The reason why US politics is like this nowadays is because bribery is legal.
We can't get money out of politics when voters keep voting for whoever spends the most on television advertisements.
God forbid voters actually read about the candidates, from sources that don't just echo their current views back to them.
That's comet Siding Spring not ISON.
Also, they've collected more data that shows it'll miss Mars by at least 66,000 km.
A company's sole purpose is to increase shareholder value; as defined by the shareholders. Some companies include things beyond a financial return, or believe being socially responsible results in greater returns; but in any case they driver is still shareholder value and shareholders ultimately vote with their wallets.
WRONG.
A sane company's purpose should be to:
Provide a good or service that delights customers.
Make enough money doing it that they can fairly compensate their suppliers and employees.
Put most of the remaining profits back into long-term investments.
Borrow from (and repay) shareholders as little as possible.
We lost sight of that a few decades ago, which is why our economy remains in the crapper.
We won't be able to fix it until we realize that customers and employees are more important than short-term shareholders.
SalesForce is a company. Their job is to make money for their share holders.
That attitude has been destroying the U.S. economy since the 1970's. The priorities of any sane company should be:
1. Provide a good or service that delights customers
2. Make enough money doing it to pay your vendors and employees fairly
3. Reinvest most of the profits in ways that will provide long-term benefit (capital upgrades, employee training, etc.)
4. If you are publicly traded, pay shareholders just enough that they don't dump your stock
If SalesForce were focused on the first three, then unless they're already at 100% market saturation, they could find profitable new tasks for those workers.
They have chosen not to, because "shareholder value" is more important to them.
Lookup tables, for processor-intensive tasks (image recognition, 3d scanning, gaze tracking, etc.) that your phone's processor is too lazy to do in realtime.
and we pay extra to eat them
Suppose your medical records were DRM'd and later became inaccessible?
And when those who provide, create and actually work refuse to give those who are lazy and do nothing the fruits of their efforts what then?
You mean the robots? Either they become sentient, rise up and kill us ; or they keep blindly churning out manufactured goods.
Because humans (at least a subset of them) overvalue social status. Social status is always a scarce, zero-sum commodity, regardless of material abundance. If you sleep on a flat rock and your rival sleeps on the ground, you win. If you have a starship and your rival has ten, you lose.
He should've taken the name 'Peter Gabriel' ; then he could be so much larger than life...
Before anyone sinks too much money into this mission, perhaps we should wait and see whether a 50-km wide comet is going to slam into Mars in 2014 ?
It would suck if there's nothing left to see but ash clouds and a 500 km wide magma lake.
Javascript, of course
And they're naming their lunar exploration company after
"Shackleton's life was generally restless and unfulfilled. In his search for rapid pathways to wealth and security he launched many business ventures and other money-making schemes, none of which prospered. His financial affairs were generally muddled; when he died he was heavily in debt." [ Wikipedia ]
Might want to talk to your marketing guys about that one...
It runs just fine on my low-end Blu-Ray player (which came with an ethernet in jack), so no computer needed.
But one of the biggest ISPs is Time Warner Cable. They are certainly **not** going to help
Netflix deliver unlimited movies for $13/mo, when TW charges a lot more for the same thing.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
