Actually, that's not what happened. In fact the Congress has been implementing more wind subsidies because the market has been shrinking otherwise.
What happened to wind market was a combination of two things: back in 2008 debt markets and natural gas prices collapsed almost simultaneously. Debt markets have recovered, but natural gas prices have not. Today it's much cheaper to build natural gas power plants than it is to develop wind farms. Really, though, Pickens should've seen it coming 2 years ago (and privately he did - he's been trying to sell all those GE turbines for a while now).
You can buy the RadioTime app for something like $4 that will give you most of your local radio stations and almost any streaming station from around the world.
Sorry for replying to my own post; the revenue growth in question is actually around 25% year over year as can be gleaned from the financials released by Skype.
Dear Slashdot (and TechCrunch for that matter),
please don't switch to financial analysis just yet. The statement "But a big portion of that was from interest income." is both misleading (why focus on this portion of the financial statement as opposed to the operational part?) and incorrect (net financial result is actually a loss of about $4.3M). Additionally, when you say that "this isn't exactly a new business", that implies that there is lack of growth and the 3% return on revenue is somewhat indicative of future potential, while in the very next sentence you show that there was over 50% growth in revenue.
If what you're saying were true, then the markets would've never recovered. The facts show otherwise, though: the markets recovered within 10 minutes of the glitch.
Net Neutrality will accomplish the exact opposite effect, in this case, as there won't be any incentive for ISP's to upgrade their networks if that bill is passed.
At this point we have to agree to disagree. The only other point that I'd want to bring up is the fact that the 9/11 attacks didn't just kill 4,000 people; they also brought on a very significant damage to the economy.
Again, I agree with you that the NSA program represents significant overreaching by the government (and may even be a precursor for all sorts of domestic spying). But saying that terrorist threat is minimal is going too far in the other direction.
Hey, I'm not advocating any of the draconian measures that the government is putting in place. All I'm saying is that unlike the other two, terrorism is an unknown quantity. And yes, Al Qaeda will probably not take us by surprise as they on 9/11 anymore. But there's that remote chance of them contaminating the water supply, setting of a nuke in Manhattan, etc. that makes is that unpredictable.
The usefulness of the NSA's domestic phone call database as a counterterrorism tool is unclear."
Unclear to whom? It's plenty clear to me: you nab a terrorist suspect, find out who he or she called and follow up with further inquiries.
Not to say that this usefulness justifies the massive invasion of privacy that goes along with it, but just because the technology is "bad", doesn't mean it's useless.
Why use Dell at all for a basic computer? Just get a refurbished eMachines from TigerDirect.com, it's much cheaper than any basic Dell even after all the coupons, and often comes with better specs.
While you're right about the Open Source, there is a key difference between that model and "community" internet: community projects are, or have the option to be, partly funded by taxation. That takes optionality out of the model and makes it un-capitalistic. If I did not want to be a part of community Internet, I'd have no choice not to pay for it.
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Actually, that's not what happened. In fact the Congress has been implementing more wind subsidies because the market has been shrinking otherwise. What happened to wind market was a combination of two things: back in 2008 debt markets and natural gas prices collapsed almost simultaneously. Debt markets have recovered, but natural gas prices have not. Today it's much cheaper to build natural gas power plants than it is to develop wind farms. Really, though, Pickens should've seen it coming 2 years ago (and privately he did - he's been trying to sell all those GE turbines for a while now).
You can buy the RadioTime app for something like $4 that will give you most of your local radio stations and almost any streaming station from around the world.
Sorry for replying to my own post; the revenue growth in question is actually around 25% year over year as can be gleaned from the financials released by Skype.
Dear Slashdot (and TechCrunch for that matter), please don't switch to financial analysis just yet. The statement "But a big portion of that was from interest income." is both misleading (why focus on this portion of the financial statement as opposed to the operational part?) and incorrect (net financial result is actually a loss of about $4.3M). Additionally, when you say that "this isn't exactly a new business", that implies that there is lack of growth and the 3% return on revenue is somewhat indicative of future potential, while in the very next sentence you show that there was over 50% growth in revenue.
You're absolutely correct! Planned economies are far more efficient at enslaving their people and slave trade.
If what you're saying were true, then the markets would've never recovered. The facts show otherwise, though: the markets recovered within 10 minutes of the glitch.
What makes you think that high frequency trading made it worse? If anything, HFTs are the reason the markets recovered so quickly.
Lieberman?
I'm surprised it took so long to get a Hungarian notation joke in. I'm even more surprised it's not modded higher.
Net Neutrality will accomplish the exact opposite effect, in this case, as there won't be any incentive for ISP's to upgrade their networks if that bill is passed.
How much money did the Congress earmark for rebuilding of NOLA? Now, show me the place in the Constitution where the Congress is authorized to do so.
Do we think of hurricanse and wars as "minimal threats"? No, we don't. That's my point.
At this point we have to agree to disagree. The only other point that I'd want to bring up is the fact that the 9/11 attacks didn't just kill 4,000 people; they also brought on a very significant damage to the economy.
Difficult? Yes. Impossible to solve or useless? No. The NSA doesnt employ all those math majors for shits and giggles.
Again, I agree with you that the NSA program represents significant overreaching by the government (and may even be a precursor for all sorts of domestic spying). But saying that terrorist threat is minimal is going too far in the other direction.
Hey, I'm not advocating any of the draconian measures that the government is putting in place. All I'm saying is that unlike the other two, terrorism is an unknown quantity. And yes, Al Qaeda will probably not take us by surprise as they on 9/11 anymore. But there's that remote chance of them contaminating the water supply, setting of a nuke in Manhattan, etc. that makes is that unpredictable.
How many people will terrorism kill?
Unclear to whom? It's plenty clear to me: you nab a terrorist suspect, find out who he or she called and follow up with further inquiries.
Not to say that this usefulness justifies the massive invasion of privacy that goes along with it, but just because the technology is "bad", doesn't mean it's useless.
Why use Dell at all for a basic computer? Just get a refurbished eMachines from TigerDirect.com, it's much cheaper than any basic Dell even after all the coupons, and often comes with better specs.
That's a false impression. You can definitely beat Dell's prices by rolling your own AND have better quality components as well.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AT&T Broadband has been owned by Comcast for quite some time now.
Even if Google IS a good corporate citizen, all it takes for somebody to get access to your data is to hack into your GMail account.
Yes, if only someone thought of that...
While you're right about the Open Source, there is a key difference between that model and "community" internet: community projects are, or have the option to be, partly funded by taxation. That takes optionality out of the model and makes it un-capitalistic. If I did not want to be a part of community Internet, I'd have no choice not to pay for it.
I've had an @yahoo account with MSN since 2001.