If you've been writing portable code, it shouldn't be that hard. The dev environment's included for free and for simple ports you don't need top of the line hardware. What kind of software are you porting over?
It's the same thing whether you sell for a high price and no further fees or a low price and monthly revenue thereafter. Somebody has to pay for the further service and lets face it, if the service people don't report to the mothercompany, they *are* the mothercompany.
For example purposes a $100 box with $60 yearly service = $1000 with no service fees when you can invest the difference in price at about 7%.
You might as well have a lawyer cutout to pay the monthly fee for you and let *them* get bombarded with the marketing mail.
PPC is dying which is why Apple is abandoning it. PPC was always the 32 bit cut down version of the much better Power series. PPC software (running otherwise identical hardware to a Power machine) can run without much speed penalty on a Power machine.
Apple isn't going to die, though PPC will morph from those Power family computers running 32 bits to those Power computers that have a low enough cost/heat/electrical profiles to be put into a PC form factor.
At that point Apple's running virtually the same chips that IBM's using for a wide variety of very profitable systems and they'll do just fine in the chip wars.
Apple wouldn't use ISA/MCA etc because NuBus was better. When it ceased to be better, they switched to PCI for the cost savings. Ditto with SCSI/IDE and the ps2 connectors/ADB/USB hardware. Today's Apple strikes out on its own w/regard to hardware when it makes sense for their customers because the mainstream solution sucks. Firewire is an example of that. Firewire beats USB-1, Firewire II beats USB-2, Firewire is also shaping up to be a realistic competitor to very short-haul optical for clusters in the Firewire III/Firewire IV development line.
Face the truth, Apple's going to be going out of business for decades more to come. B-)
Sure. Ask him about Congress' responsibilities under the copyright clause to advance the arts and sciences. Is keeping things locked up and out of the public domain for so long the optimal way to do it?
Actually, latest election results from Iran say differently. Tehran had a 1% turnout. Now, granted, these were local elections. If they were national ones, they might have doubled turnout!
Germany is right in the middle of everything if you draw the line of everything between Portugal and the borders of the old USSR. Compare and contrast Romania, for example with Germany. For less than an hour of additional flight time, basing in Romania gets you,
1. Stabilization of a country next door to Moldova's crazy separatists, Serbia's nasty nationalists, Turkey's growing tilt towards islamism, and Georgia which is relatively quiet now but can explode at the slightest provocation 2. Lower costs in hiring locals 3. A truly grateful country that has a centuries long political memory of being a border country, to be picked over from every direction 4. Black Sea access
The FRG gives you
1. A country perfectly capable of adequate defense spending but who prefers defense subsidies from the US and later of its EU defense partners 2. A country in the middle of an already stabilized region 3. A country that has no problems whipping up anti-US sentiment to win an election 4. A country that is likely to impose worse and worse conditions on the future use of those expensive bases.
Finally, for refueling along the way, why would the FRG be any better than a Romania or Bulgaria that is closer to the likely final destination?
Darn, I can find the Japanese rent payments but not the German ones. I find it unlikely that the US paid in one case but not the other. I did find a web page that refers to Article 49 of the SOFA and says it requires that most US paid for construction projects be done by german firms. I think the actual text of the SOFA SA became a casualty of the US military info pullback after 9/11.
But listen to yourself, the US needs to "strike deep into eastern europe, russia and the far east". There's nothing there that either needs to be done (eastern europe, russia) or couldn't be done better with bases further east. In case you didn't notice the FRG isn't on the front line anymore against the e. bloc. Or better said, it's no more on the front line than anybody else in the 1st world as the muslim world decides whether jihad's going to come back in style.
Good luck funding your own defense needs and your social spending too.
The Supreme Court also declared that Congress can't just keep extending things in perpetuity by a series of legislation and that a future Court on observing this would have the right to step in. They just said that we haven't got there yet.
Forever is not a word that has to be used in the legislation for it to run afoul of the 'limited times' clause.
1. Occupiers generally don't pay the occupied country for the right to stay there. The US does. 2. Wait until you hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth when Rumsfeld's force repositioning plan gets released. Occupied countries generally don't beg to keep their occupier when the occupier wants to leave.
Rumsfeld has publicly said that our foreign based forces are going to be moved around and that a long-term plan for that is almost done. stationing in the FRG doesn't make sense. Those troops are likely to go to Bulgaria/Romania to be closer to the ME and Yugoslavia. As a bonus, moving them will likely lower basing expenses as labor is much cheaper there and having large US forces in your country scratches a lot of balkan insecurities so they'll get good deals on land payments.
From the FRG's viewpoint, they lose out on US money spent in their economy, whatever land payments they were getting for those bases, and their general staff will revolt over the prospect of having to say with a straight face that they can defend the FRG with the defense budget that is allocated by the FRG parliament.
It will be an unpleasant set of long-term bills to pay for Schroeder winning his 2nd term.
Loser pays is the holy grail of tort reform on the right. Right now the ATLA crowd have so much tobacco and malpractice money that they can buy the votes to keep loser pays from ever getting passed.
The Bushies are dialing down awards to starve ATLAs legion of check writing lawyers. These are the primary people who fund most anti-reformers, trial lawyers having passed unions as the Democrat's primary cash cow. Once ATLA has been monetarily defanged, the eventual game plan is obviously to trade damage caps (a sub-optimal solution) for loser pays.
Would I like to go directly to loser pays? Yup. But until I see a politically viable way to do it without going through the middle position of damage caps I'll stick to supporting the current push for reform.
Since methodology changes are announced by law in both systems, the comparison of the two has merit, even though, you're right, not strictly directly. So when we were overheating with 1-2% unemployment where was France/Germany? 10%-11% unemployment which is still pretty much where they're at when we're in a slowdown and our unemployment has risen to 5.9%. Essentially, they can't fire and restructure their businesses to take advantage of subsequent booms because of rigid labor laws so they run their businesses lean during booms so they can survive the busts. The losers are the workers who don't get hired in booms and get skill upgrades. They just stay on a permanent dole, wasting their lives.
This is a crock. The vast majority of cases where schools have large differential performances is where the school rules are different from each other. bureaucracy, both government and union derived, steals the life and the funds out of the educational experience in primary/secondary schooling.
Even better, it would be nice to be able to insert your answers and get a code back so the level 1 doesn't make you go through it all again and your answers get put into the call code.
I hate to break your bubble but there are lots of examples of schools with much lower per-pupil expenditures getting much better results than US govt. schools in exactly the same neighborhoods with exactly the same student populations. The govt schools lose a lot of money filling out forms and more to the point hiring people to fill out forms instead of teaching students.
The comparative deficits are even more astonishing when you consider that US defense spending is ~4% of GDP and FRG defense spending is 1% of GDP. I expect the FRG to come under much more fiscal stress in the near future as US force repositioning is going to leave them without US bases to cover their irresponsibility in future.
Loser pays is not the same as the Bush plan to limit damages for pain and suffering. It means that legitimate malpractice net awards get larger (as your lawyer fees are no longer deducted from your winnings) while fraudulent claims don't just get dismissed, the fraudsters get billed for the legitimate expenses of the defense.
More money from bad doctors, no monetary pain to fight when a doctor's in the right, malpractice fees would go down for good doctors and go up for bad ones.
Oh, and it'll never happen because the trial lawyers bar owns the Democrat party and won't stand for it so the Republicans are shooting for a poor substitute instead.
Yes, and the japanese rate is calculated differently too and it's perennially lower than the US rate because they hide their unemployment in make work jobs. But guess what, when we had 1-2% unemployment they had 10-11% and now that we have 5-6% unemployment they have... 10-11%. Since they seem to be unhappy about this state of affairs and multiple governments have risked their political viability to solve the problem, it's clear that counting methodology isn't the issue but, as I said before, rigid labor markets.
That's not Dell, Compaq, or any other 1st tier vendor that I'm familiar with. They have legitimate tiers and those are the vendors for whom my prior suggestion was aimed at. If you're outsourcing to India, you're scripting heavily, not playing cowboy.
Btw: I've certainly seen this tactic. I would immediately blackball any corporate organization that I caught using it (and I have in the past).
The next line in the battle of the scripts is "I am sorry, you are incapable of helping me. Up until now that is the fault of your superiors for not giving you the power to help me. By not giving me to a supervisor, it now becomes your personal fault. Please get me a supervisor."
Alternately, if the incoming queue was short, hang up and call again, when you get the next 1st level droid, interrupt and state you are calling to complain about a bad customer service experience and unprofessional conduct by one of the call center people and that you need to talk to a supervisor.
Such customers are generally recognized as people to stay away from and they will gladly hand you off to some other poor soul for you to explode at. The trick is then not to explode but reasonably ask for the solution that the 1st level couldn't solve anyway.
Apple certainly will be using their stores as branding environments but they also want them to turn a profit. Thus I see the need for adequate stock and maybe even a software to go station in case they run out of something or its a specialty product that isn't worth stocking in retail. They could call the kiosk "the other 95%" of available software.
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If you've been writing portable code, it shouldn't be that hard. The dev environment's included for free and for simple ports you don't need top of the line hardware. What kind of software are you porting over?
It's the same thing whether you sell for a high price and no further fees or a low price and monthly revenue thereafter. Somebody has to pay for the further service and lets face it, if the service people don't report to the mothercompany, they *are* the mothercompany.
For example purposes a $100 box with $60 yearly service = $1000 with no service fees when you can invest the difference in price at about 7%.
You might as well have a lawyer cutout to pay the monthly fee for you and let *them* get bombarded with the marketing mail.
PPC is dying which is why Apple is abandoning it. PPC was always the 32 bit cut down version of the much better Power series. PPC software (running otherwise identical hardware to a Power machine) can run without much speed penalty on a Power machine.
Apple isn't going to die, though PPC will morph from those Power family computers running 32 bits to those Power computers that have a low enough cost/heat/electrical profiles to be put into a PC form factor.
At that point Apple's running virtually the same chips that IBM's using for a wide variety of very profitable systems and they'll do just fine in the chip wars.
Apple wouldn't use ISA/MCA etc because NuBus was better. When it ceased to be better, they switched to PCI for the cost savings. Ditto with SCSI/IDE and the ps2 connectors/ADB/USB hardware. Today's Apple strikes out on its own w/regard to hardware when it makes sense for their customers because the mainstream solution sucks. Firewire is an example of that. Firewire beats USB-1, Firewire II beats USB-2, Firewire is also shaping up to be a realistic competitor to very short-haul optical for clusters in the Firewire III/Firewire IV development line.
Face the truth, Apple's going to be going out of business for decades more to come. B-)
The Washington Apple Council wants to talk to *you*.
Something about defamation of fruit...
Sure. Ask him about Congress' responsibilities under the copyright clause to advance the arts and sciences. Is keeping things locked up and out of the public domain for so long the optimal way to do it?
I hadn't heard that GWB was a macophile. I did know that Rush Limbaugh is one though. The Vatican also promotes macs for its seminarians.
Actually, latest election results from Iran say differently. Tehran had a 1% turnout. Now, granted, these were local elections. If they were national ones, they might have doubled turnout!
Germany is right in the middle of everything if you draw the line of everything between Portugal and the borders of the old USSR. Compare and contrast Romania, for example with Germany. For less than an hour of additional flight time, basing in Romania gets you,
1. Stabilization of a country next door to Moldova's crazy separatists, Serbia's nasty nationalists, Turkey's growing tilt towards islamism, and Georgia which is relatively quiet now but can explode at the slightest provocation
2. Lower costs in hiring locals
3. A truly grateful country that has a centuries long political memory of being a border country, to be picked over from every direction
4. Black Sea access
The FRG gives you
1. A country perfectly capable of adequate defense spending but who prefers defense subsidies from the US and later of its EU defense partners
2. A country in the middle of an already stabilized region
3. A country that has no problems whipping up anti-US sentiment to win an election
4. A country that is likely to impose worse and worse conditions on the future use of those expensive bases.
Finally, for refueling along the way, why would the FRG be any better than a Romania or Bulgaria that is closer to the likely final destination?
Darn, I can find the Japanese rent payments but not the German ones. I find it unlikely that the US paid in one case but not the other. I did find a web page that refers to Article 49 of the SOFA and says it requires that most US paid for construction projects be done by german firms. I think the actual text of the SOFA SA became a casualty of the US military info pullback after 9/11.
But listen to yourself, the US needs to "strike deep into eastern europe, russia and the far east". There's nothing there that either needs to be done (eastern europe, russia) or couldn't be done better with bases further east. In case you didn't notice the FRG isn't on the front line anymore against the e. bloc. Or better said, it's no more on the front line than anybody else in the 1st world as the muslim world decides whether jihad's going to come back in style.
Good luck funding your own defense needs and your social spending too.
"The most rigid form of the opposition between the Jew and the Christian is the religious opposition. How is an opposition resolved? By making it impossible. How is religious opposition made impossible? By abolishing religion."
Yes, communism, from the very beginning, wanted to abolish religion. The quote is from Marx, writing in 1844 on 'the jewish question'.
The Supreme Court also declared that Congress can't just keep extending things in perpetuity by a series of legislation and that a future Court on observing this would have the right to step in. They just said that we haven't got there yet.
Forever is not a word that has to be used in the legislation for it to run afoul of the 'limited times' clause.
Two things:
1. Occupiers generally don't pay the occupied country for the right to stay there. The US does.
2. Wait until you hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth when Rumsfeld's force repositioning plan gets released. Occupied countries generally don't beg to keep their occupier when the occupier wants to leave.
Rumsfeld has publicly said that our foreign based forces are going to be moved around and that a long-term plan for that is almost done. stationing in the FRG doesn't make sense. Those troops are likely to go to Bulgaria/Romania to be closer to the ME and Yugoslavia. As a bonus, moving them will likely lower basing expenses as labor is much cheaper there and having large US forces in your country scratches a lot of balkan insecurities so they'll get good deals on land payments.
From the FRG's viewpoint, they lose out on US money spent in their economy, whatever land payments they were getting for those bases, and their general staff will revolt over the prospect of having to say with a straight face that they can defend the FRG with the defense budget that is allocated by the FRG parliament.
It will be an unpleasant set of long-term bills to pay for Schroeder winning his 2nd term.
Loser pays is the holy grail of tort reform on the right. Right now the ATLA crowd have so much tobacco and malpractice money that they can buy the votes to keep loser pays from ever getting passed.
The Bushies are dialing down awards to starve ATLAs legion of check writing lawyers. These are the primary people who fund most anti-reformers, trial lawyers having passed unions as the Democrat's primary cash cow. Once ATLA has been monetarily defanged, the eventual game plan is obviously to trade damage caps (a sub-optimal solution) for loser pays.
Would I like to go directly to loser pays? Yup. But until I see a politically viable way to do it without going through the middle position of damage caps I'll stick to supporting the current push for reform.
Since methodology changes are announced by law in both systems, the comparison of the two has merit, even though, you're right, not strictly directly. So when we were overheating with 1-2% unemployment where was France/Germany? 10%-11% unemployment which is still pretty much where they're at when we're in a slowdown and our unemployment has risen to 5.9%. Essentially, they can't fire and restructure their businesses to take advantage of subsequent booms because of rigid labor laws so they run their businesses lean during booms so they can survive the busts. The losers are the workers who don't get hired in booms and get skill upgrades. They just stay on a permanent dole, wasting their lives.
This is a crock. The vast majority of cases where schools have large differential performances is where the school rules are different from each other. bureaucracy, both government and union derived, steals the life and the funds out of the educational experience in primary/secondary schooling.
Even better, it would be nice to be able to insert your answers and get a code back so the level 1 doesn't make you go through it all again and your answers get put into the call code.
I hate to break your bubble but there are lots of examples of schools with much lower per-pupil expenditures getting much better results than US govt. schools in exactly the same neighborhoods with exactly the same student populations. The govt schools lose a lot of money filling out forms and more to the point hiring people to fill out forms instead of teaching students.
The comparative deficits are even more astonishing when you consider that US defense spending is ~4% of GDP and FRG defense spending is 1% of GDP. I expect the FRG to come under much more fiscal stress in the near future as US force repositioning is going to leave them without US bases to cover their irresponsibility in future.
Loser pays is not the same as the Bush plan to limit damages for pain and suffering. It means that legitimate malpractice net awards get larger (as your lawyer fees are no longer deducted from your winnings) while fraudulent claims don't just get dismissed, the fraudsters get billed for the legitimate expenses of the defense.
More money from bad doctors, no monetary pain to fight when a doctor's in the right, malpractice fees would go down for good doctors and go up for bad ones.
Oh, and it'll never happen because the trial lawyers bar owns the Democrat party and won't stand for it so the Republicans are shooting for a poor substitute instead.
Believe me, it's been more than a generation of students that have been shortchanged by our primary/secondary education system.
Yes, and the japanese rate is calculated differently too and it's perennially lower than the US rate because they hide their unemployment in make work jobs. But guess what, when we had 1-2% unemployment they had 10-11% and now that we have 5-6% unemployment they have... 10-11%. Since they seem to be unhappy about this state of affairs and multiple governments have risked their political viability to solve the problem, it's clear that counting methodology isn't the issue but, as I said before, rigid labor markets.
That's not Dell, Compaq, or any other 1st tier vendor that I'm familiar with. They have legitimate tiers and those are the vendors for whom my prior suggestion was aimed at. If you're outsourcing to India, you're scripting heavily, not playing cowboy.
Btw: I've certainly seen this tactic. I would immediately blackball any corporate organization that I caught using it (and I have in the past).
The next line in the battle of the scripts is
"I am sorry, you are incapable of helping me. Up until now that is the fault of your superiors for not giving you the power to help me. By not giving me to a supervisor, it now becomes your personal fault. Please get me a supervisor."
Alternately, if the incoming queue was short, hang up and call again, when you get the next 1st level droid, interrupt and state you are calling to complain about a bad customer service experience and unprofessional conduct by one of the call center people and that you need to talk to a supervisor.
Such customers are generally recognized as people to stay away from and they will gladly hand you off to some other poor soul for you to explode at. The trick is then not to explode but reasonably ask for the solution that the 1st level couldn't solve anyway.
Apple certainly will be using their stores as branding environments but they also want them to turn a profit. Thus I see the need for adequate stock and maybe even a software to go station in case they run out of something or its a specialty product that isn't worth stocking in retail. They could call the kiosk "the other 95%" of available software.