Yeah, it is called 'Enhancing Shareholder Value' these days
The current variation on the theme involves identifying employees that are owed pensions, converting said pensions (long term debt held by the Company) into 401k's, owned by the employee (at a rate below what the pension should have paid out at), then removing the employee from their position while replacing them with contract labor
This looks really great on the balance sheet, but faces long-term viability as companies face loss of job knowledge and higher long-term contracting costs, that outweigh the fudged numbers they used to make the idea look feasible. Unfortunately, the ass-hats that come up with these ideas usually get bonuses and leave their positions before the shit hits the fans and shareholders are left holding the bag of a broken company and out of control contracting fees
Yes, but Oracle currently charges licensing based on the number of cores you are running their software one, databases in particular.
The massive number of cores in this chip (and transistor count increases with core count) would lead to large licensing fees, unless Oracle creates a means to limit the cores that their product runs on based on licensing
In the 90's it was pretty popular to tie application licensing to a CPU ID, I wonder if something similar would come into play here
Apparently you missed my inherent snarkiness, having attended said "party school" and encountered prejudiced behavior like the GP refers to. Not that anybody from Berkeley has ever behaved that way;)
If the red, green and blue lasers can be 'tuned' for intensity then it can produce colors in the RGB colorspace, which is not necessarily the "full spectrum of visible colors"
To go a bit further, given cushy enough tools (Dreamweaver comes to mind), any damn fool can put something out there. Will it be useful, or will it actually hamper the work that people are trying to do? That is a good question
What it comes down to, in my mind, is whether are not decent tools are being made available to people who are capable of producing something useful, or beautiful, from them
The common availability of the tools to create software, and the elimination of outrageous barriers to their use seems to be the goal to me
If we accomplish that, then people who have creativity, logic, etc will be able to create software that enables the people who use it to accomplish tasks, perform work, enjoy their lives entertain others, etc...
That seems to be what we should want, rather than some notion that every damn fool will be able to create software
Bang! thank you for saving me from my foggy memory:)
I tried looking up anything from Heinlein that fit my memories and couldn't find a trace, read a summary from wikipedia on Skylark series and it did not sound familiar, but you hit it dead on.
That would be pretty hilarious, although I would hope to have some compact fission/fusion reactor with about twice the expected life of the trip as a primary power source...
Things do go wrong... I remember an old Heinlein story where Cu (I think) was used to power their star-drive and somebody sent him and another astronaut on a 'one way trip to oblivion'.
They managed to react enough copper out of her wedding band to effect an escape, since Heinlein only killed a few of his protagonists
This could provide a basis for a 'constant acceleration drive', that could travel interstellar distances without requiring a reaction mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Switches and routers http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=85......have no existing US tariffs, and we would benefit from other countries dropping their barriers to trade
However, stereoscopic microscopes enjoy a 5-7% US tariff, and will see competition
It will take a while to sort out, but this may work in our advantage
They have whipped their base up into a rabid mob, there is little else they could do to get their attention besides demanding that she be burned as a witch
In this case the 'receiving antenna' is the belly of the spacecraft, which is covered in ceramic tiles designed to covert the energy into heat and act as a heat exchanger. This introduces interesting problems with targeting since the large ground array all needs to hit the same few hundred square feet of target
Microwave provides source of energy by targeting heat-absorbing material Heat exchanger is used to heat and compress Hydrogen to 150 atmospheres Hydrogen is fed to aerospike nozzle, which provide impulse thrust gt 750 seconds Claims launcher will be able to provide 8% to 12% of total weight as cargo
Right now most of the website is pretty pictures and videos, time will tell
Great find, it is important to remember our history in order to avoid repeating it
The lies that the neo-cons would eventually use to justify war on Iraq are clearly laid out on the front page: " Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam’s secrets"
What we found out after destroying the country and destabilizing the region was that the inspectors had been COMPLETELY effective in wiping out Saddam's weapons programs and that they only evidence that they were ever able to find came fro munitions created with Western aid in the 80's when Iraq was at war with Iran.
Even more important, it contains the list of 'signatories' to the lies. We should never forget who these people are and NEVER let them gain control of our government again: Elliott Abrams - Richard L. Armitage - William J. Bennett - Jeffrey Bergner - John Bolton - Paula Dobriansky - Francis Fukuyama - Robert Kagan - Zalmay Khalilzad - William Kristol - Richard Perle - Peter W. Rodman - Donald Rumsfeld - William Schneider, Jr. - Vin Weber - Paul Wolfowitz - R. James Woolsey - Robert B. Zoellick
Convenient when your chart cuts off at 2007 when military spending peaked again in 2010 to similar levels that we saw in the 80's http://www.usgovernmentspendin...
I suppose that I could fall into the mud with you and trade insults, but I am satisfied that it would provide little entertainment and prove me to be no less correct than I am now
Have a nice evening cold, it is always fun exchanging ideas with you
You do realize that it is the government that created, enabled, and permits the situation as is, right?
Delicious cold, you almost manage to describe a world where corporate interests stand silently on the sidelines while those wacky government types run roughshod over the public
Hilarious, you should play the straight-man on some comedy duo. We have all followed the hue and cry from the corporation about how they need foreign workers to compete because there just are not enough capable American workers to fill the slots. Disney just managed to go too far, too publicly and as a result shit the bed for the rest of them by demonstrating that the words that helped to push policies may not have been the truth
"Perpetual war" driven by business, is not so much a "load of bull"
I think that you can look to the words of Eisenhower to "beware the military industrial complex", followed by MacNamara's application of capitalist business practices to the waging of war to see the seed that the current conditions of "perpetual war" have sprung from
There was a lot of money to be made as long as there was a USSR 'wolf'' at the gates. We could spend a terrific amount of money on military spending without actually having to go to war. After the dissolution of the USSR we transitioned to relatively bloodless military campaigns where the tools that we developed to fight the USSR were used effectively to crush those same weapons in the hands of countries that had enjoyed Soviet sponsorship
Iraq 2 and Afghanistan demonstrated the failures of going past air wars and quick tank campaigns and getting stuck in the slog where a motivated local with a IED was as effective as million dollar machines and highly trained troops. The miscalculation continued to pour money into the coffers of the military funded corporations, but it stressed the tolerance of the American public
I have every reason to believe that Romney would have gathered the same group of advisers around him that had encouraged W to go too far and pushed their propagandizing of the Red states to new heights in hopes of dragging a few trillion more dollars out of the American public while turning the odometer over from IRAQ to IRAN, as a popular poster in US military sites so proudly proclaimed
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Yeah, it is called 'Enhancing Shareholder Value' these days
The current variation on the theme involves identifying employees that are owed pensions, converting said pensions (long term debt held by the Company) into 401k's, owned by the employee (at a rate below what the pension should have paid out at), then removing the employee from their position while replacing them with contract labor
This looks really great on the balance sheet, but faces long-term viability as companies face loss of job knowledge and higher long-term contracting costs, that outweigh the fudged numbers they used to make the idea look feasible. Unfortunately, the ass-hats that come up with these ideas usually get bonuses and leave their positions before the shit hits the fans and shareholders are left holding the bag of a broken company and out of control contracting fees
Yes, but Oracle currently charges licensing based on the number of cores you are running their software one, databases in particular.
The massive number of cores in this chip (and transistor count increases with core count) would lead to large licensing fees, unless Oracle creates a means to limit the cores that their product runs on based on licensing
In the 90's it was pretty popular to tie application licensing to a CPU ID, I wonder if something similar would come into play here
With 32 cores, this chip must have the Oracle licensing people very excited
Apparently you missed my inherent snarkiness, having attended said "party school" and encountered prejudiced behavior like the GP refers to. ;)
Not that anybody from Berkeley has ever behaved that way
If the red, green and blue lasers can be 'tuned' for intensity then it can produce colors in the RGB colorspace, which is not necessarily the "full spectrum of visible colors"
Yeah, plus it came from a "party school", not one of those elite left or right coast schools
"anybody can write crappy apps." FTFY
To go a bit further, given cushy enough tools (Dreamweaver comes to mind), any damn fool can put something out there. Will it be useful, or will it actually hamper the work that people are trying to do? That is a good question
What it comes down to, in my mind, is whether are not decent tools are being made available to people who are capable of producing something useful, or beautiful, from them
The common availability of the tools to create software, and the elimination of outrageous barriers to their use seems to be the goal to me
If we accomplish that, then people who have creativity, logic, etc will be able to create software that enables the people who use it to accomplish tasks, perform work, enjoy their lives entertain others, etc...
That seems to be what we should want, rather than some notion that every damn fool will be able to create software
Bang! thank you for saving me from my foggy memory :)
I tried looking up anything from Heinlein that fit my memories and couldn't find a trace, read a summary from wikipedia on Skylark series and it did not sound familiar, but you hit it dead on.
That would be pretty hilarious, although I would hope to have some compact fission/fusion reactor with about twice the expected life of the trip as a primary power source...
Things do go wrong... I remember an old Heinlein story where Cu (I think) was used to power their star-drive and somebody sent him and another astronaut on a 'one way trip to oblivion'.
They managed to react enough copper out of her wedding band to effect an escape, since Heinlein only killed a few of his protagonists
This could provide a basis for a 'constant acceleration drive', that could travel interstellar distances without requiring a reaction mass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's because we are tired from telling all them damn kids at reddit to get offa our lawn
MRI machines
http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=re...
Have no US tariff, this would allow us to sell more machines overseas to countries that have just eliminated their tariffs
You can look up the products and see which ones have US-sided tariffs that are being eliminated
For example, non-volatile memory
http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=85...
Switches and routers ...have no existing US tariffs, and we would benefit from other countries dropping their barriers to trade
http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=85...
However, stereoscopic microscopes enjoy a 5-7% US tariff, and will see competition
It will take a while to sort out, but this may work in our advantage
I took it that the juice cleanse was terrifically effective and they lost control of their bowels
But, I have a potty-mind
Don't forget the GOP rule, "No backsies"
In the summary they mention that they had retired Foreign Personnel reviewing information to determine if it was classified or not.
So, apparently there was an attempt to identify classified information, and a dispute of what should have been deemed classified.
It would seem that is where the quibbling is, unless they intentionally ignored the advice of these reviewers
They have whipped their base up into a rabid mob, there is little else they could do to get their attention besides demanding that she be burned as a witch
Yeah, I tried to cover that under item 4 with "goes over procurement and QA processes all struts and bolts"
Admittedly not a "smoking gun" sort of statement, just *ahem* a summary
In this case the 'receiving antenna' is the belly of the spacecraft, which is covered in ceramic tiles designed to covert the energy into heat and act as a heat exchanger. This introduces interesting problems with targeting since the large ground array all needs to hit the same few hundred square feet of target
There is a whitepaper linked from the company website:
http://escapedynamics.com/wp-c...
The short story
Microwave provides source of energy by targeting heat-absorbing material
Heat exchanger is used to heat and compress Hydrogen to 150 atmospheres
Hydrogen is fed to aerospike nozzle, which provide impulse thrust gt 750 seconds
Claims launcher will be able to provide 8% to 12% of total weight as cargo
Right now most of the website is pretty pictures and videos, time will tell
Great find, it is important to remember our history in order to avoid repeating it
The lies that the neo-cons would eventually use to justify war on Iraq are clearly laid out on the front page:
" Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam’s secrets"
What we found out after destroying the country and destabilizing the region was that the inspectors had been COMPLETELY effective in wiping out Saddam's weapons programs and that they only evidence that they were ever able to find came fro munitions created with Western aid in the 80's when Iraq was at war with Iran.
Even more important, it contains the list of 'signatories' to the lies. We should never forget who these people are and NEVER let them gain control of our government again:
Elliott Abrams - Richard L. Armitage - William J. Bennett - Jeffrey Bergner - John Bolton - Paula Dobriansky - Francis Fukuyama - Robert Kagan - Zalmay Khalilzad - William Kristol - Richard Perle - Peter W. Rodman - Donald Rumsfeld - William Schneider, Jr. - Vin Weber - Paul Wolfowitz - R. James Woolsey - Robert B. Zoellick
Convenient when your chart cuts off at 2007 when military spending peaked again in 2010 to similar levels that we saw in the 80's
http://www.usgovernmentspendin...
I suppose that I could fall into the mud with you and trade insults, but I am satisfied that it would provide little entertainment and prove me to be no less correct than I am now
Have a nice evening cold, it is always fun exchanging ideas with you
You do realize that it is the government that created, enabled, and permits the situation as is, right?
Delicious cold, you almost manage to describe a world where corporate interests stand silently on the sidelines while those wacky government types run roughshod over the public
Hilarious, you should play the straight-man on some comedy duo. We have all followed the hue and cry from the corporation about how they need foreign workers to compete because there just are not enough capable American workers to fill the slots. Disney just managed to go too far, too publicly and as a result shit the bed for the rest of them by demonstrating that the words that helped to push policies may not have been the truth
"Perpetual war" driven by business, is not so much a "load of bull"
I think that you can look to the words of Eisenhower to "beware the military industrial complex", followed by MacNamara's application of capitalist business practices to the waging of war to see the seed that the current conditions of "perpetual war" have sprung from
There was a lot of money to be made as long as there was a USSR 'wolf'' at the gates. We could spend a terrific amount of money on military spending without actually having to go to war. After the dissolution of the USSR we transitioned to relatively bloodless military campaigns where the tools that we developed to fight the USSR were used effectively to crush those same weapons in the hands of countries that had enjoyed Soviet sponsorship
Iraq 2 and Afghanistan demonstrated the failures of going past air wars and quick tank campaigns and getting stuck in the slog where a motivated local with a IED was as effective as million dollar machines and highly trained troops. The miscalculation continued to pour money into the coffers of the military funded corporations, but it stressed the tolerance of the American public
I have every reason to believe that Romney would have gathered the same group of advisers around him that had encouraged W to go too far and pushed their propagandizing of the Red states to new heights in hopes of dragging a few trillion more dollars out of the American public while turning the odometer over from IRAQ to IRAN, as a popular poster in US military sites so proudly proclaimed
Oh cold, you crack me up
"Romney was right", on an article that demonstrates the dangers of allowing business to pursue profits without government support for the worker
Irony much?