... по поводу SUV... Судя по прессе, справедливый гнев народа направлен против машин у которых 1) достаточно высокий потолок, чтобы сидеть в цилиндре, 2) нет отгороженного багажного отсека сзади, 3) машина - не грузовичок. Все!!! Нет других критериев!

Что это дает нам на практике? Например, Ваша жена на дух не переносит SUV, но вы хотите, чтобы в случае аварии ее шансы выжить были в 3 раза выше, чем в малолитражке. Отбросим "мужские" non-SUV варианты: грузовик, лимузин, Hammer (такой большой, что просто не поместился в понятие SUV, судя по прессе) - и купим жене Cadillac.

Ни один SUV-поноситель ни слова не скажет в ее адрес, и в то же время преимущества в случае аварии очевидны: вес у любой модели Cadillac - больше, чем у любого SUV, перед мотором смонтирована треугольная сварная железная конструкция навроде тарана, бамперы такие, что снеся фонарный столб - только поцарапаешь краску.

Процесс автоформализации знаний будет и дальше набирать обороты.

На предприятиях будет складываться уникальная ситуация. Купленные продукты, не по соображениям целесообразности, а по другим соображениям, буду валяться бесхозными. По бухгалтерской отчетности они будут иметь очень большую цену, а фактически для этого предприятия, ценны они не будут. И наоборот самопал, который сделал и делает для себя технолог и не смог за него получить ни копейки, с течением времени все больше будет расти в цене и программирующий технолог, все больше будет "пристегивать" к себе свое родное предприятие.

Не деньги, а стимул увеличения своего "веса" на своем предприятии, фактическое(!!!) владение производственой собственностью, будут толкать людей продолжать разработки все с большим усердием. Вот такие у меня соображения!

Фактически у западных систем уже развернулась борьба, за специалистов способных к автоформализации знаний.

The specific acoustics of a baby's cry can indicate health problems and even indicate the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a scientist said today.

Studies have shown the cry of an infant can indicate medical risk. They might cry at a higher and more variable frequency than normal, but at lower amplitude, and with short utterances. The signals can point to respiratory problems or increased tension and instability of neural control of the vocal tract.

"The cry signal has enormous potential diagnostic value; for example, very high pitched cries can tell us that something may be wrong with the infant, so the cry signal can be an early warning that leads to further neurological testing," said Linda LaGasse of Brown Medical School.

"At-risk infants have undetected neurological damage and that cry analysis may be able to identify these infants when no other symptoms are present," said co-author Barry Lester, also of Brown.

The researchers report their conclusions in the current issue of the journal Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

Other signals, such as high resonance, can mark infants at risk for SIDS. Resonance is a quality of richness and depth that makes a note from a piano sound different from the same note on a guitar. Noisy, broken-sounding cries can be a similar indicator.

Cry diagnoses are best left to professionals, however.

"Resonance is identified by a computerized analysis of the cry signal," LaGasse said. "A detailed analysis of the cry signal is an important part of understanding the 'full message' of the cry."

But parents should pay attention, too.

"Parents can usually tell the difference between pain and non-pain cries which guides the urgency of their care taking, and helps parents deal with infants with colic," LaGasse said.

'LiveScience' May 17, 2005

Здесь, видимо, уместно вспомнить предупреждение Дж. фон Неймана - ... что возможности формального описания решаемых на ЭВМ сложных задач существенно ограничены: "У нас нет полной уверенности в том, что в этой области реальный объект не может являться простейшим описанием самого себя, т.е. что всякая попытка описать его с помощью обычного словесного или формально-логического метода не приведет к чему-то более сложному, запутанному и трудновыполнимому...".

Книга Пойа "Математическое открытие" начинается следующим утверждением Лейбница: "Метод решения хорош, если с самого начала мы можем предвидеть - и далее подтвердить это, - что, следуя этому методу, мы достигнем цели".

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... во время одной из сводок новостей, ... что-то меня, как толкнуло. Смотрю чего-то такое что не может быть с экрана прет. Еще не понял что, но как будто музыка с кинохроники нашей военной поры зазвучала в ушах.

Сдвинул аж в сторону комп приник к экрану TV. Что за чертовщина - бабка в платочке черном с внукам на руках за колючей проволокой. А за ней колонной колышащейся другие вдоль проволоки куда то идут вдаль... Тока еще черного дыма с трубы той вдали для полного сходства не хватало в телепейзаже том.

... Оказывается это шла колонна беженцев косовских. И вот подлый тот кинооператор решил дать нужный ракурс. Просто так показать устало бредущих людей - не понятно как что и зачем режиссеру выпуска будет то показывать. Одной строчкой в газете можно описать то. Так он сука выбрал момент когда они шли мимо сада ли какого или просто частного участка колючкой огороженного. Забежал за ту колючку и снял присевшую у дороги бабку. Сквозь колючку на фоне толпы бредущей и снял...

Было это может за месяц или недель несколько до того как туда бомбить наты полетели. Народ в США опрашивали почему Вы поддерживаете операцию в Косово - почти все отвечали, что кадры телехроники вызвали у них тягостные мысли...

Но еще и пред той бабкой - на манер тех из жутких немецких архивов времен дранг нах остен кадров стилизованной поданной - смотрел там же и того же мастерства исполнения хронику "сербских зверств".

Лежат на деревенской видно улице тела парней и мужчин. Рядом воют в телекамеру бабы. Все как положено. Одна отделилась от толпы и рассказывает как пришли сербские жандармы и они погибли. Потом камера отплывает в сторону другой громко плачущей и причитающей бабы и проходя - по небрежности ли оператора или чего еще - показывает валяющиеся в дорожной пыли рядом с парнями лежащие калаши.

То есть если б уж жандармы пришли просто так то наверное б калаши этих ребят потом унесли с собой. Понимаю так, что был бой и погибли ребята. Конечно жалко их и баб тех ихних. Ну так и покажи и расскажи так как было. Но не работает в таком то пямом телерепортаже с места события оно на "этнические чистки". Не говоря о большем ..., про что начинать орать уже тогда пытались. Вот и возникают в таком случае "подлинные сцены расправ жандармов над мирными житялями Косова".

Потому может и запомнилось, что огрехи монтажа - торопились поди с колес в эфир подать - в кадрах врезались в память: и садовая проволока у коей бабуся присела передохнуть и те калаши возле ребят погибших. А сколько же тогда более чистого монтажа шло в эфир, да и эти огрехи почти уверен никто с американцев не обратил внимание. Важен ... эмоциональный видеоряд и иллюзия, им у зрителя порождаемая, что самолично видел от тех событиях киноДОКУМЕНТ.

... the magazine ... has closed after losing a libel action brought by ITN over an article in which it accused the broadcaster of misrepresenting one of the most enduring images of the Bosnian war. ...

The LM article, headlined The picture that fooled the world, accused ITN of deliberately misrepresenting an image that came to symbolise the horror of the Bosnian war. It showed an emaciated Muslim, Fikret Alic, apparently caged behind barbed wire at Trnopolje camp. In fact, the wire had surrounded the ITN reporters.
ITN libel case: special report, Matt Wells -- March 31, 2000
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...the Internet revolution has challenged the corporate-titan model of the information superhighway. The growth of the Net is not a fluke or a fad, but the consequence of unleashing the power of individual creativity. If it were an economy, it would be the triumph of the free market over central planning. In music, jazz over Bach. Democracy over dictatorship...

by Christopher Anderson. The Economist NewspaperLimited.

To the Chinese and Indians Israel's agricultural progress and achievements during the first quarter century of the country's existence served as a model for its own development.

Today they look for electronic systems and software. They seek from Israel medical equipment and systems ranging from imaging to medical and aesthetic lasers. Airport security experts come to Israel to learn how its people are coping with the problems of terrorism and how its national airline provides safety for its passengers. Alternative sources of energy, such as geothermal applications or the use of solar energy for laser research, are either highly developed or at an advanced stage of research - again, a source of deep interest on the part of the developing nations and on the part of the international scientific and industrial community.

Diamond factories operated with automated equipment are maintaining a competitive edge for Israeli polishers who must compete with low-wage producers. Belgian diamond manufacturers have expressed concern about the advantage which the Israelis have gained as a result of this technological breakthrough.

And then to top it off, Israel has become the world's eighth member to join the exclusive club of nations who have successfully built and launched a satellite into orbit. Electronics, medical systems, software, Internet security, and multimedia are now high on the list of not only exportable items but world class products.

Stubborness, Resilience and Intellectual Curiosity

... What is it that drives Israelis to reach this level of achievement [in high-tech]? The answer is rooted in part in the tradition of intellectual curiosity and analysis, which is an aspect of Jewish culture.

It is a tradition that emphasizes education and that has produced, out of all numerical proportion, outstanding scientists and inventors. This age-old reverence for education has found expression in the development of a good Israeli public school system and excellent universities and institutes of science and technology.

Even more likely, the technological accomplishments may be a result of the innate stubbornness, resilience, and creative drive of a polyglot people. Because of the multi-national mix of the population, many of the researchers have brought with them a variety of experiences and points of view acquired in different parts of the world. All are joined together by the determination to create a country which will become strong in spite of a lack of natural resources and of hostility on the part of most of its neighbors. This need for national security has led to the development of new defense technologies.

Ambition for a better quality of life and higher standards of living has led to the creation of an export-driven economy. And most Israelis are aware that the ability to sell and succeed in the international marketplace is dependent on their products being more innovative and better priced than those of the country's competitors.

Charles DeGaulle: One of the Fathers of Israel's High-Tech Phenomenon

Thirty years ago, just in the wake of the Six Day War it became apparent that Charles DeGaulle had effectively cut off the supply parts for the French made planes used so successfully by the Israeli air force. It was a bitter pill to swallow and voices of reason began to promote the idea that Israeli institutes of higher-learning must be weaned away from fundamental research to applied research. The country must produce its own electronics and smart systems and become independent of funky suppliers.

The adaptation of this concept marked the birth of Israel's high-technology industries which for the greater part dedicated itself to supply the critical needs of a country which needed to be always ready to defend itself. It was a slow go at first but once momentum gathered Israelis turned to technology in earnest.

In 1975, I undertook to provide broad English-language coverage on all topics related to Israel's science-based industries. The decision to do so, however, was easier to make than to implement. While Israelis are known worldwide for their bravado and chutzpah, their reticence in discussing their business activities was overwhelming. To get at the facts, to get to know the individuals who are key to Israel's technology, took many years of patience and, sometimes, frustration.

By 1988, a year in which Israel celebrated 40 years of independence, Israel's leaders of Israel's high-technology industries, had become aware of the problems of setting up strong industries when capital is not readily available. They became "more open", more willing to offer foreign investors equity participation and opportunities to fund profitable local ventures. This marked a radical deviation from traditional thinking, which postulated that "If you have something good, keep it to yourself."

The Current Wave: High-Tech Reaches for the Millennium

They are overexposed - Business Week, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Economist and other world-class publications focus on it and publish a stream of stories. The journalists, rarely having a background in science and technology, are exerting themselves to understand it and interpret it and expose it to their readers

A Primer on Picking Winners

They often are overvalued but continue to maintain their attractiveness for international companies who seek to buy the technology or become strategic venture partners or marketeers of the product, and for investors who pay many times the shares earnings so as to own them in their investment portfolio. The "they" are the Israeli high technology companies which, when lumped together, are a growing mass containing an expanding base of technological knowledge.

Samuel W. Lewis, with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former US Ambassador to Israel, raised the issue of what are the unique characteristics which set apart the winners from the losers. The veteran diplomat spent the better part of an evening at a cocktail party with me, discussing Israeli high-tech companies.

Initially identified for Mr. Lewis some companies which are commercially successful, have high market capitalization and a growing niche of the market. "A company with software targeted for Internet access, its control, its use for faxes or with a solution to the "millennium problem" will find it easy, initially, to get commercial and media attention, not to mention investor enthusiasm," I suggested. VocalTec and its Internet telephony Gateway program and Crystal Software Solutions are two such cases. Clever ideas, aimed at vast markets but not based on heavily researched technology.

The commonly accepted wisdom is that identifying companies likely to maintain rapid growth and profitability and reward investing shareholders over the long term, is a near impossible task. Difficult yes, but perhaps not as difficult as most would believe. To begin with, identify companies whose underlying know-how has previously been the object of intense research and development. This profile fits only those companies which use an aspect of defense related technology. Only in recent years has defense formed less than 40% of the national budget. A healthy chunk of those funds, billions of dollars, was used in developing telecommunications, jet fighters, nightsights, pilotless observation planes and other not publicly revealed hardware.

Companies applying these technologies have a clear-cut advantage that may have a time and product advantage over competitors, providing them with a market edge. When they are managed by engineers and technicians who worked on them in the defense research establishment, preferably under the Ministry of Defense, the combination may increase the chances of the company becoming a "winner".

ECI Telecom bases its key product on Israeli Air Force pilots' use of speech scrambling techniques. ESC Medical System was the hottest Israeli share in 1996. Its CEO Dr. S. Eckhouse , spent part of his professional career with Raphael Israel Armaments Development Authority working on sophisticated laser systems. Geotek's advanced digital network was developed on licenses obtained from the Raphael Israel Armament Development authority. With sales only in excess of $100 million in 1996, the company's sales could multiply tenfold by the year 2000. Gilat Satellite's VSAT technology for providing communications links for isolated areas, is also rooted in IDF experience.

Small, unheralded companies in encryption, electronic closures, and night-vision, have the benefit of bringing to the business personnel, whose experience has been honed in working on advanced defense technologies. This is one key to identifying technology companies as winners well before they make their mark in the business world.

Investing in Israeli technology will likely yield the greatest profit to the individual or institutional investor by investing in a group of companies. Using the above criteria, and applying the diversified approach of venture capital companies should work out handsomely.

Be an Electronic Engineer, My Son!

The debate in high-tech circles is - can the growing high-tech sector find enough electronic engineers to man the continuously expanding industry? Since each electronic engineer in 1996 produced sales of $800,000, mostly exports, an additional 1000 engineers could lead to growth in exports of $800 million, suggests Zohar Zissapel managing director of the RAD Group of Companies.

At the beginning of the current academic year, there were 2,000 aspiring electronic engineering students, but they are still four years away from the market place. Presently Israel's institutes of higher learning are graduating about 1,300 engineers and computer specialists a year.

Or a Genetic Biotechnologist...

On Sunday, February 23rd, 1997 Dr. Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced that his team had cloned an adult farm animal, a female sheep named Dolly which had been born seven months before. A year earlier the same team made history when it cloned sheep embryos. Two of the clones are now in their adulthood and one of them is pregnant.

With the cloning of Dolly the British scientists took a step closer towards mass production of animal herds which can be farmed for milk, blood and organs. The researchers stressed that the procedure opened the possibility of a more efficient production (cloning) of animals to grow health products.

In Israel the least surprised individual about the Wilmut cloning of Dolly is Professor Moshe Shani, a world class re-searcher in animal cell biology and animal skeletal muscle development, and the developer of a technology which rests on gene manipulation in goats to create the presence of human serum albumin (hsa) in their milk.

The innovative technology allows for the introduction of foreign genes and targeting them into goats' mammary glands. Commercial viability starts with the resulting milk containing more than one gram of "hsa" per liter of milk. In a recent discussion with Professor Shani, he said that the project using his technology has now 11 transgenic goats, all second generation females, whose milk is expected towards the end of 1997.What makes the milk so precious? It contains human serum albumin for which there is an annual global market demand of $500 million.

The separation and products. Time consuming and costly clinical trials are prerequisites for the granting of marketing approval by the Food & Drug Administration. Israel's hospitals are approved for clinical trials by the Federal Drug Administration. Multinational companies count on getting clinical trials done here and they take advantage of the world class reputation that these hospitals enjoy in the international medical community.

Merck, Bayer, and Hoffman LaRoche are among the many companies conducting clinical trials here. Small companies, taking advantage of Israel's medical strengths, are prospering as well. An American company named Angiosonics researched and developed at a Tel Aviv Hospital a unique system that virtually explodes plaque into harmless particles in arteries. The development was cited recently in professional publications and in the international press as a major "breakthrough" in the treatment of heart disease.

The patented system that has undergone extensive trials in Israel and in other international medical centers. Angiosonics is poised for commercial success as are other commercial companies such as Spegas, Combact and Myriad. They are just some among scores of companies which will make their mark positively on the commercial scene.

Moreover, the speed at which new projects surface will accelerate as the country's hospitals increase their research activities. Hospitals have the advantage of an existing, highly valuable infrastructure and the availability of researchers and experienced medical practitioners.

A further advantage is the quality of its medical staff and researchers, recently grown in size as a result of the Russian immigration. "Israeli geography" namely the sheer smallness of the country itself, is another positive factor as it allows for easy interaction between researchers in different disciplines. Six leading hospitals are located within 90 minutes driving distance from Tel Aviv.

Dr. Martin Lapidot, deputy general manager of the Rabin & Golda Medical Center, (formerly Beilinson), points out that sponsored medical research and development and pre-certification trials are a growing specialty. These activities have resulted in a number of outstanding medical developments including a procedure for the relief of prostate cancer and a highly popular treatment for the removal of kidney stones with a non-invasive system which crushes the kidney stones so that they can be removed naturally by the human body. I have recently undergone such a procedure at Tel-Aviv's Ichilov-Sourasky Medical Center. I underwent the non-invasive stone crushing procedure at 6 p.m. and was released the next morning.

"Clinical trials are a tool for creating funds for research and development. The large companies like Bayer and Roche have budgets greater than that of Israel and it is a substantial business for the hospital. Working with these companies exposes our staff to international expertise," says Gad Gilat, Professor of Science and Coordinator of Clinical Trials at Asaf Harofe Medical Center, a large Government hospital. The trials can turn out to be very profitable for the hospital. "A department head may organize trials which earn a profit for the hospital of 40-50% of the budget," says Gilat.

However, is the expansion of clinical trials an unmixed blessing? Far from it. "The medical researchers running the clinical trials have to move within a narrow range of activity prescribed by the sponsor. It tends to suppress creative research," says Dr. Hylton Miller, head of the catheterization department and a researcher whose advice is sought by commercial companies. Miller looks ahead to establish, in the foreseeable future a $2 million research center at Ichilov-Sourasky.

The research and development at all levels in the medical field is becoming widespread but this new, powerful trend will be felt fully only as the projects yield products, result in sales and, in due course, big dollar exports.

Wall Street Beckons and Investors Smile

By the end of 1997 the number of Israeli companies on Wall Street will almost certainly exceed 100. The Israeli companies form the second largest foreign representation, after Canada. The sheer number puts them well ahead of Germany and Japan.

Over the years we have been studying what are the compelling reasons for Israelis to seek an American listing. Some of the reason are generally accepted by all who understand the US markets but some are related to internal Israeli considerations. Our list of considerations includes: The US capital market is the biggest/most sophisticated/ most professional/ most efficient and certainly most widely reported market with the exposure provided for these companies helping them to build product images and investment loyalty. These companies are reported on not only on television, in the printed media but also on Internet sites. Recently companies such as NICE Systems, Gilat Satellite and ESC Medical have tapped American investors for "secondary" financing of up to $100 million per deal.

A year ago, it was the Internet shares that caught the imagination and attention of American investors. The two most outstanding Israeli representatives in this sector are VocalTec and CheckPoint.

This year, the magic words are "the year 2000". Crystal Solutions is a company dealing with millennium software solutions. That is why it has become the most successful Israeli flotation on Wall Street, providing its investors with a 290% return.

Computer communications and telephony are also enjoying an unprecedented investment appeal, and the shares of companies in the sector respond accordingly. 18 Israeli companies have been floated on Wall Street since the beginning of the year. Ten of them are new companies.

The new issues have produced a stunning 54% return. Many of these have handsomely outperformed the Russell 100 or the Russell 2000 indices which track technology issues.

Now in line for an American listing are Super-Sol, Elbit Systems, Tefron, RADcom and others, which expect to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Is the wellspring for new Israeli issues drying out? Not at all. While the exact figure is not known there appear to be between 1,000 to 1,500 start-up companies in Israel for whom an American listing is a sine qua non.

Why do the Israelis avoid their own market in preference to the United States? Not enough exposure, a stock exchange which does not afford comparable liquidity and perhaps its smallness and being known as an emerging growth market, only recently listed on the Morgan Stanley World Index.

High Visibility International Investors are "Buying" into Innovation

John Sculley, former Apple Computer CEO, invested in OLiVR, a multimedia Jerusalem based software developer, Ephyx an interactive video producer and Zapa Digital Arts, an electronic advertising firm. More than 50 venture capital firms with $2.0 billion under management are active today while six years ago there was only one venture capitalist fund with $30 million under management. Finance Minister Yaacov Neeman put the icing on the "welcome and invest in Israel" policy by exempting foreign investors from Israeli capital-gains taxes. The high-tech sector has attracted some of America's best know investors: AT&T pension fund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Endowment Fund, Boston's Hancock Ventres and Chase Capital.

ESC Medical Ltd. a manufacturer of novel and laser systems for cosmetic surgery and treatments, Galileo Technology Ltd. maker of advanced digital chips were the big hits of 1997. The Nitzanim Fund, whose investors include Japan's Kyocera Corp. realized a paper profit of $52 million from its $1.0 million investment in ESC Medical and in Galileo a paper profit of $89 million.

Another huge deal has been added to the series of investments by US companies in Israel. In one of the largest deals of its kind to date, Cordis Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Biosense, Inc. based in Haifa, Israel with corporate headquarters in Orangeburg, N.Y. The company develops catheter-based interbody navigation and location systems used in cardiology and neurosurgery. Biosense's shareholders will receive a sum estimated at $400 million in Johnson & Johnson shares.

Germany's Siemens paid $30 million for Ornet, a developer of data communications software. The American Applied Materials. Inc. a world leader in semiconductor production equipment purchased Orbot Instruments and Opal Ltd., developers of measurement systems for the semiconductor industry, for $285 million.

Development

World leader Intel developed, at its Israeli research center its new Pentium Processor with MMX Technology, which an Intel executive described as a "processor which will reach every PC-owning household in the world."

Protected from Economic Vagaries

Most Israeli companies export and as such are generally well-protected from any buffeting from Israel's economy which currently is struggling to emerge from recessionary conditions.

High-Tech Export Growth

The past decade has seen a dramatic change in the composition of Israel's exports. As of August of last year high-tech exports represented 35% of the total and software another 3% per cent. In 1988 high-tech exports represented 24% of the total and software merely one per cent. Exports are growing and should total $16 billion or more for all of 1997. A 40% rise in high tech-exports in 10 years if unmatched, certainly ranks among the top in the world and is indicative which direction the trend is taking.

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atorin

Я часто думаю, что было бы со мной, если бы я выбрал другую дорогу.
– По-моему, было бы то же самое, – философски ответил Боб Тидбол.
– Дело не в дороге, которую мы выбираем; то, что внутри нас, заставляет нас выбирать дорогу.
                                                     (c) O'Генри

Торопясь в столицу, Пущин пишет в Михайловское,... условленный сигнал, что час настал. Пушкин тут же собрался в дорогу, но не поехал — дорогу «перебежал заяц», и он вернулся ...

Н.Я.Эйдельман. "Что наши? Что друзья?"

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You retain all rights to your work. You decide on design and layout. You set the price and royalties. Lulu's not the publisher — you are.

3. Sell to the world
Lulu lets you sell your work through Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble — and on Lulu itself. Lulu handles all transactions, order tracking and shipping.
vja duchifat

1. Выводится практически в ноль цена первого шага в писательской карьере. Стартовый тираж - заветная мечта любого начинающего автора - стоил все таки "до того" не мало при любом раскладе.

2. Практически выравнивается в цене "вступительного взноса" участие автора в безбумажном онлайновом лишь 'блог-творчестве' - c одной стороны, и книгопечатной его стороне - с другой. Наклепал в блогах сидучи - а то и просто на своих страничках - чего й то, о чем появились сомнения, не пойдет ли оно и в печатной версии тоже, то и вот она та самая "рояль в кустах" под такое дело оказывается уже существует. Верстай садись сам себе по вкусу книжку и пусть их - все эти iUniverce и пр. lulu.com - сами дальше с ней экспериментируют. Получится - поделятся с автором финансовой частью результата, а если нет, то и ... еще не вечер. Через год - а то и раньше - снова можно попробовать.

3. Возможность печатать каждый следующий экземпляр книги уже и вовсе только по индивидуальному на неё именно поступающему заказу - оплаченному ожидающим ее читателем - симметричным образом выводит опять же в ноль риск соответственно и книгоиздателея тоже.

www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3508571

Weblogs Propel Marketing Book to Bestseller Lists
By Zachary Rodgers
May 31, 2005



New digital marketing book "Call to Action" has shot up the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller lists without advertising, national distribution or promotional support. How? Authors Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg say the dominant driver of its success has been word of mouth, most of it generated online.

In the lead up to the book's May 9 release, the Eisenberg brothers sent out review copies and asked colleagues to plug it in their Weblogs and online newsletters. They did, extensively. Most notably, marketing author and personality Seth Godin used his popular blog to simultaneously praise the book and trash its cover. Online analytics player WebTrends also gave away free copies at some of its April events.

The book, whose full title is "Call To Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results," has since made its way onto bestseller lists published by The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Sales so far are in the realm of 17,000 copies sold, according to Bryan Eisenberg. In the three weeks since its release, the book has climbed to number four on the Journal's business books list, hit the Times' list, and twice bounced to an Amazon sales rank of five.

"We've always believed that if you have a good product and have something good to say, and you're transparent about it, customers will do more [than you could with an ad buy]," he said. "You don't need to push it in people's faces."

Bryan Eisenberg, who is a longtime ClickZ columnist, also credits marketers' increasingly voracious appetite for useful information on digital marketing, calling it another sign of the sector's health. The book's publisher is Wizard Academy Press.

"We've always believed that if you have a good product and have something good to say, and you're transparent about it, customers will do more [than you could with an ad buy]," he said. "You don't need to push it in people's faces."

сигнал VS. природный шум эфира + "организованная противником помеха"

сигнал на входе поискового механизма VS. естественны шум туда же поступающий от свободного рынка + "организованная конкурентом помеха"

oбойдем на сером веществе ...

Удивило их, то что самая раоскошная по их наблюдениям природа начиналась как раз далее на юг от Сан-Диего - за мексиканской границей. Такие места для великолепных курортов вдоль океана - по сути полностью лежат готовые под планировку местности для начала строительных работ ... Нащелкали своими камерами общие планы и в деталях те ланшафты и всякий раз в подробностях поясняли, как то или иное место соотносится с аналогичным ему пейзажем чуть севернее от границы.

Никак не могли они понять, почему "тупые американские бизнесмены" вкладывают огромные деньги в строительство курортов в районе Сан-Диего - где уже скоро яблоку негде будет упасть - вместо того чтобы вкладывать их чуть-чуть поюжнее и соотвтественно уже по ту сторону мексиканской границы, где природные условия к тому еще много более удачные сложились ...

nikadubrovsky

черные составляют 13% населения США и совершают 37% преступлений.

"Google is still, you know, perfect," he told the crowd of technology executives attending The Wall Street Journal’s third annua* D" conference on "All Things Digital." "The bubble is still floating. They can do everything. You should buy their stock at any price."

"We had a 10-year period like that, ..."

Последняя - с вышецитированных (выделена болдом которая) - фраза Билла Гейтса из его выступления в CARLSBAD, Calif. на ежегодном слете передовиков-стахановцев цифрового века ("All Things Digital") в третий раз устраиваемого Wall Street Journal по-сути ключевая. Противостояния не состоялось. Тотализатор отменяется. Забирайте свои ставки, господа. Гейтс выбросил на канаты полотенце.

Событие само по себе многосторонне прелюбопытное. До того всем кто пересекался дорожками бизнеса с Микрософт всегда и неизменно приходилось сразу же - как к примеру то случилось с Нетскэйп - или через некоторое время бесплодной на самом-то деле как потом выяснялось борьбы но заявлять что им его крутые яйца мешали. Бежали жаловаться в антимонопольные комиссии, суды заводили и пр.

И вот появились два мальчика-ботаника в Стэнфорде и тихо мирно без пыли и копоти громких баталий - всего лишь своими скромными результатами - принудили Великого Билла сообщить что увы бывает - и на старуху бывает проруха.

Что собственно произошло? Да ничего особенного. Если не считать, что впервые в истории Микрософт его основатель публично ... признал поражение. И не вообще, а по стратегически cамому важному - перед тем не задолго сам так объявил - для компании направлению её развития.

Сделал это красиво, с сарказмом предшествующих тому фраз - все так, по-королевски - но признал, что проиграл. Необычное состояние для мира айти видимо в целом, а не только для MS как империи по-видимому. Потому и комментариев по сути к тому еще и не было кажется толком.

Все штурмовики в «Звездных войнах» вооружены бластерами E11. Прототипом для них послужил «Sterling» L2A3 — девятимиллиметровый пистолет-пулемет времен Второй мировой войны, использовавшийся британскими войсками. Из-за особенности конструкции пистолета (и как следствие — бластера), держать его можно только левой рукой, поэтому все штурмовики в фильме получились левшами.
....

В 1980 году, через три года после выхода первого фильма киноэпопеи «Звездные войны-IV: Новая надежда» (1977), были сделаны первые снимки спутника Сатурна Мимаса, который оказался очень похож на «Звезду Смерти» из фильма Джорджа Лукаса. Астрономы склонны полагать, что схожая вмятина на Мимасе — кратер, образовавшийся в результате столкновения небесного тела с огромным астероидом. Джордж Лукас никак не прокомментировал это сообщение.

Высочайшим решением Императорской Академии Наук дозволено мне писать по моей собственной грамматике

nikadubrovsky

-- Закрывайте окошечко! Давайте деньги! ... Теперь вот что. Нате вам пять рублей, идите на пристань, наймите лодку часа на два и ждите меня на берегу, пониже амбара... (с)

To listen to many pundits and the media, housing was a sure bet to implode long ago.

In late summer 2001, Business Week magazine was cautioning that "a housing bubble may be developing." In July 2002, a Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist warned, "Dumping Stocks for Land? That May Be a Big Mistake."

The current issue of Fortune magazine has a cover story on real estate speculators getting rich buying and selling houses in rapid succession. None of them seems to have taken to heart the magazine's 2002 cover story, which said: "U.S. housing prices are stretching the outer limits of what's reasonable and sustainable…. In a year or two, prices will fall with a thud."

When that didn't happen, some people got tired of waiting. The website http://www.housing-bubble.com hasn't been updated since mid-2003

Others have accommodated themselves to the current reality.

A widely followed University of Michigan consumer survey, released Friday, showed that 24% of respondents nationwide said it was a good time to buy a home because prices would rise. That was the highest percentage since 1988 — right before prices peaked in the previous real estate cycle.

"These are powerful engines creating a boom in home sales, and all booms end the same way," Richard Curtin, director of the survey, said in a statement.

Three years ago, Phoenix Management Services, a turnaround firm based in Philadelphia, asked about 100 lenders in its regular quarterly survey if they thought there was a real estate bubble. Voting yes were 58%, and 29% said no.

A few months ago, Phoenix asked the question again. Despite the last three years of zooming prices, 46% of the lenders said it was a bubble, and 39% believed it wasn't.

"They're saying, 'This isn't a bubble — this is here to stay,' " said Phoenix Managing Director Michael Jacoby. "That's really scary."

It's possible that something fundamental in the nature of real estate has shifted over the last three years, powering the growth while tamping down the risks.

Irvine real estate consultant John Burns told the Los Angeles Times three years ago that "we're in a mini-bubble." He added that if the market continued to grow by double digits for more than a year, Orange County "will get to a point where home prices are no longer sustainable."

The median price in the county then was $317,000. Last month, it hit $576,000. But Burns no longer thinks there's much risk..

online ad revenues for the year 2004 climbed to $9.6 billion up 33 percent from 2003, and 19 percent from the previous record of $8.1 billion in 2000
Source: Interactive Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse/Coopers.

А сам проект для инвестора вообще никакого значения не имеет. Для инвестора проект как черный ящик- на входе деньги- в середине черный ящик (сказка рассказанная человеком который такие ящики уже неоднократно строил)-на выходе деньги.

Сегодня выкинул три подшивки журнала "Радио".
Ибо негоже им на полке пылиться.
(с)teddee

• Гейтс лег под Гугля
  
• Памяти "Альта-Виста"
  
• Mass Media: paradigm shift
  
• Распределение рынка поисковых запросов

Либералам можно и нужно "врать" (читай, использовать слабо верифицируемые источники) с целью скинуть Буша, потому что любое, даже официально опровергаемое "вранье", все равно будет на порядок слабее того ужаса, что реально происходит и скрывается от общества.

А вот обратное не верно, жыдоконсерваторам всех стран врать нельзя, потому что за их спиной Спецназ и Комитет Глобальной Безопасности с сотней мудрецов Сиона во главе.

- Как правильно писать: сратостат или статосрат?
- Ни так и ни так, а дирижопель.

Ни нео-консерваторы, и ни жидо-масcоны,
а жыдо-консерваторы

compared with the year-ago period to $19.8 billion from $16 billion, ...

E-commerce sales during the first quarter rose 6.4% from the fourth quarter, when they were $18.6 billion.

E-commerce sales accounted for 2.2% of total retail sales in Q1 2005,
when those sales were an estimated $916.9 bln.

avva 2002-01-24 17:16 (link)
Скажите, а почему у Вас такой странный синтаксис?

som 2002-01-24 21:40
это не синтаксис - стиль такой безошибочно практически узнаваемый :)

abcdefgh 2002-01-24 22:04
Ровно этот вопрос был задан Крылову, когда в академическом издании готовилась к печати его книга. Он целую эпоху был одним из, а многие считают что и просто полный лидер в теории кораблестрония. Ответ Алексей Николаевича (1863 - 1945) стал притчей, приложимой в самых разных потом у инженеров того времени и росту понятно главное ситуациях не всегда снаружи легко читаемых:Мне Императорской Академией Наук жаловано было право писать по моей собственной грамматике. В данном случае ничего обшего и соответственно источник с которого "жаловано" мне такое дозволение далеко не исключительный - Интернет.

До того много ##здил на разного рода публичных лекцциях, конференциях и пр. А тут уехал из языковой среды и как рыба - рот разиваешь и не слышно.

Вот и стал в разных местах в Интернету выговариваться, но и соотвтетственно ввел понятие - мне персонально потому что тогда потребное - устной письменной речи. То есть стилистика и соответственно синтаксис совсем иные.

Когда пишу по английски то там иные пользую выразительные возможности для компенсации бедности речевых красок. Многоуровневый многокрасочный шрифт. Не всем нравится, но кушают:

...it plays with typographical design and
page layout in curious ways.
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A somewhat wild and wacky ..., not a standard formatting or layout.
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.. I believe that your site has some useful information but, quite frankly, I'm not even going to read it. The indiscriminate use of font sizes, font types, colors, and spacing gives mean absolute headache.

Whatever 6 year-old designed your site obviously does not know much about
design...
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the way you put it together is really annoying. Bold and Italics every other word really gets on your nerves. It would be a lot easier to read if you didn't overuse these. If you love those tags so
much, save them for when only you are looking at them, because to everyone else, they are just showing how stupid you are.
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I can see the style and emphasis the article is trying to achieve. However, with the fonts, colors and layout used it makes reading difficult. A more classical approach could achieve the same result with without making reading of the article a chore.

Since the article is recommended by many organizations as a good read with regards to the ...,
it would be appropriate to make the article an enjoyable read and less of an eyestrain
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Your Internet history website is freaky. The fonts and colors don't look like
anything I've ever seen. I like it!
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Thank you for the great site (and sight), friendly, easy to read and gives a new
perspective on the Net
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I love the fonts and colours. Long may individuality live!!!! Well done on an
interesting and informative piece of work

Так что везде свои методы пояснения слоев смысла текста. В одном случае, о котором Вы задали вопрос хватает стиля и синтаксиса в ином - приходится идти в игру полиграфией благо HTML такую возможность своевременно хвала создателю подарил.

... к ответу на вопрос - че ты тут делаешь?. Не только на конфе и не только косвенно его слышать приходится.

Во внутрях, для себя то самого ответ прост - Интерактивная проза.

Новый это исторически жанр письменного творчества. Первооткрываем все тут сообча. Одновременно и литература новых ранее неизвестных форм, где персонажи и личности за ими и вымышленные образы весьма тесно но непредсказуемо взаимодействуют в творческом процессе. ...

Но не только литература и вообще человеческие характеры в нечеловеческих условиях тут раскрывающиеся, разумеется.

Еще и мощнейший аналитический инструмент, и много еще каких пластов - часть уж тут и отмечали не раз - понавыворачиваем. Даст если на то создатель конешно.

• Revolutionary War - 42 percent
  
• Civil War (Union Force) - 33 percent
  
• World War I - 21 percent
  
• World War II - 30 percent
  
• Korean War - 25 percent
  
• Vietnam - 24 percent
  
• Desert Storm - 24 percent
  
• Operation Iraqi Freedom - 10 percent
  

As of 251730C FEB 91. OPERATION DESERT SHIELD/STORM CASUALTY REPORTING
1. The XVIII Airborne Corps has the following casualties during
Operation DESERT SHIELD ending 16 Jan 91:

Non-combat deaths - 16
Non-combat injuries - 4,517

2. The XVIII Airborne Corps has had the +allowing casualties during
Operation DESERT Storm, Phase II operations, 17 Jan - 23 Feb 91:

KIA - 2, OH-58C crash, 24th ID, 21 Feb 91
WIA - 3d ACR boarder clash
MIA - Ist COSCOM, truck drivers in the vicinity of

Kha+ji. The BBC report of them being found dead is unconfirmed. A
check with COSCOM and Corps Casualty still list the two soldiers as
MIA.

Non-combat deaths - 8
Non-combat injuries - 75
Non-combat loss due to disease - 4

3. The XVIII Airborne Corps has haia no reported casualties during
Operation DESERT STORM, Phase III operations commencing an 24 Feb 91.

NOTE: VII Corps has no reported casualties during Operation DESERT
STORM, Phase III operations commencing on 24 Feb 91.

Charles Moskos, a sociology professor and expert on military personnel issues at Northwestern University, has said the Army's recruiting woes are likely to persist until the children of upper-class America begin to enlist more readily...

Moskos said in an interview Wednesday that of the 750 males in his graduating class at Princeton University in 1956, more than 400 went on to serve in the military. Of the 1,100 males and females in last year's Princeton class, eight joined.

"That's the difference," he said.

Cвидетель показал, что путники ушли на Север.
В какой стороне находится Север, свидетель показать не мог.
(с) из протокола заседания суда.

• Wealth estimates derived from 1998 Federal estate tax return data shows that more than 6.5 million individuals in the United States had gross assets of $625,000 or more.
  
  
• These individuals represented about 3.4 percent of the U.S. adult population.
  
  
• As a group, top wealth holders owned more than $11.1 trillion in total assets or 32.6 percent of the total U.S. personal asset holdings.
  
  
• California remains the state with the largest number of millionaires, while
  Connecticut was the state with the greatest per capita concentration of millionaires.
  
  Source: IRS Issues Winter 2003 Statistics of Income Bulletin
  IR-2003-53, April 18, 2003

The number of millionaire households in the United States grew in 2004 to a record 7.5 million, up 21 percent in one year, according to surveys cited in the May 25 Wall Street Journal. This very wealthy segment of the population now controls an astounding $11 trillion in assets.

Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/mill-j08.shtml

NEW YORK, June 15, 2004 — ... were an estimated 7.7 million high net worth individuals in the world at the end of 2003, up 7.5% or a net 500,000 people compared with the previous year, according to the 2004 World Wealth Report published today by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch.

The total global wealth of these high net worth individuals (HNWIs) climbed 7.7% to $28.8 trillion, according to the survey.

HNWIs are people with financial assets of at least US$1million,
excluding home real estate.

The trend for continued increases in worldwide wealth should stay intact with the World Wealth Report predicting HNWI financial wealth to grow by 7% per annum and to exceed $40 trillion by 2008.

The ranks of HNWIs in the United States stood at 2,270,000 at the end of 2003, up 14% or a net 272,000 compared with the previous year. China , at 12%, and India , at 22%, also scored solid gains in HNWIs last year, while Europe , the Middle East and Latin America posted more modest increases.

“As in previous years, high net worth individuals were quick to respond to global trends affecting their ability to preserve and grow wealth. They benefited from a strong stock market rally and solid, global economic growth. In particular, wealthy investors in the U.S. , China and India were able to capitalize on these trends despite a great deal of geopolitical uncertainty,” said James Gorman, president of Merrill Lynch’s Global Private Client group.

Europe , Latin America and the Middle East lagged

While the ranks of the wealthy swelled in Asia and North America , Europe showed a more modest increase, with the number of HNWIs rising 2.4% to 2.6 million. Wealth in the region climbed to $8.7 trillion. Europe as a whole continues to sustain lower average HNWI wealth than North America , primarily due to restrictive income-tax policies which impede the ability to accumulate personal wealth. Spain , Russia and the Czech Republic were notable exceptions where the wealthy investor count increased more rapidly.

Latin America fared better in 2003 than it did the previous year, but growth was relatively low both in HNWI numbers and wealth despite the impressive gains in equity markets across the region. Latin American HNWIs, whose ranks edged up 1.3%, continued to have the highest average wealth per HNWI of any major region.

The number of HNWIs in the Middle East rose 2.4% last year.

Source: Merrill Lynch, Capgemini 2004 World Wealth Report

Письмо из ак-городка Пущино в ак-городок Новосибирск: про журнал "Микропроцессоры",
7 июля 1983

Venture capital industry is alive and well
BY JIM WYSS, The Miami Herald, May 30, 2005

The industry is leaner but also smarter and more strategic now than it was at its zenith in 2000, according to Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association. 'There are many who think the [venture capital] industry was born in 1997 and died in 2002, ...But it continues to be stronger today, in my view, than it ever was before. '

...the industry looks like it took a death plunge shortly after its zenith in 2000.

Fueled by the dot-com boom and the irrational exuberance of Wall Street, venture firms pumped a record $105 billion into private companies that year. But just two years later funding had plunged to $22 billion and has stayed near that level ever since.

Китай стал третьей державой по потреблению автомобилей, первой по числу абонентов мобильной телефонной связи. В стране построены самая широкая сеть постоянной телефонной связи, сеть мобильной связи. Китай занимает второе место в мире по масштабам использования Интернета. По предварительным счетам в 2005 году число пользователей Интернета превысит 100 млн человек.

"Жэньминь жибао" он-лайн via sdanilov

Кто-нибудь знает, на каком расстоянии излучение ретрансляционной телевышки представляет угрозу здоровью? Чем это вообще меряют?

• Облучение VS. потепление: реальные проблемы VS. дутые "протоколы";
  
• Взрывной характер малых воздействий
  
• Микроволновая печь тушки девяносто пятой: вопросы приоритета

1) 10%,

2) 20%,

3) 30%

4) больше 30%;

5) ни за что и никуда бы не ушел, если бы все так хорошо сложилось на работе.

bitnick: как Вы считаете, не снижает ли качество венчурных проектов увличение размеров венчурного капитала

>Кто-то ведь инвестивовал в pets.com.