Surely the bigger impact would be allowing Tesco to expand its offerings, so they can compete for more of the business for which people are currently willing to make extra trips to other places.
That is, when/if 3d printing becomes actually practical. Parts from CNC milling machines are still made by one producer in a particular, and shipped from there, and there's no thriving mass market for designs; not a happy precedent for 3d printing.
You could use 2x2 cm lenses to focus onto a matrix of 1x1 mm cells underneath... boom, 400 suns. You would need to shift one or the other throughout the day as the sun moves though.
Is someone trying to suggest that if the press release was given at 2:00:00 in a machine readable format, a computer parsed the information... and made a decision to trade without human interaction/vention, it would have been kosher?
Ummm, what? That's exactly how most trades originate.
Here:
"Today, when Bloomberg releases
a market-moving headline, on
average it takes 4 seconds for
the markets to move after the
news story hits. Bloomberg
machine-readable news can help
you get ahead of that window.... Bloomberg's Event-Driven Trading feed offers clients instant, machine-readable delivery of Bloomberg's world-class
news and data, including breaking headlines, exclusive worldwide market-moving coverage, structured financial data
from company releases, news analytics, and global economic data."
Trying to compete with these guys by websurfing is really no different than reading the evening paper.
Well, here's a recent article that says the percentage of trades that are automated has been falling and may only be slight majority now.
Well, Ford can build cars more efficiently and sell them more cheaply than I can building them in my garage because of their overwhelming advantage in size. Can you imagine trying to "fix" that?
When I think about trying to time the market, I imagine challenging LeBron James to a little one-on-one basketball, and "let's make it interesting." That is EXACTLY how naiive it is to try and beat the hoardes of industry analysts and algorithms that Wall Street has. YES, they are making loads of money by trading on information, and NO, you cannot have some.
The answer to your question does NOT lie in trying to re-imagine what expectations may have been reasonable, in retrospect, now years later.
Rather, look at the share price during Elop's tenure. And remember that the share price at the day he took over the helm already reflected everything that was known about their future prospects as of that moment. Anything that has changed since then has been under his watch. There is no doubt he would have been even more richly rewarded had he pulled off the improbable comeback. So it's no fair claiming $1M from a losing lottery ticket just because it was probably a loser in the first place, that's why you can buy one for only $1 in the first place.
The need for computers that can run multiple programs concurrently with a total of > 4GB RAM is more than the need for any single program to consume multiple cores or > 4 GB RAM.
Indeed: "After 13 years, the number of F-4 airframes at AMARG that may be droned without excessive rework is shrinking. Moreover, the QF-4's ability to represent the performance and signatures of modern fighter aircraft decreases with each new design that appears. The QF-4's successor as a full-scale target looks set to be the QF-16, starting around 2014." Cite
I VNC'd into my home computer from work yesterday afternoon and my son was watching a youtube video of two guys narrating a GTA session, in which the character was walking around shotgunning people begging for their lives. I have told him I can VNC in at any time, although it doesn't show anything on his display when I do. I am not sure whether to do anything about it. He turned 15 recently, so is not a baby. He has the typical preoccupations with survival knives, airsoft, and pellet guns. He also has some behavior problems including fits of violence, and I didn't really like what I saw on the screen. So... not sure what to do, if anything.
No. Leave low-end, locked-down, entertainment-only tablets to Android and Arm. There is no profit in that.
Microsoft needs to sell tablets to business users who haven't bothered with Android tablets because they need x86 software and enterprise integration. Make this the Tablet you can take on a business trip and leave your laptop at home.
So, the Surface (RT) is going to fail. Unfortunately Surface Pro 2 is too big, heavy, and yes, way too expensive - because the hardware is too high-end.
It is Asus who has it almost right, with the T100. It does run x86 software, but with the cheap, low-power Bay Trail Atom processor instead of Haswell, which is overkill. Microsoft, give us something like that, but with somewhat higher specs (especially the screen) for about $550.
Linux really is one of the great successes of the computer age.
But there sure is an astonishing contrast between how much it has enriched Linus' personal fortunes vs., say, Steve Ballmer (never mind Bill Gates), or for that matter Stephen Elop or Carly Fiorina.
Let us never confuse creating value with capturing value; somehow we have to get them better aligned.
No, the amazing thing is that the triple fail-safe failed! It was only the 4th and final failsafe that did not fail!
Jones found that of the four safety mechanisms in the Faro bomb, designed to prevent unintended detonation, three failed to operate properly. When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device, and it was only that final, highly vulnerable switch that averted calamity.
Egads.
If you had the choice between a repeat of this, vs. a certain 9/11-scale attack tomorrow, which would you choose?
The fundamental reason why Microsoft failed in the mobile market was because they doggedly tried to shoehorn some scaled-down version of Windows into a mobile device, and the hardware at the time simply did not permit that to happen.
For this reason, I think Microsoft's prospects may improve. They were and are a PC company. But the pull for mobility was strong enough for consumers to accept an "embedded" level of capability at first, so Apple (which was willing to make a clean break from its personal computer ecosystem) won. But the smartphone is becoming less and less a constrained-computation device. All the heavy-duty software that Microsoft has, and knows how to develop, will run increasingly well on it. The new Haswell Surface Pro, and Bay Trail tablets, are good examples of this.
Yeah, I don't know if ad hoc will ever work. MAYBE with the pull of somebody huge, like Apple enabling it by default. Maybe the super-dense infrastructure will take some other form, like a repeater you just plug into any outlet, that relays a WiFi (or bluetooth?) signal through GSM? Anyways, low power devices are inherently going to have to migrate from one transponder to another very often, and between providers quite often, and you don't want to drop your IP connections every time.
I would love to have heard his reflections on life - a boy in Imperial Japan, then utter destruction and a cultural and economic 180, followed by a leading role in a superstar company in the rise of Japan as an electronics manufacturing superpower, and finally backslide as regional competitors rapidly gain ground. He saw so much.
That's a rather misleading way to put it - as if Congress just backs up a truckload of cash at DOE HQ each year and then they get to decide how to spend it and whether to be generous with NASA. Your article links to another one that explains it in a more factual manner:
The most recent setback for efforts to restart Pu-238 came Sept. 7 when the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee followed the example set by U.S. House of Representatives appropriators in June and approved a 2012 spending plan without any money for the program in the Energy Departmentâ(TM)s budget. The administration of President Barack Obama asked for $20 million for the Pu-238 program in 2012, split evenly between NASA and the Energy Department. Lawmakers also denied funding for the program in the Energy Departmentâ(TM)s 2010 and 2011 budgets.
NASA officials did receive congressional approval last spring to use money in the space agencyâ(TM)s 2011 budget to begin working with the Energy Department to study resumption of Pu-238 production. Lawmakers authorized NASA to begin looking into the issue in 2011. That effort was delayed, however, because Congress failed to pass a 2011 budget bill and instead provided the space agency with money through a series of stopgap spending measures designed to support ongoing activities. To spend money on new programs, including Pu-238 production, NASA officials needed congressional permission.
This seems like a very fundamental improvement to the Internet for handling mobility, and a popular product like the iPhone should really boost adoption. Cellular communication is defined by the ability to pair with the best of several available routers, and switch from one to the other without dropping the connection - this is essentially what makes a cellphone different than a plain old cordless phone. But there has always been this annoying disconnect between the cellular network and the Internet, and this sounds like a big step in that direction. If we want super-mobile devices, like dick-tracy wristwatches, they will only have enough power for short-range communication so they will need super-dense infrastructure of some sort, like dynamically pairing with the nearest available wifi or smartphone - migrating connections to the Nth degree.
I did wonder, when I was looking at my friend's Volt, how much it costs to replace the run-flat tires, and how long they last since it is a relatively heavy car (which sure makes the ride nice though).
I hope you are right. What worries me is that, in the US, excess labor seems to have been a consistent (and increasing) trend for the last 40 years now. The value of labor here peaked and then started sliding in the 1970s. It only seems to be accelerating, since the adoption of rudimentary automation in previously-less-developed nations has now unleashed waves of billions of workers from subsistence farming. Luddites and marxists were wrong for centuries, but like peak oil, they must be right eventually. If you look at the number of Americans that are on either school lunch, food stamps, disability, or unemployment, and whose lifetime withdrawals from Social Security and (especially) Medicare will far outstrip what they paid in, the shift is already very enormous. The problem is both the "haves" and "have-nots" wind up resenting the situation, for different reasons.
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That is, when/if 3d printing becomes actually practical. Parts from CNC milling machines are still made by one producer in a particular, and shipped from there, and there's no thriving mass market for designs; not a happy precedent for 3d printing.
OK, here is a more purpose-specific rigid optical concentrator from 2009.
Well here you go, I guess you can use a fiber optic funnel to collect and channel light down to a cell underneath without aiming anything.
You could use 2x2 cm lenses to focus onto a matrix of 1x1 mm cells underneath... boom, 400 suns. You would need to shift one or the other throughout the day as the sun moves though.
Ummm, what? That's exactly how most trades originate.
Here: "Today, when Bloomberg releases a market-moving headline, on average it takes 4 seconds for the markets to move after the news story hits. Bloomberg machine-readable news can help you get ahead of that window.... Bloomberg's Event-Driven Trading feed offers clients instant, machine-readable delivery of Bloomberg's world-class news and data, including breaking headlines, exclusive worldwide market-moving coverage, structured financial data from company releases, news analytics, and global economic data."
Trying to compete with these guys by websurfing is really no different than reading the evening paper.
Well, here's a recent article that says the percentage of trades that are automated has been falling and may only be slight majority now.
When I think about trying to time the market, I imagine challenging LeBron James to a little one-on-one basketball, and "let's make it interesting." That is EXACTLY how naiive it is to try and beat the hoardes of industry analysts and algorithms that Wall Street has. YES, they are making loads of money by trading on information, and NO, you cannot have some.
Rather, look at the share price during Elop's tenure. And remember that the share price at the day he took over the helm already reflected everything that was known about their future prospects as of that moment. Anything that has changed since then has been under his watch. There is no doubt he would have been even more richly rewarded had he pulled off the improbable comeback. So it's no fair claiming $1M from a losing lottery ticket just because it was probably a loser in the first place, that's why you can buy one for only $1 in the first place.
The need for computers that can run multiple programs concurrently with a total of > 4GB RAM is more than the need for any single program to consume multiple cores or > 4 GB RAM.
Indeed: "After 13 years, the number of F-4 airframes at AMARG that may be droned without excessive rework is shrinking. Moreover, the QF-4's ability to represent the performance and signatures of modern fighter aircraft decreases with each new design that appears. The QF-4's successor as a full-scale target looks set to be the QF-16, starting around 2014." Cite
I VNC'd into my home computer from work yesterday afternoon and my son was watching a youtube video of two guys narrating a GTA session, in which the character was walking around shotgunning people begging for their lives. I have told him I can VNC in at any time, although it doesn't show anything on his display when I do. I am not sure whether to do anything about it. He turned 15 recently, so is not a baby. He has the typical preoccupations with survival knives, airsoft, and pellet guns. He also has some behavior problems including fits of violence, and I didn't really like what I saw on the screen. So... not sure what to do, if anything.
Microsoft needs to sell tablets to business users who haven't bothered with Android tablets because they need x86 software and enterprise integration. Make this the Tablet you can take on a business trip and leave your laptop at home.
So, the Surface (RT) is going to fail. Unfortunately Surface Pro 2 is too big, heavy, and yes, way too expensive - because the hardware is too high-end.
It is Asus who has it almost right, with the T100. It does run x86 software, but with the cheap, low-power Bay Trail Atom processor instead of Haswell, which is overkill. Microsoft, give us something like that, but with somewhat higher specs (especially the screen) for about $550.
But there sure is an astonishing contrast between how much it has enriched Linus' personal fortunes vs., say, Steve Ballmer (never mind Bill Gates), or for that matter Stephen Elop or Carly Fiorina.
Let us never confuse creating value with capturing value; somehow we have to get them better aligned.
By that argument, Microsoft has nothing to worry about either. They aren't succeeding in any new areas, but Windows and Office are still gushers.
(And what they do bring is pretty different than an Army encampment).
Egads.
If you had the choice between a repeat of this, vs. a certain 9/11-scale attack tomorrow, which would you choose?
For this reason, I think Microsoft's prospects may improve. They were and are a PC company. But the pull for mobility was strong enough for consumers to accept an "embedded" level of capability at first, so Apple (which was willing to make a clean break from its personal computer ecosystem) won. But the smartphone is becoming less and less a constrained-computation device. All the heavy-duty software that Microsoft has, and knows how to develop, will run increasingly well on it. The new Haswell Surface Pro, and Bay Trail tablets, are good examples of this.
Only at the level of, "hey everybody, look at me, I was the first to use this type of device to create something that's sort of an XYZ!!!"
The problem is we are un-sequestering it in the first place.
Yeah, I don't know if ad hoc will ever work. MAYBE with the pull of somebody huge, like Apple enabling it by default. Maybe the super-dense infrastructure will take some other form, like a repeater you just plug into any outlet, that relays a WiFi (or bluetooth?) signal through GSM? Anyways, low power devices are inherently going to have to migrate from one transponder to another very often, and between providers quite often, and you don't want to drop your IP connections every time.
I would love to have heard his reflections on life - a boy in Imperial Japan, then utter destruction and a cultural and economic 180, followed by a leading role in a superstar company in the rise of Japan as an electronics manufacturing superpower, and finally backslide as regional competitors rapidly gain ground. He saw so much.
This seems like a very fundamental improvement to the Internet for handling mobility, and a popular product like the iPhone should really boost adoption. Cellular communication is defined by the ability to pair with the best of several available routers, and switch from one to the other without dropping the connection - this is essentially what makes a cellphone different than a plain old cordless phone. But there has always been this annoying disconnect between the cellular network and the Internet, and this sounds like a big step in that direction. If we want super-mobile devices, like dick-tracy wristwatches, they will only have enough power for short-range communication so they will need super-dense infrastructure of some sort, like dynamically pairing with the nearest available wifi or smartphone - migrating connections to the Nth degree.
I did wonder, when I was looking at my friend's Volt, how much it costs to replace the run-flat tires, and how long they last since it is a relatively heavy car (which sure makes the ride nice though).
I've driven a Volt and there's no way you would confuse it with a $17K car, from the driver's seat.
I hope you are right. What worries me is that, in the US, excess labor seems to have been a consistent (and increasing) trend for the last 40 years now. The value of labor here peaked and then started sliding in the 1970s. It only seems to be accelerating, since the adoption of rudimentary automation in previously-less-developed nations has now unleashed waves of billions of workers from subsistence farming. Luddites and marxists were wrong for centuries, but like peak oil, they must be right eventually. If you look at the number of Americans that are on either school lunch, food stamps, disability, or unemployment, and whose lifetime withdrawals from Social Security and (especially) Medicare will far outstrip what they paid in, the shift is already very enormous. The problem is both the "haves" and "have-nots" wind up resenting the situation, for different reasons.