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Comment Re:Sell your Amazon stock now! (Score 1) 92

Ok, I grabbed one source here:
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s...
And here's the money shot quote:
"Currently, approximately $1B in production spending can be expected to deliver $500M-$600M in profits,” the letter says. “Through his continued focus on financial discipline, Doug hopes to improve that ratio to a point where $800-$900M in production spending delivers $500-$600M in profits.”

Comment Re:US Ego (Score 1) 122

by willworkforbeer (#48845383) Attached to: Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution
A strategy of wide open free markets without barriers might give the people the power to effect change. Communism has, in the long run, a poor record of being favored by those with free market options. Maybe we've been going about this backwards, 'punishing' the few Communists leaders has instead hurt the populace. Launching an unending barrage of free market options might have brought those 'leaders' down more quickly.

Submission + - Google Launches its GoDaddy Killer

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Kieren McCarthy reports at The Register that Google has finally launched a domain-name shop, providing a clean and simple management interface that will put Google in direct competition with market leader GoDaddy. Google became an ICANN-accredited registrar back in 2005, and it first told of its Google Domains plans in June 2014. Domains will cost between $12 to $30 to register, and $12 a year to renew. Google's offering will include support for a number of standard features, like free private registration, free email forwarding to your Gmail inbox, free domain forwarding, support for up to 100 sub-domains, and support for the growing number of new domain endings (like .guru and .club) that are now emerging.

There had been speculation that Google would offer domains from its own registry (.google) for free. That, combined with free hosting, email, cloud storage, chat services and domain management, could see the company up-end the registrar market in a similar way to what it did with Gmail and the hosted email world. For its part, GoDaddy has been a target of ire for many in the tech community since GoDaddy officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012. Although GoDaddy later recanted its position, thousands of domain owners switched registrars in protest.

Submission + - When Einstein met H.G. Wells

Submitted by StartsWithABang
StartsWithABang writes: When we talk about dimensions, we’re used to thinking of three: something like length, width and depth, or x, y and z. But there’s a fourth dimension as well that’s of paramount importance for our Universe, otherwise everything would simply be static: time. H.G. Wells brought this idea to life in his story The Time Machine in 1895, and years later Einstein brought forth special and general relativity into the world, bringing scientific validity to this theoretical conception. Here's the fascinating background, story and aftermath of when they met in 1929.

Comment Re:Not all of his ashes.. (Score 2) 108

As a taxpayer-funded organization, they also must consider unique ways to gain publicity with the general public. If their PR folks are sharp, they'll use this to NASA's advantage and get a million dollars in both digital and liquid ink. The general public can relate to the emotionality of wanting your remains to reach out a bazillion miles.

Submission + - 3D cameras are about to go mainstream (vox.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Vox's Timothy B. Lee reports that everyday imaging is about to take a big step forward as 3D photography finally makes it to prime time. Technological advances in 3D processing algorithms have accelerated at the same time the equipment for taking these shots has become significantly cheaper. Those facts combined mean that we're going to be seeing 3D cameras become much more prevalent very quickly. "If things go according to Intel's plan, within a few years all of our tablets and laptops, and perhaps even our smartphones, will have fancy 3D cameras instead of boring old 2D ones." Throw in the fledgling industries of commercial camera drones and autonomous vehicles, and you have a lot of major companies throwing huge amounts of research money into making cheap 3D cameras work. "The result will be a proliferation of devices, from tablets to self-driving cars, that understand and interact with the world around them."

Submission + - Possible Sighting Of Central Black Holes Merging As Two Galaxies Collide 2

Submitted by BarbaraHudson
BarbaraHudson writes: Several sites are reporting what may be two black holes in the process of merging. "The merger of the galaxies hosting the black holes probably began perhaps 100 million to 1 billion years before the stage that the team observed, Dr. Djorgovski said. The combined mass of the two black holes is on the order of hundreds of millions of times the mass of the sun. Theory suggests that as seen from Earth, the two black holes will merge sometime in the next 100,000 to 1 million years. Such a merger would release as much energy as 10 billion supernovas, mainly in the form of ripples in space-time known as gravity waves."

Submission + - Physicist Builds Supercomputer From Old PlayStations (sciencealert.com) 1

Submitted by drkim
drkim writes: A home-made PlayStation 3 supercomputer is 3,000 times more powerful than any desktop processor, and is being used to study black holes.

Guarav Khanna, a black hole physicist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the US, has managed to build a powerful and extremely cheap supercomputer using old PlayStation 3s (PS3s), and he’s used it to publish several papers on black holes.

His research focusses on finding gravitational waves, which are curvatures in space-time that ripple out from a violent astrophysical event, such as two black holes colliding. They were first predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but no one has been able to observe them.

Comment Re:Great Military idea (Score 1) 138

by willworkforbeer (#48761751) Attached to: Connected Gun Lets Anyone Watch What Or Who You Are Shooting
Yes, in the current warfare environment, snipers are needed desperately. Many current snipers are worked to death in theater, and this system will make snipers out of every soldier so equipped. The system is obviously not just a laser range finder; once a target is selected it does the calculations and makes the shot perfect. Soon up to a mile distant.

Comment They really 'avenged' the wrong person (Score 1) 1350

by willworkforbeer (#48755503) Attached to: Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ
Isn't this a picture of the Muhammad that they 'avenged' the same guy who admitted to have 'married' a 9-year-old girl?

Doesn't that mean his picture would have to be published on the child sex offender website as a statutory rapist?

I also read that this is the same guy who admitted to being possessed by the spirit of Satan as a way of explaining his mistakes.
It's seems odd to 'avenge' him... After all, these admissions were specifically included in the book about him so that everyone would remember he wasn't an 'avenge me' worthy kind of guy.

Maybe someone will find a way to avenge that little girl. Perhaps the leaders could at least offer an apology to her descendants?

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