Americans need to change to get along in the world, and Wal-Mart is part of that change. We can build a wall around ourselves and drag around our security blankets, but the truth is that the EU and SE Asia will simply go forward and rub our noses in it.
Free trade saves jobs, but people like you who can't see past their noses are dragging this country into a living hell of stagnation and, ultimately, collapse..
Only if Wal-Mart can buy all the highways, warehouses, and real estate everwhere. Retail-middleman is simply one domain where a monopoly can't exist for long. Also, manufacturers could create alliances against Wal-Mart if things got really bad.
I want cheap Xterms connected by ethernet to my FT cluster.
SunRays are basically this. However, I don't think anyone can expect zero-user downtime (if your spreadsheet is stored in a RAM module that blows, it's just gone, unless their is mirrored RAM or something).
I am opposed to the rampant corporate practice of using human beings as just another resource.
What are they besides a resource? How can anyone reasonably expect a corporation of 10,000 or 100,000 employees to be a "family"; that notion is a complete joke.
The goal should be to allow the free market to generate enough wealth that there will always be options open to people for employment. The role of the government is merely to keep the peace.
Wal-Mart destroys local competitors, eliminating jobs. Wal-Mart puts the hammerlock on its suppliers, forcing them to continue finding ways to lower their costs.
Labor laws and unions breed a complacency that is destroying this country. Recognizing Wal-Mart is merely recognizing the truth about where certain markets are going and that the USA is no longer the place for these things. It is up to those people displaced to find a new way in the world. It ain't easy, but it is better than living in some crack-job fantasy of trade restrictions and legislated demographics.
The grandparent poster was correct. Microsoft subsidized their risky projects with Windows and Office. This is what all big companies do. The other companies you cite were/are 1% of what Microsoft is. Also, Microsoft was an expert at selling failures, such as Windows 95, which was crap outside of it's new UI.
A kind word is cheaper than a hammer. I know the hawks out there will wipe the floor with this one, but it does ring true considering the last 50 years or so of foreign policy.
For example, Vietnam rebels against France, the U.S. comes in to squash the rebellion ignoring the irony if 1776, reaches stalemate, then leaves, leaving a power vacuum leading to Pol Pot, et. al, then we support Pol Pol against the Chinese, blah blah blah, holy shit two million people are dead! Okay, now repeat for the Middle East, blah blah blah, holy shit why are they shooting at us!
Sun didn't fundamentally change the chip architecture.
Probably the most significant outcome of the USIV will be 212-CPU Sun Fire 15K servers. That seems to imply something like 5 or 6 CPUs per rack-unit (although it appears the 15K is somewhat bigger than a standard rack).
it's not clear what kinds of apps benefit from 8, 16, or 32 threads of parallelism.
SunRay servers comes to mind, where there are lots of single-threaded users sharing a system.
In Solaris, for example, every process gets a kernel thread, and every process thread gets a kernel thread. On my workstation, right now, just running CDE and a few apps gets reported as 189 light-weight processes (essentially threads). Have a system shared by 1000 users could result in over 100,000 threads with approximately 1000 being in the run queue at any given moment. This is a lot of parallelism derived from what generally has no parallelism at all (the user's desktop). If users are using multi-threaded apps for CAD, image processing, games, etc., the potential system utilization goes even higher. Solaris has efficient schedulers, so shoveling more and more users and programs onto a system will take it to near-100% sustained utilization before noticable thrashing begins occuring (Windows this ain't;).
I was just stating that things need to be changed before something radically bad happens...
I agree with this. In some respects, history from late 18th centrury America is repeating itself, except now we're the imperialists, the ones driving high taxes, the ones constraining trade around the world, etc. Ol' GWB needs to remember his 9th grade civics lessons lest he start WWIII.
If you have no education and no skills, you won't get far...
There are jobs that do on-the-job training. There are some jobs that will pay for school in exchange for work (nursing, for example). There's the military, which has very good training options. There are community colleges, which are very affordable. There are libraries.
If it weren't for unconstitutional laws, there'd be prostitution. Legalize drugs, and the #1 occupation in bad neighborhoods would be brought out into the open and made perfectly acceptible. For the truly clueless, there's prison.
If we got rid of the minimum wage, ditch digging and sidewalk sweeping would become options, too.
it should be the governments' job to provide these to the people.
The government is failing. Public schools are mediocre and are glorified day care. State universities are seeing double-digit tuition growth. Lotteries are used as excuses to divert education funds to other projects. The government also endorses zero-tolerance policies that punish people for things that aren't even immoral.
The government isn't good at helping people; rather, it is really good at taking people's freedoms away under the guise of help. The war on drugs created the organized black market for drugs, props up dictatorships around the world, and puts thousands of innocent people into prison every year. The Earned Income Credit is a magic fountain for those who don't want to work. The minimum wage makes unskilled jobs unaffordable to those who would want to offer them. Rent subsidies allow landlords to maintain their artificially high rates and allow employers to get by paying too little. These are just the top of the iceberg.
Well, there's controversy and there's risk. Any company can fold at any time (e.g., meteor hitting their headquarters), for example. As far as SCO is concerned, risk might be weighed by which companies are willing to take the heat for their customers. Is there another "indemnified" OS other than Solaris (permanent license) or, perhaps, Mac OS X (Mach kernel)? Even Windows NT/2000/XP could be a target with their known use of BSD code.
Regardless, I think any lawsuit against Linux/BSD/UNIX/Apple/Microsoft/etc. could only go in SCO's favor due to a rediculous technicality, not real merit. And, if that happened, there would be no end to the bitterness felt towards SCO, which would do wonders for destroying whatever business they try to conduct after the suit.
In conclusion, if SCO loses, they lose, and, f SCO wins, they lose.
I feel sorry for people in the US hit by outsourcing and the job crunch.
Don't fell sorry about what is simply reality. People in the US will adjust, we always have and always will while bitching the whole way. New markets will emerge, a new level of prosperity will emerge, then change, then we bitch about it some more, thus is the cycle of life.
I fully support raising the world-wide standard of living.
Then you should fully support the free trade that makes that possible.
Eventually, there will be no places where Nike can go with their business model, and that will be a milestone of progress world wide. That will mean the global expectation of a standard of living has reached a new threshold.
Remember, these things take time, sometimes centuries (the Inquisition lasted over a century, and what hell that was, for example).
The claim that people that are rich get rich by doing remarkable things is bogus--some do, far more simply lie, cheat and steal effectively.
The opposite is true. Such cynical statements as yours are formed by the very highly publicised cases, such as Enron, Monsanto, etc. Think of all the people you do business with in a day. If your grocer urinated in the salad bar every day and people found out about it, his business would be crushed overnight. Business have to act ethically to maintain profit, not lie cheat and steal.
The businesses like WorldCom or Arthur Anderson ususally have someone in government in their back pocket manipulating the law for them. The FDA, EPA, DEA, IRS, etc. and Congress are all guilty of this. In other words, the real problem is corruption that transcends both business and government.
You blame the businesses; I blame the government that makes those businesses legal. Have you noticed that loopholes, such as immunity from liabilty lawsuits, are added to legislation? The things these businesses do are already illegal, yet there is a congressman weak enough to write the law around them. I think that congressman is the problem, not the rich loser trying to pay him off.
But there are some that do, who just can't get a break...
People are not given breaks, they make them. They have a vision about their childrens' future or their retirement or their nation, and the see what it takes to get there. It doesn't always possible in one generation; just look at early immigrants in the USA. But, eventually, in a free country, a truly free country, those visions can become reality.
I thoroughly dislike the idea that just one more handout or just a one more nudge will give someone their "break." Successful people are self-made, and absolutely no one can do it for them.
What welfare does is prop people up where they should not be. There are no companies and jobs in the inner city...so why the hell do people stay there and whine for the government to save them?!? People don't want to fly as much...so what makes the airlines so deserving of being bailed out of their obese business model?!? It's utter stupidity. It's childish.
People should face the truth. If they can't survive somewhere, it is their responsibility go find out where they can. If they are not happy, it is their responsibility to look for greener pastures. No amount of money thrown at a lie will make it true, and no amount of money thrown into a city where no one wants to be will make it prosperous.
But when a company ships jobs to places where environmental and labor laws allow them to simply replace good workers with people treated little better than slaves...
Fifty years of free trade will make "slavery" in places like China and India obselete. They are undergoing an industrial revolution no different than 19th century USA. In the future, the US will have trading partners 1000 times more prosperous than today, and they will consume what the USA has to export willfully and without trade law coersion.
Restricting free trade is doing terrible injustice to not only the current "third world" but the future "first world" as well. Protectionism only sets us up to fall harder later; it's as simple as that.
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Grow up.
Americans need to change to get along in the world, and Wal-Mart is part of that change. We can build a wall around ourselves and drag around our security blankets, but the truth is that the EU and SE Asia will simply go forward and rub our noses in it.
Free trade saves jobs, but people like you who can't see past their noses are dragging this country into a living hell of stagnation and, ultimately, collapse..
Is it me or by 2025 everything will be Walmart.
Only if Wal-Mart can buy all the highways, warehouses, and real estate everwhere. Retail-middleman is simply one domain where a monopoly can't exist for long. Also, manufacturers could create alliances against Wal-Mart if things got really bad.
I want cheap Xterms connected by ethernet to my FT cluster.
SunRays are basically this. However, I don't think anyone can expect zero-user downtime (if your spreadsheet is stored in a RAM module that blows, it's just gone, unless their is mirrored RAM or something).
I am opposed to the rampant corporate practice of using human beings as just another resource.
What are they besides a resource? How can anyone reasonably expect a corporation of 10,000 or 100,000 employees to be a "family"; that notion is a complete joke.
The goal should be to allow the free market to generate enough wealth that there will always be options open to people for employment. The role of the government is merely to keep the peace.
Wal-Mart destroys local competitors, eliminating jobs. Wal-Mart puts the hammerlock on its suppliers, forcing them to continue finding ways to lower their costs.
Labor laws and unions breed a complacency that is destroying this country. Recognizing Wal-Mart is merely recognizing the truth about where certain markets are going and that the USA is no longer the place for these things. It is up to those people displaced to find a new way in the world. It ain't easy, but it is better than living in some crack-job fantasy of trade restrictions and legislated demographics.
BS.
The grandparent poster was correct. Microsoft subsidized their risky projects with Windows and Office. This is what all big companies do. The other companies you cite were/are 1% of what Microsoft is. Also, Microsoft was an expert at selling failures, such as Windows 95, which was crap outside of it's new UI.
You are citing the present as a defense for the history leading up to it. It doesn't work.
There was like four links to their preferences page in the e-mail, and it was very clearly worded.
What do you really expect?!? Yahoo! is a free service!
we should spend less on fighting terrorism?
A kind word is cheaper than a hammer. I know the hawks out there will wipe the floor with this one, but it does ring true considering the last 50 years or so of foreign policy.
For example, Vietnam rebels against France, the U.S. comes in to squash the rebellion ignoring the irony if 1776, reaches stalemate, then leaves, leaving a power vacuum leading to Pol Pot, et. al, then we support Pol Pol against the Chinese, blah blah blah, holy shit two million people are dead! Okay, now repeat for the Middle East, blah blah blah, holy shit why are they shooting at us!
Who do these people think they are? God?
Sun didn't fundamentally change the chip architecture.
Probably the most significant outcome of the USIV will be 212-CPU Sun Fire 15K servers. That seems to imply something like 5 or 6 CPUs per rack-unit (although it appears the 15K is somewhat bigger than a standard rack).
it's not clear what kinds of apps benefit from 8, 16, or 32 threads of parallelism.
;).
SunRay servers comes to mind, where there are lots of single-threaded users sharing a system.
In Solaris, for example, every process gets a kernel thread, and every process thread gets a kernel thread. On my workstation, right now, just running CDE and a few apps gets reported as 189 light-weight processes (essentially threads). Have a system shared by 1000 users could result in over 100,000 threads with approximately 1000 being in the run queue at any given moment. This is a lot of parallelism derived from what generally has no parallelism at all (the user's desktop). If users are using multi-threaded apps for CAD, image processing, games, etc., the potential system utilization goes even higher. Solaris has efficient schedulers, so shoveling more and more users and programs onto a system will take it to near-100% sustained utilization before noticable thrashing begins occuring (Windows this ain't
I was just stating that things need to be changed before something radically bad happens...
I agree with this. In some respects, history from late 18th centrury America is repeating itself, except now we're the imperialists, the ones driving high taxes, the ones constraining trade around the world, etc. Ol' GWB needs to remember his 9th grade civics lessons lest he start WWIII.
If you have no education and no skills, you won't get far...
There are jobs that do on-the-job training. There are some jobs that will pay for school in exchange for work (nursing, for example). There's the military, which has very good training options. There are community colleges, which are very affordable. There are libraries.
If it weren't for unconstitutional laws, there'd be prostitution. Legalize drugs, and the #1 occupation in bad neighborhoods would be brought out into the open and made perfectly acceptible. For the truly clueless, there's prison.
If we got rid of the minimum wage, ditch digging and sidewalk sweeping would become options, too.
it should be the governments' job to provide these to the people.
The government is failing. Public schools are mediocre and are glorified day care. State universities are seeing double-digit tuition growth. Lotteries are used as excuses to divert education funds to other projects. The government also endorses zero-tolerance policies that punish people for things that aren't even immoral.
The government isn't good at helping people; rather, it is really good at taking people's freedoms away under the guise of help. The war on drugs created the organized black market for drugs, props up dictatorships around the world, and puts thousands of innocent people into prison every year. The Earned Income Credit is a magic fountain for those who don't want to work. The minimum wage makes unskilled jobs unaffordable to those who would want to offer them. Rent subsidies allow landlords to maintain their artificially high rates and allow employers to get by paying too little. These are just the top of the iceberg.
What would be considered less controversial?
Well, there's controversy and there's risk. Any company can fold at any time (e.g., meteor hitting their headquarters), for example. As far as SCO is concerned, risk might be weighed by which companies are willing to take the heat for their customers. Is there another "indemnified" OS other than Solaris (permanent license) or, perhaps, Mac OS X (Mach kernel)? Even Windows NT/2000/XP could be a target with their known use of BSD code.
Regardless, I think any lawsuit against Linux/BSD/UNIX/Apple/Microsoft/etc. could only go in SCO's favor due to a rediculous technicality, not real merit. And, if that happened, there would be no end to the bitterness felt towards SCO, which would do wonders for destroying whatever business they try to conduct after the suit.
In conclusion, if SCO loses, they lose, and, f SCO wins, they lose.
Must have been a hardware failure then.
More likely: custom software.
I feel sorry for people in the US hit by outsourcing and the job crunch.
Don't fell sorry about what is simply reality. People in the US will adjust, we always have and always will while bitching the whole way. New markets will emerge, a new level of prosperity will emerge, then change, then we bitch about it some more, thus is the cycle of life.
I fully support raising the world-wide standard of living.
Then you should fully support the free trade that makes that possible.
Eventually, there will be no places where Nike can go with their business model, and that will be a milestone of progress world wide. That will mean the global expectation of a standard of living has reached a new threshold.
Remember, these things take time, sometimes centuries (the Inquisition lasted over a century, and what hell that was, for example).
The claim that people that are rich get rich by doing remarkable things is bogus--some do, far more simply lie, cheat and steal effectively.
The opposite is true. Such cynical statements as yours are formed by the very highly publicised cases, such as Enron, Monsanto, etc. Think of all the people you do business with in a day. If your grocer urinated in the salad bar every day and people found out about it, his business would be crushed overnight. Business have to act ethically to maintain profit, not lie cheat and steal.
The businesses like WorldCom or Arthur Anderson ususally have someone in government in their back pocket manipulating the law for them. The FDA, EPA, DEA, IRS, etc. and Congress are all guilty of this. In other words, the real problem is corruption that transcends both business and government.
You blame the businesses; I blame the government that makes those businesses legal. Have you noticed that loopholes, such as immunity from liabilty lawsuits, are added to legislation? The things these businesses do are already illegal, yet there is a congressman weak enough to write the law around them. I think that congressman is the problem, not the rich loser trying to pay him off.
Not everyone can be "remarkable" you know.
Who are we to judge?
But there are some that do, who just can't get a break...
People are not given breaks, they make them. They have a vision about their childrens' future or their retirement or their nation, and the see what it takes to get there. It doesn't always possible in one generation; just look at early immigrants in the USA. But, eventually, in a free country, a truly free country, those visions can become reality.
I thoroughly dislike the idea that just one more handout or just a one more nudge will give someone their "break." Successful people are self-made, and absolutely no one can do it for them.
What welfare does is prop people up where they should not be. There are no companies and jobs in the inner city...so why the hell do people stay there and whine for the government to save them?!? People don't want to fly as much...so what makes the airlines so deserving of being bailed out of their obese business model?!? It's utter stupidity. It's childish.
People should face the truth. If they can't survive somewhere, it is their responsibility go find out where they can. If they are not happy, it is their responsibility to look for greener pastures. No amount of money thrown at a lie will make it true, and no amount of money thrown into a city where no one wants to be will make it prosperous.
But when a company ships jobs to places where environmental and labor laws allow them to simply replace good workers with people treated little better than slaves...
Fifty years of free trade will make "slavery" in places like China and India obselete. They are undergoing an industrial revolution no different than 19th century USA. In the future, the US will have trading partners 1000 times more prosperous than today, and they will consume what the USA has to export willfully and without trade law coersion.
Restricting free trade is doing terrible injustice to not only the current "third world" but the future "first world" as well. Protectionism only sets us up to fall harder later; it's as simple as that.
Beware of getting fleeced by SCO.
Or getting made into tasty gyro.
It's too bad free trade doesn't exist. Africa would probably have so much cheap vaccine and food they wouldn't know what to do with it all.
It's too bad that people let politics get in the way of progress.
Wow, an image of Darl sitting in the bathroom pulling yard after yard of yarn out of his ass and making this profound statement. Maybe he is retarded?
only not cute and fuzzy.
And they keep shitting everywhere!
"Hey Darl, what do you want to do tonight?"
"Same thing we do every night, try to take over the world!"