I'm confused, are we only against protecting local markets when it's in the software/IT industry?
It's bad that Europe is trying to place a duty on camera's made outside of Europe.
It's good when the government takes action to prevent outsourcing software development, and Tech Suport to India and Brazil?
What side of this issue am I supposed to be on?
Next time you open a can of coke I want you to think about near zero distribution cost and how much you pay for it. If you're still buying coke then try not to complain so much about the Record/Movie/Software/etc industry. Also if you think that the cost of the internet is the cost of the hardware and not the cost of support/maintenance/upgrade/design/installation of the hardware then you need to spend a little more time thinking about this industry as a whole.
They need to DRM and limit to the UK because of syndication. While most of their shows are public broadcast in the UK they license them to other TV stations that release on a different schedule. These other channels would not want to pay the same amount if the shows were available on the internet for free before they showed them on their channels.
The same thing happens with DVD's of BBC shows. The season may be long over in the UK some times years over but the DVDs won't release until after the american syndication has aired.
I'm sure they could have guaranteed that kind of functionality inside of there original 90 day design lifetime. Here we are 3 years later and they're not sure.
I think the designers deserve some credit. If you feel you can do it better I'm sure NASA would appreciate your resume.
Both Corporations and Consumer rights are protected in the US. In this case they would protect you from breach of contract. Most cell phone contracts do provide mechanisms for both parties to terminate prematurely.
Although in the case of cell phones it is usually easier for the Company than the consumer.
I agree if you don't import it you won't have to worry about it's memory footprint and java has a fairly granular import mechanism for managing this. However I was refrencing the disk footprint which will be affected regardless of import by code.
Additions of features like this are useful for applications that need unit of measure conversion. I can think of a number of situations where using a mechanism like this rather than writing my own conversion could be useful. Also adding the ability to extend it yourself with custom unit's could be very helpful in some cases.
How much do additions such as this add to the overall footprint of the language? I understand that this project may not be very large but how many parallel projects such as this are being added to the codebase. I'm not sure what the benefit of adding this directly over having it available as a library. In many cases we need to keep several java instances on the same server(app specific, multi versions) this means that this footprint growth get's multiplied across the multiple instances.
I don't think the US government would disagree with that. If you could 100% guarantee that only children will use these computers in order to learn, then I think the US government would hand deliver them. The concern behind these laws is that if computers are multipurpose what prevents the government or a terrorist group using these computers for themselves.
Before I get beat up with the "Like terrorist's/unfriendly gvmts don't have computers!!" argument, my response is: So that means we should supply them with more?
It's a little late for the government to step in. Globalization happened. If the government were to try to guarantee jobs corporations would just find another more friendly government.
There is no doubt that there are layoffs going on at IBM but by misreporting the numbers you can misrepresent the purpose. The size of layoffs that Cringely reported suggest a massive change in policy that would represent Global outsourcing all of the US Workforce. Smaller layoffs may represent departmental consolidation or response to market forces.
They do note that they find the card priced aggresively. This is the highest end graphics card they are producing for the retail space. Direct competitors do not always cost the same thing. They may be trying to undercut the price of the nvidia card which is why the review compares the similarily featured rather than the similarily priced.
Plenty of businesses survive on convenience fees. It doesn't always have to be cheaper for you to buy it sometimes there is a benefit to driving a block and buying something immediately instead of waiting for it to be delivered.
This argument while very well written can be viewed as a support of RIAA and MPAA policy as well.
The argument boils down to: It is hard for businesses to change there business model therefore the government should protect them.
I feel bad for anyone that can't make money in and industry they have been working in for years however they should change or quit.
Giving manufacturers power of Retail pricing gives a huge amount of power to limited competition products. These Manufacturers already have several methods within their playbook for raising the price of items at retail.
To fully see the impact that implementing this policy would cause imagine if the PS3 never sold a single unit. If BestBuy bought a warehouse full of PS3's for launch and then no one bought a single unit at the Manufacturers set price then in the current system Best Buy would reduce the price of PS3's until they could empty the warehouse. If this rule was revoked Best Buy would have to build another warehouse to buy stock of other items so because they could not reduce the price of items below the Manufacturers agreed price. In the long term Sony would get hurt but in the short term Best Buy would get destroyed. Inventory problems can significantly impact a company, think GM's current problems.
In the current system Manufacturers control price quite well. Why do you think video games cost roughly the same at Walmart and Best Buy. Why would we provide them with more power? There is plenty of cost to this decision what is the benefit?
2 issues:
1 The article is weak on details or quotes from anyone aside from the company that made it.
2. "The EM-SEC Coating System is clearly the most secure option aside from stringing out the CAT5" screams I am a paid advertisement.
I don't know the original website should I trust the content?
When we looked into putting in WAP's at work there was a way to tune the signal strength to be dead as near the external walls as possible. I know this isn't perfect because you can always get a bigger antenna but it should stop the average person that is driving by. If you add good Wireless security, and good physical security to this doesn't it solve most of the problem?
Just as being a DBA or being a developer is a skill. Don't assume you have it. Don't assume you can learn it.
Move into management if you genuinely want to manage people. If you don't please quit inflicting your interest in larger salaries on the rest of us.
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I'm confused, are we only against protecting local markets when it's in the software/IT industry? It's bad that Europe is trying to place a duty on camera's made outside of Europe. It's good when the government takes action to prevent outsourcing software development, and Tech Suport to India and Brazil? What side of this issue am I supposed to be on?
Next time you open a can of coke I want you to think about near zero distribution cost and how much you pay for it. If you're still buying coke then try not to complain so much about the Record/Movie/Software/etc industry. Also if you think that the cost of the internet is the cost of the hardware and not the cost of support/maintenance/upgrade/design/installation of the hardware then you need to spend a little more time thinking about this industry as a whole.
They need to DRM and limit to the UK because of syndication. While most of their shows are public broadcast in the UK they license them to other TV stations that release on a different schedule. These other channels would not want to pay the same amount if the shows were available on the internet for free before they showed them on their channels.
The same thing happens with DVD's of BBC shows. The season may be long over in the UK some times years over but the DVDs won't release until after the american syndication has aired.
I'm sure they could have guaranteed that kind of functionality inside of there original 90 day design lifetime. Here we are 3 years later and they're not sure.
I think the designers deserve some credit. If you feel you can do it better I'm sure NASA would appreciate your resume.
Did North America. I never heard of it either. Don't feel left out. So was everyone else.
Both Corporations and Consumer rights are protected in the US. In this case they would protect you from breach of contract. Most cell phone contracts do provide mechanisms for both parties to terminate prematurely.
Although in the case of cell phones it is usually easier for the Company than the consumer.
I agree if you don't import it you won't have to worry about it's memory footprint and java has a fairly granular import mechanism for managing this. However I was refrencing the disk footprint which will be affected regardless of import by code.
Additions of features like this are useful for applications that need unit of measure conversion. I can think of a number of situations where using a mechanism like this rather than writing my own conversion could be useful. Also adding the ability to extend it yourself with custom unit's could be very helpful in some cases.
How much do additions such as this add to the overall footprint of the language? I understand that this project may not be very large but how many parallel projects such as this are being added to the codebase. I'm not sure what the benefit of adding this directly over having it available as a library. In many cases we need to keep several java instances on the same server(app specific, multi versions) this means that this footprint growth get's multiplied across the multiple instances.
I don't think the US government would disagree with that. If you could 100% guarantee that only children will use these computers in order to learn, then I think the US government would hand deliver them. The concern behind these laws is that if computers are multipurpose what prevents the government or a terrorist group using these computers for themselves. Before I get beat up with the "Like terrorist's/unfriendly gvmts don't have computers!!" argument, my response is: So that means we should supply them with more?
It's a little late for the government to step in. Globalization happened. If the government were to try to guarantee jobs corporations would just find another more friendly government.
There is no doubt that there are layoffs going on at IBM but by misreporting the numbers you can misrepresent the purpose. The size of layoffs that Cringely reported suggest a massive change in policy that would represent Global outsourcing all of the US Workforce. Smaller layoffs may represent departmental consolidation or response to market forces.
They do note that they find the card priced aggresively. This is the highest end graphics card they are producing for the retail space. Direct competitors do not always cost the same thing. They may be trying to undercut the price of the nvidia card which is why the review compares the similarily featured rather than the similarily priced.
Plenty of businesses survive on convenience fees. It doesn't always have to be cheaper for you to buy it sometimes there is a benefit to driving a block and buying something immediately instead of waiting for it to be delivered.
This argument while very well written can be viewed as a support of RIAA and MPAA policy as well.
The argument boils down to: It is hard for businesses to change there business model therefore the government should protect them.
I feel bad for anyone that can't make money in and industry they have been working in for years however they should change or quit.
Giving manufacturers power of Retail pricing gives a huge amount of power to limited competition products. These Manufacturers already have several methods within their playbook for raising the price of items at retail.
To fully see the impact that implementing this policy would cause imagine if the PS3 never sold a single unit. If BestBuy bought a warehouse full of PS3's for launch and then no one bought a single unit at the Manufacturers set price then in the current system Best Buy would reduce the price of PS3's until they could empty the warehouse. If this rule was revoked Best Buy would have to build another warehouse to buy stock of other items so because they could not reduce the price of items below the Manufacturers agreed price. In the long term Sony would get hurt but in the short term Best Buy would get destroyed. Inventory problems can significantly impact a company, think GM's current problems.
In the current system Manufacturers control price quite well. Why do you think video games cost roughly the same at Walmart and Best Buy. Why would we provide them with more power? There is plenty of cost to this decision what is the benefit?
2 issues: 1 The article is weak on details or quotes from anyone aside from the company that made it. 2. "The EM-SEC Coating System is clearly the most secure option aside from stringing out the CAT5" screams I am a paid advertisement. I don't know the original website should I trust the content? When we looked into putting in WAP's at work there was a way to tune the signal strength to be dead as near the external walls as possible. I know this isn't perfect because you can always get a bigger antenna but it should stop the average person that is driving by. If you add good Wireless security, and good physical security to this doesn't it solve most of the problem?
Just as being a DBA or being a developer is a skill. Don't assume you have it. Don't assume you can learn it. Move into management if you genuinely want to manage people. If you don't please quit inflicting your interest in larger salaries on the rest of us.