The only way for a company in the US to compete with a 3rd world one and still give high paying jobs to it's employee's is through tarrifs, so we get both high paying jobs and a little more cost in products, it's how it is and how it always will be, it keeps us out of poverty by making us have to pay a certain amount of money so we will buy internally. It is good for our country, bad for smaller ones, but I think smaller countries need to rely on themself and not sales from the USA. The low foriegn prices are not worth the loss of local jobs. Every country needs to be a little independant.
I am just wondering why all pro-free trade comments are being modded up and all pro-tarriff comments are being modded down? Doesn't sound very balanced to me, there are benefits on both sides, but the modderation of it is not promoting debate, it is promoting winning on one side through censorship, even if they are readable comments still, they are hidden to most.
Forgot to mention....
The dots are made at the factory, not at the stand itself. They are then shipped in giant, nitrogen cooled containers to a distribution point and then from there they give the bags or buckets out to each stand in the area.
Micrsooft doesn't let you use the parts of Windows to make your own OS, do they? Apple's hardware is closed, it is what lets us have elegantly designed computers. Otherwise there would just be cheap competition and it would kill off Apple all together.
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is it more acceptable for hardware manufacturer to fence off competitors? eg Apple restricting parts to be used on Apply-Only machines, while everyone's crying foul when MS is trying to install its own browser on its own product (and still allows competing browsers to be installed).
That is a horrible comparason, MacOS X can be uninstalled from your mac, and you can install somthing different, you can't uninstall internet explorer and put in Mozilla though, you have to keep IE.
Just wait until Apple has market share. You think this is bad? This is nothing.
When/if apple has more market share, it won't be as bad since they won't be at a cut-throat position (vs microsoft), they don't want to loose what little they have against a clone that is 3x less the price of this, if they did however have more market share, they could afford to build a cheap box like this one.
The only problem is that if we keep KaZaA up, it will still be used by kids to steal the latest and greatest music, no matter what you say KaZaA might be used legitimatly for, it will be mainly used for stealing music, it is a sad fact, and that is the bottom line.
These people are no smarter than a little kid saying, "I'm a hacker, I can make your computer blow up using the internet." They need to be asking the technology experts solutions to these matters, like Apple's music store. Of course, KaZaA still needs to be eliminated since competition between one legal source of music and an illegial one is kind of silly. However, I can tell these represenatives know little to nothing about technology the way they talk about using these unethical and impractical tactics against music piracy, if they do this, they are no better than who they are fighting.
They don't exist for serving us, but we painfully brought the internet to them, that is alot of our tax payers money, and for what? So the overpopulated country and fuck around on IM and give us shitty porn? I don't think it's worth the taxpayers billions of dollars.
The only problem with this Troll is that I agree, now I hope I'm not modded down for thinking differently, I just have to wonder what they actually DO for us rather than make porn and spam which we can do ourself, I hope someone can respond to this and enlighten me instead of making it a -1, Troll.
Besides the cool-ness factor, this unit may have a very good selling point. Unlike the gameboy series [which is teetering on the edge of archaic] this offers a whole new advantage: something not teathered to cross-compatible cartridges. This will encourage new, modern game developers to develop for this unit, unlike the same old garbage every gameboy seems to be littered with (the ubiquitous Nickelodeon games and street fighter).
It also seems that there isn't a true UNIX anymore, it is just a term for anything that is text based and uses the same flow of commands in a command prompt, and is portable to other OS's. Didn't Microsoft claim that win2k was unix before too? How exactly do you define a UNIX OS today anyways? It is a VERY broad term indeed.
I was about to recommend a PIII, then I noticed I have a PIII sony vaio with no LCD working but you can plug a monitor into the back, it would be perfect for running all the things you mentioned, MSN me: preston [at] moderngeek [dot] com or AIM: Preston578, email server is down though, so don't even try that:P
I agree, this is one of the guys who holds back society by saying that somthing old and out of date is artful and should be preserved to keep emotions and crap all present in the world, but these are the very things that pull back the human race.
It is just like anything else: if you try and use it daily, you will end up adjusting to that, handwritting needs to be taught, but not to be forced mainstream because it doesn't need to be, the whole, "if all electric devices ciest to exist, what do you do thing" is a crock like, "what would you do if all paper and pen disappeard suddenly?"
To all mods calling this a troll: I am not trying to down the Linux-Tablet PC idea, I am just saying it isn't ready and that there isn't a real advantage to it, the whole Linix-Tablet idea could turn out really well if someone like RedHat or SuSe or SC...Oh yeah. pitched in to help intergrate all the features like the Digital Ink stuff and handwriting recognition, and some interface lifts to help with better navigation, etc. If Konqueror or Nautilus (sp?) could be optimised for Tablet PC, that would be wonderful. I am sure Microsoft has bribed all the Tablet PC people into not using Linux just like they did with BeOS though.
Another thing is that we get HUGE $$$$$ from Microsoft for advertising and development.
Sounds like Microsoft trying to crush linux in the tablet pc industry the same way they did BeOS in the PC industry, sounds like there needs to be another suit against Microsoft by someone like RedHat to keep the same thing from happening to LinuxTabletPC as BeOS. Remember, Microsoft kept PC manufactures from dualbooting Windows and BeOS by telling them they couldn't. If Microsoft didn't bribe the dealers into being so Pro Windows, I bet the competition could be more open, especially if a company like RedHat played.
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The only way for a company in the US to compete with a 3rd world one and still give high paying jobs to it's employee's is through tarrifs, so we get both high paying jobs and a little more cost in products, it's how it is and how it always will be, it keeps us out of poverty by making us have to pay a certain amount of money so we will buy internally. It is good for our country, bad for smaller ones, but I think smaller countries need to rely on themself and not sales from the USA. The low foriegn prices are not worth the loss of local jobs. Every country needs to be a little independant.
I am just wondering why all pro-free trade comments are being modded up and all pro-tarriff comments are being modded down? Doesn't sound very balanced to me, there are benefits on both sides, but the modderation of it is not promoting debate, it is promoting winning on one side through censorship, even if they are readable comments still, they are hidden to most.
Welcome to my friends list, if I had any mod points right now, I'd mod you up :P
Forgot to mention....
The dots are made at the factory, not at the stand itself. They are then shipped in giant, nitrogen cooled containers to a distribution point and then from there they give the bags or buckets out to each stand in the area.
String kicks ass ....
Karma to burn, Karma to burn, I am the leet troll with ADHD, burn karma burn, in the garden of zen!
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Micrsooft doesn't let you use the parts of Windows to make your own OS, do they? Apple's hardware is closed, it is what lets us have elegantly designed computers. Otherwise there would just be cheap competition and it would kill off Apple all together.
is it more acceptable for hardware manufacturer to fence off competitors? eg Apple restricting parts to be used on Apply-Only machines, while everyone's crying foul when MS is trying to install its own browser on its own product (and still allows competing browsers to be installed).
That is a horrible comparason, MacOS X can be uninstalled from your mac, and you can install somthing different, you can't uninstall internet explorer and put in Mozilla though, you have to keep IE.
Just wait until Apple has market share. You think this is bad? This is nothing.
When/if apple has more market share, it won't be as bad since they won't be at a cut-throat position (vs microsoft), they don't want to loose what little they have against a clone that is 3x less the price of this, if they did however have more market share, they could afford to build a cheap box like this one.
The only problem is that if we keep KaZaA up, it will still be used by kids to steal the latest and greatest music, no matter what you say KaZaA might be used legitimatly for, it will be mainly used for stealing music, it is a sad fact, and that is the bottom line.
Japan != China
These people are no smarter than a little kid saying, "I'm a hacker, I can make your computer blow up using the internet." They need to be asking the technology experts solutions to these matters, like Apple's music store. Of course, KaZaA still needs to be eliminated since competition between one legal source of music and an illegial one is kind of silly. However, I can tell these represenatives know little to nothing about technology the way they talk about using these unethical and impractical tactics against music piracy, if they do this, they are no better than who they are fighting.
I live right next to the Dipin' Dots factory, I feel special now, and no, I never took the tour. :)
They don't exist for serving us, but we painfully brought the internet to them, that is alot of our tax payers money, and for what? So the overpopulated country and fuck around on IM and give us shitty porn? I don't think it's worth the taxpayers billions of dollars.
The only problem with this Troll is that I agree, now I hope I'm not modded down for thinking differently, I just have to wonder what they actually DO for us rather than make porn and spam which we can do ourself, I hope someone can respond to this and enlighten me instead of making it a -1, Troll.
Besides the cool-ness factor, this unit may have a very good selling point. Unlike the gameboy series [which is teetering on the edge of archaic] this offers a whole new advantage: something not teathered to cross-compatible cartridges. This will encourage new, modern game developers to develop for this unit, unlike the same old garbage every gameboy seems to be littered with (the ubiquitous Nickelodeon games and street fighter).
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It also seems that there isn't a true UNIX anymore, it is just a term for anything that is text based and uses the same flow of commands in a command prompt, and is portable to other OS's. Didn't Microsoft claim that win2k was unix before too? How exactly do you define a UNIX OS today anyways? It is a VERY broad term indeed.
I was about to recommend a PIII, then I noticed I have a PIII sony vaio with no LCD working but you can plug a monitor into the back, it would be perfect for running all the things you mentioned, MSN me: preston [at] moderngeek [dot] com or AIM: Preston578, email server is down though, so don't even try that :P
This guy Looks a little nervous and as if he is backing his head away from somthing, so I assume somone is in front of him trying to make him test it.
I agree, this is one of the guys who holds back society by saying that somthing old and out of date is artful and should be preserved to keep emotions and crap all present in the world, but these are the very things that pull back the human race.
It is just like anything else: if you try and use it daily, you will end up adjusting to that, handwritting needs to be taught, but not to be forced mainstream because it doesn't need to be, the whole, "if all electric devices ciest to exist, what do you do thing" is a crock like, "what would you do if all paper and pen disappeard suddenly?"
To all mods calling this a troll: I am not trying to down the Linux-Tablet PC idea, I am just saying it isn't ready and that there isn't a real advantage to it, the whole Linix-Tablet idea could turn out really well if someone like RedHat or SuSe or SC...Oh yeah. pitched in to help intergrate all the features like the Digital Ink stuff and handwriting recognition, and some interface lifts to help with better navigation, etc. If Konqueror or Nautilus (sp?) could be optimised for Tablet PC, that would be wonderful. I am sure Microsoft has bribed all the Tablet PC people into not using Linux just like they did with BeOS though.
Another thing is that we get HUGE $$$$$ from Microsoft for advertising and development.
Sounds like Microsoft trying to crush linux in the tablet pc industry the same way they did BeOS in the PC industry, sounds like there needs to be another suit against Microsoft by someone like RedHat to keep the same thing from happening to LinuxTabletPC as BeOS. Remember, Microsoft kept PC manufactures from dualbooting Windows and BeOS by telling them they couldn't. If Microsoft didn't bribe the dealers into being so Pro Windows, I bet the competition could be more open, especially if a company like RedHat played.