Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking of the computer science department's lab, not a general computer lab. Even now the general computer labs are filled with women.
The same is true for my geek friends. They had girl friends who were not stunning, but attractive and smart. They would have been a great companion for anyone. The geek friend would also be infatuated for a few months and then suddenly would be eyeballing another woman in the computer lab.
Don't listen to this man. He's lying. Oregon is the worst place to live in the world. Don't ever think about moving here. I mean there. Yah. Oregon sucks. Stay away.
I wonder if I can trust my university's networks; maybe I should SSH tunnel to my computer science department account.
It's been years since I've seen a University configuration that allows anything but SSH connections into department servers. What do you use now, TELNET?! What school do you go to that has such horrible horrible network administration policies?
Then it's not, as the article summary states, "a GPL Firefox plugin". If the Greasemap link wasn't Slashdotted, maybe I could've found that out for myself.
tip for those who actually try to RTFA but can't when slashdotted: next time try mirrordot, or coral cache: Just add ".nyud.net:8090" to the end of the hostname for a coral link. Like this: http://www.vinq.com.nyud.net:8090/greasemap/
I'll agree as soon as I'm allowed to import products from there for the same prices they're paying, then I could work for the same wage. At the moment companies are allowed to have the work done elsewhere, but at the same time you can't buy the cheaper products there and sell them over here.
Last I checked, prices in Germany weren't that much different than prices here in the US. Some things are even more expensive.
Purge your cookies and see how it's fixed again.:)
Because you got it confused once it saved that confusion in your cookie. Clear em all out and.com will work again. Just don't try the localized domain again til they fix it.
Even if you use VBR (variable bit rate) compression, the algorithm still tries to average a certain overall bitrate, so the result is the same. It would be nice if you could just say "compress this song using as many bits as you need to make it sound good," but unfortunately the phrase "to make it sound good" is very subjective. The algorithm doesn't know what sounds good.
Bzzt. Wrong. VBR schemes in formats such as OGG, MPC, and others are based on "quality" as opposed to bitrate. There's certainly a correlation between the two, but the idea is to have compression levels linked to quality as opposed to size.
Even with MP3 you can have VBR encodings that go down to 32 bps during silence. Check out LAME's "alt-preset" (just preset in recent revisions) command line options for damn good quality based settings.
See Hydrogen Audio for more information than you could ever want.
I would say an Apple system running AIX is just that, an Apple system running AIX. Not an Apple Macintosh, which is what the original poster was talking about.
Most Universities probably don't want ANY filesharing. A lot of them have limited bandwith for P2P applications as it is. Do you think that really want it going on at all? Probably not. Too many problems w/the RIAA and the MPAA.
Most universities couldn't give a f*ck as long as it doesn't take up too much bandwidth. And with something like this most of your peers will probably be other students on the same campus, bringing down the BW cost to the uni since the traffic would mostly be internal.
If you're going to try to correct people, don't get it wrong.
It's just as true, and just as irrelevant to say that the Communists stole China from its "rightful" owner, the Emperor.
The communists took over after WWII. The country was in a state of chaos. If you want to say they stole it from someone, they stole it from the Nationalists who fled to Taiwan. But at the time the Nationalists were certainly losing control anyway, hence the revolution. The Emperor lost power much earlier in the 20th century, long before the Communists came to power.
Also, another note about HK. Lots of people don't realize how much power didn't change hands with the return of HK to the PRC. Many of the previously appointed British officials still hold their offices. For instance, a British friend of mine has an uncle (also British obviously) who is still a magistrate in HK.
In China, lots of the cities I was in charged as little as 1 yuan (12 cents) per hour. Seems to me they collected some of these prices out of their ass.
Your school was blocked because somewhere in the site is an article about Taiwan, Fa Lun Gong, Tibet, Hong Kong, or a high ranking government official. Standard procedure to block the school's whole network. If you really want to get to your uni's website you can use a proxy. I always get my proxy lists here and check to see if it's useable here.
Just as the Mongols found a way to get inside the original Great Wall, you too can find your way outside the Great Firewall of modern times.:)
Whenever there's an article about China on Slashdot I always see so much clueless information being tossed about...
Here's some information from someone (a Westerner) who's lived here for around 3 years.
First of all, I guarantee you the children that did this did it because they're fucked up little shits. They certainly weren't doing it because of some freedom of information ideals. They were probably just pissed off cause they couldn't get on to play their MMORPGs and chat online. No matter if China's internet regulations are right or wrong, beating a guy over the head who's just trying to keep the store in business is not the way to change government policy. If anything, it just reinforces the opinion of the public that internet cafes are a bad influence on the young. Even my father-in-law, who is quite educated and a well respected school principal, thinks net cafes are evil places. Once when I told him I wanted to go check my email, he took my wife and I walking around town until we came upon a net cafe that didn't look too evil. It's a good thing I never told him I used to stay up all night in net cafes playing Starcraft with my friends while studying in Beijing!
Another thing people are forgetting is that this stuff is all dealing with internet cafes. It has nothing to do with what people do in their homes. Families are still free to have high speed internet in their homes no matter what age their children are. And anyone who is going to risk looking at censored information is probably going to do it from their own home. Almost all of the internet cafes are locked down to prevent users from messing with any internet settings, so it's not likely they'll be able to use proxies in the cafes anyway. In your home it's quite simple to go through a proxy. The people who really want outside information can get it easily enough. It's just the masses, who don't really care anyway, who can't get censored information.
Another thing, I always see people talking about how China's got so many laws against things such as pirated software, movies, music, and brand names but doesn't do anything about it. There's fake brand names everywhere, even in official franchise stores. And I can only recall one time that I saw official copies of movies and music for sale. Official software is easy enough to find, but nobody actually buys it. Anyway, my brother-in-law is the Secretary (not secretary) of the Consumer Affairs division of the Public Security Bureau in a large city, and I've asked him about this. They all know they could walk into any store and confiscate at least 95% of their goods, but they don't. If they did, stores would be going bankrupt all the time. If they tried selling official products most of them would go bankrupt too since nobody can afford to buy their products. So, should China protect the income of rich foreigners and bankrupt it's citizens, or should they protect their own and look the other way? It's a pretty easy decision, and most people forget the US did the same thing to England regarding copyrights not too long ago.
Sure, every once in a while there will be big crackdowns, and their real purpose is just to show investors. "Hey look, we're protecting copyrights! Come do business here!" More business investments in the country helps the economy, obviously. But everyone here knows the busts are for show. And most stores will be warned ahead of time so they can hide their products.
Bah I already wrote more than I thought I would...
If anyone actually read that whole message, congrats.
Incidentally, have you heard about the discovery of the largest living creature on Earth? Would you believe it's two or three miles across, and probably several thousand years old, and still growing? It's this fungus that's eating Oregon. It's a single creature. I'm not quite sure how that's determined.
Does anyone know WTF he is talking about here? Before I came back to China last year I didn't seem to remember my fellow Oregonians running away in fear from the killer fungus...
Uhm, before upping the score on the parent post did any of the moderators actually check that the parent's and grandparent's links were actually different? No? Didn't think so.
From the article: no assembly-line workers in China able to enter that country's growing middle class
Yes, the companies hiring these people are really holding them back. Just imagine if they couldn't find a job how quickly they could join the growing middle class!
Please, give me a break. The economy in China is completely different than what this 'journalist' is used to. The number of people living here just boggles the mind. I would say that over 90% of China's problems can be traced back to the fact that it's population is FAR too high. Too many people, not enough schools. Too many people, not enough jobs. Too many people, not enough land. If the workers had something past a middle school education, then yah, maybe they could enter the so called middle class. But they don't. Usually the workers are glad they have a job at all. If they don't want the job there's plenty of other people who would be glad to take their place.
Even though their wage is well below the poverty line in the west, they usually have an average salary for the area they're living in. For instance, at the kindergaten I'm working at now the Chinese teachers get around $100-120 USD / month. The cleaning staff gets perhaps around $70-80, I forget exactly. And these are considered good wages for the job they are doing. Hell, I don't think there's a single person at the school who doesn't have a mobile (cell) phone! And remember this is in a large metropolitan Chinese city, not out in the country where most of the manufacturing plants are. The cost of living is even lower where most of the plants are.
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Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking of the computer science department's lab, not a general computer lab. Even now the general computer labs are filled with women.
The same is true for my geek friends. They had girl friends who were not stunning, but attractive and smart. They would have been a great companion for anyone. The geek friend would also be infatuated for a few months and then suddenly would be eyeballing another woman in the computer lab.
You mean the other woman in the computer lab?
Don't listen to this man. He's lying. Oregon is the worst place to live in the world. Don't ever think about moving here. I mean there. Yah. Oregon sucks. Stay away.
I wonder if I can trust my university's networks; maybe I should SSH tunnel to my computer science department account.
It's been years since I've seen a University configuration that allows anything but SSH connections into department servers. What do you use now, TELNET?! What school do you go to that has such horrible horrible network administration policies?
Then it's not, as the article summary states, "a GPL Firefox plugin". If the Greasemap link wasn't Slashdotted, maybe I could've found that out for myself.
tip for those who actually try to RTFA but can't when slashdotted:
next time try mirrordot, or coral cache:
Just add ".nyud.net:8090" to the end of the hostname for a coral link. Like this: http://www.vinq.com.nyud.net:8090/greasemap/
That's exactly what Greasemap is. Javascript for Greasemonkey.
I'll agree as soon as I'm allowed to import products from there for the same prices they're paying, then I could work for the same wage. At the moment companies are allowed to have the work done elsewhere, but at the same time you can't buy the cheaper products there and sell them over here.
Last I checked, prices in Germany weren't that much different than prices here in the US. Some things are even more expensive.
tip:
Windows+E: explorer
Purge your cookies and see how it's fixed again. :)
.com will work again. Just don't try the localized domain again til they fix it.
Because you got it confused once it saved that confusion in your cookie. Clear em all out and
Even if you use VBR (variable bit rate) compression, the algorithm still tries to average a certain overall bitrate, so the result is the same. It would be nice if you could just say "compress this song using as many bits as you need to make it sound good," but unfortunately the phrase "to make it sound good" is very subjective. The algorithm doesn't know what sounds good.
Bzzt. Wrong. VBR schemes in formats such as OGG, MPC, and others are based on "quality" as opposed to bitrate. There's certainly a correlation between the two, but the idea is to have compression levels linked to quality as opposed to size.
Even with MP3 you can have VBR encodings that go down to 32 bps during silence. Check out LAME's "alt-preset" (just preset in recent revisions) command line options for damn good quality based settings.
See Hydrogen Audio for more information than you could ever want.
Okay, who was down for Timothy on Saturday night for the /. Dupe Pool?
I would say an Apple system running AIX is just that, an Apple system running AIX. Not an Apple Macintosh, which is what the original poster was talking about.
Most Universities probably don't want ANY filesharing. A lot of them have limited bandwith for P2P applications as it is. Do you think that really want it going on at all? Probably not. Too many problems w/the RIAA and the MPAA.
Most universities couldn't give a f*ck as long as it doesn't take up too much bandwidth. And with something like this most of your peers will probably be other students on the same campus, bringing down the BW cost to the uni since the traffic would mostly be internal.
Novell's lawsuits regarding DR-DOS?
Who are these people, requesting so much information?! They must be terrorists!
I'll wait a few days for it tos how up on a torrent.
You probably don't have to wait that long. Shows usually appear online after a few hours at most.
Yah.. uhm... That's the same link I posted.
There's a much better review at Steves Digicams
Might want to check that one out too.
If you're going to try to correct people, don't get it wrong.
It's just as true, and just as irrelevant to say that the Communists stole China from its "rightful" owner, the Emperor.
The communists took over after WWII. The country was in a state of chaos. If you want to say they stole it from someone, they stole it from the Nationalists who fled to Taiwan. But at the time the Nationalists were certainly losing control anyway, hence the revolution. The Emperor lost power much earlier in the 20th century, long before the Communists came to power.
Also, another note about HK. Lots of people don't realize how much power didn't change hands with the return of HK to the PRC. Many of the previously appointed British officials still hold their offices. For instance, a British friend of mine has an uncle (also British obviously) who is still a magistrate in HK.
In China, lots of the cities I was in charged as little as 1 yuan (12 cents) per hour. Seems to me they collected some of these prices out of their ass.
Your school was blocked because somewhere in the site is an article about Taiwan, Fa Lun Gong, Tibet, Hong Kong, or a high ranking government official. Standard procedure to block the school's whole network. If you really want to get to your uni's website you can use a proxy. I always get my proxy lists here and check to see if it's useable here.
:)
Just as the Mongols found a way to get inside the original Great Wall, you too can find your way outside the Great Firewall of modern times.
Whenever there's an article about China on Slashdot I always see so much clueless information being tossed about...
Here's some information from someone (a Westerner) who's lived here for around 3 years.
First of all, I guarantee you the children that did this did it because they're fucked up little shits. They certainly weren't doing it because of some freedom of information ideals. They were probably just pissed off cause they couldn't get on to play their MMORPGs and chat online. No matter if China's internet regulations are right or wrong, beating a guy over the head who's just trying to keep the store in business is not the way to change government policy. If anything, it just reinforces the opinion of the public that internet cafes are a bad influence on the young. Even my father-in-law, who is quite educated and a well respected school principal, thinks net cafes are evil places. Once when I told him I wanted to go check my email, he took my wife and I walking around town until we came upon a net cafe that didn't look too evil. It's a good thing I never told him I used to stay up all night in net cafes playing Starcraft with my friends while studying in Beijing!
Another thing people are forgetting is that this stuff is all dealing with internet cafes. It has nothing to do with what people do in their homes. Families are still free to have high speed internet in their homes no matter what age their children are. And anyone who is going to risk looking at censored information is probably going to do it from their own home. Almost all of the internet cafes are locked down to prevent users from messing with any internet settings, so it's not likely they'll be able to use proxies in the cafes anyway. In your home it's quite simple to go through a proxy. The people who really want outside information can get it easily enough. It's just the masses, who don't really care anyway, who can't get censored information.
Another thing, I always see people talking about how China's got so many laws against things such as pirated software, movies, music, and brand names but doesn't do anything about it. There's fake brand names everywhere, even in official franchise stores. And I can only recall one time that I saw official copies of movies and music for sale. Official software is easy enough to find, but nobody actually buys it. Anyway, my brother-in-law is the Secretary (not secretary) of the Consumer Affairs division of the Public Security Bureau in a large city, and I've asked him about this. They all know they could walk into any store and confiscate at least 95% of their goods, but they don't. If they did, stores would be going bankrupt all the time. If they tried selling official products most of them would go bankrupt too since nobody can afford to buy their products. So, should China protect the income of rich foreigners and bankrupt it's citizens, or should they protect their own and look the other way? It's a pretty easy decision, and most people forget the US did the same thing to England regarding copyrights not too long ago.
Sure, every once in a while there will be big crackdowns, and their real purpose is just to show investors. "Hey look, we're protecting copyrights! Come do business here!" More business investments in the country helps the economy, obviously. But everyone here knows the busts are for show. And most stores will be warned ahead of time so they can hide their products.
Bah I already wrote more than I thought I would...
If anyone actually read that whole message, congrats.
Was I the only one who noticed this little quote?
Incidentally, have you heard about the discovery of the largest living creature on Earth? Would you believe it's two or three miles across, and probably several thousand years old, and still growing? It's this fungus that's eating Oregon. It's a single creature. I'm not quite sure how that's determined.
Does anyone know WTF he is talking about here? Before I came back to China last year I didn't seem to remember my fellow Oregonians running away in fear from the killer fungus...
Uhm, before upping the score on the parent post did any of the moderators actually check that the parent's and grandparent's links were actually different? No? Didn't think so.
Idiots.
From the article:
no assembly-line workers in China able to enter that country's growing middle class
Yes, the companies hiring these people are really holding them back. Just imagine if they couldn't find a job how quickly they could join the growing middle class!
Please, give me a break. The economy in China is completely different than what this 'journalist' is used to. The number of people living here just boggles the mind. I would say that over 90% of China's problems can be traced back to the fact that it's population is FAR too high. Too many people, not enough schools. Too many people, not enough jobs. Too many people, not enough land. If the workers had something past a middle school education, then yah, maybe they could enter the so called middle class. But they don't. Usually the workers are glad they have a job at all. If they don't want the job there's plenty of other people who would be glad to take their place.
Even though their wage is well below the poverty line in the west, they usually have an average salary for the area they're living in. For instance, at the kindergaten I'm working at now the Chinese teachers get around $100-120 USD / month. The cleaning staff gets perhaps around $70-80, I forget exactly. And these are considered good wages for the job they are doing. Hell, I don't think there's a single person at the school who doesn't have a mobile (cell) phone! And remember this is in a large metropolitan Chinese city, not out in the country where most of the manufacturing plants are. The cost of living is even lower where most of the plants are.