I don't think the market you use has anything to do with whether Android is open or not, as long as you're not locked to that market. I mean, is Debian not open because I can't force them to put applications that don't comply with the DFSG on the main repository?
African immigrants in the US? Yeah, I actually would ask them:
African immigrants to the U.S. are among the most educated groups in the United States. Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans.
Without the money to improve infrastructures and education that offshoring for cheap manufacturing work brought to those developing countries, that would make much less sense financially for a company.
If it cost the same, why would companies offshore? Instead of a slow but steady improvement of third world salaries, you'd be left with widespread poverty.
helping someone at the expense of another is neither good nor moral.
Helping someone is always at the expense of someone else that could benefit from those resources. The only thing you can do is prioritize your goals.
a company offshoring jobs and damaging the economy of a whole country (and possibly the world) just to get short-term profit is, in my opinion, acting in an immoral way.
That's irrelevant, for two reasons. Firstly, morality is irrelevant unless you're looking as a CEO, shareholder or consumer; if your goal is to fix an economy, you need to look at it as an economist and lawmaker.
Secondly, you don't fix an economy by looking at each company individually - it's like trying to decide whether eating 4000 calories/day is adequate without knowing if the person is a couch slob or Micheal Phelps. Offshoring is fine as long as you compensate for it in other ways.
it'll be a cold day in hell before we actually exercise that potential, because it's easier and more profitable to just drive down the cost of 'human resources' and go jurisdiction shopping for favorable tax status and environmental non-regulation...
It's not more profitable for "us", it's more profitable for a very small segment of the population. It's everyone else that needs to act.
The 'gains from trade' argument certainly offers a strong foundation for the position that globalization can deliver greater overall wealth; but the domestic experience, at least, has been that the income distribution skews even faster than the pie grows. It's not a huge surprise that this leaves those holding a smaller slice looking back fondly on the days when they had a bigger slice of a smaller pie...
No, it's not surprising, but it's essentially an algorithm stuck in a local maximum. The fact that the current slope is a bad path doesn't mean others won't lead to higher hills.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the NYT paywall - you just need to change the '_r' parameter in the URL to 0 instead of 4.
I don't think the market you use has anything to do with whether Android is open or not, as long as you're not locked to that market. I mean, is Debian not open because I can't force them to put applications that don't comply with the DFSG on the main repository?
That's what virtual CCs are for. Doesn't your bank offer them?
Android is open. Google Play (formerly Android Market) isn't, and never was. But no one is forced to use their market to provide and install apps.
http://i.imgur.com/WuaVN.jpg
parts of chrome may be OSS
True, but misleading. It's more like "small parts of chrome are proprietary". Almost all of it OSS and included in Chromium.
The V8 Javascript engine, for example, was all developed by Google and released under the BSD license.
Obligatory George Carlin.
Well, there are antivirus programs for Linux; they're useful if you're scanning a Windows partition or running an email server.
Now try running Racket Scheme on a browser without addons.
If you don't mind some communism apology in some stories, Soviet SF has some great works, although finding English translations might be hard.
See the works of the Strugatsky brothers, in particular.
African immigrants in the US? Yeah, I actually would ask them:
African immigrants to the U.S. are among the most educated groups in the United States. Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans.
Which is exactly what we need to change.
This could've saved you some time ;)
What OS? On Windows, I've used DVD Flick, worked fine.
On Linux, you use dvdauthor like a proper geek!
Heresy! Everyone knows the only true shell is Z shell!
Without the money to improve infrastructures and education that offshoring for cheap manufacturing work brought to those developing countries, that would make much less sense financially for a company.
No. A gnostic atheist is someone who says "there are no god(s)".
An agnostic atheist is someone who says "I don't believe in gods, but I can't assert their non-existance either".
Then there are the ignosticists, who say "before I answer, define 'god'."
You're a gnostic atheist. I, who don't believe in the non-existance of god(s), am a agnostic atheist.
Here's a nice diagram and explanation: http://freethinker.co.uk/2009/09/25/8419/
We, the population of developed countries. And I don't exactly have a plan, but a good first step would be to not let Mr. Norquist win.
OK, so why are the Chinese salaries growing year after year? Due to their almost non-existent internal demand?
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html
If it cost the same, why would companies offshore? Instead of a slow but steady improvement of third world salaries, you'd be left with widespread poverty.
But for that matter, so can not having a Twitter account.
helping someone is good and moral.
helping someone at the expense of another is neither good nor moral.
Helping someone is always at the expense of someone else that could benefit from those resources. The only thing you can do is prioritize your goals.
a company offshoring jobs and damaging the economy of a whole country (and possibly the world) just to get short-term profit is, in my opinion, acting in an immoral way.
That's irrelevant, for two reasons. Firstly, morality is irrelevant unless you're looking as a CEO, shareholder or consumer; if your goal is to fix an economy, you need to look at it as an economist and lawmaker.
Secondly, you don't fix an economy by looking at each company individually - it's like trying to decide whether eating 4000 calories/day is adequate without knowing if the person is a couch slob or Micheal Phelps.
Offshoring is fine as long as you compensate for it in other ways.
it'll be a cold day in hell before we actually exercise that potential, because it's easier and more profitable to just drive down the cost of 'human resources' and go jurisdiction shopping for favorable tax status and environmental non-regulation...
It's not more profitable for "us", it's more profitable for a very small segment of the population. It's everyone else that needs to act.
The 'gains from trade' argument certainly offers a strong foundation for the position that globalization can deliver greater overall wealth; but the domestic experience, at least, has been that the income distribution skews even faster than the pie grows. It's not a huge surprise that this leaves those holding a smaller slice looking back fondly on the days when they had a bigger slice of a smaller pie...
No, it's not surprising, but it's essentially an algorithm stuck in a local maximum. The fact that the current slope is a bad path doesn't mean others won't lead to higher hills.
Did you skip my post, or were you just unable to comprehend it?