That is why they are in so much trouble. If they had not signed (like Israel, India or Pakistan) the UN could do nothing about it (the US can and maybe will, but at least it has the comfort of UN backup so far).
Many countries signed this treaty stating that they will use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only.
Your problem with paleontologists is that you don't understand how science works. In many scientific fields you have to especulate in order to do any useful work.
And wholeheartedily concur with the poster you are dsimissing.
In civilized societies more and more people are receiving the logical conclusssion about the logical falacies associated with religions and most of theology.
Our knowledge about the inexistence of any deity is reaching the stage in which it is no longer necessary to go and read all those books you are mentioning.
We do not read Galileo, Copernicus and Keppler because we know it has been done to dead by others before and most people know the Earth is not the center of the Universe and that it is not flat without refering directly to the people that first discovered this.
There will be one day when religious people will be put in their right place amongst evolution deniers and flat earth apologists (there are still some in such nice countries as Sauid Arabia).
I HAVE 300000 SONGS ON MY IPOD! AM I NOT COOOOOOL!?
How many books can you read at the same time? One.
How many books you really need at any given time? 5? 10? 20? Certainly not 3500.
I stick to the advice of one of the greatest wrtiers of all times. When Gabriel Garcia Marquez was asked what he does with books after reading him, he said he just bins them.
That is it. You need to consult something? Go to the library.
You guys in the US do not realize how some of your companies are viewed accross the pond.
Mc Donalds, Starbucks, even Ford, have a special place in the heart of many Europeans as examples of pigopolists that trample with the notion of Europeaness.
If MS wants to become itself the only target of legitimate and histerical antiUSianism in Europe, well, they can be our guests.
To confront the EU while being basically breaking the law would be the most monumentally stupid thing in the hisory of capitalism. It would become a case study of how to shoot yourself in the foot, no, head.
Many multinational corps have global license agreements with MS.
If you think they will allow MS stop supporting their applications in their first or second most profitable market (the EU) without a single lawyer raising an eyebrow, then you are more deluded than Ballmer while in a throwing chair hissy fit.
Most people that matter in the IT bussiness tolerate MS, but believe me, very few have any kind thing to say about the company. If MS wants to give them a good excuse to dump their software (like if they were not many) well, they can be my guest, I'll be the first one to hit the OK button in the format stage when installing Red Hat on my PC.
A company can declare itself a for profit organization only to differentiate itself from other kind of organizations for a myriad of different reasons.
The goal of the company may not necessarily be to make a profit, but it may be convenient to define itself as capable of doing so.
If "Apu" makes things in a more efficent (and thus more likely cheaper) way, then keeping Jue Consumer on his now inneficient job is hurting all the other Joes and Janes that are forced to pay inflated prices in order to keep Joe Consumer on his job.
By hiring "Apu" via outsourcing you are liberating the salary of Joe Consumer in the US economy in order to be allocated in a more productive fashion and also Apu becomes a potential costumer.
Money is allocated in a more efficient manner in the US economy to the bussinesses where is more profitable to invest.
If you don't want to outsource, you will have huge immigration pressures. Or you will become poor (because you will be producing goods more inneficiently than others). Inneficiency brings unemployment, there are enough examples in recent world history for that to be considered an undisputed fact.
US standards of life are bettter than ever, real salaries, income per capita, unemployment are at an all time high.
If you have problems it is because your are oil junkies and can't put your Federal Goverment's credit card down. But if you have a war to finance, you clearly have to go deeply into debt to ensure you can kill all those uaccounted Iraqi civilians.
According to loonies like you the US system is better to China's because you have more freedom to elect your representatives.
Oh wait, but only as long as they come from the two official parties.
What will you do, label any people daring to support other parties traitors? Like the Communists when somebody does not support the Communist party?
Oh wait, you pretty much did just that.
Guys, you keep creeping towards a totalitarian system and you are falling for it head, toe and sinker, and prod and happy for it.
The day the Republicans and the Democrats announce a goverment of National Unity (you think is unlikely? Just see how politicians and family members of the political elite jump from one side to the other) you will miss the shy attempts to have more parties that matter in US politics.
What did we have 10 years ago that was usable, free and Free?
Pretty much nothing.
So now we have something that allegedly is 10 years behind (and this, taking the MS person's word for it, I think he is not the most inidcated person to offer impartial advice about Office suites, I hasten to add).
Let him laugh, we know what is the road to profit starting from here.
It feels great in your hands, the controls are all right, the screen is crisp and bright, the battery life is excellent.
And it is probing extremely hackable.
Hacking means love Sony. I wish somebody will drill this mantra on the numb skulls of the Sony executives: hacking is love.
People will only go to the pains of hacking something they really care about. Sony got the PS2, now the PSP and before the now defunct Aibo.
And what do they do? They fight with all their might the love of their most comited costumers.
With the help of the hackers the PSP could become the defacto standard in hand held computing. It has all the ingredients to become the hacking platform of choice. If Sony had half a clue they would be helping hackers to hack, thus nurturing the ecosystem in which people would want to have more PSPs.
But no. They frantically release new firmware to block hackers, firmware that tries to lock out hackers from their onw devices and that sooner rather than later is defeated.
Sony could reap the benefits for free: the Web browser included with the machine is crap, the input mechanism is horrendous. Hacker could come with solutions for which Sony would have to pay nothing but that would improve the experience using the platform and thus generating more demand. The capabilities of the machine to play licensed games would not be diminished an iota.
But no, Sony is quite a stunch Japanese company and they are fond of ancient traditions like sepuku or harakiri.
I work in a big company. They don't get much bigger.
Yes, we have a myriad of paper work to fill, auditors to please, red tape to overcome.
But I worked in a University and in a research Insitute as well as systems administrator.
What you are saying is pure ballooney.
Where I work we are exposed to most modern technologies in the IT field.
We work with humble machines like old Sun workstations to the bigest and baddest machines that they are producing from non supported versions of Solaris to Solaris 10. We get a direct line with people *writting* Solaris to fix our problems.
Linux then? What about Red Hat. We are introducing massive amounts of Linux machines including technologies that one would associate only with Google. The machines we use in the x86 arena are many and varied, using Linux, and several incarnations of WIndows.
We use Java, C, C++, C#, Perl, you name it.
And I could carry on.
From a technological point of view my jobs in the educational sector did not even touch the borders of what is done in any company with a biggish infrastructure.
For bunnies sakes, in the eductaional sector we screwed up guys doing calculations that lasted several days because we could not afford fault tolerant systems (and when I say system here I am not refering to a computer). In the private sector it is literally mandatory to design fault tolerance into any systems you make operational. The technical challenges are immensily more complicated for the simple fact that there is more money at stake in the private sector.
I am sure there are very good jobs out there in the educational sector, but I can bet my house against a dime that most guys that started in the educational sector will find hard to move to the private sector because their skill will be more streteched, while the move the other way around tends to be immmensily easier because people in the private sector learn many varied skills (including management and people skills, not often used much in the educational environment).
It will come as a surprise to many USians and a few Brits, they believe that because they go to a hotel in a beach resort and people speak ENglish for them there, that surely all the populace of the place visited is busy learning English.
Are you visiting Latinamerica? Better your Spanish is up to scratch.
Do you intend to travel to China? Good. YOu better speak some Mandarin chinese.
Are you visitng an East Asian country? Arabic is your language of choice.
Do you like vodka? Learn Russian.
You English speaking people are so paid of of yoursleves that truly believe ENglish is a "lingua franca". It certainly is an important language, but is not a carte blanche to communicate with everybody.
As for Latin being used as a means of social diferentiaion, only somebody with a profound igonrance of Roman and Religious history could do such utterance.
As for English adding more words to its vocabulary, well, yeah sure, whatever. Just because you understand what karate, fiesta or kindergarten means that does not mean this words are part of the English language.
English speakers bascially claim that any word ever uttered in an English context becomes part of the language.
I supported scientists of serious high caliber. If there was a Nobel Prize on their field of expertise (Geophysics), they would have been candidates or winners.
Well, this people had a hard time understanding the difference between a serial conection and an ethernet one for example. Or why they could not get stuff displayed back on their computers without an X server running.
ANd why should they? But to assume they are clever enough to do computing safely and securely is a big jump of faith.
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That is why they are in so much trouble. If they had not signed (like Israel, India or Pakistan) the UN could do nothing about it (the US can and maybe will, but at least it has the comfort of UN backup so far).
Many countries signed this treaty stating that they will use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only.
Your Discovery Channel?
Your problem with paleontologists is that you don't understand how science works. In many scientific fields you have to especulate in order to do any useful work.
You are very unlikely to find fossils of 20 or 30 panthers in one place simply because they don't gather in such quantities.
You are more likely to find remains of lions in groups if a catastrophy (volcano eruption, sudden flood) catches them all up.
From this you can make some informed guesses.
Then you can analyze the relative size of the different areas, thus concluding wich senses were more developped.
What is your problem with that?
:-P
At least this is an original discovery.
Investigate the history of poinsettia o see how some USians just steal the names of things they did not discovered themselves
If your "big corporation" is full of prgramming cowboys you can't extrapolate that to all the other big corporations.
There are many corporations that document properly their programms, including detailed API information.
I would expect thisto be the case in a software development company like MS.
And wholeheartedily concur with the poster you are dsimissing.
In civilized societies more and more people are receiving the logical conclusssion about the logical falacies associated with religions and most of theology.
Our knowledge about the inexistence of any deity is reaching the stage in which it is no longer necessary to go and read all those books you are mentioning.
We do not read Galileo, Copernicus and Keppler because we know it has been done to dead by others before and most people know the Earth is not the center of the Universe and that it is not flat without refering directly to the people that first discovered this.
There will be one day when religious people will be put in their right place amongst evolution deniers and flat earth apologists (there are still some in such nice countries as Sauid Arabia).
I HAVE 300000 SONGS ON MY IPOD! AM I NOT COOOOOOL!?
How many books can you read at the same time? One.
How many books you really need at any given time? 5? 10? 20? Certainly not 3500.
I stick to the advice of one of the greatest wrtiers of all times. When Gabriel Garcia Marquez was asked what he does with books after reading him, he said he just bins them.
That is it. You need to consult something? Go to the library.
You guys in the US do not realize how some of your companies are viewed accross the pond.
Mc Donalds, Starbucks, even Ford, have a special place in the heart of many Europeans as examples of pigopolists that trample with the notion of Europeaness.
If MS wants to become itself the only target of legitimate and histerical antiUSianism in Europe, well, they can be our guests.
To confront the EU while being basically breaking the law would be the most monumentally stupid thing in the hisory of capitalism. It would become a case study of how to shoot yourself in the foot, no, head.
Many multinational corps have global license agreements with MS.
If you think they will allow MS stop supporting their applications in their first or second most profitable market (the EU) without a single lawyer raising an eyebrow, then you are more deluded than Ballmer while in a throwing chair hissy fit.
Most people that matter in the IT bussiness tolerate MS, but believe me, very few have any kind thing to say about the company. If MS wants to give them a good excuse to dump their software (like if they were not many) well, they can be my guest, I'll be the first one to hit the OK button in the format stage when installing Red Hat on my PC.
A company can declare itself a for profit organization only to differentiate itself from other kind of organizations for a myriad of different reasons.
The goal of the company may not necessarily be to make a profit, but it may be convenient to define itself as capable of doing so.
If "Apu" makes things in a more efficent (and thus more likely cheaper) way, then keeping Jue Consumer on his now inneficient job is hurting all the other Joes and Janes that are forced to pay inflated prices in order to keep Joe Consumer on his job.
By hiring "Apu" via outsourcing you are liberating the salary of Joe Consumer in the US economy in order to be allocated in a more productive fashion and also Apu becomes a potential costumer.
Money is allocated in a more efficient manner in the US economy to the bussinesses where is more profitable to invest.
If you don't want to outsource, you will have huge immigration pressures. Or you will become poor (because you will be producing goods more inneficiently than others). Inneficiency brings unemployment, there are enough examples in recent world history for that to be considered an undisputed fact.
US standards of life are bettter than ever, real salaries, income per capita, unemployment are at an all time high.
If you have problems it is because your are oil junkies and can't put your Federal Goverment's credit card down. But if you have a war to finance, you clearly have to go deeply into debt to ensure you can kill all those uaccounted Iraqi civilians.
According to loonies like you the US system is better to China's because you have more freedom to elect your representatives.
Oh wait, but only as long as they come from the two official parties.
What will you do, label any people daring to support other parties traitors? Like the Communists when somebody does not support the Communist party?
Oh wait, you pretty much did just that.
Guys, you keep creeping towards a totalitarian system and you are falling for it head, toe and sinker, and prod and happy for it.
The day the Republicans and the Democrats announce a goverment of National Unity (you think is unlikely? Just see how politicians and family members of the political elite jump from one side to the other) you will miss the shy attempts to have more parties that matter in US politics.
What did we have 10 years ago that was usable, free and Free?
Pretty much nothing.
So now we have something that allegedly is 10 years behind (and this, taking the MS person's word for it, I think he is not the most inidcated person to offer impartial advice about Office suites, I hasten to add).
Let him laugh, we know what is the road to profit starting from here.
You should have a file (real physical one or a document in your computer, or both) documenting the relationship with a client.
Any useful information that shows up on an email should be incorporated in the file.
emails are the less efficient way to keep the corporate culture alive, specially if your best search tool is Outlooks' find facility.
Have you held the PSP? it is a thing of beauty.
It feels great in your hands, the controls are all right, the screen is crisp and bright, the battery life is excellent.
And it is probing extremely hackable.
Hacking means love Sony. I wish somebody will drill this mantra on the numb skulls of the Sony executives: hacking is love.
People will only go to the pains of hacking something they really care about. Sony got the PS2, now the PSP and before the now defunct Aibo.
And what do they do? They fight with all their might the love of their most comited costumers.
With the help of the hackers the PSP could become the defacto standard in hand held computing. It has all the ingredients to become the hacking platform of choice. If Sony had half a clue they would be helping hackers to hack, thus nurturing the ecosystem in which people would want to have more PSPs.
But no. They frantically release new firmware to block hackers, firmware that tries to lock out hackers from their onw devices and that sooner rather than later is defeated.
Sony could reap the benefits for free: the Web browser included with the machine is crap, the input mechanism is horrendous. Hacker could come with solutions for which Sony would have to pay nothing but that would improve the experience using the platform and thus generating more demand. The capabilities of the machine to play licensed games would not be diminished an iota.
But no, Sony is quite a stunch Japanese company and they are fond of ancient traditions like sepuku or harakiri.
I work in a big company. They don't get much bigger.
Yes, we have a myriad of paper work to fill, auditors to please, red tape to overcome.
But I worked in a University and in a research Insitute as well as systems administrator.
What you are saying is pure ballooney.
Where I work we are exposed to most modern technologies in the IT field.
We work with humble machines like old Sun workstations to the bigest and baddest machines that they are producing from non supported versions of Solaris to Solaris 10. We get a direct line with people *writting* Solaris to fix our problems.
Linux then? What about Red Hat. We are introducing massive amounts of Linux machines including technologies that one would associate only with Google. The machines we use in the x86 arena are many and varied, using Linux, and several incarnations of WIndows.
We use Java, C, C++, C#, Perl, you name it.
And I could carry on.
From a technological point of view my jobs in the educational sector did not even touch the borders of what is done in any company with a biggish infrastructure.
For bunnies sakes, in the eductaional sector we screwed up guys doing calculations that lasted several days because we could not afford fault tolerant systems (and when I say system here I am not refering to a computer). In the private sector it is literally mandatory to design fault tolerance into any systems you make operational. The technical challenges are immensily more complicated for the simple fact that there is more money at stake in the private sector.
I am sure there are very good jobs out there in the educational sector, but I can bet my house against a dime that most guys that started in the educational sector will find hard to move to the private sector because their skill will be more streteched, while the move the other way around tends to be immmensily easier because people in the private sector learn many varied skills (including management and people skills, not often used much in the educational environment).
The BBC shows no ads since it is publicly founded with a stealth tax on households with TV sets in the UK.
English is not the only international language.
It will come as a surprise to many USians and a few Brits, they believe that because they go to a hotel in a beach resort and people speak ENglish for them there, that surely all the populace of the place visited is busy learning English.
Are you visiting Latinamerica? Better your Spanish is up to scratch.
Do you intend to travel to China? Good. YOu better speak some Mandarin chinese.
Are you visitng an East Asian country? Arabic is your language of choice.
Do you like vodka? Learn Russian.
You English speaking people are so paid of of yoursleves that truly believe ENglish is a "lingua franca". It certainly is an important language, but is not a carte blanche to communicate with everybody.
As for Latin being used as a means of social diferentiaion, only somebody with a profound igonrance of Roman and Religious history could do such utterance.
As for English adding more words to its vocabulary, well, yeah sure, whatever. Just because you understand what karate, fiesta or kindergarten means that does not mean this words are part of the English language.
English speakers bascially claim that any word ever uttered in an English context becomes part of the language.
Well, gee, really, if you say so...
Public education goes as far back to the Greeks.
Plato, Aristotle? Do they ring any bells?
No? They should.
Prussia? Yeah sure man, and the black choppers are out to get us.
I supported scientists of serious high caliber. If there was a Nobel Prize on their field of expertise (Geophysics), they would have been candidates or winners.
Well, this people had a hard time understanding the difference between a serial conection and an ethernet one for example. Or why they could not get stuff displayed back on their computers without an X server running.
ANd why should they? But to assume they are clever enough to do computing safely and securely is a big jump of faith.
There are many ways to take something seriously.
They may not match yours.
.... what else should they assume?
There is no toehr animal ever recorded to make complex tools in the las few thusends of years (I would say ever).
Google it.
If that is not evil, thend I don't know what is.
And if you think the MS tax is not evil, then I want to know your definition of evil.