Principle is nice, but it doesn't neccesarily make money, and thats what counts, at least for my bosses. I'll let other people drop millions into development on these projects and I'll freeload when they come along. The people who can make the switch more easily, will bring more companies into the picture, that will make it easier for people like me who need specific solutions to find what we need in a larger market. It simply takes time.
There are not necessarily complete solutions in a *nix environment for everyone. Our company uses numerous products whose functions are not integrated in any *nix software that I've ever seen. We'd have to completely start over from scratch, and we'd most likely need to have someone write a completely new software sweet for us. I would think that there are numerous other entities in the same boat. It just isn't plausible for everyone to drop Windows and pick up Linux...its going to take an amazingly long time to transition, not to mention there are still usability issues.
Well, they aren't required to pay the big labels 60-70 cents per song. They deal with indy labels. Aside from that, yes, I'm betting they do hope you forget to download. But for a quarter a song, I'll stick with a service where I can get 3 albums for $10 as opposed to iTunes where your hard pressed to get one album.
Read their site. Theyr rely on centripital force to keep the cable taught, otherwise there would be no tension on the cable. They plan on putting the satellite outside of goesynchronus orbit.
Have you ever taken a very heavy object and swung it at the end of a tether? Cetripital force begins to tug on your arms. Now, think about a cable that is so tight and so strong that it can hold up ships to be brought into space. I imagine a satellite in high orbit would have more than enough force to simply remove that platform from the water. Not to mention the long arduous process of transporting that many miles of cable to an altitude necessary to maintain orbit.
they are losing a developer who has also slipped behind their backs and tried to take some of the sales directly away from them. They ahve become a direct competitor of Vivendi. I think VUG can drop them and never look back.
I don't have an enormous pile of money to shell out all over. AMD has always done everything I need for significantly less than anything Intel has offered.
...to get people to realize that the internet is not a nice place? I applaud Microsoft's attempt to make their OS more secure, even if it isn't as comprehensive as it should be. As illegal as it is, I would love to see a zombie virus spread that locks down peoples computers, cleans them and installs a firewall. I certainly wouldn't put my head on the block for that one, but I'd love to see it happen. Hopefully it'd cut down on my spam.
I'd be happy if they were Mac labs even, just something other than MS. Kids need to be non-polarized. Now, as for where the money will go...we'll see about that. Its been my experience that schools generally aren't good at spending money in the right places.
You mean someone realized that they could get a comprehensive solution for extremely little money by NOT buying windows? What a concept. I really hope more schools get Linux labs, even if they already have MS systems. I like the idea of kids getting their hands on something other than MS.
I'm all for my tax dollars finding ways to thwart spam as opposed to simply prosecuting. If we catch every spammer in america, we still have an enormous barrage from other countries. Lets develop some standards that force people to identify themselves online and then we don't have to issue bounties, we can just have their ISP cut them off. Start blocking ISPs known for spam, and hopefully someone will start to get a clue.
I think everyone is speculating without knowing a darn thing. I would like to see an Intel response. If they have the chip, I think they'll step out and show everyone. Or, it could be another Dan Rather event where they say, well it exists we just won't give you any evidence of it.
We've seen that moving into new markets isn't necessarily changing anything. Some of our newest markets (tech) are going off shore just as quickly as old markets (manufacturing). We need to find a way to cut the cost of living, which isn't going to happen because that is controlled by corporations.
I am no economist either, so I couldn't say. My point is that the US cannot take globalization and expect to continue to live the same way as we currently do. We are going to have to have a normalization process. That unforunately will require a recession to bring everything down to the same level as the rest of the world.
We continue to see growth, so don't plan on anything happening soon, and even more, I'd venture to say that we'll see it coming from a long way off.
I personally expect to see growth taper, and average incomes start to come back down. We have to look past the last 10 years with the dot-com thing, that was all a farse and over-inflated. I think we're just getting back to the place we should be in a current economy. The things that I would hope for is an increase in the standards of living across the world, because if we're going to be like everyone else (globalization) then I want everyone else to be well-off too. If not, I want to see someone make a concerted effort to try and bring the economy down slowly as apposed to a crash and an extended depression.
There will always be people in the world that are either less fortunate, or less inclined than others. Even in the US there are people who are either unable, or unwilling to move on past minimum wage jobs that require little skill or knowledge. So there will always be an even distribution whether some countries are bigger and better than others.
I just think we are going to have trouble with the transition, and then problems finding enough jobs worth doing.
Consider the US in its earlier years. There are numerous subsistance farmers and people related to those subsistance farmers. Basically just about everyone does some form of manual labor and lives off of it. As we made those jobs easier, we created jobs in new fields. Currently, I think if we had the entire world at the exact same monetary position of the United States that there wouldn't be enough jobs to employ the entire world. the fact is that some countries don't have the technology that make a number of their jobs obsolete. A slow, steady rising of world conditions, along with a slow steady deflation of the US combined with new job markets could make things better for everyone. Just remember that the thing that employed a major majority of the US(farming) can now be done by a relatively small percent of the population doing it more effectively. We just need to find a high-end job for every body.
Products don't draw the profits from those countries that they do from the US. We are by far the largest consumer. I also base my assumptions on this. We are considering globalization as it pertains to us. These jobs are leaving the US to be performed out of country for the US.
Furthermore, the world economy does dramatically reflect the current economy of the US.
You are certainly correct, but I do disagree that complete globalization will be for the better of the united states. I think that the USA will have to be brought down to the level of the rest of the world before globalization is finished. It is inevitable that over time our profits will slowly trickle out into cheaper workers. The proliferation of degrees across the world means there is a significantly bigger job market that Americans can't currently compete in because of cost of living in the states.
My Best analogy for true globalization is osmosis or diffusion. Currently America has an extremely high concentration of money. Without some way to keep that money in the states, the money will diffuse out across the world to the point where we are at a more equal distribution.
There simply isn't the need for highly skilled workers across the entire world to make the impending situation possible. If every country across the world had the same distribution of labor jobs, and highly skilled jobs as is the case in the united states, then things might work out so that an even distribution of money would be positive for all. Currently, we are simply over saturating the markets with labor. Everyone is competing for the jobs that make products for the United States. Everyone is trying to get our money. We have the biggest pot of money and so thats where the market is. If current trends continue then there will be true diffusion.
This is only mildly good for everyone else. They will all have slightly more money, but there will come a poitn where everyone is equal and there will no longer be this enormous pot to draw from. Whats worse is recession. Currently, everything in the United States is horribly inflated. What costs a dollar here costs significantly less in the countries that want our business. To be globalized and competitive we nee dto change that. We will never be able to inflate the rest of the world to be equal with us, instead, we must completely deflate the US economy to be equal with the rest of the world. It wouldn't work, and hence, recessions happen. The amusing part is that the economies of the rest of the world would go down with a US economy collapse. Its all rather amusing, and its bound to topple. I don't think there is much anyone can do to stop it short of a world-wide effort to equalify the global system, which will also never happen. So, everyone sit back and watch the show, and hope it holds off long enough for you to be out of the mix.
But the weight of said container would never make it off the ground, so when our little rocket goes boom, we pepper the landscape with radioactive waste. Yay, three arms for everyone!
Could everyone please stop shooting for a second, I need to make sure we have these mics positioned correctly...thank you, I think we have everything setup, please continue...aww, crap, watch where your driving, do you know how hard it is to get that mic just right? Stop, stop, stop...take it from the top...
How many times have I read of people complaining about taxes in this country, and here they go yet again asking for the government to do more. Here is a slight hint, this crap costs money! The people in these countries pay unbelievable taxes to get these great social programs, fantastic roads, and subsidized communication programs.
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Principle is nice, but it doesn't neccesarily make money, and thats what counts, at least for my bosses. I'll let other people drop millions into development on these projects and I'll freeload when they come along. The people who can make the switch more easily, will bring more companies into the picture, that will make it easier for people like me who need specific solutions to find what we need in a larger market. It simply takes time.
There are not necessarily complete solutions in a *nix environment for everyone. Our company uses numerous products whose functions are not integrated in any *nix software that I've ever seen. We'd have to completely start over from scratch, and we'd most likely need to have someone write a completely new software sweet for us. I would think that there are numerous other entities in the same boat. It just isn't plausible for everyone to drop Windows and pick up Linux...its going to take an amazingly long time to transition, not to mention there are still usability issues.
Well, they aren't required to pay the big labels 60-70 cents per song. They deal with indy labels. Aside from that, yes, I'm betting they do hope you forget to download. But for a quarter a song, I'll stick with a service where I can get 3 albums for $10 as opposed to iTunes where your hard pressed to get one album.
Nah, that'd mean they have to pay someone for the content...
Its not synched orbit, they put it outside of synced orbit and the only thing holding it from hurling out to space is the tether.
http://www.liftport.com/research1.php
Read their site. Theyr rely on centripital force to keep the cable taught, otherwise there would be no tension on the cable. They plan on putting the satellite outside of goesynchronus orbit.
http://www.liftport.com/research1.php
Have you ever taken a very heavy object and swung it at the end of a tether? Cetripital force begins to tug on your arms. Now, think about a cable that is so tight and so strong that it can hold up ships to be brought into space. I imagine a satellite in high orbit would have more than enough force to simply remove that platform from the water. Not to mention the long arduous process of transporting that many miles of cable to an altitude necessary to maintain orbit.
they are losing a developer who has also slipped behind their backs and tried to take some of the sales directly away from them. They ahve become a direct competitor of Vivendi. I think VUG can drop them and never look back.
I don't have an enormous pile of money to shell out all over. AMD has always done everything I need for significantly less than anything Intel has offered.
...to get people to realize that the internet is not a nice place? I applaud Microsoft's attempt to make their OS more secure, even if it isn't as comprehensive as it should be. As illegal as it is, I would love to see a zombie virus spread that locks down peoples computers, cleans them and installs a firewall. I certainly wouldn't put my head on the block for that one, but I'd love to see it happen. Hopefully it'd cut down on my spam.
No kidding. Is this the MS way of saying, "We can't fix this crap, so we'll leave it to you to figure out" ?
Hardly, they can and do get MS everywhere, a little diversity shows them that there are other ways to do things.
I'd be happy if they were Mac labs even, just something other than MS. Kids need to be non-polarized. Now, as for where the money will go...we'll see about that. Its been my experience that schools generally aren't good at spending money in the right places.
You mean someone realized that they could get a comprehensive solution for extremely little money by NOT buying windows? What a concept. I really hope more schools get Linux labs, even if they already have MS systems. I like the idea of kids getting their hands on something other than MS.
I'm all for my tax dollars finding ways to thwart spam as opposed to simply prosecuting. If we catch every spammer in america, we still have an enormous barrage from other countries. Lets develop some standards that force people to identify themselves online and then we don't have to issue bounties, we can just have their ISP cut them off. Start blocking ISPs known for spam, and hopefully someone will start to get a clue.
I think everyone is speculating without knowing a darn thing. I would like to see an Intel response. If they have the chip, I think they'll step out and show everyone. Or, it could be another Dan Rather event where they say, well it exists we just won't give you any evidence of it.
I really think that XP was aimed at the entire spectrum, both business and home. Unfortunately for MS sysadmins sat back and said...why?
We've seen that moving into new markets isn't necessarily changing anything. Some of our newest markets (tech) are going off shore just as quickly as old markets (manufacturing). We need to find a way to cut the cost of living, which isn't going to happen because that is controlled by corporations.
I am no economist either, so I couldn't say. My point is that the US cannot take globalization and expect to continue to live the same way as we currently do. We are going to have to have a normalization process. That unforunately will require a recession to bring everything down to the same level as the rest of the world.
We continue to see growth, so don't plan on anything happening soon, and even more, I'd venture to say that we'll see it coming from a long way off.
I personally expect to see growth taper, and average incomes start to come back down. We have to look past the last 10 years with the dot-com thing, that was all a farse and over-inflated. I think we're just getting back to the place we should be in a current economy. The things that I would hope for is an increase in the standards of living across the world, because if we're going to be like everyone else (globalization) then I want everyone else to be well-off too. If not, I want to see someone make a concerted effort to try and bring the economy down slowly as apposed to a crash and an extended depression.
There will always be people in the world that are either less fortunate, or less inclined than others. Even in the US there are people who are either unable, or unwilling to move on past minimum wage jobs that require little skill or knowledge. So there will always be an even distribution whether some countries are bigger and better than others.
I just think we are going to have trouble with the transition, and then problems finding enough jobs worth doing.
Consider the US in its earlier years. There are numerous subsistance farmers and people related to those subsistance farmers. Basically just about everyone does some form of manual labor and lives off of it. As we made those jobs easier, we created jobs in new fields. Currently, I think if we had the entire world at the exact same monetary position of the United States that there wouldn't be enough jobs to employ the entire world. the fact is that some countries don't have the technology that make a number of their jobs obsolete. A slow, steady rising of world conditions, along with a slow steady deflation of the US combined with new job markets could make things better for everyone. Just remember that the thing that employed a major majority of the US(farming) can now be done by a relatively small percent of the population doing it more effectively. We just need to find a high-end job for every body.
Products don't draw the profits from those countries that they do from the US. We are by far the largest consumer. I also base my assumptions on this. We are considering globalization as it pertains to us. These jobs are leaving the US to be performed out of country for the US.
Furthermore, the world economy does dramatically reflect the current economy of the US.
You are certainly correct, but I do disagree that complete globalization will be for the better of the united states. I think that the USA will have to be brought down to the level of the rest of the world before globalization is finished. It is inevitable that over time our profits will slowly trickle out into cheaper workers. The proliferation of degrees across the world means there is a significantly bigger job market that Americans can't currently compete in because of cost of living in the states.
My Best analogy for true globalization is osmosis or diffusion. Currently America has an extremely high concentration of money. Without some way to keep that money in the states, the money will diffuse out across the world to the point where we are at a more equal distribution.
There simply isn't the need for highly skilled workers across the entire world to make the impending situation possible. If every country across the world had the same distribution of labor jobs, and highly skilled jobs as is the case in the united states, then things might work out so that an even distribution of money would be positive for all. Currently, we are simply over saturating the markets with labor. Everyone is competing for the jobs that make products for the United States. Everyone is trying to get our money. We have the biggest pot of money and so thats where the market is. If current trends continue then there will be true diffusion.
This is only mildly good for everyone else. They will all have slightly more money, but there will come a poitn where everyone is equal and there will no longer be this enormous pot to draw from. Whats worse is recession. Currently, everything in the United States is horribly inflated. What costs a dollar here costs significantly less in the countries that want our business. To be globalized and competitive we nee dto change that. We will never be able to inflate the rest of the world to be equal with us, instead, we must completely deflate the US economy to be equal with the rest of the world. It wouldn't work, and hence, recessions happen. The amusing part is that the economies of the rest of the world would go down with a US economy collapse. Its all rather amusing, and its bound to topple. I don't think there is much anyone can do to stop it short of a world-wide effort to equalify the global system, which will also never happen. So, everyone sit back and watch the show, and hope it holds off long enough for you to be out of the mix.
But the weight of said container would never make it off the ground, so when our little rocket goes boom, we pepper the landscape with radioactive waste. Yay, three arms for everyone!
Could everyone please stop shooting for a second, I need to make sure we have these mics positioned correctly...thank you, I think we have everything setup, please continue...aww, crap, watch where your driving, do you know how hard it is to get that mic just right? Stop, stop, stop...take it from the top...
How many times have I read of people complaining about taxes in this country, and here they go yet again asking for the government to do more. Here is a slight hint, this crap costs money! The people in these countries pay unbelievable taxes to get these great social programs, fantastic roads, and subsidized communication programs.