You do realise this exact same shit was said about Japan years ago. All they do is copy... not innovate...
China is copying to catch up. Once they catch up they will go shooting past - and all the MBAs, financial instruments and lawyers that the US has wanked away its educational estasblishments and brainpower on producing won't be worth a piss in a wind storm.
I can't find a link to any web based version but there was an interesting story on NPR about two months ago
I support NPR, with my money and my time in volunteering
But I do understand that NPR is not perfect
NPR is not that much different from many other Western media - that their report on other part of the world routinely tinted with the Western bias
I am not from China but I do have businesses in China - and in my many trips to China, I have to say that the average Chinese are way more innovative than the average American
While it is true that if we compare the top American researchers the Chinese have nothing to compare to - their top researchers are still light years away from the West - but that does not mean that the Chinese people are a dumb bunch
The lack of innovativeness in China is caused by the damage done by the Cultural Revolution in the 60's and 70's. Two generations of top Chinese scientists were wiped out (many were forced to suicide)
China is still suffering the consequences
But if you talk about Chinese - as a people - they are not dumb
Go to Hong Kong or Taiwan or even take a look at the Chinese Americans - they are way more innovative than the average Americans
It's time you guys stop deceiving yourself. The Chinese are playing catching up, and once they are at par with America, you guys will eat dust, literally
You need SEVERAL smart people and A LOT OF time. If they only work weekends for free, on something this massive and complex, your project will be finished in 15 years and be already obsolete.
You have seriously underestimate the productivity of really really smart programmers
It has been estimated that a very talented programmer is more effective than the output of 300 garden variety code monkeys combined
And in my time I've in several occasions the privilege to work with some of the top brains of the programming field, and I can tell you that it has been such a blessing
The very moment the charge stops you have nearly full function again and there is no pain
This is pure HORSE SHIT !!
The muscles of a human body (or any animal body) go into violent fits of convulsion / spasm when high voltage goes through it, and you are telling us, once the power stops, everything immediately returns to normal ??
Definitely not !!
While the spasm might stop when the power is turned off, but residue pain and ache is still there
And the heart, because of the violent spasms of the muscle throughout the body, the heart automatically jumps into high gear, trying to pump as much blood to the muscles as it possibly can
The heart doesn't simply magically returns to normal the second the power is turned off !
No, it will keep pumping at maximum rate for a few more minutes, - depends on the people - before it gradually eases
Should the question regarding "Altruism and Profit" always falls under the "either / or" situation?
Could Altruism and Profit go hand-in-hand?
People are making money off Linux, as we speak.
Though, it's true that there are way too many free-riders out there who contributed nothing but keep on making profits out of the hardwork of others, we can not deny that at times, "Altruism" and "Profit" can and _do_ co-exist
If you take a job whose title is "Shoveler of Elephant Shit" and then you whine about how you don't like shoveling elephant shit, nobody will give a fuck. Now, if you complain that you've been given a spoon to shovel the shit with, that's a valid complaint; you're actually a spooner of elephant shit, and that's a whole different job.
You're the man !!
You wrote that when you have a headache
Can't imaging what you'd write when you aren't suffering any headache !!
I mean, if the Chinese can create a robot that "walk", or "stride" on water, the American should be able to come up with something that "walk" or 'stride" on air.
Not "fly", but "walk" or "stride"
As for the "drone", the Chinese and the Russian already have their own versions of "drones"
I tried getting a software engineering job locally, but came up cold.
Instead of trying to get a job in the software engineering field in Beijing, with your credential you shouldn't have problem getting people into invest in your own software engineering firm that you set up in Beijing
I'm very familiar with China, I've companies set up in China and it's very easy to set up companies in China, even if you are not a native speaker
I do employ people, and I've been doing so for the past 2 decades.
I find that the quality of newer crops of university graduates are much lower than their counterparts that I had hired 10 or 20 years ago.
With the panflation syndrome ( http://www.economist.com/node/21552214 ) already permeated many of the traditional brick and mortar universities, it wouldn't do me too much harm for me to try hiring some who graduated from the $100-per-degree online universities
MS may be in the same position, but they have this nice stack of "Get out of jail free" cards (bank) that has kept them at least appearing to be a player in the phone/tablet space.
I am not that sure about MS's future
No one gets too many second chances. No one. Not even Microsoft.
... it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. Retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a monkey-fish-frog. And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that...
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone have a clue why they want to do it by them selves?
You've hit the RIGHT question !!
China had to DIY because nobody, not USA, not Europe, not even Russia, will permit them to join the ISS
Ever wonder why the ISS was visited by a middle eastern prince but never any citizen from China?
Because there is an unwritten, but strictly enforeced rule, that no citizen of China is permitted to step inside the confine of the ISS
You do realise this exact same shit was said about Japan years ago. All they do is copy... not innovate...
China is copying to catch up. Once they catch up they will go shooting past - and all the MBAs, financial instruments and lawyers that the US has wanked away its educational estasblishments and brainpower on producing won't be worth a piss in a wind storm.
I can't find a link to any web based version but there was an interesting story on NPR about two months ago
I support NPR, with my money and my time in volunteering
But I do understand that NPR is not perfect
NPR is not that much different from many other Western media - that their report on other part of the world routinely tinted with the Western bias
I am not from China but I do have businesses in China - and in my many trips to China, I have to say that the average Chinese are way more innovative than the average American
While it is true that if we compare the top American researchers the Chinese have nothing to compare to - their top researchers are still light years away from the West - but that does not mean that the Chinese people are a dumb bunch
The lack of innovativeness in China is caused by the damage done by the Cultural Revolution in the 60's and 70's. Two generations of top Chinese scientists were wiped out (many were forced to suicide)
China is still suffering the consequences
But if you talk about Chinese - as a people - they are not dumb
Go to Hong Kong or Taiwan or even take a look at the Chinese Americans - they are way more innovative than the average Americans
It's time you guys stop deceiving yourself. The Chinese are playing catching up, and once they are at par with America, you guys will eat dust, literally
You need SEVERAL smart people and A LOT OF time. If they only work weekends for free, on something this massive and complex, your project will be finished in 15 years and be already obsolete.
You have seriously underestimate the productivity of really really smart programmers
It has been estimated that a very talented programmer is more effective than the output of 300 garden variety code monkeys combined
And in my time I've in several occasions the privilege to work with some of the top brains of the programming field, and I can tell you that it has been such a blessing
This "new" kind of malware has been dubbed (I think more accurately than most) crimeware
I think Mobware is a more accurate description
"Crime" can be mere petty crime
But "Mob" is a total different animal altogether
The very moment the charge stops you have nearly full function again and there is no pain
This is pure HORSE SHIT !!
The muscles of a human body (or any animal body) go into violent fits of convulsion / spasm when high voltage goes through it, and you are telling us, once the power stops, everything immediately returns to normal ??
Definitely not !!
While the spasm might stop when the power is turned off, but residue pain and ache is still there
And the heart, because of the violent spasms of the muscle throughout the body, the heart automatically jumps into high gear, trying to pump as much blood to the muscles as it possibly can
The heart doesn't simply magically returns to normal the second the power is turned off !
No, it will keep pumping at maximum rate for a few more minutes, - depends on the people - before it gradually eases
I know, because I've been tasered before
Should the question regarding "Altruism and Profit" always falls under the "either / or" situation?
Could Altruism and Profit go hand-in-hand?
People are making money off Linux, as we speak.
Though, it's true that there are way too many free-riders out there who contributed nothing but keep on making profits out of the hardwork of others, we can not deny that at times, "Altruism" and "Profit" can and _do_ co-exist
Some kind souls are trying to disassembling UEFI
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=14306&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
If you take a job whose title is "Shoveler of Elephant Shit" and then you whine about how you don't like shoveling elephant shit, nobody will give a fuck. Now, if you complain that you've been given a spoon to shovel the shit with, that's a valid complaint; you're actually a spooner of elephant shit, and that's a whole different job.
You're the man !!
You wrote that when you have a headache
Can't imaging what you'd write when you aren't suffering any headache !!
Thanks for the laugh !!
... and I've frank talk to many of them on this subject
According to many women, the dress sexy part is actually a "moral boost"
It's kinda hard for us men to grasp, but it goes like this
Women like to be stared
Deep in their psyche they like to be stared by the opposite sex
It made them feel that they have "worth"
That's why we get to see so many women parading their skins, their boobs, their buttocks
But, on the other hand, women do complain about men staring at them
They do complain that we men stare at them as if they are "sex object"
They feel that the more we stare at their boobs, the more they feel degraded
As I say, the entire concept is not easy to grasp, especially by us, the male species
On the one hand they want us men to respect them
But on the other hand they parade whatever God have giventh them in front of us, and then complaining when we start to salivating uncontrollably
Have you ever taken a crap job because you needed the cash (especially when you were younger)?
Yes, I had
And I had to endure all the abuses that came with the menial job
The experience only made me tougher
Filled me with more determination to make myself much better
And I have
It is about how companies view women
I think it's time you quit blaming game
It's not the society that's at fault
It's not the companies
It's not the men either
Ipso Facto, women want to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be attractive, to attract the opposite sex
The cosmetic industry and the fashion industry are making BILLIONS because of this
Would you take your 15 year old daughter who happens to be interested in computers and science to one of these conventions
Why the hell not??
I mean, why should I hide the real world from my 15 year old daughter?
is it because she would be exposed to an industry that shamelessly objectifies women
I, as a man, was exposed to pornographic movies that shamelessly objectified both women and men
Did that exposure somehow ruined my outlook on life?
If my daughter is so fragile that the minute she saw scantily clothed booth babes she fainted, then I, her father, must have failed her
... and they had like a bunch of "famous models" talking about modelling and guess what?
They bitched about people looking at them as though they are 'sex objects' !!
Don't paint everyone with the brush that you've been painted with, some have less options.
It's all in the mind
If you think that you have less options, you _will_ have less options
I mean, if the Chinese can create a robot that "walk", or "stride" on water, the American should be able to come up with something that "walk" or 'stride" on air.
Not "fly", but "walk" or "stride"
As for the "drone", the Chinese and the Russian already have their own versions of "drones"
then the Americans should be able to make a robot that walks on air
I tried getting a software engineering job locally, but came up cold.
Instead of trying to get a job in the software engineering field in Beijing, with your credential you shouldn't have problem getting people into invest in your own software engineering firm that you set up in Beijing
I'm very familiar with China, I've companies set up in China and it's very easy to set up companies in China, even if you are not a native speaker
Speak with experience here.
I do employ people, and I've been doing so for the past 2 decades.
I find that the quality of newer crops of university graduates are much lower than their counterparts that I had hired 10 or 20 years ago.
With the panflation syndrome ( http://www.economist.com/node/21552214 ) already permeated many of the traditional brick and mortar universities, it wouldn't do me too much harm for me to try hiring some who graduated from the $100-per-degree online universities
Many thanks for the new knowledge that I've gained from your tremendously useful comment !!
MS may be in the same position, but they have this nice stack of "Get out of jail free" cards (bank) that has kept them at least appearing to be a player in the phone/tablet space.
I am not that sure about MS's future
No one gets too many second chances. No one. Not even Microsoft.
Wait, so instead of the slogan "We are all Africans", we might have to change it to "We are all Asian-Africans"?
Inb4 someone came in and add " ... no wonder we are all so fuck-up !!! "
Ummm ...
You mean, some 37 Million Years ago, someone already christened that place with the name of "Burma" ?
I think you may have skipped over a rat
They say the first mammal supposed to be a rat
They said it, not me.
I swear, I wasn't there !!
Shame on Slashdot. Shame on the fucking retard who wrote the article.
How much censorship are you rooting for ?
...and further back than that: we came from a single incredibly dense point of matter.
.... and if we go further back than that: all these came from literally nothing
We were probably trapped on some remote island ...
We are trapped inside this gravity well