Actually, most Third World counties have vastly more resources than the Old World, especially land and minerals.
What they dont have is a viable legal system.
Without enfoceable contracts of any form, whether social or business, life is a struggle, and large social structures collapse from lack of foundations.
However, a viable legal system depends on enforceable law, and that requires the law to be a concept supported by the people. It is democracy that makes the law "something the people did for themselves", and a legacy of dictatorships and colonialism that teaches "the law is something evil people do to us".
Most people in Europe know that without contract law, there would be no food in the shops by the end of the week, so law is defended. Most people in Africa know the law is there to exploit them, so they dont respect it.
But unless you're running an enterprise database, or performing complex cryptoanalysis, you're probably not running up against the 32 bit barrier.
Dont worry M$ will save you - pretty soon they will have a version of Word that will need 128 bits and still won't work properly when trying to edit the format of tables.
You also have to know that in the UK, the media has spent the last 30 years portraying men as demons, barely under control maniacs, etc with no redeaming features.
If you come from outside it image of men in the UK is terrifying. This frenzy of over-compliance with feminist agenda is as scary as any anti-islamic frenzy in the USA, and has been going on for lnger, and is much less challenged.
For some reason, no one has noticed that In the UK, men are the down trodden minority Thats right - there are 1.08 women to every man in the UK (if you restrict this to voting age its probably nearer 1.20, but I dont have the actual data), and if anything is wrong: men did it!
The main reason that Tony Blair is in power is that most of the older women thought they were voting for Lionel Blair!
You are forgetting the fact that no law can prevent the ignorant and stupid from becoming parents.
Indeed, all the evidence is that the ignorant and stupid are the most likley to become under-age parents with inadequate income to care for the kids they did not intend to have.
"Could do better, must try harder", may be a way for teachers to avoid their own reponsibility on a school report, but as society's advice to those that can't cope, even if they wanted to, its as bad as the behaviour it comments on.
Almost all nautical textbooks of the time would have included the formula to calcuate the distance between yourself and another ship whose mast appears to be on the horizon, if you known the heights of the masts (or distance from a lighthouse). This is basic stuff for naval officers. The formula is based on the diameter of the earth.
Columbus, however, was trying to get venture capitalists to shup up dosh. Regardless of what Columbus knew, venture capitalists, know reality can be bought for money, and the Spanish KNEW FOR SURE that there was gold everywhere except in their pockets, while everyone in Europe knew for sure they would die of plague if they didn't get the f@*% out real quick.
A C in social history is better than an A in maths when it comes to figuring out why sailors would lie to venture capitalists. Would you lie to a PHB? For money? - Don't answer that!
I had the same experience - recommended a fix for a major problem, and got fired for pointing out there WAS a problem. With hindsight, I'd say it was the company with the lowest employee morale I ever worked for.
and the lesson is... If employee morale is rock bottom, there's generally a damn good reason at the top. Look for a job elsewhere before its too late.
As for offering to work from home in place of outsourcing? Are you nutz You would just be proving that womeone could do the job remotely... ie in some place that is beyond even the third world. Lets face it, India and China are now complaning about jobs being ousoureced. Obviously the work is being done by krrgs from the planet Zog.
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Don't install the Microsoft Office Assistant Yeah, and then you keep getting popups saying "Cannot find Office Assistant. Maybe your install is deficient". I have already thrown bricks at three perfectly good monitors because of this:-)
If I were IBM, I would ask for all Unix related rights as the price of any settlement. The work "Unix" probably has value to IBM today - it certainly sounds better than "Aix", and it would see off any future stupidness by others in the future.
IBM is probably the only company that can actually make money selling Unix today, since they have the only version that is actually worth anything to an end user.
If they have Unix and Linux, they have the whole set - its like having "Mayfair" and "Park Lane"! - and dont even think of comparing Windows and DOS to The Angel Islington and Old Kent Road:-)
Not many people believed it. There was a Dr Silas Lardner, who argued that trains could not go through tunnels at over 30 mph, because the air would be sucked out of the passengers.
In modern day terminology, he was a political lobbyist, and would argue anything he was paid to argue, regardless of how stupid it was. There is little evidence that even he believed his own arguments, most of which were disproved in front of his own eyes, weeks later.
However, if you were running a horse drawn bus company, you would likely support the arguement that trains were dangerous. Someone is funding SCO
Yeah, and lets get the companies that sell gas and burgers to pirates as well. Why not tax everything that moves, and all the things that stand still as well... hang on, they already do that
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What they dont have is a viable legal system.
Without enfoceable contracts of any form, whether social or business, life is a struggle, and large social structures collapse from lack of foundations.
However, a viable legal system depends on enforceable law, and that requires the law to be a concept supported by the people. It is democracy that makes the law "something the people did for themselves", and a legacy of dictatorships and colonialism that teaches "the law is something evil people do to us".
Most people in Europe know that without contract law, there would be no food in the shops by the end of the week, so law is defended. Most people in Africa know the law is there to exploit them, so they dont respect it.
Its easy once you know ...
Seriously, this concept is ideal for the kind of dummy that buys clothes over the internet without trying them on!
When we get solid state hard drives and if they're reliable and fast as regular ram then ram will be gone and the SSD will take over.
I remember predicting that SSDs would take over "next year" every year from 1980-1985. Then I gave up smoking.
Dont worry M$ will save you - pretty soon they will have a version of Word that will need 128 bits and still won't work properly when trying to edit the format of tables.
Obviously you didn't have to pay the electric bill. I kept the PDP/11
If the US army has tankfulls of hydrogen roaming around, its hard to see why anybody would bother making weapons of mass destruction!
If you come from outside it image of men in the UK is terrifying. This frenzy of over-compliance with feminist agenda is as scary as any anti-islamic frenzy in the USA, and has been going on for lnger, and is much less challenged.
For some reason, no one has noticed that In the UK, men are the down trodden minority Thats right - there are 1.08 women to every man in the UK (if you restrict this to voting age its probably nearer 1.20, but I dont have the actual data), and if anything is wrong: men did it!
The main reason that Tony Blair is in power is that most of the older women thought they were voting for Lionel Blair!
Indeed, all the evidence is that the ignorant and stupid are the most likley to become under-age parents with inadequate income to care for the kids they did not intend to have.
"Could do better, must try harder", may be a way for teachers to avoid their own reponsibility on a school report, but as society's advice to those that can't cope, even if they wanted to, its as bad as the behaviour it comments on.
The more power you give to mindless morons the less is left for normal people
Columbus, however, was trying to get venture capitalists to shup up dosh. Regardless of what Columbus knew, venture capitalists, know reality can be bought for money, and the Spanish KNEW FOR SURE that there was gold everywhere except in their pockets, while everyone in Europe knew for sure they would die of plague if they didn't get the f@*% out real quick.
A C in social history is better than an A in maths when it comes to figuring out why sailors would lie to venture capitalists. Would you lie to a PHB? For money? - Don't answer that!
Can't say I got more support from Microsoft though.
Its called Colossal Cave or Adventure
Now you know I'm the BSD user!
Hell, man, that stuff is pure evil. If it ever escapes, we'll really need to call Ghostbusters.
and the lesson is ... If employee morale is rock bottom, there's generally a damn good reason at the top. Look for a job elsewhere before its too late.
As for offering to work from home in place of outsourcing? Are you nutz You would just be proving that womeone could do the job remotely ... ie in some place that is beyond even the third world. Lets face it, India and China are now complaning about jobs being ousoureced. Obviously the work is being done by krrgs from the planet Zog.
IBM is probably the only company that can actually make money selling Unix today, since they have the only version that is actually worth anything to an end user.
If they have Unix and Linux, they have the whole set - its like having "Mayfair" and "Park Lane"! - and dont even think of comparing Windows and DOS to The Angel Islington and Old Kent Road :-)
Maybe IBM could help with that?
In modern day terminology, he was a political lobbyist, and would argue anything he was paid to argue, regardless of how stupid it was. There is little evidence that even he believed his own arguments, most of which were disproved in front of his own eyes, weeks later.
However, if you were running a horse drawn bus company, you would likely support the arguement that trains were dangerous. Someone is funding SCO
Isnt that called Makossa?