First, Galileo was a Mathematician and a Physicist and not a satellite or meteor as the article falsely claims. His full name was Galileo Galilei. He had other minor interests in Music, Weaving, Religion and Philosophy too. He was prosecuted and persecuted, by some church people in Europe, until he died of it. He never returned back after that.
Coming to the topic of Europeans, ask me and I will tell you what I as a European feel. But please stop speculating about what Europeans think. It's the feelings that are more important than thinking and that's what's keeping the EU united. Of course, the Germans are an exception to this. And also the Italians and the Spaniards. The Catholic dominated countries are a weak link in the EU.
To stop buying everything is an extreme. You will have a hard time getting any supporters for it. Instead, ask people to stop buying useless trinkets. Like the iPhone's, the Android tablets, Coca-colas, Bonobos Khakis, Cadillac's, Nike's etc. My parents never had any of these things and even now they are not impressed one bit with all these trinkets. Yet, they lead a very happy and contended life. If you think about it, corporations lure you into buying supposedly "cool" stuff. They are in the business of creating the cool. Putting it out on the street and building a cult out of it. That's when you apply the brakes on your rationality and let the emotion take it on from there. And that's exactly what the B-school educated corporate managers love. Once you are in the emotion mode, they can take you on a roller-coaster drive to anywhere. That's where all the big margins and big money is. Don't succumb to emotion in materialistic matters. Hey! But that's the way wealth gets re-distributed in capitalism. Besides, if people stop buying stuff, many will become jobless. Materialism. That's the bedrock on which we have produced our sprawling populace. That is until the machines take over.
Banks: Seriously, I think all the banks should be nationalized. Bankers have no incentive to run the banks safely. They want to expand their books as fast as they can. They want to show they have a huge spread on their books. And then they want to turn the spread into profits NOW. What incentive do they have to ensure the quality of their assets? High quality assets are a low margin business. It's the low quality assets that are available in abundance and that's where all the big margins are. At least in the short term. Who cares for the long-term anyways? In the long-term we are all dead. The bankers then use jump-processes, diffusion equations, stochastic calculus, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, Alice in the wonderland, "what ever shows you are dumb and they are smart" to cover up the "quality" of their assets. Profits!
That's the difference between Wall street bankers and the rest of the folks. And that's probably why Wall street bankers take huge paychecks, while the rest of the folks just pass money for "What will my so called friends and colleagues think about me?".
Now that prior art does not matter, first to file for a patent is the owner. Microsoft filed for patents for this idea that it ripped off from Mono. Also, a few years down the line, their patent for linked lists will be valid in the courts.
Gerstner was a tough, no-nonsense guy. Just like Bartz. Both were good at streamlining operations, cutting jobs, cutting costs, improving the bottom-line etc. Had Gerstner been the CEO of Yahoo, I bet he would have screwed up too. The thing is, it's just not their forte.
Yahoo needed/needs a visionary, someone who can give it a direction, and a sense of purpose. Someone who can cull the wrong people, and put the right people in charge to realize the dream. Technology is no retail or brick and mortar business. It's no AutoCAD too.
I am willing to be hired for the position of a CEO for any company. I know how to screw up a company. I am really really good at it. I am also really good at taking a big severance pay check. Any takers? Please...!!
That's not at all an easy task. Spotting talent is really hard. You hire one bozo at the top, and soon enough than you realize, the entire place will be overflowing with bozo's. Yeah... bozo's are good for billable projects.
Microsoft has a long long history of screwing up every one of their allies to their own advantage. And some how there are companies that still tend to think... "This time it's going to be different". Unbelievable! You put your head in the lions mouth and, for once, it might be different. Not with MSFT.
AutoCAD had no competitors who were the likes of Google and friends. AutoCAD had (and still has) management/operations thinking competitors. So common sense (which is not so common) worked for her there. Same goes with Carly Fiorina. She had put a halt to R&D at HP and went the operations way like Dell and friends (acquiring compaq). Now that the margins in the computer hardware business have dried up, HP is limping and vacillating with no direction in sight. Both of them,... black swans.
India and China make up for 40% of that 7 billion population. Most of them are at the bottom of the pyramid/food-chain. There are fortunes to be made... at the bottom of the pyramid. Apple is doing it. Many Indians are starving to be able to afford an iPhone. It seems its a prestige issue in that country.
I ain't falling for that... Its no moon surface. Its the magnified image of Amoeba. You want me to see moon landing sites on the surface of an amoeba? I ain't no dumb a$$.
....If we can only drag a few billion other people past the threshold, humanity would be in good shape.
A few billion people can probably be dragged, but they will be dead eventually. You'll have to keep dragging a few billion people all the time. Like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar or Nithyananda, I'd rather prefer selling snake oil and mysticism.
I loved the last part that said "...but it happened significantly earlier than Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012". They are off by 2 yrs. Our company has hired them to do some "predictions" for them. Of course, for a ridiculously hefty price.
After nine months of tests, researchers in France have lost their head and they went.... "Gee... Henry was assassinated in 1610, and his head has been missing. We have a head here that dates back to the 17th century. How many people in the 17th century had a head? I guess not many. The portraits show that King Henry 1V indeed had a head. So this must be his head." To put the last nail in the coffin... we will ask one of the 'Perfumers' on the team to take a sniff and if it stinks it must be King Henry IV.
This news is 2 weeks old. I saw this very same video on youtube while I was searching for 3d cameras some two weeks ago. Was just curious as to what format the 3d cameras, if there are any, were storing their images in...
I have been waiting for 3d cameras to arrive for a long time now. Was imagining something that will probably shoot some kind of lasers may be, into the scene and capture the depth of the objects that I point to and reconstruct the scene in 3d. I don't think the camera in this video is portable enough. Meaning, it won't go far. It will most likely be like fusion in the tea cup.
Perl/Ruby? I don't think so. They might gain some tiny market share but that will be it. Python? May be a little more. Java may live on for a few more decades just like the other older programming languages from my fathers era still live on. But, I think the.NET platform is going to gain a whole lot of traction out of this mess. Unless there is new entrant into the scene, a counter weight to the M$ hegemony, that will be. May be Google GO? But it doesn't seem like Google is serious or in a hurry as yet. Got to wait and watch on that one.
Wow! I was looking for some resources to teach myself the basics of electronics... These look good... Thanks! Will these books get me to the stage where I will be able to troubleshoot circuits in common house-hold appliances too? Any suggestions for that?
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First, Galileo was a Mathematician and a Physicist and not a satellite or meteor as the article falsely claims. His full name was Galileo Galilei. He had other minor interests in Music, Weaving, Religion and Philosophy too. He was prosecuted and persecuted, by some church people in Europe, until he died of it. He never returned back after that.
Coming to the topic of Europeans, ask me and I will tell you what I as a European feel. But please stop speculating about what Europeans think. It's the feelings that are more important than thinking and that's what's keeping the EU united. Of course, the Germans are an exception to this. And also the Italians and the Spaniards. The Catholic dominated countries are a weak link in the EU.
Certainly not Church. Because, most computer scientists are agnostic so they won't remember Church. Post? Email is faster, cheaper, and greener.
To stop buying everything is an extreme. You will have a hard time getting any supporters for it. Instead, ask people to stop buying useless trinkets. Like the iPhone's, the Android tablets, Coca-colas, Bonobos Khakis, Cadillac's, Nike's etc. My parents never had any of these things and even now they are not impressed one bit with all these trinkets. Yet, they lead a very happy and contended life. If you think about it, corporations lure you into buying supposedly "cool" stuff. They are in the business of creating the cool. Putting it out on the street and building a cult out of it. That's when you apply the brakes on your rationality and let the emotion take it on from there. And that's exactly what the B-school educated corporate managers love. Once you are in the emotion mode, they can take you on a roller-coaster drive to anywhere. That's where all the big margins and big money is. Don't succumb to emotion in materialistic matters. Hey! But that's the way wealth gets re-distributed in capitalism. Besides, if people stop buying stuff, many will become jobless. Materialism. That's the bedrock on which we have produced our sprawling populace. That is until the machines take over.
Banks: Seriously, I think all the banks should be nationalized. Bankers have no incentive to run the banks safely. They want to expand their books as fast as they can. They want to show they have a huge spread on their books. And then they want to turn the spread into profits NOW. What incentive do they have to ensure the quality of their assets? High quality assets are a low margin business. It's the low quality assets that are available in abundance and that's where all the big margins are. At least in the short term. Who cares for the long-term anyways? In the long-term we are all dead. The bankers then use jump-processes, diffusion equations, stochastic calculus, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, Alice in the wonderland, "what ever shows you are dumb and they are smart" to cover up the "quality" of their assets. Profits!
That's the difference between Wall street bankers and the rest of the folks. And that's probably why Wall street bankers take huge paychecks, while the rest of the folks just pass money for "What will my so called friends and colleagues think about me?".
Now that prior art does not matter, first to file for a patent is the owner. Microsoft filed for patents for this idea that it ripped off from Mono. Also, a few years down the line, their patent for linked lists will be valid in the courts.
MSFT trading at 9 P/E.
Gerstner was a tough, no-nonsense guy. Just like Bartz. Both were good at streamlining operations, cutting jobs, cutting costs, improving the bottom-line etc. Had Gerstner been the CEO of Yahoo, I bet he would have screwed up too. The thing is, it's just not their forte.
Yahoo needed/needs a visionary, someone who can give it a direction, and a sense of purpose. Someone who can cull the wrong people, and put the right people in charge to realize the dream. Technology is no retail or brick and mortar business. It's no AutoCAD too.
I am willing to be hired for the position of a CEO for any company. I know how to screw up a company. I am really really good at it. I am also really good at taking a big severance pay check. Any takers? Please...!!
That's not at all an easy task. Spotting talent is really hard. You hire one bozo at the top, and soon enough than you realize, the entire place will be overflowing with bozo's. Yeah... bozo's are good for billable projects.
Microsoft has a long long history of screwing up every one of their allies to their own advantage. And some how there are companies that still tend to think... "This time it's going to be different". Unbelievable! You put your head in the lions mouth and, for once, it might be different. Not with MSFT.
AutoCAD had no competitors who were the likes of Google and friends. AutoCAD had (and still has) management/operations thinking competitors. So common sense (which is not so common) worked for her there. Same goes with Carly Fiorina. She had put a halt to R&D at HP and went the operations way like Dell and friends (acquiring compaq). Now that the margins in the computer hardware business have dried up, HP is limping and vacillating with no direction in sight. Both of them, ... black swans.
India and China make up for 40% of that 7 billion population. Most of them are at the bottom of the pyramid/food-chain. There are fortunes to be made... at the bottom of the pyramid. Apple is doing it. Many Indians are starving to be able to afford an iPhone. It seems its a prestige issue in that country.
I don't know what it means for humanity, but its no good for the planet. It better sort this out before its too late.
I ain't falling for that... Its no moon surface. Its the magnified image of Amoeba. You want me to see moon landing sites on the surface of an amoeba? I ain't no dumb a$$.
Can't agree more. Its really a very useful tool.
God is outside the big-bang. Didn't you see it on Family Guy?
"It all started with a Big Bang. God and his roommate Chugs were arm wrestling when...."
A few billion people can probably be dragged, but they will be dead eventually. You'll have to keep dragging a few billion people all the time.
Like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar or Nithyananda, I'd rather prefer selling snake oil and mysticism.
ACL's? group based authorization? Lets stick to the point... we are talking about Vodafone here.
I loved the last part that said "...but it happened significantly earlier than Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012". They are off by 2 yrs. Our company has hired them to do some "predictions" for them. Of course, for a ridiculously hefty price.
After nine months of tests, researchers in France have lost their head and they went .... "Gee... Henry was assassinated in 1610, and his head has been missing. We have a head here that dates back to the 17th century. How many people in the 17th century had a head? I guess not many. The portraits show that King Henry 1V indeed had a head. So this must be his head." To put the last nail in the coffin... we will ask one of the 'Perfumers' on the team to take a sniff and if it stinks it must be King Henry IV.
And it gets published in a medical journal!
This news is 2 weeks old. I saw this very same video on youtube while I was searching for 3d cameras some two weeks ago. Was just curious as to what format the 3d cameras, if there are any, were storing their images in...
I have been waiting for 3d cameras to arrive for a long time now. Was imagining something that will probably shoot some kind of lasers may be, into the scene and capture the depth of the objects that I point to and reconstruct the scene in 3d. I don't think the camera in this video is portable enough. Meaning, it won't go far. It will most likely be like fusion in the tea cup.
Perl/Ruby? I don't think so. They might gain some tiny market share but that will be it. Python? May be a little more. Java may live on for a few more decades just like the other older programming languages from my fathers era still live on. But, I think the .NET platform is going to gain a whole lot of traction out of this mess. Unless there is new entrant into the scene, a counter weight to the M$ hegemony, that will be. May be Google GO? But it doesn't seem like Google is serious or in a hurry as yet. Got to wait and watch on that one.
Yeah! IBM signed a deal with Oracle. But, still, Oracle will f**k IBM just for laughs and lashings.
No. They won't. I bet.
I think TSA is more worried about the pistol in your pocket than razors blades or box cutters.
Wow! I was looking for some resources to teach myself the basics of electronics... These look good... Thanks! Will these books get me to the stage where I will be able to troubleshoot circuits in common house-hold appliances too? Any suggestions for that?