The issue is whether a state-by-state single payer system would be universal. It would not be in the US--the Republican states would never enact it. How would Canada's system react if Ontario had single payer but British Columbia did not?
Actually Canada has had issues with provinces not coordinating medical issues very well. They are actually less centralized than the US is. One of the reasons why SARS hit Ontario so hard was that there was no equivalent to the CDC nationally or at that time in Ontario.
But for the US, if you sent things to the states, coverage could follow residency, and states could decide the level of coverage they wanted to provide (coverage varies significantly between Canadian provinces btw).
The big problem for the states is you can't do it as long as Medicare is fully federal and Medicaid is so heavily regulated by the federal government. You'd probably have to hand these programs to the states first.
Just noting, provinces in Canada with CDC-like organizations did pretty well regarding SARS. Ontario, OTOH, had one of the highest mortality rates (and public health impacts) in the world. Keep in mind Toronto was closing hospitals due to the spread of the disease there during the public health crisis...
A non-technical boss managing technical employees can lead to problems. It is rare to have a non-technical manager who 1) knows what they know/don't know, and 2) can effectively manage a technical team.
The growth is impressive, but did Whitman cause it to happen, or did she manage it as it was happening? My opinion is that she managed it as it was happening. That may make her a competent manager, but I think HP needs much more than just a competent manager. HP should be about technology leadership, especially if the commodity PC business is sold off.
Yes. eBay is a textbook natural monopoly, because buyers want the best selection and sellers want as many buyers as possible to find their stuff. All she had to do at eBay was not screw it up -- which is something, but not the same thing at all as the task she now faces at HP.
You can ask that question about almost any leader, especially non-founder CEOs -- were they just sitting on top for the ride or did they do it themselves. One thing that Meg Whitman definitely executed was the acquisition of PayPal which is now responsible for probably $20+ billion of EBay's enterprise value.
You make a good point. I started to write what promised to be a lengthy reply, but I realized it came down to a simple characteristic--flexibility. Ultimately, what's needed is flexibility provided to the employee. Provide the means to work from home (VPN, etc.), to arrive/leave the office as needed, etc. Does the employer trust their employees to do what they need to get their work done?
I am not certain it is more beneficial to buy/license IP in all cases. Plus they are getting IP/Human Resources/Revenues from Atheros perpetually - they do sell fair amount.
The FPGA fabric will also have to be configured whenever power is lost. This probably includes the low power states of the Atom since the FPGA wasn't designed to support it. It would make sense for this to be part of the BIOS-level code since the FPGA is useless until configured.
There is a savings in board space, but, otherwise, this solution provides no additional value. You can already connect an Atom processor and FPGA through PCI Express.
The configuration would be saved in Flash memory and loaded at boot time. Also, you'd need to reboot the FPGA each time a new configuration would be written in.
I am not yet aware of FPGA-like chip architecture that can be reconfigured dynamically.
The comment on the fabs is not exactly true. If Intel has maxed its fab capacity on higher margin chips, then producing lower margin Atoms is undesirable. If there is fab capacity remaining after producing sufficient quantities of the other chips to meet market demand, then it is advantageous to manufacture the lower margin chips. There is nothing lower margin than an idle fab.
It can be that bad. Such a chart can be gamed (like any table or chart). It can also be a crutch. Do you need the chart to show your differentiation versus the competition? If the perspective customer would otherwise not know how you're different, then you may be better off investing your time work on the message.
You're already seeing domain specific chips, but they're in the form of a FPGA rather than an ASIC. If it can be implementation with traditional gates, a FPGA is the way to go for low to medium volume.
While Lyric may incorporate classic gates in their design, it also sounds like the heart of their technology uses something different from classic gates.
This is a great point. Power usage is growing in importance. I think power management APIs will continue to evolve. In the not too distance future, power will be another axis of optimization.
