you wouldn't have to worry about NDAs. the person who would be contributing licensing information to the website would only have to give information as to how much, for how many. or something along those lines.
i found this site on the life of a soldier in the french foreign legion a few weeks ago. had i known about this after college, i probably would have joined.
does anybody know of a j2ee / jdbc book that has in-depth coverage of distributed transactions? i have a j2ee book that tells you how to do it, but i want hard core examples and more than several pages on the subject.
i think slashdot mentioned that M$ bought several patents from SGI. most speculated that these patents had to do with OpenGL. could it be possible that M$ bought the patents or technology that would enable them to integrate xfs into Longhorn?
Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D
By: Larry Garfield, 07.01.02 10:02
The developer edition of what will become
the most advanced Linux consumer PDA to
date is here; we've taken a closer look at
the heart and the soul of Sharp's new
SL-5000D.
Sharp recently released the developer edition of their new
Linux-based PDA, the Zaurus SL-5000D - and the company, by
positioning it as the Linux answer to Pocket PC and Palm OS
devices, is trying to take the business and "prosumer" markets by
storm. We take a closer look at the SL-5000D, both from the point
of view of a Linux-based system and a PDA.
Bear in mind, the software for
the Zaurus SL-5000D is still in
development, so it is a moving
target for now. Some of the
points mentioned here may
change by the time the
consumer version, the Sharp
Zaurus SL-5500, is released in
the coming months.
The hardware
The Zaurus measures 2.90 x
5.40 x 0.80 in. (74 x 138 x 21
mm), and weighs in at 7.3 oz
(206 g). It's larger than typical
Palm OS devices, but has a
comfortable size compared to
most Pocket PCs. The front
panel below the screen slides
down to reveal the thumb
keyboard, which makes the
device about 2 inches longer
than when it's closed. The front
panel itself has eight hardware
shortcut buttons and one disk-rocker. Calendar, Contact, Home,
Menu, and Email run across the top, Palm-like, with an
On/Off/Cancel button and OK button flanking the silver rocker
below them. The rocker itself is a 4-way disk rocker with another
button in the center. The rocker feels very good in the hand and is
very easy to use. Note that the front panel buttons function only
when the panel is fully extended or fully retracted.
The keyboard is a QWERTY layout in a downward "frown", with a few
modifications. A "FN" (function) button in the lower left acts as a
shift key to the numeric and symbol characters listed above each
character. The backspace key is where the Enter key normally is,
while Enter is relegated to the bottom right corner. The ".", ":", ",",
and ";" characters are also grouped and arranged differently. The
pipe character, standard fare on any Linux-based system, is the
FN-shift from the spacebar, although it is not marked as such. The
keys are small, but we found them easy to use, unless you have
very large fingers.
The top of the device includes a Type II Compact Flash (CF) slot,
headphone/microphone jack, and silo for the included all-plastic
stylus, which we found to be a bit short. An included plastic slug in
the CF slot keeps it free from dirt when not in use. It works, but we
prefer devices that use a small door or cover so that there is no
extra plastic. On the left side of the device, there is a Secure
Digital (SD) slot, which lacks a plastic slug, and an IrDA port.
g.mate may say that the yopy consumer edition will be available in weeks, but i won't believe it until i see it. they have been promising the consumer edition for over a year. the zaurus was already released as a consumer product in japan, except without linux and java. i can not say how long the japanese consumer edition has been available in japan, but it has been over six months. the same can not be said for the yopy.
i'll be happy to see the consumer edition of the yopy for sale, but now the question is, should i wait for the zaurus?
the wait for the yopy has been too long, even for me, a korean-american who taught several english conversation classes to regular workers and some middle / upper management at samsung electronics main manufacturing plant in suwon, korea.
i've waited for the yopy for what seems like years. i studied every photograph, every news article, and every review, waiting for the consumer model. then, i finally woke up.
now i have a new love, the sharp zaurus (linux, java, keyboard). the developer edition is supposed to be released soon (end of this month) and the consumer edition will hopefully be released in the spring.
i remember somebody telling me that some 'professional', sports-tickets scalpers were actually legally selling team / game programs for very high prices, but also including 'free' tickets with the purchase.
in the same manner, couldn't a person on ebay auction the manuals to a piece of software for a desired price and include the cd roms free of charge? i know that the license would not transfer legally, but the sale of manual would not be illegal.
All 12 Federal Reserve Banks and their branches are open and although their security is at a high level it is business as usual. The NYC Federal Reserve Bank, which is a few blocks from the WTC, is still open, as is the bank in Washington D.C.
it's difficult to find a place to start, so i'll just be as random as my thoughts come.
there are more than 10 million people living in seoul. if 5% of them play lineage that is at least 500,000 players, in a single urban area. it would be very easy to reach out and touch ("off line pk") somebody in such a densely populated area (in terms of lineage players). it only takes a few hours by train or car to get to the most southern part of korea (pusan, which happens to be the second largest city).
although my knowledge of korean society is just that of an observer, i know that each korean has a set of "seniors" and "juniors". relationships between juniors and seniors begin in school, clubs, churches, etc, in almost any type of activity. a person can call on his "juniors" to help him in a time of need. and a person can be called on by his "senior" to be helped, or can call on his "senior" to ask for his assistance. these relationships can be used for initimidation of others or defense from others outside the group. DO NOT THINK THIS IS THE ONLY REASON FOR THESE RELATIONSHIPS. they are more often used for financial assistance, help moving to a different apartment / house, drinking, doing the activity in which the relationship was formed, etc. i hypothesize that relatioinships formed in on online game in korea would work in the same manner. the stronger protect the weak within clans. the weak members in the clan band together to protect one another. the level of loyalty in these types of junior / senior relationships can get somewhat high.
korea is a very stressful place. workers work 5 and half days a week with tons of overtime. you could get "IMF'ed" (laid off) at any moment. school children (middle and high school) are the same. to get into a good college, you have to be in a good class (each grade consists of severl classes depending on your test scores). students are ranked from middle school, upto their final year in high school. this final year entails waking at 6am in the morning and studying from about 7am to past midnight. the students study for the college entrance exam. there is a high suicide rate amongst high school students in korea. this stressful society paves the way for people trying to escape, trying to be more than what they are, trying to live a life outside of their means in reality.
somebody else made a point that online gaming in korea is very popular. i would like to reinforce his statement. i went to korea very recently and was surprised when i found myself watching a game of starcraft on tv that was being commentated. i saw a show where people were flocking to get the autograph of a person who had just won a starcraft / other online game comptetition. (this was about two months ago when i visited korea.) i've read articles (submitted to slashdot and got rejected) where american and international net gaming "professionals" were moving to korea because there was more opponents to practice and more competitions for money (last year).
okay, i'll stop now. i just wanted to add a disclaimer that i'm an american born korean that lived in korea for one year. if there are any pure koreans that would like to comment on anything that i've said here, go ahead. i know i don't have a full understanding on how korean society functions. i'm just trying to fill in some background that the article may have left out.
even if it was a windows box, send it to the grave with a fresh install of linux / bsd. every box deserves a decent burial with a clean and free soul...
which is faster a half keyboard or the "optical character recognition" that comes with a pda, be it a palm, pocket pc, or the future linux pdas? i would think inputing with the half keyboard would be faster than the ocr, but since i don't own a pda or a half keyboard i would not know.
they even have a wearable keyboard / pda kit: http://www.halfkeyboard.com/products/index.html . it is kind of pricey.
i was just on linux.com and saw this interview with a member of the YOPY development team. i'm having a difficult time deciding between a yopy and an agenda. agenda is being distributed, but a bit underpowered. yopy is still a ways off and the wait has been disappointing, but its prospects are promising and seems to have a bit more horsepower under the hood.
(sorry for the double post, for some reason it was posted as anonymous coward.)
i see many open source supporters posting very optimistic messages about how open source will triumph over ms. though i
too am optimistic that this will be the case, we should be more weary of microsoft.
when the browser wars first began, we were all confident that netscape would over come, but look at it now. even with
open source, mozilla is still months away from a production release and it will take more months and years for us to be able
to see if the endeavors of the developers of mozilla will actually pay off and help mozilla regain some of netscape's past
glory.
microsoft is experienced in the ways of destroying the competition piece by piece. it has the monetary resources. it has the
marketing resources. and even though the public may know that microsoft is monopolistic, they still listen to microsoft (the
corporation) because they would rather listen to it than a bunch of geeks screaming open source (an idea that they don't
understand) at the top of their lungs.
i'm not saying that we are defeated, but confidence alone will not help us win this war that we are being dragged into with
microsoft. changes must be made on how we interact with the general public. we must get open source (not linux, but other
software) onto the pcs of the general public. something that enables the average pc user to say, "i have no idea what open
source is, but it is cool because i use this awesome program everyday and it is free!" something like winamp or napster ( i
know that there are open source versions of these products, but they are not as popular as the original). perhaps mozilla will
be able to do this for open source. perhaps...
we can not go on as if it is business as usual. that is the way that we acted for the past few years and it has gotten us far, but
now microsoft has aimed it's mighty cannons at us and has fired a few shots. these shots were not meant to be damage
open source, but to calculate ranges for the main barrage. the barrage is coming, it's time to dig in (and / or launch an attack
of our own).
my father recently purchased a dsl line and was having conflicts with his connection and screen saver. he asked me to fix the problem as if i was given a magic wand when i began my first computer programming job.
he didn't give me much to go on. he said the computer would lock up after leaving it alone for a half an hour. so during one of my sunday visits, i sat down tested his system. i tried to recreate the lock up. i rebooted the system, connected the dsl, waited for the screen saver, tried to wake the system (nothing), waited for the screen saver, waited for energy star, tried to wake the system... no matter what i did i could not recreate the problem. i knew there was a problem because i had experienced once or twice before, but i couldn't recreate it.
this went on for an hour or so, and my dad asked me how it was going. i told him about my inability to recreate the problem and he said, "just call tech support." i told him that i would not call tech support unless i had something to tell them. we got in a huge argument about calling tech support.
i never really had an official tech support position, but i'm sure everybody on/. has been in a position either at home or at work that they've been put into some type of ad hoc tech support role.
i've worked closely with tech support in the past and felt bad about calling them without a clear definition of the problem was. my father didn't really care and was ready to call with, "the dsl broke my computer, now fix it." after having him yell at me while continuing my testing, i was finally able to recreate the problem. i called tech support and explained what was happening. although it took some time, we worked through the problem.
i'm not sure if my father does this with the real tech support, but when he comes to me with a problem, he gives me a very vague description of what the problem is. when i ask him for more details like "when did it this problem first occur?", he says he doesn't know or doesn't reply. when i figure it out for myself, he says, "oh." then, before i even solve his first problem, he'll ask me to solve another problem. that sucks, except when it reveals some additional information about the first problem...
okay, okay, i'll stop ranting. i know that we've all been through the same kind of stuff before...
it is kind of wierd to read my old posts to the newsgroups that i frequented in college. i would never agree with some of the things that i said back then, or now do not feel as strongly about them as i do now. i guess i'm just getting older and less passionate about the things that i believe in.
andrew
samsung electronics (as with every other consumer electronics company in the world) is trying to position itself as the next sony, but i doubt it will ever be able to beat out sony's brand recognition and customer satisfaction. in korea, most koreans want to buy certain consumer electronics (dvds, video cameras, digital cameras...) from japan because they know that japanese electronics firms manufacture higher quality goods than what is manufactured in korea.
i think the most visible korean products in america are the samsung pcs phones, tvs, computer monitors and microwaves. i believe some ibm think pads are manufactured in korea by the LG / IBM joint venture. i think LG electronics is concentrating on lcds (as far as computers goes). as the original poster noted, the korean conglomerates are very diversified in the products that they manufacture (samsung got into the car business for a very short period of time). samsung electronics seems to have their hands in all types of electronics.
i'm pretty sure samsung electronics employs more than 30,000 workers. i had the pleasure of working at their number one facility in 1997 for a short period of time as a english conversation teacher. unfortunately, since i was only an english conversation teacher, i am unable to really comment on samsung electronics other than from what i read in the korean newspapers...
i don't have a response to your statement, "So you're saying China doesn't execute people then charge the bullet to the family of the deceased?" BECAUSE if you bothered to read my response to your original post you would have noticed that i wrote, "you are correct in your statements about china's human rights violations." perhaps you should take the time to read the response written to your original post.
i'm not defending china, "another evil communist nation", because i feel that it is the best place on earth. i defended china because three out of the four points that you made in your post are generalized and somewhat inaccurate.
"They ignore the environment only to further their communist regime (all commi countries do this)."
i think all developing / third world countries have ignored the environmental impact of industry for the sake of economic development. the new administration in d.c. has opened some protected lands to drilling and mining.
"Fifteen years for jaywalking in a military run prison is overkill."
there are plenty of jaywalkers on the streets of beijing. none of whom have been imprisoned for fifteen years in a military prison. i think the pedestrians are more concerned about not getting run over by an automobile that is being driven by driver that is not currently imprisoned for fifteen years for breaking all sorts of traffic laws.
"Religion is outlawed. Look what they did to all the Buddhists and Catholics."
my friend in china attends church. she is not able to attend on a regular basis, not because she is imprisoned for fifteen years for jaywalking on the way to church, but because she just really isn't into it.
you are correct in your statements about china's human rights violations.
i'm not sure how you got a mod of "3, Insightful".
is there any chance of reviving mars polar lander if it is found to be positioned correctly on its landing gear? although the main communications gear was knocked out, wasn't there a way for mars global surveyor to communicate with mpl via short wave radio or some similar method? perhaps now that nasa knows the location of the mpl they can move the mgs into a position to communicate with mpl.
i've been living without a tv for almost two years. it really motivates you to go home to the parents to watch tv, i mean for dinner and go to the fitness center to watch tv, i mean work out. i now spend my nights surfing the web for porn (on a 56k line) for entertainment. i think i just might have to buy that sims game to watch others live their lives.
Slashdot Mirror
you wouldn't have to worry about NDAs. the person who would be contributing licensing information to the website would only have to give information as to how much, for how many. or something along those lines.
andrew
i found this site on the life of a soldier in the french foreign legion a few weeks ago. had i known about this after college, i probably would have joined.
http://www.foreignlegionlife.com/
andrew
does anybody know of a j2ee / jdbc book that has in-depth coverage of distributed transactions? i have a j2ee book that tells you how to do it, but i want hard core examples and more than several pages on the subject.
thanks.
andrew
i had to go to another party... perhaps at the end of august...
i think slashdot mentioned that M$ bought several patents from SGI. most speculated that these patents had to do with OpenGL. could it be possible that M$ bought the patents or technology that would enable them to integrate xfs into Longhorn?
Mod this up!!!
Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D
By: Larry Garfield, 07.01.02 10:02
The developer edition of what will become
the most advanced Linux consumer PDA to
date is here; we've taken a closer look at
the heart and the soul of Sharp's new
SL-5000D.
Sharp recently released the developer edition of their new
Linux-based PDA, the Zaurus SL-5000D - and the company, by
positioning it as the Linux answer to Pocket PC and Palm OS
devices, is trying to take the business and "prosumer" markets by
storm. We take a closer look at the SL-5000D, both from the point
of view of a Linux-based system and a PDA.
Bear in mind, the software for
the Zaurus SL-5000D is still in
development, so it is a moving
target for now. Some of the
points mentioned here may
change by the time the
consumer version, the Sharp
Zaurus SL-5500, is released in
the coming months.
The hardware
The Zaurus measures 2.90 x
5.40 x 0.80 in. (74 x 138 x 21
mm), and weighs in at 7.3 oz
(206 g). It's larger than typical
Palm OS devices, but has a
comfortable size compared to
most Pocket PCs. The front
panel below the screen slides
down to reveal the thumb
keyboard, which makes the
device about 2 inches longer
than when it's closed. The front
panel itself has eight hardware
shortcut buttons and one disk-rocker. Calendar, Contact, Home,
Menu, and Email run across the top, Palm-like, with an
On/Off/Cancel button and OK button flanking the silver rocker
below them. The rocker itself is a 4-way disk rocker with another
button in the center. The rocker feels very good in the hand and is
very easy to use. Note that the front panel buttons function only
when the panel is fully extended or fully retracted.
The keyboard is a QWERTY layout in a downward "frown", with a few
modifications. A "FN" (function) button in the lower left acts as a
shift key to the numeric and symbol characters listed above each
character. The backspace key is where the Enter key normally is,
while Enter is relegated to the bottom right corner. The ".", ":", ",",
and ";" characters are also grouped and arranged differently. The
pipe character, standard fare on any Linux-based system, is the
FN-shift from the spacebar, although it is not marked as such. The
keys are small, but we found them easy to use, unless you have
very large fingers.
The top of the device includes a Type II Compact Flash (CF) slot,
headphone/microphone jack, and silo for the included all-plastic
stylus, which we found to be a bit short. An included plastic slug in
the CF slot keeps it free from dirt when not in use. It works, but we
prefer devices that use a small door or cover so that there is no
extra plastic. On the left side of the device, there is a Secure
Digital (SD) slot, which lacks a plastic slug, and an IrDA port.
g.mate may say that the yopy consumer edition will be available in weeks, but i won't believe it until i see it. they have been promising the consumer edition for over a year. the zaurus was already released as a consumer product in japan, except without linux and java. i can not say how long the japanese consumer edition has been available in japan, but it has been over six months. the same can not be said for the yopy.
i'll be happy to see the consumer edition of the yopy for sale, but now the question is, should i wait for the zaurus?
andrew
the wait for the yopy has been too long, even for me, a korean-american who taught several english conversation classes to regular workers and some middle / upper management at samsung electronics main manufacturing plant in suwon, korea.
i've waited for the yopy for what seems like years. i studied every photograph, every news article, and every review, waiting for the consumer model. then, i finally woke up.
now i have a new love, the sharp zaurus (linux, java, keyboard). the developer edition is supposed to be released soon (end of this month) and the consumer edition will hopefully be released in the spring.
andrew park
i remember somebody telling me that some 'professional', sports-tickets scalpers were actually legally selling team / game programs for very high prices, but also including 'free' tickets with the purchase.
in the same manner, couldn't a person on ebay auction the manuals to a piece of software for a desired price and include the cd roms free of charge? i know that the license would not transfer legally, but the sale of manual would not be illegal.
andrew
All 12 Federal Reserve Banks and their branches are open and although their security is at a high level it is business as usual. The NYC Federal Reserve Bank, which is a few blocks from the WTC, is still open, as is the bank in Washington D.C.
wouldn't it be a fairer chess match if the size of the computer (sans the power supply) was limited to the size of kramnik's brain?
there are more than 10 million people living in seoul. if 5% of them play lineage that is at least 500,000 players, in a single urban area. it would be very easy to reach out and touch ("off line pk") somebody in such a densely populated area (in terms of lineage players). it only takes a few hours by train or car to get to the most southern part of korea (pusan, which happens to be the second largest city).
although my knowledge of korean society is just that of an observer, i know that each korean has a set of "seniors" and "juniors". relationships between juniors and seniors begin in school, clubs, churches, etc, in almost any type of activity. a person can call on his "juniors" to help him in a time of need. and a person can be called on by his "senior" to be helped, or can call on his "senior" to ask for his assistance. these relationships can be used for initimidation of others or defense from others outside the group. DO NOT THINK THIS IS THE ONLY REASON FOR THESE RELATIONSHIPS. they are more often used for financial assistance, help moving to a different apartment / house, drinking, doing the activity in which the relationship was formed, etc. i hypothesize that relatioinships formed in on online game in korea would work in the same manner. the stronger protect the weak within clans. the weak members in the clan band together to protect one another. the level of loyalty in these types of junior / senior relationships can get somewhat high.
korea is a very stressful place. workers work 5 and half days a week with tons of overtime. you could get "IMF'ed" (laid off) at any moment. school children (middle and high school) are the same. to get into a good college, you have to be in a good class (each grade consists of severl classes depending on your test scores). students are ranked from middle school, upto their final year in high school. this final year entails waking at 6am in the morning and studying from about 7am to past midnight. the students study for the college entrance exam. there is a high suicide rate amongst high school students in korea. this stressful society paves the way for people trying to escape, trying to be more than what they are, trying to live a life outside of their means in reality.
somebody else made a point that online gaming in korea is very popular. i would like to reinforce his statement. i went to korea very recently and was surprised when i found myself watching a game of starcraft on tv that was being commentated. i saw a show where people were flocking to get the autograph of a person who had just won a starcraft / other online game comptetition. (this was about two months ago when i visited korea.) i've read articles (submitted to slashdot and got rejected) where american and international net gaming "professionals" were moving to korea because there was more opponents to practice and more competitions for money (last year).
okay, i'll stop now. i just wanted to add a disclaimer that i'm an american born korean that lived in korea for one year. if there are any pure koreans that would like to comment on anything that i've said here, go ahead. i know i don't have a full understanding on how korean society functions. i'm just trying to fill in some background that the article may have left out.
andrew
you should interview my friend, dave, check out his web site: http://members.home.net/djaeger8/
andrew
they even have a wearable keyboard / pda kit: http://www.halfkeyboard.com/products/index.html . it is kind of pricey.
yopy where are you?
andrew
andrew
i see many open source supporters posting very optimistic messages about how open source will triumph over ms. though i too am optimistic that this will be the case, we should be more weary of microsoft.
when the browser wars first began, we were all confident that netscape would over come, but look at it now. even with open source, mozilla is still months away from a production release and it will take more months and years for us to be able to see if the endeavors of the developers of mozilla will actually pay off and help mozilla regain some of netscape's past glory.
microsoft is experienced in the ways of destroying the competition piece by piece. it has the monetary resources. it has the marketing resources. and even though the public may know that microsoft is monopolistic, they still listen to microsoft (the corporation) because they would rather listen to it than a bunch of geeks screaming open source (an idea that they don't understand) at the top of their lungs.
i'm not saying that we are defeated, but confidence alone will not help us win this war that we are being dragged into with microsoft. changes must be made on how we interact with the general public. we must get open source (not linux, but other software) onto the pcs of the general public. something that enables the average pc user to say, "i have no idea what open source is, but it is cool because i use this awesome program everyday and it is free!" something like winamp or napster ( i know that there are open source versions of these products, but they are not as popular as the original). perhaps mozilla will be able to do this for open source. perhaps...
we can not go on as if it is business as usual. that is the way that we acted for the past few years and it has gotten us far, but now microsoft has aimed it's mighty cannons at us and has fired a few shots. these shots were not meant to be damage open source, but to calculate ranges for the main barrage. the barrage is coming, it's time to dig in (and / or launch an attack of our own).
thanks for reading...
andrew
he didn't give me much to go on. he said the computer would lock up after leaving it alone for a half an hour. so during one of my sunday visits, i sat down tested his system. i tried to recreate the lock up. i rebooted the system, connected the dsl, waited for the screen saver, tried to wake the system (nothing), waited for the screen saver, waited for energy star, tried to wake the system... no matter what i did i could not recreate the problem. i knew there was a problem because i had experienced once or twice before, but i couldn't recreate it.
this went on for an hour or so, and my dad asked me how it was going. i told him about my inability to recreate the problem and he said, "just call tech support." i told him that i would not call tech support unless i had something to tell them. we got in a huge argument about calling tech support.
i never really had an official tech support position, but i'm sure everybody on /. has been in a position either at home or at work that they've been put into some type of ad hoc tech support role.
i've worked closely with tech support in the past and felt bad about calling them without a clear definition of the problem was. my father didn't really care and was ready to call with, "the dsl broke my computer, now fix it." after having him yell at me while continuing my testing, i was finally able to recreate the problem. i called tech support and explained what was happening. although it took some time, we worked through the problem.
i'm not sure if my father does this with the real tech support, but when he comes to me with a problem, he gives me a very vague description of what the problem is. when i ask him for more details like "when did it this problem first occur?", he says he doesn't know or doesn't reply. when i figure it out for myself, he says, "oh." then, before i even solve his first problem, he'll ask me to solve another problem. that sucks, except when it reveals some additional information about the first problem...
okay, okay, i'll stop ranting. i know that we've all been through the same kind of stuff before...
it is kind of wierd to read my old posts to the newsgroups that i frequented in college. i would never agree with some of the things that i said back then, or now do not feel as strongly about them as i do now. i guess i'm just getting older and less passionate about the things that i believe in. andrew
i think the most visible korean products in america are the samsung pcs phones, tvs, computer monitors and microwaves. i believe some ibm think pads are manufactured in korea by the LG / IBM joint venture. i think LG electronics is concentrating on lcds (as far as computers goes). as the original poster noted, the korean conglomerates are very diversified in the products that they manufacture (samsung got into the car business for a very short period of time). samsung electronics seems to have their hands in all types of electronics.
i'm pretty sure samsung electronics employs more than 30,000 workers. i had the pleasure of working at their number one facility in 1997 for a short period of time as a english conversation teacher. unfortunately, since i was only an english conversation teacher, i am unable to really comment on samsung electronics other than from what i read in the korean newspapers...
andrew park
i'm not defending china, "another evil communist nation", because i feel that it is the best place on earth. i defended china because three out of the four points that you made in your post are generalized and somewhat inaccurate.
i think all developing / third world countries have ignored the environmental impact of industry for the sake of economic development. the new administration in d.c. has opened some protected lands to drilling and mining.
"Fifteen years for jaywalking in a military run prison is overkill."
there are plenty of jaywalkers on the streets of beijing. none of whom have been imprisoned for fifteen years in a military prison. i think the pedestrians are more concerned about not getting run over by an automobile that is being driven by driver that is not currently imprisoned for fifteen years for breaking all sorts of traffic laws.
"Religion is outlawed. Look what they did to all the Buddhists and Catholics."
my friend in china attends church. she is not able to attend on a regular basis, not because she is imprisoned for fifteen years for jaywalking on the way to church, but because she just really isn't into it.
you are correct in your statements about china's human rights violations.
i'm not sure how you got a mod of "3, Insightful".
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i've been living without a tv for almost two years. it really motivates you to go home to the parents to watch tv, i mean for dinner and go to the fitness center to watch tv, i mean work out. i now spend my nights surfing the web for porn (on a 56k line) for entertainment. i think i just might have to buy that sims game to watch others live their lives.