Right now the unemployment is the lowest in years, and are economy is doing great. Why?
Mainly because the US has not been squeamish about automating things that could previously only be done by humans. Try to artificially protect jobs from becoming redundant due to technology, and you will have precisely the opposite effect to that you desire: you will destroy employment and diminish prosperity.
Start cutting jobs and things can change. Is there anything wrong with making profits while still keeping job positions?
Learn some basic economic facts. Start paying a bit more attention to the world around you. Hint: if we had not automated agriculture, then automated much of industry, nobody would have had the time to do such cerebral things as build computers and network them together.
What is this digit "2" you are referring to? The original poster was perfectly correct, as pointed out by AC above. It is 1 in 10 because he was talking in base two.
This is intolerable. What in Christ's Fat Cock do you mean? I'll tell you what you mean, you mean you're sure he coudn't care less. In other words, his level of caring is at a minimum.
what about when a country with low labour costs and not much care for patent law starts producing cheap clones for not-much money. Say, China, f'rinstance. Then they'd be stuffed. By the free market no less. How positively ironic
Well, no, not really. Any country doing this would start to find it hard to trade with western developed economies. China's entry to the WTO was strictly conditional on the government closing down pirate CD factories, for instance. And those CDs were just for domestic consumption, not for export.
You are right, however, that IP law in its current incarnation forces a gross distortion of the free market.
Does this mean that the price of Samsung's memory chips is going to increase in order to help pay these royalties, fobbing the cost off onto us poor consumers, or is Samsung going to do the honorable thing and to try to absourb the costs elsewhere?
err, yeah that's right manichawk. All this time, Samsung have been paying unnecessary costs during manufacture of memory chips. After all, RAM is not a particularly competitive market, is it? Now that they have to pay an unexpected licensing fee to RAMBUS, they will simply "absorb" these costs somehere in their manufacturing process.
Of course, it never occurred to them previously that had they eliminated these costs, they could have undercut their competitors' prices and remained competitive.
Christ's fat cock, yes the royalties will mean higher prices to consumers.
Heck, any company that makes a major sale would be very happy. This means that the company will be in existence for a while longer. And the sales rep who closed the deal will be receiving a lot a cash and a few spiffs to boot.
Nope, I'm afraid we still don't get it. Perhaps you could run it past us again for the benefit of people like JurriAlt137n and myself.
One of the greatest things about Japan is the fact they keep up-to-date and will take on cool technologies (mini-disk springs to mind..).
If you can consider a Sony-owned proprietary format cool, especially with Sony's imperial and extortionate licensing practices. I find that in Japan, utility is often overlooked by the consumer in favour of sheer "ugh that's twee" factor.
Well fervent, within a year the UK will have packet switched always-on wireless internet connections, on subscription, for devices like phones and PDAs. As long as these devices are switched on, they must have an IP address assigned for us to take advantage of the always-on convenience factor.
I have recently taken to criticising devices which are not nodes on a network. I want every one of my devices which can be an object on an IP network to be an object on an IP network. That includes my computer, my phone, my PDA, my car, my pipe, my TV, my sandals. And I want plus I will pay equals I get.
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sshd and scp running under cygwin is the easiest way to do this. Works fine. See their web site for more details. Cygwin is GPL software.
Mainly because the US has not been squeamish about automating things that could previously only be done by humans. Try to artificially protect jobs from becoming redundant due to technology, and you will have precisely the opposite effect to that you desire: you will destroy employment and diminish prosperity.
Start cutting jobs and things can change. Is there anything wrong with making profits while still keeping job positions?
Learn some basic economic facts. Start paying a bit more attention to the world around you. Hint: if we had not automated agriculture, then automated much of industry, nobody would have had the time to do such cerebral things as build computers and network them together.
One on 2. It is a binary digit
What is this digit "2" you are referring to? The original poster was perfectly correct, as pointed out by AC above. It is 1 in 10 because he was talking in base two.
why can't I login properly except from the machine holding my cookie?
This is intolerable. What in Christ's Fat Cock do you mean? I'll tell you what you mean, you mean you're sure he coudn't care less. In other words, his level of caring is at a minimum.
Well, no, not really. Any country doing this would start to find it hard to trade with western developed economies. China's entry to the WTO was strictly conditional on the government closing down pirate CD factories, for instance. And those CDs were just for domestic consumption, not for export.
You are right, however, that IP law in its current incarnation forces a gross distortion of the free market.
err, yeah that's right manichawk. All this time, Samsung have been paying unnecessary costs during manufacture of memory chips. After all, RAM is not a particularly competitive market, is it? Now that they have to pay an unexpected licensing fee to RAMBUS, they will simply "absorb" these costs somehere in their manufacturing process.
Of course, it never occurred to them previously that had they eliminated these costs, they could have undercut their competitors' prices and remained competitive.
Christ's fat cock, yes the royalties will mean higher prices to consumers.
Nope, I'm afraid we still don't get it. Perhaps you could run it past us again for the benefit of people like JurriAlt137n and myself.
If you can consider a Sony-owned proprietary format cool, especially with Sony's imperial and extortionate licensing practices. I find that in Japan, utility is often overlooked by the consumer in favour of sheer "ugh that's twee" factor.
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Nice.
hur hur, yeah, and then they jizzed
I have recently taken to criticising devices which are not nodes on a network. I want every one of my devices which can be an object on an IP network to be an object on an IP network. That includes my computer, my phone, my PDA, my car, my pipe, my TV, my sandals. And I want plus I will pay equals I get.
heh heh.. and is anyone else known to be killfiled on the submissions queue?
That's quite interesting if true. Did the register do anything to provoke this?