Well, now we might be splitting technical hairs. By adjusting a previously flawed calculation of mine [slashdot.org], we know the PE is somewhere in the range of 100+, but now Google has a 25% discount (roughly) with the new price goals, which brings it to about 70
So at a more conventional PE of 10 or so, Google would only be worth a more conventional $15 or so, at which they would have opened had they opted for the same old ho-hum run-of-the-mill greedy Wall Street IPO machine procedure. The problem for those who are bidding even at the lowered target is that their shares will be in the $10-25 region come January or so, anyway.
ironically narrow-minded (I am tolerant of everyone as long as they think like I do): How is this worse than being rabidly intolerant?
activist judge appointing: Indistinguishable from "Conservative judge-appointing" save for political inclination
U.N. ass kissing: Are you claiming it is better for there to be no international law, no international diplomatic forum, no limit to international aggression, etc?
ass reaming guv'na electing: I don't even want to visualize this
reporting news that only agrees with my radical left politics: Of course, right wing news media are just fine, right?
secular humanist utopia striving, God-hating: Lots to say here, but I'll contain myself
mankind hating except when it serves the purpose of stroking my own ego (like talking about helping minorities and the poor (only talking, mind you. I wouldn't want to catch some exotic disease from those poor folks): A true "compassionate conservative"
perpetually angry at the hand life has dealt me: You mean, like you?
wealth-redistributing (because the folks that actually write most of the paychecks must be punished for being more ambitious than me): Are you claiming that wealth places people above the law? That people who are impoverished should be abandoned to their fate?
marriage-redefining (we are now more enlightened than the sum of all humanity throughout all history, so drastically redefining the core unit of civilization will not have disastrous side effects): Marriage and family are not the "core unit of civilization." Marriage is as sacred or profane as an individual married couple can be. There is no magic here.
infant killing, violent criminal execution protesting (no, that's not ironic in light of my stance on abortion): Yes it is. It is an excellent example of cognitive dissonance.
Several battlegrounds where groups or individuals directly responsible for documented acts of international terrorism are being fought.
A list of groups or individuals directly responsible for documented acts of international terrorism who have been apprehended and processed in a court of law.
Credible, documented examples of "sleeper cells" with hard evidence that they have been caught in advanced stages of a terrorism project
Credible, documented, and significant Return on Investment (ROI) for the >$125 billion spent setting up the Department of Homeland Security and the >$200 billion spent in Iraq in the context of the War on Terror.
Credible evidence that it is worth substituting organized criminals such as international opium traffickers for terrorists in nations that harbor them.
Credible, documented evidence that terrorists and their havens in Afghanistan have been eliminated, thanks to the War on Terror.
Credible arguments as to why Iraq was a nuclear proliferation threat, but Pakistan is not.
Credible explanation of the lack of terrorist attacks within the U.S. after September 11, 2001, in spite of the alleged large numbers of terrorists and sleeper cells in the country, and the institutionalized imminence of an attack.
List of individuals who have been brought to justice for their involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks, as in apprehended, tried in a court of law, and sentenced for their crimes.
Now examine these lists, and ask yourself if this can be called a War. Are we safe yet?
Next Week: Make a list of the individuals and organizations that are receiving the money spent on the War on Terror. Sort by Net Profit, and by amounts contributed to national political campaigns.
Long ago, I thought that Mac clones were a good idea, and Apple's quashing of the nascent clone market a bad idea. Apple came close to dying soon thereafter, though very likely more from mismanagement than from supressing clones.
These days I suspect they would have died had they permitted the clones to continue, since they seem incapable of producing competitive, cost effective hardware, and would probably not have survived as simply an OS steward/manufacturer.
I have never used Macs for any meaningful length of time. They seem too expensive and have too small a software base compared to Windows and Linux combined. That is not an unfair comparison, given how common it is for people to have dual-bootable PCs.
Troll: Macs are for the same people who buy the pretentious new VW sedans and put single flowers in the vase on the steering wheel column.
Wrong on two counts. 1) Heroin is not cocaine, and 2a) cocaine can indeed cause fatal cardiac fibrillation at the higher end of recreational dosage ranges. 2b) Heroin and other opiates kill by depressing the brain centers that regulate breathing, also at the higher end of recreational dosage ranges.
Parent's sig: guns dont kill people, people with guns kill people
Guns don't kill people, small pellets of semi-molten metal flying at high speed kill people.
Heroin doesn't kill people, people who { inject it into themselves | sell it to junkies | traffic in it | accept bribes to look the other way | etc } kill people.
Cruise missiles don't kill people, people who { launch them | prep them for launch | write "Dear Dumbshit" on them prior to launch | transport them | manufacture them | contract for them | put them in the budget | think they are politically useful | etc } kill people.
Idiotic reasoning arbitrarily shifting responsibility away from cherished political beliefs doesn't kill people, but it sure feels like it.
Multithreading is not trivial. Parallelizing with threads is probably not trivial either. Perhaps you meant "practical," "feasible," or "do-able," but certainly not "trivial."
It isn't "feed corn" that's disappearing, it's the old Cold War-style Paranoia Pork Barrel. Companies that used to lap up obscene amounts of funding for exotic hardware now have to go face to face with fast and cheap clustered COTS hardware. 25+ years of commodity-scale engineering, in the case of commecial microprocessors, has vastly outstripped the achievements of specialty supercomputer technology by the metrics of bang for the buck and constancy of improvement through time.
Poor little babies, now where will their executives and boardmembers get free money? Will they actually have to do something useful for a living, and for a change? It seems we are only a Darwinian capitalist economy when the little guy gets fucked. When the professional bullshitters at the top get it, it becomes some sort of strategic crisis that requires immediate injections of billions of dollars. Screw them. May Cray rest in peace.
La Supercomputadora is Dead! Viva la Supercomputadora!
OK, UML is User Mode Linux. Got it. No, no, I'm not confused, I get the coincidence with the other extremely widespread use of the acronym. No prob, Dude.
Some In the future X will be free, people will pay for Y instead meme instances:
X,Y cars, fuel fuel, cars software, hardware education, school supplies school supplies, education nothing, everything everything, nothing clothing, looking like geeks voting, the consequences of their choices physical objects, the hype that surrounds their use food, toilet access subscriptions using things, the physical objects themselves nothing, believing they are free
That old high school maxim, it's all bullshit, applies quite well to this meme.
Microsoft will succeed at the same thing it succeeds at now: gulling the innocent out of their precious cash in exchange for the same old shit in a nicer wrapper.
What oil company in its right mind would continue to operate wells all over the world, maintain a tanker fleet, etc. if they could accomplish the same thing with bio fuels at a lower cost?
With all due respect, you have it backwards. They peg the price per barrel based on the "international market." Their true production cost may be far below that. In 1996 Pemex disclosed it cost them $2.52/bbl. I challenge you to find out how much it costs US domestic producers to extract each barrel. If most of the oil consumed in the US comes from
inexpensive sources outside of the Persian Gulf area, then pegging the price high results in a very generous profit margin. Therefore, what oil company in its right mind would want to do anything other than pretend petroleum is a precious, expensive resource on which our very existence as a nation depends?
Petroleum is a cheap, disgusting fluid that comes from the smelly bowels of the earth. Through political trickery, we have been convinced that it is a terribly valuable commodity, for the sole purpose of enriching the men behind the curtain.
I empathize with you. You are in the denial stage. It does seem far-fetched. However, here are a couple more links. I'm sure you are as good a googler as the next guy to take it from there.
Slashdot Mirror
With whom or what? Surely you are not insinuating that jerking off is a reasonable substitute for sex?
Sounds like you're getting it hand-over-fist.
So at a more conventional PE of 10 or so, Google would only be worth a more conventional $15 or so, at which they would have opened had they opted for the same old ho-hum run-of-the-mill greedy Wall Street IPO machine procedure. The problem for those who are bidding even at the lowered target is that their shares will be in the $10-25 region come January or so, anyway.
Unlike those noble souls forcing U.S. commercial pop culture and consumerism on the rest of the world.
Now examine these lists, and ask yourself if this can be called a War. Are we safe yet?
Next Week: Make a list of the individuals and organizations that are receiving the money spent on the War on Terror. Sort by Net Profit, and by amounts contributed to national political campaigns.
I suspect "No" and "Yes," respectively. That's why it may be wrong.
As to the name, there should really be a trio of them, and they should implicitly be lawyers. Their names are Cox, Zucker, and Wiesel, Esq.
These days I suspect they would have died had they permitted the clones to continue, since they seem incapable of producing competitive, cost effective hardware, and would probably not have survived as simply an OS steward/manufacturer.
I have never used Macs for any meaningful length of time. They seem too expensive and have too small a software base compared to Windows and Linux combined. That is not an unfair comparison, given how common it is for people to have dual-bootable PCs.
Troll: Macs are for the same people who buy the pretentious new VW sedans and put single flowers in the vase on the steering wheel column.
Wrong on two counts. 1) Heroin is not cocaine, and 2a) cocaine can indeed cause fatal cardiac fibrillation at the higher end of recreational dosage ranges. 2b) Heroin and other opiates kill by depressing the brain centers that regulate breathing, also at the higher end of recreational dosage ranges.
guns dont kill people, people with guns kill people
Guns don't kill people, small pellets of semi-molten metal flying at high speed kill people.
Heroin doesn't kill people, people who { inject it into themselves | sell it to junkies | traffic in it | accept bribes to look the other way | etc } kill people.
Cruise missiles don't kill people, people who { launch them | prep them for launch | write "Dear Dumbshit" on them prior to launch | transport them | manufacture them | contract for them | put them in the budget | think they are politically useful | etc } kill people.
Idiotic reasoning arbitrarily shifting responsibility away from cherished political beliefs doesn't kill people, but it sure feels like it.
Moral: There are many ways to set up IT in an organization. It may be that giving every person two computers is one of the dumber ways to go about it.
The book is for people like you, who think that we've fixed the threat of world war three and nuclear disaster, among other dusty old SF threats.
Wait until they see how they can run most of their Windows software under GNU/Linux using Wine.
Multithreading is not trivial. Parallelizing with threads is probably not trivial either. Perhaps you meant "practical," "feasible," or "do-able," but certainly not "trivial."
So what do you suggest, in dollars and cents, and in comparison with the numerous other demands for government subsidies?
Poor little babies, now where will their executives and boardmembers get free money? Will they actually have to do something useful for a living, and for a change? It seems we are only a Darwinian capitalist economy when the little guy gets fucked. When the professional bullshitters at the top get it, it becomes some sort of strategic crisis that requires immediate injections of billions of dollars. Screw them. May Cray rest in peace.
La Supercomputadora is Dead! Viva la Supercomputadora!
With all due respect, you have it backwards. They peg the price per barrel based on the "international market." Their true production cost may be far below that. In 1996 Pemex disclosed it cost them $2.52/bbl. I challenge you to find out how much it costs US domestic producers to extract each barrel. If most of the oil consumed in the US comes from inexpensive sources outside of the Persian Gulf area, then pegging the price high results in a very generous profit margin. Therefore, what oil company in its right mind would want to do anything other than pretend petroleum is a precious, expensive resource on which our very existence as a nation depends?
Petroleum is a cheap, disgusting fluid that comes from the smelly bowels of the earth. Through political trickery, we have been convinced that it is a terribly valuable commodity, for the sole purpose of enriching the men behind the curtain.
Don't peek, now.
I empathize with you. You are in the denial stage. It does seem far-fetched. However, here are a couple more links. I'm sure you are as good a googler as the next guy to take it from there.
Energy Balance/Life Cycle Inventory for Ethanol, Biodiesel and Petroleum Fuels
The GoBiodiesel Cooperative
Not if this dries up the bulk of terrorists' funding for food, shelter, clothing, training, weaponry, transportation, propaganda, research, etc.
It would appear once again, my friend, that we are the victims of bullshit on a vast scale.