Thank you muchly to minimum wage legislation and unions for bringing this wonderful scenario to pass.
Actually, the cheaper labor is, the less incentive there is to raise productivity. It is precisely the higher cost of clerical and computational labor here in the US that led to the economic drive to create and expand the computer industry. Similarly, high factory labor costs led to robotics implementation.
Similarly, states that have lower minimum wages do not tend to have lower (or higher) unemployment rates in any particular job segment. This means that other factors are much more important. So save your anti-labor rants for somewhere that they are actually applicable (if you can find one).
Bush said he wanted $1.2 Billion put towards developing fuel cell technologies. I know, I know, it isn't the same as the military budget,
Yo! Bright boy. It isn't even close to what he wants to pay to oust Sadam, let alone the military budget. Remember he wants Congress to allocate $68B for his little Iraqian adventure, and still needs $32B to bribe Turkey, after that. $1.2B may sound like a lot to you, but compared with most Federal expendatures, it's lost in the noise. So, trust me, Bush is (yet again) no hero in this area.
Open source and cheap foreign tech labor are converging to gut the high-margin software biz. I think in a few years people will drastically reconsider this market and profit prospects in it, and the process will be brutal.
A few years? How many companies do you know that are still left? Most are toasty goodness already. The rest will be soon. There are only two outs: The first is to provide service. Many of the big CRM, HR, and accounting firms already make most of their money consulting on customization rather than actually selling the product. Run the system from a central location and most companies would be much happier. Customization is much easier, too. Second, although product is dead, content is not. That is why there will always be a TurboTax from Intuit and an anti-virus system from Symantec. Microsoft hasn't seemed to catch on to the fact (except with, perhaps MSNBC) that it is really the content people pay for.
So, retool your companies to provide service or content and use the software as only a tool to deliver the same. You'll be better off - unless, of course, you're a programmer... sigh.
Yeah, they don't like having Americans like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Ashcroft around. Most other Americans are welcome, even the ones from the US.
How about we just send over the first four you mentioned and the rest of us will stay here? Otherwise, you're liable to have 300,000,000 overnight guests...
I think that was worth dismaying a journalist, I really do. I think the truth is much more important than her feelings of chagrin at being mocked for spelling mistakes or whatever- some people don't seem to 'get' that her ability to REPORT was terrific and plainly on display, and the news was desperately important.
A-fscking-men!!
Mod the parent up.
Jeebus! All of you folks wankin' on about some asshat reporter's E-mail (not marked as special in any way) being forwarded without her permission, when the news she forwards is about nothing less than W's war possibly turning into a complete global economic meltdown and an admission about America's plan for war after war after war until the world is filled with compliant governments. I cannot believe the sheer self-blindness of the folks that can ignore this.
But let's guess - W's not Clinton, so it's OK, huh?
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Rather than naming yourself "(1337) God", you should adopt the moniker "(1337) Vogon"...
... that they are surrounded by nothing but thieves, murderers, and terrorists! And that nothing but more and more laws and government prosecution can make them safe to carry out their Constitutionally guaranteed right to support and protect the megacorps that make all good things possible! I think that all of you folks whining here must want the terrorists to win. You must all be pirates, at least. Off to Guantanimo with the lot of you!
Love, Peace, and Linux-based surveillance programs, Uncle John A.
Has Bill bought stock in VA Lin..., uh Syst... uh whateverthe hell we call it today? Two somewhat positive MS stories in one day! And without the usual bashing in the headlines!!?? Who the hell put Prozac in Cowboy Neal's chili???
Quite often the technically best technology for a job is not chosen. Many times who is available to work on the code, how sustainable management believes the resulting code will be, and, quite frankly, a plethora of non-technical issues that management views as more important will have more impact than any technical criterion.
After all, if technology selection was rational, everyone would be using Lisp or Smalltalk.
... where he states that risk is a major reason that a society would under-invest in research and innovative technologies. When we look at the current IP monopoly regime, the reason for decreased innovation during times of high IP protection and litigation becomes clear: The risk of using an invention that might subject the inventor to IP rights violations overwhelms the protection from monetary risk that IP rights monolopies provide.
And to quote the article: Much of Arrow's article examines economic means of dealing with uncertainty, none of them completely successful.
So it seems that the granting of monopolies for innovators is also not completely successful. So it goes...
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It might be interesting to know, though somewhat dusgusting to get to.
Not to be trollish, but why? It's a frickin' sheep, for God's sake. It's not like it wasn't going to eaten or put into dog food at the end anyway, right? Same for a million of them (or their genetic material which could easily be thrown down a drain or allowed to decompose). It might be a huge amount of effort (with 1,000,000 trials), but how one gets from that to disgusting, I don't see. Don't tell me - you didn't grow up in a farming community, huh?
... is that UNIX OS'es have gone about as far as they can. The paradigm has been mined, scalability ensured, and so forth. It is no surprise that a final "best of breed" UNIX is being produced. The only amazing thing is that it's being done via open source.
As we move forward, there will be variants of the common OS code base for different platforms and applications and, certainly, more applications and GUI's than you can shake a stick at, but the OS qua OS is pretty much finished. This is actually a good thing. It will lead to a stable platform for development of applications while freeing up OS kernel folks to actually do something new and different.
Uh... Symantec is Norton. The Peter Norton Group was sold to Symantec at least five years ago. Norton is Symantec's consumer brand, just as MacAfee is Network Associate's consumer brand.
chances of you getting smacked for P2P start decreasing by 0.09% every day.
Actually, no. Your expected fine and time in prison might go down as much as by this amount per day. The probability is another thing.
The probability of capture and impostion of fines might be modeled coarsely as a constant level throughout the given timeframe. In reality, the chance that you are caught for any one infraction is a complex probability calculation that depends on where you are downloading from (Joe's Biggee ISP in JoeBob Corner, AZ is a much less likely target than Verizon in SF), how much you download, how many people Uncle Johnny A. decides to put on this issue, and whether or not he got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Again, given the imponderables involved, all you can say is that, if you stop today, your expected time in jail and expected fine will go down at some rate, becoming 0 the day after the SoL comes about.
I used to be a KDE user. When 8.0 came out, having read about all of the controversy, I put GNOME on my 8.0 box. I found I liked it better. I see no reason to go back. If RH dropped KDE, I would not shed a single tear.
The world of Grandmaster-level chess is truly screwed up at this point in history. There are at least three different organization claiming that they and only they have the right to name the World Chess Champion with most GM's not recognizing the true legitimacy of any of them. At this time, no one really knows who the best chess player is. It would take about $30M in funding to gather the 16 best players together to play a round-robin tournament that would settle this thing once and for all and, even then, you'd have people bitching about which 16 should have been invited, how many games should each player play against each other, etc. I blame FIDE for it's continual screwing of players and internal corruption for this mess.
In fact, I believe he blew about 15 million of Ross Perot's own investment money on NeXT.
And this is bad... how? Unless, of course, you happen to be Ross. Tricky pseudonym, Mr. Perot -- by the way, $15 million is peanuts compared to some of the dotcom stuff. Come back when you wanna bet enough money to make playin' worthwhile!
And why you come slummin' 'roun' here anyhow? You tryin' to run again and 'fraid that li'l Stevey might whup ya? Never mind. We voted for some asshole Texan last time. Sure don't wanna make that mistake again. Nexttt!!!
Dude! You didn't buy an action figure! You bought a f*ckin' DOLL!!! The judge said so. I don't know about you... Although I guess it's OK if you're a girl or something.
Likewise, there have been times when I've wanted to start my own business. One glance at the tax forms for the self-employed, and I'm disabused of that fucking notion with a quickness.
Most entrepenuers would say that anyone that would let taxes (or the paperwork entailed therein) to prevent them from starting a business was not cut out to start a business anyway.
Not that I'm telling you not to bitch about it and try to get the whole thing changed, though. It's every American's God-given right to bitch about taxes. Feel free to do so. I just don't like straw-man arguments like, "The tax laws give me an excuse not to get off my non-entrepeneureal ass and not start a business."
Consider also that the taxes you pay helps to construct a legal and infrastructural framework under which businesses can operate quite safely and easily. Last I heard, the Soviet Union did not have any sort of effective tax law (or government either). You could always move there. What!?!? It doesn't have the legal protections you want? It doesn't have phone lines that aren't being torn down for their copper content? Poor baby.
P.S. The kind of rant you indulged in is why everyone sees Libertarians as a bunch of whiners.
...they have made the decision. Their decision is that even an extension of 100 billion years would be permissible.
Maybe this is the way to fight it. Get Congress to pass a law saying that Copyright lasts for 2000 years. Put it past the SC. Perhaps then they's see the problem. If that doesn't work, make it 20,00 years. And so on...
theory taught by Mel Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month"
Uh... That's Fred Brooks. He's the technological genius.
As for Mel, his forte was business genius, as anyone who watched "The Producers" or saw the monster "dog and pony show" in "Young Frankenstein" well knows.
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Really? I though of this one... At least realism-wise.
'Cause we ain't f*ckin' got 'em yet. We'd be pretty stupid complaining if we had them, now wouldn't we?
Actually, the cheaper labor is, the less incentive there is to raise productivity. It is precisely the higher cost of clerical and computational labor here in the US that led to the economic drive to create and expand the computer industry. Similarly, high factory labor costs led to robotics implementation.
Similarly, states that have lower minimum wages do not tend to have lower (or higher) unemployment rates in any particular job segment. This means that other factors are much more important. So save your anti-labor rants for somewhere that they are actually applicable (if you can find one).
Yo! Bright boy. It isn't even close to what he wants to pay to oust Sadam, let alone the military budget. Remember he wants Congress to allocate $68B for his little Iraqian adventure, and still needs $32B to bribe Turkey, after that. $1.2B may sound like a lot to you, but compared with most Federal expendatures, it's lost in the noise. So, trust me, Bush is (yet again) no hero in this area.
A few years? How many companies do you know that are still left? Most are toasty goodness already. The rest will be soon. There are only two outs: The first is to provide service. Many of the big CRM, HR, and accounting firms already make most of their money consulting on customization rather than actually selling the product. Run the system from a central location and most companies would be much happier. Customization is much easier, too. Second, although product is dead, content is not. That is why there will always be a TurboTax from Intuit and an anti-virus system from Symantec. Microsoft hasn't seemed to catch on to the fact (except with, perhaps MSNBC) that it is really the content people pay for.
So, retool your companies to provide service or content and use the software as only a tool to deliver the same. You'll be better off - unless, of course, you're a programmer... sigh.
How about we just send over the first four you mentioned and the rest of us will stay here? Otherwise, you're liable to have 300,000,000 overnight guests...
A-fscking-men!!
Mod the parent up.
Jeebus! All of you folks wankin' on about some asshat reporter's E-mail (not marked as special in any way) being forwarded without her permission, when the news she forwards is about nothing less than W's war possibly turning into a complete global economic meltdown and an admission about America's plan for war after war after war until the world is filled with compliant governments. I cannot believe the sheer self-blindness of the folks that can ignore this.
But let's guess - W's not Clinton, so it's OK, huh?
Rather than naming yourself "(1337) God", you should adopt the moniker "(1337) Vogon"...
... that they are surrounded by nothing but thieves, murderers, and terrorists! And that nothing but more and more laws and government prosecution can make them safe to carry out their Constitutionally guaranteed right to support and protect the megacorps that make all good things possible! I think that all of you folks whining here must want the terrorists to win. You must all be pirates, at least. Off to Guantanimo with the lot of you!
Love, Peace, and Linux-based surveillance programs,
Uncle John A.
I hope it wears off by tomorrow...
F*ck you, man. I'm a college graduate - I use all ten toes...
After all, if technology selection was rational, everyone would be using Lisp or Smalltalk.
And to quote the article: Much of Arrow's article examines economic means of dealing with uncertainty, none of them completely successful.
So it seems that the granting of monopolies for innovators is also not completely successful. So it goes...
That's why conservatives think she's hot.
Not to be trollish, but why? It's a frickin' sheep, for God's sake. It's not like it wasn't going to eaten or put into dog food at the end anyway, right? Same for a million of them (or their genetic material which could easily be thrown down a drain or allowed to decompose). It might be a huge amount of effort (with 1,000,000 trials), but how one gets from that to disgusting, I don't see. Don't tell me - you didn't grow up in a farming community, huh?
As we move forward, there will be variants of the common OS code base for different platforms and applications and, certainly, more applications and GUI's than you can shake a stick at, but the OS qua OS is pretty much finished. This is actually a good thing. It will lead to a stable platform for development of applications while freeing up OS kernel folks to actually do something new and different.
Uh... Symantec is Norton. The Peter Norton Group was sold to Symantec at least five years ago. Norton is Symantec's consumer brand, just as MacAfee is Network Associate's consumer brand.
Actually, no. Your expected fine and time in prison might go down as much as by this amount per day. The probability is another thing.
The probability of capture and impostion of fines might be modeled coarsely as a constant level throughout the given timeframe. In reality, the chance that you are caught for any one infraction is a complex probability calculation that depends on where you are downloading from (Joe's Biggee ISP in JoeBob Corner, AZ is a much less likely target than Verizon in SF), how much you download, how many people Uncle Johnny A. decides to put on this issue, and whether or not he got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Again, given the imponderables involved, all you can say is that, if you stop today, your expected time in jail and expected fine will go down at some rate, becoming 0 the day after the SoL comes about.
I used to be a KDE user. When 8.0 came out, having read about all of the controversy, I put GNOME on my 8.0 box. I found I liked it better. I see no reason to go back. If RH dropped KDE, I would not shed a single tear.
The world of Grandmaster-level chess is truly screwed up at this point in history. There are at least three different organization claiming that they and only they have the right to name the World Chess Champion with most GM's not recognizing the true legitimacy of any of them. At this time, no one really knows who the best chess player is. It would take about $30M in funding to gather the 16 best players together to play a round-robin tournament that would settle this thing once and for all and, even then, you'd have people bitching about which 16 should have been invited, how many games should each player play against each other, etc. I blame FIDE for it's continual screwing of players and internal corruption for this mess.
And this is bad... how? Unless, of course, you happen to be Ross. Tricky pseudonym, Mr. Perot -- by the way, $15 million is peanuts compared to some of the dotcom stuff. Come back when you wanna bet enough money to make playin' worthwhile!
And why you come slummin' 'roun' here anyhow? You tryin' to run again and 'fraid that li'l Stevey might whup ya? Never mind. We voted for some asshole Texan last time. Sure don't wanna make that mistake again. Nexttt!!!
Dude! You didn't buy an action figure! You bought a f*ckin' DOLL!!! The judge said so. I don't know about you... Although I guess it's OK if you're a girl or something.
Most entrepenuers would say that anyone that would let taxes (or the paperwork entailed therein) to prevent them from starting a business was not cut out to start a business anyway.
Not that I'm telling you not to bitch about it and try to get the whole thing changed, though. It's every American's God-given right to bitch about taxes. Feel free to do so. I just don't like straw-man arguments like, "The tax laws give me an excuse not to get off my non-entrepeneureal ass and not start a business."
Consider also that the taxes you pay helps to construct a legal and infrastructural framework under which businesses can operate quite safely and easily. Last I heard, the Soviet Union did not have any sort of effective tax law (or government either). You could always move there. What!?!? It doesn't have the legal protections you want? It doesn't have phone lines that aren't being torn down for their copper content? Poor baby.
P.S. The kind of rant you indulged in is why everyone sees Libertarians as a bunch of whiners.
Maybe this is the way to fight it. Get Congress to pass a law saying that Copyright lasts for 2000 years. Put it past the SC. Perhaps then they's see the problem. If that doesn't work, make it 20,00 years. And so on...
Uh... That's Fred Brooks. He's the technological genius.
As for Mel, his forte was business genius, as anyone who watched "The Producers" or saw the monster "dog and pony show" in "Young Frankenstein" well knows.