Dell may not go private with 2 large stockholders resisting the deal. I still see no evidence of total commitment to unique products @ Dell, so they are just a commodity business. I hear no raves about Dell as a technology leader.
HP used to be that way. Carly essentially tossed a lot of engineering and development overboard.
Can HP save itself with a robust and market leading memristor technology, like ink-jet printing once did?
In very large public corporations the CEO is concerned with "managing numbers & people".
To lead in a technology arena, you need to really focus on long term strategic leading edge R&D.
I don't see evidence of that at HP & Dell. It is too easy for their CEO to say "We are acquiring our technology by buying companies." Has that worked out well?
Let anyone and everyone uneducated in and the Democrats can convince those people that the government is their only savior, as opposed to education, and the Democrats will keep most of those uneducated in the Democrat party, keeping the Democrats in power.
If we restrict immigration, the retiring boomers who vote more conservatively will not keep the Democrats in WDC.
A Crucial consumer SSD (yeah I know, not a CPU) stopped, instantaneously.
Answer from Crucial: "Update Firmware". Updating involved the consumer understanding how to use cryptic commands in various states of the pre-boot process on a 2nd machine running Windows with wording no consumer would have ever likely understood and then used in a command line.
Companies who sell things like this without having adequate software and instructions do not DESERVE TO BE SUPPORTED by consumers.
CRA was first. The wonderful Carter presidency put upon the country the Community Reinvestment Act in order to give people mortgages who didn't have the incomes and assets to justify giving them a loan. Private businesses are very well able to judge who can pay them back their money they loan and have been making those decisions since our country was founded.
But the CRA caused banks to say "We will lose money doing this." Hence, all of the powers inside the WDC beltway said, "We will let Freddie & Fanny buy your banks loans." At that point the risk had been transferred to those quasi public groups. But then F& F said "We can't hold onto all of this risky paper." Only then did the powers that be, inside the WDC beltway, allow the creation of these mortgage pools.
The powers that be included the SEC, Treasury Dept., GAO, FAB, etc. This was a train running downhill out of control since day one. Every person who tried to stop it was shoved off the train.
One political party that wanted to curry the vote from the population least able to afford a loan was behind this and stopped all efforts to cut the program (& Barney Frank knows this is true as he stopped many efforts).
If I had listened to all the people who said "you can't do that" or "It won't work" or "noone has ever done that", I would have given up inventing things long ago and taken up law so I could punish people for succeeding.
You never know what you will find until you conduct the experiments.
You never know how far you go until you finish failing.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are obviously not in the medical business.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity. Regulation by the government (mostly for safety & efficacy) is just another business expense, like fuel, that all players pay. The price to enter the game.
I have spent over $1m with my partner over 5 years to develop a product and get it FDA cleared for sale with 3 patents. We simply would not have started this project without knowing we could patent what we do, because otherwise J&J and P&G would both copy our product starting the day we released it publicly.
There would then be almost no way to make our investment back at that point, without patents.
P&G and J&J can compete with us, but they can't do it by just copying. They will have to invent something even better that gets the results a different way. That is progress. Mankind has progressed this way at the fastest rate in the history of man, and virtually all of it in the last 200 years. Patents drive innovation. Ordinary citizens benefit from the release from drudgery as a result. It only took about a century to relieve about 80% of the population involved in hard physical farm work down to 5% of the population in farm work, supported mostly by farm machinery inventions.
I am sick of the lack of knowledge (lack in the education system) of how mankind has advanced and how the business process aids new products when people can spend years of hard work and spending of large sums of money with no guarantee at all of success, but knowing that if they can get limited time protection for their work they can then have a chance to profit.
Simulation of being just a bit further away from the Sun sounds like it would effect what happened in the Maunder Minimum, with reduced Solar output where millions of people starved to death in Europe alone.
Pass a failed law: Go to Jail. Politicians need to have fear of jail. Obamacare would have never ever passed.
What is missed is that "when you are to big to fail", you got that way by hiring ex-politicians, using lobbyists and donating huge sums to politicians in return for writing favorable laws.
In return politicians want "a return", so they put rules on things like the banks in order to satisfy their political party or favorite group.
The Community Reinvestment Act was obviously at the root of the MMM (mortgage meltdown mess), but we don't see any laws making politicians go to jail for having voted for that law and then failing to eliminate or restructure it when it was known it was going out of control.
But the only one who will win will be your lawyer who makes his condo payments from your fees if you follow ReadAholic's plan.
You go to a patent litigator after studying the claim, the length the patent has to run before expiring and tell the attorney you will pay him for one hours work to send a forceful "You don't deserve anything." letter and the reasons why (suggested by other readers here on Slashdot).
" I wonder how much a system would cost that could switch my light from green to red if it detected a vehicle approaching from a red-lit direction at dangerous speeds. Can you think of an other alternative uses for these cameras?"
Hey, I will go for that and just keep my pedal to the metal...unless you do the same and then we are in deep too doo.
Cycling an air conditioner quickly can do bad things quickly if the air conditioner itself doesn't have modern controls to limit power cycling. That can get very expensive, though I don't necessarily think it is dangerous.
The technology is doable with current technology and works in reliable constant deep ocean streams which don't affect anything on land and darn near nothing in the ocean.
How do you use truth and logic to reroute deeply held emotional or political beliefs.
Example: In the news today, we see Chicagoans more likely to die of gunshots than US citizens in Afganistan, while Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. That seems to be a fact. Meanwhile, a political frenzy supported by much reporting talks as if stiffer gun laws will stop criminals and crazies.
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Simply, I am against misuse of regulation for BIG REASONS.
Writers of the Declaration of Indepence & Constitution knew exactly what happens when a government turns tyrannical.
They had the entire history of the European arena to view tyrannical acts that reduced citizens to mere slave subjects or worse.
Big Governments are going to Bust this earth before the Boson Bust's us.
The KING has no clothes! He's big, brash, loud, a mega-shareholder and he is not managing right.
This discussion has been incredible. A virtual education in honey production & types plus the scammers.
It is a key reason Slashdot is in my bookmarks. I wish more news sources stuck to this mode.
Dell may not go private with 2 large stockholders resisting the deal. I still see no evidence of total commitment to unique products @ Dell, so they are just a commodity business. I hear no raves about Dell as a technology leader.
HP used to be that way. Carly essentially tossed a lot of engineering and development overboard.
Can HP save itself with a robust and market leading memristor technology, like ink-jet printing once did?
In very large public corporations the CEO is concerned with "managing numbers & people".
To lead in a technology arena, you need to really focus on long term strategic leading edge R&D.
I don't see evidence of that at HP & Dell. It is too easy for their CEO to say "We are acquiring our technology by buying companies." Has that worked out well?
Take a look at Panorama from www.provue.com.
Free demo for OSX & WIN
Thought the NYT was "eco-firendly w/electric and all...
Let anyone and everyone uneducated in and the Democrats can convince those people that the government is their only savior, as opposed to education, and the Democrats will keep most of those uneducated in the Democrat party, keeping the Democrats in power.
If we restrict immigration, the retiring boomers who vote more conservatively will not keep the Democrats in WDC.
A Crucial consumer SSD (yeah I know, not a CPU) stopped, instantaneously.
Answer from Crucial: "Update Firmware". Updating involved the consumer understanding how to use cryptic commands in various states of the pre-boot process on a 2nd machine running Windows with wording no consumer would have ever likely understood and then used in a command line.
Companies who sell things like this without having adequate software and instructions do not DESERVE TO BE SUPPORTED by consumers.
Canada had no "ZERO DOWN" loans and consequently no bank failures in the mortgage meltdown.
Smoke that in your pipes, all you smart WDC politicians. Canada was smart enough not to do stupid economic policy.
CRA was first. The wonderful Carter presidency put upon the country the Community Reinvestment Act in order to give people mortgages who didn't have the incomes and assets to justify giving them a loan. Private businesses are very well able to judge who can pay them back their money they loan and have been making those decisions since our country was founded.
But the CRA caused banks to say "We will lose money doing this." Hence, all of the powers inside the WDC beltway said, "We will let Freddie & Fanny buy your banks loans." At that point the risk had been transferred to those quasi public groups. But then F& F said "We can't hold onto all of this risky paper." Only then did the powers that be, inside the WDC beltway, allow the creation of these mortgage pools.
The powers that be included the SEC, Treasury Dept., GAO, FAB, etc. This was a train running downhill out of control since day one. Every person who tried to stop it was shoved off the train.
One political party that wanted to curry the vote from the population least able to afford a loan was behind this and stopped all efforts to cut the program (& Barney Frank knows this is true as he stopped many efforts).
If I had listened to all the people who said "you can't do that" or "It won't work" or "noone has ever done that", I would have given up inventing things long ago and taken up law so I could punish people for succeeding.
You never know what you will find until you conduct the experiments.
You never know how far you go until you finish failing.
Some great deals can be had on refurb'd demos or off lease units for a fraction of the price of a new machine.
All good quality laptops last many years at this point, so wouldn't worry about lifetime.
But I would put in an SSD post haste.
Any company that lets a 'new guy on the block' run with your ball for 6 years before you challenge him has been smoking way to much weed.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are obviously not in the medical business.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity. Regulation by the government (mostly for safety & efficacy) is just another business expense, like fuel, that all players pay. The price to enter the game.
I have spent over $1m with my partner over 5 years to develop a product and get it FDA cleared for sale with 3 patents. We simply would not have started this project without knowing we could patent what we do, because otherwise J&J and P&G would both copy our product starting the day we released it publicly.
There would then be almost no way to make our investment back at that point, without patents.
P&G and J&J can compete with us, but they can't do it by just copying. They will have to invent something even better that gets the results a different way. That is progress. Mankind has progressed this way at the fastest rate in the history of man, and virtually all of it in the last 200 years. Patents drive innovation. Ordinary citizens benefit from the release from drudgery as a result. It only took about a century to relieve about 80% of the population involved in hard physical farm work down to 5% of the population in farm work, supported mostly by farm machinery inventions.
I am sick of the lack of knowledge (lack in the education system) of how mankind has advanced and how the business process aids new products when people can spend years of hard work and spending of large sums of money with no guarantee at all of success, but knowing that if they can get limited time protection for their work they can then have a chance to profit.
Simulation of being just a bit further away from the Sun sounds like it would effect what happened in the Maunder Minimum, with reduced Solar output where millions of people starved to death in Europe alone.
Pass a failed law: Go to Jail. Politicians need to have fear of jail. Obamacare would have never ever passed.
What is missed is that "when you are to big to fail", you got that way by hiring ex-politicians, using lobbyists and donating huge sums to politicians in return for writing favorable laws.
In return politicians want "a return", so they put rules on things like the banks in order to satisfy their political party or favorite group.
The Community Reinvestment Act was obviously at the root of the MMM (mortgage meltdown mess), but we don't see any laws making politicians go to jail for having voted for that law and then failing to eliminate or restructure it when it was known it was going out of control.
Well at least today, we have inbred royals who don't pose the same sort of threat.
But the only one who will win will be your lawyer who makes his condo payments from your fees if you follow ReadAholic's plan.
You go to a patent litigator after studying the claim, the length the patent has to run before expiring and tell the attorney you will pay him for one hours work to send a forceful "You don't deserve anything." letter and the reasons why (suggested by other readers here on Slashdot).
That will be very worthwhile.
" I wonder how much a system would cost that could switch my light from green to red if it detected a vehicle approaching from a red-lit direction at dangerous speeds. Can you think of an other alternative uses for these cameras?"
Hey, I will go for that and just keep my pedal to the metal...unless you do the same and then we are in deep too doo.
Cycling an air conditioner quickly can do bad things quickly if the air conditioner itself doesn't have modern controls to limit power cycling. That can get very expensive, though I don't necessarily think it is dangerous.
The technology is doable with current technology and works in reliable constant deep ocean streams which don't affect anything on land and darn near nothing in the ocean.
How do you use truth and logic to reroute deeply held emotional or political beliefs.
Example:
In the news today, we see Chicagoans more likely to die of gunshots than US citizens in Afganistan, while Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. That seems to be a fact. Meanwhile, a political frenzy supported by much reporting talks as if stiffer gun laws will stop criminals and crazies.
You mean like Amazon?