Despite the bewildering complexity and variety of Chinese characters, there are actually a very limited set of ways to pronounce them. This results in tons and tons of words sounding exactly the same, and the only way to know them apart is by context. It's a real downer for learning the language when you see two native speakers misunderstanding each other. It is also a gold mine for puns, like the story says. Different characters from motherfucker, but sounds the same. Since the internet is not spoken, then technically it's not offensive.
I would be careful reading any subversive meaning into this - they're just tweaking the noses of the net.cops. Most Chinese people think that the government does a good job keeping society clean. To them, unrestricted freedom means chaos, and China certainly has lots of experience with chaos ruining their country. I mean, the 1949 takover by radical lefists was considered an improvement, and they killed 60,000,000 of their own countrymen.
Actually, promiscuity is simple hedonism - it's empty and leads to a lonely place. The loss of shame leads to many, many social ills. The "if it feels good, do it" philosophy is bunk. The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
I repeat: will your average Beyoncé listener even know what a cookie is, much less the steps needed in IE to clear cookies? And then after that, she'll be pissed off because she has to log into facebook and every forum she posts on again and all her preferences from www.soldouteventtickets.com have vanished.
Thanks for spelling "bated" correctly. I automatically wince when I see that word, just because I assume that it will be misspelled by someone who does not know what the word means and is only repeating something that he heard someone say on TV. Now, if we can get nerds to understand the difference between a horde of monsters and a hoard of gold, I can die happy.
Do you really think that the average Rihanna or Beyoncé or Estelle listener even knows what a proxy site is, or could configure it to work in IE? I'm sick and tired of the same old dogma that "people will just do something else". Actually, they won't. They just do without. It's people who understand computers (such as slashdot readers) who can do all that stuff, and Katy Perry listeners won't have a f---ing clue. And I don't want to hear that "the internet routes around damage" bunk, either - the internet isn't redundant, and hasn't been since ARPAnet.
This is just The Real World intruding on the internet, which for some bizarre reason thinks that it should be exempt from every law ever passed.
Well, this is what happens in socialist-leaning cultures - the young folks have no idea how the real world works, and get very very angry indeed when it intrudes upon them. I mean, my first reaction was "tough! that's business" and I'm a certified Microsoft hater. Then, when the angry rant got into free software and openoffice, I knew the author was off his rocker. The reaction is also telling: instead of cold analysis of what happend and how it can be avoided in the future, the author is simply angry, and wants the courts to let him have his way.
Well, there's a difference between effective marketing, and pity sales because you just gave a speech, and the wealthy (by world standards) members of the audience threw you five bucks as an attaboy.
There is a world outside the app store
Well, sorta. It's still all iPhone users, though, which is a world in itself.
You mean the new owners have no idea how to run a business, and have resorted to a brain-dead pricing scheme? Well, I suppose they can't be any worse than the old management, what are they going to do, run the company into bankruptcy?
You know, I've often thought that "newspaper editor" should be an elected position. It's at least as important as any elected official, and the way that newspapers are slanted these days needs some new faces and fresh viewpoints.
WTH with you, buddy? If I'm paying top dollar for a laptop, it better have every input/output port known to man.
Guess what? Outside of the giant city where I'm going to assume that you live and spend 99% of your time, modems are useful. Faxes and dialup get the job done. There's never any internet at the factories I visit in China, but just hook up the phone and dial 16300 and I can get my emails.
...and yet you'd be the first to claim "seperation of public and private life" for any hypocrite whose opinions you agreed with. A civil servant may represent the people officially, as part of his job, and have entirely different viewpoints personally. But if it's one of the GOOD PEOPLE, then it's totally OK, it's not hypocrisy, it's all part of the rich intellectual landscape of life, where people can perform duties in public and then retire outside view and conduct his own business as he sees fit.
See, you're not railing against hypocrisy, you're against it if you disagree with the viewpoints of the person in question. Seen it a million times since Bush was elected.
Left 4 Dead is a horror game now? Jeez, I thought it was a shoot-em-up or FPS or whatever you purists call it. Just because it has a zombie theme, it gets called a horror game. Sure, and "The Next Generation" and "Star Wars" were science fiction...instead of dramas in outer space.
Maybe you should visit a few shanzhai factories before you start spouting off about topics you are uneducated about. This "open BOM" is just the typical clannishness...Chinese always have their favorite people, people they went to school with, hometown folks, distant relations, and so on. The term is guanxi. Of course you help people in your network - they'll be able to help you someday. Just this week I myself cut one of my monthly expenses by 88% due to a relationship that I had nurtured, and it finally paid off. "Open BOM" is even less open than "shared source".
Jeez, ripoff factories are keeping the spirit of the GPL. OK, I'm done trying to inject facts into this discussion, it's not like I've been sourcing products in China for the past 5 years or anything. People are projecting themselves onto the situation, and seeing what they want to see.
Sorry, poorly-drawn cartoons that try to make a name for themselves by latching on to every Internet trend to come along the pipe are not particularly compelling. Only to fanboys - who else would wait for the Kindle release, and then run to go read his favorite funny site to see if it's been featured yet or not?
America's buying power is predicated on China being fucked? Err...I don't know if you've been in a cave for the past ten years or so, but China is in no way "fucked". Actually, it has benefited tremendously from exporting to America. It has improved their food, their clothing, their shelter; it has increased their security and released them partly from the bondage of bare existence. Exporting to America has enabled increased knowledge of their own biological processes so that they have a progressive freedom from disease and an increased span of life. Ever-more-available technology has provided the swiftest communication between individuals and enabled prosperity throughout the entire nation. China was heartbroken last year when orders from America fell off. But don't let that affect uneducated little shits like you from spouting your ignorant, self-hating nonsense wherever you see fit - after all, America doesn't have uniformed police vetting public message boards like this one.
Shanzhai manufacturers are NOT into sharing with others, not at all. Making a spiffy product, following environmental laws, and not ripping off your workers...no reward for that. Someone sees your product, says "gee, that's nifty!" and proceeds to produce a shabby but just-works-enough copy, undercuts you, dumps all of his byproducts into a hole next to a farming village, and witholds his workers' pay for two months before paying half of it and threatening any complainers with beatdowns.
Yup, just like Apple in the 70s. Innovation at its finest.
Great point! It's convenient as hell to have the manufacturers just around the corner. You get some defective product? Drive down to his damn factory and throw it on the boss' desk! Try that from Germany. Better is seeing something that you like, and telling your girls to call the factory and get a sample. New mattress? Standup arcade machine? Office furniture? Samples at factory cost (used to be free...sigh).
+2 insightful? WTF? Shanzhai manufacturing is RIPPING OFF OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS, it has nothing to do with innovation, open source, etc. You think a Shanzhai manufacturer is going to let me into his factory and inspect his line? Maybe he'll post his CAD drawings and mold milling specifications on the web? Make a forum post where he reveals the specific material he uses, his suppliers, and the prices and contract terms he got from them? You want to see what shanzhai manufacturing makes? Crapity-crap like this janky fake Wii. I guarantee there's no way it will last more than six months, guarantee it. It's not open source at all, free flow of ideas? If by free flow, you mean one-way flow - to the shanzhai guy and not the other way around. It's "let me rip you off, make a cheap crap copy, add a couple of features from OTHER people's work (features that are probably not well-thought-out, nor integrated well with existing features) and sell it at a discount by disobeying all environmental regulations (China DOES have them), and forcing my workers to work overtime for free otherwise I'll fire them and have them beaten by thugs if they complain. I know more manufacturers than you do, buddy.
Apple started by ripping off designs from existing manufacturers in the 70s? I think you might have done too much acid if that's how you remember things.
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I would be careful reading any subversive meaning into this - they're just tweaking the noses of the net.cops. Most Chinese people think that the government does a good job keeping society clean. To them, unrestricted freedom means chaos, and China certainly has lots of experience with chaos ruining their country. I mean, the 1949 takover by radical lefists was considered an improvement, and they killed 60,000,000 of their own countrymen.
Apostrophe's are for pural's, dude's
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Actually, promiscuity is simple hedonism - it's empty and leads to a lonely place. The loss of shame leads to many, many social ills. The "if it feels good, do it" philosophy is bunk. The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
I repeat: will your average Beyoncé listener even know what a cookie is, much less the steps needed in IE to clear cookies? And then after that, she'll be pissed off because she has to log into facebook and every forum she posts on again and all her preferences from www.soldouteventtickets.com have vanished.
Thanks for spelling "bated" correctly. I automatically wince when I see that word, just because I assume that it will be misspelled by someone who does not know what the word means and is only repeating something that he heard someone say on TV. Now, if we can get nerds to understand the difference between a horde of monsters and a hoard of gold, I can die happy.
This is just The Real World intruding on the internet, which for some bizarre reason thinks that it should be exempt from every law ever passed.
Well, this is what happens in socialist-leaning cultures - the young folks have no idea how the real world works, and get very very angry indeed when it intrudes upon them. I mean, my first reaction was "tough! that's business" and I'm a certified Microsoft hater. Then, when the angry rant got into free software and openoffice, I knew the author was off his rocker. The reaction is also telling: instead of cold analysis of what happend and how it can be avoided in the future, the author is simply angry, and wants the courts to let him have his way.
There is a world outside the app store
Well, sorta. It's still all iPhone users, though, which is a world in itself.
Excellent troll, +1, would read again.
You realize this entire post is useless without pics?
Where is it named "W"? It's named "Wolfram Alpha", do people even read summaries any more, much less the linked article? Why is this modded "funny"?
You mean the new owners have no idea how to run a business, and have resorted to a brain-dead pricing scheme? Well, I suppose they can't be any worse than the old management, what are they going to do, run the company into bankruptcy?
For myself, I will be saying "Yay, fewer employees!" but then that's just me.
You know, I've often thought that "newspaper editor" should be an elected position. It's at least as important as any elected official, and the way that newspapers are slanted these days needs some new faces and fresh viewpoints.
Guess what? Outside of the giant city where I'm going to assume that you live and spend 99% of your time, modems are useful. Faxes and dialup get the job done. There's never any internet at the factories I visit in China, but just hook up the phone and dial 16300 and I can get my emails.
See, you're not railing against hypocrisy, you're against it if you disagree with the viewpoints of the person in question. Seen it a million times since Bush was elected.
Left 4 Dead is a horror game now? Jeez, I thought it was a shoot-em-up or FPS or whatever you purists call it. Just because it has a zombie theme, it gets called a horror game. Sure, and "The Next Generation" and "Star Wars" were science fiction...instead of dramas in outer space.
Jeez, ripoff factories are keeping the spirit of the GPL. OK, I'm done trying to inject facts into this discussion, it's not like I've been sourcing products in China for the past 5 years or anything. People are projecting themselves onto the situation, and seeing what they want to see.
Sorry, poorly-drawn cartoons that try to make a name for themselves by latching on to every Internet trend to come along the pipe are not particularly compelling. Only to fanboys - who else would wait for the Kindle release, and then run to go read his favorite funny site to see if it's been featured yet or not?
America's buying power is predicated on China being fucked? Err...I don't know if you've been in a cave for the past ten years or so, but China is in no way "fucked". Actually, it has benefited tremendously from exporting to America. It has improved their food, their clothing, their shelter; it has increased their security and released them partly from the bondage of bare existence. Exporting to America has enabled increased knowledge of their own biological processes so that they have a progressive freedom from disease and an increased span of life. Ever-more-available technology has provided the swiftest communication between individuals and enabled prosperity throughout the entire nation. China was heartbroken last year when orders from America fell off. But don't let that affect uneducated little shits like you from spouting your ignorant, self-hating nonsense wherever you see fit - after all, America doesn't have uniformed police vetting public message boards like this one.
Yup, just like Apple in the 70s. Innovation at its finest.
Great point! It's convenient as hell to have the manufacturers just around the corner. You get some defective product? Drive down to his damn factory and throw it on the boss' desk! Try that from Germany. Better is seeing something that you like, and telling your girls to call the factory and get a sample. New mattress? Standup arcade machine? Office furniture? Samples at factory cost (used to be free...sigh).
+2 insightful? WTF? Shanzhai manufacturing is RIPPING OFF OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS, it has nothing to do with innovation, open source, etc. You think a Shanzhai manufacturer is going to let me into his factory and inspect his line? Maybe he'll post his CAD drawings and mold milling specifications on the web? Make a forum post where he reveals the specific material he uses, his suppliers, and the prices and contract terms he got from them? You want to see what shanzhai manufacturing makes? Crapity-crap like this janky fake Wii. I guarantee there's no way it will last more than six months, guarantee it. It's not open source at all, free flow of ideas? If by free flow, you mean one-way flow - to the shanzhai guy and not the other way around. It's "let me rip you off, make a cheap crap copy, add a couple of features from OTHER people's work (features that are probably not well-thought-out, nor integrated well with existing features) and sell it at a discount by disobeying all environmental regulations (China DOES have them), and forcing my workers to work overtime for free otherwise I'll fire them and have them beaten by thugs if they complain. I know more manufacturers than you do, buddy.
Apple started by ripping off designs from existing manufacturers in the 70s? I think you might have done too much acid if that's how you remember things.