this nightmare started in 1980 with reagan and has continued ever since. Poppa Bush tried to give it more funding, but Clinton did little and W out and out destroyed it. It remains to be seen what Obama really will do, but it does not look all that good.
Actually, they already are on level with the west. The problem is that CHina fixes their money against the dollar and has raised massive trade barriers. If they would free their money, then the wealth would rise overnight by 3-10x what it is today.
Hmmm. I seem to recall that Microsoft was the first search engine to cave into Chinese demand to censorship, as well as turning over their source code to China, and that Google at least showed that a link was censored. So, why is it, that MS is not mentioned in the header?
Yeah, part of my post got cut (x-windows and konqi 4 issues).
Basically, I meant to say that while their brain weighs slightly more, they have 6 times the glial cells that we do. IOW, the have less than 1/6 of the neurons that we do. In addition, they have moved more of their actions moved up to higher functions. For example, their breathing is voluntary, which appears to be why they only have one-half of their brain sleeping at a time. Basically, we have 6 x the Neurons working on thinking, while they have more of their cells working on keeping the other cells alive and warm.
The dolphins. They were assumed to be similar IQ to man, until they figured out that they have 6x the glial cells that man does. So what it comes down to is that size != IQ.
Basically, he is saying that when we buy a book, it belongs to US to do with what we want. BUT, with the new DRM files, you do not own the item. Not the content. Not a paper. Not even the CD. The reason is that NOW, the gov. and courts are putting limits on what, who, when, etc. of what is OUR belonging.
Actually, there is plenty of reasons to have specialize search engines. The problem is that foundem really is worthless as a search engine. And yes, I suspect that they have pulled a NUMBER of shady actions that has earned them their much lower place.
While gov. sponsorship IS part of it (W's actions did wonders for getting MS into gov. dept web servers), the patents really are not. Every time that a company was getting a heads-up on MS, they would simply pull a number of illegal actions (basically, murder their rival) and pay the fine later. Finally, we all know that the Windows-Office duopoly.
Heck, here on/., we keep repeating the same dead jokes. And they keep propagating even with ppl screaming for ppl to quit redoing the same item. Not different than in JP.
They are paying $.0031 / kw-h. Here in Colorado, we pay about.07/kw-h. On the east coast, they pay.15/kw-h. Their are few lower price states than Colorado. Washington is one of them at.03 kw-h. They are 100x what China costs. Why? for a number of reasons.
1) China has ZIP pollution control. They will not buy them from anybody in the west. They want us to give it to them.
2) currently, they derive about 90-95% of their energy from Coal and Natural Gas. That will change, but that is their current matrix.
3) 3-1 or 7-1 money exchange.
None of this includes the subsidized energy that China gives to many of their companies.
Yes. Many of the goods that I buy are NOT from China. It is hard to shop for, but I do find them. And I avoid Walmart, Target, Sears, kmart whenever possible.
If you do not mind my asking, what is the raw material? If it is rare earth, than the reason is because China is playing with the markets in a HUGE way. That is because they have been buying up various mines and then redirecting the output to CHina. Thankfully, Australia just denied China the rights to 2 companies, as to America to one of ours. In addition, China has their sights on several other important minerals and are playing the markets very quietly.
With all that said, the bubble is about real estate. Economists say that it is massively overvalued. Far more than America or Japan was. And real estate is very distinct from Raw Materials.
Finally, my guess is that if China pulls a fast one on America (which I expect), then I think that EU leaders will realize that they are also being set-up for massive falls. As it is, western leaders are finally starting to gripe out loud. I believe that WTO will shortly be asked to do something about it.
If China frees slowy, then all nations will be Ok (including CHina).
OTH, if China plays games, then we are 18% of their exports and that is around 4% of their GDP.
That is major hit in any economy. Likewise, if they do decide to plat this game, then you can likely count on the majority of the western nations likely deciding to find other places to work with. That would hit them more than 10%.
And as to them switching away from the greenbuck, I wish that they would. OPEC is already quietly doing so. They are considering either the Euro (not likely), or Iran's idea of a gold coin (which I think is a great idea). Would this make us poor relative to other nations? Yup. Would it destroy America? Nope. Just like EU, America is capable of standing on its own (barring resources being blocked). And yes, we would quickly get back our manufacturing.
The fastest train is the Shanghai Train. It has an average speed of 245.5 km/h. However, that is due to the fact that the line is only 30 km. As such, it hits the normal cruise speed of 431 km/h and then starts slowing down.
OTH, this actual EU train, has a top speed of 394 km/h, and normally cruises much slower.
The reason is because China has MORE trade barriers than back in 1995, AND have their money tied to the dollar. Per the agreement with Clinton to get Permanent MFN AND to get into WTO, they were to drop their trade barriers to reasonable levels (something like 5% tariffs) and was to free their money. Instead, they declared that it was in a basket to be managed against multiple moneys. Right now, the Yuan/RMB trades at 7 to a dollar. A number of economists have said that if China frees their money, then the Yuan/RMB will trade at 2 to 1 or possibly even 1 to 1. That means that goods coming from CHina are currently 1/3 to 1/7 of the real price. In fact, if you check the news, you will see that China is fighting against doing what they are LEGALLY required to do. HOPEFULLY, WTO gets into this and says enough is enough. But the west needs to do the right thing and say enough.
To make matters worse, China has a MAJOR bubble forming. One that will make America's real estate bubble look positively MINOR. It will even make Japan's real estate bubble look minor (which was bigger than America's, but their economy was small enough and float freely that they did not take out the global economy). If it goes AND they keep their money tied to the dollar, it will bring us ALL LOWER THAN 1930's depression.
So, while the companies, esp. American companies, deserve their fair share of blame for this, the majority lies with China.
That is when you need a standby generator/PV/Wind Generator off the bike. That way, those can be used for general purposes and still limits the complexities.
The real issue is that companies like IBM, Qwest, Verizon, ATT, etc have been moving their work from Western countries to China and India. These countries do not have the experience. Experience is what keeps projects from failing. Youth, combined with adventuresome and lack of knowledge of what fails is what allows new directions to be taken. A good company needs both. Most of these large companies are gutting their experience, but not taking on those that want to be adventuresome. That is why companies like IBM, HP, Dell, etc are doomed to following the same path as Compaq, Dec, etc. This is also the time for small start-ups through the world. The time to do that is when companies like these monsters are floundering.
with far less experience. Much of the successful teams have members with DECADES of experience. That is why IBM was willing to pay money (but not salaries) from employees to move to India and China. They know that they need experience, but do not want to be saddled into the long term costs. In time (1-2 decades), China/India will gain that experience and this will change. In the mean time, a western business is better off hiring from the west where Coding was developed and the experience still resides.
is the person that submitted this. It is DIFFICULT to get this kind of thing done correctly. Heck, America has spent BILLIONS since 9/11 trying to handle facial recognition. And we are still nowhere near close.
To the original submitter, please keep your racism to yourself.
And the cycle is one of the last places that I would want to buy a hybrid at. To be honest, I think that cars are marginal at best. Instead, the place for hybrids would be RVs, trucks, carriers, tanks, firetrucks, ambulances, etc. Basically, the need to haul items long distance, or the need to generate lots of electricity for various systems. The tanks, firetrucks, ambulances could easily use much lighter weight electric motors to drive the vehicles. But, this idea of putting multiple complex systems into a cycle, or a general purpose passenger carrying vehicle makes ZERO sense. The initial energy into the system most likely is fairly high.
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this nightmare started in 1980 with reagan and has continued ever since. Poppa Bush tried to give it more funding, but Clinton did little and W out and out destroyed it. It remains to be seen what Obama really will do, but it does not look all that good.
Actually, they already are on level with the west. The problem is that CHina fixes their money against the dollar and has raised massive trade barriers. If they would free their money, then the wealth would rise overnight by 3-10x what it is today.
Hmmm. I seem to recall that Microsoft was the first search engine to cave into Chinese demand to censorship, as well as turning over their source code to China, and that Google at least showed that a link was censored. So, why is it, that MS is not mentioned in the header?
And IBM, GE, and others are joining them.
Yeah, part of my post got cut (x-windows and konqi 4 issues).
Basically, I meant to say that while their brain weighs slightly more, they have 6 times the glial cells that we do. IOW, the have less than 1/6 of the neurons that we do. In addition, they have moved more of their actions moved up to higher functions. For example, their breathing is voluntary, which appears to be why they only have one-half of their brain sleeping at a time. Basically, we have 6 x the Neurons working on thinking, while they have more of their cells working on keeping the other cells alive and warm.
They do not have the neurons. Glial cells are support cells (warmth and nutrient) and do not form part of matrix.
The dolphins. They were assumed to be similar IQ to man, until they figured out that they have 6x the glial cells that man does. So what it comes down to is that size != IQ.
Basically, he is saying that when we buy a book, it belongs to US to do with what we want. BUT, with the new DRM files, you do not own the item. Not the content. Not a paper. Not even the CD. The reason is that NOW, the gov. and courts are putting limits on what, who, when, etc. of what is OUR belonging.
I would also guess that the Russian Army will finance this.
Even the fast train was a crock. The Germans have the maglev train there that is MUCH faster than the regular train.
MS does not consider a threat, so they focus on the leaders and those that will go places. Hence, the reason for Linux AND OO, not Linux and abiword.
They will be just like Janitors.
Time to find a new job.
Actually, there is plenty of reasons to have specialize search engines. The problem is that foundem really is worthless as a search engine. And yes, I suspect that they have pulled a NUMBER of shady actions that has earned them their much lower place.
While gov. sponsorship IS part of it (W's actions did wonders for getting MS into gov. dept web servers), the patents really are not. Every time that a company was getting a heads-up on MS, they would simply pull a number of illegal actions (basically, murder their rival) and pay the fine later. Finally, we all know that the Windows-Office duopoly.
Heck, here on /., we keep repeating the same dead jokes. And they keep propagating even with ppl screaming for ppl to quit redoing the same item. Not different than in JP.
China on Friday raised retail prices of electricity by an average of 0.025 yuan (0.31 of a US cent) per kilowatt-hour (kwh) for the first time since May 2005. Yes, it is 3 years old. Their prices have not gone up that much.
.07/kw-h. On the east coast, they pay .15/kw-h. Their are few lower price states than Colorado. Washington is one of them at .03 kw-h. They are 100x what China costs. Why? for a number of reasons.
1) China has ZIP pollution control. They will not buy them from anybody in the west. They want us to give it to them.
2) currently, they derive about 90-95% of their energy from Coal and Natural Gas. That will change, but that is their current matrix.
3) 3-1 or 7-1 money exchange.
None of this includes the subsidized energy that China gives to many of their companies.
They are paying $.0031 / kw-h. Here in Colorado, we pay about
Yes. Many of the goods that I buy are NOT from China. It is hard to shop for, but I do find them. And I avoid Walmart, Target, Sears, kmart whenever possible.
If you do not mind my asking, what is the raw material? If it is rare earth, than the reason is because China is playing with the markets in a HUGE way. That is because they have been buying up various mines and then redirecting the output to CHina. Thankfully, Australia just denied China the rights to 2 companies, as to America to one of ours. In addition, China has their sights on several other important minerals and are playing the markets very quietly.
With all that said, the bubble is about real estate. Economists say that it is massively overvalued. Far more than America or Japan was. And real estate is very distinct from Raw Materials.
Finally, my guess is that if China pulls a fast one on America (which I expect), then I think that EU leaders will realize that they are also being set-up for massive falls. As it is, western leaders are finally starting to gripe out loud. I believe that WTO will shortly be asked to do something about it.
If China frees slowy, then all nations will be Ok (including CHina).
OTH, if China plays games, then we are 18% of their exports and that is around 4% of their GDP. That is major hit in any economy. Likewise, if they do decide to plat this game, then you can likely count on the majority of the western nations likely deciding to find other places to work with. That would hit them more than 10%.
And as to them switching away from the greenbuck, I wish that they would. OPEC is already quietly doing so. They are considering either the Euro (not likely), or Iran's idea of a gold coin (which I think is a great idea). Would this make us poor relative to other nations? Yup. Would it destroy America? Nope. Just like EU, America is capable of standing on its own (barring resources being blocked). And yes, we would quickly get back our manufacturing.
The fastest train is the Shanghai Train. It has an average speed of 245.5 km/h. However, that is due to the fact that the line is only 30 km. As such, it hits the normal cruise speed of 431 km/h and then starts slowing down.
OTH, this actual EU train, has a top speed of 394 km/h, and normally cruises much slower.
The reason is because China has MORE trade barriers than back in 1995, AND have their money tied to the dollar. Per the agreement with Clinton to get Permanent MFN AND to get into WTO, they were to drop their trade barriers to reasonable levels (something like 5% tariffs) and was to free their money. Instead, they declared that it was in a basket to be managed against multiple moneys. Right now, the Yuan/RMB trades at 7 to a dollar. A number of economists have said that if China frees their money, then the Yuan/RMB will trade at 2 to 1 or possibly even 1 to 1. That means that goods coming from CHina are currently 1/3 to 1/7 of the real price. In fact, if you check the news, you will see that China is fighting against doing what they are LEGALLY required to do. HOPEFULLY, WTO gets into this and says enough is enough. But the west needs to do the right thing and say enough.
To make matters worse, China has a MAJOR bubble forming. One that will make America's real estate bubble look positively MINOR. It will even make Japan's real estate bubble look minor (which was bigger than America's, but their economy was small enough and float freely that they did not take out the global economy). If it goes AND they keep their money tied to the dollar, it will bring us ALL LOWER THAN 1930's depression.
So, while the companies, esp. American companies, deserve their fair share of blame for this, the majority lies with China.
That is when you need a standby generator/PV/Wind Generator off the bike. That way, those can be used for general purposes and still limits the complexities.
The real issue is that companies like IBM, Qwest, Verizon, ATT, etc have been moving their work from Western countries to China and India. These countries do not have the experience. Experience is what keeps projects from failing. Youth, combined with adventuresome and lack of knowledge of what fails is what allows new directions to be taken. A good company needs both. Most of these large companies are gutting their experience, but not taking on those that want to be adventuresome. That is why companies like IBM, HP, Dell, etc are doomed to following the same path as Compaq, Dec, etc. This is also the time for small start-ups through the world. The time to do that is when companies like these monsters are floundering.
with far less experience. Much of the successful teams have members with DECADES of experience. That is why IBM was willing to pay money (but not salaries) from employees to move to India and China. They know that they need experience, but do not want to be saddled into the long term costs. In time (1-2 decades), China/India will gain that experience and this will change. In the mean time, a western business is better off hiring from the west where Coding was developed and the experience still resides.
is the person that submitted this. It is DIFFICULT to get this kind of thing done correctly. Heck, America has spent BILLIONS since 9/11 trying to handle facial recognition. And we are still nowhere near close. To the original submitter, please keep your racism to yourself.
And the cycle is one of the last places that I would want to buy a hybrid at. To be honest, I think that cars are marginal at best. Instead, the place for hybrids would be RVs, trucks, carriers, tanks, firetrucks, ambulances, etc. Basically, the need to haul items long distance, or the need to generate lots of electricity for various systems. The tanks, firetrucks, ambulances could easily use much lighter weight electric motors to drive the vehicles. But, this idea of putting multiple complex systems into a cycle, or a general purpose passenger carrying vehicle makes ZERO sense. The initial energy into the system most likely is fairly high.