"The people I do see this hurting is entry level candidates but even so if you can prove you are worth your salt you will find a nice job."
Ah-ha! There is the real damage being done to not only our economy, but our society as a whole! The idea that it's ok to fill entry level positions with cheap foreign labor/workers it a cancer on our society. Those entry level positions may not be that important, but you learn a lot in those jobs, especially right out of college. If you can't get real world experience, how will you ever get that "nice job"? Get a friend to tailor a job for you in a position you have zero experience with? Fake it on your resume and hope they don't find out? If you do not have entry level positions for those graduating from college, they will never mature into experience programmers/engineers and we'll have to pull from the H-1B visa holders again for the experienced positions. After all, they were the ones in the entry level positions, they got the experience, so they should get the jobs at the next level too. Soon even the most experienced positions will be available for foreign replacement. And where will you be then? In the unemployment line or busing tables like the rest of us educated types who never got our careers off the ground because there were no entry level positions for us.
I agree with your premiss that we shouldn't mess with large, complex systems that we don't fully understand. That's why a lot of modern environmentalists (not the pot smoking, smelly hippies kind, but the educated, intelligent ones) call for industrial methods that don't impact the environment one way or the other. In other words, stop spewing out toxic fumes and dumping nasty stuff in the water. We don't need to do a bunch of "terraforming" projects to increase CO2 consumption or decrease it, etc. Just stop dumping toxic stuff into the air. Let the larger system of the planet, such as ocean currents, sun, plants, etc, do all the stuff themselves. There are good techs out there that don't produce toxic stuff, it's just a bit more expensive than the dirty stuff.
That is a valid point and I'm sure no one is ignoring that option. BUT... do we, as a species, want to gamble that this is the only cause of the warming? That is the big distinction.
Those that believe it is the only reason, and that man doesn't make a dent in the planet's climit or patterns, are willing to take that gamble and keep things the status quo.
Those that believe that man can and is actively affecting the planet's climit and/or its patterns are not willing to risk it just being a natural phenomina and want to do everything they can to minimize what they see as a risk to our very existance.
So, laying all the political BS aside, which side is right? We may never know, or not know for hundreds of years. But which side falls on the side of caution? Which side takes the longer view on this issue and choses the actions that will only help mankind in the long run? I would say the second side, the side that believes we can and are affecting the planet's climit, are the ones that are on the side of caution. Some economic hardships in the sort term are preferable to causing the end of our species.
But this is not an either-or situation. You can do both actions irregardless of which one you do first. Turn off the lights in rooms your are not in, and also unplug leaky electronic devices such as consoles. The article didn't condem consoles as the sole source of wasted energy. It only identified them as leaky devices and quantified the amount of power that they waste. It also identified a unsettling trend in their power consumptions and questioned future power usages in future generations.
Every little bit helps. You can do both big and little things to reduce wasted power, not just one or the other.
Yes, $3/year of wasted energy doesn't mean much to you or me. But when you expand the scope of this study to beyond just yourself and include not just your friends but everyone in the world who owns these consoles, the purpose becomes much clearer. We have an energy crisis in the world. Our power comes mostly from non-renewable, high pollution sources. The more power we consume as a race, the more polluted our environment becomes, and the more political tentions increase (think US->Middle East).
I would say that this article is but a small piece in the larger issue of our energy efficiency. We are wasting a LOT of energy yearly on issues that are easily solved by a few engineers spending a little more time to find more efficient methods. Look at AMD and Intel lately. They spent the time to greatly reduce their energy consumption. While per-processor it's a decent decrease, when looked at large datacenters or the whole country, the power savings will be epic.
We as a people need to look beyond just our noses or our personal bank accounts. If we can understand how small issues per person can quickly add up to a huge issue for all of us, issues like power leakage would seem much more important.
Sure they can. The EFF can ask, nicely of course, for all contributors to the Linux kernel, or at least as many as they can get, so sign over their copyright them the EFF. They do this all the time. Once they have the copyrights, they can bring suite against infringers. How else do you think they have been able to go after companies like LinkSys and a few others? They were using a modified embedded Linux without making the code available on request. So the EFF sued and won (or LinkSys caved, can't remember exactly, all I know is that the source code became available). The EFF has the power to sue SCO if need be.
Two things can happen with this. One, the release the new version of Caldera like a normal Linux distro, in which case SCO has actively released all the "infringing" code under GPL. The second thing that could happen is that they don't release it like a normal distro and put out a binary only version. This of course will lead to the EFF suing them into Oblivion (bada-ching) because of the copyright violations as listed under the GPL.
I guess there is a third possibility: they release Calder and the source, and continue to be asshats and try to sue everyone who uses Linux. Saddly, the third option is looking more and more likely.
As another poster mentioned further up, the problem isn't that people don't care about these rights, it's that they cannot see anything as a real threat to those rights. We'll always be able to get around the DRM somehow and have some fair use. But the majority of people just do not believe that anything will really interfear with their ability to watch TV or listen to the radio or use their computers.
I can envision what will happen in the future if these laws pass. No one will believe that anything is wrong, until the day they try to do something that they should easily be able to do (MythTV/Open TV recorders, record radio, etc) and they run head first into the restrictions. Of course people will get mad and pretty soon almost everyone will in same way be violating those laws just so they can use their products in a fair way. Suddently the arrests will start coming out, and people from little kids to grannies will be arrested under laws ment for real criminals who make money off of pirating. Can you just imagine the image of grandma behind bars because she circumvented some weak DRM so she could watch her TV? That's when people will finally sit up and demand that these laws be struck down/removed.
Yup, there is a big difference between acedemic research and industry research. Acedamia can announce ideas that could not be made into useable products for 10-30 years because they don't really care. They are in it for the research. But in industry, you are usually working on a shorter time frame. Sure there are people working on ideas that may not work for decades, but they are the minority and usually the grayed haired geniuses that did things like create the transistor or the Internet. They already proved they are visionaries and can work on long ranging projects.
P.S. Please forgive any rambling/spelling/grammer mistakes on the alcohol I've had tonight.
You know, I used to get excited by cool new techs like that. Then I talked to someone who works closely with the process design engineers at Intel and other people who actually produce silicon based chips in mass. While those new discovers are very interesting, they usually don't lend themselves to mass production easily, if at all. Some of those new processes take huge, expensive machines and techniques and even then only produce a couple of workable prototypes. It is pure research at it's best. The issue is adapting that to producing millions of these on thousands of wafers every day with a high level of success (90%+ if not higher).
When a semiconducter producer like Intel announces stuff like in the article, it usually means they have a process that will work in mass production and can be available soon. Same goes for announcements from companies like IBM and AMD. So while they may be "obsolete" compared to what the cutting edge researchers are doing, they are definatly cutting edge for what can actually be used to make products actual people will use.
> What kind of response will you look back on in 20 years and be proud of?
The response the leads to the BofA suffering the most. Outsourcing is an insult not only to those that get fired, but our country in general. Yes the cost of living is higher here, but we are the people who use the banks and services that companies like BofA offers. So we are good enough to take our money (and make more money off of it), but not good enough to employ some people from the communities where BofA is located?
Directly telling the employees (who are technically trained and probably spend years of both formal and personal training to learn what they know) that they are not valued, at all, by the company and that they HAVE to train their foriegn replacements is the equvalient of beating a man and then pissing in his wounds. BofA has shown that they don't care about our country or our people, so I say "let them suffer the consequences of their actions".
Pissing off the techs is the dumbest thing any company can do, because of the positions of power that they have. Since there is little to know consequences of miss-training their replacements (after they get their severence that is), I say punish the company. Make sure that one month after everyone has left, they will be frantically calling everyong and asking them to come in and help. That's when you "piss in their wounds" and either say NO, or charge 3x your old yearly salary to come in as a consultant. These are the only actions that some managers/companies can understand from their actions: how does it affect our bottom line.
Companies have rights and do everything they can to make as much money as possible. But employees have rights too and can do everything in their power to teach companies that without them, they are nothing, and that we have the right to be treated as human beings, not office equipment.
Ok, I'll give you $5 to for a copy of your house keys. You can trust me, after all, I'm paying you therefore I'm your customer and you can trust me:)
Most people can be trusted to do the right thing. It's the one or two people who would exploit an opportunity that you have to watch out for. Maybe they want to take his code, make a bunch of modifications, and then somehow claim that because of all their work they don't own anything to the originating company. After all, if you rewrote 90% of the code, there isn't much left that isn' your's (ya right). Watch, there is some lawyer out there just chomping at the bit to fight a case like that.
To the OP, get a damn good IP lawyer. Ask around in the game industry because they license our their graphics engines all the time and have for a while. They would have experience with this.
But does leaving really make the situation better or worse for all parties involved? If Yahoo! left China it would be looked apon more favorably by other people in other countries... for about five minutes. But this would loose them money which would lead to the stock holders replacing the board and we would be right back into the issue of doing business in China.
Don't forget how this could affect the Chinese people. Not the government, but the actual people. Is it better to just leave them high and dry with no real access to information/eduction or to work at getting them educated to the point that they start asking their own questions? If all the US companies in China just left because of the human rights violations I guarenty you that it would get worse for the Chinese people, not better. Jobless, no access to the rest of the world, they would become the perfect down trodden people for the current government/military to rule over. No one would ask questions because they wouldn't know how or what questions to ask. By staying in the country and working with the people, we are slowly "infecting" them with Western ideas, such as Democracy, free will, individuals' rights, etc. Over time, this leads to a more informed and freedom seeking people.
Which do you want? To feel self righteous and morally superior, or get your hands a little dirty and actually cause some change for the better?
P.S.: Yahoo! said in the article that they don't even known the nature of the investigation when they get a request for data. It could be a journalist being investigated for publishing information the government doesn't want people to know, or it could be a homocidal maniac that likes to wear heads as hats. Either way, they don't know.
If the liability coverage being suggested is vastly more than the purchase price of the software, then yes it has the potential to kill OSS. I can imagine that the intent is to force software producers to own up to damages and lost income caused by bugs in their software. On the surface, this makes sense. If a tire company *cough*Firestone*cough* produced a tire that had a defect(bug) that led to the death of people or damage to the car/property, you can bet that those injured would want compensation.
But does the coverage make any distinction between a game-ending bug and a conceptual bug? By this I mean bugs that cause the program to perform differently than the program was being marked as and bugs that are only causes by deliberate/incredibly unique settings/actions? The first should be held as legit bugs while the latter seems hard to argue for. If the bug only expresses itself when you setup a special case that is never seen in the real world, is it really a bug? After all, ALL computer programs have bugs, even the simplest of programs. Even Hello, World! (which almost always depends on system libraries to display, and as such inherit any bugs that they contain).
The simple answer to this is to allow for software to be given away on a "no liability" way. FOSS could be allowed to exist since those that are creating the software are not making money to how many copies they "sell". Those that produce software for a living, like MS, would still be held accountable for their products. But then, IE would not be covered since it is "given away".
There probably is no simple answer to this. Either allow things like FOSS to exist and limit the liability that all software producers have, or open them up to real liability and kill FOSS.
But different types of laws exist (if you ever take a good philosphy/governments class in college). There are the natual laws that cannot be violated (humans must breath), laws set down by God (religious doctorine), and the laws of man (such as not copying a DVD). Now, the laws of men are VERY easily corrupted. Hence why people are required to break unjust/unethical laws on a regular basis, so as to expose them and get them repealed. Copyright and patent laws have gotten out of hand and are favoring the holders of pieces of paper over the general public that those holders benifit off of. The People have the power in our government, we are the reason those laws exist. If we the People decide that a law is not just or valid, we have the power to remove it. I, and many others, belive these copyright and patent laws are crap and so we are going to break them on a constant basis. Remember, the laws of men != natural laws. We made them, and we can change or remove them as times or new ideas change.
Ah, but we do! Read the Constitution. The American patent and copyright system is there to benifit the (patent holders) and the people. The producers have a set amount of time to profit from their discoveries, then the people get them so as to benifit everyone. In the end, if the knowledge is all locked up by just a few individuals or companies then all of humanity is robbed. I'm not about to wheep for companies because they are not people and are only constructs of our society. Human beings have the God-given right to exist and find ways to make their lives better.
The biggest cause of not only poor science test scores but also our generaly pathetic logical reasoning deals directly to Little Johnny and his parents. Nobody likes the idea that their child may not be the brightest kid in the class, or even middle of the road. Every parent wants to be able to say how their kid is in such-and-such advance class or got so many A's etc. It's even more ironic coming from parents that didn't perform well in school themselves. But if a teacher or administrator ever suggests that Little Johnny isn't very bright or should be failed or held back, they begin a holy crusade to either force the teacher to pass Little Johnny or replace the teacher/administrator so Johhny won't be failed/held back.
Parents are first and formost the cause of all the school woes. Instead of blaming the teachers and/or adminstrators for Little Johnny's school problems, look in the mirror. Did you read to Johnny when he was little? Did you encourage him both at a young age and into high school to do his homework, read books, and take his schooling seriously? Or did you spend more time thinking about your career or next vacation or encouraging him to do well in sports first and then well in school? Sometimes Little Johnny will have to be failed or else he will never learn, nor will his parents.
This is exactly what I was talking about. Nike came in to those sweatshops and changed that for those working in those factories. Instead of needing to push themselves to their physical limits in order to just buy food, they are closer to employees in the West. They can get sick and not starve their families. They can work regular hours and not 24+ hour marathon shifts. While other companies continue the bad worth ethics that you describe, Nike does not, and people need to recognize this for other companies to start to think to change their ways.
Sure, in this country $2 a day is impossible to live on, especially for a family. But in OTHER countries $2 has the equivalent buying power for hundreds of $ a day. This is one of the biggest short comings of protesters in America: not every place on the planet has the same level of inflation or equivalent prices for food/objects as in the US. Do some research, find out how much the average livable wage in a country is before condeming a company for paying their employees those wages.
You realize that Nike hasn't run sweatshops for a long time now right? The factories in Asia used to be contracted by Nike to produce shoes, so Nike did not own them. After all the bad PR they moved in and took over the factories and now the people have very nice working conditions and earn a much higher than average wage compared to the rest of the countries over there. If you would like to end sweatshops, try talking to Adidas, Rebook, etc, which still do use sweatshop in Asia.
The overclocked the Core chip to MATCH the clock frequency of the FX60 chip. It's not an unfair comparison at all. They eliminated the clock as a difference and instead are only comparing the performance of the architectures, clock-per-clock. Viewed like that, the Core chip is better (not by a huge amount, but still better). Through in the lower power & heat and lower price, and the Core chip beats the FX60 by a very wide margin.
That's the point, they are anything but "fair and balanced". The are very UNfair and UNbalanced when it comes to political view points. Sure if you take Fox News can compare it to say a San Franciso news station, they would 'balance' each other out and have 'fair' time for different political ideals between the two of them. But standing alone Fox News is incredibly concervative in their interpretations and in choosing which stories to run. Studies have already shown that people who only watched Fox News thought that we had found WMD in Iraq while those that got their news from multiple sources knew that we didn't. They are not fair or balanced, they have a very conservative agenda. They fact that they label themselves 'fair and balanced' is a blatent lie, sorry, marketing ploy, and I for one will never watch them because of that. If they were at least honest with their political slanting they could still be a good news site.
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Ah-ha! There is the real damage being done to not only our economy, but our society as a whole! The idea that it's ok to fill entry level positions with cheap foreign labor/workers it a cancer on our society. Those entry level positions may not be that important, but you learn a lot in those jobs, especially right out of college. If you can't get real world experience, how will you ever get that "nice job"? Get a friend to tailor a job for you in a position you have zero experience with? Fake it on your resume and hope they don't find out? If you do not have entry level positions for those graduating from college, they will never mature into experience programmers/engineers and we'll have to pull from the H-1B visa holders again for the experienced positions. After all, they were the ones in the entry level positions, they got the experience, so they should get the jobs at the next level too. Soon even the most experienced positions will be available for foreign replacement. And where will you be then? In the unemployment line or busing tables like the rest of us educated types who never got our careers off the ground because there were no entry level positions for us.
I agree with your premiss that we shouldn't mess with large, complex systems that we don't fully understand. That's why a lot of modern environmentalists (not the pot smoking, smelly hippies kind, but the educated, intelligent ones) call for industrial methods that don't impact the environment one way or the other. In other words, stop spewing out toxic fumes and dumping nasty stuff in the water. We don't need to do a bunch of "terraforming" projects to increase CO2 consumption or decrease it, etc. Just stop dumping toxic stuff into the air. Let the larger system of the planet, such as ocean currents, sun, plants, etc, do all the stuff themselves. There are good techs out there that don't produce toxic stuff, it's just a bit more expensive than the dirty stuff.
Those that believe it is the only reason, and that man doesn't make a dent in the planet's climit or patterns, are willing to take that gamble and keep things the status quo.
Those that believe that man can and is actively affecting the planet's climit and/or its patterns are not willing to risk it just being a natural phenomina and want to do everything they can to minimize what they see as a risk to our very existance.
So, laying all the political BS aside, which side is right? We may never know, or not know for hundreds of years. But which side falls on the side of caution? Which side takes the longer view on this issue and choses the actions that will only help mankind in the long run? I would say the second side, the side that believes we can and are affecting the planet's climit, are the ones that are on the side of caution. Some economic hardships in the sort term are preferable to causing the end of our species.
So which camp do you fall under?
Every little bit helps. You can do both big and little things to reduce wasted power, not just one or the other.
I would say that this article is but a small piece in the larger issue of our energy efficiency. We are wasting a LOT of energy yearly on issues that are easily solved by a few engineers spending a little more time to find more efficient methods. Look at AMD and Intel lately. They spent the time to greatly reduce their energy consumption. While per-processor it's a decent decrease, when looked at large datacenters or the whole country, the power savings will be epic.
We as a people need to look beyond just our noses or our personal bank accounts. If we can understand how small issues per person can quickly add up to a huge issue for all of us, issues like power leakage would seem much more important.
Sure they can. The EFF can ask, nicely of course, for all contributors to the Linux kernel, or at least as many as they can get, so sign over their copyright them the EFF. They do this all the time. Once they have the copyrights, they can bring suite against infringers. How else do you think they have been able to go after companies like LinkSys and a few others? They were using a modified embedded Linux without making the code available on request. So the EFF sued and won (or LinkSys caved, can't remember exactly, all I know is that the source code became available). The EFF has the power to sue SCO if need be.
Two things can happen with this. One, the release the new version of Caldera like a normal Linux distro, in which case SCO has actively released all the "infringing" code under GPL. The second thing that could happen is that they don't release it like a normal distro and put out a binary only version. This of course will lead to the EFF suing them into Oblivion (bada-ching) because of the copyright violations as listed under the GPL.
I guess there is a third possibility: they release Calder and the source, and continue to be asshats and try to sue everyone who uses Linux. Saddly, the third option is looking more and more likely.
I can envision what will happen in the future if these laws pass. No one will believe that anything is wrong, until the day they try to do something that they should easily be able to do (MythTV/Open TV recorders, record radio, etc) and they run head first into the restrictions. Of course people will get mad and pretty soon almost everyone will in same way be violating those laws just so they can use their products in a fair way. Suddently the arrests will start coming out, and people from little kids to grannies will be arrested under laws ment for real criminals who make money off of pirating. Can you just imagine the image of grandma behind bars because she circumvented some weak DRM so she could watch her TV? That's when people will finally sit up and demand that these laws be struck down/removed.
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P.S. Please forgive any rambling/spelling/grammer mistakes on the alcohol I've had tonight.
When a semiconducter producer like Intel announces stuff like in the article, it usually means they have a process that will work in mass production and can be available soon. Same goes for announcements from companies like IBM and AMD. So while they may be "obsolete" compared to what the cutting edge researchers are doing, they are definatly cutting edge for what can actually be used to make products actual people will use.
The response the leads to the BofA suffering the most. Outsourcing is an insult not only to those that get fired, but our country in general. Yes the cost of living is higher here, but we are the people who use the banks and services that companies like BofA offers. So we are good enough to take our money (and make more money off of it), but not good enough to employ some people from the communities where BofA is located?
Directly telling the employees (who are technically trained and probably spend years of both formal and personal training to learn what they know) that they are not valued, at all, by the company and that they HAVE to train their foriegn replacements is the equvalient of beating a man and then pissing in his wounds. BofA has shown that they don't care about our country or our people, so I say "let them suffer the consequences of their actions".
Pissing off the techs is the dumbest thing any company can do, because of the positions of power that they have. Since there is little to know consequences of miss-training their replacements (after they get their severence that is), I say punish the company. Make sure that one month after everyone has left, they will be frantically calling everyong and asking them to come in and help. That's when you "piss in their wounds" and either say NO, or charge 3x your old yearly salary to come in as a consultant. These are the only actions that some managers/companies can understand from their actions: how does it affect our bottom line.
Companies have rights and do everything they can to make as much money as possible. But employees have rights too and can do everything in their power to teach companies that without them, they are nothing, and that we have the right to be treated as human beings, not office equipment.
Ok, I'll give you $5 to for a copy of your house keys. You can trust me, after all, I'm paying you therefore I'm your customer and you can trust me :)
Most people can be trusted to do the right thing. It's the one or two people who would exploit an opportunity that you have to watch out for. Maybe they want to take his code, make a bunch of modifications, and then somehow claim that because of all their work they don't own anything to the originating company. After all, if you rewrote 90% of the code, there isn't much left that isn' your's (ya right). Watch, there is some lawyer out there just chomping at the bit to fight a case like that.
To the OP, get a damn good IP lawyer. Ask around in the game industry because they license our their graphics engines all the time and have for a while. They would have experience with this.
Don't forget how this could affect the Chinese people. Not the government, but the actual people. Is it better to just leave them high and dry with no real access to information/eduction or to work at getting them educated to the point that they start asking their own questions? If all the US companies in China just left because of the human rights violations I guarenty you that it would get worse for the Chinese people, not better. Jobless, no access to the rest of the world, they would become the perfect down trodden people for the current government/military to rule over. No one would ask questions because they wouldn't know how or what questions to ask. By staying in the country and working with the people, we are slowly "infecting" them with Western ideas, such as Democracy, free will, individuals' rights, etc. Over time, this leads to a more informed and freedom seeking people.
Which do you want? To feel self righteous and morally superior, or get your hands a little dirty and actually cause some change for the better?
P.S.: Yahoo! said in the article that they don't even known the nature of the investigation when they get a request for data. It could be a journalist being investigated for publishing information the government doesn't want people to know, or it could be a homocidal maniac that likes to wear heads as hats. Either way, they don't know.
But does the coverage make any distinction between a game-ending bug and a conceptual bug? By this I mean bugs that cause the program to perform differently than the program was being marked as and bugs that are only causes by deliberate/incredibly unique settings/actions? The first should be held as legit bugs while the latter seems hard to argue for. If the bug only expresses itself when you setup a special case that is never seen in the real world, is it really a bug? After all, ALL computer programs have bugs, even the simplest of programs. Even Hello, World! (which almost always depends on system libraries to display, and as such inherit any bugs that they contain).
The simple answer to this is to allow for software to be given away on a "no liability" way. FOSS could be allowed to exist since those that are creating the software are not making money to how many copies they "sell". Those that produce software for a living, like MS, would still be held accountable for their products. But then, IE would not be covered since it is "given away".
There probably is no simple answer to this. Either allow things like FOSS to exist and limit the liability that all software producers have, or open them up to real liability and kill FOSS.
But different types of laws exist (if you ever take a good philosphy/governments class in college). There are the natual laws that cannot be violated (humans must breath), laws set down by God (religious doctorine), and the laws of man (such as not copying a DVD). Now, the laws of men are VERY easily corrupted. Hence why people are required to break unjust/unethical laws on a regular basis, so as to expose them and get them repealed. Copyright and patent laws have gotten out of hand and are favoring the holders of pieces of paper over the general public that those holders benifit off of. The People have the power in our government, we are the reason those laws exist. If we the People decide that a law is not just or valid, we have the power to remove it. I, and many others, belive these copyright and patent laws are crap and so we are going to break them on a constant basis. Remember, the laws of men != natural laws. We made them, and we can change or remove them as times or new ideas change.
Ah, but we do! Read the Constitution. The American patent and copyright system is there to benifit the (patent holders) and the people. The producers have a set amount of time to profit from their discoveries, then the people get them so as to benifit everyone. In the end, if the knowledge is all locked up by just a few individuals or companies then all of humanity is robbed. I'm not about to wheep for companies because they are not people and are only constructs of our society. Human beings have the God-given right to exist and find ways to make their lives better.
Parents are first and formost the cause of all the school woes. Instead of blaming the teachers and/or adminstrators for Little Johnny's school problems, look in the mirror. Did you read to Johnny when he was little? Did you encourage him both at a young age and into high school to do his homework, read books, and take his schooling seriously? Or did you spend more time thinking about your career or next vacation or encouraging him to do well in sports first and then well in school? Sometimes Little Johnny will have to be failed or else he will never learn, nor will his parents.
This is exactly what I was talking about. Nike came in to those sweatshops and changed that for those working in those factories. Instead of needing to push themselves to their physical limits in order to just buy food, they are closer to employees in the West. They can get sick and not starve their families. They can work regular hours and not 24+ hour marathon shifts. While other companies continue the bad worth ethics that you describe, Nike does not, and people need to recognize this for other companies to start to think to change their ways.
Sure, in this country $2 a day is impossible to live on, especially for a family. But in OTHER countries $2 has the equivalent buying power for hundreds of $ a day. This is one of the biggest short comings of protesters in America: not every place on the planet has the same level of inflation or equivalent prices for food/objects as in the US. Do some research, find out how much the average livable wage in a country is before condeming a company for paying their employees those wages.
You realize that Nike hasn't run sweatshops for a long time now right? The factories in Asia used to be contracted by Nike to produce shoes, so Nike did not own them. After all the bad PR they moved in and took over the factories and now the people have very nice working conditions and earn a much higher than average wage compared to the rest of the countries over there. If you would like to end sweatshops, try talking to Adidas, Rebook, etc, which still do use sweatshop in Asia.
The overclocked the Core chip to MATCH the clock frequency of the FX60 chip. It's not an unfair comparison at all. They eliminated the clock as a difference and instead are only comparing the performance of the architectures, clock-per-clock. Viewed like that, the Core chip is better (not by a huge amount, but still better). Through in the lower power & heat and lower price, and the Core chip beats the FX60 by a very wide margin.
That's the point, they are anything but "fair and balanced". The are very UNfair and UNbalanced when it comes to political view points. Sure if you take Fox News can compare it to say a San Franciso news station, they would 'balance' each other out and have 'fair' time for different political ideals between the two of them. But standing alone Fox News is incredibly concervative in their interpretations and in choosing which stories to run. Studies have already shown that people who only watched Fox News thought that we had found WMD in Iraq while those that got their news from multiple sources knew that we didn't. They are not fair or balanced, they have a very conservative agenda. They fact that they label themselves 'fair and balanced' is a blatent lie, sorry, marketing ploy, and I for one will never watch them because of that. If they were at least honest with their political slanting they could still be a good news site.
This is the most reasonable argument I've heard so far on this subject.