Would you have any problem with Iran joining the European Organization for Nuclear Research? Maybe you wouldn't, but I guarantee Israel would. And I'm not claiming Israel = Iran, just that many would argue a line must be drawn somewhere.
Government takes the risk out of investment, but it does so by socializing the cost of that investment. A company can still operate by buying appropriate level of insurance..
Normally it isn't government that bears the cost of limited liability (bankruptcy), but shareholders and creditors. The cost of credit reflects the risk of default, which amounts to the same thing as the insurance policy you suggested. But again, since those other parties are bearing the risk, they should not extend such large rewards to CxO's who aren't really bearing much at all.
2.) Speedup from vectorizing to use processor AVX extensions: This could be another 4x.
OK, that makes sense (although I would hope vector instructions could normally be tapped by optimizing libraries instead exposing the vector api to the programmer).
Only if the CPU can run 2 threads each as fast as it could run 1. I've never heard of such a thing. (Hyperthreading certainly doesn't come close.)
If there were such a beast, it would be marketed as a 16 core chip.
Since the cores are also running the OS, Browser and goodness knows what else 15 X could be possible with more cores.
If you have a multi-core machine, you don't need multithreaded javascript to run javascript on one core and other things on other cores.
I don't know why more people aren't pointing that out, and even moreso in the recent DNA studies giving evidence that humans and neanderthals "cross-bred." Personally I think this is largely just wordplay. If they just said, "new findings indicate human ancestors may have been more genetically diverse than previously thought (but of course, almost none of you know what was previously thought in the first place)," then nobody would care. But put it this way, and it people get all excited because it smacks of beastiality.
There shouldn't be such a thing as government provided limited liability to corporations.
Without limited liability, only people who were already incredibly rich could hold power in companies, because only they could pay for the consequences of bad decisions impacting thousands of people from their own pockets.
The only rational solution is that decision-makers are not fully personally liable for their decisions - but then, that has to go for the good decisions as well as the bad! in other words, just because you saved the company a billion dollars doesn't mean you, personally, deserve half. Currently we have a situation where the gamblers can pocket billions personally when they win, but when they lose, they just say "oops" and try again.
True, if people were truly capable of rationality and free of hindsight bias. But they aren't.
If the suit is justified, then it was equally justified *before* the quake. The information was just as "imprecise" and "contradictory" then as now. Yet there was apparently no firing or disciplinary action, let alone a lawsuit. That proves this is a witch hunt.
Ha ha, a 15x speedup by going from 1 to 8 cores? No. It's hard to invent a situation in which you would get a genuine 8x speedup, let alone somehow making each core almost twice as fast.
I disagree, everything you said makes me think we should be hard on Netflix, and cancel in droves, to send the message to the IP holders that the market will not bear the price they hoped. They are going to keep raising rates until they find the ceiling, so the sooner that happens, the better.
Also, $60/mo for cable for $8/mo for netflix is misleading, since you have to buy the Internet connection (from the cable company, in my case) to have netflix in the first place. Netflix streaming is more comparable to adding HBO to your cable plan.
But I wonder netflix may be trying to phase out their DVD service. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like an increasing percentage of movies are just sitting in my "Saved" pile - no DVD and no streaming. And "unlimited" DVDs, which in practice means two per week tops, per slot, will only get slower as the US Postal Service goes downhill, closing distribution points and perhaps saturday service.
If a device's appetite for power falls below what can be gathered passively from the environment, then it doesn't need a battery or power cord, and can run practically forever, which is a big impact.
The robots will go away once it becomes cheaper to hire humans than it is to make and power robots. It's really that simple.
In that case, we humans are doomed, because a human is far more energy-intensive than a robot. A human needs a stable temperature all the time, goes to and from work every day in a heavy metal box, consumes food that requires a vast amount of oil to fertilize and transport, and on and on. Worst of all it needs all this all the time, you can't turn it off even when it's not producing anything useful!
I would like to hear more about why they are stupid. So far all I hear is "ugga, 140,000, big numbers bad!" But, decisions are driven by information. Doesn't somebody just enter some search terms and pick a few of the more appropriate hits, or is it more obnoxious than that? For somebody developing software such as yourself, isn't it just a matter of copying over the new codes file? Probably not, but I'd like it explained by somebody with more than a knee-jerk reaction.
Analog-only radios are awfully limited though. Can they even send text-messages to each other? It could certainly be useful for them to be able to send text, photos, or see a map with everybody's location on it, for example. I don't know if they'll be getting, but it should be, the DoD has paid companies lots of money to work all this out over the years.
Just like drag racers - exactly how practical are they to get to and from work?
It's not even that, since the record is not for processing speed - just clock speed! One hopes they at least ran some benchmarks, but the article doesn't say anything about it. So, this is more like "highest RPM for an internal combustion engine" or something like that. (Which, not coincidentally, is most easily done on a small-displacement engine with little torque).
I don't really want fraud to go unpunished. What I want is for greedy, selfish parties to start acknowledging and supporting the system that allows them to thrive.
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) has cut its income taxes by $7 billion since 2005 by booking roughly half its worldwide profits at a subsidiary at the foot of the Swiss Alps that employs about 100 peopleâ¦
Ciscoâ(TM)s techniques cut the effective tax rate on its reported international income to about 5 percent since 2008 by moving profits from roughly $20 billion in annual global sales through the Netherlands, Switzerland and Bermuda, according to its records in four countries. (cite).
If Cisco wants to book their profits in Bermuda (to circumvent supporting the US justice system, among other things) then they should file their complaints against counterfeiters in Bermuda as well. I'm sick of these freeloaders. There's no legal team at the DOJ spending millions to defend my rights, that I can tell.
some parts of the country have seen almost yearly rate increases, so cutting your energy usage by 30% doesn't help much when they raise rates 30%
Sure it helps - it prevents your costs from rising 30%.
OK, you used to drive a big gas-guzzling Buick for the same price it now costs to fuel a Corolla? That was then, this is now. The world population hasn't stopped growing, and we're still relying on non-renewable energy sources. Your slice of the pie is bound to shrink.
[The stock market] allows people like you and me to participate in economic growth.
Not really. People get a few tens of thousands in their 401k and suddenly start thinking that taxing capital gains at a lower rate than work income is in their best interest. The reality is that a lot of people own a little stock, and a few people own most of it. The percentage of people owning stock (mostly through retirement accounts) and worker productivity have been rising rapidly for decades, while median income steadily falls even as income at the top skyrockets. So how can we say that the stock market allows average people to participate in economic growth?
I'm about to sell my used car to a dealer for 2/3s of what he will sell it for - the bid-ask gap is huge - I could really use some market makers here!
You mean craigslist?
The most amazing inefficiency I see is real estate agents. They take 6% of your house to do very little of value. The MLS alone is so ripe to be overturned by a website, I can't believe it has lasted this long.
RoboCup (which is football - or soccer to us Americans) is the original RoboBowl. From my involvement in RoboCup as a grad student, I think it's fantastic. To spur innovation, you need competition and information-sharing. Normally, academia has information-sharing but no objective criteria for competition, while industry has competition but too little information sharing. RoboCup has both. I am certain a recent team would destroy those of just a few years ago, which is what it's all about.
Has anybody tried just building the stations on hills? (I.e. putting the platforms at less depth than the rest of the tunnel?) Then the trains are slowed coasting uphill into the station, and pick up speed going downhill out of the station.
I guess you could even have the trains pull onto a teeter-totter tilted up as they arrive and down as they leave, by a piston, so they wouldn't have to go a train length on level ground before being accelerated by the downhill.
Similarly, I mainly use mine to timeshift netflix DVD's.
Even if you are extremely efficient in turning them around the day after you receive them, "unlimited videos 1-at-a-time" actually means "2 videos per week." Keep each one at home for a couple days on average, you're down to 1 per week.
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Would you have any problem with Iran joining the European Organization for Nuclear Research? Maybe you wouldn't, but I guarantee Israel would. And I'm not claiming Israel = Iran, just that many would argue a line must be drawn somewhere.
Normally it isn't government that bears the cost of limited liability (bankruptcy), but shareholders and creditors. The cost of credit reflects the risk of default, which amounts to the same thing as the insurance policy you suggested. But again, since those other parties are bearing the risk, they should not extend such large rewards to CxO's who aren't really bearing much at all.
OK, that makes sense (although I would hope vector instructions could normally be tapped by optimizing libraries instead exposing the vector api to the programmer).
You win "IMHO the best answer to my question."
Only if the CPU can run 2 threads each as fast as it could run 1. I've never heard of such a thing. (Hyperthreading certainly doesn't come close.) If there were such a beast, it would be marketed as a 16 core chip.
If you have a multi-core machine, you don't need multithreaded javascript to run javascript on one core and other things on other cores.
I don't know why more people aren't pointing that out, and even moreso in the recent DNA studies giving evidence that humans and neanderthals "cross-bred." Personally I think this is largely just wordplay. If they just said, "new findings indicate human ancestors may have been more genetically diverse than previously thought (but of course, almost none of you know what was previously thought in the first place)," then nobody would care. But put it this way, and it people get all excited because it smacks of beastiality.
Without limited liability, only people who were already incredibly rich could hold power in companies, because only they could pay for the consequences of bad decisions impacting thousands of people from their own pockets.
The only rational solution is that decision-makers are not fully personally liable for their decisions - but then, that has to go for the good decisions as well as the bad! in other words, just because you saved the company a billion dollars doesn't mean you, personally, deserve half. Currently we have a situation where the gamblers can pocket billions personally when they win, but when they lose, they just say "oops" and try again.
If the suit is justified, then it was equally justified *before* the quake. The information was just as "imprecise" and "contradictory" then as now. Yet there was apparently no firing or disciplinary action, let alone a lawsuit. That proves this is a witch hunt.
Ha ha, a 15x speedup by going from 1 to 8 cores? No. It's hard to invent a situation in which you would get a genuine 8x speedup, let alone somehow making each core almost twice as fast.
I haven't noticed Blockbuster being a menu option in my Sony TV. I wonder if they will add it?
Also, $60/mo for cable for $8/mo for netflix is misleading, since you have to buy the Internet connection (from the cable company, in my case) to have netflix in the first place. Netflix streaming is more comparable to adding HBO to your cable plan.
But I wonder netflix may be trying to phase out their DVD service. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like an increasing percentage of movies are just sitting in my "Saved" pile - no DVD and no streaming. And "unlimited" DVDs, which in practice means two per week tops, per slot, will only get slower as the US Postal Service goes downhill, closing distribution points and perhaps saturday service.
If a device's appetite for power falls below what can be gathered passively from the environment, then it doesn't need a battery or power cord, and can run practically forever, which is a big impact.
You can get fired just for having a close call.
In that case, we humans are doomed, because a human is far more energy-intensive than a robot. A human needs a stable temperature all the time, goes to and from work every day in a heavy metal box, consumes food that requires a vast amount of oil to fertilize and transport, and on and on. Worst of all it needs all this all the time, you can't turn it off even when it's not producing anything useful!
I would like to hear more about why they are stupid. So far all I hear is "ugga, 140,000, big numbers bad!" But, decisions are driven by information. Doesn't somebody just enter some search terms and pick a few of the more appropriate hits, or is it more obnoxious than that? For somebody developing software such as yourself, isn't it just a matter of copying over the new codes file? Probably not, but I'd like it explained by somebody with more than a knee-jerk reaction.
Analog-only radios are awfully limited though. Can they even send text-messages to each other? It could certainly be useful for them to be able to send text, photos, or see a map with everybody's location on it, for example. I don't know if they'll be getting, but it should be, the DoD has paid companies lots of money to work all this out over the years.
It's not even that, since the record is not for processing speed - just clock speed! One hopes they at least ran some benchmarks, but the article doesn't say anything about it. So, this is more like "highest RPM for an internal combustion engine" or something like that. (Which, not coincidentally, is most easily done on a small-displacement engine with little torque).
I don't really want fraud to go unpunished. What I want is for greedy, selfish parties to start acknowledging and supporting the system that allows them to thrive.
If Cisco wants to book their profits in Bermuda (to circumvent supporting the US justice system, among other things) then they should file their complaints against counterfeiters in Bermuda as well. I'm sick of these freeloaders. There's no legal team at the DOJ spending millions to defend my rights, that I can tell.
Sure it helps - it prevents your costs from rising 30%.
OK, you used to drive a big gas-guzzling Buick for the same price it now costs to fuel a Corolla? That was then, this is now. The world population hasn't stopped growing, and we're still relying on non-renewable energy sources. Your slice of the pie is bound to shrink.
Not really. People get a few tens of thousands in their 401k and suddenly start thinking that taxing capital gains at a lower rate than work income is in their best interest. The reality is that a lot of people own a little stock, and a few people own most of it. The percentage of people owning stock (mostly through retirement accounts) and worker productivity have been rising rapidly for decades, while median income steadily falls even as income at the top skyrockets. So how can we say that the stock market allows average people to participate in economic growth?
You mean craigslist?
The most amazing inefficiency I see is real estate agents. They take 6% of your house to do very little of value. The MLS alone is so ripe to be overturned by a website, I can't believe it has lasted this long.
RoboCup (which is football - or soccer to us Americans) is the original RoboBowl. From my involvement in RoboCup as a grad student, I think it's fantastic. To spur innovation, you need competition and information-sharing. Normally, academia has information-sharing but no objective criteria for competition, while industry has competition but too little information sharing. RoboCup has both. I am certain a recent team would destroy those of just a few years ago, which is what it's all about.
I guess you could even have the trains pull onto a teeter-totter tilted up as they arrive and down as they leave, by a piston, so they wouldn't have to go a train length on level ground before being accelerated by the downhill.
Even if you are extremely efficient in turning them around the day after you receive them, "unlimited videos 1-at-a-time" actually means "2 videos per week." Keep each one at home for a couple days on average, you're down to 1 per week.