Google's $10 million pot may be puny in comparison, but semifinalists say the $25,000 prize is adequate support for tuning up their applications and developing business plans for the second round.
According to the guidelines of Thailand's new Computer Crimes law, Facebook would be liable for fines — which would be puny in comparison to the company's revenue — but there is also the possibility that Facebook's regional manager could be arrested and jailed.
But these sources of capital are puny in Germany.
True, the lunar orbit, with an average radius of 384,403 kilometers, is puny in cosmic terms, but similar near-misses aren't all that uncommon.
Separatist movements exist in Madura, Kalimantan and the Moluccas, though they are puny in comparison with the two best organised, in Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra, and, at the other extremity, in West Papua (formerly called Irian Jaya, and before that West New Guinea) some 4,000km 2,5000 miles) away to the east.
As Hélène Rey of London Business School points out, the devaluations within Europe's exchange-rate mechanism in the early 1990s showed that risk-sharing is far from perfect even where countries have well-established political ties.The IMF's resources are puny in comparison with the amounts in the vaults of emerging-market central banks.
Nor is there any sign that the truthers are gaining much ground: in fact, they are puny in number compared with those who follow another nutty conspiracy theory, namely the "birthers", who believe that Barack Obama was born outside the United States and is therefore, they hold, ineligible to be president.
Meanwhile, Schnapp notes investment money is swimming like a shark looking for yield (which is puny in most money-market instruments) and finding it stocks and bonds.
And that means their gravitational fields will be puny.
That suggests that the Kremlin actually wants to bring the channel to heel in which case the main journalists say they will leave.Why are investors interested at all? NTV's assets are flimsy: its frequencies, a battered brand and about a quarter of an advertising market that was puny even in last year's oil-fuelled economic upturn (see chart).
All I have to look forward to are puny cameos in geriatric ensemble pieces like The Expendables and The Expendables 2. But I'll be back.
