They have done drives from Lands End to John O'Groats in the past. For example they raced a car against first class mail (Royal Mail won that race). As they comply with speed limits when doing the driving, both cars would get there with pretty much exactly the same road time, bar a small amout of difference in acceleration, but the refueling time for the electric car would be much greater, and it might need to take a longer route to find charging stations along the way.
Google does care about winning in for example the cellphone market. If Windows Phone 7 were the winner, that would mean a lot more search revenue for Bing at the expense of Google. If iOS won, then their continued search revenue would depend on them continuing to persuade apple to keep them as the default search provider and mapping service.
A typical 100A household supply will in 5 minutes give you the equivalent energy of 171ml of Diesel. To get the equivalent of the 10l/min or so my local petrol station pump manages, you are going to need a 30kA supply, and you would need about 200 standard electric cables to carry it.
In Europe there is database copyright, so while the individual phone numbers are not copyrightable, the entire collection of them is. That doesn't apply to headers though.
And poor planning isn't the only problem. The State and Federal agencies will suffer damage too and will need to recover themselves first before they can recover anyone else.
Twitter and Facebook benefit from the network effect. People use them because everyone else uses them, and there is no point in using another site because it is the other users that make the site so valuable. I'm not sure that Groupon can benefit from the same network effect. Certainly advertisers will use it because they have lots of readers, but there is nothing stopping me from using other coupon sites as well. I mostly look at moneysavingexpert (UK based site).
Companies like Amazon, ARM Holdings, Microsoft and so on made money and could be legitimately valued. They are all very solid companies that are still around but none of them have got back to their 1999 valuations because those valuations were just way too high.
As far as I'm aware, the only tech company that is worth more now than back then is Apple, which was on its knees at the time, and has since recovered.
Cell towers use the GPS time signal for hand-over and so on. Electric generators use it to synchronise frequency and phase across the grid. Jam that, and lots of nasty things will happen, not just peoples' sat navs.
If you RTFA, it is likely to screw up the entire Cell Tower, your bank's ATM network at lots of other things you don't expect to rely on GPS. 90% of GPS receivers only use the time signal, and can't operate reliably without it.
I don't think pro-lifers should be included in your list. Killing an unborn baby, or denying a woman the right to chose whether or not to continue a pregnancy are not scientific debates, they are moral debates, and science doesn't really come into it. I'm not aware that the pro-life and pro-choice movements disagree on any of the science aspects of abortion.
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QT's customers are developers who licence QT commercial edition, not end users. This includes companies such as Opera and Google who's products are used by millions of people.
No, they stand between all the department stores moving stock from one store to another as it is required, and taking a cut for it. It means the store has to keep less inventory, and the customer is always able to walk out with what he wants.
I client wants to by shares in for example Apple from you. You don't have any shares in Apple, so you have to buy them from someone else. You want the purchase and sale to happen as quickly as possible so you don't lose money by holding Apple shares for too long. That is where high frequency trading comes in.
If you are the counter-party to your clients' investments, then of course you are betting against them. It is no big conspiracy, it is just the way the world works, just like when I paid for my car insurance, Banco Santander were betting that I won't need to claim on it.
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If you buy from the iTunes store, you have permission from the copyright holder to keep it on five devices at the same time.
Incidentally, moving it is still a copy, and would be illegal without the copyright holder's permission.
They have done drives from Lands End to John O'Groats in the past. For example they raced a car against first class mail (Royal Mail won that race). As they comply with speed limits when doing the driving, both cars would get there with pretty much exactly the same road time, bar a small amout of difference in acceleration, but the refueling time for the electric car would be much greater, and it might need to take a longer route to find charging stations along the way.
Also, I live in an area where atmospheric concentrations of dihidrogen monoxide are very high most of the time, which makes this unusable.
Google does care about winning in for example the cellphone market. If Windows Phone 7 were the winner, that would mean a lot more search revenue for Bing at the expense of Google. If iOS won, then their continued search revenue would depend on them continuing to persuade apple to keep them as the default search provider and mapping service.
The 90% of hotmail users who don't know what https is won't be looking for this setting in the first place.
A typical 100A household supply will in 5 minutes give you the equivalent energy of 171ml of Diesel. To get the equivalent of the 10l/min or so my local petrol station pump manages, you are going to need a 30kA supply, and you would need about 200 standard electric cables to carry it.
If it is the place where the best people from around the world go to to work together, that is significant.
In Europe there is database copyright, so while the individual phone numbers are not copyrightable, the entire collection of them is. That doesn't apply to headers though.
RMS's lawyer wrote the GPL, so there is a pretty good chance he knows what he is talking about.
And poor planning isn't the only problem. The State and Federal agencies will suffer damage too and will need to recover themselves first before they can recover anyone else.
Rupert Murdoch might want to buy it to go with www.thesun.co.uk [nsfw], the top selling "newspaper" in the English speaking world.
Twitter and Facebook benefit from the network effect. People use them because everyone else uses them, and there is no point in using another site because it is the other users that make the site so valuable. I'm not sure that Groupon can benefit from the same network effect. Certainly advertisers will use it because they have lots of readers, but there is nothing stopping me from using other coupon sites as well. I mostly look at moneysavingexpert (UK based site).
Companies like Amazon, ARM Holdings, Microsoft and so on made money and could be legitimately valued. They are all very solid companies that are still around but none of them have got back to their 1999 valuations because those valuations were just way too high.
As far as I'm aware, the only tech company that is worth more now than back then is Apple, which was on its knees at the time, and has since recovered.
No, Groupon's turnover is the commission they make from the sale of each voucher, which I believe is about 30% or $450m.
I'm not sure that Android is the best example of a secure operating system.
Make it easier to say No, for example by requiring a password to install it.
Cell towers use the GPS time signal for hand-over and so on. Electric generators use it to synchronise frequency and phase across the grid. Jam that, and lots of nasty things will happen, not just peoples' sat navs.
If you RTFA, it is likely to screw up the entire Cell Tower, your bank's ATM network at lots of other things you don't expect to rely on GPS. 90% of GPS receivers only use the time signal, and can't operate reliably without it.
I saw 10" Android tablets in that price range at the end of last year. The problem is that they were rubbish.
I don't think pro-lifers should be included in your list. Killing an unborn baby, or denying a woman the right to chose whether or not to continue a pregnancy are not scientific debates, they are moral debates, and science doesn't really come into it. I'm not aware that the pro-life and pro-choice movements disagree on any of the science aspects of abortion.
QT's customers are developers who licence QT commercial edition, not end users. This includes companies such as Opera and Google who's products are used by millions of people.
But I'm sure you knew that already.
No, they stand between all the department stores moving stock from one store to another as it is required, and taking a cut for it. It means the store has to keep less inventory, and the customer is always able to walk out with what he wants.
I client wants to by shares in for example Apple from you. You don't have any shares in Apple, so you have to buy them from someone else. You want the purchase and sale to happen as quickly as possible so you don't lose money by holding Apple shares for too long. That is where high frequency trading comes in.
The UK already has such a tax. It is called Stamp Duty Reserve Tax, and is charged at 0.5%.
If you are the counter-party to your clients' investments, then of course you are betting against them. It is no big conspiracy, it is just the way the world works, just like when I paid for my car insurance, Banco Santander were betting that I won't need to claim on it.