if they also gave a little insight into what goes into the manufacturing process as well. After all, you can design the best board there is, but if you have trouble making it in large quantities, it's not going to be successful. Cost and ease of manufacture should be factors in any engineering decision.
Um, not only did you not RTFA, but you don't seem to realize what the term, "price fixing" means. In a non-monopoly environment(like memory), if one company raises it's prices, it's not price fixing, it's capatilism. If the market doesn't like the higher memory prices, then nobody buys their stuff and either the prices drop or they do. In this case though, it was a bunch of memory manufacturers who make up a very large chunk of the market colluding to keep prices high. This is kind of like a "Monopoly Voltron"->together they combine forces to become a virtual monopoly, even though they are seperate parts.
An alternative to recognize is that the Chinese have learned from the Japanese's mistakes.
Um, no, they haven't learned a god damned thing from Japan. China's rise is following in Japan's footsteps from the getting started in cheap manufacturing exported to the US to rising up the food chain to moving into R&D, right down to the bad loans. Japan's economic bubble collapsed because of too much speculation, right now in China, there is too much speculation.....
I think it has to do with the fact that China has some very wealthy and developed neighbours who have almost the same culture. Those neighbours being South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. And between those countries and China for some decades there have huge money flows. Europe and the USA are playing catch up.
Methinks you better learn a bit more about Asia:
A lot of Chinese still hate Japan over WWII and Japan never apologizing. The mainlanders hate the Taiwanese(though they are willing to do business with them), and are somewhat indifferent towards South Korea.
South Koreans hate the Japanese for the whole colonization thing, and really aren't too keen on China helping their neighboor to the north(though that has changed some in recent years).
Taiwan never really like Japan because of the whole WWII thing, and is usually quite suspicious of what the mainland is doing.
Asian nations aren't exactly as friendly with eachother as you think they are.
And, as unpopular as this statement might be... I think their largely totalitarian government - so long as they don't infringe enough on their people so as to reduce their work ethic, their national pride, and the ability for businesses to compete with each other - will actually help them in competition with the US, due to the greater degree of strategic control they can have over their markets.
No, you seem to have a VERY limited knowledge of Chinese history, both recent and ancient. Look up things like the cultural revolution and the great leap forward. There is control of markets in action! China has always managed to grow at an astounding pace to only fall into ruin, moreso than most other civilizations of the world. Things are going pretty well now, but that is way too small a timeline to say that China's government is so wonderful. China will hit a bust, and with their government, the bust will be as loud as the boom.
stating that every time someone comes out with a re-release of a classic work, they have to include in it the South Park episode where the boys try to stop George Lucas and Steven Speilberg from ruining classic films by trying to "enhance" them. Maybe they could learn a lesson from that:P
It's easy, a pro scopes out your house beforehand and if you have children breaks into their room first and holds them hostage. I don't want to meet the man who plays tough guy when there is a revolver pointed at his child. The criminal can also create a distraction and get you to look into it with your gun while he comes around the back and puts one in you just to be safe. A criminal is probably much more likely to shoot you if you have a gun than if you do not. Valuables can be replaced, human beings cannot.
How about we mix it up a little:
What about:
A vicious camera(robots these days)
A visible fake dye capsue
And my personal favorite: An exploding dog.
And of course that a sign that says, "Exploding dog tracking system installed"
I wouldn't want to fuck with that house.
It really depends on if she is dealing with professionals or hoodlums who think they have some vendetta against the world because their parents are only upper-middle class. Against the former, motion detectors are useless, car alarms are useless(they can disarm them quickly and there is too much "boy who cried wolf" with them, they go off so often nobody even cares), and clubs will be useless. Against a really good criminal, guns will be useless too, but more than likely they are just dealing with people who are probably too high to figure out ways around any of those defenses.
That is where an old computer and 802.11 come in to play, just set up a server that records video. Even if they steal the camera, since there is no "tape" to speak of, you still get everything on record up to the point where they steal the camera.
Heh, you don't realize how power is derived it seems. Kim Jong Il probably leads what could be considered the best life on Earth provided one doesn't have a sence of decency/morals(Sex with beautiful virgins, the best food/booze/cars in the world, having a fucking country as your own little playground etc.). How does he derive this power? Well, he is the dictator of the country, but you realize that the name means nothing without power behind it. In the US, the president derrives his power from the constitution, which is enforced through various means, though mainly because the people like the document and accept what it says(though having a military doesn't hurt either)
Kim Jong Il doesn't derrive his power from any piece of paper, he derrives it from the military. The military was responsible for putting him into power, and if he doesn't keep the military happy, well, needless to say it isn't hard to kill a fat 60 year old man. So in order for Kim to stay in power(and really, alive), he has to keep the military happy. The military commanders in return agrees to co-operate with him on most issues. That is how dictatorships work. If Kim loses the support of the miiltary, he loses everything.
You might want to check your facts. Operation Barbarossa was launched in June of 41. The Americans did not enter the war till December that year, and really didn't do much of anything in the Atlantic Theatre till the middle of the next year. The winter was before that.... Not to say that the American's did not contribute signficantly to the war effort(mainly by destorying German factories and transport), but you should at least know what happened before you argue a point.
1 party rule, and it is happening as we speak, and has been happening for a while: The constitution is set up assuming that all 3 branches of the government would be constantly suspicious of what the other ones are doing. However, with the solidifcation of political parties, this isn't happening. Everyone is just toeing the party line, and that is dangerous. The supreme court justices aren't supposed to like the president, congress isn't supposed to depend on the president for inspiration for legislation. The president isn't supposed to just sign everything that his party passes. (I can't seem to think of one veto that George W. Bush has had overrided) That to me is dangerous, it signals that the checks and balances are erroding.
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I guarentee somone will officially name a child after their favorite sports team. I can see it now:
"Hello little girl, what is your name?"
"Steelers 'I hate my father' Smith"
Heh, as a lifelong PA resident I just want to say that the way PA votes is very strange. First of all, you have 2 urban centers(Pittsburgh and Philly), that outside of a few affluent suburbs always vote liberal. But then you have the huge center of the state which is mostly farmers and laborers who are very conservative(well, socially, maybe not so much economically). PA almost always votes democrat in the presidential race, but both our senators are conservative, including one of the most conservative members of the Senate, Santorum and the moderate Specter who barely beat off a very conservative challenger in the primary. He will probably win re-election this year mainly because Hoeffel doesn't have much money(that is the problem running for Senate in a presidential election, most of the party's money goes elsewhere).
I pick Kerry to win PA mostly because, IIRC, PA has the 2nd highest # of elderly people(behind Florida), and a lot of that group which usually votes in record numbers are very upset with medicare. I wish Kerry was smart enough to capitalize on it though......
You forgot the most important part, how are you now going to know when a very obscure but very weatlhy relative of yours who was living in Africa dies? What kind of monsters would take that news away from me?
I think the parent post has a making for a/. poll:
Best way to get a NES cartridge to work:
1. blow in the cartridge
2. click it up and down.
3. Cycling power buttons(not recommended for games with batteries though, esp. DW 3)
4. Moving it back and forth horizontally.
5. Get Cowboy Neal to come over and fix it.
Hell, even with a republican controlled house, senate, and White House Rush has still found stuff to complain about, so I'm assuming it works the other way too.
The only decent show on that network is Franken, who while left leaning, is(usually) very good with his points. Though he can get VERY petty sometimes. The rest is just radical left talk not really meant to convince anyone of anything, just re-assure people with certain beliefs.
My biggest complaint about talk radio left and right is that there are rarely any new ideas discussed. Mimics the political process I guess. Really IMO the only new idea discussed in this election is Kerry's health plan(not socializing medicine but having the government pick up the tab on catastrophic(>50k) health care costs), and really Kerry and his followers have done a very poor job on communicating the benefits of the plan to voters.
The election process in this country has gotten VERY petty, and I think both parties are really to blame.
Since the article mentions penn state, I need to vent here. Us undergrad students recently were forced to buy the grad students really nice powerbooks. We were charged $3,000 for "equipment surcharges", but the only equipment we are allowed to use is some crappy Solaris machines with Netscape 4 on them. I had to use a decent chunk of my whopping 75 megs of space just to put firefox on there so I wouldn't go crazy(not to mention the browser crashes on half the sites I go to anyway). Meanwhile, all new grad students get a nice shiny powerbook to play with. Hmmmm....I wonder where the money to buy those came from?
And the greatest part is, even though we are supposed to be training students to go out and participate in American society and democracy, the student's have no power when it comes to our own money. The administration(with the president of the college at the helm making over $400k a year, but he won't publically release his salary) has made sure that student government has no real power. All they do is bicker and argue and make suggestions that the powers that be ignore.
Guess what, you might like to oversimplify the truth and say, "well, it happened to manufacturing, and that was good, so globalisation must be always a good thing"
That is both myopic and naive. Guess what, as much as all the economists in the world like to tell you they know what will happen and they know what is good for the economy, they don't really know, and are just guessing. The only thing is if they tell you they are guessing, they would be out of a job.
Economics is a science, but it is probably the least exact science there is. It's a science because what economists do is try to measure what happens and form a model to make future predictions. However, there are 2 major problems: economists have a very poor method of measuring what is really going on in an economy(through things like GDP, unemployment trends etc), and it's really hard to perform economic "experiments". The scientific method calls for an experiment to be repeatable by other. Economists cannot repeat a macroeconmic experiment by any means. Scientists also try to keep all but a few conditions constant when they are experimenting. Again, macroeconomists have no way of doing this.
So you pointing to what has been a recent trend, without offering any real economic numbers to back it up shows a poor understanding of the scientific method. I think the same goes with all the economists here. They are just stabbing in the dark. Yes free trade is a good thing, but nobody knows what will happen to a country long-term if it has trade problems of this magnitude, though some guess the US will become a lot like Argentina, whose huge deficits caused a collapse of the financial system. Others think the US economy is too structurally sound to do something like that....
Um, guess what, not everyone in the US wanted globalisation, esp. the kind that you are talking about. It's quite obvious that you have a vendetta and like to group people accordingly.
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if they also gave a little insight into what goes into the manufacturing process as well. After all, you can design the best board there is, but if you have trouble making it in large quantities, it's not going to be successful. Cost and ease of manufacture should be factors in any engineering decision.
Um, not only did you not RTFA, but you don't seem to realize what the term, "price fixing" means. In a non-monopoly environment(like memory), if one company raises it's prices, it's not price fixing, it's capatilism. If the market doesn't like the higher memory prices, then nobody buys their stuff and either the prices drop or they do.
In this case though, it was a bunch of memory manufacturers who make up a very large chunk of the market colluding to keep prices high. This is kind of like a "Monopoly Voltron"->together they combine forces to become a virtual monopoly, even though they are seperate parts.
An alternative to recognize is that the Chinese have learned from the Japanese's mistakes.
Um, no, they haven't learned a god damned thing from Japan. China's rise is following in Japan's footsteps from the getting started in cheap manufacturing exported to the US to rising up the food chain to moving into R&D, right down to the bad loans. Japan's economic bubble collapsed because of too much speculation, right now in China, there is too much speculation.....
I think it has to do with the fact that China has some very wealthy and developed neighbours who have almost the same culture. Those neighbours being South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. And between those countries and China for some decades there have huge money flows. Europe and the USA are playing catch up.
Methinks you better learn a bit more about Asia:
A lot of Chinese still hate Japan over WWII and Japan never apologizing. The mainlanders hate the Taiwanese(though they are willing to do business with them), and are somewhat indifferent towards South Korea.
South Koreans hate the Japanese for the whole colonization thing, and really aren't too keen on China helping their neighboor to the north(though that has changed some in recent years).
Taiwan never really like Japan because of the whole WWII thing, and is usually quite suspicious of what the mainland is doing.
Asian nations aren't exactly as friendly with eachother as you think they are.
And, as unpopular as this statement might be... I think their largely totalitarian government - so long as they don't infringe enough on their people so as to reduce their work ethic, their national pride, and the ability for businesses to compete with each other - will actually help them in competition with the US, due to the greater degree of strategic control they can have over their markets.
No, you seem to have a VERY limited knowledge of Chinese history, both recent and ancient. Look up things like the cultural revolution and the great leap forward. There is control of markets in action! China has always managed to grow at an astounding pace to only fall into ruin, moreso than most other civilizations of the world. Things are going pretty well now, but that is way too small a timeline to say that China's government is so wonderful. China will hit a bust, and with their government, the bust will be as loud as the boom.
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There, never be bothered by dupes again.
my password to asianthumbs.org may have been jepeordized!
Oh no, I have said too much!
Damn you autopr0n, why, why did you have to die!!!
stating that every time someone comes out with a re-release of a classic work, they have to include in it the South Park episode where the boys try to stop George Lucas and Steven Speilberg from ruining classic films by trying to "enhance" them. Maybe they could learn a lesson from that :P
It's easy, a pro scopes out your house beforehand and if you have children breaks into their room first and holds them hostage. I don't want to meet the man who plays tough guy when there is a revolver pointed at his child. The criminal can also create a distraction and get you to look into it with your gun while he comes around the back and puts one in you just to be safe. A criminal is probably much more likely to shoot you if you have a gun than if you do not. Valuables can be replaced, human beings cannot.
How about we mix it up a little:
What about:
A vicious camera(robots these days)
A visible fake dye capsue
And my personal favorite: An exploding dog.
And of course that a sign that says, "Exploding dog tracking system installed"
I wouldn't want to fuck with that house.
It really depends on if she is dealing with professionals or hoodlums who think they have some vendetta against the world because their parents are only upper-middle class. Against the former, motion detectors are useless, car alarms are useless(they can disarm them quickly and there is too much "boy who cried wolf" with them, they go off so often nobody even cares), and clubs will be useless. Against a really good criminal, guns will be useless too, but more than likely they are just dealing with people who are probably too high to figure out ways around any of those defenses.
That is where an old computer and 802.11 come in to play, just set up a server that records video. Even if they steal the camera, since there is no "tape" to speak of, you still get everything on record up to the point where they steal the camera.
Heh, this would be funnier if Weekly World News hadn't actually had on their front page a picture proving that aliens supported Clinton....
Heh, you don't realize how power is derived it seems. Kim Jong Il probably leads what could be considered the best life on Earth provided one doesn't have a sence of decency/morals(Sex with beautiful virgins, the best food/booze/cars in the world, having a fucking country as your own little playground etc.). How does he derive this power? Well, he is the dictator of the country, but you realize that the name means nothing without power behind it. In the US, the president derrives his power from the constitution, which is enforced through various means, though mainly because the people like the document and accept what it says(though having a military doesn't hurt either)
Kim Jong Il doesn't derrive his power from any piece of paper, he derrives it from the military. The military was responsible for putting him into power, and if he doesn't keep the military happy, well, needless to say it isn't hard to kill a fat 60 year old man. So in order for Kim to stay in power(and really, alive), he has to keep the military happy. The military commanders in return agrees to co-operate with him on most issues. That is how dictatorships work. If Kim loses the support of the miiltary, he loses everything.
You might want to check your facts. Operation Barbarossa was launched in June of 41. The Americans did not enter the war till December that year, and really didn't do much of anything in the Atlantic Theatre till the middle of the next year. The winter was before that.... Not to say that the American's did not contribute signficantly to the war effort(mainly by destorying German factories and transport), but you should at least know what happened before you argue a point.
1 party rule, and it is happening as we speak, and has been happening for a while: The constitution is set up assuming that all 3 branches of the government would be constantly suspicious of what the other ones are doing. However, with the solidifcation of political parties, this isn't happening. Everyone is just toeing the party line, and that is dangerous. The supreme court justices aren't supposed to like the president, congress isn't supposed to depend on the president for inspiration for legislation. The president isn't supposed to just sign everything that his party passes. (I can't seem to think of one veto that George W. Bush has had overrided) That to me is dangerous, it signals that the checks and balances are erroding.
I guarentee somone will officially name a child after their favorite sports team. I can see it now:
"Hello little girl, what is your name?"
"Steelers 'I hate my father' Smith"
Heh, as a lifelong PA resident I just want to say that the way PA votes is very strange. First of all, you have 2 urban centers(Pittsburgh and Philly), that outside of a few affluent suburbs always vote liberal. But then you have the huge center of the state which is mostly farmers and laborers who are very conservative(well, socially, maybe not so much economically). PA almost always votes democrat in the presidential race, but both our senators are conservative, including one of the most conservative members of the Senate, Santorum and the moderate Specter who barely beat off a very conservative challenger in the primary. He will probably win re-election this year mainly because Hoeffel doesn't have much money(that is the problem running for Senate in a presidential election, most of the party's money goes elsewhere).
I pick Kerry to win PA mostly because, IIRC, PA has the 2nd highest # of elderly people(behind Florida), and a lot of that group which usually votes in record numbers are very upset with medicare. I wish Kerry was smart enough to capitalize on it though......
You forgot the most important part, how are you now going to know when a very obscure but very weatlhy relative of yours who was living in Africa dies? What kind of monsters would take that news away from me?
I think the parent post has a making for a /. poll:
Best way to get a NES cartridge to work:
1. blow in the cartridge
2. click it up and down.
3. Cycling power buttons(not recommended for games with batteries though, esp. DW 3)
4. Moving it back and forth horizontally.
5. Get Cowboy Neal to come over and fix it.
If so you can always leave your job the Homer Simpson way and play your boss's head like a bongo.
Hell, even with a republican controlled house, senate, and White House Rush has still found stuff to complain about, so I'm assuming it works the other way too.
The only decent show on that network is Franken, who while left leaning, is(usually) very good with his points. Though he can get VERY petty sometimes. The rest is just radical left talk not really meant to convince anyone of anything, just re-assure people with certain beliefs.
My biggest complaint about talk radio left and right is that there are rarely any new ideas discussed. Mimics the political process I guess. Really IMO the only new idea discussed in this election is Kerry's health plan(not socializing medicine but having the government pick up the tab on catastrophic(>50k) health care costs), and really Kerry and his followers have done a very poor job on communicating the benefits of the plan to voters.
The election process in this country has gotten VERY petty, and I think both parties are really to blame.
Since the article mentions penn state, I need to vent here. Us undergrad students recently were forced to buy the grad students really nice powerbooks. We were charged $3,000 for "equipment surcharges", but the only equipment we are allowed to use is some crappy Solaris machines with Netscape 4 on them. I had to use a decent chunk of my whopping 75 megs of space just to put firefox on there so I wouldn't go crazy(not to mention the browser crashes on half the sites I go to anyway). Meanwhile, all new grad students get a nice shiny powerbook to play with. Hmmmm....I wonder where the money to buy those came from?
And the greatest part is, even though we are supposed to be training students to go out and participate in American society and democracy, the student's have no power when it comes to our own money. The administration(with the president of the college at the helm making over $400k a year, but he won't publically release his salary) has made sure that student government has no real power. All they do is bicker and argue and make suggestions that the powers that be ignore.
Guess what, you might like to oversimplify the truth and say, "well, it happened to manufacturing, and that was good, so globalisation must be always a good thing"
That is both myopic and naive. Guess what, as much as all the economists in the world like to tell you they know what will happen and they know what is good for the economy, they don't really know, and are just guessing. The only thing is if they tell you they are guessing, they would be out of a job.
Economics is a science, but it is probably the least exact science there is. It's a science because what economists do is try to measure what happens and form a model to make future predictions. However, there are 2 major problems: economists have a very poor method of measuring what is really going on in an economy(through things like GDP, unemployment trends etc), and it's really hard to perform economic "experiments". The scientific method calls for an experiment to be repeatable by other. Economists cannot repeat a macroeconmic experiment by any means. Scientists also try to keep all but a few conditions constant when they are experimenting. Again, macroeconomists have no way of doing this.
So you pointing to what has been a recent trend, without offering any real economic numbers to back it up shows a poor understanding of the scientific method. I think the same goes with all the economists here. They are just stabbing in the dark. Yes free trade is a good thing, but nobody knows what will happen to a country long-term if it has trade problems of this magnitude, though some guess the US will become a lot like Argentina, whose huge deficits caused a collapse of the financial system. Others think the US economy is too structurally sound to do something like that....
Um, guess what, not everyone in the US wanted globalisation, esp. the kind that you are talking about. It's quite obvious that you have a vendetta and like to group people accordingly.