Thanks prefec2. Outsourcing is a game of the rich. We can not change it as we are not the rich or politicians. When we become rich, we won't want to change. Mr. Buffet is brave to tell the truth. What he can do further is to tell everyone which law exactly gave him lower taxes than average Joe. That may be even more helpful. Back to topic, Kindle will not be manufactured in U.S. as a consequence of globalization and outsourcing.
U.S. gov should be responsible mostly: 1. It allows the trend to move on, and helped removing trade barriers. 2. It allows highly risky financial operations and get economy growth/tax from it. Financial management generally does not *create*. It manipulates and circulates. 3. It let goes the load-based life style to go deeply to many American's mind. Think twice, you will find the countries with its people getting rich faster usually have higher deposit rate. The leverage of loans is more often a risk and over consumption.
1. Profit - Enterprises are eager to get lower cost to increase their margins. 2. Globalization - Companies and politicians work together to break trade barriers and allow imports/exports more freely to create more revenue and profit. 3. Consumer - Always wants a better price. If you manufacture everything in U.S., I'll bet iPhone/iPad needs > 50% price up.
As a Foxconn (who manufactures for Dell/Apple/HP...) employee, what I can share is that our business model is to make the money from the least wanted portion of the supply chain. As long as we maintain our volume huge enough with least profits, we can survive for a very long long time. We never make easy money but always the toughest.
If Americans can work more than 12 hours every day, 5 or 6 days a week with no overtime pay, less than 20k/yr (most production line workers make less than 10k/yr). You can manufacture anything.
Thinking positively. After China and India become rich, at the end, maybe Africa will get rich too. The greedy of managers eventually saves children lives in Africa.
You missed the whole point. The point of fuel efficiency. Not SUV.
Also, this is not a PR to against American culture. It is a PR telling everyone be prepared for Paris' new rule. It is eccentric to deny this PR to defend the not trendy life style of some north American people. IMHO.
Good point! Most of us are not Sister Teresa or her followers. I will never have the inner freedom as she had because I am so (and glad to be) ordinary.
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Okay. I will be serious about this issue and in this single post, there is nothing related to my previous talk.
The real question, to me, is whether this is legal. The telco has to list this module as their property even when you are paying for this notebook.
If the telco has explained it explicitly, not hiding it in a thick agreement document, then *subscribers* are aware of the risk.
It is like when I own a house. If I don't pay my electric bill, the power company can not just break in and remove the power, instead, they can do it on their facility.
The issue to user is, whether you want to buy or to rent a house.
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Oops. I am simply trying to think positively for any pitfalls you tried (worried) to address.
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If people shoot at students and teachers in a campus and kill themselves in the end, it would be nicer if they kills thousands of computers and the owners can spend some time with their families.
I must say I agree that Google is doing very well so far. There are restrictions that Google is applying to some countries' users because of local gov regulations. I once asked someone in Google, she told me a *standard answer*: Google will try to provide the most info to the people in that country as possible. Agree or not, I think it is doing okay.
But the key is, it *is* doing well. Not *will* do well. Corporates change their minds. We do not rely on their history to judge their future. (Convince me Google helped Yang when he was been kicked off if you can.)
Like constitution which states freedom is our natural right. We need some form of protection in case of Google's mind changed or drifted.
Kyoto protocol is actually just for reference. Tell China to raise its coal and gas price to reduce the consumption, which eventually get most things pricey. And lose its export competitive advantage.
Not just China. Try other developing countries, and let me whether any one of them follows.
If Apple could enforced Foxconn not becoming a sweater-shop (slashdotters know about the story/rumor of Apple's sweater shop), it shall be able to do the same for pollution control.
Why does Apple care about the sweater-shop? The gov and consumer group made it to. Tell me that gov can't do it. Oops, one problem specific to U.S. is itself has not signed Kyoto protocol yet.
-> Apples buys iPhone from Foxconn. -> Foxconn manufactures it in China for cost. -> iPhone has lower BOM cost. -> Apple can be sold at "reasonable" price or "reasonable" margin. -> Customers buy it because it is "affordable".
iPhone is just one typical good fab in China and sold in U.S. among other millions.
Got the idea?
The truth is: most of us who buy "made in china" stuffs are responsible for that. You have no right to blame China for polluting the whole world.
Ask governments and sourcers to fix this by setting regulations.
EU set LEAD-FREE law that enforces cleaner products. The pollution problem can be solved this way, too.
Or modify from an existed one. To make it generate MAC address dynamically and avoid collision automatically. It may become a "survive through RIAA jungle" tool.
And attached to each P2P software release and set a world record of d/l.
Can I apply a patent for this? (Just in case I may violate some RIAA's patent.)
The reason that Ubuntu can be popular is not about Ubuntu, it's about Vista.
Microsoft has a fundamental problem since Ballmer is on: Strategy is more important than technology.
Yes, strategy can be a great weapon. Just like medication can heal your disease. But it also can be poisonous if you overdose.
As I knew, the root of Linux is not about defeating other OS. It is about creating a better OS, thereafter, a better world. It is Microsoft's problem to create a better OS. If Microsoft does, Linux can also be improved since there are better designs.
You can't do the same test on Slashdot. There is no difference between smart/stupid on this site as far as I can tell. You can only survey what OS/Browser is most Insightful, Funny,..., and so on.
"The only thing that human learned from history is that human doesn't learn from history."
So we all have this "defect".
I personally don't think this is totally a "defect", since if there is such a "defect", Wright brothers might have given up earlier than 105 years ago.
Current patent qualification process has the pitfall that the administration officers can't be the experts for every *patent*. They may have no service such as this in their local Papa John. If a prior art does exist but wasn't found during qualification process, the dispute is resolved through law procedure. I think what we can do is to find some http://www.peertopatent.org/ like sites to provide more prior arts.
It's not hard to find patents that re-represent human interaction as a piece of software and they to be resolved through law suits if a dispute has occurred. And I can't agree more that real-world interactions should be listed as a reject principle when qualifying a software patent.
Software is very different from real-world. In the real world, you can give the movie DVD to your friend and have no problem. But in software world, if you want to share the mp3 you bought to your friend and delete your copy, shall this be legal or illegal? It is just different and the law makers should actually used the technologies before digital world bills are voted.
I read on a book about a Germany based solar plate vendor
produces their solar plates using the power generated from
the solar plates they produced and installed outside their
building.
This is not a perfect solution. But better then totally rely
on power generated from other not-green sources.
The key here is you have metrics to measure performance of schedulers.
I think some of the key scheduler performance metrics includes: 1. Context switch time. 2. Fair scheduling 3. Interactive tasks are interactive. 4. Certain applications always get larger portion of time if needed. 5. Real time.
There are things called "parameters" that you can adjust to adopt Linux to your need.
This doesn't say Linux scheduler is perfect. It is evolving, too. A few years ago, many embedded systems that needs real time scheduler can't be implemented on Linux because timing requirements. Now the scheduler supports real time and I can still use any applications without knowing what the hack they have done to scheduler.
Now.
Give me an example that Linux scheduler can't satisfy your needs, and, Give me an example that one security architecture satisfies you and me.
There are actually two kinds of spammers as I know, just like cars: 1. automatic 2. manual
For the manual ones, you can use ways like web form. But it is also impossible to block them totally in an automatic way. Though you can filter spams from manual spammers with filtering programs, the limit could be the trade-off between the accuracy and false positive.
For the automatic ones, as the spammers typically craw your whole site and collect every email addresses it founds. I think a complicated method can be used is to add a false email account on your mail server and publish this email on your website in a way that your friends/customers will never found it. (How about a tiny hidden link?) The mails received in this account can be considered spam and be compared with all received emails in normal accounts. Maybe some intelligence is needed to compare if some spam mails change its text dynamically.
Apple has sticked to its core competency: Design fantastic products and marketing them.
Though not always work, but for a consumer electronic product, Apple has good chance to
win the fancy high-end ones. Especially with new business model been built. Apple joined
the player market with iTunes supporting its iPod products. While back then if you tell
someone to sell MP3 in this way, he/she mostly would thought you're out of your mind:
RIAA will not allow that!
Dell is good at: cost down and stream line the manufacturing all the way to service.
With a PC or laptop, the price has been the critical factor you consider when you buy one
(for most of us). That's one of the domains their core competency has effect on.
I think designing fancy new stuff and dealing with the media industry shall not be their
expertise (although they are supposed to be good at talking over phone.)
You know what? I think Steve Jobs will not be Steve Jobs in Dell.
Another example is dual version PC from Apple. Apple is selling their PC MAC in a new way.
And by the time people found a dual-boot PC can work, you'll see *maybe* Dell selling PC that
can dual-booting Linux and Windows with a very good price.
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Thanks prefec2. Outsourcing is a game of the rich. We can not change it as we are not the rich or politicians. When we become rich, we won't want to change. Mr. Buffet is brave to tell the truth. What he can do further is to tell everyone which law exactly gave him lower taxes than average Joe. That may be even more helpful. Back to topic, Kindle will not be manufactured in U.S. as a consequence of globalization and outsourcing.
U.S. gov should be responsible mostly:
1. It allows the trend to move on, and helped removing trade barriers.
2. It allows highly risky financial operations and get economy growth/tax from it. Financial management generally does not *create*. It manipulates and circulates.
3. It let goes the load-based life style to go deeply to many American's mind. Think twice, you will find the countries with its people getting rich faster usually have higher deposit rate. The leverage of loans is more often a risk and over consumption.
1. Profit - Enterprises are eager to get lower cost to increase their margins.
2. Globalization - Companies and politicians work together to break trade barriers and allow imports/exports more freely to create more revenue and profit.
3. Consumer - Always wants a better price. If you manufacture everything in U.S., I'll bet iPhone/iPad needs > 50% price up.
As a Foxconn (who manufactures for Dell/Apple/HP...) employee, what I can share is that our business model is to make the money from the least wanted portion of the supply chain. As long as we maintain our volume huge enough with least profits, we can survive for a very long long time. We never make easy money but always the toughest.
If Americans can work more than 12 hours every day, 5 or 6 days a week with no overtime pay, less than 20k/yr (most production line workers make less than 10k/yr). You can manufacture anything.
Thinking positively. After China and India become rich, at the end, maybe Africa will get rich too. The greedy of managers eventually saves children lives in Africa.
How about Sweden?
Don't forget to bring the condoms
You missed the whole point. The point of fuel efficiency. Not SUV.
Also, this is not a PR to against American culture.
It is a PR telling everyone be prepared for Paris' new rule. It is eccentric to deny this PR to defend the not trendy life style of some north American people. IMHO.
Inner freedom my ass.
Good point!
Most of us are not Sister Teresa or her followers. I will never have the inner freedom as she had because I am so (and glad to be) ordinary.
Will the screen still be blue?
Okay. I will be serious about this issue and in this single post, there is nothing related to my previous talk.
The real question, to me, is whether this is legal. The telco has to list this module as their property even when you are paying for this notebook.
If the telco has explained it explicitly, not hiding it in a thick agreement document, then *subscribers* are aware of the risk.
It is like when I own a house. If I don't pay my electric bill, the power company can not just break in and remove the power, instead, they can do it on their facility.
The issue to user is, whether you want to buy or to rent a house.
Oops. I am simply trying to think positively for any pitfalls you tried (worried) to address.
If people shoot at students and teachers in a campus and kill themselves in the end, it would be nicer if they kills thousands of computers and the owners can spend some time with their families.
Every slashdotters know this famous slogan.
I must say I agree that Google is doing very well so far. There are restrictions that Google is applying to some countries' users because of local gov regulations. I once asked someone in Google, she told me a *standard answer*: Google will try to provide the most info to the people in that country as possible. Agree or not, I think it is doing okay.
But the key is, it *is* doing well. Not *will* do well. Corporates change their minds. We do not rely on their history to judge their future. (Convince me Google helped Yang when he was been kicked off if you can.)
Like constitution which states freedom is our natural right. We need some form of protection in case of Google's mind changed or drifted.
"Okay, you win (vista)", says a penguin.
Kyoto protocol is actually just for reference.
Tell China to raise its coal and gas price to reduce the consumption, which eventually get most things pricey. And lose its export competitive advantage.
Not just China. Try other developing countries, and let me whether any one of them follows.
If Apple could enforced Foxconn not becoming a sweater-shop (slashdotters know about the story/rumor of Apple's sweater shop), it shall be able to do the same for pollution control.
Why does Apple care about the sweater-shop? The gov and consumer group made it to. Tell me that gov can't do it. Oops, one problem specific to U.S. is itself has not signed Kyoto protocol yet.
The statement above is not totally true.
Take iPhone for example.
-> Apples buys iPhone from Foxconn.
-> Foxconn manufactures it in China for cost.
-> iPhone has lower BOM cost.
-> Apple can be sold at "reasonable" price or "reasonable" margin.
-> Customers buy it because it is "affordable".
iPhone is just one typical good fab in China and sold in U.S. among other millions.
Got the idea?
The truth is: most of us who buy "made in china" stuffs are responsible for that. You have no right to blame China for polluting the whole world.
Ask governments and sourcers to fix this by setting regulations.
EU set LEAD-FREE law that enforces cleaner
products. The pollution problem can be solved this way, too.
Or modify from an existed one. To make it generate MAC address dynamically and avoid collision automatically. It may become a "survive through RIAA jungle" tool.
And attached to each P2P software release and set a world record of d/l.
Can I apply a patent for this? (Just in case I may violate some RIAA's patent.)
And a regular user of Ubuntu daily.
The reason that Ubuntu can be popular is not about Ubuntu, it's about Vista.
Microsoft has a fundamental problem since Ballmer is on: Strategy is more important than technology.
Yes, strategy can be a great weapon. Just like medication can heal your disease. But it also can be poisonous if you overdose.
As I knew, the root of Linux is not about defeating other OS. It is about creating a better OS, thereafter, a better world. It is Microsoft's problem to create a better OS. If Microsoft does, Linux can also be improved since there are better designs.
So Viacom doesn't get my private data.
You can't do the same test on Slashdot. There is no difference between smart/stupid on this site as far as I can tell. You can only survey what OS/Browser is most Insightful, Funny, ..., and so on.
"The only thing that human learned from history is that human doesn't learn from history."
So we all have this "defect".
I personally don't think this is totally a "defect", since if there is such a "defect", Wright brothers might have given up earlier than 105 years ago.
Current patent qualification process has the pitfall that the administration officers can't be the experts for every *patent*. They may have no service such as this in their local Papa John. If a prior art does exist but wasn't found during qualification process, the dispute is resolved through law procedure. I think what we can do is to find some http://www.peertopatent.org/ like sites to provide more prior arts.
It's not hard to find patents that re-represent human interaction as a piece of software and they to be resolved through law suits if a dispute has occurred. And I can't agree more that real-world interactions should be listed as a reject principle when qualifying a software patent.
Software is very different from real-world. In the real world, you can give the movie DVD to your friend and have no problem. But in software world, if you want to share the mp3 you bought to your friend and delete your copy, shall this be legal or illegal? It is just different and the law makers should actually used the technologies before digital world bills are voted.
I read on a book about a Germany based solar plate vendor produces their solar plates using the power generated from the solar plates they produced and installed outside their building. This is not a perfect solution. But better then totally rely on power generated from other not-green sources.
The key here is you have metrics to measure performance of schedulers.
I think some of the key scheduler performance metrics includes:
1. Context switch time.
2. Fair scheduling
3. Interactive tasks are interactive.
4. Certain applications always get larger portion of time if needed.
5. Real time.
There are things called "parameters" that you can adjust to adopt Linux
to your need.
This doesn't say Linux scheduler is perfect. It is evolving, too.
A few years ago, many embedded systems that needs real time scheduler
can't be implemented on Linux because timing requirements. Now the
scheduler supports real time and I can still use any applications
without knowing what the hack they have done to scheduler.
Now.
Give me an example that Linux scheduler can't satisfy your needs, and,
Give me an example that one security architecture satisfies you and me.
Thanks. I don't know much English, so my metaphor may not be able to tell what I am trying to.
I try to classify them because as I know, in China, there are groups craw the web manually to fetch information, not only email, for their use.
Using JavaScript or pictures doesn't help much if the crawler is a manual one.
There are actually two kinds of spammers as I know, just like cars:
1. automatic
2. manual
For the manual ones, you can use ways like web form. But it is also impossible
to block them totally in an automatic way. Though you can filter spams from manual
spammers with filtering programs, the limit could be the trade-off between the
accuracy and false positive.
For the automatic ones, as the spammers typically craw your whole site and collect
every email addresses it founds. I think a complicated method can be used is to add a
false email account on your mail server and publish this email on your website in a
way that your friends/customers will never found it. (How about a tiny hidden link?)
The mails received in this account can be considered spam and be compared with all
received emails in normal accounts. Maybe some intelligence is needed to compare
if some spam mails change its text dynamically.
Apple has sticked to its core competency: Design fantastic products and marketing them. Though not always work, but for a consumer electronic product, Apple has good chance to win the fancy high-end ones. Especially with new business model been built. Apple joined the player market with iTunes supporting its iPod products. While back then if you tell someone to sell MP3 in this way, he/she mostly would thought you're out of your mind: RIAA will not allow that! Dell is good at: cost down and stream line the manufacturing all the way to service. With a PC or laptop, the price has been the critical factor you consider when you buy one (for most of us). That's one of the domains their core competency has effect on. I think designing fancy new stuff and dealing with the media industry shall not be their expertise (although they are supposed to be good at talking over phone.) You know what? I think Steve Jobs will not be Steve Jobs in Dell. Another example is dual version PC from Apple. Apple is selling their PC MAC in a new way. And by the time people found a dual-boot PC can work, you'll see *maybe* Dell selling PC that can dual-booting Linux and Windows with a very good price .