That one takes the cake, in my opinion. (not like it'll matter on T-Mobile's network-- I'm much more impressed with the call quality [than T-Mobile's when I was with them] on MetroPCS when I'm in an EVDO area (they have that for voice in the major markets-- just not data).
Can't use that for business, some calls from VOIP office lines do not come to my Gvoice. I stumbled on this by chance while testing calling from work. I submitted a report about it. We'll see.
If you reply to the first post, it's almost just as good as having the 1st post. You get more views. So then the next guy replies to that reply, so on and so forth. Mods be on the lookout for offtopic.
Well, Obama had $1T to fix those bridges yet chose instead to pilfer it away on his contituents, ACORN, and etc. Spending on bridges is not "saving" though, it's merely maintenance. GDP is not going to increase after the bridges are completed.
The problem is not so much that their system is built on a variety of mercantilist dumping schemes
It wasn't malicious like you're making it sound. It was chance. Their state run economy is too busy shouting down dissenting opinions to listen to the economists that know what they're talking about-- that are telling them they're not doing their spending right if they want to actually benefit from their stimulus. Their state run economy just isn't as good as a free one, and when you do such things you get up creeks that are difficult to get back down without silly things like artificially restricting supply so that your companies don't lose all their investments (their investments being the stockpiling of reserves).
It's very unlikely this is malicious. Companies' raw material stockpiles have been growing this past year as our consumption has fallen->they have fewer people to sell to. It's more likely they are simply protecting themselves from a a deflationary spiral where one group seeks to preempt another and unleash all their raw goods onto the market, and then everyone else does. In other words, they're restricting supply, sorta like the banks are now allowed to do with the suspended mark-to-market rules: allowing banks to keep homes off the market artificially reflates the price of homes so that you and I have to pay more. This protects them from further writedowns-- they can just "pretend" that the houses are worth something, when in fact if they had to list the actual values of those homes on their books, they would be forced to go bankrupt causing the houses to enter the market causing a collapse in housing prices.
That was never really the point. In the mean time they've got their people employed, and they're benefiting from all our manufacturing and technology knowhow. If at the end we just print $1.3T to buy all their Treasuries, they'll still have their infrastructure, manufacturing base, and economy.
Whether or not they get money for their Treasuries is icing on the cake.
4 to 5 times as much what? Good by retail value? Mass? Volume? I ask because I don't think I could find anything non-consumable in my house (or garage, I have a Chinese motorcycle) that's not made in China. I have two French cars, but the Chinese bike is more reliable.
It's called a pebble-bed reactor, and the reaction is automatically limited in the mixture of uranium as the reactor heats up through a mechanism called neutron cross section broadening. It is failproof.
Your comment reminds me of a youtube video I watched recently. He briefly mentions this conflict of profit-interests that you brought up. The author condensed over 3 hours of TechTalks videos down into 16 minutes. It's the most comprehensive video covering Thorium reactors I've seen yet.
The 3rd generation of Atom processor is about what it's always been about-- lower power. Processor is ~10% faster clock/clock, but this time the graphics is integrated on the same silicon chip. AKA much lower power-- we're talking 12 hours on a 6cell battery instead of 5-6 with the GMA950 graphics chips that were on a 90nm process.
AMD does not have an Atom killer in the works. They would have announced it to keep shareholders happy. The ARM chips are SLOW for a desktop environment. Sure, they can accelerate 1080p video (so can my GMA500 in my netbook), but if Gnome is running at 8fps (yes, I saw it) then the processor is... not fast enough. The Atoms are much faster than ARM's offerings, and Windows 7 is faster and more resource friendly than Linux.
Windows 7 is the "netbook friendly" Windows version after Vista, so I'm not sure why you say Microsoft has not been netbook friendly. Just don't get one with Windows 7 Starter.
I'm sorry but your post just sounds like the typical "rah-rah-Linux Microsoft Sucks" post without the facts to back it up, just ranting.
I found my TI-83+ plenty motivating during my boring math classes (boring because I already knew, or was able to pick up very quickly, the new stuff we were learning). So I created a bunch of programs to solve all the things we were going to cover on the test. My teacher said if I had programmed them, I could use them. So I got to finish my test in 5 minutes and twiddle my thumbs while everybody else worked:). I wrote exhaustive programs that covered every single possible option or method that I would need to use for solving various stuffs. So it was just a matter of navigating through the menu, punching in the correct values, and writing down the answer. That was fun, also hats off to the teacher for not penalizing (but rather rewarding) creativity. I wouldn't worry about the fact that basic can be a mess-- he won't be creating anything large enough that matters. I usually knew what I wanted to program and could get it out pretty quick-- didn't need to bother with organization or "good coding practices". The important thing was that I began performing the mental exercise of having a nebulous need, and translating that into code, given the available options (IF, THEN, ELSE, STORE, etc). I tried picking up C++ when I was 12 but the syntax requirements were just far too much detail for me and were a huge barrier to entry. Basic didn't have any of that.
Then of course your kid can sell the programs to other students for whatever they're willing to pay. It will be an important lesson for him-- he will find, at a very young age, what I did-- that people expect your computer skills and work and coding for free, and get frustrated when you tell them they have to pay (even just $5, in my case) for it.
You jokesters are completely missing the point. For the guys at the top, it was never about whether or not they're 200-400x as productive. It's about luring talent to your company. The guy that has what the shareholders want already has gobs of money, and to get him to work 12 hour days 7 days a week you're going to have to make him feel like he's rapidly growing his nestegg, even though his nestegg is already $xx million.
Am growing tired of hearing all the greedy people fuss about someone making more money than them. So what-- grow up, life isn't fair. We're all still better off than pretty much the entire world.
And even if Henry Ford does end up with all your money, you're still driving a Ford instead of a horse and buggy. God forbid someone be thankful this holiday season. Instead it's just more more more more. He has 400x more take some of his and give it to me!!!
That's nice. They're wrong and misrepresenting the bible. If life begins at conception and there is no conception, there is no life. It can't be wrong.
Can repeated examinations of alpha be used to measure the positive effect of a strategy or is it merely a measure of the temporary perturbation and inevitable return to 2.5 because humans are after all humans and 2.5 merely represents the steady state of humans desire for coalescence vs fragmentation.
is about the best "correlation vs. causation" post I've seen lately. Correlation vs. Causation has turned into an overused meme IMO-- not around here, just digg and reddit.
If drugs were legalized, it would do a hell of a lot more good for poor communities than any sort of handout.
I suppose you think all those people selling drugs would just go find a job or something. No, they'd start robbing people. So then people would clamor for wider social safety nets. We need to realize we can't fix these problems with government. The problem is in the people.
theocrats never care about the consequences of their short sightedness
.
Funny I said that about the people that can't be bothered to bring a condom, so instead resort to killing what would otherwise one day have been a child in the real world.
My AO751h was $300 (after bing $50 of cashback), sports a 7.5h battery life on lowest brightness, has a full keyboard, and has a 1366x768 resolution screen. The GMA500 in it I've gotten to accelerate 1080p video as long as it's VC.1, AVC, or WMV9 (but only in DXVA checker for WMV9).It's amazing.
an ARM guy came to our institute to demo their $150 ARM system, it had Ubuntu on it, and while it could play 1080p HD video, the GUI was remarkably slow for normal tasks. Responsivity matters, and my Atom netbook certainly feels faster than that ARM+Linux.
Well let's see. The Taiwanese LCD producer Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) agreed to pay $220 million for violations over 5 years (2001-2006) which comes up to $44 million per year of violations.
CMO is a publicly traded company, for 2009 their net sales up to November has been almost $30 billion dollars.
I think it's safe to say that $44 million dollars a year is a drop in the bucket for them.
The other $640 million is divided across 5 other companies so far, which sets them about $128 million dollars each, or $25.6 million dollars a year.
Justice is served!
Who cares? Honestly I'm not sure I like this ruling. If the entire market can collude to get it done, then there's probably more than just a little reason for it to happen. IE, ALL producers of panels had sunk capital costs with the hope of recouping them, but weren't going to be able to. My concern: going forward, they won't be as bold in researching, investing in, and bringing to market new technologies. My 24" $300 8-bit P-MVA (aka NOT TN) panel I bought at least a year ago from ChiMei...is still an awesome deal and I'd buy it again. I think there are bigger guys we should be going after than LCD Panel makers...I mean seriously. Pick on someone your own size. Like Microsoft.
An interesting side effect of the DOJ's decision to force Microsoft to document more of their protocols was that internal Microsoft employees have found their job easier and the teams more efficient. I stumbled across this tidbit while research for a final paper about software patent (good/bad/why/alternatives). You can read about it here.
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That one takes the cake, in my opinion.
(not like it'll matter on T-Mobile's network-- I'm much more impressed with the call quality [than T-Mobile's when I was with them] on MetroPCS when I'm in an EVDO area (they have that for voice in the major markets-- just not data).
Can't use that for business, some calls from VOIP office lines do not come to my Gvoice. I stumbled on this by chance while testing calling from work. I submitted a report about it. We'll see.
If you reply to the first post, it's almost just as good as having the 1st post. You get more views. So then the next guy replies to that reply, so on and so forth. Mods be on the lookout for offtopic.
Well, Obama had $1T to fix those bridges yet chose instead to pilfer it away on his contituents, ACORN, and etc.
Spending on bridges is not "saving" though, it's merely maintenance. GDP is not going to increase after the bridges are completed.
The problem is not so much that their system is built on a variety of mercantilist dumping schemes
It wasn't malicious like you're making it sound. It was chance. Their state run economy is too busy shouting down dissenting opinions to listen to the economists that know what they're talking about-- that are telling them they're not doing their spending right if they want to actually benefit from their stimulus. Their state run economy just isn't as good as a free one, and when you do such things you get up creeks that are difficult to get back down without silly things like artificially restricting supply so that your companies don't lose all their investments (their investments being the stockpiling of reserves).
No they're not. It goes into US Treasuries and some went to securitized mortgages.
lol.
It's very unlikely this is malicious. Companies' raw material stockpiles have been growing this past year as our consumption has fallen->they have fewer people to sell to. It's more likely they are simply protecting themselves from a a deflationary spiral where one group seeks to preempt another and unleash all their raw goods onto the market, and then everyone else does. In other words, they're restricting supply, sorta like the banks are now allowed to do with the suspended mark-to-market rules: allowing banks to keep homes off the market artificially reflates the price of homes so that you and I have to pay more. This protects them from further writedowns-- they can just "pretend" that the houses are worth something, when in fact if they had to list the actual values of those homes on their books, they would be forced to go bankrupt causing the houses to enter the market causing a collapse in housing prices.
That was never really the point. In the mean time they've got their people employed, and they're benefiting from all our manufacturing and technology knowhow. If at the end we just print $1.3T to buy all their Treasuries, they'll still have their infrastructure, manufacturing base, and economy.
Whether or not they get money for their Treasuries is icing on the cake.
4 to 5 times as much what? Good by retail value? Mass? Volume? I ask because I don't think I could find anything non-consumable in my house (or garage, I have a Chinese motorcycle) that's not made in China. I have two French cars, but the Chinese bike is more reliable.
why so surprised?
It's called a pebble-bed reactor, and the reaction is automatically limited in the mixture of uranium as the reactor heats up through a mechanism called neutron cross section broadening.
It is failproof.
Your comment reminds me of a youtube video I watched recently. He briefly mentions this conflict of profit-interests that you brought up.
The author condensed over 3 hours of TechTalks videos down into 16 minutes. It's the most comprehensive video covering Thorium reactors I've seen yet.
The 3rd generation of Atom processor is about what it's always been about-- lower power. Processor is ~10% faster clock/clock, but this time the graphics is integrated on the same silicon chip. AKA much lower power-- we're talking 12 hours on a 6cell battery instead of 5-6 with the GMA950 graphics chips that were on a 90nm process.
AMD does not have an Atom killer in the works. They would have announced it to keep shareholders happy. ... not fast enough. The Atoms are much faster than ARM's offerings, and Windows 7 is faster and more resource friendly than Linux.
The ARM chips are SLOW for a desktop environment. Sure, they can accelerate 1080p video (so can my GMA500 in my netbook), but if Gnome is running at 8fps (yes, I saw it) then the processor is
Windows 7 is the "netbook friendly" Windows version after Vista, so I'm not sure why you say Microsoft has not been netbook friendly. Just don't get one with Windows 7 Starter.
I'm sorry but your post just sounds like the typical "rah-rah-Linux Microsoft Sucks" post without the facts to back it up, just ranting.
I found my TI-83+ plenty motivating during my boring math classes (boring because I already knew, or was able to pick up very quickly, the new stuff we were learning). :). I wrote exhaustive programs that covered every single possible option or method that I would need to use for solving various stuffs. So it was just a matter of navigating through the menu, punching in the correct values, and writing down the answer. That was fun, also hats off to the teacher for not penalizing (but rather rewarding) creativity.
So I created a bunch of programs to solve all the things we were going to cover on the test. My teacher said if I had programmed them, I could use them.
So I got to finish my test in 5 minutes and twiddle my thumbs while everybody else worked
I wouldn't worry about the fact that basic can be a mess-- he won't be creating anything large enough that matters. I usually knew what I wanted to program and could get it out pretty quick-- didn't need to bother with organization or "good coding practices". The important thing was that I began performing the mental exercise of having a nebulous need, and translating that into code, given the available options (IF, THEN, ELSE, STORE, etc). I tried picking up C++ when I was 12 but the syntax requirements were just far too much detail for me and were a huge barrier to entry. Basic didn't have any of that.
Then of course your kid can sell the programs to other students for whatever they're willing to pay.
It will be an important lesson for him-- he will find, at a very young age, what I did-- that people expect your computer skills and work and coding for free, and get frustrated when you tell them they have to pay (even just $5, in my case) for it.
You jokesters are completely missing the point. For the guys at the top, it was never about whether or not they're 200-400x as productive.
It's about luring talent to your company. The guy that has what the shareholders want already has gobs of money, and to get him to work 12 hour days 7 days a week you're going to have to make him feel like he's rapidly growing his nestegg, even though his nestegg is already $xx million.
Am growing tired of hearing all the greedy people fuss about someone making more money than them. So what-- grow up, life isn't fair. We're all still better off than pretty much the entire world.
And even if Henry Ford does end up with all your money, you're still driving a Ford instead of a horse and buggy.
God forbid someone be thankful this holiday season. Instead it's just more more more more. He has 400x more take some of his and give it to me!!!
FYI, I don't know many Christians like that; but then again I tend to hang out with ones more educated than that.
It's one of the biggest arguments for welfare.
That's nice. They're wrong and misrepresenting the bible. If life begins at conception and there is no conception, there is no life. It can't be wrong.
Solid post. This comment
Can repeated examinations of alpha be used to measure the positive effect of a strategy or is it merely a measure of the temporary perturbation and inevitable return to 2.5 because humans are after all humans and 2.5 merely represents the steady state of humans desire for coalescence vs fragmentation.
is about the best "correlation vs. causation" post I've seen lately.
Correlation vs. Causation has turned into an overused meme IMO-- not around here, just digg and reddit.
I think it's odd they felt the same way about a group of people that don't want dead what will one day otherwise become a child in the real world.
If drugs were legalized, it would do a hell of a lot more good for poor communities than any sort of handout.
I suppose you think all those people selling drugs would just go find a job or something.
No, they'd start robbing people. So then people would clamor for wider social safety nets.
We need to realize we can't fix these problems with government. The problem is in the people.
theocrats never care about the consequences of their short sightedness
.
Funny I said that about the people that can't be bothered to bring a condom, so instead resort to killing what would otherwise one day have been a child in the real world.
My AO751h was $300 (after bing $50 of cashback), sports a 7.5h battery life on lowest brightness, has a full keyboard, and has a 1366x768 resolution screen.
The GMA500 in it I've gotten to accelerate 1080p video as long as it's VC.1, AVC, or WMV9 (but only in DXVA checker for WMV9).It's amazing.
an ARM guy came to our institute to demo their $150 ARM system, it had Ubuntu on it, and while it could play 1080p HD video, the GUI was remarkably slow for normal tasks. Responsivity matters, and my Atom netbook certainly feels faster than that ARM+Linux.
Well let's see. The Taiwanese LCD producer Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) agreed to pay $220 million for violations over 5 years (2001-2006) which comes up to $44 million per year of violations.
CMO is a publicly traded company, for 2009 their net sales up to November has been almost $30 billion dollars.
CMO's market cap is $150 billion dollars.
I think it's safe to say that $44 million dollars a year is a drop in the bucket for them.
The other $640 million is divided across 5 other companies so far, which sets them about $128 million dollars each, or $25.6 million dollars a year.
Justice is served!
Who cares?
Honestly I'm not sure I like this ruling. If the entire market can collude to get it done, then there's probably more than just a little reason for it to happen. IE, ALL producers of panels had sunk capital costs with the hope of recouping them, but weren't going to be able to.
My concern: going forward, they won't be as bold in researching, investing in, and bringing to market new technologies.
My 24" $300 8-bit P-MVA (aka NOT TN) panel I bought at least a year ago from ChiMei...is still an awesome deal and I'd buy it again.
I think there are bigger guys we should be going after than LCD Panel makers...I mean seriously. Pick on someone your own size. Like Microsoft.
An interesting side effect of the DOJ's decision to force Microsoft to document more of their protocols was that internal Microsoft employees have found their job easier and the teams more efficient.
I stumbled across this tidbit while research for a final paper about software patent (good/bad/why/alternatives). You can read about it here.