After-tax profit margin is a financial performance ratio, calculated by dividing net income after taxes by net sales. A company's after-tax profit margin is important because it tells investors the percentage of money a company actually earns per dollar of sales. This ratio is interpreted in the same way as profit margin - the after-tax profit margin is simply more stringent because it takes taxes into account.
If your department is required by the company to have a 6%(*) after tax profit and taxes go up 7%, what affect does that have?
A. Lay off some people
B. Raise prices by 7%
C. Convince people to buy 7% of your product
D. Lower your NRE costs by 7%
(*)If the company does not maintain a 6% profit, people will dump stock and the value of the company goes down
Researchers are developing a new type of environmentally friendly fuel cell that runs on aluminum and renewable resources and generates about 20 times more electricity per pound than car batteries.
I thought of that while typing it in. The sad thing is that I could do it with parts I have in my junk drawer in half an hour. I've seen so many kickstarter projects that are as easy asking for thousands of dollars.
Why would you want to change your tv channel from the internet? What's next, turning on and off a faucet over the internet? How about a device the monitors your pictures to make sure they are hanging level and sends status updates to your phone?
Same with me. I started building my own internet controlled devices in the 1990's, so I thought it would be a great idea to turn my house into something from star trek. About two devices into my project, I realize that it was all but useless, just novelty....and not even that clever.
To answer the top level question, yes. Easily.There was even a company(ies?) in the early 90's selling a host of controllers based on the x10 protocol
Cars don't even use AI, they implement control laws based on the state of the car and its position as decided by its sensors (lid/gps/accelerometers/gyros/maybe vision)
I do that now. It's not terribly difficult and was really cheap too (less than the price of a new car for a nice house). It can be done on minimum wage if you were motivated; I know people who've done and are doing it.
What happens in the utopia society when as soon as you try do anything, a hologram clippy appears before your eyes and says: "I see you trying to design a new motor. Here, let me help you with that," and presents a solution better than you could have done yourself and will take you years, if ever, to understand what is going on because the AI as funded a new branch of physics based on new mathematics as well as two new branches of engineering. So you are stuck in the other scenario of the guy making pottery in a virtual construct because he is now a brain in a vat.
As has been pointed out in many places before, creativity is not a hard problem to solve with brute force. Creativity can be imitated, or perhaps it's even the same thing as searching.
Ie, I wrote a program to list all 6 note melodies. It wasn't hard, but after running for a few days (this was twenty yeas ago) I had gigabytes worth of songs and if I knew what I was looking for, could find one (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). But I had to sort through songs like BBBBBB and the catchy, but one hit wonder BBBBBF#.
And small corporations, LLCs, proprietary businesses and even individuals auctioning off their baby shoes on ebay. In fact ebay is based off of selling thing for what the market is willing to bear. Craigslist too.
Take seeds from your standard non GMO and try to grow tomatoes from it. It will probably work, but be rather anemic. Most crops are hybrids resulting from cross pollination, kind like a sterile mule. If you don't like this practice, then I think what you are looking for is 'heritage' agriculture.
This also goes for meat. The chicken that you buy in store are usually CornishX and are not natural. I seriously doubt most people would want to eat a natural chicken; they don't have a lot of meat on them.
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After-tax profit margin is a financial performance ratio, calculated by dividing net income after taxes by net sales. A company's after-tax profit margin is important because it tells investors the percentage of money a company actually earns per dollar of sales. This ratio is interpreted in the same way as profit margin - the after-tax profit margin is simply more stringent because it takes taxes into account.
http://www.investopedia.com/te...
A. Lay off some people
B. Raise prices by 7%
C. Convince people to buy 7% of your product
D. Lower your NRE costs by 7%
(*)If the company does not maintain a 6% profit, people will dump stock and the value of the company goes down
Doesn't that describe the utopia in Manna [marshallbrain.com] that people here seem to love?
Labview is easy enough.
Researchers are developing a new type of environmentally friendly fuel cell that runs on aluminum and renewable resources and generates about 20 times more electricity per pound than car batteries.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
That's a poor argument. Modern civilization is filled with chemicals that will kill you faster than h202 and we don't prohibit those.
I thought of that while typing it in. The sad thing is that I could do it with parts I have in my junk drawer in half an hour. I've seen so many kickstarter projects that are as easy asking for thousands of dollars.
when you can build your own for hundreds less with less effort? Do you have money to waste?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...
Why would you want to change your tv channel from the internet? What's next, turning on and off a faucet over the internet? How about a device the monitors your pictures to make sure they are hanging level and sends status updates to your phone?
To answer the top level question, yes. Easily.There was even a company(ies?) in the early 90's selling a host of controllers based on the x10 protocol
On ebay
it won't have inner driver to evolve to preserve itself at all costs.
You say this without a reason.
nudging suggestions little by little into the stream of society, you can ultimately shape the future
The Rape of the Mind by Dutch psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo.
All watched over by machines of loving grace.
Cars don't even use AI, they implement control laws based on the state of the car and its position as decided by its sensors (lid/gps/accelerometers/gyros/maybe vision)
I do that now. It's not terribly difficult and was really cheap too (less than the price of a new car for a nice house). It can be done on minimum wage if you were motivated; I know people who've done and are doing it.
What happens in the utopia society when as soon as you try do anything, a hologram clippy appears before your eyes and says: "I see you trying to design a new motor. Here, let me help you with that," and presents a solution better than you could have done yourself and will take you years, if ever, to understand what is going on because the AI as funded a new branch of physics based on new mathematics as well as two new branches of engineering. So you are stuck in the other scenario of the guy making pottery in a virtual construct because he is now a brain in a vat.
Ie, I wrote a program to list all 6 note melodies. It wasn't hard, but after running for a few days (this was twenty yeas ago) I had gigabytes worth of songs and if I knew what I was looking for, could find one (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). But I had to sort through songs like BBBBBB and the catchy, but one hit wonder BBBBBF#.
Written sixteen years ago by Bill Joy One the best articles on the subject.
And small corporations, LLCs, proprietary businesses and even individuals auctioning off their baby shoes on ebay. In fact ebay is based off of selling thing for what the market is willing to bear. Craigslist too.
don't produce viable seeds
Take seeds from your standard non GMO and try to grow tomatoes from it. It will probably work, but be rather anemic. Most crops are hybrids resulting from cross pollination, kind like a sterile mule. If you don't like this practice, then I think what you are looking for is 'heritage' agriculture.
This also goes for meat. The chicken that you buy in store are usually CornishX and are not natural. I seriously doubt most people would want to eat a natural chicken; they don't have a lot of meat on them.
and pause slightly between each word? NECESITO UN pastilla de menta. USTED sabe donde puedo encontrar alguna?
You also get a bigger pay boost in 2006 vs 1970 for having a college education.
What biased sources should I be reading (googleing)?
OK, but not really worth $100 billion.