People who say "They are taxes for people who are bad at math" have no understanding of the concept of oppotunity costs or economics. Slashdotters seem to overuse this comment...perhaps to make them feel superior?
"Competition, the cornerstone of free market capitalism, won't work here, because the cost of living is simply too high."
Well capitalism DOES work here. In an efficient market you reduce costs. To reduce costs, you move yourself to the country where you yourself can maximise profit. Of course things don't work this way in real life (as emotion has monetary value too, reducing 'profit') thus creating this problem where we are unable to compete.
This inability to compete is only in the 'cost' sense, it is sort of the same as firms competing on price alone. But there are other aspects to the products citizens of developed countries can offer, we just have to find where our comparitive advantage lies. Americans already have comparative advantage in nearly all types of content, whether it be music, movies, tv. This industry may become bigger as time passes.
You cannot expect to play on the global field by exporting and only have the good side. Exporting your output and not letting other countries export their product (labour in this case) is plain unfair. If you want to play the game, you've got to play by the rules. The disappearance of manufacturing in the US hasn't hurt it one bit..it is not like the country is in ruins. Everyone adapts as comparative advantage is found in other areas. All jobs will not be outsourced...sometimes the fact that the employee is 50 meters away isn't worth any saving that any countries labour force can give.
"A measure as small as taxing more heavily those corporations that don't employ Americans would be enough." - "There's nothing remotely unfair about enforcing, or even encouraging, that companies that do business in America must employ Americans."
Encouraging is one thing...enforcing another. What worked really well in Australia was mandatory placing of logos on goods to determine whether the raw input or construction was performed in Australia. That is a measure that I support...informing the consumer so that they can make a choice. Taxing is the wrong way. It creates inefficiency, and puts everyone 5 stepa back.
Thanks for the thoughtful response (as opposed to other responses).
I do not think capitalism is a religion, but it is the rules we abide by. Outsourcing is not against those rules. If you want your job to be protected, a lot of other things come along with that tweak to the rules...countries that have been denied this work may hit back with restrictions. Taking this to its logical end and you are basically at communism, with rules and government intervention everywhere.
"the capitalists in charge will be replaced by those who do care about the people living in this country"
You are confusing companies with the government. There IS a difference between the two...and rebelling against companies is as simple as doing it in a capitalist way...exercise your right of choice and dont buy their product.
If you are going to have the government step in and protect your jobs, why shouldn't they protect the companies interests too and force you to buy their product? I mean they are both under the same ruleset aren't they?
Wow, everyone is a capitalist until their job is at stake. Then all of a sudden you are a communist.
Why should your job be protected? This is the same thinking that is placing tariffs on goods and making things worse off for everyone.
Choose a side of thinking. Each has its merits. But don't try and change when it isn't going well for you.
Don't give me that drivle. There are a heap of basic phones available on the market, mostly available in pre-paid packages here in Australia.
How bout the Panasonic GD55? Its a lovely phone with no extra features, with the benefit of being tiny. There are heaps of others, with a large range of basic Siemens.
I for one love integration of features, but there are plenty of basic phones around.
In Australia, where pokies have taken off big time in the last couple of years, the Government regulates all.
I was speaking to a guy who worked at Aristocrat (the largest manufacturer of poker machines in Australia) and he said that the government forces an 80% return, meaning a lock on probability. So over the long haul if you put in $100 you can expect to be $20 poorer. This was quite a while ago however, and things could have changed.
There are some machines that fall through the cracks and for some reason have better payout ratios. Case in point was a mchine called "Elf Magic" which would pay out EVERY SINGLE TIME I PLAYED IT. Needless to say you can't find that machine anywhere now in its original guise.
What is a concern now is that small pub's and club's are only profitable because of poker machines...it is their only means of survival.
I have always agreed with that. The pirate-ability of Microsoft products is crucial to their success in the market. Microsoft has never gone after anyone in regards to priacy (except big corporations and businesses) because a pirated XP at the home user level is worth a lot of sales at the corporate level.
Free Pilot rolling ball gel pen to the first person who gives me their Slashdot password!
Sometimes you don't HAVE to ask or even offer a free pen to get access...
At university, one night we had a class where we were learning on a temporary piece of software. The lecturer organised with the IT guys to have this piece of software installed on Windows 2000. The smart IT guy, however, stupidly installed the software as the administrator. The lecturer, with enough computer knowledge to realise this, called the IT guys and laid into him for wasting his time.
With his balls on the line, the IT guy had the perfect solution...log all the students on with administrator rights so that they could use the software.
I giggled for the whole lecture like a school boy in a candy shop.
Polyphonic ringtones is sort of like MIDI for phones.
There are phones that do the.wav thing and I cannot wait to get my hands on one of those. I think it would be hilarious to record myself saying "bring, bring" and have that play when the phone rings.
An overwhelming majority of people agree that kiddy porn is a bad thing, as do I. But isn't having kiddy porn on the net a way for the people who do suffer this attraction a way to vent their 'frustrations'? Isn't it better that they view these pictures (that probably would have been taken anyway) on their computer than actually going out on the street and being 'voyeurs' or god forbid trying to actually have sex with a child?
I believe that these people can't control their fetish (or choose it) so isn't this the most preferable thing? I mean child fetishes are not going to go away once all these sites are closed down or blocked. It is the same reason I believe that prostitutes and brothels should be allowed to operate freely, as it keeps the rape rate down.
Thoughts? It would be interesting to hear what you guys think.
Maybe in the USA, but definitely not in Australia. Internet usage is extremely strickly metered even at uni in Australia because of the high cost of international bandwidth here.
I have never seen K before, but that code looks fairly simple...what makes it hard to read is the unfamiliarity of the array notation...take out the array notation and you have a fairly simple readable formula.
The comment mentions that it is easier than C...I wouldn't even want to think about writing all this matrix stuff in C...my stomach will turn upside down...
I have been using native MATLAB binaries for Linux for a while now...and unfortunately they are still much slower than the windows versions (both in number crunching and interface).
A natural monopoly is one where it is much more inefficint to have two companies competing...for example imagine if there was a duopoly in the train network? Laying 2 sets of train tracks everywhere would be extremely wasteful and hence the train company is a natural monopoly.
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People who say "They are taxes for people who are bad at math" have no understanding of the concept of oppotunity costs or economics. Slashdotters seem to overuse this comment...perhaps to make them feel superior?
Well capitalism DOES work here. In an efficient market you reduce costs. To reduce costs, you move yourself to the country where you yourself can maximise profit. Of course things don't work this way in real life (as emotion has monetary value too, reducing 'profit') thus creating this problem where we are unable to compete.
This inability to compete is only in the 'cost' sense, it is sort of the same as firms competing on price alone. But there are other aspects to the products citizens of developed countries can offer, we just have to find where our comparitive advantage lies. Americans already have comparative advantage in nearly all types of content, whether it be music, movies, tv. This industry may become bigger as time passes.
You cannot expect to play on the global field by exporting and only have the good side. Exporting your output and not letting other countries export their product (labour in this case) is plain unfair. If you want to play the game, you've got to play by the rules. The disappearance of manufacturing in the US hasn't hurt it one bit..it is not like the country is in ruins. Everyone adapts as comparative advantage is found in other areas. All jobs will not be outsourced...sometimes the fact that the employee is 50 meters away isn't worth any saving that any countries labour force can give.
"A measure as small as taxing more heavily those corporations that don't employ Americans would be enough." - "There's nothing remotely unfair about enforcing, or even encouraging, that companies that do business in America must employ Americans."
Encouraging is one thing...enforcing another. What worked really well in Australia was mandatory placing of logos on goods to determine whether the raw input or construction was performed in Australia. That is a measure that I support...informing the consumer so that they can make a choice. Taxing is the wrong way. It creates inefficiency, and puts everyone 5 stepa back.
Thanks for the thoughtful response (as opposed to other responses).
I do not think capitalism is a religion, but it is the rules we abide by. Outsourcing is not against those rules. If you want your job to be protected, a lot of other things come along with that tweak to the rules...countries that have been denied this work may hit back with restrictions. Taking this to its logical end and you are basically at communism, with rules and government intervention everywhere.
"the capitalists in charge will be replaced by those who do care about the people living in this country"
You are confusing companies with the government. There IS a difference between the two...and rebelling against companies is as simple as doing it in a capitalist way...exercise your right of choice and dont buy their product.
If you are going to have the government step in and protect your jobs, why shouldn't they protect the companies interests too and force you to buy their product? I mean they are both under the same ruleset aren't they?
Wow, everyone is a capitalist until their job is at stake. Then all of a sudden you are a communist.
Why should your job be protected? This is the same thinking that is placing tariffs on goods and making things worse off for everyone.
Choose a side of thinking. Each has its merits. But don't try and change when it isn't going well for you.
Don't give me that drivle. There are a heap of basic phones available on the market, mostly available in pre-paid packages here in Australia.
How bout the Panasonic GD55? Its a lovely phone with no extra features, with the benefit of being tiny. There are heaps of others, with a large range of basic Siemens.
I for one love integration of features, but there are plenty of basic phones around.
MP3 is the common file tag for MPEG 1 Layer 3 encoded audio files.
That was hilarious, if you were referring to Hotel California :)
I was speaking to a guy who worked at Aristocrat (the largest manufacturer of poker machines in Australia) and he said that the government forces an 80% return, meaning a lock on probability. So over the long haul if you put in $100 you can expect to be $20 poorer. This was quite a while ago however, and things could have changed.
There are some machines that fall through the cracks and for some reason have better payout ratios. Case in point was a mchine called "Elf Magic" which would pay out EVERY SINGLE TIME I PLAYED IT. Needless to say you can't find that machine anywhere now in its original guise.
What is a concern now is that small pub's and club's are only profitable because of poker machines...it is their only means of survival.
Sometimes you don't HAVE to ask or even offer a free pen to get access...
At university, one night we had a class where we were learning on a temporary piece of software. The lecturer organised with the IT guys to have this piece of software installed on Windows 2000. The smart IT guy, however, stupidly installed the software as the administrator. The lecturer, with enough computer knowledge to realise this, called the IT guys and laid into him for wasting his time.
With his balls on the line, the IT guy had the perfect solution...log all the students on with administrator rights so that they could use the software.
I giggled for the whole lecture like a school boy in a candy shop.
1. In response to your question, no it doesn't run Linux
2. I see American cars doing this sort of "modding" on a daily basis all by themselves :)
There are phones that do the .wav thing and I cannot wait to get my hands on one of those. I think it would be hilarious to record myself saying "bring, bring" and have that play when the phone rings.
Toto - Africa is on there!
I almost fainted when I saw it in the back of the manual!
I believe that these people can't control their fetish (or choose it) so isn't this the most preferable thing? I mean child fetishes are not going to go away once all these sites are closed down or blocked. It is the same reason I believe that prostitutes and brothels should be allowed to operate freely, as it keeps the rape rate down.
Thoughts? It would be interesting to hear what you guys think.
No 'project' is going to get Steve Guttenberg back in Police Academy.
It is time to move on...
How am I going to piss them off now?
The comment mentions that it is easier than C...I wouldn't even want to think about writing all this matrix stuff in C...my stomach will turn upside down...
I think I should lie down now.
I have been using native MATLAB binaries for Linux for a while now...and unfortunately they are still much slower than the windows versions (both in number crunching and interface).