Excell has picked up a ton of really nice features over the years. I haven't found a way to customize the keyboard shortcuts to add fill down and fill right, they were there and now they are gone, I really miss that feature.
If my recollection goes far enough back, I remember reading about Norwegian operatives who sank a boat load of "heavy water" fairly early in the war that put a major monkey wrench in the German nuclear efforts.
I've oftwondered if there are very many people who live and work in Washington (close to the border) and do the majority of their shopping in Oregon. With the nearness of Vancouver, WA and Portland I would think that a few people must get away with paying very little in state taxes.
As long as the high download users are a relativly small portion of the population the grannies, no problem. IPTV (especially high definition) would cause all those emailing grannies (and lots of other folks) to suddenly become high bandwidth users, too.
It sure seems like mass media television type programming is best suited for a broadcast rather than point to point netword.
The price and quantity demanded aren't related in the way you are thinking of them. In this case demand has grown (lets say 15% with GDP). Meaning that if gasoline prices were a buck and a half (oil prices of say $30/barrel), the US would demand 20% more oil products than we are currently--about 22 million barrels/day rather than 20.5mmbbls/day. However, due to supply restrictions ranging from outages in the gulf, shipping capacity, Venezuela, Nigeria, Equador, and the Middle East the world can only supply us with 20.5 mmbbls/day. So something has to choose which how to allocate the shortage. Our system uses an extreemly efficient method that cuts out all the dynamic multivariate calculus that would be required to balance everyone's need fairly by adjusting the price until the last barrel isn't used. This works very well at getting any resource into the hands at which it is most highly valued, by raising the price until the amount that can be supplied is the amount that is desired.
Of course this works well in the opposite as well, it encourages new supply to be brought to market, but it doesn't work out very fairly if the reason supply is tight is that the world is running out of a non-renewable resource (in which case huge returns are poured upon anyone who through smarts or luck stumbled upon the industry), but no amount of higher price can increase production. I'm not sure if that is happening, and sadly it will probably require much higher prices to ascertain if that is truly occuring or if this is just another temporary blip.
That was the signal they were sending, but most of the retained profits at especially Microsoft and Intel, wasn't reinvested in the business (it wasn't needed). It was stockpiled in low return bonds and cash instruments. I'm not sure if they could have sold the growth story as well if they were returning all the excess cash they generated through the years.
Basic business logic was developed when factories produced physical items not ideas. MS sales of windows XP don't depend on a huge factory that needs to be expanded to sell another million units.
Dell could have been paying dividends for years and would still have been just as able to grow at the same rate.
The joke in the 70s was that most people measure their data centers in square feet, the NSA measures theirs in acres. If you ever fly into BWI, go check out the National Cryptologic Museum (just turn the right direction on the exit). The two coolest things there are the cray boxes and the working enigma like machine you can use.
Generally energy return is a pretty close approximation for price. The only reason everyone is getting excited now has to do with differences in taxation between gasoline and ethanol.
No state income tax, (Gates woudn't have paid all that until the special dividend--he doesn't sell that much stock). They do have an 8%+county and city surcharges sales tax. Much nicer for savers.
Per gallon of input fuel used. If oil is the limiting factor you'd want to make darn sure you were getting more out than you put in. Algae grown in big ponds in the desert would be the most effective of all (it was not far from oil sands extraction).
This has less to do with potential drinking and more to do with Presidential politics and the original organization of the country (specifically the senate). The midwestern farm lobby wields hugely disproportionate power relative to almost all measures (and they grow most of the country's corn. They don't want competition from Brazilian sugarcane, so they don't have it.
The reasons they hold so much power are first each state has 2 senators and representatives based on population. There is a large bloc of states that grow grains and have a near stranglehold on farm bills. Interestingly (some might say cynically) it the party of each state's elected officials matters little. Democrats like Daschle and Baccas or Republicans like Dole both protect their state's interest.
This area's influence on Presidential politics is twofold, first the President is elected by winning the electoral college, technically the popular vote is for electors and almost all states are majority rules. Because electors are assigned to states by adding their senators and representatives the less populated farm states have a larger voice in this vote. More importantly both parties know that all it really takes to win in the farm states is promise (and deliver) a fat farm bill.
The second reason is more psycological, but just as real. In the primary system, the parties choose their candidates in a series of state votes. These votes occur at various points in time. The nature of American culture worships winning so a candidate who can string together a few early wins has a large advantage in later primary races. Iowa's vote is one of the first two (with New Hampshire being the other early vote). Because Iowa's primary system is not a popular vote, campaign promises are easier to make there (you only need a majority of the politically active rather than all voters). So you have even more pressure to deliver generous farm subsidies.
While he overreached, I think all but the most partisan will concede that there was a comunist conspiracy, the Verona papers certainly lent a pile of credibility to his goals. The means with which he carried out those goals remains an embarassment to this country.
Yeah but it's much easier for society to ignore girls problems (as most internalize the pain) rather than boys who externalize it. Hurting girls are far more likely to act out with eating disorders, abusive males, and other behaviors that while quite damaging for them, don't impact others beyond family and close friends. Hurting guys are more likely to break stuff, which generally gets society more excited about their antics. Us society is generally based on if you don't impact me I don't care (unless its a juicy rumor in which case I'd love to know).
The few girls (and women) who continue to react with agression are typically shunned by society as pariahs very quickly.
Some friends and I picked up a lot of 1600Sws a few weeks ago and they still exude cool like few monitors can, and you should see the picture on those. It's too bad they don't sell them anymore, those monitors alone could be the basis of a pretty nice business.
They embody the quick flight that is possible when your corporate value is human capital. nVidia was founded by several SGI engineers, I'd be shocked if ATI wasn't as well. When your talent walks to go work on lower cost platforms the best management in the world can do little more then stem the bleeding from the cuts made by prior management teams.
A fairly common rumor was that Honda's update to the NSX was going to be a hybrid. I think had they given it a try at a reasonable price (say in the 70 range) they could have made a hit.
After a quarter mile run? Ferrari's may get bad milage, and accelleration is rough on milage, but I'd be surprised if they burned a whole gallon of gas on a quarter mile.
First, a tank of gas holds a huge multiple of the energy in a trunk full of batteries (gas holds about 15x the energy of modern batteries).
Second, that sort (a prolonged open circuit) of draw requires substantial flow which results in the batteries delivering suboptimal total energy.
The reason we use gasoline to power our cars isn't due to some oil company cabal, even at today's high prices it's still a very cheap method of transporting energy.
Those were the two Axis powers I was thinking of. Just as a point of reference on the cost and length of time required, we still have troops stationed in both places.
Thats not a war, we spanked their troops in a few weeks (in both Gulf Wars the first things hit were communications infastructures). We stay there because we need their oil to start flowing otherwise we could have packed up/mission accomplished in April 2004. Restarting society from scratch in an occupation has and will continue to be costly and slow. The Assyrians would forcibly resettle everyone throughout their empire and brutally eliminate all uprisings, and all the technology in the world hasn't improved that process much. Probably the pinacle of the development was rebuilding the Axis powers after world war II and those took 20 years, I am surprised anyone expects this to take less.
An aweful lot of modern warfare depends on having accurate GPS systems (if you change your encryption and blow a few of the other guys GPS and communication systems) you've already won the battle. As Sun Tzu puts it:
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." and "Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans"
Your enemy will be broken before the fighting starts.
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Because when Americans are give the quick, cheap, or good (pick two) choice, good is a distant third choice.
Just ask AST about that, that's why venders were so shy with AMD even when they had a superior offering.
Excell has picked up a ton of really nice features over the years. I haven't found a way to customize the keyboard shortcuts to add fill down and fill right, they were there and now they are gone, I really miss that feature.
If my recollection goes far enough back, I remember reading about Norwegian operatives who sank a boat load of "heavy water" fairly early in the war that put a major monkey wrench in the German nuclear efforts.
I've oftwondered if there are very many people who live and work in Washington (close to the border) and do the majority of their shopping in Oregon. With the nearness of Vancouver, WA and Portland I would think that a few people must get away with paying very little in state taxes.
As long as the high download users are a relativly small portion of the population the grannies, no problem. IPTV (especially high definition) would cause all those emailing grannies (and lots of other folks) to suddenly become high bandwidth users, too.
It sure seems like mass media television type programming is best suited for a broadcast rather than point to point netword.
The price and quantity demanded aren't related in the way you are thinking of them. In this case demand has grown (lets say 15% with GDP). Meaning that if gasoline prices were a buck and a half (oil prices of say $30/barrel), the US would demand 20% more oil products than we are currently--about 22 million barrels/day rather than 20.5mmbbls/day. However, due to supply restrictions ranging from outages in the gulf, shipping capacity, Venezuela, Nigeria, Equador, and the Middle East the world can only supply us with 20.5 mmbbls/day. So something has to choose which how to allocate the shortage. Our system uses an extreemly efficient method that cuts out all the dynamic multivariate calculus that would be required to balance everyone's need fairly by adjusting the price until the last barrel isn't used. This works very well at getting any resource into the hands at which it is most highly valued, by raising the price until the amount that can be supplied is the amount that is desired.
Of course this works well in the opposite as well, it encourages new supply to be brought to market, but it doesn't work out very fairly if the reason supply is tight is that the world is running out of a non-renewable resource (in which case huge returns are poured upon anyone who through smarts or luck stumbled upon the industry), but no amount of higher price can increase production. I'm not sure if that is happening, and sadly it will probably require much higher prices to ascertain if that is truly occuring or if this is just another temporary blip.
That was the signal they were sending, but most of the retained profits at especially Microsoft and Intel, wasn't reinvested in the business (it wasn't needed). It was stockpiled in low return bonds and cash instruments. I'm not sure if they could have sold the growth story as well if they were returning all the excess cash they generated through the years.
Basic business logic was developed when factories produced physical items not ideas. MS sales of windows XP don't depend on a huge factory that needs to be expanded to sell another million units. Dell could have been paying dividends for years and would still have been just as able to grow at the same rate.
The joke in the 70s was that most people measure their data centers in square feet, the NSA measures theirs in acres. If you ever fly into BWI, go check out the National Cryptologic Museum (just turn the right direction on the exit). The two coolest things there are the cray boxes and the working enigma like machine you can use.
Generally energy return is a pretty close approximation for price. The only reason everyone is getting excited now has to do with differences in taxation between gasoline and ethanol.
No state income tax, (Gates woudn't have paid all that until the special dividend--he doesn't sell that much stock). They do have an 8%+county and city surcharges sales tax. Much nicer for savers.
Per gallon of input fuel used. If oil is the limiting factor you'd want to make darn sure you were getting more out than you put in. Algae grown in big ponds in the desert would be the most effective of all (it was not far from oil sands extraction).
I think that citation includes the hempseed oil. It was my understanding that soybeans and canola were more energy efficient than corn as well.
This has less to do with potential drinking and more to do with Presidential politics and the original organization of the country (specifically the senate). The midwestern farm lobby wields hugely disproportionate power relative to almost all measures (and they grow most of the country's corn. They don't want competition from Brazilian sugarcane, so they don't have it.
The reasons they hold so much power are first each state has 2 senators and representatives based on population. There is a large bloc of states that grow grains and have a near stranglehold on farm bills. Interestingly (some might say cynically) it the party of each state's elected officials matters little. Democrats like Daschle and Baccas or Republicans like Dole both protect their state's interest.
This area's influence on Presidential politics is twofold, first the President is elected by winning the electoral college, technically the popular vote is for electors and almost all states are majority rules. Because electors are assigned to states by adding their senators and representatives the less populated farm states have a larger voice in this vote. More importantly both parties know that all it really takes to win in the farm states is promise (and deliver) a fat farm bill.
The second reason is more psycological, but just as real. In the primary system, the parties choose their candidates in a series of state votes. These votes occur at various points in time. The nature of American culture worships winning so a candidate who can string together a few early wins has a large advantage in later primary races. Iowa's vote is one of the first two (with New Hampshire being the other early vote). Because Iowa's primary system is not a popular vote, campaign promises are easier to make there (you only need a majority of the politically active rather than all voters). So you have even more pressure to deliver generous farm subsidies.
Hey thanks for the info. Amazing how many really good ideas come out of just a few (oddly now failed or merged) companies from the early 90s.
While he overreached, I think all but the most partisan will concede that there was a comunist conspiracy, the Verona papers certainly lent a pile of credibility to his goals. The means with which he carried out those goals remains an embarassment to this country.
Yeah but it's much easier for society to ignore girls problems (as most internalize the pain) rather than boys who externalize it. Hurting girls are far more likely to act out with eating disorders, abusive males, and other behaviors that while quite damaging for them, don't impact others beyond family and close friends. Hurting guys are more likely to break stuff, which generally gets society more excited about their antics. Us society is generally based on if you don't impact me I don't care (unless its a juicy rumor in which case I'd love to know).
The few girls (and women) who continue to react with agression are typically shunned by society as pariahs very quickly.
Some friends and I picked up a lot of 1600Sws a few weeks ago and they still exude cool like few monitors can, and you should see the picture on those. It's too bad they don't sell them anymore, those monitors alone could be the basis of a pretty nice business.
They embody the quick flight that is possible when your corporate value is human capital. nVidia was founded by several SGI engineers, I'd be shocked if ATI wasn't as well. When your talent walks to go work on lower cost platforms the best management in the world can do little more then stem the bleeding from the cuts made by prior management teams.
A fairly common rumor was that Honda's update to the NSX was going to be a hybrid. I think had they given it a try at a reasonable price (say in the 70 range) they could have made a hit.
After a quarter mile run? Ferrari's may get bad milage, and accelleration is rough on milage, but I'd be surprised if they burned a whole gallon of gas on a quarter mile.
First, a tank of gas holds a huge multiple of the energy in a trunk full of batteries (gas holds about 15x the energy of modern batteries).
Second, that sort (a prolonged open circuit) of draw requires substantial flow which results in the batteries delivering suboptimal total energy.
The reason we use gasoline to power our cars isn't due to some oil company cabal, even at today's high prices it's still a very cheap method of transporting energy.
Those were the two Axis powers I was thinking of. Just as a point of reference on the cost and length of time required, we still have troops stationed in both places.
Thats not a war, we spanked their troops in a few weeks (in both Gulf Wars the first things hit were communications infastructures). We stay there because we need their oil to start flowing otherwise we could have packed up/mission accomplished in April 2004. Restarting society from scratch in an occupation has and will continue to be costly and slow. The Assyrians would forcibly resettle everyone throughout their empire and brutally eliminate all uprisings, and all the technology in the world hasn't improved that process much. Probably the pinacle of the development was rebuilding the Axis powers after world war II and those took 20 years, I am surprised anyone expects this to take less.
An aweful lot of modern warfare depends on having accurate GPS systems (if you change your encryption and blow a few of the other guys GPS and communication systems) you've already won the battle.
As Sun Tzu puts it:
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
and "Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans"
Your enemy will be broken before the fighting starts.
So you don't like grits, huh?