Chinese who studied abroad use Hong Kong-based VPNs, for a few dollars a year, to access Facebook. China isn't worried about them, they are already effectively co-opted by virtue of their upper-class opportunities.
It's the poorer Chinese who have no idea how much they are being shit upon by the system that the government is worried about. These are the people they keep in the dark, and as luck would have it, they're easier to keep in the dark anyway.
I wonder whether they are making money in China or can even see a scenario in which they eventually do.
Mainly I think they are contending with millions of made-for-adsense auto-bloggers and spammers polluting their index and driving down the value of Adwords which is their bread-and-butter.
Different individuals and institutions may have different views on what constitutes evil. However, if you take a step back and stop thinking about your own interests, I believe most open-minded people can conclude that there is a more or less universal ideal of good and evil.
The hard part is the "stop thinking about your own interests" bit. That and all the idiot cultural relativists whining in the wings.
Have you used Huawei gear? It's 50% of the quality for 33% of the price.
For some applications, that's a decent trade-off. For many others it is not.
I for one am sick of Huawei and ZTE and the like because the psychic cost of the constant failures and weird behaviour, while not directly calculable, is severe. If I stake my reputation on reliability (rather than price) then I am not going to come out ahead.
My friend, by exporting raw materials it's quite likely you're not really making money at all.
Raw materials extracted from the earth are something you have one chance to sell. Once you've sold them, they're gone.
If you don't sell them at prices that are above the historic mean in real terms, and you don't use them to build lasting infrastructure or other development catalysts, then you have lost in the deal. Penny wise and pound foolish and all that.
Now, this is quite similar to the miscalculation that underlies the illusion that China itself is doing well. China has turned aeons of environmental development and the patience of hundreds of millions of peasants into a few years of GDP. They're like your unemployed neighbour who goes on holiday to the Maldives and drives a 2009 BMW, all funded with credit cards and bank loans - except the bank in this case is not MBNA but the Chinese people and the soil they live on. One day very soon they're going to reach their credit limit and it's all going to come tumbling down.
I believe that Singapore's biggest issues right now stem from the remnants of the SARS outbreak (equivalently like nuclear power suffers in the US because of 3 mile island), terrorism (granted, a global issue), and of course the problems of linguistic development.
SARS? I don't think so.
The biggest problem in Singapore right now is the global economic downturn and its ripple effects through the local economy. On the other hand, the government has been smart about seizing the opportunity to do some major infrastructure work (such as 2 new subway lines which would have been massively more expensive during boom times).
Terrorism is a non-issue, despite the occasional outbursts of noise about it. Likewise the catastrophe of some children using broken Mandarin or Hokkien to talk with their grandparents.
However, I agree with you that illegal immigration is also not a big deal, and it's being handled fine by the authorities. They're more worried about encouraging legal immigration. They need young smart fertile people, and have been working hard to get them there.
I've found ZoneEdit to be frustratingly quirky. Getting new domains working is a PITA and always takes an extraordinary amount of time. The interface is clunky and weird. The name servers seem to work, but EveryDNS was such a pleasure to use by contrast that I'd long ago moved everything off ZoneEdit.
Go to a system like I outlined, all private, a for-profit model, and see what your food and water and electricity and natural gas would cost.
Most electricity is generated in very close proximity to major urban areas; it's costlier to ship it around. People in rural areas would be generating their own, or paying thousands of dollars a month to run their clock radios.
They wouldn't have any telecommunications at all except ham radios and satellite phones. They'd be eating only what was in season in their region, and nothing but root vegetables and salt pork in the winter. They'd be lucky if their alphabet went higher than G or H, maybe only D if there was a poor harvest the previous year.
In reality, of course, these things even out - the benefit rural people see from phones and power balances against the benefit urban people see from food, and money changes hands accordingly.
You may be interested in the model used in Singapore. One company has been granted the contract to run a government-funded fibre network that covers basically every home in the country, and all ISPs can use it on equal terms. This means no duplication of infrastructure for which there is arguably a natural monopoly, yet everyone is on the same state-of-the-art playing field. The ISPs are free to compete on backhaul, value-added services, price, and so forth.
Well, given the dramatic amounts of money that the government currently transfers from cities to remote areas, I'm not sure you'll like the outcome.
Cities pay for themselves, and then some.
Rural areas are a financial drain. Nevertheless we put up with them for sentimental reasons (and of course because the original compromise of the Senate gives them dramatically more legislating power per capita).
However that account is a member of the _developer group, which gives the debugger the right to attach to processes.
Isn't that enough to easily elevate yourself to root? Seems like all you need is the ability to run some privileged process, like the control panel, and then the world is yours.
iPhone users slurp up a lot more bandwidth than users of other phones, it turns out. All that shiny touchability actually gets them to use the data plans they are paying for, which is different to the situation with other, crustier phones. This seems to be a liability for AT&T.
I've used a Nokia smartphone for a few years now. It works fairly well, if a little slow at times. Has a good SSH client available, which was my main criterion at the time I bought it. I do find myself switching back and forth between the built-in web browser (which runs out of RAM on complicated pages) and Opera Mini.
But hey, I guess you're too ignorant to think maybe the sheer amount of skyscrapers and concrete in NY would be one major cause of insufficient ability to handle calls.
This little world of ours has plenty of cities with lots of skyscrapers and concrete where phones work just fine. I always get far worse mobile service in the USA than I do in developing-country concrete jungles like Bangkok and Jakarta, not to mention established ones with good infrastructure like Hong Kong.
Writing C code is like being a doctor. If you do it will, have discipline and a solid work ethic, you can perform what appears to be miracles to people used to PHP
Ok, I'll bite.
I've done long stints as both a professional C developer and a professional PHP developer.
What's an example of something you can do in C that appears to be a miracle to someone used to PHP? I assume we are keeping this within the realm of things that PHP is actually used for, and you're not going to talk about writing device drivers or compilers.
The problem with plain text (as in, individual files) is that it would bury the file system once you get mailboxes with a few thousand messages. Especially on NTFS which starts to choke at around 10k to 20k files in a single folder.
I have close to 100k messages in a maildir without any apparent slowdown.
You can also hash them out to subdirectories if you are using a file system that can't deal with large directories.
It has been how many years now and Thunderbird STILL doesn't have a redirect command? WTF? I had an add-on that I used with Thunderbird 2 for this purpose but it's not compatible with version 3. Guess I'm going back to version 2.
Don't get too excited until you've actually used it. I tried and gave up on Piwik in July; at that point anyway it was definitely not ready for prime time.
Perhaps a German company that sells server-side analytics software has paid off someone in the government. Because such a company would suddenly become very profitable.
It's forbidden to send the data to a 3rd party like Google without the website vistor's consent. Which is what a website operator using Google Analytics apparently does.
No, it's what the German user's web browser does. They can easily stop it with the right settings. It would make a lot more sense to educate people about those settings, or even to request that computers sold in Germany come with them by default, than to try to change the way the web works.
Fair point. I took his "multi-way extender" to be one of those multiple-plug-end things. Anyway, I think the reason I was modded informative was not for the first few words, but for the time I took in the rest of the post to describe my process in detail, including links to photos.
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Chinese who studied abroad use Hong Kong-based VPNs, for a few dollars a year, to access Facebook. China isn't worried about them, they are already effectively co-opted by virtue of their upper-class opportunities.
It's the poorer Chinese who have no idea how much they are being shit upon by the system that the government is worried about. These are the people they keep in the dark, and as luck would have it, they're easier to keep in the dark anyway.
I wonder whether they are making money in China or can even see a scenario in which they eventually do.
Mainly I think they are contending with millions of made-for-adsense auto-bloggers and spammers polluting their index and driving down the value of Adwords which is their bread-and-butter.
Different individuals and institutions may have different views on what constitutes evil. However, if you take a step back and stop thinking about your own interests, I believe most open-minded people can conclude that there is a more or less universal ideal of good and evil.
The hard part is the "stop thinking about your own interests" bit. That and all the idiot cultural relativists whining in the wings.
Have you used Huawei gear? It's 50% of the quality for 33% of the price.
For some applications, that's a decent trade-off. For many others it is not.
I for one am sick of Huawei and ZTE and the like because the psychic cost of the constant failures and weird behaviour, while not directly calculable, is severe. If I stake my reputation on reliability (rather than price) then I am not going to come out ahead.
My friend, by exporting raw materials it's quite likely you're not really making money at all.
Raw materials extracted from the earth are something you have one chance to sell. Once you've sold them, they're gone.
If you don't sell them at prices that are above the historic mean in real terms, and you don't use them to build lasting infrastructure or other development catalysts, then you have lost in the deal. Penny wise and pound foolish and all that.
Now, this is quite similar to the miscalculation that underlies the illusion that China itself is doing well. China has turned aeons of environmental development and the patience of hundreds of millions of peasants into a few years of GDP. They're like your unemployed neighbour who goes on holiday to the Maldives and drives a 2009 BMW, all funded with credit cards and bank loans - except the bank in this case is not MBNA but the Chinese people and the soil they live on. One day very soon they're going to reach their credit limit and it's all going to come tumbling down.
SARS? I don't think so.
The biggest problem in Singapore right now is the global economic downturn and its ripple effects through the local economy. On the other hand, the government has been smart about seizing the opportunity to do some major infrastructure work (such as 2 new subway lines which would have been massively more expensive during boom times).
Terrorism is a non-issue, despite the occasional outbursts of noise about it. Likewise the catastrophe of some children using broken Mandarin or Hokkien to talk with their grandparents.
However, I agree with you that illegal immigration is also not a big deal, and it's being handled fine by the authorities. They're more worried about encouraging legal immigration. They need young smart fertile people, and have been working hard to get them there.
I've found ZoneEdit to be frustratingly quirky. Getting new domains working is a PITA and always takes an extraordinary amount of time. The interface is clunky and weird. The name servers seem to work, but EveryDNS was such a pleasure to use by contrast that I'd long ago moved everything off ZoneEdit.
Most electricity is generated in very close proximity to major urban areas; it's costlier to ship it around. People in rural areas would be generating their own, or paying thousands of dollars a month to run their clock radios.
They wouldn't have any telecommunications at all except ham radios and satellite phones. They'd be eating only what was in season in their region, and nothing but root vegetables and salt pork in the winter. They'd be lucky if their alphabet went higher than G or H, maybe only D if there was a poor harvest the previous year.
In reality, of course, these things even out - the benefit rural people see from phones and power balances against the benefit urban people see from food, and money changes hands accordingly.
You may be interested in the model used in Singapore. One company has been granted the contract to run a government-funded fibre network that covers basically every home in the country, and all ISPs can use it on equal terms. This means no duplication of infrastructure for which there is arguably a natural monopoly, yet everyone is on the same state-of-the-art playing field. The ISPs are free to compete on backhaul, value-added services, price, and so forth.
They feed themselves by giving the country folk far more money than the country folk would be receiving in a system without massive subsidies.
Well, given the dramatic amounts of money that the government currently transfers from cities to remote areas, I'm not sure you'll like the outcome.
Cities pay for themselves, and then some.
Rural areas are a financial drain. Nevertheless we put up with them for sentimental reasons (and of course because the original compromise of the Senate gives them dramatically more legislating power per capita).
Isn't that enough to easily elevate yourself to root? Seems like all you need is the ability to run some privileged process, like the control panel, and then the world is yours.
iPhone users slurp up a lot more bandwidth than users of other phones, it turns out. All that shiny touchability actually gets them to use the data plans they are paying for, which is different to the situation with other, crustier phones. This seems to be a liability for AT&T.
I've used a Nokia smartphone for a few years now. It works fairly well, if a little slow at times. Has a good SSH client available, which was my main criterion at the time I bought it. I do find myself switching back and forth between the built-in web browser (which runs out of RAM on complicated pages) and Opera Mini.
Try Citibank. They will courier a replacement card to you in any country at no charge.
This little world of ours has plenty of cities with lots of skyscrapers and concrete where phones work just fine. I always get far worse mobile service in the USA than I do in developing-country concrete jungles like Bangkok and Jakarta, not to mention established ones with good infrastructure like Hong Kong.
Ok, I'll bite.
I've done long stints as both a professional C developer and a professional PHP developer.
What's an example of something you can do in C that appears to be a miracle to someone used to PHP? I assume we are keeping this within the realm of things that PHP is actually used for, and you're not going to talk about writing device drivers or compilers.
I have close to 100k messages in a maildir without any apparent slowdown.
You can also hash them out to subdirectories if you are using a file system that can't deal with large directories.
I wouldn't know, because Thunderbird 3 froze hard after the first 20000 or so on my installation.
It has been how many years now and Thunderbird STILL doesn't have a redirect command? WTF? I had an add-on that I used with Thunderbird 2 for this purpose but it's not compatible with version 3. Guess I'm going back to version 2.
Don't get too excited until you've actually used it. I tried and gave up on Piwik in July; at that point anyway it was definitely not ready for prime time.
Perhaps a German company that sells server-side analytics software has paid off someone in the government. Because such a company would suddenly become very profitable.
No, it's what the German user's web browser does. They can easily stop it with the right settings. It would make a lot more sense to educate people about those settings, or even to request that computers sold in Germany come with them by default, than to try to change the way the web works.
Or Penn Station, or Wall Street, or half of DC, or or or or or...
Fair point. I took his "multi-way extender" to be one of those multiple-plug-end things. Anyway, I think the reason I was modded informative was not for the first few words, but for the time I took in the rest of the post to describe my process in detail, including links to photos.