Jeff Bezos owns 101,283,650 shares of Amazon which is worth nearly $5 billion at its current value.
if you are saying his wealth is in his stock, I dont think this is a realistic measurement.
Why isn't it a realistic measurement? If I bought $100,000 of Amazon stock, would you say that I wasn't worth $100,000? To put it simply: Jeff Bezos has stuff that he can easily convert into billions of dollars. That makes him a billionaire.
Most of Bill Gate's wealth is in Microsoft, but at the moment that is pretty real.
You seem to have a concept of real and fake stock values. I can't tell if you think that Microsoft's stock is a good buy and Amazon's isn't but that doesn't have much of an impact on the value of either.
What finally turned the tide some years later was the adoption of the vaccine practise by a high ranking member of the British aristocracy. She (her name and title don't immediately come to mind) had her children vaccinated.
It was the Princess of Wales (though she wasn't the first, she was the person who made it popular). See the Variolation section of this page for more information. This form of vaccination had been practiced in Asia for a couple thousand years before making it to the West.
there is information directly encoded in the DVD that is lost by the time it makes it to the video output
That is correct. When a 24fps movie is encoded to NTSC DVD it will be encoded with progressive frames and some of the frames will contain the rff flag (repeat first field) to tell the player which frames to repeat so that it runs properly at 30 fps but the mpeg stream has the original progressive frames encoded into it.
does anyone think another contestant has a chance?
I do. If Ken had been on the show in an earlier year he would have left after his 5 day run and few people would know who he is. The question is how many people like him did come in earlier years, had their 5 day run, and left without much press or fanfare? My guess is at least one. Maybe he is the best player the show has ever had, but that would be pretty coincidental for the best player ever to come on shortly after they did away with the 5-day elimination rule.
Even if he is the best ever, he has gotten a number of Final Jeopardy questions wrong. Typically when that happened he had double the money of second place contestant so it didn't matter. It seems unlikely he'll be in that position in the tournament, so as to the question of whether anyone else has a chance then the answer is yes, even if Ken is the best ever, for the simple reason that he might miss the Final Jeopardy question.
Why would that matter? People are regularly ticketed for causing an accident but their insurance still pays out. If you have an insurance policy which states that they do not cover accidents that you caused then that is a completely different issue, though I've never heard of such a policy before.
Advertising, by definition, is something consumers do not want. Otherwise, consumers would PAY for advertising.
If I didn't get it for free, I would pay money for oxygen. That I don't pay for the oxygen in the atmosphere does not imply that I don't want it, so saying that something not paid for is by definition not wanted is incorrect. Years ago I bought an issue of Computer Shopper because I wanted the ads. I once wanted to by some socks online (who wants to go to the store just for socks?) and used Overture (goto.com at the time) since the other search engines top results were SOCKS protocol info and stories about people's lost socks and all I wanted were sock retailers. There are definitely times when advertising is wanted, at least by me. Most advertising, though, is unwanted.
Should I even ask how the first post on the page gets a redundant MOD? Especially when it's supposed to be funny?
Not addressing this specific post, but if the first post was something along the lines of "I for one welcome our new VAX overlords" or "In Soviet Russia..." then it would be redundant since the joke has been made before just not in this article.
I've had to reboot my tivo twice. Both lights were out on the front of the unit and it wouldn't respond to the remote control. The first time it happened it wasn't displaying anything on the TV, the second time it displayed the current channel but the channel couldn't be changed because it wouldn't respond to the remote. Shutting the unit off and on again fixed the problems both times.
Only by certain species. With oceans covering the majority of the Earth, I suspect that water may be the most popular substance to breathe. But that's only on Earth, the aliens that beam their thoughts into my head breathe pure methane gas.
I know jack squat about quantum mechanics but I saw a brief explanation of the double slit experiment on TV and the guy explaining that photons from a similar parallel universe were interfering with the photons in ours but there was seemingly no attempt to prove this other than to show that there was a phenomenon that we did not understand and that parallel universes was a possible explanation. I immediately thought up a method which would lend credibility to the parallel universe theory if the test succeeded but heard nothing about it being attempted, so could someone who knows more on the subject comment on its validity as a test?
Send a single photon towards the slits, record which slit it passes through, and then cover up the slit that it passed through so that there is now only one slit. In some parallel universes the slit that we covered up will be open because the original photon would have gone through the other slit (which I believe is the fundamental argument behind the parallel universe explanation) so we should still experience an interference pattern from one slit if the parallel universes exist and if we don't see an interference pattern then the parallel universe explanation is probably false. Am I onto something here or am I completely off base?
Think about Friends. While that show is usually a top 5 show, I think the two are comparable for the money they make from first run, syndication, products, etc. The 6 friends stars make A LOT more money than the talented cast of the Simpsons.
Friends and The Simpsons may be comparable in revenues generated, but the Friends cast are a lot less replaceable than the cast of The Simpsons. You can make the argument that janitors are worth millions of dollars per year since nobody would work in an office with trash all over the place, businesses would fold without someone to clean it up, but the problem is that a janitor is easily replaced with another worker so their pay remains relatively low even though their position in the company is a vital one. The cast for The Simpsons can be replaced by other voice actors, so their pay remains relatively low compared to other TV actors. Personally, I reserve my sympathy for people who aren't already making millions of dollars per year.
...you'll get the number of time periods in which something will double or halve.
That should say that you'll get an approximation of the number of time periods. Your mutual fund example would take about to 5 years 10 months to double and not exactly six years, and obviously something which increases 72% in a single period has not doubled.
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Roger Ebert has done commentary tracks on a few DVDs.
I hate any site that doesn't let me save the video to my HDD
KeepVid will let you save the video from most of the popular video sharing sites, including YouTube.
Jeff Bezos owns 101,283,650 shares of Amazon which is worth nearly $5 billion at its current value.
if you are saying his wealth is in his stock, I dont think this is a realistic measurement.
Why isn't it a realistic measurement? If I bought $100,000 of Amazon stock, would you say that I wasn't worth $100,000? To put it simply: Jeff Bezos has stuff that he can easily convert into billions of dollars. That makes him a billionaire.
Most of Bill Gate's wealth is in Microsoft, but at the moment that is pretty real.
You seem to have a concept of real and fake stock values. I can't tell if you think that Microsoft's stock is a good buy and Amazon's isn't but that doesn't have much of an impact on the value of either.
What finally turned the tide some years later was the adoption of the vaccine practise by a high ranking member of the British aristocracy. She (her name and title don't immediately come to mind) had her children vaccinated.
It was the Princess of Wales (though she wasn't the first, she was the person who made it popular). See the Variolation section of this page for more information. This form of vaccination had been practiced in Asia for a couple thousand years before making it to the West.
there is information directly encoded in the DVD that is lost by the time it makes it to the video output
That is correct. When a 24fps movie is encoded to NTSC DVD it will be encoded with progressive frames and some of the frames will contain the rff flag (repeat first field) to tell the player which frames to repeat so that it runs properly at 30 fps but the mpeg stream has the original progressive frames encoded into it.
while subsidising US farmers
Bush's proposed budget has large cuts to farmer subsidies in it.
Anarchy Online is offering free client download and a free one-year subscription if you sign up by January 15th.
does anyone think another contestant has a chance?
I do. If Ken had been on the show in an earlier year he would have left after his 5 day run and few people would know who he is. The question is how many people like him did come in earlier years, had their 5 day run, and left without much press or fanfare? My guess is at least one. Maybe he is the best player the show has ever had, but that would be pretty coincidental for the best player ever to come on shortly after they did away with the 5-day elimination rule.
Even if he is the best ever, he has gotten a number of Final Jeopardy questions wrong. Typically when that happened he had double the money of second place contestant so it didn't matter. It seems unlikely he'll be in that position in the tournament, so as to the question of whether anyone else has a chance then the answer is yes, even if Ken is the best ever, for the simple reason that he might miss the Final Jeopardy question.
No. I don't have a link handy but I have read that residents of Georgia will still be able to request two reports per year.
They expect to break even this year.
1972. See the Certification list a imdb.
The men wear shirts in international beach volleyball but they're shirtless in American beach volleyball. I don't know about other nations but I would expect it to be the same in most.
Why would that matter? People are regularly ticketed for causing an accident but their insurance still pays out. If you have an insurance policy which states that they do not cover accidents that you caused then that is a completely different issue, though I've never heard of such a policy before.
Advertising, by definition, is something consumers do not want. Otherwise, consumers would PAY for advertising.
If I didn't get it for free, I would pay money for oxygen. That I don't pay for the oxygen in the atmosphere does not imply that I don't want it, so saying that something not paid for is by definition not wanted is incorrect. Years ago I bought an issue of Computer Shopper because I wanted the ads. I once wanted to by some socks online (who wants to go to the store just for socks?) and used Overture (goto.com at the time) since the other search engines top results were SOCKS protocol info and stories about people's lost socks and all I wanted were sock retailers. There are definitely times when advertising is wanted, at least by me. Most advertising, though, is unwanted.
requiring a speeding trip to the hospital (in which adrenneline was used to kill the swelling
Your friend might want to get an Epipen if he doesn't already have one. It's a self-injectable dose of epinephrine (adrenaline).
There are 10.79 billion shares outstanding.
Should I even ask how the first post on the page gets a redundant MOD? Especially when it's supposed to be funny?
Not addressing this specific post, but if the first post was something along the lines of "I for one welcome our new VAX overlords" or "In Soviet Russia..." then it would be redundant since the joke has been made before just not in this article.
In this interview with Thom McKee, who had a 43 game streak on Tic-Tac-Dough, he mentions that he tithed his money as well.
I've had to reboot my tivo twice. Both lights were out on the front of the unit and it wouldn't respond to the remote control. The first time it happened it wasn't displaying anything on the TV, the second time it displayed the current channel but the channel couldn't be changed because it wouldn't respond to the remote. Shutting the unit off and on again fixed the problems both times.
air is most popular substance to breathe
Only by certain species. With oceans covering the majority of the Earth, I suspect that water may be the most popular substance to breathe. But that's only on Earth, the aliens that beam their thoughts into my head breathe pure methane gas.
I know jack squat about quantum mechanics but I saw a brief explanation of the double slit experiment on TV and the guy explaining that photons from a similar parallel universe were interfering with the photons in ours but there was seemingly no attempt to prove this other than to show that there was a phenomenon that we did not understand and that parallel universes was a possible explanation. I immediately thought up a method which would lend credibility to the parallel universe theory if the test succeeded but heard nothing about it being attempted, so could someone who knows more on the subject comment on its validity as a test?
Send a single photon towards the slits, record which slit it passes through, and then cover up the slit that it passed through so that there is now only one slit. In some parallel universes the slit that we covered up will be open because the original photon would have gone through the other slit (which I believe is the fundamental argument behind the parallel universe explanation) so we should still experience an interference pattern from one slit if the parallel universes exist and if we don't see an interference pattern then the parallel universe explanation is probably false. Am I onto something here or am I completely off base?
Here's a list of everything produced by Fireworks.
Think about Friends. While that show is usually a top 5 show, I think the two are comparable for the money they make from first run, syndication, products, etc. The 6 friends stars make A LOT more money than the talented cast of the Simpsons.
Friends and The Simpsons may be comparable in revenues generated, but the Friends cast are a lot less replaceable than the cast of The Simpsons. You can make the argument that janitors are worth millions of dollars per year since nobody would work in an office with trash all over the place, businesses would fold without someone to clean it up, but the problem is that a janitor is easily replaced with another worker so their pay remains relatively low even though their position in the company is a vital one. The cast for The Simpsons can be replaced by other voice actors, so their pay remains relatively low compared to other TV actors. Personally, I reserve my sympathy for people who aren't already making millions of dollars per year.
I can't think of *any* technologies that Microsoft got into early on.
I believe that they are the leading innovators in the field of talking paperclip technology.
...you'll get the number of time periods in which something will double or halve.
That should say that you'll get an approximation of the number of time periods. Your mutual fund example would take about to 5 years 10 months to double and not exactly six years, and obviously something which increases 72% in a single period has not doubled.