And I don't think it would be 30 minutes. The press would find some reason to discount the person and their reasons, and we'd be on to the next news story about some celebrity's kids.
My point was just that there should not be a reason for Intel's stock to do better on the prospect of a loss of profit.
The new corporate servers and workstations based on AMD's latest rev chips haven't really been released yet. That will be a good sign of how good Intel's new chips are.
Intel was the gold standard. Now they're the old standard. They have some work to do to make the stock worth picking up based on potential gains.
This would imply a significant source of free profit is being slashed. They're going to hope to make it up in volume, but they've got an uphill battle. Less profit in the stock should have reduced its value.
The amount of profit they had built in could absorb a class issue in the past. Now, an expensive problem with their chips could hurt their company even more. No more soft landing.
They have to prove they're better than AMD. While there are some that will buy the big name with the new pricing, there are a lot more that will stick with AMD.
There was just something special about shooting the religious nuts in their hideout, and having them fire back with meson cannons and rockets.
But they need to have the 2nd FDD hack, so that you can start over, but with the same characters and all their gear. This way you're using the meson cannons against the rabbits.
He didn't say that everybody should stop what they're doing and start living in a hut.
Use less energy can mean:
Stop buying vehicles that are wasteful. Stop driving 5 extra miles to save 8 cents on a loaf of bread. Maybe investigate how to make 18-wheelers get 5mpg more than they do now. Build a bike lane once in a while. Don't give subsidies to companies that pollute when there are cleaner alternatives.
There are thousands of ways to reduce energy use. Many involve technology.
We can consume what we do now, and watch the population grow so that the total amount of energy consumed increases.
Or, we can reduce what we consume now and be more efficient. As the growth in the population occurs, energy use increases at a slower rate.
How hard would it be for us to tell energy companies, no subsidies for you. That money is going to buy insulation, and CF bulbs for every house in the country? Total electricity (therefore coal/gas) usage declines.
Make sure to have one sign-in / credit card / account server for opening day. Have thousands of people, who took the day off from work to get their account signed up and the player name they wanted on day one, scream in agony as the system wouldn't let them in.
SWG broke my heart. I waited for that game for years. I played UO, which was fun, but wanted SWG. When they announced it, the screenshots started coming out, I got more excited. When I found out that you could set up equipment to mine resources rather than doing it myself, I got MORE excited.
I got the chills when I walked to Uncle Owen's place, Jabba's palace, etc.
I hope that some day, a real game can be run with the same visuals.
Disclaimer: I hate this situation with a passion. I've trained the outsourcer that replaced my friends, stuck on conference calls with people that have no interest in the product, just getting more business.
BUT
From a money-only view, the US manager's job is only to cut costs. It's where their bonuses come from.
Therefore, they COULD hire from the home country, and be expensive. OR they could get an outsourcer to do it, and get a huge bonus. AND if you're smart, you hire a middle-of-the-road outsourcer this year, and then begin pushing it to the cheaper one next year to show how good you are at cutting costs.
There is no loyalty to anybody. Their shareholders expect higher rate of return, which means more profit from lower costs.
These guys know their jobs are going to disappear at some point, so they're collecting bonuses and stock options.
I was just in a meeting where we were told that India wasn't going to stay competitive cost-wise.
So, we need to find companies to outsource to in countries that won't have a lot of competition.
They didn't mention telecom costs. In India, everybody wants the stuff, so they can charge what they want. But if you go where there are no companies to compete with, you bring new jobs, the government will pay for your telecom.
We just had an all employee meeting in tech support. Some high level assface came to town, and told everybody that we're toast.
The point was, that no matter what skill level we possess, our customers won't pay for it. If we could get a ferret to answer the phone, and do it for cheaper than India, we'd do that.
I personally believe the point is to make customers stop calling, because no calls is cheaper than crappy calls.
The arrogance that the customer will buy on cost, no matter how they're treated, is amazing.
We asked, is our company interested in retaining the skills that we have? Nope. You're too expensive. Take an 80% paycut, and you become cost competitive. But, we don't want you, even if you COULD take that pay cut.
Oh, and no raises. We don't want you to think that we value you. Please quit, it's cheaper than paying severance packages.
And that isn't entirely true anymore for some of the panel technologies.
Considering that a solar panel is warranted for 20 years, and expected to last longer than that, I can't see that being a problem with amount of energy generated over time.
I will say this, I would have no problem with landfills 20 years from now filling up with solar panels. For that to happen, that would mean a lot were in use. And solar is best when you conserve on power use before sizing the system. In other words, if you use 60W bulbs and old appliances, you'll need a bigger system. A much more expensive system. If you use more efficient gear, THEN size your system, you'll end up with a much less expensive one. If people were buying energy efficient stuff, that would help everybody out.
The big change for solar will be when they can make it out of a lower grade silicon. Right now, the solar companies are fighting with the chip industry to get the good silicon. As soon as they get that right, and it's well underway, the prices should drop big again.
Until tax time. Or even sooner, depending on the state. In some states, you pay no state sales tax on the vehicle for it being a hybrid.
2: Batteries are expensive to replace.
My hybrid has an 8 year warranty on the battery. I will keep my vehicle way past that. But how many people do you know that only own a vehicle for 3-4 years? I've worked with people here for 5 years, and they've gone through 3 cars EACH since I've known them.
3: Batteries are not good for the environment.
Neither is smog. But to stay on point, batteries only hurt the environment when you chuck them in a landfill. If you recycle or trade out with the manufacturer, they get put to use again.
4: People who plugin are paying for electricity. 5: The electricity use above is non friendly.
Unless they have solar, wind, or other sources at their home. Many people advocating that idea have solar at home for just this reason.
Supporting something that is designed to pollute less and drink less gas is not a bad thing.
I don't understand why people freak out when people buy the best vehicle for their needs.
If you tow something once a year, that doesn't make up for driving a pickup the other 364 days.
If you live somewhere that gets major snowfall, a 4x4 is generally required. I can buy something that gets 12 mpg, or something that gets 30mpg.
Where I live, an Insight, and all those lovely commuters everybody here is saying to get, turn into snowmounds. They can't get on the road, they have such little clearance they get stuck easy.
People I work with are MAD that I get good mileage in my Escape Hybrid. It may only be 33 mpg, but they get 12.
When the ones in the old beater tell me they get 40mpg, I ask them how the emissions are. THEY get mad because somehow that makes them evil. I explain that I bought a vehicle that can handle snow, get good mpg in the process, and not pollute (well, not much)
When they tell me that my car is worse overall because of the nasty, evil batteries, I ask them how much of their car can be recycled? Since mine can be.
I get an 8 year warranty on the battery, so that part isn't a problem either.
I am of the mind that buying a hybrid shows interest. Interest that can translate into dollars. The manufacturers can then say "yes, this is something people will buy. Now let's make an even better one. Let's shoot for 70mpg..."
Since we all that nobody is going to force a car maker to build something efficient, if we buy the ones that are, maybe they'll move the process into the more mainstream vehicles.
I live in Colorado, we have some "hills" here. My Escape goes up as smoothly as it heads downhill.
Yes, it uses a lot more gas to go up hill. I lose a whole mile per gallon on a BIG incline (3000' elevation change) And on the downhill side of a BIG incline, my engine shuts off and I drive for free, my mpg goes up to where it was and then blows right on by.
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The press didn't cover it.
The press didn't ask him about it in interviews.
If you watched C-Span, you saw the stuff that wasn't shown on the major media sources.
And I don't think it would be 30 minutes. The press would find some reason to discount the person and their reasons, and we'd be on to the next news story about some celebrity's kids.
If you read the entire post, you can tell he's talking about IDC. That is on-topic.
The fact that they produce volumes of crap, and charge a great deal for it, is on topic.
My point was just that there should not be a reason for Intel's stock to do better on the prospect of a loss of profit.
The new corporate servers and workstations based on AMD's latest rev chips haven't really been released yet. That will be a good sign of how good Intel's new chips are.
Intel was the gold standard. Now they're the old standard. They have some work to do to make the stock worth picking up based on potential gains.
This would imply a significant source of free profit is being slashed. They're going to hope to make it up in volume, but they've got an uphill battle. Less profit in the stock should have reduced its value.
The amount of profit they had built in could absorb a class issue in the past. Now, an expensive problem with their chips could hurt their company even more. No more soft landing.
They have to prove they're better than AMD. While there are some that will buy the big name with the new pricing, there are a lot more that will stick with AMD.
Hee hee.
Shower the parent with mod points.
My player came out so early, that it came with 4 movies. 2 for kids, "In the Line of Fire" and some music video.
:-)
I bought my DVD player in 1997, because Star Wars would certainly come out right away to make use of this technology.
Good thing I didn't sell my Laserdisk player.
There was just something special about shooting the religious nuts in their hideout, and having them fire back with meson cannons and rockets.
But they need to have the 2nd FDD hack, so that you can start over, but with the same characters and all their gear. This way you're using the meson cannons against the rabbits.
You are a GOD.
He didn't say that everybody should stop what they're doing and start living in a hut.
Use less energy can mean:
Stop buying vehicles that are wasteful.
Stop driving 5 extra miles to save 8 cents on a loaf of bread.
Maybe investigate how to make 18-wheelers get 5mpg more than they do now.
Build a bike lane once in a while.
Don't give subsidies to companies that pollute when there are cleaner alternatives.
There are thousands of ways to reduce energy use. Many involve technology.
We can consume what we do now, and watch the population grow so that the total amount of energy consumed increases.
Or, we can reduce what we consume now and be more efficient. As the growth in the population occurs, energy use increases at a slower rate.
How hard would it be for us to tell energy companies, no subsidies for you. That money is going to buy insulation, and CF bulbs for every house in the country? Total electricity (therefore coal/gas) usage declines.
Sounded too scary, so Dept. of Defense was the new term.
Dept. of Peace is not far off.
This is a big one...
You made me snicker. It is a good day.
All I meant was that it was an accomplishment of a goal. To play a game that had the places I saw in my favorite movies.
Not a religious experience, but one of satisfaction.
Could it have been even better? Of course.
You left out:
Make sure to have one sign-in / credit card / account server for opening day. Have thousands of people, who took the day off from work to get their account signed up and the player name they wanted on day one, scream in agony as the system wouldn't let them in.
SWG broke my heart. I waited for that game for years. I played UO, which was fun, but wanted SWG. When they announced it, the screenshots started coming out, I got more excited. When I found out that you could set up equipment to mine resources rather than doing it myself, I got MORE excited.
I got the chills when I walked to Uncle Owen's place, Jabba's palace, etc.
I hope that some day, a real game can be run with the same visuals.
Disclaimer: I hate this situation with a passion. I've trained the outsourcer that replaced my friends, stuck on conference calls with people that have no interest in the product, just getting more business.
BUT
From a money-only view, the US manager's job is only to cut costs. It's where their bonuses come from.
Therefore, they COULD hire from the home country, and be expensive. OR they could get an outsourcer to do it, and get a huge bonus. AND if you're smart, you hire a middle-of-the-road outsourcer this year, and then begin pushing it to the cheaper one next year to show how good you are at cutting costs.
There is no loyalty to anybody. Their shareholders expect higher rate of return, which means more profit from lower costs.
These guys know their jobs are going to disappear at some point, so they're collecting bonuses and stock options.
I was just in a meeting where we were told that India wasn't going to stay competitive cost-wise.
So, we need to find companies to outsource to in countries that won't have a lot of competition.
They didn't mention telecom costs. In India, everybody wants the stuff, so they can charge what they want. But if you go where there are no companies to compete with, you bring new jobs, the government will pay for your telecom.
We just had an all employee meeting in tech support. Some high level assface came to town, and told everybody that we're toast.
The point was, that no matter what skill level we possess, our customers won't pay for it. If we could get a ferret to answer the phone, and do it for cheaper than India, we'd do that.
I personally believe the point is to make customers stop calling, because no calls is cheaper than crappy calls.
The arrogance that the customer will buy on cost, no matter how they're treated, is amazing.
We asked, is our company interested in retaining the skills that we have? Nope. You're too expensive. Take an 80% paycut, and you become cost competitive. But, we don't want you, even if you COULD take that pay cut.
Oh, and no raises. We don't want you to think that we value you. Please quit, it's cheaper than paying severance packages.
https://secure4.ingdirect.com/tpw/InitialINGDirect .html?command=displayLogin&device=web&locale=en_US
ING started by notifying customers it was changing, and now it's here.
Any ING customer used to their old login knew they were typing fractions of numbers to begin with. Now they don't type their pin number ever.
Tax credits are good.
And that isn't entirely true anymore for some of the panel technologies.
Considering that a solar panel is warranted for 20 years, and expected to last longer than that, I can't see that being a problem with amount of energy generated over time.
I will say this, I would have no problem with landfills 20 years from now filling up with solar panels. For that to happen, that would mean a lot were in use. And solar is best when you conserve on power use before sizing the system. In other words, if you use 60W bulbs and old appliances, you'll need a bigger system. A much more expensive system. If you use more efficient gear, THEN size your system, you'll end up with a much less expensive one. If people were buying energy efficient stuff, that would help everybody out.
The big change for solar will be when they can make it out of a lower grade silicon. Right now, the solar companies are fighting with the chip industry to get the good silicon. As soon as they get that right, and it's well underway, the prices should drop big again.
1: They are more expensive.
Until tax time. Or even sooner, depending on the state. In some states, you pay no state sales tax on the vehicle for it being a hybrid.
2: Batteries are expensive to replace.
My hybrid has an 8 year warranty on the battery. I will keep my vehicle way past that. But how many people do you know that only own a vehicle for 3-4 years? I've worked with people here for 5 years, and they've gone through 3 cars EACH since I've known them.
3: Batteries are not good for the environment.
Neither is smog. But to stay on point, batteries only hurt the environment when you chuck them in a landfill. If you recycle or trade out with the manufacturer, they get put to use again.
4: People who plugin are paying for electricity.
5: The electricity use above is non friendly.
Unless they have solar, wind, or other sources at their home. Many people advocating that idea have solar at home for just this reason.
My Escape handles hills very nicely.
Now, you do need to watch the cruise control. For some reason it revs to 4000-6000 rpm going up a hill in cruise.
When I turn off cruise and maintain my speed uphill, I can usually do it under 3000 rpm, and sometimes under 2000 where the sweetspot is.
Supporting something that is designed to pollute less and drink less gas is not a bad thing.
I don't understand why people freak out when people buy the best vehicle for their needs.
If you tow something once a year, that doesn't make up for driving a pickup the other 364 days.
If you live somewhere that gets major snowfall, a 4x4 is generally required. I can buy something that gets 12 mpg, or something that gets 30mpg.
Where I live, an Insight, and all those lovely commuters everybody here is saying to get, turn into snowmounds. They can't get on the road, they have such little clearance they get stuck easy.
People I work with are MAD that I get good mileage in my Escape Hybrid. It may only be 33 mpg, but they get 12.
When the ones in the old beater tell me they get 40mpg, I ask them how the emissions are. THEY get mad because somehow that makes them evil. I explain that I bought a vehicle that can handle snow, get good mpg in the process, and not pollute (well, not much)
When they tell me that my car is worse overall because of the nasty, evil batteries, I ask them how much of their car can be recycled? Since mine can be.
I get an 8 year warranty on the battery, so that part isn't a problem either.
I am of the mind that buying a hybrid shows interest. Interest that can translate into dollars. The manufacturers can then say "yes, this is something people will buy. Now let's make an even better one. Let's shoot for 70mpg..."
Since we all that nobody is going to force a car maker to build something efficient, if we buy the ones that are, maybe they'll move the process into the more mainstream vehicles.
If it's the Ford Escape, something's wrong.
I live in Colorado, we have some "hills" here. My Escape goes up as smoothly as it heads downhill.
Yes, it uses a lot more gas to go up hill. I lose a whole mile per gallon on a BIG incline (3000' elevation change) And on the downhill side of a BIG incline, my engine shuts off and I drive for free, my mpg goes up to where it was and then blows right on by.