You make it sound like the education is given away, only to lose the investment. US universities are a good business with their high prices. Besides that I agree with your point about a lost recruitment opportunity.
That situation can also just mean regression to the mean. Nokia had a higher market share then both number 2 and 3 put together before the "burning platform" was sunk in a sea of gasoline. Over time performance in nature generally trends towards the average, which for exceptional players is of course towards the worse.
US manufactured equipment from their networks and country
Like what exactly? Cisco manufactures most of their stuff in China, with some production in other nations, not sure if US has any at all. I suspect its competitors are no better.
I am not sure I would give the US too much credit regarding early slavery fights.
Even ignoring examples such as the Chinese emperor of the Qin dynasty abolished slavery 2000 years before Lincoln (granted he was overthrown soon after and abolishment overruled), I would say that the US actually supported slavery before 1865. The British outlawed slavery in 1807, and had completely abolished slavery throughout its vast empire in 1833 and up till then had been strongly encouraging other nations to follow its lead.
Mexico eventually followed suit once they gained their independence from the Spanish in 1821, completely achieving their goal 8 years later. I perceive this to be a key event that eventually lead to wars where Mexico lost around half their original land to the US.
I believe that would break WTO rules. Then again what's another rule to break when you have big guns anyway.
I am getting a feeling these sort of events will only increase in frequency in years to come. And still there won't be enough voters to care enough to stop the government. If it goes far enough though, the most unusual sets of allies have gone together before.
Yes many people considers giving up privacy and even some personal freedoms as an acceptable cost for any marginal effect on personal security, good for them.
But IMHO the much bigger issue is how they threw this in effect in secrecy without public debate. I think what both the NSA and the government learned from this, is that it really is better to ask for forgiveness (if caught) then permission.
Whether it is was worth the trouble business wise is another question imho. The anti trust stuff was really bad for MS, but on the other hand what got them there was an utterly complete victory. If the same happened within mobile, I'd see the government involvement as a luxury problem.
IE fiasco? Are you talking about the same "fiasco" where IE ended up with around 95% marketshare? Sounds like a raging success to me. Where they might've learned that heavy handing stuff down consumers throats are something MS are big enough to do. It's good to see that they can't always do that.
Not so sure about that. Perhaps they just weren't sufficiently comfortable with English. I met a girl from Hong Kong once, that was essentially the master of sarcasm. She had lived a few years in the US though. Another one living all her life Guangzhou also understood it well.
But in my experience people with an intermediate English level mostly seems to reacts they way you mentioned. Not just sarcasm but with most humour.
I'm ok with very small populations such as Luxembourg and Norway may be an invalid comparison. However comparing Europe as a whole to the US will probably have to wait 50 to 100 years more. For instance Denmark and Romania are about as similar as the state of New York vs Bolivia both culturally, language and economically. Nobody lives in "Europe", but in France or similar. The EU might be striving to become a US equivalent, but is very far today. Many countries are still also outside the union, even more outside the euro zone.
But with the danger of a flag waving contest, by which metric are Norway and Luxembourg merely close? Not in terms of economy. Even compared to New York state only.
No reason to be so defensive though. You guys still rock in terms of total economy.
Your last off-topic comment makes you seem to hold a biased grudge against Europe. What's up?
I've heard this point about lacking ability of the general public to serve 'automation jobs' quite a few times, and you may very well be right.
However I wonder if people 100 years ago imagined the things the general public are now able to these days. For instance not only read and write, but operate complex machinery that instantly communicates their thoughts across the entire world. Yeah most of those thoughts may be youtube comment quality, but that's besides the point.
What exactly do you envy? The lower wages? The smaller houses? The lower retirement benefits? The lower levels of education? The lower standard of living? The higher taxes? The religious and ethnic conflicts? Do tell.
Probably true while speaking of Europe as if it was an actual nation. But replace 'Europe' with either Norway, Sweden, Germany and few others, and I'd be surprised they weren't competitive in most your listed claims.
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You make it sound like the education is given away, only to lose the investment. US universities are a good business with their high prices. Besides that I agree with your point about a lost recruitment opportunity.
I believe iOS had a marketshare decline compared to last year. Growing faster than that doesn't sound too impressive
If speculations/rumors are correct MS generally collects more royalties from Android phones being sold, than their own OS. It might be success :P
If it helps getting one of he worlds biggest advertisement firms more frequently into the news, it might be worth it even for no other reason.
Not really. Very few speaks more than 2 languages.
Ironically this great evil of making the atomic bomb, has for now mostly stopped major powers from fighting directly with each other.
That situation can also just mean regression to the mean. Nokia had a higher market share then both number 2 and 3 put together before the "burning platform" was sunk in a sea of gasoline. Over time performance in nature generally trends towards the average, which for exceptional players is of course towards the worse.
Nice try. Conveniently emitting the part where the almost all the companies mentioned also produced windows phone models. With even less success.
Add me to the list of very much touched readers of that piece. Very few things gets to me these days, but the 'remember' one made me tear up and cry.
I've also seen India, Czech republic and Singapore listed as having some factory locations. But the US?
US manufactured equipment from their networks and country
Like what exactly? Cisco manufactures most of their stuff in China, with some production in other nations, not sure if US has any at all. I suspect its competitors are no better.
I am not sure I would give the US too much credit regarding early slavery fights.
Even ignoring examples such as the Chinese emperor of the Qin dynasty abolished slavery 2000 years before Lincoln (granted he was overthrown soon after and abolishment overruled), I would say that the US actually supported slavery before 1865. The British outlawed slavery in 1807, and had completely abolished slavery throughout its vast empire in 1833 and up till then had been strongly encouraging other nations to follow its lead.
Mexico eventually followed suit once they gained their independence from the Spanish in 1821, completely achieving their goal 8 years later. I perceive this to be a key event that eventually lead to wars where Mexico lost around half their original land to the US.
I believe that would break WTO rules. Then again what's another rule to break when you have big guns anyway.
I am getting a feeling these sort of events will only increase in frequency in years to come. And still there won't be enough voters to care enough to stop the government. If it goes far enough though, the most unusual sets of allies have gone together before.
Sounds outragous! Anything proof to support such a claim?
Wikipedia cites around 125 million english speakers. Not every Indian knows English
Yes many people considers giving up privacy and even some personal freedoms as an acceptable cost for any marginal effect on personal security, good for them.
But IMHO the much bigger issue is how they threw this in effect in secrecy without public debate. I think what both the NSA and the government learned from this, is that it really is better to ask for forgiveness (if caught) then permission.
They obviously want to join in on the very successful MAD fun.
Also from short term experience working in India, I did not get much impression that the Indian government really cares about its regular citizens.
Whether it is was worth the trouble business wise is another question imho. The anti trust stuff was really bad for MS, but on the other hand what got them there was an utterly complete victory. If the same happened within mobile, I'd see the government involvement as a luxury problem.
IE fiasco? Are you talking about the same "fiasco" where IE ended up with around 95% marketshare? Sounds like a raging success to me. Where they might've learned that heavy handing stuff down consumers throats are something MS are big enough to do. It's good to see that they can't always do that.
To be fair, there are many more leaders at MS than just Ballmer.
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Not so sure about that. Perhaps they just weren't sufficiently comfortable with English. I met a girl from Hong Kong once, that was essentially the master of sarcasm. She had lived a few years in the US though. Another one living all her life Guangzhou also understood it well.
But in my experience people with an intermediate English level mostly seems to reacts they way you mentioned. Not just sarcasm but with most humour.
I'm ok with very small populations such as Luxembourg and Norway may be an invalid comparison. However comparing Europe as a whole to the US will probably have to wait 50 to 100 years more. For instance Denmark and Romania are about as similar as the state of New York vs Bolivia both culturally, language and economically. Nobody lives in "Europe", but in France or similar. The EU might be striving to become a US equivalent, but is very far today. Many countries are still also outside the union, even more outside the euro zone.
But with the danger of a flag waving contest, by which metric are Norway and Luxembourg merely close? Not in terms of economy. Even compared to New York state only.
No reason to be so defensive though. You guys still rock in terms of total economy.
Your last off-topic comment makes you seem to hold a biased grudge against Europe. What's up?
I've heard this point about lacking ability of the general public to serve 'automation jobs' quite a few times, and you may very well be right.
However I wonder if people 100 years ago imagined the things the general public are now able to these days. For instance not only read and write, but operate complex machinery that instantly communicates their thoughts across the entire world. Yeah most of those thoughts may be youtube comment quality, but that's besides the point.
What exactly do you envy? The lower wages? The smaller houses? The lower retirement benefits? The lower levels of education? The lower standard of living? The higher taxes? The religious and ethnic conflicts? Do tell.
Probably true while speaking of Europe as if it was an actual nation. But replace 'Europe' with either Norway, Sweden, Germany and few others, and I'd be surprised they weren't competitive in most your listed claims.