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Not unless their weight and composition are as well
controlled as a gallon of gasoline is.
Actually, I wonder which has more calories.
A Big Mac, or a gallon of gasoline....??
-mpm
Not unless their weight and composition are as well
controlled as a gallon of gasoline is.
John said:Over a 20 year passage of time? I don't think so.
Eeyore said:Joerg wrote:
Yet ppl here still wonder why I design mic pres with discretes despite....
(a) reduced cost
(b) improved performance
(c) not tied to a single supplier
John said:than mine went for just shy of £400,000 last year. No > garage.
How does that price per square foot, in denominations of
gallons of regular gasoline compare to what you paid per
square foot, in the same denomination?
Eeyore said:Well, I'd have to take a guess about their square feet. Mine's about 900. I reckon theirs is probably about
1.5 times as much as it's on 3 storeys instead of 2 but ground layout is smaller. Say 1300 sq ft.
Petrol is currently £4 per gallon but that's an Imperial gallon not aUS one !
So it's 77 gallons/sq ft.
I'm not even sure how much petrol was when I got my place ? Google ! £1.67 per gallon.
Hmmm $17 in gallon/sq ft. Property is pricey round here.
John said:plot than mine went for just shy of £400,000 last year. No >> garage.
Roughly 200 gallons per square foot here, sometimes more.
Robert said:I don't believe Big Macs vary from country to country or
season to season, that was a big reason for using them as a standard
cost comparison.
John said:1.5 times as much as it's on 3 storeys instead of 2 but > ground layout is smaller. Say 1300 sq ft. Petrol is
currently £4 per gallon but that's > an Imperial gallon not a US one !
I doubt that the intrinsic value of a square foot of
residence has actually gone up by a factor of 4.5 times,
so I suspect that property prices (in gallons per square foot)
are going to plunge soon.
But it may show up as £10 per gallon.
John said:Over a 20 year passage of time? I don't think so.
Jim said:About 1/2 that around here....
My house, 3650 sq.ft. <=> $957K
Dunno. Ask Bill S. He could find something anti-American in a trig
identity.
Does anyone have any idea on why have the INA series of analog parts from
Texas Instruments became hard to get? Has the unobtanium mine flooded or has
some old fart who does all the testing in the back room died?
Sorry to put this thread back on-topic...
I heard an nth-hand rumor to the effect that TI had decided to close
the old BB fab in Tucson (might have been 4" for all I know!) and
transfer production to a newer fab, capable of running bigger wafers
on more modern equipment, somewhere in Texas. That was Part 1
of the rumor.
If you've been around long enough you already know Part 2 - the
transfer is not going well, leading to parts shortages despite any
precautions (safety stock, die/wafer bank, etc.) they may have taken.
I'm in no position to know, just passing along rumors. Now it's off
to estimate the value of my home in gallons of maple syrup, or
perhaps acres of aluminum foil.
Steve
What's anti-American in pointing out that stock markets around the
world have all gone done in the past week in reaction to to reports
that several of the U.S. "sub-prime" mortgage sellers are in financial
problems because their clients are having to default on their mortages
in large enough numbers to depress the housing market?
What would be a "pro-American" stance? That of an ostrich with its
head buried in the sand?
I was a home owner in England in 1990 when that housing price bubble
burst4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_bubble
and didn't enjoy the experience much. My wife and I are in the process
of buying a flat in Sydney for what might well be an inflated
price ...
My wife and I are in the process of buying a flat in Sydney for what might well be an inflated price ...
You don't pay very close attention, eh? January previously owned
housing took a rather large upswing. The US stock market, similar.
Since you are making a point of this week's news, both the NASDAQ and
DJIA are up 2.5% for the week. Not exactly what I'd call a disaster.
No, you and a certain dumb donkey ceasing to breathe.
What do you reckon to the employment prospects there ?
Keep watching ...
That's pro-American? Why not think positive for once?
Not great for me - my contacts are all in Melbourne - but fine for my
wife.
Your perennial hope that terrible things will happen to the US. They
likely won't in your lifetime, you know. You take hope in the
occasional negative glitch, but the longterm trends are good. Sorry.
You could try shutting up. This ostrich thing implies that you are
anticipating disaster. I'm not. My only problem is how really hard it
is to find employees these days.
Bubbles always do, and the people who wait til the peak to jump in are
the ones that get hosed. I bought my house at "the worst possible
time" so it's worth maybe 4x what I paid for it. In California,
property tax is pinned to the purchase price, even better.
Continental Europe has a bigger problem: unless people start making
babies fast, it's facing a population demographic on the scale of the
Black Death. What will that do for the housing market? For industry?
For defense? Whatever, it won't be a glitch. Hey, maybe I can buy a
villa or two in Tuscany.
John