It goes Mach 2.8 and has a maximum range of 290 km (which is limited to get around Missile transfer laws) - from the Wikipedia article, "The publicised maximum range was determined partly by Russia and India's desire to avoid a perceived breach of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which restricts technology transfer relating to missiles with a range longer than 300 km, and other proliferation rules. "
Uses a solid-propellant rocket for initial acceleration and then uses a ramjet to sustain itself at supersonic speeds.
My girlfriend's parents keep telling me how she was speaking complete sentences like 'Mommy and daddy come here,' 'Uncle go away,' etc at the age of 6 months only.
And sometimes I feel she hasn't stopped since!
What? No sweetheart, I was just *NO CARRIER*
However, I don't think that the generalists on Wall Street should be in the business of making a company run one way or another - it is not incumbent on investors to decide company policy.
Wall street isn't telling them to run this way or the other. All they're asking is that Google tell them which way they're running and how fast they expect to run.
I heard a segment on NPR this morning about this. Larry Page was saying that Google wants to stay focused on the long term and that releasing these quarterly estimates would be the equivalent of somebody who is trying to lose weight stepping on the scale every half an hour.
Nonsense! The guy working out to cut the flab is R&D and production. The guy stepping on the scale every 3 months is Finance. Specifically, it's the CEO and CFO. Almost every other company releases quarterly guidance. So is Google the only company focussed on the long term?
I'm not saying I don't respect what Brin and Page are trying for
Ok, someone please tell me what the fuck are Brin and Page trying that is so admirable? Really, please, tell me. Reading slashdot, you'd think they were Martin Luther or someone.
Serious investors should think long term, not what this quarters profit will be.
And how the fuck is the serious investor supposed to estimate the growth potential for Google when all they get from Sergey and Brin (or whatever) is "Trust our masterplan," ???
And who are you to define a serious investor? For that matter, who is GOOG's management to do that?
As a long term and serious investor, I want to know where and how the company is headed. At the same time, I want to know if there are short term fluctuations in earnings around the corner (so that I can sell high and buy low, perhaps). Who are you to advise me not to do that?
Short term traders fulfill a very important role in markets - arbitrage. They're the people who stabilise prices. Not the long term investors who buy and sleep on it.
Because GOOG is pissing these people off, you're seeing less arbitrage and more volatility in its stock prices. And that's bad news for their investors.
Google should pursue success in many paths and if one of them takes years or decades to pan out, so be it.
Again, who are you to decide what is a reasonable timespan for a serious investor to get good returns on his money?
Not that Google wasn't pulling a fast one the little guys who did invest in their company. The stock Google sold was "diluted voting rights stock". That's right, the original owners get special super duper voting power over you clowns with 100 shares.
Yeah, Do no evil my ass. "Your money is good for us. Pay up and fuck off."
Do you think these 5000 PhDs are going to stick around as the company flirts (in the future, maybe) with bankruptcy? Won't other companies make them offers they can't refuse?
These PhDs are worthless from a book value point of view because Google doesn't own them.
Secondly, I really take offense with the notion that "the UN" is backing the laptop. The UN is primarily funded by the USA. They take up a sizeable portion of valuable real estate on US land. And the US government gets funded by "non-voluntary contributions" from US citizens. Therefore, the title should read, US Citizens Backing the $100 Laptop (Involuntarily). The distinction is important. It's very easy to spend other people's money on ideas which may not be the best use of the funds.
The US funds 22% of the UN's budget - not what I would call primary funding if you looked at the sheer size of your economy.
As for the real estate, you invitd the UN to take up that place. Don't crib about it now.
It's just the same here in New Zealand, only our chicks are much hotter.
Could you give us some examples so that we may judge for yourself?
Oh, before I forget, I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
This sounds like a recipe for disaster. I, personally, would avoid drugs that had not been tested on people genetically similar to myself.
I will call you a racist.
You say we are a separate race because we don't look like you, because we're darker.
We're dark because we live in a tropical country where the sun shines bright. So you assume we're a different race? Genetically dissimilar?
You talk about the people of India being genetically different (I assume you are a caucasian). And yet you don't know about the large section of India's population that is genetically caucasian.
Because the companies are likely taking advantage of less severe (or nonexistent) legal protection for the people risking their lives with untested drugs in another country.
And you know our laws are less sever because you have studied them in depth? Please stop spreading FUD!
Thank God we've found poor, uneducated people living in a country with a rampant caste system - where the poor are of even less spiritual value than the elite!
The caste system has nothing to do with money. There are plenty of Brahmins (the highest caste) who live below the poverty line and lead a hand-to-mouth existance.
it's as big a scandal as the ships being dissassembled by hand on the beaches of India...
Wow.
So everything that happens in India happens in hazardous conditions. I should probably not step out of my apartment - it might be hazardous to do so. Wait, my apartment might be hazardous, what with the lack of health standards and all. Holy crap man, won't anyone think of the Indian children?
Except for the fact that these trials are conducted inside hospitals by qualified doctors (M.D.s). These trials have to abide by the standards laid down by the Indian equivalent of the FDA. And the agency is very active in ensuring that the rules are not broken.
Drugs are only tested when they have been given approval by the concerned regulatory authority. The procedure is pretty much as it is supposed to be in the US. So please stop your bleeding heart nonsense and stop cribbing about imaginary hazards.
Except that though the choice may be semi-informed, it won't be free when the person has a choice between being killed by drugs or killed by starvation (along with their family).
What crap!
Not every poor person in India dies of starvation. Infact, starvation related deaths have gone down significantly.
And the drugs that are being tested have been approved for human testing by the Indian equivalent of the FDA. Yes, we have institutions that help protect our rights too. It isn't just in your country that people have rights, you know.
There's a reason why India is being targeted.
Yeah, and unfortunately you don't know about it.
India is being 'targeted' because the Indian population shows incredible genetic diversity unavailable anywhere else. This diversity means that with a few test cases, you can test your drugs on someone with a mediterranean genetic makeup, an australoid genetic makeup, a mongoloid genetic makeup etc. and various combinations of the above. It's not just about the money. Otherwise they would go to Chinese prisons.
It's France's most recent major military action, however, that is by far the most shameful and humbling, and makes their army a fair target for ridicule. Though France was still rebuilding after being all but destroyed ten years earlier in WWII, the sheer disparity between the power of France and the country they lost to is laughable. There is no excuse for a nation as large, powerful, rich, and advanced to lose to a nation as tiny, weak, poor, and backward as Vietnam.
Yes, the US really did screw up there. Wait, you were talking of the French? My bad...
The French outnumbered the Germans during WW2 AND the French had better armour.
Military power does not derive from numbers and / or equipment only. Tactics, Strategy are the biggest factors. And Blitzkreig was a major force multiplier, especially the close knit action of the Luftwaffe in support of the Panzers.
With due respect, it's foolish of Americans or Brits to make fun of the French and call them surrender monkeys. None of their generals foresaw what would happen to the defences on the Maginot line. And I would hazard a guess and say the armies of America or Britain would have been just as ineffectual against the Blitzkreig if they were in place of the French then.
Besides, it shows the maturity (lack of it) of a civilisation that hasn't existed for much more than 200 years to fault someone for surrendering under such numbing brain-conditions.
Windows XP - Indian Rupees ~8,000 (average pay for an IT worker per month). Equivalent US$ 5,000
You're off the mark. Even a beginner in a BPO (call centre) makes more than Rs. 14,000 (and in the IT industry, that's as low as you can get).
It is a big chunk of the monthly salary (a WinXP licence), but the avg salary isn't that low.
And I've never heard of anyone buying a licenced copy of any OS for home use here in India.
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Again, note that these numbers exclude the British Empire (Canada + Australia, mainly).
Excuse me?
British Indian Army
During World War II the Indian Army became the largest all-volunteer force in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in size.
It's sad that people forget the sacrifices made by non-europeans for what was partly an european cause.
Where is the +1 Funny, No sex this year mod when you need one?
You're talking about the BrahMos, right?
It goes Mach 2.8 and has a maximum range of 290 km (which is limited to get around Missile transfer laws) - from the Wikipedia article, "The publicised maximum range was determined partly by Russia and India's desire to avoid a perceived breach of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which restricts technology transfer relating to missiles with a range longer than 300 km, and other proliferation rules. "
Uses a solid-propellant rocket for initial acceleration and then uses a ramjet to sustain itself at supersonic speeds.
My girlfriend's parents keep telling me how she was speaking complete sentences like 'Mommy and daddy come here,' 'Uncle go away,' etc at the age of 6 months only. And sometimes I feel she hasn't stopped since! What? No sweetheart, I was just *NO CARRIER*
However, I don't think that the generalists on Wall Street should be in the business of making a company run one way or another - it is not incumbent on investors to decide company policy.
Wall street isn't telling them to run this way or the other. All they're asking is that Google tell them which way they're running and how fast they expect to run.
They aren't trying to decide company policy.
I heard a segment on NPR this morning about this. Larry Page was saying that Google wants to stay focused on the long term and that releasing these quarterly estimates would be the equivalent of somebody who is trying to lose weight stepping on the scale every half an hour.
Nonsense! The guy working out to cut the flab is R&D and production. The guy stepping on the scale every 3 months is Finance. Specifically, it's the CEO and CFO. Almost every other company releases quarterly guidance. So is Google the only company focussed on the long term?
I'm not saying I don't respect what Brin and Page are trying for
Ok, someone please tell me what the fuck are Brin and Page trying that is so admirable? Really, please, tell me. Reading slashdot, you'd think they were Martin Luther or someone.
I've read enough crap on this page.
Serious investors should think long term, not what this quarters profit will be.
And how the fuck is the serious investor supposed to estimate the growth potential for Google when all they get from Sergey and Brin (or whatever) is "Trust our masterplan," ???
And who are you to define a serious investor? For that matter, who is GOOG's management to do that?
As a long term and serious investor, I want to know where and how the company is headed. At the same time, I want to know if there are short term fluctuations in earnings around the corner (so that I can sell high and buy low, perhaps). Who are you to advise me not to do that?
Short term traders fulfill a very important role in markets - arbitrage. They're the people who stabilise prices. Not the long term investors who buy and sleep on it.
Because GOOG is pissing these people off, you're seeing less arbitrage and more volatility in its stock prices. And that's bad news for their investors.
Google should pursue success in many paths and if one of them takes years or decades to pan out, so be it.
Again, who are you to decide what is a reasonable timespan for a serious investor to get good returns on his money?
Not that Google wasn't pulling a fast one the little guys who did invest in their company. The stock Google sold was "diluted voting rights stock". That's right, the original owners get special super duper voting power over you clowns with 100 shares.
Yeah, Do no evil my ass. "Your money is good for us. Pay up and fuck off."
Touche!
Will they set $100 thresholds and then claim click fraud and shut your account when you're near that threshold too?
Do you think these 5000 PhDs are going to stick around as the company flirts (in the future, maybe) with bankruptcy? Won't other companies make them offers they can't refuse?
These PhDs are worthless from a book value point of view because Google doesn't own them.
Secondly, I really take offense with the notion that "the UN" is backing the laptop. The UN is primarily funded by the USA. They take up a sizeable portion of valuable real estate on US land. And the US government gets funded by "non-voluntary contributions" from US citizens. Therefore, the title should read, US Citizens Backing the $100 Laptop (Involuntarily). The distinction is important. It's very easy to spend other people's money on ideas which may not be the best use of the funds.
The US funds 22% of the UN's budget - not what I would call primary funding if you looked at the sheer size of your economy.
As for the real estate, you invitd the UN to take up that place. Don't crib about it now.
Don't be evil ... to Americans.
.. so that we may judge for OURSELVES :)
It's just the same here in New Zealand, only our chicks are much hotter.
Could you give us some examples so that we may judge for yourself?
Oh, before I forget, I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
But since they have tons of money to spend, what do they have to lose?
Wait! Let me guess. Tons of money?
This sounds like a recipe for disaster. I, personally, would avoid drugs that had not been tested on people genetically similar to myself.
I will call you a racist.
You say we are a separate race because we don't look like you, because we're darker.
We're dark because we live in a tropical country where the sun shines bright. So you assume we're a different race? Genetically dissimilar?
You talk about the people of India being genetically different (I assume you are a caucasian). And yet you don't know about the large section of India's population that is genetically caucasian.
I stopped reading your comment at this point. Not ethnically diverse? Allow me to enlighten you on just a few ethnic groups found in India.
- North-east India - Mongoloid Race
- Southernmost part of India, Andaman Islands - Australoid race
- Certain parts of Gujarat - Negroid Race
- Northern parts of India (Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab etc.) - Caucasian race
- Central India - Mediterranean Caucasoid
Lack of diversity?Because the companies are likely taking advantage of less severe (or nonexistent) legal protection for the people risking their lives with untested drugs in another country.
And you know our laws are less sever because you have studied them in depth? Please stop spreading FUD!
Thank God we've found poor, uneducated people living in a country with a rampant caste system - where the poor are of even less spiritual value than the elite!
The caste system has nothing to do with money. There are plenty of Brahmins (the highest caste) who live below the poverty line and lead a hand-to-mouth existance.
it's as big a scandal as the ships being dissassembled by hand on the beaches of India...
Wow.
So everything that happens in India happens in hazardous conditions. I should probably not step out of my apartment - it might be hazardous to do so. Wait, my apartment might be hazardous, what with the lack of health standards and all. Holy crap man, won't anyone think of the Indian children?
Except for the fact that these trials are conducted inside hospitals by qualified doctors (M.D.s). These trials have to abide by the standards laid down by the Indian equivalent of the FDA. And the agency is very active in ensuring that the rules are not broken.
Drugs are only tested when they have been given approval by the concerned regulatory authority. The procedure is pretty much as it is supposed to be in the US. So please stop your bleeding heart nonsense and stop cribbing about imaginary hazards.
Except that though the choice may be semi-informed, it won't be free when the person has a choice between being killed by drugs or killed by starvation (along with their family).
What crap!
Not every poor person in India dies of starvation. Infact, starvation related deaths have gone down significantly.
And the drugs that are being tested have been approved for human testing by the Indian equivalent of the FDA. Yes, we have institutions that help protect our rights too. It isn't just in your country that people have rights, you know.
There's a reason why India is being targeted.
Yeah, and unfortunately you don't know about it.
India is being 'targeted' because the Indian population shows incredible genetic diversity unavailable anywhere else. This diversity means that with a few test cases, you can test your drugs on someone with a mediterranean genetic makeup, an australoid genetic makeup, a mongoloid genetic makeup etc. and various combinations of the above. It's not just about the money. Otherwise they would go to Chinese prisons.
It's France's most recent major military action, however, that is by far the most shameful and humbling, and makes their army a fair target for ridicule. Though France was still rebuilding after being all but destroyed ten years earlier in WWII, the sheer disparity between the power of France and the country they lost to is laughable. There is no excuse for a nation as large, powerful, rich, and advanced to lose to a nation as tiny, weak, poor, and backward as Vietnam .
Yes, the US really did screw up there. Wait, you were talking of the French? My bad...
The French outnumbered the Germans during WW2 AND the French had better armour.
Military power does not derive from numbers and / or equipment only. Tactics, Strategy are the biggest factors. And Blitzkreig was a major force multiplier, especially the close knit action of the Luftwaffe in support of the Panzers.
With due respect, it's foolish of Americans or Brits to make fun of the French and call them surrender monkeys. None of their generals foresaw what would happen to the defences on the Maginot line. And I would hazard a guess and say the armies of America or Britain would have been just as ineffectual against the Blitzkreig if they were in place of the French then.
Besides, it shows the maturity (lack of it) of a civilisation that hasn't existed for much more than 200 years to fault someone for surrendering under such numbing brain-conditions.
Windows XP - Indian Rupees ~8,000 (average pay for an IT worker per month). Equivalent US$ 5,000
You're off the mark. Even a beginner in a BPO (call centre) makes more than Rs. 14,000 (and in the IT industry, that's as low as you can get).
It is a big chunk of the monthly salary (a WinXP licence), but the avg salary isn't that low.
And I've never heard of anyone buying a licenced copy of any OS for home use here in India.