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Qubit, or Not Qubit?
Sep. 15th, 2016 02:50 amI've been having fun researching possible stocks. I decided that Hawaiian Air is in too precarious a position (but I hope that they do well). I printed off the annual report for Southwest Airlines. I'm also interested in Salesforce.com and Johnson & Johnson (yes, really). I'm going to go broke printing off 150-page annual reports at work, though, because I pay for the printing. I wanted to learn more about what's going on in "Silicon" Valley, so I found a free Web site about the Valley, plus a free technology blog run by the Mercury News. I've been reading them to get a better idea what's going on. Basically, a shake up. Revenues are slowing at the older large companies (i.e. Intel, Oracle, etc.). They're scrambling to get into cloud computing. IBM is announcing work by IBM Research about quantum computing. Good old IBM. IBM Research is top notch, but IBM's business has seen better days. (For those who have forgotten, I used to work there. Come to think of it, I haven't gotten an annual report from them lately (I own less than one share of IBM stock, and it always made me laugh that they dutifully sent me a report), but they don't have my current address.)
I also got a list of Gartner's technology predictions, and I don't like them. For example, personal digital assistants will greet you when you go shopping and offer recommendations. Some jobs will require wearing a fitness tracker. Houses will get hacked. I must be getting old, but I value privacy (she said, writing on LiveJournal. Ahem.)
Sorry for geeking all over the place ;)
I've been having problems remembering to do stuff for work at home. For example, I need to test our offsite access to one of our databases, but I keep forgetting. I needed something that I could update at work, but would pop up and remind me at home. I went so far as to look at programmable signs, although that's kind of a pricey solution. Then I realized that my Chrome settings are shared between home and work. I signed up for todoist, and made it my home page on Chrome. When I open up Chrome, I'll be able to log in and see my reminders. Sometimes the simple approach is best. And it worked.
I also got a list of Gartner's technology predictions, and I don't like them. For example, personal digital assistants will greet you when you go shopping and offer recommendations. Some jobs will require wearing a fitness tracker. Houses will get hacked. I must be getting old, but I value privacy (she said, writing on LiveJournal. Ahem.)
Sorry for geeking all over the place ;)
I've been having problems remembering to do stuff for work at home. For example, I need to test our offsite access to one of our databases, but I keep forgetting. I needed something that I could update at work, but would pop up and remind me at home. I went so far as to look at programmable signs, although that's kind of a pricey solution. Then I realized that my Chrome settings are shared between home and work. I signed up for todoist, and made it my home page on Chrome. When I open up Chrome, I'll be able to log in and see my reminders. Sometimes the simple approach is best. And it worked.
