The arguments that retooling is hard, just doesn't make it. Planned retooling is now designed into the manufacturing process. The U.S. helped develop the the Japanese manufacturing base by ignoring Demming. The Japanese were known for poor quality, so even with their lower labor rates. The Japanese improve their quality by following Demming and eventually overtook U.S. manufacturing and steel production. The remaining U.S. industries learned to focus on statistically analysis integrated quality control, and designed retooling became part of the process. So what drives the decision to outsource: 1) lower environmental standards, 2) lower overall employee costs, 3) tax benefits, 4) economic stability.
I think the underlying article hits the problem straight on. These economic factors are enticing from a cost accounting perspective, but not from a competitive one. Eventually, the knowledge is transferred to the low cost producers and they no longer need the costly U.S. managers to drive the business. We see that now with the rise of Haier and Chinese manufacturers who are beginning to dominate the lower end market. Eventually, they will displace the high margin businesses.
The U.S. main advantage in the past has been easy access to capital via efficient markets. With the current crisis and the idiotic standoff over debt, these markets may give rise to competing capital markets in SE Asia. The Chinese are flush with cash and it won't be long before they start to bypass the Western capital markets.
So what do we do? First, stop letting corporations drive the political agenda, because their short term focus is killing our industry. If we changed our focus to research that will enable lower cost production even with high labor rates, we can pull back manufacturing. This will have to be done at a grass roots level, because Wall Street will not invest in this kind of retooling when they can invest in companies that outsource. This means that we need to stop electing corrupt corporate lackies and uneducated religious nutcases, and change the rules so we encourage companies to invest here. Here a though, remove ALL corporate loopholes, and offer tax incentives only to those companies that in-source production and service jobs. Offer tax breaks to companies who invest in basic research programs that will innovate product and keep the technology here. This incentive can extend to University research which is most corporate funded anyway.
If you believe our problems stem from big government and the fear of socialism, then you are an idiot. Socialism is beating the f..king pants off of us right now, so that can't be the main issue. We as citizens must drive the political agenda and encourage Wall Street to invest in companies who develop our local economies. Otherwise, start learning Chinese because they are destined to be your overlords.
It isn't Unions, socialism, or big government that is killing us. It is the short term thinking of Wall Street. Once Wall Street was temporarily taken out of the picture at GM where they perpetuated a management culture that was adverse to change, the company was able to shed its high cost assets and return to profitability. In essence, it took government action to force the correct change in direction.
Wouldn't it be funny if Google started supporting Qt Quick / QML as an alternative to Davik and then encouraged QML app development? Google would end up fighting Nokia and Microsoft in the market using Nokia's technology.
I know it isn't going to happen, but there is a QML implementation supported on Android.
no offense, you cowardice piece of shit, but what the flying FUCK does this have to do with NetFlix. Seems like you have severe "inherent intellectual disadvantage that you either can't understand the fucking article, or your attention span is that of a warthog.
The Xerox Parc standard was 3 MBps (actually something like 2.96 MBps). The actual throughput was lower because the cards didn't include DMA, and yet this technology sufficed through the early 1980s.
The question of whether network has kept pace with computing is a good one. I would think that the throughput requirements are dependent on the application and not the speed of the computer. Current networking seems to deal fine with high resolution video streaming and application transfer in spite of the speed of the host computer. Yes I have 4 3Ghz cores on my laptop, but most of that is power consumed by compiling and virtual machines. My TV set with its 1 Ghz MHz ARM processor does well with the 150 MBps wireless connection for video and data.
I disagree your with your premise, but only because we are giving extra tax breaks to the wealthy. The whole argument for smaller government and lower taxes for the wealthy is that they will make additional investments in the economy and stimulate jobs. It is true that Google has contributed a lot to the economy, and providing tax credits to stimulate their further investment makes sense. However, providing addition tax breaks to the Google founders so they can burn more miles on their lavish private jets doesn't.
And they could offer it for free with advertising. Eventually they could reduce the streams to three channels and offer programming in blank and white only.
First Before you make sweeping comments, you should do a little research, because you are completely wrong. Hence the cowardly anonymous posting. The apps we developing are huge and run on some fairly light hardware. Turns out that QML is f..king fast and the few thing that aren't can be implemented in C++ and bound to QML. I don't believe you have done any testing. I think you are making this up. The data driven part of data driven apps in QML are implement in C++ you twit. That includes the XMLModel. Any other data driven apps are using implement in QAbstractItemModel in C++.
Second, the QML Widgets are coming quickly. Qt components and MeeGo Ux Components are already here and they implement enough to do what you need. The features missing are easily implemented by adding to these components.
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but we are developing a lot of QML/JS code and the development time is a fraction of doing the same thing in C++. In addition, we are finding that it is easier to train web graphic designers to use QML then to teach programmers graphic design. There are a lot more JS programmers out there than there programmers who know and use C++.
We are also doing Windows Mobile Phone 7 development and XAML is a really good model. You still have to write code behind in C#. The model works well in separating the design from the code, but you still have to hack XML and C#. I am using both, and QML/JS is a much easier to learn and use.
I read your statements, and they are very similar to what the COBOL programmers were saying to me in the 1980s "Oh this C and SQL stuff is fine for universities and researchers, but it will never catch on in the business world. I heard the same thing from the AS 400 developers in the early 1990s "real business wil run on mainframes, not this Sun server stuff."
Oh and about the comment for a Qt 5 competitor. O am not suret the open source community needs, another C++ framework to dilute resources and add confusion to the community. Maybe a better idea would be to give this a chance and see if it pans out.
Hmm, I had an entirely different read on this law. I don't want anyone in the Electric Company / Gas Company figuring out when I am away from home. If an employee can discover when power usage drops for a few days from normal routine, they can sell this information to house thieves.
I have had a 100% with my Samsung drives with WIndows. They don't seem to withstand fists pounding on the laptop keyboard when trying to use the Microsoft Developer Tools.
I just want to point out that private industry created the credit reporting service, and now I have to spend money to protect my interest against the shoddy practices of this industry. I don't think it is that fact that people will commit fraud that worries me, but the poor practices that the industry follows that provides no protection against fraud.
The creation of a government credit ID that has anti-fraud measures might be the first step in battling this issue. The second step would be making the credit reporting companies responsible for bearing the cost of cleaning up the effects of identity theft.
I would only support the idea of an Internet ID if I wasn't responsible for undoing the message associated with fraud committed against my ID.
Not bullshit. While U.S. citizens have the lowest tax rate in the civilized world, their corporations have the highest tax rate. However, I am not sure the higher tax rate has an impact on where companies chose to operate. I doubt that lower taxes would stop GE from paying their accountants for tax avoidance or stem the flow of jobs to India and China. It is the corporation's fiduciary responsibility to lower their costs. Even with lower tax rates, it is just too compelling to move jobs to where labor rates are 1/4 to 1/3 the rate in the U.S.
I always use the "wife" and "mom" factor to judge technology. Both wife and mom hate their Android phones. They can't figure out how to use them without much coaching. The iPhone has a good "wife" and "mom" usability factor as does the iPad. With very little coaching they were using these IOS based products within minutes. The Windows phone was also reasonable, but they felt it had too much glitz and much less intuitive then the iPhone. The Symbian phone was easier for "wife" and "mom" then the Android phone, but below the iPhone and the Windows Phone.
I am not an Apple fan, though I do use the iPhone as my primary phone.
Nokia is betting the Software capabilities and marketing strength of Microsoft to bootstrap them into the 21st century. Who knows, with a successful WIndows Phone Nokia might consider adding Android.
These light bulbs really suck. Have you used them? Has the congress used them? Try coming home in the middle of winter and start cooking dinner for your hungry and screaming 3 year old in the dim light of the CFL that takes 10 minutes to get to full brightness. Remember I won't drive 55? Another successful government sponsored campaign.
I think you miss the parents point. Transparency is an ideal like democracy and communism. Its the political corruption that distorts it into something unrecognizable. These are valid and important points. Transparency is not a product or commodity. If treated as such, then become a political tool. (you know, "absolute power corrupts absolutely", or something to that effect.)
I never heard of Gawker, but I received email from them telling me that my account was compromised. I just went to their site, entered my email and asked for a password reset. I got a reply with a username I don't recognize. When I logged in with the id and password, I got an error message that said I had never "verified" my account.
I'd say they have some serious problems that go beyond the password hack.
I don't think it is about compassion or morality. It is about a very narrow faith based agenda that does not leave room for rational or critical thinking. It is the same thinking that makes some religious groups anti masturbation because it is "spilling the seed". Doesn't matter that science shows that the seed is "spent" whether or not it is ejaculated.
The more we learn about life's processes, that more we demonstrate that it is bases on chemistry and physics and less on mysticism. The article isn't demonstrating new concepts, but it is showing we can overcome some of the previously encountered technical obstacles in life sciences.
The article doesn't discuss homosexual relationships or parenting. It merely says that the process could someday produce offspring from two mail donors. It also says that there may be a way to use the IPS technique to generate both male and female children from two female donors. This is a really big deal because up to now two female donors could only produce female offspring.
IMHO, the real ethical controversy will come about when scientists develop or discover an artificial or non human womb to carry the in-vitro produced embryos. Then we can have the discussion about whether or not gender really matters. Until then, two males will still need a female to reproduce.
I see the point you are making, but I still think all of the diplomatic cables on Wikileaks reveals little new information. You really think we didn't know there is complicity with Pakistan on the drones, or that the U.S. has been bouncing ideas back and forth with China on North Korea. I think you give way too much value to Assange and these leaks.
How about this? Did Assange provide leaks on information that would have predicted the housing crisis meltdown? Did he have secret memos that he released on BP before the cap blew and the information hit the public press? Did he release information about the crisis in Greece, Ireland, Portugal prior to the information being released to the public? I only ask, because that stuff would actually matter to me. In case you aren't paying attention, the only issue people are focusing on in the U.S. are jobs and the economy. I can't find a lot on Wikileaks that tell us why the parties are waging PR wars and not actually solving any problems. Maybe if Assange had dirt on Boehner or McCain, or Pelosi or a host of other political leaders, it would be relevant to people here.
The U.S. government is pissed off because disclosure of private cables used in diplomacy violates protocol and spreads distrust between the countries involve. Everyone has their own agenda, and diplomacy is the art of navigating those agendas. Without privacy there is no diplomacy and without diplomacy there are wars. Lets tape all your private conversations with your lover, wife, friends, and acquaintances and post them on Wikileaks and see how they affect your relationships. Even if they taken in context, they will threaten your intimacy.
I have no problem with Assange and what he is trying to do in the name of openness. His approach seems to be lets shoot for idealism no matter who it fucks. I am not saying the approach is bad, but it is naive to blindly believe it will have positive results.
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The arguments that retooling is hard, just doesn't make it. Planned retooling is now designed into the manufacturing process. The U.S. helped develop the the Japanese manufacturing base by ignoring Demming. The Japanese were known for poor quality, so even with their lower labor rates. The Japanese improve their quality by following Demming and eventually overtook U.S. manufacturing and steel production. The remaining U.S. industries learned to focus on statistically analysis integrated quality control, and designed retooling became part of the process. So what drives the decision to outsource: 1) lower environmental standards, 2) lower overall employee costs, 3) tax benefits, 4) economic stability.
I think the underlying article hits the problem straight on. These economic factors are enticing from a cost accounting perspective, but not from a competitive one. Eventually, the knowledge is transferred to the low cost producers and they no longer need the costly U.S. managers to drive the business. We see that now with the rise of Haier and Chinese manufacturers who are beginning to dominate the lower end market. Eventually, they will displace the high margin businesses.
The U.S. main advantage in the past has been easy access to capital via efficient markets. With the current crisis and the idiotic standoff over debt, these markets may give rise to competing capital markets in SE Asia. The Chinese are flush with cash and it won't be long before they start to bypass the Western capital markets.
So what do we do? First, stop letting corporations drive the political agenda, because their short term focus is killing our industry. If we changed our focus to research that will enable lower cost production even with high labor rates, we can pull back manufacturing. This will have to be done at a grass roots level, because Wall Street will not invest in this kind of retooling when they can invest in companies that outsource. This means that we need to stop electing corrupt corporate lackies and uneducated religious nutcases, and change the rules so we encourage companies to invest here. Here a though, remove ALL corporate loopholes, and offer tax incentives only to those companies that in-source production and service jobs. Offer tax breaks to companies who invest in basic research programs that will innovate product and keep the technology here. This incentive can extend to University research which is most corporate funded anyway.
If you believe our problems stem from big government and the fear of socialism, then you are an idiot. Socialism is beating the f..king pants off of us right now, so that can't be the main issue. We as citizens must drive the political agenda and encourage Wall Street to invest in companies who develop our local economies. Otherwise, start learning Chinese because they are destined to be your overlords.
It isn't Unions, socialism, or big government that is killing us. It is the short term thinking of Wall Street. Once Wall Street was temporarily taken out of the picture at GM where they perpetuated a management culture that was adverse to change, the company was able to shed its high cost assets and return to profitability. In essence, it took government action to force the correct change in direction.
Wouldn't it be funny if Google started supporting Qt Quick / QML as an alternative to Davik and then encouraged QML app development? Google would end up fighting Nokia and Microsoft in the market using Nokia's technology.
I know it isn't going to happen, but there is a QML implementation supported on Android.
no offense, you cowardice piece of shit, but what the flying FUCK does this have to do with NetFlix. Seems like you have severe "inherent intellectual disadvantage that you either can't understand the fucking article, or your attention span is that of a warthog.
Or released it on Wikileaks
This looks very similar to the Andrew Messaging System that became the CMU campus wide mail system circa 1985.
I don't know where you shop, but Amazon has 10/100 MBps hubs for less than $20 new.
The Xerox Parc standard was 3 MBps (actually something like 2.96 MBps). The actual throughput was lower because the cards didn't include DMA, and yet this technology sufficed through the early 1980s.
The question of whether network has kept pace with computing is a good one. I would think that the throughput requirements are dependent on the application and not the speed of the computer. Current networking seems to deal fine with high resolution video streaming and application transfer in spite of the speed of the host computer. Yes I have 4 3Ghz cores on my laptop, but most of that is power consumed by compiling and virtual machines. My TV set with its 1 Ghz MHz ARM processor does well with the 150 MBps wireless connection for video and data.
I disagree your with your premise, but only because we are giving extra tax breaks to the wealthy. The whole argument for smaller government and lower taxes for the wealthy is that they will make additional investments in the economy and stimulate jobs. It is true that Google has contributed a lot to the economy, and providing tax credits to stimulate their further investment makes sense. However, providing addition tax breaks to the Google founders so they can burn more miles on their lavish private jets doesn't.
I think you mean December 1999.
I'd rather see Linux drop support for GNOME.
And they could offer it for free with advertising. Eventually they could reduce the streams to three channels and offer programming in blank and white only.
Then why is it so dang hard for Americans to switch from inches and pounds?
Why do we spell favorite, behavior, color differently? Because we can. Does anyone really care?
First Before you make sweeping comments, you should do a little research, because you are completely wrong. Hence the cowardly anonymous posting. The apps we developing are huge and run on some fairly light hardware. Turns out that QML is f..king fast and the few thing that aren't can be implemented in C++ and bound to QML. I don't believe you have done any testing. I think you are making this up. The data driven part of data driven apps in QML are implement in C++ you twit. That includes the XMLModel. Any other data driven apps are using implement in QAbstractItemModel in C++.
Second, the QML Widgets are coming quickly. Qt components and MeeGo Ux Components are already here and they implement enough to do what you need. The features missing are easily implemented by adding to these components.
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but we are developing a lot of QML/JS code and the development time is a fraction of doing the same thing in C++. In addition, we are finding that it is easier to train web graphic designers to use QML then to teach programmers graphic design. There are a lot more JS programmers out there than there programmers who know and use C++.
We are also doing Windows Mobile Phone 7 development and XAML is a really good model. You still have to write code behind in C#. The model works well in separating the design from the code, but you still have to hack XML and C#. I am using both, and QML/JS is a much easier to learn and use.
I read your statements, and they are very similar to what the COBOL programmers were saying to me in the 1980s "Oh this C and SQL stuff is fine for universities and researchers, but it will never catch on in the business world. I heard the same thing from the AS 400 developers in the early 1990s "real business wil run on mainframes, not this Sun server stuff."
Oh and about the comment for a Qt 5 competitor. O am not suret the open source community needs, another C++ framework to dilute resources and add confusion to the community. Maybe a better idea would be to give this a chance and see if it pans out.
Hmm, I had an entirely different read on this law. I don't want anyone in the Electric Company / Gas Company figuring out when I am away from home. If an employee can discover when power usage drops for a few days from normal routine, they can sell this information to house thieves.
I have had a 100% with my Samsung drives with WIndows. They don't seem to withstand fists pounding on the laptop keyboard when trying to use the Microsoft Developer Tools.
I just want to point out that private industry created the credit reporting service, and now I have to spend money to protect my interest against the shoddy practices of this industry. I don't think it is that fact that people will commit fraud that worries me, but the poor practices that the industry follows that provides no protection against fraud.
The creation of a government credit ID that has anti-fraud measures might be the first step in battling this issue. The second step would be making the credit reporting companies responsible for bearing the cost of cleaning up the effects of identity theft.
I would only support the idea of an Internet ID if I wasn't responsible for undoing the message associated with fraud committed against my ID.
Not bullshit. While U.S. citizens have the lowest tax rate in the civilized world, their corporations have the highest tax rate. However, I am not sure the higher tax rate has an impact on where companies chose to operate. I doubt that lower taxes would stop GE from paying their accountants for tax avoidance or stem the flow of jobs to India and China. It is the corporation's fiduciary responsibility to lower their costs. Even with lower tax rates, it is just too compelling to move jobs to where labor rates are 1/4 to 1/3 the rate in the U.S.
I always use the "wife" and "mom" factor to judge technology. Both wife and mom hate their Android phones. They can't figure out how to use them without much coaching. The iPhone has a good "wife" and "mom" usability factor as does the iPad. With very little coaching they were using these IOS based products within minutes. The Windows phone was also reasonable, but they felt it had too much glitz and much less intuitive then the iPhone. The Symbian phone was easier for "wife" and "mom" then the Android phone, but below the iPhone and the Windows Phone.
I am not an Apple fan, though I do use the iPhone as my primary phone.
Nokia is betting the Software capabilities and marketing strength of Microsoft to bootstrap them into the 21st century. Who knows, with a successful WIndows Phone Nokia might consider adding Android.
These light bulbs really suck. Have you used them? Has the congress used them? Try coming home in the middle of winter and start cooking dinner for your hungry and screaming 3 year old in the dim light of the CFL that takes 10 minutes to get to full brightness. Remember I won't drive 55? Another successful government sponsored campaign.
Just another reason to stick with Fedora.
I think you miss the parents point. Transparency is an ideal like democracy and communism. Its the political corruption that distorts it into something unrecognizable. These are valid and important points. Transparency is not a product or commodity. If treated as such, then become a political tool. (you know, "absolute power corrupts absolutely", or something to that effect.)
I never heard of Gawker, but I received email from them telling me that my account was compromised. I just went to their site, entered my email and asked for a password reset. I got a reply with a username I don't recognize. When I logged in with the id and password, I got an error message that said I had never "verified" my account.
I'd say they have some serious problems that go beyond the password hack.
The premise of the site seems pretty sketchy.
I don't think it is about compassion or morality. It is about a very narrow faith based agenda that does not leave room for rational or critical thinking. It is the same thinking that makes some religious groups anti masturbation because it is "spilling the seed". Doesn't matter that science shows that the seed is "spent" whether or not it is ejaculated.
The more we learn about life's processes, that more we demonstrate that it is bases on chemistry and physics and less on mysticism. The article isn't demonstrating new concepts, but it is showing we can overcome some of the previously encountered technical obstacles in life sciences.
The article doesn't discuss homosexual relationships or parenting. It merely says that the process could someday produce offspring from two mail donors. It also says that there may be a way to use the IPS technique to generate both male and female children from two female donors. This is a really big deal because up to now two female donors could only produce female offspring.
IMHO, the real ethical controversy will come about when scientists develop or discover an artificial or non human womb to carry the in-vitro produced embryos. Then we can have the discussion about whether or not gender really matters. Until then, two males will still need a female to reproduce.
I see the point you are making, but I still think all of the diplomatic cables on Wikileaks reveals little new information. You really think we didn't know there is complicity with Pakistan on the drones, or that the U.S. has been bouncing ideas back and forth with China on North Korea. I think you give way too much value to Assange and these leaks.
How about this? Did Assange provide leaks on information that would have predicted the housing crisis meltdown? Did he have secret memos that he released on BP before the cap blew and the information hit the public press? Did he release information about the crisis in Greece, Ireland, Portugal prior to the information being released to the public? I only ask, because that stuff would actually matter to me. In case you aren't paying attention, the only issue people are focusing on in the U.S. are jobs and the economy. I can't find a lot on Wikileaks that tell us why the parties are waging PR wars and not actually solving any problems. Maybe if Assange had dirt on Boehner or McCain, or Pelosi or a host of other political leaders, it would be relevant to people here.
The U.S. government is pissed off because disclosure of private cables used in diplomacy violates protocol and spreads distrust between the countries involve. Everyone has their own agenda, and diplomacy is the art of navigating those agendas. Without privacy there is no diplomacy and without diplomacy there are wars. Lets tape all your private conversations with your lover, wife, friends, and acquaintances and post them on Wikileaks and see how they affect your relationships. Even if they taken in context, they will threaten your intimacy.
I have no problem with Assange and what he is trying to do in the name of openness. His approach seems to be lets shoot for idealism no matter who it fucks. I am not saying the approach is bad, but it is naive to blindly believe it will have positive results.