Searching for 'Democracy' (Min-Zhu) in Chinese across MSN, Yahoo, Sohu, 3721 search engines -- the results are all the same:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. (in IE)
What's even funnier, since then my IP seems to be blocked by the search engines for a few minutes.
If you try 'Democracy' in English, it works though but loads of porn sites come up.
Another interesting experience, a few years ago I was playing with Chinese version of IBM Via Voice, if you say "Taiwan Independence", no matter how hard you train the AI, it just won't type these words.
I'm skeptical about ditching folder concept completely. For example, the labelling in GMail is useful but you soon build up lots of labels - what's next? You want to start organizing them into folders of labels.
Labels like 'AppleApps' and 'WindowsApps' both should go into 'Project' -- not on two ends of the alphabetically-sorted label list.
"Starting the Intel announcement with "It's true" in answer to the buzz seems to tell the story of Apple's stand on the leak."
Totally agree. The subscript 'e' on the slide is so obvious this whole leak was a carefully engineered PR stunt.
To be realistic, when pupils have learnt Acorn or Linux what uses are there to most of them when they leave school? A lot of them won't even go into college, Acorn or Linux would just make them unemployable when they could have learnt how to use Word/Excel/IE etc... and get a job.
EasyCar had a similar scheme called Car Club in London that failed a few years ago. Supposedly the driver can book the car on the net, go to the car park, call the company and the car will be remotely unlocked. Not hard to imagine that it didn't work because unlocking doesn't work, nobody checks the car state on return and there was no real person you could talk to if there are (lots of!) problems.
I agree with you that nobody can define what's stupid and what's not. I've heard people burn themselves for religious reasons in the US too.
Somehow the government needs to put some restrictions if too many people are ignorent or this can cause social chaos, right? Even stock markets have strict financial services regulation to protect investors. You wouldn't want a truly free market that allow some smart baddies screwing innocent investors right?
There are valid reasons for banning certain religions in China because a lot of people don't have sufficient 'common sense' to distinguish good from bad. Yeah I know there is no agreed 'standard common sense' but I'll show an example.
In Taiwan people have free choice of religion. A few years ago a man called Song Qi-Li started selling a religious photo of himself standing on clouds -- by using Photoshop. He told his followers he could teleport himself and many believed and paid handsome fees for these photos. Even when he got arrested and his tricks exposed by the police, his followers refused to accept the facts and even told the journalists 'he will teleport himself out of the prison'.
"You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service"
On GMail-User newsgroup there have been reports of Google temporarily disabling accounts who use software to check GMail. Having said that, Google's own mail checker checks mail every 2 minutes. And most people who use third-party software to access GMail don't seem to have problems. Google's reaction to the breach of their ToS seems to be as random as the way they give out GMail invites...
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The Americans are stealing our jobs! That's outrageous!
Jesus Jobs! Don't you know you've been ripped off by Apple?
http://www.merl.com/projects/diamondspin/
http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/
There are 28 digits in pi that rhymes like a poem, starting from 61st digit:
5923078 1640628 6208998 6280348
Searching for 'Democracy' (Min-Zhu) in Chinese across MSN, Yahoo, Sohu, 3721 search engines -- the results are all the same:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. (in IE)
What's even funnier, since then my IP seems to be blocked by the search engines for a few minutes.
If you try 'Democracy' in English, it works though but loads of porn sites come up.
Another interesting experience, a few years ago I was playing with Chinese version of IBM Via Voice, if you say "Taiwan Independence", no matter how hard you train the AI, it just won't type these words.
No - because porn site owners knows it is a popular term so subscribed to that keyword.
I'm skeptical about ditching folder concept completely. For example, the labelling in GMail is useful but you soon build up lots of labels - what's next? You want to start organizing them into folders of labels.
Labels like 'AppleApps' and 'WindowsApps' both should go into 'Project' -- not on two ends of the alphabetically-sorted label list.
"Starting the Intel announcement with "It's true" in answer to the buzz seems to tell the story of Apple's stand on the leak."
Totally agree. The subscript 'e' on the slide is so obvious this whole leak was a carefully engineered PR stunt.
To be realistic, when pupils have learnt Acorn or Linux what uses are there to most of them when they leave school? A lot of them won't even go into college, Acorn or Linux would just make them unemployable when they could have learnt how to use Word/Excel/IE etc... and get a job.
The buildings look up-side down...
Where is the rotate button like in SimCity?
Limited support for International languages (i.e. Unicode) due to underlying Perl libraries.
Less-than-fancy interface - say what you like, LOOK definitely counts. Speed isn't an issue for most connections.
No full-text search : understandable, Google index your mail for profit, Yahoo has graphic ads, FM can't do that.
Domain not easy to remember - .fm is unusual, most other choices are unfamiliar to general public (i.e. friends who need to send you email.)
EasyCar had a similar scheme called Car Club in London that failed a few years ago. Supposedly the driver can book the car on the net, go to the car park, call the company and the car will be remotely unlocked. Not hard to imagine that it didn't work because unlocking doesn't work, nobody checks the car state on return and there was no real person you could talk to if there are (lots of!) problems.
I agree with you that nobody can define what's stupid and what's not. I've heard people burn themselves for religious reasons in the US too.
Somehow the government needs to put some restrictions if too many people are ignorent or this can cause social chaos, right? Even stock markets have strict financial services regulation to protect investors. You wouldn't want a truly free market that allow some smart baddies screwing innocent investors right?
There are valid reasons for banning certain religions in China because a lot of people don't have sufficient 'common sense' to distinguish good from bad. Yeah I know there is no agreed 'standard common sense' but I'll show an example.
In Taiwan people have free choice of religion. A few years ago a man called Song Qi-Li started selling a religious photo of himself standing on clouds -- by using Photoshop. He told his followers he could teleport himself and many believed and paid handsome fees for these photos. Even when he got arrested and his tricks exposed by the police, his followers refused to accept the facts and even told the journalists 'he will teleport himself out of the prison'.
From what I heard their low-end camera phones are equivalent to high-end camera phones in the Europe... e.g. 3-mega-pixel phones are a norm
Google's Terms of Use:
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http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.h
"You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service"
On GMail-User newsgroup there have been reports of Google temporarily disabling accounts who use software to check GMail. Having said that, Google's own mail checker checks mail every 2 minutes. And most people who use third-party software to access GMail don't seem to have problems. Google's reaction to the breach of their ToS seems to be as random as the way they give out GMail invites...
The Notifier doesn't come with any options to configure. Yay! Simplicity at last!
Tried putting "open source" in Kartoo: Open source on ebay, find open source items at low prices...
Well if someone wants the latest Linux kernel I could put it on ebay for them...
Not when www.google.com now stores your preferences, e-mail, favourite news/searches/blah blah....
Now TRY migrate them to www.newsearchengine.com...
Microsoft's vision used to be "a computer on every desktop and in every home" (with Windows being the only OS).
;)
Google's vision is "make the world's information universally accessible and useful" (with Google the only way to access it?)
Both pages have links to Picassa. But not on This one!
Seems like Google is expanding to more areas of our internet lives... Would this be another Microsoft coming?
It says Taiwanese, not Communist China. Stupid.