Availability, my little friend. You're forgetting that plaster doesn't just fall from the sky. It has to be manufactured. Once manufactured, it has to be trucked to where you are. If you broke your arm, you'd have been far more likely to wear a rigid splint of wood and leather than a plaster cast. Unless you lived in Paris, of course.
You've completely fogotten about splints - they're simple to make (leather and wood) and they're reusable. Sure, you may not set a bone properly, but you will have something that immobilizes your arm pretty well.
I'd say adding 10 million systems a month to your base in OEM system installs alone has to count as a win. Windows has unmatched visibility to end users and a mature and efficient distribution system.
You seem to have missed the point: people are buying systems with the MS tax, then installing sometihng else on it anyway. So you've sold a license - BFD. You don't get the vendor lockin or upgrade path, nore do you get to sell windows apps.
Never mind you electric car drivers, what about we poor bicyclists and pedestrians who can't hear you coming?
It looks like we've got that covered: the tires on a normal car make a fair bit of noise, and if that isn't enough, we can just make a 12" subwoofer standard.
Somewhere, there was an article pointing out that the majority of the actual server breakins were not on Windows servers.
Meanwhile, a million zombie windows boxes lurk, awaiting orders through obscure IRC channels. Question: if a windows box gets rooted when there's already a zombie controller present, does that count as one compromise or two?
I can't do too well with the cars, but with movies you get sequel-itis, comic book adaptations, and Michael Crichton movies.
I can do the car angle - you get sequelitis, flash over substance (big blinged out SUVs), and fear of originality. It's really the same thing - we can't risk failure, so we eliminate the potential for success.
You'll find that the STI and SS are comparable in performance except top end because the STI stops ~130mph where the SS stops at 160mph.
You must be talking about the WRX - the STi goes up to about 145-150. Some of the 2004s are rumoured to have a speed limiter at about 145, but not all.
The SS also had two suspension upgrades (stock), the top upgrade provides a lateral 1g in the skidpad.
I think my car (MR2) does about that standard. With its suspension upgrade and some tuning, it can hit about 1.4.
Is it immoral to give a job to a man with a college degree in another country? If not, then outsourcing is not immoral. Firing the local guy is a separable action.
firing the local guy is not separable, and it's not a moral choice. It's a short term gain with a long term loss - good if you're the only guy doing it, but disaster if it becomes popular. As far as shaming is for bitching about improving the economy in some other country, remember that charity begins at home. I'm sure the local guy and his two kids are real happy for that guy in India whom he'll never meet.
Also why can't we work for 20k or 25k a year? Think your better then the sucks at BurgerKing and walmart? they make 7 or 8k a year. Seriously? They work less then an Indian and have terrible working conditions. Many work 2 jobs at 80 hours a week just to pay rent? Working for 25k a year for only 40 hours in an airconditions office is paradise. There is an overhead of probably 10k a year for the 15k a year indian costing the company perhaps 25k. ( talking out of my ass here). But there is the overhead.
If I'm only making 25k a year, why the hell should I go to college? That's 4 years of my life! I could have been making $30k a year for those 4 years.
You have a much better job and yes it costs money to have things oversea's. 20-25k is quite equal to the amount of 15k plus overhead for a good Indian.
No, $15k in India is like $75k here. Why should I live here and make $25k here when I could make $15k there? It seems like you'd like to make the US like India just so that one of those nice CEOs will give you a job. I'm not willing to do that - I'm worth the money I earn and more besides.
Hello?!? How could they compete if they must pay *minumum wage*? "Those people" are doing what all buisnesses do and should do: make money.
You appear to be missing the point. Those people are in India, and they won't need us very much longer. We are training the next crop of Indian corporations, which might be a bad move for , say, Intel.
If the fucked up liberals of the US decide to require employers to waste money on frivolous lawsuits, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, etc, then the employers will simply leave the country. And that is what they are doing.
Your Neocon is showing. You should know better than to blame all the ills of the world on Liberal Bogeymen; it's no different than blaming the Chinese a century ago.
The stuff that the US requires (minimum wage, safe working conditions, police protection, good education) are exactly the things that allowed these companies to prosper in the first place. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the companies to contribute back to the system, but apparaently some of them do.
Guess what America, no more getting fed an easy life. If you are smart enough to excel in school then try to apply that knowledge in getting a job. Americans have to learn to be resourceful and accept blame when they fail. I don't think Americans understand that. * * * America needs to stop crying and accept the change.
So, when johnny gets laid off because his company thinks it can save 50% by outsourcing, Johnny should accept blame? Man, if I accepted the blame for every boneheaded decision made by management, I'd have to shoot myself.
Probably up to half of all Masters and PhD's for the sciences and engineering in all top US colleges and universities (and the not so top ones) go to students from China (and the other half mostly to India and Russia). These folks have enough academic acumin to turn out your lights - they don't know the meaning of "hard work."
What's that got to do with a Chinese university with a PhD program? specifically, how is is this relevant to a commentary on a culture of blind acceptance, except as a way of devaluing US PhDs as well?
I set up an encrypted proxy for my father who is working in U.A.E., so he could get around their national firewall. After he used it once, they found it and banned my IP in less than a day.
The UAE is a small, rich country. China is a massive, poor country. Do you think this might be relevant?
Likewise nanofactories in the US will plunge the 3rd world into a depression, because the need for cheap labor from overseas will evaporate, and with it drys up the outsourcing of production jobs. I'm not defending sweatshop labor, but that wages that were being sent outside the US to pay for overseas labor, will not longer leave the country. Many people live on the minimalistic wages that the US pays abroad. No longer. And the US will be producing cheap nano-made materials long before anyone else. Only the US will have the wealth to create nanofactories on a mass market scale. Those ultra-cheap goods will crush the markets they compete in. Tariffs will protect some markets, but there will be no race. Nanotechnology will INCREASE the disparity between the haves and have-nots.
But there won't be any race.
So, you're saying that a massive reduction in both the cost and need for labor is actually a bad thing? How long will it be before some place like Ethiopia or Guatemala buys/steals a nanotech factory and sets up shop at home? Cheap power + very efficient manufacturing has the potential to make poverty obsolete.
That's the energy generated when when two three-year olds of equal mass, deprived of afternoon naps, collide in the vincinity of the last available hot wheels car...
...producing one 5 year old and a hell of a racket.
If they get too much power and abuse it (and let's face it, too much power always leads to abuse), then that can be bad. But ideally they're representing artists rights, put to that position by artists, just as good or bad as for example EFF can be.
On this planet, the RIAA does have too much power, and they do abuse it, and they don't really represent artists - they represent the labels, which just want to make money. If they could do it without artists, they would.
Uh, I hate to break this to you, Mr. "Scientist", but abstinence is proven to be very nearly 100% effective in preventing AIDS, a conclusion that in no way flies in the face of science, but instead, simply stands to reason.
That's astounding, since abstinence is only about 20% successful in teenagers. See, 80% of the time, abstainers will get horny and screw anyway.
African countries are now pushing abstinence because *it works*, and if they don't, most of their population will be dead in 20 years.
Of course, if it does work, then 100% of the population will be dead in 60-80 years.
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Availability, my little friend. You're forgetting that plaster doesn't just fall from the sky. It has to be manufactured. Once manufactured, it has to be trucked to where you are. If you broke your arm, you'd have been far more likely to wear a rigid splint of wood and leather than a plaster cast. Unless you lived in Paris, of course.
You've completely fogotten about splints - they're simple to make (leather and wood) and they're reusable. Sure, you may not set a bone properly, but you will have something that immobilizes your arm pretty well.
Gee, I've never seen a web page get TICKED OFF at me for blocking pop-ups.
I don't know what you're talking about - I run Mozilla with popups disabled, and it worked fine (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
I'd say adding 10 million systems a month to your base in OEM system installs alone has to count as a win. Windows has unmatched visibility to end users and a mature and efficient distribution system.
You seem to have missed the point: people are buying systems with the MS tax, then installing sometihng else on it anyway. So you've sold a license - BFD. You don't get the vendor lockin or upgrade path, nore do you get to sell windows apps.
And just what is wrong with welcome datacomp ads built into consumer devices?
If you don't see the problem with a device you paid money to get spamming you with ads, I don't think I can explain it.
Find someone who cites it to him and see if they give a when and where.
The sources I've seen usually say PC world, 1981. That should be easy enough to verify.
Never mind you electric car drivers, what about we poor bicyclists and pedestrians who can't hear you coming?
It looks like we've got that covered: the tires on a normal car make a fair bit of noise, and if that isn't enough, we can just make a 12" subwoofer standard.
Somewhere, there was an article pointing out that the majority of the actual server breakins were not on Windows servers.
Meanwhile, a million zombie windows boxes lurk, awaiting orders through obscure IRC channels. Question: if a windows box gets rooted when there's already a zombie controller present, does that count as one compromise or two?
The culture is very averse to talking about sex, but whatever happens behind closed doors...
Is this the same country that invented porn?
I can't do too well with the cars, but with movies you get sequel-itis, comic book adaptations, and Michael Crichton movies.
I can do the car angle - you get sequelitis, flash over substance (big blinged out SUVs), and fear of originality. It's really the same thing - we can't risk failure, so we eliminate the potential for success.
You'll find that the STI and SS are comparable in performance except top end because the STI stops ~130mph where the SS stops at 160mph.
You must be talking about the WRX - the STi goes up to about 145-150. Some of the 2004s are rumoured to have a speed limiter at about 145, but not all.
The SS also had two suspension upgrades (stock), the top upgrade provides a lateral 1g in the skidpad.
I think my car (MR2) does about that standard. With its suspension upgrade and some tuning, it can hit about 1.4.
no one is blowing the 6-speeds on the STi.
Actually, some people have managed to do just that. Of course, they did it by abusing the hell of their tranny, so it's nothing to worry about.
Is it immoral to give a job to a man with a college degree in another country? If not, then outsourcing is not immoral. Firing the local guy is a separable action.
firing the local guy is not separable, and it's not a moral choice. It's a short term gain with a long term loss - good if you're the only guy doing it, but disaster if it becomes popular. As far as shaming is for bitching about improving the economy in some other country, remember that charity begins at home. I'm sure the local guy and his two kids are real happy for that guy in India whom he'll never meet.
Also why can't we work for 20k or 25k a year? Think your better then the sucks at BurgerKing and walmart? they make 7 or 8k a year. Seriously? They work less then an Indian and have terrible working conditions. Many work 2 jobs at 80 hours a week just to pay rent? Working for 25k a year for only 40 hours in an airconditions office is paradise. There is an overhead of probably 10k a year for the 15k a year indian costing the company perhaps 25k. ( talking out of my ass here). But there is the overhead.
If I'm only making 25k a year, why the hell should I go to college? That's 4 years of my life! I could have been making $30k a year for those 4 years.
You have a much better job and yes it costs money to have things oversea's. 20-25k is quite equal to the amount of 15k plus overhead for a good Indian.
No, $15k in India is like $75k here. Why should I live here and make $25k here when I could make $15k there? It seems like you'd like to make the US like India just so that one of those nice CEOs will give you a job. I'm not willing to do that - I'm worth the money I earn and more besides.
Hello?!? How could they compete if they must pay *minumum wage*? "Those people" are doing what all buisnesses do and should do: make money.
You appear to be missing the point. Those people are in India, and they won't need us very much longer. We are training the next crop of Indian corporations, which might be a bad move for , say, Intel.
If the fucked up liberals of the US decide to require employers to waste money on frivolous lawsuits, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, etc, then the employers will simply leave the country. And that is what they are doing.
Your Neocon is showing. You should know better than to blame all the ills of the world on Liberal Bogeymen; it's no different than blaming the Chinese a century ago.
The stuff that the US requires (minimum wage, safe working conditions, police protection, good education) are exactly the things that allowed these companies to prosper in the first place. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the companies to contribute back to the system, but apparaently some of them do.
Guess what America, no more getting fed an easy life. If you are smart enough to excel in school then try to apply that knowledge in getting a job. Americans have to learn to be resourceful and accept blame when they fail. I don't think Americans understand that. * * * America needs to stop crying and accept the change.
So, when johnny gets laid off because his company thinks it can save 50% by outsourcing, Johnny should accept blame? Man, if I accepted the blame for every boneheaded decision made by management, I'd have to shoot myself.
Probably up to half of all Masters and PhD's for the sciences and engineering in all top US colleges and universities (and the not so top ones) go to students from China (and the other half mostly to India and Russia). These folks have enough academic acumin to turn out your lights - they don't know the meaning of "hard work."
What's that got to do with a Chinese university with a PhD program? specifically, how is is this relevant to a commentary on a culture of blind acceptance, except as a way of devaluing US PhDs as well?
I set up an encrypted proxy for my father who is working in U.A.E., so he could get around their national firewall. After he used it once, they found it and banned my IP in less than a day.
The UAE is a small, rich country. China is a massive, poor country. Do you think this might be relevant?
We used to have a separate server room but it was converted into an office
That'll be fun when the janitor unplugs the servers ao he can vacuum.
I'd like to see a silent cooling mechanism for a Sun Enterprise 450 though
It's called a door. You put one between the e450 and everybody else - instant silent computing.
Likewise nanofactories in the US will plunge the 3rd world into a depression, because the need for cheap labor from overseas will evaporate, and with it drys up the outsourcing of production jobs. I'm not defending sweatshop labor, but that wages that were being sent outside the US to pay for overseas labor, will not longer leave the country. Many people live on the minimalistic wages that the US pays abroad. No longer. And the US will be producing cheap nano-made materials long before anyone else. Only the US will have the wealth to create nanofactories on a mass market scale. Those ultra-cheap goods will crush the markets they compete in. Tariffs will protect some markets, but there will be no race. Nanotechnology will INCREASE the disparity between the haves and have-nots. But there won't be any race.
So, you're saying that a massive reduction in both the cost and need for labor is actually a bad thing? How long will it be before some place like Ethiopia or Guatemala buys/steals a nanotech factory and sets up shop at home? Cheap power + very efficient manufacturing has the potential to make poverty obsolete.
That's the energy generated when when two three-year olds of equal mass, deprived of afternoon naps, collide in the vincinity of the last available hot wheels car...
...producing one 5 year old and a hell of a racket.
Sickle-cell anemia and type II diabetes, for two.
Isn't Type2 diabetes primarily caused by diet?
Expect a world where nanotech is restricted by law to a few huge companies.
Until someone creates a nanotech factory with the following instructions:
If they get too much power and abuse it (and let's face it, too much power always leads to abuse), then that can be bad. But ideally they're representing artists rights, put to that position by artists, just as good or bad as for example EFF can be.
On this planet, the RIAA does have too much power, and they do abuse it, and they don't really represent artists - they represent the labels, which just want to make money. If they could do it without artists, they would.
Uh, I hate to break this to you, Mr. "Scientist", but abstinence is proven to be very nearly 100% effective in preventing AIDS, a conclusion that in no way flies in the face of science, but instead, simply stands to reason.
That's astounding, since abstinence is only about 20% successful in teenagers. See, 80% of the time, abstainers will get horny and screw anyway.
African countries are now pushing abstinence because *it works*, and if they don't, most of their population will be dead in 20 years.
Of course, if it does work, then 100% of the population will be dead in 60-80 years.