or maybe in this case I should say penguin *rim shot*
Anywho, there is probably no way Dell could survive if it invoked the ire of Microsoft and MS refused to sell them licenses(or at least reduced cost ones). However, I think that Dell is pretty confident that MS will not do this unless they REALLY want the anti-monopolists breathing down their neck...
Maybe then the DOJ could do it's job
built with the new version of gcc that Apple is releasing with Tiger. The compiled code(on both G4 and G5, moreso on the G5 which they used) is supposed to be much more efficient for certain operations than the previous version of GCC. Wonder if they used this? more info here
Heh, the funny thing is, even though most people probably just toss their receipts, I don't think anyone would really trust an ATM without them. Ironically, Diebold who is so deftly opposed to a paper trail for voting, has a paper trail on every one of their ATMs, amazing.
dealt to the ailing company.
Diebold as a company isn't ailing, it's doing pretty well from what I gather making ATMs...Diebold as an electronic voting manufacturer is ailing. In fact, it's so bad that some people in the company have suggested dropping it altogether because it is making the company look bad. But they persist, which may even bring further question to Diebold's CEO's political motives...
The FCC has always been easier on news and informational-type programming than in drama, but in any case "fuck" has never been permitted, your memory notwithstanding.
This is not true. I heard a soldier in Iraq shout "fuck" on CNN at 3pm. They were coming under fire and he dropped the f-bomb. No, it wasn't even live footage. Maybe it's because it was a soldier, but I don't recall CNN getting in trouble because of the word fuck...
gamers. I have a touchscreen on my Zaurus pda, and it's accurate enough for what I do with it, but I would not want to play an intense action game and have the touchpad mess me up. People already blame functional controllers for losing in video games...
Usually the "dept." things are kind of funny, but I am just totally confused on this articles use of from the vi-emacs-vi-emacs-tastes-great-less-filling dept.
Didn't really think that this had anything to do with vi or emacs...
I'm not sure legislation would be very effective. Just gets the spammers to move overseas. It would be able to track down the "tangible goods" spammers, possibly, if they are located in the US, but a lot of spam is data stuff too.
Maybe the best way to stop spam is to send an email to johnashcroft@doj.gov(I have no idea if this address is real, I just made it up) saying, "Spam funds terrorists, abortion doctors, welfare mothers, and drug addicts"
See how quickly the epedemic ends:)
(1) It is not easy to filter out, given the majority of people here now only uses phone that cannot be programmed easily (at least, not as easy as using the OE plugins or the MacosX Mail.app)
Filters are NOT the answer to this problem. Spam is already taxing a lot of networks who have tons of bandwidth, imagine what a spam epedemic could do the cell phone networks...
Although this accompanied with cell phone virii could be great news for the Russian mafia, imagine threatening Verizon or Sprint with a DDOS attack.....
I was there last year, and the day after I got my cell phone, before I had even given the number out to anyone, I managed to get SMS spam. Porn spam to boot. Needless to say I was both impressed and annoyed.
The cell phone structure in Japan though makes it a bit easier to spam(the carrier I had, KDDI uses your cell # to do SMS). Unlike the US where your cell # area code is based on location, in Japan all cell phones have either 090, 080(and 081 I think) so the spammers just used an SMS equivalent of an autodialer I do believe. Though I never got any SMTP spam while I had the phone...
You never signed up your friend for a porn service as a joke? I thought that was standard adolescent fare. The more random the porn, with limits obviously, the better.
If anything, it is actually cheaper, this as an example keeping in mind that $1 = 108 yen about(though usually that number is higher), also they offer a lot more options in case you really don't need a ton of speed.
However, I dont' know how many houses actually have broadband. I'm not sure on this, but I do believe that a smaller percentage of Japanese own computers versus Americans. With the advent of relatively decent data services on one's cell phone(email, entertainment listings etc) I don't think a lot of Japanese are actually interested in computers.
Also keep in mind that Japanese age demographics are also different from the US. Due to a very low birth rate and very restrictive immigration, as a percentage, there are a lot less youths and a lot more elderly people in Japan than there are in the US.
it doesn't really matter where I am, open source or closed source. I think my best friend hit me because I am so drunk..,. with good reason. I don't want to die, if I don't respond to this email by tomorrow night, telll Yuka I love her, no matter what.
I don't personally see how you could ever have too many researchers. As a country, the more of them we have, the more technology we will have in the future (though since the payoff won't be soon, it might not look like that to retards). Or is it simply more profitable to raise generation after generation of sheep-like consumers?
I think you hit the problem on the head. Look at some of today's most successful companies, do they do research? Dell doesn't do much, neither does Wal-Mart, and yet Wall Street follows them like a hawk. Wall Street only cares about ROI and getting rid of labor, no matter what the long term cost to the company is. At a place I used to intern, they hired very expensive consultants to come in and fire people, thus concentrating a lot of critical knowledge into a few hands, which they then proceed to treat like crap and pile loads of work onto them. How is this good for the company?
Nobody wants to engage in risky R&D anymore because they won't be able to use the buzzword ROI on the project(Intel thinks that it is the governments job to do research for them)
The long term consequences of this short selling mentality will be dire IMO.
RTFA(esp about California). A lot of students get tuition waivers AND stipends from the schools(at least most of the ones I know do), so yeah, I get to subsidize the education of the person who will take my job. Meanwhile, I will still have a bunch of studeent loans to pay off because an undergrad education is so friggin' expensive, and yet I see the university bending over backwards to help the foriegn students, but they couldn't give a shit about me. Just like my university charged me $3k for an "equipment fee" and then proceeded to give all the grad students new powerbooks. I got to pay for some grad student who can barely speak English and smells terrible to have a better computer than I. Almost makes me want to be a conservative, then I look at Bush.....
No you won't, you take an American education as an entitlement, just like the Chinese students who protest that they are not allowed to go to the US to study because of visa restrictions. They think it is their right. Guess what, it's not. And closing the borders won't help. What I would like to see is to get people who actually do like the country to come here, not people that hate the US.
And to answer your question, we come here to study because this is where we can get a good quality graduate education for free. We don't really care about Americans, or the so-called American "culture". We don't hate you, and we don't love you. We just want you to leave us alone to get our education and get the hell out of here.
I don't know what country you come from, but why should I pay for your education? Give me one good reason? Benevolence? I doubt the Indians are very benevolent when they are taking jobs through outsourcing. Quit this "poor me" mentality. If you don't like this country, DON'T COME!! it's as simple as that. Why isn't the education in your home country free? Why should I pay for an asset of another country? How would you like if America imposed a tax on you to educate Americans?
I don't think you would like it, and yet I am just supposed to smile and give you money. BR.
I think it's actually a bad idea forcing people to leave after they get their degrees, but I also don't understand why I have to pay for your education, nobody is certainly paying for mine.
Meanwhile, the ABA does the opposite. For as long as I remember, they've issued publications trying to dissuade people from taking up the practice of the law. The AMA does the same by lobbying to restrict the number of accredited medical schools. I guess the difference is that these are "real" professional associations that act on behalf of their members.
No, they are all acting in their members best interest. The fewer lawyers/doctors out there, less competetion, more money. The big difference is the ABA and AMA are run by the professionals, instead of those who hire the professionals. So the control they want over the supply/demand balance is different.
Mr. Cohen argues that the United States should not look at those who do return to their own countries as a loss. "If they finish their Ph.D.'s and go back to their home country, then we have a friend for life," he says. "It's a win situation." That's true even in the case of China, he says: "We certainly are in some sort of a competition with China economically. But the people we train that go back, go back with many of our values."
I think this is only half true. IMHO, I see two types of graduate students, one, like the kind he is quoting, have a genuine interest in America. They want to absorb the culture and participate in it, without really forgetting who they are. However, I have also seen a lot of another type of foriegn grad student, the kind who wants nothing to do with anyone outside their community, and may even harbor animosity towards anyone who is not like them. They seem to be there not to learn, but only to promote their own ethnocentric view that they are the superior culture, and dealing with us little American heathens is the price they must pay to prove it.
We need to find more of the first kind, and don't let the 2nd into the country. If they don't want to become part of America, why use resources on educating them?
A monopoly is not bad in theory. If a company or organization had a monopoly on... say, microchips, they could drive the technology much faster and better, because they would control every aspect of it. They wouldn't have to worry so much about their software being compatible with their hardware, because they always know exactly what processor is being used. They wouldn't have to fight with competitors over standards, and could add as much functionality as they wanted, setting their own standards.
Ok, first, a lack of different ideas is always a bad thing. You seem to think that microchip technology has only one goal, and we all need to strive towards it. Microchip technologies have a lot of goals, be they low power(embedded chips like ARM), or very low cost, or special purpose(GPUs as an example), or to be used in a super computer. It would be very difficult for one company to come up with solutions to all these problems, the red tape would be enormous! What is needed is for a bunch of smaller companies to each specialize in one area.
Also, competetion is usually a good thing. Say your monopoly designs a chip. Who is to say that their design is the best? Companies go with a design because the decision makers think it is the best way to go. Are those same decision makers going to say, "Well, we thought chip design a was the best way to go, but let's release chip design b just in case we were wrong." Doubtful. Competetion allows the market to decide which design is best. If another company comes along and designs a new chip design, then consumers will pick whichever chip design is the best.
Standards are another issue, and there are plenty of bodies who decide on these standards, such as the IEEE, that aren't necessarily commercially motivated. This allows me to plug in an nVidia or ATI card into my pc and have either work. Now I can decide what price/performance I want, not let a company tell me what is best for me. The same goes for processors, I can let IBM, AMD, and Intel, (to a lesser extent Motorola) duke it out over who has the best desktop/laptop processor for my needs, and guess what, I win, and you, who will have different requirements than I, also win. I may choose 2 IBM processors in my new G5 with a somewhat mediocre ATI video card and run OS X, because that suits me best, however you may opt for 1 hyper-threading P4 but with a top of the line NVidea card and run Linux. You and I have different needs, different companies are able to see that and can respond much quicker to my needs and yours than a singular behemoth, no matter how benevolent that behomoth was.
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or maybe in this case I should say penguin *rim shot*
Anywho, there is probably no way Dell could survive if it invoked the ire of Microsoft and MS refused to sell them licenses(or at least reduced cost ones). However, I think that Dell is pretty confident that MS will not do this unless they REALLY want the anti-monopolists breathing down their neck...
Maybe then the DOJ could do it's job
Offtopic but I am curious, does Apple use XFree86 or X.org in Tiger? And to keep slightly on topic, is there any noticible increase in X speed?
Don't most of the speed increases come closer towards the end of the development cycle? I know that is usually the case for games.
built with the new version of gcc that Apple is releasing with Tiger. The compiled code(on both G4 and G5, moreso on the G5 which they used) is supposed to be much more efficient for certain operations than the previous version of GCC. Wonder if they used this?
more info here
Heh, the funny thing is, even though most people probably just toss their receipts, I don't think anyone would really trust an ATM without them. Ironically, Diebold who is so deftly opposed to a paper trail for voting, has a paper trail on every one of their ATMs, amazing.
dealt to the ailing company.
Diebold as a company isn't ailing, it's doing pretty well from what I gather making ATMs...Diebold as an electronic voting manufacturer is ailing. In fact, it's so bad that some people in the company have suggested dropping it altogether because it is making the company look bad. But they persist, which may even bring further question to Diebold's CEO's political motives...
field? The writeup makes no mention of Gary Fairy, the towel man in LSL 6! He was a pioneer, treat him as such!
The FCC has always been easier on news and informational-type programming than in drama, but in any case "fuck" has never been permitted, your memory notwithstanding.
This is not true. I heard a soldier in Iraq shout "fuck" on CNN at 3pm. They were coming under fire and he dropped the f-bomb. No, it wasn't even live footage. Maybe it's because it was a soldier, but I don't recall CNN getting in trouble because of the word fuck...
people dont' start swapping the music equivalent of goatse...
And watch out for the RIAA on the subway!
gamers. I have a touchscreen on my Zaurus pda, and it's accurate enough for what I do with it, but I would not want to play an intense action game and have the touchpad mess me up. People already blame functional controllers for losing in video games...
If you are really hardcore I suggest trying tron on the desktop. Now that would be something to write about!
Usually the "dept." things are kind of funny, but I am just totally confused on this articles use of from the vi-emacs-vi-emacs-tastes-great-less-filling dept.
Didn't really think that this had anything to do with vi or emacs...
I'm not sure legislation would be very effective. Just gets the spammers to move overseas. It would be able to track down the "tangible goods" spammers, possibly, if they are located in the US, but a lot of spam is data stuff too. :)
Maybe the best way to stop spam is to send an email to johnashcroft@doj.gov(I have no idea if this address is real, I just made it up) saying, "Spam funds terrorists, abortion doctors, welfare mothers, and drug addicts"
See how quickly the epedemic ends
(1) It is not easy to filter out, given the majority of people here now only uses phone that cannot be programmed easily (at least, not as easy as using the OE plugins or the MacosX Mail.app)
Filters are NOT the answer to this problem. Spam is already taxing a lot of networks who have tons of bandwidth, imagine what a spam epedemic could do the cell phone networks...
Although this accompanied with cell phone virii could be great news for the Russian mafia, imagine threatening Verizon or Sprint with a DDOS attack.....
I was there last year, and the day after I got my cell phone, before I had even given the number out to anyone, I managed to get SMS spam. Porn spam to boot. Needless to say I was both impressed and annoyed.
The cell phone structure in Japan though makes it a bit easier to spam(the carrier I had, KDDI uses your cell # to do SMS). Unlike the US where your cell # area code is based on location, in Japan all cell phones have either 090, 080(and 081 I think) so the spammers just used an SMS equivalent of an autodialer I do believe. Though I never got any SMTP spam while I had the phone...
You never signed up your friend for a porn service as a joke? I thought that was standard adolescent fare. The more random the porn, with limits obviously, the better.
If anything, it is actually cheaper, this as an example keeping in mind that $1 = 108 yen about(though usually that number is higher), also they offer a lot more options in case you really don't need a ton of speed.
However, I dont' know how many houses actually have broadband. I'm not sure on this, but I do believe that a smaller percentage of Japanese own computers versus Americans. With the advent of relatively decent data services on one's cell phone(email, entertainment listings etc) I don't think a lot of Japanese are actually interested in computers.
Also keep in mind that Japanese age demographics are also different from the US. Due to a very low birth rate and very restrictive immigration, as a percentage, there are a lot less youths and a lot more elderly people in Japan than there are in the US.
it doesn't really matter where I am, open source or closed source. I think my best friend hit me because I am so drunk..,. with good reason. I don't want to die, if I don't respond to this email by tomorrow night, telll Yuka I love her, no matter what.
I don't personally see how you could ever have too many researchers. As a country, the more of them we have, the more technology we will have in the future (though since the payoff won't be soon, it might not look like that to retards). Or is it simply more profitable to raise generation after generation of sheep-like consumers?
I think you hit the problem on the head. Look at some of today's most successful companies, do they do research? Dell doesn't do much, neither does Wal-Mart, and yet Wall Street follows them like a hawk. Wall Street only cares about ROI and getting rid of labor, no matter what the long term cost to the company is. At a place I used to intern, they hired very expensive consultants to come in and fire people, thus concentrating a lot of critical knowledge into a few hands, which they then proceed to treat like crap and pile loads of work onto them. How is this good for the company?
Nobody wants to engage in risky R&D anymore because they won't be able to use the buzzword ROI on the project(Intel thinks that it is the governments job to do research for them)
The long term consequences of this short selling mentality will be dire IMO.
RTFA(esp about California). A lot of students get tuition waivers AND stipends from the schools(at least most of the ones I know do), so yeah, I get to subsidize the education of the person who will take my job. Meanwhile, I will still have a bunch of studeent loans to pay off because an undergrad education is so friggin' expensive, and yet I see the university bending over backwards to help the foriegn students, but they couldn't give a shit about me. Just like my university charged me $3k for an "equipment fee" and then proceeded to give all the grad students new powerbooks. I got to pay for some grad student who can barely speak English and smells terrible to have a better computer than I. Almost makes me want to be a conservative, then I look at Bush.....
No you won't, you take an American education as an entitlement, just like the Chinese students who protest that they are not allowed to go to the US to study because of visa restrictions. They think it is their right. Guess what, it's not. And closing the borders won't help. What I would like to see is to get people who actually do like the country to come here, not people that hate the US.
And to answer your question, we come here to study because this is where we can get a good quality graduate education for free. We don't really care about Americans, or the so-called American "culture". We don't hate you, and we don't love you. We just want you to leave us alone to get our education and get the hell out of here.
I don't know what country you come from, but why should I pay for your education? Give me one good reason? Benevolence? I doubt the Indians are very benevolent when they are taking jobs through outsourcing. Quit this "poor me" mentality. If you don't like this country, DON'T COME!! it's as simple as that. Why isn't the education in your home country free? Why should I pay for an asset of another country? How would you like if America imposed a tax on you to educate Americans?
I don't think you would like it, and yet I am just supposed to smile and give you money. BR. I think it's actually a bad idea forcing people to leave after they get their degrees, but I also don't understand why I have to pay for your education, nobody is certainly paying for mine.
Meanwhile, the ABA does the opposite. For as long as I remember, they've issued publications trying to dissuade people from taking up the practice of the law. The AMA does the same by lobbying to restrict the number of accredited medical schools. I guess the difference is that these are "real" professional associations that act on behalf of their members.
No, they are all acting in their members best interest. The fewer lawyers/doctors out there, less competetion, more money. The big difference is the ABA and AMA are run by the professionals, instead of those who hire the professionals. So the control they want over the supply/demand balance is different.
Mr. Cohen argues that the United States should not look at those who do return to their own countries as a loss. "If they finish their Ph.D.'s and go back to their home country, then we have a friend for life," he says. "It's a win situation." That's true even in the case of China, he says: "We certainly are in some sort of a competition with China economically. But the people we train that go back, go back with many of our values."
I think this is only half true. IMHO, I see two types of graduate students, one, like the kind he is quoting, have a genuine interest in America. They want to absorb the culture and participate in it, without really forgetting who they are. However, I have also seen a lot of another type of foriegn grad student, the kind who wants nothing to do with anyone outside their community, and may even harbor animosity towards anyone who is not like them. They seem to be there not to learn, but only to promote their own ethnocentric view that they are the superior culture, and dealing with us little American heathens is the price they must pay to prove it.
We need to find more of the first kind, and don't let the 2nd into the country. If they don't want to become part of America, why use resources on educating them?
A monopoly is not bad in theory. If a company or organization had a monopoly on... say, microchips, they could drive the technology much faster and better, because they would control every aspect of it. They wouldn't have to worry so much about their software being compatible with their hardware, because they always know exactly what processor is being used. They wouldn't have to fight with competitors over standards, and could add as much functionality as they wanted, setting their own standards.
Ok, first, a lack of different ideas is always a bad thing. You seem to think that microchip technology has only one goal, and we all need to strive towards it. Microchip technologies have a lot of goals, be they low power(embedded chips like ARM), or very low cost, or special purpose(GPUs as an example), or to be used in a super computer. It would be very difficult for one company to come up with solutions to all these problems, the red tape would be enormous! What is needed is for a bunch of smaller companies to each specialize in one area.
Also, competetion is usually a good thing. Say your monopoly designs a chip. Who is to say that their design is the best? Companies go with a design because the decision makers think it is the best way to go. Are those same decision makers going to say, "Well, we thought chip design a was the best way to go, but let's release chip design b just in case we were wrong." Doubtful. Competetion allows the market to decide which design is best. If another company comes along and designs a new chip design, then consumers will pick whichever chip design is the best.
Standards are another issue, and there are plenty of bodies who decide on these standards, such as the IEEE, that aren't necessarily commercially motivated. This allows me to plug in an nVidia or ATI card into my pc and have either work. Now I can decide what price/performance I want, not let a company tell me what is best for me. The same goes for processors, I can let IBM, AMD, and Intel, (to a lesser extent Motorola) duke it out over who has the best desktop/laptop processor for my needs, and guess what, I win, and you, who will have different requirements than I, also win. I may choose 2 IBM processors in my new G5 with a somewhat mediocre ATI video card and run OS X, because that suits me best, however you may opt for 1 hyper-threading P4 but with a top of the line NVidea card and run Linux. You and I have different needs, different companies are able to see that and can respond much quicker to my needs and yours than a singular behemoth, no matter how benevolent that behomoth was.