God help us if medical imaging ever advances to the point they could follow Mr. Happy inside for his little trip through the flesh tunnel.Been done, and broadcast on terrestrial TV.
A difference of a day can mean a happy customer that stays or an angry customer that leaves and goes to a competitor.Only because the seller has fucked up logistics and/or sales priorities. Speaking as a customer who's jumped to different competitors several times because twats keep trying to sell me things they don't bloody have.
High proportion of bright people who know what's really going on at first. The more people you have, the more average the knowledge and intelligence in the company. It's good though, these big dumb companies are perfect targets for the smaller smarter ones.
That's the Broken Window Fallacy. Money not wasted on lawsuits could be spend on something else, specifically something else that provides the economy (and the involved company) with more utilityI think that was the parent poster's point.
Anyway, once we've invented AI that can do our jobs, the whole human race is pretty much redundant. Except that the purpose of life is life itself, to replicate our genes, and the purpose of business is to allow us to impress our potential mates with what good specimens we are by defining our place in the social hierarchy. When machines can replace humans in every business endeavour, we'll replace business with something else, it'll become irrelevant.
Sure they look very similar but fake? The phone isn't claiming to be an LG, or the game a PSP as far as I can see. It's a clone, not a fake. It's not like the phone and other tech manufacturers don't rip each other off mercilessly. Do you believe for a second that companies don't "reverse engineer" each other's products within minutes of them hitting the street? Before if they can find a way get away with it.
Really what they're pissed about is the fact that the chinese are just better at it than they are.
The solution? Release the stuff in China first, nobody wants to be seen to have a knock off. Hell, it has by far the biggest market so it even makes sense.
But the Japanese did move on and now seem to be inventing and creating a lot of things, and I think the Chinese will too. But the question becomes what will become of the West?There's a habit of examining past trends and then extrapolating them into the future like a trajectory. If they're catching up with us that fast then what happens when they've caught up, we'll be doomed. No. When they've caught up, they'll be in exactly the same situation we are, having to do lots of expensive research, development for the smallest advance.
What'll become of the west? We'll become equal trading partners, no more, no less. We'll have to work hard to compete, that's all.
MB of RAM that is. Plus with Konqueror, a larger proportion is shared libraries.The article is slashdotted, but I think the main problem here is that Firefox has pretty much reached perfection. Firefox was intended to be a stripped down version of the Mozilla suite with just the browser. Hmmm. Yes...
I couldn't take the stuff, myself... it gave me migraines after a few weeks.You don't happen to be allergic/intolerant to shellfish do you? Standard glucosamine is made out of shellfish shells. There are non-shellfish sources though which avoids the allergy. Also cod liver oil is good for heart problems, joints and it improves memory, reasoning ability.
Typing wear and tear? Take glucosamine, chondroitin (they often come together) and cod liver oil. They're food supplements. Your body uses them to build and maintain joint tissues.
It's not like they're going to go after us with a 'Linux tax'. WTF? That's exactly what they're trying to do. The only question they have is can they get away with it without getting hammered by a shitload of patents which other people hold.
It's exactly the same game theory which makes mutually assured destruction work. My advice with the current US patent system? Patent everything.
urns out, people with much better information than me had driven the price up over the previous few weeks in the expectation that sales were actually going to be up 70%. The notion that you can compete with this sort of behavior after the news announcements has come out is at best a wonderful fantasy; at worst, you'll actually try to do it and get crushed.
A single announcement wouldn't be used that way on it's own, it's simply a way to condense a text announcement down to probably good or probably bad, it means you can use it as one of many possible indicators for a few tens of thousands of genetic algorithms. You'd be classifying on every announcement against every stock to provide a decent range of information. The genetic algorithms which give too much or too little weight to the announcements will predict badly and fail to thrive.
My own portfolio is a bit simpler. UK index linked mutual fund, developing country mutual fund, government bonds, commodities (gold silver), housing stocks. Basically about 20% in each sector. Try to spread your portfolio over several sectors which don't all go in the same direction at the same time.
The strategy is simple but it's the important bit because it stops you buying at the top of the market. It's called rebalancing.
Every month add the £100 (or however much you want to invest) to one of the categories. You choose the category by taking an average of how much you've invested so far, divided over the categories. Say after a year you've invested £1200,the average which in my case should be in every category is about £240. But the market goes up and down so some sectors will be doing badly, they'll be below the average, some will be above the average. Well, the whole idea is to buy low, sell high, yeah? You invest your next £100 into the sector in your portfolio which is the furthest below the average, so topping it up. This way you're always buying into a sector when it's low, not high.
Sit down once a month with a spreadsheet (or calculator, it really isn't that hard) and work out where to put the money this month. You spread the risk over 5 or however many categories/stocks you want to take, when the markets change direction, as they inevitably do, your cheaply bought investments will go up most and you are not putting your money into expensive top of a peak stocks.
It's simple and it works, as mentioned in the link the pros do it on a minute by minute basis rather than on a month by month basis (and they sell as well as buy) but I'm really not that interested in finance, and I don't need to be interested or knowledgeable. I'm beating 10% per year for an hour a month.
Oh and always stick the monthly £100 into a single category, don't try to spread it because fees etc will be minimised.
Really, if you don't know what you're doing then you are the prey. I don't, and I recognise I'd get eaten by the big guys. Better idea to take up a known to work investment strategy and invest for the longer term. You can still beat the market average and the bank savings rates but you won't be making 100% per day.
There are several very simple to manage portfolio strategies which will give you very good returns whether the markets are going up or going down and with little risk. It's not magic, it's common sense, long term investing and frankly a bit dull.
However, it still can't predict things that a human can (yet).People are really bad at predictions. Managed funds rarely even keep up with simple index linked funds.
I doubt that a computer can incorporate thigns like global news, company announcements, and other such real world variables into how it makes judgments. No this really should be pretty simple. We already have an algorithm that can classify a message as spam or not spam with 99.5% + accuracy, basically good or bad. The same algorithm could be used to classify any news article as good or bad for a particular stock by looking at the direction the stock takes after the news appears. You could even train the classifier automatically by looking a couple of days in the past. Simply classify every single financial announcement against every single stock, eventually it'll get to the point that the classifier will be able to say that an announcement is 80% probably good news for this stock, 92% bad news for that stock.
Or you could try genetic algorithms, download the info on the whole market plus historical info, give the algorithms access to the lot, plus downloaded financial news, classify the financial news as good or bad for a stock using a bayesian classifier, add that to the pot and then use evolution to see which algorithms survive best in the market to date.
You may need to build a supercomputer to run enough algorithms to perform the search. Look at it this way though... NOW you have an excuse.
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I'll buy the £18.99 one instead. Oh look, it's beige.
Perfume, cars, phones, clothes are all subject to the whims of fashion in order to extract extra cash from vict^H^H^H^Hcustomers, there's really no reason that computer buyers can't be fashion customers as well.
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God help us if medical imaging ever advances to the point they could follow Mr. Happy inside for his little trip through the flesh tunnel.Been done, and broadcast on terrestrial TV.
"Nope, the weight of the sails alone offsets that for the paltry amount of time you would actually be able to use them"
Right... Are you taking drugs at the moment. LSD or something else mind altering?
A difference of a day can mean a happy customer that stays or an angry customer that leaves and goes to a competitor.Only because the seller has fucked up logistics and/or sales priorities. Speaking as a customer who's jumped to different competitors several times because twats keep trying to sell me things they don't bloody have.
Then the computer powers back up, the RAM is restored.Sounds great in theory.
High proportion of bright people who know what's really going on at first. The more people you have, the more average the knowledge and intelligence in the company. It's good though, these big dumb companies are perfect targets for the smaller smarter ones.
That's the Broken Window Fallacy. Money not wasted on lawsuits could be spend on something else, specifically something else that provides the economy (and the involved company) with more utilityI think that was the parent poster's point.
Anyway, once we've invented AI that can do our jobs, the whole human race is pretty much redundant. Except that the purpose of life is life itself, to replicate our genes, and the purpose of business is to allow us to impress our potential mates with what good specimens we are by defining our place in the social hierarchy. When machines can replace humans in every business endeavour, we'll replace business with something else, it'll become irrelevant.
Just innovative ways of making a loss?
Sure they look very similar but fake? The phone isn't claiming to be an LG, or the game a PSP as far as I can see. It's a clone, not a fake. It's not like the phone and other tech manufacturers don't rip each other off mercilessly. Do you believe for a second that companies don't "reverse engineer" each other's products within minutes of them hitting the street? Before if they can find a way get away with it.
Really what they're pissed about is the fact that the chinese are just better at it than they are.
The solution? Release the stuff in China first, nobody wants to be seen to have a knock off. Hell, it has by far the biggest market so it even makes sense.
But the Japanese did move on and now seem to be inventing and creating a lot of things, and I think the Chinese will too. But the question becomes what will become of the West?There's a habit of examining past trends and then extrapolating them into the future like a trajectory. If they're catching up with us that fast then what happens when they've caught up, we'll be doomed. No. When they've caught up, they'll be in exactly the same situation we are, having to do lots of expensive research, development for the smallest advance.
What'll become of the west? We'll become equal trading partners, no more, no less. We'll have to work hard to compete, that's all.
There are dozens of ipods and other MP3 players above it. Let's put it this way, the people who buy the Zune deserve what they get.
MB of RAM that is. Plus with Konqueror, a larger proportion is shared libraries.The article is slashdotted, but I think the main problem here is that Firefox has pretty much reached perfection. Firefox was intended to be a stripped down version of the Mozilla suite with just the browser. Hmmm. Yes...
I couldn't take the stuff, myself... it gave me migraines after a few weeks.You don't happen to be allergic/intolerant to shellfish do you? Standard glucosamine is made out of shellfish shells. There are non-shellfish sources though which avoids the allergy. Also cod liver oil is good for heart problems, joints and it improves memory, reasoning ability.
Typing wear and tear? Take glucosamine, chondroitin (they often come together) and cod liver oil. They're food supplements. Your body uses them to build and maintain joint tissues.
It's not like they're going to go after us with a 'Linux tax'. WTF? That's exactly what they're trying to do. The only question they have is can they get away with it without getting hammered by a shitload of patents which other people hold.
It's exactly the same game theory which makes mutually assured destruction work. My advice with the current US patent system? Patent everything.
A single announcement wouldn't be used that way on it's own, it's simply a way to condense a text announcement down to probably good or probably bad, it means you can use it as one of many possible indicators for a few tens of thousands of genetic algorithms. You'd be classifying on every announcement against every stock to provide a decent range of information. The genetic algorithms which give too much or too little weight to the announcements will predict badly and fail to thrive.
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My own portfolio is a bit simpler. UK index linked mutual fund, developing country mutual fund, government bonds, commodities (gold silver), housing stocks. Basically about 20% in each sector. Try to spread your portfolio over several sectors which don't all go in the same direction at the same time.
The strategy is simple but it's the important bit because it stops you buying at the top of the market. It's called rebalancing.
Every month add the £100 (or however much you want to invest) to one of the categories. You choose the category by taking an average of how much you've invested so far, divided over the categories. Say after a year you've invested £1200,the average which in my case should be in every category is about £240. But the market goes up and down so some sectors will be doing badly, they'll be below the average, some will be above the average. Well, the whole idea is to buy low, sell high, yeah? You invest your next £100 into the sector in your portfolio which is the furthest below the average, so topping it up. This way you're always buying into a sector when it's low, not high.
Sit down once a month with a spreadsheet (or calculator, it really isn't that hard) and work out where to put the money this month. You spread the risk over 5 or however many categories/stocks you want to take, when the markets change direction, as they inevitably do, your cheaply bought investments will go up most and you are not putting your money into expensive top of a peak stocks.
It's simple and it works, as mentioned in the link the pros do it on a minute by minute basis rather than on a month by month basis (and they sell as well as buy) but I'm really not that interested in finance, and I don't need to be interested or knowledgeable. I'm beating 10% per year for an hour a month.
Oh and always stick the monthly £100 into a single category, don't try to spread it because fees etc will be minimised.
...Or the first if you're jewish...
Oh come on, IT'S FUNNY!
Really, if you don't know what you're doing then you are the prey. I don't, and I recognise I'd get eaten by the big guys. Better idea to take up a known to work investment strategy and invest for the longer term. You can still beat the market average and the bank savings rates but you won't be making 100% per day.
There are several very simple to manage portfolio strategies which will give you very good returns whether the markets are going up or going down and with little risk. It's not magic, it's common sense, long term investing and frankly a bit dull.
However, it still can't predict things that a human can (yet).People are really bad at predictions. Managed funds rarely even keep up with simple index linked funds. I doubt that a computer can incorporate thigns like global news, company announcements, and other such real world variables into how it makes judgments. No this really should be pretty simple. We already have an algorithm that can classify a message as spam or not spam with 99.5% + accuracy, basically good or bad. The same algorithm could be used to classify any news article as good or bad for a particular stock by looking at the direction the stock takes after the news appears. You could even train the classifier automatically by looking a couple of days in the past. Simply classify every single financial announcement against every single stock, eventually it'll get to the point that the classifier will be able to say that an announcement is 80% probably good news for this stock, 92% bad news for that stock.
"The only thing an algorithm is guaranteed to do really well is join a panic and dump shares, thereby increasing the panic."
Only a really dumb algorithm. I thing they fixed that one the day after the stockmarket crashed in 87.
There's moneybee: http://uk.moneybee.net/ or maybe wealthlab http://www.wealth-lab.com/
Or you could try genetic algorithms, download the info on the whole market plus historical info, give the algorithms access to the lot, plus downloaded financial news, classify the financial news as good or bad for a stock using a bayesian classifier, add that to the pot and then use evolution to see which algorithms survive best in the market to date.
You may need to build a supercomputer to run enough algorithms to perform the search. Look at it this way though... NOW you have an excuse.
I'll buy the £18.99 one instead. Oh look, it's beige.
Perfume, cars, phones, clothes are all subject to the whims of fashion in order to extract extra cash from vict^H^H^H^Hcustomers, there's really no reason that computer buyers can't be fashion customers as well.
The more restrictions the better.
libertianism : free to do and say what you want, and F*CK the other people.:) Methinks you misrepresent the views of libertarians slightly.