Name one product that is not made in China at your local retailer?
I can think of some paperpads sold at Staples and OfficeMax by Amco. Everything and I mean everything is made in China. Nothing is made in the us anymore.
My fiance used to live in North Carolina a decade ago which had the lowest unemployment in the nation at under %3 with many factory jobs to chose from in a tiny small town.
Now that same town has a %70 unemployment rate as they all went to china as minimal wage workers were viewed as expensive or Walmart told the companies to move their manufactoring to China or else we wont carry your products. Walmart is the worst for forcing companies to cut American jobs. Meanwhile they have the hypocracy to carry the made in America sign still at some of their stores. Not a single thing is made in America.
What we need to do is elect politicians who oppose free trade (if any are left besides Ron Paul) and reimpose tarifs. I am shocked that the elderly who were greatly anti-communist are not up in arms by supporting such a repressive regime. PRetty soon they will have the power to tell us to screw off as we have enabled them so money and gave them so much power over us. Infact the Chinese already control our housing prices here in the US due to investment in lending firms. One call from the Chinese premier and you can bet the housing slump will seem very small to what will happen next.
.. behind Hyundai, Sony and most proprietary software makers with the exception of Microsoft because I need their software.
There needs to be some laws stopping this. A few years ago an EULA was ruled invalid because it did not have a signature with a notory present to be a valid legal agreement. Then some case with a republican judge came and he ruled click licenses are valid.
Can I just write a letter to someone saying by opening the letter you agree to the terms inside it, inside it I demand all their assests? I mean come on?
When I bought my Hyundia they made me sign of a form and then they declared I waived my right to sue and such issues I have with their products must be dealt with by private arbitration.
Basically I am licensed to use the car only and thats what I purchased. Not hte actual car itself though that is not what the tile says?? If Hyundia does not honor their contract I can not sue but they can still sue me.
At this point I did not want the car. However I was a college student and could not afford a car on my own and my father was helping me loan the money.
Legal agreements are normal in any business. But if any car manufactor does any of this crap again I will thank them for hte time and walk to a competitor.
This link brings a whole new meaning to the article as its not a hategroup forum but just another friendster/myspace clone.
At this point there is nothing the radicals wont block if they win with censoring orkut. Maybe google, myspace, livejournal and god knows what next because someone might create a group which could offend someone.
IT was an issue. Discover was seriously damaged in 98 or 99 and heated gasses seeped into the shuttle itself and burned alot of components and damaged the wing.
They can't control Linux and Microsoft sells its ecosystem as a platform. Meaning businesses chose MS because it works well with other ms products. I remember back in the 90's when converting javascript to vbscript was all the rage because it works soooo well with IIS and NT server and everything is integrated together in a nice MS utopia which will save the company millions of dollars.
Linux would change all that and we control linux, not microsoft. Microsoft sets the standards and decides what everyone uses and not the customers. SO Windows is essential as in the glue for other ms products they want to sell.
Linux is not coming from ms anytime soon for this reason. Windows is still growing in the server room and many mcse's also feel more comfortable administering windows rather than linux so such a change will increase the TCO of those running windows server.
Apple has made pretty bad hardware for a few years. Mod me as flamebait but many corporate customers will no longer buy 1st generation apple products because they always have bugs that are fixed in the 2nd or third generation.
Examples include the overheating macbook pro with sony batteries that can explode, cracked square cubed g4s, screens on the older ibooks that fail regularly with faulty connectors, ipods that develop statically sound from bad soldier. The macbook pros also have issues with boards being replaced. Sometimes up to a 4 or 5 times from 2nd generation units.
Apple made the best hardware in the 80's with the exception with the ibook 150c but those days are over.
Apple lost credibility when they moved to China and made cheap plastic but still charged the same price to satisfy shareholders.
But I do agree with the VAIO. My wife has one and it freezes and overheats alot with a bad nvidia graphics card. THe warranty is avoided because I upgraded it to 1 gig and now they wont touch it even though the problem has nothing to do with the graphics. Ugh
You need clear type fonts with real autohinting rendering.
The technology was once there but has been remarked out of the source code for Xorg due to patent issues. But keep in mind the letter "a" is patented for use on a computer and so is multitasking, threading, and power management. If you take all of the patents out then your machine is no longer a computer. It sucks but its life.
Follow the thread and google for David Turners patches. You will find a site which will have precompiled debs that you can add to your repositories. Its the real ubuntu Xorg files but one component has the autohinting un-remarked so you can chose native font rendering. After that the problem should be fixed. Its quite simple to do yet annoying for legal reasons.
Also you can try automatix and download the ms fonts but remember you need native or auto font rendering hints from David Turners patches to make it look like MacOSX or Windows.
I voided the warranty on my laptop by installing linux because it had a seperate partition where all the compaq/hp settings and programs are stored. Without it not even the restore cd can help you. Of course MS licenses the OS to the maker and not you so that is their legal argument for not supply a real cd.
They are already shape shifted and throttled thanks to net neutrality. For example all encrypted traffic whether its illegal or sshs have been made next to useless with almost every ISP in the country since only a few own the actual last mile and throttle all encrypted traffic regularly to prevent p2p.
So now many IT telecommuters now can not do their job at home anymore if they use X programs.
Exactly... and why I will never buy a Dell. One of the companies I worked for started with an "A" and ended with a "l" and was 3 letters long. Hmmm imagine what company it was? I can not say legally here but you know why the company went down to hell from 30 million users in 1997 to barely a quarter million now and still falling. Support was bad and so was quality.
Dell is trying to hire American tech support in Austin again for certain business customers but still they are graded on handle time just like the Indians as well as my former employer.
Believe it or not its impossible to directly talk to hardware like you could in the 386 days. Assembly calls are translated to internal risc ones.
Modern processors have many features for compilers to take advantage of like pipelines and sse4 which makes the need less of being low level. Compilers do a damn good job and even jit compilers like java and.net can take advantage of modern features. I am imaging hardware virtualization will make these even faster.
I suppose there will always be a need for low level optimization and C will be around for a long time as a result. Many hackers still know how to do these as computers are more affordable to more people than ever including third world countries like India. So I would not worry.
In large projects its nice to have abstraction as not all programmers are experienced. Also it makes code easier to read. Trying to find how another programmer is engineering the project or a specific implementation is hard. I like Java for example because combined with javadocs you can easily document code and figure out the hirarchy with the abstraction. But that is just my taste.
But in career programming its all about time and making deadlines to help make your company more money.
As someone who worked in that kind of environment you can thank the spyware makers for starting this craze.
Many many and I mean many moms and grandmas call in with spyware all angry that their hardware is not working right and can not differientate the difference between the 2.
I tried doing the path of using logic rather than a sheet of checklists to solve problems. I always end up using more handle time on the phones and getting in trouble.
For example your computer is running slow hmmm 8 out of 10 times its related to spyware but you have to prove to the customer its not your fault otherwise they will get very very pissed and demand to complain to your boss! So you download lavasoft wait 4 minutes wait another 3 minutes to reboot install for another 2 minutes and before you know it 9 minutes has passed and your boss is wondering why your costing the call center money by being too long. if its the 2 out of 10 times its not spyware related then you wasted the customers time and made yourself look incompentent and blew your handle time out of the water making you look bad.
Its easier to read off a sheet of software settings to get you off the phone the quickest. If your running solaris or something it means to me my handle time will go through the roof dealing with you and they are not paying me for customer service. You cost me and my employer money.
As you can tell I know longer work at help desk for good reason but as long as grandma can not tell the difference between software and hardware and expect the OEM to provide for 3rd party software then you are not going to get support PERIOD.
I believe in a stable government who has the power to rule whether its federal or state.
Liberatarians scare me in this regard. Sorry but many people need governmental services and Raul Paul is in favor of constitutional rights. Without trade, roads, electricity, etc we can not exist. Privatization would be disasterous as has been shown in the telecommunications industries. I am in favor of free enterprise but these essential utilities need to be commidities and paying $1000 a month for sewage and water wont solve the problem if the liberatarians have their way.
Many are blinded by patriotism or if they are republicans. Rush Limbaugh on radio will say its true and so will Fox news and people who are reasonable intelligent will believe if they are republican. Its human nature.
I would not be surprised if the white house itself actually believes itself on this.
Bush has shown he is all about ideology over anything rational, whether its facts or logic. Its right because its what the neoconservative agenda says its true and no convincing will ever work. Look at the troop withdrawl fiasco?
I talked to a colleague a few years ago before Katrina who did electrical work for some older buildings. Alot of wire insullation is not even rubber based but rather cotton based. Spill water on it and you have a major short circuit and a fire.
At this point I wonder if it would be cheaper to buy a new home built from scratch?
New Orleans also has a problem with invasive African termites that devour older homes much quicker than American ones. Older homes use alot more wood for things like floor boards compared to newer ones which use plywood mixed with polymer boards for flooring.
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Funny
My wife was wondering a week ago if it was really ok to state my opinion here on slashdot. She was worried about me getting sued.
I told her it will be a cold day in hell if I ever cave in and lose my freedom of speech or opinions.
Name one product that is not made in China at your local retailer?
I can think of some paperpads sold at Staples and OfficeMax by Amco. Everything and I mean everything is made in China. Nothing is made in the us anymore.
My fiance used to live in North Carolina a decade ago which had the lowest unemployment in the nation at under %3 with many factory jobs to chose from in a tiny small town.
Now that same town has a %70 unemployment rate as they all went to china as minimal wage workers were viewed as expensive or Walmart told the companies to move their manufactoring to China or else we wont carry your products. Walmart is the worst for forcing companies to cut American jobs. Meanwhile they have the hypocracy to carry the made in America sign still at some of their stores. Not a single thing is made in America.
What we need to do is elect politicians who oppose free trade (if any are left besides Ron Paul) and reimpose tarifs. I am shocked that the elderly who were greatly anti-communist are not up in arms by supporting such a repressive regime. PRetty soon they will have the power to tell us to screw off as we have enabled them so money and gave them so much power over us. Infact the Chinese already control our housing prices here in the US due to investment in lending firms. One call from the Chinese premier and you can bet the housing slump will seem very small to what will happen next.
Are values are about greed, extortion, and the lowest prices ever aka walmart buyers.
So I see it represents our values quite well. Unless your not an American.
.. behind Hyundai, Sony and most proprietary software makers with the exception of Microsoft because I need their software.
There needs to be some laws stopping this. A few years ago an EULA was ruled invalid because it did not have a signature with a notory present to be a valid legal agreement. Then some case with a republican judge came and he ruled click licenses are valid.
Can I just write a letter to someone saying by opening the letter you agree to the terms inside it, inside it I demand all their assests? I mean come on?
Car manufactors do do it.
When I bought my Hyundia they made me sign of a form and then they declared I waived my right to sue and such issues I have with their products must be dealt with by private arbitration.
Basically I am licensed to use the car only and thats what I purchased. Not hte actual car itself though that is not what the tile says?? If Hyundia does not honor their contract I can not sue but they can still sue me.
At this point I did not want the car. However I was a college student and could not afford a car on my own and my father was helping me loan the money.
Legal agreements are normal in any business. But if any car manufactor does any of this crap again I will thank them for hte time and walk to a competitor.
This link brings a whole new meaning to the article as its not a hategroup forum but just another friendster/myspace clone.
At this point there is nothing the radicals wont block if they win with censoring orkut. Maybe google, myspace, livejournal and god knows what next because someone might create a group which could offend someone.
IT was an issue. Discover was seriously damaged in 98 or 99 and heated gasses seeped into the shuttle itself and burned alot of components and damaged the wing.
Why?
They can't control Linux and Microsoft sells its ecosystem as a platform. Meaning businesses chose MS because it works well with other ms products. I remember back in the 90's when converting javascript to vbscript was all the rage because it works soooo well with IIS and NT server and everything is integrated together in a nice MS utopia which will save the company millions of dollars.
Linux would change all that and we control linux, not microsoft. Microsoft sets the standards and decides what everyone uses and not the customers. SO Windows is essential as in the glue for other ms products they want to sell.
Linux is not coming from ms anytime soon for this reason. Windows is still growing in the server room and many mcse's also feel more comfortable administering windows rather than linux so such a change will increase the TCO of those running windows server.
Apple has made pretty bad hardware for a few years. Mod me as flamebait but many corporate customers will no longer buy 1st generation apple products because they always have bugs that are fixed in the 2nd or third generation.
Examples include the overheating macbook pro with sony batteries that can explode, cracked square cubed g4s, screens on the older ibooks that fail regularly with faulty connectors, ipods that develop statically sound from bad soldier. The macbook pros also have issues with boards being replaced. Sometimes up to a 4 or 5 times from 2nd generation units.
Apple made the best hardware in the 80's with the exception with the ibook 150c but those days are over.
Apple lost credibility when they moved to China and made cheap plastic but still charged the same price to satisfy shareholders.
But I do agree with the VAIO. My wife has one and it freezes and overheats alot with a bad nvidia graphics card. THe warranty is avoided because I upgraded it to 1 gig and now they wont touch it even though the problem has nothing to do with the graphics. Ugh
Or they view linux as expensive as its no longer free.
How do you know they did not pay MS? If so then perhaps MS windowsCE might appear cheaper. This is microsofts plan all along.
You need clear type fonts with real autohinting rendering.
The technology was once there but has been remarked out of the source code for Xorg due to patent issues. But keep in mind the letter "a" is patented for use on a computer and so is multitasking, threading, and power management. If you take all of the patents out then your machine is no longer a computer. It sucks but its life.
Follow the thread and google for David Turners patches. You will find a site which will have precompiled debs that you can add to your repositories. Its the real ubuntu Xorg files but one component has the autohinting un-remarked so you can chose native font rendering. After that the problem should be fixed. Its quite simple to do yet annoying for legal reasons.
Also you can try automatix and download the ms fonts but remember you need native or auto font rendering hints from David Turners patches to make it look like MacOSX or Windows.
I am guessing he had a restore cd.
I voided the warranty on my laptop by installing linux because it had a seperate partition where all the compaq/hp settings and programs are stored. Without it not even the restore cd can help you. Of course MS licenses the OS to the maker and not you so that is their legal argument for not supply a real cd.
Guess what?
They are already shape shifted and throttled thanks to net neutrality. For example all encrypted traffic whether its illegal or sshs have been made next to useless with almost every ISP in the country since only a few own the actual last mile and throttle all encrypted traffic regularly to prevent p2p.
So now many IT telecommuters now can not do their job at home anymore if they use X programs.
ISP's already throttle and shape shift all encrypted data. Its no longer possible to run many Xclients or sshs for telecommuters as a result. :-(
They are step ahead with this area as well.
Exactly ... and why I will never buy a Dell. One of the companies I worked for started with an "A" and ended with a "l" and was 3 letters long. Hmmm imagine what company it was? I can not say legally here but you know why the company went down to hell from 30 million users in 1997 to barely a quarter million now and still falling. Support was bad and so was quality.
Dell is trying to hire American tech support in Austin again for certain business customers but still they are graded on handle time just like the Indians as well as my former employer.
Believe it or not its impossible to directly talk to hardware like you could in the 386 days. Assembly calls are translated to internal risc ones.
.net can take advantage of modern features. I am imaging hardware virtualization will make these even faster.
Modern processors have many features for compilers to take advantage of like pipelines and sse4 which makes the need less of being low level. Compilers do a damn good job and even jit compilers like java and
I suppose there will always be a need for low level optimization and C will be around for a long time as a result. Many hackers still know how to do these as computers are more affordable to more people than ever including third world countries like India. So I would not worry.
In large projects its nice to have abstraction as not all programmers are experienced. Also it makes code easier to read. Trying to find how another programmer is engineering the project or a specific implementation is hard. I like Java for example because combined with javadocs you can easily document code and figure out the hirarchy with the abstraction. But that is just my taste.
But in career programming its all about time and making deadlines to help make your company more money.
As someone who worked in that kind of environment you can thank the spyware makers for starting this craze.
Many many and I mean many moms and grandmas call in with spyware all angry that their hardware is not working right and can not differientate the difference between the 2.
I tried doing the path of using logic rather than a sheet of checklists to solve problems. I always end up using more handle time on the phones and getting in trouble.
For example your computer is running slow hmmm 8 out of 10 times its related to spyware but you have to prove to the customer its not your fault otherwise they will get very very pissed and demand to complain to your boss! So you download lavasoft wait 4 minutes wait another 3 minutes to reboot install for another 2 minutes and before you know it 9 minutes has passed and your boss is wondering why your costing the call center money by being too long. if its the 2 out of 10 times its not spyware related then you wasted the customers time and made yourself look incompentent and blew your handle time out of the water making you look bad.
Its easier to read off a sheet of software settings to get you off the phone the quickest. If your running solaris or something it means to me my handle time will go through the roof dealing with you and they are not paying me for customer service. You cost me and my employer money.
As you can tell I know longer work at help desk for good reason but as long as grandma can not tell the difference between software and hardware and expect the OEM to provide for 3rd party software then you are not going to get support PERIOD.
I believe in a stable government who has the power to rule whether its federal or state.
Liberatarians scare me in this regard. Sorry but many people need governmental services and Raul Paul is in favor of constitutional rights. Without trade, roads, electricity, etc we can not exist. Privatization would be disasterous as has been shown in the telecommunications industries. I am in favor of free enterprise but these essential utilities need to be commidities and paying $1000 a month for sewage and water wont solve the problem if the liberatarians have their way.
Who can live without that!.
Many are blinded by patriotism or if they are republicans. Rush Limbaugh on radio will say its true and so will Fox news and people who are reasonable intelligent will believe if they are republican. Its human nature.
I would not be surprised if the white house itself actually believes itself on this.
Bush has shown he is all about ideology over anything rational, whether its facts or logic. Its right because its what the neoconservative agenda says its true and no convincing will ever work. Look at the troop withdrawl fiasco?
I think ddd is gtk1.x based.
Mostly hormone based circuitry in the womb stage can determine ones sexual orientation.
Most gay men have smaller ring fingers than straight men and it could be related.
I talked to a colleague a few years ago before Katrina who did electrical work for some older buildings. Alot of wire insullation is not even rubber based but rather cotton based. Spill water on it and you have a major short circuit and a fire.
At this point I wonder if it would be cheaper to buy a new home built from scratch?
New Orleans also has a problem with invasive African termites that devour older homes much quicker than American ones. Older homes use alot more wood for things like floor boards compared to newer ones which use plywood mixed with polymer boards for flooring.
I will make sure to vote republican this next election.
At least the republicans are not in the hands of big business media conglomerates.