They claim to boot from USB (I was reading their manual and the BIOS is supossed to boot from USB disks, a flash memory key should appear as nothing but a disk).
I may be worth getting in touch with them to explore this.
1.- The CEO's becoming rich will pay more taxes, and so will do the shareholders that obtain higer dividends or whose shares climb as a consequence of the savings made.
2.- The standard of living in the US is artificially high and it is artificially low in India or China (the first as a consequence of colonialism and then protectionism, the second as a consequence of feudalism and then communism). There is no way in which the Western world can remain extremely rich while half the world population in these two countries remains too poor. We have two options: we either help India and China have a soft landing in capitalism by means of allowing competition (no matter how one sided is on their favour) or we live to regret the consequences. The standard of living in the US *has* to decrease, that means all those wasteful SUVs, money wasted in trash entertainment, excesive consumerism, will be curbed. People in rich nations will have to curb their appetite for superflous goods, refocus and become more responisble with credit, and that way will be able to accept lower salaries (that by no means will make them serfs as you ridicuosly claim) in order to become competitive again. When people in the US are earning 7 or 8 times more for the same work there is no way to stop the evening out once some of the constraints that allow economic pressures to work are lessened by technology (communications mainly).
Something that normaly escapes protectionist people is how by protecting "national jobs", they punish the consumer in their own country. When companies save money by outsourcing, the savings are passed to the consumer. The steel controversy stirred by Mr Populist Bush showed that nicely.
3.-Although there is a widening between the very rich and the rest of us, in average people live better everywhere where stable goverments commited to free markets are in power, it is ironic that the same people that cry for local jobs being shipped abroad very often also refuse to allow to tax the rich to allow for some basic redistribution of income by means of social projects.
In rich countries particularly, the major causes of decease and mortality are related to excess, consumerism , overconsumption and hedonism (traffic accidents, obesity related problems, smoking, AIDS) from the point of view of poorer countries one just can't see how it is that the level of life is worsening on rich countries.
Why would somebody wanting to hut SCO woule leave open all kind of backdors traditionally associated to spammers' tactics?
This is clearly and spammer attempt at being funny.
And in any case, you don't know who did this, neither does the individual writing for the BBC, thus any theory is nothing but wild, unfounded speculation and it should be clearly marked as such.
He approached a journalist, divulged his opinion contrary to what his bosses were doing, and he expected they will not identify him (the BBC did not leak his name you know), and knowing how they act, he expected to keep his anonimity?
Then, when he couldn't take the heat, he commited suicide.
.... are the realm of informal conversations, like the ones taking place on this site.
They don't have place in a journalistic institution like the BBC, if they calim something they have to support if with facts or limit themsleves to report any facts currently known.
It is not up to a derided "journalist" to hide behind the BBC's good name in order to air is wild, unsubstantiated musings.
It really surprises me that an Indian woudl consider self reliance an antifote to became like Mexico or Colombia (???) when oit comes to outsourcing.
Mexico had what we used to call a "mixed economy" in which local privately owned companies always existed, but they were protected from foreign competition (they were local companies after all, they should be protected, right?).
The only thing that happened is that those companies never had an incentive to compete and improve their production processes.
When competition became unavoidable many industries collapsed (toy industry, sugar, coffee) and funnily enough what came to the rescue was manufacturing of goods outsourced from other places.
The standard of living in Mexico raised as a consequence, as it has raised in any country that opens to foreign investment, to do the "cheap jobs" (Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia) amd international competition.
Isolationism and self reliance were tried, do not work, they should be dismissied as the snake oil they are for long economic, sustainable success.
India needs help with construction, sanitation, education, etc.
Companies providing stuff in those field may prosper. And also leisure, do not forget leisure. The more affluent they become, the more time they will have for leisure.
People in the US will intially become unemployed. Some, not all of you, don't be silly.
That means less purchasing power, economic slowdown, trade deficit.
Salaries by necessity go lower. Your currency devalues.
Then there is a point in which you become cheap enough to be worth to invest again in the US.
Painful? Yes, but frankly some evening out is necessary when you realize how much overpaid people in western countries are.
The wasteful SUVs, gadgetery, cheap air travel, cheap credit can't be artificially provided, you will not starve but will need to become more sensible about your spending habits, which is a good think in my book, since that will allow you to take a lower salary and thus become more competitive in the global market.
It is not going to be fun, but frankly better understand the situation and prepare for it that moan and advocate for supporting inneficient industries and companies only because they are base in your own country.
Funnily enough economies will revolve around your local community.
Also small companies (which make most of the economic output in most countries) can't outsource due to technical or economical constraints. Contracting for them will be the future of IT people wishing to remain in the field.
And eventually all should even out, so the best people in the IT field (either in India, China, SouthAfrica or the US) will do the work since salaries would be in a similar level.
You obviously know nothing about software design in which whole components are treated as building blocks of a Lego set.
Most Western programmers would like to think they are artists or craftsmen, the problem is that software development more and more requires the equivalent of bricklaying and plumbing skills: identify the problem and then apply a known pattern that solves that problem.
Analog watches prevail because the user interface is better
Surely you may have som UI studies to back that one up?
Of course not, you prefer it and that is fine, but do not claim things that are patently unproven.
Just at looking which kind of watch is sold the most I think the market has spoken, analog watches have found their last refuge in the uppermarket where snobbery is the only obviuous reason people choose to still buy them.
2.- What is very cold? Why it should be harder to read?
3.- Change your store, they are obviously lousy.
4.- If you are unfortunate that your 2 or 3 year long lasting battery dies at you in Timbuctu, then go to the local market and buy a cheapo digital watch. Oh wait, they may have the battery there!
5.- Yeah, and lets hope you don't need any accuracy.
.... they themselves mention that you don't need the analog watch, which can be replaced by a drawing with the time infered from your trusty, vastly superior, digital watch.
.... onw would think that you can set it by default to 60 seconds.
I am a qualified first aid person and the watch type does not even come into the pciture when taking the pulse of somebody, that is some kind of oddity that they are obviously teaching in schools (which is unsurprising since schools are conservative places where the obvious advantages of newer technology take some time to filter down).
And most digital watches have a feature to count down and then sound an alarm, which seems perfect to fully coincentrate in those pulses while stopping looking at the watch.
I have read some of these and I always find them sorely lacking, they are the nerd equivalent of Bridget Jones books for single,late 20s early 30s females.
Has any SciFi writer ever gained a prize or being recognized outside the niche cabal of SciFi?
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Which cases?
A few hundred lines of #include declarations in code that was not in the original code, whinny reclamations of the kind "IBM eat my cheese".
I think your interpretation of the word "stronger" is bizarre to say the least.
.... that extreme Thatcherite way of thinking has been thoroughly descredited and thrown in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
No serious politicial party would subscribe to such reidiculous statement.
They claim to boot from USB (I was reading their manual and the BIOS is supossed to boot from USB disks, a flash memory key should appear as nothing but a disk).
I may be worth getting in touch with them to explore this.
1.- The CEO's becoming rich will pay more taxes, and so will do the shareholders that obtain higer dividends or whose shares climb as a consequence of the savings made.
2.- The standard of living in the US is artificially high and it is artificially low in India or China (the first as a consequence of colonialism and then protectionism, the second as a consequence of feudalism and then communism). There is no way in which the Western world can remain extremely rich while half the world population in these two countries remains too poor. We have two options: we either help India and China have a soft landing in capitalism by means of allowing competition (no matter how one sided is on their favour) or we live to regret the consequences. The standard of living in the US *has* to decrease, that means all those wasteful SUVs, money wasted in trash entertainment, excesive consumerism, will be curbed. People in rich nations will have to curb their appetite for superflous goods, refocus and become more responisble with credit, and that way will be able to accept lower salaries (that by no means will make them serfs as you ridicuosly claim) in order to become competitive again. When people in the US are earning 7 or 8 times more for the same work there is no way to stop the evening out once some of the constraints that allow economic pressures to work are lessened by technology (communications mainly).
Something that normaly escapes protectionist people is how by protecting "national jobs", they punish the consumer in their own country. When companies save money by outsourcing, the savings are passed to the consumer. The steel controversy stirred by Mr Populist Bush showed that nicely.
3.-Although there is a widening between the very rich and the rest of us, in average people live better everywhere where stable goverments commited to free markets are in power, it is ironic that the same people that cry for local jobs being shipped abroad very often also refuse to allow to tax the rich to allow for some basic redistribution of income by means of social projects.
In rich countries particularly, the major causes of decease and mortality are related to excess, consumerism , overconsumption and hedonism (traffic accidents, obesity related problems, smoking, AIDS) from the point of view of poorer countries one just can't see how it is that the level of life is worsening on rich countries.
Gave me the creeps.
Why would somebody wanting to hut SCO woule leave open all kind of backdors traditionally associated to spammers' tactics?
This is clearly and spammer attempt at being funny.
And in any case, you don't know who did this, neither does the individual writing for the BBC, thus any theory is nothing but wild, unfounded speculation and it should be clearly marked as such.
He approached a journalist, divulged his opinion contrary to what his bosses were doing, and he expected they will not identify him (the BBC did not leak his name you know), and knowing how they act, he expected to keep his anonimity?
Then, when he couldn't take the heat, he commited suicide.
How is that the fault of the BBC????
.... are the realm of informal conversations, like the ones taking place on this site.
They don't have place in a journalistic institution like the BBC, if they calim something they have to support if with facts or limit themsleves to report any facts currently known.
It is not up to a derided "journalist" to hide behind the BBC's good name in order to air is wild, unsubstantiated musings.
.... that some games have these consequences.
Games should be properly labeled, period.
A Mexican from here.
It really surprises me that an Indian woudl consider self reliance an antifote to became like Mexico or Colombia (???) when oit comes to outsourcing.
Mexico had what we used to call a "mixed economy" in which local privately owned companies always existed, but they were protected from foreign competition (they were local companies after all, they should be protected, right?).
The only thing that happened is that those companies never had an incentive to compete and improve their production processes.
When competition became unavoidable many industries collapsed (toy industry, sugar, coffee) and funnily enough what came to the rescue was manufacturing of goods outsourced from other places.
The standard of living in Mexico raised as a consequence, as it has raised in any country that opens to foreign investment, to do the "cheap jobs" (Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia) amd international competition.
Isolationism and self reliance were tried, do not work, they should be dismissied as the snake oil they are for long economic, sustainable success.
Funny.
India needs help with construction, sanitation, education, etc.
Companies providing stuff in those field may prosper. And also leisure, do not forget leisure. The more affluent they become, the more time they will have for leisure.
People in the US will intially become unemployed. Some, not all of you, don't be silly.
That means less purchasing power, economic slowdown, trade deficit.
Salaries by necessity go lower. Your currency devalues.
Then there is a point in which you become cheap enough to be worth to invest again in the US.
Painful? Yes, but frankly some evening out is necessary when you realize how much overpaid people in western countries are.
The wasteful SUVs, gadgetery, cheap air travel, cheap credit can't be artificially provided, you will not starve but will need to become more sensible about your spending habits, which is a good think in my book, since that will allow you to take a lower salary and thus become more competitive in the global market.
It is not going to be fun, but frankly better understand the situation and prepare for it that moan and advocate for supporting inneficient industries and companies only because they are base in your own country.
Funnily enough economies will revolve around your local community.
Also small companies (which make most of the economic output in most countries) can't outsource due to technical or economical constraints. Contracting for them will be the future of IT people wishing to remain in the field.
And eventually all should even out, so the best people in the IT field (either in India, China, SouthAfrica or the US) will do the work since salaries would be in a similar level.
You obviously know nothing about software design in which whole components are treated as building blocks of a Lego set.
Most Western programmers would like to think they are artists or craftsmen, the problem is that software development more and more requires the equivalent of bricklaying and plumbing skills: identify the problem and then apply a known pattern that solves that problem.
As long as geeks do not understand that they are lost.
Modern software is designed with resuse in mind.
Do not invent the wheel.
If you are trying to re-invent it the one that is completely out of toucvh is you, not your Indian counterparts.
Analog watches prevail because the user interface is better
Surely you may have som UI studies to back that one up?
Of course not, you prefer it and that is fine, but do not claim things that are patently unproven.
Just at looking which kind of watch is sold the most I think the market has spoken, analog watches have found their last refuge in the uppermarket where snobbery is the only obviuous reason people choose to still buy them.
1.- How hard is to press one button?
2.- What is very cold? Why it should be harder to read?
3.- Change your store, they are obviously lousy.
4.- If you are unfortunate that your 2 or 3 year long lasting battery dies at you in Timbuctu, then go to the local market and buy a cheapo digital watch. Oh wait, they may have the battery there!
5.- Yeah, and lets hope you don't need any accuracy.
.... they themselves mention that you don't need the analog watch, which can be replaced by a drawing with the time infered from your trusty, vastly superior, digital watch.
.... onw would think that you can set it by default to 60 seconds.
I am a qualified first aid person and the watch type does not even come into the pciture when taking the pulse of somebody, that is some kind of oddity that they are obviously teaching in schools (which is unsurprising since schools are conservative places where the obvious advantages of newer technology take some time to filter down).
... is not a generalized human trait.
And most digital watches have a feature to count down and then sound an alarm, which seems perfect to fully coincentrate in those pulses while stopping looking at the watch.
I made a format for a page of labels, chose any label still available, type away and print.
A 2 minute process.
I save myself a bit more time by printing one or two pages of labels of frequently used addresses.
That is it, I said it.
I have read some of these and I always find them sorely lacking, they are the nerd equivalent of Bridget Jones books for single,late 20s early 30s females.
Has any SciFi writer ever gained a prize or being recognized outside the niche cabal of SciFi?
Their idiocy has not reached such heights yet.
Why accuracy has to be money driven?
What about pride about a community project?
According to your logic all thye volunteer organizations out there are not as good as they could be because they are not money driven.
Sigh...