Well, not necessarily... but considering what IBM has done to the states of Indiana, Texas and California, do you really want to trust Snake Oil Sam with the whole federal government?
China is different country, with a different geography, and a different history of development. China, for example, doesn't have a highway system comparable to ours. The percentage of Chinese who drive is much smaller than the percentage of Americans who drive. Also, at least at one time, we had a robust domestic airline industry, negating the need for trains.
So, yes, whether we need such trains here remains an open question. If they were built, who would use them, and for what?
The infrastructure needs of the Chinese are very different from ours. Just because this is an appropriate investment for the Chinese (which still remains to be seen), doesn't necessarily mean it's an appropriate investment for us.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." --Thomas Jefferson
You also have to consider the doctor has some incentive to cover himself. Given that a diagnoses of ADHD is subjective, a parent convinced that Little Johnny has ADHD is going to continue doctor shopping until they find one that'll make that diagnoses. Probably a lot of doctors figure it's easier to give in and prescribe the drugs than get sued for malpractice by a disgruntled parent.
There are plenty of people with mobility related disabilities that are quite capable of doing most any job you can do in an office.
That may be true. But the relevant question is whether the value of the work they perform is sufficient to offset the cost of accommodating their disability.
But zones turned out to be a major PITA to maintain. Ever try patching a zone? You have to patch the global zone first before you can patch the non-global zones. The problem is that the zones aren't truly independent virtual machines. In my shop, we're quickly finding out if you want to share your hardware resources, the easiest way is to install VMWare on a Windows or Linux server, and then just install Linux (or Windows) in the VM's.
Sure, if you're running a massive database on high-end hardware, then Solaris makes sense. But that's not what you'd use a zone for. Anything that you'd use a zone for is just as easily done with a Linux VM, and since the VM's are truly independent, you have the luxury of running and maintaining whatever operating system best suits your needs in them.
Solaris zones are a concept that's too little, too late. I can't really see them as much of a selling point for Solaris, other than using them to eke some additional life out of obsolete Sun hardware that's no longer adequate as a primary database server.
Yes, but being a major shareholder is a legitimate position from which to have a say in how a company conducts itself. Maybe the problem is that governments should be prohibited from owning interests in public and private corporations.
Every Infosys site I have been on has been 99% India citizen staffed. When they go back to their country for personal reason like marriage or death another one flies over and takes their place. Maybe 2% of US citizens is all I have ever seen in any department run by them. Talk about Cliques
Don't worry - I suspect you will not have to hear things like that for long. Give it five years, and those products will likely have died a slow, lingering death under the stewardship of Oracle.
Yeah, but all of that goes out of the window for international shipping. I sent a laptop to China with UPS, and the damn thing sat in a depot in Shenzhen for six weeks due to one bureaucratic snafu after another, not to mention the cost of shipping was something like $300. The next time I shipped something there, I used USPS International Shipping and it was there in 2 days, and it cost me less than half of what UPS charged.
Irons with labels that tell you to remove your clothes before attempting to iron them are being truthful, too - but anyone who need a label to tell them that is probably too stupid to be allowed to get near an iron.
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We'll never have a fully independent and reliable press in the US until they are subsidized by the government. Yes, you read that correctly. SUBSIDIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Sure thing. We'll have a government subsidized entity as a watchdog for the government. What could possibly go wrong?
Did you know that the Founding Fathers approved government subsidized for a free press?
I'm not really sure how I would feel as a NASA employee, or what to work on.
The same way you feel when you're the employee of a large company that keeps initiating and canceling projects and can't seem to figure out what direction it's headed in. You find a way to look busy, and continue to collect your check without working too hard, since you know anything you put any effort into will never see the light of day, anyway. Guess what NASA's employees are probably doing?
We ought to just pick a few projects and STICK TO THEM!
Well, you've convinced me - try telling it to the government.
Well, that's the intrinsic downside of democracy. Your political leaders have an incentive to whore for votes in the next election, and virtually no incentive to do what's best for the country in the long term.
I suppose there's an argument in there for monarchy - a king isn't subject to the fickle whims of the electorate, and since his offspring are going to inherit his throne, he has some incentive to leave them a country that's in fairly decent order.
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Who says that rationality isn't the trait that the gene expresses, and the political view is simply an inevitable consequence of that?
I don't know who says it isn't. But I do know only a liberal would say that it is.
But that isn't the only evidence.
Maybe this is a good time to re-arm Japan.
Ha! Maybe jobs created and taxes paid in India, but you think IBM is gonna create any jobs in the US? Sure. Now pull the other one.
Well, not necessarily... but considering what IBM has done to the states of Indiana, Texas and California, do you really want to trust Snake Oil Sam with the whole federal government?
China is different country, with a different geography, and a different history of development. China, for example, doesn't have a highway system comparable to ours. The percentage of Chinese who drive is much smaller than the percentage of Americans who drive. Also, at least at one time, we had a robust domestic airline industry, negating the need for trains.
So, yes, whether we need such trains here remains an open question. If they were built, who would use them, and for what?
The infrastructure needs of the Chinese are very different from ours. Just because this is an appropriate investment for the Chinese (which still remains to be seen), doesn't necessarily mean it's an appropriate investment for us.
Somehow, I have the feeling Apple is not going to be happy about this...
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
--Thomas Jefferson
You do realize that Mac is built on a FreeBSD kernel?
Well, more accurately it's a mach based os that presents both a BSD and a Mac OS personality. /pendant
You also have to consider the doctor has some incentive to cover himself. Given that a diagnoses of ADHD is subjective, a parent convinced that Little Johnny has ADHD is going to continue doctor shopping until they find one that'll make that diagnoses. Probably a lot of doctors figure it's easier to give in and prescribe the drugs than get sued for malpractice by a disgruntled parent.
There are plenty of people with mobility related disabilities that are quite capable of doing most any job you can do in an office.
That may be true. But the relevant question is whether the value of the work they perform is sufficient to offset the cost of accommodating their disability.
But zones turned out to be a major PITA to maintain. Ever try patching a zone? You have to patch the global zone first before you can patch the non-global zones. The problem is that the zones aren't truly independent virtual machines. In my shop, we're quickly finding out if you want to share your hardware resources, the easiest way is to install VMWare on a Windows or Linux server, and then just install Linux (or Windows) in the VM's.
Sure, if you're running a massive database on high-end hardware, then Solaris makes sense. But that's not what you'd use a zone for. Anything that you'd use a zone for is just as easily done with a Linux VM, and since the VM's are truly independent, you have the luxury of running and maintaining whatever operating system best suits your needs in them.
Solaris zones are a concept that's too little, too late. I can't really see them as much of a selling point for Solaris, other than using them to eke some additional life out of obsolete Sun hardware that's no longer adequate as a primary database server.
Sure, it's on better footing in the server arena than on desktops, but when taken overall, Linux is still far more popular than any of the BSDs.
Not quite - keep in mind OS X is also a FreeBSD derivative.
Yes, but being a major shareholder is a legitimate position from which to have a say in how a company conducts itself. Maybe the problem is that governments should be prohibited from owning interests in public and private corporations.
Every Infosys site I have been on has been 99% India citizen staffed. When they go back to their country for personal reason like marriage or death another one flies over and takes their place. Maybe 2% of US citizens is all I have ever seen in any department run by them.
Talk about Cliques
Nothing new about that.
'The US Government is a Clear and Present Danger' says US Citizens
Yes, they do.
Somehow, reading that comic, I was reminded of the relationship between humans and their gods......
Don't worry - I suspect you will not have to hear things like that for long. Give it five years, and those products will likely have died a slow, lingering death under the stewardship of Oracle.
Maybe it's just harder to steal a car which usually has it's tires slashed.
Yeah, but all of that goes out of the window for international shipping. I sent a laptop to China with UPS, and the damn thing sat in a depot in Shenzhen for six weeks due to one bureaucratic snafu after another, not to mention the cost of shipping was something like $300. The next time I shipped something there, I used USPS International Shipping and it was there in 2 days, and it cost me less than half of what UPS charged.
But yeah, for domestic shipping, I'd go with UPS.
When we already have a press like this?
Irons with labels that tell you to remove your clothes before attempting to iron them are being truthful, too - but anyone who need a label to tell them that is probably too stupid to be allowed to get near an iron.
We'll never have a fully independent and reliable press in the US until they are subsidized by the government. Yes, you read that correctly. SUBSIDIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Sure thing. We'll have a government subsidized entity as a watchdog for the government. What could possibly go wrong?
Did you know that the Founding Fathers approved government subsidized for a free press?
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I'm not really sure how I would feel as a NASA employee, or what to work on.
The same way you feel when you're the employee of a large company that keeps initiating and canceling projects and can't seem to figure out what direction it's headed in. You find a way to look busy, and continue to collect your check without working too hard, since you know anything you put any effort into will never see the light of day, anyway. Guess what NASA's employees are probably doing?
We ought to just pick a few projects and STICK TO THEM!
Well, you've convinced me - try telling it to the government.
Well, that's the intrinsic downside of democracy. Your political leaders have an incentive to whore for votes in the next election, and virtually no incentive to do what's best for the country in the long term.
I suppose there's an argument in there for monarchy - a king isn't subject to the fickle whims of the electorate, and since his offspring are going to inherit his throne, he has some incentive to leave them a country that's in fairly decent order.