What is ironic is that the grandparent accuses Google of being biased in favor of conservative news sources. Look closely at many of the news articles which Google hawks on the front page. There was a time when several such articles were published by Xinhua.
Xinhua is also known as "The People's Daily", a publication of the Beijing government. What newspaper could be more biased against America and the rest of the West than Xinhua? Even the "New York Times" is not so wretchedly disgusting.
I dislike Google news for its anti-American bias and for its favoritism towards H-1Bs. (More than 20% of the Google workforce in Silicon Valley had foreign citizenship in 2002.)
My question is "How and when will you protect the US-Mexican border if you win the election?"
The flood of illegal aliens has destroyed the normal upward force on wages and working conditions in the market for unskilled labor. Americans who are in this market cannot earn enough money to buy basic necessities like housing and food. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats care about Americans in this market. The Republicans and the Democrats care only about catering to racists in LaRaza, the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA, then please write the following on the November ballot.
The validity of polls in predicting the outcome of an election depends on when they are taken. If a poll were done 1 year before the date of the election, then the polls would be meaningless. If the poll were conducted 2 days before the election, then the polls would accurately predict the outcome of the election.
Should we ban polls for a period of time before the election? The answer is "no". Such a ban violates freedom of the press.
If we Americans are so simple minded as to do the following, then we deserve the negative consequences.
I vote based solely on what the polls say. For example, if my preferred candidate is winning, then I do not bother to vote.
I never vote for the 3rd party candidate because a vote for her is a vote for the opponent.
My question is "How and when will you protect the US-Mexican border if you win the election?"
The flood of illegal aliens has destroyed the normal upward force on wages and working conditions in the market for unskilled labor. Americans who are in this market cannot earn enough money to buy basic necessities like housing and food. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats care about Americans in this market. The Republicans and the Democrats care only about catering to racists in LaRaza, the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA, then please write the following on the November ballot.
The proliferation of MP3 players means the end of the cassette tape and analog recordings. Henceforth, "recording" means (1) sampling the audio signal to convert it into a digital signal, (2) compressing the digital data into MP3 format, and (3) writing it into flash memory (or other persistent high-capacity storage). "Playing the recording" means (1) reading the digital data from flash memory, (2) decompressing the data, (3) lowpass filtering the data to convert it back into an analog audio signal.
The constant in life is change. Good-bye "cassette tape".
$389 for a 15" LCD screen can hardly be justified when 19" CRT's are half that price.
You have captured the essence of the problem.
Further, when you look closely at an LCD television, you notice that the image quality is no better than the image produced by a CRT television. So, why would anyone the premium price for the LCD television?
People do want the convenience of an LCD, which uses much less space than a CRT. Yet, they also want improved picture quality in order to justify the price.
The answer is just around the corner: optical interference displays (OIDs). They produce far sharper and brighter images than an LCD. The OID also consumes less power than an LCD.
"The vote" is one of the foundations of American society -- indeed, all of Western society. We canot allow people like the Chinese, who oppose Westernization, to tamper with a pillar of our society.
When we evaluate politicians, we should not use the words that they utter during a campaign. Politicians alter/spin their positions to attract the most voters.
Debates are simply a forum for politicians to read their scripted lines: all show and no substance. The handlers have told the politicians what to emphasize and what to avoid at the debates. For the same reason, interviews with politicians during the campaign season are pointless.
If you want to know how the politicians will act once they are elected, then study their votes in the years prior to the election. What were their positions on the major issues?
Look at the border with Mexico. Both Kerry and Bush claim that they oppose illegal immigration. Yet, neither has done anything to enforce the borders.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA (which is firmly grounded in Western culture), then join me in writing the following on the November ballot.
They cannot win in the upcoming election since they have not formally registered as candidates, according to the rules of most states. However, if they garner a sizeable portion of the votes, then they can have a "Perot Effect". Although Perot lost the election, the Republicans incorporated most of his ideas in the "Contract with America", of which most was enacted into law.
I have not checked the thoroughness of these tests.
The evaluation was not thorough.
It completely omitted IBM. In order to draw meaningful conclusions, we must include the 3 dominant processors of 2004/05. They are the Pentium IV-64, the Opteron, and the G5 (Power4 derivative). Run Linux on all of them and, then, tell us which performs best.
If we included the G5 in all future assessments of Linux, I suspect that we in the technical community could alter the workstation landscape, convincing more people to use Linux on the Apple G5-based workstations (yes, WORKSTATIONS). The G5 is based on the processor evaluated, by MicroDesign Resources, to be the best overall server processor of 2001 (?).
We have yet another news article praising the technical accomplishments of the Indians. Yet, they have failed to solve the biggest problem: creating a Western (i.e. modern) society in India.
The Japanese built a Western society in Japan. The Thai are laboring to build a Western society i Thailand. So are most Eastern Europeans.
So far, the Indians have not accomplished what, even the Thai, have accomplished. If the Indians can solve this biggest problem, the Westernization (i.e. modernization) of India, then I will be impressed. Who cares whether some Indian techie can plan a city that looks like question mark? It might be worth some bonus points on the final exam at the Indian Institute of Technology but is worth nothing to the millions of underemployed Indians begging for the chance to flee to the USA.
By the way, to understand the serious and deep-rooted nature of the Indian problem, note that the ratio of male to female babies in Indian is about 1.20. It is just as high in mainland China. The ratio in Thailand is 1.05, which is normal for a human society without targetted abortions and without infanticide.
CMU is the right university for conducting research into massive multiplayer online games. After all, CMU is the birthplace of the first such game: Netrek. There was once a time when Netrek so permeated the online geek community that Netrek games were running 24x7, and a sort of Netrek olympiad was held annually.
What will Americans do when they must bid for a job against people who are willing to work for $5 per hour? Imagine trying to bid for an engineering job against a potential H-1B worker sitting in Bombay or Beijing.
If you are in the unskilled-labor market, imagine trying to bid for a job against an illegal alien or Mexican willing to work for 50 cents per hour.
Combining job bidding and on-line web surfing is a disaster for the American labor market. To destroy the American labor, the Chinese needs only to get online and bid for your job.
The key point in the history of open source is IBM embracing Linux. Without the support of IBM, most commercial companies simply saw Linux as interesting software with reliability approaching a toy. Regardless of whether this perception is true, once IBM supported Linux and shipped mainframes with it installed, commercial companies were willing to entertain the idea of running Linux in their datacenters. These companies have faith that even if any problem with Linux arise, then IBM would surely fix the problem within 24 hours. Even if Linux were initially unreliable, IBM would ensure that it has 6 sigma reliability. Such is the reputation and commitment of IBM.
The rest is open-source history.
Interestingly, IBM's embracing Linux is one of the factors eliminating Sun as a viable competitor in the market for highend servers. 6-sigma Linux, backed by an army of free programmers and advice-givers, versus closed proprietary Solaris is tantamount to a battle between a F-22 (stealth fighter) and a Mig 17. No contest.
We can classify open source into the following categories.
new software currently being developed by many programmers without backing from a stable commercial company
stable software no longer being developed and is not backed by a stable commercial company
new software currently being developed by many programmers with backing from a stable commercial company
stable software no longer being developed but is backed by a stable commercial company
Here, an example of a stable commercial company is IBM. Linux is an example of category #3. OpenOffice is an example of category #2. (Sun is not a stable company, and its survival is questionable.) Many applications offered through the free software foundation (FSF) fall into category #1.
Companies debating whether to implement an open source solution should first determine whether there is open source software that meets their needs and that fall into any category except category #1. Category #1 is just too risky.
As for categories #3 and #4, the backing of a stable commercial company means that any serious problem arising in the software will be resolved.
Some software (category #2) may not be backed by a stable commercial company but is already fully developed, has been stable for a long time, and is no longer being revised. We can trust that such software is stable enough for deployment at a commercial company. The Mosaic browser, the original web client, would be a good example.
The Earth Simulator (ES) could model the movement of hurricanes. The ES is merely a large message-passing multiprocessor. Each node has a powerful vector processing unit for matrix operations.
There is nothing in the architecture of the ES to prevent it from performing the calculations for modeling hurricanes. The only possible problem might be that the software for doing the modeling has not yet been ported to the ES.
Anyhow, what is interesting to note is that the modeling of hurricanes is a critical operation of the supercomputers. Another critical operation is command control on the battlefield. In such critical operations, which supercomputer would you use?
At the end of the CNN article, it implies that the new system for modeling hurricances is a super-multiprocessor powered by the Power4+ from IBM. In a sense this deployment of the IBM supercomputer says a lot about the Power4 and IBM technology. When your life or the lives of millions of people depend on the calculations performed by a supercomputer, which supercomputer manufacturer and processor would you choose? Apparently, the clear choice is IBM and Power4.
There is no mention of Pentium IV or UltraSPARC. Not surprising, really.
About 10 years ago, Stanford University completed construction of its new computer science building. You can see a picture of it. Several companies and individuals donated money to its construction. The majority of the funds came from a group of Japanese companies. Interestingly, among individuals, Bill Gates donated the largest percentage, and Stanford University named the entire building after him.
When news of "Gates" becoming the apellation of the building broke, heated discussions appeared on the local university electronic bulletin board. Many people were dismayed that Bill Gates, a college dropout with little knowledge of computer science, would receive the honor of having the computer science building named after him. It is no ordinary building. It is the building housing the pre-eminent computer-science department that is among the top 3 in the nation.
One mathematics professor lamented that money buys anything -- including undeserved honors. He commented that Stanford University might as well name the building after "Donald Trump" since he is a billionaire.
Personally, I object to honoring Bill Gates for anything. As far as I am concerned, he is an unethical shmuck who bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall. Search on "Gary Kildall" if you do not know who he is.
Any high-tech job that can be outsourced will be outsourced.
You will see a continuous shrinking of the high-tech labor
force.
Both political parties claim that free markets
require the free exchange of goods and services (which
includes labor) between the USA and other members of
the World Trade Organization (WTO) and fusing the American
market with the Chinese/Indian/Mexican market maintains
the free market in the USA. Unfortunately,
the politicians are just playing a verbal game with
economics.
Allow me to explain. The USA, in isolation, is a relatively free market
-- with relatively little government intervention (compare to, say,
China).
So is Japan, Canada, and the rest of the West. However,
Mexico, China, and India are not free markets. Excessive
government intervention has damaged the markets in those
economies, and they cannot provide jobs for millions
of underemployed persons.
When the USA interacts with, say, China, we have the interaction
of a free market and a non-free market. The by-product (i.e.
millions of underemployed Chinese) of non-market forces now affects
the market dynamics in the USA. The underemployed Chinese
are a continuing stream of cheap slave labor; jobs are then
transferred from the USA to China.
The USA is no longer a free market because non-market forces
(in this case, Chinese government intervention) is altering
the dynamics of the labor market in the USA. The verbal
game that politicians play is to simply define the USA
to be a "free market",
ignoring the fact that the Chinese government is now grossly
affecting the labor market of the USA.
Similar comments apply to both India and Mexico. Similar comments
apply to H-1B workers and illegal aliens from Mexico: the American
government has, in effect, actively used H-1B workers
and illegal aliens to intervene in the labor markets in both
high tech and low tech. Illegal aliens have destroyed the upward
pressure on wages in the market for unskilled labor. H-1B have
hurt salaries for engineers. Shortages are a normal part of any
labor market, and they are an upward force on salaries/wages and
working conditions. When the government actively works to wipe out
such shortages, the government is damaging market forces.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA, then
please write the following on the November ballot.
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is now putting Solaris
into open-mode in direct response to the following threats.
The
greatest threat to SUNW is IBM. IBM is now pursuing the low end of the server
market, which is precisely the market on which SUNW is focused. As you recall,
SUNW allied with Fujitsu and devised a plan whereby Fujitsu focuses on the high end
and SUNW focuses on the low end.
The new systems by IBM run Linux atop a Power5. Proprietary Solaris 10 atop a Niagara
simply cannot compete because Linux is debugged by a small army of developers and
made rock solid by IBM's 6 sigma commitment to reliability.
So, in a desparate move, SUNW has decided to put Solaris 10 into open-mode in order
to bring the SUNW Niagara-based servers closer to parity with the Power5.
Intel
is now designing multiple cores into future x86 chips. In short order, Intel will
devour SUNW. SUNW simply cannot match the engineering
prowess of Intel; the current Pentium IV crushes the UltraSPARC III in performance.
Future systems from the Dell, HP, etc. will feature Linux running atop a
multi-core Pentium.
Proprietary Solaris 10 atop a Niagara
simply cannot compete because Linux is debugged by a small army of developers and
made rock solid by IBM's 6 sigma commitment to reliability. (IBM is the
prime commercial developer for Linux.)
The problem with social security is fundamental, and replacing social security with 401K plans does not fix the problem. Here is the situation. Let AA be the average age of the population. With a constant population and with a population that has ever increasing longevity, AA increases. As AA increases, the ratio, RATIO, of working people to retired people decreases. The quality of life of the working people will decrease because a substantial portion of their production, in goods and services, is being diverted to the retired people.
Here, we assume that there is a particular typical age, RA, of retirement after which most people stop working. If we somehow force RA to increase as we increase AA, then the RATIO will remain constant. However, given that most people do not want to work, they would object to raising RA. In this discussion, RA does not necessarily refer to the age by which you can tap social security; rather, RA is the age by which most people deliberately stop working.
If we have a fixed RA, like what we have now, AA does not necessarily increase forever. AA reaches some fixed value when the number of people being born equal the number of people dying. Hence, RATIO does not decrease forever. However, AA will be relatively high, and the RATIO will be relatively small. We will suffer a serious reduction in quality of life.
There are 2 answers to this problem. The Republicans and the Democrats favor the illegal-alien solution. Allowing hordes of illegal aliens from Mexico to enter the USA decreases AA and raises the RATIO. As long as Mexico remains a hell hole, the illegal-alien solution continues to work. However, the solution is not permanent (even though Mexico will likely remain a hell hole due to the inferior Mexican culture) because, after 200 years, American society will face overpopulation. Overpopulation is a side effect of this solution. Also, the quality of American life will degrade to the level of Mexcian society -- corrupt, violent, etc.
The other solution is simply to raise the level of productivity. Enforce the borders and maintain a constant American population. The invisible hand of the free market will drive innovation in the market to raise the level of productivity to meet the need. Consider this scenario. Deport all the illegal aliens. Then, robots (yes, robots!) and improved processes will appear in the labor market for picking fruit.
By the way, the Japanese are pursuing the second solution: constant population and elevated productivity to address the crisis of the graying population in Japan.
In the USA, American politicians are flushing this country down the toilet by admitting hordes of illegal aliens. They may produce cheap fruits and vegetables in the short term, but the illegal aliens are destroying the USA in the long term. They are, on a massive scale, delaying the productivity improvements (e.g. robots and processes) in the market, which will be needed to support a high quality of life for the graying population.
The "technology" that Transmeta developed is essentially a VLIW processor that can be micro-programmed to interpret the IA32 instruction set. By removing the hardware for direct decoding or execution of the complex IA32 instructions, the Transmeta chips save power.
Unfortunately, for Transmeta, this "technology" is neither new nor hard to duplicate. The Opteron (AMD) and the new Pentium IV (Intel) are both VLIW processors microprogrammed to execute the IA32-64 instruction set.
Both AMD and Intel have an R&D budget that dwarfs the annual revenue stream of Transmeta. It has had several years of losses and will likely head into bankruptcy by the end of next year.
AMD and Intel are in a fierce battle that will destroy lesser players like Transmeta. Unfortunately for Transmeta, the IA32 processors are rapidly becoming commodities with shrinking margins.
There is no need to fear a television series based Star Wars (tm). The key is to avoid the mistakes of the other sci-fi empire: Star Trek (tm). The major mistake of Star Trek is that the directors hired actors who simply could not act. For example, consider the actors in "Star Trek: Voyager" or "Enterprise". To compensate for this lack of acting talent, the directors fill each episode with sci-fi techno babble.
One thing that "Enterprise" is doing right is to spread each story across 3 episodes. In order to create a thoughtful plot with a moral lesson, the writer really needs the full 3 hours. Ditto for "Star Wars".
The article starting this discussion asks, "What's in it for Intel, though?"
Obvious is the answer: total domination of the next generation of technologies. Intel realizes that microprocessors, the market on which it built its business, is fast becoming a mature industry. Margins will drop as competition between AMD64 and Intel64 heat up. In search of new areas of grow, Intel is branching out into other areas: routers, WI-FI, etc.
Intel does nothing out of generosity. More than 30% of the company is H-1B workers, and they retain the same ruthlessly competitive attitude that they had in their homelands (e.g. China, India, etc.)
Actually, Ray Bradbury appeared on a local radio show and mentioned that he had spoken with Moore about retracting the title of his film. Moore refused to do so.
For the record, Bradbury opposes Moore's theft of Bradbury's title.
Within the next 20 years, La Raza will become the 3rd political party in the USA. To understand the nature of La Raza, I offer the following quote from a speech by Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and founder of
La Raza Unida Party. He gave the speech at UC Riverside in 1/1995.
The border remains a military zone. We remain a hunted people.
Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that
historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we're a
new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights.
Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us
of color, female and male. This is our homeland. We cannot - we will not- and
we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that
came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel
the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions.
We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making
babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population.
Is anyone shocked by La Raza and the Hispanics who support La Raza? La Raza is the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
I am extremely concerned that La Raza will become the "one party" that controls America in 2025. Our refusal to control our borders has led to an explosive political dynamic that will be hostile to anyone who is not Hispanic.
Write the following candidates on the presidential ballot.
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Xinhua is also known as "The People's Daily", a publication of the Beijing government. What newspaper could be more biased against America and the rest of the West than Xinhua? Even the "New York Times" is not so wretchedly disgusting.
I dislike Google news for its anti-American bias and for its favoritism towards H-1Bs. (More than 20% of the Google workforce in Silicon Valley had foreign citizenship in 2002.)
Let's give Yahoo News a try.
The flood of illegal aliens has destroyed the normal upward force on wages and working conditions in the market for unskilled labor. Americans who are in this market cannot earn enough money to buy basic necessities like housing and food. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats care about Americans in this market. The Republicans and the Democrats care only about catering to racists in LaRaza, the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA, then please write the following on the November ballot.
president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce
Should we ban polls for a period of time before the election? The answer is "no". Such a ban violates freedom of the press.
If we Americans are so simple minded as to do the following, then we deserve the negative consequences.
By the way, Taiwan does ban polls for a period before the election. Taiwan is also the place where the military and political parties own television stations, radio stations, and newspapers. Do we really want to model ourselves after backward Chinese society?
The flood of illegal aliens has destroyed the normal upward force on wages and working conditions in the market for unskilled labor. Americans who are in this market cannot earn enough money to buy basic necessities like housing and food. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats care about Americans in this market. The Republicans and the Democrats care only about catering to racists in LaRaza, the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA, then please write the following on the November ballot.
president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce
The constant in life is change. Good-bye "cassette tape".
You have captured the essence of the problem.
Further, when you look closely at an LCD television, you notice that the image quality is no better than the image produced by a CRT television. So, why would anyone the premium price for the LCD television?
People do want the convenience of an LCD, which uses much less space than a CRT. Yet, they also want improved picture quality in order to justify the price.
The answer is just around the corner: optical interference displays (OIDs). They produce far sharper and brighter images than an LCD. The OID also consumes less power than an LCD.
"The vote" is one of the foundations of American society -- indeed, all of Western society. We canot allow people like the Chinese, who oppose Westernization, to tamper with a pillar of our society.
Debates are simply a forum for politicians to read their scripted lines: all show and no substance. The handlers have told the politicians what to emphasize and what to avoid at the debates. For the same reason, interviews with politicians during the campaign season are pointless.
If you want to know how the politicians will act once they are elected, then study their votes in the years prior to the election. What were their positions on the major issues?
Look at the border with Mexico. Both Kerry and Bush claim that they oppose illegal immigration. Yet, neither has done anything to enforce the borders.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA (which is firmly grounded in Western culture), then join me in writing the following on the November ballot.
president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce
They cannot win in the upcoming election since they have not formally registered as candidates, according to the rules of most states. However, if they garner a sizeable portion of the votes, then they can have a "Perot Effect". Although Perot lost the election, the Republicans incorporated most of his ideas in the "Contract with America", of which most was enacted into law.
If we included the G5 in all future assessments of Linux, I suspect that we in the technical community could alter the workstation landscape, convincing more people to use Linux on the Apple G5-based workstations (yes, WORKSTATIONS). The G5 is based on the processor evaluated, by MicroDesign Resources, to be the best overall server processor of 2001 (?).
The Japanese built a Western society in Japan. The Thai are laboring to build a Western society i Thailand. So are most Eastern Europeans.
So far, the Indians have not accomplished what, even the Thai, have accomplished. If the Indians can solve this biggest problem, the Westernization (i.e. modernization) of India, then I will be impressed. Who cares whether some Indian techie can plan a city that looks like question mark? It might be worth some bonus points on the final exam at the Indian Institute of Technology but is worth nothing to the millions of underemployed Indians begging for the chance to flee to the USA.
By the way, to understand the serious and deep-rooted nature of the Indian problem, note that the ratio of male to female babies in Indian is about 1.20. It is just as high in mainland China. The ratio in Thailand is 1.05, which is normal for a human society without targetted abortions and without infanticide.
If you are in the unskilled-labor market, imagine trying to bid for a job against an illegal alien or Mexican willing to work for 50 cents per hour.
Combining job bidding and on-line web surfing is a disaster for the American labor market. To destroy the American labor, the Chinese needs only to get online and bid for your job.
The rest is open-source history.
Interestingly, IBM's embracing Linux is one of the factors eliminating Sun as a viable competitor in the market for highend servers. 6-sigma Linux, backed by an army of free programmers and advice-givers, versus closed proprietary Solaris is tantamount to a battle between a F-22 (stealth fighter) and a Mig 17. No contest.
Here, an example of a stable commercial company is IBM. Linux is an example of category #3. OpenOffice is an example of category #2. (Sun is not a stable company, and its survival is questionable.) Many applications offered through the free software foundation (FSF) fall into category #1.
Companies debating whether to implement an open source solution should first determine whether there is open source software that meets their needs and that fall into any category except category #1. Category #1 is just too risky.
As for categories #3 and #4, the backing of a stable commercial company means that any serious problem arising in the software will be resolved.
Some software (category #2) may not be backed by a stable commercial company but is already fully developed, has been stable for a long time, and is no longer being revised. We can trust that such software is stable enough for deployment at a commercial company. The Mosaic browser, the original web client, would be a good example.
There is nothing in the architecture of the ES to prevent it from performing the calculations for modeling hurricanes. The only possible problem might be that the software for doing the modeling has not yet been ported to the ES.
Anyhow, what is interesting to note is that the modeling of hurricanes is a critical operation of the supercomputers. Another critical operation is command control on the battlefield. In such critical operations, which supercomputer would you use?
At the end of the CNN article, it implies that the new system for modeling hurricances is a super-multiprocessor powered by the Power4+ from IBM. In a sense this deployment of the IBM supercomputer says a lot about the Power4 and IBM technology. When your life or the lives of millions of people depend on the calculations performed by a supercomputer, which supercomputer manufacturer and processor would you choose? Apparently, the clear choice is IBM and Power4.
There is no mention of Pentium IV or UltraSPARC. Not surprising, really.
When news of "Gates" becoming the apellation of the building broke, heated discussions appeared on the local university electronic bulletin board. Many people were dismayed that Bill Gates, a college dropout with little knowledge of computer science, would receive the honor of having the computer science building named after him. It is no ordinary building. It is the building housing the pre-eminent computer-science department that is among the top 3 in the nation.
One mathematics professor lamented that money buys anything -- including undeserved honors. He commented that Stanford University might as well name the building after "Donald Trump" since he is a billionaire.
Personally, I object to honoring Bill Gates for anything. As far as I am concerned, he is an unethical shmuck who bears principal responsibility for the suicide of Gary Kildall. Search on "Gary Kildall" if you do not know who he is.
Both political parties claim that free markets require the free exchange of goods and services (which includes labor) between the USA and other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and fusing the American market with the Chinese/Indian/Mexican market maintains the free market in the USA. Unfortunately, the politicians are just playing a verbal game with economics.
Allow me to explain. The USA, in isolation, is a relatively free market -- with relatively little government intervention (compare to, say, China). So is Japan, Canada, and the rest of the West. However, Mexico, China, and India are not free markets. Excessive government intervention has damaged the markets in those economies, and they cannot provide jobs for millions of underemployed persons.
When the USA interacts with, say, China, we have the interaction of a free market and a non-free market. The by-product (i.e. millions of underemployed Chinese) of non-market forces now affects the market dynamics in the USA. The underemployed Chinese are a continuing stream of cheap slave labor; jobs are then transferred from the USA to China.
The USA is no longer a free market because non-market forces (in this case, Chinese government intervention) is altering the dynamics of the labor market in the USA. The verbal game that politicians play is to simply define the USA to be a "free market", ignoring the fact that the Chinese government is now grossly affecting the labor market of the USA.
Similar comments apply to both India and Mexico. Similar comments apply to H-1B workers and illegal aliens from Mexico: the American government has, in effect, actively used H-1B workers and illegal aliens to intervene in the labor markets in both high tech and low tech. Illegal aliens have destroyed the upward pressure on wages in the market for unskilled labor. H-1B have hurt salaries for engineers. Shortages are a normal part of any labor market, and they are an upward force on salaries/wages and working conditions. When the government actively works to wipe out such shortages, the government is damaging market forces.
If you hate what is happening to our country, the USA, then please write the following on the November ballot.
president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce
The new systems by IBM run Linux atop a Power5. Proprietary Solaris 10 atop a Niagara simply cannot compete because Linux is debugged by a small army of developers and made rock solid by IBM's 6 sigma commitment to reliability. So, in a desparate move, SUNW has decided to put Solaris 10 into open-mode in order to bring the SUNW Niagara-based servers closer to parity with the Power5.
The bell tolls for SUNW.
The problem with social security is fundamental, and replacing social security with 401K plans does not fix the problem. Here is the situation. Let AA be the average age of the population. With a constant population and with a population that has ever increasing longevity, AA increases. As AA increases, the ratio, RATIO, of working people to retired people decreases. The quality of life of the working people will decrease because a substantial portion of their production, in goods and services, is being diverted to the retired people.
Here, we assume that there is a particular typical age, RA, of retirement after which most people stop working. If we somehow force RA to increase as we increase AA, then the RATIO will remain constant. However, given that most people do not want to work, they would object to raising RA. In this discussion, RA does not necessarily refer to the age by which you can tap social security; rather, RA is the age by which most people deliberately stop working.
If we have a fixed RA, like what we have now, AA does not necessarily increase forever. AA reaches some fixed value when the number of people being born equal the number of people dying. Hence, RATIO does not decrease forever. However, AA will be relatively high, and the RATIO will be relatively small. We will suffer a serious reduction in quality of life.
There are 2 answers to this problem. The Republicans and the Democrats favor the illegal-alien solution. Allowing hordes of illegal aliens from Mexico to enter the USA decreases AA and raises the RATIO. As long as Mexico remains a hell hole, the illegal-alien solution continues to work. However, the solution is not permanent (even though Mexico will likely remain a hell hole due to the inferior Mexican culture) because, after 200 years, American society will face overpopulation. Overpopulation is a side effect of this solution. Also, the quality of American life will degrade to the level of Mexcian society -- corrupt, violent, etc.
The other solution is simply to raise the level of productivity. Enforce the borders and maintain a constant American population. The invisible hand of the free market will drive innovation in the market to raise the level of productivity to meet the need. Consider this scenario. Deport all the illegal aliens. Then, robots (yes, robots!) and improved processes will appear in the labor market for picking fruit.
By the way, the Japanese are pursuing the second solution: constant population and elevated productivity to address the crisis of the graying population in Japan.
In the USA, American politicians are flushing this country down the toilet by admitting hordes of illegal aliens. They may produce cheap fruits and vegetables in the short term, but the illegal aliens are destroying the USA in the long term. They are, on a massive scale, delaying the productivity improvements (e.g. robots and processes) in the market, which will be needed to support a high quality of life for the graying population.
Unfortunately, for Transmeta, this "technology" is neither new nor hard to duplicate. The Opteron (AMD) and the new Pentium IV (Intel) are both VLIW processors microprogrammed to execute the IA32-64 instruction set.
Both AMD and Intel have an R&D budget that dwarfs the annual revenue stream of Transmeta. It has had several years of losses and will likely head into bankruptcy by the end of next year.
AMD and Intel are in a fierce battle that will destroy lesser players like Transmeta. Unfortunately for Transmeta, the IA32 processors are rapidly becoming commodities with shrinking margins.
Is there a white knight for Transmeta?
One thing that "Enterprise" is doing right is to spread each story across 3 episodes. In order to create a thoughtful plot with a moral lesson, the writer really needs the full 3 hours. Ditto for "Star Wars".
Obvious is the answer: total domination of the next generation of technologies. Intel realizes that microprocessors, the market on which it built its business, is fast becoming a mature industry. Margins will drop as competition between AMD64 and Intel64 heat up. In search of new areas of grow, Intel is branching out into other areas: routers, WI-FI, etc.
Intel does nothing out of generosity. More than 30% of the company is H-1B workers, and they retain the same ruthlessly competitive attitude that they had in their homelands (e.g. China, India, etc.)
For the record, Bradbury opposes Moore's theft of Bradbury's title.
Please check out this article that I wrote about La Raza. The danger of one-party rule is not a neo-conservative party. The danger is La Raza.
The border remains a military zone. We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we're a new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights. Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us of color, female and male. This is our homeland. We cannot - we will not- and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population.
You can also listen to the an actual audio clip of the quote above. There is an important web site with other quotes and audio clips.
Is anyone shocked by La Raza and the Hispanics who support La Raza? La Raza is the Hispanic equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan.
I am extremely concerned that La Raza will become the "one party" that controls America in 2025. Our refusal to control our borders has led to an explosive political dynamic that will be hostile to anyone who is not Hispanic.
Write the following candidates on the presidential ballot.
president: Bill O'Reilly
vice-president: Tammy Bruce