Having worked with many people from the area of Taiwan/China in engineering, I have found that many of them don't understand the concept of craftsmanship and maintainability. They're still building crap. I've talked to people who have worked with engineers from the former Soviet Bloc who are the same way. At a company I worked for, a Russian hardware engineering manager bought basically black market Broadcom ethernet PHYs which had some bad bugs. Broadcom also refused to support us because the chips were supposed to have been destroyed. I think Communism killed the concept of quality in these countries.
Actually, my bet is on India. China is getting older demographically and as we all know is not free. India is still demographically very young and has a (somewhat) functioning democracy.
Woohoo! I could crank up the boost on my turbo Miata:). Seriously, to offset the reduced energy available from ethanol vs gasoline, car makers could build higher compression engines. This would preclude going back and forth to crappy California gas though, and that would be a long way off.
I've done the compile-from-source thing A LOT. After dealing with the mess that tends to occur from this, I'll spend much more time finding a binary package than it would have taken to build from source.
Actually according to the http://www.rmi.org/Rocky Mountain Institute we've made huge gains in energy productivity over the last several decades and there's a lot more to be done.
My wife is Chinese and has several advanced degrees (CompSci and Nuke Engineering). She is currently working in SQA but has practically no interest in the hard sciences. Says her parents and her government coerced her into studying these things. She thinks many Chinese study engineering type fields in the US because other fields would be harder to break into.
Actually, solar panels last decades without deteriorating significantly. Also, the payback myth is just that - a myth: http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_solar_ new.htm l I have 6kw on top of my house, and I expect they will probably be working even after I'm gone. I'm only 34 now. It also sells electricity back to the grid during peak consumption times. Perfect.
Had a T68i for a while and found it so so. A few months ago I upgraded to a Nokia 6820 and I think it's definitely the best phone I've had. The reception is pretty good, GPRS works well (I bought a Bluetooth Ipaq 4155, and I'm thrilled with that too), the keyboard is real enough, and I love the speakerphone feature. I don't have much trouble with interface lag either. The only thing I'm disappointed with is that the builtin email app is pretty lame. It doesn't just synch via IMAP like you would expect, it downloads the messages then you have to eventually delete them from the phone to get more. Bleah. It does work with well enough my home IMAP server though.
Didn't mention anything about building colonies. My point was that if we're looking for a return on investment, there are a lot of other places to look. I also think that in this stage of our development, if we can't save the Earth from ourselves (or asteroids) we don't deserve to go mess up another one.
And I've also heard that every dollar invested in oceanic research brings $10 back. The challenges are also very hard and there's a lot we don't know about what's down there. There are also a lot of cool and potentially useful things in our oceans - like deep sea sponges that make their own fiber optics of exceptional quality, for one. Given the choice between planting a flag on Mars and other dead rocks or exploring deep sea vents, give me the latter. Our oceans are also EXTREMELY important for our future survival. And I could be home for dinner, too. Lots of people have mentioned the killer asteroid thing, but I've noticed that we spend practically no money on finding and tracking them and thinking up ways to destroy or divert them. If we were serious instead of just looking for rationalizations this wouldn't be the case. I think I agree with the man - robots are cool (and create many new interesting problems to solve), but human space missions are for the romantics who are willing to write their own check. Call me when we can build worm holes or travel faster than the speed of light and maybe we'll talk.
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Nope, China gave up on communism about 20 years ago and began opening up the economy for real in the early 90s. My wife was quite surprised to see how much things have changed since she left. They have huge problems to solve but the average Chinese is as communist as your average American (unfortunately they are also as credulous about what their government tells them as your average American). Oh, yeah. In a recent visit to the center of China (Si Chuan province) I found that the Chinese people actually LIKE westerners (rare thing in this world). That's probably just because they haven't met many of us... So, watch your step before you go spouting off about people you probably have never met. There are some interesting articles on the Economist detailing the country's progress and problems if you want to do something more intelligent than yell "Commies! Commies! Commies!". Personally I think a world where everything's American would be pretty damned boring. Unfortunately it looks like that's what our government wants.
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You're absolutely correct. That's how MOST people in the United States become wealthy. In this book a marketing research type contacted MANY high net worth households and found that most wealthy people drink Budweiser, drive Fords, and live in Middle class 'burbs. They most often own their own businesses (worth a note). Frequently they are immigrants who haven't gotten caught up in American style consumption. A lot of those people driving new BMWs and living in expensive neighborhoods might have high paying jobs, but if the checks stop coming they are in deep doodoo. I am a "high net worth individual" and I drive a Ford, but I do prefer Corona:). Substitute Accord or Camry to taste:).
I was just there last month. I went to visit the in laws with my wife (and stayed with them most of the time). I didn't see any signs of Internet blocking. I could access whatever I wanted. People did get a little uncomfortable when discussing things like freedom when they were in groups. One of my wife's schoolmates is now an officer in the Chinese military and refused to take a picture with me in it - they aren't allowed to talk to foreigners. But the rest of the group of her old schoolmates were joking with him about being their oppressor at a dinner party;). Otherwise, no sign of being watched or restricted. They didn't check our bags coming in or going out of the country. We were in Si Chuan province, which is one of the richer ones, but there were still signs of poverty everywhere. They really need some good plumbers. Otherwise, lots of signs of capitalism. Quite a few billboards (mostly China Telecom). The Chinese people are almost universally warm to Americans. I guess they haven't seen enough of us yet. When I was in one of the smaller villages (say, 200k people) it was quite a big deal to see a foreigner. My wife kept telling me I was getting stared at but I didn't notice too much. She guessed that most of them hadn't seen any caucasians in person before. Western movies and video games are quite popular. Trying to control the Internet (and western communication in general) is like putting their finger in a dyke. It's going to burst eventually and there isn't anything they can do about it.
Hmmm, now I really want Microsoft to die (I wasn't taking it too seriously before). I'm no longer using Samba (switched to OpenAFS), but maybe it's time to make a donation to the team. Or just kick down for the EFF again.
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Higher bandwidth is nice. I want it to be able to reach my house in the first place.
Still, up until recently Taiwan had much of the same authoritarian style government, including the Asian conformism.
Having worked with many people from the area of Taiwan/China in engineering, I have found that many of them don't understand the concept of craftsmanship and maintainability. They're still building crap. I've talked to people who have worked with engineers from the former Soviet Bloc who are the same way. At a company I worked for, a Russian hardware engineering manager bought basically black market Broadcom ethernet PHYs which had some bad bugs. Broadcom also refused to support us because the chips were supposed to have been destroyed. I think Communism killed the concept of quality in these countries.
You have the stereotype for the wrong language.
Actually, my bet is on India. China is getting older demographically and as we all know is not free. India is still demographically very young and has a (somewhat) functioning democracy.
Woohoo! I could crank up the boost on my turbo Miata :). Seriously, to offset the reduced energy available from ethanol vs gasoline, car makers could build higher compression engines. This would preclude going back and forth to crappy California gas though, and that would be a long way off.
I've done the compile-from-source thing A LOT. After dealing with the mess that tends to occur from this, I'll spend much more time finding a binary package than it would have taken to build from source.
Actually according to the http://www.rmi.org/Rocky Mountain Institute we've made huge gains in energy productivity over the last several decades and there's a lot more to be done.
My wife is Chinese and has several advanced degrees (CompSci and Nuke Engineering). She is currently working in SQA but has practically no interest in the hard sciences.
Says her parents and her government coerced her into studying these things. She thinks many Chinese study engineering type fields in the US because other fields would be harder to break into.
Oh, and don't forget Netscape from UIUC!
Actually, solar panels last decades without deteriorating significantly._ new.htm l
Also, the payback myth is just that - a myth:
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_solar
I have 6kw on top of my house, and I expect they will probably be working even after I'm gone. I'm only 34 now.
It also sells electricity back to the grid during peak consumption times. Perfect.
My money managers complain about the amount of overhead (ie, paperwork) it has added to their jobs.
I have a 4801 with a 40g laptop hard drive in it. No problem.
Uh, that was just a couple of months ago, I don't think they'd have built it in that much time.
This most likely Ford's own design.
Had a T68i for a while and found it so so.
A few months ago I upgraded to a Nokia 6820 and I think it's definitely the best phone I've had.
The reception is pretty good, GPRS works well (I bought a Bluetooth Ipaq 4155, and I'm thrilled with that too), the keyboard is real enough, and I love the speakerphone feature. I don't have much trouble with interface lag either.
The only thing I'm disappointed with is that the builtin email app is pretty lame. It doesn't just synch via IMAP like you would expect, it downloads the messages then you have to eventually delete them from the phone to get more. Bleah. It does work with well enough my home IMAP server though.
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Didn't mention anything about building colonies.
My point was that if we're looking for a return on investment, there are a lot of other places to look.
I also think that in this stage of our development, if we can't save the Earth from ourselves (or asteroids) we don't deserve to go mess up another one.
And I've also heard that every dollar invested in oceanic research brings $10 back. The challenges are also very hard and there's a lot we don't know about what's down there.
There are also a lot of cool and potentially useful things in our oceans - like deep sea sponges that make their own fiber optics of exceptional quality, for one. Given the choice between planting a flag on Mars and other dead rocks or exploring deep sea vents, give me the latter.
Our oceans are also EXTREMELY important for our future survival.
And I could be home for dinner, too.
Lots of people have mentioned the killer asteroid thing, but I've noticed that we spend practically no money on finding and tracking them and thinking up ways to destroy or divert them. If we were serious instead of just looking for rationalizations this wouldn't be the case.
I think I agree with the man - robots are cool (and create many new interesting problems to solve), but human space missions are for the romantics who are willing to write their own check.
Call me when we can build worm holes or travel faster than the speed of light and maybe we'll talk.
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I read the read the Piracy Prevention Bill as Privacy Prevention Bill...
Whew....
Nope, China gave up on communism about 20 years ago and began opening up the economy for real in the early 90s. My wife was quite surprised to see how much things have changed since she left.
They have huge problems to solve but the average Chinese is as communist as your average American (unfortunately they are also as credulous about what their government tells them as your average American).
Oh, yeah. In a recent visit to the center of China (Si Chuan province) I found that the Chinese people actually LIKE westerners (rare thing in this world). That's probably just because they haven't met many of us...
So, watch your step before you go spouting off about people you probably have never met.
There are some interesting articles on the Economist detailing the country's progress and problems if you want to do something more intelligent than yell "Commies! Commies! Commies!".
Personally I think a world where everything's American would be pretty damned boring. Unfortunately it looks like that's what our government wants.
You're absolutely correct. That's how MOST people in the United States become wealthy. :). Substitute Accord or Camry to taste :).
In this book a marketing research type contacted MANY high net worth households and found that most wealthy people drink Budweiser, drive Fords, and live in Middle class 'burbs. They most often own their own businesses (worth a note). Frequently they are immigrants who haven't gotten caught up in American style consumption.
A lot of those people driving new BMWs and living in expensive neighborhoods might have high paying jobs, but if the checks stop coming they are in deep doodoo.
I am a "high net worth individual" and I drive a Ford, but I do prefer Corona
I was just there last month. I went to visit the in laws with my wife (and stayed with them most of the time). ;).
I didn't see any signs of Internet blocking. I could access whatever I wanted.
People did get a little uncomfortable when discussing things like freedom when they were in groups. One of my wife's schoolmates is now an officer in the Chinese military and refused to take a picture with me in it - they aren't allowed to talk to foreigners.
But the rest of the group of her old schoolmates were joking with him about being their oppressor at a dinner party
Otherwise, no sign of being watched or restricted. They didn't check our bags coming in or going out of the country.
We were in Si Chuan province, which is one of the richer ones, but there were still signs of poverty everywhere. They really need some good plumbers.
Otherwise, lots of signs of capitalism. Quite a few billboards (mostly China Telecom).
The Chinese people are almost universally warm to Americans. I guess they haven't seen enough of us yet.
When I was in one of the smaller villages (say, 200k people) it was quite a big deal to see a foreigner. My wife kept telling me I was getting stared at but I didn't notice too much. She guessed that most of them hadn't seen any caucasians in person before.
Western movies and video games are quite popular. Trying to control the Internet (and western communication in general) is like putting their finger in a dyke. It's going to burst eventually and there isn't anything they can do about it.
Hmmm, now I really want Microsoft to die (I wasn't taking it too seriously before).
I'm no longer using Samba (switched to OpenAFS), but maybe it's time to make a donation to the team.
Or just kick down for the EFF again.