srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2009 | on, technology, people
Quoted: A fun pattern has emerged among the Republican efforts to reach out to voters through the new social-networking online media: They're failing massively, with episodes that just make them look stupid and ham-fisted, and even sometimes force them to apologize for offending people.
- srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 07 2009 | on, technology
Quoted: The herd mentality of the markets never changes. When some sector heats up, the herd buys big.
Quoted: When oil is at $100, everyone is talking about and buying oil. No one wants it at $40 a barrel, but they can’t get enough at $100. Even though the upside potential and downside risks are completely in your favor at $40 and against you at $100.
Quoted: Also, when corn and wheat prices started to make the headlines, everyone wanted in. ETFs were created to make it easier to buy into agriculture commodities (remember, ETF sponsors make money by providing products investors want rather than those that will necessarily be good investments at the time). Fertilizer stocks were heating up. The eventual impact of “Peak Soil” was being priced into agriculture immediately.
Quoted: Again, when I first wrote about the best way to make money in ethanol back in 2006, only a few people cared. When Jim Cramer was touting fertilizer stocks and the Wall Street Journal had feature stories on a global land grab for farms, everyone cared.
Quoted: The herd mentality never changes. They love to buy high and sell low. It’s almost like they want to be more entertained than to make money. But to each his own.
- srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 17 2008 | people, on, technology
Quoted: I was thinking about the three-year rule while reading about Malcolm Gladwell's observation that it takes 10,000 hours to become truly expert at something. If you really throw yourself into a job, you'll spend 60 hours a week working. That's 3,000 hours a year (allowing for vacation), which means you'll hit the 10,000 hour mark a few months after your third year.
Quoted: So maybe that's where the three-year rule comes from. You're now expert at what you set out to master. Great. Now go do something else.
- srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 15 2008 | technology, on, people
Damn. For real?
Quoted: Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.
ShareViewed: 8 Times - srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 23 2008 | on, google, technology
Quoted: When I think about what's really going on in this "lost decade" it occurs to me that we are finally witnessing the impact of the end of the industrial era and the emergence of the information era. That's not to say every "information stock" has done well. Intel and Microsoft have been a disaster. IBM and HP are down for the decade to date. But we also have to realize that the late 90s drove all information stocks up to crazy levels in anticipation of exactly this shift taking place. The market got it right, but as usual it overshot.
- srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2008 | on, microsoft, technology
Quoted: One slogan that Microsoft shouldn’t use: “Vista – Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
ShareViewed: 2 Times - srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 29 2008 | on, people, technology
The classic article that got me pulled into the Dean Revel's office.
Quoted: If Mr. Arney's custom-made computer were a car, it would be a souped-up Corvette -- fast and ready to race. You can see why it needs a fan: The desktop PC sports an 800-megahertz processor, 256 megabytes of random-access memory, and a 35-gigabyte hard drive.
Aw, hellz yeah. That computer was the shnizzle.
- srainier | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 30 2008 | on, technology, government
Oh hell yeah.
Quoted: Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.
Quoted: “The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren’t going to pay for anything anyway,” Niven said.
Quoted: “Do you know how politically incorrect you are?” Pournelle asked.
Quoted: “I know it may not be possible to use this solution, but it does work,” Niven replied.
Quoted: “I cannot guarantee I’m going to be a great help to Homeland Security,” Niven said earlier.
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