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"Its [USA] involment in Europe in WWII is a different matter,"
The USA was involvment in Europe in WWII was due to Europe declaring war on the USA. What else was the USA supposed to do?
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> The U.S. spends about 5% of GDP on military (including pizza delivery in places like the Indian Ocean), while Canada and Europe spend far less (2%?).
Where did you get that 5% figure? I think it's more like 15%.
"...what's good for the syndicate is good for the country."
Msft doesn't oppose *all* IP reform. For example, when it comes to restricting the rights that individuals have over their own media, msft is all for it.
It's typical msft. When msft speaks of "American Business" msft really means one particular American business. Anything good for msft is good for America, Anthing bad for msft is bad for America.
Re:Hasn't the USA helped Russia before?
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Seriously: can somebody please explain to me why this is considered a troll?
I have no problem with anybody disagreeing with me, but is any point of view that doesn't suck up to the party line a troll?
Scox isn't only suing, scox is being sued *big time* by IBM, and by redhat. If you buy scox, you buy those lawsuits against scox.
Scox has absolutely nothing of any value. No IP, no worthwhile products, nothing. According to scox, by the end of January scox will have $7MM in cash - less than $0.50/share.
Scox is nothing but a penny-stock scam. The idea of a legitimate company buying scox is absurd.
It would work, if you could find enough people that were committed to it. Get a few million people to agree not to buy any DRM matterial for a month, and let everybody know it was an organized boycott, and why.
My 67 year old mother has been trying for about a week to get an ebook she bought from amazon. It is unbelievable difficult. First you have to download and install ms-reader. No matter what, after the installation you told the installation is outdated, and they instruct you to download and install again. Then ms-reader has to be activated. There are no instructions on how to activate, you have to go into settings, 3rd page, about half way down for a link. To activate ms-reader, you need an.net passport. Part of the.net passport process involves one of those image boxes, where you have to enter the text that's in the image box. You are notified if you entered everything correctly, you have to guess. This is another area where you are constantly sent around in a circle. My mother couldn't get it to work. I advised her to get a hotmail account, which she did, but she is still having problems.
I never plan on getting an amazon ebook, if they are this much trouble. Also, I suppose there is no way to get them to work with linux.
> The fact is U.S. labor is overpriced and of declining quality
Are you sure that you're not still living in the dot-com era? I have seven years of college, degree in math, business, and computer science, and 25 years of experience; I'm working for $16/hour. An earlier poster is doing serious web-developement work for $10 hour.
Oh yeah, I can't wait to make the down payment on that new BMW.
I just plug my smart media card into the machine, Decide on which photos I want printed. Then pick up the prints about an hour later. For typical home photos, the quality is just fine. I usually don't make prints. I just copy directly the computer.
I, for one, have no use for some some expensive printer to create prints. Not for the few prints I make in a year.
Maybe a few prints for your wall or your desk, but it makes way more sense to keep most pictures digitalized.
You move the photos from your camera to your pc to the web, almost instantly; and it doesn't cost an extra dime. You can show others your pix right away, or edit the photos first.
You say printed photos require no maintenance? I'd say it's the other way around. Once a photo is digitalized, and on your PC and web: you don't have to worry about physical damage, or loss. The photo will always be right there, easy to access and in good condition.
I've worked in IT for 25 years. I firmly believe that the best system for your company is completely situational. I can easily imagine a situation where an AS/400 is by far the best choice.
What I would like to know is: do these TCO studies - or any other such pop-media swill - have any influence? I've never known these studies to be influential; but maybe others have?
For example, practically every outsourcing company that I have worked with (and there have been a few) are completely confused by the idea of a document no being in MS format.
Lord knows, I've tried to explain that ms-word will read RTF file. Some have even made an effort to understand, but it's just too difficult for them.
For that reason alone, I can't see a non-MS format catching on.
> In my junior and senior engineering courses why in the world should I be forced to work out the time consuming calculus or algebra part by hand when that's not even the concept being taught?
Why should I bother lifting weights to get stronger, when it would be so much easier with a forklift.
Actually, I think that if the questions were carefully selected, you could learn the concept without a lot of calculations.
I see no way they could accurately predict linux growth over the next five years. I suppose all they are doing is measuring the last five years growth, and basing their future predictions on that.
This reminds of 1999 market analysts predicting that the Nasdaq was going to hit 10000 by 2004.
I am not trying to assert that linux growth will be either faster, or slower, than this study predicts, I just don't see how these sorts of studies can be meaningful.
I know the guy happens to be a Mormon, and a software engineer.
Not that easy, and maybe not worth it
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In IT, only speicialized experience counts, and you can't get that experience until you already have it. Unless you have a PhD from MIT, or something, you are not always the one to decide the technologies with which you work. Sure, you can train to stay ahead of the curve, but without the experience, it's usually for nothing.
Is it worth it? In IT, it seems, we are always training, and struggling, always racking our brains trying to find some angle that will keep us basically employed. I don't think other career fields have to do that.
> That's a curious conclusion you've come to, since for the last two months or so PJ has set up dedicated threads in SCO-related articles (titled Official "The SCO Group" Positions) which is reserved for official SCO representatives to freely post.
Pffft. Yeah, okay, PJ made an *exception* for official SCO representatives. Ever hear of the exception that proves the rule? Official SCO representatives *and only* official SCO representatives, are allowed to post anything other typical groklaw sucking up.
What if somebody who isn't an official SCO representatives has a different point of view? Oh, we won't have that on groklaw. What a kick in the teeth to those who have contributed so much.
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"Its [USA] involment in Europe in WWII is a different matter,"
The USA was involvment in Europe in WWII was due to Europe declaring war on the USA. What else was the USA supposed to do?
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The U.S. spends about 5% of GDP on military (including pizza delivery in places like the Indian Ocean), while Canada and Europe spend far less (2%?).
Where did you get that 5% figure? I think it's more like 15%.
"...what's good for the syndicate is good for the country."
Msft doesn't oppose *all* IP reform. For example, when it comes to restricting the rights that individuals have over their own media, msft is all for it.
It's typical msft. When msft speaks of "American Business" msft really means one particular American business. Anything good for msft is good for America, Anthing bad for msft is bad for America.
Seriously: can somebody please explain to me why this is considered a troll?
I have no problem with anybody disagreeing with me, but is any point of view that doesn't suck up to the party line a troll?
Chernopol maybe?
The USA spends about $38 billion a year on forign aid, and very rarely gets anything back. Must help between nations be entirely one-sided?
Some there may find it interesting:
i nt .v4.html
http://users.rcn.com/srstites/jacuse/sec.compla
But the brits are all going to pay, right?
And on huge volume. Although, I suspect that trade was bogus - done just for show. After that one trade, volume dropped off to nearly nothing.
To me the movie made it clear that gollum's mental problems were the result of:
1) Magic power of the ring.
2) 550+ years of solitude.
3) Terrible guilt.
Scox isn't only suing, scox is being sued *big time* by IBM, and by redhat. If you buy scox, you buy those lawsuits against scox.
Scox has absolutely nothing of any value. No IP, no worthwhile products, nothing. According to scox, by the end of January scox will have $7MM in cash - less than $0.50/share.
Scox is nothing but a penny-stock scam. The idea of a legitimate company buying scox is absurd.
It would work, if you could find enough people that were committed to it. Get a few million people to agree not to buy any DRM matterial for a month, and let everybody know it was an organized boycott, and why.
My 67 year old mother has been trying for about a week to get an ebook she bought from amazon. It is unbelievable difficult. First you have to download and install ms-reader. No matter what, after the installation you told the installation is outdated, and they instruct you to download and install again. Then ms-reader has to be activated. There are no instructions on how to activate, you have to go into settings, 3rd page, about half way down for a link. To activate ms-reader, you need an .net passport. Part of the .net passport process involves one of those image boxes, where you have to enter the text that's in the image box. You are notified if you entered everything correctly, you have to guess. This is another area where you are constantly sent around in a circle. My mother couldn't get it to work. I advised her to get a hotmail account, which she did, but she is still having problems.
I never plan on getting an amazon ebook, if they are this much trouble. Also, I suppose there is no way to get them to work with linux.
If they don't; then the parant poster's theory that "Immigration will save the economy" is completely shot to hell.
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The fact is U.S. labor is overpriced and of declining quality
Are you sure that you're not still living in the dot-com era? I have seven years of college, degree in math, business, and computer science, and 25 years of experience; I'm working for $16/hour. An earlier poster is doing serious web-developement work for $10 hour.
Oh yeah, I can't wait to make the down payment on that new BMW.
I just plug my smart media card into the machine, Decide on which photos I want printed. Then pick up the prints about an hour later. For typical home photos, the quality is just fine. I usually don't make prints. I just copy directly the computer.
I, for one, have no use for some some expensive printer to create prints. Not for the few prints I make in a year.
Maybe a few prints for your wall or your desk, but it makes way more sense to keep most pictures digitalized.
You move the photos from your camera to your pc to the web, almost instantly; and it doesn't cost an extra dime. You can show others your pix right away, or edit the photos first.
You say printed photos require no maintenance? I'd say it's the other way around. Once a photo is digitalized, and on your PC and web: you don't have to worry about physical damage, or loss. The photo will always be right there, easy to access and in good condition.
I've worked in IT for 25 years. I firmly believe that the best system for your company is completely situational. I can easily imagine a situation where an AS/400 is by far the best choice.
What I would like to know is: do these TCO studies - or any other such pop-media swill - have any influence? I've never known these studies to be influential; but maybe others have?
For example, practically every outsourcing company that I have worked with (and there have been a few) are completely confused by the idea of a document no being in MS format.
Lord knows, I've tried to explain that ms-word will read RTF file. Some have even made an effort to understand, but it's just too difficult for them.
For that reason alone, I can't see a non-MS format catching on.
Wasn't true for me. I was laid off from my systems administrator job at General Dynamics in 2001. I had an active SSBI/top-secret security clearance.
The first thing I did was apply at Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, Ball Areospace, etc. I got absolutely no interest.
I dunno, maybe it's just me.
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In my junior and senior engineering courses why in the world should I be forced to work out the time consuming calculus or algebra part by hand when that's not even the concept being taught?
Why should I bother lifting weights to get stronger, when it would be so much easier with a forklift.
Actually, I think that if the questions were carefully selected, you could learn the concept without a lot of calculations.
Just dumb down the subject until anybody can pass. Then nobody can be left behind. Isn't that more fair?
Math isn't useful anyway. I have a bachelors in math myself, never did me much good, I think the janitor earns a higher salary.
The USA is getting away from the science/engineering stuff. That stuff is delegated to the third world now.
In the USA, we will all become rich by suing each other. It's a lot easier than studying math, and *much* more pofitable.
I see no way they could accurately predict linux growth over the next five years. I suppose all they are doing is measuring the last five years growth, and basing their future predictions on that.
This reminds of 1999 market analysts predicting that the Nasdaq was going to hit 10000 by 2004.
I am not trying to assert that linux growth will be either faster, or slower, than this study predicts, I just don't see how these sorts of studies can be meaningful.
I know the guy happens to be a Mormon, and a software engineer.
In IT, only speicialized experience counts, and you can't get that experience until you already have it. Unless you have a PhD from MIT, or something, you are not always the one to decide the technologies with which you work. Sure, you can train to stay ahead of the curve, but without the experience, it's usually for nothing.
Is it worth it? In IT, it seems, we are always training, and struggling, always racking our brains trying to find some angle that will keep us basically employed. I don't think other career fields have to do that.
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That's a curious conclusion you've come to, since for the last two months or so PJ has set up dedicated threads in SCO-related articles (titled Official "The SCO Group" Positions) which is reserved for official SCO representatives to freely post.
Pffft. Yeah, okay, PJ made an *exception* for official SCO representatives. Ever hear of the exception that proves the rule? Official SCO representatives *and only* official SCO representatives, are allowed to post anything other typical groklaw sucking up.
What if somebody who isn't an official SCO representatives has a different point of view? Oh, we won't have that on groklaw. What a kick in the teeth to those who have contributed so much.