I tried reading the analects of Confucius...very thick and hard to read. It needs an annotated edition, really. Or a native English speaker's translation instead of the Beijing Foreign Languages Press or whatever.
The government does this once in a while. The point is to cut off Chinese people from the outside world's contaminating influence as well as stimulate Chinese domestic producers to fill the vacuum of demand. They'd rather have content producers they control promoting socialist morality instead of foreigners with silly ideas like voting (universal sufferage/if you can breathe you can vote...not like wise Confucian sages ruling because they're the smartest and therefore obviously the best [at least in the eyes of the Confucian sages]). Other corrosive Hollywood ideas include: pervasive contempt for authority figures like police, glorification of criminals and violent mafia, scenes of excessive violence designed to stimulate the dark parts of the human soul, and so on. Be disciplined and law-abiding, not chaotic and lawless; Live plainly, work hard, do not wallow in luxuries and pleasures...what would Hollywood look like if they had to follow government-mandated guidelines like these when making films?
And people can just get it elsewhere? Sure, but remember the Great Wall was only a wall. I mean, you could climb over it if you wanted...it just made your job harder, that's all. Same with the Great Firewall (actually named Golden Shield because it's meant to defend from attacks from outside while keeping China's domestic internet safe) and other barriers. They're not omnipotent, they are but mere cumbersome obstacles.
The site was closed because it didn't have an "Information Network Broadcast Audio Visual Programming Permission Certificate" from...you guessed it...SARFT! AKA The State Administration of Radio Film and Television, AKA the Comics Code Authority, AKA the Thought Police. This wasn't a commercial or copyright dispute, otherwise it would be handled by a different government agency. This was purely cultural in nature.
The funny part is, with all these people on bitorrent at once, download speeds have never been higher!;)
Go to any shop and ask for "huang de DVD" (yellow DVDs - Chinese term for it, think "blue movies"). They have them behind the counter. Usually seem to be Hong Kong girls but the Chinese mafia gets busted for making pornos so there must be mainland girls somewhere. Chinese people get really angry when they see their women debasing themselves in porn (kappa girl). Anyone think their view of Western women is warped due to all the white girls they see doing crazy shit in pornos? Think about all the dumb stereotypes of Chinese people we all got from watching Hollywood movies. Oh, and one more thing...heh, heh...it's funny the guys are supposed to be pornstars but they are not particularly well-endowed.
Extremely poor country? People aren't starving to death, and incomes are rising across the board. The police are neither undermanned nor ill-funded. A country where manpower is cheap and government is absolute? The cops in my town all have new police cars. Cameras are going up everywhere to monitor the whole city - imported products that they paid top dollar for (the guy I know who works on the system said the domestic systems were simply not up to snuff.)
Huh? Where'd you get that one, buddy? China has been in a vigorous "learn from the West" campaign ever since the Deng Xiaoping took the Chinese Communist Party down the capitalist road.
Darfur is an Islamic jihad against Christians. Such has been going on for centuries in that part of the world. No wonder it doesn't get much press, it's an inconvenient truth.
What, so the manufacturers should shoot themselves in the foot by providing dual-SIM? If they do that, then you won't need to buy two phones! There's a reason that most dual (or triple) SIM phones come from no-name Chinese manufacturers.
I tested it's translations in all the different languages and it performed fine by my standard except for ASL for obvious reason's.
Based on this sample of English, presumably your native language, I'm going to have to take your opinions on accurate translations with a grain of salt. Actually, make that a crystal of halite. Several kilogram sample.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke Watergate, those guys are journalists.
What? That's a myth, man. A treasured journalistic myth, but if there's one thing I've learned from journalists, it's that myths need to be shattered whenever possible. Turns out Woodward and Bernstein didn't break anything, they were just tools of a disgruntled federal employee who used them to get back at the President. His tremendous sense of entitlement was violated and he was looking for revenge. Look up Mark Felt some time, it all came out after he died. It's like looking at the 1980 election in retrospect, and totally ignoring Iran-Contra because it wasn't known at the time.
I, for one, promise to be more respectful of authority and less skeptical next time. I heard CNN said dogshit tastes good, I'm out to try a mouthful right now...
I say again: in what other field would a company negligently producing a faulty product be acceptable? Nowhere, nobody, no how, no way. Windows crashes? What would happen if dishes you bought started spontaneously breaking? Washing machines stopping in the middle of the cycle (oh but you can just restart)? And all due to negligent behavior on the part of the company who stated, up front, in the contract, that I would be receiving a defective part purely due to their error?
It's just the insanity of the software industry: people simply expect it to be like this, and lo it is so. In no other industry would this be tolerated. You realize that the idea that operating systems should be expected to crash was started by Microsoft?
In no event shall Microsoft be liable for any damages whatsoever, even in the event of fault (including negligence).
-- Windows XP Professional license agreement
What kind of contract is this? And the same contract allows Microsoft to change the terms of the contract at any time, without notifying me? I would never agree to such a thing. But, Windows is required in order to work. So I say out loud, "I disagree with these terms" and click the button to continue. Microsoft, having had a chance to respond and remained silent, can only be assumed to have agreed with my deal, since it clearly is continuing with the software installation. Obviously the whole thing was just a bluff to get me to agree to some ridiculously one-sided terms.
Terms like these I would never, ever accept in any deal, business or otherwise. Including negligence! Imagine a lease or even a parking stub with such language on it. It's basically admitting that they're negligent before the deal even starts...who on Earth would do business voluntarily with a party who says up front that you can expect negligence on their part?
There are a huge number of ships doing anti-piracy off the Horn of Africa now. Even the Chinese are getting into the act. Part of it is "these guys need training, and they'd just be cruising around somewhere anyway" and part of it is the actual anti-piracy patrol. Evidently you live in a world where articles like this don't exist.
To indiscriminately bomb towns where pirates are based?
WHO THE HELL SAID THAT?!? wtf dude. What are you thinking? I was thinking of the pirates in the Caribbean myself. Her Majesty could send all the ships in the world to patrol and it wouldn't matter, but finding the hidden pirate havens and destroying them always worked. Learn from history, my bafflingly murderously-minded friend.
Historically the insurance solution to piracy is a losing proposition. The pirates just keep demanding ever-larger amounts. The only solution that works is to destroy the land bases of the pirates. Since this will never happen in our politically correct age, the problem will just get worse.
The real problem is that they are showing that piracy pays, even in the face of significant Western naval support. It's not generally recognized that the sea lanes are lawless places. and there's nothing stopping anyone from doing what the Somalis are doing. Even words like "defending sea lanes" cause giggles in otherwise educated people.
Oh, my, it appears we have another winner of the douchebag sweepstakes. Intentionally misunderstanding a word in common usage qualifies. Insisting that Coca-cola has existed since the beginning of time qualifies as well.
"The phrase 'IT' is so overused, I'm not sure what it means any more. It means "information technology".
OK, maybe it's an ego thing, but I spent a lot of years in grad school, lots of years getting good at creating software, and lots of years getting good at creating technical products and I don't want the same label as the intern who fixes windoze. What's wrong with that? Are you really so shallow as this? (Don't answer) I can understand wanting some sort of prestige, but not liking something because the proles get to have it too is one of the worst features of human nature, and it's something that used to get trained out of non-upper-class Americans. Is it really that irritating to be in the same industry as the intern who fixes "Windoze"[sic]? From urbandictionary.com: douchebag "An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears."
How does the following passage make you feel? Does it make you feel comforted or outraged?
"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." --Andy Warhol
There were guys who have just 60 days worth of living money and if some idiot intern rejects their application, they will be financially doomed.
This is what I would call "poor risk assessment skills". If you're depending on a capricious entity for your livelihood, I'd suggest a change of employment cause you sure as hell ain't gonna change Apple.
*Ahem* game releases became _fewer_. Countable and non-countable nouns. The more you know!
Slashdot editors are notoriously sloppy when it comes to article summaries, especially when they're familiar with some topic and ASSume the rest of the world is, too. All the sudden this means anyone who dares to criticize is part of the problem with America? Frankly, we need more criticism, not less.
Singaporeans are more British than Chinese. As one of my friends from Singapore says, "I thought I was Chinese, until I came to China!" Taiwan is composed of all of the capitalists who were forcibly evicted from the mainland.
Doh! Yeah you're right I meant to say iPod. I guess I haven't been exposed to enough advertisements, I confused the two. I suppose to you the words iP** and iP**** look different but to me they look awfully similar.
They don't see brands as being important. They buy Nike because they're being played like a fiddle by experienced marketers - they don't even realize it because this sort of thing is new. Perhaps it would be better if I amended my statement to read "Chinese manufacturers just don't see brands as being important." Sorry for the confusion, I always try to make things simple when writing for an audience that doesn't know anything about China other than the latest breathless piece in "Newsweek".
Why's it contradictory? Chinese companies have very weak brands, foreign companies have strong ones. Ever heard of Haier or Gome or Huayuan? Nike is kicking ass because they have a killer brand and they know how to differentiate themselves from the competition.
1. Japan and China are separate nations with separate cultures. Never lump them together just because the people look the same to your eyes.
2. Bad reputations take a long, long time to live down. Thirty years from now, people will still remember the drywall situation and check where their building materials originate.
3. If your domestic brands had such a horrible reputation for quality, you'd prefer imported goods too. True story: friend of mine's wife in another city went to the hospital to get vaccinations for her kids. The nurse could tell that the kids obviously had a foreign father, and asked, "Do you want the real vaccine? It's made in USA." Upon being reassured that she did, in fact, want the real vaccine for her children and not whatever horror was in the vial, the nurse said, "Are you sure? It costs three times as much, and you can't get a refund after we inject it." My friend's wife said let me think about that for a second, MMMMMMyeah, yes we'll pay.
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I tried reading the analects of Confucius...very thick and hard to read. It needs an annotated edition, really. Or a native English speaker's translation instead of the Beijing Foreign Languages Press or whatever.
The government does this once in a while. The point is to cut off Chinese people from the outside world's contaminating influence as well as stimulate Chinese domestic producers to fill the vacuum of demand. They'd rather have content producers they control promoting socialist morality instead of foreigners with silly ideas like voting (universal sufferage/if you can breathe you can vote...not like wise Confucian sages ruling because they're the smartest and therefore obviously the best [at least in the eyes of the Confucian sages]). Other corrosive Hollywood ideas include: pervasive contempt for authority figures like police, glorification of criminals and violent mafia, scenes of excessive violence designed to stimulate the dark parts of the human soul, and so on. Be disciplined and law-abiding, not chaotic and lawless; Live plainly, work hard, do not wallow in luxuries and pleasures...what would Hollywood look like if they had to follow government-mandated guidelines like these when making films?
And people can just get it elsewhere? Sure, but remember the Great Wall was only a wall. I mean, you could climb over it if you wanted...it just made your job harder, that's all. Same with the Great Firewall (actually named Golden Shield because it's meant to defend from attacks from outside while keeping China's domestic internet safe) and other barriers. They're not omnipotent, they are but mere cumbersome obstacles.
The site was closed because it didn't have an "Information Network Broadcast Audio Visual Programming Permission Certificate" from...you guessed it...SARFT! AKA The State Administration of Radio Film and Television, AKA the Comics Code Authority, AKA the Thought Police. This wasn't a commercial or copyright dispute, otherwise it would be handled by a different government agency. This was purely cultural in nature.
The funny part is, with all these people on bitorrent at once, download speeds have never been higher! ;)
Go to any shop and ask for "huang de DVD" (yellow DVDs - Chinese term for it, think "blue movies"). They have them behind the counter. Usually seem to be Hong Kong girls but the Chinese mafia gets busted for making pornos so there must be mainland girls somewhere. Chinese people get really angry when they see their women debasing themselves in porn (kappa girl). Anyone think their view of Western women is warped due to all the white girls they see doing crazy shit in pornos? Think about all the dumb stereotypes of Chinese people we all got from watching Hollywood movies. Oh, and one more thing...heh, heh...it's funny the guys are supposed to be pornstars but they are not particularly well-endowed.
Extremely poor country? People aren't starving to death, and incomes are rising across the board. The police are neither undermanned nor ill-funded. A country where manpower is cheap and government is absolute? The cops in my town all have new police cars. Cameras are going up everywhere to monitor the whole city - imported products that they paid top dollar for (the guy I know who works on the system said the domestic systems were simply not up to snuff.)
Huh? Where'd you get that one, buddy? China has been in a vigorous "learn from the West" campaign ever since the Deng Xiaoping took the Chinese Communist Party down the capitalist road.
Darfur is an Islamic jihad against Christians. Such has been going on for centuries in that part of the world. No wonder it doesn't get much press, it's an inconvenient truth.
What, so the manufacturers should shoot themselves in the foot by providing dual-SIM? If they do that, then you won't need to buy two phones! There's a reason that most dual (or triple) SIM phones come from no-name Chinese manufacturers.
I tested it's translations in all the different languages and it performed fine by my standard except for ASL for obvious reason's.
Based on this sample of English, presumably your native language, I'm going to have to take your opinions on accurate translations with a grain of salt. Actually, make that a crystal of halite. Several kilogram sample.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke Watergate, those guys are journalists.
What? That's a myth, man. A treasured journalistic myth, but if there's one thing I've learned from journalists, it's that myths need to be shattered whenever possible. Turns out Woodward and Bernstein didn't break anything, they were just tools of a disgruntled federal employee who used them to get back at the President. His tremendous sense of entitlement was violated and he was looking for revenge. Look up Mark Felt some time, it all came out after he died. It's like looking at the 1980 election in retrospect, and totally ignoring Iran-Contra because it wasn't known at the time.
I, for one, promise to be more respectful of authority and less skeptical next time. I heard CNN said dogshit tastes good, I'm out to try a mouthful right now...
I say again: in what other field would a company negligently producing a faulty product be acceptable? Nowhere, nobody, no how, no way. Windows crashes? What would happen if dishes you bought started spontaneously breaking? Washing machines stopping in the middle of the cycle (oh but you can just restart)? And all due to negligent behavior on the part of the company who stated, up front, in the contract, that I would be receiving a defective part purely due to their error?
It's just the insanity of the software industry: people simply expect it to be like this, and lo it is so. In no other industry would this be tolerated. You realize that the idea that operating systems should be expected to crash was started by Microsoft?
In no event shall Microsoft be liable for any damages whatsoever, even in the event of fault (including negligence).
-- Windows XP Professional license agreement
What kind of contract is this? And the same contract allows Microsoft to change the terms of the contract at any time, without notifying me? I would never agree to such a thing. But, Windows is required in order to work. So I say out loud, "I disagree with these terms" and click the button to continue. Microsoft, having had a chance to respond and remained silent, can only be assumed to have agreed with my deal, since it clearly is continuing with the software installation. Obviously the whole thing was just a bluff to get me to agree to some ridiculously one-sided terms.
Terms like these I would never, ever accept in any deal, business or otherwise. Including negligence! Imagine a lease or even a parking stub with such language on it. It's basically admitting that they're negligent before the deal even starts...who on Earth would do business voluntarily with a party who says up front that you can expect negligence on their part?
I bet "+3 Insightful" was not what you had in mind when you wrote that comment, but good ol' Slashdot moderators!
There are a huge number of ships doing anti-piracy off the Horn of Africa now. Even the Chinese are getting into the act. Part of it is "these guys need training, and they'd just be cruising around somewhere anyway" and part of it is the actual anti-piracy patrol. Evidently you live in a world where articles like this don't exist.
WHO THE HELL SAID THAT?!? wtf dude. What are you thinking? I was thinking of the pirates in the Caribbean myself. Her Majesty could send all the ships in the world to patrol and it wouldn't matter, but finding the hidden pirate havens and destroying them always worked. Learn from history, my bafflingly murderously-minded friend.
The real problem is that they are showing that piracy pays, even in the face of significant Western naval support. It's not generally recognized that the sea lanes are lawless places. and there's nothing stopping anyone from doing what the Somalis are doing. Even words like "defending sea lanes" cause giggles in otherwise educated people.
Oh, my, it appears we have another winner of the douchebag sweepstakes. Intentionally misunderstanding a word in common usage qualifies. Insisting that Coca-cola has existed since the beginning of time qualifies as well.
"The phrase 'IT' is so overused, I'm not sure what it means any more.
It means "information technology".
OK, maybe it's an ego thing, but I spent a lot of years in grad school, lots of years getting good at creating software, and lots of years getting good at creating technical products and I don't want the same label as the intern who fixes windoze.
What's wrong with that? Are you really so shallow as this? (Don't answer) I can understand wanting some sort of prestige, but not liking something because the proles get to have it too is one of the worst features of human nature, and it's something that used to get trained out of non-upper-class Americans. Is it really that irritating to be in the same industry as the intern who fixes "Windoze"[sic]? From urbandictionary.com: douchebag "An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears."
How does the following passage make you feel? Does it make you feel comforted or outraged?
"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."
--Andy Warhol
There were guys who have just 60 days worth of living money and if some idiot intern rejects their application, they will be financially doomed.
This is what I would call "poor risk assessment skills". If you're depending on a capricious entity for your livelihood, I'd suggest a change of employment cause you sure as hell ain't gonna change Apple.
*Ahem* game releases became _fewer_. Countable and non-countable nouns. The more you know!
Slashdot editors are notoriously sloppy when it comes to article summaries, especially when they're familiar with some topic and ASSume the rest of the world is, too. All the sudden this means anyone who dares to criticize is part of the problem with America? Frankly, we need more criticism, not less.
And this would be a bad thing how exactly?
Singaporeans are more British than Chinese. As one of my friends from Singapore says, "I thought I was Chinese, until I came to China!" Taiwan is composed of all of the capitalists who were forcibly evicted from the mainland.
Doh! Yeah you're right I meant to say iPod. I guess I haven't been exposed to enough advertisements, I confused the two. I suppose to you the words iP** and iP**** look different but to me they look awfully similar.
They don't see brands as being important. They buy Nike because they're being played like a fiddle by experienced marketers - they don't even realize it because this sort of thing is new. Perhaps it would be better if I amended my statement to read "Chinese manufacturers just don't see brands as being important." Sorry for the confusion, I always try to make things simple when writing for an audience that doesn't know anything about China other than the latest breathless piece in "Newsweek".
Why's it contradictory? Chinese companies have very weak brands, foreign companies have strong ones. Ever heard of Haier or Gome or Huayuan? Nike is kicking ass because they have a killer brand and they know how to differentiate themselves from the competition.
1. Japan and China are separate nations with separate cultures. Never lump them together just because the people look the same to your eyes.
2. Bad reputations take a long, long time to live down. Thirty years from now, people will still remember the drywall situation and check where their building materials originate.
3. If your domestic brands had such a horrible reputation for quality, you'd prefer imported goods too. True story: friend of mine's wife in another city went to the hospital to get vaccinations for her kids. The nurse could tell that the kids obviously had a foreign father, and asked, "Do you want the real vaccine? It's made in USA." Upon being reassured that she did, in fact, want the real vaccine for her children and not whatever horror was in the vial, the nurse said, "Are you sure? It costs three times as much, and you can't get a refund after we inject it." My friend's wife said let me think about that for a second, MMMMMMyeah, yes we'll pay.