That is the whole big deal with kapitalism in the long run, and also with automation. Kapitalism demands cutting cost, automation is cheaper than workforce in the US (does not go for all, but it is a general trend). Asian (and later African) workforce is cheaper than automation, so that is were the work goes. Once they get to expensive, the work will be done more automated, bringing down the price to its lowest possible point.
What you will have is an extremely bored blue collar workforce with nothing to do, no source of income, but to expensive to use for work. This is an interesting social problem. Kapitalism does not have a solution for this problem. I think kapitalism will be replaced by another system (think Star trek, they have a working system in a higly automated world with more equality, but it is not communism, nor did they bother to explain it widely, so no discussion possible:-( ).
So yes, the model is not sustainable. Which model is sustainable is the question.
I said range $800 to $1600. I really do not know what a janitor earns. I myself can not really be considered as blue collar, more as white collar. I hope that at least you earn $800 with it, else it gets really difficult in the US I would say.
It is good to see that you are not one of those Nigerian scammers. It would be great to do this business deal with you. However European banking regulations prohibit me from receiving such an amount at once since the bank has to tell this to the goverment and they will investigate it to see if it is legal or not, taking a lot of time. Can you however deposit it in amounts of $20.000,- per time (like once per 5 minutes). That will not raise any alarms.
From the website of William McDonough:
Home to a unique underground river once famous for its clarity, mountains that have drawn artists and travelers for generations, and the place where Taoism first appeared in Northeast China, the nearby city of Benxi is also a major industrial center with a conventional mix of heavy industry, chemicals and building materials. Decades of remedial efforts at soil conservation, reforestation, and effluent control, while yielding some impressive results, have led to decision to re-conceive the future of the region as a model sustainable development zone. Responding to new opportunities and circumstances, Huangbaiyu Village has a unique opportunity to redefine itself economically, socially and environmentally.
See the word "decades"? The chinese goverment does realize what is happening, and they are working on it.
This is not a thing where people in the free world can do a lot of challenging. Look at the artificial lakes for power plants, for which villages and sometimes small cities have been moved. Don't overestimate the power of democracy here.
Also, if I could vote for less poluting cities (I do not think we can reach a real balance yet), I would vote YES for sure. The big advantage China has in this, is that there costs are a lot lower, so they can make that progress with less worries about a 1001 lawsuits concerning property rights & displacements, making it worthwhile to do it. In the western part of the world, we will have to wait for the poluting things to get to expensive before we will change.
On the other hand: It is also ridiculous that in Asia people work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, earn about $100 a month for that (that is a lot), while at this side of the world a person doing the same mindless job earns 8 to 16 times more. Jobs like janitor. That kind of inequality can not hold up. So something has to go, apparently at this moment it is the richer side going poorer, before the other side cathes up.
On the bright side: It will all get better once the remaining blue collar work force is automated. Goods will plummet in price, making it affordable for everybody to get all the new playstations they wnat (The games will stay expensive though, human creativity needed).
Division and diversity is the strength of the opensource community. If people still can not see that that is why linux is still alive, and others who tried (Beos, OS/2, the DOS competitors) have failed, then they should not be busy with writing about opensource.
The big distributions (Red hat, SuSE, debian, and some others) wiil define the landscape for business deployments. In the future software will be chosen more often for a purpose not because of a companyname (at least lets hope and work on that).
Shame on me. I am dutch, love to think that Philips invented Beta (mostly since video2000 has completely disappeared into the mist of time (-:, even with the cool name "Video2000", year 2000 was far far away).
Small error there: What does Sony (biggest backer of blu-ray)allow? is the better question. Philips (the inventors of Beta) did not allow porn to be published on their format. The VHS people did allow this, thus the public nicely bought the VHS (sex sells).
So if Sony allows porn on the blu-ray, they are at least equal in competition (on that level).
The price will come down with volume, and ps3 will mean volume enough to be competitive
I interviewed some of my friends who love to download, and I asked them when the price was low enough to start paying for pirated content: 0
Apparently some people will never be willing to pay for certain content. For myself I like it when I can decide if I like music enough to pay for it before buying. My reason to buy is, that I will listen more often to the CD and not just once. So what he does with the book is handy. Else I would have to read it in the store for a part (up to 5%, did that a lot with books, love Borders cafe), and then decide to buy it or not.
So there will be people who appreciate the other persons creativity and decide that they are willing to pay for it, others will borrow it at a library for stuff which they do not want to own (like listen once, read once (Ok, read most books only once anyway)), others decide that they do not want to pay for anything at all.
In the last category you also find the "crazy" collectors: They own thousands of songs & movies (and sometimes share those again), do not listen to all of them even once to check for quality, burn cd/dvd from it and just do not use it.
When I download something, I do not take care of it if it is not interesting, it will just get lost on my harddisk, gets erased at a reinstall, and I do not miss it. When I like it, I buy it, and store it nicely on a CD so I can use it again later.
The answer to your question from the website of Cory Doctorow:
* Short Term
In the short term, I'm generating more sales of my printed books. Sure, giving away ebooks displaces the occasional sale, when a downloader reads the book and decides not to buy it. But it's far more common for a reader to download the book, read some or all of it, and decide to buy the print edition. Like I said in my essay, Ebooks Neither E Nor Books, digital and print editions are intensely complimentary, so acquiring one increases your need for the other. I've given away more than half a million digital copies of my award-winning first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and that sucker has blown through five print editions (yee-HAW!), so I'm not worried that giving away books is hurting my sales.
Hum, there is a good fan already cooling the overhead projector by itself. It needs to else the standard overhead sheet (the ones you write on during the presentation) get to hot to use in a decent way. The panel is thicker ofcourse, and might isolate the glass projector plate too much.
1. Take an old overhead projector, gives you the light & the focus part at once.
2. Strip LCD screen (takes about 20 minutes if you do it carefully and want to be able to reassemble it later).
3. Put the lcd without backlight on the projector, and you are done.
As far as I know it is unofficial in case of pr0n sites. For gambling there is a law. So to me it seems as a case in which companies are "helping" a goverment in one of their "moral" goals which happen to interfere with free speech. There is not a clear law prohibiting this.
Since a long long time (I do not know the period, I worked for a creditcard processing intermediair). The credit card transaction gets a "cardholder not present" + company designation code along. This combination results with most VISA/Mastercards (~75 to 80%) from US banks in a transaction refused. This is even higher for international (not residing in US) companies.
This refusal to do the transaction is based on two things:
1. image of the bank (ie censorship)
2. afraid for fraudulant transactions
This last one is "solved" nowadays by one time only creditcard numbers, extra codes like cvc (weak) or pin (stronger) or one time pin code (strong)
Or: Microsoft funds articles by paying after the article is published, in a sort of "sponsor way" (Old/. post). So is Slate really independent, or do they just get paid afterwards?
And moving slowly goes 2 steps forward and 1 step back. The chinese goverment is the best communistic goverment around, since they manage not to break to much human rights, and really manage to distribute the wealth better as communistic herritage prescribes.
A switch in China, which was to be expected after the fall of the Soviet Union, would probably solve these freedom problems, but replace it with utter poverty for more people, and will most likely break more civil and human rights.
The chinese people know about democracy, they know what is wrong, and they have their own underground movements to push the right buttons to improve the situation. The attitude of chinese people is luckily a more mellow attitude than that of the US or western world, giving them the time to get those changes without a lot of blood shed.
So for the mean time there will be a chinese firewall. Since we can not stop the chinese goverment from doing this, the chinese themselves will show them one day that it needs to stop. Lets try to stop our own goverments from imposing blocks on the internet, for example the US goverment forbids international gambling and pr0n sites. US companies (VISA/MASTER) help the goverment in this by preventing people who want to visit those sites from being able to pay using their creditcard. There are probably other blocks which are less visible (conspiracy theory?), and enough examples to fight in the US and other countries, where we live ourselves.
The shuttle was a good idea, and a way complex machine, a complete step away from the disposable launch systems, a new design from the ground up, only partly drawing on previous experiences. It failed in its goals. Still I rather go up in a shuttle with 2 failures in its lifetime, than to sit on top a kerosine leaking Russian Soyuz (?) launcher. It really smells like the kerosine around it, do not smoke, spark. It is incredibly reliable, can be launched at much more flexible (weather) conditions. Weird, choose for the one which fails.
Design wise the Russians only did incremental changes, they did not really come up with any radical changes since the original design worked. This way they kept it reliable and cheaper, but lost a space race.
I would like to see a next generation launch vehicles which make the space shuttle look like a piece of history, of course if nobody dies, it is better, but to get ahead, some risk is needed.
The less than 1% is a statistic lie (-: I didn't count the first accident. That is more like the exploding Ford explorers because of people adding bad parts to it.
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That is the whole big deal with kapitalism in the long run, and also with automation. Kapitalism demands cutting cost, automation is cheaper than workforce in the US (does not go for all, but it is a general trend). Asian (and later African) workforce is cheaper than automation, so that is were the work goes. Once they get to expensive, the work will be done more automated, bringing down the price to its lowest possible point.
:-( ).
What you will have is an extremely bored blue collar workforce with nothing to do, no source of income, but to expensive to use for work. This is an interesting social problem.
Kapitalism does not have a solution for this problem.
I think kapitalism will be replaced by another system (think Star trek, they have a working system in a higly automated world with more equality, but it is not communism, nor did they bother to explain it widely, so no discussion possible
So yes, the model is not sustainable. Which model is sustainable is the question.
I said range $800 to $1600. I really do not know what a janitor earns. I myself can not really be considered as blue collar, more as white collar. I hope that at least you earn $800 with it, else it gets really difficult in the US I would say.
Dear Offori Atta,
It is good to see that you are not one of those Nigerian scammers. It would be great to do this business deal with you. However European banking regulations prohibit me from receiving such an amount at once since the bank has to tell this to the goverment and they will investigate it to see if it is legal or not, taking a lot of time. Can you however deposit it in amounts of $20.000,- per time (like once per 5 minutes). That will not raise any alarms.
Best regards,
Jurt1235
From the website of William McDonough:
Home to a unique underground river once famous for its clarity, mountains that have drawn artists and travelers for generations, and the place where Taoism first appeared in Northeast China, the nearby city of Benxi is also a major industrial center with a conventional mix of heavy industry, chemicals and building materials. Decades of remedial efforts at soil conservation, reforestation, and effluent control, while yielding some impressive results, have led to decision to re-conceive the future of the region as a model sustainable development zone. Responding to new opportunities and circumstances, Huangbaiyu Village has a unique opportunity to redefine itself economically, socially and environmentally.
See the word "decades"? The chinese goverment does realize what is happening, and they are working on it.
This is not a thing where people in the free world can do a lot of challenging. Look at the artificial lakes for power plants, for which villages and sometimes small cities have been moved. Don't overestimate the power of democracy here.
Also, if I could vote for less poluting cities (I do not think we can reach a real balance yet), I would vote YES for sure.
The big advantage China has in this, is that there costs are a lot lower, so they can make that progress with less worries about a 1001 lawsuits concerning property rights & displacements, making it worthwhile to do it. In the western part of the world, we will have to wait for the poluting things to get to expensive before we will change.
Instead of reading articles online, you now have to watch a video to see if the announcement claim is really through, or if it is just a catchy title?
Now I need TiVo for the internet so I can fast forward??
We will have to see if it works, but somehow I think it will work out for them. It will keep them out of recordcompanies grip I hope.
On the other hand: It is also ridiculous that in Asia people work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, earn about $100 a month for that (that is a lot), while at this side of the world a person doing the same mindless job earns 8 to 16 times more. Jobs like janitor. That kind of inequality can not hold up. So something has to go, apparently at this moment it is the richer side going poorer, before the other side cathes up.
On the bright side: It will all get better once the remaining blue collar work force is automated. Goods will plummet in price, making it affordable for everybody to get all the new playstations they wnat (The games will stay expensive though, human creativity needed).
The article: blablabla
Division and diversity is the strength of the opensource community. If people still can not see that that is why linux is still alive, and others who tried (Beos, OS/2, the DOS competitors) have failed, then they should not be busy with writing about opensource.
The big distributions (Red hat, SuSE, debian, and some others) wiil define the landscape for business deployments. In the future software will be chosen more often for a purpose not because of a companyname (at least lets hope and work on that).
Shame on me. I am dutch, love to think that Philips invented Beta (mostly since video2000 has completely disappeared into the mist of time (-:, even with the cool name "Video2000", year 2000 was far far away).
Small error there: What does Sony (biggest backer of blu-ray)allow? is the better question. Philips (the inventors of Beta) did not allow porn to be published on their format. The VHS people did allow this, thus the public nicely bought the VHS (sex sells).
So if Sony allows porn on the blu-ray, they are at least equal in competition (on that level).
The price will come down with volume, and ps3 will mean volume enough to be competitive
I interviewed some of my friends who love to download, and I asked them when the price was low enough to start paying for pirated content: 0
Apparently some people will never be willing to pay for certain content. For myself I like it when I can decide if I like music enough to pay for it before buying. My reason to buy is, that I will listen more often to the CD and not just once. So what he does with the book is handy. Else I would have to read it in the store for a part (up to 5%, did that a lot with books, love Borders cafe), and then decide to buy it or not.
So there will be people who appreciate the other persons creativity and decide that they are willing to pay for it, others will borrow it at a library for stuff which they do not want to own (like listen once, read once (Ok, read most books only once anyway)), others decide that they do not want to pay for anything at all.
In the last category you also find the "crazy" collectors: They own thousands of songs & movies (and sometimes share those again), do not listen to all of them even once to check for quality, burn cd/dvd from it and just do not use it.
When I download something, I do not take care of it if it is not interesting, it will just get lost on my harddisk, gets erased at a reinstall, and I do not miss it. When I like it, I buy it, and store it nicely on a CD so I can use it again later.
Well, the single step/click ordering proces already patented by amazon....
Relations in database do this kind of things all the time, and warn users about the consequences (usually blocking it completely).
The answer to your question from the website of Cory Doctorow:
* Short Term
In the short term, I'm generating more sales of my printed books. Sure, giving away ebooks displaces the occasional sale, when a downloader reads the book and decides not to buy it. But it's far more common for a reader to download the book, read some or all of it, and decide to buy the print edition. Like I said in my essay, Ebooks Neither E Nor Books, digital and print editions are intensely complimentary, so acquiring one increases your need for the other. I've given away more than half a million digital copies of my award-winning first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and that sucker has blown through five print editions (yee-HAW!), so I'm not worried that giving away books is hurting my sales.
Hum, there is a good fan already cooling the overhead projector by itself. It needs to else the standard overhead sheet (the ones you write on during the presentation) get to hot to use in a decent way. The panel is thicker ofcourse, and might isolate the glass projector plate too much.
One way to find out for sure: Try it (-:
So carppy that I write crappy wrong, and just refuse to use the preview option
1. Take an old overhead projector, gives you the light & the focus part at once.
2. Strip LCD screen (takes about 20 minutes if you do it carefully and want to be able to reassemble it later).
3. Put the lcd without backlight on the projector, and you are done.
Yes, it is carppy mod day!
As far as I know it is unofficial in case of pr0n sites. For gambling there is a law. So to me it seems as a case in which companies are "helping" a goverment in one of their "moral" goals which happen to interfere with free speech. There is not a clear law prohibiting this.
Since a long long time (I do not know the period, I worked for a creditcard processing intermediair).
The credit card transaction gets a "cardholder not present" + company designation code along. This combination results with most VISA/Mastercards (~75 to 80%) from US banks in a transaction refused. This is even higher for international (not residing in US) companies.
This refusal to do the transaction is based on two things:
1. image of the bank (ie censorship)
2. afraid for fraudulant transactions
This last one is "solved" nowadays by one time only creditcard numbers, extra codes like cvc (weak) or pin (stronger) or one time pin code (strong)
This is a part of it:/ 07/0013207&tid=142&tid=123&tid=137
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07
From there you can follow it yourself.
There are no results yet, wait a year or two (*at least I would say*) before there are any results.
Or: Microsoft funds articles by paying after the article is published, in a sort of "sponsor way" (Old /. post). So is Slate really independent, or do they just get paid afterwards?
And moving slowly goes 2 steps forward and 1 step back. The chinese goverment is the best communistic goverment around, since they manage not to break to much human rights, and really manage to distribute the wealth better as communistic herritage prescribes.
A switch in China, which was to be expected after the fall of the Soviet Union, would probably solve these freedom problems, but replace it with utter poverty for more people, and will most likely break more civil and human rights.
The chinese people know about democracy, they know what is wrong, and they have their own underground movements to push the right buttons to improve the situation. The attitude of chinese people is luckily a more mellow attitude than that of the US or western world, giving them the time to get those changes without a lot of blood shed.
So for the mean time there will be a chinese firewall. Since we can not stop the chinese goverment from doing this, the chinese themselves will show them one day that it needs to stop. Lets try to stop our own goverments from imposing blocks on the internet, for example the US goverment forbids international gambling and pr0n sites. US companies (VISA/MASTER) help the goverment in this by preventing people who want to visit those sites from being able to pay using their creditcard. There are probably other blocks which are less visible (conspiracy theory?), and enough examples to fight in the US and other countries, where we live ourselves.
The shuttle was a good idea, and a way complex machine, a complete step away from the disposable launch systems, a new design from the ground up, only partly drawing on previous experiences.
It failed in its goals. Still I rather go up in a shuttle with 2 failures in its lifetime, than to sit on top a kerosine leaking Russian Soyuz (?) launcher. It really smells like the kerosine around it, do not smoke, spark. It is incredibly reliable, can be launched at much more flexible (weather) conditions.
Weird, choose for the one which fails.
Design wise the Russians only did incremental changes, they did not really come up with any radical changes since the original design worked. This way they kept it reliable and cheaper, but lost a space race.
I would like to see a next generation launch vehicles which make the space shuttle look like a piece of history, of course if nobody dies, it is better, but to get ahead, some risk is needed.
The less than 1% is a statistic lie (-:
I didn't count the first accident. That is more like the exploding Ford explorers because of people adding bad parts to it.