Comment Re:Obvious (Score 1) 348
Back in my day it used to be sex.. Maybe I'm out of touch these days..
Back in my day it used to be sex.. Maybe I'm out of touch these days..
I don't really know/care.
Posted from my Nexus S
Not as open as Apple's
One thing you need to learn in business. Never say "No". You will look like you are an obstruction, rather than part of the "solution". I've found the way management works is based partially on what I call "happy horseshit", which means that your attitude tends to mean more than facts do. Even if you are correct 100% of the time, if you present that with a negative attitude, you're just as apt to be shunned or even fired as the incompetent people. Indeed, you'll probably be hated more, because the incompetent people might well be amiable idiots.
And who thought we could learn something at slashdot..
I don't know where he lives but I'll tell you what happens here in Brazil. If I want to buy some non-mainstream music I pay 100 USD for Fedex delivery (I don't do cheap delivery anymore because of stolen packages at the mail) and a 50-100% tax on imports over 50 USD (that includes shipping). So if I order 3 CDs it would cost around 150 USD or about 1/3 of brazillian's minimum wage. If I want to download music (illegal) those 3 CDs cost around 1.50 USD (electricity/internet access). Plus there are no penalties for downloading music in Brazil, as in you can't be sued for it.
... I don't care what the performance is because I wouldn't own one if Sony GAVE it to me.
Did you mean licensed?
Mirrors anyone?
I see Foxconn is so much better because Apple makes them treat their employees better: Sign a contract so your family doesn't get shit in case you suicide inside your fab. Apple is so nice, and you are so naive
Apple doesn't give a shit to people (like all the other corporations), but they do care however about getting their product cheap and selling with gorgeous profit margins.
Or, we could bring back what we used to have before the globalists took over circa 1970 and the standard of living here stopped growing: tariffs.
Although, I suppose throwing the globalists out to do that would probably require an armed revolution too.
What you suggest is, fundamentally, stop consuming chinese products. Higher duty means it's more expensive so less people will buy.
The biggest problem is that the US were stupid enough to move all the industry to China and collect money on royalties and copyright (which is why the US politicians write more and more laws to make copyright stronger but that's for another story). It did seem like a good idea at the time to make money on IP and offshore al the production, most economists during the 90s endorsed that move and many companies followed that road. Ford and Honda produce a lot of cars in Mexico for the US, I guess Nike has a marketing and R&D dept. on the US but not a single factory. There are many examples. I was in NY last year and I could not find any clothing made in the US, most were from Egypt, China, Vietnam, and others where minimum wage is likely under 300USD (probably even less). For the reasons above you can't just tax every import from China and hope it will be ok, because (1) China would bitch about it to the WTO (2) it would simply cause inflation because there is no industry in the country to supply the demand.
I hope this wasn't too confuse (english isn't my first language)
What is the obsession with obnoxious floating headers that always stay at the top of the screen? Whatever utility they provide is outweighed by the fact that it screws up the paging behavior when you hit the spacebar to scroll. It's annoying to have the bottom two lines of text scroll behind the floating bar--not everyone reads to the absolute very, very bottom before hitting space.
Not in Chrome
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
