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CoronitaParticipantYou reminded me of a few things that I misplaced at my home:
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I can’t seem to get linux to work on any of them….
Also, check out my killer gaming consoles…..
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Works great in high definition…
You come over Scaredy, and I’ll kick your arse in Combat!
CoronitaParticipant[quote=AN]This is not surprising to me at all. I have been predicting this for awhile now. Especially when there was a change of guard from Jacobs to Mollenkopf. Mollenkopf came from QCT, so it’s not surprising that he’s focused on chip.
I’ve also been saying don’t count out the 800 lb gorilla in the room (Intel). A couple years ago, people just laugh at me, but just look at where they are today. At IFA this year, most of the tablets that were announced were based on Intel, not QCOM. I think QCOM is being squeezed from the top by INTC and from the bottom by MediaTek. They’re walking a pretty tight rope. They don’t have the cash cow of server chip like Intel or the cheap labor like MediaTek. It will be interesting to see how this play out in the next few years.
http://www.thelayoff.com/qualcomm%5B/quote%5D
I take what I said back about intel back then AN….
CoronitaParticipantLet’s put this in perspective.
They acquired Atheros. They recently are acquiring/acquired CSR…. Both do connectivity in their respective areas huge overlaps..
This was not a surprise..At least not to the ones in the industry… QC is probably moving away from anything other than the chip business. They are getting a lot of competition in China from local players and from MediaTek…And, unlike the US markets, cell phone market is extremely cut-throat… Things such as media flo/etc they will not be focusing on under the new management… This is peanuts relative to the bigger scheme of things..
Another chip company a few months ago abandoned their mobile chip business/LTE group until after they figured out they can’t make money in that area…A few hundred people were RIF’ed for that too….
The good news is, Intel is hiring in San Diego for mobile tech (again…3rd time is a charm)… And they have a lot of money to burn through… I think Intel lost $1billion alone in their mobile unit last quarter..And they will continue to throw money trying to build that practice up…Because they have no choice….
The three leg race will end up being Qualcomm versus MediaTek versus Intel….
CoronitaParticipantimpound account… 2% return by CA law….Better than than a CD!
CoronitaParticipantLooking selfishly at Mira Mesa and College Area condo submarkets, I think until we get a slightly looser lending standards for more people, prices are going to remain sort of stuck where they are right now….
In MM, I haven’t seen many 1/1 condo’s break through the $200k mark. Maybe 1 or 2 of them, and those that did were doing FHA or VA if I recall. Prices seem to be stuck in that $180k range….
CoronitaParticipant1. It’s carmel valley
2. yes, but not everything and everyone
3. no, because most buyers active in these areas are very strong still
I would suspect some of the >$1million are cash buys…Drop in the bucket for them imho….
Good luck with your search. I’ve been wanting to upgrade for some time…And I regret not listening to sdrealtor a few years back on one, no wait two, not wait three, no wait four homes we looked at… when things now look like a steal…..Oh well….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=The-Shoveler]SubPrime, it’s not just for car’s anymore LOL.
But really as long as there is either Documentation or down payments then I think we will not see the bubble burst as bad as 2008-9 crash.
Only when you have no downs and no doc’s can you achieve the bubble magnitude we saw last time.[/quote]
Agreed. We’re not there…..yet….. 🙂
CoronitaParticipant[quote=moneymaker]In one of Obama’s speeches the other day, he said he was amazed at how the Chinese government could build something (anything really) so fast. I’m not sure if they have red tape like we do, but somewhere they probably have committees that meet to decide such things as well. You could just sense how envious the President was that the Chinese could make a decision and have whatever it was built in a year or less.
“It’s a wondeful life” is on NBC right now, one of my favorite movies.[/quote]No problem. A few more executive orders here and there, for many things I’m sure he can almost get the same result 🙂
The secret sauce for why the chinese have been able to advance so quickly is simple…(1) Deny the majority of the dumb people in the country the opportunity to have a say in the decision making process of anything (2) Invest heavily in well educated tech people and import experts from all over the world so they can learn from them (3) Dump a bunch of money into businesses and relax regulation to the point of almost “anything goes”
You really think they build they high speed bullet train all by themselves? Nope. They brought in the experts from europe…And now, they know how to build high speed rails…. Same could be said for other tech…
Democracy is the fairest system in the world. However, it’s not the most efficient system…
CoronitaParticipantInteresting fact about synthetic oil.
Europe does not allow group 3 oil to be labeled synthetic. U.S. does. What that means is most Castrol and Mobil 1 sold here in the U.S. labeled as synthetic really aren’t completely synthetic…
Almost all of the synthetic oil don’t meet European auto manufactuerer requirements (VW 502/505 or BMW LL01 for example)….
CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Timing belt AND timing chain? Must be German or French with that level of bizarre complexity.[/quote]
Yep.
CoronitaParticipant[quote=creechrr]1.8T?[/quote]
Yep…
CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]
China is good example. They have achieved remarkable economic growth in the last 30 years. Many of their top government managers are technocrats with PhDs.[/quote]Well it’s easy to manage growth if you have absolute power telling the majority of other people what they have to do…provided the folks holding onto absolute power have their head screwed on the right direction.
For example, if you need to build a high speed rail system, it’s easier if you have absolute power to do whatever you want… You can simply tell people that live on the land where you want to construct a high speed rail to move, not compensate them well for it, not worry about the environmentalists, and finish it really quickly without much pushback from anyone else that might cause objections…
CoronitaParticipantSpain:
http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Spain/Landlord-and-Tenant
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Rents: Can landlord and tenant freely agree rents in Spain?
The landlord and tenant can freely agree the rent. Monthly rent payments are the general rule, with the rent due within the first seven days of each month.The landlord cannot ask for more than one month payment in advance.The contracting parties can update rent on a yearly basis during the first five years of the contract only according to the variations of the Consumer Price Index (Indice de Precios al Consumo, IPC). In addition, the landlord should notify the intention to increase the rent with a written notification.
Once this period of time has elapsed, the contract can be renewed at a new rent, which must not be more that 20% higher than the current rent.
If the landlord makes improvements, he is entitled to increase the annual rent on the basis of the legal interest rate, incremented by three points, applied to the total investment, less any public subsidies. But the rent increase cannot exceed 20% of the rent.
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CoronitaParticipantSweden
Ouch
http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Sweden/Landlord-and-Tenant
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Strictly regulated rental market
World´s fiercest pro-tenant laws?
Rents are set far below reasonable returns-on-investment.
The European University Institute (EUI) calculates that to make a 5% return on investment, a developer would need to set rents 70% higher than allowed by the Rent Tribunal. Rents in all dwellings must match rents for alternative, comparable dwellings, based on size and ‘attractiveness’, primarily rents in low-rent municipal houses. Rents are little influenced by location, so that metropolitan units are specially underpriced. The system is enforced by Rent Tribunals.
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