Look. I work in a major US tech company and am involved with hiring from a technical level, and I can tell you first hand that the quantity of quality people in North America IS lacking. Out of all of the employees you hire, maybe 1 of the 10 is the rockstar you need for your project... the rest are OK, sure, but when you are working under tight timelines and need creative solutions on a global stage, you don't need a bunch of churned-out code monkeys, you NEED those rock stars.
This is NOT about cheap labor. Do you think it is cheap to pay a lawyer to handle the visa process (about 10K minimum), to handle the annual renewal (about 5K minimum), to pay global relocation expenses (another 10K)? On top of this, the wages and benefits we're talking about here in Silicon Valley are some of the highest in the country. We're not bringing people over from India and paying them 40K / year to work on Facebook - it is just not happening, it is a myth.
There are two problems we have here - We are not getting enough kids into STEM at an early age. Only kids who are really into STEM in middle and high school are the ones who go onto be the rock stars this country needs to compete. Someone who goes to university just to get a job in CS that pays well on graduation, and does not have a PASSION for technology, is not going to be this rock star.
- The US, like most countries in the OECD, has a declining birth rate. The US is one of the only remaining countries in the first world that still has replacement population birth levels, but very soon (maybe end of 2014), it won't anymore. Combine declining birth rates with accelerating boomers retiring and you have a very poor economic picture. WE NEED more skilled immigrants just to maintain the economy. Otherwise, you are going to have a very very scary picture developing in the next couple of decades.
There are many many cities in both the USA and Canada (and probably Europe) that have banned plastic bags. If you want to prove your case, then you should be able to point to simmilar correlation of increase of illness in those cities with the start of these bans as well. If, on the other hand, there is no such correlation in these other cities, then this has nothing to do with plastic bags at all and is something else happening in SF.
Exactly... why? This could get done so much faster and they could get so much assistance if they would open it up more. Why do you need to be a handset maker to see this? If they had released the source last year then I could be runnig it on my Optimus G right now.
Where is the source for Ubuntu for Android though?
That has been promoted since last summer, and was actually demoed last fall. Yet we have seen no source at all, they are only giving access to handset makers.
Ubuntu has been surprisingly close to the chest on this effort. I haven't seen any source code come out for this, or for their Ubuntu for Android work. If they release the source for this, it will be ported to a plethora of devices in a very short time period. There is a very active community of developers on xda-developers.com who would be all over this.
So it makes me wonder, if they plan on releasing source at all, or if this will be some closed-source fork, and thus useless.
It is still a lot less than eBay's total fees when you add up the final value fee AND the paypal fees, eBay runs you close to 12% on most items, sometimes close to 15%. Then on top of that, you have to pay to ship the item. With Amazon, you get a shipping credit to offset the cost of shipping.
I don't recall having to use Paypal when I sold my last 5 things from around the house on Amazon.
Experienced sellers are leaving eBay in droves. We're tired of paying 12%-15% total to sell our items when we can do it on Amazon for less than 1/2 that commission and reach just as large an audience. eBay needs to seriously change the way it does business because Amazon is going to drive them into irrelevance if they don't clean up their act. It's really a shame because they used to be a market leader and innovator, nowadays the only way they innovate is how to charge you more money.
I am sorry but I think you are living a bit in the past. All of the technologies you are talking about have been deprecated by Microsoft for a long time and are not sold as solutions anymore. They have all been replaced with.Net based solutions. And guess what,.Net runs in Gecko and Webkit as it does in Trident.
Also, this is all a moot point anyway. Adding ActiveX support to webkit would be a TRIVIAL excersize, compared to developing and supporting an entire browser engine (Trident). So it still makes no sense.
I know this is flamebait but I'm responding anyway.
There are many, many differences between swapping the windows kernel and a browser engine. The two largest being...
- The cost of the development effort to swap out the OS kernel would be at least a hundred fold. Instead of a million, think more like a hundred million. - It would break an enormous number of Windows applications relying on kernel apis. Changing from Trident to webkit is not going to real many web apps, they all have to already.
I still see no competitive advantage Microsoft gains by developing Trident that they would not by adopting and contributing to webkit. They would not lose any "control over the web" (whatever that means really), because they would be contributing to the engine that everyone uses to browse it, as opposed to today where they instead contribute to one only a minority uses.
The default opinion should not be "why SHOULD we switch to webkit", it should be, "why SHOULD we continue to invest tens of millions of dollars per year into developing, testing, and maintaining an engine that does not serve a competitive purpose anymore".
Trident literally makes Microsoft NO money, and costs them a TON of money. They don't license it. It serves no marketing or branding purpose, because people using IE do not know or care what engine is running their web pages. And the original plan of embrace the web and extend it with trident-specific extensions failed, and doesn't look like it is going to succeed any time soon.
So, why continue throwing all this money into this sinkhole? That is what I don't understand. As a shareholder, that is the question I would be asking.
You sound single. No woman (or really anyone with a sense of functional style in a room....) would want a TV that big in such a small space... it would look very ugly.
Yeah but I think you are still glossing over things.
A 42"-47" TV is about the same width as a 32" tube TV. It is what is "normal size" for a living room, IE 36" or less. 55", 60", they are not "normal size". You are now getting into a TV that is 4 or 5 feet wide. The place where most people put a TV simply can not accommodate a TV of that size. The living room is not layed out that way.
In coming years, 50-inch or 55-inch screens will have become the sort of standard that 40-inch TVs are now. To exploit 4K, you need a larger form factor. Youâ(TM)re just not going to notice enough of a difference on smaller screens.' The same quality/convenience argument leads him to believe that physical media for 4K content will struggle to gain traction among consumers.
I don't get how this person has the foresight to note all these things, but totally gloss over the fact that for many (I may even say most) living rooms, any TV above 46"-47" is simply too large. I will never have a 4K TV in my living room because there is simply nowhere to put a TV that is 55"... it doesn't matter if the manufacturer is selling it, heck it doesn't matter if it is FREE, I have nowhere to put the damn thing. 46" is already way bigger than needed.
If you have never heard of Vimeo you have your herd in the sand.
Anyway what Microsoft was sued for was not simply for being popular it was using their popularity in leveraged contracts with OEMs and then bundling other software with their OS to stifle competiion. Google is not doing anything like that at all.
Another comparison - why should Google be forced to open up a YouTube API to Microsoft when Microsoft won't open up the search API on Windows Phone to Google?
How is this different behind the tech used in the Galaxy Note, which is also an "Active Stylus", in that it is not just one of those imprecise capacitive-pen things, it is actually very precise with a fine tip?
Please explain to me how Google has a monopoly on anything, let alone how YouTube is a monopoly.
Something being very popular does not de-facto make it a monopoly. People need to stop throwing around terms like this.
YouTube has a ton of very large and viable competitors who could take it out in a second if Googe let their guard down, like Vimeo, DailyMotion, blip.tv, Viddler - not to metion Facebook and Bing themselves.
And when you live in a house, like oh say 50%+ of the population, you will now have to purchase 3 wireless routers to ensure coverage, whereas previously only one decent one was enough.
While most universities will not allow you to enroll in a degree part time, they will have no problem with you doing one or two courses. See if your employer will allow you to take off the 1 hour / day 3 days/week to do a course... this would let you do 4-5 courses / year. Whenever you do find the time to do your degree, all these credit hours will be out of the way and it will save you a lot of time.
You are living in the past... by the time this thing gets to mass production in 6-12 months, bargain-basement phones people get for free with their plan will have CPU specs equivalent to this device. It is only running a Tegra 3, it is nothing revolutionary or state of the art... it was the state of the art chip a year ago.
This is exactly why standalone consoles don't have future.
You can already play Android games with any PS3 controller. Why would you want to buy ANOTHER piece of kit with a crappier CPU and GPU than your phone, when you can just buy a PS3 controller and use your phone you already own?
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Let's see, which is better for my use as a criminal
- A gun that will "last for generations" and keep a permanent record of the ammo fired from it in the form of bullet striations
- A gun that I can fire 30-60 times and then literally dispose of in a fire leaving zero provable trace for anyone to link me to it
Why on earth would a criminal want a gun that would "last for generations" as opposed to one that can be used and then destroyed?
Look. I work in a major US tech company and am involved with hiring from a technical level, and I can tell you first hand that the quantity of quality people in North America IS lacking. Out of all of the employees you hire, maybe 1 of the 10 is the rockstar you need for your project... the rest are OK, sure, but when you are working under tight timelines and need creative solutions on a global stage, you don't need a bunch of churned-out code monkeys, you NEED those rock stars.
This is NOT about cheap labor. Do you think it is cheap to pay a lawyer to handle the visa process (about 10K minimum), to handle the annual renewal (about 5K minimum), to pay global relocation expenses (another 10K)? On top of this, the wages and benefits we're talking about here in Silicon Valley are some of the highest in the country. We're not bringing people over from India and paying them 40K / year to work on Facebook - it is just not happening, it is a myth.
There are two problems we have here
- We are not getting enough kids into STEM at an early age. Only kids who are really into STEM in middle and high school are the ones who go onto be the rock stars this country needs to compete. Someone who goes to university just to get a job in CS that pays well on graduation, and does not have a PASSION for technology, is not going to be this rock star.
- The US, like most countries in the OECD, has a declining birth rate. The US is one of the only remaining countries in the first world that still has replacement population birth levels, but very soon (maybe end of 2014), it won't anymore. Combine declining birth rates with accelerating boomers retiring and you have a very poor economic picture. WE NEED more skilled immigrants just to maintain the economy. Otherwise, you are going to have a very very scary picture developing in the next couple of decades.
Just walk into any store and buy a prepaid visa with cash. Use prepaid visa to buy bitcoins. Done and done.
There are many many cities in both the USA and Canada (and probably Europe) that have banned plastic bags. If you want to prove your case, then you should be able to point to simmilar correlation of increase of illness in those cities with the start of these bans as well. If, on the other hand, there is no such correlation in these other cities, then this has nothing to do with plastic bags at all and is something else happening in SF.
I would be willing to wager the latter.
Exactly... why? This could get done so much faster and they could get so much assistance if they would open it up more. Why do you need to be a handset maker to see this? If they had released the source last year then I could be runnig it on my Optimus G right now.
Where is the source for Ubuntu for Android though?
That has been promoted since last summer, and was actually demoed last fall. Yet we have seen no source at all, they are only giving access to handset makers.
Ubuntu has been surprisingly close to the chest on this effort. I haven't seen any source code come out for this, or for their Ubuntu for Android work. If they release the source for this, it will be ported to a plethora of devices in a very short time period. There is a very active community of developers on xda-developers.com who would be all over this.
So it makes me wonder, if they plan on releasing source at all, or if this will be some closed-source fork, and thus useless.
"Like con-men, spies know that in the work place, a clipboard is as good as a skeleton key."
- Burn Notice
They don't even need to do that. They can push down a profile that disables the camera based on cell location, so there is no need for any of this.
It is still a lot less than eBay's total fees when you add up the final value fee AND the paypal fees, eBay runs you close to 12% on most items, sometimes close to 15%. Then on top of that, you have to pay to ship the item. With Amazon, you get a shipping credit to offset the cost of shipping.
I don't recall having to use Paypal when I sold my last 5 things from around the house on Amazon.
Experienced sellers are leaving eBay in droves. We're tired of paying 12%-15% total to sell our items when we can do it on Amazon for less than 1/2 that commission and reach just as large an audience. eBay needs to seriously change the way it does business because Amazon is going to drive them into irrelevance if they don't clean up their act. It's really a shame because they used to be a market leader and innovator, nowadays the only way they innovate is how to charge you more money.
I am sorry but I think you are living a bit in the past. All of the technologies you are talking about have been deprecated by Microsoft for a long time and are not sold as solutions anymore. They have all been replaced with .Net based solutions. And guess what, .Net runs in Gecko and Webkit as it does in Trident.
Also, this is all a moot point anyway. Adding ActiveX support to webkit would be a TRIVIAL excersize, compared to developing and supporting an entire browser engine (Trident). So it still makes no sense.
I know this is flamebait but I'm responding anyway.
There are many, many differences between swapping the windows kernel and a browser engine. The two largest being...
- The cost of the development effort to swap out the OS kernel would be at least a hundred fold. Instead of a million, think more like a hundred million.
- It would break an enormous number of Windows applications relying on kernel apis. Changing from Trident to webkit is not going to real many web apps, they all have to already.
I still see no competitive advantage Microsoft gains by developing Trident that they would not by adopting and contributing to webkit. They would not lose any "control over the web" (whatever that means really), because they would be contributing to the engine that everyone uses to browse it, as opposed to today where they instead contribute to one only a minority uses.
Microsoft is a public corporation.
The default opinion should not be "why SHOULD we switch to webkit", it should be, "why SHOULD we continue to invest tens of millions of dollars per year into developing, testing, and maintaining an engine that does not serve a competitive purpose anymore".
Trident literally makes Microsoft NO money, and costs them a TON of money. They don't license it. It serves no marketing or branding purpose, because people using IE do not know or care what engine is running their web pages. And the original plan of embrace the web and extend it with trident-specific extensions failed, and doesn't look like it is going to succeed any time soon.
So, why continue throwing all this money into this sinkhole? That is what I don't understand. As a shareholder, that is the question I would be asking.
You sound single. No woman (or really anyone with a sense of functional style in a room....) would want a TV that big in such a small space... it would look very ugly.
Yeah but I think you are still glossing over things.
A 42"-47" TV is about the same width as a 32" tube TV. It is what is "normal size" for a living room, IE 36" or less. 55", 60", they are not "normal size". You are now getting into a TV that is 4 or 5 feet wide. The place where most people put a TV simply can not accommodate a TV of that size. The living room is not layed out that way.
EVER, for ANY reason.
Doesn't matter if you are innocent
Doesn't matter if you are guilty
Doesn't matter if you are just a bystander
Doesn't matter if they are just canvasing the neighborhood
Don't talk to police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
In coming years, 50-inch or 55-inch screens will have become the sort of standard that 40-inch TVs are now. To exploit 4K, you need a larger form factor. Youâ(TM)re just not going to notice enough of a difference on smaller screens.' The same quality/convenience argument leads him to believe that physical media for 4K content will struggle to gain traction among consumers.
I don't get how this person has the foresight to note all these things, but totally gloss over the fact that for many (I may even say most) living rooms, any TV above 46"-47" is simply too large. I will never have a 4K TV in my living room because there is simply nowhere to put a TV that is 55"... it doesn't matter if the manufacturer is selling it, heck it doesn't matter if it is FREE, I have nowhere to put the damn thing. 46" is already way bigger than needed.
If you have never heard of Vimeo you have your herd in the sand.
Anyway what Microsoft was sued for was not simply for being popular it was using their popularity in leveraged contracts with OEMs and then bundling other software with their OS to stifle competiion. Google is not doing anything like that at all.
Another comparison - why should Google be forced to open up a YouTube API to Microsoft when Microsoft won't open up the search API on Windows Phone to Google?
How is this different behind the tech used in the Galaxy Note, which is also an "Active Stylus", in that it is not just one of those imprecise capacitive-pen things, it is actually very precise with a fine tip?
Please explain to me how Google has a monopoly on anything, let alone how YouTube is a monopoly.
Something being very popular does not de-facto make it a monopoly. People need to stop throwing around terms like this.
YouTube has a ton of very large and viable competitors who could take it out in a second if Googe let their guard down, like Vimeo, DailyMotion, blip.tv, Viddler - not to metion Facebook and Bing themselves.
And when you live in a house, like oh say 50%+ of the population, you will now have to purchase 3 wireless routers to ensure coverage, whereas previously only one decent one was enough.
While most universities will not allow you to enroll in a degree part time, they will have no problem with you doing one or two courses. See if your employer will allow you to take off the 1 hour / day 3 days/week to do a course... this would let you do 4-5 courses / year. Whenever you do find the time to do your degree, all these credit hours will be out of the way and it will save you a lot of time.
You are living in the past... by the time this thing gets to mass production in 6-12 months, bargain-basement phones people get for free with their plan will have CPU specs equivalent to this device. It is only running a Tegra 3, it is nothing revolutionary or state of the art... it was the state of the art chip a year ago.
This is exactly why standalone consoles don't have future.
You can already play Android games with any PS3 controller. Why would you want to buy ANOTHER piece of kit with a crappier CPU and GPU than your phone, when you can just buy a PS3 controller and use your phone you already own?