The Secret to South Korea's success is 1) Hard work. Not strange to have working hours from 8am to 9pm. In 1987, average working hours per week was about 54. 2) National pride/patriotism - they buy Korean stuff. Makes it easier to develop local industries. 3) The recent success is just a matter of "market correction". The economic crash was half justified, the other half was most likely overreaction from foreign investors - see below.
The South Koreans invested a LOT in many capital intensive areas. They pumped lots of money in (much borrowed) and grew really fast.
Say you buy a lot of houses, and you can actually afford to pay the loans on most of them, if the bank panics and calls in ALL the loans, you're pretty much screwed - you really don't have enough money to pay for EVERYTHING at once. That's why the crash. I believe they borrowed a lot in USD. So when the foreign investors panicked, the Korean money dropped in value, making the situation even worse[1].
Now that greed has got back higher than fear, the money is flowing back in. Which is why they're doing better now.
Note a side effect of the crash (a cynic might say an intentional effect of the crash) is that lots of stuff become cheap (companies go bankrupt etc), and foreign investors can buy up lots more stuff and thus extend their control over Korea. So while many foreign investors got screwed short term, overall they end up owning more of Korea.
As for broadband: 1) Korea is densely populated - easier to wire everything up. 2) Koreans don't speak much English or other foreign languages. So the demand for international content may not be as high, thus international bandwidth costs may be lower. Thus even if you wire everyone up, they're not complaining so much about international connections being sucky.
Enough bullshit. Don't believe everything you read.:)
[1] That's why I believe my country (Malaysia) did the right thing (for Malaysia that is) but very unpopular thing of instituting capital controls and preventing money outflow. The IMF and most people said lots of unfriendly things when that happened, but later on they grudgingly accepted it wasn't such a bad idea after all. For years silly economists/finance ppl were saying Korea's recovery (and the other affected nations) was greater than Malaysia, but that's because Malaysia didn't go down as low. Thanks, but I'd rather not have recovery like that...
I've written 6k line perl programs but that's probably proof that I'm not great. A great programmer/hacker would probably do the same thing 1K lines;).
With the wrong language you can't write little programs even if the job is a little job:). Even medium jobs look like huge jobs.
The advantage of Java is you can outsource the bulk of the programming to 100 different people in Bangalore or something. The hopefully smart person doing the design and architecture at the HQ doesn't have to type many lines of Java - he programs in human languages.
Whereas with Lisp or other Great Hacker languages while that smart person is 20x-100x more productive, you can't outsource the job, so when the job becomes boring it's hard to keep that smart person around to do maintenance, documentation and other low level stuff.
And sometimes the boring stuff makes money. I mean how many great hackers want to do accounting programs, custom portals (with ever-changing requirements), ERP etc?
With Perl the smart hackers have created the blocks of Duplo and Lego (CPAN), and made them available for the not so smart ones like me to use em. Prefab code:).
"This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other filesystems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do."
Thanks but no thanks. I'd rather my/etc/fstab not be corrupted in the event I edit/etc/hosts , try to save and sh*t happens.
Worse if something gets corrupted and I don't notice it till months later when I reboot. For most normal filesystems editing/etc/hosts could cause/etc to be corrupted if sh*t happens, but I'm more likely to notice that eh?
Sure filesystems have to work well. But the ones I'd use/recommend also have to _fail_ well.
Reiser is like the PHP of filesystems. Cool, quick etc but the developers and users need to do a bit more thinking about the consequences of the features they think are oh-so-wonderful.
Yeah maybe this was suppposed to be a public apology.:).
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At what point do you stop doing their job for them?
If he used the official (not necessarily correct) contact addresses/numbers to notify them then he's done as much as a reasonable person would be expected to.
How would that help? Linux isn't significantly more secure than Windows.
Remember- there were tons of worms which required victims to type in passwords to open encrypted zip files and then run the executables. AND tons of DUMMIES did, I even recall a columnist saying he was tempted to do it even though he knew he shouldn't.
They were exploiting vulnerabilities and security issues in HUMANS not Windows.
The same HUMANS would run an obfuscated polymorphic perl script from a stranger that did indeterminable things. Think about it.
You'd need a system that by default ran stuff with fewer privileges than the account the user's are using, and flagged suspicious attempts to do more. Best if the system does a snapshot each time you try to run something strange.
Then every 3 months or so, you send the system to a professional for servicing - who patches everything, cleans out unused/unnecessary snapshots, removes any worms that got through etc.
"Well you're not a very good IT professional then are you because I don't get any. Ever."
Maybe people are asking others for help instead of you?
It seems inevitable that people will get viruses somehow. There are users who are so thick that they'd try to open an encrypted zip file, enter the password (an image) and _run_ the executable. Gack.
I bet if Linux was dominant the same idiots would be doing tar./configure, make...
Worse- think of the damage obfuscated polymorphic perl scripts could do. I wonder how the virus scanners would cope.
Spread, change the desktop background to "Infected" then do a shutdown.
If it keeps happening maybe the admins/users might just figure out that something is wrong eh?
There are people who are still running codered and nimda on their machines and are totally clueless. At least this will reduce the amount of wasted bandwidth.
I hardly watch TV nowadays. But I heard this reality TV thing is popular...
Even if Kevin+Sarah don't break up, the producers might script something in. Taking a leaf from WWE et all. Cynical? Yeah:). Spin-off to their own show? Heh nah... Erm...
I haven't seen TechTV for months, so I dunno about the Kevin and Sarah thing being sickening... Only found out on the Net some time back that they were together and making it public.
You said: "NOW it costs more per GB than it did when it was the main seller"
It doesn't.
The price per GB for 40GB drives hasn't gone up. Just the price per GB for bigger drives has gone down more.
The price for old computer stuff may go up if it does something that the new versions don't. See the SDRAM vs DDR RAM prices. We may see ATA drives become more expensive than SATA drives.
In contrast you can typically use a 40GB or larger drive on an old PC that doesn't support large drives, either by setting a jumper or just using a smaller partition. So there aren't that many manufacturers making expensive 8GB ATA drives.
Nah, just shorten copyright periods to below 20 years. 7-10 years seems about fine to me.
If you can't make money from a work within 7 years, then that work sucks or you suck.
If a software maker cannot make a new program sufficiently better than 7 year old programs, so that they will make enough money out of it, then perhaps we'd see real innovation rather than stupid bloat or lock-in.
There's lots of wasted resources going to "slightly better" or "no longer supported by vendor - but vendor owns copyright so we have to upgrade to next version".
If 7 years is too short for some cases you could have different durations for different sort of works or different classes of copyright owners.
Yep. Theft removes or restricts access to property/objects/works from the rightful owner/user, without the rightful owner/user's permission.
Laws that retroactively cause works previously in the public domain to become copyrighted are theft.
Anticopying measures that prevent rightful use of legal copies are close to theft.
Laws that extend copyright duration are close to theft too - works that would otherwise become public domain are kept under private monopoly. Same goes for laws that extend copyright coverage.
Laws that remove fair use or other previously legal actions of copying are close to theft.
While copying does not in itself remove an owner's access from the original, copyright infringement illegally removes/restricts the legal monopoly on copying from the copyright owners. So copyright infringement could be a form of theft too.
So who are the thieves? And who has been doing the most stealing?
You be the judge for yourself. I'm probably too biased.
"(cars can pretty much only say "Hey!" - the implied meaning of the horn)."
I've tried to propose different horns for different messages (other than Hey/Oi!), my theory is that it might help reduce misunderstanding and escalations to road rage.
Coz most people interpret the horn message negatively.
If you could say "excuse me", yes, no, it'll be better.
"Antelopes, zebra... these animals don't have lines on the ground, they don't have rules, but they very, very rarely crash. "
They do crash when they have to run through narrower paths than the typical grassy plains. But AFAIK they don't dent easily.;).
Still I'm well aware of the point, which is why I believe "flying cars for the masses" are a stupid idea. Can humans flock like flamingos? The day a flamingo tries to be funny and fly against the flock is probably the day it gets pecked to death by everyone.
"I'd NEVER buy used storage, except for cases (e.g. swap) where failure != disaster. As for warranties: all other things being equal, longer is better; but I'd much rather lose money than data."
If swap = swapfile, then you might still lose data.
Daihatsu and Lexus belong to Toyota. And they are quite different.
That said, I've seen more BMWs at the side of the road with their hoods up than Kia's. And there are probably about the same number of Kia's and BMWs in my part of the world.
That's anecdotal though. Someone should probably whip out the defects per car statistics.
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Hey I can do bullshit too:
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The Secret to South Korea's success is
1) Hard work. Not strange to have working hours from 8am to 9pm. In 1987, average working hours per week was about 54.
2) National pride/patriotism - they buy Korean stuff. Makes it easier to develop local industries.
3) The recent success is just a matter of "market correction". The economic crash was half justified, the other half was most likely overreaction from foreign investors - see below.
The South Koreans invested a LOT in many capital intensive areas. They pumped lots of money in (much borrowed) and grew really fast.
Say you buy a lot of houses, and you can actually afford to pay the loans on most of them, if the bank panics and calls in ALL the loans, you're pretty much screwed - you really don't have enough money to pay for EVERYTHING at once. That's why the crash. I believe they borrowed a lot in USD. So when the foreign investors panicked, the Korean money dropped in value, making the situation even worse[1].
Now that greed has got back higher than fear, the money is flowing back in. Which is why they're doing better now.
Note a side effect of the crash (a cynic might say an intentional effect of the crash) is that lots of stuff become cheap (companies go bankrupt etc), and foreign investors can buy up lots more stuff and thus extend their control over Korea. So while many foreign investors got screwed short term, overall they end up owning more of Korea.
As for broadband:
1) Korea is densely populated - easier to wire everything up.
2) Koreans don't speak much English or other foreign languages. So the demand for international content may not be as high, thus international bandwidth costs may be lower. Thus even if you wire everyone up, they're not complaining so much about international connections being sucky.
Enough bullshit. Don't believe everything you read.
[1] That's why I believe my country (Malaysia) did the right thing (for Malaysia that is) but very unpopular thing of instituting capital controls and preventing money outflow. The IMF and most people said lots of unfriendly things when that happened, but later on they grudgingly accepted it wasn't such a bad idea after all. For years silly economists/finance ppl were saying Korea's recovery (and the other affected nations) was greater than Malaysia, but that's because Malaysia didn't go down as low. Thanks, but I'd rather not have recovery like that...
I recommend you wear protective gear (esp eye and face) before trying that.
Fast moving bits of capacitor plus hot electrolytic fluid could affect the proper functioning of your eyes.
Girlfriend? Uh OK. Whatever makes you happy.
Psst everyone: he must be hallucinating or something - probably destroying his Athlon was the last straw...
I've written 6k line perl programs but that's probably proof that I'm not great. A great programmer/hacker would probably do the same thing 1K lines ;).
:). Even medium jobs look like huge jobs.
:).
With the wrong language you can't write little programs even if the job is a little job
The advantage of Java is you can outsource the bulk of the programming to 100 different people in Bangalore or something. The hopefully smart person doing the design and architecture at the HQ doesn't have to type many lines of Java - he programs in human languages.
Whereas with Lisp or other Great Hacker languages while that smart person is 20x-100x more productive, you can't outsource the job, so when the job becomes boring it's hard to keep that smart person around to do maintenance, documentation and other low level stuff.
And sometimes the boring stuff makes money. I mean how many great hackers want to do accounting programs, custom portals (with ever-changing requirements), ERP etc?
With Perl the smart hackers have created the blocks of Duplo and Lego (CPAN), and made them available for the not so smart ones like me to use em. Prefab code
Why not just Athlon XP -> Duron XP
Rather than
Athlon XP -> Sempron
Removing 64 bit functionality when it's possible to have it sucks. Removing cache is more likely to improve yield than removing 64 bit stuff.
So what if HP said they'd put AMD CPUs in if they make em 32 bit only. HP wants Itanium...
Wonder if they'd make it possible for the 64 bitness to be turned back on by a BIOS update or CPU "fix".
"This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other filesystems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do."
/etc/fstab not be corrupted in the event I edit /etc/hosts , try to save and sh*t happens.
/etc/hosts could cause /etc to be corrupted if sh*t happens, but I'm more likely to notice that eh?
Thanks but no thanks. I'd rather my
Worse if something gets corrupted and I don't notice it till months later when I reboot. For most normal filesystems editing
Sure filesystems have to work well. But the ones I'd use/recommend also have to _fail_ well.
Reiser is like the PHP of filesystems. Cool, quick etc but the developers and users need to do a bit more thinking about the consequences of the features they think are oh-so-wonderful.
Yeah maybe this was suppposed to be a public apology. :).
At what point do you stop doing their job for them?
If he used the official (not necessarily correct) contact addresses/numbers to notify them then he's done as much as a reasonable person would be expected to.
How would that help? Linux isn't significantly more secure than Windows.
Remember- there were tons of worms which required victims to type in passwords to open encrypted zip files and then run the executables. AND tons of DUMMIES did, I even recall a columnist saying he was tempted to do it even though he knew he shouldn't.
They were exploiting vulnerabilities and security issues in HUMANS not Windows.
The same HUMANS would run an obfuscated polymorphic perl script from a stranger that did indeterminable things. Think about it.
You'd need a system that by default ran stuff with fewer privileges than the account the user's are using, and flagged suspicious attempts to do more. Best if the system does a snapshot each time you try to run something strange.
Then every 3 months or so, you send the system to a professional for servicing - who patches everything, cleans out unused/unnecessary snapshots, removes any worms that got through etc.
"Well you're not a very good IT professional then are you because I don't get any. Ever."
./configure, make...
Maybe people are asking others for help instead of you?
It seems inevitable that people will get viruses somehow. There are users who are so thick that they'd try to open an encrypted zip file, enter the password (an image) and _run_ the executable. Gack.
I bet if Linux was dominant the same idiots would be doing tar
Worse- think of the damage obfuscated polymorphic perl scripts could do. I wonder how the virus scanners would cope.
Some trojans might not be written securely and might perhaps be prone to buffer overflows.
So if the trojan tries to attack your machine and you subvert it and shutdown the server, wouldn't that be self-defense or "citizen's arrest"?
Spread, change the desktop background to "Infected" then do a shutdown.
If it keeps happening maybe the admins/users might just figure out that something is wrong eh?
There are people who are still running codered and nimda on their machines and are totally clueless. At least this will reduce the amount of wasted bandwidth.
"Woody himself originally privately published and dedicated to the public domain."
"Ludlow Music unleashed its lawyers to have them withdrawn from the public domain."
If that's true that's theft and stealing from _everyone_ too.
I hardly watch TV nowadays. But I heard this reality TV thing is popular...
:). Spin-off to their own show? Heh nah... Erm...
Even if Kevin+Sarah don't break up, the producers might script something in. Taking a leaf from WWE et all. Cynical? Yeah
I haven't seen TechTV for months, so I dunno about the Kevin and Sarah thing being sickening... Only found out on the Net some time back that they were together and making it public.
"Or a Master's Thesis"
Hmm why's that moderated flamebait? Even if it's a bit inaccurate, I think it's supposed to be a joke.
You said: "NOW it costs more per GB than it did when it was the main seller"
It doesn't.
The price per GB for 40GB drives hasn't gone up. Just the price per GB for bigger drives has gone down more.
The price for old computer stuff may go up if it does something that the new versions don't. See the SDRAM vs DDR RAM prices. We may see ATA drives become more expensive than SATA drives.
In contrast you can typically use a 40GB or larger drive on an old PC that doesn't support large drives, either by setting a jumper or just using a smaller partition. So there aren't that many manufacturers making expensive 8GB ATA drives.
Nah, just shorten copyright periods to below 20 years. 7-10 years seems about fine to me.
If you can't make money from a work within 7 years, then that work sucks or you suck.
If a software maker cannot make a new program sufficiently better than 7 year old programs, so that they will make enough money out of it, then perhaps we'd see real innovation rather than stupid bloat or lock-in.
There's lots of wasted resources going to "slightly better" or "no longer supported by vendor - but vendor owns copyright so we have to upgrade to next version".
If 7 years is too short for some cases you could have different durations for different sort of works or different classes of copyright owners.
Yep. Theft removes or restricts access to property/objects/works from the rightful owner/user, without the rightful owner/user's permission.
Laws that retroactively cause works previously in the public domain to become copyrighted are theft.
Anticopying measures that prevent rightful use of legal copies are close to theft.
Laws that extend copyright duration are close to theft too - works that would otherwise become public domain are kept under private monopoly. Same goes for laws that extend copyright coverage.
Laws that remove fair use or other previously legal actions of copying are close to theft.
While copying does not in itself remove an owner's access from the original, copyright infringement illegally removes/restricts the legal monopoly on copying from the copyright owners. So copyright infringement could be a form of theft too.
So who are the thieves? And who has been doing the most stealing?
You be the judge for yourself. I'm probably too biased.
"(cars can pretty much only say "Hey!" - the implied meaning of the horn)."
:).
I've tried to propose different horns for different messages (other than Hey/Oi!), my theory is that it might help reduce misunderstanding and escalations to road rage.
Coz most people interpret the horn message negatively.
If you could say "excuse me", yes, no, it'll be better.
Or bark, growl, yelp, whimper, whine
"Antelopes, zebra... these animals don't have lines on the ground, they don't have rules, but they very, very rarely crash. "
;).
They do crash when they have to run through narrower paths than the typical grassy plains. But AFAIK they don't dent easily.
Still I'm well aware of the point, which is why I believe "flying cars for the masses" are a stupid idea. Can humans flock like flamingos? The day a flamingo tries to be funny and fly against the flock is probably the day it gets pecked to death by everyone.
"I'd NEVER buy used storage, except for cases (e.g. swap) where failure != disaster.
As for warranties: all other things being equal, longer is better; but I'd much rather lose money than data."
If swap = swapfile, then you might still lose data.
But Seagate may no longer have 30GB drives to give you, so you may still have to fight BIOS bugs and FS issues.
5 years is a very long time. I'm not complaining though, just pointing out you'd probably still have to migrate stuff off the hardware.
Even if Kia is owned by Hyundai, Kia != Hyundai.
Daihatsu and Lexus belong to Toyota. And they are quite different.
That said, I've seen more BMWs at the side of the road with their hoods up than Kia's. And there are probably about the same number of Kia's and BMWs in my part of the world.
That's anecdotal though. Someone should probably whip out the defects per car statistics.
"At least it makes a great "where were you" story to tell my children"
How about: "Me and Momma were busy making you..."
Huh? Has the price of 40GB drives really gone up significantly? Which country's prices?
Over here the prices haven't gone up, except for temporary increases due to shortages or other factors ( e.g. earthquakes in taiwan).