It's a multitool, and something I've waited to have happen since the N770 (which I have as well). It has EDGE, 3G(T-mobile-friendly bands), 802.11b/g, IR, plenty of storage and it's open.
The only missing part is that Nokia really hates Perl, loves Python, or both.
I'm just hoping the Maemo phone doesn't get completely locked out of Meego. Yes, there is a Meego image currently available, but does have some missing functionality(unless you want to operate it as an overpowered N810).
You do realize that such tariffs would bring instant death to the economies of dozens of developing countries, and that the only reason for the incredible rise in standard of living of ordinary workers in China in the last three decades was due to the fact that they are able to produce and export goods more cheaply than those in the countries who import them?
You're presuming an infinite amount of concern exists and an infinite tolerance for pain also exists. Not so.
At some point it stops becoming our issue to care - at the same point where the US suffers for doing so.
The ones that wait too long will go out of business
Or become too big to fail.
Whether they want to go elsewhere is often, in the end, irrelevant so the only important question is whether they can move.
Depends on if it is an economic force, or if it is a political force (e.g. "Going Galt", temporary labor, offshoring). If it is the former, automation might have a good result. If it is a political force (as what is going on now) the correct response is to block the exits.
You are correct that sometimes it is very difficult in the short run but that is not an argument against automation.
However, that short run is still long, and (unlike machines) people do complain in that "short" timeframe. The saving of labor is meant to Get Around Some Law, not so much to advance society.
Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation?
A) It puts people out of work B) Retraining on the large scale does not work due to its inaccuracy and slow speed.
Now if there was a clear way to speedily transition people, you might have a point. That, and retraining only pays for retraining - you still have to find ways to survive.
It's not like those 1930's cartoons where they just jump off the unemployment line in a matter of seconds. It's more like years if at all.
It raises everybody up in the long run
In the long run, everyone is dead. The king, his round table, the Chinese "suicide" victims, Vincent Chin, the guy that offshored your job, and you over a long enough timespan.
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
You incorrectly presume that there is a something else, that they can move to that in a short enough time, and that they want to do so.
It's more profitable to nickel-and-dime people than to be the only provider who actually provides good service. That, and nobody wants to be the only provider actually provides said service, given the avalanche of people that go to the last unlimited-data provider.
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It's a multitool, and something I've waited to have happen since the N770 (which I have as well).
It has EDGE, 3G(T-mobile-friendly bands), 802.11b/g, IR, plenty of storage and it's open.
The only missing part is that Nokia really hates Perl, loves Python, or both.
I'm just hoping the Maemo phone doesn't get completely locked out of Meego. Yes, there is a Meego image currently available, but does have some missing functionality(unless you want to operate it as an overpowered N810).
It's bad when your country has to be a hellhole, and not a developed country like the US.
Nice, but the longer one is on that, the more likely that employment will be harder to find.
Now what might work is something that forces not just the unemployed to the table, but also does so for the providers of the opportunities.
You do realize that such tariffs would bring instant death to the economies of dozens of developing countries, and that the only reason for the incredible rise in standard of living of ordinary workers in China in the last three decades was due to the fact that they are able to produce and export goods more cheaply than those in the countries who import them?
You're presuming an infinite amount of concern exists and an infinite tolerance for pain also exists. Not so.
At some point it stops becoming our issue to care - at the same point where the US suffers for doing so.
Bring on the tariffs and call their bluff.
The ones that wait too long will go out of business
Or become too big to fail.
Whether they want to go elsewhere is often, in the end, irrelevant so the only important question is whether they can move.
Depends on if it is an economic force, or if it is a political force (e.g. "Going Galt", temporary labor, offshoring). If it is the former, automation might have a good result. If it is a political force (as what is going on now) the correct response is to block the exits.
You are correct that sometimes it is very difficult in the short run but that is not an argument against automation.
However, that short run is still long, and (unlike machines) people do complain in that "short" timeframe. The saving of labor is meant to Get Around Some Law, not so much to advance society.
That's why China is there. Their lack of concern of human rights is an asset.
Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation?
A) It puts people out of work
B) Retraining on the large scale does not work due to its inaccuracy and slow speed.
Now if there was a clear way to speedily transition people, you might have a point. That, and retraining only pays for retraining - you still have to find ways to survive.
It's not like those 1930's cartoons where they just jump off the unemployment line in a matter of seconds. It's more like years if at all.
It raises everybody up in the long run
In the long run, everyone is dead. The king, his round table, the Chinese "suicide" victims, Vincent Chin, the guy that offshored your job, and you over a long enough timespan.
Suicide? No.
Homicide? More likely, even if it means someone's party-boss/Executive Audi or VW becomes their coffin.
Not the most politically correct thing to say, but those people out of work would be too overwhelming of an amount.
That's about when things start needing to get a bit more deadly, and not for the line/staff folks - but for the ones who are able to move the work.
Not that /., foxconn or China would know the difference.
If that's China, that'll come in the form of homicides. Of the workers.
Then bills will be sent for the bullets.
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
You incorrectly presume that there is a something else, that they can move to that in a short enough time, and that they want to do so.
All this will do is just move the problem. Unless they thought having to actually give a damn about those workers was a problem.
Invariably, someone will translate those screams into something of religious significance.
It's more profitable to nickel-and-dime people than to be the only provider who actually provides good service. That, and nobody wants to be the only provider actually provides said service, given the avalanche of people that go to the last unlimited-data provider.
If something catches fire on that vehicle(and thus catches the shrubbery), you have a burning bush. No word on if anyone would be speaking from it.
The despotic People's Republic of China - where the worst of company town practices are in an entire country(if not region).
Third World factories seem to keep on making these mistakes.
You think they'd try making these in Japan, with full Japanese citizens making them for once?
All the goods were junk, and only Japan tried to give any attention to quality.
The rest continue to output junk from despots.
Actually, they stand to lose more if we default on the debt.
We just need to be careful though that *we* aren't the slave labor they decide to import.
If that happens, I will not hesitate to send them to see Vincent Chin in the hereafter.