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US: Debt problems in 2012 will be worse

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:37:47 +0000

Green is amount of debt you need to pay this year.

Red is the planned new debt :-)

They are not alone. Ta, ta, ta...

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:47:18 +0000

In a recent experiment, I discovered that Microsoft have deliberately capped the minimum depth range of the Xbox Kinect controller (when running it on a Windows 7 PC using the official Beta 2 Kinect SDK) to a lousy 80cm. They have done this so that you will buy the new “Kinect for Windows” controller (which costs more than 4 times as much as the Xbox version) in order to unlock this cap, and track from ~50cm instead. They’re calling this “near mode”, and marketing it as an entirely new feature, when in fact it is not! Your existing Xbox Kinect controller is not only capable of tracking from 46cm and up, we (with the TKinect project) have been doing this for more than a year!

Via: http://www.simonjstuart.com/2012/01/17/tkinect-changing-name-new-controller-support/

So, camera corporations marketing guys are not alone :-)

Romania: Removing social functions of goverment

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:44:38 +0000

25 percent cut in public sector pay and five percentage point increase in VAT imposed in 2010 to maintain an IMF-led bailout

Now it is healphcare reform.

And, of course real goverment must sell all that makes big profits. This is, for sure, smart move.

Romania received offers from three groups seeking to manage the sale of a 15 percent stake in natural-gas producer Romgaz SA through the Bucharest Stock Exchange, according to an Economy Ministry official.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a part of one group, while two rival groups include JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., said Florin Vladan, the ministry’s official in charge of the sale, in a phone interview from Bucharest today.

Romania is pushing ahead with plans to sell stakes in state-owned companies this year

And as usual we see our old friends in contenders.

Backed by the criminals in the goverments.

Italy: Future is here

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:11 +0000

I am sure the Euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.

Romano Prodi, EU Commission President, December 2001

New Italian PM Mario Monti has mandated a cap on cash transactions in Italy of 1,000 euros, and reportedly wishes to gradually reduce this to 300 euros.

Italy has also set up checkpoints at the border to Switzerland to search Italians for illegal contraband (cash) fleeing the Euro for the safety of Switzerland. Finance Police has placed cameras at the physical borders with Switzerland to register all license plates.

New requirement that credit card companies report all transactions carried out by Italians, in Italy and abroad to the fiscal authorities;

Delays and refusals by banks in allowing customers to withdraw cash balances of as little as Euro 10,000

Egypt: Going backwards with constant improvements

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:21:15 +0000

Goverment asked new $3 bln credit from IMF.

Tourism industry is feeling really bad with 9bln reduction year to year.

Reserves allow country to live, as goverment is spending them.

Inflation is rising.

Otherwise all is ok. Muslim brothers and democracy are pretty tight fit.

Different times

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:18:58 +0000

Unlike a lot of technology companies, Hewlett-Packard wasn't totally run by marketing people. It really respected its engineers...

As an example of how great a company HP was, consider this. During this time—the early 1970s—the recession was going on and everyone was losing their jobs. Even HP had to cut back 10 percent on its expenses. But instead of laying people off, HP wound up cutting everyone's salary by 10 percent. That way, no one would be left without a job.

Citations from iWoz

On Slideshows. Again.

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:25:24 +0000

Good thing that is exactly on point here:

You will never be a great engineer if you never record great music.

A great recording will always begin and end with a great song performed by a great musician. Your job as an engineer isn’t to take a mediocre song and make it great. That simply isn’t possible.

Does that mean you should ONLY record great songs and great musicians? Not at all. Use whatever talent you have available to hone your skills, but realize that your greatest work will likely be when you’re dealing with the most talented musicians.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, get it right at the source. Once you find a great musician with great songs, your job is to simply get it recorded and get out of the way.

Via: http://www.homestudiocorner.com/great-engineers/

EU: Slow degradation

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:15:49 +0000

Spain: No plans to reduce unemployment, could reach 25%. Massive cuts.
Greece: Pension cuts, planned recession and about 18% unemployment.
Italy: 66 years retirement age, mass privatization of everything (benks get main infrastructure for 10-20%, as usual), massive cuts.
Belgium: All the same shit.

S&P planned rating cuts for leading European countries.
So, within a year we'll see all the same in others.

Feckity Feckity Feck

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:49:41 +0000

We have good song in Russia describing any of our elections:

:-)

Greece: Almost in stratosphere

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:39:33 +0000

1 year bonds yeald crossed 300% mark.

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GGGB1YR:IND

Funny game

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:36:36 +0000

http://www.frbsf.org/education/activities/chairman/

Adjust the rate and all will be ok. May be.
Main idea of current idiots.
You can rewind ato older posts nd see my opinion on this.

US: Donate to reduce US debt

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:17:04 +0000

Welcome to the United States Treasury's site for making donations to help reduce the public debt. If you would like to make a donation, please fill in the required fields and click the Submit Data button when completed.
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Via: https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454