ISO Certification has major problems. ISO auditors don't measure how good your process is. They don't even make sure that you have a process. They just verify that you have a set of documents describing some sort of a process. Now, if those documents don't look right or are not in the proper ISO format, you are in trouble. On the other hand, if you put out a shabby product, and ignore your procedures, they will have no clue.
I hope this will speed up the day when we have a world wide quake environment. Where avatars can walk down a hallway into a different room which is on a different server somewhere else on the planet.
This is all possible today. The bandwidth requirements are huge, but enough people have high speed internet connections to download the massive amounts of information. We just need someone to design the open standard equivalent of HTML for this virtual world with earth like physics.
Wasn't this supposed to be the age of convergence? Getting everything from one provider? I now get my telephone service from cellular. Television service from Time Warner Cable. And might get my internet service from SBC.
From a techie point of view.. Nothing is new. Everybody has known this day could come. The difference is that it has arrived. Many companies are radically changing their direction because they can compete in anything related to information. For example, Apple is no longer just a computer company. Texas instruments is moving into manyh aspects of wireless communications. There is going to be a big realignment in what tech companies do over the next 5-10 years.
My point was just that using GDP per capita is a valid rough comparison of the standard of living. It does have imperfections, but imperfections apply to every country. I've traveled to about 15 different countries, and there has been a very strong correlation between GDP and the standard of living.
Actually.. My understanding is that the final product is all that matters for GDP. As for how the actually calculate it, I am not sure if the count the bulldozer or not.. I just know that they don't double count goods when calculated GDP. For example, if iron is used to make a car, the GDP isn't the cost of the iron plus the cost of the car. It is only the cost of the car.
GDP doesn't work that way. If a bulldozer is bought by a corporation to produce a product, the bulldozer is not counted in the GDP. Only the final product produced by the corporation is counted as part of the GDP. Also, if the chinese sell goods to other countries, they are trading with the country. They will get a nearly equivalent amount of goods back from the other country. The goods that are traded back to China will be used to increase their quality of life.
Huh? If the per capita GDP is the same as the united states, that means the country produces the same amount of goods as someone in the united states. These goods are going to be used by the citizens of China. While the goods purchased might be different, they will have the same amount of stuff available as someone in the united states. For example, maybe instead of SUV's, they might either drive smaller cars or take bullet trains. And I do expect that the average chinese family in 2030, if growth rates hold, will have just as many electronics as american families do today.
You are way off about the growth rate of china. China's current GDP per capita is 4700. US GDP per capita is 36300.
Since China's economy is growing at 8% per year, if the growth rate didn't change, China would reach our standard of living in the year 2030!
Of course, China's growth rate will slow down at some point. But, if you look at the history of other Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, they had huge growth rates until they reached the GDP levels of other modern economies.
In the year 2030, there will be 2 superpowers, the United States and China.
Thats backwards! Less spam means each spam that gets through is more profitable. If a user received only a few spam a week, the user is much more likely to read the spam instead of trashing it. This is why spam can never be eliminated, only reduced.
Just think, you would never have to drive your car again to work. Just pop on your exoskeletan boots, run to work at 30mph (dont have to worry about such silly things as traffic jams). Of course, a collision with a guy running 30mph would be pretty nasty..
Cars-building would not be so lucrative if there were not good roads. The government pays for these.
The road system is not a subsidized industry. How is a gas tax a subsidy? The gas taxes take in more than is spent on roads. Driving cars subsidizes other industries. If you include environmental costs, you would have a point.
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ISO Certification has major problems. ISO auditors don't measure how good your process is. They don't even make sure that you have a process. They just verify that you have a set of documents describing some sort of a process. Now, if those documents don't look right or are not in the proper ISO format, you are in trouble. On the other hand, if you put out a shabby product, and ignore your procedures, they will have no clue.
I hope this will speed up the day when we have a world wide quake environment. Where avatars can walk down a hallway into a different room which is on a different server somewhere else on the planet.
This is all possible today. The bandwidth requirements are huge, but enough people have high speed internet connections to download the massive amounts of information. We just need someone to design the open standard equivalent of HTML for this virtual world with earth like physics.
Wasn't this supposed to be the age of convergence? Getting everything from one provider? I now get my telephone service from cellular. Television service from Time Warner Cable. And might get my internet service from SBC.
From a techie point of view.. Nothing is new. Everybody has known this day could come. The difference is that it has arrived. Many companies are radically changing their direction because they can compete in anything related to information. For example, Apple is no longer just a computer company. Texas instruments is moving into manyh aspects of wireless communications. There is going to be a big realignment in what tech companies do over the next 5-10 years.
My point was just that using GDP per capita is a valid rough comparison of the standard of living. It does have imperfections, but imperfections apply to every country. I've traveled to about 15 different countries, and there has been a very strong correlation between GDP and the standard of living.
Actually.. My understanding is that the final product is all that matters for GDP. As for how the actually calculate it, I am not sure if the count the bulldozer or not.. I just know that they don't double count goods when calculated GDP. For example, if iron is used to make a car, the GDP isn't the cost of the iron plus the cost of the car. It is only the cost of the car.
GDP doesn't work that way. If a bulldozer is bought by a corporation to produce a product, the bulldozer is not counted in the GDP. Only the final product produced by the corporation is counted as part of the GDP. Also, if the chinese sell goods to other countries, they are trading with the country. They will get a nearly equivalent amount of goods back from the other country. The goods that are traded back to China will be used to increase their quality of life.
Huh? If the per capita GDP is the same as the united states, that means the country produces the same amount of goods as someone in the united states. These goods are going to be used by the citizens of China. While the goods purchased might be different, they will have the same amount of stuff available as someone in the united states. For example, maybe instead of SUV's, they might either drive smaller cars or take bullet trains. And I do expect that the average chinese family in 2030, if growth rates hold, will have just as many electronics as american families do today.
You are way off about the growth rate of china. China's current GDP per capita is 4700. US GDP per capita is 36300. Since China's economy is growing at 8% per year, if the growth rate didn't change, China would reach our standard of living in the year 2030! Of course, China's growth rate will slow down at some point. But, if you look at the history of other Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, they had huge growth rates until they reached the GDP levels of other modern economies. In the year 2030, there will be 2 superpowers, the United States and China.
Thats backwards! Less spam means each spam that gets through is more profitable. If a user received only a few spam a week, the user is much more likely to read the spam instead of trashing it. This is why spam can never be eliminated, only reduced.
Just think, you would never have to drive your car again to work. Just pop on your exoskeletan boots, run to work at 30mph (dont have to worry about such silly things as traffic jams). Of course, a collision with a guy running 30mph would be pretty nasty..
Cars-building would not be so lucrative if there were not good roads. The government pays for these.
The road system is not a subsidized industry. How is a gas tax a subsidy? The gas taxes take in more than is spent on roads. Driving cars subsidizes other industries. If you include environmental costs, you would have a point.