FYI,
IBM is now advertising Linux in the US, nationwide, during
football games. They use a picture of a small blonde kid,
probably like Linus in kindergarten, implying the "new kid
in town". Not too bad.
OTOH, I note an Intel spokesmen who states;
"We have no special obligation to American workers...", when
asked about its latest movement of Engineering out of the
United States. I suggest we use AMD instead, since the uP was
first developed with US taxpayer's funds to support both ICBM
and Apollo moon-shot technology, these companies certainly should
certainly remember their roots.
Note that this is not an "America only" problem. The bean-counters
world-wide are moving technology and jobs from the civilized countries
to those that aren't required to provide toilet paper for employees.
This improves profits by eliminating the cost of toilet paper.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> FYI,
OK, that's enough. Time to introduce a Richard B.
Johnson award. Once we manage to construct a nice
escher cube out of hardwood, that is ...
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Note that this is not an "America only" problem. The bean-counters
> world-wide are moving technology and jobs from the civilized countries
> to those that aren't required to provide toilet paper for employees.
> This improves profits by eliminating the cost of toilet paper.
Thought in my opinion all these moves away won't pay off at the end
anyway, because if in the "first" world countries are only un-employeed
people because all their jobs have been moved into "third" world
countries because there they can pay the people only a bean a day, then
_nobody_ will be able to buy their products in the end.
lg, clemens