Comment not so difficult (Score 2) 38
Imagine a hair's diameter is 50 km then the diameter of a nanotube is 1 meter. This gives you a pretty good idea how the dimensions compare ;)
Comment Re:The sales pitch is unnecessary (Score 1) 61
But in this case it's interesting and informative nevertheless. At least for me.
Submission + - SAP Ordered to pay $1.3bn to Oracle 1
jools33 writes: In what can only be seen as a victory for Oracle, SAP AG have been ordered to pay $1.3bn to Oracle by a jury in Oakland, California, in what Bloomberg states will be the largest ever payout is US Copyright history:
the FT article
SAP were charged and admitted guilt of the theft of Oracle software through its intermediary company Tommorow Now.
Oracle had asked for a payout of $1.7bn, which SAP had countered to $140m. SAP are considering post trial motions / appeal. Could this leave SAP in a weakened position / ripe for takeover? What will the eventual consequences be for SAP?
the FT article
SAP were charged and admitted guilt of the theft of Oracle software through its intermediary company Tommorow Now.
Oracle had asked for a payout of $1.7bn, which SAP had countered to $140m. SAP are considering post trial motions / appeal. Could this leave SAP in a weakened position / ripe for takeover? What will the eventual consequences be for SAP?
Submission + - Oracle wins largest-ever software piracy payout (idg.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "A jury has awarded Oracle US$1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP, a blow to the German applications vendor, which had argued it should pay no more than $40 million for the software stolen by its TomorrowNow subsidiary."
Comment Re:Not just useless, but actually toxic. (Score 1) 452
It's also not true that it is about *large* investment companies, resp. large is relative. For example RSJ Invest is one of the biggest and it has only about 5 employees, AFAIK. So it is in fact a small company which became financially pretty big over some 15 years of careful development of statistical models and algorithms.
Comment Re:Great idea but seems tough to gamify problems (Score 4, Informative) 80
Foldit had the great insight to take you to an algorithmically close starting place and let you complete the final adjustments - in that way the algorithm itself is as much a part of the team as the detail or adjustment members they were talking about.
This kind of problem solving was suggested already by Stanislaw Lem in his book Summa Technologiae as a kind of "augmented intelligence" as opposed to purely human or purely artifical intelligence.
