I believe it is a legitimate concern IF and ONLY IF people that stream from the iPads even watch commercials to begin with. What are the studios going to do next? Sue all the people that don't watch advertisements?
then what difference does it make where you get it from? Maybe someone can make it clear for me exactly what their lawsuit is saying here.
If they plan on going mobile then i'm afraid
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that they have probably waited too late. Nokia is irrelevant now as far as QT is concerned and so what is MS buys them as some point out? MS is pretty much irrelevant as well. We have to remember that the mobile market is in its infancy and Apple and Google are the only ones poised for growth in this market. Just imagine what its going to be like in 3 or 4 years?
QT was nice - but I would like to know what would prompt anyone, any business or anyone else to be compelled to work with QT when you have the SDK from google and apple and all of the support behind it? Just random thoughts
i wonder if they counted game developers like EA, MS and a host of others? we all know this sub sector of the programming world is not for people that need 8 - 10 hours of sleep even though for people to be productive the next day that is exactly what they need.
on most of the forums?? go on over to c++, java, opengl, android, iOS groups etc.... look at the topic questions, jobs available. does this mean that people part of these groups that are americans just choose not to interact much in this area and just choose to have their linkedin profile and nothing more? i joined a lot of these groups hoping to maybe join in some good conversations but all it is, is a bunch of noob topics filled with jobs in india.
unless they put some of their crappy bloated software on your computer? ISPs ought to be just that. An internet service provider. Give me an internet connection from point A to point B. PERIOD.
..."must have 435 years of experience with C++, Objective-C and XML. At LEAST 145 years of scripting and linux experience...." "... please forward your resume with work history, titles, salaries and referrals "
"According to SACOM, vocational students, including those studying journalism, tourism and languages, have had practically no choice but to participate in such internships if they want to graduate from their schools. As temporary workers, they have little legal protection or recourse in the event of injury, over-work, or underpayment. And if they complain, they could jeopardize their diplomas."
Why would a vocational school require you to go to work for Foxconn to get qualified school credit or to even get your diploma, especially since electronics/technology isn't in your area of interest? Why would they even care where you intern? or even if you intern at all?
I have music from past video games - i.e. super mario, mega man, metroid, blaster master and tons of others. What if you get the music from the cartridge yourself(as in the case of the NES or Sega)? is this licensed or is it mine?
Sure, you have to front the $600 for the phone, but your monthly bill is now $20 instead of $80. After 10 months you're breaking even, and after the two years of the contract your're about $700 ahead, enough to pay for a "free" phone upgrade, and then it's gravy from there on out.
how is it $20 instead of $80. I thought your bill wasn't going down if you bought a phone outright or after your 2 year contract is over(your bill still doesnt drop, supposedly you have paid them back the subsidized portion.
the main difference i have found is that you are paying for the name. As another example, try trotting into your local mall and going into the Burberry store or whatever and there you have polo's for $100 or going into one of the fancy womens stores where you can buy a leather purse for $300, never mind the fact that you could go to any large retailer like JcPenny or something and the buy the exact same purse made with the exact same leather as the other one, yet it's $35-$40. The one for $300 was priced because of the tag on the front of the purse.
Most of the workers at Foxconn live in dormatories at Foxconn. They are therefor never not at work, ergo if they are going to do it, they pretty much have to commit suicide at work.
It offers some obvious efficieny advantages if your work force is warehoused at your factory, no commute, meals in cafetires, but you have to wonder about the toll it takes on a workers mental well being to be warehoused at a factory.
and if they are warehoused at the factory do their families(wife + child(ren)) get to stay too? if not theres another drain on the worker and the family. not very healthy for the worker or the surrounding areas.
why are they not even allowed to socialize? whats the reasoning behind that?
Because it's their choice, if they'd prefer to socialize they could always choose to starve in a hole somewhere (starving on the streets is illegal).
it's not their choice. Mike said that they arent allowed to socialize. period. does that mean you cant say "hey hows it going" when meeting someone in the hallway dorms on the way to the breakroom or bathroom?
Cultural. In China, and most of the far east, the parents will scrimp and save so their kids can go to the best school they can afford, the idea being the kid(s) will get a nice job with high pay and in return, help mom and dad by sending money back.
but if their parents scraped by so their kids went to a good school, then how come they are all standing in front of foxconn instead of working at a better job because of their good education? Seems like after one generation this problem would be taken care of.
China now has a far bigger supply of appropriately-qualified engineers than the U.S. does--folks with the technical skills necessary to build complex gadgets but not so credentialed that they cost too much.
So how would a normal american go about getting technical skills without costing to much in the US? That almost sounds like telling your kids to be "partially successful" as to not have too many skills that keep you from getting a job.
Plantation slavery was not much different from the way these workers live in their dormitories. I would hazard a guess that slave owners actually generally cared about their slaves significantly more than Apple and FoxConn care about these workers. In fact, the very fact that workers aren't even allowed to socialize in their dormitories suggests to me that on balance, plantation slaves might have actually had more freedom since they were free to form families (who admittedly could be sold like slaves), socialize and often free to work for money once their field work was done.
I say this not to defend plantation slavery as anything objectively good, but to note the irony that someone who defends FoxConn's treatment of workers while holding views antagonistic toward actual plantation slavery is being very hypocritical because on balance, these workers have it even worse. I'm white and if I had to choose between being a field slave in the South vs working under the conditions the FoxConn workers do with the sort of future that awaits them, hands down I'd choose to be a slave. At least then the master's tyranny would end at sun down.
why are they not even allowed to socialize? whats the reasoning behind that?
The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
The question is is why? Why can't any american plant match that kind of speed? Is it because people in America want to do more in life than work? spend time with their families in their own living space, not have a cot at work? realize that it is not healthy for one person to work 80 - 100 hours a week with nothing to eat but tea and biscuits? Even if all are true, is this wrong? and if it's true why isn't china like this?
what if a city like the one i live in actually encompasses two counties? how in the world would that work? Don't municipalities usually represent more than one county? like with power, water, etc..?
reading that wiki article it is fascinating and not surprising that Comcast refused an open invitation to join the network? That's because they want to sell their XFinity. Thats the problem with cable companies being ISPs. They want to be the cable provider, the wall gardened content provider and the internet service provider, home phone provider and everything in between. Either allow municipal broadband or require that cable companies cannot be ISP's which bring about too many conflicts of interests.
but to be fair the city did indeed launch their Greenlight FIOS service even though time warner cable tried to pass laws making it illegal as you stated.
not that that is really relevant to the main topic at hand but most states do indeed have a 'buckle-up' law. If you are caught not wearing a seatbelt you will be ticketed and fined. So yeah, most people do it because of that law. Sure they dont HAVE to, they'll just keep on paying hefty fines until they end up losing their license.
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I believe it is a legitimate concern IF and ONLY IF people that stream from the iPads even watch commercials to begin with. What are the studios going to do next? Sue all the people that don't watch advertisements?
then what difference does it make where you get it from? Maybe someone can make it clear for me exactly what their lawsuit is saying here.
that they have probably waited too late. Nokia is irrelevant now as far as QT is concerned and so what is MS buys them as some point out? MS is pretty much irrelevant as well. We have to remember that the mobile market is in its infancy and Apple and Google are the only ones poised for growth in this market. Just imagine what its going to be like in 3 or 4 years?
QT was nice - but I would like to know what would prompt anyone, any business or anyone else to be compelled to work with QT when you have the SDK from google and apple and all of the support behind it? Just random thoughts
i wonder if they counted game developers like EA, MS and a host of others? we all know this sub sector of the programming world is not for people that need 8 - 10 hours of sleep even though for people to be productive the next day that is exactly what they need.
on most of the forums?? go on over to c++, java, opengl, android, iOS groups etc.... look at the topic questions, jobs available. does this mean that people part of these groups that are americans just choose not to interact much in this area and just choose to have their linkedin profile and nothing more? i joined a lot of these groups hoping to maybe join in some good conversations but all it is, is a bunch of noob topics filled with jobs in india.
unless they put some of their crappy bloated software on your computer? ISPs ought to be just that. An internet service provider. Give me an internet connection from point A to point B. PERIOD.
..."must have 435 years of experience with C++, Objective-C and XML. At LEAST 145 years of scripting and linux experience...." "... please forward your resume with work history, titles, salaries and referrals "
"According to SACOM, vocational students, including those studying journalism, tourism and languages, have had practically no choice but to participate in such internships if they want to graduate from their schools. As temporary workers, they have little legal protection or recourse in the event of injury, over-work, or underpayment. And if they complain, they could jeopardize their diplomas." Why would a vocational school require you to go to work for Foxconn to get qualified school credit or to even get your diploma, especially since electronics/technology isn't in your area of interest? Why would they even care where you intern? or even if you intern at all?
I have music from past video games - i.e. super mario, mega man, metroid, blaster master and tons of others. What if you get the music from the cartridge yourself(as in the case of the NES or Sega)? is this licensed or is it mine?
Yes, again, this is bad, why?
Sure, you have to front the $600 for the phone, but your monthly bill is now $20 instead of $80. After 10 months you're breaking even, and after the two years of the contract your're about $700 ahead, enough to pay for a "free" phone upgrade, and then it's gravy from there on out.
how is it $20 instead of $80. I thought your bill wasn't going down if you bought a phone outright or after your 2 year contract is over(your bill still doesnt drop, supposedly you have paid them back the subsidized portion.
the main difference i have found is that you are paying for the name. As another example, try trotting into your local mall and going into the Burberry store or whatever and there you have polo's for $100 or going into one of the fancy womens stores where you can buy a leather purse for $300, never mind the fact that you could go to any large retailer like JcPenny or something and the buy the exact same purse made with the exact same leather as the other one, yet it's $35-$40. The one for $300 was priced because of the tag on the front of the purse.
Most of the workers at Foxconn live in dormatories at Foxconn. They are therefor never not at work, ergo if they are going to do it, they pretty much have to commit suicide at work.
It offers some obvious efficieny advantages if your work force is warehoused at your factory, no commute, meals in cafetires, but you have to wonder about the toll it takes on a workers mental well being to be warehoused at a factory.
and if they are warehoused at the factory do their families(wife + child(ren)) get to stay too? if not theres another drain on the worker and the family. not very healthy for the worker or the surrounding areas.
Because it's their choice, if they'd prefer to socialize they could always choose to starve in a hole somewhere (starving on the streets is illegal).
it's not their choice. Mike said that they arent allowed to socialize. period. does that mean you cant say "hey hows it going" when meeting someone in the hallway dorms on the way to the breakroom or bathroom?
Cultural. In China, and most of the far east, the parents will scrimp and save so their kids can go to the best school they can afford, the idea being the kid(s) will get a nice job with high pay and in return, help mom and dad by sending money back.
but if their parents scraped by so their kids went to a good school, then how come they are all standing in front of foxconn instead of working at a better job because of their good education? Seems like after one generation this problem would be taken care of.
China now has a far bigger supply of appropriately-qualified engineers than the U.S. does--folks with the technical skills necessary to build complex gadgets but not so credentialed that they cost too much.
So how would a normal american go about getting technical skills without costing to much in the US? That almost sounds like telling your kids to be "partially successful" as to not have too many skills that keep you from getting a job.
Plantation slavery was not much different from the way these workers live in their dormitories. I would hazard a guess that slave owners actually generally cared about their slaves significantly more than Apple and FoxConn care about these workers. In fact, the very fact that workers aren't even allowed to socialize in their dormitories suggests to me that on balance, plantation slaves might have actually had more freedom since they were free to form families (who admittedly could be sold like slaves), socialize and often free to work for money once their field work was done.
I say this not to defend plantation slavery as anything objectively good, but to note the irony that someone who defends FoxConn's treatment of workers while holding views antagonistic toward actual plantation slavery is being very hypocritical because on balance, these workers have it even worse. I'm white and if I had to choose between being a field slave in the South vs working under the conditions the FoxConn workers do with the sort of future that awaits them, hands down I'd choose to be a slave. At least then the master's tyranny would end at sun down.
why are they not even allowed to socialize? whats the reasoning behind that?
The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
The question is is why? Why can't any american plant match that kind of speed? Is it because people in America want to do more in life than work? spend time with their families in their own living space, not have a cot at work? realize that it is not healthy for one person to work 80 - 100 hours a week with nothing to eat but tea and biscuits? Even if all are true, is this wrong? and if it's true why isn't china like this?
Is he legally bound to ask or does he just do it to stay on everyones good side?
and wiping the hard drive to use linux? this isn't illegal is it? So whats the difference?
what if a city like the one i live in actually encompasses two counties? how in the world would that work? Don't municipalities usually represent more than one county? like with power, water, etc..?
reading that wiki article it is fascinating and not surprising that Comcast refused an open invitation to join the network? That's because they want to sell their XFinity. Thats the problem with cable companies being ISPs. They want to be the cable provider, the wall gardened content provider and the internet service provider, home phone provider and everything in between. Either allow municipal broadband or require that cable companies cannot be ISP's which bring about too many conflicts of interests.
but to be fair the city did indeed launch their Greenlight FIOS service even though time warner cable tried to pass laws making it illegal as you stated.
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beyond wall street expectations. Do you think that $100 million really matters to them?
not that that is really relevant to the main topic at hand but most states do indeed have a 'buckle-up' law. If you are caught not wearing a seatbelt you will be ticketed and fined. So yeah, most people do it because of that law. Sure they dont HAVE to, they'll just keep on paying hefty fines until they end up losing their license.
own invention. So obviously we have Kodak. Anyone else? And if there is anyone else, is there a pattern?