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Tom \Johnny Sunset\ Sherman
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Bill Zaumen wrote:
> "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Bill Zaumen wrote:
>>> "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Bill Zaumen wrote:
>>>>> We need every smart person we can get, but you'd have to work in
>>>>> the area to know why.
>>>> But obviously some of them are people lacking enough street smarts to
>>>> know that "bicycle lanes" are unequal, second class facilities.
>>>>
>>> Nice try at changing context from your silliness about India and China.
>> Do you deny that many of the "high-tech" jobs that were supposed to
>> replace the outsourced manufacturing jobs are also being outsourced to
>> China, India and other low wage countries?
>
> Read what I said. Some things can't be outsourced to third-world
> countries, for the reasons I gave you. Those countries could, of
> course, catch up to us. I'll give you a hint - you won't find the 10
> gigabit/second NIC cards coming out of China until they become a
> commodity, nor the device drivers for them (the chips typically have
> problems that require software 'work arounds', and you need a close
> collaboration between hardware and software engineers to get
> everything working).
>
> Various new CPUs are designed in the Bay Area and the software groups
> that provide OS support. You can look at SUN's recent CPUs with
> multiple cores and multiple threads per core as an example. In this
> sort of work, you have to develop the hardware and software at the
> same time as you need both for a finished product, so heavy use is
> made of simulators that allow the software to be tested before the
> hardware is ready, and these require an enormous amount of
> computation.
Nothing that appears to be a insurmountable obstacle.
>>> But, your "unequal, second-class facilities" thing is simply propaganda.
>>> As I suggested to you people previously, show what is bad in the Caltrans
>>> design standards for bike lanes and why bike lanes are somehow worse than
>>> HOV lanes.
>>>
>>>> Maybe Zaumen doesn't being asked to sit at the back of the bus?
>>> Maybe you can try to improve your grammar?
>> That is an editing error, not a fundamental mistake in grammar.
>
> It's a grammar error (whether due to bad editing or not) that made the
> sentence completely incomprehensible.
Intended sentence: Maybe Zaumen doesn't [like] being asked to sit at the
back of the bus?
The omission of the word "like" was a case of the brain working faster
than the fingers, and not a grammar error. Duh!
--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
--
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> "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Bill Zaumen wrote:
>>> "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Bill Zaumen wrote:
>>>>> We need every smart person we can get, but you'd have to work in
>>>>> the area to know why.
>>>> But obviously some of them are people lacking enough street smarts to
>>>> know that "bicycle lanes" are unequal, second class facilities.
>>>>
>>> Nice try at changing context from your silliness about India and China.
>> Do you deny that many of the "high-tech" jobs that were supposed to
>> replace the outsourced manufacturing jobs are also being outsourced to
>> China, India and other low wage countries?
>
> Read what I said. Some things can't be outsourced to third-world
> countries, for the reasons I gave you. Those countries could, of
> course, catch up to us. I'll give you a hint - you won't find the 10
> gigabit/second NIC cards coming out of China until they become a
> commodity, nor the device drivers for them (the chips typically have
> problems that require software 'work arounds', and you need a close
> collaboration between hardware and software engineers to get
> everything working).
>
> Various new CPUs are designed in the Bay Area and the software groups
> that provide OS support. You can look at SUN's recent CPUs with
> multiple cores and multiple threads per core as an example. In this
> sort of work, you have to develop the hardware and software at the
> same time as you need both for a finished product, so heavy use is
> made of simulators that allow the software to be tested before the
> hardware is ready, and these require an enormous amount of
> computation.
Nothing that appears to be a insurmountable obstacle.
>>> But, your "unequal, second-class facilities" thing is simply propaganda.
>>> As I suggested to you people previously, show what is bad in the Caltrans
>>> design standards for bike lanes and why bike lanes are somehow worse than
>>> HOV lanes.
>>>
>>>> Maybe Zaumen doesn't being asked to sit at the back of the bus?
>>> Maybe you can try to improve your grammar?
>> That is an editing error, not a fundamental mistake in grammar.
>
> It's a grammar error (whether due to bad editing or not) that made the
> sentence completely incomprehensible.
Intended sentence: Maybe Zaumen doesn't [like] being asked to sit at the
back of the bus?
The omission of the word "like" was a case of the brain working faster
than the fingers, and not a grammar error. Duh!
--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
