You know im no Microsoft apologist, but it seems very odd that we bash microsoft left and right but never even mention IBM, which indeed is always number 1 every year in getting the most patents! What do we make of this bias here at slashdot?
Sad. The problem is that media plays along nicely. They would never report about the protest. But they would report what bill gates is saying. The media is too lazy to actually do any research on tne number of CS people unemployed before publishing gates (or other CEOs) crap about shortage of US CS people. Ask gates and others why they are saying this when there are so many people unemployed?
This is complete bullshit. Look at how all the CEOs are complaining about lack of CS graduates here in US. Its quite simple. When they move the jobs to india/china they can say that they we dont have enough people here. Just look at the layoffs. This is a delibrate attempt by these people to keep putting out these kinds of reports.
Does a whole generation of nerd need to move on and retire before people get the hint to stop buying this peice of 70's technology for their 21 century computer???
Right, exactly! thats why we can bet that a big company (visa/mastercard) can be trusted with our data and they have never lost/stolen it. Right, big companies can be trusted.
The problem is that its not the case that rich people in wealthy nations are losing thier jobs. Its the middle class people. So basically total sum of poor people still remains the same. They are just getting transfered from india to europe. So who does it benefit? ofcourse the very few rich folks who owns these corporations. Face it, middle class folks does not own millions of dollars of stocks. Its the very few rich people. Globalization is suppose to help everybody. It is suppose to create jobs. But globalization is only helping very rich to move jobs of the middle class very easily. But whats happening is that the middle class people are sacrifising. And just wait few years, when they find more cheaper countries than india/china, they will just move thier.
Was it because US troops are on Muslim soil? The US has more foreign bases than any other nation, sometimes on seriously unfreindly territory (e.g., Cuba), almost all of which have provoked no suicide attacks.
cuba does not regard guantanamo as holy place. Muslims regard saudi arabia as holy place.
- Was it because of cultural dominance? Then why aren't Canadians and Europeans bombing the hell out of the United States? They bear the worst of it.
If you would know, canada,europe and US are all part of Western Civilization. There are differences, but not as great as a difference between US and middle east
- Was it because of the poverty of the Arab world? But most of the attackers were middle-class and well educated. This is also true of many Palestinian bombers. Furthermore, many Arab countries are well off.
Right, and the attackers understood that it is thier duty to standup for the weak, since they are well educated in the land of illitrate (ofcourse the form (suicide bombing) is wrong imho.) Many middle east countries are indeed well off. But only thier dictators (with US support). The general polulation lives in poverty (except UAE).
- Was it for reasons that takes more than five seconds to describe? Most likely.
Yes, but you covered the main reasons already. When you see that the only very few people are getting rich in the land of oil and you still don't have money to eat 3 times, I think you would question why.
First, let me start by saying that the patent system is pretty stupid. However, its pretty hypocrit of US companies to fight a patent that does not fit them. These companies would not even think for a minute to sue someone else over a patent they own. But when someone uses it against them then they cry foul.
ok, so why don't you tell us the better way? It seems like this is the only way left (even though I know it does not really work). atleast they know that people are watching them.
So, in summary, you say you're receiving phonecalls from someone who you also say doesn't exist...would that make you schizophrenic, delusional, or just high?
I'm surprised that it's not showing up as bad PR with the companies that are involved in trying to remove rights from users.
Surprised??? Wakeup man, the whole media is ownded by corporations who own these record label companies. Consumers are going down the drains. Media is no longer for the good of common man. This is just one example http://www.foxbghsuit.com/home.htm.
I can't even imagine what things will be like in another 30 years...I mean, if in 1915 you told someone that in 30 years a bomb would be built powerful enough to flatten a small city, they'd laugh at you.
And in 1970 you told someone that in 30 years we would not colonize mooon at some extent, they'd laugh at you. So what's your point? All we can say is future is unpredictable, we can either have a technological breaktrhough of some sort and can zoom into awesome techs or just stay right here..
This is how prejudices starts. Did you ever realize that the level 1 tech support is always not that great? We always used to have this problem. But we never said the american don't understand technology. Now we get few bad services, and we label indian support as people who do not understand technology and can't speak proper english. This is similar to how when they show one black killer, and we get the preception that whole black community is bunch of killers!
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You know im no Microsoft apologist, but it seems very odd that we bash microsoft left and right but never even mention IBM, which indeed is always number 1 every year in getting the most patents! What do we make of this bias here at slashdot?
Sad. The problem is that media plays along nicely. They would never report about the protest. But they would report what bill gates is saying. The media is too lazy to actually do any research on tne number of CS people unemployed before publishing gates (or other CEOs) crap about shortage of US CS people. Ask gates and others why they are saying this when there are so many people unemployed?
This is complete bullshit. Look at how all the CEOs are complaining about lack of CS graduates here in US. Its quite simple. When they move the jobs to india/china they can say that they we dont have enough people here. Just look at the layoffs. This is a delibrate attempt by these people to keep putting out these kinds of reports.
Unix?
CEO of a company trying to save his job by lying! details at 11!
Right, exactly! thats why we can bet that a big company (visa/mastercard) can be trusted with our data and they have never lost/stolen it. Right, big companies can be trusted.
I use bittorrent for only http://www.chomskytorrents.org/. Whole Bittorrent is worth even just for this site (IMHO)
Hurray!
ps: I'm an indian.
cuba does not regard guantanamo as holy place. Muslims regard saudi arabia as holy place.
- Was it because of cultural dominance? Then why aren't Canadians and Europeans bombing the hell out of the United States? They bear the worst of it.
If you would know, canada,europe and US are all part of Western Civilization. There are differences, but not as great as a difference between US and middle east
- Was it because of the poverty of the Arab world? But most of the attackers were middle-class and well educated. This is also true of many Palestinian bombers. Furthermore, many Arab countries are well off.
Right, and the attackers understood that it is thier duty to standup for the weak, since they are well educated in the land of illitrate (ofcourse the form (suicide bombing) is wrong imho.) Many middle east countries are indeed well off. But only thier dictators (with US support). The general polulation lives in poverty (except UAE).
- Was it for reasons that takes more than five seconds to describe? Most likely.
Yes, but you covered the main reasons already. When you see that the only very few people are getting rich in the land of oil and you still don't have money to eat 3 times, I think you would question why.
Right. And both are not mutually exclusive.
First, let me start by saying that the patent system is pretty stupid. However, its pretty hypocrit of US companies to fight a patent that does not fit them. These companies would not even think for a minute to sue someone else over a patent they own. But when someone uses it against them then they cry foul.
and one can assume anything from a regular newspaper is fact?
Thats not the point. The point is that the recent grads are undervalued compare to the past.
Yea I agree! only if the native americans had some strict immigration laws, we would never be in this mess!
ok, so why don't you tell us the better way? It seems like this is the only way left (even though I know it does not really work). atleast they know that people are watching them.
Its sad that the parent comment is modded funny and not insightful...
Its said that the parent comment is modded funny and not insightful...
No, I'm just a liar ;)
Surprised??? Wakeup man, the whole media is ownded by corporations who own these record label companies. Consumers are going down the drains. Media is no longer for the good of common man. This is just one example http://www.foxbghsuit.com/home.htm.
I can't even imagine what things will be like in another 30 years...I mean, if in 1915 you told someone that in 30 years a bomb would be built powerful enough to flatten a small city, they'd laugh at you. And in 1970 you told someone that in 30 years we would not colonize mooon at some extent, they'd laugh at you. So what's your point? All we can say is future is unpredictable, we can either have a technological breaktrhough of some sort and can zoom into awesome techs or just stay right here..
Except WinFS 'filesystem' will NOT be a part of LONGHORN!
This is how prejudices starts. Did you ever realize that the level 1 tech support is always not that great? We always used to have this problem. But we never said the american don't understand technology. Now we get few bad services, and we label indian support as people who do not understand technology and can't speak proper english. This is similar to how when they show one black killer, and we get the preception that whole black community is bunch of killers!
umm..that was a sarcastic remark. Just to be clear, if we had journalists (i.e real journalists), we would not have had iraq war..see?
and where would we be with journalists? Probably without the iraq war for once.