"Cupertino-based Apple now has about 25,000 employees in the Santa Clara Valley, but a series of long-term leases and building and land acquisitions over the past four years, including its new under-construction "spaceship" campus for as many as 13,000 workers, would allow the company to nearly double that workforce in the coming years." source.
Yes, Apple gets the majority of its revenues from outside the US, but still most design & software development is done in the US.
A service based economy cannot survive in the long run. You must create/produce something of value.
Fortunately, US manufacturing output is at an all-time high. The value added by U.S. factories is more than $2 trillion a year, equal to the next three countries (Japan, Germany and South Korea) combined.
Under the TPP, on beef products, Japan will eliminate duties on 74 percent of its tariff lines, while Vietnam will eliminate tariffs currently as high as 34 percent.
On machinery, which accounts for almost 6 percent of U.S. manufacturing output, Japan will immediately eliminate all tariffs, while Malaysia and New Zealand immediately eliminate about 94 percent of their tariffs.
About 15 percent of Vietnam's tariffs of 20 percent ad valorem or higher will be eliminated immediately (60 percent will be eliminated within 5 years), which will open that large market much further to U.S. (and other TPP) exporters.
Tariff reductions will occur in large and growing consumer markets, such as Japan and Vietnam, where barriers traditionally have impeded access of U.S. exporters.
Improvement in customs procedures under TPP should help smooth the process of customs clearance and reduce the costs of international trade, especially with respect to TPP members that do not currently employ modern customs procedures.
Express shippers (and the customers they serve) are likely to have more confidence in their ability to deliver goods on a âoejust in timeâ basis.
The development of highly functional and easy-to-use digital technology to expedite customs clearance within the TPP may provide a helpful template that could be adopted by other trading nations.
TPP also liberalizes cross border trade in services, financial services, telecommunications & e-commerce.
We aren't there with automation yet and it isn't yet their major enemy.
Then why is US manufacturing output at an all-time high despite having 7 million fewer manufacturing workers now than in 1979? (US manufacturing produces more than $1 trillion per year more than 1979...)
every 1st world country on the planet the general populace agrees and acknowledges the science that man-made climate change is real and happening.
Every 1st world country except the US agrees and acknowledges that socialism and high levels of labor and business regulation is the answer to their economy, ignoring economists. Andt then they have a 10% unemployment rate and zero GDP growth.
If only Apple made something to change the interface to television, oh I don't know, an Apple TV...
Stop complaining and start coding!
BTW Comcast X1 is gaining a lot of useful features, such as "Team Reminders" for sporting events, "People Also Watched", Custom Playlists for DVR, etc.
1) Musk is basically correct 2) Yet Musk should not be saying this himself. He needs to act very humble about the capability of the technology until it really is proven out and accepted, because people will smell a businessman wanting to make a profit at there expense.
"The overpotential (which might be lowered with the proper electrolyte, and by separating the hydrogen production to another catalyst) probably precludes economic viability for this catalyst, but the high selectivity for a 12-electron reaction suggests that nanostructured surfaces with multiple reactive sites in close proximity can yield novel reaction mechanisms."
From Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?, hours worked by Europeans and Americans were about the same in the 1960's, although the number of hours were dropping for all every year. In about 1980, the US and Europe diverged, with hours continuing to drop in Europe, but the US plateauing.
Two reasons have been explored. The first is due to tax differences, and indeed labor taxes have been rising in the EU since the end of the 1960's. The other is differences in labor regulations, such as the requirement for contracts, limitations in legal working hours (such as the 35 hour workweek established in 2000 in France).
I spent some time watching the coup in Turkey on Periscope. In one feed, a bunch of pro-government forces were outside of the army barracks in Ankara, they were moving in, and one guy got shot and had to be pulled to safety (not sure if he made it). In another feed, tanks were guarding the bridges over the Bosphorus Bridge, and a tank fired a round into a armored personnel carrier. Scary stuff!
The sad thing is, despite our bad full-time employement statistics, we're still doing better than most of the developed world with full-time and part-time employment figures.
This is important to remember. In terms of economic growth and unemployment, the US is doing better than almost any advanced economy. We could do better, but the examples of Europe show how it could be far worse. For example, Spain has a 45% youth unemployment rate (it was worse, 56%, before labor market reforms). US youth unemployment is 9.9%.
Could the US do better? Yes. First allow huge amounts of housing to be built in the most productive US cities (i.e. stop NIMBYism). Then start tackling reducing federal regulations (Jones Act, not allowing foreign airlines to serve domestic routes, allow oil exports, end ethanol mandate) but especially local regulations (2 years of study to get a hair braiding license, anti-Uber rules, make it easier to run a child care center).
"Revoicing" is becoming more popular for live TV captioning. Revoicers, also known as respeakers, repeat clearly what is being said during unscripted events using special software that's trained to recognise their voice. Their speech is then converted into text which appears on a caption unit, an LED or large screen. Revoicers also need to pare down (edit) the live dialogue or conversation, which means the text that appears isn't verbatim, although it will always give a good idea of what's being said.
Most of the TV video latency now is due to pixel processing (such as high-quality upscaling, motion interpolation, and other weird stuff).
Professional displays use 1:1 pixel scaling of the input to reduce latency. But that means you need an HD screen for an HD signal, a 4K screen for a 4K signal.
Based on this graph, your DSL local loop is likely about 2.5 km long.
First, congratulations, your local loop is much shorter than the average 4.25 km local loop in the US!
Now the bad news, it is unclear that any DSL over twisted pair is going to get faster over a 2.5km loop. Yes, VDSL or G.FAST would give you crazy speedups if your loop was 500m or shorter, but otherwise you are out of luck until they get that DSLAM closer to your house somehow.
I was just in Mountain View, and saw a Google car stopped at a traffic light. The light turned green, but a pedestrian jumped out in front of the car anyway. The Google car just sat there until the pedestrian left the crosswalk.
Perhaps something like the Ehang 184 all electric autonomous quadcopter scaled up from a drone so that it's large enough to carry a single passenger up to 10 miles or roughly 23 minutes of flight. I bet this meets the needs of many Uber trips!
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Motorola tried to make the highly customizable Moto X phone in the US, but failed.
"Cupertino-based Apple now has about 25,000 employees in the Santa Clara Valley, but a series of long-term leases and building and land acquisitions over the past four years, including its new under-construction "spaceship" campus for as many as 13,000 workers, would allow the company to nearly double that workforce in the coming years." source.
Yes, Apple gets the majority of its revenues from outside the US, but still most design & software development is done in the US.
A service based economy cannot survive in the long run. You must create/produce something of value.
Fortunately, US manufacturing output is at an all-time high. The value added by U.S. factories is more than $2 trillion a year, equal to the next three countries (Japan, Germany and South Korea) combined.
I ordered the poached whole frog once from the Chinese menu. I went back to sweet & sour chicken real fast!
Under the TPP, on beef products, Japan will eliminate duties on 74 percent of its tariff lines, while Vietnam will eliminate tariffs currently as high as 34 percent.
On machinery, which accounts for almost 6 percent of U.S. manufacturing output, Japan will immediately eliminate all tariffs, while Malaysia and New Zealand immediately eliminate about 94 percent of their tariffs.
About 15 percent of Vietnam's tariffs of 20 percent ad valorem or higher will be eliminated immediately (60 percent will be eliminated within 5 years), which will open that large market much further to U.S. (and other TPP) exporters.
Tariff reductions will occur in large and growing consumer markets, such as Japan and Vietnam, where barriers traditionally have impeded access of U.S. exporters.
Improvement in customs procedures under TPP should help smooth the process of customs clearance and reduce the costs of international trade, especially with respect to TPP members that do not currently employ modern customs procedures.
Express shippers (and the customers they serve) are likely to have more confidence in their ability to deliver goods on a âoejust in timeâ basis.
The development of highly functional and easy-to-use digital technology to expedite customs clearance within the TPP may provide a helpful template that could be adopted by other trading nations.
TPP also liberalizes cross border trade in services, financial services, telecommunications & e-commerce.
We aren't there with automation yet and it isn't yet their major enemy.
Then why is US manufacturing output at an all-time high despite having 7 million fewer manufacturing workers now than in 1979? (US manufacturing produces more than $1 trillion per year more than 1979...)
hat has more to do with the EU's current flirtation with "austerity" than with socialism.
Then why did France and Germany have an unemployment rate over 8% during most of the 1990's?
The US developers, though only a year or two out of college, easily outperform even the "mid-level" developers from India.
So why do you think this is? Are the Indian colleges not teaching well enough?
every 1st world country on the planet the general populace agrees and acknowledges the science that man-made climate change is real and happening.
Every 1st world country except the US agrees and acknowledges that socialism and high levels of labor and business regulation is the answer to their economy, ignoring economists. Andt then they have a 10% unemployment rate and zero GDP growth.
(i.e. crowds aren't always correct - but believe climate scientists, believe scientific economists).
, Microsoft is going to release an "offline Azure" for on premises use, that uses the same provisioning model, management interface, etc.
VMWare needs some competition to drive down prices...
If only Apple made something to change the interface to television, oh I don't know, an Apple TV...
Stop complaining and start coding!
BTW Comcast X1 is gaining a lot of useful features, such as "Team Reminders" for sporting events, "People Also Watched", Custom Playlists for DVR, etc.
1) Musk is basically correct
2) Yet Musk should not be saying this himself. He needs to act very humble about the capability of the technology until it really is proven out and accepted, because people will smell a businessman wanting to make a profit at there expense.
Key quote:
"The overpotential (which might be lowered with the proper electrolyte, and by separating the hydrogen production to another catalyst) probably precludes economic viability for this catalyst, but the high selectivity for a 12-electron reaction suggests that nanostructured surfaces with multiple reactive sites in close proximity can yield novel reaction mechanisms."
From Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?, hours worked by Europeans and Americans were about the same in the 1960's, although the number of hours were dropping for all every year. In about 1980, the US and Europe diverged, with hours continuing to drop in Europe, but the US plateauing.
Two reasons have been explored. The first is due to tax differences, and indeed labor taxes have been rising in the EU since the end of the 1960's. The other is differences in labor regulations, such as the requirement for contracts, limitations in legal working hours (such as the 35 hour workweek established in 2000 in France).
I spent some time watching the coup in Turkey on Periscope. In one feed, a bunch of pro-government forces were outside of the army barracks in Ankara, they were moving in, and one guy got shot and had to be pulled to safety (not sure if he made it). In another feed, tanks were guarding the bridges over the Bosphorus Bridge, and a tank fired a round into a armored personnel carrier. Scary stuff!
The sad thing is, despite our bad full-time employement statistics, we're still doing better than most of the developed world with full-time and part-time employment figures.
This is important to remember. In terms of economic growth and unemployment, the US is doing better than almost any advanced economy. We could do better, but the examples of Europe show how it could be far worse. For example, Spain has a 45% youth unemployment rate (it was worse, 56%, before labor market reforms). US youth unemployment is 9.9%.
Could the US do better? Yes. First allow huge amounts of housing to be built in the most productive US cities (i.e. stop NIMBYism). Then start tackling reducing federal regulations (Jones Act, not allowing foreign airlines to serve domestic routes, allow oil exports, end ethanol mandate) but especially local regulations (2 years of study to get a hair braiding license, anti-Uber rules, make it easier to run a child care center).
"Revoicing" is becoming more popular for live TV captioning. Revoicers, also known as respeakers, repeat clearly what is being said during unscripted events using special software that's trained to recognise their voice. Their speech is then converted into text which appears on a caption unit, an LED or large screen. Revoicers also need to pare down (edit) the live dialogue or conversation, which means the text that appears isn't verbatim, although it will always give a good idea of what's being said.
Most of the TV video latency now is due to pixel processing (such as high-quality upscaling, motion interpolation, and other weird stuff).
Professional displays use 1:1 pixel scaling of the input to reduce latency. But that means you need an HD screen for an HD signal, a 4K screen for a 4K signal.
There are other risks as well, such as Android's default Web browser lets attackers spoof the URL shown in the address bar, allowing for more credible phishing attacks.
Based on this graph, your DSL local loop is likely about 2.5 km long.
First, congratulations, your local loop is much shorter than the average 4.25 km local loop in the US!
Now the bad news, it is unclear that any DSL over twisted pair is going to get faster over a 2.5km loop. Yes, VDSL or G.FAST would give you crazy speedups if your loop was 500m or shorter, but otherwise you are out of luck until they get that DSLAM closer to your house somehow.
I was just in Mountain View, and saw a Google car stopped at a traffic light. The light turned green, but a pedestrian jumped out in front of the car anyway. The Google car just sat there until the pedestrian left the crosswalk.
For the Commodore PET:
POKE 59467,16 (turn on port for sound output use 0 to turn it off*)
POKE 59466,octave (octave number, see below)
POKE 59464,frequency (0 for no sound)
using a switch to connect the workstations instead of a hub.
Can you even buy a hub these days?
You can get a 5 port 100 Mbps Ethernet switch for $15...
Perhaps something like the Ehang 184 all electric autonomous quadcopter scaled up from a drone so that it's large enough to carry a single passenger up to 10 miles or roughly 23 minutes of flight. I bet this meets the needs of many Uber trips!
HDR isn't standardized
Please see ITU-R Rec. BT.2100 "Image parameter values for high dynamic range television for use in production and international programme exchange".