As I recall, you had the option of either using a standard phone line or getting 'data' phone lines in those days at a slightly higher cost from the phone companies. Might've been a scam most places, but who knows.
A prospective Game Master (or Dungeon Master) has to utilize interpersonal communications, mathematics, creative writing, acting, and endless stores of patience in order to successfully draw a group of players into a gaming experience.
"Because the storm has ended its eastward drift and the primary track is slightly more to the west, it was decided Friday morning that Discovery will not be rolled back from the launch pad," NASA's Web site reported...
So, since it looks like the storm is well and clear of the launch site and no high winds are expected at CC, they've decided not to move the launch pad. Sure they've made 'initial preparations' but it would be foolish not to.
So basically the news is... no news for now.
Hmm. First you say you don't see how the information would be helpful... and then you proceed to give an algorithm for using exactly that information.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
And despite the objections to your post, you've hit the nail on the head.
Sure, the GOOG EPS of 2.53 is higher than the current TWX EPS of 0.72, but the P/E of GOOG is at a whopping 115 while TWX is at a much more classical 24.
A P/E this high is usually a strong sign of widespread enthusiasm for a company. You should exit under these conditions, not get in. To gain a profitable exit if you enter now, GOOG needs to either needs to hit an even higher P/E valuation or continue to maintain it's current unusually high valuation and substantially increase it's EPS.
If the GOOG valuation drops to more classical levels like, say, 30, then the EPS will neeed to be approximately 4 times higher than current just to maintain the ticker price.
For an investor, $1000 of TWX is much likely going to be worth more in the long haul than the same amount of GOOG.
I think the comments in the article are reasonable.
Sure Google does Blogs now and Dejavu and maps and personalized search and I'm sure cluster searches soon and many other neat toys and to their credit they are trying to diversify and build on their current position.
Here's the irony though... one of the things that people love about Google is the clean interface. They do a good job of rotating links, featuring services on the front page and hyping Maps and other acquisitions/cool new toys.. but how do you let people find all your toys and still stay clean? If Google's homepage start looking like MSN or Yahoo, are they really that much the leader anymore?
Conversely, if it doesn't, how do they create users for those other services? Hype is great and apparently effective, but migrating users from competing services effectively probably means making those services easy to find in the long run. Otherwise you kind of get stuck with your fan base (which is admittedly huge).
There are good points? Like what?
Defending inventor's rights?
Ummm no.. quite the contrary the fact they will grant a patent to most non novel ideas with or without priror art simply makes for an easier legal challenge. More lawyers, time money wins... Patents are becoming worthless (or worth 10 hours of a lawyers time) under the current review process.
Letting ideas eventually reach the public domain?
And what about when a couple of companies gang up to extend a patent well beyond it's expiration date ( see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AF01 8-31CA-1FFB-B1CA83414B7F0000 )
So please tell me what the USPTO is doing that is worthwhile. Seriously.
I shouldn't dignify this with response, especially since it's likely to be modded down, but it's late and I've had a few so what the hell.
Anonymous Coward said: (alarm bells are going off, Willy!)
You are an idiot.
A fair and balanced opener that reinforces your points well.
China isn't communist, and hasn't been for decades (or ever, if you're being pedantic.) Nowadays it's ultracapitalist.
Not sure how to address this. I don't even know what an ultracapitalist state is. Suffice it to say that a search for "Communist China" on Google returns 4 million results. A search for "Ultracapitalist China" returns 70. I think the burden of proof on this statement lies in your court.
Broadband there works the same way it does here (although admittedly the speeds aren't quite as good for sites not in Asia -- I usually can't get more than 20 kbps down from kernel.org using Shanghai Telecom).
Thank you for making my point for me.
Oh, and just to annoy you further: the country with the lowest infant mortality rate in the Americas is none other than Cuba. This, mind you, is despite the long standing American trade embargo which prevents US pharma corps (who make most of the world's medicine) from trading with the country.
Several factually incorrect statements here, and I could get into the whole generics issue, but that's for another post...
Their doctors are so good, in fact, that Venezuela (an exceptionally oil rich country whose current administration is somewhat anti-American) has struck a deal with Cuba: doctors for oil. No joke.
A latin G77 country exchanging a nautral resource for a value-added commodity from another latin G77 country? Stop the presses!
Not that Cuba is better than the US or anything (whatever that means), but you really should get out and see more of the world.
As a matter of fact I have 'seen' (that is to say been employed and resided) in both China and Cuba. Thanks for your concern.
Sometimes I think Americans (and I am American) gobble up propaganda more readily than even Chinese people.
Glad to see you are applying your critical thinking skills. What part of my post makes you think I am American?
I'm surprised you think the Chinese people would have the time to gobble up propaganda, what with the UltraCapitalism and all....
Not surprising really, since most 'broadband' sharing type setups are very socialist in nature. I wonder just how 'broad' that band really is.
I mean, I've heard Cuba touted as having the 'best' healthcare system in the world (honestly!)... , but I don't think you'd have easy access to a CAT scan unless your name was Fidel. It might be the most 'even' perhaps in that almost everyone has the same lack of access.
Any bandwidth figures?
continues to be completely out to lunch. What a waste of everyones time. Someone really has to sort them out.
The patents they issue are neither novel (the 'prior art' condition, for one is a farce) nor enforceable. And what about when a couple of companies gang up to extend a patent well beyond it's expiration date (see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AF01 8-31CA-1FFB-B1CA83414B7F0000)
I mean either issue meaningful, enforceable patents that are less specious (and hence harder targets for legal challenges) or just call a spade a spade: the bigger guys get to keep their ideas while the new kids are S.O.L.
I urge anyone who thinks I'm exagerating to take a look periodically at the "Staking Claims" columns in SciAm. Better yet, talk to someone who works at the USPO.
My first thought went to this as well. I still don't know why they wouldn't use UAVs though. Probably cheaper.
These types of 3d-images are especially valuable in generating simulations to familiarizes personnel with specific urban landscapes before they're actually on the ground.
How long till Google offers a virtual walkthrough on its map site?
Seriously though, not much new here... just a more commercial package and a venue for selling more software to assemble the images. Anyone in the 'civil' field who needed it before had access to aerial stereoscopic images which may actually still be cheaper.
Cool toy though.
I think this reflects a common misunderstanding of many real-world environmental issues. Finding/measuring where stuff is only a part of the problem. Finding out who "those responsible" are and reasonable cleanup/mitigation strategies is more often than not as big a problem. If an oil leak happened on my new property sometime in the last 100 years.. am I responsible for celaning it up? Even if I go bankrupt? Does the Ivory Coast have to clean up after US ships? Do the US taxpayers? Do the US fishing industries? What if the fishing company is out of business.
I won't even get into the fun stuff like tracing airborne VOCs/NOx and groundwater issues. Suffice it to say that allocatin 'responsibility' itself is usually a major issue of contention in these matters.
The only problem that I see is that those people with the Netcraft toolbar are probably already in the low-risk category for this type of scam (although I guess the fact that they install toolbars at all makes it a slightly more at risk group) since they're reasonably aware of the problem.
Still, Netcraft continues to impress me with excellent tools and insight on web traffic and secuirty trends. A daily must-read for webmasters, far more so than Alexa.
Yeah that sucks but these things happen. Whether you're working on a 100K toy or a $300 million dollar one, every once and awhile there's going to be a mishap.
Still, it sounds like there's a management problem here if people are going around removing bolts and the project team isn't even aware of it. If there's literally so few nuts and bolts handy for the various projects going on that they feel the need to cannabalize other projects, that's a disaster waiting to happen.
I hope my neighbour doesn't decide to remove my brakes without letting me know.
Will we never get a break from all this Star Trek nonsense? It'e enough already with the 8 series and the 10 movies and the endless string of reruns, books andconventions.
I mean sure, GR did great stuff but aren't people done making money off of his franchise yet?
Hmmm... I don't know about this. You either want to run scripts or not. You either want to use plug-ins and accept cookies or you don't. Any browser that's configured to do those things will be somewhat insecure. You probably make yourself less of a target by using relatively eccentric browsers, but, if subjected to the same scrutiny as the more popular ones, are they any more secure?
The real question is where does the lack of functionality outweight the lack of security/privacy? Do we all go back to Lynx?
As the article says, it seems to me that HPC and clusters in general are now standard fare for researchers in every field. The cost and availability of hardware is no longer really the issue (although there will always be the escalation) so much as the human resources component. I suspect the ability to program, QA/QC and interpret the massive amounts of inputs, code and results required to use these clusters to their potential is really becoming the limiting factor.
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As I recall, you had the option of either using a standard phone line or getting 'data' phone lines in those days at a slightly higher cost from the phone companies. Might've been a scam most places, but who knows.
Once the energy goes to heat (friction, etc) isn't it effectively non-reusable? Unless they're collecting it for steam turbines or something....
A prospective Game Master (or Dungeon Master) has to utilize interpersonal communications, mathematics, creative writing, acting, and endless stores of patience in order to successfully draw a group of players into a gaming experience.
That's why I'm going to Devry.
How about
"If you want to be taken seriously, shouldn't you give interviews to people you don't have the ability to fire?"
"Because the storm has ended its eastward drift and the primary track is slightly more to the west, it was decided Friday morning that Discovery will not be rolled back from the launch pad," NASA's Web site reported... So, since it looks like the storm is well and clear of the launch site and no high winds are expected at CC, they've decided not to move the launch pad. Sure they've made 'initial preparations' but it would be foolish not to. So basically the news is ... no news for now.
I wonder how long till the RIAA (or equivalent) sends that site a 'cease and desist' letter?
Hmm. First you say you don't see how the information would be helpful... and then you proceed to give an algorithm for using exactly that information. It's like rain on your wedding day.
And despite the objections to your post, you've hit the nail on the head.
Sure, the GOOG EPS of 2.53 is higher than the current TWX EPS of 0.72, but the P/E of GOOG is at a whopping 115 while TWX is at a much more classical 24.
A P/E this high is usually a strong sign of widespread enthusiasm for a company. You should exit under these conditions, not get in. To gain a profitable exit if you enter now, GOOG needs to either needs to hit an even higher P/E valuation or continue to maintain it's current unusually high valuation and substantially increase it's EPS.
If the GOOG valuation drops to more classical levels like, say, 30, then the EPS will neeed to be approximately 4 times higher than current just to maintain the ticker price.
For an investor, $1000 of TWX is much likely going to be worth more in the long haul than the same amount of GOOG.
I think the comments in the article are reasonable.
Sure Google does Blogs now and Dejavu and maps and personalized search and I'm sure cluster searches soon and many other neat toys and to their credit they are trying to diversify and build on their current position.
Here's the irony though... one of the things that people love about Google is the clean interface. They do a good job of rotating links, featuring services on the front page and hyping Maps and other acquisitions/cool new toys.. but how do you let people find all your toys and still stay clean? If Google's homepage start looking like MSN or Yahoo, are they really that much the leader anymore?
Conversely, if it doesn't, how do they create users for those other services? Hype is great and apparently effective, but migrating users from competing services effectively probably means making those services easy to find in the long run. Otherwise you kind of get stuck with your fan base (which is admittedly huge).
There are good points? Like what? Defending inventor's rights? Ummm no.. quite the contrary the fact they will grant a patent to most non novel ideas with or without priror art simply makes for an easier legal challenge. More lawyers, time money wins... Patents are becoming worthless (or worth 10 hours of a lawyers time) under the current review process. Letting ideas eventually reach the public domain? And what about when a couple of companies gang up to extend a patent well beyond it's expiration date ( see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AF01 8-31CA-1FFB-B1CA83414B7F0000 )
So please tell me what the USPTO is doing that is worthwhile. Seriously.
I shouldn't dignify this with response, especially since it's likely to be modded down, but it's late and I've had a few so what the hell.
Anonymous Coward said: (alarm bells are going off, Willy!)
You are an idiot.
A fair and balanced opener that reinforces your points well.
China isn't communist, and hasn't been for decades (or ever, if you're being pedantic.) Nowadays it's ultracapitalist.
Not sure how to address this. I don't even know what an ultracapitalist state is. Suffice it to say that a search for "Communist China" on Google returns 4 million results. A search for "Ultracapitalist China" returns 70. I think the burden of proof on this statement lies in your court.
Broadband there works the same way it does here (although admittedly the speeds aren't quite as good for sites not in Asia -- I usually can't get more than 20 kbps down from kernel.org using Shanghai Telecom).
Thank you for making my point for me.
Oh, and just to annoy you further: the country with the lowest infant mortality rate in the Americas is none other than Cuba. This, mind you, is despite the long standing American trade embargo which prevents US pharma corps (who make most of the world's medicine) from trading with the country.
Several factually incorrect statements here, and I could get into the whole generics issue, but that's for another post...
Their doctors are so good, in fact, that Venezuela (an exceptionally oil rich country whose current administration is somewhat anti-American) has struck a deal with Cuba: doctors for oil. No joke.
A latin G77 country exchanging a nautral resource for a value-added commodity from another latin G77 country? Stop the presses!
Not that Cuba is better than the US or anything (whatever that means), but you really should get out and see more of the world.
As a matter of fact I have 'seen' (that is to say been employed and resided) in both China and Cuba. Thanks for your concern.
Sometimes I think Americans (and I am American) gobble up propaganda more readily than even Chinese people.
Glad to see you are applying your critical thinking skills. What part of my post makes you think I am American?
I'm surprised you think the Chinese people would have the time to gobble up propaganda, what with the UltraCapitalism and all....
Not surprising really, since most 'broadband' sharing type setups are very socialist in nature. I wonder just how 'broad' that band really is.
I mean, I've heard Cuba touted as having the 'best' healthcare system in the world (honestly!)... , but I don't think you'd have easy access to a CAT scan unless your name was Fidel. It might be the most 'even' perhaps in that almost everyone has the same lack of access.
Any bandwidth figures?
continues to be completely out to lunch. What a waste of everyones time. Someone really has to sort them out. The patents they issue are neither novel (the 'prior art' condition, for one is a farce) nor enforceable. And what about when a couple of companies gang up to extend a patent well beyond it's expiration date (see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000AF01 8-31CA-1FFB-B1CA83414B7F0000)
I mean either issue meaningful, enforceable patents that are less specious (and hence harder targets for legal challenges) or just call a spade a spade: the bigger guys get to keep their ideas while the new kids are S.O.L.
I urge anyone who thinks I'm exagerating to take a look periodically at the "Staking Claims" columns in SciAm. Better yet, talk to someone who works at the USPO.
My first thought went to this as well. I still don't know why they wouldn't use UAVs though. Probably cheaper. These types of 3d-images are especially valuable in generating simulations to familiarizes personnel with specific urban landscapes before they're actually on the ground.
How long till Google offers a virtual walkthrough on its map site? Seriously though, not much new here... just a more commercial package and a venue for selling more software to assemble the images. Anyone in the 'civil' field who needed it before had access to aerial stereoscopic images which may actually still be cheaper. Cool toy though.
I think this reflects a common misunderstanding of many real-world environmental issues. Finding/measuring where stuff is only a part of the problem. Finding out who "those responsible" are and reasonable cleanup/mitigation strategies is more often than not as big a problem. If an oil leak happened on my new property sometime in the last 100 years.. am I responsible for celaning it up? Even if I go bankrupt? Does the Ivory Coast have to clean up after US ships? Do the US taxpayers? Do the US fishing industries? What if the fishing company is out of business. I won't even get into the fun stuff like tracing airborne VOCs/NOx and groundwater issues. Suffice it to say that allocatin 'responsibility' itself is usually a major issue of contention in these matters.
The only problem that I see is that those people with the Netcraft toolbar are probably already in the low-risk category for this type of scam (although I guess the fact that they install toolbars at all makes it a slightly more at risk group) since they're reasonably aware of the problem. Still, Netcraft continues to impress me with excellent tools and insight on web traffic and secuirty trends. A daily must-read for webmasters, far more so than Alexa.
Nah, it's just an "undocumented feature".
Yeah that sucks but these things happen. Whether you're working on a 100K toy or a $300 million dollar one, every once and awhile there's going to be a mishap. Still, it sounds like there's a management problem here if people are going around removing bolts and the project team isn't even aware of it. If there's literally so few nuts and bolts handy for the various projects going on that they feel the need to cannabalize other projects, that's a disaster waiting to happen. I hope my neighbour doesn't decide to remove my brakes without letting me know.
Will we never get a break from all this Star Trek nonsense? It'e enough already with the 8 series and the 10 movies and the endless string of reruns, books andconventions. I mean sure, GR did great stuff but aren't people done making money off of his franchise yet?
Hmmm... I don't know about this. You either want to run scripts or not. You either want to use plug-ins and accept cookies or you don't. Any browser that's configured to do those things will be somewhat insecure. You probably make yourself less of a target by using relatively eccentric browsers, but, if subjected to the same scrutiny as the more popular ones, are they any more secure? The real question is where does the lack of functionality outweight the lack of security/privacy? Do we all go back to Lynx?
As the article says, it seems to me that HPC and clusters in general are now standard fare for researchers in every field. The cost and availability of hardware is no longer really the issue (although there will always be the escalation) so much as the human resources component. I suspect the ability to program, QA/QC and interpret the massive amounts of inputs, code and results required to use these clusters to their potential is really becoming the limiting factor.