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Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone'
solferino writes "'Anything you can make for $100, we can make for $40,' Chen says, summing up his commercial philosophy.
An interesting profile in Wired magazine of the computer hardware manufacturing 'hot zone', situated around the pearl river delta in mainland china, just outside Hong Kong.
The factories are mostly financed and operated by Taiwanese business interests. The article looks at life and business in the city mainly from the point-of-view of these 'foreigners'."
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This early post for Ida! I love you!
a link to an article posted on wired.com three days ago. what purpose does this serve again? this one doesn't even have a witty comment to stimulate discussion in this forum, so it seems pretty useless.
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This excellent essay can be found at American Conservative.
...manufacturing 'hot zone', situated around the pearl river delta...
Reading this gives me creeps, even though I'm not a radical tree-hugger. Seriously, what are the policies of the Chinese government on industrial pollution? Let them all dump as long as cash flows in? Or something more sensible?
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.
I wonder how many polutants (i.e. mercury) and other toxins are getting dumped into that river. In a few years, slashdot will be posting news about 3 eyed fishes and three legged babies.
"Your having a bad day when the voices in your head put you on hold"
I understand linking to the odd interesting article, but in the last week of Slashdot we've had: Geek-Chic Power Houses
Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone'
See Ya .su
Could I just suggest each week Slashot post an article called "This month's Wired magazine TOC"? Or, maybe someone has written a screenscraper that autmatically submits all Wired articles?
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you havent been paying attention to china then.
china has stabilized their command-economy and is now moving into capitalist mode. (note i *never* said "communist")
and their national companies are bigger, meaner, more effecient, *and* more corrupt than our multi-nationals.
if they unleash that, we should all learn mandarin.
... hi bingo