It's not that we're better than the brits. They just considering it unethical to prolong death in the ways that we do here in the US. We can keep someone alive an extra 6-18 months with modern medicine. Quality of life during those months ia really crappy, but as long as you have an estate or medicare to draw funds from who cares?
The concern in Europe is about making end of life care as painless and dignified.
It's one of the reasons health care costs less there.
You're making an assumption it's legal. Many tax loopholes are based on moving money and doing the accounting overseas where the IRS cannot get to the information to prove what's being done it illegal. Hence, when UBS gave up Swiss Bank holder names and transactions the IRS had enough to hammer a number of very wealthy tax cheats. Too bad UBS is just the tip of the iceberg. And that doesn't cover any of the Cayman island tax cheats.
Mobile is certainly a market. But there's a lot of money spent installing and fixing DBS dishes around the world. The amount of money saved troubleshooting would be tremendous.
I think you're spot on that Oracle feels Google may displace Sun in the mobile market. J2ME phone are on the decline so now manufacturers are looking at J2SE or Google's offering. From my perspective it's not like Google is the first one to come up with their own JVM. IBM certainly has a large suite of JVMs. BEA had/has JRocket. The difference there was they had licensing agreements, whereas Google did not. Maybe Oracle wants cash. Maybe they want a cross licensing deal. I think Oracle is overly sensitive about displaced in the Java market from all the years in under-performing in it themselves.
There's a lot of speculation that a nice juicy lawsuit with Google was a selling point for Sun. And Larry Ellison is the kind of CEO who sees a lot of value in that.
I personally think Google brought this on themselves. They should known better and could have tossed some money/cross licensing at Sun back when they were first launching Android. I think back then Sun would have been tickled to be a ground floor player in the Smart Phone Market.
80 years? The US was stealing from Europe well before that. The UK had the death penalty for people caught stealing certain technology. However, there is a very big difference. The US didn't have a WIPO treaty back then that bound them to honer Intellectual Property. China does. They wanted all the benefits of WTO/WIPO, but doesn't want to actual honor their end of the deal.
+1 Apple could care less. They're sell the device at a profit and worst case is you break it and they say you voided the warranty. If anything the premise of loading other OS's on the iPad is the weakest argument. There are likely to be much cheaper Android and Chrome tablets coming out soon. That's going to be the real issue for Apple. They are going to have to have some real competition soon and frankly google's high quality free OS packages means anyone can be a contender in the market.
The stuff IBM gets the bad PR for has little to do with encryption. It has to do with management of resources. Be it supplies for the troops or jews that were to be exterminated.
The Nazis didn't randomly execute people in the camps. They had a complex punch card based system. A system that could help you find jews. A system that determined value and worth. A system that decided in what order people would die. An IBM system.
On the one hand it's true a number of machines were purchased before the war and the IBM division in Germany didn't have a lot of choices one the Nazis were in power. On the other hand IBM Brazil continued to supply and support the German division long after the US division broke ties.
Edwin Black indicated in his research that when IBM USA became aware of those dealings they did not ask the Brazil division to stop. Instead they instructed them not to tell US operations about it any more.
Think about that. They had the opportunity at that point to tell Brazil to not deal with the Nazis. Don't give them support, don't help them program the machines.
This is the same company that sold most of it's commodity hardware business to Red China. The same company that's heavily investing in research... in China and India. The same company that continued to sell the Nazi's computing hardware used against allied forces and for managing the Holocaust via their their Brazilian unit. IBM has had a long history of selling out America in order to maximize profits.
It's nice to see the Chinese are advancing. In the past they would just trump up some charges on a random Japanese Businessman that had the ire of the local party chair. Now it's a two part grab. 1) Make your point on the captain. 2) Force highly skilled manufacturing to China so you can steal the intellectual property!
Wired had a big write up how Steve doesn't put plates on his car and feels free to park in the Handicap spots at will at his companies. So why would this surprise anyone.
Seems like most FABs cost about $1bn to build. You would think a between manufacturing infrastructure and IP portfolio they would fetch more than $2bn.
It's designed for people traveling to Urban areas that don't have good public transportation. You take a bus/train/etc to the transit hub for an urban area then use the bike to get where you need to go. Once you're done with your business return the bike to a rental station and hop back onto the bus. Heck, it's not a bad deal for congested cities where you could park on the outskirts of downtown and then use the bike for the rest of the trip.
Don't do it. Most phones don't have real GPS capabilities. They need a lot of hand holding from a cellular network to fine tune the location. The only ones I can think of that have real GPS are from traditional GPS companies. Such as the Android phone from Garmin. Be that as it may, a stand along GPS is cheaper, has better battery life and is more rugged.
So basically they have a product. It's 60 years old so the patents have long since expired. The minute you move it to Asia you invite cut rate knock-offs. The only thing going for them is Japan is a bit more civilized. Cost of living is pretty high. So much that KY is likely cheaper wages.
It seems like every 6 months there's some big breakthrough in Solar that will make it many times better than existing technology. As far as I can tell none of it ever makes it out of the lab and into the market.
This is pretty much it for Steve Ballmer. They are playing a catch-up game with Apple (and others). They have had so many things just fizzle while he's been at the helm. Vista, Zune, Mobile, "Slates". It's obvious he's a business guy and not the forward thinking visionary the company needs. There's been a lot of Wallstreet chatter that Steve Ballmer's time to turn things around is very short.
The actual thing Palin and the Tea Baggers spun and outright lied about was a change in Medicare that would reimburse doctors for having a sit down with Elderly patients to talk about end of life care. There was no panel, there was no committee, it was merely a medical billing/policy change to talk about end of life with the patient. It something that is needed so badly in the health system, and couple reduce suffering and costs.
How that spun into Death Panels I don't know. Why the Media gave legs to the story I don't know. Why the democrats dropped the language I do know. They don't have a collective spine.
Tennant had a much longer history as a leading actor. The salary was inline with his stature in the acting community. Smith is younger and didn't have the same chops. He simply couldn't command as much as Tennant.
As far as Hollywood? No way. He's too goofy looking for the shallow producers he'd have to deal with.
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It's not that we're better than the brits. They just considering it unethical to prolong death in the ways that we do here in the US. We can keep someone alive an extra 6-18 months with modern medicine. Quality of life during those months ia really crappy, but as long as you have an estate or medicare to draw funds from who cares?
The concern in Europe is about making end of life care as painless and dignified.
It's one of the reasons health care costs less there.
You're making an assumption it's legal. Many tax loopholes are based on moving money and doing the accounting overseas where the IRS cannot get to the information to prove what's being done it illegal. Hence, when UBS gave up Swiss Bank holder names and transactions the IRS had enough to hammer a number of very wealthy tax cheats. Too bad UBS is just the tip of the iceberg. And that doesn't cover any of the Cayman island tax cheats.
I think the Rich do pay these taxes. The Wealthy on the other hand do no. What's the difference?
The guy who gets a million dollar bonus, he's Rich. The guy who writes that paycheck? He's Wealthy.
Mobile is certainly a market. But there's a lot of money spent installing and fixing DBS dishes around the world. The amount of money saved troubleshooting would be tremendous.
I think you're spot on that Oracle feels Google may displace Sun in the mobile market. J2ME phone are on the decline so now manufacturers are looking at J2SE or Google's offering. From my perspective it's not like Google is the first one to come up with their own JVM. IBM certainly has a large suite of JVMs. BEA had/has JRocket. The difference there was they had licensing agreements, whereas Google did not. Maybe Oracle wants cash. Maybe they want a cross licensing deal. I think Oracle is overly sensitive about displaced in the Java market from all the years in under-performing in it themselves.
There's a lot of speculation that a nice juicy lawsuit with Google was a selling point for Sun. And Larry Ellison is the kind of CEO who sees a lot of value in that.
I personally think Google brought this on themselves. They should known better and could have tossed some money/cross licensing at Sun back when they were first launching Android. I think back then Sun would have been tickled to be a ground floor player in the Smart Phone Market.
80 years? The US was stealing from Europe well before that. The UK had the death penalty for people caught stealing certain technology. However, there is a very big difference. The US didn't have a WIPO treaty back then that bound them to honer Intellectual Property. China does. They wanted all the benefits of WTO/WIPO, but doesn't want to actual honor their end of the deal.
+1 Apple could care less. They're sell the device at a profit and worst case is you break it and they say you voided the warranty. If anything the premise of loading other OS's on the iPad is the weakest argument. There are likely to be much cheaper Android and Chrome tablets coming out soon. That's going to be the real issue for Apple. They are going to have to have some real competition soon and frankly google's high quality free OS packages means anyone can be a contender in the market.
With all the engineers NASA has laid-off expect a big boost to their space and defense program.
I'm not sure why you are quoting Nazis.
The stuff IBM gets the bad PR for has little to do with encryption. It has to do with management of resources. Be it supplies for the troops or jews that were to be exterminated.
The Nazis didn't randomly execute people in the camps. They had a complex punch card based system. A system that could help you find jews. A system that determined value and worth. A system that decided in what order people would die. An IBM system.
On the one hand it's true a number of machines were purchased before the war and the IBM division in Germany didn't have a lot of choices one the Nazis were in power. On the other hand IBM Brazil continued to supply and support the German division long after the US division broke ties.
Edwin Black indicated in his research that when IBM USA became aware of those dealings they did not ask the Brazil division to stop. Instead they instructed them not to tell US operations about it any more.
Think about that. They had the opportunity at that point to tell Brazil to not deal with the Nazis. Don't give them support, don't help them program the machines.
It is chilling to think about.
This is the same company that sold most of it's commodity hardware business to Red China. The same company that's heavily investing in research... in China and India. The same company that continued to sell the Nazi's computing hardware used against allied forces and for managing the Holocaust via their their Brazilian unit. IBM has had a long history of selling out America in order to maximize profits.
It's nice to see the Chinese are advancing. In the past they would just trump up some charges on a random Japanese Businessman that had the ire of the local party chair. Now it's a two part grab. 1) Make your point on the captain. 2) Force highly skilled manufacturing to China so you can steal the intellectual property!
Wired had a big write up how Steve doesn't put plates on his car and feels free to park in the Handicap spots at will at his companies. So why would this surprise anyone.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plateless-benz/
Block all traffic to .ru and .cn.
Seems like most FABs cost about $1bn to build. You would think a between manufacturing infrastructure and IP portfolio they would fetch more than $2bn.
Hydrogen burns in a much more controlled manor compared to gasoline. So I'm not surprised they took a bit of a wait and see attitude.
A lot of cities don't have transit to do it. The cost of one bus pays for dozens of bike stations.
It's designed for people traveling to Urban areas that don't have good public transportation. You take a bus/train/etc to the transit hub for an urban area then use the bike to get where you need to go. Once you're done with your business return the bike to a rental station and hop back onto the bus. Heck, it's not a bad deal for congested cities where you could park on the outskirts of downtown and then use the bike for the rest of the trip.
Don't do it. Most phones don't have real GPS capabilities. They need a lot of hand holding from a cellular network to fine tune the location. The only ones I can think of that have real GPS are from traditional GPS companies. Such as the Android phone from Garmin. Be that as it may, a stand along GPS is cheaper, has better battery life and is more rugged.
So basically they have a product. It's 60 years old so the patents have long since expired. The minute you move it to Asia you invite cut rate knock-offs. The only thing going for them is Japan is a bit more civilized. Cost of living is pretty high. So much that KY is likely cheaper wages.
It seems like every 6 months there's some big breakthrough in Solar that will make it many times better than existing technology. As far as I can tell none of it ever makes it out of the lab and into the market.
This is pretty much it for Steve Ballmer. They are playing a catch-up game with Apple (and others). They have had so many things just fizzle while he's been at the helm. Vista, Zune, Mobile, "Slates". It's obvious he's a business guy and not the forward thinking visionary the company needs. There's been a lot of Wallstreet chatter that Steve Ballmer's time to turn things around is very short.
Sure, they have 20% of the broadband users. But after Red China Filtering they only have access to 20% of the internet. :)
Like Android but with Built in filters and state spy-ware. Fun.
The actual thing Palin and the Tea Baggers spun and outright lied about was a change in Medicare that would reimburse doctors for having a sit down with Elderly patients to talk about end of life care. There was no panel, there was no committee, it was merely a medical billing/policy change to talk about end of life with the patient. It something that is needed so badly in the health system, and couple reduce suffering and costs.
How that spun into Death Panels I don't know. Why the Media gave legs to the story I don't know. Why the democrats dropped the language I do know. They don't have a collective spine.
Tennant had a much longer history as a leading actor. The salary was inline with his stature in the acting community. Smith is younger and didn't have the same chops. He simply couldn't command as much as Tennant.
As far as Hollywood? No way. He's too goofy looking for the shallow producers he'd have to deal with.