Of course, I am coming from a CAD/CAM background where we have Industrial Lasers with 5-Axis cutting capablity, and CNC machines that have 3-Axis cutting.
It can actually sense (at least) 4-Axis motion, do to the ability of the remote to sense a spin along it's centerline.
Take a Wiimote, watch the hand pointer on the screen and rotate the Wiimote along it's centerline axis. The pointer hand will rotate on the screen along with the rotation of the Wiimote.
It's used by some lower tier autmotive suppliers. It's used rather exstensively in many smaller to maybe mid-sized architectural firms (At least from what I have seen of architectural firms.) It's also used rather extensively in the design of many consumer products, like grills, stoves and refridgerators.
The "industry" that uses CAD software is rather wide and deep.
At least this time it is extremely blatant and right out there in front, instead of a being a mildly blatant ruse as such things have been done in the past.
That "in between" that you are talking about is where we are in the US.
The Market includes the consumers, citizens, vendors, retailers, manufacturers, workers, the government and the environment. The "Free Market" you speak of can exist only in a vacuum where much of the above simply doesn't enter the equation. Even the "Shining Example" of the "Free Market", Wal-Mart, uses an artificially depressed market that is strongly controlled by an authoritarian regime and is thus FAR from a "Free Market" in order to have the wares produced that they sell in their stores.
Besides, this whole concept of the "Free Market" comes from a man who is almost 300 years removed from the realities of today, which are starkly different than the realities that existed when he wrote his book.
In the reality that I live in, everytime that a Minimum wage was introduced or raised, all the moron economists were screaming bloody murder about how it was going to tank the economy and create rampant unemployment. Only thing is, everytime that's been done, unemployment went down and the economy grew...
Either you are believing a lie or seem to be posting from some kind of bizarre mirror universe where reality works upon fundamentally different laws that are senseless in this world.
The "Free Market" you are talking about only exists in the impossible vacuum that contains only the consumer and the vendor. It will never work in reality and if you want to see what a "Free Market" looks like, just take a look at the Congolese Civil War, there's no government there. It's a true "Free Market", people do what they do in order to survive and that includes plenty of instances of people killing eachother and taking their stuff.
Even people born with less intelligence than average deserves to be paid a living wage for the work he or she performs. Whether that is non-union janitorial work, flipping burgers or any number of other "low intelligence" positions. This allows such people to be self-sufficient and thus they will not require government subsistance programs to provide what they are unable to obtain due to wages that are below a living wage.
This could then provide an impetus to lower taxes that people like you believe is wasted upon the poor in the form of subsistance programs.
"It isn't that I refuse to learn a trade and stick to it, it is just fair to pay a living wage!"
This last strawman argument you have made is highly disingenuous of you.
Yes, it is fair to pay a living wage and not every single person has the opportunities to put themselves into a position for which they can begin to learn, let alone stick to a trade of some sort. Sometimes, this is simply because someone was born with less intelligence than someone else. Sometimes this is because the environment they were raised within handicapped them, with either parent's who cannot read or are simply "busy" with other things.
A living wage allows a person the opportunity to advance him or herself and raise him or herself out of the situation he/she lives within. This is better for all of society, because it brings greater potential for people to earn more and thus purchase more expensive items, thus bringing the price of such items lower for all, while simultaneously increasing the profit margins of the manufacturers and retailers of those goods due to the economy of scale.
It's highly unlikely that they would price it at anywhere near that price.
The reason being that there hasn't been a single computer game produced and released in that price range, without a retinue of accompanying physical hardware items.
Personally, I would indeed purchase a LInux version of NWN2, if they release the game for Linux. I am already expecting the Windows version over the upcoming holiday season and would have no problem with shelling out extra cash for a Linux version.
Lately, there has been very few games that have actually kept my interest as of late and NWN, the original, is one of the few that has kept my interest. The ability to craft modules, play modules crafted by others and see regular community based updates to the game provides so much staying power to the franchise that I could see myself dedicating my primary system to Linux.
These days, for me, Linux is my server OS of choice and the OS I have secondary on my Laptop, specifically for network troubleshooting and dinking around in ways that I am unable to do in Windows. Beyond that, most of the software I run is available only for Windows and thus I run Windows for the majority of my computing time.
That's why you produce your key piece of hardware, such as the core processor, inside a factory that you completely control, in a nation that has strong Intellectual Property protection laws in place. If the key component only comes out of your facility, the knock-off guys will either have to reverse engineer and develop their own copy of the chip, steal the chip or find a way to legally purchase the chip off of you.
It's possible to work it so that each chip is paid for when it leaves your factory and enters China, then it is up to the facility that is putting together the final product to maintain their own inventory control and stop thievery.
This solution is mildly complicated, but if one is really concerned about knock-offs and IP, this is the only real way to go about leveraging the lower cost manufacturing available in China, while maintaining control of your technology. Treat China like the "bitch" it deserves to be treated like. Don't produce any high-tech components that are key to your device in China and make the Chinese worker into little more than the menial labor that plugs Socket A and Socket B together.
The way you do that is to innovate in ways that they are simply incapable of duplicating.
Produce a circuit or chip that is so "complicated" that the knock-off guys simply cannot duplicate it without spending nearly as much if not as much as you spent in producing it in the first place.
The past has proven time and time again that reports provided by people backed by certain corporations, such as Cigarrette Manufacturers, Oil Firms and both the RIAA and MPAA are filled with half-truths, straight lies, clear misrepresentations of data (once the data is brought out into the public space), as well as a number of other "Dirty Pool" tactics.
Simply because of who is backing this report, the publishers of the report have a tremendous amount of work that they must perform in order to be taken as anything other than what any "corporate shill" will say.
If they are not 100% open with the methods they used, the data they collected as well as with the stastical analysis they performed, their work is going to be suspect. Perhaps their first line would be to see if they can get their report published in a peer reviewed scientific journal.
Personally, I would be far less skeptical of a piece that could make it into a peer-reviewed medical journal.
I love how some people are able to "spin" the truth, by ignoring or side stepping certain facts.
Sure, if the atmosphere of Venus resembled our own, it would be roughly 100 degrees Celcius, which is 'a little' warmer than Earth However, the poster's point was that the increased CO2 on that planet has caused the accumulation of heat so great that the planet is in fact far hotter than Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun.
When the gas bags ignited, the flames shot straight up, just like all other hydrogen fires. The spreading flame that went to the sides was the ignited Rocket Fuel Paint Exterior, not Hydrogen fueled fires.
[blockquote]Maybe I'm taking you too literally here, but remember that no fuel cell system aimed at the mass market take pure hydrogen as an input, mainly because of it's inherent danger (think Hindenburg). [/blockquote]
Seriously, how long have you been posting to Slashdot? How long have you called yourself a "Geek/Nerd"?
The Hindenburg didn't ignite because of the Hydrogen. The outter skin of that skyship was made of the exact same material that is used as the fuel in SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS. That's why the Hindenburg went up as it did and this fact is mentioned EVERY single time there is a Hydrogen Power story on Slashdot.
Hydrogen is far safer a fuel source than gasoline is.
Oh yes, I forgot that it is wrong to let a company better someone elses economy besides our own. Are we that egocentric that we think that we have the right to prevent a company from building a development center in a developing economy? Should India not be allowed to prosper and grow? Do we have the right to make sure that they don't have jobs that actually require brains. Oh right, we obviously have the monopoly on brains in this country.
There is nothing wrong with a company wishing to build a development center in another nation. There is nothing wrong with a company building a factory in another nation. The problem arises when that American corporation is able to sidestep and ignore the legal protections for workers and the environment that are in place in the US.
Providing basicly decent wages and worker rights, which is what we deemed the right thing to do in the US, is something that should be law in the host country by any corporation wishing to do business in the US. Now, this doesn't mean that the wages need to be equal to the wages paid in the US, nor does this mean that every available benefit in the US also be available in those nations. If we are supposed to be the Capitalist and Democracy Leader of the world, then our labor rules and laws should not only act as an example to the rest of the world, they should also be exported. If "Free" trade is wanted with the United States, the host company looking for that "Free" trade should have to step up to the plate and modernize their business practices. Otherwise, they get taxed and miss out on opportunities.
This would be an "Economic Diplomacy" that could significantly change the world, far better than swinging around our military would.
Right now the US is experiencing extremely low unemployment, not to say it doesn't suck for those who are unemployed, but for the most part if you are highly reliable and know how to use your brain, there are countless jobs available to you. You just have to work hard and try. It may not always pay 6 figures, it may only pay 20-30k/year, but there are many places where that's more wealth than people obtain in their lifetime. Slashdotters really need to get a clue when it comes to economics.
They changed the method of calculating unemployment, which drastically decreased the overall number of unemployed people. The number of lost jobs, since 2001, still gratly outstrips the number of jobs produced since then. If the economy is doing so swell and unemployment is so low, then how come we have the highest numbers of mortgage foreclosures that has ever been seen? Is it because the replacement jobs that have been added since the record job losses pay, on average, 10's of thousands of dollars less in overall wages? Maybe you need to spend more time checking multiple sources and actually researching what is and has happened in our economy, instead of spouting off the party line.
The problem is that in the developing world there is a massive rift between those that have and those that don't have.
This has created a system, wherein the Haves easily and consistantly take advantage of and hold down the aspirations of the Have Not. By forcing the Haves into providing more equity to the Have Nots, two things will happen. One, working conditions and compensation will increase for the works. Two, more equitable trade agreements will be formulated with those nations and the US.
As a side benefit, the increase in pay to the Have Nots will only cause the economy of those nations to take off, much like the Economy of the US has done EACH time there was an increase in minimum wages and the market was forced to expand with new businesses and services due to regulation, it will also increase the capabilities of those nations as the Have Nots are able to begin educating their children.
These developing nations now have an Industrial Base. Forcing them to upgrade their labor and environmental practices will only enhance the lives of everyone involved.
I know the US isn't apt to make that happen. So, I can only hope that the EU's Fair Trade policies are able to make sigificant changes in the global market to provide the needed changes, before it is to late for the economy that I live in.
...to happen as long as the Free Trade Agreements remain unfair to the American Citizen while providing gangbuster profits for the American and Foreign owned corporation.
These Trade Agreements need to be looked at again and readjusted into Fair Trade Agreements. These need to be setup to provide some sort of protections for the foreign workers and demand an equal or better environmental protection system, similar to what the US has.
Putting both of those as requirements for "Free" Trade will not only return much work to the United States, it will also make the work that will continue to be performed outside of the US safer, cleaner and better for the workers producing those goods.
What we have now is an unsustainable system that will only result in the future failure of the US economy. Unfortunately, the only way that is going to change is if We, The People are able to replace our money worshipping leaders with a leadership that understands what "For the People, By the People" means.
Of course those elections were held. You know why?
The public outcry over the concept of postponing the elections was absolutely tremendous. If they had postponed the elections, then they would have been the front of a Constitutionally illegal government. That's one thing that both sides of the aisle will not stand for and that is something that the American people will not stand for.
In fact, that is something that the military shouldn't stand for as they are sworn to the Constitution.
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go. Read up how there is infact more than 3-axis of rotation in the world.
http://www.alspi.com/5axis.htm
XYZ and then W. Looks like 4-Axis motion to me.
Of course, I am coming from a CAD/CAM background where we have Industrial Lasers with 5-Axis cutting capablity, and CNC machines that have 3-Axis cutting.
It can actually sense (at least) 4-Axis motion, do to the ability of the remote to sense a spin along it's centerline.
Take a Wiimote, watch the hand pointer on the screen and rotate the Wiimote along it's centerline axis. The pointer hand will rotate on the screen along with the rotation of the Wiimote.
That last warning is probably going to be uploaded to Wii consoles with the next update...
It's used by some lower tier autmotive suppliers. It's used rather exstensively in many smaller to maybe mid-sized architectural firms (At least from what I have seen of architectural firms.) It's also used rather extensively in the design of many consumer products, like grills, stoves and refridgerators.
The "industry" that uses CAD software is rather wide and deep.
At least this time it is extremely blatant and right out there in front, instead of a being a mildly blatant ruse as such things have been done in the past.
That "in between" that you are talking about is where we are in the US.
The Market includes the consumers, citizens, vendors, retailers, manufacturers, workers, the government and the environment. The "Free Market" you speak of can exist only in a vacuum where much of the above simply doesn't enter the equation. Even the "Shining Example" of the "Free Market", Wal-Mart, uses an artificially depressed market that is strongly controlled by an authoritarian regime and is thus FAR from a "Free Market" in order to have the wares produced that they sell in their stores.
Besides, this whole concept of the "Free Market" comes from a man who is almost 300 years removed from the realities of today, which are starkly different than the realities that existed when he wrote his book.
Wrong Economically?
In the reality that I live in, everytime that a Minimum wage was introduced or raised, all the moron economists were screaming bloody murder about how it was going to tank the economy and create rampant unemployment. Only thing is, everytime that's been done, unemployment went down and the economy grew...
Either you are believing a lie or seem to be posting from some kind of bizarre mirror universe where reality works upon fundamentally different laws that are senseless in this world.
The "Free Market" you are talking about only exists in the impossible vacuum that contains only the consumer and the vendor. It will never work in reality and if you want to see what a "Free Market" looks like, just take a look at the Congolese Civil War, there's no government there. It's a true "Free Market", people do what they do in order to survive and that includes plenty of instances of people killing eachother and taking their stuff.
Even people born with less intelligence than average deserves to be paid a living wage for the work he or she performs. Whether that is non-union janitorial work, flipping burgers or any number of other "low intelligence" positions. This allows such people to be self-sufficient and thus they will not require government subsistance programs to provide what they are unable to obtain due to wages that are below a living wage.
This could then provide an impetus to lower taxes that people like you believe is wasted upon the poor in the form of subsistance programs.
This last strawman argument you have made is highly disingenuous of you.
Yes, it is fair to pay a living wage and not every single person has the opportunities to put themselves into a position for which they can begin to learn, let alone stick to a trade of some sort. Sometimes, this is simply because someone was born with less intelligence than someone else. Sometimes this is because the environment they were raised within handicapped them, with either parent's who cannot read or are simply "busy" with other things.
A living wage allows a person the opportunity to advance him or herself and raise him or herself out of the situation he/she lives within. This is better for all of society, because it brings greater potential for people to earn more and thus purchase more expensive items, thus bringing the price of such items lower for all, while simultaneously increasing the profit margins of the manufacturers and retailers of those goods due to the economy of scale.
It's highly unlikely that they would price it at anywhere near that price.
The reason being that there hasn't been a single computer game produced and released in that price range, without a retinue of accompanying physical hardware items.
Personally, I would indeed purchase a LInux version of NWN2, if they release the game for Linux. I am already expecting the Windows version over the upcoming holiday season and would have no problem with shelling out extra cash for a Linux version.
Lately, there has been very few games that have actually kept my interest as of late and NWN, the original, is one of the few that has kept my interest. The ability to craft modules, play modules crafted by others and see regular community based updates to the game provides so much staying power to the franchise that I could see myself dedicating my primary system to Linux.
These days, for me, Linux is my server OS of choice and the OS I have secondary on my Laptop, specifically for network troubleshooting and dinking around in ways that I am unable to do in Windows. Beyond that, most of the software I run is available only for Windows and thus I run Windows for the majority of my computing time.
That's why you produce your key piece of hardware, such as the core processor, inside a factory that you completely control, in a nation that has strong Intellectual Property protection laws in place. If the key component only comes out of your facility, the knock-off guys will either have to reverse engineer and develop their own copy of the chip, steal the chip or find a way to legally purchase the chip off of you.
It's possible to work it so that each chip is paid for when it leaves your factory and enters China, then it is up to the facility that is putting together the final product to maintain their own inventory control and stop thievery.
This solution is mildly complicated, but if one is really concerned about knock-offs and IP, this is the only real way to go about leveraging the lower cost manufacturing available in China, while maintaining control of your technology. Treat China like the "bitch" it deserves to be treated like. Don't produce any high-tech components that are key to your device in China and make the Chinese worker into little more than the menial labor that plugs Socket A and Socket B together.
The way you do that is to innovate in ways that they are simply incapable of duplicating.
Produce a circuit or chip that is so "complicated" that the knock-off guys simply cannot duplicate it without spending nearly as much if not as much as you spent in producing it in the first place.
oops...
Hehe.. I slipped up. It was supposed to be Scientific Journal the second time as well.
It's most definatly usefull.
The past has proven time and time again that reports provided by people backed by certain corporations, such as Cigarrette Manufacturers, Oil Firms and both the RIAA and MPAA are filled with half-truths, straight lies, clear misrepresentations of data (once the data is brought out into the public space), as well as a number of other "Dirty Pool" tactics.
Simply because of who is backing this report, the publishers of the report have a tremendous amount of work that they must perform in order to be taken as anything other than what any "corporate shill" will say.
If they are not 100% open with the methods they used, the data they collected as well as with the stastical analysis they performed, their work is going to be suspect. Perhaps their first line would be to see if they can get their report published in a peer reviewed scientific journal.
Personally, I would be far less skeptical of a piece that could make it into a peer-reviewed medical journal.
I love how some people are able to "spin" the truth, by ignoring or side stepping certain facts.
Sure, if the atmosphere of Venus resembled our own, it would be roughly 100 degrees Celcius, which is 'a little' warmer than Earth However, the poster's point was that the increased CO2 on that planet has caused the accumulation of heat so great that the planet is in fact far hotter than Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun.
When the gas bags ignited, the flames shot straight up, just like all other hydrogen fires. The spreading flame that went to the sides was the ignited Rocket Fuel Paint Exterior, not Hydrogen fueled fires.
[blockquote]Maybe I'm taking you too literally here, but remember that no fuel cell system aimed at the mass market take pure hydrogen as an input, mainly because of it's inherent danger (think Hindenburg). [/blockquote]
Seriously, how long have you been posting to Slashdot? How long have you called yourself a "Geek/Nerd"?
The Hindenburg didn't ignite because of the Hydrogen. The outter skin of that skyship was made of the exact same material that is used as the fuel in SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS. That's why the Hindenburg went up as it did and this fact is mentioned EVERY single time there is a Hydrogen Power story on Slashdot.
Hydrogen is far safer a fuel source than gasoline is.
There is nothing wrong with a company wishing to build a development center in another nation. There is nothing wrong with a company building a factory in another nation. The problem arises when that American corporation is able to sidestep and ignore the legal protections for workers and the environment that are in place in the US.
Providing basicly decent wages and worker rights, which is what we deemed the right thing to do in the US, is something that should be law in the host country by any corporation wishing to do business in the US. Now, this doesn't mean that the wages need to be equal to the wages paid in the US, nor does this mean that every available benefit in the US also be available in those nations. If we are supposed to be the Capitalist and Democracy Leader of the world, then our labor rules and laws should not only act as an example to the rest of the world, they should also be exported. If "Free" trade is wanted with the United States, the host company looking for that "Free" trade should have to step up to the plate and modernize their business practices. Otherwise, they get taxed and miss out on opportunities.
This would be an "Economic Diplomacy" that could significantly change the world, far better than swinging around our military would.
They changed the method of calculating unemployment, which drastically decreased the overall number of unemployed people. The number of lost jobs, since 2001, still gratly outstrips the number of jobs produced since then. If the economy is doing so swell and unemployment is so low, then how come we have the highest numbers of mortgage foreclosures that has ever been seen? Is it because the replacement jobs that have been added since the record job losses pay, on average, 10's of thousands of dollars less in overall wages? Maybe you need to spend more time checking multiple sources and actually researching what is and has happened in our economy, instead of spouting off the party line.
Who's fault is that?
The problem is that in the developing world there is a massive rift between those that have and those that don't have.
This has created a system, wherein the Haves easily and consistantly take advantage of and hold down the aspirations of the Have Not. By forcing the Haves into providing more equity to the Have Nots, two things will happen. One, working conditions and compensation will increase for the works. Two, more equitable trade agreements will be formulated with those nations and the US.
As a side benefit, the increase in pay to the Have Nots will only cause the economy of those nations to take off, much like the Economy of the US has done EACH time there was an increase in minimum wages and the market was forced to expand with new businesses and services due to regulation, it will also increase the capabilities of those nations as the Have Nots are able to begin educating their children.
These developing nations now have an Industrial Base. Forcing them to upgrade their labor and environmental practices will only enhance the lives of everyone involved.
I know the US isn't apt to make that happen. So, I can only hope that the EU's Fair Trade policies are able to make sigificant changes in the global market to provide the needed changes, before it is to late for the economy that I live in.
These Trade Agreements need to be looked at again and readjusted into Fair Trade Agreements. These need to be setup to provide some sort of protections for the foreign workers and demand an equal or better environmental protection system, similar to what the US has.
Putting both of those as requirements for "Free" Trade will not only return much work to the United States, it will also make the work that will continue to be performed outside of the US safer, cleaner and better for the workers producing those goods.
What we have now is an unsustainable system that will only result in the future failure of the US economy. Unfortunately, the only way that is going to change is if We, The People are able to replace our money worshipping leaders with a leadership that understands what "For the People, By the People" means.
Of course those elections were held. You know why?
The public outcry over the concept of postponing the elections was absolutely tremendous. If they had postponed the elections, then they would have been the front of a Constitutionally illegal government. That's one thing that both sides of the aisle will not stand for and that is something that the American people will not stand for.
In fact, that is something that the military shouldn't stand for as they are sworn to the Constitution.
I wasn't attempting to discount anyone in your position with what I was saying either. I am sorry that it may have appeared that way.