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A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft’s Bing search engine - Good Experience
A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft’s Bing search engine - Good Experience
Everything Microsoft has tried recently hasn’t worked. They tried the “I’m a PC” ads, a knockoff of the Mac ads - didn’t work. Tried the Zune, a knockoff of the iPod - didn’t work. Tried redoing MSN Search again and again, as a knockoff of Google - didn’t work. What’s the world coming to, when Microsoft can’t build a monopoly around a knockoff?It’s those effing customers. They keep choosing the best experience.
The solar revolution: Power plastic / Solar tower plants
15 Recession Proof Job Markets
15 Recession Proof Job Markets
The recession has led to massive layoffs and downsizing. But not every job field is in trouble. Some professions are expected to see faster than average employment growth over the next few years. Here are 15 job markets thought to be recession proof.
Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com
Talks Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech
Surviving in Argentina: Thoughts on Urban Survival
Surviving in Argentina: Thoughts on Urban Survival (2005)
When it comes to security things get even more complicated. Forget about shooting those that mean you harm from 300 yards away with your MBR. Leave that notion to armchair commandos and 12 year old kids that pretend to be grown ups on the internet.
Great Britain - The “Rust Belt” of Global Finance
Great Britain - The “Rust Belt” of Global Finance
Because of the importance of Britain’s financial sector, its bank bailouts need to be nearly as large as those in the United States, yet its tax base is only one quarter the size.
The way the brain buys
The science of shopping | The way the brain buys | The Economist
IT MAY have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same. The answer is more sinister than depressing. It is not because the companies that operate them lack imagination. It is because they are all versed in the science of persuading people to buy things—a science that, thanks to technological advances, is beginning to unlock the innermost secrets of the consumer’s mind.
CynicusEconomicus: 2009 - The Year of the Fall of the West
CynicusEconomicus: 2009 - The Year of the Fall of the West
It is a very big question. I am not really sure that I know the answer. I am not sure how bad things may yet become. Many months ago, a commentator on a post asked whether I thought that there would be food shortages in the UK in the future. I suggested that this would not be the case, and still think that it will not become that severe. However, I do think that the UK is heading towards that kind of severity, though will never reach that point. There are still enough companies in the UK that can create genuine wealth, that are competitive in the world, but they are too few in comparison to the needs of the country. This has been evident for many years in the ongoing balance of trade deficits.
My comment:
Great post. Just one thing caught my attention:
You said “I do think that the UK is heading towards that kind of severity… (food shortages) though will never reach that point. There are still enough companies in the UK that can create genuine wealth, that are competitive in the world”
You believe we won’t see food shortages. I do.
The companies that are still competitive in the UK will flight as the situation deteriorates. No point in staying in a country with shrinking individual purchasing power, rising unemployment -so less people can buy your services- and a currency and hard assets -property, machinery- depreciating by the minute.
The capital will rapidly get out of here as things get tougher. This is already happening as yo u know.
Politicians will let the capital leave because they’ll be either pressured into doing so, or simply because wealthy politicians themselves will benefit of not impeding this massive and rapid capital flight.
There will also be “noise” by populist politicians and the masses on “spreading the wealth” more evenly, increasing taxes to the wealthy. This will only accelerate the capital flight process. End result: an economy that does not produce anything competitively exportable, where people can’t find jobs and small amounts of money change hands very slowly. If we add to this the fact that most western societies are not geared to producing their own food, why can you not see food shortages in the future?
The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy
The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy
The November 15 G-20 Financial Summit in Washington upholds the Washington-Wall Street consensus.While formally presenting a project to restore financial stability, in practice, the hegemony of Wall Street remains unscathed. The tendency is towards a unipolar monetary system dominated by the United States and upheld by US military superiority.
The architects of financial disaster under the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA) have been entrusted with the task of mitigating the crisis, which they themselves created. They are the cause of financial collapse.
The G20 Financial Summit doesn’t question the legitimacy of the hedge funds and the various instruments of derivative trade. The final communiqué includes an imprecise and blurred commitment “to better regulate hedge funds and create more transparency in mortgage-related securities in a bid to halt a global economic slide.”
A solution to this crisis can only be brought about through a process of “financial disarmament” as initially formulated by John Maynard Keynes, which forcefully challenges the hegemony of the Wall Street financial institutions including their control over the monetary policy.
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