People will always want to own physical things such as houses, cars, computers, clothing, cell phones, etc. Even with the advent of robotic manufacturing these material things require some labor to make and the cheaper the labor the more likely that's where things will be manufactured, regardless of tariffs. Robots help, but look at the recent experience of Tesla in making their new car - there appeared to be too many robots and not enough human hands in the process. There's at least one reason many high tech, expensive things (Apple phones, Dell, Lenovo and other computers, steel for John Deere equipment...) are made in China and that's the cost of labor. In the future I can see that China and maybe India may have the intellectual capability and experience to be in the development game and control both ends of the process of making things. Which countries will suffer economic problems because of this? Likely those with expensive labor and high paid developer talent.
I wansn't going to mention it, but I live in Colorado Springs and I wouldn't describe it the way you do as a red state. There are some high tech companies here and more are moving or developing in the region. Right now, we have an eight year Democratic governor, though a new one will be elected this November, and was blue in the last election. There are many other great places along the Front Range that are just as nice including Fort Collins, metro Denver and any place in between. If one is interested in outdoor activities this would be the place for you. Our state income tax rate is a fixed 4.63% rate on taxable income. We own a 3-bed house (unfinished basement), 2,800 sq. feet, with an estimated value of ~$400k and property taxes are ~$1,500. Schools are quite good, but depend a bit an where you live. The climate is that of a high desert (air conditioning useful in the summer) which means low humidity, cool nights, some snow in the winter. I could go on, but it's a great place to live. Transportation with traffic is becoming a problem as the Front Range grows; the powers that be know this but are finding solutions difficult to come up with.
My city has a vacant piece of land, ~25,000 acres, that's ready for mixed development that could be quite attractive for placing a high tech operation. Energy is fairly cheap and solar is being developed because we have 320 days of sunshine.
I'm not too interested in getting too many new folks to move here, so was reluctant in touting our advantages and creating more congestion. I'm sure other folks could chime in about the advantages their location has.
There are plenty of places in the country that would likely be very nice to live where the cost of living is reasonable. The company could pay employees less giving the employee more income after expenses. The company could actually make more money as a result.
Sort of what I was thinking. Didn't Faraday discover the effect of electric current on a magnet and a magnet on an electric current? Something about electric motors comes to mind.
If rural folks have access to high speed Internet, I don't see how that's a problem.
I have in laws living on Iowa farms only a three or four miles from a town that has very good high speed Internet but their only wired connection is dial up. Lack of HS Internet is a real problem considering all the high tech graphical agricultural information available to them from a wide variety of sources.
There's another problem with moving manufacturing to the US.
There's also the reality that other countries impose their own excessive, punitive tariffs on manufactured goods from the US.
Tariffs aren't uniquely American.
Absolutely correct!
Why would we believe other countries wouldn't impose tariffs on US made iPhones? China surely would do that to protect its domestic cell phone producers. And, the total market for cell phones outside the US is likely larger than the US cell phone market.
Um..., as far as I know, there are no domestically produced/manufactured Apple iPhones, so adding tariffs on them only increases the price. I'm not sure if there's US manufactured content in an iPhone, such as semiconductor parts, though the engineering design is housed in the US. Would the tariffs on Chinese manufactured devices and their parts designed by US workers increase unemployment among the US workers or just increase the cost of those devices in the US?
There's another problem with moving manufacturing to the US. If the US cost of manufacturing a product now made overseas increases what happens to sales of that product overseas? I'm not sure how many iPhones are sold outside the US, but a price increase could decrease non US sales requiring further price increases to maintain Apple's profit margins.
Seriously, you very well could be right. According to GregMmm's response to my question above, viruses mutate differently in different parts of the world. This may be like an evolution event and if the administration is filled with anti-science folks who believe the world is only a few thousand years old, why would they believe in vaccination against an evolved virus.
It's been reported that Chromebooks should run Android apps, though I've seen reports suggesting not all Android Play Store apps run. As suggested above, they should run. To ensure they run, Chromebooks should be able to run current and future versions of Android OS. Would they duel boot or just have a second processor (a Snapdragon) just for Android?
There are two possible results from the $32.50 increase in cost to the umbrella company: raise the sale price of umbrellas by $0.325 each to keep profit constant or eat the price increase and reduce profits by $0.325 per umbrella. The latter choice may not be viable if profits are at or below $0.325 per umbrella. Who pays the tariff if the company stays in business? The persons/customers who buy the umbrellas. Another result is the tariff increases inflation leading to increased interest rates on borrowed money. Non umbrella purchasers are affected by the tariffs. If the company goes out of business there are other obvious and non obvious consequences.
In another example involving tariffs involves importers of American made goods. I've read that the largest exporter to China of US made automobiles is BMW - about 500,000 cars per year. BMWs are not $5 umbrellas and and any tariff on them will be real money. China has imposed a tariff on them and BMW is considering moving manufacturing to China with the result of job losses at their US plant. The laid-off employees may gain unemployment compensation for a while, which has other complicated fiscal and personal consequences.
A cell phone or land line phone is a necessary item these days but I'm not sure a cell phone is an investment but rather an expense, especially if you're using it for pleasure and not for business. An investment is purchased in order to increase one's wealth whereas a phone is a necessary tool. If you're not creating income you wouldn't get without the phone, then I guess it might be considered an investment, but for most folks that's not the case.
The problem with keeping an Apple phone or some another brands is that OS software updates seem to result in performance degradation, i.e., the hardware can't keep up with new "features" or increased complexity in OS updates. Phones from Google only guarantee OS updates for two years and security patches for three years. The phone makers see a cash cow as users need to update on a two or three year schedule. Those who can afford these schedules will pay the price. Those who can't will make use of much lower priced replacements.
What protection would one have if buried in a bank's 100,000 word terms of service document it was required to let Facebook have your financial records whether you had a FB account or not? Don't agree to these terms, sorry, no bank account for you or your checking account is closed. Disaster will happen.
There's no free lunch! Shipping companies don't work for free. When Amazon or any other mail order vendor does not pay the FeEX, UPS, USPS or other shipper, then I'll believe shipping is free. And then there's the environmental costs of getting a product to the purchaser.
A correct statement would be, "Shipping cost included in purchase price." I believe this statement, or something that says the same thing, should be required by law for mail order vendors not including a shipping cost in the invoice.
A little bit of sarcasm here. The earthlings would likely either be slaves or destroyed. Or, remember the Twilight Zone episode involving the very tall aliens that ended up raising humans for food. The must have had a pretty cheap energy source to be able fatten up people and transport them to some faraway planet.
Would the earth countries gang up and take the moon back? It might be a losing proposition for earthlings and the whole earth becomes a planet of slaves, if there are any humans left alive.
If your unique DNA were found in what was smelled in Uluru it would be pretty conclusive the smell came from you in Kansas. Probably not possible in that case, but one needs to look at the statistics in the wine tests to confirm the analysis and the origin of the nuclide.
What I'm thinking about here is the loss of connectivity options. Most laptops now do not have Ethernet, a couple of USB A ports, HDMI connectivity, a separate charging port. Instead, the result is dongle hell. There might be one or two USB C ports, one of which is for charging. Try to add a wireless mouse with one of those tiny USB A connectors and some other USB A device at the same time. Maybe it'll use unreliable Blue tooth. SSD connectors also seem to be disappearing. With the advent of routers with Giga bit Ethernet, Wi-Fi may not cut it for your home intranet much less Wi-Fi connectivity to a Giga bit, or slower, cable Internet connection. Other readers can think of losses in capability for their own situations.
There surely have been improvements in laptops such as higher quality screens, touch screens, two-and-one hardware, energy efficient electronics giving much longer on battery use, lighter weight, etc. But, laptops are generally meant to be easily portable. Thinner, lighter devices requiring a bulky dongles somewht reduce that advantage
Knowing where something is, what it is and where it's going may be a lot easier than destroying it. Someone may be able to develop methods for fooling the detection, blocking it or overwhelming it with false information.
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People will always want to own physical things such as houses, cars, computers, clothing, cell phones, etc. Even with the advent of robotic manufacturing these material things require some labor to make and the cheaper the labor the more likely that's where things will be manufactured, regardless of tariffs. Robots help, but look at the recent experience of Tesla in making their new car - there appeared to be too many robots and not enough human hands in the process. There's at least one reason many high tech, expensive things (Apple phones, Dell, Lenovo and other computers, steel for John Deere equipment...) are made in China and that's the cost of labor. In the future I can see that China and maybe India may have the intellectual capability and experience to be in the development game and control both ends of the process of making things. Which countries will suffer economic problems because of this? Likely those with expensive labor and high paid developer talent.
If I read the OP correctly, countries can decide which time zone they're in but not change twice a year. Am I wrong?
I wansn't going to mention it, but I live in Colorado Springs and I wouldn't describe it the way you do as a red state. There are some high tech companies here and more are moving or developing in the region. Right now, we have an eight year Democratic governor, though a new one will be elected this November, and was blue in the last election. There are many other great places along the Front Range that are just as nice including Fort Collins, metro Denver and any place in between. If one is interested in outdoor activities this would be the place for you. Our state income tax rate is a fixed 4.63% rate on taxable income. We own a 3-bed house (unfinished basement), 2,800 sq. feet, with an estimated value of ~$400k and property taxes are ~$1,500. Schools are quite good, but depend a bit an where you live. The climate is that of a high desert (air conditioning useful in the summer) which means low humidity, cool nights, some snow in the winter. I could go on, but it's a great place to live. Transportation with traffic is becoming a problem as the Front Range grows; the powers that be know this but are finding solutions difficult to come up with.
My city has a vacant piece of land, ~25,000 acres, that's ready for mixed development that could be quite attractive for placing a high tech operation. Energy is fairly cheap and solar is being developed because we have 320 days of sunshine.
I'm not too interested in getting too many new folks to move here, so was reluctant in touting our advantages and creating more congestion. I'm sure other folks could chime in about the advantages their location has.
There are plenty of places in the country that would likely be very nice to live where the cost of living is reasonable. The company could pay employees less giving the employee more income after expenses. The company could actually make more money as a result.
Sort of what I was thinking. Didn't Faraday discover the effect of electric current on a magnet and a magnet on an electric current? Something about electric motors comes to mind.
If rural folks have access to high speed Internet, I don't see how that's a problem.
I have in laws living on Iowa farms only a three or four miles from a town that has very good high speed Internet but their only wired connection is dial up. Lack of HS Internet is a real problem considering all the high tech graphical agricultural information available to them from a wide variety of sources.
There's another problem with moving manufacturing to the US.
There's also the reality that other countries impose their own excessive, punitive tariffs on manufactured goods from the US.
Tariffs aren't uniquely American.
Absolutely correct!
Why would we believe other countries wouldn't impose tariffs on US made iPhones? China surely would do that to protect its domestic cell phone producers. And, the total market for cell phones outside the US is likely larger than the US cell phone market.
Um..., as far as I know, there are no domestically produced/manufactured Apple iPhones, so adding tariffs on them only increases the price. I'm not sure if there's US manufactured content in an iPhone, such as semiconductor parts, though the engineering design is housed in the US. Would the tariffs on Chinese manufactured devices and their parts designed by US workers increase unemployment among the US workers or just increase the cost of those devices in the US?
There's another problem with moving manufacturing to the US. If the US cost of manufacturing a product now made overseas increases what happens to sales of that product overseas? I'm not sure how many iPhones are sold outside the US, but a price increase could decrease non US sales requiring further price increases to maintain Apple's profit margins.
Economics is complicated.
Seriously, you very well could be right. According to GregMmm's response to my question above, viruses mutate differently in different parts of the world. This may be like an evolution event and if the administration is filled with anti-science folks who believe the world is only a few thousand years old, why would they believe in vaccination against an evolved virus.
GregMmm - thanks for the insight.
Unless the birds having the virus only live in China, the US virus hunters should have found this virus already.
I already expected to see either a link here in /. or real data on the effect this code has on CPU performance. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
It's been reported that Chromebooks should run Android apps, though I've seen reports suggesting not all Android Play Store apps run. As suggested above, they should run. To ensure they run, Chromebooks should be able to run current and future versions of Android OS. Would they duel boot or just have a second processor (a Snapdragon) just for Android?
There are two possible results from the $32.50 increase in cost to the umbrella company: raise the sale price of umbrellas by $0.325 each to keep profit constant or eat the price increase and reduce profits by $0.325 per umbrella. The latter choice may not be viable if profits are at or below $0.325 per umbrella. Who pays the tariff if the company stays in business? The persons/customers who buy the umbrellas. Another result is the tariff increases inflation leading to increased interest rates on borrowed money. Non umbrella purchasers are affected by the tariffs. If the company goes out of business there are other obvious and non obvious consequences.
In another example involving tariffs involves importers of American made goods. I've read that the largest exporter to China of US made automobiles is BMW - about 500,000 cars per year. BMWs are not $5 umbrellas and and any tariff on them will be real money. China has imposed a tariff on them and BMW is considering moving manufacturing to China with the result of job losses at their US plant. The laid-off employees may gain unemployment compensation for a while, which has other complicated fiscal and personal consequences.
After all, with the kind of keyboards described here, Apple's laptop computer sales would likely tank. They may want to be just a cell phone company.
A cell phone or land line phone is a necessary item these days but I'm not sure a cell phone is an investment but rather an expense, especially if you're using it for pleasure and not for business. An investment is purchased in order to increase one's wealth whereas a phone is a necessary tool. If you're not creating income you wouldn't get without the phone, then I guess it might be considered an investment, but for most folks that's not the case.
The problem with keeping an Apple phone or some another brands is that OS software updates seem to result in performance degradation, i.e., the hardware can't keep up with new "features" or increased complexity in OS updates. Phones from Google only guarantee OS updates for two years and security patches for three years. The phone makers see a cash cow as users need to update on a two or three year schedule. Those who can afford these schedules will pay the price. Those who can't will make use of much lower priced replacements.
What protection would one have if buried in a bank's 100,000 word terms of service document it was required to let Facebook have your financial records whether you had a FB account or not? Don't agree to these terms, sorry, no bank account for you or your checking account is closed. Disaster will happen.
There's no free lunch! Shipping companies don't work for free. When Amazon or any other mail order vendor does not pay the FeEX, UPS, USPS or other shipper, then I'll believe shipping is free. And then there's the environmental costs of getting a product to the purchaser.
A correct statement would be, "Shipping cost included in purchase price." I believe this statement, or something that says the same thing, should be required by law for mail order vendors not including a shipping cost in the invoice.
A little bit of sarcasm here. The earthlings would likely either be slaves or destroyed. Or, remember the Twilight Zone episode involving the very tall aliens that ended up raising humans for food. The must have had a pretty cheap energy source to be able fatten up people and transport them to some faraway planet.
Would the earth countries gang up and take the moon back? It might be a losing proposition for earthlings and the whole earth becomes a planet of slaves, if there are any humans left alive.
If your unique DNA were found in what was smelled in Uluru it would be pretty conclusive the smell came from you in Kansas. Probably not possible in that case, but one needs to look at the statistics in the wine tests to confirm the analysis and the origin of the nuclide.
What I'm thinking about here is the loss of connectivity options. Most laptops now do not have Ethernet, a couple of USB A ports, HDMI connectivity, a separate charging port. Instead, the result is dongle hell. There might be one or two USB C ports, one of which is for charging. Try to add a wireless mouse with one of those tiny USB A connectors and some other USB A device at the same time. Maybe it'll use unreliable Blue tooth. SSD connectors also seem to be disappearing. With the advent of routers with Giga bit Ethernet, Wi-Fi may not cut it for your home intranet much less Wi-Fi connectivity to a Giga bit, or slower, cable Internet connection. Other readers can think of losses in capability for their own situations.
There surely have been improvements in laptops such as higher quality screens, touch screens, two-and-one hardware, energy efficient electronics giving much longer on battery use, lighter weight, etc. But, laptops are generally meant to be easily portable. Thinner, lighter devices requiring a bulky dongles somewht reduce that advantage
Knowing where something is, what it is and where it's going may be a lot easier than destroying it. Someone may be able to develop methods for fooling the detection, blocking it or overwhelming it with false information.
Seems like one also needs a design/engineering staff to design phones. See: https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
Does it have a notch? Might be important one way or the other.