An analysis of "The Software Industry"'s claims about Chinese software piracy boil down to a similar result. What frustrates me is that no one, on either side of the debate, has any meaningful data to confirm or deny the "try before you buy" concept. So who wins? The folks with the most money.
My business partner notes that a Beowulf would be a typically Chinese way to solve the problem of not having a supercomputer, and given this, it is likely that they are using them already. The US thinks of military problems from the standpoint of unlimited resources, while China thinks of them in terms of what they can coax out of what they already have access to. Why use a multimillion dollar machine that you have to execute extreme skullduggery to get when you can rustle up a large amount of cheap machines locally and give it a go from there? To give you an idea, the Chinese already invented a method of disabling satellites that involves setting a relatively weak laser onto a readily available telescope tracking system normally used in astronomy. No Pentagon-level funding involved to make this device...
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An analysis of "The Software Industry"'s claims about Chinese software piracy boil down to a similar result. What frustrates me is that no one, on either side of the debate, has any meaningful data to confirm or deny the "try before you buy" concept. So who wins? The folks with the most money.
My business partner notes that a Beowulf would be a typically Chinese way to solve the problem of not having a supercomputer, and given this, it is likely that they are using them already. The US thinks of military problems from the standpoint of unlimited resources, while China thinks of them in terms of what they can coax out of what they already have access to. Why use a multimillion dollar machine that you have to execute extreme skullduggery to get when you can rustle up a large amount of cheap machines locally and give it a go from there? To give you an idea, the Chinese already invented a method of disabling satellites that involves setting a relatively weak laser onto a readily available telescope tracking system normally used in astronomy. No Pentagon-level funding involved to make this device...