From what I've heard, you can live comfortably in India for about $5-$10 USD / day. And that's not knowing all the inside-out's of cheap places to eat/sleep/shop that the locals know.
"The industry is trying to enlist broader public support with a campaign intended to show that its nemesis --- the peer-to-peer networks for swapping files like KaZaA and Morpheus --- are used not only to trade songs but also pornographic images, including child pornography.... 'As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly,' said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment.... The available evidence does not show that pornography on file-sharing systems is growing any faster than through other online vehicles. Indeed, the federally financed child pornography tip line run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children found that 1.3 percent of the reports of Internet child pornography were related to file-sharing services so far this year, down from 2.1 percent last year. Nearly three-quarters of child pornography reported is on Web sites."
Of course, more software companies will fall under the same perils as Microsoft in the near future, as a direct result of the immense amounts of outsourcing done to China and India. As the greed of the American corporations build up the expertise of Indian and Chinese programming firms, the more it's going to come back and haunt them (of course, American PHBs do not typically think in the long term) And unlike the manufacturing sectors, the American software sector will wither away much faster. Not that it's a bad thing to increasing the standard of living in these places, but it will sure bring forth the kind of competition which will mirror those of the steel and auto industries.
Good question. Consider that a Hollywood blockbuster can cost hundreds of millions to make, and a music CD will cost no more than half a million to produce. Why is it that a DVD of the movie will cost $10-15 while the CD soundtrack of the exact same movie will cost $15-$18? That's why people are complaining about the price.
Seriously, even at $12, it's ridiculously high-priced. Just analyzing this with basic economic semantics - a Hollywood blockbuster feature that costs $50 million will sell on DVD for $10 at Best Buy, while the CD soundtrack to the exact same movie, which cost less than $500k to produce, will cost $15 (OK...now $12). I think there's some perverse pricing disparities that they need to address here.
The Samsung Yepp YP-55V is one of the RAM based MP3 players that's added some pretty cool features at a reasonable price. 256 MG of RAM...How many people still consider a RAM based audio player when shopping?"
You bet your ass someone will consider that for $160!
for both Ebay and Apple. Suppose Ebay doesn't yank the sale before Apple (or the RIAA) complains - this will bring forth a large wave of people hoping to cash in on the $0.99 -> $20.00 profiteering. And you can bet your hairy hide that a healthy percentage of these folks will surely "delete" their MP3 off of their hard drives (and "of course" that MP3 was actually downloaded from Apple).
Well...we're an engineering group developing products using a PowerPC processor, so we went and bought these used Macs from this middle school that was getting rid of them.
That's about the only use we can think of. Workstations are all Windows/Cygwin
In response to Blackboard, the University of Washington has come up with its own suite of online tools, free for use by faculty, students, and staff. While not as fully integrated as Blackboard, it is fully online and the developers are absolutely anal about having every single thing work from IE to Mozilla to Lynx on PC, Mac, and Linux. When I worked there, we had visiting delegations from MIT and Stanford coming personally to ask how the hell we did it with just a few developers and undergrads.
It's true that a majority of graduate/doc/post-doc research funding is given to foreign nationals. However, the majority of US patents and inventions are also made by the same individuals, benefitting American companies and/or the military.
Other than the shipping costs that others have already mentioned, it was pretty damn hard to sell foreign cars in the US in the late 70's and 80's, if you remember. In the 80's, old folks with money will have either a Cadillac or a Buick, but will not be caught dead in a Japanese luxury car. Now that Honda and Toyota have done their aggressive campaigning of advertising their "American cars," you now see 80-year-olds in Wichita happily driving Accords and Camrys.
If you can't feed, clothe, and shelter 2 people in America with $70,000 per year, you've got some issues with your financial situation (especially in the midwest).
Even though it didn't take too much to do it, I doubt Edward Furlong would have the right mix of pathos and maturity in his delivery to pull off what is needed here - John Connor is now washed up, having given up his supposed "destiny," sort of like a spiraling downwards alcoholic.
Although he did show much promise in American History X alongisde Edward Norton. But I heard he was too much of a cokehead to do anything worthwhile anymore.
Wait, but eventually the 61st Amendment will be past, allowing Schwarzenegger to become President of the US, and thereby leading to the construction of the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library and allowing Taco Bell to win the Restaurant Franchise Wars.
IANAL, and someone probably brought it up already, but since spam-mail filtering and pork/meat-like products manufacturing are two separate, non-related industries, isn't the trademarking a mutually used word irrelevant? For example, McDonald's wouldn't be able to sue if some guy in Akron decided to open a McDonald's Happy Land of Lingerie.
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I had one of these when I was young.
It's actually not a shady machine that pirates Nintendo gamez. Nintendo actually made a machine that runs 3.5" floppies (they're not exactly 3.5" computer floppies, but close), and also licensed them to be manufactured by other companies (or at least I think it was a proper license). Anyway, these machines were only sold in Asia, AFAIK.
To answer your earlier question, somehow, the OS will tell you to flip the disk to the other side (or insert a 2nd disk) when it gets to the point in the code where it ends abruptly (or maybe the copying program would be smart enough to insert some disk-swapping notify bit to do that). Anyway, I ended up selling mine (around the time SNES/Genesis was big) with 150 "questionable" games for $50 to a mom-n-pop's video game store (before there were Software Etc's and Babbage's)
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From what I've heard, you can live comfortably in India for about $5-$10 USD / day. And that's not knowing all the inside-out's of cheap places to eat/sleep/shop that the locals know.
"Web accelerators"...You mean highly-advanced technology like mod-gzip?
You forget you're on Slashdot? WiFi and water cooling comes before food, shelter, and medicine.
From the New York Times: Article (NYT reg req)
... 'As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly,' said Andrew Lack, the chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment. ... The available evidence does not show that pornography on file-sharing systems is growing any faster than through other online vehicles. Indeed, the federally financed child pornography tip line run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children found that 1.3 percent of the reports of Internet child pornography were related to file-sharing services so far this year, down from 2.1 percent last year. Nearly three-quarters of child pornography reported is on Web sites."
"The industry is trying to enlist broader public support with a campaign intended to show that its nemesis --- the peer-to-peer networks for swapping files like KaZaA and Morpheus --- are used not only to trade songs but also pornographic images, including child pornography.
Of course, more software companies will fall under the same perils as Microsoft in the near future, as a direct result of the immense amounts of outsourcing done to China and India. As the greed of the American corporations build up the expertise of Indian and Chinese programming firms, the more it's going to come back and haunt them (of course, American PHBs do not typically think in the long term) And unlike the manufacturing sectors, the American software sector will wither away much faster. Not that it's a bad thing to increasing the standard of living in these places, but it will sure bring forth the kind of competition which will mirror those of the steel and auto industries.
Wow...Jackson, TN has electricity. Now it has computers and the Internet. What's next? Evolution in schools?
What IS a fair price?
Good question. Consider that a Hollywood blockbuster can cost hundreds of millions to make, and a music CD will cost no more than half a million to produce. Why is it that a DVD of the movie will cost $10-15 while the CD soundtrack of the exact same movie will cost $15-$18? That's why people are complaining about the price.
Seriously, even at $12, it's ridiculously high-priced. Just analyzing this with basic economic semantics - a Hollywood blockbuster feature that costs $50 million will sell on DVD for $10 at Best Buy, while the CD soundtrack to the exact same movie, which cost less than $500k to produce, will cost $15 (OK...now $12). I think there's some perverse pricing disparities that they need to address here.
The Samsung Yepp YP-55V is one of the RAM based MP3 players that's added some pretty cool features at a reasonable price. 256 MG of RAM...How many people still consider a RAM based audio player when shopping?"
You bet your ass someone will consider that for $160!
for both Ebay and Apple. Suppose Ebay doesn't yank the sale before Apple (or the RIAA) complains - this will bring forth a large wave of people hoping to cash in on the $0.99 -> $20.00 profiteering. And you can bet your hairy hide that a healthy percentage of these folks will surely "delete" their MP3 off of their hard drives (and "of course" that MP3 was actually downloaded from Apple).
Well...we're an engineering group developing products using a PowerPC processor, so we went and bought these used Macs from this middle school that was getting rid of them.
That's about the only use we can think of. Workstations are all Windows/Cygwin
Can he reverse engineer JoLo's booty?
Cornbread. And lots of it.
In response to Blackboard, the University of Washington has come up with its own suite of online tools, free for use by faculty, students, and staff. While not as fully integrated as Blackboard, it is fully online and the developers are absolutely anal about having every single thing work from IE to Mozilla to Lynx on PC, Mac, and Linux. When I worked there, we had visiting delegations from MIT and Stanford coming personally to ask how the hell we did it with just a few developers and undergrads.
...encouraging the unemployed to take up freelance technical support...
Don't most geeks already do freelance tech support for friends/family/friends-with-benefits/ungrateful people?
Earn money. Enjoy your job. Work within the law. Choose any two.
BYOB! Is that Bring Your Own Bash_shell, or Bring Your Own Bandwidth?
It's true that a majority of graduate/doc/post-doc research funding is given to foreign nationals. However, the majority of US patents and inventions are also made by the same individuals, benefitting American companies and/or the military.
Other than the shipping costs that others have already mentioned, it was pretty damn hard to sell foreign cars in the US in the late 70's and 80's, if you remember. In the 80's, old folks with money will have either a Cadillac or a Buick, but will not be caught dead in a Japanese luxury car. Now that Honda and Toyota have done their aggressive campaigning of advertising their "American cars," you now see 80-year-olds in Wichita happily driving Accords and Camrys.
But I thought most American programmers do their most productive work at 3 in the morning!
If you can't feed, clothe, and shelter 2 people in America with $70,000 per year, you've got some issues with your financial situation (especially in the midwest).
Even though it didn't take too much to do it, I doubt Edward Furlong would have the right mix of pathos and maturity in his delivery to pull off what is needed here - John Connor is now washed up, having given up his supposed "destiny," sort of like a spiraling downwards alcoholic.
Although he did show much promise in American History X alongisde Edward Norton. But I heard he was too much of a cokehead to do anything worthwhile anymore.
Wait, but eventually the 61st Amendment will be past, allowing Schwarzenegger to become President of the US, and thereby leading to the construction of the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library and allowing Taco Bell to win the Restaurant Franchise Wars.
Well, it's kinda hard to access your CD-Rs and 120GB hard drive archives in prison.
Hence the online storage as a prize.
IANAL, and someone probably brought it up already, but since spam-mail filtering and pork/meat-like products manufacturing are two separate, non-related industries, isn't the trademarking a mutually used word irrelevant? For example, McDonald's wouldn't be able to sue if some guy in Akron decided to open a McDonald's Happy Land of Lingerie.
I had one of these when I was young.
It's actually not a shady machine that pirates Nintendo gamez. Nintendo actually made a machine that runs 3.5" floppies (they're not exactly 3.5" computer floppies, but close), and also licensed them to be manufactured by other companies (or at least I think it was a proper license). Anyway, these machines were only sold in Asia, AFAIK.
To answer your earlier question, somehow, the OS will tell you to flip the disk to the other side (or insert a 2nd disk) when it gets to the point in the code where it ends abruptly (or maybe the copying program would be smart enough to insert some disk-swapping notify bit to do that). Anyway, I ended up selling mine (around the time SNES/Genesis was big) with 150 "questionable" games for $50 to a mom-n-pop's video game store (before there were Software Etc's and Babbage's)