The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance read more

The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance for future earnings that is far from stellar.

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (linear time read more

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (linear time code) options, which are typically voice-automated, Web self-service, or offshore. For higher-priced products or consultative services such as furniture or retail financial services, the right balance between automation and live agent becomes more complex.

We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, read more

We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, especially against good teams, they will pound away on us. We want to make the other team work hard to pick up our serve. We don't want to make it easy to hit the ball back at us.

I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of read more

I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of life and see where they lead.

This is going to change my life a lot.

This is going to change my life a lot.

Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, read more

Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.

He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot read more

He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot of good things going for him.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this read more

Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.