This is more or less the same kind of strategy the RIAA and MPAA employ (as often pointed out here on/.) It might be best for the old dominant companies but the overall growth of the IT market is slowed down by this kind of thinking. Who cares if the new, superior tools come from the US, Europe or China if the overall speed of development is increased from decades to years, from centuries to decades. The scientific community always worked best when all scientists around the globe worked together and not concurrently.
You could argue that they would instead of masturbating if the christian religion wouldn't have fucked up our society in regards to sex a few hundred years ago and willing sexual partners would be available anytime someone feels the desire to "procreate".
They could start by outlawing Sex in general and the problem will solve itself as a hundred years later the only people left will be the outlaws that broke this law.
Does this mean Intel Mainboards will require proprietary, closed source drivers like nvidia graphics cards that are a total maintenance nightmare because they break with every other kernel version in the near future?
Any nation that has nuclear weapons and ICBMs is NOT developing.
So this is why the US isn't a developing nation?
Must be because you have an awful lot of people over there that live like the people in nations known as "developing nations" (contrary to most other "industrialized nations")
But the USA's oil has never been used, and then THEY will be the only suppliers.
Unfortunately for them but then nobody will want to buy oil as anybody will just use hydrogen or some other alternative technology. It's not like oil is the only thing that can oxidate (burn).
Why would the European Union be interested in the production costs in the US? Last time I checked the EU accounted for the vast majority of worldwide exports while the US export was relatively small (~75% and 14% if I remember correctly but I read it a few weeks ago).
So you say outsourcing because of (indirectly) a worthy cause is worse than outsourcing because the greedy U.S. upper class thinks several million dollars personal income per year isn't enough?
... 75 per cent of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68 per cent of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89 per cent of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions
The U.S. amounts to more than half of the former and most of the world's population lives in totally different countries without cars, electricity and/or other polluting machinery.
If you (your country) wouldn't wage war around the world permanently perhaps you had the money.
On the other hand there is no nation I know off (except Monaco and other city states) that have money to spare so I guess in your interpretation the right time will be never.
Who says Kyoto would cost jobs? Perhaps it would create jobs, e.g. researchers developing new, pollution-free cars/machines/planes/ships/factories and the engineers building those. Perhaps the U.S. could start exporting these things, but who knows if you don't try.
There is a difference between "Economy isn't everything" and "The Economy is bad". You have to weigh your priorities. Economy is an important priority but it sure isn't the only one.
That happens if you spend your tax money on warfare around the globe (like the U.S.) instead of social security. In most other countries you have at least enough money for food and a place to live even if you are unemployed.
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Depending on what you want to do with it
every PC produced is "fast enough for daily use"
You definitely don't need anything faster for surfing of some pure HTML Websites, MP3s and Text Editing.
The difficult thing with programming isn't usually the syntax but the fact that most people can't cope with the computer doing exactly what they tell it to do.
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Well, lets just say Cobol isn't exactly the language of tomorrow ;)
This is more or less the same kind of strategy the RIAA and MPAA employ (as often pointed out here on /.) It might be best for the old dominant companies but the overall growth of the IT market is slowed down by this kind of thinking. Who cares if the new, superior tools come from the US, Europe or China if the overall speed of development is increased from decades to years, from centuries to decades. The scientific community always worked best when all scientists around the globe worked together and not concurrently.
And if the vendor ever decides not to update the driver any more a few kernel minor versions later it won't work anymore.
You could argue that they would instead of masturbating if the christian religion wouldn't have fucked up our society in regards to sex a few hundred years ago and willing sexual partners would be available anytime someone feels the desire to "procreate".
They could start by outlawing Sex in general and the problem will solve itself as a hundred years later the only people left will be the outlaws that broke this law.
Reminds me of that bash.org IRC-Quote somewhere in the top 100 there: http://www.bash.org/?416604
Does this mean Intel Mainboards will require proprietary, closed source drivers like nvidia graphics cards that are a total maintenance nightmare because they break with every other kernel version in the near future?
How about an elevator from Earth to the Moon?
Gravity doesn't exist on the moon?
+1000 Insightful If only more people/countries would realize it isn't just all "us vs. them"...
Why would the European Union be interested in the production costs in the US? Last time I checked the EU accounted for the vast majority of worldwide exports while the US export was relatively small (~75% and 14% if I remember correctly but I read it a few weeks ago).
If you are proud to be an US-Citizen today you either don't follow any news or are totally ignorant.
How easy the world must be for you people who think "legal equals moral"
So you say outsourcing because of (indirectly) a worthy cause is worse than outsourcing because the greedy U.S. upper class thinks several million dollars personal income per year isn't enough?
If you (your country) wouldn't wage war around the world permanently perhaps you had the money. On the other hand there is no nation I know off (except Monaco and other city states) that have money to spare so I guess in your interpretation the right time will be never.
Who says Kyoto would cost jobs? Perhaps it would create jobs, e.g. researchers developing new, pollution-free cars/machines/planes/ships/factories and the engineers building those. Perhaps the U.S. could start exporting these things, but who knows if you don't try.
I guess if it wasn't odorless our smell would filter it out because we produce it with every breath.
There is a difference between "Economy isn't everything" and "The Economy is bad". You have to weigh your priorities. Economy is an important priority but it sure isn't the only one.
That happens if you spend your tax money on warfare around the globe (like the U.S.) instead of social security. In most other countries you have at least enough money for food and a place to live even if you are unemployed.
Depending on what you want to do with it every PC produced is "fast enough for daily use" You definitely don't need anything faster for surfing of some pure HTML Websites, MP3s and Text Editing.
If the copyright owner (the band) says it is okay to download this then it is neither.
The difficult thing with programming isn't usually the syntax but the fact that most people can't cope with the computer doing exactly what they tell it to do.