But they were always cheaper overall than anything else you listed for physical delivery to the entire country as a whole.
It costs the same to mail a letter anywhere in the US. All the other carriers you listed do not flat rate, and will refuse to deliver to places that aren't profitable.
Everyone in the US can get a letter from the US postal service regardless of where they are. If they've got an address (so any private property and most public parcels) they can get postal drops. But they may not be able to get anything else, including an Internet connection.
The USPS is a socialist service designed to ensure that EVERYONE has SOME form of communication, and reliable communication at that. Nothing else offers that, even if you don't realize it because it doesn't effect you.
Sunds more like theft than loss. Most people would go there entire lives without losing anything. Have you made them aware of the losses or are you just complaining for no reason.
The kernel IS the HAL. A few commercial OSes have additional ABIs defined inside their kernel is due to their closed source nature needing an open public interface. The entire Linux kernel is open, and the entire thing is the HAL.
And sorry to sound snide but... ReactOS? Seriously? Its a cool concept, but ReactOS by design will always be too out of date to matter. They are reverse engineering an actively developed OS, they have a fraction of a percent of the development resources devoted to it as the OS they are trying to track.
You don't have to be much of an engineer to know that if it takes 500 to build a building, 2 aren't going to be able to tear the building apart to see how it was built and then rebuild it again without any difference at any sort of rate that will matter. Reimplementing a fixed target is one thing, it can be done given enough time, catching up to a moving target when you have less speed/power/energy is impossible.
Sell it to me. What does ReactOS aim to provide that a modern Linux based distro doesn't already give me? Games? Bleeding edge graphics drivers for, uh, games?
Windows Apps.
I know you were trying to be snarky, but you failed.
Windows users can run just about anything Linux has to offer. Its either been ported to windows natively or will most likely run with cygwin or the like. Certainly anything with any sort of popularity has been ported to Windows.
On the other hand, the inverse is not true. Games, as you noted, are a big gaping hole on the Linux side, in most places where Linux does have some sort of comparable package it could hardly be considered a professional equivalent.
Of course, in reality, ReactOS will just run Windows apps badly.
The solution is to not run an OS that doesn't suite your needs and stop fanboying it up. Linux has its place, but that isn't everywhere.
It doesn't work that way with niche products that are so closely related. Pretty much anyone that uses Linux and a revision control system knew what Github was a year ago. If they were going to be customers, they would be.
I wouldn't tell anyone where you work. I certainly wouldn't brag about it.
Its not impressive that someone had to figure out that it was easier to truck supplies and service equipment up the mountain rather than move 115 ton device down the mountain.
And for the record, LOTS of equipment and people do just fine at 5k meters after a slight amount of adjustment. There are cities higher up than that. You can cool a truck... but not a generator... You do understand they work the same, right?
For people who are supposed to be smart, you guys are pretty dumb.
If Americans are breaking laws in other countries and the authorities become aware of it, I expect them to do something about it, assuming the law isn't something completely silly.
Gibson doesn't have to buy wood from India or Madagascar, but if they are, apparently someone thinks they need to play by the rules, which they seem to think they don't and they're trying to weasel around it.
If you wanted to look for the one who is pushing this, you should probably look at Gibson's competition, who probably simply ratted them out.
So, our government is forcing them to follow the laws of another country....
So we're doing the right thing for a change instead of telling them to fuck off, we'll do what we want... we're actually doing something to make sure OUR people abide by their PERFECTLY REASONABLE laws.
Good for the US government. Perhaps next time the whole thing can be avoided by just following the other countries laws to start with?
"Finished isn't an English dictionary term; it's a legal term in Madagascar. It's defined, and the law specifically defines a fingerboard blank as a finished good," said Juszkiewicz. "It's not illegal. It's not illegal under Madagascar law. You can't argue with the facts."
So you blindly assume they aren't lying in order to further your own agenda. You must be a complete idiot if you think the companies lawyer is going to A) tell the truth B) Admit to wrong doing C) do anything other than try to make the company they represent look like angels.
They also aren't general (some are) mined in china where the labor rate is going up rather quickly. Most of them come from place with low, but stable labor rates.
You end up with a very, very expensive iPad, XBox, laptop, car, etc.
Uhm, almost every single component in an xbox/ipad/laptop is made by robots. Assembly is done by robots. That vast majority of production is done by robots as its cheap than even 0 cost labor due to the decreased error rate.
The people doing labor are doing things that the factory just hasn't bothered to install a robot for yet.
Electronics manufacture is almost entirely robot driven due to the tolerance involved with most of it. People will fuck it up on a good day.
In fact, there was such a glut of workers, the tech industry got exemptions from paying overtime into law. Such was the state of the workforce that it became expected that we programmers would work 60 hours/week.
Thats funny, I wasn't aware that 'exempt employees' were something that didn't exist before the tech industry.
You do realize that if you're in an exempt position (most people refer to it as salaried) then there is no such concept as over time, right? You are expected to be able to determine if the job is fair all on your own at that stage of the game. You aren't a victim if you worked 60 hours a week with no overtime, at best, you're an idiot for agreeing to do it. You certainly code have got a different job in some other field. McDonalds for instance would have made certain that you never had to work overtime and if you did, you would have gotten paid for it. Of course, it would have been absolutely nothing like the pay you got as an exempt employee, so you pretend that job doesn't exist and that you were treated unfairly.
You simply have no idea how employment works, overtime laws do not apply to everyone, only a specific class of employment, decided in advance, before you were hired. No one misled you. No one pulled a bait and switch. No one was forced to do the work at gun point. In short, shut the hell up about your long work week, you weren't forced to do it, there are plenty of other viable jobs, even if they won't pay for the lifestyle you want doesn't mean you can't live by working one of them since millions of people work shitty jobs rather than nice comfy desktop jobs at a computer.
You might also want to learn about supply and demand.
As the title says THERE IS NO SHORTAGE, there is STILL far more supply than demand, which is why we shouldn't let the H1Bs in and such.
People with actual skills do get decent page, job security and benefits. Just for reference, A+ certification doesn't mean you have skills. Neither do MCSE exams.
So they blame the victims, they claim that Americans are 'not willing to work'.
So let me get this straight... a Mexican can come to the US, make pay thats too low for american workers, send the majority of their income home, and yet still manage to live, eat, breath, and drink in the US? Are you stupid? Its not like the American's in these jobs have to pay more to live, at that level there are no taxes.
Americans ARE UNWILLING TO WORK, and it freaking shows.
That only results in short term help, until the government hand out ends.
Show one profitable open source product. Hell, show me one sustainable OSS product.
Nothing IBM does OSS wise is 'profitable', but they make a killing on their commercial adds for it.
Redhat makes its money from investments it made with the cash from its IPO, not open source.
Canonical doesn't do it either.
What you want to do is basically provide engineers welfare.
To put it bluntly, if your engineers need a hand out rather than being able to employee themselves, they aren't very crafty engineers and probably shouldn't be called engineers in the first place.
If unemployment means drawing down $50k per year working on your own pet project,
No shit Sherlock, pretty much anyone with half a clue would be happy to accept a $50k/year hand out to go work on their own pet project, there is absolutely no reason you wouldn't. Even if you already get paid a fortune to work on your pet project, you'd not turn down an additional hand out would you? That would be rather stupid.
Of course, those pet projects are almost all incredibly stupid or 'reinventing the wheel' syndrome because 'we can do it better!'.
And again I state, show me one viable open source product. You can't do it, you can show plenty of viable closed source add ons to OSS, but you can't show me one time where the OSS was a viable product on its own, and by its very nature, you never will.
What you will have is a metric fuckton of half finished geek toys that won't ever make it any further. Thats not really beneficial.
Because Academia doesn't want to do this, lack of money isn't the problem.
Entrenched professors who want to sit on their comfy asses while collecting a decent salary for doing whatever research they want to do rather than teaching which they are supposed to do.
Vocational education actually requires real work, physical labor in almost every case.
Modern Academia wants no part of your dirty shops and construction sites, they also have no interest in providing usefulness.
You want a change in Academia, you're going to need to throw out the old guard and make it a competitive work place. First step, throw the concept of tenure out the door. Its original intent was noble, however the way it is currently used is simply bullshit. Its just a way to project the good old boys... and by good old boys I mean anyone who can keep their mouth closed for a few short years. Then... THEN they get to basically do whatever they want, because 'you just don't agree with our teaching methods and we're tenured so you can fuck off'.
Not long ago was the method to use reprogrammed safe HIV.
No, that was never the case. Please don't ever tell anyone about that again as you could not be much further from correct and still use the right words.
HIV was used to modify white blood cells, which did the actual work.
At no point does anyone get injected with HIV, nor does it being 'safe' have any actual bearing on it. You do not get an HIV injecting, you get seeded with your own modified white blood cells.
Sorry to sound like an ass, but as long as people think OMG HIV!@$@!%!@% it'll be treated like nuclear power, and I'd rather actually have something useful happen.
No, I don't believe its worth educating the ignorant, I've got other things to do that actually accomplish something, I'm fine with them being unaware of the specifics if it keeps them from fucking it up.
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Please learn what a nickname is.
They never did.
But they were always cheaper overall than anything else you listed for physical delivery to the entire country as a whole.
It costs the same to mail a letter anywhere in the US. All the other carriers you listed do not flat rate, and will refuse to deliver to places that aren't profitable.
Everyone in the US can get a letter from the US postal service regardless of where they are. If they've got an address (so any private property and most public parcels) they can get postal drops. But they may not be able to get anything else, including an Internet connection.
The USPS is a socialist service designed to ensure that EVERYONE has SOME form of communication, and reliable communication at that. Nothing else offers that, even if you don't realize it because it doesn't effect you.
Sunds more like theft than loss. Most people would go there entire lives without losing anything. Have you made them aware of the losses or are you just complaining for no reason.
The kernel IS the HAL. A few commercial OSes have additional ABIs defined inside their kernel is due to their closed source nature needing an open public interface. The entire Linux kernel is open, and the entire thing is the HAL.
And sorry to sound snide but ... ReactOS? Seriously? Its a cool concept, but ReactOS by design will always be too out of date to matter. They are reverse engineering an actively developed OS, they have a fraction of a percent of the development resources devoted to it as the OS they are trying to track.
You don't have to be much of an engineer to know that if it takes 500 to build a building, 2 aren't going to be able to tear the building apart to see how it was built and then rebuild it again without any difference at any sort of rate that will matter. Reimplementing a fixed target is one thing, it can be done given enough time, catching up to a moving target when you have less speed/power/energy is impossible.
Sell it to me. What does ReactOS aim to provide that a modern Linux based distro doesn't already give me? Games? Bleeding edge graphics drivers for, uh, games?
Windows Apps.
I know you were trying to be snarky, but you failed.
Windows users can run just about anything Linux has to offer. Its either been ported to windows natively or will most likely run with cygwin or the like. Certainly anything with any sort of popularity has been ported to Windows.
On the other hand, the inverse is not true. Games, as you noted, are a big gaping hole on the Linux side, in most places where Linux does have some sort of comparable package it could hardly be considered a professional equivalent.
Of course, in reality, ReactOS will just run Windows apps badly.
The solution is to not run an OS that doesn't suite your needs and stop fanboying it up. Linux has its place, but that isn't everywhere.
Not really.
It doesn't work that way with niche products that are so closely related. Pretty much anyone that uses Linux and a revision control system knew what Github was a year ago. If they were going to be customers, they would be.
Github: Your center for decentralized version control!
Or
Github: Your hub for RCS without a hub!
I wouldn't tell anyone where you work. I certainly wouldn't brag about it.
Its not impressive that someone had to figure out that it was easier to truck supplies and service equipment up the mountain rather than move 115 ton device down the mountain.
And for the record, LOTS of equipment and people do just fine at 5k meters after a slight amount of adjustment. There are cities higher up than that. You can cool a truck ... but not a generator ... You do understand they work the same, right?
For people who are supposed to be smart, you guys are pretty dumb.
Google also "owns" Android, which is the single largest Mobile OS
Gasoline is by far the most popular fuel for automobiles in America. Yet a Pinto is not in the same category as a Corvette, is it?
Targeting umpteen devices just to get the popular ones makes Androids popularity practically irrelevant.
Really, outside of some slashdot geeks, who else even knows?
A handful of people care, they weren't going to buy iPhones anyway.
Who's angry in the real world?
If Americans are breaking laws in other countries and the authorities become aware of it, I expect them to do something about it, assuming the law isn't something completely silly.
Gibson doesn't have to buy wood from India or Madagascar, but if they are, apparently someone thinks they need to play by the rules, which they seem to think they don't and they're trying to weasel around it.
If you wanted to look for the one who is pushing this, you should probably look at Gibson's competition, who probably simply ratted them out.
So, our government is forcing them to follow the laws of another country. ...
So we're doing the right thing for a change instead of telling them to fuck off, we'll do what we want ... we're actually doing something to make sure OUR people abide by their PERFECTLY REASONABLE laws.
Good for the US government. Perhaps next time the whole thing can be avoided by just following the other countries laws to start with?
"Finished isn't an English dictionary term; it's a legal term in Madagascar. It's defined, and the law specifically defines a fingerboard blank as a finished good," said Juszkiewicz. "It's not illegal. It's not illegal under Madagascar law. You can't argue with the facts."
So you blindly assume they aren't lying in order to further your own agenda. You must be a complete idiot if you think the companies lawyer is going to A) tell the truth B) Admit to wrong doing C) do anything other than try to make the company they represent look like angels.
Wow, no bias there or anything eh?
So Gibson is being required to comply with the laws in the countries where its materials come from ....
I'm sorry, how is that any different than what we do? We make India comply with our laws in order to sell us stuff.
The government isn't forcing them to offshore, the government is forcing them to comply with local regulations for their suppliers.
India doesn't want their local workers shafted, so if you want Indian wood, they get to finish it before it leaves the country.
I for the life of me can not figure out why you can't grasp such simple concepts.
There are cars which are made in the US and sell for under $14,000.
You should learn the difference between 'made' and 'assembled'.
It might roll off a production line in Detroit, but the parts came over on ships from Asia.
They also aren't general (some are) mined in china where the labor rate is going up rather quickly. Most of them come from place with low, but stable labor rates.
You end up with a very, very expensive iPad, XBox, laptop, car, etc.
Uhm, almost every single component in an xbox/ipad/laptop is made by robots. Assembly is done by robots. That vast majority of production is done by robots as its cheap than even 0 cost labor due to the decreased error rate.
The people doing labor are doing things that the factory just hasn't bothered to install a robot for yet.
Electronics manufacture is almost entirely robot driven due to the tolerance involved with most of it. People will fuck it up on a good day.
Yea, its really too bad that robots do almost all of the work so the labor costs really aren't as significant as you'd like to pretend.
In fact, there was such a glut of workers, the tech industry got exemptions from paying overtime into law. Such was the state of the workforce that it became expected that we programmers would work 60 hours/week.
Thats funny, I wasn't aware that 'exempt employees' were something that didn't exist before the tech industry.
You do realize that if you're in an exempt position (most people refer to it as salaried) then there is no such concept as over time, right? You are expected to be able to determine if the job is fair all on your own at that stage of the game. You aren't a victim if you worked 60 hours a week with no overtime, at best, you're an idiot for agreeing to do it. You certainly code have got a different job in some other field. McDonalds for instance would have made certain that you never had to work overtime and if you did, you would have gotten paid for it. Of course, it would have been absolutely nothing like the pay you got as an exempt employee, so you pretend that job doesn't exist and that you were treated unfairly.
You simply have no idea how employment works, overtime laws do not apply to everyone, only a specific class of employment, decided in advance, before you were hired. No one misled you. No one pulled a bait and switch. No one was forced to do the work at gun point. In short, shut the hell up about your long work week, you weren't forced to do it, there are plenty of other viable jobs, even if they won't pay for the lifestyle you want doesn't mean you can't live by working one of them since millions of people work shitty jobs rather than nice comfy desktop jobs at a computer.
You might also want to learn about supply and demand.
As the title says THERE IS NO SHORTAGE, there is STILL far more supply than demand, which is why we shouldn't let the H1Bs in and such.
People with actual skills do get decent page, job security and benefits. Just for reference, A+ certification doesn't mean you have skills. Neither do MCSE exams.
So they blame the victims, they claim that Americans are 'not willing to work'.
So let me get this straight ... a Mexican can come to the US, make pay thats too low for american workers, send the majority of their income home, and yet still manage to live, eat, breath, and drink in the US? Are you stupid? Its not like the American's in these jobs have to pay more to live, at that level there are no taxes.
Americans ARE UNWILLING TO WORK, and it freaking shows.
That only results in short term help, until the government hand out ends.
Show one profitable open source product. Hell, show me one sustainable OSS product.
Nothing IBM does OSS wise is 'profitable', but they make a killing on their commercial adds for it.
Redhat makes its money from investments it made with the cash from its IPO, not open source.
Canonical doesn't do it either.
What you want to do is basically provide engineers welfare.
To put it bluntly, if your engineers need a hand out rather than being able to employee themselves, they aren't very crafty engineers and probably shouldn't be called engineers in the first place.
If unemployment means drawing down $50k per year working on your own pet project,
No shit Sherlock, pretty much anyone with half a clue would be happy to accept a $50k/year hand out to go work on their own pet project, there is absolutely no reason you wouldn't. Even if you already get paid a fortune to work on your pet project, you'd not turn down an additional hand out would you? That would be rather stupid.
Of course, those pet projects are almost all incredibly stupid or 'reinventing the wheel' syndrome because 'we can do it better!'.
And again I state, show me one viable open source product. You can't do it, you can show plenty of viable closed source add ons to OSS, but you can't show me one time where the OSS was a viable product on its own, and by its very nature, you never will.
What you will have is a metric fuckton of half finished geek toys that won't ever make it any further. Thats not really beneficial.
Because Academia doesn't want to do this, lack of money isn't the problem.
Entrenched professors who want to sit on their comfy asses while collecting a decent salary for doing whatever research they want to do rather than teaching which they are supposed to do.
Vocational education actually requires real work, physical labor in almost every case.
Modern Academia wants no part of your dirty shops and construction sites, they also have no interest in providing usefulness.
You want a change in Academia, you're going to need to throw out the old guard and make it a competitive work place. First step, throw the concept of tenure out the door. Its original intent was noble, however the way it is currently used is simply bullshit. Its just a way to project the good old boys ... and by good old boys I mean anyone who can keep their mouth closed for a few short years. Then ... THEN they get to basically do whatever they want, because 'you just don't agree with our teaching methods and we're tenured so you can fuck off'.
A younger crowd may command the top salaries at a "hi-tech" (or all software) position
I've yet to see this actually be true anywhere.
Younger people can be paid well in software, but they don't get paid more than someone who has the same skills with more age and experience.
If you can do OR, and you can do AND then you can do XOR. XOR is just the right combination of AND and OR after all.
You do know how researchers get funding, don't you?
Let me give you a hint, its not by telling everyone the realistic outcome of their research.
Not long ago was the method to use reprogrammed safe HIV.
No, that was never the case. Please don't ever tell anyone about that again as you could not be much further from correct and still use the right words.
HIV was used to modify white blood cells, which did the actual work.
At no point does anyone get injected with HIV, nor does it being 'safe' have any actual bearing on it. You do not get an HIV injecting, you get seeded with your own modified white blood cells.
Sorry to sound like an ass, but as long as people think OMG HIV!@$@!%!@% it'll be treated like nuclear power, and I'd rather actually have something useful happen.
No, I don't believe its worth educating the ignorant, I've got other things to do that actually accomplish something, I'm fine with them being unaware of the specifics if it keeps them from fucking it up.
Well, the upside to that is that it will be a rather short lived problem. Its not going to live long after it kills us all.