Now that this problem is fundamentaly solved (as in 80% of people just use a word processor to write letters and a spreadsheet to add columns), this can be addressed as well.
And of course video edition is not importan in multiple situations, but the Linux denialists will always find knicks in the shinny armour...
It is precisely because you are a bunch of lazy gluttons that you are in a competitive disadvantage.
No offense, but the salary you need to buy all that extra food that makes you too fat is against you, it makes you more expensive.
And that includes the car (other countries use cheaper means of transport: vespas, bikes, buses, burros), all the latest and greatest gadgets, expensive housing, etc, etc.
You need to review your lifestyle choices in order to reduce your salary pretensions and make you more competitive.
A job has no labels, it is an economical relationship, if you decide to attach political significance to something of an economic nature feel free, but id does not work.
So many of you talk like if the US is becoming a disaster zone.
You are richer than your parents and grand parents in relative terms, you have the lowest level of unemployment for a couple of generations or more.
But here we are, everytime that some jobs (that nobody wants to do in the US mind you, unless you thing that network monitoring is a glamorous job) move elsewhere we always have enough prophets of Doom.
If you are really innovating, your only reward should be to have the advantage to reach a market first. Once your thing is out in the open the game is on and anybody should be able to copy it.
If the contraption is really innovative, then replication should be non trivial, thus permitting the inventor to benefit for longer or to literally sell the invention.
If the contraption is a piece of crap (Amazon: I am looking at your one-click nonsense) then everybody and his dog will copy it because it would be too obvious.
Probe me wrong, why do we need patents?
Oh wait, to give jobs to the bureaucracy that leeches from the system. My bad....
The Beattles experimented with avant guard techniques, were conversant with modern composing methods of their times, investigated and used Estern music influences, and in general demonstrated that they were musicians through and through. The Stones remained pretty much where they started, and as for The Animals, you surely are joking.
I know a lot of people that are bored by Mozart, Beethoven or even Stravinsky (for bunnies sakes, Stravinsky) but that reflects badly in the inculture of the speaker, not in the worthiness of the artist.
The R&D is fine, the problem is that hardware comoditazion is making innovative companies redundant since the same problems can be tackled by brute force and not elegant design.
The point is not if there have been bad movies before.
The point is that movies based on computer games engross that shameful tradition (to do cheap things, exploiting the bad taste of the populace is shameful, no matter how you try to paint it).
When Spain and Portugal joined the EU, the cries of panic from the workers (and populists, xenophobes and all such distinguished ilk) in richer countries (Germany and France back then) was immediate.
The rich countries were going to be swamped, the jobs were going to be gone, disaster could not be averted.
20 years later Spain and Portugal are prosperous countries, France and Germany are struggling.
But you will find impossible to find any sane economist of politician that would blame Portuguese or Spanish immigration for the problems of France and Germany.
Most likely you will find that the protectionist policies of France and Germany combined with a rigid job market are to blame. Most serious imigration studies (i.e. not sponsored by Neonazis) say that immigration has a positive net effect in the society that receives the immigrants.
You say that unskilled Mexicans take US jobs. Well, if my unskilled compatriots can take jobs that US people could be doing then you should question how bad your education system is, since unskilled people can take those jobs (you guys have an average of High School education or thereabouts. If we can beat you with 6 or 8 years less of education, either we are tremendsouly clever or you are brain dead. Most likely we are not competing for the same jobs).
Mexicans take the jobs that nobody else wants (cleaners, dish washers, gardeners, cotton or tomato pickers, etc) filling inneficiencies in the US economic system (if the Mexicans did not do those jobs, who would Mr Sherlock?)
And Mexicans do it gladly expecting little or nothing in return. Until now at least, we are a patient bunch. We demand nothing for long, but once we get tired we get down to bussiness to get what is rightly ours.
Mexicans (and other poor immigrants) are not taking skilled or semiskilled jobs, they are taking the jobs they can do (unskilled ones), so square this circle for me Sherlock:
-Who would do the jobs Mexicans are doing now? -How would you remove 10 million or more people doing productive work? -Who will be rushing to cover those positions once the Mexicans were stopped or gone?
I really wish that the US goverment and racists and xenophobes that circle them were really serious about building that 2000km wall in the Rio Bravo.
Nothing would provide me more pleasure than them retreating once the people doing productive work in the US, the families that otherwise would not have a clean house or a nice nanny looking after their children and in general the people benefitting from Mexicans' work in the US, once these people gave the xenophobes a reality check.
But the US government is not stupid. They know that by pretending to be though without actually doing anything they get to have their cake and eat it: on the one hand they placate the xenophobes, on the other hand they get fresh workers (never mind if a few hundred die while crossing the border every year) badly needed by the US economy (hint Sherlock: if there were no jobs in the US Mexicans will not go there. We are badly treated and insulted in the US, it is the need that make us go there).
Finally, before you blame the Mexican goverment for not taking care of its citizens, I just want to remind you that when we elected our first democratic leader your embassador backed a murderous general that executed it. That was followed by 70 or so years of a "perfect dictatorship" as one of the greatest writers in Latinamerica put it.
Your country keeps our countries poor, and reaps the cheap labour, pretending to be offended by the "invassion" in the process. A real work of evil genius.
By popularizing these software modems (which is what they are) the layer that does all the work is no longer independent of the OS and becomes part of it, this means that you need a full different implementation of this layer for each OS under which the modem may work.
The WInmodem term is not gratuitious. MS tried, and keeps trying, to gain complete control of how devices connect to your computer. They force manufacturers to abandon well known standards (normal hardware modems can be connected pretty much to any device with an RS232 serial port) in order to ensure the dominance of their inferior, insecure OSes.
The resourcefulness of the FLOSS community and sheer luck (the modem is becoming irrelevant thanks to broadband, which thankfully uses open networking standards) has stopped MS on their tracks.
They tried this shit with modems and printers, and now with the excuse of copyright protection will try again with video cards and displays, audio cards and speakers, and with their Orwellian secure computing iniciative.
But no, you see no problem with that, we bloody paranoids that think MS is the antichrist out of sheer lunacy...
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I studied all those topics in the best university in Latinamerica.
I have been gainfully employed for 15 years, working in many countries in 3 different continents.
The solid theorethical foundations I acquired give me an understanding that people trying to learn AJAX out of context will never achieve.
Big companies nowadays will never allow such access. It is simply suicidal.
Now that this problem is fundamentaly solved (as in 80% of people just use a word processor to write letters and a spreadsheet to add columns), this can be addressed as well.
And of course video edition is not importan in multiple situations, but the Linux denialists will always find knicks in the shinny armour...
It is precisely because you are a bunch of lazy gluttons that you are in a competitive disadvantage.
No offense, but the salary you need to buy all that extra food that makes you too fat is against you, it makes you more expensive.
And that includes the car (other countries use cheaper means of transport: vespas, bikes, buses, burros), all the latest and greatest gadgets, expensive housing, etc, etc.
You need to review your lifestyle choices in order to reduce your salary pretensions and make you more competitive.
There is not such a thing.
A job has no labels, it is an economical relationship, if you decide to attach political significance to something of an economic nature feel free, but id does not work.
So many of you talk like if the US is becoming a disaster zone.
You are richer than your parents and grand parents in relative terms, you have the lowest level of unemployment for a couple of generations or more.
But here we are, everytime that some jobs (that nobody wants to do in the US mind you, unless you thing that network monitoring is a glamorous job) move elsewhere we always have enough prophets of Doom.
They may have your data, you have their jobs.
As I see it the balance is quite even.
If you are really innovating, your only reward should be to have the advantage to reach a market first. Once your thing is out in the open the game is on and anybody should be able to copy it.
If the contraption is really innovative, then replication should be non trivial, thus permitting the inventor to benefit for longer or to literally sell the invention.
If the contraption is a piece of crap (Amazon: I am looking at your one-click nonsense) then everybody and his dog will copy it because it would be too obvious.
Probe me wrong, why do we need patents?
Oh wait, to give jobs to the bureaucracy that leeches from the system. My bad....
You walk with the herd: the herd is telling you where to go.
YOu walk agains the herd: ditto.
YOu ignore the herd: I supposse the same, isn't that ture genius?
You should read a bit of philosohpy, in a way every obejct in the UNiverse affects you behaviour (butterflies, hurricanes and all that).
So thanks for pointing the obvious.
And take longer for each session.
... and even fewer watch classic movies.
Well done matey.
Very few things leave a lasting impression as seeing for the first time the starships on screen back then.
Or the battle in the Death Star.
Call it nostalgia, but that cinematic experience did not exist before Star Wars.
All has been decided for them between MS and the computer manufacturers with the complicity of several governments.
What you are saying is complete nonsense.
The Beattles experimented with avant guard techniques, were conversant with modern composing methods of their times, investigated and used Estern music influences, and in general demonstrated that they were musicians through and through. The Stones remained pretty much where they started, and as for The Animals, you surely are joking.
I know a lot of people that are bored by Mozart, Beethoven or even Stravinsky (for bunnies sakes, Stravinsky) but that reflects badly in the inculture of the speaker, not in the worthiness of the artist.
My company called Malaysia and Mexico to make sure I had done what I was claiming on my CV.
Play the lying game at your own peril, bad reputation spreads like wild fire, and in some places the IT world is really small...
-Solaris 10.
-Java.
-Sparc.
-E20K/25K servers.
And so on.
The R&D is fine, the problem is that hardware comoditazion is making innovative companies redundant since the same problems can be tackled by brute force and not elegant design.
To tag the idea as stupid shows a complte ignorance about the harmful effects of batteries, specially when disposed in landfills.
Whoever put those tags deserves to live close to a landfill where these batteries would be freeely disposed.
The point is not if there have been bad movies before.
The point is that movies based on computer games engross that shameful tradition (to do cheap things, exploiting the bad taste of the populace is shameful, no matter how you try to paint it).
Me uses vi to write CV.
Then unix2dos it (or whatever utility does the conversion).
Name the file "My CV.rtf"
Send it to the employment agencies.
I have been gainfully employed for many years and my CV has never been sent back.
The real bastards.
Who would have thought there would be such immoral people....
Not everybody can or want to be CEO of a company.
You make it appear like life is an unidimensional trip towards a CEO position somewhere.
Gldaly, you would be wrong.
.... that you book's facts were acturately checked?
With Wikipedia at least all the discussions that lead to the current form of an article are in the open for all to see.
When Spain and Portugal joined the EU, the cries of panic from the workers (and populists, xenophobes and all such distinguished ilk) in richer countries (Germany and France back then) was immediate.
The rich countries were going to be swamped, the jobs were going to be gone, disaster could not be averted.
20 years later Spain and Portugal are prosperous countries, France and Germany are struggling.
But you will find impossible to find any sane economist of politician that would blame Portuguese or Spanish immigration for the problems of France and Germany.
Most likely you will find that the protectionist policies of France and Germany combined with a rigid job market are to blame. Most serious imigration studies (i.e. not sponsored by Neonazis) say that immigration has a positive net effect in the society that receives the immigrants.
You say that unskilled Mexicans take US jobs. Well, if my unskilled compatriots can take jobs that US people could be doing then you should question how bad your education system is, since unskilled people can take those jobs (you guys have an average of High School education or thereabouts. If we can beat you with 6 or 8 years less of education, either we are tremendsouly clever or you are brain dead. Most likely we are not competing for the same jobs).
Mexicans take the jobs that nobody else wants (cleaners, dish washers, gardeners, cotton or tomato pickers, etc) filling inneficiencies in the US economic system (if the Mexicans did not do those jobs, who would Mr Sherlock?)
And Mexicans do it gladly expecting little or nothing in return. Until now at least, we are a patient bunch. We demand nothing for long, but once we get tired we get down to bussiness to get what is rightly ours.
Mexicans (and other poor immigrants) are not taking skilled or semiskilled jobs, they are taking the jobs they can do (unskilled ones), so square this circle for me Sherlock:
-Who would do the jobs Mexicans are doing now?
-How would you remove 10 million or more people doing productive work?
-Who will be rushing to cover those positions once the Mexicans were stopped or gone?
I really wish that the US goverment and racists and xenophobes that circle them were really serious about building that 2000km wall in the Rio Bravo.
Nothing would provide me more pleasure than them retreating once the people doing productive work in the US, the families that otherwise would not have a clean house or a nice nanny looking after their children and in general the people benefitting from Mexicans' work in the US, once these people gave the xenophobes a reality check.
But the US government is not stupid. They know that by pretending to be though without actually doing anything they get to have their cake and eat it: on the one hand they placate the xenophobes, on the other hand they get fresh workers (never mind if a few hundred die while crossing the border every year) badly needed by the US economy (hint Sherlock: if there were no jobs in the US Mexicans will not go there. We are badly treated and insulted in the US, it is the need that make us go there).
Finally, before you blame the Mexican goverment for not taking care of its citizens, I just want to remind you that when we elected our first democratic leader your embassador backed a murderous general that executed it. That was followed by 70 or so years of a "perfect dictatorship" as one of the greatest writers in Latinamerica put it.
Your country keeps our countries poor, and reaps the cheap labour, pretending to be offended by the "invassion" in the process. A real work of evil genius.
Including Wireless networking using the embedded wireless antenna.
Keyboard recognized, touch pad, sound works also, graphics are fine.
PCcards are recognized and work.
USB support work as expected (I connect my Ipod there).
Printing is fine.
So pray tell us Sherlock, what the heck are you talking about?
By popularizing these software modems (which is what they are) the layer that does all the work is no longer independent of the OS and becomes part of it, this means that you need a full different implementation of this layer for each OS under which the modem may work.
The WInmodem term is not gratuitious. MS tried, and keeps trying, to gain complete control of how devices connect to your computer. They force manufacturers to abandon well known standards (normal hardware modems can be connected pretty much to any device with an RS232 serial port) in order to ensure the dominance of their inferior, insecure OSes.
The resourcefulness of the FLOSS community and sheer luck (the modem is becoming irrelevant thanks to broadband, which thankfully uses open networking standards) has stopped MS on their tracks.
They tried this shit with modems and printers, and now with the excuse of copyright protection will try again with video cards and displays, audio cards and speakers, and with their Orwellian secure computing iniciative.
But no, you see no problem with that, we bloody paranoids that think MS is the antichrist out of sheer lunacy...