For that matter, so does Canada. We are the Yanks biggest trading partner and we still can't get a fair break into their agricultural market (among other things such as wood and energy). How many doormats does America need?
I think there is a bit more to this whole thing. Note the following (written more than 2200 years ago in China):
CREATION OF ORDER (The Ending of Chaos) Chuang Tzu talks of the Emperor of Northern Sea, and the Emperor of Southern Sea. From time to time, these two would meet at a neutral half-way point, known as the Territory of the Emperor of the Center, Hun Tun. He was a pleasant fellow, but lacked the seven orifaces of Man. The other two decided to bore a hole in him each day, for seven days. On the seventh day, Hun Tun (Chaos) died. At that instant, the world came into being.
China breathes in; doesn't breathe out.
One can never hope to control their own future unless they have a means of staying inside the curve.
With a in-China DVD format (really not the DVD format as much as a new Player to read it and nothing else, piracy of overseas entertainment medium could be held to a low, low level. Pleasing therefore the Western producers of that content, protect the current state of China's all-important American export market, AND allow for their own mainland revenue-stream to license music and film content instead under fully controlled situations. On the surface, this would seem to be a win-win situation for almost everybody for quite some time.
Or did I miss something here?
I don't plan on giving up DOS. I think Win32 compliant means DOS32 compliant also (or can at least be forced to be so). Why do I have to do what everyone else does? So as long as the binaries are still there I am in business. No?
She should try being 'poor' and attempt to survive a winter in a cardboard box in Chicago. Then perhaps she would have something worth listening to. As for Japan being more attracted to 'asthetics' than anyone else, I think attracted to a 'sub-adult aura' would define it better. And no, George Washington wasn't a democrat or even a stylist. He was a soldier.
Talking about The Canterbury Tales, I wonder if there is an on-line version of the slightly-modernized original Middle English somewhere at hand? I have been ill in bed with the flu the last week and have amused myself with reading the Penguin Classics version by Nevill Coghill. While this is otherwise excellent, it is 'modernized' and this becomes irritating after awhile to me (must be the Chills and Fevers bringing that on). Want to check the brevity of certain parts in their unadjusted form. Anyone out there got any suggestions?
I currently make my living translating Chinese technical papers and such with the massive help of a computer program I add 'braincells' to everyday. I can tell you that the process is vastly different than what is being proposed by the person in the original article. Chinese is strictly memorization and rote, and there is lots of it! Recognization and manipulation of a character's various components (whether Radical or Phonetic portions or whatever) do nothing if you can't remember it exactly.
Jeez! Sounds just like me!
But, may I add that there are good and bad brands of 0.5mm leads out there. Pentel is by far and away the best, but here in the Great White North we also can get 'Buffalo' Brand leads (made in Taiwan) - almost as good, but still not having that magical sliding smoothness of Pentel. The worst were some brittle leads from mainland China. You have to hold the pencil entirely vertical just to not snap them off!
This is so similar to the old Victorian-age Great White Hunter concept. Destroying (and thereby reducing the total amount of 959's still left simply so that these men can then have a trophy to show off. I would have thought that preservation and conservation of such a rare species would be more appropriate under the circumstances. This is nothing more than a disgusting display of power being promoted by those who no longer have any vision about their original pathway, and believe that their pampered isolation from the real world still allows them to think that they are normal people. Which they are not.
I expect to hear soon that Bill Gates has crashed his vehicle, but that will be blamed on System Failure not his [supposed] lack of ultra high-speed driving skills.
Better yet, there is simply a point on the pie-chart where Counter-productive [i.e., Non-Productive] defence strategies begin clump up and change into defence tactics. After this critical point has been reached, then MS can only lose more money than it is bringing in, and can do nothing about because they no longer have any long-term strategie to implement. To put it this way, if drought brought on by climate change (or whatever) killed the dinosaurs, then there was a point where the constant search for water became more important than eating. The brutes would die either way; either from thirst [short-term tactics] or starvation [long-term statagies]. Too bad... I could feel sorry for the dinosaurs.
"...that could think like a person."
How about first just trying to make it 'think'. If you can ever work this out, then the next two stages: a. think like a machine, and (so then on to) b. think like a person, might happen. I suppose you really mean think like a 'human' - it was not too long ago that blacks, native people, and women were not considered to be 'persons' (i.e., posssessors of most rights and the ownership of the Self).
When do the Insect Overlords begin to duke it out with the Robot Overlords for final control of it all? And I do believe that deprived yokels (can't afford the future) and techno-luddites (don't want the future) are the main drag on this ultimate state of things-to-come. Don't blame it on the lowly microbe. They are generally harmless.
According to recent history, listening a bit more closely to those 'raving lunatic[s]' would not be a bad idea. Just reading the positive stuff is only useful to those who do not wish to entertain or accept any other possible alternatives. But, isn't that a sign of mental unbalance itself?
So, perhaps these printer companies should think about building a better product in the first place and then none of this would happen? Nobody decides that they are not going to buy a certain brand of automobile again because the second set of tires they buy to replace the original ones wear out too fast. So, you saying that the printer companies are the 'victims' Buddy, the subject matter here concerns printer companies that are themselves RIP-OFFs, not the 2nd party resuppliers, no matter how good or bad their refills are. Think it out. Get it together.
The late Joseph Needham spent a great portion of his life trying to answer that very same question, and in the end still could not give a satisfactory reply to it. Read his 'Science and Civilization in Ancient China' (a massive and comprehensive set of volumes).
"The Unicode charset has over 1 million characters..."
Over 1 million characters already defined and in place? Prove it! what is the range of these real characters?
"It doesn't matter if you use 8 or 16 bit Unicode, it still has over one million chars."
Yeah. The bank has millions of dollars too, but that doesn't mean that they belong to me. Of course! The fact is that *anything* that is 2-to-the-32nd power in has over a million place-holders but that is all that these are - they are NOT all characters. And who ultimately owns (i.e., has the power to control) these spaces? Unicode Inc.? Why not turn it all over to the ISO, or some other world body. Seriously, there are many Unicode people who do go work to try and make reading, writing and communications better for others around the planet, and don't spend their time demanding the silencing of any voices and opinions other than your own. You sound like one of the latter.
just have to say this, but Nicolas Carroll didn't write the Unicode article -- someone else did.
Perhaps you should take some of your own advice about doing research before blowing off at the mouth. According to your own line of reasoning this makes you yourself a moron. Ha Ha HAW!!!
Yes! Oh Wise One!
You should try using facts yourself. You are expressing your opinions - how about a few examples why none of us should be exposed to this expressor of evil? Any little tidbits or reasons why you said what you said, anything?
BTW, do you speak or write in any languages other than English? This sometimes is a giveaway to why people say what you said. I do Chinese, and the Unicode slam made good sense to me.
Wrong and wrong!
The spare dna IS mathematically required, but it is NOT fractal in nature, I assure you. It is compressed under a completely unassociated lossless compression method. So screw you and your pathetic patent.
Gee whizz!
I wonder how anybody got anything done at all before Master's or PhD's were invented as a Control > Learning method? I suppose you are one of this elite group yourself, otherwise you wouldn't be so fanatical to defend its premise. Remember, no matter what, software runs hardware. What is this 'good grasp of formal methods and proveability of correctness' dialetical crap? You think any of that matters to people who can hack anything on the planet? You already blew your basic whine when you acknowledge that such levels of inside-the-formal-box training [papers] are perhaps needed to defeat the successful efforts of the great unwashed and uneducated hordes of illegal outsiders who, no matter what you say, got there first.
Get a grip, maybe you need to spend more time with lesser beings.
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For that matter, so does Canada. We are the Yanks biggest trading partner and we still can't get a fair break into their agricultural market (among other things such as wood and energy). How many doormats does America need?
Here comes OS/2 64!
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I think there is a bit more to this whole thing. Note the following (written more than 2200 years ago in China): CREATION OF ORDER (The Ending of Chaos) Chuang Tzu talks of the Emperor of Northern Sea, and the Emperor of Southern Sea. From time to time, these two would meet at a neutral half-way point, known as the Territory of the Emperor of the Center, Hun Tun. He was a pleasant fellow, but lacked the seven orifaces of Man. The other two decided to bore a hole in him each day, for seven days. On the seventh day, Hun Tun (Chaos) died. At that instant, the world came into being.
China breathes in; doesn't breathe out. One can never hope to control their own future unless they have a means of staying inside the curve. With a in-China DVD format (really not the DVD format as much as a new Player to read it and nothing else, piracy of overseas entertainment medium could be held to a low, low level. Pleasing therefore the Western producers of that content, protect the current state of China's all-important American export market, AND allow for their own mainland revenue-stream to license music and film content instead under fully controlled situations. On the surface, this would seem to be a win-win situation for almost everybody for quite some time. Or did I miss something here?
I don't plan on giving up DOS. I think Win32 compliant means DOS32 compliant also (or can at least be forced to be so). Why do I have to do what everyone else does? So as long as the binaries are still there I am in business. No?
She should try being 'poor' and attempt to survive a winter in a cardboard box in Chicago. Then perhaps she would have something worth listening to. As for Japan being more attracted to 'asthetics' than anyone else, I think attracted to a 'sub-adult aura' would define it better. And no, George Washington wasn't a democrat or even a stylist. He was a soldier.
Talking about The Canterbury Tales, I wonder if there is an on-line version of the slightly-modernized original Middle English somewhere at hand? I have been ill in bed with the flu the last week and have amused myself with reading the Penguin Classics version by Nevill Coghill. While this is otherwise excellent, it is 'modernized' and this becomes irritating after awhile to me (must be the Chills and Fevers bringing that on). Want to check the brevity of certain parts in their unadjusted form. Anyone out there got any suggestions?
I currently make my living translating Chinese technical papers and such with the massive help of a computer program I add 'braincells' to everyday. I can tell you that the process is vastly different than what is being proposed by the person in the original article. Chinese is strictly memorization and rote, and there is lots of it! Recognization and manipulation of a character's various components (whether Radical or Phonetic portions or whatever) do nothing if you can't remember it exactly.
Jeez! Sounds just like me! But, may I add that there are good and bad brands of 0.5mm leads out there. Pentel is by far and away the best, but here in the Great White North we also can get 'Buffalo' Brand leads (made in Taiwan) - almost as good, but still not having that magical sliding smoothness of Pentel. The worst were some brittle leads from mainland China. You have to hold the pencil entirely vertical just to not snap them off!
This is so similar to the old Victorian-age Great White Hunter concept. Destroying (and thereby reducing the total amount of 959's still left simply so that these men can then have a trophy to show off. I would have thought that preservation and conservation of such a rare species would be more appropriate under the circumstances. This is nothing more than a disgusting display of power being promoted by those who no longer have any vision about their original pathway, and believe that their pampered isolation from the real world still allows them to think that they are normal people. Which they are not. I expect to hear soon that Bill Gates has crashed his vehicle, but that will be blamed on System Failure not his [supposed] lack of ultra high-speed driving skills.
Better yet, there is simply a point on the pie-chart where Counter-productive [i.e., Non-Productive] defence strategies begin clump up and change into defence tactics. After this critical point has been reached, then MS can only lose more money than it is bringing in, and can do nothing about because they no longer have any long-term strategie to implement. To put it this way, if drought brought on by climate change (or whatever) killed the dinosaurs, then there was a point where the constant search for water became more important than eating. The brutes would die either way; either from thirst [short-term tactics] or starvation [long-term statagies]. Too bad... I could feel sorry for the dinosaurs.
"...that could think like a person." How about first just trying to make it 'think'. If you can ever work this out, then the next two stages: a. think like a machine, and (so then on to) b. think like a person, might happen. I suppose you really mean think like a 'human' - it was not too long ago that blacks, native people, and women were not considered to be 'persons' (i.e., posssessors of most rights and the ownership of the Self).
When do the Insect Overlords begin to duke it out with the Robot Overlords for final control of it all? And I do believe that deprived yokels (can't afford the future) and techno-luddites (don't want the future) are the main drag on this ultimate state of things-to-come. Don't blame it on the lowly microbe. They are generally harmless.
What kind of Chinese food?
According to recent history, listening a bit more closely to those 'raving lunatic[s]' would not be a bad idea. Just reading the positive stuff is only useful to those who do not wish to entertain or accept any other possible alternatives. But, isn't that a sign of mental unbalance itself?
So, perhaps these printer companies should think about building a better product in the first place and then none of this would happen? Nobody decides that they are not going to buy a certain brand of automobile again because the second set of tires they buy to replace the original ones wear out too fast. So, you saying that the printer companies are the 'victims' Buddy, the subject matter here concerns printer companies that are themselves RIP-OFFs, not the 2nd party resuppliers, no matter how good or bad their refills are. Think it out. Get it together.
you mean like rolling papers?
The late Joseph Needham spent a great portion of his life trying to answer that very same question, and in the end still could not give a satisfactory reply to it. Read his 'Science and Civilization in Ancient China' (a massive and comprehensive set of volumes).
"The Unicode charset has over 1 million characters..." Over 1 million characters already defined and in place? Prove it! what is the range of these real characters? "It doesn't matter if you use 8 or 16 bit Unicode, it still has over one million chars." Yeah. The bank has millions of dollars too, but that doesn't mean that they belong to me. Of course! The fact is that *anything* that is 2-to-the-32nd power in has over a million place-holders but that is all that these are - they are NOT all characters. And who ultimately owns (i.e., has the power to control) these spaces? Unicode Inc.? Why not turn it all over to the ISO, or some other world body. Seriously, there are many Unicode people who do go work to try and make reading, writing and communications better for others around the planet, and don't spend their time demanding the silencing of any voices and opinions other than your own. You sound like one of the latter.
just have to say this, but Nicolas Carroll didn't write the Unicode article -- someone else did. Perhaps you should take some of your own advice about doing research before blowing off at the mouth. According to your own line of reasoning this makes you yourself a moron. Ha Ha HAW!!!
Yes! Oh Wise One! You should try using facts yourself. You are expressing your opinions - how about a few examples why none of us should be exposed to this expressor of evil? Any little tidbits or reasons why you said what you said, anything? BTW, do you speak or write in any languages other than English? This sometimes is a giveaway to why people say what you said. I do Chinese, and the Unicode slam made good sense to me.
In Canada you can always buy solder at Crummy Tire instead.
Wrong and wrong! The spare dna IS mathematically required, but it is NOT fractal in nature, I assure you. It is compressed under a completely unassociated lossless compression method. So screw you and your pathetic patent.
Gee whizz! I wonder how anybody got anything done at all before Master's or PhD's were invented as a Control > Learning method? I suppose you are one of this elite group yourself, otherwise you wouldn't be so fanatical to defend its premise. Remember, no matter what, software runs hardware. What is this 'good grasp of formal methods and proveability of correctness' dialetical crap? You think any of that matters to people who can hack anything on the planet? You already blew your basic whine when you acknowledge that such levels of inside-the-formal-box training [papers] are perhaps needed to defeat the successful efforts of the great unwashed and uneducated hordes of illegal outsiders who, no matter what you say, got there first. Get a grip, maybe you need to spend more time with lesser beings.