Light, cheap, sturdy, always connected, loaded applications and doubles as a 300-dpi digital book. The only caveat is that it's a bit slow for a flash-drive-based computer.
the spectacularly suicidal folly of Communism for 50 years.
It's more like 500 years. The Imperial Chinese government of Qing and classical Chinese philosophy were oblivious, or even hostile, to modern technology, as it conflicts with the ideologies and the reign of Qing. That's why China has been stalled from developing technology for so long.
Needham argued, and most scholars agreed, that cultural factors prevented these Chinese achievements from developing into what could be called "science".
The Republic and the People's Republic (before the "reform" that started in the 1980s) didn't do well on tech either. Before the reform, the Party-led People's Republic only embraced Soviet technologies. Nor did the Republic had the ability to develop technologies until the civil war was over and they retreated to Taiwan (which gave them a head start).
Even more interesting is the meaning of the phrase "555" in China.
While it means "LOL" in Thailand, it has the opposite meaning of crying here. "5" in Chinese is pronounced as "wu", thus "555" is the sound of weeping.
Haha that was funny, partly since it's almost true. I've seen technicans debugging Shanghai Metro Line #1 ticket vending machines. They run on VB6. So if they use Access to power that, I'm not surprised.
Therefore if it turns to be slower in off-peak hours than Wikipedia in peak hours, I'm not surprised either.
Freedom must be pushed from the inside by example, by those who believe in it, even if it is extremely painful.
In Portugal, my country, we had a dictatorship during almost 50 years, and it was not outside influence that finally broke it.
It's not just freedom of speech in the politicial sense. They would not even accept "free beer" let alone "free speech".
I tried very hard to push awareness of F/OSS to my colleagues, teachers and parents. (I'm a grade Senior Three, equiv. to grade 12 in the US). But none of them saw them interesting. I'm perhaps the only one in my class to use Firefox and Linux (Psst. I'm also a Microsoft fanboy).
Yeah, freedom must be pushed from the inside. But then it's not a matter of days. Be patient. But keep pushing.
Simple. 1080p. On DVD media. Though they didn't realize that and keep trying to make EVD next-gen ^_-;
Since I never heard anyone making standards concerning that, I'll assume EVD nicely fills the blank. We have SVCD for 480p on CD, but we don't have a similar standard for HD Video on legacy media (not counting HD-DVD, that's partly next-gen).
And though you'll still have to pay fees for MPEG2, EVD is still a Chinese standard, and it's more "national dignity" than royalities. Plus China would also gets its share if EVD gets made into a int'l standard ^_^
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Wikimedia Foundation also has 23 servers at Yahoo's Seoul server farm in Korea.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&view=text&hl=en-CA&q=flushing,+queens,+NY&ie=UTF8&ll=40.764324,-73.829842&spn=0.015342,0.040169&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=1
I'd say anything based in Flushing is a bit suspicious. Like this one.Because the great firewall has holes that you can put a planet through!
There is http://solidot.com/ and the highest score is usually 2 (nobody visits it enough to be eligible to moderate).
Um, that case was actually not just about copyright but trademark as well.
If you don't defend your trademark then you lose it. This, of course, doesn't apply to copyright.
OLPC + Linux + Sugar UI.
Light, cheap, sturdy, always connected, loaded applications and doubles as a 300-dpi digital book. The only caveat is that it's a bit slow for a flash-drive-based computer.
Translation of this:
Cannot.
We no need Americans. We make your all stuff.
A more sane translation would be "wo men bu xu yao mei guo ren. ni men de suo you dong xi dou shi wo men zhi zao de."
Aww, I did a literal translation when I could have gone for a satirical comment...
Oh, I just remembered that I have 5 mod points now, and if I didn't post in this thread, I could have modded you guys up. ^______^
Dui4 bu4 qi3 wo3 gei3 ni3 ping2 le -1 guo4 gao1 de fen1, wo3 ben3 xiang3 ping2 +1 you3 qu4 de, dan4 shi4 wo3 de shou3 bu4 xiao3 xin1 hua2 le yi2 xia4. You3 shei2 ke3 yi3 que4 bao3 jolly reaper de Karma he2 wo3 de dou1 de2 dao shi4 dang1 de tiao2 zheng3 ma1?
(Not 100% a word-to-word translation.)
It's more like 500 years. The Imperial Chinese government of Qing and classical Chinese philosophy were oblivious, or even hostile, to modern technology, as it conflicts with the ideologies and the reign of Qing. That's why China has been stalled from developing technology for so long.
To quote Joseph Needham (via Wikipedia):
Needham argued, and most scholars agreed, that cultural factors prevented these Chinese achievements from developing into what could be called "science".The Republic and the People's Republic (before the "reform" that started in the 1980s) didn't do well on tech either. Before the reform, the Party-led People's Republic only embraced Soviet technologies. Nor did the Republic had the ability to develop technologies until the civil war was over and they retreated to Taiwan (which gave them a head start).
Bug #1 in Ubuntu: Microsoft has a majority market share.
I don't know why, but Japanese games all seem to have text speeds slower even for a six years old child.
Our professor requires us to submit programming assignments in .doc.
Even the java source codes. This is totally illogicel.
The Party has never favored self-serve information aggregate sites like FeedBurner or LiveJournal, or Wikipedia...
One bad page and the whole server (physical server, not a single virtual site) got censored.
Ow you're very metamorphosis!
More like poorer parts of China.
As it appears, in the richer parts of China every high school student has an iPod.
O_o
You can also run the desktop environment (Sugar) in any GNU/Linux distro of your choice.
Writing from Shanghai. Available.
Slashdot have yet to achieve the popularity of Wikipedia in China; the number of nerds is (un-?)surprisingly low.
If you want to make something known to everyone, then censor it.
(Courtesy of Hermione Granger.)
That's because China needs BSD to get rid of the cash flow that flows from the goverment to Microsoft. ^_^
And the Chinese may need Linux to make ourselves more freedom-loving?
On an unrelated note, MediaWiki.org is banned too, but the MediaWiki subversion server isn't. Weird.
Even more interesting is the meaning of the phrase "555" in China.
While it means "LOL" in Thailand, it has the opposite meaning of crying here. "5" in Chinese is pronounced as "wu", thus "555" is the sound of weeping.
Haha that was funny, partly since it's almost true.
I've seen technicans debugging Shanghai Metro Line #1 ticket vending machines.
They run on VB6.
So if they use Access to power that, I'm not surprised.
Therefore if it turns to be slower in off-peak hours than Wikipedia in peak hours, I'm not surprised either.
In Portugal, my country, we had a dictatorship during almost 50 years, and it was not outside influence that finally broke it.
It's not just freedom of speech in the politicial sense. They would not even accept "free beer" let alone "free speech".
I tried very hard to push awareness of F/OSS to my colleagues, teachers and parents. (I'm a grade Senior Three, equiv. to grade 12 in the US). But none of them saw them interesting. I'm perhaps the only one in my class to use Firefox and Linux (Psst. I'm also a Microsoft fanboy).
Yeah, freedom must be pushed from the inside. But then it's not a matter of days. Be patient. But keep pushing.
Typo...
Simple. 1080p. On DVD media.
Though they didn't realize that and keep trying to make EVD next-gen ^_-;
Since I never heard anyone making standards concerning that, I'll assume EVD nicely fills the blank. We have SVCD for 480p on CD, but we don't have a similar standard for HD Video on legacy media (not counting HD-DVD, that's partly next-gen).
And though you'll still have to pay fees for MPEG2, EVD is still a Chinese standard, and it's more "national dignity" than royalities. Plus China would also gets its share if EVD gets made into a int'l standard ^_^