During the last Gulf War (1991?) Saddam Hussein kept up with what was happening by watching CNN. Understanding the power of satellite transmissions, countries like Iran, which keep a tight lid on what's in the news, have yanked satellite dishes from people, (also, as they claim, western TV corrupts the morals. Ha! Leaders ought to know...)
Ok, you bunch of weasels, you've talked me into one. Order is placed and I'll be expecting it some time in the near future. Hopefully they don't use UPS for shipping, since I gave them a P.O. Box, reason being it's easier for me to get to the PO than get something from UPS once they've realized I'm not home to sign for it and decide not to shove it behind the bushes (like they did with a neighbor's athletic shirt, I found 3 months later.)
I've been contemplating getting a PDA for a while, because I just can't keep track of everything anymore. It's not CRS, it's just too damn much to remember, all the while training up on new packages left and right. Sigh...
I have the full set of Cosmo, on 3.5" disks. It's always been a favorite of mine. I'd love to see them re-release that. Smoother graphics and/or playable on a handheld would be swell:-)
At least one ad agency marketing person I know who works directly on the microsoft account has slashdot as their homepage.
Oh-muh-gawd. This explains everything! The attack on Open Source, Steve Ballmer's dancing and that uber-secret lab deep beneath the stinking, filthy bowels of Seattle where they're developing autonomatons (fortunately we're fairly safe, the best the droids can do while trying to feed themselves is jamb the fork into their eyes and foreheads)
Most of the doctors, back when I went through some treatment (in the 80's) were from India. Absolutely smart guys. So long as they can handle the stress of the business side of medicine and afford a decent standard of living in the US they're likely to stay. When they could make better wages driving a truck, you can bet many will leave. It's already a problem in the US that some towns are hurting for doctors.
The problem is Microsoft doesn't understand the model. They try to dictate it, same as they do everything else. It works because businesses are suckers, but consumers are actually more choosey. Sand in the Xbox hourglass is running out.
That said. There's only one game on the Xbox I'd buy it for, and I'm not going to shed $200+ to play it. I'm also not going to say what it is, in the even some Microsoft researcher/marketeer is reading ( nyah!:p )
If anyone was unclear on the concept, before, Microsoft does not want to sell games, they want control over your entertainment console, as it's a portal. Once they 0wn it, you're just another entry in the journal of receivables.
the medical industry......what...tech, pharmisuticals...what? you cannot move the talant off shore.
I'm sure someone said this about IT a decade ago...
While many doctors in the USA have come from other countries, medicine is becoming a disaster in the USA. Most of the care I receive is coming from a PA, only when it's serious do I usually see the physician and that's usually for a couple minutes. I see what's happening there. To keep in business he needs to have many patients, but can only afford the malpractice for himself, so spread the routine stuff out to less skilled workers.
Between Managed Healthcare (there's an oxymoron) and Lawyers, the medical field is less and less attractive. Doctors from overseas will go back, where they can do better, taking their knowledge with them. I feel it's a matter of time before the best medical schools are overseas.
It is known in the auto industry that the Japanese were dumping their Minivans on the US at or near a loss. They took a gamble and tried to drive the US out of the minivan business. It failed. They paid heavily.
From where I sit, the japanese are giving Detroit a damn good run for its money on minivans and SUV's.
Of course, the big three now own chunks of a few japanese automakers and outright several of the good old european brands. (exception being chrysler, which is now owned by Daimler, after Chrysler did their acquisisitons)
Who do you think will end up with Fiat? GM? Ford? Toyota?
A friend, once stationed in Korea said koreans he knew loved american appliences. Bring over an extra toaster and they'd buy it from you. They hated the local/taiwanese/chinese/etc. stuff they could get, because the quality was so terrible and the items wouldn't last. Tough break for them, now our store shelves are loaded with nothing but second rate quality.
When I do spend money on things, I'm very picky now. I've been looking for a decent egg beater for weeks, because th crappy chinese one with nylon gears wore out and jams. Never again nylon gears. Even the tolerances of those in the stores, which look really nice, are very loose and just a matter of time before it's a piece of garbage, too. Hopefully I can find a french or german made one. At least those countries protect some of their industry which makes quality products. Unlike the USA
It's generally accepted, for example, that the onset of World War II -- the height of instability and lack of peacefulness
Yes, millions of men, worldwide found employment as soldiers. Many of them died, thus reducing competition for jobs. The US government went into debt to fund the war effort ("Buy Bonds", remember?) rebuilding contries which were destroyed employed millions. The GI bill, later, provided education and funds to returning soldiers, triggering a housing boom (ever seen track housing, wonder where it got it's start?)
War does improve the economy, but at a terrible cost.
My 2 cents: I've seen a number of these houses that last for centuries. There are a few pitfalls, i.e. finding materials that last. Most of the houses which people have inhabited for long have been upgraded much since their building. Probably the best thing you could do is employ good planning for accesses, plumbing and electrical. Odds are you won't have significant changes in plumbing technology or wiring, but being able to get at it for repair is a good. Insulation, windoes, etc, avoid plastics, as they break down. Good landscaping is important, too. No roots in your cellar/exterior plumbing and easy access to utilities (whatever shape they may be) Last, give yourself a decent vegetable garden, workspace and leisure space.:-)
Actually, I find that it is myopic Democratic idealism that forces businesses out. If we are so arrogant that we believe
we deserve so many costly benefits and salaries that only labor unions can inflate so much, then what else will
companies do? They can't afford to do business here, because it's to expensive!
Remember when Japan was selling hundreds of billions of dollars of goods to the USA for years? If they made so much money, why is their economy in the dump? They were so fantasitcally wealthy they were buying up motion picture studios, golf courses, farms (to raise cattle for export back to Japan), banks, you name it. Problem was, they made such good stuff and their standard of living went up so high they priced themselves right out of the market. Other countries are repeating the cycle. The USA seems to survive because it reinvents itself. Probably medical is the next big thing.
Businesses would love to stay here, but they have no choice.
Where'd you ever get that idea? It's all about profit, especially where paying investors is concerned. Wal-Mart was big on selling Made in USA stuff, but quietly went back to selling least cost crap from China when they realized it didn't make any difference except in their own pocketbook. Where you buy your goods for resale is indirectly keeping your business in the country.
And farmers right now are sadly getting squeezed out of
our heritage because of large-scale corporate factory farmers. As a Republican, I have no answer for this (unless a
monopoly comes to exist), but as a person, I do find it sad. All I can do is attend Willie Nelson Farm Aid events and
donate.
You can do more than that, you can elect representatives who place restrictions on how much of agriculture can be owned by corporations, or some such. Certainly coroporate farms should get zero subsidies.
You don't have to be greedy to be a Republican.
As an old school republican once told me. There's two kinds of republicans, the old school (like him) and those who are really democrats. I see his point, even if I don't agree 100% with the democrat assertion. It's all liberal or conservative, based on individual issues, parties are effectively sides with very little real difference in ideology, though republicans do tend to favor business more and people less.
That said, many foreign economies not only need our jobs, but despite the companies paying what appears to us as
pittance, it is by far more than they're accustomed to with local jobs.
Actually, it's spreading the wealth around. Wealth accumulated in the USA for ages, now the it's spreading back into the rest of the world. Ever notice a country called The Netherlands? Huge amounts of wealth, carefully guarded. Same applies to the UK. It's 'old money' and those with it are very, very careful about letting it go. Americans still haven't seemed to grasp the concept.
Basically, the US is becoming a third world nation, relying on paper wealth, and not producing anything. The end result
will be quite scary.
Not even. The USA is the world leader in economy. Reinventing the USA is key to staying on top. We lost electronics, but still had a booming economy. We lost half the auto market, still a booming economy (even in the worst of times), going to lose a bunch of IT, still going to have a booming economy, we'll find something else to sell. Things are just bad right now because the current leadership isn't focusing on the homefront (and like his father, will learn "it's the economy, stupid" The rest of the world prospers when it sells to the USA. People know this and somehow money manages to come back home. We'll find something to sell to India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, and so on, and it'll be junk, but because it came from USA they gotta have it.
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When profits are down/slim, you can't afford to pursue everything you would like to!
However, it's the savvy investor who builds his/her business for the eventual recovery. Being well placed, with the products it requires is key to not being stuck ramping up while others grab your market.
Notice AMD is going great guns with their product development and roll-outs, even though their a far smaller fish than Intel? Intel seems content to play with their old technology and try to reap a profit. I figure AMD is burning through a fat wad of cash, hoping it all pays off. It might, assuming markets recover in time, if not, they may flame out.
american companies like coke, pepsi, McDonalds, KFC, PnG, Nike , etc etc have
huge markets outside US, especially in far east populous countries like india, china, japan, korea
Now if govt. of these countries were to impose the same tariff that you speak of on imported american goods,
You're talking about multi-nationals. Companies which can obfuscate or whine how hard it is to cost things out, i.e. what share of their overseas customerservice lines cost are attributed to the US market, on per-call or idle time-share.
No company is
going to hire anyone until this mess with Iraq starts to straigten out. Once that happens though, look for mega job
listings to start appearing.
It's my firm belief that we are about to invade Iraq because the current batch in W. DC can't figure out how to improve the economy. (Hint: Economies flourish in a stable and peaceful world)
There has to be a lot of pent up demand out there considering that everyone has been stalled
for a couple of years now.
No. If there's no demand, there's no demand. Interest rates are at incredibly low levels. Go an idea and can convince a bank to fund it? Go into business, best time ever for loans, no competition for the money. Why? People afraid nothing will succeed and they won't be able to pay back the loan.
I'm quite positive the image projected by the president has 90% to do with the health of the economy, and Bush projects fear and loathing. Clinton (what ever his other warts) projected a positive, inclusive image. It took a while, but economy grew. It started to shrink when it sunk in that the ride was almost over.
If we're saddle with Mr. 'Axis of Evil' for another 4 years, after 2004, we might as well open trade schools for ditch diggers.
With the news about India Institute of Technology (IIT) carried by Sixty Minutes, it is a bit
ironic that Indias best and brightest, who leave India for better wages in the USA would
may be competing with those back in India.
Sure fire ways to make a living in the USA, providing the trend continues:
Farm. People have to eat. If americans can't afford the food, someone else can, there's always
a buyer, if you can afford to set the right price. (Sound unethical? You're probably not a republican then)
Become an entertainer (something about americans dancing and singing on a stage works for extracting
money from the pockets of everyone else in the world. As of yet americans still make what the world
wants to buy in terms of image.)
Own an overseas company, employing locals for a pittance, and selling goods and services to anyone, anywhere
who can still afford them. China looks like a good place to sell, it's got one of the few growing economies.
Go into politics. If americans can't afford your price for selling out your country, someone, somewhere will
and hopefully you know how to keep your payments away from prying eyes, not that the public really cares anymore, but they might.
Cynical? Why not. You can't expect the current administration or house to insist upon a tariff on imported services, can you?
Ya know it was kinda odd to see an 'apple' story with with bill gates borg head icon on it. i was confused for a
moment:)
And the reply artwork is Apple theme, too (aqua? I dunno, don't have a mac)
I remember all the compatibility stuff crammed into the Amiga and you see how well that saved the platform (of course Commodore's marketing strategy was: Ready! Fire! Aim!) When I buy a computer, I expect it to behave like the system I bought it to be (with the occasional throwback emulators which still allow me to play Odyssey The Compleat Apventure and M.U.L.E...)
Just when I thought my KT400's 333 MHz bus was state-of-the-art and could handle any Athlon ever made, this comes along!
Just like mine... You realize were we erred, right? We jumped off the fence and actually bought somthing. At that moment the tech level of our aspirations froze and the obsolesence clock began ticking.
400MHz is all very wel and good, but what happened to Quad-Rate DRAM? Or.. (diabolical pause).. is that to follow, just before the Athlon 64 is unleashed?
I wonder is Intel is rethinking their plan to ride that piece of shit they call the itanium 2.
With so much and so many on board with the x86-64 platform, it's fascinating that the industry leader [Intel] has all but written it all of as so much hype. Intel's line has never been that the Itanium is in the same league, which they consider to be nothing more than an extension of the 32 bit market. Intel's position on that is clear. Faster P4/Xeon, more cache, that's all anyone needs. (please resist the urge to throw in the old 640k quote) Itaniums are for bigger servers.
The irony is that IBM once, rather cavalierly, dismissed the PC, they learned the hard way, Intel seems bent on making a similar choice.
Do you need a 64 bit AMD? Well, hell yes, if your budget can afford it. Even/. drools a trough over the latest hi-tech toys and you know once the 64 bit systems hit shelves in the <$2000 range the floodgates will be open. Intel's best bet was/(may still be) Yamhill, but their pride would take a bruising following their little brother.
I found a mailbox I hadn't used in years, full of 1700 pieces of email. 2 were meaningful. I would have liked to keep header information to do some statistical analysis, but it was taking up significant diskspace.
I'd consider most non-frivolous email is conducted within business or organizations. ISPs are most likely provide personal email accounts. How does AOL account for 60% good email? Or is it that there's millions of aol.com accounts the spammers have yet to harvest?
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During the last Gulf War (1991?) Saddam Hussein kept up with what was happening by watching CNN. Understanding the power of satellite transmissions, countries like Iran, which keep a tight lid on what's in the news, have yanked satellite dishes from people, (also, as they claim, western TV corrupts the morals. Ha! Leaders ought to know...)
I've been contemplating getting a PDA for a while, because I just can't keep track of everything anymore. It's not CRS, it's just too damn much to remember, all the while training up on new packages left and right. Sigh...
I have the full set of Cosmo, on 3.5" disks. It's always been a favorite of mine. I'd love to see them re-release that. Smoother graphics and/or playable on a handheld would be swell :-)
Oh-muh-gawd. This explains everything! The attack on Open Source, Steve Ballmer's dancing and that uber-secret lab deep beneath the stinking, filthy bowels of Seattle where they're developing autonomatons (fortunately we're fairly safe, the best the droids can do while trying to feed themselves is jamb the fork into their eyes and foreheads)
Most of the doctors, back when I went through some treatment (in the 80's) were from India. Absolutely smart guys. So long as they can handle the stress of the business side of medicine and afford a decent standard of living in the US they're likely to stay. When they could make better wages driving a truck, you can bet many will leave. It's already a problem in the US that some towns are hurting for doctors.
That said. There's only one game on the Xbox I'd buy it for, and I'm not going to shed $200+ to play it. I'm also not going to say what it is, in the even some Microsoft researcher/marketeer is reading ( nyah! :p )
If anyone was unclear on the concept, before, Microsoft does not want to sell games, they want control over your entertainment console, as it's a portal. Once they 0wn it, you're just another entry in the journal of receivables.
I'm sure someone said this about IT a decade ago...
While many doctors in the USA have come from other countries, medicine is becoming a disaster in the USA. Most of the care I receive is coming from a PA, only when it's serious do I usually see the physician and that's usually for a couple minutes. I see what's happening there. To keep in business he needs to have many patients, but can only afford the malpractice for himself, so spread the routine stuff out to less skilled workers.
Between Managed Healthcare (there's an oxymoron) and Lawyers, the medical field is less and less attractive. Doctors from overseas will go back, where they can do better, taking their knowledge with them. I feel it's a matter of time before the best medical schools are overseas.
From where I sit, the japanese are giving Detroit a damn good run for its money on minivans and SUV's.
Of course, the big three now own chunks of a few japanese automakers and outright several of the good old european brands. (exception being chrysler, which is now owned by Daimler, after Chrysler did their acquisisitons)
Who do you think will end up with Fiat? GM? Ford? Toyota?
When I do spend money on things, I'm very picky now. I've been looking for a decent egg beater for weeks, because th crappy chinese one with nylon gears wore out and jams. Never again nylon gears. Even the tolerances of those in the stores, which look really nice, are very loose and just a matter of time before it's a piece of garbage, too. Hopefully I can find a french or german made one. At least those countries protect some of their industry which makes quality products. Unlike the USA
Yes, millions of men, worldwide found employment as soldiers. Many of them died, thus reducing competition for jobs. The US government went into debt to fund the war effort ("Buy Bonds", remember?) rebuilding contries which were destroyed employed millions. The GI bill, later, provided education and funds to returning soldiers, triggering a housing boom (ever seen track housing, wonder where it got it's start?)
War does improve the economy, but at a terrible cost.
My 2 cents: I've seen a number of these houses that last for centuries. There are a few pitfalls, i.e. finding materials that last. Most of the houses which people have inhabited for long have been upgraded much since their building. Probably the best thing you could do is employ good planning for accesses, plumbing and electrical. Odds are you won't have significant changes in plumbing technology or wiring, but being able to get at it for repair is a good. Insulation, windoes, etc, avoid plastics, as they break down. Good landscaping is important, too. No roots in your cellar/exterior plumbing and easy access to utilities (whatever shape they may be) Last, give yourself a decent vegetable garden, workspace and leisure space. :-)
Sorry to say, but even the Yakuza is vastly overrated. Most of the real organized crime in Japan is run by non-Japanese.
Remember when Japan was selling hundreds of billions of dollars of goods to the USA for years? If they made so much money, why is their economy in the dump? They were so fantasitcally wealthy they were buying up motion picture studios, golf courses, farms (to raise cattle for export back to Japan), banks, you name it. Problem was, they made such good stuff and their standard of living went up so high they priced themselves right out of the market. Other countries are repeating the cycle. The USA seems to survive because it reinvents itself. Probably medical is the next big thing.
Businesses would love to stay here, but they have no choice.
Where'd you ever get that idea? It's all about profit, especially where paying investors is concerned. Wal-Mart was big on selling Made in USA stuff, but quietly went back to selling least cost crap from China when they realized it didn't make any difference except in their own pocketbook. Where you buy your goods for resale is indirectly keeping your business in the country.
And farmers right now are sadly getting squeezed out of our heritage because of large-scale corporate factory farmers. As a Republican, I have no answer for this (unless a monopoly comes to exist), but as a person, I do find it sad. All I can do is attend Willie Nelson Farm Aid events and donate.
You can do more than that, you can elect representatives who place restrictions on how much of agriculture can be owned by corporations, or some such. Certainly coroporate farms should get zero subsidies.
You don't have to be greedy to be a Republican.
As an old school republican once told me. There's two kinds of republicans, the old school (like him) and those who are really democrats. I see his point, even if I don't agree 100% with the democrat assertion. It's all liberal or conservative, based on individual issues, parties are effectively sides with very little real difference in ideology, though republicans do tend to favor business more and people less.
That said, many foreign economies not only need our jobs, but despite the companies paying what appears to us as pittance, it is by far more than they're accustomed to with local jobs.
Actually, it's spreading the wealth around. Wealth accumulated in the USA for ages, now the it's spreading back into the rest of the world. Ever notice a country called The Netherlands? Huge amounts of wealth, carefully guarded. Same applies to the UK. It's 'old money' and those with it are very, very careful about letting it go. Americans still haven't seemed to grasp the concept.
Basically, the US is becoming a third world nation, relying on paper wealth, and not producing anything. The end result will be quite scary.
Not even. The USA is the world leader in economy. Reinventing the USA is key to staying on top. We lost electronics, but still had a booming economy. We lost half the auto market, still a booming economy (even in the worst of times), going to lose a bunch of IT, still going to have a booming economy, we'll find something else to sell. Things are just bad right now because the current leadership isn't focusing on the homefront (and like his father, will learn "it's the economy, stupid" The rest of the world prospers when it sells to the USA. People know this and somehow money manages to come back home. We'll find something to sell to India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, and so on, and it'll be junk, but because it came from USA they gotta have it.
However, it's the savvy investor who builds his/her business for the eventual recovery. Being well placed, with the products it requires is key to not being stuck ramping up while others grab your market.
Notice AMD is going great guns with their product development and roll-outs, even though their a far smaller fish than Intel? Intel seems content to play with their old technology and try to reap a profit. I figure AMD is burning through a fat wad of cash, hoping it all pays off. It might, assuming markets recover in time, if not, they may flame out.
You're talking about multi-nationals. Companies which can obfuscate or whine how hard it is to cost things out, i.e. what share of their overseas customerservice lines cost are attributed to the US market, on per-call or idle time-share.
It's my firm belief that we are about to invade Iraq because the current batch in W. DC can't figure out how to improve the economy. (Hint: Economies flourish in a stable and peaceful world)
There has to be a lot of pent up demand out there considering that everyone has been stalled for a couple of years now.
No. If there's no demand, there's no demand. Interest rates are at incredibly low levels. Go an idea and can convince a bank to fund it? Go into business, best time ever for loans, no competition for the money. Why? People afraid nothing will succeed and they won't be able to pay back the loan.
I'm quite positive the image projected by the president has 90% to do with the health of the economy, and Bush projects fear and loathing. Clinton (what ever his other warts) projected a positive, inclusive image. It took a while, but economy grew. It started to shrink when it sunk in that the ride was almost over.
If we're saddle with Mr. 'Axis of Evil' for another 4 years, after 2004, we might as well open trade schools for ditch diggers.
Sure fire ways to make a living in the USA, providing the trend continues:
Farm. People have to eat. If americans can't afford the food, someone else can, there's always a buyer, if you can afford to set the right price. (Sound unethical? You're probably not a republican then)
Become an entertainer (something about americans dancing and singing on a stage works for extracting money from the pockets of everyone else in the world. As of yet americans still make what the world wants to buy in terms of image.)
Own an overseas company, employing locals for a pittance, and selling goods and services to anyone, anywhere who can still afford them. China looks like a good place to sell, it's got one of the few growing economies.
Go into politics. If americans can't afford your price for selling out your country, someone, somewhere will and hopefully you know how to keep your payments away from prying eyes, not that the public really cares anymore, but they might.
Cynical? Why not. You can't expect the current administration or house to insist upon a tariff on imported services, can you?
And the reply artwork is Apple theme, too (aqua? I dunno, don't have a mac)
I remember all the compatibility stuff crammed into the Amiga and you see how well that saved the platform (of course Commodore's marketing strategy was: Ready! Fire! Aim!) When I buy a computer, I expect it to behave like the system I bought it to be (with the occasional throwback emulators which still allow me to play Odyssey The Compleat Apventure and M.U.L.E...)
Just like mine... You realize were we erred, right? We jumped off the fence and actually bought somthing. At that moment the tech level of our aspirations froze and the obsolesence clock began ticking.
400MHz is all very wel and good, but what happened to Quad-Rate DRAM? Or .. (diabolical pause) .. is that to follow, just before the Athlon 64 is unleashed?
Such barbarians they were, they should have lusted for Athlon 64, 400 MHz FSB, greater than 4GB QDR and terrabytes of serial SCSI.
I am quickly losing my respect for vikings (spam or no spam)...
I am quickly losing my mind...
Ah, well got no gf, might as well spend the money on toys.
Motherboards, Blades and even a peek at Win64 at CeBit
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With so much and so many on board with the x86-64 platform, it's fascinating that the industry leader [Intel] has all but written it all of as so much hype. Intel's line has never been that the Itanium is in the same league, which they consider to be nothing more than an extension of the 32 bit market. Intel's position on that is clear. Faster P4/Xeon, more cache, that's all anyone needs. (please resist the urge to throw in the old 640k quote) Itaniums are for bigger servers.
The irony is that IBM once, rather cavalierly, dismissed the PC, they learned the hard way, Intel seems bent on making a similar choice.
Do you need a 64 bit AMD? Well, hell yes, if your budget can afford it. Even /. drools a trough over the latest hi-tech toys and you know once the 64 bit systems hit shelves in the <$2000 range the floodgates will be open. Intel's best bet was/(may still be) Yamhill, but their pride would take a bruising following their little brother.
I found a mailbox I hadn't used in years, full of 1700 pieces of email. 2 were meaningful. I would have liked to keep header information to do some statistical analysis, but it was taking up significant diskspace.
I'd consider most non-frivolous email is conducted within business or organizations. ISPs are most likely provide personal email accounts. How does AOL account for 60% good email? Or is it that there's millions of aol.com accounts the spammers have yet to harvest?
Unless this happens to be exclusively a CS/Engineering/Art/Design school, don't expect to find much embracing of non-Microsoft tools.