Now teaching Entrepreneurship at three major Universities and the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), Blank co-founded his first of eight startups after several years repairing fighter plane electronics in Thailand during the Vietnam War, followed by several years of defense electronics work for U.S. intelligence agencies in "undisclosed locations...."
Subsequent to dropping out of the University of Michigan, Steve Blank arrived in Silicon Valley in 1978, as boom times began. His early startups include two semiconductor companies, Zilog and MIPS Computers (now MIPS Technologies); Convergent Technologies; a consulting stint for Pixar; a supercomputer firm, Ardent Computer; peripheral supplier, SuperMac Technologies; a military intelligence systems supplier, ESL; Rocket Science Games.[3] Steve co-founded startup number eight, E.piphany, in his living room in 1996. After retiring from E.piphany the day before its IPO in September 1999, Blank served on two public boards (Macrovision and Immersion) and several private companies. He continues to selectively invest and advise Silicon Valley startups such as Votizen.
Would it kill you to do a quick check on wikipedia before expounding away?
Since this is powered by ambient air pressure I guess NASA won't be too interested. On the flipside, the concept might be fantastically powerful underwater.
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I want the next bear I shoot (just kidding) stuffed with coffee beans so I can pose it, pump out the air, and use it as a couch or coffee table.
This could be an extremely protective packing material if you pump out the air to harden it after letting it conform to the shape of the object in the package.
Sandbag walls might be much stronger if the air were sucked out of the bags after they're stacked to make them lock into place against each other.
It's no different than selling you car (har har). If you sell it on craigslist and the buyer re-lists and sells the next day for twice the price, would you feel you had done well for yourself?
The 300 GB isn't really a "limit," it'll just cost you $10 extra for each 50 GB beyond that, which is right in line with what they charge for the first 300 GB (which would be $60 at that rate). That's not so bad - for now, anyways. Hopefully they increase it occasionally as technology improves and their investment is recouped.
What? My recollection is a time limited sample is only limited in how low it can go; e.g. a 1 second recording can only represent down to 1 hz (or half or twice that, I don't remember) because, obviously, at some point you only get 1 or 0 samples during the interval, and you need two samples to say anything about frequency (i.e. how often something is happening).
Of course this limitation is totally irrelevant to music, since the source signal (the song itself) has finite duration, and you can't really "hear" anything much below 20 hz (if anything, strong signals just below that range just make your guts feel queasy).
It takes a very small government indeed to create the basic social order needed for a business to operate
What nations are you looking at that prove this theory, and why didn't facebook start there instead? (Or Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Amazon, HP...) To me this is much more convincing evidence than the opposite view, which is that successful companies and individuals rarely credit their circumstances for their success - which means nothing, because the human ego does not work that way.
People also grossly over-estimate how much tax money goes to whatever they consider waste because it avoids addressing the real problems, which are hard. The fact is the vast majority of funding goes to programs that people want. But you ask people, and they incorrectly think a big percentage of the money is going to NPR, or foreign aid, or muffins for breakfasts at GSA conferences. Or they're a young person who doesn't want Social Security or and old person who doesn't care about education (in which cases statistics show that the same individual most likely did or will want those services at a different time of life).
They should care about your product for the same reasons that people working direct for the product care: it is their job and they want a paycheck.
It's not just money. On a day-to-day level, a lot of motivation is interpersonal; when you rub shoulders with people, you don't want to let them down (and then have to face them). This is a very powerful "tribal" instinct that people have. Of course it can be neutralized by bad management even when people are co-located, but I think it is harder (though again, not impossible) to foster remotely and/or across cultural barriers.
don't we have much bigger things to worry about? This isn't a common case....
Doing it as an individual is novel. However, it is a very common case for companies to do this - take all the benefits of incorporating in one place, then set up shell corporations to book all your profits elsewhere wherever taxes (and services, but it doesn't matter) are minimal. But then when somebody infringes their rights, they come crying to the powerful government where they incorporated (which actually has expensive stuff like courts and diplomats and armies to impose a global Intellectual Property regime... It's especially common among high-tech companies.) So if you include that, it is actually a large issue.
I'm not too comfortable with this particular law for some reason. I think I'd rather see nations work together to close the inter-government loopholes in corporate taxes instead.
These results from a large study of older adults were observed after adjustment for the effects of other risk factors on mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption.
So your explanation would be that people growing old and sick tend to give up coffee, but keep smoking and drinking alcohol? I guess it's possible, but I it's not obvious to me why that would be.
Facebooks's pricing has to reflect their ability to do targeted advertising, which is valuable to businesses selling niche products. But if you're selling mainstream products like cars or beer, then broadcasting the same message to everybody (or at least broader groups, e.g. TV show demographics) is probably more efficient.
I shouldn't have quoted that second sentence about Llano, but the first sentence was specifically about Trinity. Here is the follow-on:
This chart and the next chart will thus show a similar average increase in performance for Trinity, but the details in specific games are going to be different. Starting with Ivy Bridge and HD 4000, as with our earlier game charts we see there are some titles where Intel leads (Batman and Skyrim), a couple ties (DiRT 3 and Mass Effect 2), and the remainder of the games are faster on Trinity. Mafia II is close to our 10 percent âoetieâ range but comes in just above that mark, as do Left 4 Dead 2 and Metro 2033. The biggest gap is Civilization V, where Intelâ(TM)s various IGPs have never managed good performance; Trinity is nearly twice as fast as Ivy Bridge in that title. Overall, it's a 20% lead for Trinity vs. quad-core Ivy Bridge.
So, AMD has the lead on average FPS, but it's now small enough that Intel wins in a few cases. AMD's integrated GPU is still a little better normally, but it's not a slam dunk any more.
it beats intel(presumably more costly intel too) in gaming easily.
No it doesn't. The summary says it does, then links to an article that says this:
After the 3DMark results, you might be wondering if Intel has finally caught up to AMD in terms of integrated graphics performance. The answer isâ¦yes and no. Depending on the game, there are times where a fast Ivy Bridge CPU with HD 4000 will actually beat out Trinity; there are also times where Intelâ(TM)s IGP really struggles to keep pace... We found that across the same selection of 15 titles, Ivy Bridge and Llano actually ended up 'tied' - Intel led in some games, AMD in others, but on average the two IGPs offered similar performance.
It shouldn't need to be pointed out that Microsoft still rakes in a handsome profit year after year. They're not the first company to grow into middle age and slow down. If anything it would be a miracle if they hadn't. Ballmer may not be special, maybe even lousy, but worst EVAR!!!? I would pick some of the CEOs around the world that lead us into this global recession - who not only did so but (distinguishing them from their counterparts in government) personally took home millions of tens of millions of dollars for doing so and are living lavishly to this day.
Those are interesting stats, and I would never claim running a huge website was cheap or free. But you argued that a large site must place making money as their #1 priority, but that's not consistent with craiglist's website design, business practices, and public statements:
CEO Jim Buckmaster, who is about to celebrate his 11th year in charge, told the Guardian,"any extra profit accrued is an unintended secondary consequence."
The 11th most popular site in the United States and the 37th in the world has only 32 employees. It charges for job advertisements in 18 U.S. cities and $10 for apartment listings in New York as a way to meet expenses. AIM estimated the site's value at $1 billion, citing "untapped" commercial potential.
They would not have $1BN of untapped potential (i.e. unused ad real estate on their website) if their true motive were some version of "maximize shareholder value."
'all of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.'
I'm afraid I don't agree with that at all. Unfortunately life is full of intractable problems and people whose best interests inherently conflict.
Do you want a really good indicator of shallow or wishful thinking? It is a sentence includes the words "if only..."
I've worked with really good people who consistently under-estimated, and decent but slower guys who sandbag their estimates so they can exceed them. I prefer the former because I really don't care about their estimates. In the end I can tell for myself what each person's productivity is, and guess as well as they can how long a job will probably take them - which, granted, is not all that well. But I do think I can accurately rank order people by productivity.
And yet, there is craigslist. No I'm not saying it's an alternative to facebook, I'm pointing out how amazingly user-centered it has remained. In fact "earnest" might even be a better word. Thank you Craig Newmark.
An obligation to do something is nothing more or less than a threat by somebody else to take actions that impact you. You don't have to hand over your wallet just because somebody puts a gun to your head and demands it.
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Would it kill you to do a quick check on wikipedia before expounding away?
What I don't understand is why they don't spread out the IPO over a week or two, continuously selling at the going rate.
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I want the next bear I shoot (just kidding) stuffed with coffee beans so I can pose it, pump out the air, and use it as a couch or coffee table.
This could be an extremely protective packing material if you pump out the air to harden it after letting it conform to the shape of the object in the package.
Sandbag walls might be much stronger if the air were sucked out of the bags after they're stacked to make them lock into place against each other.
It's no different than selling you car (har har). If you sell it on craigslist and the buyer re-lists and sells the next day for twice the price, would you feel you had done well for yourself?
They're increasing the limit from 250GB to 300GB with this announcement.
The 300 GB isn't really a "limit," it'll just cost you $10 extra for each 50 GB beyond that, which is right in line with what they charge for the first 300 GB (which would be $60 at that rate). That's not so bad - for now, anyways. Hopefully they increase it occasionally as technology improves and their investment is recouped.
Of course this limitation is totally irrelevant to music, since the source signal (the song itself) has finite duration, and you can't really "hear" anything much below 20 hz (if anything, strong signals just below that range just make your guts feel queasy).
Is there more to it?
What nations are you looking at that prove this theory, and why didn't facebook start there instead? (Or Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Amazon, HP...) To me this is much more convincing evidence than the opposite view, which is that successful companies and individuals rarely credit their circumstances for their success - which means nothing, because the human ego does not work that way.
People also grossly over-estimate how much tax money goes to whatever they consider waste because it avoids addressing the real problems, which are hard. The fact is the vast majority of funding goes to programs that people want. But you ask people, and they incorrectly think a big percentage of the money is going to NPR, or foreign aid, or muffins for breakfasts at GSA conferences. Or they're a young person who doesn't want Social Security or and old person who doesn't care about education (in which cases statistics show that the same individual most likely did or will want those services at a different time of life).
It's not just money. On a day-to-day level, a lot of motivation is interpersonal; when you rub shoulders with people, you don't want to let them down (and then have to face them). This is a very powerful "tribal" instinct that people have. Of course it can be neutralized by bad management even when people are co-located, but I think it is harder (though again, not impossible) to foster remotely and/or across cultural barriers.
Doing it as an individual is novel. However, it is a very common case for companies to do this - take all the benefits of incorporating in one place, then set up shell corporations to book all your profits elsewhere wherever taxes (and services, but it doesn't matter) are minimal. But then when somebody infringes their rights, they come crying to the powerful government where they incorporated (which actually has expensive stuff like courts and diplomats and armies to impose a global Intellectual Property regime... It's especially common among high-tech companies.) So if you include that, it is actually a large issue.
I'm not too comfortable with this particular law for some reason. I think I'd rather see nations work together to close the inter-government loopholes in corporate taxes instead.
So your explanation would be that people growing old and sick tend to give up coffee, but keep smoking and drinking alcohol? I guess it's possible, but I it's not obvious to me why that would be.
In the year before its IPO (2003), google profited $106M.
In the year before its IPO (2011), facebook profited $1,000M.
Facebooks's pricing has to reflect their ability to do targeted advertising, which is valuable to businesses selling niche products. But if you're selling mainstream products like cars or beer, then broadcasting the same message to everybody (or at least broader groups, e.g. TV show demographics) is probably more efficient.
So, AMD has the lead on average FPS, but it's now small enough that Intel wins in a few cases. AMD's integrated GPU is still a little better normally, but it's not a slam dunk any more.
No it doesn't. The summary says it does, then links to an article that says this:
AMD's integrated GPU advantage is gone.
And if you don't bring it back, they simply keep your deposit and make an easy sale. I've done it myself.
I suppose you already know this, but auto parts stores will often let you borrow tools of that nature.
It shouldn't need to be pointed out that Microsoft still rakes in a handsome profit year after year. They're not the first company to grow into middle age and slow down. If anything it would be a miracle if they hadn't. Ballmer may not be special, maybe even lousy, but worst EVAR!!!? I would pick some of the CEOs around the world that lead us into this global recession - who not only did so but (distinguishing them from their counterparts in government) personally took home millions of tens of millions of dollars for doing so and are living lavishly to this day.
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If I'm having something implanted, it should at least do some interesting sensing - blood cell count, oxidation, glucose level, or at least my pulse.
That, or covert I/O with an Internet-connected cognitive prosthesis.
They would not have $1BN of untapped potential (i.e. unused ad real estate on their website) if their true motive were some version of "maximize shareholder value."
I'm afraid I don't agree with that at all. Unfortunately life is full of intractable problems and people whose best interests inherently conflict. Do you want a really good indicator of shallow or wishful thinking? It is a sentence includes the words "if only..."
I've worked with really good people who consistently under-estimated, and decent but slower guys who sandbag their estimates so they can exceed them. I prefer the former because I really don't care about their estimates. In the end I can tell for myself what each person's productivity is, and guess as well as they can how long a job will probably take them - which, granted, is not all that well. But I do think I can accurately rank order people by productivity.
And yet, there is craigslist. No I'm not saying it's an alternative to facebook, I'm pointing out how amazingly user-centered it has remained. In fact "earnest" might even be a better word. Thank you Craig Newmark.
Oh, please, now you are just begging for somebody to start yet another argument about gold.
An obligation to do something is nothing more or less than a threat by somebody else to take actions that impact you. You don't have to hand over your wallet just because somebody puts a gun to your head and demands it.