The Rush to Tablets is On

Do you own a tablet or iPad? If not, my guess is that by the end of 2011, you probably will, and it will have a home alongside your small camera and mobile phone each with their tiny bits to plug in and unplug. Confusing and choosing is the new world:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/10/small_computers

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Test your browser against the next implementation of HTML

http://html5test.com/

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What are the implications of ARM for Intel?

Has Apple already made up its mind?

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-thinks-intels-new-lightweight-processors-suck-2010-10

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Beautiful Paris

The Genuine Article and a Great Sketcher

View this blog:

http://drawingthemotmot.wordpress.com/

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The Importance of Being an Independent Blogger and there is Pepsigate

I make it pretty obvious that I am an independent blogger. That means that I have my own standards to adhere to. My writing is full of flaws and my logic is not air tight, but I am independent unlike some I know of who are paid by corporations to present a view. The Pepsigate controversy arose because of the lack of independence in a science blog world:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/jul/07/scienceblogs-blogging-pepsi

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Pepsigate

What is that I wonder? ::

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/07/the_pepsigate_linkfest.php

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Does Anyone Read My Blog?

Well yes! If you are reading my blog, then you are reading my blog. This is despite me not promoting it.

However, read how the major writers fare:

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/07/scienceblogs_and_me_and_the_ch.php

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State of Fear

What are the real risks from climate change and should we be worried? Some say we should be agnostic to the idea that there is a real problem. In my view, the idea that we should ignore the very real possibility of climate change, however gradual, is rather naive and misguided. I welcome the efforts by scientists to explore what could be the biggest issue of our children's future. I am not afraid that it might mean crazy ideas, but I think all the silly ideas need to be placed on the table and examined. That Al Gore had the inclination to explore these issues is wonderful whether he supported a Democratic or Republican political viewpoint is immaterial. Everyone should be concerned and a not a little afraid as our ancestors were.

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455

MIT and Global Warming:

http://mit.whoi.edu/

Woods Hole has it's own ideas:

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7118

Read and learn:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/globenewswire/2010/10/15/woods_hole_oceanographic_institution_launches_ocean_203890.html

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The Problem for America of a Weak Dollar and Credit Creation

It should not come as a surprise that the management of an exchange rate, international finance and monetary policy is a multiple edged sword.

A major issue is the ease with which US firms relocate production to China and the low cost labour sources around the globe. This is not a bad thing for China, nor India, nor the Tiger economies of Asia. It's a bad thing for American employment. How do you figure moving the US exchange rate down somehow slows this process? To my mind, the weakening dollar reflects too many dollars doing bugger all but available to US companies to relocate their production outside the US. In fact, credit creation by George Bush accelerating the flow of jobs outside of America by making it easy for US companies to finance relocation. Dah!

The dollar's weakness is not really an advantage to America because it allows for inefficiencies in the American economy to grow. Cheapening American goods only allows US firms to be more inefficient.

The weaker US exchange rate does not slow down American imports which are due to relatively higher incomes in America. Americans have a knack for buying rubbish so a rise in the cost of this rubbish won't slow down the influx. What would slow down the inflow would be a change in the mix of goods to higher quality. This is not encouraged by weak monetary policy.

The idea that exchange rates going up or down affects trade is an old one, but the problem is that the arguments frequently neglect the mix in the value of trade, or put another way, higher incomes in America and saving would result in a trading up of the composition of imports by America. The fact that America imports more rubbish despite a weakening of its currency means that incomes in America are declining. Imports are remaining high even as the dollar value falls. The exchange rate does little to offset the trade imbalance which reshapes itself into a different mix of goods.

The perverse process of economics means that a stronger dollar might get US companies in America to produce the rubbish that it's customers seem to thrive on.

In none-rubbish products, however, a stronger dollar would force US firms to be more efficient. The problem is then that they avoid that process by migrating their production to China. So how does the exchange rate impact anything? Well, perhaps the US could consume quality rather than rubbish.

All in all, the problem is weakness in American domestic economic policy that encourages Americans to consume rubbish from China rather than quality from America. Figure that one out!

I think that maybe the solution is to force a slowdown in the American economy through more expensive money. This would make it more difficult to finance relocation in China based on credit funded in America. Perhaps, the problem is that it is too easy to relocate production to China while there is so much credit available in America to make it easy to relocate.

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America Goes From Bad to Worse .. Now it is Blaming Others for a Bad Outcome when that is almost directly due to Policy at Home

Excessive credit creation is the problem and we all see it's effects in American moral decline. This is a decline into gutter fighting and hostility to moderation.

Yes! A dollar based international financial system is inadequate, but it was America that saw and forced the Euro rise in value from well under a dollar to well over a dollar where it now stands, possibly as much as 60 percent decline on occasion. The financial institutions gambled away our children's future. It was America and Britain living well beyond their means that sucked in resources and acquired resources in an aggressive bid for world economic power by their largest financial firms.

A country that can't get it's act together on credit creation for wasteful development of it's property sector should not go around pointing it's finger at everyone else and say they are to blame. No, America, the buck stops with you. Your system is to blame for the present US and world crisis and more credit creation is not the solution. The American dollar printing press is not the answer.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303738504575567431511483738.html?mod=djemTEW_h

The answer is more discipline for the US dollar within a new international currency system based on a new IMF SDR mechanism in which credit creation for me sake of economic and political warfare and dominance is not rewarded. Yes, American, you have been fighting a war and there is a bill because you have not been victorious. That may be a shame, but it does not mean that you can acquire the assets of other countries with impunity just because your banks and financial institutions and derived monster companies gamble with those dollars your economy has created and cannot sustain. The dollar is weak because it is being used maliciously.

Under such a new international system all countries would be required to exercise discipline and the industrial countries would not be able to spend their way, gamble, their way further and further into debt the way Gordon Brown and the administration of George Bush did.

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