Re:You know, he's doing a bayesian survey
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Google IPO Swami
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Of those that invest, very few indivual investors buy stocks directly without a financial advisor. Experts i.e brokers recomending or reviewing orders or mutual fund managers drive most investment decisions.
That and only irrational investors with MONEY set stock prices, and while the public at large is irrational those who have money in their hands on average are more rational.
Lng tankers are pretty darn safe. I spent a week with the guys at Llyods register who certify ship design safety learning about the ship design. I would gladly take me, my wife, and children aboad any tanker afloat today without worry.
Commerical power plants use a uranium that is of a lower enrichment level than that of what you would find on a military grade plant. Enrichment costs a LOT of money to do. The military buys performance, not low cost.
Highly enriched military grade materials come a lot closer to bomb grade material than I think a goverment wants to put into private hands.
Re:Open Source Energy Initiatives
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DIY HVAC
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Actually, in many (but not all) states you DO have a choice of where you buy your power from. Overall, the basic economics of being able to deliver power on demand have a cost range that is pretty tight.
Free choice with power if fine and all but your not going to see it cost that much less because quite frankly most power companies are NOT making money hand over fist. If your aware of anyone making some outrageously HUGE profit please do share.
ANd how likely is it that most of those mandarin speakers are going to leave their small villages and interact with the outside world? Pretty low in my judgement.
English is first not just by virtue of numbers, but because the richest most educated people in the world happen to use it as their common means of communication. India is suckign up the programing jobs because they also happen to have a large pool of people who speak english. The people in china who want to do the same are goign to learn english.
Plus, mandrin and cantonese speakers can not SPEAK to each other well. They can write notes to each other but they are quite diffrent in the way that spanich and french are. Knowing one helps you udnerstand the other guy but still presents language barrier.
One nice thing about film cameras is that the film has so many pictures to a roll. Durring a court case my father was involved in it has occured that you get LESS photos then were on the total roll. Then the question comes up, what was on those others photos? Twice he has seen this happen when someone SWORE "something is missing" and true enough the missing photos were of importance.
Just because what you see on the frame is right, doesn't ean the frame is showing you the reality.
At the start of your career, the name on your diploma matters as too does the school. Several factors here.
First, some schools are going to be a bigger draws for on campus recruiting. Getting interviews with intresting and/or established company handed to you on a silver platter REALLY matter. This leads to great coops and summer internships while your in schools to build up your skils and a change to be in the running for some really great jobs when your graduate. Many really great jobs and jobs in devolpment programs almost ONLY come from on capus recruiting.
Name brand schools have a huge advantage when it comes to this, and the "new" school bit here gives me the willies. I myself picked the university of houston over harvard/georgetown because it was free vs 100k+.
Second, learning a lot outside of your specific technological field will help you a lot in the long run. I myself have used my soc, psyc, biology, history and other non core subjects in a lot of diffrent places. I'm a finance guy, and blew the socks off the founder of a biotech firm by asking a detailed question based on my basic bio class info.
Your "new" university may be quite weak in these areas. Also do they have a good reference libary? The internet can't yet match a good reference libary for many things.
Third, programing ect. can be learned outside of school. For me, high level finance requires intense programing and math skills to solve problems. I could have been a smoking CS major but I learned it on my own and picked up another field where having just SOME CS knowledge was incredibly usefull. My point is, while you LIKE technology you may not want to get a degree in it or you may want a degree in tech and something else. A finance/cs guy makes a lot of money and is in great demand.
Telex still exists and is used. I know that you can STILL send ExxonMobil a Telex, and they still send them out to get messages to some parts of the world.
I got a telex as recently as '99.
There is the old story about the guy who takes a stack of bumper stickers for the opposing canidate and puts one on every cars bumper...
With political spam it becomes SO much easier and fun. With to a bit of tech savy and good writting a great many fake messages could be sent out. I dare any politican to use this hardcore, because the backlash that could be unleashed against them would be frightfull once people learn that you really CAN get eail from your congresman!
I think spammers are going to start a bunch of lil grassroots political parties. They will band together and form the penis party, and sell penis creams, pills, and lord knows what else to "support" the party.
The only real solution is to have terrorists start using spam to fund their operations... only with that boogieman out of the closet will congress do anything about spam.
The bible thumpers might not vote for the other side, however there is a strong change they might not go out and vote at all which is enough to lose by.
Your going to need energy and mass to make thing still and those are going to cost something.
Only some materials are going to be suitable for building things, those materials will have some sort of value because there IS a limited amount of them.
Nantech manufacturing will still require energy which is not out there in limitless forms to use.
Until the energy and material barriers are broken nanotech isn't going to overrun everything.
If you read into golds work he doesn't say that oil and gas DON'T come from dead dinos, but that it ALSO comes from other places.
Because we know about where to find oil/gas based on the prevailing theory, we have not looked elsewhere. If we look elsewhere there would also be other despoists of oil/gas of a diffrent nature if gold is right.
I'm a energy economist, IAEE, what about you?
In california they do the same thing except they use guns. I'm pretty sure california actually came up with the whole idea of doing it if you ignore maurading viking hordes ect.
I'm not sure the department of ENERGY would have much of a clue as to what neuroscience projects to fund.
I've been hearing in the energy world that we don't have the "next big thing" to replace oil. This is a start towards that.
It is a risky investment, however...
They hold DEBIT, and if SCO goes bankrupt they and any other debit holders wind up owning all their assets. If they don't win their lawsuit their bankrupt.... They may infact have some ideas as to how to use unix to make some more money that SCO is able to do, $50 million for a decent shot at being able to own unix may be something their willing to do.
If they do win, then they have a good shot at have a big part of a huge cashpile.
Anything besides a weak settling of the case would look pretty good to these new investors. If you can stand the risk, not such a bad deal to be in.
PIPE deals (Private Investment in Public Equity) are the very last worst source of funding for a company. The deal generally screws the shareholders out of a lot of the value of their firm.
Their back is up against the wall, and the share price REALLY needs to come down from where it is.
Re:Origin (Horatio Hornblower)
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Skittles, it is an old game that is quite a bit like bowling. You roll a ball at some pins, and try and knock them down.
I suspect that hornblower (now thats a porn name!) was talking about drinking beer and playing.
My procedure when I want accurate information about things that matter.
I go to
1. My university alumni account that allows me to access electronic books, whole text journal articles etc.
Then I go
2. Lexis-Nexis... the GOD of information
after that I go to google.
My father is a lawyer, and does a lot of estates. One estate he handled an older client of his who had been in poor health for quite a while passed away. She had a decently sized estate because she owned her own house.
The problem was finding her only heir, her son. He was mentally ill and unable to take care of himself very well, and was housed in an institution called the lafayette clinic here in michigan. The problem came about because they had shut the clinic down a few months before due to budget problems here in michigan.
When my father contacted the state, basically he was told that this ladies son had just be taken outside the facility and told he couldn't go back. Apparently, that happened to a good number of these patients.
Thats it, no records no nothing. The estate hired a private investigator, my dad called a friend of his at the FBI, he tried to find this guy. He just disapeared no one knows where he is and the state of michigan is holding onto 6 figures that could help this guy live a decent life. With a program like this maybe he could be found.
The grid means the WIRES, we have PLENTY of power plants. They just arn't in the right locations, and there are not enough lines to move the power around sufficently to stop something like what we've seen tonight.
The problem is that there is no one to borrow the shares from!
In order for a retail broaker to borrow the shares they have to be in a margin account, thats the only way a broaker can lend your shares. It appears no one owns SCO shares in a margin account.
Bigger players will call around to the owners of the shares and cut a deal to borrow the shares. If none of those holders will lend shares to you, you can't short the stock.
What happened with me? I had joined the company for about 3 months in their rotational program and was learning how to be a trader and BOOM the company blew up. Thus I became an underemployeed graduate student.
I saw things coming apart, but I didn't think the company would go compleatly away, the deal they had with dynegy was something I thought was going to work. I saw everyone I knew, all my friends lose their jobs and try and fight their way into the few other spots open in the industry only to lose them again quickly.
Enron was a nice place to work they treated people well paid them very well and it was a place where you could come up with an idea and get the resources to do it. The whole problem was that the guys who DID a deal got to VALUE the deal and the profits off it which made their bonus. Some people got greedy and made bad deals make money on paper and were given more and more room to make deals.
There were great energy traders at enron, who made the market spent the time and energy and made very good money off trading in the markets by having MORE information and analysis that anyone else. The TRADERS didn't lose all the money, didn't bankrupt the company... the structured finance guys most of whom were close to fastow did that. They took out loans based on shams and lies and then took the cash to pay off the last sham transaction and the whole thing kept getting bigger and bigger until they couldn't get any more money.
Enron is an example of how the market goes off the BEST information that it has at the time, if those are lies the market gets offtrack. The marekt isn't perfect, but it is ON AVERAGE better than anything else we've got.
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Of those that invest, very few indivual investors buy stocks directly without a financial advisor. Experts i.e brokers recomending or reviewing orders or mutual fund managers drive most investment decisions. That and only irrational investors with MONEY set stock prices, and while the public at large is irrational those who have money in their hands on average are more rational.
Lng tankers are pretty darn safe. I spent a week with the guys at Llyods register who certify ship design safety learning about the ship design. I would gladly take me, my wife, and children aboad any tanker afloat today without worry.
Commerical power plants use a uranium that is of a lower enrichment level than that of what you would find on a military grade plant. Enrichment costs a LOT of money to do. The military buys performance, not low cost. Highly enriched military grade materials come a lot closer to bomb grade material than I think a goverment wants to put into private hands.
Actually, in many (but not all) states you DO have a choice of where you buy your power from. Overall, the basic economics of being able to deliver power on demand have a cost range that is pretty tight. Free choice with power if fine and all but your not going to see it cost that much less because quite frankly most power companies are NOT making money hand over fist. If your aware of anyone making some outrageously HUGE profit please do share.
Nick has a good system as to how to get a job. It works, and makes a lot fo sense. Read the book.
ANd how likely is it that most of those mandarin speakers are going to leave their small villages and interact with the outside world? Pretty low in my judgement. English is first not just by virtue of numbers, but because the richest most educated people in the world happen to use it as their common means of communication. India is suckign up the programing jobs because they also happen to have a large pool of people who speak english. The people in china who want to do the same are goign to learn english. Plus, mandrin and cantonese speakers can not SPEAK to each other well. They can write notes to each other but they are quite diffrent in the way that spanich and french are. Knowing one helps you udnerstand the other guy but still presents language barrier.
One nice thing about film cameras is that the film has so many pictures to a roll. Durring a court case my father was involved in it has occured that you get LESS photos then were on the total roll. Then the question comes up, what was on those others photos? Twice he has seen this happen when someone SWORE "something is missing" and true enough the missing photos were of importance. Just because what you see on the frame is right, doesn't ean the frame is showing you the reality.
At the start of your career, the name on your diploma matters as too does the school. Several factors here. First, some schools are going to be a bigger draws for on campus recruiting. Getting interviews with intresting and/or established company handed to you on a silver platter REALLY matter. This leads to great coops and summer internships while your in schools to build up your skils and a change to be in the running for some really great jobs when your graduate. Many really great jobs and jobs in devolpment programs almost ONLY come from on capus recruiting. Name brand schools have a huge advantage when it comes to this, and the "new" school bit here gives me the willies. I myself picked the university of houston over harvard/georgetown because it was free vs 100k+. Second, learning a lot outside of your specific technological field will help you a lot in the long run. I myself have used my soc, psyc, biology, history and other non core subjects in a lot of diffrent places. I'm a finance guy, and blew the socks off the founder of a biotech firm by asking a detailed question based on my basic bio class info. Your "new" university may be quite weak in these areas. Also do they have a good reference libary? The internet can't yet match a good reference libary for many things. Third, programing ect. can be learned outside of school. For me, high level finance requires intense programing and math skills to solve problems. I could have been a smoking CS major but I learned it on my own and picked up another field where having just SOME CS knowledge was incredibly usefull. My point is, while you LIKE technology you may not want to get a degree in it or you may want a degree in tech and something else. A finance/cs guy makes a lot of money and is in great demand.
Telex still exists and is used. I know that you can STILL send ExxonMobil a Telex, and they still send them out to get messages to some parts of the world. I got a telex as recently as '99.
There is the old story about the guy who takes a stack of bumper stickers for the opposing canidate and puts one on every cars bumper... With political spam it becomes SO much easier and fun. With to a bit of tech savy and good writting a great many fake messages could be sent out. I dare any politican to use this hardcore, because the backlash that could be unleashed against them would be frightfull once people learn that you really CAN get eail from your congresman!
I think spammers are going to start a bunch of lil grassroots political parties. They will band together and form the penis party, and sell penis creams, pills, and lord knows what else to "support" the party.
The only real solution is to have terrorists start using spam to fund their operations... only with that boogieman out of the closet will congress do anything about spam.
The bible thumpers might not vote for the other side, however there is a strong change they might not go out and vote at all which is enough to lose by.
Your going to need energy and mass to make thing still and those are going to cost something. Only some materials are going to be suitable for building things, those materials will have some sort of value because there IS a limited amount of them. Nantech manufacturing will still require energy which is not out there in limitless forms to use. Until the energy and material barriers are broken nanotech isn't going to overrun everything.
If you read into golds work he doesn't say that oil and gas DON'T come from dead dinos, but that it ALSO comes from other places. Because we know about where to find oil/gas based on the prevailing theory, we have not looked elsewhere. If we look elsewhere there would also be other despoists of oil/gas of a diffrent nature if gold is right. I'm a energy economist, IAEE, what about you?
In california they do the same thing except they use guns. I'm pretty sure california actually came up with the whole idea of doing it if you ignore maurading viking hordes ect.
I'm not sure the department of ENERGY would have much of a clue as to what neuroscience projects to fund. I've been hearing in the energy world that we don't have the "next big thing" to replace oil. This is a start towards that.
It is a risky investment, however... They hold DEBIT, and if SCO goes bankrupt they and any other debit holders wind up owning all their assets. If they don't win their lawsuit their bankrupt.... They may infact have some ideas as to how to use unix to make some more money that SCO is able to do, $50 million for a decent shot at being able to own unix may be something their willing to do. If they do win, then they have a good shot at have a big part of a huge cashpile. Anything besides a weak settling of the case would look pretty good to these new investors. If you can stand the risk, not such a bad deal to be in.
PIPE deals (Private Investment in Public Equity) are the very last worst source of funding for a company. The deal generally screws the shareholders out of a lot of the value of their firm. Their back is up against the wall, and the share price REALLY needs to come down from where it is.
Skittles, it is an old game that is quite a bit like bowling. You roll a ball at some pins, and try and knock them down. I suspect that hornblower (now thats a porn name!) was talking about drinking beer and playing.
My procedure when I want accurate information about things that matter. I go to 1. My university alumni account that allows me to access electronic books, whole text journal articles etc. Then I go 2. Lexis-Nexis... the GOD of information after that I go to google.
My father is a lawyer, and does a lot of estates. One estate he handled an older client of his who had been in poor health for quite a while passed away. She had a decently sized estate because she owned her own house. The problem was finding her only heir, her son. He was mentally ill and unable to take care of himself very well, and was housed in an institution called the lafayette clinic here in michigan. The problem came about because they had shut the clinic down a few months before due to budget problems here in michigan. When my father contacted the state, basically he was told that this ladies son had just be taken outside the facility and told he couldn't go back. Apparently, that happened to a good number of these patients. Thats it, no records no nothing. The estate hired a private investigator, my dad called a friend of his at the FBI, he tried to find this guy. He just disapeared no one knows where he is and the state of michigan is holding onto 6 figures that could help this guy live a decent life. With a program like this maybe he could be found.
The grid means the WIRES, we have PLENTY of power plants. They just arn't in the right locations, and there are not enough lines to move the power around sufficently to stop something like what we've seen tonight.
The problem is that there is no one to borrow the shares from! In order for a retail broaker to borrow the shares they have to be in a margin account, thats the only way a broaker can lend your shares. It appears no one owns SCO shares in a margin account. Bigger players will call around to the owners of the shares and cut a deal to borrow the shares. If none of those holders will lend shares to you, you can't short the stock.
Here in the us we have a term for selling shares to "borrow" money, it's called a repo.
What happened with me? I had joined the company for about 3 months in their rotational program and was learning how to be a trader and BOOM the company blew up. Thus I became an underemployeed graduate student. I saw things coming apart, but I didn't think the company would go compleatly away, the deal they had with dynegy was something I thought was going to work. I saw everyone I knew, all my friends lose their jobs and try and fight their way into the few other spots open in the industry only to lose them again quickly. Enron was a nice place to work they treated people well paid them very well and it was a place where you could come up with an idea and get the resources to do it. The whole problem was that the guys who DID a deal got to VALUE the deal and the profits off it which made their bonus. Some people got greedy and made bad deals make money on paper and were given more and more room to make deals. There were great energy traders at enron, who made the market spent the time and energy and made very good money off trading in the markets by having MORE information and analysis that anyone else. The TRADERS didn't lose all the money, didn't bankrupt the company... the structured finance guys most of whom were close to fastow did that. They took out loans based on shams and lies and then took the cash to pay off the last sham transaction and the whole thing kept getting bigger and bigger until they couldn't get any more money. Enron is an example of how the market goes off the BEST information that it has at the time, if those are lies the market gets offtrack. The marekt isn't perfect, but it is ON AVERAGE better than anything else we've got.