Suppose it takes $5 to manufacture an iPhone in China with $5 to ship to US and $2 to ship to Asia.
It costs cents to ship an iPhone anywhere in the world, if you have a container of them at once. The manufacturing cost is the only important cost.
Look at al the cheap stuff made in China sold in US supermarkets. It's profitable to sell a kitchen gadget, bigger and heavier than an iPhone, for $1 in the US after making it in China and shipping it.
Writing good software is (I presume) harder than cutting diamonds. The market allows a higher salary.
Really? On what basis do you make that assumption? That you want it to be true? Both take years to master. Both can be done anywhere in the world and will inevitably move to wherever the salaries are lowest.
"Financial valuation" is supposed to measure the "underlying intrinsic value". When it doesn't, you get a bubble, and then a correction. Back in 2000, they bought this line of moonshine that software could create value from out of the air. And when the absurdity of that became obvious, a lot of people went bust. Software is valuable; the people who create it as a rule aren't. It's like diamond cutters: most of the world's diamonds are cut in sweatshops in India. Doesn't matter how expensive the product is, the workers who make them get paid as little as the market allows. Before long, that will be true of software too. No matter how world beating your software, it won't make you king of the world. Bill Gates didn't get rich for making great software, he did it by having rich parents, the right connections and being a great businessman.
Sometimes we need to set hiring goals and enforce such things to break the patterns of the past and the structures those patterns put into place.
the purpose of the MIH is not to correct social evils of the past. Its to choose the best science to fund. Deliberately setting a "goal" of preferring the work of black scientists is a pretty awful idea. Do your social engineering at the entry level, not the top. Eventually the old networks will be replaced by upcoming talent.
PS: and Apple make all its hardware in China or Taiwan, Australia is closer to there than the US is. They don't ship them to Cupertino for Steve to anoint before they send them elsewhere.
Well, for one thing, you're very isolated; Australia is a long ways from anywhere else. That's got to make for a nice kick in the shipping costs.
Not since the 19th century. I used to do some import/export. Shipping a container anywhere in the world was pretty much the same price. The major cost was documentation, port fees and getting from the port to the warehouse -- I could get a shipment to New York from Hong Kong and to get from the port to Long Island cost about twice as much again. Or consider that an iPad weighs less than a lot of imported books or grocery items that sell for a few dollars, it's obvious that transport is a negligible part of the cost.
His writers incorporated a few superficial elements of the book
I don't believe that Just about every character and every event in the movie is in the novel in one way or another. It is an adaptation, but one designed to deliver the opposite message to Heinlein. And I'm not philosophically opposed to that, (Joe Haldeman, did it very well in "The Forever War"), but the problem was it was, whether it was deliberate or not, it was just dumb.
Here in Hong Kong, the same. 95%+ humidity for weeks. I just had a look at a laptop that hadn't been used for a few months on a shelf. The screen was covered in mould. Still booted up, but it's not even suitable to give away now. But my HP Laserjet 5MP, vintage 1995, is still chugging along. I leave it powered on all the time, it only draws about 5 Watts so I don't think this is irresponsible. Still works fine (the cart is replaced with the toner) though the plastic casing is getting brittle and bits snap off fairly easily.The rear door is held on with a bit of bent wire.
envisioned by Hollywood and the comic book visionaries
Yeah, load of bullshit. Heinlein had this in Starship Troopers, what some of us old fogies call a "novel" (not a "graphic novel"), back in 1959.
There isn't one single SF concept that Hollywood didn't take from literature. Then they almost always dumbed it and down and fucked it up, as in the movie version of Starship Troopers. I'm less familiar with comic books, some of them do more thoughtful things, but I doubt they challenge Michael Moorcock's New Worlds or Harlan Elloson's Dangerous Visions in the 1960s as far a being avant garde.
. I can see caution at least. Seems like they could just get him to turn in on in an isolated spot though. Couldn't be enough explosives in that to hurt anyone more than a few feet away.
Surely they have a "bomb box" they can drop anything suspicious in, wheel it away and chat to the owner, without shutting down the whole airport.
In the last 10 years have the TSA ever found a real bomb?
And I'm wondering why "Page" is capitalised throughout. Has Facebook trademarked the word "Page"? Is a Facebook "Page" different to any other web page?
. Idiot proof. So while we may read about 8 ways to bypass, I question how many people or incapable of using these ways and, if this DNS block won't actually reduce the usage substantially.
They won't need to understand the methods, they'll be built into the next generation of download software.
Whatever accent you used, the vocabulary is entirely un-Aussie."Eat a bag of dicks"? Never heard that. "'mericans"? We'd say "yanks", or "septics" for a more vintage slang. "Mah"? In Strine, we say "me" for my. Basically, Australian vowels are shortened, the opposite to southern USA.
Latin characters, but whatever, close enough for me.
I didn't say "English characters" I said "English script". The one we use to write English. Which happens to be derived from Latin. Very good, you were paying attention in primary school. I really don't think the Sheikh said "carve my name in Latin letters into the desert" though. And if you think we use Latin characters (as opposed to ones derived from it) you've missed a couple of thousand years of updates.
And why anyone wants to make a post in a two-week old topic, and misquote me, to score such a trivial point, I don't know.
. So only locate nuclear power station where you can deal with the nuclear wastes.
So instead of storing waste in stable geological formations in the middle of uninhabited deserts, we put it close to major cities and industrial areas. Makes sense.
the economic burden of a nuclear dump.
It's not actually an economic burden, there are major investments and jobs involved. And they can never, ever, shut them down.
But no individual PC in the DDOS prevents access either.
Consider a big street march that gets violent. You can't (in a democracy) just arrest and charge anyone who was part of the mob. They have to be individually charged and found guilty of a criminal act. You would have to proves some kind of conspiracy and intention. And all they have are IP numbers. Suspicion, but not proof of an illegal act.
Find out who the "aggrieved former employee" is and make very sure any PCs he had access to are sanitised. Preferably nuke and reinstall everything on his PC at least.
What you've forgotten is that equally much was not so created. Grow the fuck up and stop insisting you have some kind of rights over other's creations.
The "others" whose rights you are so vehemently defending ARE DEAD. The people who paid them ARE DEAD. And the "creations" in many, perhaps all cases, were themselves based on existing "media" (where "media includes folk tales, etc.). Most obvious: Disney and fairy tales. Warhol and just about anything. We're not talking about simply copying, it's about reinterpreting.
Now? In a few decades
Let me know when Disney lets go of anything from 90 years ago, and counting.
Grow the fuck up and join the real world and create your own stuff rather than relying on spoon fed pablum.
And be a little more polite, cocksucker. You're bringing the tone down.
No, it's not *your* culture. It's their commercial creation, always has been.
"Always"? Much of our culture was created to make money. Probably most of it in the last couple thousand years. And until about 100 years ago, it went into the public domain after a few years. Then, a few decades. Now, never?
Considering how uninteresting it is when the mass entertainment industry tells and retells the same story, and how flippin' bad 99.999999% of all fanfic is.... I don't think it would be very interesting at all.
Most fiction of all genres is crap, Sturgeon's Law. Some good writers have dabbled though. PJ Farmer appropriated many characters from popular culture and made very interesting stories; e.g., Tarzan, Doc Savage, Wizard of Oz.
. In that respect, it's not much different from a tobacco company telling their scientists not to talk about the health effects of smoking.
It's completely different. But the morality is simple: they're civil servants. "Civil" means the people of the country, not the government in power. In practice, of course, if you embarrass those in power you will be punished.
Yeah, but my point was both sets of words are pretty much equally distasteful. "Massacre" is hardly a euphemism. The guy, for all his nutty political rhetoric, doesn't seem to be a part of any real political group, he's living in his own fantasy world. So I don't know if calling him a "terrorist" makes sense.
Slashdot Mirror
Suppose it takes $5 to manufacture an iPhone in China with $5 to ship to US and $2 to ship to Asia.
It costs cents to ship an iPhone anywhere in the world, if you have a container of them at once. The manufacturing cost is the only important cost.
Look at al the cheap stuff made in China sold in US supermarkets. It's profitable to sell a kitchen gadget, bigger and heavier than an iPhone, for $1 in the US after making it in China and shipping it.
Writing good software is (I presume) harder than cutting diamonds. The market allows a higher salary.
Really? On what basis do you make that assumption? That you want it to be true? Both take years to master. Both can be done anywhere in the world and will inevitably move to wherever the salaries are lowest.
"Financial valuation" is supposed to measure the "underlying intrinsic value". When it doesn't, you get a bubble, and then a correction. Back in 2000, they bought this line of moonshine that software could create value from out of the air. And when the absurdity of that became obvious, a lot of people went bust. Software is valuable; the people who create it as a rule aren't. It's like diamond cutters: most of the world's diamonds are cut in sweatshops in India. Doesn't matter how expensive the product is, the workers who make them get paid as little as the market allows. Before long, that will be true of software too. No matter how world beating your software, it won't make you king of the world. Bill Gates didn't get rich for making great software, he did it by having rich parents, the right connections and being a great businessman.
Sometimes we need to set hiring goals and enforce such things to break the patterns of the past and the structures those patterns put into place.
the purpose of the MIH is not to correct social evils of the past. Its to choose the best science to fund. Deliberately setting a "goal" of preferring the work of black scientists is a pretty awful idea. Do your social engineering at the entry level, not the top. Eventually the old networks will be replaced by upcoming talent.
PS: and Apple make all its hardware in China or Taiwan, Australia is closer to there than the US is. They don't ship them to Cupertino for Steve to anoint before they send them elsewhere.
Well, for one thing, you're very isolated; Australia is a long ways from anywhere else. That's got to make for a nice kick in the shipping costs.
Not since the 19th century. I used to do some import/export. Shipping a container anywhere in the world was pretty much the same price. The major cost was documentation, port fees and getting from the port to the warehouse -- I could get a shipment to New York from Hong Kong and to get from the port to Long Island cost about twice as much again. Or consider that an iPad weighs less than a lot of imported books or grocery items that sell for a few dollars, it's obvious that transport is a negligible part of the cost.
His writers incorporated a few superficial elements of the book
I don't believe that Just about every character and every event in the movie is in the novel in one way or another. It is an adaptation, but one designed to deliver the opposite message to Heinlein. And I'm not philosophically opposed to that, (Joe Haldeman, did it very well in "The Forever War"), but the problem was it was, whether it was deliberate or not, it was just dumb.
Here in Hong Kong, the same. 95%+ humidity for weeks. I just had a look at a laptop that hadn't been used for a few months on a shelf. The screen was covered in mould. Still booted up, but it's not even suitable to give away now. But my HP Laserjet 5MP, vintage 1995, is still chugging along. I leave it powered on all the time, it only draws about 5 Watts so I don't think this is irresponsible. Still works fine (the cart is replaced with the toner) though the plastic casing is getting brittle and bits snap off fairly easily.The rear door is held on with a bit of bent wire.
envisioned by Hollywood and the comic book visionaries
Yeah, load of bullshit. Heinlein had this in Starship Troopers, what some of us old fogies call a "novel" (not a "graphic novel"), back in 1959.
There isn't one single SF concept that Hollywood didn't take from literature. Then they almost always dumbed it and down and fucked it up, as in the movie version of Starship Troopers. I'm less familiar with comic books, some of them do more thoughtful things, but I doubt they challenge Michael Moorcock's New Worlds or Harlan Elloson's Dangerous Visions in the 1960s as far a being avant garde.
. I can see caution at least. Seems like they could just get him to turn in on in an isolated spot though. Couldn't be enough explosives in that to hurt anyone more than a few feet away.
Surely they have a "bomb box" they can drop anything suspicious in, wheel it away and chat to the owner, without shutting down the whole airport.
In the last 10 years have the TSA ever found a real bomb?
And I'm wondering why "Page" is capitalised throughout. Has Facebook trademarked the word "Page"? Is a Facebook "Page" different to any other web page?
. Idiot proof. So while we may read about 8 ways to bypass, I question how many people or incapable of using these ways and, if this DNS block won't actually reduce the usage substantially.
They won't need to understand the methods, they'll be built into the next generation of download software.
Huh? I read it with an Aussie accent.
Whatever accent you used, the vocabulary is entirely un-Aussie."Eat a bag of dicks"? Never heard that. "'mericans"? We'd say "yanks", or "septics" for a more vintage slang. "Mah"? In Strine, we say "me" for my. Basically, Australian vowels are shortened, the opposite to southern USA.
For some reason (or maybe because I've lived in Asia, where traffic is chaotic but everyone seems to get by),
Where "get by" meaning "get killed". Death rates from road accidents are much, much higher in Asia than Europe or US..
Latin characters, but whatever, close enough for me.
I didn't say "English characters" I said "English script". The one we use to write English. Which happens to be derived from Latin. Very good, you were paying attention in primary school. I really don't think the Sheikh said "carve my name in Latin letters into the desert" though. And if you think we use Latin characters (as opposed to ones derived from it) you've missed a couple of thousand years of updates.
And why anyone wants to make a post in a two-week old topic, and misquote me, to score such a trivial point, I don't know.
What's odd is that it's in English, not Arabic, script.
. So only locate nuclear power station where you can deal with the nuclear wastes.
So instead of storing waste in stable geological formations in the middle of uninhabited deserts, we put it close to major cities and industrial areas. Makes sense.
the economic burden of a nuclear dump.
It's not actually an economic burden, there are major investments and jobs involved. And they can never, ever, shut them down.
around $40 or â26 (incl. shipping) for 1GB memory. Is that really so difficult?
Laptops are another story. My Thinkpad X24 is maxed out with 640 MB already. So it's on XPSP2 and will stay there for as long as it keeps working.
a DDoS only serves to block people from entering
But no individual PC in the DDOS prevents access either.
Consider a big street march that gets violent. You can't (in a democracy) just arrest and charge anyone who was part of the mob. They have to be individually charged and found guilty of a criminal act. You would have to proves some kind of conspiracy and intention. And all they have are IP numbers. Suspicion, but not proof of an illegal act.
Find out who the "aggrieved former employee" is and make very sure any PCs he had access to are sanitised. Preferably nuke and reinstall everything on his PC at least.
What you've forgotten is that equally much was not so created. Grow the fuck up and stop insisting you have some kind of rights over other's creations.
The "others" whose rights you are so vehemently defending ARE DEAD. The people who paid them ARE DEAD. And the "creations" in many, perhaps all cases, were themselves based on existing "media" (where "media includes folk tales, etc.). Most obvious: Disney and fairy tales. Warhol and just about anything. We're not talking about simply copying, it's about reinterpreting.
Now? In a few decades
Let me know when Disney lets go of anything from 90 years ago, and counting.
Grow the fuck up and join the real world and create your own stuff rather than relying on spoon fed pablum.
And be a little more polite, cocksucker. You're bringing the tone down.
No, it's not *your* culture. It's their commercial creation, always has been.
"Always"? Much of our culture was created to make money. Probably most of it in the last couple thousand years. And until about 100 years ago, it went into the public domain after a few years. Then, a few decades. Now, never?
Considering how uninteresting it is when the mass entertainment industry tells and retells the same story, and how flippin' bad 99.999999% of all fanfic is.... I don't think it would be very interesting at all.
Most fiction of all genres is crap, Sturgeon's Law. Some good writers have dabbled though. PJ Farmer appropriated many characters from popular culture and made very interesting stories; e.g., Tarzan, Doc Savage, Wizard of Oz.
Yes, the Enterprise (NX-01) will stick with IPV4, but USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) will move on to IPv6.
. In that respect, it's not much different from a tobacco company telling their scientists not to talk about the health effects of smoking.
It's completely different. But the morality is simple: they're civil servants. "Civil" means the people of the country, not the government in power. In practice, of course, if you embarrass those in power you will be punished.
Yeah, but my point was both sets of words are pretty much equally distasteful. "Massacre" is hardly a euphemism. The guy, for all his nutty political rhetoric, doesn't seem to be a part of any real political group, he's living in his own fantasy world. So I don't know if calling him a "terrorist" makes sense.