"Black" doesn't refer only to color, as I'm sure you're aware. Barack is considered "black" because of the width of his nose, the length of his neck, and the curl in his hair. If the same skin color skin were on a Greek or Italian we would call him white.
The bookseller in front of my apartment (Dalian, China) has about twenty titles in English. 1984 is three of them. Hell, I picked up a copy of the Federalist Papers at the Xinhua state-controlled bookstore.
You guys need to calm down and stop jumping to conclusions. Very little is banned, and that not very well.
I'm in northeastern China working in outsourcing. Our office supports Japan, as well as the rest of Asia-Pacific.
Japanese people are very aware that the West beat their asses, so they go to lengths to hide their teeth when dealing with us, but when dealing with everyone else (e.g. the Chinese) the gloves are fucking off. Lots of companies, but Fujitsu in particular, are openly racist and incredibly belligerent with Chinese and Korea-Chinese support engineers, even though the engineers are competent and speak Japanese fluently. They frequently flatly refuse to deal with anyone who is non-Japanese and escalate issues all the way to upper management when they don't get their way.
I used to like Japan a lot, but I just can't anymore.
I rememebr when the high-end workstation market was something very significant, highly-coveted, and dominated by the likes of Sun and SGI. Those boxen often sold for upwards of $15,000. This is not a new niche.
The specs on the new power macs are truly awesome to behold. They're completely deserving of the the title high-end.
Why is it that engineers so frequently assume that fields which are not scientific or technical must be easy to do? This seems to be a corrolary to the Pointy-Haired-Boss syndrome.
My degrees are in Japanese, Chinese and linguistics. I sincerely doubt any old engineer could master my field. Some fields of endeavor require focused linear thinking, and others require skills in dealing with abstract concepts. You're either A or you're B. Both are important, and neither are bullshit.
I work in outsourcing in China and I've worked under a few of these child managers. None of the ones I know speak any foreign language, yet they are in a position to manage teams speaking Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.
My experience has been that these guys perform unbelievably poorly, mostly because of their ignorance of the region and lack of language skills. East Asia is NOT the US, or even Europe. There are cultural differences, and then there are differences. The most markedly schism is between the Chinese and Japanese.
Trying to manage the reigon as if it was the same as anyplace else is a recipe for disaster, but these young managers never figure that out until its too late.
I'm in Liaoning (northeast China) and I completely support this. The Sichuan quake was a massive tragedy, and it's good that something very big is being done to raise awareness and honor the dead. It's better that it's being centrally coordinated.
If you're in China, rather than spending your time goofing around online you should donate to relief, give blood, and get outside and be part of the community. This is not a free speech issue, not today.
There is nothing wrong or creepy about an entire country working in concert to do something good. I wish the US could pull together like this from time to time.
If we were to compare governments to operating systems, the US would be Microsoft, Japan would be Apple and China would be Slackware. It really is the bazaar of societies.
The "golden shield," like Beijing's attempt to control anything that goes on in China is completely ineffective. Westerners (who believe society is synonymous with government and law) look at China's authoritarian policies and believe that all Chinese people live under repression.
That simply isn't the case. When Chinese people completely ignore international copyright law they aren't being selective; that's their attitude toward all laws. As the saying goes: heaven is high, and the emperor is far away. If authority can't see you or get to you, then it may as well not exist.
If the government decides to go after you you can consider yourself proper fucked, but they only do that very rarely, and it's always against individuals or groups that really irritate them. If you keep your head low and don't do anything to inconvenience or embarrass the government they don't care what you do. 99.99% of people have never had to deal with the police, ever. Not even parking tickets. Even fewer have any kind of criminal record.
That's how it is with internet censorship. The golden shield leaks like a sieve and everyone knows it. Since it's keyword activated you can get away with saying anything you want about the government so long as you abbreviate zhongguo zhengfu (Chinese government) to zgzf, and so on. The system is really only there as a passive (sometimes active) reminder from Beijing that a Chinese government really does exist and they really are in charge, goddammit.
The difference between the two parsings is in the way the words are stressed. When time (adjective) modifies flies (noun) there is considerably more stress on time than on flies. When pronounced the other way, both time and flies are stressed alike.
The proper way to get around the ambiguity in writing is to write "timeflies" as one word, like fruitflies and houseflies.
Seriously, the English language hasn't undergone any kind of reform since well before the great vowel migration. That makes the written form of our language nearly 500 years old!
Also, we only have half as many letters as we have sounds in English. We have 1/3 as many vowel symbols as vowels! Think about that. The Latin Alphabet was super for Latin, but it's woefully inadequate for English.
Who can blame kids for wanting to hack the writing system into something useable?
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He's actually more of a light brown.
"Black" doesn't refer only to color, as I'm sure you're aware. Barack is considered "black" because of the width of his nose, the length of his neck, and the curl in his hair.
If the same skin color skin were on a Greek or Italian we would call him white.
Hillary Duff?
Democrats try to manipulate you by appealing to your sense of pity, and Republicans try to manipulate you by flat out scaring the shit out of you.
Those are important differences!
This is being implemented in one city, Shenzhen, which also happens to be the richest city in China.
Also the poor in China eat pretty well, FYI.
The bookseller in front of my apartment (Dalian, China) has about twenty titles in English. 1984 is three of them.
Hell, I picked up a copy of the Federalist Papers at the Xinhua state-controlled bookstore.
You guys need to calm down and stop jumping to conclusions. Very little is banned, and that not very well.
I need my torbutton.
I'm in northeastern China working in outsourcing. Our office supports Japan, as well as the rest of Asia-Pacific.
Japanese people are very aware that the West beat their asses, so they go to lengths to hide their teeth when dealing with us, but when dealing with everyone else (e.g. the Chinese) the gloves are fucking off.
Lots of companies, but Fujitsu in particular, are openly racist and incredibly belligerent with Chinese and Korea-Chinese support engineers, even though the engineers are competent and speak Japanese fluently. They frequently flatly refuse to deal with anyone who is non-Japanese and escalate issues all the way to upper management when they don't get their way.
I used to like Japan a lot, but I just can't anymore.
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
I sing the body electric...
Not the sniper ones, but the pro-Hizbollah and pro-Saddam videos are fascinating from a cultural perspective.
Viz.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIiQkMbFoC0
The music is fantastic.
I rememebr when the high-end workstation market was something very significant, highly-coveted, and dominated by the likes of Sun and SGI. Those boxen often sold for upwards of $15,000. This is not a new niche.
The specs on the new power macs are truly awesome to behold. They're completely deserving of the the title high-end.
Though I've been using PCs for 20 years of my life I'm about to become a first-time Apple customer myself.
ping
tracert
ipconfig
NET *
That's primarily what I use the CLI for. Some of the NET functions (mapping drives, etc.) can be accomplished with the gui, but not all of them.
My degrees are in Japanese, Chinese and linguistics. I sincerely doubt any old engineer could master my field. Some fields of endeavor require focused linear thinking, and others require skills in dealing with abstract concepts. You're either A or you're B. Both are important, and neither are bullshit.
Newly-registered? Me?
My experience has been that these guys perform unbelievably poorly, mostly because of their ignorance of the region and lack of language skills. East Asia is NOT the US, or even Europe. There are cultural differences, and then there are differences. The most markedly schism is between the Chinese and Japanese.
Trying to manage the reigon as if it was the same as anyplace else is a recipe for disaster, but these young managers never figure that out until its too late.
If you're in China, rather than spending your time goofing around online you should donate to relief, give blood, and get outside and be part of the community. This is not a free speech issue, not today.
There is nothing wrong or creepy about an entire country working in concert to do something good. I wish the US could pull together like this from time to time.
This doesn't appear to be on the list though.
In that case the US congress uses CSMA/CD.
Slashdot Understates Ridiculousness of Terrorism Claim
If we were to compare governments to operating systems, the US would be Microsoft, Japan would be Apple and China would be Slackware. It really is the bazaar of societies.
The "golden shield," like Beijing's attempt to control anything that goes on in China is completely ineffective. Westerners (who believe society is synonymous with government and law) look at China's authoritarian policies and believe that all Chinese people live under repression.
That simply isn't the case. When Chinese people completely ignore international copyright law they aren't being selective; that's their attitude toward all laws. As the saying goes: heaven is high, and the emperor is far away. If authority can't see you or get to you, then it may as well not exist.
If the government decides to go after you you can consider yourself proper fucked, but they only do that very rarely, and it's always against individuals or groups that really irritate them. If you keep your head low and don't do anything to inconvenience or embarrass the government they don't care what you do. 99.99% of people have never had to deal with the police, ever. Not even parking tickets. Even fewer have any kind of criminal record.
That's how it is with internet censorship. The golden shield leaks like a sieve and everyone knows it. Since it's keyword activated you can get away with saying anything you want about the government so long as you abbreviate zhongguo zhengfu (Chinese government) to zgzf, and so on. The system is really only there as a passive (sometimes active) reminder from Beijing that a Chinese government really does exist and they really are in charge, goddammit.
has always been at war with Eastasia
'Until the courts decide that student P2P activity is permitted we will continue to block this activity on our network'
The difference between the two parsings is in the way the words are stressed. When time (adjective) modifies flies (noun) there is considerably more stress on time than on flies. When pronounced the other way, both time and flies are stressed alike.
The proper way to get around the ambiguity in writing is to write "timeflies" as one word, like fruitflies and houseflies.
Seriously, the English language hasn't undergone any kind of reform since well before the great vowel migration. That makes the written form of our language nearly 500 years old!
Also, we only have half as many letters as we have sounds in English. We have 1/3 as many vowel symbols as vowels! Think about that. The Latin Alphabet was super for Latin, but it's woefully inadequate for English.
Who can blame kids for wanting to hack the writing system into something useable?