At some point life as a hunter/gatherer will be more fun and humane than the overly complex and competitive life we are headed toward.
What makes you think its a good thing for the world to be more competitive? Why should it be good is more columbines, more highschool suicides, more drug use, all happens due to the world being so competitive that getting a B on your report card or a low SAT school means theres no reason left to live?
When life is all about school and nothing matters outside of this, or all about work and nothing more, expect alot of people who just arent smart enough, talented enough or good enough to commit suicide, use drugs, and resort to crime. More competitive = more losers = more rebelling from society = bigger jail?
With the new X composition extention, all kdrive/xserver needs now is drivers.
Snap snap is the solution.
Without drivers you cant use the new x server, the new x server with a composite manager using openGL on paper is even better than what OSX offers.
We need driver support.
Debian takes forever to upgrade their distro and fix bugs, which is why Redhat or Suse are better for servers.
The fact that all these servers were hacked and were running Debian might shut up some of the Debian elitist types who want everyone to use Debian for everything from server to desktop and inbetween.
Debian is not good at everything, its really no better than slackware or gentoo.
And why would it cost less in India? Besides the shipping, what difference in price exists? If you buy something from texas its generally the same price as if you buy it from new york even though these two states have vastly different cost of living.
What you seem to ignore is if they did raise the price Americians would simply buy all their products from India instead of from local retail chains, the internet is useful.
How will Microsoft compete when they wont have a product until 2006? Even in 2006 their product so far seems to be nothing more but a bloated even more expensive version of XP.
Microsoft has not learned and I do not see how Microsoft is going to compete 3 years from now after millions of Chinese are used to Linux. Microsoft is falling into the same trap that Apple fell into, too expensive of a product to compete.
Microsoft also wants absolute control, Microsoft used the open and freedom of the PC to beat Apple and now freedom and open is being used to beat them.
They can spend money all they want but how can they compete with free when free is of higher quality than what they offer?
What? are people supposed to be in and out of school all their lives? Who is going to pay? What about old age? And what about people who arent a genius but who work hard? (about 75% of the country)
What? respect hard work dumbass. Building refrigerators may be all they are good at doing. What? Every single perso in the US is now expected to get a degree from an ivy league school and get rich?
50 % of American students drop out of highschool yet somehow we are supposed to do something besides build refrigerators?
Suddenly salary should be based on cost of living? If this is true why should CEOs make more than they need to survive?
Cost of living has nothing to do with this so please remove it from the equation. Fact is your salary is lower, period. If your cost of living is lower in theory you'll spend more or inflation will occur which will balance everything off and suddenly your labor will become as expensive as ours.
But if you do like China does and deflate your currency to keep your labor cheapest, you'll suck up all the jobs which will pay each worker just enough to survive driving down the salaries of everyone all over the world.
You cannot have a global economy without a global currency.
We could convert to the Euro or begin converting Asia to the dollar but are we?
The gov wont let the dollar decline, the other countries wiill always be cheaper, their kids are better educated, they are used to having less so they work harder.
What can we do?
$1 an hour may be comfortable, but its not fair, you still cost less.
Unless you switch to the dollar system its not a fair competition because we cant compete, you cost less.
Make your homeland switch to the dollar and we wont have a problem with outsourcing, we'd all have to compete on an even playing field.
The third world should decide to accept companies which will treat them right. They can choose to accept an open source company like Sun, or they can accept closed source Microsoft.
Japan, China, and India seem to be doing well while Africa seems to be doing pretty bad. When you let businesses come and take your shit and sell it back to you, well its your fault isnt it?
Global trade can only be fair trade if we all use the same currency. The exchange rate system was not designed to handle multinational companies.
IF a dollar here is not a dollar there, well then they are being paid imaginary money to do real work which we could be doing over here for real money.
So what is happening is a shuffle of the money, you are giving them our money which we could be making.
India will then tax their people and build better schools and eventually the best schools in the world will be in places like India and China, our people will be forced to go to India and China for an education and look for jobs in India and China.
Thats like saying if we all use Linux Microsoft and Apple will drop their prices. Bullshit, what will happen is companies will force us to buy it, try to sue us etc.
People are trying to boycott the RIAA, Microsoft and many other companies and it just wont work, Microsoft wont make their products cheaper they will just bundle their product in everything and force you to pay a tax. The RIAA will bundle their service with ISPs and trick you into paying high prices by saying its free. Walmart has been offering so called "cheap" retail products but their products arent they cheapest, its really the same price as everyone else but because theres a walmart accross the street from you and other stores are miles away you go to walmart.
"But if your job includes analysing your company's business and using information technology to solve business problems that affect the bottom line, then your job is very hard, very valuable, not exportable, and very secure."
There's a business/management degree program which trains people to do just that. Anyone can be trained to do any job which does not require creativity and innovation and most tech jobs arent about innovation or creativity. Only so many people get to work for Apple.
If you can't provide a livable wage for jobs that need to be done, your economy won't last too long.
Not true, Retail needs to be done, you need people to work at banks, at mc donalds, at sears, but none of these jobs pay liveable wages.
You know why? Because illegal immigrants will do the job practically for free so get off your lazy white ass and work harder unless you want pedro to continue taking all he jobs.
FACT 2: There is a limited demand for your job.
90% of Jobs arent hard, and with our pathetic education system we don't seem to mind losing our jobs. Maybe if you took your education seriously you'd have a masters or PHD in computer science and you'd then have a job in the research department at IBM.
Instead you think your bachlors degree or HS diploma is going to get you a job? Maybe in 1998-2000 but not anymore. Learn to work harder and smarter and stop blaming the company for doing what is logical.
This is survival of the fittest. Its us vs them, which side are you on?
I'm not sacrificing a damn thing, you are a liberal why dont you pay increased taxes, better yet why dont you move to India and help them so us real Americans can find jobs.
Why should we continue to keep hiring workers who simply arent qualified? If you want to keep your job, get a masters degree, be a smarter worker, work harder and longer and you'll keep your job.
This is huge huge news, a million new Linux users on the Desktop? This is a huge move and if things keep up at this pace its the end for Microsoft.
RIP Microsoft.
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At some point life as a hunter/gatherer will be more fun and humane than the overly complex and competitive life we are headed toward. What makes you think its a good thing for the world to be more competitive? Why should it be good is more columbines, more highschool suicides, more drug use, all happens due to the world being so competitive that getting a B on your report card or a low SAT school means theres no reason left to live? When life is all about school and nothing matters outside of this, or all about work and nothing more, expect alot of people who just arent smart enough, talented enough or good enough to commit suicide, use drugs, and resort to crime. More competitive = more losers = more rebelling from society = bigger jail?
With the new X composition extention, all kdrive/xserver needs now is drivers. Snap snap is the solution. Without drivers you cant use the new x server, the new x server with a composite manager using openGL on paper is even better than what OSX offers. We need driver support.
Debian takes forever to upgrade their distro and fix bugs, which is why Redhat or Suse are better for servers. The fact that all these servers were hacked and were running Debian might shut up some of the Debian elitist types who want everyone to use Debian for everything from server to desktop and inbetween. Debian is not good at everything, its really no better than slackware or gentoo.
And why would it cost less in India? Besides the shipping, what difference in price exists? If you buy something from texas its generally the same price as if you buy it from new york even though these two states have vastly different cost of living. What you seem to ignore is if they did raise the price Americians would simply buy all their products from India instead of from local retail chains, the internet is useful.
of course they knew. The British have been doing this to countries for centuries.
How will Microsoft compete when they wont have a product until 2006? Even in 2006 their product so far seems to be nothing more but a bloated even more expensive version of XP. Microsoft has not learned and I do not see how Microsoft is going to compete 3 years from now after millions of Chinese are used to Linux. Microsoft is falling into the same trap that Apple fell into, too expensive of a product to compete. Microsoft also wants absolute control, Microsoft used the open and freedom of the PC to beat Apple and now freedom and open is being used to beat them. They can spend money all they want but how can they compete with free when free is of higher quality than what they offer?
What? are people supposed to be in and out of school all their lives? Who is going to pay? What about old age? And what about people who arent a genius but who work hard? (about 75% of the country)
What? respect hard work dumbass. Building refrigerators may be all they are good at doing. What? Every single perso in the US is now expected to get a degree from an ivy league school and get rich? 50 % of American students drop out of highschool yet somehow we are supposed to do something besides build refrigerators?
Suddenly salary should be based on cost of living? If this is true why should CEOs make more than they need to survive? Cost of living has nothing to do with this so please remove it from the equation. Fact is your salary is lower, period. If your cost of living is lower in theory you'll spend more or inflation will occur which will balance everything off and suddenly your labor will become as expensive as ours. But if you do like China does and deflate your currency to keep your labor cheapest, you'll suck up all the jobs which will pay each worker just enough to survive driving down the salaries of everyone all over the world. You cannot have a global economy without a global currency.
We could convert to the Euro or begin converting Asia to the dollar but are we? The gov wont let the dollar decline, the other countries wiill always be cheaper, their kids are better educated, they are used to having less so they work harder. What can we do?
$1 an hour may be comfortable, but its not fair, you still cost less. Unless you switch to the dollar system its not a fair competition because we cant compete, you cost less. Make your homeland switch to the dollar and we wont have a problem with outsourcing, we'd all have to compete on an even playing field.
Terrorism does not work. Just ask Bin Laden.
The third world should decide to accept companies which will treat them right. They can choose to accept an open source company like Sun, or they can accept closed source Microsoft. Japan, China, and India seem to be doing well while Africa seems to be doing pretty bad. When you let businesses come and take your shit and sell it back to you, well its your fault isnt it?
Global trade can only be fair trade if we all use the same currency. The exchange rate system was not designed to handle multinational companies. IF a dollar here is not a dollar there, well then they are being paid imaginary money to do real work which we could be doing over here for real money.
So what is happening is a shuffle of the money, you are giving them our money which we could be making. India will then tax their people and build better schools and eventually the best schools in the world will be in places like India and China, our people will be forced to go to India and China for an education and look for jobs in India and China.
Thats like saying if we all use Linux Microsoft and Apple will drop their prices. Bullshit, what will happen is companies will force us to buy it, try to sue us etc. People are trying to boycott the RIAA, Microsoft and many other companies and it just wont work, Microsoft wont make their products cheaper they will just bundle their product in everything and force you to pay a tax. The RIAA will bundle their service with ISPs and trick you into paying high prices by saying its free. Walmart has been offering so called "cheap" retail products but their products arent they cheapest, its really the same price as everyone else but because theres a walmart accross the street from you and other stores are miles away you go to walmart.
Learn to be one of these 3 things, and prepare yourself for competition with Billions of Chinese and Indian workers.
"But if your job includes analysing your company's business and using information technology to solve business problems that affect the bottom line, then your job is very hard, very valuable, not exportable, and very secure." There's a business/management degree program which trains people to do just that. Anyone can be trained to do any job which does not require creativity and innovation and most tech jobs arent about innovation or creativity. Only so many people get to work for Apple.
If you can't provide a livable wage for jobs that need to be done, your economy won't last too long. Not true, Retail needs to be done, you need people to work at banks, at mc donalds, at sears, but none of these jobs pay liveable wages. You know why? Because illegal immigrants will do the job practically for free so get off your lazy white ass and work harder unless you want pedro to continue taking all he jobs.
FACT 2: There is a limited demand for your job. 90% of Jobs arent hard, and with our pathetic education system we don't seem to mind losing our jobs. Maybe if you took your education seriously you'd have a masters or PHD in computer science and you'd then have a job in the research department at IBM. Instead you think your bachlors degree or HS diploma is going to get you a job? Maybe in 1998-2000 but not anymore. Learn to work harder and smarter and stop blaming the company for doing what is logical.
This is survival of the fittest. Its us vs them, which side are you on? I'm not sacrificing a damn thing, you are a liberal why dont you pay increased taxes, better yet why dont you move to India and help them so us real Americans can find jobs.
Why should we continue to keep hiring workers who simply arent qualified? If you want to keep your job, get a masters degree, be a smarter worker, work harder and longer and you'll keep your job.
Sun isnt spending much money on development so 50 bucks is about right. I mean really Sun is not spending billions like Microsoft.
This is huge huge news, a million new Linux users on the Desktop? This is a huge move and if things keep up at this pace its the end for Microsoft. RIP Microsoft.
This is good, I'm happy that Redhat is deciding to do this as a student myself. Now I'm considering purchasing Redhat, $25 is reasonable.