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China's Superior Technologies
paRcat writes "Still think China is a land too far away from everything? This article compares some of China's common uses of technology to what we're accustomed to in the West. With the genius traffic lights and the cell phone coverage... I'm kinda jealous."
We're installing breakfast nooks and berber carpeting all on credit at 28% interest compounded daily! We have Disney trademark paint color choices at Home Repo! We're modern too!
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
I wish I lived in China for the neat cell phone coverage. As long as I didn't value my fucking freedom more than a flimflam trinket, that would be swell!
Let's all go to China! I love political repression and torture! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Although not a technilogical breakthrough, I am super jealous that you can get pants hemmed in-store, in minutes. I am 5' 3" and I have to have all of my pants hemmed. I have a sewing machine, and can do this myslef, but I hate doing it. Either start doing this or I'm moving to China, Dammit!
Are they seeing the same ones that I saw when I was there? ;).
Gotta admit that stoplight timer technology sounds good.
Oh, everyone has stoplight timers now. I think this is the programming:
if (LATE_FOR_WORK)
green() || construction();
else if (ON_TIME)
red(minutes(5));
else
red();
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
... you'll still be hungry again in half an hour! (Trolling off-topic, I know -- but it was worth it.)
Sad.
You live in Sweden and have been too busy playing with gadgets to notice hot blondes everywhere
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Yeah, but it's not as easy to get Chinese food...
until the Chinese start spending money that they don't have, then they will not be able to rival the USA for consumerism.
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...which in return will cause people to run red lights.
:)
Oh yeah, they never do that now...
How much a nerd does one need to be in order to trade cellphone coverage for freedom? This is a trick question, right :)
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They can just take ours, we're not using it anymore...
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You poor deprived soul. It's not that we don't notice, it's just that remarking on the fact would be like remarking on all the air we have. Women that would stop traffic in America are as common as autumn leaves. We shuffle through them on the way to the car.
Well, I'm sure the reason for this is they have a more advanced system that ourselves - currently lots of people run red lights in the US. But, when is it safe to do so?
Enter the Red-Red/Red-Green light. Now the light just stays red all the time, since you're going to run it anyway - but the green light tells you when it's safe to run, and the second red tells you when it's safe to stop!
Taking away the yellow makes it a simple state transition that reduces incidences of people speeding up for a light. And both directions change instantly, making it far more efficient as you never have an awkward moment when cars are not going through an intersection.
Yes sir, that is is traffic light of the future.
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How good is cell phone reception inside a political prison?
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Hmmm. Are you sure you're not in Canada?