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  1. Developing countries have big companies too. on Long Term Effects of Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    China is soon going to be the biggest market for everyone's services.

    Most of the expansion in the global economy is going to come from China and India. That is where the big companies are, or soon will be.

    Western code shops that outsource, or relocate, are going to have a competitive edge over those that keep everything in-house. Here (in China) guangxi (connections) are going to count a lot more than having your coders in the west.

  2. Tie In Rights, on SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims? · · Score: 1

    West Wing, Wag The Dog, Primary Colours.. ETC...

  3. Chinese Mandarin Pinyin Dictionaries on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    I have a similar problem - Trying to get an English to Pinyin electronic dictionary. All my Chinese students have electronic dictionaries, but none that I have seen can translate directly from English to Pinyin, enabling me to say something useful in China. If I could read chinese characters I wouldn't need the dictionary!

    Has anybody seen a suitable one?

  4. Re:Isn't this the geek way? on More On Online Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    You're playing a game. If someone is cheating, don't play with them.

    If you go and play football in the park with strangers, some of them won't play nice.

  5. Isn't this the geek way? on More On Online Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    Where are the congratulations for these cheat coders?

    Some people are faster, fitter or quicker on the keys. The geeks found a way around that, that's what geeks do!

    Some people are better at the games (through hard work, perserverance and natural ability). The geeks found a way to even the score. Well done.

    Microwave ovens are cheats for cooking, cars are cheats for walking. You can still cook or walk if you choose too. There are whole communities of people who don't cheat.

  6. English word for cupboard on Fewer Employees + Same Work = Higher Productivity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The English word for cupbaoard is CUP+BOARD, but that does not mean I will always find a cup in there.

  7. Solar powered eyes? on Bionic Retinas Give Patients Sight · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Optobionics is using the energy in the light to do this, which differs from alternatives (the epiretinal approach) which requires external power sources and are therefore big fat and clunky.

    Could this technology have a function in cameras?

  8. Re:what laws apply? on Making an Independent Web Site? · · Score: 1

    British law can prosecute you if you publish certain material from the UK (including FTPing to another country), the intent was track down child pornography, but not sure what else is covered.

  9. what laws apply? on Making an Independent Web Site? · · Score: 1

    It depends on where you live and where your host is based. The local juristictions of your country and that of your server are the limit of your independence. No matter how much you spend.

  10. money for old rope? on Virtual-U (SimUniversity) Now Available · · Score: 1

    So someone will get a nice big research grant to sit around watching how a virtual university works, and then find out how to improve their university.

    They will do this while sat in a perfectly good university, with all those "real" things happening. Sadly they will miss this because they are too busy playing The Sims "Brainy People Edition".

  11. Sony VoIP.. on Sony SmartPhone To Work With PS2 · · Score: 1

    Could you jiggle this to make VoIP work?

  12. vice versa universe? on Big Bang or Cosmic Crunch? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are the dust of long dead stars.±

    Excerpts from interview of Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of England by Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, April 26, 1998

    but it appears Stars are the dust of long, long dead us?