Seriously, I teach in China, and I've met many, many, MANY Chinese people that "know English," so the good old-fashioned keep-your-documents-in-a-foreign-language routine is probably sufficient enough to ensure that your actual information is safe from Chinese eyes. They translate everything from English to Chinese word by word still, most of them can't actually understand an English sentence without converting it bit by bit to Chinese, where 90% of actual relevant information ends up missing. Just think about it, if the US government really needed any information from a Chinese company (for God knows what reason), we would be scrambling to decrypt some mundane QQ message saying something about going out to drink beer tonight and then bangin some hookers. The information is safe as long as you aren't producing 'sensitive information' type documents in Chinese.
...there's a Playstation Network now? Finally, no need to invite my friends over to play games! All those harsh, awkward social interactions I've been going through these years were totally unnecessary!
Now, I realize that the article is talking about a crystalline structure for carbon, so buckyballs clearly don't really figure into this directly, but I wonder if you could break a buckyball on one of these new-fangled space diamonds they seem so happy about. Whatever the case may be, at least Kobe can still take a step up from his previous apology to his wife. Better get back to cheating as quick as possible!
...a report by the NRA that the first human weapons resembling guns were developed at precisely the time we *almost* went extinct. Coincidence? I think not. More at 11...
...the art of making something (money) from nothing (black piece of plastic with a couple microchips built-in). Also could be considered the art of the pyramid scheme. Then again, the only people who would buy this probably have too much money anyhow, so at least it goes some distance towards the redistribution of wealth.
...I accidentally tried to submit this story long after this one was posted. The article in the China Daily is here: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/20/content_9345465.htm
But I come here in hopes of enlightening some people about the situation. After I read the article in the CD, I tried to go to imdb.com (an unrelated incident) but the connection was reset, which is a common sign that a website has been blocked by the big ol' government. I was able to confirm this by IMing some friends out of country. Now, I don't know how long it has been blocked because I can't remember the last time I was able to use it, but it seems it wasn't so long ago. I leave it to you conspiracy nuts out there (read: fellow slashdotters) to speculate on that particular revelation.
P.S. I will try to post more information regarding the blocking as soon as I can. Don't hold your breath.
This just goes to show that when all else fails, asshattery is the best method for building an army. Who needs a draft when you can just con some reporter into making your enemy look bad? Who approved this article?
... you're telling me that I finally got Flash working on my 64-bit Ubuntu box for nothing??? (Admittedly, it wasn't really that difficult) To be honest though, it doesn't really matter for me since YouTube is still blocked in China, but it would be nice to see if this prompts the many streaming sites in China to embrace an open-standard such as this, but that will never happen since everyone continues to use IE6 here and I'm betting that IE will never implement HTML5 until it's long past finished...sooooo another 15 years before IE used HTML5? Bets anyone?
So that means the next lame dancing game for wii will be "Tap-dancing with the Stars"? Or another tap-fest like WarioWare titles of yore? I just can't read far enough into what all these execs say when they talk about the "long life" of their consoles that remain entertaining for 2.5 years at best.
I hate to break it to you, but YouTube has been long gone from the Chinese interweb, as has Twitter, Facebook and numerous other "security risks to the Chinese people," at least in SiChuan, where I live, which is not exactly far from XinJiang. Ever since the race riots, we've lost connection to most of the popular social sites that come from The West and the only people that actually notice this are the ones who actually use Google. You know what most of those people do when they notice that these websites are unavailable? They find something Chinese to watch or read. I really believe that China doesn't *need* Google that much, that there won't be much of an uprising if it disappears and the only people who will be upset about it or left in the water are the ex-pats, who may represent a large portion of Beijing's population, but in no way have any voice to effect any changes here. I see the impact from the West's side of this, but I don't see it changing that much in China.
I've always found that IRC is pretty handy as a help service, most Linux distros host live help chat on it. Many other FOSS solutions seem to use it as well, such as VLC, OpenOffice.org, etc. I'm not sure how exactly one would go about setting up a server, but I can't imagine it would cost much of anything and it shouldn't be too difficult to set up. There is a pretty good wiki about it, it should have all the relevant links you could need for finding out how to do it. Cheers.
... definitely feature zombies and skeletons. I know because in those games, I have had to kill several thousand of these things to earn even a remote amount of money. The game is called ZhengTu, the website is here: http://zt.ztgame.com/ I definitely buy the economic argument for this, considering that most Chinese online games are pretty boring.
But darwinism is about the most fit to survive, so certain diseases, like sickle-cell anemia, which helps one resist malaria, might be favorable at some point in the future for unknown reasons.
probably not since I doubt the elements would interact in a mathematically coherent way that transistors do. Even if you figured out a way to make sense of it, it would likely involve the use of something simpler than the element itself, thereby making it essentially the same as using transistors, at least from my understanding. But with the way that computers actually "evolve, it's unlikely that such technology would take hold in a marketable fashion in our lifetime, I mean, how do you think Microsoft is still around? Too much is invested in current infrastructure, and most people are too scared to be weened off of something that currently works for something that MIGHT work better. How many applications do you use that actually utilize a 64-bit processor in any meaningful way?
whatever happened to the physics card that some company released a while back? It seemed like a pretty good idea, and I wonder if it could be modified to fit onto a graphics card as well. I just think that would be a nice coupling because I like the small towers rather than the huge behemoth that I have in my Mom's basement (no, I don't live at home any more, wanna take my geek card back?). It's nice that they are putting an extra chip into their cards, I can definitely imagineer that as being pretty helpful, especially with buffery stuff, but it seems that the physics processing unit (ppu) would be an even more handy addition since I can't think of many things you would do that require a powerful gpu that couldn't also make use of some nice ppu functions. Maybe if it were designed really well, the ppu could even workhorse as a secondary gpu for those applications that I can't think of. Although, I certainly have no concrete evidence for this, nor reason to believe that what I'm saying makes any sense to anyone who does know about these things, I still think it seems like a more "revolutionary" step than this.
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Seriously, I teach in China, and I've met many, many, MANY Chinese people that "know English," so the good old-fashioned keep-your-documents-in-a-foreign-language routine is probably sufficient enough to ensure that your actual information is safe from Chinese eyes. They translate everything from English to Chinese word by word still, most of them can't actually understand an English sentence without converting it bit by bit to Chinese, where 90% of actual relevant information ends up missing. Just think about it, if the US government really needed any information from a Chinese company (for God knows what reason), we would be scrambling to decrypt some mundane QQ message saying something about going out to drink beer tonight and then bangin some hookers. The information is safe as long as you aren't producing 'sensitive information' type documents in Chinese.
Gonna have to agree there. There is no universe in which I could ever participate in which copyright.laws=="sane" returns true.
Yeah, and somebody already patented "Nothing" so any new blank sheets submitted as patents are invalid due to prior art.
...there's a Playstation Network now? Finally, no need to invite my friends over to play games! All those harsh, awkward social interactions I've been going through these years were totally unnecessary!
Now, I realize that the article is talking about a crystalline structure for carbon, so buckyballs clearly don't really figure into this directly, but I wonder if you could break a buckyball on one of these new-fangled space diamonds they seem so happy about. Whatever the case may be, at least Kobe can still take a step up from his previous apology to his wife. Better get back to cheating as quick as possible!
... I can summarize the comments here rather succinctly. Fuck Ubisoft and fuck their games.
...a report by the NRA that the first human weapons resembling guns were developed at precisely the time we *almost* went extinct. Coincidence? I think not. More at 11...
...the art of making something (money) from nothing (black piece of plastic with a couple microchips built-in). Also could be considered the art of the pyramid scheme. Then again, the only people who would buy this probably have too much money anyhow, so at least it goes some distance towards the redistribution of wealth.
...I accidentally tried to submit this story long after this one was posted. The article in the China Daily is here: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/20/content_9345465.htm But I come here in hopes of enlightening some people about the situation. After I read the article in the CD, I tried to go to imdb.com (an unrelated incident) but the connection was reset, which is a common sign that a website has been blocked by the big ol' government. I was able to confirm this by IMing some friends out of country. Now, I don't know how long it has been blocked because I can't remember the last time I was able to use it, but it seems it wasn't so long ago. I leave it to you conspiracy nuts out there (read: fellow slashdotters) to speculate on that particular revelation. P.S. I will try to post more information regarding the blocking as soon as I can. Don't hold your breath.
Only if I'm living on US time ;) Oops...maybe that was too big a hint...where's the /deletepost option?
...someone has put a price on fail! 359 Euros per unit of fail, get yours NOW!
This just goes to show that when all else fails, asshattery is the best method for building an army. Who needs a draft when you can just con some reporter into making your enemy look bad? Who approved this article?
Timestamps on Slashdot comments? /stalk function on every profile page? I don't think I could handle slashdot stalking, later folks
... you're telling me that I finally got Flash working on my 64-bit Ubuntu box for nothing??? (Admittedly, it wasn't really that difficult) To be honest though, it doesn't really matter for me since YouTube is still blocked in China, but it would be nice to see if this prompts the many streaming sites in China to embrace an open-standard such as this, but that will never happen since everyone continues to use IE6 here and I'm betting that IE will never implement HTML5 until it's long past finished...sooooo another 15 years before IE used HTML5? Bets anyone?
So that means the next lame dancing game for wii will be "Tap-dancing with the Stars"? Or another tap-fest like WarioWare titles of yore? I just can't read far enough into what all these execs say when they talk about the "long life" of their consoles that remain entertaining for 2.5 years at best.
I hate to break it to you, but YouTube has been long gone from the Chinese interweb, as has Twitter, Facebook and numerous other "security risks to the Chinese people," at least in SiChuan, where I live, which is not exactly far from XinJiang. Ever since the race riots, we've lost connection to most of the popular social sites that come from The West and the only people that actually notice this are the ones who actually use Google. You know what most of those people do when they notice that these websites are unavailable? They find something Chinese to watch or read. I really believe that China doesn't *need* Google that much, that there won't be much of an uprising if it disappears and the only people who will be upset about it or left in the water are the ex-pats, who may represent a large portion of Beijing's population, but in no way have any voice to effect any changes here. I see the impact from the West's side of this, but I don't see it changing that much in China.
Damn! You just reminded me of two things i can put on my resume.
Most of our returns are due to the USB connector pulling the solder pads off the circuit board because of the stresses during insertion/removal.
I think most of the world's problems can be drawn back to the stresses during insertion/removal.
I've always found that IRC is pretty handy as a help service, most Linux distros host live help chat on it. Many other FOSS solutions seem to use it as well, such as VLC, OpenOffice.org, etc. I'm not sure how exactly one would go about setting up a server, but I can't imagine it would cost much of anything and it shouldn't be too difficult to set up. There is a pretty good wiki about it, it should have all the relevant links you could need for finding out how to do it. Cheers.
... definitely feature zombies and skeletons. I know because in those games, I have had to kill several thousand of these things to earn even a remote amount of money. The game is called ZhengTu, the website is here: http://zt.ztgame.com/ I definitely buy the economic argument for this, considering that most Chinese online games are pretty boring.
But darwinism is about the most fit to survive, so certain diseases, like sickle-cell anemia, which helps one resist malaria, might be favorable at some point in the future for unknown reasons.
probably not since I doubt the elements would interact in a mathematically coherent way that transistors do. Even if you figured out a way to make sense of it, it would likely involve the use of something simpler than the element itself, thereby making it essentially the same as using transistors, at least from my understanding. But with the way that computers actually "evolve, it's unlikely that such technology would take hold in a marketable fashion in our lifetime, I mean, how do you think Microsoft is still around? Too much is invested in current infrastructure, and most people are too scared to be weened off of something that currently works for something that MIGHT work better. How many applications do you use that actually utilize a 64-bit processor in any meaningful way?
Have you seen the trailers for The Force Unleashed? If ever there were a candidate for a game that could use a PPU, I would think that would be it.
whatever happened to the physics card that some company released a while back? It seemed like a pretty good idea, and I wonder if it could be modified to fit onto a graphics card as well. I just think that would be a nice coupling because I like the small towers rather than the huge behemoth that I have in my Mom's basement (no, I don't live at home any more, wanna take my geek card back?). It's nice that they are putting an extra chip into their cards, I can definitely imagineer that as being pretty helpful, especially with buffery stuff, but it seems that the physics processing unit (ppu) would be an even more handy addition since I can't think of many things you would do that require a powerful gpu that couldn't also make use of some nice ppu functions. Maybe if it were designed really well, the ppu could even workhorse as a secondary gpu for those applications that I can't think of. Although, I certainly have no concrete evidence for this, nor reason to believe that what I'm saying makes any sense to anyone who does know about these things, I still think it seems like a more "revolutionary" step than this.
Damn, I knew i should have invested more in marketing! Do have the number of a good PR rep?