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Another consideration is to become a direct investor in some sound businesses. Start looking through your networks. Being an angel investor may not be your cup of tea, but maybe you have friends or families that are running great small businesses. If you have good confidence in a business, there's no reason not to invest. There's a personal connection there, and you're likely to get the boost of great returns as well.
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For most field sports athletes, I think it's a pretty natural form as well. For any sport requiring pivoting, cutting, and rotating (soccer, basketball, football, etc) explosiveness is key. I can't think of any activity where heel first running would work, except for really light jogging or power walking.
The high incidence of knee (or other) injuries in some sports isn't really related to running form either. Most of them are a result of trauma, such as landing awkwardly or physical contact. Toe first versus heel first doesn't really matter there, except for the stronger muscles that the former form may build. Running toe first will reduce the chance of injury from persistent strain put on the lower body as a result of long-form running, since it happens repeatedly over a long period of time.
Effectively, individuals that aren't eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA in 2010 can contribute to a non-deductible traditional IRA, then take advantage of the conversion limit removal for 2010 and convert the traditional IRA directly into a Roth IRA. So, it's not quite as easy as simply contributing to a Roth IRA directly.
From the linked WSJ article: "All of this might be enough to put investors off stocks entirely, until they consider the long-term alternatives. Measured over the 1978-2008 period, rather than over just one decade, stock performance in real-real terms actually is better than that of just about any other major investment class, Mr. Thornburg found: 4.5% a year. Stocks' ability to keep up with inflation over the very long haul may be their best selling point.
In real-real terms, stocks did better over that period than municipal bonds (2.5% a year), long-term government bonds (2% a year) and corporate bonds (0.2% a year). Real-real home prices were unchanged over those 30 years. Both short-term government bonds and commodities suffered losses. (Mr. Thornburg has experience investing in all these areas, although his mortgage affiliate went bust in last year's housing collapse.)"
If you look carefully at the way prices are set on some of Amazon's items, they actually set the price at just below the list price + sales tax for some populated state, such as California. So at first glance the price will seem to be higher than a competitor's, but it's actually cheaper since the competitor (i.e. a b&m retailer like Wal-Mart) has to charge sales tax.
Out of curiosity, what do you (and others) think of a patent for something like Google's PageRank?
Getting rid of software patents altogether is quite extreme. You need a mechanism in place to protect the property rights of individuals and corporations. When there's absolutely no sense of preservation of property - whether it be tangible or intangible - innovation and risk taking are going to suffer.
Of course, much of that was before the fall '08 crisis, so I don't know how he'd respond to that :)
I also wouldn't say 2001 was when Jay-Z was a "young star." He was already incredibly mainstream in the late 90's.
Of course, I understand that this post was more for entertainment value :)
From what I understand however, AWDWR is only tangentially related to 37signals.
It would be cool if there was some kind of utility/library to help do this.
Also, I'm not quite familiar with all the new features of CSS3. Which CSS3-specific constructs are being used here? Looking at the source, the main things I see are just many hover styles being declared, with specific positions and dimensions.
Not to mention, NVIDIA is still reeling from the costs of repairing faulty GPUs from last year, coupled with the impact of the recession on demand. They were also facing pricing pressures from AMD, especially at the consumer/enthusiast level. All of this led to fixed costs and cut into margins, which resulted in lower profits in the last several quarters. However, NVIDIA's management has remained resolute with a long-term focus. IMHO, NVIDIA is, at the moment, grossly undervalued. So that $110B vs $8B market cap is a bit misleading.
In fact, I watched a few minutes of the town hall last night, and he mentioned Graham at least 4 or 5 times.