It's an exclusive club that won't just anyone in - kind of like an aristocracy. Why, no one really thinks we're upwardly mobile in the US, do they?
Yeah, some people actually think that an American hippy college dropout who's big ambition is to visit India on a quest for spiritual enlightenment could "grow up" and become the CEO of the world's largest (briefly) corporation. I have no idea why anyone would think something like that is possible.
Frankly, if I were her, I'd think long and hard before attaching my name to the trainwreck that is HP.
It all depends on what they want her to do. Oversee development, manufacturing, logistics and retailing of hi tech consumer products for a global market? Maybe she should think about it carefully. However if they want her to auction off the assets of HP then maybe she wouldn't need to think about it as much.
There's something to be said for having a high share price if the company is big and successful- those who tend to buy tend to hold on to it for a long period of time...
I don't buy that. People tend to think in terms of a dollar amount. If a stock is $40 rather than $400 they just buy ten times as many shares. Letting your stock go up into the hundreds without splitting is just a vanity thing, a PR thing. The behavior you allude to may have some validity with a Berkshire Hathaway share at $100,000 but not something with a share price of $400. The little guy can still buy a single share at $400, unlike $100,000.
... and the day to day operations of the company are directed toward a long-term profit mindset.
This has nothing to do with Apple's share price. It has everything to do with the perspective of management. Apple with a 10:1 split and a share price of $40 rather than the current $400 would be run exactly the same give the leadership of Job's and his hand picked proteges.
When a company is traded constantly and when shareholders are only buying it to look for a short to medium term profit (like a year or two) then they don't are how the company performs down the road, and the board will reflect that, making decisions that make money now but could cost the company everything long term as they didn't invest in the long term.
Even with Apple's high share prices of recent years people are not holding onto Apple shares. It is constantly being bought and sold depending upon the news of the day (especially Apple news events - Apple shares are notorious for this), people's perception of whether Apple is currently at a local minima or maxima, etc. Those that are holding on to Apple are doing so because of the expectation of revenue growth as the expected new products and services are rolled out. Again, "holding on" is not tied to the calendar as you suggest, rather news and expectations, for example sales look to be on track through the end of the year.
I agree ARM is the norm however there are Intel Atom based devices. Google and Intel just announced a partnership to bring more Atom devices to the market.
While a native binary can run on all ARM based devices there may be performance problems. If I understand things correctly only an ARMv5 target is universal but it lacks a hardware FPU. An ARMv7 target will support hardware FPU but will only run on certain devices. A performance oriented game will probably want to use the hardware FPU. I believe an Android app can include both ARM 5 and ARM 7 binaries but that requires developers to have two binaries to test. Doable, but still a negative.
I absolutely agree that computers are more capable than tablets, tablets are a complementary product. However when we get to netbooks I think they are more competitor than complement, at least for the more typical netbook user. YMMV of course. Android devices are not necessarily a panacea, in certain categories they have inherit disadvantages. For example games. iPad apps are native binaries and get the full performance of the CPU. Android apps tend to not be native binaries so that they are more portable among the various hardware vendors and product families. Native binaries are possible (NDK) but there are limitations and compatibility issues, things that can deter developers from bringing more performance oriented games to the Android market.
The evidence for I am Legend is better than for the American Revolution, after all, they have actual video for I am Legend, but not for the American Revolution. So really, believe what you want, but I prefer things I can see.
Well there are paintings, drawings, engravings, etc of revolutionary events. You can see those too.:-)
While I think this is awesome, isn't this how I Am Legend happened?
Whatever happened in the movie was fanciful hand waving. This seems more comparable to inoculations. Fluids are introduced to the body, the body learns how to defend itself. Of course this high level perspective is about where the similarity ends.
Al Gore isn't a news network. It doesn't matter what the parties say, we're complaining about Fox News here.
Al Gore was a powerful Senator who called for Senate hearings to investigate "porn rock". Are you seriously suggesting that what some TV commentator said is even in the same league of idiocy? Gore took the exact same "logic" that you are bitching about with respect to Fox to an entirely new level, the Senate - where it can get turned in law. Not only that he put his message on *every* TV network at the time. Thankfully Frank Zappa and Dee Snider made a mockery of Gore and his compatriots during the hearing.
I don't think you got the politics of that correct.
No, he got it right. Both major parities have censorial tendencies.
That was my point and that is how he got the politics wrong. He was portraying it as a right wing phenomena. I provided an example of the same behavior from the left wing.
The professional liars then go on to cherry pick the example of "McDonald's: The Game", made by these guys as a representative example of the sort of games kids play.
And the Gore's didn't cherry pick their examples of the music kids listen too when they started the PMRC and scheduled senate hearings?
The point you are missing is that censorship of movies, music and video games is something that both some on the left and some on the right are engaging in. It is a bipartisan failing. One the plus side, there are also some on the left and some on the right who think music, movies and video games are being used as simplistic scapegoats.
Most game developers don't want to show up on Faux News' front page with the headline "X is promoting killing of civilians!"
I don't think you got the politics of that correct. It was Al Gore and his wife that were behind the 1980's crusade to restrict access to music and movies they thought inappropriate. Parents Music Resource Center and all that crap. They later expanded into video games. I believe that during the 2000 presidential campaign Al Gore threatened the music, movie and video game industry to "clean up their act" or a Gore/Lieberman administration would introduce legislation to *compel* them to "mend their ways".
Besides looking at the code of others be sure to look at the code you wrote a year ago and haven't looked at since. You should learn something about good comments and documentation. You probably will have ideas on how to better implement things. There is some truth to the notion that programmers don't really like the code they wrote for a project until they have thrown it out and rewritten it from scratch for the third time.
I completely agree. I was referring to land in a desired area. Village becomes town becomes city and then at some tipping point of size things start to go vertical. New York, London and Paris were in mind.
In the chip case is that tipping point something around fingernail size?
"Power – Keeping a signal on-chip can reduce its power consumption by 10-100 times. Shorter wires also reduce power consumption by producing less parasitic capacitance. Reducing the power budget leads to less heat generation, extended battery life, and lower cost of operation."
"Heat – Heat building up within the stack must be dissipated. This is an inevitable issue as electrical proximity coorrelates with thermal proximity. Specific thermal hotspots must be more carefully managed."
You are repeating Khan's failure, you are thinking in 2D not 3D. Oh wait, Khan's failure occurs in future so I guess you are not repeating it.;-)
On a more serious note we are simply repeating historical urban development. When land was plentiful we tended build out horizontally rather than vertically, I guess the building technology and materials also contributed to this (as it also apparently does in semiconductors). However when land started to become a scarce resource then we started to build vertically. At some point if we want to keep that IC at the size of a thumbnail we will need to go vertical as well.
I'm sure I'm one of thousands of folks thinking that how to glue together chips must be the least concern, and how to dissipate heat must be the highest? The only thing I can think of that makes the adhesive important would be how well it holds up under heat, so maybe thats why its hard to do?
You are correct that thousands are thinking about heat dissipation, it particular the folks at 3M who are working on this project are thinking about that. The article indicates that their primary role is to develop adhesives with the necessary heat dissipation.
Stacking these things is all well and good, but at what point do heat considerations become a primary concern? Lately I haven't gotten the impression that volume of ICs is our biggest bottleneck.
The article indicates that heat is already a primary concern. 3M's role in the endeavor is to develop adhesives with good thermal conductivity.
Military aircraft in the region are often used to support scientific missions and for other civilian purposes. Even if a true military flight, say transportation of cargo, they may allow civilians and off duty military personnel to hitch a ride if there is nothing classified on board. Not every military flight is performed under combat conditions. Sometimes they communicate with civilian air traffic control, have their transponder broadcasting an ID, have all the navigation lights turned on, and may very well allow personal gadgets on board and perhaps even powered up.
Under a first to file system someone who invents something and postpones filing until they are closer to having a marketable product is gambling that another inventor will not appear. If some other inventor appears the gamble is lost.
Now, those inventors must file that patent because they can no longer count on showing documentation to prove that they invented it first. Therefore, if they invented it, they have to file a patent to avoid getting screwed, where otherwise, they might well have decided that it wasn't worth patenting. The result is that the number of patent filings will almost inevitably explode.
I can't help but think this is somewhat exaggerated. If an inventor were to abandon a project I would expect them to do so before they got something working, not afterwards. I think those who take something from idea to working invention are *highly* likely to follow through with filing a patent. Especially provisional patents which don't have the administrative overhead, both for the inventor and the patent office, nor the costs of a regular patent.
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It's an exclusive club that won't just anyone in - kind of like an aristocracy. Why, no one really thinks we're upwardly mobile in the US, do they?
Yeah, some people actually think that an American hippy college dropout who's big ambition is to visit India on a quest for spiritual enlightenment could "grow up" and become the CEO of the world's largest (briefly) corporation. I have no idea why anyone would think something like that is possible.
Frankly, if I were her, I'd think long and hard before attaching my name to the trainwreck that is HP.
It all depends on what they want her to do. Oversee development, manufacturing, logistics and retailing of hi tech consumer products for a global market? Maybe she should think about it carefully. However if they want her to auction off the assets of HP then maybe she wouldn't need to think about it as much.
There's something to be said for having a high share price if the company is big and successful- those who tend to buy tend to hold on to it for a long period of time ...
I don't buy that. People tend to think in terms of a dollar amount. If a stock is $40 rather than $400 they just buy ten times as many shares. Letting your stock go up into the hundreds without splitting is just a vanity thing, a PR thing. The behavior you allude to may have some validity with a Berkshire Hathaway share at $100,000 but not something with a share price of $400. The little guy can still buy a single share at $400, unlike $100,000.
... and the day to day operations of the company are directed toward a long-term profit mindset.
This has nothing to do with Apple's share price. It has everything to do with the perspective of management. Apple with a 10:1 split and a share price of $40 rather than the current $400 would be run exactly the same give the leadership of Job's and his hand picked proteges.
When a company is traded constantly and when shareholders are only buying it to look for a short to medium term profit (like a year or two) then they don't are how the company performs down the road, and the board will reflect that, making decisions that make money now but could cost the company everything long term as they didn't invest in the long term.
Even with Apple's high share prices of recent years people are not holding onto Apple shares. It is constantly being bought and sold depending upon the news of the day (especially Apple news events - Apple shares are notorious for this), people's perception of whether Apple is currently at a local minima or maxima, etc. Those that are holding on to Apple are doing so because of the expectation of revenue growth as the expected new products and services are rolled out. Again, "holding on" is not tied to the calendar as you suggest, rather news and expectations, for example sales look to be on track through the end of the year.
So any freshwater river going into ocean could provide a continual source of hydrogen that can, in turn, be burned to produce electricity.
Why not just use turbines to generate electricity directly?
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18567/
I agree ARM is the norm however there are Intel Atom based devices. Google and Intel just announced a partnership to bring more Atom devices to the market.
While a native binary can run on all ARM based devices there may be performance problems. If I understand things correctly only an ARMv5 target is universal but it lacks a hardware FPU. An ARMv7 target will support hardware FPU but will only run on certain devices. A performance oriented game will probably want to use the hardware FPU. I believe an Android app can include both ARM 5 and ARM 7 binaries but that requires developers to have two binaries to test. Doable, but still a negative.
I can draw and paint unicorns giving it to you. I guess that makes that event real as well.
As real as the unicorns in the movies and as real as the biology in I am Legend. A fun movie by the way.
I absolutely agree that computers are more capable than tablets, tablets are a complementary product. However when we get to netbooks I think they are more competitor than complement, at least for the more typical netbook user. YMMV of course. Android devices are not necessarily a panacea, in certain categories they have inherit disadvantages. For example games. iPad apps are native binaries and get the full performance of the CPU. Android apps tend to not be native binaries so that they are more portable among the various hardware vendors and product families. Native binaries are possible (NDK) but there are limitations and compatibility issues, things that can deter developers from bringing more performance oriented games to the Android market.
The evidence for I am Legend is better than for the American Revolution, after all, they have actual video for I am Legend, but not for the American Revolution. So really, believe what you want, but I prefer things I can see.
Well there are paintings, drawings, engravings, etc of revolutionary events. You can see those too. :-)
While I think this is awesome, isn't this how I Am Legend happened?
Whatever happened in the movie was fanciful hand waving. This seems more comparable to inoculations. Fluids are introduced to the body, the body learns how to defend itself. Of course this high level perspective is about where the similarity ends.
A Nintendo 3DS costs $170. A tablet costs twice as much. An unlocked smartphone costs three times as much.
However something like an iPad is not a special purpose device dedicated to gaming. Like a computer it is multipurpose and gaming is only one use.
Al Gore isn't a news network. It doesn't matter what the parties say, we're complaining about Fox News here.
Al Gore was a powerful Senator who called for Senate hearings to investigate "porn rock". Are you seriously suggesting that what some TV commentator said is even in the same league of idiocy? Gore took the exact same "logic" that you are bitching about with respect to Fox to an entirely new level, the Senate - where it can get turned in law. Not only that he put his message on *every* TV network at the time. Thankfully Frank Zappa and Dee Snider made a mockery of Gore and his compatriots during the hearing.
I don't think you got the politics of that correct.
No, he got it right. Both major parities have censorial tendencies.
That was my point and that is how he got the politics wrong. He was portraying it as a right wing phenomena. I provided an example of the same behavior from the left wing.
The professional liars then go on to cherry pick the example of "McDonald's: The Game", made by these guys as a representative example of the sort of games kids play.
And the Gore's didn't cherry pick their examples of the music kids listen too when they started the PMRC and scheduled senate hearings?
The point you are missing is that censorship of movies, music and video games is something that both some on the left and some on the right are engaging in. It is a bipartisan failing. One the plus side, there are also some on the left and some on the right who think music, movies and video games are being used as simplistic scapegoats.
Most game developers don't want to show up on Faux News' front page with the headline "X is promoting killing of civilians!"
I don't think you got the politics of that correct. It was Al Gore and his wife that were behind the 1980's crusade to restrict access to music and movies they thought inappropriate. Parents Music Resource Center and all that crap. They later expanded into video games. I believe that during the 2000 presidential campaign Al Gore threatened the music, movie and video game industry to "clean up their act" or a Gore/Lieberman administration would introduce legislation to *compel* them to "mend their ways".
How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive?
Obviously it was the shipping and handling charges.
Besides looking at the code of others be sure to look at the code you wrote a year ago and haven't looked at since. You should learn something about good comments and documentation. You probably will have ideas on how to better implement things. There is some truth to the notion that programmers don't really like the code they wrote for a project until they have thrown it out and rewritten it from scratch for the third time.
I completely agree. I was referring to land in a desired area. Village becomes town becomes city and then at some tipping point of size things start to go vertical. New York, London and Paris were in mind.
In the chip case is that tipping point something around fingernail size?
A reference for some readers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_integrated_circuit
"Power – Keeping a signal on-chip can reduce its power consumption by 10-100 times. Shorter wires also reduce power consumption by producing less parasitic capacitance. Reducing the power budget leads to less heat generation, extended battery life, and lower cost of operation."
"Heat – Heat building up within the stack must be dissipated. This is an inevitable issue as electrical proximity coorrelates with thermal proximity. Specific thermal hotspots must be more carefully managed."
You are repeating Khan's failure, you are thinking in 2D not 3D. Oh wait, Khan's failure occurs in future so I guess you are not repeating it. ;-)
On a more serious note we are simply repeating historical urban development. When land was plentiful we tended build out horizontally rather than vertically, I guess the building technology and materials also contributed to this (as it also apparently does in semiconductors). However when land started to become a scarce resource then we started to build vertically. At some point if we want to keep that IC at the size of a thumbnail we will need to go vertical as well.
I'm sure I'm one of thousands of folks thinking that how to glue together chips must be the least concern, and how to dissipate heat must be the highest? The only thing I can think of that makes the adhesive important would be how well it holds up under heat, so maybe thats why its hard to do?
You are correct that thousands are thinking about heat dissipation, it particular the folks at 3M who are working on this project are thinking about that. The article indicates that their primary role is to develop adhesives with the necessary heat dissipation.
Stacking these things is all well and good, but at what point do heat considerations become a primary concern? Lately I haven't gotten the impression that volume of ICs is our biggest bottleneck.
The article indicates that heat is already a primary concern. 3M's role in the endeavor is to develop adhesives with good thermal conductivity.
Military aircraft in the region are often used to support scientific missions and for other civilian purposes. Even if a true military flight, say transportation of cargo, they may allow civilians and off duty military personnel to hitch a ride if there is nothing classified on board. Not every military flight is performed under combat conditions. Sometimes they communicate with civilian air traffic control, have their transponder broadcasting an ID, have all the navigation lights turned on, and may very well allow personal gadgets on board and perhaps even powered up.
How are things going for the European patent office? If your hypothesis is correct and your scenario common we would be seeing problems over there.
Now, those inventors must file that patent because they can no longer count on showing documentation to prove that they invented it first. Therefore, if they invented it, they have to file a patent to avoid getting screwed, where otherwise, they might well have decided that it wasn't worth patenting. The result is that the number of patent filings will almost inevitably explode.
I can't help but think this is somewhat exaggerated. If an inventor were to abandon a project I would expect them to do so before they got something working, not afterwards. I think those who take something from idea to working invention are *highly* likely to follow through with filing a patent. Especially provisional patents which don't have the administrative overhead, both for the inventor and the patent office, nor the costs of a regular patent.
The first inventor can be screwed by a first-to-file system. Those with more resources can go from invention to filing faster.
That seems exaggerated. A provisional patent can cost a few thousand dollars or less.
http://ipwatchdog.com/2011/01/28/the-cost-of-obtaining-patent/id=14668/
One concern is translating a useful invention into 'patentese', as well as doing a lot of searching for prior art.
A provisional patent skips a lot of the formalities. This will need to be addressed eventually and a regular patent will need to be filed.