The clueless will post and claim McSoftware is doing the exact same thing - but they are most definitely not doing the exact same thing - they are taking people with no track record who are "officially" declared to be smart by McSoftware - and hoping for wondrous results - so what's the ROI on McSoftware after all those expenditures??? What great things have come out of McSoftware???? They have an abysmal track record of retaining truly creative people there - as if they could actually spot such a type!!!
Whatever you think about Bill Gates he is a very smart and astute businessman. China is f***ing every company that wants to do business in China and doing it VERY WELL.
I'm not sure I quite agree with that smart and astute part - anyone who was gifted with DOS licensing would likewise have ended up with billions - he can't be too smart to be constantly getting screwed by the Chicoms - the history of non-copyrights, etc, in that region should be obvious to anyone. The Economist ran an article some months back about how China was effectively "nationalizing" foreign companies over there - only The Economist magazine didn't have the balls to actually use that appropriate term. They are brilliantly taking over American tool manufacturers who relocate their factories there; and English and German utility companies who operated there; and they totally screwed Volvo when they had a factory there.
What exactly is so out of the ordinary about this type of behavior? Whether it's Boeing handing over secret technology - paid for by the citizenry - and forbidden to leave the US by federal law; or the Clinton Administration handing over missile technology to China, or the Bush Administration allowing them to buy that manufacturer in Ohio for smart bomb technology, or..... We all get the picture, at least those of us with functioning brains.
Your response to that lowbrow is most excellent. You have pointed out, in so many words, that an economy (our national one, for instance) should be a loop - but when it is turned into a downward tube - nothing will return and things will keep going down the tube with drastic results.
More and more, the only "opportunities" available are to find more ingenious ways to dumster dive and find scraps of food. The USA has long since entered the "third-world" phase, it is only a matter of time until economic meltdown.
That was really profound, dude@! No doubt you follow the Carly Fiorina philosophy - no corporation based in your country owes you a job - you owe them their protection and tax breaks and fouling the environment and....and... and....
Maybe those of us who fought the wars and did the chores (and that includes fighting sea pirates and taking back the Mayaguez) don't always deserve to be treated like slaves and cannon fodder.....dude!
To the contrary - Bush did his usual gig. He arrived at an airfield in New Orleans, strutted around in his flight suit, then declared that Hurricane Katrina was over!
You explained the proper points to the unenlightened and lowbrows perfectly!
There was no government-supported organized evacuation - so what the hell are all these bureaucrats doing earning all those fat paychecks????
What's the purpose of all this government if it's not good for anything but constantly giving themselves pay raises. The entire US Congress, the Bush Administration, and the rest of those useless, incompetent twits over at CIA and FBI should go down there and lend a hand, for God's sakes (oops, I forgot none of those clowns really believe in God!)
As for me, I'm convinced that if anyone will ever knock off Microsoft, it will be an OS that gets game developers behind them. I've said for years that as weird as it sounds, gamers drive the market.
Yes and no. I agree with your opinion of a game-oriented OS having enormous potential - but PORN, not gaming, according too all the internet statistics I've ever seen - drives the market - the truth is not always pretty. Gaming simply has overcome all other forms of popular - and mainstream - entertainment - deriving more revenue than the movie industry, etc.
Same old silly drivel response - can't you people think of anything original - somebody, somewhere is worse off than you - so stop whining about all those super greedy, corrupt, thieving rich people who control the laws, media, courts, etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Get real, dude, the poor in this country lead hopeless sorry lives and exist at the control and behest of far too many inferior, lazy people like yourself.
Eventually a global economic equilibrium is reached, where the price is the same everwhere.
Wrong, dude! You are living in fantasy land and not the real world. The global economy concept is nothing new, please review American and Euro economic history in the late 1800's - early 1900's. A host of global problems resulted then as it will result now - look to 2007 and later the Chinese troubles starting around 2008 to 2011....
Frankly, this is arbitrary and besides the point. Review Jean-Baptiste Say and Say's Law, for gosh sakes!
You are barking up the entirely wrong tree, economically speaking, and Alan Greenspan has little effect on the world economy - when Beijing talks, people listen.....
I thought Bill Gates invented Google???? I mean, after he invented the Internet to cure world poverty. (We actually had someone in Seattle - a member of Madrona Investments - say this, and it was recorded in a documentary - during the WTO in 1999 in a heated discussion with protesters.)
Of course, if we're not guilty of anything we shouldn't have anything to worry about, right????
After all, Dick Cheney is VP - didn't he commit a crime against the nation and the National Security Act by selling materiel to Iran when he was head of Halliburton? (Not to mention colluding with Enron in the defrauding of the American citizenry in some parts of the country where they operated.) Of course, he doesn't have anything to worry about. And that deserter in the White House, George Bush, he doesn't have anything to worry about.
SIR, you have explained the situation most excellently!
And to all those who will take exception to what you have explained so lucidly - just do a little reading in the history of science and technology - the vast majority of the tech stuff (like...digital electronics, microelectronics, computer science, advanced telecommunications, biomedical engineering, materials science, etc., etc., etc.) derived from the NASA/Apollo program research. [Everything almost, but Velcro, which the lowbrows have wrongfully ascribed the space program for too many years????]
That tech stuff lead to new jobs which replaced all those offshored manufacturing jobs - now that these new jobs have been offshored - what's to replace them??????
Ya know, traditionally, the attorneys who head up the Patent Office aren't traditionally exactly the brightest guys. And it's becoming more obvious everyday, especially this latest bullcrap contending with the Apple iPod - which I'm sure won't stand up in the long run - that the least brightest people now reside at the Patent Office. Probably just another part of the Bush Agenda - anybody read up on how some of his campaign funds, and much of Tom DeLay's campaign funds - come from a murdered man's stolen funds?????
The major reason it failed: it was the product solely designed and devised internally in Microsoft - unlike so many other of their products that they either bought or stole. (Also, wasn't the "idea person" responsible for that now married to Bill the Man????)
Besides, George Bush appears to be keeping tabs on Osama, perhaps due to the close family ties between the Bush family and the bin Laden family (who both seem to be making substantial amounts of money off this war - any former Marines out there who read General Smedley Butler's excellent book on war???).
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The clueless will post and claim McSoftware is doing the exact same thing - but they are most definitely not doing the exact same thing - they are taking people with no track record who are "officially" declared to be smart by McSoftware - and hoping for wondrous results - so what's the ROI on McSoftware after all those expenditures??? What great things have come out of McSoftware???? They have an abysmal track record of retaining truly creative people there - as if they could actually spot such a type!!!
I'm not sure I quite agree with that smart and astute part - anyone who was gifted with DOS licensing would likewise have ended up with billions - he can't be too smart to be constantly getting screwed by the Chicoms - the history of non-copyrights, etc, in that region should be obvious to anyone. The Economist ran an article some months back about how China was effectively "nationalizing" foreign companies over there - only The Economist magazine didn't have the balls to actually use that appropriate term. They are brilliantly taking over American tool manufacturers who relocate their factories there; and English and German utility companies who operated there; and they totally screwed Volvo when they had a factory there.
From the latest news I would surmise Yahoo is in the business of turning in freedom-loving people to a dictatorial government. 'nuff said...
What exactly is so out of the ordinary about this type of behavior? Whether it's Boeing handing over secret technology - paid for by the citizenry - and forbidden to leave the US by federal law; or the Clinton Administration handing over missile technology to China, or the Bush Administration allowing them to buy that manufacturer in Ohio for smart bomb technology, or..... We all get the picture, at least those of us with functioning brains.
More and more, the only "opportunities" available are to find more ingenious ways to dumster dive and find scraps of food. The USA has long since entered the "third-world" phase, it is only a matter of time until economic meltdown.
Maybe those of us who fought the wars and did the chores (and that includes fighting sea pirates and taking back the Mayaguez) don't always deserve to be treated like slaves and cannon fodder.....dude!
Then he flew back to resume his vacation.
Seriously, though, it's neat that McSoftware employees are finally leaving for a decent company!
There was no government-supported organized evacuation - so what the hell are all these bureaucrats doing earning all those fat paychecks????
What's the purpose of all this government if it's not good for anything but constantly giving themselves pay raises. The entire US Congress, the Bush Administration, and the rest of those useless, incompetent twits over at CIA and FBI should go down there and lend a hand, for God's sakes (oops, I forgot none of those clowns really believe in God!)
Star Trek: The Next Regeneration!!!
Yes and no. I agree with your opinion of a game-oriented OS having enormous potential - but PORN, not gaming, according too all the internet statistics I've ever seen - drives the market - the truth is not always pretty. Gaming simply has overcome all other forms of popular - and mainstream - entertainment - deriving more revenue than the movie industry, etc.
If your IQ's not at least 300, I can't be bothered with you - if you're a guy - but now if you're a woman.......
Get real, dude, the poor in this country lead hopeless sorry lives and exist at the control and behest of far too many inferior, lazy people like yourself.
Wrong, dude! You are living in fantasy land and not the real world. The global economy concept is nothing new, please review American and Euro economic history in the late 1800's - early 1900's. A host of global problems resulted then as it will result now - look to 2007 and later the Chinese troubles starting around 2008 to 2011....
You are barking up the entirely wrong tree, economically speaking, and Alan Greenspan has little effect on the world economy - when Beijing talks, people listen.....
I believe they also invented computer science, the PC, the IC, the first processor chip, and the toilet plunger.
Liquid....?? So they are either going to invest it in oil - or buy Jim Beam!
Negative! That's 200 chefs to completely overwhelm the Dutch army!
I thought Bill Gates invented Google???? I mean, after he invented the Internet to cure world poverty. (We actually had someone in Seattle - a member of Madrona Investments - say this, and it was recorded in a documentary - during the WTO in 1999 in a heated discussion with protesters.)
After all, Dick Cheney is VP - didn't he commit a crime against the nation and the National Security Act by selling materiel to Iran when he was head of Halliburton? (Not to mention colluding with Enron in the defrauding of the American citizenry in some parts of the country where they operated.) Of course, he doesn't have anything to worry about. And that deserter in the White House, George Bush, he doesn't have anything to worry about.
OK - Let's worry!!!!
And to all those who will take exception to what you have explained so lucidly - just do a little reading in the history of science and technology - the vast majority of the tech stuff (like...digital electronics, microelectronics, computer science, advanced telecommunications, biomedical engineering, materials science, etc., etc., etc.) derived from the NASA/Apollo program research. [Everything almost, but Velcro, which the lowbrows have wrongfully ascribed the space program for too many years????]
That tech stuff lead to new jobs which replaced all those offshored manufacturing jobs - now that these new jobs have been offshored - what's to replace them??????
Ya know, traditionally, the attorneys who head up the Patent Office aren't traditionally exactly the brightest guys. And it's becoming more obvious everyday, especially this latest bullcrap contending with the Apple iPod - which I'm sure won't stand up in the long run - that the least brightest people now reside at the Patent Office. Probably just another part of the Bush Agenda - anybody read up on how some of his campaign funds, and much of Tom DeLay's campaign funds - come from a murdered man's stolen funds?????
Microsoft has just announced they've patented Bullshit!
The major reason it failed: it was the product solely designed and devised internally in Microsoft - unlike so many other of their products that they either bought or stole. (Also, wasn't the "idea person" responsible for that now married to Bill the Man????)
Besides, George Bush appears to be keeping tabs on Osama, perhaps due to the close family ties between the Bush family and the bin Laden family (who both seem to be making substantial amounts of money off this war - any former Marines out there who read General Smedley Butler's excellent book on war???).