Any time you find driving on public roads, built with public money, within the speeds the public's representatives feel are safe, you feel free to build your own road network with your own money.
Of course, you shouldn't be driving on public roads, but I guess your rigorous morality doesn't extend to inconveniencing yourself any.
Actually, it turns out that since the Japanese made serious inroads into the US in the 1980s, the US government has threatened massive trade barriers unless the Japanese assemble cars in the US. This is called a "gentlemen's agreement", but I fail to see why.
It is indicitive of where the problems with US companies lay that many of the same auto workers seem to be able to produce much better (more reliable) cosumer cars with nothing more than a change of management.
No, it happened with the call centres because American customers disliked dealing with Indian call centre staff.
The jobs going now won't come back to the US. They'll go, if India gets too expensive, to Bangladesh or Vietnam or former Soviet republics. The only way they'll come back to the US is if the US gets so poor it can compete with sub-third world countries like Bangladesh.
But, hey, cheer up! Larry Ellison will be richer than ever. So it will all have been worth it.
(Until the US consumer market collapses and drags the broader international economy with it, but guys like Larry can just emulate the wealthy of Central America and hire death squads to deal with the dissatisfied poor).
Public companies are operated in order to maximise revenue quarter on quarter. Google's decision making process around, eg, dealing sanely with revenue streams that would erode long term value of the search engine (selling rankings and so on) will have a head on clash with the requirements of being a publicly owned company.
Ivestment managers don't give a shit if maximising their investment in your company thise quarter has long term repercussions that cause you to go broke in a year's time. By then they will have sold up and moved on to another company. That's the way it works.
Dell and Gateway as exemplars of quality? It is to laugh.
Dell once shipped me five servers - one was DOA because they didn't stick the processor in the slot, another was just DOA, and the other three failed within a month, with the Dell PERC controllers chewing up all the data on the drives.
Dell PCs and servers routinely fail within a short timeframe. They use the same supplier of the month policies that any mom and pop outfit might use to keep costs down.
If you want reliable PC hardware, you're going to have to pay for more than a Dell, or build your own out of decent quality parts.
Oracle still has raw disk as an option. I have yet to see an Oracle site using it in the wild, and Oracle themselves no longer encourage people to use it.
Neither of you is correct. Spelt/spelled, snuck/sneaked, hung/hanged are all simply the result of English having a variety of grammatical rules to draw on from its history. Neither is more correct than the other.
It's like arguing whether you should use Germanic or French derived words to describe a given thing.
First, I don't share your glee about current laws and the direction they are taking. I fear email will end up like broadcast radio and TV - only people who pay big bucks to the government will be alowed to run a mail server.
And many technical solutions being proposed are no better - certificate based SMTP is a perfect example. You too can pay Verisign a grand a year for the privilege of having other mail servers talk to yours. Oh, and of course, they'll *never* let spamhauses get certs, either!
But you're quite right; it's a risk, and it's where a lot of rich, powerful companies with access to lobbyists would like to see things go.
Actually, the character has a whole chunk of appendix in the book.
I didn't enjoy Two Towers as much as FOTR, though. Changes to FOTR were mostly necessary and well done. Changes to TTT - the craptastic modifications to Theoden's casting off Wormtongue and Faramir's personality - were arbitary and altered characters and events for no good reason.
As anoth poster has pointed, this is a well-known thought experiment, and what it boils down to is: at some point, you have to trust someone.
Have you audited your motherboard BIOS? What about your network card - how do you know it doesn't have an IP stack on the ROM that dials home and dumps your network activity to someone? Hubs? Switches? Routers?
Do you really know what lives in your hard drive controller?
It seems, though, that China is getting more of a capitalist exterior
That would be the transformation of China from a Communist state to a Facist one. It's still a nasty and brutal dictatorship, they'vre just noticed that Sam Walton's as keen on those as much as Henry Ford thought Hitler had a swell setup.
making it a little more economically dependent on other countries (such as the US) to get things it needs
Other way around. The US is now incredibly dependent on the Chinese, what with so many companies depending on China for their manufacturing base.
And dependence doesn't guarantee squat. The US is dependent on oil. It doesn't seem to have done Iraq or Venezuala much good. For that matter, it hasn't done a lot for many citizens of nations like Saudi Arabia, either.
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If your business model is predicated on being a top ranked site on a search engine, fold tents and go home now, before you waste any more money.
It's almost as crappy a model as the one based on having a domain name you think everyone will type in.
What, you mean like RedHat have already done?
Any time you find driving on public roads, built with public money, within the speeds the public's representatives feel are safe, you feel free to build your own road network with your own money.
Of course, you shouldn't be driving on public roads, but I guess your rigorous morality doesn't extend to inconveniencing yourself any.
Actually, it turns out that since the Japanese made serious inroads into the US in the 1980s, the US government has threatened massive trade barriers unless the Japanese assemble cars in the US. This is called a "gentlemen's agreement", but I fail to see why.
It is indicitive of where the problems with US companies lay that many of the same auto workers seem to be able to produce much better (more reliable) cosumer cars with nothing more than a change of management.
No, it happened with the call centres because American customers disliked dealing with Indian call centre staff.
The jobs going now won't come back to the US. They'll go, if India gets too expensive, to Bangladesh or Vietnam or former Soviet republics. The only way they'll come back to the US is if the US gets so poor it can compete with sub-third world countries like Bangladesh.
But, hey, cheer up! Larry Ellison will be richer than ever. So it will all have been worth it.
(Until the US consumer market collapses and drags the broader international economy with it, but guys like Larry can just emulate the wealthy of Central America and hire death squads to deal with the dissatisfied poor).
Public companies are operated in order to maximise revenue quarter on quarter. Google's decision making process around, eg, dealing sanely with revenue streams that would erode long term value of the search engine (selling rankings and so on) will have a head on clash with the requirements of being a publicly owned company.
Ivestment managers don't give a shit if maximising their investment in your company thise quarter has long term repercussions that cause you to go broke in a year's time. By then they will have sold up and moved on to another company. That's the way it works.
Dell and Gateway as exemplars of quality? It is to laugh.
Dell once shipped me five servers - one was DOA because they didn't stick the processor in the slot, another was just DOA, and the other three failed within a month, with the Dell PERC controllers chewing up all the data on the drives.
Dell PCs and servers routinely fail within a short timeframe. They use the same supplier of the month policies that any mom and pop outfit might use to keep costs down.
If you want reliable PC hardware, you're going to have to pay for more than a Dell, or build your own out of decent quality parts.
That would be that ozone layer those of us in the Southern Hemisphere were complaining about a few years back.
Now if we could only ship all those do-nothing "skeptical environmentalists" to get some first hand experience...
The nice taste.
Not everyone who drinks coffee is one of those pencil-dicked "look how much caffiene I can drink" types.
Unless you ever, you know, compile your own software.
It's obviously prep for some hot honeymoon action, goatse-style.
It claims it doesn't have caffiene. But they taste delicious, anyway.
Kudzu isn't dist-specific, it's available in Debian, too.
And if so, can I sue them for the lost time patching my systems?
Oracle still has raw disk as an option. I have yet to see an Oracle site using it in the wild, and Oracle themselves no longer encourage people to use it.
Oh, yeah. Oracle's JDBC driver is so l33t! I love the way the pure Java drivers silently discard CLOB data over 32K.
Debugging that flaw was no end of fun.
Neither of you is correct. Spelt/spelled, snuck/sneaked, hung/hanged are all simply the result of English having a variety of grammatical rules to draw on from its history. Neither is more correct than the other.
It's like arguing whether you should use Germanic or French derived words to describe a given thing.
Going on the performance of SPARC's design teams thus far, it'd make the Opteron run slower.
And many technical solutions being proposed are no better - certificate based SMTP is a perfect example. You too can pay Verisign a grand a year for the privilege of having other mail servers talk to yours. Oh, and of course, they'll *never* let spamhauses get certs, either!
But you're quite right; it's a risk, and it's where a lot of rich, powerful companies with access to lobbyists would like to see things go.
Yup. The original plan was for Kenobi to be there as a regular character, not a cameo ghost.
Actually, the character has a whole chunk of appendix in the book.
I didn't enjoy Two Towers as much as FOTR, though. Changes to FOTR were mostly necessary and well done. Changes to TTT - the craptastic modifications to Theoden's casting off Wormtongue and Faramir's personality - were arbitary and altered characters and events for no good reason.
As anoth poster has pointed, this is a well-known thought experiment, and what it boils down to is: at some point, you have to trust someone.
Have you audited your motherboard BIOS? What about your network card - how do you know it doesn't have an IP stack on the ROM that dials home and dumps your network activity to someone? Hubs? Switches? Routers?
Do you really know what lives in your hard drive controller?
He killed off Kenobi at Sir Alec Guinness' request. Sir Alec hated the character and the movies and wanted out.
Actually, Bound was earlier that the Matrix. So they were hardly condsidered geniuses after their first movie.
(Unless you consider Bound a work of genius).
That would be the transformation of China from a Communist state to a Facist one. It's still a nasty and brutal dictatorship, they'vre just noticed that Sam Walton's as keen on those as much as Henry Ford thought Hitler had a swell setup.
Other way around. The US is now incredibly dependent on the Chinese, what with so many companies depending on China for their manufacturing base.
And dependence doesn't guarantee squat. The US is dependent on oil. It doesn't seem to have done Iraq or Venezuala much good. For that matter, it hasn't done a lot for many citizens of nations like Saudi Arabia, either.