In Opera, I just hit F-12, and select "Block unwanted pop-ups", disable.GIF animation, sound, java, and plug-ins. Works pretty darn well for turning blinking advertisements into static pictures. If I go to a website with an actual Flash animation that I want to see, I enable plug-ins for that one page, then disable aftewards. A common saying of mine is "I turned on plug-ins for THAT piece of crap?"
Dude. You have some serious anger issues. I said, "it took decades to produce quality goods", and you agreed with me, and then spent the rest of the (long) post defending your credentials? My other points were untouched, probably because they were right. I know a bunch of Canadians here in China, and none of them have such reckless hatred towards Americans.
The Chinese, much like the Japanese before them, are headed for a massive banking meltdown in a few years. Something like 50% of their loan portfolio is bad debt. Japan is widely known as a 'zombie economy' because after the bubble burst in 1989, they were unable to make changes (banks fail, companies bankrupt) due to their culture, and China is headed down the same road.
And as for management and know-how? I've been living in China for 2 years doing business here. The Chinese don't know their ass from their elbow. Good engineers, but they don't know how to run a business unless someone wrote the procedure in a manual. They also have a very well-deserved reputation for double dealing and outright fraud. My company was burned by defective products twice, and that's why I'm here, to keep an eye on things. I check everything. I have a friend who spends his days inspecting every single piece of furniture that goes out of his company's factory. If we didn't do this, we'd get burned. The Chinese will happily take your money and screw you.
And as far as the Japanese economy after WWII, they did produce crap. It took them decades to make quality goods for export. Maybe if you knocked off the knee-jerk slurs against Americans and either did some exporting or read some history, you wouldn't sound so ignorant in front of such a wide audience.
Newsweek has been caught several times photoshopping its cover.
If you want examples, see here, and it's not even photoshopped, just cropped to remove the context. "Such tactics -- in the no-man's-land between ethical and unethical -- are commonplace in the media, and have been for decades. It is only now, with the advent of citizen journalism, that we can at last begin to see the whole story and realize that the public has been manipulated like this all along."
They make their money selling embedded browsers for the mobile phone market. Web browsers on computer have become such a small part of their business the last few years. That's why they're reducing the price to "free", they're making money hand over fist and none of it is coming from PC sales.
Basically, that's every computer game, in a nutshell. I quit playing around about when Master of Orion came out. Because I figured, this entire game is just one big spreadsheet, and the only way that I can manipulate the cells is to move my ships here and there, and perform certain actions (which take a hell of a lot of time). Applies to every computer game ever written. I suppose this is what you call "burnout".
But if a GRB only lasts an average of 10 seconds (according to the article), what good does this do anyone? Even five minutes reaction time would have been too much for this record-breaking event (200 seconds).
Many Chinese people can't spell "google". I mean, what if some famous Chinese site launched in America, and it was called "mienfei.com" or something? Heck, I never liked the name "google" myself, either...it's a silly corruption of a word that was silly in the first place.
Another thing that most people don't think about is that Chinese people are proud of their country. This comes as a strange thought to most people who went through university indoctrination in the West, but Chinese people will prefer a Chinese solution when one is available. Even if it's a poorer alternative than the foreign one (it'll get better if we use it, they think).
And as someone else pointed out, baidu.com has links to "multimedia" (i.e. pirated movies) that google would get sued over. I mean, look at their site, it's got "mp3 search" right on the front page. And check out this site, it's got plenty of entire albums available for your listening pleasure, and it's a legitimate site in China.
As someone who currently lives in a third world country, I can safely say that I'd rather live here than in New Orleans. At there's low crime here due to the authoritarian government. We've had two typhoons so far this year, and both times over a million people were evacuated. Was there anarchy and looting? No. Because people here have respect for their neighbors and fellow countrymen. The only looting was by established criminal elements (ding ding ding young men who didn't evacuate New Orleans) and some were shot by the authorities, the rest arrested or run off.
New Orleans is a total shithole. Outside of the (small) tourist areas, it's a dangerous city. And the demographics are somewhat similar to Haiti and Somalia, frankly. I think if this would have happened in Iowa, Oregon, or Hawaii, things would be totally different.
Set your comment threshold to -1 and browse the comments on this thread. It's a wasted thread anyway, yet another dupe story. There's some good stuff at -1 on this thread.
First, it's not the "US network" that's doing the blocking. It's individual operators.
Second, product information in China comes from catalogs and spreadsheets. If you can get information from the internet, that's great, but I haven't found it to be altogether useful. Even on alibaba.com, you often only get a telephone number or an email address that isn't monitored. Frequently, the web page information hasn't been updated since the web page was posted online sometime back in 2002 or 2003. The use of Flash makes it more irritating to deal with. I always end up having to call and get a catalog. And if a company is doing business with overseas customers, and actually does have an informative website, it makes sense to have it hosted overseas, where the speed is much much better and the site is not subject to government censorship.
Are you an English teacher? You sure seem to have a handle on word usage.
The number of English speakers in China is infintesimal, compared to the general population. Your average Chinese youth means well, but can't speak English at all. They can't carry a conversation, unless you speak about banal topics. And the ones that do speak English well are total nerds, I've been cornered by them more than once.
How many people in China actually connect to your legitimate services? Unless you're providing Chinese-language content in the simplified character set, I doubt that you have many users. And if you are providing content in the appropriate language, and you say something the Chinese government doesn't like, you will be blocked by the Great Firewall in short order.
And the standard way around the Great Firewall is a proxy or VPN, both of which will make your traffic look like it's coming from somewhere else.
The USA has compelling content online (if you speak English). China has very little information available in English, and can be blocked off with little loss. Unless your idea of compelling content is reading poorly-translated flash-enabled manufacturing company websites, or government-approved news sources.
There are scores of young men who sit around in internet cafes all day and do nothing but scan for vulnerabilities in badly-coded applications, mostly message boards. I know, I've seen them. Yes, it is most unusual for a Chinese fellow in an internet cafe to not be playing Counterstrike, but I assure you it does indeed happen. You can turn on the scanner and let it run in the background while you play Counterstrike, don't forget.
The usually obscure computer groups engaged in piracy have even spawned a cult film - available only online, of course - called "The Scene," with leading characters named Teflon, Trooper and Slipknot.
Anyone have a bittorrent link to this film? Is it any good, or is it poorly-made crap full of inside jokes, like I suspect it is?
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In Opera, I just hit F-12, and select "Block unwanted pop-ups", disable .GIF animation, sound, java, and plug-ins. Works pretty darn well for turning blinking advertisements into static pictures. If I go to a website with an actual Flash animation that I want to see, I enable plug-ins for that one page, then disable aftewards. A common saying of mine is "I turned on plug-ins for THAT piece of crap?"
Dude. You have some serious anger issues. I said, "it took decades to produce quality goods", and you agreed with me, and then spent the rest of the (long) post defending your credentials? My other points were untouched, probably because they were right. I know a bunch of Canadians here in China, and none of them have such reckless hatred towards Americans.
And as for management and know-how? I've been living in China for 2 years doing business here. The Chinese don't know their ass from their elbow. Good engineers, but they don't know how to run a business unless someone wrote the procedure in a manual. They also have a very well-deserved reputation for double dealing and outright fraud. My company was burned by defective products twice, and that's why I'm here, to keep an eye on things. I check everything. I have a friend who spends his days inspecting every single piece of furniture that goes out of his company's factory. If we didn't do this, we'd get burned. The Chinese will happily take your money and screw you.
And as far as the Japanese economy after WWII, they did produce crap. It took them decades to make quality goods for export. Maybe if you knocked off the knee-jerk slurs against Americans and either did some exporting or read some history, you wouldn't sound so ignorant in front of such a wide audience.
If you want examples, see here, and it's not even photoshopped, just cropped to remove the context. "Such tactics -- in the no-man's-land between ethical and unethical -- are commonplace in the media, and have been for decades. It is only now, with the advent of citizen journalism, that we can at last begin to see the whole story and realize that the public has been manipulated like this all along."
Uh, Newsweek? Come on, man...the media fakes things all the time. They just usually don't get caught.
The journalists can just use Photoshop to make up whatever they want. They already do that, anyway. Think I'm joking, do you?
They make their money selling embedded browsers for the mobile phone market. Web browsers on computer have become such a small part of their business the last few years. That's why they're reducing the price to "free", they're making money hand over fist and none of it is coming from PC sales.
Basically, that's every computer game, in a nutshell. I quit playing around about when Master of Orion came out. Because I figured, this entire game is just one big spreadsheet, and the only way that I can manipulate the cells is to move my ships here and there, and perform certain actions (which take a hell of a lot of time). Applies to every computer game ever written. I suppose this is what you call "burnout".
We might be nerds, but we're not comic book nerds. Even we have a little bit of pride.
But if a GRB only lasts an average of 10 seconds (according to the article), what good does this do anyone? Even five minutes reaction time would have been too much for this record-breaking event (200 seconds).
And the substance of your bitching seems to be that you need to tweak the system a bit. If you want Windows for Dummies, try Linspire.
The Death Star blows up planets, not stars. Jeez, did anyone watch the movie?
It's not a "belief", some species of crocodiles weep when they devour their prey. The tears help lubricate the swallowing.
And if you do decide to search in English on a Chinese-language search engine, you could at least spell "Tiananmen" correctly.
What is the DMCA crap, karma whoring? You forgot to throw in a derogatory comment about Bush as well.
Rival? Alibaba.com is a B2B site (i.e. if you need something manufactured in China, go there and find suppliers). Baidu.com is a general web search.
Another thing that most people don't think about is that Chinese people are proud of their country. This comes as a strange thought to most people who went through university indoctrination in the West, but Chinese people will prefer a Chinese solution when one is available. Even if it's a poorer alternative than the foreign one (it'll get better if we use it, they think).
And as someone else pointed out, baidu.com has links to "multimedia" (i.e. pirated movies) that google would get sued over. I mean, look at their site, it's got "mp3 search" right on the front page. And check out this site, it's got plenty of entire albums available for your listening pleasure, and it's a legitimate site in China.
New Orleans is a total shithole. Outside of the (small) tourist areas, it's a dangerous city. And the demographics are somewhat similar to Haiti and Somalia, frankly. I think if this would have happened in Iowa, Oregon, or Hawaii, things would be totally different.
Set your comment threshold to -1 and browse the comments on this thread. It's a wasted thread anyway, yet another dupe story. There's some good stuff at -1 on this thread.
Second, product information in China comes from catalogs and spreadsheets. If you can get information from the internet, that's great, but I haven't found it to be altogether useful. Even on alibaba.com, you often only get a telephone number or an email address that isn't monitored. Frequently, the web page information hasn't been updated since the web page was posted online sometime back in 2002 or 2003. The use of Flash makes it more irritating to deal with. I always end up having to call and get a catalog. And if a company is doing business with overseas customers, and actually does have an informative website, it makes sense to have it hosted overseas, where the speed is much much better and the site is not subject to government censorship.
Are you an English teacher? You sure seem to have a handle on word usage.
The number of English speakers in China is infintesimal, compared to the general population. Your average Chinese youth means well, but can't speak English at all. They can't carry a conversation, unless you speak about banal topics. And the ones that do speak English well are total nerds, I've been cornered by them more than once.
NASA already does quite enough of this non-scientific public relations garbage. You'd make a fine Congressman.
And the standard way around the Great Firewall is a proxy or VPN, both of which will make your traffic look like it's coming from somewhere else.
There are scores of young men who sit around in internet cafes all day and do nothing but scan for vulnerabilities in badly-coded applications, mostly message boards. I know, I've seen them. Yes, it is most unusual for a Chinese fellow in an internet cafe to not be playing Counterstrike, but I assure you it does indeed happen. You can turn on the scanner and let it run in the background while you play Counterstrike, don't forget.
The usually obscure computer groups engaged in piracy have even spawned a cult film - available only online, of course - called "The Scene," with leading characters named Teflon, Trooper and Slipknot. Anyone have a bittorrent link to this film? Is it any good, or is it poorly-made crap full of inside jokes, like I suspect it is?