This seems to be a problem unique to the US aerospace industry specifically, and not US manufacturing in general. Both my 1987 Chrysler lebaron and my 1996 dodge neon were made entirely in the US, and both are 100% metric (except for the spark plugs).
It's not so much the debate about creationism vs evolution itself that is the problem, it's more about the marginalization of science that is a prerequisite of creationism (god created the earth, but science disagrees, therefore science MUST be wrong)
The ability to blindly believe that something is true, despite more recent evidence, is not an ability that should be encouraged.
That makes perfect sense (putting out a terrible product to re-align the market), and in retrospect seems to have been Microsoft's strategy for a very long time.
Win 95 sucked in order to get everyone ready for win 98, Win ME (and 2k) sucked for the sake of XP, and Vista bombed to make way for win 7.
Unfortunately, this "black hole" re-alignment hasn't been working in their favor lately. windows CE "smartphones" sucked, and now everyone has an iphone or android. likewise with MS tablet pc vs ipad, MS zune vs ipod, and MS e-book reader vs kindle. All of these failed MS products paved the way for more successful products, just not for MS
I think Bill Gates failed to adequately explain to Steve Ballmer just how the "suck-succeed cycle" is supposed to work, and now poor Ballmer is stuck in the "suck" part of that cycle, hoping that a success just magically appears out of thin air like it did when Gates was in charge.
He's not anticipating that his team will sexually harass this women, He is anticipating that NO MATTER WHAT the guys on his team say (calling each other gay, etc), this new woman will find SOMETHING to interpret as sexual harassment, even if it has nothing to do with her.
One year, shortly before Christmas, someone gave me and my mother a whole frozen turkey. Because we lived in a small apartment we only had a fridge/freezer and we didn't have room for the turkey.
Being early winter in Minnesota, the logical thing was to just put it outside on the porch, in a large cooler, and let mother nature keep it frozen.
This plan would have worked brilliantly, except we completely forgot about the turkey until late July.....
What kind of NDA do they have that keeps them from saying why it was pulled? (or do they have a "fight club" NDA prohibiting them from talking about the NDA?)
Does Apple make every iOS developer sign an NDA, or only the security researchers.
So in order to keep Steve Balmer happy, they will hide the truth from him.
And people wonder why Balmer is running MS into the ground. Maybe it's because everyone is tiptoeing around him, making sure his rose-colored glasses never come off
I'm sure there are boatloads of wifi/BT/2g/3g/4g patents standing in the way of this.
The recent ITU lawsuits have shown that it's nearly impossible to build even a single-purpose wifi chip without stepping on SOMEONE'S patents, let alone a multi-protocol chip
double-blind, reverse engineered code is considered a derivative work? how does that work?
That's like saying that one of my friends goes to a concert, describes what the music sounded like (without actually playing a recording of the concert), and then I write a song, that new song would be a derivative work? If thats the case then EVERYTHING humans have EVER created is a derivative work.
You should have just produced the item. The shareware authors have no standing to sue, because the original shareware titles included a sharing license. (license.txt)
I suspect that if they were demanding that amount of money, there was a misunderstanding about which version of the games you were wanting to release (as in, they thought you wanted to release the full version).
They generally work until they can't work any more, then sell everything they own (a lot of people own houses), and spend 10 years waiting to die in whatever retirement home that social security (small tax-funded pension) can afford.
American society as a whole is pretty messed up, parents don't raise their kids anymore (both parents too busy working) and adults don't take care of their old-age parents (they don't live in the same house, and are still too busy working).
You assume there is a better job, and you assume that you are likely to get that job instead of the 200 other people who applied for that same job.
That is a fair assumption to make.
People don't work fast food because they WANT to, they work it because it's the best job they could get.
If true, then they should be happy with what they have. Sounds like cutting back on their expenses would be more productive than griping that they aren't getting paid more.
A few years ago, I applied for one of 7 positions open for machine operator work at an oil-pan factory in Manitowoc WI. they were getting applications at the rate of 200 PER HOUR. (and they were taking apps for 3 days)
Sounds to me like either you were a really good fit at that job or the application was a waste of your time. Either way, so what? Apply to stuff where you're more competitive.
There is only so far you can cut your expenses (you can't really get lower than $400/mo for rent, for example), and it's pretty tough to meet basic needs when you make $7.25 an hour and only get 20-30 hours a week ($650-950/mo before taxes). There is a reason why the new-hire paperwork at walmart includes medicare and food-stamp applications. Simply "being happy with what you have" is fine, but gets rather difficult when you can't even cover your own basic needs (let alone save for the future, or raise a family).
I suspect you have never actually been truly poor before. (like, 'going to the food shelf', or 'selling blood plasma to pay rent' poor)
And the story about the factory job (which I didn't get due to lack of machine-operator experience) was only included to illustrate how much competition there was for so few jobs.
You assume there is a better job, and you assume that you are likely to get that job instead of the 200 other people who applied for that same job. This is made even worse when several of those 200 people are related to someone already working at the company.
People don't work fast food because they WANT to, they work it because it's the best job they could get. (it's hard to find a better job when there are 10-times more job-seekers than jobs)
A few years ago, I applied for one of 7 positions open for machine operator work at an oil-pan factory in Manitowoc WI. they were getting applications at the rate of 200 PER HOUR. (and they were taking apps for 3 days)
It's very unlikely that Microsoft would pay humans to manually create a filter list. They most likely wrote a custom Bing spider that searched for sites to block, with no human oversight. And we all know how accurate the Bing search engine is....
Those were basic question that a child would ask, how about some grown up questions.
How much water does the earth contain (including the ice caps)? Assuming the ice caps melted and caused the flood, how long would it take them to melt (at a reasonable earth-like temperature)?.
How many animals were on the arc (seven pairs of every bird and clean animal, and one pair of every unclean animal)? how much space would they take up? How much food would they require? How much would all of these animals (and their food weigh), and would the arc even float with that kind of weight?
If you are given an answer that is all neat and tidy and doesn't lead to more questions, it's probably the wrong answer. "Because God is all powerful and he loves us" is about the tidiest answer you could ever give someone.
I really believe that some people are so severely stressed out by unanswered questions that they are willing to accept the tidy (but false) answers just to get rid of the nagging questions.
It is no wonder that we have a lack of reasoning skills when we have a popular religion that instructs us NOT to reason, and to simply accept things the way they are without question.
Having children who can properly think and reason leads to uncomfortable questions like : "why are there no dinosaurs in the bible?" or "how can the entire earth flood in only a few days?" or "where did Noah store all that food?"
In other words, The US is full of stupid people, because their religion tells them to be stupid
The difference is that the oatmeal doesn't have a full-time team of lobbists wining and dining politicians 24/7 in order to get the laws changed in their favor
Also, The RIAA has never actually sued the pirate bay directly, all they have ever done is sue ISPs in other counties to have thepiratebay blocked.
It's not hypocrisy if you ignore the legal issues and always root for the underdog
What if insurer also gets a percentage of A, and that kickback percentage of A is larger than all of B?
Most businesses (especially service and manufacturing) have a significant outlay on product cost before they every see a dime from the customer (it has to be made before it can be sold, or you have to hire servers before you can serve) These companies usually have to borrow a ton of money to get started.
Insurance is a business were the customer pays for something BEFORE the company has any real "product" overhead. The insurance company has to "save up" the premiums they collect, so they can afford to pay out claims later (if they have to). This is where all the loan money comes from that other companies need. This means that the insurance company "owns" that manufacturing or service business in one way or another (either as a stock holder, or a loan holder)
If someone handed you a huge wad of cash and said "you can hold on to this and do whatever you want with it, as long as you give most of it back later" what would you do?
Think about how many customers an insurance company has, and how much each customer is insured for. They don't have all that money just sitting in a box somewhere.
The solution to "insider theft" is simple: Don't hire from the bottom of the barrel just to save a buck, and you won't have to fire people. Treat your employees like valuable assets and not just cogs, and your people won't quit.
This may seem sensible, until you look at where the insurance company invests their earnings. Chances are, that insurance company owns at least a small amount of stock in the hearing aid company (insurance companies own TONS of stock)
If you can overcharge at both ends, and profit from the middle, why wouldn't you?
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he is looking for high-tech solutions, like noise generators and noise cancellation, he already did the low-tech stuff.
This seems to be a problem unique to the US aerospace industry specifically, and not US manufacturing in general. Both my 1987 Chrysler lebaron and my 1996 dodge neon were made entirely in the US, and both are 100% metric (except for the spark plugs).
It's not so much the debate about creationism vs evolution itself that is the problem, it's more about the marginalization of science that is a prerequisite of creationism (god created the earth, but science disagrees, therefore science MUST be wrong)
The ability to blindly believe that something is true, despite more recent evidence, is not an ability that should be encouraged.
This definitely has my vote.
You can't get much more depressing than a book about people who are basically waiting to die of radiation poisoning, with no hope whatsoever
That makes perfect sense (putting out a terrible product to re-align the market), and in retrospect seems to have been Microsoft's strategy for a very long time.
Win 95 sucked in order to get everyone ready for win 98, Win ME (and 2k) sucked for the sake of XP, and Vista bombed to make way for win 7.
Unfortunately, this "black hole" re-alignment hasn't been working in their favor lately. windows CE "smartphones" sucked, and now everyone has an iphone or android. likewise with MS tablet pc vs ipad, MS zune vs ipod, and MS e-book reader vs kindle. All of these failed MS products paved the way for more successful products, just not for MS
I think Bill Gates failed to adequately explain to Steve Ballmer just how the "suck-succeed cycle" is supposed to work, and now poor Ballmer is stuck in the "suck" part of that cycle, hoping that a success just magically appears out of thin air like it did when Gates was in charge.
He's not anticipating that his team will sexually harass this women, He is anticipating that NO MATTER WHAT the guys on his team say (calling each other gay, etc), this new woman will find SOMETHING to interpret as sexual harassment, even if it has nothing to do with her.
One year, shortly before Christmas, someone gave me and my mother a whole frozen turkey. Because we lived in a small apartment we only had a fridge/freezer and we didn't have room for the turkey.
Being early winter in Minnesota, the logical thing was to just put it outside on the porch, in a large cooler, and let mother nature keep it frozen.
This plan would have worked brilliantly, except we completely forgot about the turkey until late July.....
What kind of NDA do they have that keeps them from saying why it was pulled? (or do they have a "fight club" NDA prohibiting them from talking about the NDA?)
Does Apple make every iOS developer sign an NDA, or only the security researchers.
Something doesn't add up here.
You can't let something like "increased risk of cancer" stand in the way of sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.
So in order to keep Steve Balmer happy, they will hide the truth from him.
And people wonder why Balmer is running MS into the ground. Maybe it's because everyone is tiptoeing around him, making sure his rose-colored glasses never come off
I'm sure there are boatloads of wifi/BT/2g/3g/4g patents standing in the way of this.
The recent ITU lawsuits have shown that it's nearly impossible to build even a single-purpose wifi chip without stepping on SOMEONE'S patents, let alone a multi-protocol chip
double-blind, reverse engineered code is considered a derivative work? how does that work?
That's like saying that one of my friends goes to a concert, describes what the music sounded like (without actually playing a recording of the concert), and then I write a song, that new song would be a derivative work? If thats the case then EVERYTHING humans have EVER created is a derivative work.
You should have just produced the item. The shareware authors have no standing to sue, because the original shareware titles included a sharing license. (license.txt)
I suspect that if they were demanding that amount of money, there was a misunderstanding about which version of the games you were wanting to release (as in, they thought you wanted to release the full version).
He wanted to re-package the SHAREWARE version, not the full version. You are old enough to know what SHAREWARE is right?
They generally work until they can't work any more, then sell everything they own (a lot of people own houses), and spend 10 years waiting to die in whatever retirement home that social security (small tax-funded pension) can afford.
American society as a whole is pretty messed up, parents don't raise their kids anymore (both parents too busy working) and adults don't take care of their old-age parents (they don't live in the same house, and are still too busy working).
You assume there is a better job, and you assume that you are likely to get that job instead of the 200 other people who applied for that same job.
That is a fair assumption to make.
People don't work fast food because they WANT to, they work it because it's the best job they could get.
If true, then they should be happy with what they have. Sounds like cutting back on their expenses would be more productive than griping that they aren't getting paid more.
A few years ago, I applied for one of 7 positions open for machine operator work at an oil-pan factory in Manitowoc WI. they were getting applications at the rate of 200 PER HOUR. (and they were taking apps for 3 days)
Sounds to me like either you were a really good fit at that job or the application was a waste of your time. Either way, so what? Apply to stuff where you're more competitive.
There is only so far you can cut your expenses (you can't really get lower than $400/mo for rent, for example), and it's pretty tough to meet basic needs when you make $7.25 an hour and only get 20-30 hours a week ($650-950/mo before taxes). There is a reason why the new-hire paperwork at walmart includes medicare and food-stamp applications. Simply "being happy with what you have" is fine, but gets rather difficult when you can't even cover your own basic needs (let alone save for the future, or raise a family).
I suspect you have never actually been truly poor before. (like, 'going to the food shelf', or 'selling blood plasma to pay rent' poor)
And the story about the factory job (which I didn't get due to lack of machine-operator experience) was only included to illustrate how much competition there was for so few jobs.
You assume there is a better job, and you assume that you are likely to get that job instead of the 200 other people who applied for that same job. This is made even worse when several of those 200 people are related to someone already working at the company.
People don't work fast food because they WANT to, they work it because it's the best job they could get. (it's hard to find a better job when there are 10-times more job-seekers than jobs)
A few years ago, I applied for one of 7 positions open for machine operator work at an oil-pan factory in Manitowoc WI. they were getting applications at the rate of 200 PER HOUR. (and they were taking apps for 3 days)
I think that if Nvidia was willing to write better linux drivers for a price, then that price would be published by now
The problem is not not that Nvidia won't do it for free, it's that they won't do it AT ALL, for any price.
It's very unlikely that Microsoft would pay humans to manually create a filter list. They most likely wrote a custom Bing spider that searched for sites to block, with no human oversight. And we all know how accurate the Bing search engine is....
Those were basic question that a child would ask, how about some grown up questions.
How much water does the earth contain (including the ice caps)? Assuming the ice caps melted and caused the flood, how long would it take them to melt (at a reasonable earth-like temperature)?.
How many animals were on the arc (seven pairs of every bird and clean animal, and one pair of every unclean animal)? how much space would they take up? How much food would they require? How much would all of these animals (and their food weigh), and would the arc even float with that kind of weight?
If you are given an answer that is all neat and tidy and doesn't lead to more questions, it's probably the wrong answer. "Because God is all powerful and he loves us" is about the tidiest answer you could ever give someone.
I really believe that some people are so severely stressed out by unanswered questions that they are willing to accept the tidy (but false) answers just to get rid of the nagging questions.
It is no wonder that we have a lack of reasoning skills when we have a popular religion that instructs us NOT to reason, and to simply accept things the way they are without question.
Having children who can properly think and reason leads to uncomfortable questions like : "why are there no dinosaurs in the bible?" or "how can the entire earth flood in only a few days?" or "where did Noah store all that food?"
In other words, The US is full of stupid people, because their religion tells them to be stupid
The difference is that the oatmeal doesn't have a full-time team of lobbists wining and dining politicians 24/7 in order to get the laws changed in their favor
Also, The RIAA has never actually sued the pirate bay directly, all they have ever done is sue ISPs in other counties to have thepiratebay blocked.
It's not hypocrisy if you ignore the legal issues and always root for the underdog
What if insurer also gets a percentage of A, and that kickback percentage of A is larger than all of B?
Most businesses (especially service and manufacturing) have a significant outlay on product cost before they every see a dime from the customer (it has to be made before it can be sold, or you have to hire servers before you can serve) These companies usually have to borrow a ton of money to get started.
Insurance is a business were the customer pays for something BEFORE the company has any real "product" overhead. The insurance company has to "save up" the premiums they collect, so they can afford to pay out claims later (if they have to). This is where all the loan money comes from that other companies need. This means that the insurance company "owns" that manufacturing or service business in one way or another (either as a stock holder, or a loan holder)
If someone handed you a huge wad of cash and said "you can hold on to this and do whatever you want with it, as long as you give most of it back later" what would you do?
Think about how many customers an insurance company has, and how much each customer is insured for. They don't have all that money just sitting in a box somewhere.
The solution to "insider theft" is simple:
Don't hire from the bottom of the barrel just to save a buck, and you won't have to fire people.
Treat your employees like valuable assets and not just cogs, and your people won't quit.
This may seem sensible, until you look at where the insurance company invests their earnings. Chances are, that insurance company owns at least a small amount of stock in the hearing aid company (insurance companies own TONS of stock)
If you can overcharge at both ends, and profit from the middle, why wouldn't you?