Is that because of litigation costs, larger companies can effectively deter small companies from starting up simply by waving around a fear of legal action. Small businesses, even armed with patents, do not have millions of dollars to defend them. So all the patent system really does is enable large companies to crush small ones. This makes businesses less competitive, not more.
It's like, every time Europe does something, a European official announces it with some kind of a dig at the USA. There's a huge laundry list of trade differences that European leaders are using to become the USE to go against the USA. IF that's what Europe wants to do, go ahead, but don't be pissed off when we Americans don't want to follow Europe's lead on any issue simply because we have no foreign policy or economic reason to trust you.
>Do they? Gosh! Maybe that's all thats filtered >by CNN and the like
No, I get that from BBC, Agency France Presse, LaMonde, the Sun, overseas stuff. CNN, for example, never printed Chirac's speech in China where he said that America is something the world should unite against. I got that from a translated page of a French paper via Drudge.
>Steel tariffs, genetically modified food.
What about trying to say that Boeing gets a subsidy because somehow building fighter aircraft is like building jumbo jets. What about all the crap being dropped on top of Microsoft? And yes, what about genetically modified foods, the willingness to lift the arms embargo on China, and of course trying to bitch about a dollar being too low when any economics course says the dollar should go lower.
Bush never insulted France, but Chirac has insulted the USA plenty. Bush never insulted Shroeder, but Shroeder has insulted the USA plenty.
All Presidents lie about the immediate reasons to get into wars. Bush didn't do any different than any other President did. But Bush also gave prior to the opening of hostilities a list of reasons BESIDES wmd.
a) To bring about a democratic government in Iraq. b) To get rid of Saddam.
Oh every war is sold with a mountain of lies. That's just the way it is. Get over it. Heck, look at how Clinton was running around telling everyone that if we didn't bomb Yugoslavia all of Europe would be destroyed.
It really seems like a good idea, but I'm so fed up with Phishing sites, emails from nowhere, etc, that it seems like allowing all of this anonymous content is being proven a bad idea. The one good thing about IPV6 is that captures your Mac address, although I suppose that could be spoofed somehow..
You gotta love how liberals believe that if you write enough stuff, people will think it is true. They build bad cases upon flawed logic based on opinions. It's all third grade logic.
Hey, everyone knows Delay for all of his faults has a lot of pull in the US House. If Delay is on board with funding a lot of space, why not let him do it? If NASA does get us back to the moon and mars, and I think they can (they did get us to the moon before, after all), then sure, go for it.
The fifteen or sixteen billion a year that NASA needs is chump change. Toss it onto the deficit, as space is an investment that will pay for itself.
Whenever something goes bad in Europe, European leaders are running around saying "America this", or "America that". It's not America's fault that Europe cannot both have a cradle to the grave welfare state with guaranteed social stability and a dynamic capitalist society at the same time. It's not America's fault that France and Germany have huge unemployment rates.
All of our transatlantic problems are because of that simple quandry. Europe sees that America's trade policies are trashing its way of life. But Europe doesn't have to follow them. Europe doesn't have to have giant economic growth and doesn't have to try and become a unified alternative to America. Those are European decisions, not American ones. IF Europe wants to have a slower economy and fall behind economically but have more social stability, then let it.
What I hate is blanket statements. Americans are a bunch of heathens that should be more integrated with the world. Americans don't understand foreign countries. Americans are stupider than their more civilized European counterparts. I mean, America has more people in more countries, both in businesses and in the military, then no nation in the world has ever had. America leads in many areas of research, has a robust economy, and yet, we're "stupid".
Look at how much Europeans trash Texas. I'm no fan of that whole Southern Texas thing, but, if Texas were a country, it would be comparable to many European States in terms of economic activities. It's certainly larger!
Actually, if the French wouldn't have screwed things up, our national debt would have eventually been cut in half by our devaluation of the dollar. But oh no, not only did France wreck things for Europe, France also wrecked things for the United States.
All in one fell swoop of a vote. You gotta hand it to the French. When they decide to piss on everyone without firing a shot, no one does it better than they! Plus they invented margerine.
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This has to be the coolest thing I've read on Slashdot in months. I will eat spanish food for a week in their honor and will buy twenty Euros and hang it on my cubicle wall.
In my book someone talented enough to make a project such as MythTV or anything GNU makes deserves to not have to work at Walmart. Ergo, they should get paid.
What we really need is a programming language that is conducive to develop open source that is free as in open, but not as in beer. So an end user would pay for a program, the open source teams would get their money, but anyone could take a program and grow it.
Part of the problem in this field is the herd mentality. Everyone jumps onto one technology just to be that one bandwagon. First it was IBM, now it is Microsoft. Very few people seem to appreciate diversity in software.
Remember how much better the world was when there were a whole slew of C++ development system? There used to be Watcom, Borland, Microsoft, IBM Visual Age, and a few other middle tier players. Now Watcom and IBM are both out, Borland is so expensive as beyond the reach of the average developer and Microsoft is getting that way too. Everything can feel like more of the same.
Remember when there was Borland Office, Lotus Smart Suite, and MS Office all competing? Now Office dominates, but I still to this day liked WordPro the best..
Oh, what's this, Germans have the highest unemployment rate since they thrust Hitler into office. France is not far behind.
And how many decades has it been since Europe has had consistent economic equal to that of the USA? Europeans don't even want economic growth because then they would have to give up their "quality of life", or, um, actually work for a living. The French proved that on Sunday. I bet if the Germans actually got to vote on the EU constitution, they would have shot it down before hand.
Hey, there's no law in America that says you have to work. If you want to be one of those happy poor people, go right ahead, but the rest of us that want better for our families are going to work to go get it. Don't think you have a right to plasma screen just because I got one.
Europe has no right to levy a fine of that magnitude on an American company.
Don't pay any fines.
Dump the software on Europe for free as in beer to continue to lock the market in.
Europe is hell bent on starting a trade war. The Bush administration should intervene on Microsoft's behalf and place sanctions all European technology companies in retaliation.
Ban SAP and Business Objects in the United States.
What is it about Japanese society that can be so male dominated and still not produce any children. Maybe if there men stopped spending 80 hours a week trying to make a middle manager at Toyota happy or otherwise face suicide, they would actually be able to have families instead of trying to have robots take their place.
If Americans are so stupid, how does the United States:
a) Have the fastest rate of economic growth among major industrialized nations.
b) Have the world's most powerful military.
c) Have one of the world's largest manufacturing economies at over 1.5 trillion a year.
d) Have a lead or compete globally in aerospace, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, entertainment, cars, and, thanks to Microsoft X-Box, consumer electronics.
e) To this day only the United States has put a man on the moon.
Isn't the unemployment rate in France and Germany hovering at near 10%, with the unemployment rate for the under 25 sector actually riding significantly higher? Meanwhile, the United States is on track to pass Europe in absolute GDP by 2010.
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Is that because of litigation costs, larger companies can effectively deter small companies from starting up simply by waving around a fear of legal action. Small businesses, even armed with patents, do not have millions of dollars to defend them. So all the patent system really does is enable large companies to crush small ones. This makes businesses less competitive, not more.
Can you develop with Novell Desktop Linux?
I've always liked the brand.
Thanks' for the correction!
It's like, every time Europe does something, a European official announces it with some kind of a dig at the USA. There's a huge laundry list of trade differences that European leaders are using to become the USE to go against the USA. IF that's what Europe wants to do, go ahead, but don't be pissed off when we Americans don't want to follow Europe's lead on any issue simply because we have no foreign policy or economic reason to trust you.
>Do they? Gosh! Maybe that's all thats filtered >by CNN and the like
No, I get that from BBC, Agency France Presse, LaMonde, the Sun, overseas stuff. CNN, for example, never printed Chirac's speech in China where he said that America is something the world should unite against. I got that from a translated page of a French paper via Drudge.
>Steel tariffs, genetically modified food.
What about trying to say that Boeing gets a subsidy because somehow building fighter aircraft is like building jumbo jets. What about all the crap being dropped on top of Microsoft? And yes, what about genetically modified foods, the willingness to lift the arms embargo on China, and of course trying to bitch about a dollar being too low when any economics course says the dollar should go lower.
Bush never insulted France, but Chirac has insulted the USA plenty. Bush never insulted Shroeder, but Shroeder has insulted the USA plenty.
We should just build a Death Star, and if anyone attacks us, we'll blow up the earth.
All Presidents lie about the immediate reasons to get into wars. Bush didn't do any different than any other President did. But Bush also gave prior to the opening of hostilities a list of reasons BESIDES wmd.
a) To bring about a democratic government in Iraq.
b) To get rid of Saddam.
and those were more important than WMD anyway.
Oh every war is sold with a mountain of lies. That's just the way it is. Get over it. Heck, look at how Clinton was running around telling everyone that if we didn't bomb Yugoslavia all of Europe would be destroyed.
It really seems like a good idea, but I'm so fed up with Phishing sites, emails from nowhere, etc, that it seems like allowing all of this anonymous content is being proven a bad idea. The one good thing about IPV6 is that captures your Mac address, although I suppose that could be spoofed somehow..
Sorry, I'm on board the Tom Delay bandwagon again. Anybody that powerful that wants to fully fund NASA is a great guy, in my book.
Here's to the re-election of Tom DeLay.
You gotta love how liberals believe that if you write enough stuff, people will think it is true. They build bad cases upon flawed logic based on opinions. It's all third grade logic.
Hey, everyone knows Delay for all of his faults has a lot of pull in the US House. If Delay is on board with funding a lot of space, why not let him do it? If NASA does get us back to the moon and mars, and I think they can (they did get us to the moon before, after all), then sure, go for it.
The fifteen or sixteen billion a year that NASA needs is chump change. Toss it onto the deficit, as space is an investment that will pay for itself.
Whenever something goes bad in Europe, European leaders are running around saying "America this", or "America that". It's not America's fault that Europe cannot both have a cradle to the grave welfare state with guaranteed social stability and a dynamic capitalist society at the same time. It's not America's fault that France and Germany have huge unemployment rates.
All of our transatlantic problems are because of that simple quandry. Europe sees that America's trade policies are trashing its way of life. But Europe doesn't have to follow them. Europe doesn't have to have giant economic growth and doesn't have to try and become a unified alternative to America. Those are European decisions, not American ones. IF Europe wants to have a slower economy and fall behind economically but have more social stability, then let it.
What I hate is blanket statements. Americans are a bunch of heathens that should be more integrated with the world. Americans don't understand foreign countries. Americans are stupider than their more civilized European counterparts. I mean, America has more people in more countries, both in businesses and in the military, then no nation in the world has ever had. America leads in many areas of research, has a robust economy, and yet, we're "stupid".
Look at how much Europeans trash Texas. I'm no fan of that whole Southern Texas thing, but, if Texas were a country, it would be comparable to many European States in terms of economic activities. It's certainly larger!
If we make software for commercial reasons, it is evil. If we fund open source, it is evil.
bloggers, webmasters, when are we trolls going to get some respect!
Actually, if the French wouldn't have screwed things up, our national debt would have eventually been cut in half by our devaluation of the dollar. But oh no, not only did France wreck things for Europe, France also wrecked things for the United States.
All in one fell swoop of a vote. You gotta hand it to the French. When they decide to piss on everyone without firing a shot, no one does it better than they! Plus they invented margerine.
By way of reference, this is my cable.
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This has to be the coolest thing I've read on Slashdot in months. I will eat spanish food for a week in their honor and will buy twenty Euros and hang it on my cubicle wall.
In my book someone talented enough to make a project such as MythTV or anything GNU makes deserves to not have to work at Walmart. Ergo, they should get paid.
What we really need is a programming language that is conducive to develop open source that is free as in open, but not as in beer. So an end user would pay for a program, the open source teams would get their money, but anyone could take a program and grow it.
Part of the problem in this field is the herd mentality. Everyone jumps onto one technology just to be that one bandwagon. First it was IBM, now it is Microsoft. Very few people seem to appreciate diversity in software.
Remember how much better the world was when there were a whole slew of C++ development system? There used to be Watcom, Borland, Microsoft, IBM Visual Age, and a few other middle tier players. Now Watcom and IBM are both out, Borland is so expensive as beyond the reach of the average developer and Microsoft is getting that way too. Everything can feel like more of the same.
Remember when there was Borland Office, Lotus Smart Suite, and MS Office all competing? Now Office dominates, but I still to this day liked WordPro the best..
A whole planet to myself?
That's so kick ass.
In 1975, a College Kid eventually earned 100 billion dollars making software to sell.
In 1995, another College Kid eventually earned a billion dollars making software to sell.
In 2005, the best a College Kid can hope for is $4500 bucks from Google.
Sounds to me like open source is an excuse to rip developers off.
Oh, what's this, Germans have the highest unemployment rate since they thrust Hitler into office. France is not far behind.
And how many decades has it been since Europe has had consistent economic equal to that of the USA? Europeans don't even want economic growth because then they would have to give up their "quality of life", or, um, actually work for a living. The French proved that on Sunday. I bet if the Germans actually got to vote on the EU constitution, they would have shot it down before hand.
Hey, there's no law in America that says you have to work. If you want to be one of those happy poor people, go right ahead, but the rest of us that want better for our families are going to work to go get it. Don't think you have a right to plasma screen just because I got one.
Europe has no right to levy a fine of that magnitude on an American company.
Don't pay any fines.
Dump the software on Europe for free as in beer to continue to lock the market in.
Europe is hell bent on starting a trade war. The Bush administration should intervene on Microsoft's behalf and place sanctions all European technology companies in retaliation.
Ban SAP and Business Objects in the United States.
What is it about Japanese society that can be so male dominated and still not produce any children. Maybe if there men stopped spending 80 hours a week trying to make a middle manager at Toyota happy or otherwise face suicide, they would actually be able to have families instead of trying to have robots take their place.
If Americans are so stupid, how does the United States:
a) Have the fastest rate of economic growth among major industrialized nations.
b) Have the world's most powerful military.
c) Have one of the world's largest manufacturing economies at over 1.5 trillion a year.
d) Have a lead or compete globally in aerospace, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, entertainment, cars, and, thanks to Microsoft X-Box, consumer electronics.
e) To this day only the United States has put a man on the moon.
Isn't the unemployment rate in France and Germany hovering at near 10%, with the unemployment rate for the under 25 sector actually riding significantly higher? Meanwhile, the United States is on track to pass Europe in absolute GDP by 2010.