well, in terms of doing one big thing right, I agree, dictatorship is much more efficient.
Why the West doesn't continue space plan? Maybe precisely not enough people support it. So it cannot be on the priority of every government.
Hey, why is everybody so sure that we, internet using ethnic group, are going to influence them, rather than they influence us?
Just look at all the time we spend discussing this.
Red paint might be next season's big fashion.
I once send an email to a friend in China about the anti Japanese riots in 2005 in the peak of the riot and it never arrived.
The firewall may not be a wall between China and outside. It's a net covers whole China. Emails inside China is watched too.
I think the firewall itself is not same in different locations in China. I have access to cnn.com in Shanghai area but not in Beijing area for example. And proxies are constantly blocked when found out, which is also not symchronised over the whole China.
While I agree that those topics should be openly discueed, the idea of "Tells Users to Spy on Each Other" is hardly a new thing. Every free upload website has a small button to report "inapproate" content like expilicit, violence. And in physical/real life, isn't it called community watch?
To use standard keyboard to input Chinese Character is not such a simple thing. There are more than 10 well know input methods, they are there for a reason.
While it's true that one character almost always have one pronunciation, hence one way to input using roman letters; one pronunciation normally has more than 20 characters to match, so how does the software predict words makes huge difference.
On top of that, Chinese almost never use those roman letters in relly life, no matter speaking or writing, and very few Chinese pronounce standard/news reader type Mandarin, and they certainly will make lots of mistakes on a keyboard. Many input software give users different level/type mistake tolerance.
If you ever use Chinese input, try "shi", 207 characters come you way, and around 50 are frequently used ones.
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well, in terms of doing one big thing right, I agree, dictatorship is much more efficient. Why the West doesn't continue space plan? Maybe precisely not enough people support it. So it cannot be on the priority of every government.
Hey, why is everybody so sure that we, internet using ethnic group, are going to influence them, rather than they influence us? Just look at all the time we spend discussing this. Red paint might be next season's big fashion.
I once send an email to a friend in China about the anti Japanese riots in 2005 in the peak of the riot and it never arrived.
The firewall may not be a wall between China and outside. It's a net covers whole China. Emails inside China is watched too.
I think the firewall itself is not same in different locations in China. I have access to cnn.com in Shanghai area but not in Beijing area for example. And proxies are constantly blocked when found out, which is also not symchronised over the whole China.
While I agree that those topics should be openly discueed, the idea of "Tells Users to Spy on Each Other" is hardly a new thing. Every free upload website has a small button to report "inapproate" content like expilicit, violence. And in physical/real life, isn't it called community watch?
To use standard keyboard to input Chinese Character is not such a simple thing. There are more than 10 well know input methods, they are there for a reason. While it's true that one character almost always have one pronunciation, hence one way to input using roman letters; one pronunciation normally has more than 20 characters to match, so how does the software predict words makes huge difference. On top of that, Chinese almost never use those roman letters in relly life, no matter speaking or writing, and very few Chinese pronounce standard/news reader type Mandarin, and they certainly will make lots of mistakes on a keyboard. Many input software give users different level/type mistake tolerance. If you ever use Chinese input, try "shi", 207 characters come you way, and around 50 are frequently used ones.