So you are advocating unregulated, free-for-all nuclear power? Ha ha, great idea. No doubt the free market will find a nice cheap place to put the nuclear waste, too.
I don't blame the UI at all. I bleme the belief that the goal of an UI is to lower the required understanding (and thus salary) of the operators.
I think you got it backwards. They didn't want to withold information from humans or remove control from them, so they didn't automate enough and the humans in the loop got swamped with more than they could handle.
Also weak considering the alternative is routing our energy supply through the Persian Gulf. What, how many wars has that already caused? I've lost count. Our own coasts would be relatively trivial to defend.
I had a friend buy their stock in '01 expecting '00 prices to come back.
It is interesting that the Internet didn't turn out to be all that great for Sun in the long run. You would think it would have exploded the market for midrange servers.
this current government seems to have gone off the deep end, insanely grabbing power, and then not knowing what to do with it once they have it.
How so? Attaching some strings to the tax money they pump into failed businesses? We certainly seem headed for a bad economy, but allowing it to implode unimpeded may well have been even worse. There are no good options.
As for the new cyber-security initiative being flawed, compared to what? The baseline is: nothing. Assuming the govt. will fail at policing the networks of critical infrastructure is like assuming the govt. will fail at policing the streets, which is manifestly false. Our police and courts aren't perfect, but they're a far sight better than anarchy, and all-in-all well worth the taxes that support them. Certifying cybersecurity professionals may not be a 100% guarantee, but again, the baseline is no certification. I'm glad dentists and doctors have to be certified, even though malpractice isn't fully eliminated.
the US still produces 17% of the worlds global value-added factory output. For a country that has less than 5% of the world's population, that's not bad
What if foreign investors reduce their holdings of US dollars by 50% over the next 10 years? What if we have to cut oil consumption by 50% over the next 10 years? We have a diverse economy and not everything will drop by 50%, but those things could. I think our ability to afford imported stuff - and that includes everything at WalMart, not to mention gasoline - is about to go down, permanently.
Most knowledgeable observers knew the day was coming soon, but now the researchers at Global Insight say that the US will lose its position as the world's largest manufacturer to China in 2009 - some four years earlier than the firm had predicted previously.
In research done for the Financial Times, Global Insight now says that the US will retain the position it has held for more than 100 years in 2008, but that the combination of China's continued growth and the slowing US economy will create a shift in rankings the following year.
For 2008, Global Insight says the US will produce 16.9% of global value-added factory output, with China at 15%. In 2009, however, China's global share should rise to 17%, with the US having a 16% share.
The numbers do not reflect absolute levels of manufacturing output, but rather relative ones. So, the US has been losing global manufacturing market share even as its own factory volumes rise, but not nearly as quickly as China's growth.
To show how fast the situation is changing, in 2007 the US had a 20% share of global manufacturing to just 13.2% for China. China will have closed that 7% gap in just two years.
Just last year, Global Insight economists had predicted that the US would retain the top position until 2013, but a large downward revision in likely output this year and next is expected to cause the US to slip more quickly than had been expected. A faster than expected economic recovery - or a slow down in the Chinese economy - could enable the US to keep the crown for another year or two.
But fundamentals, including population size differences, the continuing shift of the US to a more services-based economy, and continued migration generally of manufacturing to lower cost countries, means the change was inevitable at some point. Manufacturing represented 37.1% of Chinese Gross Domestic Product in 2007, for example, versus just 13.4% for the US.
Also storage on the cloud? are companies really that stupid? Clouds can be seen by everyone there won't be any truly secure cloud storage.
Companies have their own little internal "clouds." I don't know or care where the fileservers I use physically reside, when a hard drive breaks, or when they replace a server. It's just there.
And how can you say all data retention methods failed in a blackout? No data was lost.
Ask my parents who wanted to retire up to last August and others near their age about the last 15 years, what the majority have thought about their "investments."
A lot of this disillusionment is because people assumed for so long they could get rich by doing nothing. If people compared the present value of their 401k's to what they have put in, rather than to their notional value at the height of the bubble, they wouldn't feel quite so bad.
Those of us who are younger and in the market for only the last 10 years or so really have lost a lot percentagewise, but we have lots of time to wait, and the total amount we've invested so far is much smaller.
Not just that; I'm talking about business as usual - the billions they "earn" every year by gambling, then come to the taxpayer to cover their losses when they lose. I.e. the current economic crisis in general, the S&L bailout of the early 90's, and so on.
Good one. But between Germany and the US, where is social darwinism stronger now? We can't even take money back from bankers who steal it from us - we're too afraid society will collapse without them.
The megapixel market isn't running to a close at all.... The real "megapixel war" end is around 22 megapixels
Then it is basically over. That's not even one more doubling of the number of pixels. Digital cameras started to catch on about 1 megapixel. From 1 to 16 MP was 4 doublings; from 16, 22 isn't even 1 more.
Yeah, I think almost all engineers, myself included, file communications from HR straight into the trash.
Where I work a researcher made an app superficially similar to this one years ago, although it was intended more to identify collaborators rather than for performance evaluations. Mapping or clustering email traffic wasn't terribly interesting, more interesting was clustering people on the basis of documents they'd written using LSA. Anyways, I'm not too worried about this software becoming a runaway success and displacing subjective evaluation in corporations any time soon. Most people-people like managers and HR have little interest in analytics like this.
You know what? There are a lot of people who think they've done some great thing and the company is eternally indebted to them regardless of all their failings. "Oh, I don't need to put in the hours because I'm the idea guy." We all want to be that guy whose brilliance allows him to do whatever he wants. But if you think you're that guy, I can almost guarantee most of your co-workers disagree, and they're probably right.
OK, sometimes. But it's fair to ask, if you owned a sizeable business, what process would you use to identify these "facilitators" vs. deadwood? None of us wants to be miscategorized as a slacker, but the fact is, some people just are. And most of them probably think they are facilitators.
I think your comment is more insightful than funny. The question is, can an unregulated blackmarket grow and thrive without law - no contract enforcement, courts, or police?
Some would point to the large sums of cash in the illicit drug trade as evidence that it can, but I point to the stratospheric markup on illicit drugs as evidence that the market is horribly inefficient. The markups show there's a shortage of suppliers - due in part to law enforcement, I'm sure, but being in the drug trade also means running the risk of being gunned down (or worse) by competitors. Personally I prefer a bit more regulation in my markets than that.
It's cool, but I highly doubt it will convince many people to really learn the guitar.
A lot of people already do want to learn to play the guitar. There are zillions of instructional videos, books, and (obviously) guitars sold every year. The market is there.
Guitar Hero is a game. You can pretend to be Slash or Jimmy Page with minimal effort. That's why people play it.
Some people have put far more than minimal effort into guitar hero. Whenever I see these, I think it's a shame all that practice couldn't be channeled into actually learning an instrument, while having just as much fun and competing with your friends. I'm not predicting success for this product in particular, but the general idea right on IMHO.
The main difference is a good SSD is much, much faster than any hard drive. If discussions about the topic don't give that impression, it's only because people fixate on sustained transfer - where there is still some competition between slower SSDs and hard drives - rather than seek time, which is often more important, and where SSDs blow the doors off hard drives. To me, suddenly widening the biggest bottleneck in PC performance for the first time in a couple decades is pretty exciting.
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Coincidentally, a billion dollars is almost exactly the value of the oil burned by the US every single day, at $50/barrel.
So you are advocating unregulated, free-for-all nuclear power? Ha ha, great idea. No doubt the free market will find a nice cheap place to put the nuclear waste, too.
I think you got it backwards. They didn't want to withold information from humans or remove control from them, so they didn't automate enough and the humans in the loop got swamped with more than they could handle.
Also weak considering the alternative is routing our energy supply through the Persian Gulf. What, how many wars has that already caused? I've lost count. Our own coasts would be relatively trivial to defend.
They are adding another route to the Internet on top of whatever exists today. How exactly does that create a monopoly?
It is interesting that the Internet didn't turn out to be all that great for Sun in the long run. You would think it would have exploded the market for midrange servers.
I guess this is the real test of whether they truly believe each infringement costs them $25K or whatever crazy price they made up.
Then keep it a trade secret instead of patenting. Your call.
How so? Attaching some strings to the tax money they pump into failed businesses? We certainly seem headed for a bad economy, but allowing it to implode unimpeded may well have been even worse. There are no good options.
As for the new cyber-security initiative being flawed, compared to what? The baseline is: nothing. Assuming the govt. will fail at policing the networks of critical infrastructure is like assuming the govt. will fail at policing the streets, which is manifestly false. Our police and courts aren't perfect, but they're a far sight better than anarchy, and all-in-all well worth the taxes that support them. Certifying cybersecurity professionals may not be a 100% guarantee, but again, the baseline is no certification. I'm glad dentists and doctors have to be certified, even though malpractice isn't fully eliminated.
But that share dropped by approx. 50% in only 10 years, and there's no end in sight.
What if foreign investors reduce their holdings of US dollars by 50% over the next 10 years? What if we have to cut oil consumption by 50% over the next 10 years? We have a diverse economy and not everything will drop by 50%, but those things could. I think our ability to afford imported stuff - and that includes everything at WalMart, not to mention gasoline - is about to go down, permanently.
Most knowledgeable observers knew the day was coming soon, but now the researchers at Global Insight say that the US will lose its position as the world's largest manufacturer to China in 2009 - some four years earlier than the firm had predicted previously.
In research done for the Financial Times, Global Insight now says that the US will retain the position it has held for more than 100 years in 2008, but that the combination of China's continued growth and the slowing US economy will create a shift in rankings the following year.
For 2008, Global Insight says the US will produce 16.9% of global value-added factory output, with China at 15%. In 2009, however, China's global share should rise to 17%, with the US having a 16% share.
The numbers do not reflect absolute levels of manufacturing output, but rather relative ones. So, the US has been losing global manufacturing market share even as its own factory volumes rise, but not nearly as quickly as China's growth.
To show how fast the situation is changing, in 2007 the US had a 20% share of global manufacturing to just 13.2% for China. China will have closed that 7% gap in just two years.
Just last year, Global Insight economists had predicted that the US would retain the top position until 2013, but a large downward revision in likely output this year and next is expected to cause the US to slip more quickly than had been expected. A faster than expected economic recovery - or a slow down in the Chinese economy - could enable the US to keep the crown for another year or two.
But fundamentals, including population size differences, the continuing shift of the US to a more services-based economy, and continued migration generally of manufacturing to lower cost countries, means the change was inevitable at some point. Manufacturing represented 37.1% of Chinese Gross Domestic Product in 2007, for example, versus just 13.4% for the US.
Seems to me this new investment directly addresses your problem with them. Hiring investigative reporters is the best way to become more fact-based.
Companies have their own little internal "clouds." I don't know or care where the fileservers I use physically reside, when a hard drive breaks, or when they replace a server. It's just there.
And how can you say all data retention methods failed in a blackout? No data was lost.
A lot of this disillusionment is because people assumed for so long they could get rich by doing nothing. If people compared the present value of their 401k's to what they have put in, rather than to their notional value at the height of the bubble, they wouldn't feel quite so bad.
Those of us who are younger and in the market for only the last 10 years or so really have lost a lot percentagewise, but we have lots of time to wait, and the total amount we've invested so far is much smaller.
Not just that; I'm talking about business as usual - the billions they "earn" every year by gambling, then come to the taxpayer to cover their losses when they lose. I.e. the current economic crisis in general, the S&L bailout of the early 90's, and so on.
Good one. But between Germany and the US, where is social darwinism stronger now? We can't even take money back from bankers who steal it from us - we're too afraid society will collapse without them.
But not "cold" fusion.
Then it is basically over. That's not even one more doubling of the number of pixels. Digital cameras started to catch on about 1 megapixel. From 1 to 16 MP was 4 doublings; from 16, 22 isn't even 1 more.
Where I work a researcher made an app superficially similar to this one years ago, although it was intended more to identify collaborators rather than for performance evaluations. Mapping or clustering email traffic wasn't terribly interesting, more interesting was clustering people on the basis of documents they'd written using LSA. Anyways, I'm not too worried about this software becoming a runaway success and displacing subjective evaluation in corporations any time soon. Most people-people like managers and HR have little interest in analytics like this.
You know what? There are a lot of people who think they've done some great thing and the company is eternally indebted to them regardless of all their failings. "Oh, I don't need to put in the hours because I'm the idea guy." We all want to be that guy whose brilliance allows him to do whatever he wants. But if you think you're that guy, I can almost guarantee most of your co-workers disagree, and they're probably right.
OK, sometimes. But it's fair to ask, if you owned a sizeable business, what process would you use to identify these "facilitators" vs. deadwood? None of us wants to be miscategorized as a slacker, but the fact is, some people just are. And most of them probably think they are facilitators.
Some would point to the large sums of cash in the illicit drug trade as evidence that it can, but I point to the stratospheric markup on illicit drugs as evidence that the market is horribly inefficient. The markups show there's a shortage of suppliers - due in part to law enforcement, I'm sure, but being in the drug trade also means running the risk of being gunned down (or worse) by competitors. Personally I prefer a bit more regulation in my markets than that.
The only adversaries targeted or threatened by nuclear subs have their own satellite imagery.
A lot of people already do want to learn to play the guitar. There are zillions of instructional videos, books, and (obviously) guitars sold every year. The market is there.
Some people have put far more than minimal effort into guitar hero. Whenever I see these, I think it's a shame all that practice couldn't be channeled into actually learning an instrument, while having just as much fun and competing with your friends. I'm not predicting success for this product in particular, but the general idea right on IMHO.
The main difference is a good SSD is much, much faster than any hard drive. If discussions about the topic don't give that impression, it's only because people fixate on sustained transfer - where there is still some competition between slower SSDs and hard drives - rather than seek time, which is often more important, and where SSDs blow the doors off hard drives. To me, suddenly widening the biggest bottleneck in PC performance for the first time in a couple decades is pretty exciting.