The only people who control the IP address space are the ones who control the routers. It's agreement between these people that allows the internet to exist. ICANN can proclaim whatever they want, but doing something like revocing all of China's IP space simply isn't going to happen.
And the government controls the Doman Name System? Tell that to the 30 million americans who regularly hit.aol sites.
Have you ever seen cowboy bebop? Simply amazing. Probably the best Telivsion series I've ever seen in the genras it encompases (sci-fi, action adventure, cyberpunk)
Sheesh, most of the navigation is done via HTML, and you usualy have a choice between high and low bandwidth. Really, just go here and move your mouse over the screens. No, it's not as intuitive as a plain text list, but it's a movie not an XML parsing API or something.
When you go to the website you see "cool" art (or so they hope) and it makes you think that the art they are selling as their main product (the film) is of the same quality.
And the navigation on the site is not anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be. It only requires a little creativity and intelegence to figure out.
I didn't find it (system of a down page) that hard to use at all. Perhaps the problem has more to do with your inablity or undesire to use new things, when the old ones work fine.
"Music" CDRs, the ones you need if you want to record on a music spesific CD-burner have a tax, but regular CDs you get for your computer don't (unless you live in canada).
Well, in america, we use the term "Chinese" for two diffrent things. "Zhongguoren" a person from china, and "Hanren" a ethnic Han (Han was the second dynasty after the waring states era)
Kaiwen may be a Han, ethnicly, but not a Zhongguren, politicaly. I think that's what he means
To negotiate with someone means you have to recognize and acknowledge that person. Or course China isn't going to sit down a negotiate with Taipei if they insist on claiming independence. That would be admitting defeat.
Erm, which is his point. That taiwan does not consider itself part of china, and defies the mainland.
Iraq is not a talibanistic state, it actually has a secular government, well, a lot china during the Mao days, pretty evil, but not based on religion. Sadam isn't a fundamentalist Muslim.
to own property as evidenced by the people of Tibet "No, that's our country"
As in the the people of the confederation of states: "No, that's our country". And let's not even talk about what happened to their slaves. Property rights my ass. America must be an oppressive state.
The right to own property does not grant you the sovereignty over that property. And the dolly lama certainly doesn't own all of Tibet
Personally, I'd say this is a pretty paranoid article. Sure, M$ must have some sway with Intel, but Intel has been pretty active in the open source world themselves, going so far as to invest in RedHat and VA even. Linux on the server is big, and so is the money. Nothing Microsoft could do to Intel (rather then OEMs who license their software) could cause them to kill GNOME.
Also, sun is never going to develop software that requres.net. It's just not going to happen.
Other then that, what exactly about the MIT license makes it more prone to patent problems? Is it that MIT'd code can be patented or what? How is it that an official GNU project (as GNOME is) not use the GPL or LGPL?
Sorry. I should have read the blurb more carefully.
This isn't transparent aluminum; this is a transparent aluminum oxide. That is just not the same thing as aluminum anymore then water is Hydrogen gas, or table salt is the same thing as Sodium metal or Chlorine gas (both very harmful chemicals, sodium can explode when it comes in contact with water, and Chlorine can kill you in a few breaths, yet we eat salt all the time)
And secondly we have known about aluminum based compounds for a long time, in fact, longer then we have known about Aluminum or even about elements in general. Alum, the compound from which aluminum gets it's name (and which we extract aluminum from) has been known to man for ages and is, in fact, transparent.
Oversaturated pictures of people laying on the street!
That really doesn't seem like much evidence of a massacre to me, the only blood was on the pavement... and most of those people don't look like they were run over by tanks.
Photos without much context on a fundamentalist Christian website don't mean anything. How many people do you think died there? What resources do you have to back yourself up?
Revolutions can happen quickly, but you should make sure that you are actually strong enough to carry them out. Scaring the government shitless is not a good way to improve your freedom unless you can actually take them over. And winning sympathizers on the outside who don't fully understand the situation isn't going to help you if 90% of the population supports the government. And I can assure you that "four billion" people don't consider the Chinese government evil, the vast majority of people probably don't care.
And was what happened in Tiananmen really that worse then what happened in Seattle or Genoa, committed by capitalists?
Hrm. Actualy, it isn't confirmed that they killed anyone with tanks. Basicaly what they did was give everyone several minutes to leave (there were about 30 'full time' hunger strikers living on the square) And then they tanked over the tents and infrestructure. Anyone still there would have died, but, they had plenty of time to get up and go... and (if they were hunger striking anyway)
What are you talking about man? In the 1980's the press was almost as free as in the US. Today, well, it isn't. Yeh, protesters staring down tanks make for great photos and propaganda -- outside of china -- But it won't do shit inside. If the protesters would have waited, and moved for slow reforms rather then 'revolution' China might be a free society now. But they were impatient.
Yeh, democracy is nice, but there was no pressing need to have a revolution at the time.
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I've heard "uncolisoted political email" (UPE, I guess) refered to as Tofu.
Just passing allong the meme.
Yeh, whatever. I'm like so sure that microsoft wouldn't lower their prices or anything like that if the alternative was loss of their monopoly.
And hasn't M$ been pushing CE as a platform for low-end home equipment?
The only people who control the IP address space are the ones who control the routers. It's agreement between these people that allows the internet to exist. ICANN can proclaim whatever they want, but doing something like revocing all of China's IP space simply isn't going to happen.
.aol sites.
And the government controls the Doman Name System? Tell that to the 30 million americans who regularly hit
Have you ever seen cowboy bebop? Simply amazing. Probably the best Telivsion series I've ever seen in the genras it encompases (sci-fi, action adventure, cyberpunk)
Sheesh, most of the navigation is done via HTML, and you usualy have a choice between high and low bandwidth. Really, just go here and move your mouse over the screens. No, it's not as intuitive as a plain text list, but it's a movie not an XML parsing API or something.
The movie is art. The website is art.
When you go to the website you see "cool" art (or so they hope) and it makes you think that the art they are selling as their main product (the film) is of the same quality.
And the navigation on the site is not anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be. It only requires a little creativity and intelegence to figure out.
I didn't find it (system of a down page) that hard to use at all. Perhaps the problem has more to do with your inablity or undesire to use new things, when the old ones work fine.
"Music" CDRs, the ones you need if you want to record on a music spesific CD-burner have a tax, but regular CDs you get for your computer don't (unless you live in canada).
Her job is to decide the case. If what napster was doing was illigal, if what they were doing was agains the spirit of the law they should go down.
What do the folks on Slashdot think?
Well, I can't speak for others, but I think sun sells a competative UNIX on mainframe solution.
I've never met a US citizen who identifies himself as ethnically American
:)
Well, here you go
Well, in america, we use the term "Chinese" for two diffrent things. "Zhongguoren" a person from china, and "Hanren" a ethnic Han (Han was the second dynasty after the waring states era)
Kaiwen may be a Han, ethnicly, but not a Zhongguren, politicaly. I think that's what he means
To negotiate with someone means you have to recognize and acknowledge that person. Or course China isn't going to sit down a negotiate with Taipei if they insist on claiming independence. That would be admitting defeat.
Erm, which is his point. That taiwan does not consider itself part of china, and defies the mainland.
I'm glad to see someone with a rational, level head posting on this site. Dosn't happen as much as it should :P
Iraq is not a talibanistic state, it actually has a secular government, well, a lot china during the Mao days, pretty evil, but not based on religion. Sadam isn't a fundamentalist Muslim.
to own property as evidenced by the people of Tibet "No, that's our country"
As in the the people of the confederation of states: "No, that's our country". And let's not even talk about what happened to their slaves. Property rights my ass. America must be an oppressive state.
The right to own property does not grant you the sovereignty over that property. And the dolly lama certainly doesn't own all of Tibet
or for saying, "Mao bites his farts!" (With apologies to P.J. O'Rourke.)
Uh, once Mao died that was prettymuch the government line, His wife was even thrown in jail for her part of the Cultural Revolution.
Personally, I'd say this is a pretty paranoid article. Sure, M$ must have some sway with Intel, but Intel has been pretty active in the open source world themselves, going so far as to invest in RedHat and VA even. Linux on the server is big, and so is the money. Nothing Microsoft could do to Intel (rather then OEMs who license their software) could cause them to kill GNOME.
.net. It's just not going to happen.
Also, sun is never going to develop software that requres
Other then that, what exactly about the MIT license makes it more prone to patent problems? Is it that MIT'd code can be patented or what? How is it that an official GNU project (as GNOME is) not use the GPL or LGPL?
On how much I have to say.
Btw, The artical indicates that this material is 3 times as strong as steal, making it far stronger then pure, regular, opaque, Aluminum metal.
The first sentance of the second paragraph should read: "And secondly we have known about aluminum based transparent compounds for a long time"
Sorry. I should have read the blurb more carefully.
This isn't transparent aluminum; this is a transparent aluminum oxide. That is just not the same thing as aluminum anymore then water is Hydrogen gas, or table salt is the same thing as Sodium metal or Chlorine gas (both very harmful chemicals, sodium can explode when it comes in contact with water, and Chlorine can kill you in a few breaths, yet we eat salt all the time)
And secondly we have known about aluminum based compounds for a long time, in fact, longer then we have known about Aluminum or even about elements in general. Alum, the compound from which aluminum gets it's name (and which we extract aluminum from) has been known to man for ages and is, in fact, transparent.
I didn't really think that they would actualy do it. I hope this isn't the german version of april fools :P
Oversaturated pictures of people laying on the street!
That really doesn't seem like much evidence of a massacre to me, the only blood was on the pavement... and most of those people don't look like they were run over by tanks.
Photos without much context on a fundamentalist Christian website don't mean anything. How many people do you think died there? What resources do you have to back yourself up?
Revolutions can happen quickly, but you should make sure that you are actually strong enough to carry them out. Scaring the government shitless is not a good way to improve your freedom unless you can actually take them over. And winning sympathizers on the outside who don't fully understand the situation isn't going to help you if 90% of the population supports the government. And I can assure you that "four billion" people don't consider the Chinese government evil, the vast majority of people probably don't care.
And was what happened in Tiananmen really that worse then what happened in Seattle or Genoa, committed by capitalists?
Hrm. Actualy, it isn't confirmed that they killed anyone with tanks. Basicaly what they did was give everyone several minutes to leave (there were about 30 'full time' hunger strikers living on the square) And then they tanked over the tents and infrestructure. Anyone still there would have died, but, they had plenty of time to get up and go... and (if they were hunger striking anyway)
What are you talking about man? In the 1980's the press was almost as free as in the US. Today, well, it isn't. Yeh, protesters staring down tanks make for great photos and propaganda -- outside of china -- But it won't do shit inside. If the protesters would have waited, and moved for slow reforms rather then 'revolution' China might be a free society now. But they were impatient.
Yeh, democracy is nice, but there was no pressing need to have a revolution at the time.