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Cloud Computing: Get in on the Ground Floor

Nanotech is the same kind of investment opportunity but TINY has gone from about 5 to 5 in a long roller coaster ride from 1992 to the present.

finance.yahoo.com/echa...;range=my;indicator=vo...

Happy sledding and watch out for the effects of inflation.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Read the biographies of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others ....
There is no formula.


On May 05 11:32 AM MICHAEL WILEY wrote:

> Please Post and Please send copy to President Obama.
> I'm an entrepreneur from Michigan and a 4-Time Gold Medal Winner
> on Inventions, and I received The First Place Gold Medal for The
> United States Of America at The World Genius Convention in Tokyo
> Japan. I Have some Patents issued on some of these Ideas, and I'm
> working on patents for the rest of them.
>
> #1. A new Invention that will Save Police Officers Lives, We loose
> a Police Officer every 47 hrs. here in the US.
>
> #2 A device that will help Prevent Multiple Vehicle Accidents, <br/>100
> car-200 car, 500 car pileups. This unit will save Lives.
>
> #3. An device that can help Prevent High Speed Police Chases.
> This will Save Lives Every Year.
>
> #4. An Invention that will Help Contain and Control Wild Fires,<br/>Like
> in California, So many people loose their Loved Ones, Homes and
> Property. This will also help save the lives of the Public and The
> Lives of Fire Fighters, This will save Billions of Dollars each year
> from these Tragic Wild Fires. ( This idea should also be addressed
> to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger)
>
> #5. A new Semi Trailer that will Revolutionize the Trucking Industry.
> This Trailer will save Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
> with the transport company's.
>
> #6. A unit that will Protect Internet users from Internet Fraud and
> Identity Fraud. This will save approximately 10 Billion a year.<br/>
>
> #7. An Invention that will Prevent 95% of all Bank Robberies , <br/>The
> US had over 9000 Bank Robberies last year, that’s over 25 a day.
> We can Help Save Lives , Property, Cash, Reduce Hostage Situations,
> and Police Officers Lives. We can Have this Up &amp; Running with-in
> 6-9 Months
> Several more to list.
>
> I'm Opening a Research &amp; Development Company and I need to find
> a Company or an Investor that wants to share in a 50/50 Split on
> Royalties and income from this Facility.
>
> A market survey last year estimated that they were going to build
> and import approximately 24.5 Million vehicles this year. When we
> met with Officials In Washington DC, They advised us to meet with
> the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, because all cars
> should have #2. and #3 Safety Devises Listed Above installed on every
> car Build or Sold in the US.
>
> The cost of the Product to be Installed is about $ 52.00.
> We are looking for $100.00 per unit in Royalties.
> Simple Math 24.5 Million Vehicles X $100.00 = 2.45 Billion a Year
> in Royalties. We want to Manufacture as many ideas as Possible here
> in the U.S.A. We know we have to adjust the number of vehicles now
> because of the Economy.
>
> My Question is-
> HOW DO I PROCEED AND MAKE THIS HAPPEND?.
> More Information on globalinventionsolutio...
> Click on Company Overview
> Michael Wiley
> [e-mail]

Sony Partners with Google to Top Amazon's e-Book Catalog

Thanks AReader.

Sometimes I allow myself to believe what I want to believe without doing my homework (Although I would never BUY either a Kindle or Sony reader without doing my own research.)

This ties into an earlier comment I made that reminds us all of the sad truth that most of what we read, hear and see is propaganda and advertising.

Like you, I wish there was more rational discourse in all walks of life and that when people find the rational discourse that IS out there they would NOT either ignore it or trash it, as they usually do, OR try to kill the messenger.



On Mar 21 11:35 AM AReader wrote:

> This is a preposterous joke. The "texts" generated by the OCR conversion
> of Google's scans are not readable. For example, here's the opening
> line of Trollope's The Warden:
>
> The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman
> residing in the cathedral town of - ^YTenjs^eall it Bar- chester.
>
>
> Ho ho, good luck making your way through such a book! The purpose
> of these OCR versions was not for "reading copies" -- they were only
> for locating keywords in the accompanying pdfs. Since the Sony reader
> is among the worst ebooks for handling image pdfs, Google's deal
> with them had to involve the etexts. But the etexts are exactly worthless
> for the purpose of reading.
>
> What will our kids think of us? that we palm such stuff off on them
> as classics:
>
> As often as the driver rested them and brought them to a stand, with
> a wary "\Vo-ho! so-ho then!" the near leader violently shook his
> head and everything upon it—like an un-j. usually emphatic horse,
> denying that the coach could be got A*- « up the hill. Whenever the
> leader made this rattle, thepas-> ~»' senger started, as a nervous
> passenger might, and was dis- '" turbed in mind. (Dicken's, A Tale
> of Two Cities)
>
> And who can forget this pathetic passage from Dombey And Son!?<br/>
>
> The doctor gently brushed the scattered Tvv\^e\» eft the child aside
> from the face and mouth, oi Vtve \w\ex. Alas how calm they lay there;
> how little breath there was to stir them!
>
>

Sony Partners with Google to Top Amazon's e-Book Catalog

It looks as if Sony has the best (physical) product but the Amazon Kindle has the best advertising platform.

Unfortunately, marketing often beats quality of product, as the 'build a perfect mousetrap' proverb teaches us.

Many people tried to convince Hewlett Packard to give away their printers so they could use a very large customer base to sell printer cartridges!

Now Sony seems to be following the strategy of 'giving away' books so they can sell their electronic readers. I hope this strategy allows them to win this War of the Books.

Sony's reader has always been given the highest readability and ease of use ratings but its book list was small, proprietary and expensive. This new development is good news for electronic book readers.

The bottom line is that readers should be able to load and read simple text files and other popular formats that they have created for themselves or borrowed from other people.

A similar war is going on in the mp3 market, of course, but that's another story.