The point is that more than a billion people with extremly simple living conditions compared to the western world could be ready to enter the same labour marked in a few decades. This will create a "buyers marked" for employers and will not be good for employees.
Think like this, if 1 million houses just as good as yours could suddenly fit in your neighbourhood, would yours fall in value?
This will have drastic consequences for all, rich and poor. And might be for the better in the long run. But short term is grim for the normal guy expected to improve his/her living standard.
I just bought one of the spiffy AMD64 CPUs. Should I download/get CD for the public beta? I usually use the windows partition for games and my girlfriend use it for office and math programs.
I do not think that is the same, if you write a class or method final the compiler will complain if you try to subclass or override the method. In c++ the method can be there, it just isn't checked for during runtime.
If you say a method is private in Java, it will use invokespecial instead of invokevirtual. This is much faster and will not have the lookup penalties.
I really think that dropping bombs can quite often be the same as a suicide bomber. What about Hiroshima and Dresden? Or the "shock and awe" campaign? This is pure terror.
You think that as long as you are targeting military personel that is fine, but what about the "highway of death" after the first gulf war where thousands of Iraqis where killed after the fighting where over? I think it is clear that was a war crime.
It is also clear that you have not learned the lesson of the second world war. If the allies had invaded Germany at the first sign of agression we would not have a clear picture of who was the agressor and who was trying to maintain the peace.
I would like to point out that you think that the US is trying to make a difference, while extreme muslims are enforcing their view on others. This is really the same. I do not want my country to be like the US, and this is try for a large part of the world.
Finally I would like to say as a person that has served in infantry special forces that I understand what soldiers are doing. I also think I would have done the same thing. People are shooting at you, and you try to shoot back. That is a basic human response. I do however blame the governemnt who put them in that situation. If, for example, the US had used more and better trained infantry in Iraq a lot of lives, civilian and soldiers, could have been saved.
To sum it up, I think war is a hell, and that it is no way it can not be hell. I blame the leaders who use it when there is no reason. The strange thing is that in some countries, I think the US and Israel are examples but many will disagree, the military are often more responsible about this than the civilian government who are using the military where it should not be used.
I so agree, only weak men impose their views by getting on a school bus with a nail bomb. Real men, they drop bombs from the air where nothing can touch them. Big boms, like the mother of all bombs or nuclear bombs. We level them with the earth. We shock and awe them.
To say that is imposing our thoughts is totally wrong, we are just encouraging freedom, aren't we?
In my opinion the problem is that Sun is not accepting patches, or at least not quickly enough. I have head that there are many open bugs that have had patches submitted and than nothing happened.
I think that should be the important first step, if they start to accept patches more quickly and worked with the community it is open enough already. There is nothing else that can handle such a large project. Except other large companies like IBM, but that would not really change anything.
A good thing is that Java is important for Sun. This is one battle they can not afford to loose, so they will find a way.
I lived in england a few years ago when the system changed in all the stores. I almost didn't notice it happen. Same with the euro conversion in the Netherlands. It was fun for a few days then noone thought about it anymore.
I think it would be quite painless to change to the metric system in the US. You don't have to change everything immediatly.
Did you ever try to run Java on Os X? I almost only use apple computer these days. My problem is that I love Java and it is truly really bad on Os X. Every time I run something, mostly IDE's I think about installing linux or going over to my remaining windows computer.
I think the worst part is that it looks similar but is very inferior. Apple is focusing 100% on cocoa, Java is an afterthought. Just my humble opinion of course.
And, it would be quite illegal as well, or? I thought that was one of your wonderfull new laws that med cracking codes illegal.
So it would be enough to just encrypt it in a simple way, since it is illegal for them to try to decrypt the files.
The important thing here is that the race includes labour protection laws, minimum wages and even basic human rights.
As soon as you start the "This is better than nothing" justification you should know you are wrong.
I am not against outsourcing (hey, I don't live in the US), but I think we should restrict our trading with countries that follow basic human rights. If not we will all loose the few rights we still have.
Since a few started talking about ease of use, I'll say a bit clearer what I meant.
My grandmother is writing me emails in outlook, and she will never edit a.pinerc. There are two different aspects of ease of use:
1. How easy is it to start to use the application.
2. How easy is it to use once you know it like you wrote it yourself.
Those two can be very different, and for my grandmother (and mother, and most computer users I know) unless the first is there, the second will never happen.
First, less than 50% increase in more than 10 years does not look that impressive. We should also research why this is happening.
Secondly, if the workers in the country where the jobs are exported have not protection, than everyone will loose their protection one day as well. Either labour laws are exported or we import a state of no labour laws.
* You probability of getting a job is much better with a nice project on your resume. Before you start working, on open source project could open a lot of doors.
* Some people do things to advance the society, medicine sans frontiers or red cross workers for example. Major contributions to open software is also helping since it opens the playing field for poor countries.
I think a reality pill is in order. Yes you live in a country that has been touched by fascism. One easy example is the McCarthy (?) period where any socialist ideas where in effect banned.
What many americans don't realise is that there can never be total freedom. In a total free society you would be free to do what you want, and I would be protected from your actions. This is not possible if we want different things. There will always be a tradeoff between your freedom and my protection. We europeans just have a (slightly) different tradeoff.
You and me refere to fictional characters here of course.
There is another article on slashdot about how 50% or something of americans with net access publish their own stuff. This is an example of why this does not need to be a good thing.
I mean how many blogs with personal info do we really need?
TCO is different for governments, because the money is spent on german labour, which might otherwise be unemployed. Instead the get an educated workforce.
So to sum it up, they spend the same, but pay germans (so they get some money back), and educate the people. Not really a difficult choice.
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Think like this, if 1 million houses just as good as yours could suddenly fit in your neighbourhood, would yours fall in value?
This will have drastic consequences for all, rich and poor. And might be for the better in the long run. But short term is grim for the normal guy expected to improve his/her living standard.
I use gentoo, so the linux front should be pretty well covered.
Does anyone have any experience?
If you say a method is private in Java, it will use invokespecial instead of invokevirtual. This is much faster and will not have the lookup penalties.
You think that as long as you are targeting military personel that is fine, but what about the "highway of death" after the first gulf war where thousands of Iraqis where killed after the fighting where over? I think it is clear that was a war crime.
It is also clear that you have not learned the lesson of the second world war. If the allies had invaded Germany at the first sign of agression we would not have a clear picture of who was the agressor and who was trying to maintain the peace.
I would like to point out that you think that the US is trying to make a difference, while extreme muslims are enforcing their view on others. This is really the same. I do not want my country to be like the US, and this is try for a large part of the world.
Finally I would like to say as a person that has served in infantry special forces that I understand what soldiers are doing. I also think I would have done the same thing. People are shooting at you, and you try to shoot back. That is a basic human response. I do however blame the governemnt who put them in that situation. If, for example, the US had used more and better trained infantry in Iraq a lot of lives, civilian and soldiers, could have been saved.
To sum it up, I think war is a hell, and that it is no way it can not be hell. I blame the leaders who use it when there is no reason. The strange thing is that in some countries, I think the US and Israel are examples but many will disagree, the military are often more responsible about this than the civilian government who are using the military where it should not be used.
To say that is imposing our thoughts is totally wrong, we are just encouraging freedom, aren't we?
I think that should be the important first step, if they start to accept patches more quickly and worked with the community it is open enough already. There is nothing else that can handle such a large project. Except other large companies like IBM, but that would not really change anything.
A good thing is that Java is important for Sun. This is one battle they can not afford to loose, so they will find a way.
I think it would be quite painless to change to the metric system in the US. You don't have to change everything immediatly.
I think the worst part is that it looks similar but is very inferior. Apple is focusing 100% on cocoa, Java is an afterthought. Just my humble opinion of course.
And, it would be quite illegal as well, or? I thought that was one of your wonderfull new laws that med cracking codes illegal. So it would be enough to just encrypt it in a simple way, since it is illegal for them to try to decrypt the files.
Quite well is the answer here.
Your calculation should include a lot of insurance money to get to the same level a canadian gets from just his taxes.
Thanks for clearifying my point.
The important thing here is that the race includes labour protection laws, minimum wages and even basic human rights. As soon as you start the "This is better than nothing" justification you should know you are wrong. I am not against outsourcing (hey, I don't live in the US), but I think we should restrict our trading with countries that follow basic human rights. If not we will all loose the few rights we still have.
My grandmother is writing me emails in outlook, and she will never edit a .pinerc. There are two different aspects of ease of use:
1. How easy is it to start to use the application.
2. How easy is it to use once you know it like you wrote it yourself.
Those two can be very different, and for my grandmother (and mother, and most computer users I know) unless the first is there, the second will never happen.
Do they still develop for PPC? It seems like all we get is gentoo these days.
I find all this focus on easy-of-use and simplicity boring. I hate it whem computers become so simple that my grandmother can use them.
This is one of the things you have mastercard for, just invaluable.
Secondly, if the workers in the country where the jobs are exported have not protection, than everyone will loose their protection one day as well. Either labour laws are exported or we import a state of no labour laws.
* You probability of getting a job is much better with a nice project on your resume. Before you start working, on open source project could open a lot of doors.
* Some people do things to advance the society, medicine sans frontiers or red cross workers for example. Major contributions to open software is also helping since it opens the playing field for poor countries.
What many americans don't realise is that there can never be total freedom. In a total free society you would be free to do what you want, and I would be protected from your actions. This is not possible if we want different things. There will always be a tradeoff between your freedom and my protection. We europeans just have a (slightly) different tradeoff.
You and me refere to fictional characters here of course.
What it really should be is that they are not allowed to say that Linux users can be sued unless they buy the SCO kind.
The use of placebo was a bit qute though. Like that new winXP disc is just one big shiny placebo pill. Which is kind of true.
I mean how many blogs with personal info do we really need?
So to sum it up, they spend the same, but pay germans (so they get some money back), and educate the people. Not really a difficult choice.