That's not what they're doing; it says this clearly in TFA (and, indeed, the summary). What they're asking for is a cut of the revenues that would be paid by the ad companies to the aggregator. Yes, the ad company would be handing over the cash (or its virtual equivalent), but the cash they'd be handing over would be taken from the account of whomever ran the page.
Sounds like a damn fine idea to me, with one possible caveat; it would legitimise the practise, as they aggregators would essentially be paying for the privilege of doing nothing. One could look at this as an 'everybody wins' situation; the original sites get money, the aggregator gets money, the ad company gets clicks. However, it essentially amounts to 'money for nothing' on the part of the aggregator. It also allows them to say to anyone who complains 'just join the alliance', giving them, if not the moral high ground, then at least a position that isn't below sea level.
This is fascinating. I know it is all very theoretical, and based on computer models of how a material behaves under extreme pressure.
But frankly, I fail to see any practical applications for this. We are talking about 1,5 million atmospheres and 3000 Kelvin - hence not a typical lab environment.
The point isn't that they act differently under high pressure; it's that they act differently. Whenever we've got a model that's proved wrong - and it happens all the time - then new theories come forward to explain the new behaviour. It's those new theories that lead to breakthroughs (or breaks through). And even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter. We still know more than we did before.
"What happens if you turn all these elements on at the same time?" the principal research scientist at HP Labs asks. "How do I make sure that the system doesn't explode?"
That's certainly a worry for me. The last thing I want when I turn on a "processor, memory, server, software and cooling systems" is for the system to explode. Being a dedicated slashdotter, and therefore Linux user, I have little worry that the software will cause any manner of combustion event, but I'd never really considered the dangers of using a processor and memory at the same time. I was thinking of getting more RAM, but given that I'm already running a dual-core, perhaps I should hold off on the extra gig until I hear from HP.
The first 50 issues of New Mutants. Uncanny X-Men 100-200 I'd agree with you on the New Mutants, but I still remember Uncanny 175; the last issue of the X-Men I bought. It's the one where the Jean Grey clone (Madeline Pryor?) turned out to be another bloody Phoenix. X-Men 137 (I think) was one of the finest stories ever to come out of marvel, and by resurrecting, reinventing and cloning Phoenix (initially for the poxy X-Factor, and later for other inane reasons), Marvel served only to piss off its loyal fans and bring in a new breed of fans that think buying two copies each of the five covers of the new X-Men #1, putting them in mylar and never reading the damn things is being a comics fan. It was around then that stories became subservient to heroines built like barbie dolls (I blame Image for this more than anyone else), and your only guarantee of quality became a black-and-white comic no-one ever heard of.
I'm not saying Marvel, DC et al suddenly became incapable of bring out a good comic, but the quality became accidental, and subservient to gloss 'n' tits.
There. Rant finished. It's been bubbling under the surface for nigh-on a decade now, so even if no-one cares - or even reads it - it was good to get it off my chest.
I'l be fine now. Unless someone metions Deep Space Nine.
In the long term, this is of course a good thing. However, the idea that issues 1-100 of X-Men will encourage anyone to take it up is, at best, optimistic. Let's face it; they may have been good at the time, but nowadays they're extremely dated. Of course, it does have Iceman looking like a snowman and Cyclops being called 'Slim' which might be good for a laugh, but overall I don't think they'll encourage many people.
Oh, from the article: Even as their creations -- from Iron Man to Wonder Woman Ahem.
It's a fairly substantial theory; you'd be hard-pressed to find any planetary scientist who thinks the moon formed any other way. The makeup of the moon (as it's currently understood) doesn't really accommodate alternate theories. As for its direction: when the Mars-sized planet whacked the nascent Earth, it most likely sent up an accretion disk of its own rather than a sending a huge chunk of proto-moon into orbit; this disk gradually formed the moon. Given that the disk's movement would be directed by the Earth, which would in turn be directed by the rest of the solar system, the moon's direction would, indirectly, be dictated by the solar system's original accretion disk. Pretty much the only reason (that I can think of, anyway) for a moon to have a retrograde orbit would be its capture as a more-or-less intact body. However, IANA[A-Z], so I'm willing to be contradicted on all this.
Wonder what beloved 80's TV show the movie/TV industry will rape next. Actually, they should just go the whole hog and combine two or three series into one new programme. Personally I'd like to see the KITTs of Hazzard, or the Six Million Dollar ALF.
Above all, though, I'd like to see the A-Team take on the lizards from V. The only problem with that, though, is BA would never make it up to the mothership without being drugged, and the A-Team's complete inability to hit anything at all means that we'd all be lizard food within a matter of weeks.
I'm a bit bemused by this whole concept, and the article doesn't really help ("Neuronal tracing reveals that Cluster N receives input through the thalamofugal visual pathway.")
Assuming the nerds in question are right (and I've not reason to think they're not), the whole 'seeing a geomagnetic field' thing is wrecking my head. We're all familiar with the shape of the Earth's magnetic field, and it's easy to envision a series of lines spreading out from the poles. However, given that the poles are due for a reversal, it's been assumed by people worldwide who know about such things that this means doom for most migratory birds. If they can see the field lines, though, this may not be the case. Rather, it's the time leading up to the reversal that'll be the problem, as the lines get ever more chaotic. Once the flip happens, presumably all will be well again.
Given that the poles have flipped many times in the past, and there've been major (if not mass) extinctions associated with at least some of them, the implication (to me) is that if there are fossils embedded in rocks with the polarity reversed then the two were simultaneous, and that some mechanism other than sight was used for sensing the fields.
Of course, this all assumes that a) I know what the hell I'm talking about, b) there's only one mechanism for detecting the field and c) the field looks the same from either pole.
Why did the RIAA target people who could defend themselves? i.e. the inocent I dunno... cos they're idiots?
Actually, that's probably being slightly unfair to the RIAA (something that's quite hard to do). As the article pointed out, it's not enough to prove that people were making files available; they had to prove that the files were actually given away. They could, I suppose, download some of those files themselves, but that raises a few intriguing questions of its own; if the RIAA - which presumably acts on behalf of the Record Label who owns the copyright - downloads a song, does this constitute illegal sharing? After all, you're only giving it to its legal owner. And if they get a third party to download that song, does that third party become complicit in the crime for downloading a song illegally?
Obviously IANAL or I'd know the answer to these questions.
Ooh, I hope not. If it does, then it means that it's got a real prediliction towards anime. That could produce some interesting translations, such as...
Dear Sir, Your opponent is me! With regard to your memo dated 14th inst., I'll never forgive you, vampire bastard! Super ultra science business meeting, engage! Noooooooooooooooo!
You keep thinking he couldn't get any wackier and do anything more outlandish than subpoena the President, and then he goes and does this. There's a progression; subpoenas -> pornpenis -> nopennies Expect him to protest the new one-cent coins on the grounds that Lincoln was of questionable sexuality, and wholly undeserving of a coin of his own.
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Yes, let's introduce this gene into a bunch of apes. I for one, welcome our new english speaking tyrannical ape-like overlords. And I for one welcome the thoughts on the creationists and other fundies on this one. It's going to be fun. "We can't do this!" "Why not?" "We'll be creating humans! Only God can do that!" "So you're saying that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor?" "Err..."
We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. Ooh, this raises some intriguing possibilities. If a university's legal faculty 'n' lawyers-to-be rally around the students, a whole body of experience will quickly build up. By the time they become fully-fledged lawyers, a whole bunch of students will be familiar with the xxAA and their tactics. Could lead to some interesting exam projects, too; "Find a granny being sued by the RIAA and prepare a suitable defense. For bonus credit, find a granny who doesn't have a computer but is being sued by the RIAA."
studies conducted on the few people with truly eidetic memory showed that while they indeed had nearly perfect recollection, they also lacked the ability to discriminate between important and unimportant
Irrespective of which causes which, it's unlikely that we're going to get an all-or-nothing scenario; it should be possible to improve memory and/or learning without going the whole hog. And TBH, I think the effect on Alzheimer's is likely to be limited; while IANAN, I imagine that it's not defective memory-activating genes that cause it as much as it is plaques 'n' stuff in the brain. Besides, have you looked at the internet lately? It seems that it's not eidetic memory that causes one to lose one's ability to distinguish between the important and the irrelevent; it's a modem.
There are some things that just should be done, and damn the cost You're right, of course. Thing is, the space station isn't one of those things. It may have been had it been built as originally planned, but it's a mere shadow of its aspirational self. When you evicerate a project the way this one has, you're left with a huge bill and no return. If the original plan was to build somewhere for millionaires to holiday while waiting for Branson to get is arse in gear (and, indeed, space), then fine. However, it was build as a science station, and the science it's doing - and will do for the foreseeable future - is negligible.
I'm not a fan of using starving etheopians/national debts/shambolic foreign adventures/whatever to cavil about the cost of any particular project, but there are many, many ways NASA and ESA and everyone else could've spent the money. It's nearly forty years since the moon landings; we should be going to war with Mars now as it declares independence. Instead, we're left with a freefalling white elephant that's got all the utility of a fingerless campanologist.
Inevitably, whenever there's a vote some fucker'll complain about their own personal choice not being there. My choice - not cowboyneal - is for the shot of Mimas against the rings.
Still, well done to all concerned for giving us a years worth of desktop pictures. Oh, and some science.
Being the suspicious slashdotter that I am, I suspected that a) there was a town in Norway called USA (unlikely), or b) there was a town in America called Norway (almost certain).
I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but remember who comes up with functional specs; managers. As a consequence, this poor program may well come up with a framework that matches exactly what was requested, but once it's put together, the suits will say "it doesn't do this". When it's pointed out that that wasn't in the spec, the inevitable response will be "but it was implied; it should be obvious that we'd need it to do that." This is just a core dump waiting to happen.
It's shocking, really. They go to all that effort to keep it secret, and dirty bastards go and ruin it all by watching it months ahead of time. The file-sharing creeps.
Having said that, it's a lot better than I expected. Billie Piper is a much better companion than I though she'd be, and the Doctor is quite credible as, er, a time-travelling alien. No mention of that half-human shite, which is nice.
It'd be injudicious of me to mention that the file is called Rose1.avi, and is 366757888 bytes long, so I won't.
I've been putting movie reviews on my web page for a while now, and I've increasingly noticed that google will point people at them even though they search for stuff that isn't on the page. For example, I've had a number of hits where people search for 'AvP review' (or suchlike) and even though I never include the phrase 'AvP' in my review of Aliens vs Predator.
I was mightily impressed, and not just because it means more people read my stuff. Or at least surf to it.
While that might be fun, I don't consider it especially compelling -- certainly not to the tune of $100K.
So don't go; that'll leave more room for the rest of us.
We might live to see a hotel on the moon (or, nanites permitting, Mars), but this is as close as any of us is likely to get. To see the Earth as a globe rather than a flat piece of land, to be the first generation to experience microgravity, to say 'I can see my country from here'... these are powerful reasons, and ones that'll most likely cost far less than $100,000 in years to come.
Of course, that's only about 80k; please feel free to keep up your deficit spending for another decade or so, and I'll be able to go into space by selling off my 2000AD collection.
Now, the X Prize will evolve into a regular competition called the X Prize Cup, says the Associated Press, going on:
"In May, organizers selected New Mexico to permanently host the X Prize Cup." Cool. A Blue Riband for space. Based on distance rather than speed, I suppose. Someone should offer a prize for whomever gets close enough to the moon to photograph the Sea of Tranquility, and shut our conspiracy-laden chums up once and for all.
So does the p2p in p2pnet now stand for planet to planet, then?
To do my bit for pseudo-democracy worldwide, I tried to vote; when I did, though, I was asked to vote again. And again... wonder did my vote count at all. Damn, it's just like living in Florida.
To commit heresy, though: should Linus be that high on the list? Sure, he's influential in linux, and linux should be represented, but in the happy world of IT shouldn't some Red Hat or Suse guy be higher?
In case you care, I voted for Hu Jintao. I don't share the judges' belief that vendors will dominate in China, and I reckon that Hu could well in years to come cause geeks much angst as they support his open source policies while being less fond of his oppression policies.
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That's not what they're doing; it says this clearly in TFA (and, indeed, the summary). What they're asking for is a cut of the revenues that would be paid by the ad companies to the aggregator. Yes, the ad company would be handing over the cash (or its virtual equivalent), but the cash they'd be handing over would be taken from the account of whomever ran the page.
Sounds like a damn fine idea to me, with one possible caveat; it would legitimise the practise, as they aggregators would essentially be paying for the privilege of doing nothing. One could look at this as an 'everybody wins' situation; the original sites get money, the aggregator gets money, the ad company gets clicks. However, it essentially amounts to 'money for nothing' on the part of the aggregator. It also allows them to say to anyone who complains 'just join the alliance', giving them, if not the moral high ground, then at least a position that isn't below sea level.
This is fascinating. I know it is all very theoretical, and based on computer models of how a material behaves under extreme pressure.
But frankly, I fail to see any practical applications for this. We are talking about 1,5 million atmospheres and 3000 Kelvin - hence not a typical lab environment.
The point isn't that they act differently under high pressure; it's that they act differently. Whenever we've got a model that's proved wrong - and it happens all the time - then new theories come forward to explain the new behaviour. It's those new theories that lead to breakthroughs (or breaks through).
And even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter. We still know more than we did before.
"What happens if you turn all these elements on at the same time?" the principal research scientist at HP Labs asks. "How do I make sure that the system doesn't explode?"
That's certainly a worry for me. The last thing I want when I turn on a "processor, memory, server, software and cooling systems" is for the system to explode. Being a dedicated slashdotter, and therefore Linux user, I have little worry that the software will cause any manner of combustion event, but I'd never really considered the dangers of using a processor and memory at the same time. I was thinking of getting more RAM, but given that I'm already running a dual-core, perhaps I should hold off on the extra gig until I hear from HP.
WTF is TED? I suppose I could RTFA (or even JFGI), but given that there is NFA, I don't know whether I should bother.
Wow, I'd no idea so many initialisms had 'fuck' in them.
ps: enlightenment dawns: maybe that flash thing I blocked isn't an ad after all, and is worth clicking on.
The first 50 issues of New Mutants. Uncanny X-Men 100-200
I'd agree with you on the New Mutants, but I still remember Uncanny 175; the last issue of the X-Men I bought. It's the one where the Jean Grey clone (Madeline Pryor?) turned out to be another bloody Phoenix. X-Men 137 (I think) was one of the finest stories ever to come out of marvel, and by resurrecting, reinventing and cloning Phoenix (initially for the poxy X-Factor, and later for other inane reasons), Marvel served only to piss off its loyal fans and bring in a new breed of fans that think buying two copies each of the five covers of the new X-Men #1, putting them in mylar and never reading the damn things is being a comics fan. It was around then that stories became subservient to heroines built like barbie dolls (I blame Image for this more than anyone else), and your only guarantee of quality became a black-and-white comic no-one ever heard of.
I'm not saying Marvel, DC et al suddenly became incapable of bring out a good comic, but the quality became accidental, and subservient to gloss 'n' tits.
There. Rant finished. It's been bubbling under the surface for nigh-on a decade now, so even if no-one cares - or even reads it - it was good to get it off my chest.
I'l be fine now. Unless someone metions Deep Space Nine.
In the long term, this is of course a good thing. However, the idea that issues 1-100 of X-Men will encourage anyone to take it up is, at best, optimistic. Let's face it; they may have been good at the time, but nowadays they're extremely dated. Of course, it does have Iceman looking like a snowman and Cyclops being called 'Slim' which might be good for a laugh, but overall I don't think they'll encourage many people.
Oh, from the article:
Even as their creations -- from Iron Man to Wonder Woman
Ahem.
It's a fairly substantial theory; you'd be hard-pressed to find any planetary scientist who thinks the moon formed any other way. The makeup of the moon (as it's currently understood) doesn't really accommodate alternate theories. As for its direction: when the Mars-sized planet whacked the nascent Earth, it most likely sent up an accretion disk of its own rather than a sending a huge chunk of proto-moon into orbit; this disk gradually formed the moon. Given that the disk's movement would be directed by the Earth, which would in turn be directed by the rest of the solar system, the moon's direction would, indirectly, be dictated by the solar system's original accretion disk. Pretty much the only reason (that I can think of, anyway) for a moon to have a retrograde orbit would be its capture as a more-or-less intact body.
However, IANA[A-Z], so I'm willing to be contradicted on all this.
Wonder what beloved 80's TV show the movie/TV industry will rape next.
Actually, they should just go the whole hog and combine two or three series into one new programme.
Personally I'd like to see the KITTs of Hazzard, or the Six Million Dollar ALF.
Above all, though, I'd like to see the A-Team take on the lizards from V. The only problem with that, though, is BA would never make it up to the mothership without being drugged, and the A-Team's complete inability to hit anything at all means that we'd all be lizard food within a matter of weeks.
I'm a bit bemused by this whole concept, and the article doesn't really help ("Neuronal tracing reveals that Cluster N receives input through the thalamofugal visual pathway.")
Assuming the nerds in question are right (and I've not reason to think they're not), the whole 'seeing a geomagnetic field' thing is wrecking my head. We're all familiar with the shape of the Earth's magnetic field, and it's easy to envision a series of lines spreading out from the poles. However, given that the poles are due for a reversal, it's been assumed by people worldwide who know about such things that this means doom for most migratory birds. If they can see the field lines, though, this may not be the case. Rather, it's the time leading up to the reversal that'll be the problem, as the lines get ever more chaotic. Once the flip happens, presumably all will be well again.
Given that the poles have flipped many times in the past, and there've been major (if not mass) extinctions associated with at least some of them, the implication (to me) is that if there are fossils embedded in rocks with the polarity reversed then the two were simultaneous, and that some mechanism other than sight was used for sensing the fields.
Of course, this all assumes that a) I know what the hell I'm talking about, b) there's only one mechanism for detecting the field and c) the field looks the same from either pole.
Why did the RIAA target people who could defend themselves? i.e. the inocent
I dunno... cos they're idiots?
Actually, that's probably being slightly unfair to the RIAA (something that's quite hard to do). As the article pointed out, it's not enough to prove that people were making files available; they had to prove that the files were actually given away. They could, I suppose, download some of those files themselves, but that raises a few intriguing questions of its own; if the RIAA - which presumably acts on behalf of the Record Label who owns the copyright - downloads a song, does this constitute illegal sharing? After all, you're only giving it to its legal owner.
And if they get a third party to download that song, does that third party become complicit in the crime for downloading a song illegally?
Obviously IANAL or I'd know the answer to these questions.
Ooh, I hope not. If it does, then it means that it's got a real prediliction towards anime. That could produce some interesting translations, such as...
Dear Sir,
Your opponent is me! With regard to your memo dated 14th inst., I'll never forgive you, vampire bastard! Super ultra science business meeting, engage!
Noooooooooooooooo!
Yours faithfully,
Bob Morton
Chief Gundam Officer
You keep thinking he couldn't get any wackier and do anything more outlandish than subpoena the President, and then he goes and does this.
There's a progression;
subpoenas -> pornpenis -> nopennies
Expect him to protest the new one-cent coins on the grounds that Lincoln was of questionable sexuality, and wholly undeserving of a coin of his own.
Yes, let's introduce this gene into a bunch of apes.
I for one, welcome our new english speaking tyrannical ape-like overlords.
And I for one welcome the thoughts on the creationists and other fundies on this one. It's going to be fun.
"We can't do this!"
"Why not?"
"We'll be creating humans! Only God can do that!"
"So you're saying that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor?"
"Err..."
We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students.
Ooh, this raises some intriguing possibilities. If a university's legal faculty 'n' lawyers-to-be rally around the students, a whole body of experience will quickly build up. By the time they become fully-fledged lawyers, a whole bunch of students will be familiar with the xxAA and their tactics.
Could lead to some interesting exam projects, too; "Find a granny being sued by the RIAA and prepare a suitable defense. For bonus credit, find a granny who doesn't have a computer but is being sued by the RIAA."
studies conducted on the few people with truly eidetic memory showed that while they indeed had nearly perfect recollection, they also lacked the ability to discriminate between important and unimportant
Irrespective of which causes which, it's unlikely that we're going to get an all-or-nothing scenario; it should be possible to improve memory and/or learning without going the whole hog. And TBH, I think the effect on Alzheimer's is likely to be limited; while IANAN, I imagine that it's not defective memory-activating genes that cause it as much as it is plaques 'n' stuff in the brain.
Besides, have you looked at the internet lately? It seems that it's not eidetic memory that causes one to lose one's ability to distinguish between the important and the irrelevent; it's a modem.
There are some things that just should be done, and damn the cost
You're right, of course. Thing is, the space station isn't one of those things. It may have been had it been built as originally planned, but it's a mere shadow of its aspirational self. When you evicerate a project the way this one has, you're left with a huge bill and no return. If the original plan was to build somewhere for millionaires to holiday while waiting for Branson to get is arse in gear (and, indeed, space), then fine. However, it was build as a science station, and the science it's doing - and will do for the foreseeable future - is negligible.
I'm not a fan of using starving etheopians/national debts/shambolic foreign adventures/whatever to cavil about the cost of any particular project, but there are many, many ways NASA and ESA and everyone else could've spent the money. It's nearly forty years since the moon landings; we should be going to war with Mars now as it declares independence. Instead, we're left with a freefalling white elephant that's got all the utility of a fingerless campanologist.
Inevitably, whenever there's a vote some fucker'll complain about their own personal choice not being there. My choice - not cowboyneal - is for the shot of Mimas against the rings.
Still, well done to all concerned for giving us a years worth of desktop pictures. Oh, and some science.
Being the suspicious slashdotter that I am, I suspected that a) there was a town in Norway called USA (unlikely), or b) there was a town in America called Norway (almost certain).
Sure enough, there's Norway, Maine.
Shouldn't take him that long.
I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but remember who comes up with functional specs; managers. As a consequence, this poor program may well come up with a framework that matches exactly what was requested, but once it's put together, the suits will say "it doesn't do this". When it's pointed out that that wasn't in the spec, the inevitable response will be "but it was implied; it should be obvious that we'd need it to do that." This is just a core dump waiting to happen.
It's shocking, really. They go to all that effort to keep it secret, and dirty bastards go and ruin it all by watching it months ahead of time. The file-sharing creeps.
Having said that, it's a lot better than I expected. Billie Piper is a much better companion than I though she'd be, and the Doctor is quite credible as, er, a time-travelling alien. No mention of that half-human shite, which is nice.
It'd be injudicious of me to mention that the file is called Rose1.avi, and is 366757888 bytes long, so I won't.
I've been putting movie reviews on my web page for a while now, and I've increasingly noticed that google will point people at them even though they search for stuff that isn't on the page. For example, I've had a number of hits where people search for 'AvP review' (or suchlike) and even though I never include the phrase 'AvP' in my review of Aliens vs Predator.
I was mightily impressed, and not just because it means more people read my stuff. Or at least surf to it.
He pulled off his wireless mike and began to whirl it around his head
But, but... it's a wireless mike.
You know, I'm beginning to suspect that that whole answer might have had a little embellishment in it.
While that might be fun, I don't consider it especially compelling -- certainly not to the tune of $100K.
So don't go; that'll leave more room for the rest of us.
We might live to see a hotel on the moon (or, nanites permitting, Mars), but this is as close as any of us is likely to get. To see the Earth as a globe rather than a flat piece of land, to be the first generation to experience microgravity, to say 'I can see my country from here'... these are powerful reasons, and ones that'll most likely cost far less than $100,000 in years to come.
Of course, that's only about 80k; please feel free to keep up your deficit spending for another decade or so, and I'll be able to go into space by selling off my 2000AD collection.
Now, the X Prize will evolve into a regular competition called the X Prize Cup, says the Associated Press, going on:
"In May, organizers selected New Mexico to permanently host the X Prize Cup."
Cool. A Blue Riband for space. Based on distance rather than speed, I suppose. Someone should offer a prize for whomever gets close enough to the moon to photograph the Sea of Tranquility, and shut our conspiracy-laden chums up once and for all.
So does the p2p in p2pnet now stand for planet to planet, then?
To do my bit for pseudo-democracy worldwide, I tried to vote; when I did, though, I was asked to vote again. And again... wonder did my vote count at all. Damn, it's just like living in Florida.
To commit heresy, though: should Linus be that high on the list? Sure, he's influential in linux, and linux should be represented, but in the happy world of IT shouldn't some Red Hat or Suse guy be higher?
In case you care, I voted for Hu Jintao. I don't share the judges' belief that vendors will dominate in China, and I reckon that Hu could well in years to come cause geeks much angst as they support his open source policies while being less fond of his oppression policies.