I never said it was free, try reading the post before going off on an ideological rant. What I said was that COMPANIES do not have to pay for it, thus it makes Canada more attractive to companies. Furthermore, if you take a step off your stump and look, you will see how incredibly inefficient the US healthcare system really is. Rougly 12 cents of every dollar of healthcare is spent on "administrative" costs, versus 2-3 cents in Canada. A lot of paper pushers make a lot of money off the US healthcare system, primarily by denying care to people. Wonderful system isn't it?
Canada has a universal healthcare system so corporations do not have to pay for their employees health care, which is a HUGE cost in the US thanks to rich beauraucrats and lawyers.
Well, they are packaged there, but the actual "guts" of the chips are usually made in the USA, as that is where most of the PhDs currently reside(not to mention export problems with China) but that may very well change. However, packaging is the most labor intensive part of creating processors, while the fab plants are the most intellectually intensive process.
Uh, I wouldn't exactly call Japan a "free" market. Freer than India/China maybe, but it is still one of the most protectionist countries on the planet. Agriculture is a good example, rice costs 4x as much in Japan as the rest of the world, because they insist on making everything domestically.....
You actually don't need to buy anything, a better overview of the game is found
here. You can find plenty of sample questions online if you search around for Academic Games. I played competitively in high school, there are 2 different leagues and each has it's own "national" tournament(I say National because only about 10 states really participate). You can order some of the official materials online(you need to if you want the cube games). For more info go to AGLOA's site
children maybe they would have more luck. I almost enlisted in the army, but I wanted to talk it over with my family beforehand. I called and canceled my appointment only to have a recruiter call me up and try to play mind games in order to pressure me into joining. I played a game called "Propaganda" in Academic Games in high school, and I was identifying every single technique he was using. He was playing mind games with me like I was 12. If the Army wants to play games, let them play games. Meanwhile recruits will dwindle as they get treated like shit for the chance to die for Dick Cheney.
network. I know other outlets aren't immune to frauds, but ebay is fucking rediculous. Whenever I am looking for anything substantial(for instance iBook, xbox etc) I have to sort by highest price first. Why? Because an overwhelming majority of the auctions are for "Information on how to get a free iBook!" or "iBook for 40 dollars". Ebay doesn't have to legally police it's network for those types of fraud, but I think their lax policies are going to harm them.
Not to mention the huge number of grey market items on eBay. I don't want to buy anime off of there because a majority of the DVDs are Chinese bootlegs. I would rather download them than buy the bootlegs....
Not to mention (somewhat) standardized ID3 tags. When I used Napster and their ilk the ID3 tags were either non-existant, partial, or in many cases just plain wrong. People would credit songs to the wrong band etc. (Not to mention that every humor song was automatically sung by "Weird Al"). To me it's worth the price just to get those ID3 tags(and if you have an iPod photo, the albulm art is kind of cool, but it's novelty does wear off after a while). Yeah, it costs money but it saves time.
Though if you do actually plan to buy a US iMac, you would have to be very careful. The Rev B G5s are universal power, but the US Rev A iMacs are actually only set up for 120V 60Hz. The designers really wanted to get rid of the power brick so they internalized it. However, this probably caused major headaches and unencessary complexity/cost to the manufacturing process, plus a few busted iMacs, so for the Rev B they got rid of that (bad) idea...
Also keep in mind there is not much room for growth in terms of government funding in Japan. Japan's debt problem is just about as bad as the US's, the big difference is that the majority of Japanese debt is held privately but the US debt is held abroad. In terms of GDP, Japan is even worse off. The size of their debt is roughly 130% of their GDP, the US's debt is about 65% of the debt. The Japanese government is also caters to special interests as much as the government of the US, and their favorite bed partner is the construction industry. You wouldn't think that Japan, a very small country with an even smaller amount of usuable land(most of the country is very mountainous) with a population that is barely growing would need a large construction industry, and yet it exists, building giant roads to nowhere.
I think that Japan's potential is high, but they are going to have a hard time trying to raise the funds necessary to turn that potential into useful space products. They really need to cut off the construction funds first, but that would cause a temporary spike in unemployment, the one thing the Japanese people cannot stand it seems.....
Anything with the name "Gartner" in it automatically has a taint(not the area between a man's genitals and his anus, though that may be an accurate description of Gartner). It's just hard to swallow their credibility. They seem to keep on coming up with research that says, "Offshore everything! oh and by the way, we just happen to have a large offshore consulting division, what a coincidence". If they are a research firm then they should stick to just research, anything else tarnishes their credibility....
Congrats, that is the single DUMBEST thing I have ever read on slashdot. If you would put down your knee jerk reaction for a second, and actually oh I don't know, study history you would see that the US did try to use the carrot, repeatedly. They warned the Japanese that they did not approve of their actions in Manchuria and elsewhere in China and that if they did not cease those actions they would cut off trade. Japan ignored the warnings and continued into China unabated. The US was very isolationist at the time, but once again, in your rush to bash the US you totally ignore history. The US wanted to avoid war at all costs, but could not go on trading with an enemy of it's allies. However, accorrding to you that is an evil, evil thing to think.
Furthermore, the use of Kamikze's wasn't because Japan lacked fuel(what the fuck do you think those planes were laden with? Candy?) they used them because they had no planes an most of their good pilots had been killed and they didn't have resources to train new ones(namely planes and experienced pilots to teach them). The Kamikaze pilots were only given a few hours of instruction time, and it really showed because a large number of them missed their targets.
Your ignorance of history is hilarious, and your rant has made my day, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Funny you mention the Soviet Union because they would have invaded Japan in August had the US not dropped the bomb. You think Nagasaki was bad, it would have been a cakewalk compared to what the Soviets would have done. Look what they did in East Germany. Stallin would have killed whoever he god damned pleased and wouldn't have minded causing even more famine in the country than existed post war. Would you have liked for there to have been a Tokyo air lift as well as a Berlin Air lift? How about the Yokohama wall? You apologists don't think of the consequences of not dropping the bomb, all you can say is "Boo US!"
My high school French teacher was born there, from what I understand the land is overflowing with alcohol, and the people there have an interesting sense of humor. She was ugly but one of the funniest people I have ever met. Best of wishes to you!
I had used the bank account previously when I lived in the area. I never bothered to get rid of the information on PayPal because I didn't see any real harm in it being there. Now I am much more vigilant and don't let paypal have any more information than it absolutely needs.
A George Carlin quote:"Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers"
If you fear that you don't have health insurance, aren't you more likely to then join the Army(if/when) you grow up?
Not to mention that they force things on you that you don't want and blame YOU when they fuck up. They offered a "Pay with your bank account" service(mostly so they could get away from the high credit card fees but still charge the recipient), I didn't want to use it though, so I chose to pay with my credit card. However, they chose to use a bank account in which I had the minimum balance in(I kept it around in case I needed a loan from the bank as they have cheap rates for members). So then I got a message from paypal saying that there were insufficient funds and used my Discover card to cover it. Furthermore, they were going to retry in 2 days(I don't know why, I paid the god damn money). I was away from my email for a few days and didn't notice it, by the time I did I had over $80 in fees from the bank. Fortunately my bank forgave the fees but I closed down my paypal account right away.
The worst part about it was that when I called up customer service to complain, they blamed me. I tried to tell them that in fact I am not a moron and made sure to pay with my card(since I never wanted the bank account service in the first place) but they continued to blame me. Not to mention the manager was a real ass......I hope they die a quick death
Maybe you are the right person to ask this question then, how much does the first job out of college really "define" where you will end up? I took a 2 year contract position in Germany, but the work isn't exactly what I would like to do(I would eventually like to become a software engineer, even though my degree is in computer engineering). Am I "pegged"by my first job, or is there room to move horizontally to another area?
I wonder if some unscrupulous people will do this on a smaller scale. Most credit card companies have fraud protection. Usually in cases where an individual's card is stolen the companies refund the person whose card was stolen and then try to track down whoever stole the card. However, with 40 million of these stolen, it is going to be very hard for the companies to figure out who really was victimized and who is trying to get some free stuff.
Well, consideringi the way CC companies abuse interest rates, I hardly have pity on them though....
I don't think profit is the main motivation behind the pricing scheme. I think it's moreso to act as a detterent to people who just want the Apple Intel machine earlier than everyone else. Plus it won't eat into their current hardware sales. Furthermore, they also probably haven't ramped up their manufacturing capability enough so that they can sell it at that low price point. By allowing oly their top developers to buy, they ensure that they have enough so that everyone who is serious about OS X development can get one, but not allowing people who just want to toy with it to get one(easily)
I'm not making a judgement call, but I don't think you took everything into consideration in your post....
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Tis the open source creedo->give me stuff while letting me do whatever I want.
Why is the submitter, the self proclaimed "hippy of death" reading the Weekly Standard?
I never said it was free, try reading the post before going off on an ideological rant. What I said was that COMPANIES do not have to pay for it, thus it makes Canada more attractive to companies. Furthermore, if you take a step off your stump and look, you will see how incredibly inefficient the US healthcare system really is. Rougly 12 cents of every dollar of healthcare is spent on "administrative" costs, versus 2-3 cents in Canada. A lot of paper pushers make a lot of money off the US healthcare system, primarily by denying care to people. Wonderful system isn't it?
Canada has a universal healthcare system so corporations do not have to pay for their employees health care, which is a HUGE cost in the US thanks to rich beauraucrats and lawyers.
Well, they are packaged there, but the actual "guts" of the chips are usually made in the USA, as that is where most of the PhDs currently reside(not to mention export problems with China) but that may very well change. However, packaging is the most labor intensive part of creating processors, while the fab plants are the most intellectually intensive process.
Uh, I wouldn't exactly call Japan a "free" market. Freer than India/China maybe, but it is still one of the most protectionist countries on the planet. Agriculture is a good example, rice costs 4x as much in Japan as the rest of the world, because they insist on making everything domestically.....
You actually don't need to buy anything, a better overview of the game is found here. You can find plenty of sample questions online if you search around for Academic Games. I played competitively in high school, there are 2 different leagues and each has it's own "national" tournament(I say National because only about 10 states really participate). You can order some of the official materials online(you need to if you want the cube games). For more info go to AGLOA's site
children maybe they would have more luck. I almost enlisted in the army, but I wanted to talk it over with my family beforehand. I called and canceled my appointment only to have a recruiter call me up and try to play mind games in order to pressure me into joining. I played a game called "Propaganda" in Academic Games in high school, and I was identifying every single technique he was using. He was playing mind games with me like I was 12. If the Army wants to play games, let them play games. Meanwhile recruits will dwindle as they get treated like shit for the chance to die for Dick Cheney.
I, really do, beg to, differ, I think, that online, grammer; is inpeccable? What? (internet) are, you reading!
network. I know other outlets aren't immune to frauds, but ebay is fucking rediculous. Whenever I am looking for anything substantial(for instance iBook, xbox etc) I have to sort by highest price first. Why? Because an overwhelming majority of the auctions are for "Information on how to get a free iBook!" or "iBook for 40 dollars". Ebay doesn't have to legally police it's network for those types of fraud, but I think their lax policies are going to harm them.
Not to mention the huge number of grey market items on eBay. I don't want to buy anime off of there because a majority of the DVDs are Chinese bootlegs. I would rather download them than buy the bootlegs....
Not to mention (somewhat) standardized ID3 tags. When I used Napster and their ilk the ID3 tags were either non-existant, partial, or in many cases just plain wrong. People would credit songs to the wrong band etc. (Not to mention that every humor song was automatically sung by "Weird Al"). To me it's worth the price just to get those ID3 tags(and if you have an iPod photo, the albulm art is kind of cool, but it's novelty does wear off after a while). Yeah, it costs money but it saves time.
Though if you do actually plan to buy a US iMac, you would have to be very careful. The Rev B G5s are universal power, but the US Rev A iMacs are actually only set up for 120V 60Hz. The designers really wanted to get rid of the power brick so they internalized it. However, this probably caused major headaches and unencessary complexity/cost to the manufacturing process, plus a few busted iMacs, so for the Rev B they got rid of that (bad) idea...
Also keep in mind there is not much room for growth in terms of government funding in Japan. Japan's debt problem is just about as bad as the US's, the big difference is that the majority of Japanese debt is held privately but the US debt is held abroad. In terms of GDP, Japan is even worse off. The size of their debt is roughly 130% of their GDP, the US's debt is about 65% of the debt. The Japanese government is also caters to special interests as much as the government of the US, and their favorite bed partner is the construction industry. You wouldn't think that Japan, a very small country with an even smaller amount of usuable land(most of the country is very mountainous) with a population that is barely growing would need a large construction industry, and yet it exists, building giant roads to nowhere.
I think that Japan's potential is high, but they are going to have a hard time trying to raise the funds necessary to turn that potential into useful space products. They really need to cut off the construction funds first, but that would cause a temporary spike in unemployment, the one thing the Japanese people cannot stand it seems.....
Unfortunately Gartner has beat you to the punch!
Anything with the name "Gartner" in it automatically has a taint(not the area between a man's genitals and his anus, though that may be an accurate description of Gartner). It's just hard to swallow their credibility. They seem to keep on coming up with research that says, "Offshore everything! oh and by the way, we just happen to have a large offshore consulting division, what a coincidence". If they are a research firm then they should stick to just research, anything else tarnishes their credibility....
Congrats, that is the single DUMBEST thing I have ever read on slashdot. If you would put down your knee jerk reaction for a second, and actually oh I don't know, study history you would see that the US did try to use the carrot, repeatedly. They warned the Japanese that they did not approve of their actions in Manchuria and elsewhere in China and that if they did not cease those actions they would cut off trade. Japan ignored the warnings and continued into China unabated. The US was very isolationist at the time, but once again, in your rush to bash the US you totally ignore history. The US wanted to avoid war at all costs, but could not go on trading with an enemy of it's allies. However, accorrding to you that is an evil, evil thing to think.
Furthermore, the use of Kamikze's wasn't because Japan lacked fuel(what the fuck do you think those planes were laden with? Candy?) they used them because they had no planes an most of their good pilots had been killed and they didn't have resources to train new ones(namely planes and experienced pilots to teach them). The Kamikaze pilots were only given a few hours of instruction time, and it really showed because a large number of them missed their targets.
Your ignorance of history is hilarious, and your rant has made my day, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Funny you mention the Soviet Union because they would have invaded Japan in August had the US not dropped the bomb. You think Nagasaki was bad, it would have been a cakewalk compared to what the Soviets would have done. Look what they did in East Germany. Stallin would have killed whoever he god damned pleased and wouldn't have minded causing even more famine in the country than existed post war. Would you have liked for there to have been a Tokyo air lift as well as a Berlin Air lift? How about the Yokohama wall? You apologists don't think of the consequences of not dropping the bomb, all you can say is "Boo US!"
My high school French teacher was born there, from what I understand the land is overflowing with alcohol, and the people there have an interesting sense of humor. She was ugly but one of the funniest people I have ever met. Best of wishes to you!
I had used the bank account previously when I lived in the area. I never bothered to get rid of the information on PayPal because I didn't see any real harm in it being there. Now I am much more vigilant and don't let paypal have any more information than it absolutely needs.
A George Carlin quote:"Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers"
If you fear that you don't have health insurance, aren't you more likely to then join the Army(if/when) you grow up?
Not to mention that they force things on you that you don't want and blame YOU when they fuck up. They offered a "Pay with your bank account" service(mostly so they could get away from the high credit card fees but still charge the recipient), I didn't want to use it though, so I chose to pay with my credit card. However, they chose to use a bank account in which I had the minimum balance in(I kept it around in case I needed a loan from the bank as they have cheap rates for members). So then I got a message from paypal saying that there were insufficient funds and used my Discover card to cover it. Furthermore, they were going to retry in 2 days(I don't know why, I paid the god damn money). I was away from my email for a few days and didn't notice it, by the time I did I had over $80 in fees from the bank. Fortunately my bank forgave the fees but I closed down my paypal account right away.
The worst part about it was that when I called up customer service to complain, they blamed me. I tried to tell them that in fact I am not a moron and made sure to pay with my card(since I never wanted the bank account service in the first place) but they continued to blame me. Not to mention the manager was a real ass......I hope they die a quick death
Maybe you are the right person to ask this question then, how much does the first job out of college really "define" where you will end up? I took a 2 year contract position in Germany, but the work isn't exactly what I would like to do(I would eventually like to become a software engineer, even though my degree is in computer engineering). Am I "pegged"by my first job, or is there room to move horizontally to another area?
I wonder if some unscrupulous people will do this on a smaller scale. Most credit card companies have fraud protection. Usually in cases where an individual's card is stolen the companies refund the person whose card was stolen and then try to track down whoever stole the card. However, with 40 million of these stolen, it is going to be very hard for the companies to figure out who really was victimized and who is trying to get some free stuff.
Well, consideringi the way CC companies abuse interest rates, I hardly have pity on them though....
It's not impossible (ignore the post as it's just a troll and look at the sig), but I have no idea how he does it.....
to being the real thing sans the nagging.
I don't think profit is the main motivation behind the pricing scheme. I think it's moreso to act as a detterent to people who just want the Apple Intel machine earlier than everyone else. Plus it won't eat into their current hardware sales. Furthermore, they also probably haven't ramped up their manufacturing capability enough so that they can sell it at that low price point. By allowing oly their top developers to buy, they ensure that they have enough so that everyone who is serious about OS X development can get one, but not allowing people who just want to toy with it to get one(easily)
I'm not making a judgement call, but I don't think you took everything into consideration in your post....