If an industry consistently produces more than consumers demand and has prices below break even, the normal market response would be for some of the producers to go out of business. The only reason they don't is because of government subsidies. There's no good reason for the government to constantly exempt farmers from the normal law of supply and demand.
There is a very good reason why farmers are exempt from the normal laws of supply and demand... Same reason we use corn based ethanol that takes more energy to produce that the output energy as a fuel. That simple reason is... Iowa votes first
Intel's not THAT stupid. If someone handed them those secrets, they have enough smart people to implement them. So, I submit that Qualcomm's allegations are as trumped-up as most of their Patents.
No Intel is not that stupid. If Apple delivered proprietary information to it - it would simply hand it over to Qualcomm with a pointer to where it came from. That way they are perfectly innocent. If they took and used proprietary information that they didn't have rights to, Qualcomm would simply sue the pants off of Intel as well.
I guess what this means is if you want your phone to still last a solid day in a year or two, better not buy Motorola!
Hate to say it, but my samsung has a power savings feature that if turned on increases the battery life significantly. As my phone is slightly over 2 years old now (Waiting for the Galaxy 9 early next year) I have had this setting turned on for about 6 months
As others have said - if apple had simply made it an option, and allowed users to turn it on/off... they would have been declared geniuses, as it is time to go to the genius bar and get a fix
This matters because in many cases current law is an enabling framework that establishes
an agency and leaves the reality of the law to rule and regulation process. The ACA was
short but the regulations behind it had a ten fold page count. i.e. the Regulations are ten times bigger.
You consider something that is 906 pages of fairly dense text as Short
I would hate to see what you consider substantial. I do agree with you that the following regulations are probably an order of magnitude longer and more complicated
I would agree with this up until I point out that the 2.99 bacon cheeseburger is from McDonalds - and absolutely sucks beyond imagination. The nice plain hamburger from Red Robin, that I can get with bacon, cheese, Guacamole and anything else I may want - yes it does cost me 15 dollars, but I get to order it with a beer to drink as well.
Hate to tell you, but net neutrality doesn't buy you what you want. Yes, I want to keep the neo-Nazis off of the internet... can't do that with net Neutrality (Must carry the packets after all... Yes, I want the applications that are important to me (VOIP for example) to cut in line because their latency/jitter matter - your download of the latest 10GB porn video - the fact that it takes 27ms longer - does it really matter?
So yes Hamburger Neutrality for all - lets all eat at McDonalds since 2.99 is good enough for everyone
Sounds like the way a company would work... however, lets do a risk benefit analysis:
Employee says they are going to retire in 6 months
Let them work for 6 months - they leave on their own
RISKS ?? Their productivity falls to 0 - costing 6 months salary (100K with benefits maybe?)
Benefit - Find a replacement worker, including letting current employee interview and give insight... Current employee trains replacement (Value - ???)
Benefit - Everyone else sees this person is treated well, including an office retirement party that is good for team morale (cost 10K including a small parting gift)
Fire them ASAP
Risks - Possible age bias lawsuit as they are well over 40, and there would be no dings on their record otherwise
Risks - Everyone sees what happens and no one will help in the future
Risks - Who will do knowledge transfer, you are down an employee until you find a replacement
Benefit - Save 100K in salary.
I don't see any reason to go through firing an employee early - the lawyers for the lawsuit alone will cost you 100K even if you win and don't have to pay a dime... Assume you would have to pay AT LEAST the 100K to the employee plus cover his legal costs (another 40-50K)
The last mile cost is negligible. Practically all new last mile installations are Gbit capable already.
Let me highlight the problem there... There is a huge difference between the hypothetical 500 house subdivision that is cheap and easy to wire (well fiber) for high speed and rural where it can be miles between houses, think 20-40K per mile (per customer) not even sure the charged bill could pay the interest on this kind of cost. Note that this cost doesn't include right of way, leasing space on poles/utility operations - probably not digging under roads if need be... These costs can be a lot higher (plus don't forget that the company needs to make a profit providing the service)
All of this said - I would expect BT response to be - well, we don't provide ANY services to this area... unless heavily subsidized by the government, because we can't afford to spend the extra 100sK pounds
Exactly. Back in the way back days... They created a New Business Initiative to create businesses inside the company. Well, any employee that had any sense of entrepreneurship joined an NBI organization... One slow quarter later, NBI was shutdown and all those employees were let go.
Even if you didn't join an NBI organization, any employee with any brains could see what happens...
No, you are required to submit bags for inspection on LEAVING the office.
They are looking for things leaving the secured office that aren't supposed to (both physical and digital). I was stopped once taking a bunch of my CDs out (think the 90s) and had to show that they weren't CD-R but actual music CDs
How does that even make sense. We already tax automation. Specifically, we tax profits on companies... Let me see - automation reduces labor costs to deliver a widget. The company can use these savings to:
a. Reduce the cost of the product - selling more of them at the same profit margin causing revenue and profits to go up (more tax)
b. Improve gross margin on the product - selling the same amount of them, making the same revenue - with lower costs causing profits to go up (more tax)
c. Some combination of the above
So why do you need an additional confusing tax on automation?, do you draw the line on adding new automation - or do you calculate the tax based on how much it would take a man without any tools to do the job, and tax the labor reduction from there?
You do know that root DNS servers have nothing to do with Net Neutrality?
Sigh. Basically Russia is saying they propose a second set of Root Servers that can be pointed to instead of the current set. This has happened multiple times in the past (and as people pointed out experiments that are still currently running) going back as far as Jon Postel's DNS Root Authority Test.
There are many uses of DNS that go through various white/black lists to determine if the resolution should happen. None of this has anything to do with net neutrality. Thank you for playing
Every time Whole Foods runs a sale. Grocery stores run weekly sales - usually targeted around things you need so you shop there... Whole Foods should be no difference. This isn't slashdot worthy - Whole Foods is a grocery store, not a tech company (Well, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of one - but who cares). If we are going to include Whole Foods stories, can we at least start covering the weekly prices from Safeway where I actually shop?
So - now all news articles have to go dredge up a good twitter quote. So they quote the twitter feed (all 280 characters of it now) and then do a paste of the actual twitter post formatted by twitter in the article. Hmmmm.... so if I can't read the article - Maybe I can read the twitter feed (usually with its own picture of course).
Hate it - about to quit reading news on the web again because of this trend
that kind of measurement system would mistakenly assume that all CPU intensive pages were a problem. that ain't the case. thus, tons of false positives requiring authorization and white-listing.
Hardly, Crypto mining is a 100% of CPU continuously type of operation. I can watch my tv on youtube and barely break 10% CPU utilization... (Well, thread utilization which is even lower). I imagine if you are watching super HD/8k video it might take interesting percentage of a modern CPU, but nowhere near 100%, especially with GPU offload.
So, Raid 0,1, 10 are simple... Just throw the data into different drives in a certain way and wa la -> Raid... Not much for the hardware to do. Seriously AMD, can we get Raid 5 support with hardware offload to calculate the parity results that are needed across the stripe so we can simply write a single write to the hardware level and have the hardware offload handle the Raid 5 calculation and put the stripes into the correct hardware locations?
Take each task estimate... add 50% and turn the date into management.
Track time estimates, and the 50% slop on top of it. If 1/2 way through the project you have gone through 3/4 of your slop time, you already know you aren't going to make it. If you have only gone through 1/3 of your slop there is a good chance you might actually make it by the 150% time.
Even if they don't get a discount... Tap water costs pennies a bottle volume to fill, yet we as consumers pay dollars per bottle.
Yes Nestle has to pay for the bottle, shipping and other markups for things that aren't water, but it is a huge discrepancy in pricing. Why don't we as consumers buy reusable bottles (maybe even a simple glass) and fill them up ourselves for the same rates. This would be like people getting mad that oil only costs 50 dollars a barrel, yet they get about 31 gallons of gas/diesel out of that barrel of oil that they turn around and sell for about 90 bucks here in California.
And is going to be disappointed as I'm just 'showrooming' his employer. Internet vendors, not having to pay commish will almost always have the best price. Shipping is covered by no sales tax.
It is cute that you think you can get multi-million dollar enterprise software at a discount on the internet
In every environment I have ever worked in the "version number" is simply a compiled in constant. I have the kernel source, can't I simply compile in the version of the kernel that is being tested for?
Ok, So give me a cluster of 30K machines, each machine having access to a few k of computer cores (think 4 GPUs) that gives me access to about 100M compute cores to solve this problem. I imagine this is a rather ridiculously easy problem to throw cores at - so with 100M cores in a compute cluster I imagine this problem simplifies into a few months worth of cluster time...
If I talk about the Wizard of Oz - do I have to say Spoiler alert still? Does this apply to books as well? Spoiler alert - Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep has androids in it - and not modern phones either
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If an industry consistently produces more than consumers demand and has prices below break even, the normal market response would be for some of the producers to go out of business. The only reason they don't is because of government subsidies. There's no good reason for the government to constantly exempt farmers from the normal law of supply and demand.
There is a very good reason why farmers are exempt from the normal laws of supply and demand... Same reason we use corn based ethanol that takes more energy to produce that the output energy as a fuel. That simple reason is... Iowa votes first
Intel's not THAT stupid. If someone handed them those secrets, they have enough smart people to implement them. So, I submit that Qualcomm's allegations are as trumped-up as most of their Patents.
No Intel is not that stupid. If Apple delivered proprietary information to it - it would simply hand it over to Qualcomm with a pointer to where it came from. That way they are perfectly innocent. If they took and used proprietary information that they didn't have rights to, Qualcomm would simply sue the pants off of Intel as well.
Amazon marketing announces new project formerly code named Vesta
There, is that about right?
The new Apple design meme
Beautiful Slippery Brittle
Exactly what you want in your cell phone
I guess what this means is if you want your phone to still last a solid day in a year or two, better not buy Motorola!
Hate to say it, but my samsung has a power savings feature that if turned on increases the battery life significantly. As my phone is slightly over 2 years old now (Waiting for the Galaxy 9 early next year) I have had this setting turned on for about 6 months
As others have said - if apple had simply made it an option, and allowed users to turn it on/off... they would have been declared geniuses, as it is time to go to the genius bar and get a fix
This matters because in many cases current law is an enabling framework that establishes an agency and leaves the reality of the law to rule and regulation process. The ACA was short but the regulations behind it had a ten fold page count. i.e. the Regulations are ten times bigger.
You consider something that is 906 pages of fairly dense text as Short
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
I would hate to see what you consider substantial. I do agree with you that the following regulations are probably an order of magnitude longer and more complicated
I would agree with this up until I point out that the 2.99 bacon cheeseburger is from McDonalds - and absolutely sucks beyond imagination. The nice plain hamburger from Red Robin, that I can get with bacon, cheese, Guacamole and anything else I may want - yes it does cost me 15 dollars, but I get to order it with a beer to drink as well.
Hate to tell you, but net neutrality doesn't buy you what you want. Yes, I want to keep the neo-Nazis off of the internet... can't do that with net Neutrality (Must carry the packets after all... Yes, I want the applications that are important to me (VOIP for example) to cut in line because their latency/jitter matter - your download of the latest 10GB porn video - the fact that it takes 27ms longer - does it really matter?
So yes Hamburger Neutrality for all - lets all eat at McDonalds since 2.99 is good enough for everyone
Employee says they are going to retire in 6 months
Let them work for 6 months - they leave on their own
RISKS ?? Their productivity falls to 0 - costing 6 months salary (100K with benefits maybe?)
Benefit - Find a replacement worker, including letting current employee interview and give insight... Current employee trains replacement (Value - ???)
Benefit - Everyone else sees this person is treated well, including an office retirement party that is good for team morale (cost 10K including a small parting gift)
Fire them ASAP Risks - Possible age bias lawsuit as they are well over 40, and there would be no dings on their record otherwise
Risks - Everyone sees what happens and no one will help in the future
Risks - Who will do knowledge transfer, you are down an employee until you find a replacement Benefit - Save 100K in salary.
I don't see any reason to go through firing an employee early - the lawyers for the lawsuit alone will cost you 100K even if you win and don't have to pay a dime... Assume you would have to pay AT LEAST the 100K to the employee plus cover his legal costs (another 40-50K)
The last mile cost is negligible. Practically all new last mile installations are Gbit capable already.
Let me highlight the problem there... There is a huge difference between the hypothetical 500 house subdivision that is cheap and easy to wire (well fiber) for high speed and rural where it can be miles between houses, think 20-40K per mile (per customer) not even sure the charged bill could pay the interest on this kind of cost. Note that this cost doesn't include right of way, leasing space on poles/utility operations - probably not digging under roads if need be... These costs can be a lot higher (plus don't forget that the company needs to make a profit providing the service)
All of this said - I would expect BT response to be - well, we don't provide ANY services to this area... unless heavily subsidized by the government, because we can't afford to spend the extra 100sK pounds
Even if you didn't join an NBI organization, any employee with any brains could see what happens...
No, you are required to submit bags for inspection on LEAVING the office.
They are looking for things leaving the secured office that aren't supposed to (both physical and digital). I was stopped once taking a bunch of my CDs out (think the 90s) and had to show that they weren't CD-R but actual music CDs
326M * 12K = 3.9 trillion per year.
More than enough to cover the UBI and the overhead that it will need (Ok maybe I should make that 15K instead of 12K)
a. Reduce the cost of the product - selling more of them at the same profit margin causing revenue and profits to go up (more tax)
b. Improve gross margin on the product - selling the same amount of them, making the same revenue - with lower costs causing profits to go up (more tax)
c. Some combination of the above
So why do you need an additional confusing tax on automation?, do you draw the line on adding new automation - or do you calculate the tax based on how much it would take a man without any tools to do the job, and tax the labor reduction from there?
Sigh. Basically Russia is saying they propose a second set of Root Servers that can be pointed to instead of the current set. This has happened multiple times in the past (and as people pointed out experiments that are still currently running) going back as far as Jon Postel's DNS Root Authority Test.
There are many uses of DNS that go through various white/black lists to determine if the resolution should happen. None of this has anything to do with net neutrality. Thank you for playing
Is this a story or an advertisement?
Every time Whole Foods runs a sale. Grocery stores run weekly sales - usually targeted around things you need so you shop there... Whole Foods should be no difference. This isn't slashdot worthy - Whole Foods is a grocery store, not a tech company (Well, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of one - but who cares). If we are going to include Whole Foods stories, can we at least start covering the weekly prices from Safeway where I actually shop?
Hate it - about to quit reading news on the web again because of this trend
Over two decades no, over the last three years, AWS has been raking in the cash.
that kind of measurement system would mistakenly assume that all CPU intensive pages were a problem. that ain't the case. thus, tons of false positives requiring authorization and white-listing.
Hardly, Crypto mining is a 100% of CPU continuously type of operation. I can watch my tv on youtube and barely break 10% CPU utilization... (Well, thread utilization which is even lower). I imagine if you are watching super HD/8k video it might take interesting percentage of a modern CPU, but nowhere near 100%, especially with GPU offload.
Pretty Please
Take each task estimate... add 50% and turn the date into management.
Track time estimates, and the 50% slop on top of it. If 1/2 way through the project you have gone through 3/4 of your slop time, you already know you aren't going to make it. If you have only gone through 1/3 of your slop there is a good chance you might actually make it by the 150% time.
Yes Nestle has to pay for the bottle, shipping and other markups for things that aren't water, but it is a huge discrepancy in pricing. Why don't we as consumers buy reusable bottles (maybe even a simple glass) and fill them up ourselves for the same rates. This would be like people getting mad that oil only costs 50 dollars a barrel, yet they get about 31 gallons of gas/diesel out of that barrel of oil that they turn around and sell for about 90 bucks here in California.
And is going to be disappointed as I'm just 'showrooming' his employer. Internet vendors, not having to pay commish will almost always have the best price. Shipping is covered by no sales tax.
It is cute that you think you can get multi-million dollar enterprise software at a discount on the internet
In every environment I have ever worked in the "version number" is simply a compiled in constant. I have the kernel source, can't I simply compile in the version of the kernel that is being tested for?
Ok, So give me a cluster of 30K machines, each machine having access to a few k of computer cores (think 4 GPUs) that gives me access to about 100M compute cores to solve this problem. I imagine this is a rather ridiculously easy problem to throw cores at - so with 100M cores in a compute cluster I imagine this problem simplifies into a few months worth of cluster time...
Seriously,
If I talk about the Wizard of Oz - do I have to say Spoiler alert still? Does this apply to books as well? Spoiler alert - Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep has androids in it - and not modern phones either