If you have to move food from one area of the world to another in order to live. You are talking about an unsustainable system. If you have to import resources to create your food you are talking about an unsustainable system.
Lets define "sustainable" first as something which can be continued indefinitely. Well if you have to consume one drop of a non renewable resource to run your system, it is unsustainable. You WILL run out of that resource.
Our agricultural system... Basically converts energy into food. Not solar energy, in addition to solar; You have to power huge machines to tend the land. You have to pour fertilizers which are produced using industrial processes. You have to power huge machines to harvest the food, you have to power huge machines to transport the food.
Agriculture is one of the more energy intensive of the industries. So what allows population growth is growth in energy consumption. It is a direct correlation. Go take a look at charts of energy and population.
So... Energy production defines the world population. Oil peaked in 2005 BTW.
For some reason everyone always assume things can only get better.
Declare the maximum number of devices = 6 and maximum number of platforms = 2. 1 smartphone, 1 basic.
That solves 99% of the problems which Nokia have created for themselves.
Whether their smartphone platform was Symbian or Meego wouldn't have mattered, the R&D organisation would have been able to concentrate on actually making it good.
Their problem was not Symbian. Their problem was and still is 150 (yes really) different phone models. Elop hasn't actually fixed the problem.
Now like all Windows OEMs, they're a box shifter, so they need to get into a box shifter mindset. R&D will have to go entirely, there is no place for it in a low margin box shifting business.
I looked through the stats in the pdf, and it looks like only about 40% on average graduate.
Presumably they did however take out loans while they were studying so you have millions out there with student loan debt, but not even a degree to boost earnings.
The difference is that the full faith and credit of the US government probably carries a bit more weight than the full faith and credit of an anonymous internet startup
We have offered deals through Groupon and generally a lot of them are given as gifts, and promptly forgotten/binned by their recipients.
This is in fact Groupon's business model. You pay for nothing, they keep the money. The business offering the deal only gets paid when they have provided the service.
Energy is getting expensive. Datacenters are getting expensive. Information processing is getting expensive. Businesses which rely on datacenters are getting expensive (see Google's energy projects).
etc.
Today, right now, we are at the peak. As the oil goes, we start to slide down the other side.
And on the other hand, people are getting cheaper.
I think I predicted this here on/. in 07/08, earlier? i'll have to google. Taken a bit longer than expected, but economies are like oil tankers. 11/12 is going to be real painful for the ordinary Joe. You now have the choice of more recession or inflation (Hint, TPTB'll pick inflation). Stockmarket's flying though, to da moon.
This has been on the cards since 2000 and you can blame the Federal Reserve and it's owners JPM and GS.
Note, the shit won't *really* hit the fan till oil is priced in other currencies. Gotta keep those Saudis happy.
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"Like bit coin it can only be mined at a steady rate so it can't be manipulated."
Bollocks, you clearly have no idea what money is.
Anything used as currency can be manipulated in a fractional reserve manner. Why the fuck do you think we have bubbles and crashes?
But Bitcoins? Who gives a fuck?
Go buy some silver coins, at least when the US government and Federal Reserve are done fucking the dollar over you'll be able to spend them.
"Look ma.
That police man is hitting the starving person!"
If you have to move food from one area of the world to another in order to live. You are talking about an unsustainable system. If you have to import resources to create your food you are talking about an unsustainable system.
Lets define "sustainable" first as something which can be continued indefinitely. Well if you have to consume one drop of a non renewable resource to run your system, it is unsustainable. You WILL run out of that resource.
Our agricultural system... Basically converts energy into food. Not solar energy, in addition to solar; You have to power huge machines to tend the land. You have to pour fertilizers which are produced using industrial processes. You have to power huge machines to harvest the food, you have to power huge machines to transport the food.
Agriculture is one of the more energy intensive of the industries. So what allows population growth is growth in energy consumption. It is a direct correlation. Go take a look at charts of energy and population.
So... Energy production defines the world population. Oil peaked in 2005 BTW.
For some reason everyone always assume things can only get better.
No more iPads.
Guess they better learn to control inflation. The way America did.
Declare the maximum number of devices = 6 and maximum number of platforms = 2. 1 smartphone, 1 basic.
That solves 99% of the problems which Nokia have created for themselves.
Whether their smartphone platform was Symbian or Meego wouldn't have mattered, the R&D organisation would have been able to concentrate on actually making it good.
Their problem was not Symbian. Their problem was and still is 150 (yes really) different phone models. Elop hasn't actually fixed the problem.
Now like all Windows OEMs, they're a box shifter, so they need to get into a box shifter mindset. R&D will have to go entirely, there is no place for it in a low margin box shifting business.
Till then it's all just incremental.
I looked through the stats in the pdf, and it looks like only about 40% on average graduate.
Presumably they did however take out loans while they were studying so you have millions out there with student loan debt, but not even a degree to boost earnings.
Does indeed seem like there might be a problem.
What does the interest on the loans add up to?
What percentage actually complete the degree?
Bitcoin, faked cash in ATMs etc?
We don't now.
You think the bank really has your cash in a big pile of money in vaults waiting to be spent?
I mean, wow, that's like a 4 year old's concept of money.
The difference is that the full faith and credit of the US government probably carries a bit more weight than the full faith and credit of an anonymous internet startup
http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Documents/20110516Letter%20to%20Congress.pdf
Hope This Helps.
Wait... that's exactly what they did.
Absolutely.
Basically you need to balance performance, not lean heavily towards either side
No, you just need to know what the fuck you are doing.
aint gonna be drinking that koolaid.
gonna look for an alternative.
That is wrong. I have used Wagjag, Kijijideals.ca and Teambuy
Are not Groupon, you muppet. With Groupon, you do not get paid until the service is rendered. They keep the cash for any coupons not redeemed.
We have offered deals through Groupon and generally a lot of them are given as gifts, and promptly forgotten/binned by their recipients.
This is in fact Groupon's business model. You pay for nothing, they keep the money. The business offering the deal only gets paid when they have provided the service.
The amount of energy you get out compared to the amount you put in.
Oil from Saudi huge. Oil from Canada, not so much.
The lower EROEI is, the larger the proportion of the economy must be dedicated to energy production.
People seem to forget that nokia has a multi-pronged strategy going on.
Not just multi... Thousand pronged!
4 software platforms, 130 different phones. You can just SMELL the success!
Poor Apple on the other hand have, just 1 phone, 1 tablet. The losers!
Android or Windows, you're a box shifter. All box shifters have razor thin margins.
Look to see the dev team layoffs coming in the next couple of years. Developers are a luxury that a box shifter can't afford.
GPS's take ages to start without a bit of a hint from some other database, so this is probably their solution to speeding up location based services.
Having said that... WTF? All it would need is the last recorded position. I bet some genius simply couldn't resist going all Big Brother.
All correlate with the Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing programme.
EVERYTHING is way overpriced.
Energy is getting expensive.
Datacenters are getting expensive.
Information processing is getting expensive.
Businesses which rely on datacenters are getting expensive (see Google's energy projects).
etc.
Today, right now, we are at the peak. As the oil goes, we start to slide down the other side.
And on the other hand, people are getting cheaper.
I think I predicted this here on /. in 07/08, earlier? i'll have to google. Taken a bit longer than expected, but economies are like oil tankers. 11/12 is going to be real painful for the ordinary Joe. You now have the choice of more recession or inflation (Hint, TPTB'll pick inflation). Stockmarket's flying though, to da moon.
This has been on the cards since 2000 and you can blame the Federal Reserve and it's owners JPM and GS.
Note, the shit won't *really* hit the fan till oil is priced in other currencies. Gotta keep those Saudis happy.
Which means the low skill jobs will be coming back.
hth.