Everyone uses the same set of written character in China. The difference between traditional and simplified character is not really that big. The analogue is traditional always write the words in long form (like photograph, information, see you) and the simplfied is always in short form (like photo, info, cu)... Mandarin, Cantonese etc etc are just dialects.
Come back to something more onto the topic... The localisation work in the OSS world still have quite a long way to go... In many cases, the localisations conflicts with the rest of the program... For example, if I set locale as Big5 (Traditional Chinese font), I can read the name of the songs in Chinese, but the English words simply appears as blanks....
I would like to serious challenge the neutrality of the article.
It sounds like the Chinese government is going to ban most of the foreign software. But, all the facts quoted by the articles only indicates the Chinese wants more Linux in government desktops.... It is *not* a violation of WTO. Just like US government can say it wants a bigger share of MS/linux/BSD/Macs for the government desktop due to security/stability/easy-to-use or whatever. In any case, Linux is more like an "international" product...
In addition, the article is neither from a reputable international news agent nor from the offical Chinese government announcement. It is very speculative in nature. All the quotes are old paste-and-cuts not directly related to this... It has 3-4 quotes from various Chinese goverment officers talked about "it is not the best interest for anyone is there is a software monopoly". A couple of analysts indicates further changes will benefit Linux, while the adoption of it at this moment is not great....
I think MS tries to mix up two facts. It may be true to claim that some high profile but not that damaging malicious code (e.g. those wild spread internet worms in the last few years) are created in this reverse engineering way... A good enough but not the most elite cracker probably wants to most publicity. Their aim is to compromise the largest number of machine.
But, I can imagine some of the best crackers in fact targets specific systems. In this case, they don't even want other people to know their technique....
I built a flamethrower with insect spray + lighter last year when attacking the wasp nest in my garden. I don't really like that idea. The flame was too weak to be effective... At the end of the day, it took an old fashioned motolov cocktail to finish off the job.
appears to be roughly 660 megabytes in size, about the size of one CD-ROM's worth of data. That is far short of the estimated 40 gigabytes of data that makes up the entire 40 million lines of code in the Windows operating system 40GB of data for 40MLOC?? It equals to an average length of 1000 bytes per line of code. It is pretty damn hard to read without a 52" inch monitor:p
I guess it is more like 4GB of source code.... Take the linux 2.6 kernel as an example: compressed size about 30MB, uncompressed size about 200MB.... If a compression ratio of 6 is reasonable, it may be possible to compress the 4GB windows source code into a 660MB zip file....
It is a good direction towards a compromised solution. However, I can see a further loop hole that needs to be patched.
What if the researcher decides to just zap the cells corresponding to the brain cells and let the rest of embryo grows? No one wants to see a chunk of human flesh, just like an ordinary baby but with no brain, being grow and harvest for cell on a lab bench.
It is just as unethical to put a brain dead patient on life support for extended period with the sole purpose to serve that as a human tissue factory.
Politians are short-sighted/corrupted/old-fashion. At the time of Adam Smith, there was only one form of economic activity between nations: trade. As a result, everyone and his dog talks about trade imbalance. Frankly, buy a few China/Mexico/Indonesia made dolls won't make US bankrupt... But, massive drain in jobs will.
India is in fact a member of WTO since 1995. I have never heard any noise from that front. India does not manfacture much, no wonder.... Clearly, there are problems other than trade.
Politicians, it is 2004. If trade is an item for negoitation, it is hard to argue unregulared out-sourcing makes sense.
I have strong doubts about that. Research is yet another trade that can be moved offshore easily. Nobody thinks something like GE "Global" research lab is smaller, or the engineering position that requires PhD as the "lower level" job... By the way, returning Indians are welcome. That seems to exclude most around here. I start to wonder where is the HQ of GE....
Well, people may argue that, by-and-large, Japanese automaker employs Japanese researchers, so as the Koreans, German and whoever. But, *who* funds the operation? Either their governments or big local companies. Fair enough.
In fact, the trend of move research centers out can have an even larger implication than just for US. Most people agree that talents can be found in any country. At the end of the day, India only represents 1/6 of the world's population. If we simplify the discussion a little bit and focus on just one group of people: scientists and engineers with PhDs, we can see something interesting.
Not every country can offer the opportunity for them to strive. In many cases, these people end up working for the US. Collectively, they contribute a lot to both the US economy and the technology of the world. But, once these research centers start to move, all but the Indians get the benefit....
Possibly, if you are talking about people who need to work/ exercise outdoor.
But, the development of this glove will be useful for those mainly stay indoor but still get frostbite. A lot of patients suffering from chronic diseases are in this category. So do the older people. My grandma is like that. The winter here quite mild (nearly always above 0C). The electric blanket won't help...The only solution provided by the doctor is to use a hot water bottle.... which also be dangerous IMO (leaked 90C water....). A pair of heatpipe glove/socks may help.
The main reason to build it is to test if it sucks. There is a big debate in China whether the country's high speed (250+km/h) railway network should adopt the try-and-true wheeled solution or go for maglev. The main project needs to build 1000+km of new tracks (from Beijing to Shanghai, and possibly extended to Guangzhou in the south).
Unconfirmed news report last week suggests that the government favours the wheeled solution, mainly due to cost and connectivity with the existing network.
I also experienced exactly the same trend. My scout buddies back in high school mostly end up working for high tech industry and behaves like geeks...
Having trees around does not necessary mean they want to get around from the city life... The story mentioned is more like an event holding in a country club: do you really think they are geeking out? It is all about business, mate!
The trick is to burn sufficient amount of material. May it be gasoline, charcoal, wood and whatever. No insect, rabbit, eagle, bear or whatsoever want to move close to you....
Many geeks love fire. Or in fact anything with high energy (performance??) that they can play around with... I think I don't need to mention those homemade HPM, rail gun, pumpkin Trebuchet projects to anyone around here...
It is a bit offtopic... But, I think Australian and New Zealand notes are far better than anyone else in terms of anti-counterfeit measures. Both are made of plastics, with transparent windows and other features.
There is one major difference: moving out service based industry won't benefit the US economy. Many people think that importing huge amount of manufactured goods from China, Mexico and Taiwan is bad for US. But, they overlook that these growing manufacturing bases acutally spend a lot in terms of infrastructure. For example, China needs to buy 1-2 1000MW nuclear power for each year in the next 20 yrs to keep up with the growing electricity demand.. . Whenever new manufacturing technology comes out (0.25->0.18->0.10 um), Taiwan fabs need to spend big money in upgrading... Raw material also costs a lot of money. Most of these money go back to US. Well, not in the case of the Chinese nuclear reactors... Due to the stupid embargo, all these trade go to your friend in Europe: France...
You cannot see something like that when outsourcing programming/call center/research. (How much does that cost for 150,000 PCs?) While the money transfered to these service centers are not that much, the retaining profit is much higher than manufacturing.... Also, US transfer a lot of know-hows offshore for free.... It is weird from the point of view of a non-American.
>>Is it really a good idea to disrupt these peoples' >>traditional way of life, so that they can download >>pornography? It is an interesting question... A friend of mine come back from a half year trip for some comparative study about rural development in the Third World, in which he teamed up with the Oxfam volunteers in many parts of China, India, and Vietnam. The conclusion was the more the villagers know about the external world (but cannot join it), the more desperate they are.
For example, contrary to popular belief, the illegal immigrants killed when trapped inside UK cargo were from one of the quite okay village in China. It is the attraction of the money and better lifestyle that driven all those people to the death road...
They are not trying to suggest that isolation would be the best for the village. The argument was, with better education, the transformation would go much more naturally in 1-2 generations time...
It is an impressive development. But, so far, kudos largely to the Russian.
The BrahMos, a derivative of the Yakhont, was developed by a joint venture between India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyenia. Yahont is supersonic (Mach 2.5) with a range of > 300km. The modificiation to 280 km is mainly to bypass the nonproliferation treaty. Any missile with range > 300 km are considered to be strategic and Russia does not want to get into hot water by exporting that openly and thus enter the joint development.... It is reasonable to expect that the Indian contribution is more on the target recognition, seeker head rather than the aerodynamics side... They still have quite a long way to catch up. There are lot of know-how (processing technology, material selection etc) to be discovered.
Every country has got its own culture. Without the identity/ background etc, it is really hard to fully embrance the culture of another one... You are right. In most cases, these are the export of cultural symbols rather than culture itself. More importantly, these cultural symbols must seem cool at the first place before they get accepted elsewhere. My observation is it is usually after the country has climbed up the food chain in world trade. Usually, that means finished the transformation to an advanced industralised state.
Therefore, watch out for Korean movie and pop stuff in the next five year. It's already made an impact in many places around Asia, e.g. Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In another news, the DARPA sponsored a secret project in TCPIP development to support the pigeon-cam early in the 90's. Due to its confidential nature, the details remain sketchy. To the best of my knowledge, it is the most comprehensive document leaked from the project so far. If you are onto spying technology, I recommend you to learn it by heart. It can be taken offline anytime....
If we just read the chart and compare only the "Two 2-GHz PowerPC G5s" with the "2-GHz Opteron Model 246s", the conclusion drawn is pretty similar. Opteron wins 4, G5 win 2 and 2 ties (1 second difference). The test results are thus inconclusive for both tests. I believe the linux test mentioned by some other posts may probably be a more fair comparison if we talk only about the hardware.
Yeah.... Some guys tend to mix up all these, which is not good for health discussion.... At the end of the day, I think the technical stuff is the main theme for/.
Come back to the technical side, does anyone notice the most special feature of this yet another linux PDA/phone: the dual ARM9 processor? If your embedded applications needs, say, 400 MIPS of computing power, from the view of an electronics manufacturer, does that make sense to go for dual processors?
Yes, he's a Very Bad Man(tm). In addition, he is a coward.
He told his people to fight against the invaders. But, see what he did himself: hiding under a hole to avoid being captured. Don't even return a shot when the soldiers were digging him out.
It is as ridiculous as a Mafia godfather (or other crime boss), who shot at the back of his men for whoever "not brave enough" when fighting with the rival gang, but decide to hide under the cupboard when pursued himself.
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Everyone uses the same set of written character in China. The difference between traditional and simplified character is not really that big. The analogue is traditional always write the words in long form (like photograph, information, see you) and the simplfied is always in short form (like photo, info, cu)... Mandarin, Cantonese etc etc are just dialects.
Come back to something more onto the topic... The localisation work in the OSS world still have quite a long way to go... In many cases, the localisations conflicts with the rest of the program... For example, if I set locale as Big5 (Traditional Chinese font), I can read the name of the songs in Chinese, but the English words simply appears as blanks....
3721: 3x7=21. In the Cantonese speaking part of China (at least in Hong Kong), 3927 is the more common variant. Its mean is like "whatsoever".
The sentence is like "I don't care 3721, let's go to the pub before heading back home"
I would like to serious challenge the neutrality of the article.
It sounds like the Chinese government is going to ban most of the foreign software. But, all the facts quoted by the articles only indicates the Chinese wants more Linux in government desktops.... It is *not* a violation of WTO. Just like US government can say it wants a bigger share of MS/linux/BSD/Macs for the government desktop due to security/stability/easy-to-use or whatever. In any case, Linux is more like an "international" product...
In addition, the article is neither from a reputable international news agent nor from the offical Chinese government announcement. It is very speculative in nature. All the quotes are old paste-and-cuts not directly related to this... It has 3-4 quotes from various Chinese goverment officers talked about "it is not the best interest for anyone is there is a software monopoly". A couple of analysts indicates further changes will benefit Linux, while the adoption of it at this moment is not great....
I think MS tries to mix up two facts. It may be true to claim that some high profile but not that damaging malicious code (e.g. those wild spread internet worms in the last few years) are created in this reverse engineering way... A good enough but not the most elite cracker probably wants to most publicity. Their aim is to compromise the largest number of machine.
But, I can imagine some of the best crackers in fact targets specific systems. In this case, they don't even want other people to know their technique....
I built a flamethrower with insect spray + lighter last year when attacking the wasp nest in my garden. I don't really like that idea. The flame was too weak to be effective... At the end of the day, it took an old fashioned motolov cocktail to finish off the job.
appears to be roughly 660 megabytes in size, about the size of one CD-ROM's worth of data. That is far short of the estimated 40 gigabytes of data that makes up the entire 40 million lines of code in the Windows operating system :p
40GB of data for 40MLOC??
It equals to an average length of 1000 bytes per line of code. It is pretty damn hard to read without a 52" inch monitor
I guess it is more like 4GB of source code....
Take the linux 2.6 kernel as an example: compressed size about 30MB, uncompressed size about 200MB.... If a compression ratio of 6 is reasonable, it may be possible to compress the 4GB windows source code into a 660MB zip file....
It is a good direction towards a compromised solution. However, I can see a further loop hole that needs to be patched.
What if the researcher decides to just zap the cells corresponding to the brain cells and let the rest of embryo grows? No one wants to see a chunk of human flesh, just like an ordinary baby but with no brain, being grow and harvest for cell on a lab bench.
It is just as unethical to put a brain dead patient on life support for extended period with the sole purpose to serve that as a human tissue factory.
Politians are short-sighted/corrupted/old-fashion. At the time of Adam Smith, there was only one form of economic activity between nations: trade. As a result, everyone and his dog talks about trade imbalance. Frankly, buy a few China/Mexico/Indonesia made dolls won't make US bankrupt... But, massive drain in jobs will.
India is in fact a member of WTO since 1995. I have never heard any noise from that front. India does not manfacture much, no wonder.... Clearly, there are problems other than trade.
Politicians, it is 2004. If trade is an item for negoitation, it is hard to argue unregulared out-sourcing makes sense.
I have strong doubts about that. Research is yet another trade that can be moved offshore easily. Nobody thinks something like GE "Global" research lab is smaller, or the engineering position that requires PhD as the "lower level" job... By the way, returning Indians are welcome. That seems to exclude most around here. I start to wonder where is the HQ of GE....
Well, people may argue that, by-and-large, Japanese automaker employs Japanese researchers, so as the Koreans, German and whoever. But, *who* funds the operation? Either their governments or big local companies. Fair enough.
In fact, the trend of move research centers out can have an even larger implication than just for US. Most people agree that talents can be found in any country. At the end of the day, India only represents 1/6 of the world's population. If we simplify the discussion a little bit and focus on just one group of people: scientists and engineers with PhDs, we can see something interesting.
Not every country can offer the opportunity for them to strive. In many cases, these people end up working for the US. Collectively, they contribute a lot to both the US economy and the technology of the world. But, once these research centers start to move, all but the Indians get the benefit....
>> If I contribute over $25, does that qualify for FREE Super Saver Shipping? :-)
Yes, of course. Empty promise are always delivered for free.
Possibly, if you are talking about people who need to work/ exercise outdoor.
But, the development of this glove will be useful for those mainly stay indoor but still get frostbite. A lot of patients suffering from chronic diseases are in this category. So do the older people. My grandma is like that. The winter here quite mild (nearly always above 0C). The electric blanket won't help...The only solution provided by the doctor is to use a hot water bottle.... which also be dangerous IMO (leaked 90C water....). A pair of heatpipe glove/socks may help.
The main reason to build it is to test if it sucks. There is a big debate in China whether the country's high speed (250+km/h) railway network should adopt the try-and-true wheeled solution or go for maglev. The main project needs to build 1000+km of new tracks (from Beijing to Shanghai, and possibly extended to Guangzhou in the south).
Unconfirmed news report last week suggests that the government favours the wheeled solution, mainly due to cost and connectivity with the existing network.
I also experienced exactly the same trend. My scout buddies back in high school mostly end up working for high tech industry and behaves like geeks...
Having trees around does not necessary mean they want to get around from the city life... The story mentioned is more like an event holding in a country club: do you really think they are geeking out? It is all about business, mate!
The trick is to burn sufficient amount of material. May it be gasoline, charcoal, wood and whatever. No insect, rabbit, eagle, bear or whatsoever want to move close to you....
Many geeks love fire. Or in fact anything with high energy (performance??) that they can play around with... I think I don't need to mention those homemade HPM, rail gun, pumpkin Trebuchet projects to anyone around here...
It is a bit offtopic... But, I think Australian and New Zealand notes are far better than anyone else in terms of anti-counterfeit measures. Both are made of plastics, with transparent windows and other features.
There is one major difference: moving out service based industry won't benefit the US economy. Many people think that importing huge amount of manufactured goods from China, Mexico and Taiwan is bad for US. But, they overlook that these growing manufacturing bases acutally spend a lot in terms of infrastructure. For example, China needs to buy 1-2 1000MW nuclear power for each year in the next 20 yrs to keep up with the growing electricity demand.. . Whenever new manufacturing technology comes out (0.25->0.18->0.10 um), Taiwan fabs need to spend big money in upgrading... Raw material also costs a lot of money. Most of these money go back to US. Well, not in the case of the Chinese nuclear reactors... Due to the stupid embargo, all these trade go to your friend in Europe: France...
You cannot see something like that when outsourcing programming/call center/research. (How much does that cost for 150,000 PCs?) While the money transfered to these service centers are not that much, the retaining profit is much higher than manufacturing.... Also, US transfer a lot of know-hows offshore for free.... It is weird from the point of view of a non-American.
>>APE extreme? Makes me think of gorillas. :-)
Shouldn't that be you and me?
>>Is it really a good idea to disrupt these peoples'
>>traditional way of life, so that they can download >>pornography?
It is an interesting question... A friend of mine come back from a half year trip for some comparative study about rural development in the Third World, in which he teamed up with the Oxfam volunteers in many parts of China, India, and Vietnam. The conclusion was the more the villagers know about the external world (but cannot join it), the more desperate they are.
For example, contrary to popular belief, the illegal immigrants killed when trapped inside UK cargo were from one of the quite okay village in China. It is the attraction of the money and better lifestyle that driven all those people to the death road...
They are not trying to suggest that isolation would be the best for the village. The argument was, with better education, the transformation would go much more naturally in 1-2 generations time...
It is an impressive development. But, so far, kudos largely to the Russian.
The BrahMos, a derivative of the Yakhont, was developed by a joint venture between India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyenia. Yahont is supersonic (Mach 2.5) with a range of > 300km. The modificiation to 280 km is mainly to bypass the nonproliferation treaty. Any missile with range > 300 km are considered to be strategic and Russia does not want to get into hot water by exporting that openly and thus enter the joint development.... It is reasonable to expect that the Indian contribution is more on the target recognition, seeker head rather than the aerodynamics side... They still have quite a long way to catch up. There are lot of know-how (processing technology, material selection etc) to be discovered.
Every country has got its own culture. Without the identity/ background etc, it is really hard to fully embrance the culture of another one... You are right. In most cases, these are the export of cultural symbols rather than culture itself. More importantly, these cultural symbols must seem cool at the first place before they get accepted elsewhere. My observation is it is usually after the country has climbed up the food chain in world trade. Usually, that means finished the transformation to an advanced industralised state .
Therefore, watch out for Korean movie and pop stuff in the next five year. It's already made an impact in many places around Asia, e.g. Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In another news, the DARPA sponsored a secret project in TCPIP development to support the pigeon-cam early in the 90's. Due to its confidential nature, the details remain sketchy. To the best of my knowledge, it is the most comprehensive document leaked from the project so far. If you are onto spying technology, I recommend you to learn it by heart. It can be taken offline anytime....
I don't think so.
If we just read the chart and compare only the "Two 2-GHz PowerPC G5s" with the "2-GHz Opteron Model 246s", the conclusion drawn is pretty similar. Opteron wins 4, G5 win 2 and 2 ties (1 second difference). The test results are thus inconclusive for both tests. I believe the linux test mentioned by some other posts may probably be a more fair comparison if we talk only about the hardware.
Yeah.... Some guys tend to mix up all these, which is not good for health discussion.... At the end of the day, I think the technical stuff is the main theme for /.
Come back to the technical side, does anyone notice the most special feature of this yet another linux PDA/phone: the dual ARM9 processor? If your embedded applications needs, say, 400 MIPS of computing power, from the view of an electronics manufacturer, does that make sense to go for dual processors?
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Yes, he's a Very Bad Man(tm). In addition, he is a coward.
He told his people to fight against the invaders. But, see what he did himself: hiding under a hole to avoid being captured. Don't even return a shot when the soldiers were digging him out.
It is as ridiculous as a Mafia godfather (or other crime boss), who shot at the back of his men for whoever "not brave enough" when fighting with the rival gang, but decide to hide under the cupboard when pursued himself.
Yes, he's a Very Bad Coward(tm)