“We continue to push aggressively with each new release to provide best-of-breed technology for our customers. Refining our demographic and behavioral targeting, adding additional automated data validation processes and enhancing our optimization testing, are each examples of the innovative products we are developing to meet the evolving needs of the marketplace.”

“We have collaborated actively with BEA for years to ensure their software is optimized down to the JVM-level to take full advantage of our processor architectures. The result of this ongoing collaboration is a fast and robust infrastructure platform that is designed to allow IT departments to be more responsive to the needs of their businesses and provide an ideal foundation for service-oriented architectures.”

“Having debug and performance analysis tools in place for early adopters of the 34K cores was critical to their success. FS2 System Navigator tools allow licensees to not only debug their design but also optimize their code for the 34K cores' multi-threaded architecture. Our early licensees are very engaged and happy with FS2's solution.”

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

“Capital is readily available, and private equity investors are looking for investment opportunities. By entering into joint ventures with investors, savvy developers can obtain capital at lower costs to acquire land, optimize the timing of lot acquisitions and shift some of the risk of funding necessary for roads, sewers, utility lines and other infrastructure needed for development.”

“As one of the key elements of Alcatel's strategic, IT-based network renovation program, this solution is expected to optimize the operator's cost efficiency and revenue assurance. The target market for this solution is composed of operators seeking next-generation convergent billing capabilities, reduced costs for the renovation of their billing chain, and enhanced capabilities to differentiate themselves from competitors.”

“When it comes to shift planning, the considerations involved in deciding on the shifts of any one employee can be numerous. Taking into account that a service organization may have tens, hundreds, even thousands of employees to organize into shifts in different geographies and organization units, the need for an intelligent tool to manage this process automatically and optimally becomes apparent.”

And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.