So it would be okay to steal a bunch of Chinese business assets, I'm thinking of chip designs from FoxConn, motherboard designs from Lenovo, military rocket designs, etc. And sell them all to businesses in Taiwan where they can profit with no research effort at all? How about if I found a way to steal the Olympic Ice Skating and Gymnastics routines from China and then performed them a week before the Games? Would that be how the Chinese culture works?
Stealing is not culture. It is the opposite of culture.
I'm not saying this was a great idea or that the execution was ideal but there is precedent. IBM long known as a hardware company shifted to software and services in a fairly short period of time and seems to be doing quite well at it. If this new CEO has a vision and a strategy behind it HP could end up better off.
I was personally looking forward to more WebOS devices though.
Agreed about having enough people. I budget head count based on a 30 hour work week, to cover PTO, company events and time to work on internal projects. Keeps stress down and improves morale at the dame time.
You must not have a savvy manager. The key is to incorporate refactoring into projects with high value to the business. "Oh you want a mobile solution? We'll have to upgrade the app server to support mobile devices. Yes that will mean reworking some of the existing code. Okay? Good I'll have estimates Tues. morning;)"
You have to start sometime. If you wait until profits cushion the risk it's likely you will have missed the wave and by the time you have a product ready it's too late. Really you should invest in infrastructure for R&D in good times and then keep doing R&D at a steady pace regardless of economic climate.
push and pop are my fav tricks to show fellows. They will just happily go about up and down the tree to get to the same places never realizing they can bookmark a location and pop back when done with something else.
Uh why only billionaires? The US has over a million millionaires. These aren't all retired living off savings. There are thousands if not tens of thousands of capable travelers in the US. OTOH I'm sure there are at least an ewual amount abroad - so the market is really substantial. It's at least as viable as 5 diamond hotels and private luxury aircraft and seacraft.
If by explore you mean that we've done the equivalent of exploring New York city by walking around LaGuardia airport. I guess the assumption is that Mars is pretty much the same terrain all over (excepting Olympus of course). I suspect this is not even close to true. Either way we aren't even close to the tech needed to send a human team to Mars (and back?).
I haven't done any of the things you mention by choice in over 4 years. The only time I print is when it is requested. I have printers at work of course and a multi function at home that gets used primarily to print out coloring pages for my kids ( one use I agree with).
Yes and web apps serve ads and keep people on the web where they see ads. That is how Chrome eg the promotion of web standards, etc makes Google money.
There are lots of good reasons but you don't have to agree with them as is your right. Personally I'm just fine using a photo ID to travel via commercial air transport, rent a car and hotel at will, qualify for credit lines as needed so as not to expose my own wealth to scanners and frauds - at home or abroad.
If the ONLY content on a particular website is copyrighted works being given away (distributed) without license and you can prove that the website/domain name will never ever ever be used for anything else, then you can claim that blocking said website/domain is not equal to censorship. Otherwise you should send the owner notice of violation and take them to court.
If they make any claims of websites being illegal vs. some content being in violation of copyright law they are enacting unlawful censorship. It will be thrown out by the judiciary so fast we'll forget it was ever a problem.
You don't get to pick where you get deployed. People join the military for all kinds of reasons. Only the very top career military professionals have any input on what how or why. Even then it is our President and/or Congress who make these decisions.
I am absolutely certain that there is someone somewhere who is suffering as a result of you doing your job as requested by your employer. If you are self employed then it's probably you suffering. It may not be taking lives directly but there is always a "have not" to balance your "have".
If he mows every week he could be mulching and leaving the clippings. One week grass growth us pretty minimal no matter where you live - maybe an inch or two.
To be fair, there wasn't a real clear upgrade path from the previous generation of timeshare pcs. All the innovation happened on the workstation OS model and thin client tech languished for decades.
How does it pay for itself? Business model? Ads are a proven revenue stream for search. Do you have an alternate?
Nobody will license the tech, Lucerne, etc already give you local site search.
You could do a paywall. Could work but wouldn't compete with Google directly, "free" would still dominate the public space. Otoh you could be sustaining if storage and hardware are cheap, scale somewhat with traffic and of course bandwidth and power use would scale just fine (as long as results don't need to be too current).
I'm not saying he's blowing smoke, just hot air. The author is analyzing a real problem we face today in a future tense. It's all buggy whips to me. I'm sure there were 19th century public commentaries on the same subject but in terms of horses, cobblestones, whale fat and arable landmass (always a favorite). Yes, yes he's got charts and graphs showing how our economy can't keep growing and how we'll all die of heat saturation or some such.
100 years from now hopefully we'll move on from the short lived stock markets, banks and other parasites on the exchange of goods and services. Then all this economy talk will be nothing more than buggy whip mania. None of these so called institutions are necessary anymore, we just don't realize it yet. We have real time communications worldwide! Why do we need centralized clearing house to capitalize projects? There all just middlemen to get interested parties together and are being automated more and more. We should just cut the middle men out and let the infrastructure do the work.
Likewise with energy. There is mention of solar panels being 85% heat engine because it's only 15% efficient. I though the other 85% was solar radiation bound to heat up the earth anyways. Renewables don't just mean free delivery, it means that the east energy is already a part of the system. Any harnessing if this energy is actually a temporary reduction (eventually it gets returned via entropy but with a slight delay) as water in a river ultimately returns to the oceans. 100-200 years from now we will be putting a lot of energy OFF the planet. Whether it is more satellites, space exploration, asteroid mining or fueling colonies. More buggy whips. When we are draining energy off planet the current concerns with heat engines, global warming, etc will be a distant memory, like the problem of how to keep the streets clean of horse manure is today.
I think the author is a skilled writer and agree that there is a need to solve these problems today but I find his notions that today's problems will be relevant in the future, to be quaint and somewhat shortsighted and naive. It is not easy to see the future when the present is blocking the view.
Or we could employ them? Our ethics clash with the idea but we would be better off training and employing the immigrant population, we just don't want the mess of shanty towns to house them all effectively. Stop with the welfare and put them to work. I feel guru just writing that down but it's completely logical. We already outsource, which is equivalent except we also outsource the political problems of having a labor class in our first world nation, which leaves us with little industry and no low level management jobs for our indigenous poor.
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So it would be okay to steal a bunch of Chinese business assets, I'm thinking of chip designs from FoxConn, motherboard designs from Lenovo, military rocket designs, etc. And sell them all to businesses in Taiwan where they can profit with no research effort at all? How about if I found a way to steal the Olympic Ice Skating and Gymnastics routines from China and then performed them a week before the Games? Would that be how the Chinese culture works?
Stealing is not culture. It is the opposite of culture.
I'm not saying this was a great idea or that the execution was ideal but there is precedent. IBM long known as a hardware company shifted to software and services in a fairly short period of time and seems to be doing quite well at it. If this new CEO has a vision and a strategy behind it HP could end up better off.
I was personally looking forward to more WebOS devices though.
How is Google open? They are very public about things, beta this alpha that but much of Googles software is closed.
You're thinking of stacking the deck, Casinos have been stacking the deck for many decades.
How many over 40s can afford an iPad? All of them. How many of the ultra book persuasion can afford them, very few. Done and done.
Agreed about having enough people. I budget head count based on a 30 hour work week, to cover PTO, company events and time to work on internal projects. Keeps stress down and improves morale at the dame time.
You must not have a savvy manager. The key is to incorporate refactoring into projects with high value to the business. "Oh you want a mobile solution? We'll have to upgrade the app server to support mobile devices. Yes that will mean reworking some of the existing code. Okay? Good I'll have estimates Tues. morning ;)"
You have to start sometime. If you wait until profits cushion the risk it's likely you will have missed the wave and by the time you have a product ready it's too late. Really you should invest in infrastructure for R&D in good times and then keep doing R&D at a steady pace regardless of economic climate.
push and pop are my fav tricks to show fellows. They will just happily go about up and down the tree to get to the same places never realizing they can bookmark a location and pop back when done with something else.
Um modular unit tested code is always in fashion. Paste can be your friend.
Uh why only billionaires? The US has over a million millionaires. These aren't all retired living off savings. There are thousands if not tens of thousands of capable travelers in the US. OTOH I'm sure there are at least an ewual amount abroad - so the market is really substantial. It's at least as viable as 5 diamond hotels and private luxury aircraft and seacraft.
Real dogs are 10x more agile than humans 4 legs and all. Still they can't open doors or clean a counter.
If by explore you mean that we've done the equivalent of exploring New York city by walking around LaGuardia airport. I guess the assumption is that Mars is pretty much the same terrain all over (excepting Olympus of course). I suspect this is not even close to true. Either way we aren't even close to the tech needed to send a human team to Mars (and back?).
I haven't done any of the things you mention by choice in over 4 years. The only time I print is when it is requested. I have printers at work of course and a multi function at home that gets used primarily to print out coloring pages for my kids ( one use I agree with).
Yes and web apps serve ads and keep people on the web where they see ads. That is how Chrome eg the promotion of web standards, etc makes Google money.
There are lots of good reasons but you don't have to agree with them as is your right. Personally I'm just fine using a photo ID to travel via commercial air transport, rent a car and hotel at will, qualify for credit lines as needed so as not to expose my own wealth to scanners and frauds - at home or abroad.
If the ONLY content on a particular website is copyrighted works being given away (distributed) without license and you can prove that the website/domain name will never ever ever be used for anything else, then you can claim that blocking said website/domain is not equal to censorship. Otherwise you should send the owner notice of violation and take them to court.
If they make any claims of websites being illegal vs. some content being in violation of copyright law they are enacting unlawful censorship. It will be thrown out by the judiciary so fast we'll forget it was ever a problem.
You don't get to pick where you get deployed. People join the military for all kinds of reasons. Only the very top career military professionals have any input on what how or why. Even then it is our President and/or Congress who make these decisions.
I am absolutely certain that there is someone somewhere who is suffering as a result of you doing your job as requested by your employer. If you are self employed then it's probably you suffering. It may not be taking lives directly but there is always a "have not" to balance your "have".
If he mows every week he could be mulching and leaving the clippings. One week grass growth us pretty minimal no matter where you live - maybe an inch or two.
To be fair, there wasn't a real clear upgrade path from the previous generation of timeshare pcs. All the innovation happened on the workstation OS model and thin client tech languished for decades.
How does it pay for itself? Business model? Ads are a proven revenue stream for search. Do you have an alternate?
Nobody will license the tech, Lucerne, etc already give you local site search.
You could do a paywall. Could work but wouldn't compete with Google directly, "free" would still dominate the public space. Otoh you could be sustaining if storage and hardware are cheap, scale somewhat with traffic and of course bandwidth and power use would scale just fine (as long as results don't need to be too current).
I'm not saying he's blowing smoke, just hot air. The author is analyzing a real problem we face today in a future tense. It's all buggy whips to me. I'm sure there were 19th century public commentaries on the same subject but in terms of horses, cobblestones, whale fat and arable landmass (always a favorite). Yes, yes he's got charts and graphs showing how our economy can't keep growing and how we'll all die of heat saturation or some such.
100 years from now hopefully we'll move on from the short lived stock markets, banks and other parasites on the exchange of goods and services. Then all this economy talk will be nothing more than buggy whip mania. None of these so called institutions are necessary anymore, we just don't realize it yet. We have real time communications worldwide! Why do we need centralized clearing house to capitalize projects? There all just middlemen to get interested parties together and are being automated more and more. We should just cut the middle men out and let the infrastructure do the work.
Likewise with energy. There is mention of solar panels being 85% heat engine because it's only 15% efficient. I though the other 85% was solar radiation bound to heat up the earth anyways. Renewables don't just mean free delivery, it means that the east energy is already a part of the system. Any harnessing if this energy is actually a temporary reduction (eventually it gets returned via entropy but with a slight delay) as water in a river ultimately returns to the oceans. 100-200 years from now we will be putting a lot of energy OFF the planet. Whether it is more satellites, space exploration, asteroid mining or fueling colonies. More buggy whips. When we are draining energy off planet the current concerns with heat engines, global warming, etc will be a distant memory, like the problem of how to keep the streets clean of horse manure is today.
I think the author is a skilled writer and agree that there is a need to solve these problems today but I find his notions that today's problems will be relevant in the future, to be quaint and somewhat shortsighted and naive. It is not easy to see the future when the present is blocking the view.
Meant to say "guilty just writing that down".
Or we could employ them? Our ethics clash with the idea but we would be better off training and employing the immigrant population, we just don't want the mess of shanty towns to house them all effectively. Stop with the welfare and put them to work. I feel guru just writing that down but it's completely logical. We already outsource, which is equivalent except we also outsource the political problems of having a labor class in our first world nation, which leaves us with little industry and no low level management jobs for our indigenous poor.