It seems that specialised IDS/IPS vendors that get bought up by generalised players dramatically drop off in quality soon after. The generalised players just don't look after their new acquisitions as well as they ran themselves when they were independent.
It happened with ISS when IBM bought them and happened with Tipping Point when HP bought them.
Given Cisco's track record I have little faith that Sourcefire will be as good as it was.
Let's start with the fact that your wording doesn't actually reflect what was said by the news anchor nor what he intended. A better translation would be to equate it to an american news anchor saying ".. fortunately no americans were among the deceased". Would you raise a furore about that? Hardly.
To put a more illustrative example of why this particular cultural stereotyping is offensive, how would you feel if someone were to ask why "westeners" are "culturally inclined to spread malicious rumours and twist the truth"?
Let's be blunt you'd be offended, and the "cultural" arguments that are being put forward are equally as offensive as the hypothetical example above.
To generalise your point, would you also suggest that americans aren't entitled to comment on their own culture and that only outsiders can see clearly? Or do we have a double standard at play?
I can assure you that the myth that americans are straightforward and don't avoid issues (to take one example from personal experience) is a load of toss.
And yet most reputable sources rate korean airlines as being some of the best in the world at training and pilot capabilities.
Even if your story, and let's be blunt it's just an unsubstantiated story at best (posted as AC? No link? really?), were true it remains one man's opinion.
If that man's opinion were true then why aren't asiana flights falling out of the sky regularly? Why do other airlines, who have their own pilots (far superior to asiana's if we believe this tale) to make informed judgements, continue to have code-sharing arrangements with asiana?
Simply put this story doesn't pass the sniff test.
Perhaps we're talking about different aspects of the probe but as you can see the probes against Google are not part of some grand conspiracy, korean companies are investigated just as closely if there's suspicion that they've broken the law.
Grand conspiracies might exist but I'm pretty sure that this is not one.
Hours later, SMPA investigators also conducted a surprise raid on the headquarters of local portal site Daum on similar suspicions. The investigators confiscated hard drives and other documents during their raid on Daum's Seoul office in Hannam-dong, central Seoul.
Google seems to have hindered the investigators from what's being said, something that none of the other companies under investigation have done.
Not sure how you can link that with protectionism or some kind of bias.
Isn't Samsung being sued because the Galaxy Tab "supposedly copied" the look-and-feel of the iPad?
Yet the hiPhone (and other chinese rip-offs, including that fake apple store in china) blatantly advertises itself as an iPhone clone and seems to get away with it scott free.
You'd think that with the amount of money Apple has in their coffers they'd have an official or two in their pocket to make sure that the hiPhone manufacturers are being kept in line..
Except for the fact that chinese hackers (some working for the chinese government) are known to be attacking the rest of the world. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostNet.
It's always possible that activity from a chinese IP may be non-chinese, but suffice to say that the chinese haven't done themselves any favours reputation-wise in the field of computer security.
Exactly, the batch of attacks experienced lately by korean institutions is a clear indicator that there are third parties involved here.
Having said that the root cause is the negligence of security by both individuals and organizations, but that's no different from any other coutnry in the world.. it just so happens that korea has both very high bandwidth available and very high uptake of the available bandwidth, ie. they're just further ahead in the curve than other countries are regarding the internet, both good and bad aspects.
Quite an obvious japanese troll, I shouldn't be responding to this slanderous drivel but I'll bite..
Exactly, ever tried to find an Apple Store in Seoul ? Or see people with iPhone in the streets ?
Nobody's stopping anyone from building an Apple Store (or a store for any foreign company/franchise, which there are plenty of). The fact remains that Apple simply isn't in sufficiently high demand in Korea, PCs dominate.
In regards to iphones, they're not actually unpopular, depite your allegations, but oddly enough smartphones live and die through their apps and iphones have no advantage in that regard. If anything they have a disadvantage because korean language resources are more extensive for smart phones made by korean companies (surprise! surprise!)
Or people driving ANYTHING but a korean car (Hyunday/Samsung/... whatever) ?
Oddly enough cars made in korea are cheaper in korea, just like cars manufactured in the US are cheaper there.. which is exactly why most cars in the US (regardless of brand) are made in the US in actuality.
Another factor is that if you look closely you'll find that most korean car manufacturers have significant foreign ownership.. far more than japanese car companies in fact, but you're obviously not going to complain about that.
See what happened with Apple and Samsung case ?
You mean how Apple started a litigation war against Samsung? What does apple being dicks have to do with koreans?
Now we reach the crux of what your slandering was setting the stage for, spreading misinformation in regards to japan's past and present behaviour..
Do you seriously believe younger people should continue to complain about what Japan or any country did during WWII ?
All right-minded and moral people, regardless of age or ethnicity, should condemn japan.
The red herring in your comment (and that of many japan fanboy trolls) is that it's implied that japan of now is somehow different from the japan of WW2. It is not, let me quote a few examples:
- Discrimination for those not seen to be "japanese": This includes both 4th-generation-born-in-japan koreans as well as ethnic japanese that are foreign born, eg. brazilian japanese. To give you an example, zainichi were strongly discriminated against for even using their korean names.
Basically this image of what constitues "japanese" recalls the "true" german being tall, blonde, and blue eyed that the Nazi party espoused.
FUKUOKA, Yasunori of Saitama University is a specialist on the systematic discrimination of Zainichi (koreans born in japan), and David Suzuki co-authored "The Japan we never knew" to bring light to the discrimination that non-"japanese" face.
- Imperialistic policies and historical revision: Japan itself has not repented their imperialistic actions in WW2, indeed it continues to laud them through their constant visits to Yasunuki shrine and their textbook revisions
In April, which marked the 62nd anniversary of the start of the only ground battle in Japan’s main islands during World War II, the education ministry directed publishers of history textbooks to alter descriptions of the mass suicides, specifically eliminating references to the Imperial Japanese military’s direct role.
Such editing would eliminate accounts that soldiers gave civilians hand grenades and instructed them to kill themselves rather than submit to the Americans.
Hirishi Matsuda, chairman of the union, said the teachers want original descriptions of the suicides left in the textbooks.
Matsuda said that the petition drive has received support throughout Japan. Of the 70,000 signatures, 53,000 were from the mainland.
Earlier this month, about 1,000 people staged a rally in Naha sponsored by th
There is nothing half-way between dinosaurs and birds. One of Jesus' miracles was turning all those gigantic, roving eating machines into birds to the delight of all involved (but mostly just for the lulz.)
Didn't you pay attention in history class?
For the lulz? I didn't know that Jesus was a terrorist!
But you also have to factor in that everything is that much more expensive.. a fast food meal (burger, chips, drink) is about 10 dollars. Housing is similarly expensive. It's not much good to get paid a lot of money if you don't really get much left over after expenses.
and core gamers far more likely to continue happily playing on two-, three- or even four-year-old PCs than they were in the past....
What? People played starcraft for ten years! What about Diablo 2? Warcraft 3? Age of Empires? All these have in common two things: First, they're from related genres, which just comes to show my ignorance on other genres. Second, they have really strong multiplayer, which adds replayability far beyond that provided by a good story.
Good point, I think you can add modability to the list of characteristics of games that live for a long time.. I was just playing a Rome Total War (initially released in 2004) mod today, and frankly it stands up better 'playability' wise than the latest iteration of the series.
The pressures of the development and release cycles mean that most games are released somewhat half to nearly finished state, with many having release day patches, so it generally takes in the order of years for a game (plus expansions) to reach where it can be considered done from a development status. Add gameplay updates by modders, eg. graphical refreshes, story extension or unit rebalancing, and that adds a few more years to the life of a game.
There's hundreds of games released every year, yet those that have some unique characteristic seem to live for a long time. You might generalise that as a 'community', be it a multiplayer community or a modding community.. these games live a long time.
The laws that apply in this case refer to data that you didn't agree to such as location tracking (for which Apple is under investigation), or the wi-fi scanning that Google got into trouble earlier.
Ýou may disagree but I wouldn't call upholding people's rights to privacy as 'vote-pandering'.. this is a rare case of a law that makes sense and should be implemented across other countries.
Hours later, SMPA investigators also conducted a surprise raid on the headquarters of local portal site Daum on similar suspicions. The investigators confiscated hard drives and other documents during their raid on Daum's Seoul office in Hannam-dong, central Seoul.
External guidance would invite jamming, but the idea of fins is within the realm of the realistic since Sabot rounds on tanks already work in a similar way:
Why's the parent marked as troll? Securing your wireless access point is indeed your responsibility.. if you left your house unlocked most people would think you were being irresponsible, unsecured wireles points are just as irresponsible.
The game was based on china, but they folded to pressure and changed it to north korea.. same with the movie red dawn.
The forthcoming remake of Red Dawn, the 1984 film in which American teenagers band together to fight invading Soviet forces, will feature a North Korean invasion of the United States, similar to just-released shooter Homefront. Why is that so interesting? Because they already shot the film as a Chinese invasion of the States.
The film’s producers are in the process of digitally altering the new Red Dawn, swapping out Chinese imagery and changing dialogue to make the film’s aggressors North Korean, reports the LA Times. Studio execs were concerned about Chinese leadership being offended by the war flick and losing (potentially) a billion viewers over Red Dawn’s choice of villain.
“MGM has been working with the film ‘Red Dawn’s’ director and producers to make the most commercially viable version of the film for audiences worldwide,” said Mike Vollman, executive vice president of worldwide marketing to the LA Times. “We want to ensure the most people possible are able to experience it.”
Publisher THQ shared similar concerns when it chose a unified Korean invasion over a Chinese attack on US soil. Execs said China was just “not that scary”. But it too was worried about China’s reception to Homefront.
“The guys in our Chinese office said: Did you know that everybody on the exec team will be banned from coming into China for the rest of your lives?” executive Danny Bilson told Kotaku earlier this year. “They were afraid the ministry of culture was going to wipe us out.”
Both Homefront and the original Red Dawn were co-written by screenwriter John Milius.
China is greatly increasing the number of patents it issues--that will be good for us the day they actually support patents for extraterritorial inventors. They'll do that when they have enough IP and we refuse to honor their patents because they don't honor ours. There will be political games, but long-term it may be good for us. (Although we do need better science and math education--and more importantly, better cultural education on the value of science and math).
Sorry but unless something fundamentally changes in the chinese attitude towards the rest of the world, equal treatment of non-chinese will never happen.
To take an example, late last year chinese fishermen illegally fishing in korean waters deliberately rammed their boat into a coast guard ship, which caused the fishing boat to sink. The response from the chinese government was:
“South Korea must bring the perpetrators to justice, to pay compensation for the disappearance of our properties, and make concrete action to prevent similar cases happening again,” said a spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu.
That their foreign ministry regards the fishing boat as 'our' speaks volumes, this is china vs the world. In other words, the PRC will stand behind any chinese regardless of how illegal their actions, which in the past have included the killing of unarmed coast guard staff boarding to inspect fishing vessels.
In the patent scenario, you can expect that patents for chinese companies will be strongly upheld, but extraterritorial patent holders will at best get lipservice. You might think that you can get away with doing what the chinese do now, ie. ignoring their patents, but the PRC will back chinese companies with political methods such as the use punitive tarriffs and other types of trade disadvantages (see how the chinese restricted rare earths to japanese companies during their version of the illegal fishing incident).
Sure that hasn't happened to US or european companies/countries yet, but as soon as the PRC feels able to they'll apply the same methods they've been using against their neighbours.
I'm not sure what your emotional investment is in japanese electronics being the best but the evidence is pretty clear, being dogmatic isn't going to change that
Just lately, belatedly, the Japanese are taking note of what Korea has
done during Japan’s “lost decade.” Let me offer a shocking example of
the current Japan/Korea gulf. Most Japanese consumers still don’t know
who Samsung is. To my surprise, many big electronics chain stores in
Japan do not even carry flat panel TVs made by Samsung – undisputedly
the world’s largest LCD manufacturer.
But out of sight of consumers, the Japanese business community
is abuzz with the rise of Samsung. They can’t seem to have enough of
Samsung stories. Drop into any Tokyo book stores. Books and magazines
with headlines like “Samsung’s global market strategies,” “Japan’s new
growth plan: How not to lose to Samsung,” “Samsung’s weakness,” or
“Don’t fear Samsung,” are flying off the shelf.
Or talk to any Japanese businessmen working in the electronics
industry. Your conversation will inevitably turn to an analysis of
Samsung.
Sorry, but your post perfectly illustrates the point I made in regards to japan still living off its reputation from the 80's and 90's.. it's still precieved to be the leader but the reality is:
One figure says it all: Combined operating profits at Japan's nine major consumer and industrial electronics makers for the most recent quarter were $1.7 billion.
Alone, South Korea's Samsung Electronics earned over twice that.
Pretty much in black and white.. Japan is still a strong player in the electronics fields by all means, but theír role is being restricted to specialised component manufacture. They still has their niche areas, eg. cameras, game consoles, etc but the overall picture is pretty clear, which is why companies like Sony are desperately trying to create new markets that are free from competition.
Talk about bizzare conspiracy theories.. here, have a "LOL".
But in any case, no, I'm talking about the electronics divisions (which are separate companies in their own right), not the conglomerates as a whole. Presently Japanese electronic firms are being forced into deals with taiwanese companies or being forced to look for new products types in order to compete, they still retain some reputation from the 80's and 90's but in todays world they're not the leaders of the pack, cost or quality wise.
Sony (and other japanese electronics companies) still have a captive market in japan, but globally the "Generic South Korean Companies", I assume you mean Samsung or LG, are individually worth more than than the sum of all the japanese electronic consumer companies and are clearly outcompeting both japanese and chinese companies at present in most key sectors.
People who witnessed them in their heyday in the 80's and 90's might still base their comments on past reputation, but anybody keeping up with the times knows better.
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It seems that specialised IDS/IPS vendors that get bought up by generalised players dramatically drop off in quality soon after. The generalised players just don't look after their new acquisitions as well as they ran themselves when they were independent.
It happened with ISS when IBM bought them and happened with Tipping Point when HP bought them.
Given Cisco's track record I have little faith that Sourcefire will be as good as it was.
Let's start with the fact that your wording doesn't actually reflect what was said by the news anchor nor what he intended. A better translation would be to equate it to an american news anchor saying " .. fortunately no americans were among the deceased". Would you raise a furore about that? Hardly.
To put a more illustrative example of why this particular cultural stereotyping is offensive, how would you feel if someone were to ask why "westeners" are "culturally inclined to spread malicious rumours and twist the truth"?
Let's be blunt you'd be offended, and the "cultural" arguments that are being put forward are equally as offensive as the hypothetical example above.
To generalise your point, would you also suggest that americans aren't entitled to comment on their own culture and that only outsiders can see clearly? Or do we have a double standard at play?
I can assure you that the myth that americans are straightforward and don't avoid issues (to take one example from personal experience) is a load of toss.
And yet most reputable sources rate korean airlines as being some of the best in the world at training and pilot capabilities. Even if your story, and let's be blunt it's just an unsubstantiated story at best (posted as AC? No link? really?), were true it remains one man's opinion. If that man's opinion were true then why aren't asiana flights falling out of the sky regularly? Why do other airlines, who have their own pilots (far superior to asiana's if we believe this tale) to make informed judgements, continue to have code-sharing arrangements with asiana? Simply put this story doesn't pass the sniff test.
Perhaps we're talking about different aspects of the probe but as you can see the probes against Google are not part of some grand conspiracy, korean companies are investigated just as closely if there's suspicion that they've broken the law.
Grand conspiracies might exist but I'm pretty sure that this is not one.
Both local and foreign companies are under investigation for this type of activity, per
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/05/03/28/0302000000AEN20110503005600315F.HTML
Hours later, SMPA investigators also conducted a surprise raid on the headquarters of local portal site Daum on similar suspicions. The investigators confiscated hard drives and other documents during their raid on Daum's Seoul office in Hannam-dong, central Seoul.
Google seems to have hindered the investigators from what's being said, something that none of the other companies under investigation have done. Not sure how you can link that with protectionism or some kind of bias.
Isn't Samsung being sued because the Galaxy Tab "supposedly copied" the look-and-feel of the iPad?
..
Yet the hiPhone (and other chinese rip-offs, including that fake apple store in china) blatantly advertises itself as an iPhone clone and seems to get away with it scott free.
You'd think that with the amount of money Apple has in their coffers they'd have an official or two in their pocket to make sure that the hiPhone manufacturers are being kept in line
Except for the fact that chinese hackers (some working for the chinese government) are known to be attacking the rest of the world. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostNet.
It's always possible that activity from a chinese IP may be non-chinese, but suffice to say that the chinese haven't done themselves any favours reputation-wise in the field of computer security.
Exactly, the batch of attacks experienced lately by korean institutions is a clear indicator that there are third parties involved here.
.. it just so happens that korea has both very high bandwidth available and very high uptake of the available bandwidth, ie. they're just further ahead in the curve than other countries are regarding the internet, both good and bad aspects.
Having said that the root cause is the negligence of security by both individuals and organizations, but that's no different from any other coutnry in the world
Exactly, ever tried to find an Apple Store in Seoul ? Or see people with iPhone in the streets ?
Nobody's stopping anyone from building an Apple Store (or a store for any foreign company/franchise, which there are plenty of). The fact remains that Apple simply isn't in sufficiently high demand in Korea, PCs dominate.
In regards to iphones, they're not actually unpopular, depite your allegations, but oddly enough smartphones live and die through their apps and iphones have no advantage in that regard. If anything they have a disadvantage because korean language resources are more extensive for smart phones made by korean companies (surprise! surprise!)
Or people driving ANYTHING but a korean car (Hyunday/Samsung/... whatever) ?
Oddly enough cars made in korea are cheaper in korea, just like cars manufactured in the US are cheaper there .. which is exactly why most cars in the US (regardless of brand) are made in the US in actuality.
.. far more than japanese car companies in fact, but you're obviously not going to complain about that.
Another factor is that if you look closely you'll find that most korean car manufacturers have significant foreign ownership
See what happened with Apple and Samsung case ?
You mean how Apple started a litigation war against Samsung? What does apple being dicks have to do with koreans?
..
Now we reach the crux of what your slandering was setting the stage for, spreading misinformation in regards to japan's past and present behaviour
Do you seriously believe younger people should continue to complain about what Japan or any country did during WWII ?
All right-minded and moral people, regardless of age or ethnicity, should condemn japan.
The red herring in your comment (and that of many japan fanboy trolls) is that it's implied that japan of now is somehow different from the japan of WW2. It is not, let me quote a few examples:
- Discrimination for those not seen to be "japanese": This includes both 4th-generation-born-in-japan koreans as well as ethnic japanese that are foreign born, eg. brazilian japanese. To give you an example, zainichi were strongly discriminated against for even using their korean names.
Basically this image of what constitues "japanese" recalls the "true" german being tall, blonde, and blue eyed that the Nazi party espoused.
FUKUOKA, Yasunori of Saitama University is a specialist on the systematic discrimination of Zainichi (koreans born in japan), and David Suzuki co-authored "The Japan we never knew" to bring light to the discrimination that non-"japanese" face.
- Imperialistic policies and historical revision: Japan itself has not repented their imperialistic actions in WW2, indeed it continues to laud them through their constant visits to Yasunuki shrine and their textbook revisions
In April, which marked the 62nd anniversary of the start of the only ground battle in Japan’s main islands during World War II, the education ministry directed publishers of history textbooks to alter descriptions of the mass suicides, specifically eliminating references to the Imperial Japanese military’s direct role.
Such editing would eliminate accounts that soldiers gave civilians hand grenades and instructed them to kill themselves rather than submit to the Americans.
Hirishi Matsuda, chairman of the union, said the teachers want original descriptions of the suicides left in the textbooks.
Matsuda said that the petition drive has received support throughout Japan. Of the 70,000 signatures, 53,000 were from the mainland.
Earlier this month, about 1,000 people staged a rally in Naha sponsored by th
There is nothing half-way between dinosaurs and birds. One of Jesus' miracles was turning all those gigantic, roving eating machines into birds to the delight of all involved (but mostly just for the lulz.)
Didn't you pay attention in history class?
For the lulz? I didn't know that Jesus was a terrorist!
But you also have to factor in that everything is that much more expensive .. a fast food meal (burger, chips, drink) is about 10 dollars. Housing is similarly expensive. It's not much good to get paid a lot of money if you don't really get much left over after expenses.
But having said that $5 per hour is pretty low.
and core gamers far more likely to continue happily playing on two-, three- or even four-year-old PCs than they were in the past....
What? People played starcraft for ten years! What about Diablo 2? Warcraft 3? Age of Empires? All these have in common two things: First, they're from related genres, which just comes to show my ignorance on other genres. Second, they have really strong multiplayer, which adds replayability far beyond that provided by a good story.
Good point, I think you can add modability to the list of characteristics of games that live for a long time .. I was just playing a Rome Total War (initially released in 2004) mod today, and frankly it stands up better 'playability' wise than the latest iteration of the series.
.. these games live a long time.
The pressures of the development and release cycles mean that most games are released somewhat half to nearly finished state, with many having release day patches, so it generally takes in the order of years for a game (plus expansions) to reach where it can be considered done from a development status. Add gameplay updates by modders, eg. graphical refreshes, story extension or unit rebalancing, and that adds a few more years to the life of a game.
There's hundreds of games released every year, yet those that have some unique characteristic seem to live for a long time. You might generalise that as a 'community', be it a multiplayer community or a modding community
If you value your privacy, it's better to pay for your software instead of selling your privacy to marketers in return, like with Chrome OS.
I'd be suprised if you were to tell me that Linux, BSD (particularly OpenBSD), or any other fully open OS is breaching your privacy.
The laws that apply in this case refer to data that you didn't agree to such as location tracking (for which Apple is under investigation), or the wi-fi scanning that Google got into trouble earlier.
.. this is a rare case of a law that makes sense and should be implemented across other countries.
Ýou may disagree but I wouldn't call upholding people's rights to privacy as 'vote-pandering'
Hours later, SMPA investigators also conducted a surprise raid on the headquarters of local portal site Daum on similar suspicions. The investigators confiscated hard drives and other documents during their raid on Daum's Seoul office in Hannam-dong, central Seoul.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/05/03/28/0302000000AEN20110503005600315F.HTML
.. like it should be everywhere else to be quite honest.
To put it bluntly, collecting personal data that isn't necessary is illegal in Korea
Not sure why so many people seem to be suggesting that Google (or any other company) should be collect all sorts of data at will.
External guidance would invite jamming, but the idea of fins is within the realm of the realistic since Sabot rounds on tanks already work in a similar way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour-piercing_discarding_sabot
Smaller scale and if you can miniaturise laser guidance to the same level then you'd have self-guiding bullets.
Why's the parent marked as troll? Securing your wireless access point is indeed your responsibility .. if you left your house unlocked most people would think you were being irresponsible, unsecured wireles points are just as irresponsible.
What? Jobs is suing himself?
/sarcasm
The forthcoming remake of Red Dawn, the 1984 film in which American teenagers band together to fight invading Soviet forces, will feature a North Korean invasion of the United States, similar to just-released shooter Homefront. Why is that so interesting? Because they already shot the film as a Chinese invasion of the States.
The film’s producers are in the process of digitally altering the new Red Dawn, swapping out Chinese imagery and changing dialogue to make the film’s aggressors North Korean, reports the LA Times. Studio execs were concerned about Chinese leadership being offended by the war flick and losing (potentially) a billion viewers over Red Dawn’s choice of villain.
“MGM has been working with the film ‘Red Dawn’s’ director and producers to make the most commercially viable version of the film for audiences worldwide,” said Mike Vollman, executive vice president of worldwide marketing to the LA Times. “We want to ensure the most people possible are able to experience it.”
Publisher THQ shared similar concerns when it chose a unified Korean invasion over a Chinese attack on US soil. Execs said China was just “not that scary”. But it too was worried about China’s reception to Homefront.
“The guys in our Chinese office said: Did you know that everybody on the exec team will be banned from coming into China for the rest of your lives?” executive Danny Bilson told Kotaku earlier this year. “They were afraid the ministry of culture was going to wipe us out.”
Both Homefront and the original Red Dawn were co-written by screenwriter John Milius.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/red-dawn-remake-pulls-a-homefront-retcons-korean-invasion/
China is greatly increasing the number of patents it issues--that will be good for us the day they actually support patents for extraterritorial inventors. They'll do that when they have enough IP and we refuse to honor their patents because they don't honor ours. There will be political games, but long-term it may be good for us. (Although we do need better science and math education--and more importantly, better cultural education on the value of science and math).
Sorry but unless something fundamentally changes in the chinese attitude towards the rest of the world, equal treatment of non-chinese will never happen.
To take an example, late last year chinese fishermen illegally fishing in korean waters deliberately rammed their boat into a coast guard ship, which caused the fishing boat to sink. The response from the chinese government was:
“South Korea must bring the perpetrators to justice, to pay compensation for the disappearance of our properties, and make concrete action to prevent similar cases happening again,” said a spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu.
That their foreign ministry regards the fishing boat as 'our' speaks volumes, this is china vs the world. In other words, the PRC will stand behind any chinese regardless of how illegal their actions, which in the past have included the killing of unarmed coast guard staff boarding to inspect fishing vessels.
In the patent scenario, you can expect that patents for chinese companies will be strongly upheld, but extraterritorial patent holders will at best get lipservice. You might think that you can get away with doing what the chinese do now, ie. ignoring their patents, but the PRC will back chinese companies with political methods such as the use punitive tarriffs and other types of trade disadvantages (see how the chinese restricted rare earths to japanese companies during their version of the illegal fishing incident).
Sure that hasn't happened to US or european companies/countries yet, but as soon as the PRC feels able to they'll apply the same methods they've been using against their neighbours.
Just lately, belatedly, the Japanese are taking note of what Korea has done during Japan’s “lost decade.” Let me offer a shocking example of the current Japan/Korea gulf. Most Japanese consumers still don’t know who Samsung is. To my surprise, many big electronics chain stores in Japan do not even carry flat panel TVs made by Samsung – undisputedly the world’s largest LCD manufacturer.
But out of sight of consumers, the Japanese business community is abuzz with the rise of Samsung. They can’t seem to have enough of Samsung stories. Drop into any Tokyo book stores. Books and magazines with headlines like “Samsung’s global market strategies,” “Japan’s new growth plan: How not to lose to Samsung,” “Samsung’s weakness,” or “Don’t fear Samsung,” are flying off the shelf.
Or talk to any Japanese businessmen working in the electronics industry. Your conversation will inevitably turn to an analysis of Samsung.
http://eetimes.eu/en/5-reasons-why-samsung-scares-japan.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222902107
I'm sorry if that offends you in some way but it's pretty clear to anyone watching the industry.
One figure says it all: Combined operating profits at Japan's nine major consumer and industrial electronics makers for the most recent quarter were $1.7 billion.
Alone, South Korea's Samsung Electronics earned over twice that.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125732757764927689.html
.. Japan is still a strong player in the electronics fields by all means, but theír role is being restricted to specialised component manufacture. They still has their niche areas, eg. cameras, game consoles, etc but the overall picture is pretty clear, which is why companies like Sony are desperately trying to create new markets that are free from competition.
Pretty much in black and white
Talk about bizzare conspiracy theories .. here, have a "LOL".
But in any case, no, I'm talking about the electronics divisions (which are separate companies in their own right), not the conglomerates as a whole. Presently Japanese electronic firms are being forced into deals with taiwanese companies or being forced to look for new products types in order to compete, they still retain some reputation from the 80's and 90's but in todays world they're not the leaders of the pack, cost or quality wise.
Sony (and other japanese electronics companies) still have a captive market in japan, but globally the "Generic South Korean Companies", I assume you mean Samsung or LG, are individually worth more than than the sum of all the japanese electronic consumer companies and are clearly outcompeting both japanese and chinese companies at present in most key sectors.
People who witnessed them in their heyday in the 80's and 90's might still base their comments on past reputation, but anybody keeping up with the times knows better.