IMO, Mexico is the perfect place for Open Source software.
However, Open-Source software doesn't put money into the pockets of corrupt government officials.
It's a real shame that portions of the Mexican government can't see their opportunity to leapfrog existing software technologies and jump into the first world.
If third-world governments actually gave a shit about their citizens, they likely wouldn't still be in the third world.
Never underestimate the pointy-hair factor. Most places, "learning something new" is interpereted as "complete retraining". PHBs regard doing anything new the way a nun would regard going to work in a brothel.
Perhaps you meant to say "PHBs regard doing anything new the way a whore would regard going to work in a convent."
As far as I am concerned the best solution is to not deal with the software companies that support the BSA!
Open-source software should be advertised as "BSA-Free". Really, IBM should put this in their commericals about their Linux/Apache-based products. Open with a Gestapo raid and end with a "still psyched?".
that would explain why AMD is backing M$ in the M$ trial that's going on!
Hopefully the Judge will be made aware of the back-scratching that is going on and will discount AMD's testimony appropriately. BTW, has there been any pro-Microsoft testimony that hasn't been paid for?
"Uh, your honor? We'd like to delete this testimony since it makes us look guilty. We're really not guilty, so you shouldn't allow anyone to intimate otherwise."
What was the name of that corporate lawyer who keeps showing up on The Simpsons? The tall skinny guy?
Think about it... if they oppose Microsoft in court and stand up for themselves, then they can just cry that they angered the giant and paid the price for it.
Perhaps they'll get a billion-dollar settlement five years down the road, after the predictable happens (business as usual at Microsoft).
This was accompanied by a look that told me she knew I was a skeptic, she had dealt with us before, didn't really care, and simply wanted to move on to the next sheep.
Studies have shown that only about 2% of the general population are vulnerable to cult recruitment & indoctrination. It's only sensible to filter out the other 98% as efficiently as possible.
(There is another 1-2% who are basically psychotic and will do nasty things just for the asking, but you want to filter them out as well, since they won't follow orders later on.)
First of all, I don't believe you, because anyone from Waterloo calls it UW, not "UofW." Second of all, I have a BMath (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo (2001), so I know a thing or two about their CS program.:-)
I thought that Mathies were supposed to call it "U(W)".;-)
It doesn't cost an arm & a leg to get a university education in Canada. This is why there are so many educated Canadians available to go to work in America. Er, wha...???
The main thing about U(W) is that you need impossibly high grades to get in.
The ratios for 2002 Olympic medals were almost identical to this. Interesting Coincidence.
So how does it go when you count the total number of metals presented, considering how large the men's & women's hockey teams were, curling, & team speed skating?;-)
That's simply not true! As the American software-development industriy disintigrates over the next twenty years, Russia will get its fair share of the industry as well! Maybe China too (they have adopted Linux; massive productivity is just around the corner...).
Actually, what I think is sadder is that you, living in a country with virtually the highest standard of living in the world
Not true. America merely has the second-highest per-capita GDP in the world. The main reason for this is that a small percentage of Americans are extremely rich.
This case is cut and dry. H1B workers take American jobs. Period. If all the H1B workers left, there would be more jobs for Americans. And since it is our country, I'm sure you'll understand that we think Americans should have first access to those jobs.
This statement has various flaws. It's almost funny to know that most people think that jobs are somehow a fixed and scarce resource. Jobs are dynamically created and destroyed based on the total economic activity, total demand, and total productive capacity of an economy. If all of the H1B visas were to leave America tomorrow, there would be a significant economic contraction and more job losses.
Y'see, when someone has a job, they earn money, but they also spend money. The money that they spend creates other jobs. If you get rid of this spending, then the subsidiary employment disappears as well. You may be able to replace these positions with less qualified Americans, but you have still reduced the total productive capacity of the economy by banishing these highly productive workers. This makes the economy smaller and less competitive, which lowers standards of living.
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IMO, Mexico is the perfect place for Open Source software.
However, Open-Source software doesn't put money into the pockets of corrupt government officials.
It's a real shame that portions of the Mexican government can't see their opportunity to leapfrog existing software technologies and jump into the first world.
If third-world governments actually gave a shit about their citizens, they likely wouldn't still be in the third world.
Never underestimate the pointy-hair factor. Most places, "learning something new" is interpereted as "complete retraining". PHBs regard doing anything new the way a nun would regard going to work in a brothel.
Perhaps you meant to say "PHBs regard doing anything new the way a whore would regard going to work in a convent."
As far as I am concerned the best solution is to not deal with the software companies that support the BSA!
Open-source software should be advertised as "BSA-Free". Really, IBM should put this in their commericals about their Linux/Apache-based products. Open with a Gestapo raid and end with a "still psyched?".
And why don't perjury charges apply here?
Or at least contempt of court. A few days in the slammer might give Billg a wider perspective.
that would explain why AMD is backing M$ in the M$ trial that's going on!
Hopefully the Judge will be made aware of the back-scratching that is going on and will discount AMD's testimony appropriately. BTW, has there been any pro-Microsoft testimony that hasn't been paid for?
Is it that we occasionally rewrite parts (filesystems, VMM, etc)?
Bruce's Law: Every software module needs to be re-written every year.
(Or perhaps it has a different name.)
1) Patent the obvious
2) Sue
3) PROFIT!!
"Uh, your honor? We'd like to delete this testimony since it makes us look guilty. We're really not guilty, so you shouldn't allow anyone to intimate otherwise."
What was the name of that corporate lawyer who keeps showing up on The Simpsons? The tall skinny guy?
Think about it... if they oppose Microsoft in court and stand up for themselves, then they can just cry that they angered the giant and paid the price for it.
Perhaps they'll get a billion-dollar settlement five years down the road, after the predictable happens (business as usual at Microsoft).
It's a loose/win situation
Assuming that means "lose Windows".
They actually had a Simpsons episode about how Microsoft does business.
"Buy 'im out, boys!"
I wonder if the Telco Act as it stands now already cover this?
Isn't mail fraud already a serious crime?
This was accompanied by a look that told me she knew I was a skeptic, she had dealt with us before, didn't really care, and simply wanted to move on to the next sheep.
Studies have shown that only about 2% of the general population are vulnerable to cult recruitment & indoctrination. It's only sensible to filter out the other 98% as efficiently as possible.
(There is another 1-2% who are basically psychotic and will do nasty things just for the asking, but you want to filter them out as well, since they won't follow orders later on.)
The really strange thing is that if you were to mathematically model these claims, the numbers double every 12-18 months.
First of all, I don't believe you, because anyone from Waterloo calls it UW, not "UofW." Second of all, I have a BMath (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo (2001), so I know a thing or two about their CS program. :-)
;-)
I thought that Mathies were supposed to call it "U(W)".
Smart canadian kids with $$$ go to UofW.
It doesn't cost an arm & a leg to get a university education in Canada. This is why there are so many educated Canadians available to go to work in America. Er, wha...???
The main thing about U(W) is that you need impossibly high grades to get in.
The ratios for 2002 Olympic medals were almost identical to this. Interesting Coincidence.
;-)
So how does it go when you count the total number of metals presented, considering how large the men's & women's hockey teams were, curling, & team speed skating?
Too bad my university doesn't do the same for the various theory courses we have.
Prove that P=NP. Ten points. Plus Turing Award.
"The Worlds of 2001" goes into a bit on how HAL's name actually did come about: Pretty much happenstance, it was "Athena" through most of drafts.
But they couldn't get Majel Barrett to do the voice work?
This sentence implies that they came up with
fortran, which I believe was developed in the
late 1950's.
So? They didn't exactly invent BASIC either.
[hathi:~] jorg% uptime
8:16PM up 3 days, 1:53, 4 users, load averages: 2.28, 2.17, 2.02
That evidence is inconclusive. A real Unix system would look like this:
[hathi:~] jorg% uptime
8:16PM up 374 days, 1:53, 4 users, load averages: 2.28, 2.17, 2.02
(1)All work goes to India
That's simply not true! As the American software-development industriy disintigrates over the next twenty years, Russia will get its fair share of the industry as well! Maybe China too (they have adopted Linux; massive productivity is just around the corner...).
Actually, what I think is sadder is that you, living in a country with virtually the highest standard of living in the world
Not true. America merely has the second-highest per-capita GDP in the world. The main reason for this is that a small percentage of Americans are extremely rich.
This case is cut and dry. H1B workers take American jobs. Period. If all the H1B workers left, there would be more jobs for Americans. And since it is our country, I'm sure you'll understand that we think Americans should have first access to those jobs.
This statement has various flaws. It's almost funny to know that most people think that jobs are somehow a fixed and scarce resource. Jobs are dynamically created and destroyed based on the total economic activity, total demand, and total productive capacity of an economy. If all of the H1B visas were to leave America tomorrow, there would be a significant economic contraction and more job losses.
Y'see, when someone has a job, they earn money, but they also spend money. The money that they spend creates other jobs. If you get rid of this spending, then the subsidiary employment disappears as well. You may be able to replace these positions with less qualified Americans, but you have still reduced the total productive capacity of the economy by banishing these highly productive workers. This makes the economy smaller and less competitive, which lowers standards of living.
This without having any serious followers in governmental leadership positions.
So who were the original instigators of the DMCA again...?