YOu know I was really hoping the protests in Wall Street would be as bad as the ones for the WTO and Greece. It turns out they are not or the free speech zones are too far away from Wall Street where no one with cameras can hear
Why was he modded down? What he says is true. A small minority forced the majority to sign a pledge to submit the voters they represent. That should be illegal as the constitution is who they should pledge too and look at for their citizens
Not at all. Hell Ubuntu is flakey for regular desktops. CentOS is what I would prefer with servers and I prefer Fedora (more stable) over Ubuntu. However, I would not run any production machine on it with CentOS around.
Because you can easily use and install php modules from Yum or synaptic and do things like cakewalk with ease. Xampp can't do anything besides basic things unless you want to config.ini files and deal with incompatiblities. Most php software still is unix based and will do things like look for $home etc.
Linux is what your server will run anyway and if you use virtualbox you can run it on your mac or Windows 7 system for free with CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu. You can use VMplayer (free) too and download a VMware image of your favorite distro too if you hate virtualbox.
I use Postgresql in which the win32 version comes with apache and php for Windows in the addons. But for anything else not simple I fire up my VM and run Linux as it is very easy to use and setup. I like it more and run in in VM in Windows that way
"Honestly, I don't know why somebody hasn't made a fucking fortune tricking the high speed trading machines."
They already have. I saw some graphs a year ago from Goldman Sachs which showed wiggles going upward from obvious pump and dump schemes. Basically they use the FTC to change the market price and as soon as it goes down the computers then buy the shares it was selling a few milliseconds earlier so the price goes back up, which in turn then sells it a few milliseconds after that and so on. It was weird, and as soon as it hit the news it mysteriously stopped. I wish I had the link to put up there.
That money came from Grandmas 401k and other traders.
The HFT computers do make a fortune doing this. The only way to outdo it is to have a faster supercomputer closer to the exchange that can buy more volume. Ever notice why Wall Street likes lower share prices under $75 a share and encourages companies like Google and Apple to split? So they can buy and sell millions of shares in the blink of an eye to manipulate the price. Apple it is too expensive to do that and Wall Street hates that!
Everyone loves to comment about the time the dow lost 1,000 points in a blink of an eye, where the computers were selling shares for.01 each. Hmm fat finger my ass. Someone tried to lower the price and shit went haywire when other HTF systems tried to underbid and also short the stocks so they would make money even if the price went down.
Lets talk more about how corrupt lobbiest from these companies can buy off any laws and stop any attempt to safeguard the market.
If I were the CEO of BSO I would hire the best lobbiest money could buy as in this particular climate it is not unreasonable for lawmakers to prevent me from making money.
You can't win since these trading firms own 75% of the worlds money! You say the rich own it right? Well, where do the rich keep it? Not under their matresses but to these guys who then use the money for private jets and lobbying.
I do wonder what would happen if many people took back all their money at once? We know banks would go out of business but what about financial institutions? Do they take more than what owe gambling or paying bonuses? I do wonder
INT and FPU performance in MFlops does not make a computer faster.
For a consumer, it means to turn on their pcs fast, have the web smoothly scroll up and down like a Droid or IPhone, not flicker like a PC. They want their icons to open and close smoothly and want fast quick MS reaction times when completing commands.
A better GPU and quick reaction time from flash ram can do this better than a great CPU that has aesome MFLops. My 700 mhz phone can browse slashdot.org better than a 3.0 ghz hyperthreaded Dell at work! Why is that?
It is because the ARM has integrated graphics which are better than the crappy drivers/hardware integrated in that much faster POS Dell. Add to the fact that the browsers except for IE 9/10 do not accelerate video and it shows. Even in Chrome you can turn on accelerate Canvas and slashdot always flickers when you hit the up and down arrow keys compared to an IPAD or Driod. IE 9 on my computer is somewhat smooth and better but it has an ATI 5750. Again it is the GPU but still it is not as fast nor smooth as an IPAD which shows bad drivers.
Chrome and Firefox need to accelerate more HTML rendering to the GPU still as it is only partially accelerated.
The Llamo and AMD chipsets will appear much faster than anything by Intel just because they want quick animations to them makes quick and better performance. But in reality x86 is playing catchup to the arm in this area.
The rise of the tablets are showing how bad Windows and x86 really are. Things need to improve and catch up as to the consumer the x86 is quite slower and bulkier and more expensive than a tablet.
Mflops might be quicker if you compile code or do simulations or the things slashdotters do, but for general experience the age of x86 and the PC architecture show.
Actually MS is releasing an ARM version of Office and Visual Studio when Windows 8 comes out.
Add to the fact that it can't run some games will be considered a benefit to those in I.T.
Arms have the horsepower with good video chipsets and drivers. PC drivers are 1,000 times slower due to terrible drivers than arms with good GPUs according to John Carmack in regards to texture loading and smoothness. Hopefully this will change and ARM netbooks can run 1080p video fine with good gpu integration which x86 is just now doing with Llamo and Bulldozer and the upcoming Intel chips.
Most people need the I/o and video more than raw FPU and integer performance.
For x86 to die, 2 things need to happen 1. Apps apps apps 2. Needs to be better and cheaper and offer abilities that consumers would be willing to drop x86.
The reason others failed is because they were niche and expensive with no apps. Alpha was fucking awesome 6 years ago! But it was for advanced workstations and servers. PowerPC was awesome too. It had more success in macs and gaming consoles as it got close to fulling being the better CPU for cheaper a little and had niche apps for gaming in Nintendo boxes and running mac apps. It didn't have enough price and performance to sway x86 users away nor the apps. The pentium Pro with NT 4 prounced it and offered x86 compatiblity. It was good enough
Arm however has the apps and the price point plus power management capabilities. ARM is winning by going around the desktop and targeting phones and other devies with hundreds of thousands of apps. It has the apps.
If ARM grows with Windows 8 and MS offers visual studio to compile apps for it it will satisfy both conditions of having apps available and being able to offer what x86 can not. It will take several years. My guess is not Office but rather Windows Server will have ARM versions and enterprise apps will be ported. If Oracle gets Java to run on the ARM more Enterprise apps will be ported. Games like Angry Birds will come next on win64 and the rest will be history. More apps are run as html5 and ajax anyway. Fat binaries can help like it did with Apple. Within 2 years most Mac apps could be switched over without a problem.
Maybe in 5 years Apple might consider ARM versions of MacOSX as it tries to merge it with IOS too.
"Do you have any reason to believe this is too expensive? Given the enormous development costs...and no guarantee of sales or number of subscriptions? What makes you think they'll even get back their investment?"
No kidding.
How much would it cost to go out with a gf to AppleBees for dinner and drinks? Jokes aside about slashdotters not having a gf... I am guesing $85 right there.
That is for 2 meals, a few drinks, and a few hours of entertainment right? That is not even a fancy restaurant either.
You can play the game for a whole month for that price! That includes the cost of the game and the gameplay. If the grandposter thinks $85 is too expensive then get a job. Or quit McDonalds and go to school to get a better one shoot. Things in life cost money and times are hard right now but that price is very very cheap compared to the hours of entertainment you get if you like to game. If you are that broke or cheap go by a book... better yet go to a library and get one for free.
World of warcraft cost $100,000,000 to make! They need to make money somehow to make up for the development and like I said above you pay more for eating out once a month or for your IPhone and get access to all the expensive content. It sounds like a steal to me so seriously either you are very very broke and need to be working and not playing or get a book if you do not want to play and be cheap.
If you eat out once a week you exceed the cost of the game several times over.
Is there a real use for it on Windows? I am serious and not trying to be a troll.
The issue I see is that not everything is a file on Windows. Can I grep processes and threads? No. Can I awk, sed, and grep device driver files? No. Can I even parse logs? No, they are xml on Windows. etc.
Sure I can run gcc and maybe xclocks or something, but that is not usefull.
Can I do anything with it? Powershell seems much more integrated and you have.NET and WMI to automate some tasks. It still seems far behind Unix with the utilities though, but I am not an experienced Admin. Windows!= Unix.
Many forgot about the Windows 98 active desktop. Remember?
HTML would just come to you and you could have Javascript and HTML applets? 6 months later it was never talked about again. Most people quickly disabled it by default.
Hell people on Slashdot still use the 10 year old Windows XP for crying out loud and slashdotters are the ones typically who like newer products. Corporate customers are way more conservative.
Win32 is not going away nor is the desktop over their dead bodies. It wont happen and I bet if I had a time machine and went 30 years into the future you will see IE 6 still being used for 40 year old intranet apps in emulators like they still run IBM 370 apps of old.... shudder
It is legacy and wont ever go away at this point. I think MS will not give up as you can not get SAP with all its complex functionality in a cute little METRO tile. No can do. Maybe the silly twitter-roma app can be tiled but not that. Can you imagine running 3d Studio Max or Autocad in a tile?
"Commercial customers that require production-quality platforms with enterprise-level support probably will avoid Cygwin"
I believe parent means "Posix Compliant", not that Cygwin is a piece of crap. FreeBSD uses the old cshell instead of bash by default so it can be posix compliant just as an example.
I do know many government contractors need to have Posix compliant on the paperwork and Windows fullfills this (but really not). Linux is not. Solaris is and I do not know if FreeBSD got the certification.
In this day and age though I do not think that is in the paperwork anymore so it is why SUA is being depreciated. The goal was to get government contractors to switch to win32 overtime.
I was under the impression that the Fed just purchased bonds and the banks were given full cash. The lifeline was the bailout in which the banks just loanded some debt with 0% interest back to the government for 5% in order to build their assets long term. The more I learn the more I realized how awkward the situation is and how maybe no one really knows the answer?
If the banks got full cash that would help their books and this is what hte mainstream media is saying. But if the bond market crashes that liquidity is no longer tha liquid. I do agree houses are still too expensive and that the government now wants stagflation as the easement was there to fight deflation which happend in late 2008 and early 2009.
Part of me thinks that deflation would be the answer and of course the government/people start repaying our debts. 90% of our money supply is created out of thin air with debt. If people started saving and paying off loans then long term they would pay for things again. That is not a bad thing like the Fed says it is. Interest will kill anyone who lives with 30 year mortgages, student loans, credit cars, and other forms of debt.
"Come back in three months and let me know how the market is doing compared to 2006. There is a HUGE correction on the way."
Why do you say that? I am a fan of Peter Schidmt who predicted the housing crash and the great recession back in 2006 and says another one is coming... or continuation of the same one.
I fail to see how? The banks in 2006 had no liquidity and counted houses as liquid assets that count as cash. When it crashed there goes the liquidity and assets as they went bankrupt with no cash. Today the banks have liquidity and cash, but the shareholders and people are scared. I fail to see why unless I am highly overlooking something. They even have a stress test where if another bad event happened could they survive?
Even if Greece defaults it is tiny and wont bring the banks down like it did before even if they own Greek treasury bonds. Or are you suggesting European banks will all go under one by one which will then hit American banks at home? I do not think its that bad compared to the percentage of complex financial instruments with mortgages in them a half decade ago.
Do you hardware acceleration on? Chrome does not enable it by default. IE 9 has the best performance, but doesn't support as much as the HTML 5 spec while Firefox supports html 5 and hardware acceleration fairly well if you have a good GPU.
On my computer HTML 5 is supperior. On my 3.5 year old POS laptop which barely runs Flash is better
Lack of hardware acceleration and IE 8 and earlier is why. However, that is rapidly changing.
All the major browsers support most of the SVG spec now and have hardware acceleration for better performance. Chrome however has it disabled by default for some reason as of Chrome 13 last month, but you can turn it on as always do.
Could this be because the free speech zone is away from Wall Street?
From what I read the free speech protest zone is 15 blocks away. Convienently located to where Wall Street doesn't see it.
To me that misses the point if only angry nerds reading the news know about it. I was hoping for angry protesters European style or at least th3e 1960s style ones at Berkeley so people would talk about it.
Americans need to stand up! Fuck these free speech zones. If the government is too corrupt to do anything about it then the people need too by going to Wall Street and The Capital themselves to let themselves be heard.
I thought starting with WindowsXP Service pack 3, it supported EFI? I wonder if Uefi is part of the spec though?
Either way MS could simply release a service pack for Windows 7 to include that support. Windows 7 service pack 2 would be the newer requirement just as Windows XP can't run on a modern PC as you need service pack 2 or 3 for the kernel to even see your hard drive.
"Hp is a sinking ship that cant attract anyone that has any management skills. "
Would you work there?
That is the problem. Your steps just address the symptoms not the problem. The problem is all the good employees quit or were canned. Your steps are examples of cheap and bad employees who couldn't get hired elsewhere. I have a great HP monitor that has amazing color contrast and response time. Part of HP's great engineering of old. Today only the bean counters are compensated well.
The problem is a company's #1 are its good employees. Notice I did not say employees. I said good employees. They are an asset and not a liability/cost center. If they are then it is best you focus them on flipping burgers as in the I.T. world you need compentent people.
HP is screwed and no they wont be a IBM/Sap powerhouse with great consultants. A good one would refuse to work at HP and be treated like cattle from some kid with an assocates in accounting pointing a finger about costs etc. If HP can't even manage their own company, why would I hire them to help manage mine?
They are done and in 5 years they will be out of business
What is more shocking is how each new CEO is progressively worse than the last.
Everyone thought Carly Fiona was the worst CEO EVER. No one could do worse. Than Hurd came and the company sank even more, He left and some other guy came in and purchased WebOS which was very $$$$ and hurt their balance sheets that pissed off Wall Street. Then came Apotheker, who is selling off WebOS for firesale prices, and deciding to turn the company into its former employer SAP, even though no good talent is left and is not an HP speciality.
The big question is who will come next? If history is any metric he/she will be even worse.
What is needed is to fire the complete board of directors with a new one. Icahn might come in and do just that? A new board of directors will set the company's goals straight and hire a compentent CEO to replace him.
Here is the problem. Assuming HP gets a 0% profit margin, the people you buy servers and business consulting contracts are the same people you buy your desktops from. Makes sense to have one standard for the whole company right?
If HP leaves the desktop market, their customers are going to switch to Dell. Guess which contracts and servers they will buy? Oh, Dell!
HP gives 40% discounts on their products to business users so I doubt their margins are that thin. Perhaps in retail like BestBuy they are thin, but that retailer choses it to be and puts huge pressure on their sales force to sell $100 Monster powerstrips that are really worth $9.99, and useless anti-virus software to make up for each unit sold.
IBM overcharged and were selling systems with only 8 megs of ram for the same price as a 32 meg ram system as late as 1997. They really blew and it is no wonder they left that market.
The CEO wants HP to become SAP, but it is not. IBM had consultants since the 1950s so they are different. To me this sounds no different than hiring the CEO of Bryers to turn HP into an Ice Cream company. Why not? That is a terrible thing to do in business as evident in case studies of dead companies. The problem is HP has no talent left as they were either laid off or quit. They are terrible company to work for and their consultants probably hail from India and can't speak english well or are devry graduates. IBM on the otherhand has great mediocre talent.
If HP can't even run their own company why would I pay big bucks to consult on how to run mine?
Apple through a court order got designs of pre-released tablets and filled motions before the product was even realized. Who is doing espionage to whom?
Samsung is using this tactic as a bargain. I know you are an Apple user but I am cheering Samsung as what Apple did was downright evil and levels of industrial espionage first. I believe Apple patented rectangles for use with a tablet as a patent rather than copyright in order to harm Samsung outright since they had access to its design. Samsung is fighting back just as evil.
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YOu know I was really hoping the protests in Wall Street would be as bad as the ones for the WTO and Greece. It turns out they are not or the free speech zones are too far away from Wall Street where no one with cameras can hear
Mod parent up!
Why was he modded down? What he says is true. A small minority forced the majority to sign a pledge to submit the voters they represent. That should be illegal as the constitution is who they should pledge too and look at for their citizens
Not at all. Hell Ubuntu is flakey for regular desktops. CentOS is what I would prefer with servers and I prefer Fedora (more stable) over Ubuntu. However, I would not run any production machine on it with CentOS around.
Because you can easily use and install php modules from Yum or synaptic and do things like cakewalk with ease. Xampp can't do anything besides basic things unless you want to config .ini files and deal with incompatiblities. Most php software still is unix based and will do things like look for $home etc.
Linux is what your server will run anyway and if you use virtualbox you can run it on your mac or Windows 7 system for free with CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu. You can use VMplayer (free) too and download a VMware image of your favorite distro too if you hate virtualbox.
I use Postgresql in which the win32 version comes with apache and php for Windows in the addons. But for anything else not simple I fire up my VM and run Linux as it is very easy to use and setup. I like it more and run in in VM in Windows that way
"Honestly, I don't know why somebody hasn't made a fucking fortune tricking the high speed trading machines."
They already have. I saw some graphs a year ago from Goldman Sachs which showed wiggles going upward from obvious pump and dump schemes. Basically they use the FTC to change the market price and as soon as it goes down the computers then buy the shares it was selling a few milliseconds earlier so the price goes back up, which in turn then sells it a few milliseconds after that and so on. It was weird, and as soon as it hit the news it mysteriously stopped. I wish I had the link to put up there.
That money came from Grandmas 401k and other traders.
The HFT computers do make a fortune doing this. The only way to outdo it is to have a faster supercomputer closer to the exchange that can buy more volume. Ever notice why Wall Street likes lower share prices under $75 a share and encourages companies like Google and Apple to split? So they can buy and sell millions of shares in the blink of an eye to manipulate the price. Apple it is too expensive to do that and Wall Street hates that!
Everyone loves to comment about the time the dow lost 1,000 points in a blink of an eye, where the computers were selling shares for .01 each. Hmm fat finger my ass. Someone tried to lower the price and shit went haywire when other HTF systems tried to underbid and also short the stocks so they would make money even if the price went down.
Lets talk more about how corrupt lobbiest from these companies can buy off any laws and stop any attempt to safeguard the market.
If I were the CEO of BSO I would hire the best lobbiest money could buy as in this particular climate it is not unreasonable for lawmakers to prevent me from making money.
You can't win since these trading firms own 75% of the worlds money! You say the rich own it right? Well, where do the rich keep it? Not under their matresses but to these guys who then use the money for private jets and lobbying.
I do wonder what would happen if many people took back all their money at once? We know banks would go out of business but what about financial institutions? Do they take more than what owe gambling or paying bonuses? I do wonder
INT and FPU performance in MFlops does not make a computer faster.
For a consumer, it means to turn on their pcs fast, have the web smoothly scroll up and down like a Droid or IPhone, not flicker like a PC. They want their icons to open and close smoothly and want fast quick MS reaction times when completing commands.
A better GPU and quick reaction time from flash ram can do this better than a great CPU that has aesome MFLops. My 700 mhz phone can browse slashdot.org better than a 3.0 ghz hyperthreaded Dell at work! Why is that?
It is because the ARM has integrated graphics which are better than the crappy drivers/hardware integrated in that much faster POS Dell. Add to the fact that the browsers except for IE 9/10 do not accelerate video and it shows. Even in Chrome you can turn on accelerate Canvas and slashdot always flickers when you hit the up and down arrow keys compared to an IPAD or Driod. IE 9 on my computer is somewhat smooth and better but it has an ATI 5750. Again it is the GPU but still it is not as fast nor smooth as an IPAD which shows bad drivers.
Chrome and Firefox need to accelerate more HTML rendering to the GPU still as it is only partially accelerated.
The Llamo and AMD chipsets will appear much faster than anything by Intel just because they want quick animations to them makes quick and better performance. But in reality x86 is playing catchup to the arm in this area.
The rise of the tablets are showing how bad Windows and x86 really are. Things need to improve and catch up as to the consumer the x86 is quite slower and bulkier and more expensive than a tablet.
Mflops might be quicker if you compile code or do simulations or the things slashdotters do, but for general experience the age of x86 and the PC architecture show.
Actually MS is releasing an ARM version of Office and Visual Studio when Windows 8 comes out.
Add to the fact that it can't run some games will be considered a benefit to those in I.T.
Arms have the horsepower with good video chipsets and drivers. PC drivers are 1,000 times slower due to terrible drivers than arms with good GPUs according to John Carmack in regards to texture loading and smoothness. Hopefully this will change and ARM netbooks can run 1080p video fine with good gpu integration which x86 is just now doing with Llamo and Bulldozer and the upcoming Intel chips.
Most people need the I/o and video more than raw FPU and integer performance.
For x86 to die, 2 things need to happen
1. Apps apps apps
2. Needs to be better and cheaper and offer abilities that consumers would be willing to drop x86.
The reason others failed is because they were niche and expensive with no apps. Alpha was fucking awesome 6 years ago! But it was for advanced workstations and servers. PowerPC was awesome too. It had more success in macs and gaming consoles as it got close to fulling being the better CPU for cheaper a little and had niche apps for gaming in Nintendo boxes and running mac apps. It didn't have enough price and performance to sway x86 users away nor the apps. The pentium Pro with NT 4 prounced it and offered x86 compatiblity. It was good enough
Arm however has the apps and the price point plus power management capabilities. ARM is winning by going around the desktop and targeting phones and other devies with hundreds of thousands of apps. It has the apps.
If ARM grows with Windows 8 and MS offers visual studio to compile apps for it it will satisfy both conditions of having apps available and being able to offer what x86 can not. It will take several years. My guess is not Office but rather Windows Server will have ARM versions and enterprise apps will be ported. If Oracle gets Java to run on the ARM more Enterprise apps will be ported. Games like Angry Birds will come next on win64 and the rest will be history. More apps are run as html5 and ajax anyway. Fat binaries can help like it did with Apple. Within 2 years most Mac apps could be switched over without a problem.
Maybe in 5 years Apple might consider ARM versions of MacOSX as it tries to merge it with IOS too.
"Do you have any reason to believe this is too expensive? Given the enormous development costs...and no guarantee of sales or number of subscriptions? What makes you think they'll even get back their investment?"
No kidding.
How much would it cost to go out with a gf to AppleBees for dinner and drinks? Jokes aside about slashdotters not having a gf ... I am guesing $85 right there.
That is for 2 meals, a few drinks, and a few hours of entertainment right? That is not even a fancy restaurant either.
You can play the game for a whole month for that price! That includes the cost of the game and the gameplay. If the grandposter thinks $85 is too expensive then get a job. Or quit McDonalds and go to school to get a better one shoot. Things in life cost money and times are hard right now but that price is very very cheap compared to the hours of entertainment you get if you like to game. If you are that broke or cheap go by a book ... better yet go to a library and get one for free.
World of warcraft cost $100,000,000 to make! They need to make money somehow to make up for the development and like I said above you pay more for eating out once a month or for your IPhone and get access to all the expensive content. It sounds like a steal to me so seriously either you are very very broke and need to be working and not playing or get a book if you do not want to play and be cheap.
If you eat out once a week you exceed the cost of the game several times over.
Is there a real use for it on Windows? I am serious and not trying to be a troll.
The issue I see is that not everything is a file on Windows. Can I grep processes and threads? No. Can I awk, sed, and grep device driver files? No. Can I even parse logs? No, they are xml on Windows. etc.
Sure I can run gcc and maybe xclocks or something, but that is not usefull.
Can I do anything with it? Powershell seems much more integrated and you have .NET and WMI to automate some tasks. It still seems far behind Unix with the utilities though, but I am not an experienced Admin. Windows!= Unix.
Many forgot about the Windows 98 active desktop. Remember?
HTML would just come to you and you could have Javascript and HTML applets? 6 months later it was never talked about again. Most people quickly disabled it by default.
Hell people on Slashdot still use the 10 year old Windows XP for crying out loud and slashdotters are the ones typically who like newer products. Corporate customers are way more conservative.
Win32 is not going away nor is the desktop over their dead bodies. It wont happen and I bet if I had a time machine and went 30 years into the future you will see IE 6 still being used for 40 year old intranet apps in emulators like they still run IBM 370 apps of old .... shudder
It is legacy and wont ever go away at this point. I think MS will not give up as you can not get SAP with all its complex functionality in a cute little METRO tile. No can do. Maybe the silly twitter-roma app can be tiled but not that. Can you imagine running 3d Studio Max or Autocad in a tile?
I wouldn't worry about that
"Commercial customers that require production-quality platforms with enterprise-level support probably will avoid Cygwin"
I believe parent means "Posix Compliant", not that Cygwin is a piece of crap. FreeBSD uses the old cshell instead of bash by default so it can be posix compliant just as an example.
I do know many government contractors need to have Posix compliant on the paperwork and Windows fullfills this (but really not). Linux is not. Solaris is and I do not know if FreeBSD got the certification.
In this day and age though I do not think that is in the paperwork anymore so it is why SUA is being depreciated. The goal was to get government contractors to switch to win32 overtime.
"It's about time someone charged Microsoft for all the wasted time and resources spent fixing websites for Internet Explorer!"
No please Mike. Think of the children?
Thanks for the explanation.
I was under the impression that the Fed just purchased bonds and the banks were given full cash. The lifeline was the bailout in which the banks just loanded some debt with 0% interest back to the government for 5% in order to build their assets long term. The more I learn the more I realized how awkward the situation is and how maybe no one really knows the answer?
If the banks got full cash that would help their books and this is what hte mainstream media is saying. But if the bond market crashes that liquidity is no longer tha liquid. I do agree houses are still too expensive and that the government now wants stagflation as the easement was there to fight deflation which happend in late 2008 and early 2009.
Part of me thinks that deflation would be the answer and of course the government/people start repaying our debts. 90% of our money supply is created out of thin air with debt. If people started saving and paying off loans then long term they would pay for things again. That is not a bad thing like the Fed says it is. Interest will kill anyone who lives with 30 year mortgages, student loans, credit cars, and other forms of debt.
"Come back in three months and let me know how the market is doing compared to 2006. There is a HUGE correction on the way."
Why do you say that? I am a fan of Peter Schidmt who predicted the housing crash and the great recession back in 2006 and says another one is coming ... or continuation of the same one.
I fail to see how? The banks in 2006 had no liquidity and counted houses as liquid assets that count as cash. When it crashed there goes the liquidity and assets as they went bankrupt with no cash. Today the banks have liquidity and cash, but the shareholders and people are scared. I fail to see why unless I am highly overlooking something. They even have a stress test where if another bad event happened could they survive?
Even if Greece defaults it is tiny and wont bring the banks down like it did before even if they own Greek treasury bonds. Or are you suggesting European banks will all go under one by one which will then hit American banks at home? I do not think its that bad compared to the percentage of complex financial instruments with mortgages in them a half decade ago.
Do you hardware acceleration on? Chrome does not enable it by default. IE 9 has the best performance, but doesn't support as much as the HTML 5 spec while Firefox supports html 5 and hardware acceleration fairly well if you have a good GPU.
On my computer HTML 5 is supperior. On my 3.5 year old POS laptop which barely runs Flash is better
Lack of hardware acceleration and IE 8 and earlier is why. However, that is rapidly changing.
All the major browsers support most of the SVG spec now and have hardware acceleration for better performance. Chrome however has it disabled by default for some reason as of Chrome 13 last month, but you can turn it on as always do.
Could this be because the free speech zone is away from Wall Street?
From what I read the free speech protest zone is 15 blocks away. Convienently located to where Wall Street doesn't see it.
To me that misses the point if only angry nerds reading the news know about it. I was hoping for angry protesters European style or at least th3e 1960s style ones at Berkeley so people would talk about it.
Americans need to stand up! Fuck these free speech zones. If the government is too corrupt to do anything about it then the people need too by going to Wall Street and The Capital themselves to let themselves be heard.
I thought starting with WindowsXP Service pack 3, it supported EFI? I wonder if Uefi is part of the spec though?
Either way MS could simply release a service pack for Windows 7 to include that support. Windows 7 service pack 2 would be the newer requirement just as Windows XP can't run on a modern PC as you need service pack 2 or 3 for the kernel to even see your hard drive.
"Hp is a sinking ship that cant attract anyone that has any management skills.
"
Would you work there?
That is the problem. Your steps just address the symptoms not the problem. The problem is all the good employees quit or were canned. Your steps are examples of cheap and bad employees who couldn't get hired elsewhere. I have a great HP monitor that has amazing color contrast and response time. Part of HP's great engineering of old. Today only the bean counters are compensated well.
The problem is a company's #1 are its good employees. Notice I did not say employees. I said good employees. They are an asset and not a liability/cost center. If they are then it is best you focus them on flipping burgers as in the I.T. world you need compentent people.
HP is screwed and no they wont be a IBM/Sap powerhouse with great consultants. A good one would refuse to work at HP and be treated like cattle from some kid with an assocates in accounting pointing a finger about costs etc. If HP can't even manage their own company, why would I hire them to help manage mine?
They are done and in 5 years they will be out of business
What is more shocking is how each new CEO is progressively worse than the last.
Everyone thought Carly Fiona was the worst CEO EVER. No one could do worse. Than Hurd came and the company sank even more, He left and some other guy came in and purchased WebOS which was very $$$$ and hurt their balance sheets that pissed off Wall Street. Then came Apotheker, who is selling off WebOS for firesale prices, and deciding to turn the company into its former employer SAP, even though no good talent is left and is not an HP speciality.
The big question is who will come next? If history is any metric he/she will be even worse.
What is needed is to fire the complete board of directors with a new one. Icahn might come in and do just that? A new board of directors will set the company's goals straight and hire a compentent CEO to replace him.
Here is the problem. Assuming HP gets a 0% profit margin, the people you buy servers and business consulting contracts are the same people you buy your desktops from. Makes sense to have one standard for the whole company right?
If HP leaves the desktop market, their customers are going to switch to Dell. Guess which contracts and servers they will buy? Oh, Dell!
HP gives 40% discounts on their products to business users so I doubt their margins are that thin. Perhaps in retail like BestBuy they are thin, but that retailer choses it to be and puts huge pressure on their sales force to sell $100 Monster powerstrips that are really worth $9.99, and useless anti-virus software to make up for each unit sold.
IBM overcharged and were selling systems with only 8 megs of ram for the same price as a 32 meg ram system as late as 1997. They really blew and it is no wonder they left that market.
The CEO wants HP to become SAP, but it is not. IBM had consultants since the 1950s so they are different. To me this sounds no different than hiring the CEO of Bryers to turn HP into an Ice Cream company. Why not? That is a terrible thing to do in business as evident in case studies of dead companies. The problem is HP has no talent left as they were either laid off or quit. They are terrible company to work for and their consultants probably hail from India and can't speak english well or are devry graduates. IBM on the otherhand has great mediocre talent.
If HP can't even run their own company why would I pay big bucks to consult on how to run mine?
Apple through a court order got designs of pre-released tablets and filled motions before the product was even realized. Who is doing espionage to whom?
Samsung is using this tactic as a bargain. I know you are an Apple user but I am cheering Samsung as what Apple did was downright evil and levels of industrial espionage first. I believe Apple patented rectangles for use with a tablet as a patent rather than copyright in order to harm Samsung outright since they had access to its design. Samsung is fighting back just as evil.
They are getting back what they dish out.