Actually, they warned that travelling 30 miles per hour would endanger children and womens uterus-es. You have to appeal to the cognitive risk of vulnerable people, using juju words, to forestall scientific progress, simple risk is insufficient to stop investors.
I grew up in northwest Arkansas, around mostly conservative religious anti-government hard working self-sufficient type (moved to the East Coast for Univ). Maybe the USA needs to just stop subsidizing post offices and forcing airlines to fly to small cities, and stop letting septic tanks make suburban homes cheaper than people paying for city sewer because water treatment is too expensive, etc.. There should be advantages to the people who live in / near cities (just as there are advantages to rural living we cannot guarantee city folk). Trying to bring every city advantage to every corner of the country isn't wanted by the original inhabitants, at least not at the cost demanded (or the free market would have done it). Maybe they will discover that broadband doesn't belong in every single niche. Or maybe someone will figure out a cheaper way to bring broadband to the country.
This could also mean - drumroll, please - that kids who are sick longer tend to weigh less. If you have a society which tends to be fat, a child having an untreated illness (no antibiotic) may tend to be sick longer, which would reduce their weight. The sickness being treated with the antibiotic may be a cause of weight loss.
Perhaps the corporate organization "Anti-Gray-Market-Alliance" confused me. http://www.agmaglobal.org/cms/ It is pretty clear how many things they are "anti". Also, the international translation of the term, especially in China, is extremely broad.
"Grey Market" used to mean refurbished product, especially the warranty-return product which either worked to begin with (brought back to retailer out of "buyers remorse") or was simply repaired or upgraded. As sales became more global, Corporations negotiated different warranty expectations on new products in different countries, so goods sold in a country with lower consumer warranty guarantees were cheaper, and might find themselves transported to where they were covered by stricter warranty (increasing risk to the manufacturer if the product was faulty).
Today, few of the products sold are actually made by the Corporation whose name is on the warranty. Factories like Taiwanese-owned Han Hoi (Foxconn) churn out product not just for Apple, but for defunct brand names like "Polaroid". The term "grey market" today is applied (by groups like Anti Gray Market Alliance) to patent claim products and plain old "used" sales. The term "grey market" as used in the article is so general that it is really meaningless. Even the product you buy from a "factory direct" website may be the exact same good as the one you buy with another corporation's name on it, entirely. How "grey" is that?
The percentage of PC, tablet, and tech sales to people in the 3B3K (3 billion people who earn $3K per year) market is doubling every year. Apple tried just selling to rich people during the PC Clone period almost 2 decades ago. They kept the number of buyers, but lost percentage of the rapidly growing market. As soon as someone sells an upgradeable, repairable device, it's going to sell better in the emerging markets, which is where CEA says most of the sales are going.
If by "The Chinese" you mean the Taiwanese, they may care a little bit. They have been the kings of display technology and touch screen technology for almost 2 decades. My understanding is that Apple came up with applications and software, but the "touch screen" part of the smartphone experience is ODM, original design manufactured, in Taiwan. For most people in the USA, they think that's what the patent fight is about. Otherwise Apple would be suing Android, HTC, etc.
As a former Peace Corps volunteer and a business creator in USA, let me tell you and the other Anti-Globalists that you are completely and utterly wrong. About most things, yes, but about this particular thing, you aren't in the tiniest bit correct. The Algorithm outsources computing calculation time from a huge computer, e.g. giving IBM's Big Blue more "leisure time" (if you insist on Marxist/Utopian language). The $4 per hour job doesn't take a single thing away from the USA. It goes to a place with 50% unemployment (think Afghanistan or Cairo or Lagos). People earn double what they'd earn if they could find a job. They might become consumers of USA software or something, creating more employment.
Anti-globalists make me want to cry when they confuse recoiling from images of poverty with compassion. The girl in Accra got a $2-4 job by freeing up some algorithm bandwidth in Silicon Valley. And you want to nuke her from orbit. And several other commenters share your "deny them" views, and don't understand that a $3/hr job actually forces sweatshop labor rates UP by creating alternatives for the unemployed. And someone with mod points actually modded you up. If you worked for me, and spoke this way about our overseas clients and contractors, I'd be thrilled to fire you and outsource your job to someone in Africa with a brain and a heart.
"We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often."
In other words, you'll never be disappointed if you expect total incompetence. I've already achieved this same thing on my own with my Netflix account, by completely and utterly lowering my expectations.
On the tails of last year's discovery of "ocean like" water in comets [http://io9.com/5847004/comet-discovered-with-ocean+like-water-inside-of-it], this is a logical step. Should we not be looking for "habitable planets" but "habitable orbits"? Which, I suppose, would make every solar system habitable that had either a potentially deflected comet or a budget for fish aquariums ?
I'm almost as alarmed by the sense of alarm. This sounds like harmless information. A ten year old hard drive is not the same as losing your current laptop, and being tagged in a Facebook photo is not as dangerous as having your social security information compromised. Maybe we should distribute useless USB sticks filled with past telephone book listings just to keep identity thieves busy..
Well, well, well. Quite frustratingly, the gentleman who wrote TFA actually cites a group which presented (along with Fair Trade Recycling groups) to the Pan African congress in March 2012. And the jist of the actual presentations he cites is that the hand-disassembly is good. The "geeks of color" (repair and reuse) jobs in Lagos and Accra, which were studied from 2010-2011, are actually quite good jobs. Most of them are in reuse and repair, and the studies Mr. Halloway would appear to have read state that 85% of the used electronics imported into Nigeria and Ghana are reused (the only possible explanation, actually, since the gold and copper value does not cover the cost of transport). This inane article results in people recycling the false stereotypes about African geeks, by pretending to cite a study and actually inferring that the study says that boycotts are the appropriate response to labor-rich nations which actually do things like recover the rare earth magnets from hard drives which Europeans and Americans shred. The new thinking in research, presented at the Pan African Congress, is that geeks are good, and we should export more used electronics rather than less. http://tinyurl.com/7nbd7y3 This contrasts with the "white mans burden" approach being recycled in TFA.
I actually do this, too. And I export a good percentage which would be specifically banned for export under the legislation which the article says is "stalled". This legislation was profiled in Slashdot earlier this year. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/1431208/its-not-all-waste-the-complicated-life-of-surplus-electronics-in-africa The UNEP studies found that 80% of the goods exported to Africa were reused. The bans against imports came from dictatorships in places like Egypt. The best solution to the problem is Fair Trade Recycling, which is a threat to Redemtech and other financial sponsors of the bill in question, who want to ban other countries from competing for proper reuse and recycling of used goods. Most of the goods shown at the dumps in Africa and Asia (by anti-export groups) were used productively for years in those countries before they were discarded, most USA and EU electronics are domestically recycled, and most of the remainder which are exported (85%) work. This is an anti-reuse (planned obsolescence) campaign rigged to look like an environmental protest.
GOV: "Ok, I can see the advantages of putting my savings in this "bank". But I want to have just as rapid and priority access to it as I do when I put it under my mattress, I shouldn't have to wait in line if there is a run on the bank."
BANK: "Excuse me sir, I was trying to help this lady in front of you."
" " - that's the posting of words which are often edited ("assembly", "protest") in baidu after baidu, tweet after tweet. A billion people sending false positives, like "assemble a sandwich" or "protest the car engine" will make it extremely difficult for the censors to see what they are blocking. (I have posted the Simplified Chinese translation of "False Positive" at the beginning of this post, but it appears to be censored).
The collider funding may have passed USA Congress if it had been named the "USS Ronald Reagan" super-collider, that is how the military industrial complex gets these spending appropriations passed. Then they have some part manufactured in several states, to keep jobs for key legislators. The collider folks could have won an additional 25 votes that way, which may not have been enough. But the key problem was that you cannot intimidate anyone with the collider. Aircraft carriers are a gift that keeps on giving.
Hmm... I think the issue is how to download porn. There's no reason they cannot, at sea, own an entire library of pirated movies on DVD or blueray, and all the games, so they don't need netflix. Satellite telephone should work in place of skype. But the anonymity of online porn is difficult to provide any other way. It seems like the US Navy should have been thinking of alternatives to "onshore leave" for decades, and after spending $20 billion per year on air conditioning, should have come up with the nicest holodeck porn technology every dreamed of. Then we could release under USA licensing agreements, and pay off the national debt.
Only 2 vendors making money? PLEASE. The article trots out has-beens like aging NBA basketball players, but doesn't mention Han Hoi Precision, HTC, or any of the hundreds of fast growing Android-clone manufacturers. 30 companies on 3 continents cooperated to make the IPhone. I like Apple, but I admire how IBM gave Lenovo credit compared to how Apple shares the credit with the geeks of color in Asia who made this generation of touchscreen phones affordable, scaleable, and possible.
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Actually, they warned that travelling 30 miles per hour would endanger children and womens uterus-es. You have to appeal to the cognitive risk of vulnerable people, using juju words, to forestall scientific progress, simple risk is insufficient to stop investors.
Innovative is soooo early 2000s.
I grew up in northwest Arkansas, around mostly conservative religious anti-government hard working self-sufficient type (moved to the East Coast for Univ). Maybe the USA needs to just stop subsidizing post offices and forcing airlines to fly to small cities, and stop letting septic tanks make suburban homes cheaper than people paying for city sewer because water treatment is too expensive, etc.. There should be advantages to the people who live in / near cities (just as there are advantages to rural living we cannot guarantee city folk). Trying to bring every city advantage to every corner of the country isn't wanted by the original inhabitants, at least not at the cost demanded (or the free market would have done it). Maybe they will discover that broadband doesn't belong in every single niche. Or maybe someone will figure out a cheaper way to bring broadband to the country.
This could also mean - drumroll, please - that kids who are sick longer tend to weigh less. If you have a society which tends to be fat, a child having an untreated illness (no antibiotic) may tend to be sick longer, which would reduce their weight. The sickness being treated with the antibiotic may be a cause of weight loss.
Perhaps the corporate organization "Anti-Gray-Market-Alliance" confused me. http://www.agmaglobal.org/cms/ It is pretty clear how many things they are "anti". Also, the international translation of the term, especially in China, is extremely broad.
"Grey Market" used to mean refurbished product, especially the warranty-return product which either worked to begin with (brought back to retailer out of "buyers remorse") or was simply repaired or upgraded. As sales became more global, Corporations negotiated different warranty expectations on new products in different countries, so goods sold in a country with lower consumer warranty guarantees were cheaper, and might find themselves transported to where they were covered by stricter warranty (increasing risk to the manufacturer if the product was faulty).
Today, few of the products sold are actually made by the Corporation whose name is on the warranty. Factories like Taiwanese-owned Han Hoi (Foxconn) churn out product not just for Apple, but for defunct brand names like "Polaroid". The term "grey market" today is applied (by groups like Anti Gray Market Alliance) to patent claim products and plain old "used" sales. The term "grey market" as used in the article is so general that it is really meaningless. Even the product you buy from a "factory direct" website may be the exact same good as the one you buy with another corporation's name on it, entirely. How "grey" is that?
The percentage of PC, tablet, and tech sales to people in the 3B3K (3 billion people who earn $3K per year) market is doubling every year. Apple tried just selling to rich people during the PC Clone period almost 2 decades ago. They kept the number of buyers, but lost percentage of the rapidly growing market. As soon as someone sells an upgradeable, repairable device, it's going to sell better in the emerging markets, which is where CEA says most of the sales are going.
If by "The Chinese" you mean the Taiwanese, they may care a little bit. They have been the kings of display technology and touch screen technology for almost 2 decades. My understanding is that Apple came up with applications and software, but the "touch screen" part of the smartphone experience is ODM, original design manufactured, in Taiwan. For most people in the USA, they think that's what the patent fight is about. Otherwise Apple would be suing Android, HTC, etc.
As a former Peace Corps volunteer and a business creator in USA, let me tell you and the other Anti-Globalists that you are completely and utterly wrong. About most things, yes, but about this particular thing, you aren't in the tiniest bit correct. The Algorithm outsources computing calculation time from a huge computer, e.g. giving IBM's Big Blue more "leisure time" (if you insist on Marxist/Utopian language). The $4 per hour job doesn't take a single thing away from the USA. It goes to a place with 50% unemployment (think Afghanistan or Cairo or Lagos). People earn double what they'd earn if they could find a job. They might become consumers of USA software or something, creating more employment.
I think this article is AWESOME and it's nearly perfect in that it costs no jobs and brings hope to people in developing world who have internet and education. http://retroworks.blogspot.fr/2012/08/awesome-trend-crowdsourcing-developing.html. I for one welcome the new Algorithm Outsource Overlords.
Anti-globalists make me want to cry when they confuse recoiling from images of poverty with compassion. The girl in Accra got a $2-4 job by freeing up some algorithm bandwidth in Silicon Valley. And you want to nuke her from orbit. And several other commenters share your "deny them" views, and don't understand that a $3/hr job actually forces sweatshop labor rates UP by creating alternatives for the unemployed. And someone with mod points actually modded you up. If you worked for me, and spoke this way about our overseas clients and contractors, I'd be thrilled to fire you and outsource your job to someone in Africa with a brain and a heart.
Ssssshhh! Don't tell him. It's so cute!!
Accidentally modded down instead of up, replying to delete the mod. Nothing to see here, move along.
"We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often."
In other words, you'll never be disappointed if you expect total incompetence. I've already achieved this same thing on my own with my Netflix account, by completely and utterly lowering my expectations.
You know that's what Jackson, following in the footsteps of Mel Brooks, has in mind for retirement.
You mean, if I bought it, I own it? I can resell it? I remember that battle, way back when, and we recorded our LPs onto cassette tapes.
Idea: use tax money to make a retired baseball pitcher into a software CEO.
On the tails of last year's discovery of "ocean like" water in comets [http://io9.com/5847004/comet-discovered-with-ocean+like-water-inside-of-it], this is a logical step. Should we not be looking for "habitable planets" but "habitable orbits"? Which, I suppose, would make every solar system habitable that had either a potentially deflected comet or a budget for fish aquariums ?
I'm almost as alarmed by the sense of alarm. This sounds like harmless information. A ten year old hard drive is not the same as losing your current laptop, and being tagged in a Facebook photo is not as dangerous as having your social security information compromised. Maybe we should distribute useless USB sticks filled with past telephone book listings just to keep identity thieves busy..
Well, well, well. Quite frustratingly, the gentleman who wrote TFA actually cites a group which presented (along with Fair Trade Recycling groups) to the Pan African congress in March 2012. And the jist of the actual presentations he cites is that the hand-disassembly is good. The "geeks of color" (repair and reuse) jobs in Lagos and Accra, which were studied from 2010-2011, are actually quite good jobs. Most of them are in reuse and repair, and the studies Mr. Halloway would appear to have read state that 85% of the used electronics imported into Nigeria and Ghana are reused (the only possible explanation, actually, since the gold and copper value does not cover the cost of transport). This inane article results in people recycling the false stereotypes about African geeks, by pretending to cite a study and actually inferring that the study says that boycotts are the appropriate response to labor-rich nations which actually do things like recover the rare earth magnets from hard drives which Europeans and Americans shred. The new thinking in research, presented at the Pan African Congress, is that geeks are good, and we should export more used electronics rather than less. http://tinyurl.com/7nbd7y3 This contrasts with the "white mans burden" approach being recycled in TFA.
I actually do this, too. And I export a good percentage which would be specifically banned for export under the legislation which the article says is "stalled". This legislation was profiled in Slashdot earlier this year. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/1431208/its-not-all-waste-the-complicated-life-of-surplus-electronics-in-africa The UNEP studies found that 80% of the goods exported to Africa were reused. The bans against imports came from dictatorships in places like Egypt. The best solution to the problem is Fair Trade Recycling, which is a threat to Redemtech and other financial sponsors of the bill in question, who want to ban other countries from competing for proper reuse and recycling of used goods. Most of the goods shown at the dumps in Africa and Asia (by anti-export groups) were used productively for years in those countries before they were discarded, most USA and EU electronics are domestically recycled, and most of the remainder which are exported (85%) work. This is an anti-reuse (planned obsolescence) campaign rigged to look like an environmental protest.
It seems the point is that scientists were employed during wartime, and the science they discovered has peacetime uses.
GOV: "Ok, I can see the advantages of putting my savings in this "bank". But I want to have just as rapid and priority access to it as I do when I put it under my mattress, I shouldn't have to wait in line if there is a run on the bank." BANK: "Excuse me sir, I was trying to help this lady in front of you."
" " - that's the posting of words which are often edited ("assembly", "protest") in baidu after baidu, tweet after tweet. A billion people sending false positives, like "assemble a sandwich" or "protest the car engine" will make it extremely difficult for the censors to see what they are blocking. (I have posted the Simplified Chinese translation of "False Positive" at the beginning of this post, but it appears to be censored).
The collider funding may have passed USA Congress if it had been named the "USS Ronald Reagan" super-collider, that is how the military industrial complex gets these spending appropriations passed. Then they have some part manufactured in several states, to keep jobs for key legislators. The collider folks could have won an additional 25 votes that way, which may not have been enough. But the key problem was that you cannot intimidate anyone with the collider. Aircraft carriers are a gift that keeps on giving.
Hmm... I think the issue is how to download porn. There's no reason they cannot, at sea, own an entire library of pirated movies on DVD or blueray, and all the games, so they don't need netflix. Satellite telephone should work in place of skype. But the anonymity of online porn is difficult to provide any other way. It seems like the US Navy should have been thinking of alternatives to "onshore leave" for decades, and after spending $20 billion per year on air conditioning, should have come up with the nicest holodeck porn technology every dreamed of. Then we could release under USA licensing agreements, and pay off the national debt.
Only 2 vendors making money? PLEASE. The article trots out has-beens like aging NBA basketball players, but doesn't mention Han Hoi Precision, HTC, or any of the hundreds of fast growing Android-clone manufacturers. 30 companies on 3 continents cooperated to make the IPhone. I like Apple, but I admire how IBM gave Lenovo credit compared to how Apple shares the credit with the geeks of color in Asia who made this generation of touchscreen phones affordable, scaleable, and possible.