to kill a wombat that is worth 99ug with a stdev of say 20ug... a long term losing proposition but an interesting short run one). This would look so much like gambling that it would run off non-gamblers, and would do a poor job of competing against establishments that offer gamblers wagers that can be quickly resolved without all the distraction of wombats and +10 bandyclefs -- and they're called casinos.
Perhaps there's a middle ground, but to me the answer is just to allow free exchange of the digital goods for real money, and have the game provider take a small transaction fee for in-game transfers. Their advantage over eBay would be convenience, the ability to provide a highly liquid market (they have all the information regarding what items are wanted/for sale) and they could bolster reliability by running the whole transaction atomically (transferring the money and promised items simultaneously).
My analysis completely ignores the myriad possible technical glitches that would plague the proposed system (duping, hacking, whatever), and it also ignores the economic implications of them pegging their in-game currency to a real commodity (be it dollars, gold, or whatever). These companies should be running fun games, not central banks, and the author should study the history of fixed exchange rates and the gold standard to see how that can all go terribly wrong and bankrupt anyone underwriting an online game using the proposed mechanisms.
I've worked with these guys, and it's truly new
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New if you discount GM and Ford's initiatives in South America, where they already assemble complete cards from subassemblies from suppliers and they have for years.
but wait, that can't happen here in the land of the UAW... well these guys have found a way to make it work. It's no coincidence that the Sr. Execs at BTO are the same folks who did it for the Big 2.
I predict a short run advantage for them before they are bought and/or crushed.
their biggest hurdles are wide distribution and service/support, and if they clear them they will be reabsorbed by one of these monstrous auto co's and make a mint in the process.
Second Century... once you get to 1960s or so theres a dividend tax so you have to get dodgy accountants to inflate your income statement and then find a banker to lead follow-on public offerings of the stock!
Any type of information they can collect and access without a search warrant should be fair game for the populace to access about them. And with current legislative trends that body of information is growing ever larger. Hence I was only half-sarcastic.
Things like credit card purchases, phone bills, personal contact information, organizational affiliations, travel history, books checked out from the library -- you know, things you wouldn't want to hide unless you were a criminal?
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To stations HDTV is simply a big cash outlay. Think about the incentives here.
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Heck they were almost DisneyCast!
They're probably playing establishing a track record to appease their next Hollywood acquisition target.
It was only 10 seconds, but these sorts of early research-stage victories are the great things that we pay NASA to do. It'll take many years and/or decades to develop the technology sufficiently for interesting applications, but that doesn't take away from the triumph they've achieved. Hats off to NASA!
Aspen Aerogels has some Aerogel products on the market today. I've seen the stuff in action (about 1/10 inch worth protecting someone's hand from an acetylene torch), and it's amazing stuff.
alliteration is the repitition of consonant sounds. assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. if you're gonna go for highbrow humor, get it right :)
Hmm? I feel so ripped off!
they've probably been testing flying cars for the last 100 years too!
Original Design Manufacturer. They are not just about cheap production labor -- they design the whole computer from motherboard out, create entire product roadmaps etc... and deliver it on a platter to OEMs who want to slap a label on it.
they are taking away all the business from tradition EMS type outsourcers (Solectron, Flextronics, Jabil, et al) in desktop computers and are on the move in laptops
The perspective that it's entirely about cheap production labor is both naive and flat wrong.
The reason the casino can entice people into playing an always losing game is that they offer games with slightly negative expectations (say 48c on the dollar returns), but huge variances/std. deviations
in most mmorpgs, games do have some variance built in, but it's hardly as random as a casino. If you're level 8 and the wombat is level 9, you're going to win 90% of the time with small variance.
In the economic model proposed here, the implication is that you would expend say 100 micrograms of gold worth of energy killing the wombat, in order to loot 99 from its corpse. If it always costs 100 ug to kill the wombat and you always get 99ug, that's not an interesting game, it's just "pay to play", and people already pay a monthly fee and probably aren't keen to pay more than current games' rates.
One alternative would be to make the outcomes more variable, which is inconsistent with what most people consider "fun" (at equal levels say making killing the wombat a coin toss would result in very frustrated players -- especially if death has meaningful consequences).
Another alternative would be to make the loot more variable (you expend 100ug of energy to kill a wombat that is worth 99ug with a stdev of say 20ug... a long term losing proposition but an interesting short run one). This would look so much like gambling that it would run off non-gamblers, and would do a poor job of competing against establishments that offer gamblers wagers that can be quickly resolved without all the distraction of wombats and +10 bandyclefs -- and they're called casinos.
Perhaps there's a middle ground, but to me the answer is just to allow free exchange of the digital goods for real money, and have the game provider take a small transaction fee for in-game transfers. Their advantage over eBay would be convenience, the ability to provide a highly liquid market (they have all the information regarding what items are wanted/for sale) and they could bolster reliability by running the whole transaction atomically (transferring the money and promised items simultaneously).
My analysis completely ignores the myriad possible technical glitches that would plague the proposed system (duping, hacking, whatever), and it also ignores the economic implications of them pegging their in-game currency to a real commodity (be it dollars, gold, or whatever). These companies should be running fun games, not central banks, and the author should study the history of fixed exchange rates and the gold standard to see how that can all go terribly wrong and bankrupt anyone underwriting an online game using the proposed mechanisms.
New if you discount GM and Ford's initiatives in South America, where they already assemble complete cards from subassemblies from suppliers and they have for years.
but wait, that can't happen here in the land of the UAW... well these guys have found a way to make it work. It's no coincidence that the Sr. Execs at BTO are the same folks who did it for the Big 2.
I predict a short run advantage for them before they are bought and/or crushed.
their biggest hurdles are wide distribution and service/support, and if they clear them they will be reabsorbed by one of these monstrous auto co's and make a mint in the process.
Best of luck to BTO Auto.
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by an undoubtely [poorly] HUNG jury.
Shades of Dilbert
so they can set up a distributed worm that searches for /bin/laden
Second Century... once you get to 1960s or so theres a dividend tax so you have to get dodgy accountants to inflate your income statement and then find a banker to lead follow-on public offerings of the stock!
Any type of information they can collect and access without a search warrant should be fair game for the populace to access about them. And with current legislative trends that body of information is growing ever larger. Hence I was only half-sarcastic.
Things like credit card purchases, phone bills, personal contact information, organizational affiliations, travel history, books checked out from the library -- you know, things you wouldn't want to hide unless you were a criminal?
I was promised a flying car! Will nanotubes deliver?
Blowing half a billion dollars on Act II can do that to a man
Highlights from Opsware's most recent balance sheet:
Additional paid-in capital 501,308
Accumulated deficit (456,734)
Total stockholders' equity 42,950
A Visual Introduction to SQL was very helpful for me learning it back in the day. Back in the day before I forgot it and became a PHB that is.
and march onward
GREAT! Now you can buy more American goods!
Their entire profession infringes and could be liable for centuries of back damages!
is Internet-enabled ingredients that know how to prepare themselves and then hop into the microwave!
If the review were more vehemently negative, the celibacy of thousands could have been averted.
Hopefully by the time it's a problem we'll have trained sharks with really powerful frickin laser beams on earth to zap space junk
Damn, missed the original subtitle. Musta been too obvious. Apologies. Damn!
The economic benefits of HDTV flow exclusively to the consumers. Local stations thrive on ad revenue, which is not increased via better broadcast technology [DOLBY5.1]BUY TIDE[/DOLBY5.1]. To stations HDTV is simply a big cash outlay. Think about the incentives here.