2017 October

1st month of the 4th quarter of the 28th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression

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  "A whole bestiary of phishes [fraud schemes] -- such as reputation mining, looting, misleading accounting, extravagant stories [narratives, fables] in the 'news' media, sales pitches of investor advisors and investment companies and real estate agents, and narratives of riches from no-where -- are largely responsible." --- George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller 2015 _Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception_ pp133-134  

 
 
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  "...in 1952 [GE made the mistake of installing] an IBM 701 to make engineering calculations at its Evendale, Ohio, jet engine operation.   And in 1954 GE became the first company to use an electronic computer for 'regular data processing' when it bought a UNIVAC 1 to handle accounting, manufacturing control, and planning at its appliance division in Louisville, KY...   By the late 1950s, GE was offering another justification for its rush to automate: its over-seas rivals, having pulled themselves out of the rubble of World War 2, were on the rise." --- Rick Wartzman 2017 _The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in the USA_ pg145  

 
 

 

 


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2017 October

3rd month of the 3rd quarter of the 28th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression


 
 
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  "By 1990, Texas Instruments wasn't just doing most of its manufacturing in East Asia, but also its research, development, and design. W.R. Grace, DuPont, Merck, P&G, Upjohn, and Kodak had all opened R&D labs in Japan.     And Hewlett-Packard was tapping talent in [and giving away intellectual property to] West Germany, Australia, and Singapore for break-throughs in fiber optics, computer-aided engineering software, and laser printers.     For those trying to save money on 'IT' staff, accountants, and software programmers [and tech support, kkkredit kkkard processing, radiology/medical-image interpretation], India was becoming the place to turn.     One of the first to spot the opportunity there [and promote it] was GE [along with John Deere], which first consolidated its own 'back-office' operations in India in 1997, and then offered these 'services' to other companies interested in [violating customers' privacy and] hiring 'legions of English-speaking, college-educated workers...on the cheap', as the New America Foundation's Barry Lynn has described it.     Even Kathy Hudsom, who had taken so much care to ensure that her Kodak employees didn't lose their 'IT' jobs, couldn't fault [company executives who] now sent work far away, across the ocean.     'When I can bring on an engineer in Bangalore for what it justs for health care [insurance premium payments] for a USA employee, who am I going to hire?'" --- Rick Wartzman 2017 _The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in the USA_ pg313  

 
 
Kkilo-thousand 10^31,000
Mmega-millionone thousand thousand10^61,000,000
Ggiga-billionone thousand million10^91,000,000,000
Ttera-trillionone million million10^121,000,000,000,000
Ppeta-quadrillionone million billion10^151,000,000,000,000,000
Eexa-quintillionone billion billion10^181,000,000,000,000,000,000
Zzetta-sextillionone billion trillion10^211,000,000,000,000,000,000
Yyotta-septillionone trillion trillion10^241,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Except that computer people use 2 as a base raised to multiples of powers of 10, instead of 10 raised to multiples of powers of 3 because powers of 2 are handier for them, but they also want to stay somewhat close to the values of 10 most folks are used to.
1,024Kkilo- (kibi-)2^10
1,048,576Mmega- (mebi-)2^20
1,073,741,824Ggiga- (gibi-)2^30
1,099,511,627,776Ttera- (tebi-)2^40
1,125,899,906,842,624Ppeta- (pebi-)2^50
1,152,921,504,606,846,976Eexa- (exbi-)2^60
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424Zzetta- (zebi-)2^70
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176Yyotta- (yobi-)2^80

An alternate set of prefixes has been proposed.


 


 
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