The modern liberal is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for freeloading off of his countrymen.
And you, sir, obviously haven't been around./ very long, or you would realize he was responding to HanzoSan, the most notorious troll/moron in Slashdotland.
Make no mistake, he deserves all the grief he gets.
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Q
Sorry but to those of you who dont support Napster because it robs Musicians, how the hell can you support Apple? Its the same fcking thinng.
The Musicians are not the content owners. The Record Company are the content owners.
Where's that clue bat?
Whack!
Small as it is, the artist gets paid a royalty for every unit sold. If they're a big name artist, they can usually negotiate for a larger royalty per unit.
What you're saying is that instead of the artist getting paid a little, it's better not to pay them at all.
I'd like to see how you'd respond if your boss tried to lay that on you.
If Dell, HP or some other vendor bought Sun, would Sun's funding for OpenOffice.org and GNOME dry up, considering these other vendors are primarily Microsoft shops and the funding could generate a conflict of interest?
Depends on who buys them. If it's IBM, I think you could not only depend on continued funding, but it would possibly inherit some of the nice bits from Lotus SmartSuite. Which wouldn't be a bad thing at all. And I believe IBM already contributes to Gnome and KDE both.
And quite wild rumours at that. Who would want Mac OS X in the server, apart from Apple shops? Ridiculous. IBM could ship either AIX, GNU/Linux or NetBSD in the same hardware with better performance and less resources consumption easily.
I agree, Mac OS X on an IBM server would be silly. But it would be a great OS for a high-end IBM graphical workstation. And it would be great for Apple as well, since they don't compete much in that space. In that case, the rumors might have some validity.
SCO has threatened to cut off IBM's licensing of Unix in the current $1B lawsuit but Sun has a perpetual license to its Unix IP. The acquisition of Sun by IBM might derail any outcome of the SCO/IBM litigation that would otherwise have resulted in serious consequences for AIX products. With Solaris available as a quick fix for any AIX licensing problems, IBM is poised to shrug it off and forge ahead claiming licensing from Sun IP covers AIX.
Wow, I never even thought of the SCO connection! But you have a great point there. They get control of their Sys V license, and Java to boot.
At first, I couldn't see what advantage Sun would be to IBM. But I'm starting to see such an acquisition could kill a number of birds with one stone for IBM.
It also would be interesting since EDS reportedly uses big Sun servers all over the world...
Yes, but you have to remember that one of EDS's competitive advantages against IBM is that they are vendor neutral. Owning a company like Sun would trash that advantage.
In all seriousness, Apple controlling Java would really, really hurt Java's credibility. Apple, in teh business world, is seen as a fringe player at best.
Well, that could just as easily work the other way around. Apple controlling Java may buy them the credibility in the business world they now lack.
Java itself is already well established in the business world. I doubt that it would be taken any less seriously if Apple acquired ownership.
IBM controlling Java would be taken seriously. The corporate world pays a lot of attention to IBM.
True, but Apple has been a more frequent partner of IBM's than Sun has. As Apple and IBM don't really compete, that may turn out to be a more productive and less contentious partnership than IBM and Sun.
Electricity can be beamed through the air without a pylon in sight Roger Dobson SCIENTISTS have successfully applied the technology used in microwave ovens to beam electricity without the need for unsightly pylons and overhead cables.
The power is fired through the air in the form of microwaves and collected in special antennas that reconvert the microwaves into electricity.
A prototype of the wireless power technology has shown the system works and a full-scale version is now being built to make a remote village on the French-governed island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean the world's first microwave-powered community.
According to a report to be published this week, the system is a cheaper way than either solar energy or local generators of supplying remote areas not connected to a grid.
"(Electricity) network distribution is effective at the centre but the costs increase quickly when you get to the edge," said Dr Guy Pignolet of CNES, the French space agency, which has conducted the trials.
"Extending it to remote areas is very costly, but with microwave technology you do not have those costs. You also do not have pylons, which you may not want in sensitive areas."
The technology works by converting direct current (DC) electricity into microwave power at the transmitting end in the same way that switching on a microwave oven converts electricity into waves using a device called a magnetron. Residents are unlikely to be baked as the frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
Microwaves for the electricity are targeted via antennas and reflectors at a "rectenna" (from the words rectifier and antenna), which absorbs the microwave energy from the beam and converts it back into DC power with diodes.
In Grand-Bassin on Réunion, which lies at the bottom of a 3,000ft canyon with no road access, electricity is currently provided by solar panels placed on the roofs of the houses. But increasing the amount of electricity solely by using the panels is difficult because of the amount of surface area needed. It is also expensive.
The researchers have successfully produced a field prototype to illuminate a handful of light bulbs. A second prototype is being finalised and will be in operation in about 10 months, while the whole project to supply the village with power is scheduled to be completed within three years.
Currently we dont have a Global Economy, because people in other countries dont get the same wages, You shouldnt be able to have seperate currencies yet still have a Global Economy, because when you convert the Yen to the Dollar, our money somehow is more expensive than their money, making their version of the dollar "BETTER" than ours, pricing our people out due to some kinda glitch in the system.
Well, if you want to look at it that way, we don't even have a National Economy, let alone a global one. A programmer will get paid more in New York City than he will in Aliance, Nebraska because there's little demand for programmers in Aliance.
The value of all jobs is partly contingent on their location. I'm highly paid for where I live in my part of the country. But I doubt I could even live in Boston on what I make, my house would cost 4 times what I paid for it here. But then, the same job in Boston pays a lot more than it does where I live.
You're ignoring the other variables.
So I get priced out as a programmer because my dollar is inflated? Thats Bullshit, look, if we could convert the Chinese, the Japanese, and we are the USA, all converted to the Euro, no one would have a problem with Globalism, we would all make the same exact wages and the competition would be based on actual merit.
Not true - New York, Utah and South Carolina and California all use the same currency. Look where companies like Novell, RedHat and Caldera started up. It wasn't in Boston or New York. Guess why?
I'll give you another example - Nevada is the fastest growing state in terms of population. Between 1990 and 2000 the population increased 80%. Salaries are actually lower on the average than the rest of the country. But it's also cheaper to live there and start a business because there's very little taxation and regulation. So businesses locate there because it's cheap to operate there. More businesses means more jobs, so people are migrating there to find work.
Instead, the competition is based on stuff we have no control over, its not even about merit, its about where you live, if you live in China you have a job, if you live in the USA you dont. So the solution? We should pick a fucking dollar/euro/yen and everyone use it.
It will always be about where you live. If you're a seafood wholesaler, you'll be better off in Boston than Des Moines. Why? Because there's no ocean near Des Moines. Even if your the best fisherman in the world, it's not going to do you any bloody good in Des Moines. So, yes, in some cases location has more to do with competing effectively than ability.
But that has nothing to do with the type of currency used.
We should set up a global minimum wage for EVERYONE, and then finally labor will cost the same in EVERY country. A programmer who makes $30,000 inn the USA would make $30,000 anywhere else in the world and then we will finally be able to compete without being forced to leave our home countries.
That's impossible. Check out the cost of living in Costa Rica. You can live quite nicely there for less than the US minimum wage. If you brought up the minimum wage to US standards, it would drive up the price of labor, which would drive up the price of everything else. The minimum wage in the US is a princely sum in Costa Rica. Most Costa Rican businesses couldn't afford to pay it. All you'd do is cause inflation, and put a whole lot of people out of work and out of business while you were doing it.
I see you've returned, HanzoSan. Oh well, I guess it's time to jump in a phone booth, logoff of my usual handle and emerge as...
*BOOM!!!*
Anti-HanzoSan!!
So all of us have to get PHDs in Nano Technology now because big companies gave our jobs away? And then when the rest of the world catches up, we have to get another PHD? and another? Fuck that.
Um, how do you figure those are "our" jobs? As the companies own the workplace, the resources and pay the salaries, I think you mean their jobs. It's your job only as long as both you and the company decide that arrangement is to your mutual benefit. Companies have as much of a right to act in their own interest as you do.
I should be able to keep a stable job for 5 years without having to worry about the third world catching up and robbing me of my job every 5 years.
Robbing you?! Gimme a break! If you don't want to keep your skills up in order to add value above and beyond what your competition can add, the only thing robbing you is your own laziness and incompetence.
Of course, if you don't like how other employers do business, you can always start your own company. Then you can keep your job in this country as long as you like.
Not all of us can afford to be in college all our lives and not everyone in this country is smart enough, so theres going to be a problem.
Why should that be the company's problem? As I said, they have as much right to act in their own interest as you have to act in yours. What gives you the right to demand they sacrifice their interests for yours? Something tells me you'd scream loud if someone expected you to sacrifice your interests for theirs.
Microsoft can provide a Server OS for Itanium and x86-64. They can balk on providing a desktop OS for either architecture.
Which is fine. The 32 bit versions of their desktop OS's will run just fine on x86-64. If the architecture turns out to be a winner, then they can optimize it. But I do seem to recollect reading MS will support x86-64. But don't quote me, I can't find the source right now.
The conventional wisdom is that there are exactly 2 players in the 64bit arena: IBM and Intel. IBM isn't jumping on the Itanic either, at least not in any big way other than building some low end servers with it.
IBM has actually ceased it's efforts to port Linux to Itanic, and reallocated the developers to working on the Power port. Having noticed Itanic has, at least to date, bombed in the market place, they see an opportunity to establish Power as a standard in the 64 bit space.
AMD is the wildcard. If x86-64 is the bomb and takes off like AMD is betting on it. Intel lost the 64bit war for many years. IBM and maybe even Sun will quietly (well sun doesn't do jack shit quietly) push x86-64 for the low end while IBM POWER4 and POWER5 and POWER6 down the road run the big end.
That's not an entirely bad assumption, particularly since AMD and IBM recently signed a technology sharing agreement for manufacturing processes. This leads me to believe you can expect to see some further colaboration between them in the future.
Additionally, Sun announced today that they'll be marketing blade servers based on AMD's Athalon.
Basically Intel needs something like Sun to jump on it IA64 to really give it some credibility and they don't sound real eager to.
They do have HP on board, of course. But HP looks like it's rapidly going down the shitter, so it's uncertain how beneficial that will be.
IBM sounds like they are down for the fight.
Actually, they're sitting on the fence. They manufacture servers based on both Power and Itanic. But I'd expect them to take advantage of the opportunity to give Power a boost, as Itanic is going nowhere fast, and Sun looks like they might be down for the count.
Meanwhile, if Intel doesn't get on the shit quick then they'll have to support x86-64 too and that's the real death blow to IA64.
I don't think they can get on the shit quick enough if AMD executes properly. x86-64 is a lot cheaper than IA-64, and it's a drop-in replacement for x86, even if it doesn't offer significant performance advantages when running in 32 bit mode. Right there, that's going to circumvent the kind of issues that are slowing adoption of Itanic. The best Intel can hope for is AMD to be late to market, or for Opertron to develop some (henceforth unknown) technical issues. I think this time AMD might actually manage to snatch the ball out of Intel's hands.
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The modern liberal is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for freeloading off of his countrymen.
And you, sir, obviously haven't been around ./ very long, or you would realize he was responding to HanzoSan, the most notorious troll/moron in Slashdotland.
Make no mistake, he deserves all the grief he gets.
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Q
Sorry but to those of you who dont support Napster because it robs Musicians, how the hell can you support Apple? Its the same fcking thinng.
The Musicians are not the content owners. The Record Company are the content owners.
Where's that clue bat?
Whack!
Small as it is, the artist gets paid a royalty for every unit sold. If they're a big name artist, they can usually negotiate for a larger royalty per unit.
What you're saying is that instead of the artist getting paid a little, it's better not to pay them at all.
I'd like to see how you'd respond if your boss tried to lay that on you.
If Dell, HP or some other vendor bought Sun, would Sun's funding for OpenOffice.org and GNOME dry up, considering these other vendors are primarily Microsoft shops and the funding could generate a conflict of interest?
Depends on who buys them. If it's IBM, I think you could not only depend on continued funding, but it would possibly inherit some of the nice bits from Lotus SmartSuite. Which wouldn't be a bad thing at all. And I believe IBM already contributes to Gnome and KDE both.
And quite wild rumours at that. Who would want Mac OS X in the server, apart from Apple shops? Ridiculous. IBM could ship either AIX, GNU/Linux or NetBSD in the same hardware with better performance and less resources consumption easily.
I agree, Mac OS X on an IBM server would be silly. But it would be a great OS for a high-end IBM graphical workstation. And it would be great for Apple as well, since they don't compete much in that space. In that case, the rumors might have some validity.
SCO has threatened to cut off IBM's licensing of Unix in the current $1B lawsuit but Sun has a perpetual license to its Unix IP. The acquisition of Sun by IBM might derail any outcome of the SCO/IBM litigation that would otherwise have resulted in serious consequences for AIX products. With Solaris available as a quick fix for any AIX licensing problems, IBM is poised to shrug it off and forge ahead claiming licensing from Sun IP covers AIX.
Wow, I never even thought of the SCO connection! But you have a great point there. They get control of their Sys V license, and Java to boot.
At first, I couldn't see what advantage Sun would be to IBM. But I'm starting to see such an acquisition could kill a number of birds with one stone for IBM.
It also would be interesting since EDS reportedly uses big Sun servers all over the world...
Yes, but you have to remember that one of EDS's competitive advantages against IBM is that they are vendor neutral. Owning a company like Sun would trash that advantage.
While I agree the software side is more important, it would be nice to be a sane, RISC architecture compete with Intel for volume.
How about this one?
In all seriousness, Apple controlling Java would really, really hurt Java's credibility. Apple, in teh business world, is seen as a fringe player at best.
Well, that could just as easily work the other way around. Apple controlling Java may buy them the credibility in the business world they now lack.
Java itself is already well established in the business world. I doubt that it would be taken any less seriously if Apple acquired ownership.
IBM controlling Java would be taken seriously. The corporate world pays a lot of attention to IBM.
True, but Apple has been a more frequent partner of IBM's than Sun has. As Apple and IBM don't really compete, that may turn out to be a more productive and less contentious partnership than IBM and Sun.
Before the internet my childhood was video games and TV so Im glad to have discovered it.
I'm not sure the internet feels the same way about you.
Electricity can be beamed through the air without a pylon in sight
Roger Dobson
SCIENTISTS have successfully applied the technology used in microwave ovens to beam electricity without the need for unsightly pylons and overhead cables.
The power is fired through the air in the form of microwaves and collected in special antennas that reconvert the microwaves into electricity.
A prototype of the wireless power technology has shown the system works and a full-scale version is now being built to make a remote village on the French-governed island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean the world's first microwave-powered community.
According to a report to be published this week, the system is a cheaper way than either solar energy or local generators of supplying remote areas not connected to a grid.
"(Electricity) network distribution is effective at the centre but the costs increase quickly when you get to the edge," said Dr Guy Pignolet of CNES, the French space agency, which has conducted the trials.
"Extending it to remote areas is very costly, but with microwave technology you do not have those costs. You also do not have pylons, which you may not want in sensitive areas."
The technology works by converting direct current (DC) electricity into microwave power at the transmitting end in the same way that switching on a microwave oven converts electricity into waves using a device called a magnetron. Residents are unlikely to be baked as the frequencies in the two applications are entirely different.
Microwaves for the electricity are targeted via antennas and reflectors at a "rectenna" (from the words rectifier and antenna), which absorbs the microwave energy from the beam and converts it back into DC power with diodes.
In Grand-Bassin on Réunion, which lies at the bottom of a 3,000ft canyon with no road access, electricity is currently provided by solar panels placed on the roofs of the houses. But increasing the amount of electricity solely by using the panels is difficult because of the amount of surface area needed. It is also expensive.
The researchers have successfully produced a field prototype to illuminate a handful of light bulbs. A second prototype is being finalised and will be in operation in about 10 months, while the whole project to supply the village with power is scheduled to be completed within three years.
Additional reporting: Nick Speed
I don't know what you are talking about
Don't let that worry you - he doesn't know what he's talking about either.
I'm sorry but soon programmer will be what teenage kids do, like mc donalds of today.
So, how long have you been working at McDonald's?
It's amazing you don't understand the depths you have sunken, with your ignorant, unsubstantiated, incorrect comments.
I see you've met HanzoSan.
*smirk*
It is one of a government's duties to manage the economy to meet the goal of stability.
Would you care to point to the clause of the Constitution that gives the government the authority to be managing the economy at all?
Currently we dont have a Global Economy, because people in other countries dont get the same wages, You shouldnt be able to have seperate currencies yet still have a Global Economy, because when you convert the Yen to the Dollar, our money somehow is more expensive than their money, making their version of the dollar "BETTER" than ours, pricing our people out due to some kinda glitch in the system.
Well, if you want to look at it that way, we don't even have a National Economy, let alone a global one. A programmer will get paid more in New York City than he will in Aliance, Nebraska because there's little demand for programmers in Aliance. The value of all jobs is partly contingent on their location. I'm highly paid for where I live in my part of the country. But I doubt I could even live in Boston on what I make, my house would cost 4 times what I paid for it here. But then, the same job in Boston pays a lot more than it does where I live. You're ignoring the other variables.
So I get priced out as a programmer because my dollar is inflated? Thats Bullshit, look, if we could convert the Chinese, the Japanese, and we are the USA, all converted to the Euro, no one would have a problem with Globalism, we would all make the same exact wages and the competition would be based on actual merit.
Not true - New York, Utah and South Carolina and California all use the same currency. Look where companies like Novell, RedHat and Caldera started up. It wasn't in Boston or New York. Guess why?
I'll give you another example - Nevada is the fastest growing state in terms of population. Between 1990 and 2000 the population increased 80%. Salaries are actually lower on the average than the rest of the country. But it's also cheaper to live there and start a business because there's very little taxation and regulation. So businesses locate there because it's cheap to operate there. More businesses means more jobs, so people are migrating there to find work.
Instead, the competition is based on stuff we have no control over, its not even about merit, its about where you live, if you live in China you have a job, if you live in the USA you dont. So the solution? We should pick a fucking dollar/euro/yen and everyone use it.
It will always be about where you live. If you're a seafood wholesaler, you'll be better off in Boston than Des Moines. Why? Because there's no ocean near Des Moines. Even if your the best fisherman in the world, it's not going to do you any bloody good in Des Moines. So, yes, in some cases location has more to do with competing effectively than ability.
But that has nothing to do with the type of currency used.
We should set up a global minimum wage for EVERYONE, and then finally labor will cost the same in EVERY country. A programmer who makes $30,000 inn the USA would make $30,000 anywhere else in the world and then we will finally be able to compete without being forced to leave our home countries.
That's impossible. Check out the cost of living in Costa Rica. You can live quite nicely there for less than the US minimum wage. If you brought up the minimum wage to US standards, it would drive up the price of labor, which would drive up the price of everything else. The minimum wage in the US is a princely sum in Costa Rica. Most Costa Rican businesses couldn't afford to pay it. All you'd do is cause inflation, and put a whole lot of people out of work and out of business while you were doing it.
*sigh*
I see you've returned, HanzoSan. Oh well, I guess it's time to jump in a phone booth, logoff of my usual handle and emerge as...
*BOOM!!!*
Anti-HanzoSan!!
So all of us have to get PHDs in Nano Technology now because big companies gave our jobs away? And then when the rest of the world catches up, we have to get another PHD? and another? Fuck that.
Um, how do you figure those are "our" jobs? As the companies own the workplace, the resources and pay the salaries, I think you mean their jobs. It's your job only as long as both you and the company decide that arrangement is to your mutual benefit. Companies have as much of a right to act in their own interest as you do.
I should be able to keep a stable job for 5 years without having to worry about the third world catching up and robbing me of my job every 5 years.
Robbing you?! Gimme a break! If you don't want to keep your skills up in order to add value above and beyond what your competition can add, the only thing robbing you is your own laziness and incompetence.
Of course, if you don't like how other employers do business, you can always start your own company. Then you can keep your job in this country as long as you like.
Not all of us can afford to be in college all our lives and not everyone in this country is smart enough, so theres going to be a problem.
Why should that be the company's problem? As I said, they have as much right to act in their own interest as you have to act in yours. What gives you the right to demand they sacrifice their interests for yours? Something tells me you'd scream loud if someone expected you to sacrifice your interests for theirs.
Microsoft can provide a Server OS for Itanium and x86-64. They can balk on providing a desktop OS for either architecture.
Which is fine. The 32 bit versions of their desktop OS's will run just fine on x86-64. If the architecture turns out to be a winner, then they can optimize it. But I do seem to recollect reading MS will support x86-64. But don't quote me, I can't find the source right now.
The conventional wisdom is that there are exactly 2 players in the 64bit arena: IBM and Intel. IBM isn't jumping on the Itanic either, at least not in any big way other than building some low end servers with it.
IBM has actually ceased it's efforts to port Linux to Itanic, and reallocated the developers to working on the Power port. Having noticed Itanic has, at least to date, bombed in the market place, they see an opportunity to establish Power as a standard in the 64 bit space.
AMD is the wildcard. If x86-64 is the bomb and takes off like AMD is betting on it. Intel lost the 64bit war for many years. IBM and maybe even Sun will quietly (well sun doesn't do jack shit quietly) push x86-64 for the low end while IBM POWER4 and POWER5 and POWER6 down the road run the big end.
That's not an entirely bad assumption, particularly since AMD and IBM recently signed a technology sharing agreement for manufacturing processes. This leads me to believe you can expect to see some further colaboration between them in the future.
Additionally, Sun announced today that they'll be marketing blade servers based on AMD's Athalon.
Basically Intel needs something like Sun to jump on it IA64 to really give it some credibility and they don't sound real eager to.
They do have HP on board, of course. But HP looks like it's rapidly going down the shitter, so it's uncertain how beneficial that will be.
IBM sounds like they are down for the fight.
Actually, they're sitting on the fence. They manufacture servers based on both Power and Itanic. But I'd expect them to take advantage of the opportunity to give Power a boost, as Itanic is going nowhere fast, and Sun looks like they might be down for the count.
Meanwhile, if Intel doesn't get on the shit quick then they'll have to support x86-64 too and that's the real death blow to IA64.
I don't think they can get on the shit quick enough if AMD executes properly. x86-64 is a lot cheaper than IA-64, and it's a drop-in replacement for x86, even if it doesn't offer significant performance advantages when running in 32 bit mode. Right there, that's going to circumvent the kind of issues that are slowing adoption of Itanic. The best Intel can hope for is AMD to be late to market, or for Opertron to develop some (henceforth unknown) technical issues. I think this time AMD might actually manage to snatch the ball out of Intel's hands.
But what if you happen to be a user of one of the architectures that is being terminated for the Itanium? Where are you going to go?
Where do you go? Well, look at the latest sales figures. IBM seems to be the greatest beneficiary of defecters from Sun and HP.
If Itanic accomplishes nothing else, it's certainly going to put Power on the map.
Trying to tweak it to run on a PDA is an excercise in feudalism.
HanzoSan? Is that you?
When I was popular, I had people wanting to kick my ass
Um, here's a helpful clue - if people want to kick your ass, your not popular!
...and you certainly have plenty of enemies, too, don't you?
And Considering I have near infinite Karma, I can post as much as I want.
Believe me, I'm working to fix that as hard as I can!