How is a company supposed to "compete" with South Korean government subsidies? The Korean taxpayers are subsidizing the low cost of Hynix products. Why *shouldn't* the U.S., and E.U., apply a tarriff to Hynix products? Should the U.S. and the E.U. allow countries like S.K. and companies like Hynix destroy their native industries? No. Should they subsidize their native industries in return? No. Should they apply a tarriff that negates the effects of the South Korean subsidies? Yes!
Bullshit. When a foreigh government subsidizes a company to artificially lower the prices of its products, that's not "free trade" and it's not "fair trade." It's predatory mercantilism, and the U.S., along with any other country, has every right to apply a tarriff to the company and/or country in question. The WTO even supports this -- for every country.
There's occasionally talk on LKML of using 9P, the universal Plan9 protocol, in Linux.
9P is the filing protocol, but *everything* in Plan9 is a file, so it's a universal protocol. It allows you to do things like nest devince namespaces, so you can have windowing systems inside windowing systems without any extra work.
Don't worry, the E.U. is outsourcing its I.T. jobs to India and the Ukraine, too. Although, I suppose that "unemployment" is approximately the same as "long, poorly paid vacation."
So, what it says is, the states can tax Euro imports, as long as Congress authorizes it, and the money ends up in the federal treasury.
In other words, Congress could pass a law to annoy Europe's merchants in the same manner that the E.U. issued a directive that will annoy U.S. merchants.
3. U.S. States begin requiring collection of state sales tax by Euro companies. EU decides this is actually all too difficult and anti-trade, and backs off.
Lots of users do this. It actually makes some sense -- the Windows filepicker presents a more straight-forward, linear view of the filesystem then the explorer with less extranous informaiton.
Great. Talk to the Gnome folks about making Nautilus operate as a file picker, too, rather than having a separate, ugly, file picker.
Oh, I don't know. A lot of people seem to think that Word *is* the computer. There's a guy here who tries to open EVERY file he gets from inside Word's File/Open dialog ("why can't I read this 'PDF' file? It comes up as a bunch of garbage."... "Because you're an idiot."). He also uses the file picker as the file manager, renaming and moving files with it. He's a "magic typewriter" kind of person.
However, I suppose this guy might have some legitimate need to have short looping video in his powerpoint presentations, and Openoffice will not do that.
Good luck getting Oracle to run on and support your Gentoo/Slackware/LFS/etc system.
If you call Oracle with a database problem, and tell them it's running on a home-made distro with a kernel you patched yourself, be prepared to not get any support. How can they support their DB software if they don't know about the OS it's running on? Sure, it's "Linux," but can they test against it? Do you think Oracle will wait for you to send them a bootable, installable CD of HowlinMadOS, try it out, and get back to you?
What do you buy with Redhat? Support -- and not just from Redhat. Plus, putting "up2date -uv" in cron.daily can be convenient.
XP isn't "right." Windows 2000 is the best version so far. Windows XP is Windows 2000 plus a kids' play area, romper room colors, and crappy, under-performing memory management.
Word 5.1 for the Macintosh was a suitable word processor.
Visual C++ is "The Microsoft Lanaguage" (TML) that happens to share a good bit of syntax with C++.
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How is a company supposed to "compete" with South Korean government subsidies? The Korean taxpayers are subsidizing the low cost of Hynix products. Why *shouldn't* the U.S., and E.U., apply a tarriff to Hynix products? Should the U.S. and the E.U. allow countries like S.K. and companies like Hynix destroy their native industries? No. Should they subsidize their native industries in return? No. Should they apply a tarriff that negates the effects of the South Korean subsidies? Yes!
Bullshit. When a foreigh government subsidizes a company to artificially lower the prices of its products, that's not "free trade" and it's not "fair trade." It's predatory mercantilism, and the U.S., along with any other country, has every right to apply a tarriff to the company and/or country in question. The WTO even supports this -- for every country.
Cursing America isn't always the answer.
The USDA is a "uniquely American totalitarian fuckup," in the words of P.J. O'Rourke.
There's occasionally talk on LKML of using 9P, the universal Plan9 protocol, in Linux.
9P is the filing protocol, but *everything* in Plan9 is a file, so it's a universal protocol. It allows you to do things like nest devince namespaces, so you can have windowing systems inside windowing systems without any extra work.
3. Do the work, and look forward to the project being completed, with the hope that there are rewards and that the working environment gets better.
4. Realize that both the client and your management are happy with the quick turn-around and want more.
5. Try to push back, and/or quit.
6. Watch your job get exported to India and/or the Ukraine, where people work "over night" -- it's like magic! -- and get paid less.
7. Would you like fries with that? / Welcome to WalMart!
Don't worry, the E.U. is outsourcing its I.T. jobs to India and the Ukraine, too. Although, I suppose that "unemployment" is approximately the same as "long, poorly paid vacation."
So, what it says is, the states can tax Euro imports, as long as Congress authorizes it, and the money ends up in the federal treasury.
In other words, Congress could pass a law to annoy Europe's merchants in the same manner that the E.U. issued a directive that will annoy U.S. merchants.
3. U.S. States begin requiring collection of state sales tax by Euro companies. EU decides this is actually all too difficult and anti-trade, and backs off.
Perhaps U.S. States will require E.U. companies to collect state sales tax. Seems only fair.
Lots of users do this. It actually makes some sense -- the Windows filepicker presents a more straight-forward, linear view of the filesystem then the explorer with less extranous informaiton.
Great. Talk to the Gnome folks about making Nautilus operate as a file picker, too, rather than having a separate, ugly, file picker.
Oh, I don't know. A lot of people seem to think that Word *is* the computer. There's a guy here who tries to open EVERY file he gets from inside Word's File/Open dialog ("why can't I read this 'PDF' file? It comes up as a bunch of garbage."
However, I suppose this guy might have some legitimate need to have short looping video in his powerpoint presentations, and Openoffice will not do that.
Good luck getting Oracle to run on and support your Gentoo/Slackware/LFS/etc system.
If you call Oracle with a database problem, and tell them it's running on a home-made distro with a kernel you patched yourself, be prepared to not get any support. How can they support their DB software if they don't know about the OS it's running on? Sure, it's "Linux," but can they test against it? Do you think Oracle will wait for you to send them a bootable, installable CD of HowlinMadOS, try it out, and get back to you?
What do you buy with Redhat? Support -- and not just from Redhat. Plus, putting "up2date -uv" in cron.daily can be convenient.
The rant:
: web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/200 0-August/0356.html+zappe+reiser&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
: web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/200 0-August/0581.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:NCAs60dUpskJ
The replies:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:5SyM_97NyeoJ
Or, as is often the case, "Data In, Garbage Out."
And what the users want is "Garbage In, Data Out."
Let's see. Windows + Office + Photoshop + Visual Studio + Exchange + SQL Server would come to about nine CDs.
I have another question -- how long until there is a JDK for RedHat9 and its spiffy new threading mechanism?
Yeah, like the "Island of Lost Souls", remade twice as "The Island of Dr. Moreau."
Perhaps the Island is a "breakaway province."
Chicken.
XP isn't "right." Windows 2000 is the best version so far. Windows XP is Windows 2000 plus a kids' play area, romper room colors, and crappy, under-performing memory management.
Word 5.1 for the Macintosh was a suitable word processor.
Visual C++ is "The Microsoft Lanaguage" (TML) that happens to share a good bit of syntax with C++.
Access, IIS, Frontpage and Outlook all stink.
Well that certainly was clever. How many boring zealots does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I don't know. How many of there are you?
Or perhaps people are just growing tired of the childish banter that a subset of Slashdot users seem compelled to beat a dead horse with.
Q. How often should people be reminded that Microsoft is not a trustworthy company?
A. "Too often" does not make sense in this context.
they've yet to prove that their intentions are any other than making quality software.
That's pretty funny.
http://www.sco.com/2003forum/
Whoa! Insight^Whateful!
Drivers! DirectFB needs drivers!