So they nuked all other Windows formats but it works just fine on a Mac not using NTFS (MacOS Extended Journaled for example).... Seems rather arbitrary that they didn't even give a technical reason for the removal.
VPN like Witopia should work well. I lived in Shanghai for a few years until this past March and that was the standard way to get things done. Main government hassle is that they occasionally block the specific server and you need to change IP addresses of the server you're connecting to. You also want to use a non-China DNS server (like 8.8.8.8).
This approach is so widespread that I never heard about anyone getting a visit from the police. In general, they aren't big on hassling foreigners who are there legally because of all the foreign-directed-investment that comes related to those expats - makes for bad impressions.
Overstaying your visa is a big no-no though and they have started visiting expat bars and doing passport checks.
Witopia will send you a nastygram if you use file sharing services like bittorrent. Fortunately, that isn't blocked by the GFW.
You might want to check out shanghaiexpat.com. Plenty of advice there.
It's really not just the labor. It's a combination of a lot of things where Chinese companies have an advantage.
* Low interest loans * Direct Subsidies * Limiting exports (and high export duties) of raw materials, giving an advantage to anyone (local or MNC) who locates a factory in China rather than elsewhere * Lax IP law enforcement - enabling companies to keep their R&D budget low - copying is cheap * Free land and infrastructure * Minimal enforcement of environmental regulations * Minimal enforcement of labor regulations (safety, etc..)
Now, the question really is: what is the policy response when you have a competitor who is doing this? Is WTO sanctions the right policy course? I wish I knew. But this is where the US legislators are failing their constituents. They really don't seem to be doing anything except complain at each other.
The TFA had a good suggestion. You don't use one or the other. You call it "under dispute".
Now, you also suggested there are 'two sides' do this. You might also say there are more than that. There might be 193 sides, one for each member of the UN. 192 of them feel one way and 1 feels the other. Doesn't seem so 50/50 any more does it?
Incorrect. Wage rates in local currency have been increasing at 10%+. Now, inflation is running over 5% so they aren't getting the benefit of all of that increase, but this has nothing to do with dollar movement.
China wages are unlikely to hit or cross North American wages that quickly for two reasons
1) Productivity & output of Chinese programmers are still lower than North American/European workers. Not from lack of intelligence. It's from lack of experience and maturity. They won't be able to demand North American/European wages until they are equal to North American/European workers. Otherwise, local (or multinational companies) will just hire people in cheaper places (India) or places with higher productivity (North American/Europe) 2) High wage increases are being driven from high demand (explosive growth in local startups, local companies, multinationals - think silicon valley in the.com bubble) and lack of supply (college graduation has peaked, not a lot of 10 year experienced workers to go around). But that high demand will slacken as the wage rates start to approach North American/European salaries (both naturally & due to #1).
Shanghai is already seeing an exodus of companies whose business model is predicated on low wage workers. They are starting to move out to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities where the wages are cheaper, similar to the description in the linked article and linked to point #2 above.
I expect the Firefox update process would use SSL to download the update. Since mozilla.org is one of the sites with a bogus key, can this attack be used to sabotage the browser update process (assuming you are doing the update from the country that sponsored the attack).
Really? Engineers and Scientists not well paid? Care to cite a salary survey that doesn't have engineers in the top 5 professions according to pay? Besides Lawyer, Doctor, and Wall Street financier, what is better paid than engineering? Teaching? Auto Mechanic? Factory worker?
When I got my first job out of engineering school, my salary was more than my mom made with 20 more years in the workforce. Potentially some of our bright folks are going to be in finance, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's why there's a gap in Engineers.
I didn't encourage either of my kids to be engineers when it's clear most of those jobs are being shipped overseas. This isn't a supply problem. It's a demand problem - fundamentally because as an engineer I make TOO MUCH and they can give my job to someone who is smart and lives in a country with a lower cost of living. Right now you can't do that with a doctor or someone who has to show up in a court room.
By the way, the finance jobs are going overseas too so don't get too envious.
In a sense, you can compare the China of today to the US in the 1920s. No real (enforced) labor laws. No real (enforced) environmental protection laws. No real (enforced) occupational safety laws. The Chinese version of Al Capone was just arrested. It remains to be seen if the same internal forces that created OSHA and the EPA in the US will also cause China to change.
Hmm. I implemented this in a debugger 10 years ago when I was at Metrowerks. IANAPL however and the patent deserves a bit more study.
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That's just what I said. Historically, Microsoft has done a pretty good job of backward compatibility. This time, they blew it.
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Typically, when an OS upgrades, applications that worked on the old OS are supposed to keep working. If they don't the OS team isn't doing their job properly. Did you need a new version of your app to migrate from Win95 to Win98 to WinME or NT to Win2K to XP? Very rarely was it the case. As a developer for a company with a Windows product, I'm amazed at how poorly Vista supports older apps. It's much much worse than the Win2K to WinXP migration or even the WinXP to XP SP2 upgrade.
Manipulating just your vote is useless. So what if your vote is "right"? If 5,000 (or 50,000 or 500,000) votes get miraculously moved to the other guy, the election is still rigged no matter what you do. The only thing that will make a difference is fixing the system. If you propose that everyone vote absentee ballot, that is one way of fixing the system but I don't think a comment on Slashdot is going to get you there.
I'd argue that politicians should be the most interested in fair voting. After all, if it's possible to rig an election, it's just as easy for the incumbent to be the one it's rigged against. It cuts both ways. I would think our elected officials wouldn't want to have their exit polls say they got 75% of the vote and the machines show 32% and then have no recourse to protest the election.
Maybe you could argue that incumbet Congressmen and Senators already have tilted the scales in their favor or have folks like Diebold in their pockets, but the voting machines are typically controlled by state and local officials who probably don't have the benefit of getting an election rigged in their favor.
As was noted in a comment to his blog, this technique can be used to kill Winlogon.exe. The most annoying and insidious malware is hooking itself into this process which, ordinarily, isn't even killed by booting into any of the "safe" modes. Man, if Adaware can run in this mode, my prayers are answered.
Now, the fact that Winlogon.exe can actually be subverted by malware is another story entirely...
I'd argue that C and C++ both have a problem when trying to do anything that requires a notion of time. Using side effects is the worst way to represent time because you are using an implicit method (an artifact of the implementation) rather than an explicit method ("wait until this happens and do this") to express the logic of your system. There have been numerous research papers (see Ed Lee and others) written about how programming language research focuses too much on solving problems that only deal with problems that have no deadlines.
So then maybe we should do something about the loss of buying power of the single income household.
"Average weekly wages in 2003 for nonmanagement workers in private industry were actually $116 lower than 30 years before, in real terms, or about $6,000 less a year. This is according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data adjusted for inflation, and then calculated in 2003 dollars by the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0511/p08s02-comv.h tm l
How are we supposed to have stay-at-home parents if real wages for an earner keep falling?
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So they nuked all other Windows formats but it works just fine on a Mac not using NTFS (MacOS Extended Journaled for example).... Seems rather arbitrary that they didn't even give a technical reason for the removal.
VPN like Witopia should work well. I lived in Shanghai for a few years until this past March and that was the standard way to get things done. Main government hassle is that they occasionally block the specific server and you need to change IP addresses of the server you're connecting to. You also want to use a non-China DNS server (like 8.8.8.8).
This approach is so widespread that I never heard about anyone getting a visit from the police. In general, they aren't big on hassling foreigners who are there legally because of all the foreign-directed-investment that comes related to those expats - makes for bad impressions.
Overstaying your visa is a big no-no though and they have started visiting expat bars and doing passport checks.
Witopia will send you a nastygram if you use file sharing services like bittorrent. Fortunately, that isn't blocked by the GFW.
You might want to check out shanghaiexpat.com. Plenty of advice there.
Your assertion "she would be violating the law..._not_ the Apple store" is incorrect. Please go read up on Export law.
Chinese sources about China are worthless too
It's really not just the labor. It's a combination of a lot of things where Chinese companies have an advantage.
* Low interest loans
* Direct Subsidies
* Limiting exports (and high export duties) of raw materials, giving an advantage to anyone (local or MNC) who locates a factory in China rather than elsewhere
* Lax IP law enforcement - enabling companies to keep their R&D budget low - copying is cheap
* Free land and infrastructure
* Minimal enforcement of environmental regulations
* Minimal enforcement of labor regulations (safety, etc..)
Now, the question really is: what is the policy response when you have a competitor who is doing this? Is WTO sanctions the right policy course? I wish I knew. But this is where the US legislators are failing their constituents. They really don't seem to be doing anything except complain at each other.
The TFA had a good suggestion. You don't use one or the other. You call it "under dispute".
Now, you also suggested there are 'two sides' do this. You might also say there are more than that. There might be 193 sides, one for each member of the UN. 192 of them feel one way and 1 feels the other. Doesn't seem so 50/50 any more does it?
Incorrect. Wage rates in local currency have been increasing at 10%+. Now, inflation is running over 5% so they aren't getting the benefit of all of that increase, but this has nothing to do with dollar movement.
China wages are unlikely to hit or cross North American wages that quickly for two reasons
1) Productivity & output of Chinese programmers are still lower than North American/European workers. Not from lack of intelligence. It's from lack of experience and maturity. They won't be able to demand North American/European wages until they are equal to North American/European workers. Otherwise, local (or multinational companies) will just hire people in cheaper places (India) or places with higher productivity (North American/Europe) .com bubble) and lack of supply (college graduation has peaked, not a lot of 10 year experienced workers to go around). But that high demand will slacken as the wage rates start to approach North American/European salaries (both naturally & due to #1).
2) High wage increases are being driven from high demand (explosive growth in local startups, local companies, multinationals - think silicon valley in the
Shanghai is already seeing an exodus of companies whose business model is predicated on low wage workers. They are starting to move out to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities where the wages are cheaper, similar to the description in the linked article and linked to point #2 above.
I expect the Firefox update process would use SSL to download the update. Since mozilla.org is one of the sites with a bogus key, can this attack be used to sabotage the browser update process (assuming you are doing the update from the country that sponsored the attack).
If so, how do you detect it?
Really? Engineers and Scientists not well paid? Care to cite a salary survey that doesn't have engineers in the top 5 professions according to pay? Besides Lawyer, Doctor, and Wall Street financier, what is better paid than engineering? Teaching? Auto Mechanic? Factory worker?
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/jobs-rated-2010-ranking-200-jobs-best-worst
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.html
When I got my first job out of engineering school, my salary was more than my mom made with 20 more years in the workforce. Potentially some of our bright folks are going to be in finance, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's why there's a gap in Engineers.
I didn't encourage either of my kids to be engineers when it's clear most of those jobs are being shipped overseas. This isn't a supply problem. It's a demand problem - fundamentally because as an engineer I make TOO MUCH and they can give my job to someone who is smart and lives in a country with a lower cost of living. Right now you can't do that with a doctor or someone who has to show up in a court room.
By the way, the finance jobs are going overseas too so don't get too envious.
In a sense, you can compare the China of today to the US in the 1920s. No real (enforced) labor laws. No real (enforced) environmental protection laws. No real (enforced) occupational safety laws. The Chinese version of Al Capone was just arrested. It remains to be seen if the same internal forces that created OSHA and the EPA in the US will also cause China to change.
Hmm. I implemented this in a debugger 10 years ago when I was at Metrowerks. IANAPL however and the patent deserves a bit more study.
That's just what I said. Historically, Microsoft has done a pretty good job of backward compatibility. This time, they blew it.
Typically, when an OS upgrades, applications that worked on the old OS are supposed to keep working. If they don't the OS team isn't doing their job properly. Did you need a new version of your app to migrate from Win95 to Win98 to WinME or NT to Win2K to XP? Very rarely was it the case. As a developer for a company with a Windows product, I'm amazed at how poorly Vista supports older apps. It's much much worse than the Win2K to WinXP migration or even the WinXP to XP SP2 upgrade.
Manipulating just your vote is useless. So what if your vote is "right"? If 5,000 (or 50,000 or 500,000) votes get miraculously moved to the other guy, the election is still rigged no matter what you do. The only thing that will make a difference is fixing the system. If you propose that everyone vote absentee ballot, that is one way of fixing the system but I don't think a comment on Slashdot is going to get you there.
I'd argue that politicians should be the most interested in fair voting. After all, if it's possible to rig an election, it's just as easy for the incumbent to be the one it's rigged against. It cuts both ways. I would think our elected officials wouldn't want to have their exit polls say they got 75% of the vote and the machines show 32% and then have no recourse to protest the election.
Maybe you could argue that incumbet Congressmen and Senators already have tilted the scales in their favor or have folks like Diebold in their pockets, but the voting machines are typically controlled by state and local officials who probably don't have the benefit of getting an election rigged in their favor.
I see you are familiar with "Global Thermonuclear War"?
The photos appear to be real. Check the movie
Robot Magazine has an article on the new brick as well of a movie of some robots in action created with the new kit.
It has Mac support this time out.
t orms.com
http://mindstorms.lego.com/?domainredir=www.minds
As was noted in a comment to his blog, this technique can be used to kill Winlogon.exe. The most annoying and insidious malware is hooking itself into this process which, ordinarily, isn't even killed by booting into any of the "safe" modes. Man, if Adaware can run in this mode, my prayers are answered.
Now, the fact that Winlogon.exe can actually be subverted by malware is another story entirely...
You're not a professional software developer are you? It aint that simple, no matter what Steve happened to say on stage.
I'd argue that C and C++ both have a problem when trying to do anything that requires a notion of time. Using side effects is the worst way to represent time because you are using an implicit method (an artifact of the implementation) rather than an explicit method ("wait until this happens and do this") to express the logic of your system. There have been numerous research papers (see Ed Lee and others) written about how programming language research focuses too much on solving problems that only deal with problems that have no deadlines.
So then maybe we should do something about the loss of buying power of the single income household.
h tm l
"Average weekly wages in 2003 for nonmanagement workers in private industry were actually $116 lower than 30 years before, in real terms, or about $6,000 less a year. This is according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data adjusted for inflation, and then calculated in 2003 dollars by the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0511/p08s02-comv.
How are we supposed to have stay-at-home parents if real wages for an earner keep falling?
The "Silent PC" was in the WinHEC Keynote 9 years ago! (1995)