Why wouldn't this be true for the USA ? You know, the old "Customer is king" thing... That went away about the same time it became popular to find out the absolute minimum level of service and what customers you could easily drop.
There will be an adjustment period. Why does that sound like you're attempting to boil a frog? With too many reminders of earlier services that did that at their peril, you're not going to get much sympathy.
A successful China doesn't need to be a negative to the world. The competition between G7 countries results in a net positive. In terms of quality, it's only gone downward if you don't hail from Wall Street. Quite hollow of a positive unless you're wishing to recreate the Gilded Age.
Innovation isn't a zero sum game and the more creative people working in integrated and "open" economies the better. Innovation has yet to happen over there. It only is a haven for those who want to escape business regulation - regulation that is not tight enough.
Like the UN for some, the WTO is largely ineffective and should be left to the slave-labor nations, with a plan for the developed nations. An EU/US bilateral treaty would at least allow for some trade while allowing our own on both sides to "take care of our own". Combine that with strict "front company prohibition" regulations, then allow others to join when they meet labor, quality of life, product safety, and universal higher education admission standards. If that means China is delayed by 200 years, so be it. Slave labor is not excusable by any means.
There are a billion Chinese looking to take your job, but hopefully there will also be a billion Chinese consumers looking for your goods and services. Improve the quality from worker to product - then we can talk trade. Otherwise cheaply made trinkets, a devalued yuan, slave labor, and those who take up slots at our educational institutions(with 1.4bn people, there should be plenty of slots over there) tend to turn that region of the world into a target. Please hope that for your sake that it does not become a military target. The longer you continue, that risk increases that it will be for a large enough population to skip economic sanctions, straight to full-on war.
Leave your hypercompetitive attitude in the sporting arena, and stop penalizing citizens from obtaining a first-class education. Otherwise you're just letting that country "juice up", largely at our expense.
If you were an old fart like me you would remember when exactly the same criticisms were said about the cheap Japanese rip-offs that were flooding the market and undermining domestic products that were simply superior in every way. The very idea that Japan would, or could, become world class was laughable, just ask the British motorcycle industry - or the US motor industry.
More the reason to not allow them in unless they meet the same standards from worker to product. Then count the origin of any parts from the parent company's location (and not just the place it's made) - to further enforce it.
Japan had a chance when they still made unrestricted supercars. Now, they're restricting choice with the underpowered offerings that make it to the US. It's not an insurmountable problem - a few well-placed regulations, and they'll be back in step.
Until then, I'll have mine well-muscled, and GM/Ford North American - and not exhorbitantly out of reach.
If we take this opportunity to extinguish the problems that China brings in quality (and obvious currency manipulation), there might be a day that it may become acceptable. However, their lack of attention to quality from worker to product will continue to have problems.
Beware complacency.
Beware those who would have you sacrifice quality for "free-trade" as quality will be long-gone afterwards. Also beware those who defend it- for they also do not have quality in mind and may not have any intent on having it.
You mean "Beware the two-faced free-trader, for quality does not follow him- only shoddy knockoffs and broken promises".
Most people that buy a Wii have no clue what the differences in the hardware specs are between the systems. They only look at the price tag. If not for the controller, that would hit it right on. Without it, you just have a GC refresh - something very unremarkable for a new console. You can only go so far with gameplay until non-HD graphics is a liability.
Now if they'd get S-Bus/hardware specs opened up on a "hobbyist RAND" basis, then you could bury the sun4m specific bits for good. Otherwise, to not aim to this crowd in some form would be stretching the "commodity silicon" term, as well as insisting on sun4m be buried and gone.
Commodity silicon exists, and it's not done on SPARC.
Great idea. Take a moment what a crowd of Mexicans running frantically North with their eyes closed and their arms in front feeling their way.
It illustrates the problem having to outright declare war on that nation to stop them. Nothing like 150000+ people outfitted with the finest in US military hardware defending the border that Corporate America doesnt want defended.
To posts that go this way: It will take the manufacturers all of a blink of an eye to create Euro only models by changing the firmware to limit video capabilities.
Then buyers can change the firmware after they get the cameras.
If that tax accounts for hardware capability down to anything that can record video that is capable of/over 800x600/23fps, in any way (including firmware modification?), pay up.
I doubt in this anti-worker climate that abortive failure of offshoring is an option. It just means it's delayed, especially with Cohen & Grigsby in the picture.
Thank the business lobby, and Ford/Reagan for giving businesses their thunderbolts for this.
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Why wouldn't this be true for the USA ? You know, the old "Customer is king" thing...
That went away about the same time it became popular to find out the absolute minimum level of service and what customers you could easily drop.
There will be an adjustment period.
Why does that sound like you're attempting to boil a frog? With too many reminders of earlier services that did that at their peril, you're not going to get much sympathy.
...when it comes to the dangers of streaming of any type. Unfortunately some would rather take it as a manual than fiction.
Another part would be to make sure there are robust barriers keeping those electronics out.
One more case proving that nothing justifies slave labor, not even the misguided folks replying to your thread stating such.
...will Darl try his game there, or will he wisely avoid signing his own death sentence by becoming a patent troll there?
A successful China doesn't need to be a negative to the world. The competition between G7 countries results in a net positive.
In terms of quality, it's only gone downward if you don't hail from Wall Street. Quite hollow of a positive unless you're wishing to recreate the Gilded Age.
Innovation isn't a zero sum game and the more creative people working in integrated and "open" economies the better.
Innovation has yet to happen over there. It only is a haven for those who want to escape business regulation - regulation that is not tight enough.
Like the UN for some, the WTO is largely ineffective and should be left to the slave-labor nations, with a plan for the developed nations. An EU/US bilateral treaty would at least allow for some trade while allowing our own on both sides to "take care of our own". Combine that with strict "front company prohibition" regulations, then allow others to join when they meet labor, quality of life, product safety, and universal higher education admission standards. If that means China is delayed by 200 years, so be it. Slave labor is not excusable by any means.
There are a billion Chinese looking to take your job, but hopefully there will also be a billion Chinese consumers looking for your goods and services.
Improve the quality from worker to product - then we can talk trade. Otherwise cheaply made trinkets, a devalued yuan, slave labor, and those who take up slots at our educational institutions(with 1.4bn people, there should be plenty of slots over there) tend to turn that region of the world into a target. Please hope that for your sake that it does not become a military target. The longer you continue, that risk increases that it will be for a large enough population to skip economic sanctions, straight to full-on war.
Leave your hypercompetitive attitude in the sporting arena, and stop penalizing citizens from obtaining a first-class education. Otherwise you're just letting that country "juice up", largely at our expense.
If you were an old fart like me you would remember when exactly the same criticisms were said about the cheap Japanese rip-offs that were flooding the market and undermining domestic products that were simply superior in every way. The very idea that Japan would, or could, become world class was laughable, just ask the British motorcycle industry - or the US motor industry.
More the reason to not allow them in unless they meet the same standards from worker to product. Then count the origin of any parts from the parent company's location (and not just the place it's made) - to further enforce it.
Japan had a chance when they still made unrestricted supercars. Now, they're restricting choice with the underpowered offerings that make it to the US. It's not an insurmountable problem - a few well-placed regulations, and they'll be back in step.
Until then, I'll have mine well-muscled, and GM/Ford North American - and not exhorbitantly out of reach.
If we take this opportunity to extinguish the problems that China brings in quality (and obvious currency manipulation), there might be a day that it may become acceptable. However, their lack of attention to quality from worker to product will continue to have problems.
Beware complacency.
Beware those who would have you sacrifice quality for "free-trade" as quality will be long-gone afterwards. Also beware those who defend it- for they also do not have quality in mind and may not have any intent on having it.
You mean "Beware the two-faced free-trader, for quality does not follow him- only shoddy knockoffs and broken promises".
This is supposed to be an improvement over TiVO and others by *how*?
What could probably go wrong?
Well, if they interpret the highway code as a couple of celebrities do so...
...until some of their own bloggers see behind the faked result.
Most people that buy a Wii have no clue what the differences in the hardware specs are between the systems. They only look at the price tag.
If not for the controller, that would hit it right on. Without it, you just have a GC refresh - something very unremarkable for a new console. You can only go so far with gameplay until non-HD graphics is a liability.
Reuters implements this technology immediately, and some right-wing bloggers wondered where all the fake photographs went.
Now if they'd get S-Bus/hardware specs opened up on a "hobbyist RAND" basis, then you could bury the sun4m specific bits for good. Otherwise, to not aim to this crowd in some form would be stretching the "commodity silicon" term, as well as insisting on sun4m be buried and gone.
Commodity silicon exists, and it's not done on SPARC.
Only on Duke campus, Durham, NC. Also restricted to Mike Nifong and supporters thereof.
No, but I've heard of one case in Durham. It only stopped when the 4 were able to run the guy out of town along with anyone supporting him.
Why do these names come to mind when it comes to "ethics"? Or is it just controversy on my mind?
Since they removed sun4(c/d/m) support and defended that decision, there's no doubt that anything current in Solaris is not a copy.
Great idea. Take a moment what a crowd of Mexicans running frantically North with their eyes closed and their arms in front feeling their way.
It illustrates the problem having to outright declare war on that nation to stop them. Nothing like 150000+ people outfitted with the finest in US military hardware defending the border that Corporate America doesnt want defended.
Watch for them and another major region to drop out of the WTO when they see enough of this happen.
Thought that was the ipod userbase's name.
To posts that go this way:
It will take the manufacturers all of a blink of an eye to create Euro only models by changing the firmware to limit video capabilities.
Then buyers can change the firmware after they get the cameras.
If that tax accounts for hardware capability down to anything that can record video that is capable of/over 800x600/23fps, in any way (including firmware modification?), pay up.
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Mind that that was a Google project mixed with Stanford exclusivity. Otherwise well explained.
I doubt in this anti-worker climate that abortive failure of offshoring is an option. It just means it's delayed, especially with Cohen & Grigsby in the picture.
Thank the business lobby, and Ford/Reagan for giving businesses their thunderbolts for this.