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Comment Dollar (Score 1) 274

by raxhonp on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:25PM (#47308793) Attached to: China Starts Outsourcing From<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... the US

So, they sell tons of goods to US that pay them in dollar. What are they supposed to be doing with all that cash? Change it to yuan, that would be bad for the currency? Buy government bonds, at such a rate, no way! Buy gas to Russia, that's not done in dollar anymore. What's left? Investing all that money in the US maybe, that's still better than leaving idle on a reserve account. Yeah, why not.

Comment Re:240,000 jobs for robots? (Score 1) 171

by raxhonp on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:34PM (#47160011) Attached to: EU Launches World's Largest Civilian Robotics Program; 240,000 New Jobs Expected

That will work well, for some more time, until all roboticists are in turn replaced by robots.

The real question remains: how is the wealth produced by the robots going to be redistributed?

Comment Re:240,000 jobs for robots? (Score 2) 171

by raxhonp on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:25PM (#47159929) Attached to: EU Launches World's Largest Civilian Robotics Program; 240,000 New Jobs Expected

It worked pretty well as long as wealth was redistributed among people that produced it, supporting the paradigm of the "mass market". It lasted until reality came back knocking, remembering us we live in a world with scarce resources. Since then, it's back to the old "only the strong survive" paradigm, a competition for the biggest part of the pie. Unfortunately that doesn't change the fact the pie keeps on shrinking.

Comment We don't need more competition (Score 4, Insightful) 146

by raxhonp on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:14PM (#46390397) Attached to: IEEE Predicts 85% of Daily Tasks Will Be Games By 2020

We desperately need more cooperation if we want to survive..

Comment Innovation? (Score 4, Insightful) 780

by raxhonp on Friday January 13, 2012 @11:52AM (#38686604) Attached to: Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server

Microsoft, the company for which the future is what everybody else is doing for more than 30 years.

Submission + - Easily Distracted People May Have Too Much Brain (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by

fysdt

on Sunday May 08, 2011 @10:15AM

fysdt writes: "Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have "too much brain".

So says Ryota Kanai and his colleagues at University College London, who found larger than average volumes of grey matter in certain brain regions in those whose attention is readily diverted.

To investigate distractibility, the team compared the brains of easy and difficult-to-distract individuals.

They assessed each person's distractibility by quizzing them about how often they fail to notice road signs, or go into a supermarket and become sidetracked to the point that they forget what they came in to buy. The most distractible individuals received the highest score."

Submission + - Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger

on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @11:10AM

jfruhlinger writes: "When Oracle took over Sun, its hamhanded treatment of the open source Hudson continuous integration project, which resulted in a fork, became symbolic of the company's awkward relationship with open source projects. Now Oracle is looking to make amends, or at least get Hudson off its hands, by handing the entire project over to the Eclipse Foundation."

Submission + - DARPA building futuristic space exploration group (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:38AM

coondoggie writes: "What started out as an idea about how to further explore the outer reaches of space is now beginning to take more serious shape as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today issued a call for industry information on how to form such as cosmic entity.
Specifically DARPA said it issued a Request For Information intended to solicit ideas and information on structure and approach, and identify parties qualified and interested in furthering what’s known as the 100 Year Starship project."

Submission + - AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid

on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @08:35AM

MojoKid writes: "Although much of the buzz lately has revolved around AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer-based APUs, AMD isn't done pushing the envelope with their existing processor designs. Over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies on their current bread-and-butter Phenom II processor line-up to the point where they're now flirting with the 4GHz mark. The Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition marks the release of AMD's highest clocked processor yet. The new quad-core Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition's default clock on all four of its cores is 3.7GHz. Like previous Deneb-based Phenom II processors, the X4 980 BE sports a total of 512K of L1 cache with 2MB of L2 cache, and 6MB of shared L3 cache. Performance-wise, for under $200, the processor holds up pretty well versus others in its class and it's an easy upgrade for AM2+ and AM3 socket systems."

Submission + - Android Conunrum: Tablets Tank, Smartphones Surge (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

GMGruman

on Friday April 29, 2011 @11:14AM

GMGruman writes: "Android smartphones have overpowered the iPhone in market share, yet Android tablets barely register in sales versus the iPad. Android tablets are as competitive in most respects against the iPad as Android smartphones are against the iPhone. So why the difference in success? Galen Gruman examines five theories for the gap, and concludes the reason is that Android tablets' real competitor is in fact not the iPad."

Submission + - Can Open Source Hardware Feed The World? (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:26AM

jfruhlinger writes: "When it comes to food scarcity in the developing world, one of the major problems is production capacity: land that could be arable using modern techniques goes underutilized because locals don't have the abbility to build or buy equipment. A group calling itself Open Source Eclology is trying to solve that problem. They've developed a set of open source hardware specs for 50 different industrial machines, which they're calling the Global Village Construction Set."

Submission + - Open Source Programming Tools on the Rise (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:02AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a look at 13 open source development projects making waves in the enterprise. From Git to Hadoop to build management tools, 'even in the deepest corners of proprietary stacks, open source tools can be found, often dominating. The reason is clear: Open source licenses are designed to allow users to revise, fix, and extend their code. The barber or cop may not be familiar enough with code to contribute, but programmers sure know how to fiddle with their tools. The result is a fertile ecology of ideas and source code, fed by the enthusiasm of application developers who know how to "scratch an itch".'"

Submission + - Update: Wind power firm sees no evidence of hack (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday April 18, 2011 @07:42AM

alphadogg writes: One day after a hacker posted screen shots and data to a hacking mailing list, saying he had broken into a New Mexico wind turbine facility, the company that runs the turbines says it has seen no evidence of a computer intrusion. The hacker, who calls himself Bigr R, made the claims Saturday, posting screenshots of the facility's management interface, screenshots of an FTP server and project management system, as well as Web server info and configuration data from a Cisco router.

Submission + - Final Report: Pan-European Cyber Security Exercise (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:46AM

Orome1 writes: The EU's cyber security agency, ENISA, has issued its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise for public bodies, Cyber Europe 2010. The exercise was conducted on the 4th of November, 2010. Its objective was to trigger communication and collaboration between countries in the event of large-scale cyber-attacks. Over 70 experts from the participating public bodies worked together to counter over 300 simulated hacking attacks aimed at paralyzing the Internet and critical online services across Europe. During the exercise, a simulated loss of Internet connectivity between the countries took place, requiring cross-border cooperation to avoid a (simulated) total network crash.

Submission + - RIAA/MPAA: the greatest threat to tech innovation (hbr.org)

Submitted by TAGmclaren on Monday April 04, 2011 @02:18AM

TAGmclaren writes: The Harvard Business Review is running an article stating that it's not India or China that are the greatest threat to technological innovation happening in America. Rather, it's the "big content" players, particularly the movie and music industry. From the article: "the Big Content players do not understand technology, and never have. Rather than see it as an opportunity to reach new audiences, technology has always been a threat to them. Example after example abounds of this attitude; whether it was the VCR which was "to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone" as famed movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti put it at a congressional hearing, or MP3 technology, which they tried to sue out of existence."

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