Sure, but 2-3 ghz is a bit out of the navigational radio frequencies. PreGPS navigation takes place on frequencies not far from AM (you can use those radios to pick up AM stations).
I scortched a little oil in mine, and have a permanent coating that has never even moved a little. Make mine cast iron where that coating is an expected good thing.
Someone missed the article, first thing they did was sit on it on a plain wood chair with no damage. Crap they drove a car over it twice and it was still working (somewhat).
Murdoch reports to the institutional investors who determine his net worth daily and most of them are pissed that he (and many other famed deal makers) didn't buy up the internet when everyone was dissolutioned with it in 2002. Now all media companies are conviced that Google will eat their business in a few short years, and are jumping over themselves to show their stake in console gaming and internet media. If you doubt me, just go listen to any of the the companies that own the major studios last year of earnings calls. Fear and greed are the two most powerful emotions in business, and Buffett seems to have summarized how to use them properly, "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." If you want to follow this advice buy a newspaper or radio company and get some negative exposure to paid search.
I foresee a string of large writeoffs in Newscorp and TimeWarner's future.
Eventually all political movements overreach and the pendulum swings back. I'm not so sure why everyone gets so excited about the Chinese loaning us back all the money we spend on products from them. Eventually they will hit the same wall Japan did 15 years ago (and is now only beginning to recover from). Their corporations have the same problems that our consumers do (borrowing money they can't afford to purchase things they cannot pay for. Since it appears they are taking a similar path with their banking system, I would suspect that eventually the credit bubble going on there will end with similar results (deflation and a rapid decline in asset values). Until then you might as well enjoy the effects of the bubble. Just don't be the last one standing when the music stops.
Companies sprang up then just like the dot com bubble. I recall reading about one that promised free energy from perpetual motion. While Newton may have gotten scammed by the South Seas Company, I'm sure he didn't fall for that one.
Generally ethanol requires lots of space, tropical farmland, and plants that efficiently convert sunlight to sugar (like sugar cane). Brazil is about the only place that has a sufficient supply of all three. In the US ethanol from corn gets tons of direct and indirect subsidies, by most estimates it uses more oil growing and processing the corn than it replaces as automobile fuel. We do have some flex fuel but most ethanol in the US is used for smog reduction 90/10 mix in several states.
I grew up in Moses Lake. It's a wonderful little place, but you have to like a nice hot day every once in a while. Having lived in both small towns and big cities. I have to say that my fun money/savings was bigger in the small town (after rent grocery, gas and insurance were taken care of) but the only people who figured this out were families. I left for the city because all my friends were older than me with families. I always found it ironic that the dot com boom was developed around the idea that information would be much easier to transmit quickly and cheapluy but all the businesses were founded within a few miles of some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
Studios make bank, just not where you expect. Since the rise of color TV theaters have been a good place to get buzz but not to make money. Home video, and TV licensing is where most of the profits are made. Oddly enough a decent portion of the value to be garnered through at home channels occurs at release. So studios shell out advertising for their box office releases. Even Lion's Gate (a fairly small studio) is bigger than most of the gaming companies (not EA). Warner, Sony, Disney, and Paramount all dwarf the game industry (not in box office revenues) but in total revenues and overall profitability.
Airline profitabilities have more to do with politics than oil prices. Gas is a major expense, but for example FedEx and UPS (with more proportional exposure to energy) are doing quite well even with oil prices being very high. Business success is not just derived from access to low costs inputs (although that does not hurt) it is about limiting competition for your mix of services. Airlines only succeeded when the government by fiat limited entry into the business (regulation).
Another big problem is that most folks on the ground dislike sonic booms (I grew up near a test base, and thought they were pretty cool) which greatly limits your airport choice. This was one of several factors that limited the deployment of the Concorde.
I'll grant you that a calculator (and excel) save me a bunch of time. However, how does one know if they made an error setting up their calculus problem or equation and fed the wrong equations to their calculator, if they do not have at least a basic knowledge of arithmetic?
If a company is funding marketing and employees with equity capital, it has more problems than managing rapid gorwth. Margins would be the first thing to address.
If my understanding of civil and common law are close, you have described common law (used in territories settled by the British. French territories use civil law where society follows many clear rules.
Once there were no governments or laws, yet society formed in meatspace, because it is exceedingly wasteful to not partner in even the most small of wways. I find it interesting that the thought experments that thinkers have proposed and the issues they raise are exactly the ones being tested and solved in online worlds.
What if your growth spike does not require cash to continue growing? A whole lot of business common sense was built when you had to add new machines to make more product. The revolution of the information age is that you no longer need to do so, but businesses still act as if they did. Google's need for acres of servers might be an exception, but most software companies have not needed the capital they generated to fund growth since day 1.
Buffet only paid a single dividend in the 60s, and he still regrets it. Ironic that the man who made so much money buying dividend paying companies own company does not pay dividends (and keeps a mountain of cash on their books). If it weren't for the free capital provided by the insurance company, no one would be singing Buffet's praises.
Those sort of transactions were common more than 100 years ago. In the tradition of government solving the problem we just finished, most securities laws protect investors from just that type of scam. So the new scamsters have moved to more advanced topics (although options are just a slow form of the above description rather than 50% they use 1% in many cases).
Tell me about it, I just moved from Washington State, to Washington DC. Now when I tell people that I grew up in eastern Washington (desert farming area) they think I grew up in Eastern Washington DC (one of the tougher neighborhoods in the district. I think it is funny how both call their area Washington with no qualifier (state or DC for either, unless you happen to be near the other).
Some of the founders thought that America should be a ocnferderation of states (Jefferson was a vocal proponent of this system). Madison and Hamilton in particular envisioned a federal government more similar to the one we have had for the past 200 years (perhaps a bit weaker than the Civil War Union and post New Deal federal systems, but not far from either.
An even better idea would have been to offer a reverse (dutch) auction with the price starting at $1000 or so, as the price ticks down, bid and take all you want at the current price. You can show up 2 minutes before the auction and get all the computers you want at the price you want, if it is above the market clearing price. If I'd known about this, I would have taken the day off and road tripped down to Richmond with a cooler or more full of cold sodas and iced teas and perhaps some snacks to sell. Then I'd have returned to the Apple store in DC and bought a new laptop with my proceeds.
Actually, the GP did a pretty good job equating the two, on the exchange rate market, 5000 yuan is worth about $600 but since the amount of wealth required for a similar standard of living differs, the poster appears to have compared it to wages or something similar. Well trained factory workers make more than a dollar a day, but still considerably less than their counterparts in the US.
Starbucks also gets lots of boxes in varying sizes, but they all fit together very, very well. That was the best thing about starbuck's boxes. Just ask well in advance when they get their boxes since they do not save them, but if you go on the day they recieve shipment you will collect lots. All the starbuck's in an area usually recieve shipments on the same day.
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Sure, but 2-3 ghz is a bit out of the navigational radio frequencies. PreGPS navigation takes place on frequencies not far from AM (you can use those radios to pick up AM stations).
I scortched a little oil in mine, and have a permanent coating that has never even moved a little. Make mine cast iron where that coating is an expected good thing.
Someone missed the article, first thing they did was sit on it on a plain wood chair with no damage. Crap they drove a car over it twice and it was still working (somewhat).
Murdoch reports to the institutional investors who determine his net worth daily and most of them are pissed that he (and many other famed deal makers) didn't buy up the internet when everyone was dissolutioned with it in 2002. Now all media companies are conviced that Google will eat their business in a few short years, and are jumping over themselves to show their stake in console gaming and internet media. If you doubt me, just go listen to any of the the companies that own the major studios last year of earnings calls. Fear and greed are the two most powerful emotions in business, and Buffett seems to have summarized how to use them properly, "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." If you want to follow this advice buy a newspaper or radio company and get some negative exposure to paid search.
I foresee a string of large writeoffs in Newscorp and TimeWarner's future.
Eventually all political movements overreach and the pendulum swings back. I'm not so sure why everyone gets so excited about the Chinese loaning us back all the money we spend on products from them. Eventually they will hit the same wall Japan did 15 years ago (and is now only beginning to recover from). Their corporations have the same problems that our consumers do (borrowing money they can't afford to purchase things they cannot pay for. Since it appears they are taking a similar path with their banking system, I would suspect that eventually the credit bubble going on there will end with similar results (deflation and a rapid decline in asset values). Until then you might as well enjoy the effects of the bubble. Just don't be the last one standing when the music stops.
Companies sprang up then just like the dot com bubble. I recall reading about one that promised free energy from perpetual motion. While Newton may have gotten scammed by the South Seas Company, I'm sure he didn't fall for that one.
Generally ethanol requires lots of space, tropical farmland, and plants that efficiently convert sunlight to sugar (like sugar cane). Brazil is about the only place that has a sufficient supply of all three. In the US ethanol from corn gets tons of direct and indirect subsidies, by most estimates it uses more oil growing and processing the corn than it replaces as automobile fuel. We do have some flex fuel but most ethanol in the US is used for smog reduction 90/10 mix in several states.
I grew up in Moses Lake. It's a wonderful little place, but you have to like a nice hot day every once in a while. Having lived in both small towns and big cities. I have to say that my fun money/savings was bigger in the small town (after rent grocery, gas and insurance were taken care of) but the only people who figured this out were families. I left for the city because all my friends were older than me with families. I always found it ironic that the dot com boom was developed around the idea that information would be much easier to transmit quickly and cheapluy but all the businesses were founded within a few miles of some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
Studios make bank, just not where you expect. Since the rise of color TV theaters have been a good place to get buzz but not to make money. Home video, and TV licensing is where most of the profits are made. Oddly enough a decent portion of the value to be garnered through at home channels occurs at release. So studios shell out advertising for their box office releases. Even Lion's Gate (a fairly small studio) is bigger than most of the gaming companies (not EA). Warner, Sony, Disney, and Paramount all dwarf the game industry (not in box office revenues) but in total revenues and overall profitability.
Airline profitabilities have more to do with politics than oil prices. Gas is a major expense, but for example FedEx and UPS (with more proportional exposure to energy) are doing quite well even with oil prices being very high. Business success is not just derived from access to low costs inputs (although that does not hurt) it is about limiting competition for your mix of services. Airlines only succeeded when the government by fiat limited entry into the business (regulation).
Another big problem is that most folks on the ground dislike sonic booms (I grew up near a test base, and thought they were pretty cool) which greatly limits your airport choice. This was one of several factors that limited the deployment of the Concorde.
I'll grant you that a calculator (and excel) save me a bunch of time. However, how does one know if they made an error setting up their calculus problem or equation and fed the wrong equations to their calculator, if they do not have at least a basic knowledge of arithmetic?
If a company is funding marketing and employees with equity capital, it has more problems than managing rapid gorwth. Margins would be the first thing to address.
If my understanding of civil and common law are close, you have described common law (used in territories settled by the British. French territories use civil law where society follows many clear rules.
Once there were no governments or laws, yet society formed in meatspace, because it is exceedingly wasteful to not partner in even the most small of wways. I find it interesting that the thought experments that thinkers have proposed and the issues they raise are exactly the ones being tested and solved in online worlds.
Only thing I can think of is that the S&P Index committee wants a bigger float, and google decided that this would be a fine way to accomplish that.
What if your growth spike does not require cash to continue growing? A whole lot of business common sense was built when you had to add new machines to make more product. The revolution of the information age is that you no longer need to do so, but businesses still act as if they did. Google's need for acres of servers might be an exception, but most software companies have not needed the capital they generated to fund growth since day 1.
Buffet only paid a single dividend in the 60s, and he still regrets it. Ironic that the man who made so much money buying dividend paying companies own company does not pay dividends (and keeps a mountain of cash on their books). If it weren't for the free capital provided by the insurance company, no one would be singing Buffet's praises.
Those sort of transactions were common more than 100 years ago. In the tradition of government solving the problem we just finished, most securities laws protect investors from just that type of scam. So the new scamsters have moved to more advanced topics (although options are just a slow form of the above description rather than 50% they use 1% in many cases).
Exactly, and you just thought they didn't spend time there because it was too cold.
Tell me about it, I just moved from Washington State, to Washington DC. Now when I tell people that I grew up in eastern Washington (desert farming area) they think I grew up in Eastern Washington DC (one of the tougher neighborhoods in the district. I think it is funny how both call their area Washington with no qualifier (state or DC for either, unless you happen to be near the other).
Some of the founders thought that America should be a ocnferderation of states (Jefferson was a vocal proponent of this system). Madison and Hamilton in particular envisioned a federal government more similar to the one we have had for the past 200 years (perhaps a bit weaker than the Civil War Union and post New Deal federal systems, but not far from either.
An even better idea would have been to offer a reverse (dutch) auction with the price starting at $1000 or so, as the price ticks down, bid and take all you want at the current price. You can show up 2 minutes before the auction and get all the computers you want at the price you want, if it is above the market clearing price. If I'd known about this, I would have taken the day off and road tripped down to Richmond with a cooler or more full of cold sodas and iced teas and perhaps some snacks to sell. Then I'd have returned to the Apple store in DC and bought a new laptop with my proceeds.
Actually, the GP did a pretty good job equating the two, on the exchange rate market, 5000 yuan is worth about $600 but since the amount of wealth required for a similar standard of living differs, the poster appears to have compared it to wages or something similar. Well trained factory workers make more than a dollar a day, but still considerably less than their counterparts in the US.
Starbucks also gets lots of boxes in varying sizes, but they all fit together very, very well. That was the best thing about starbuck's boxes. Just ask well in advance when they get their boxes since they do not save them, but if you go on the day they recieve shipment you will collect lots. All the starbuck's in an area usually recieve shipments on the same day.