You sure? I could swear they tried to make it an even 3.
Evidently in 2 Kings they describe an urn in Solomon's temple or something as being one cubit across and three around. That would make the ratio between the two 3.
I'm finding some interesting statistics on internet use in China from the CNNIC Working Committee's (don't you love that title?) Jan, 2000 report on internet usage.
China has 8+ million internet users, 20% leased line and 80% dialup. There are a full 36 million email addresses. Usage is concentrated in cities, especially Beijing (no suprise here). Interesting though is that usage is not concentrated at the high end of the income bracket as one would expect, but disproportionately toward the low end. The highest percentage of users (36%) make only between 1001-2000 RMB monthly, and the second largest (29%) only 500-1000 RMB per month. These users are also paying 100-200 per month for internet access!
This has got to be the most interesting post I've seen on this subject. Why hasn't anyone registered mp3.cn yet? (or.hk for that matter)
From experience, I can say that the HK piracy scene is flourishing. If HK pop and crappy American divas are what you're into, theres no shortage of plain 'ol websites that host them with impunity. I can't imagine what China's motivation could possibly be to ever crack down on these websites. Full games are out there as well, but you usually have to be able to read Chinese.
Thailand, to my knowledge, has nothing resembling copyright law. Anyone know different?
If that is the case, why don't we all relocate our server space there? Why doesn't Napster operate its servers there? When US companies hear the giant sucking sound of users moving to SE Asia to avoid censorship they're bound to take notice.
And if not Thailand, there's got to be someplace that doesn't bow and scrape to the whims of US corporations. India maybe? Or Malta? Lebanon? Micronesia?
I take public transportation to work/school and I like the feeling of print in my hands.
Unfortunately, the only papers here in Portland, OR are: The Oregonian (elitist corporate rubbish), the Willamette Week (elitist corporate rubbish masquerading as elitist proletarian rubbish), and various ultrasensationalist political rags like The Alliance and Socialist Worker.
At the beginning of the article, he says that he signed an agreement NOT to do precisely what he's doing. The only way he can get away with this is to be VERY nice to Microsoft, which he is. He gives them every benefit of the doubt, and even makes his criticisms sound like compliments.
He brings up many of the same things as the book Barbarians Led By Bill Gates, only with a completely different spin.
Fallows "admires" Microsofts lack of centralisation when designing features for software. Fine. Those of us might be more critical can obviously see that this is precisely why MS programs bloat out of control and have too many useless doo-dads to be stable: lack of coordination from the top, ie chaos.
It's super that Fallows doesn't find the similarities between MS and the military creepy, but I sure as hell do. I think most others would too.
You obviously consume a lot of HK crap. Like any culture, they have their good stuff, and they have their junk.
I'm a big fan of the one-time HK group "Beyond", who are very good and incidentally not knockoffs of anyone.
Also, corny as they are, I love Jackie Chan flicks (The US is still several years behind in his releases). Let Li Action films, the Chinese Ghost Story series, and the Gambler series are also excellent and 100% original.
That 5 hours/day statistic was not in reference to all hunter/gatherer societies, obviously. North America, IMO, isn't the best place in the world to be a nomad.
Now, if all I had to do was pick fruit and throw rocks at baboons, that would be a different story.
In Logan, UT Church is still the center of the community, people still walk to church (weather permitting), everyone knows most of their neighbors, and crime is virtually nonexistant.
But the non-churchgoer criminals that do exist have figured out the best way to bilk the community is to drive over and rob the whole neighborhood while they're in church. True story.
...actually happened. The Church was quite displeased indeed that the fiathful could get, read, and interpret for themselves their own copy of the Bible. The resulting conflict split Europe in two.
Sounds like the RIAA/MPAA, does it not? Perhaps soon in America there will be a corporate-ruled East and a heretic Internet West. I call dibs on movie rights.
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The only reason to use win2K is because it can support Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese at the same time.
Otherwise, I hate it and I want it to die.
Come git me suckaaaz!!
You sure? I could swear they tried to make it an even 3.
Evidently in 2 Kings they describe an urn in Solomon's temple or something as being one cubit across and three around. That would make the ratio between the two 3.
This is my second pi day.
Last year we went and figured out the error in the 100 digits of Pi that is carved in stone in Portland's Westbound light rail tunnel.
And don't forget Pi approximation day. 7/22.
I'm finding some interesting statistics on internet use in China from the CNNIC Working Committee's (don't you love that title?) Jan, 2000 report on internet usage.
China has 8+ million internet users, 20% leased line and 80% dialup. There are a full 36 million email addresses. Usage is concentrated in cities, especially Beijing (no suprise here). Interesting though is that usage is not concentrated at the high end of the income bracket as one would expect, but disproportionately toward the low end. The highest percentage of users (36%) make only between 1001-2000 RMB monthly, and the second largest (29%) only 500-1000 RMB per month. These users are also paying 100-200 per month for internet access!
CNNIC is China's version of the Internic. Linked to it is a list of Chinese ISP's (well, telecoms actually) one could host.
HKNIC is the Hong Kong equivalent.
Who wants to be first to try this? (BTW, I checked. mp3.cn and mp3.hk are still available.)
This has got to be the most interesting post I've seen on this subject. Why hasn't anyone registered mp3.cn yet? (or .hk for that matter)
From experience, I can say that the HK piracy scene is flourishing. If HK pop and crappy American divas are what you're into, theres no shortage of plain 'ol websites that host them with impunity. I can't imagine what China's motivation could possibly be to ever crack down on these websites. Full games are out there as well, but you usually have to be able to read Chinese.
Thailand, to my knowledge, has nothing resembling copyright law. Anyone know different?
If that is the case, why don't we all relocate our server space there? Why doesn't Napster operate its servers there? When US companies hear the giant sucking sound of users moving to SE Asia to avoid censorship they're bound to take notice.
And if not Thailand, there's got to be someplace that doesn't bow and scrape to the whims of US corporations. India maybe? Or Malta? Lebanon? Micronesia?
It is Utah after all. I can't imagine them putting up with porn in libraries for one second.
And throw in statues of Stallman and Torvalds looking visionary or something.
I take public transportation to work/school and I like the feeling of print in my hands.
Unfortunately, the only papers here in Portland, OR are: The Oregonian (elitist corporate rubbish), the Willamette Week (elitist corporate rubbish masquerading as elitist proletarian rubbish), and various ultrasensationalist political rags like The Alliance and Socialist Worker.
Do we have Microsofties here with spare moderator points?
Um, rapes happen every day all over the world too. I don't see how this makes it any less wrong.
No, but Excel has a flight sim
He brings up many of the same things as the book Barbarians Led By Bill Gates, only with a completely different spin.
Fallows "admires" Microsofts lack of centralisation when designing features for software. Fine. Those of us might be more critical can obviously see that this is precisely why MS programs bloat out of control and have too many useless doo-dads to be stable: lack of coordination from the top, ie chaos.
It's super that Fallows doesn't find the similarities between MS and the military creepy, but I sure as hell do. I think most others would too.
Somehow I think it will be Corel that finally does this. Only they have what Microsoft has.
That should be Jet Li. Whoopsie.
I'm a big fan of the one-time HK group "Beyond", who are very good and incidentally not knockoffs of anyone.
Also, corny as they are, I love Jackie Chan flicks (The US is still several years behind in his releases). Let Li Action films, the Chinese Ghost Story series, and the Gambler series are also excellent and 100% original.
Forbes withdrew just a few days ago according to NPR.
Dave Barry has first usage of the term "Commander Taco"
Now, if all I had to do was pick fruit and throw rocks at baboons, that would be a different story.
But the non-churchgoer criminals that do exist have figured out the best way to bilk the community is to drive over and rob the whole neighborhood while they're in church. True story.
Sounds like the RIAA/MPAA, does it not? Perhaps soon in America there will be a corporate-ruled East and a heretic Internet West. I call dibs on movie rights.
The findings are entirely consistent with the other things I've read about Microsoft and the Shadow Government.
I'm on call for network problems 24/7. I have to wear 2 pagers that have to be responded to any time day or night, sleeping, showering, whenever.