Don't we want to keep American predominance on the Net, by using our advantages in brains, capital and momentum to overcome momentary disadvantages in geography?
1.) I lived in Seoul for the last 4 years, and enjoyed it when they upgraded me from ADSL to VDSL, no charge, just to free up space in the lower speed catagories. I'm in China now, and IPv6 is underway.
2.) American predominance? Don't look now, but English will be surpassed as the most widely used language on the net in less than two years - or sooner.
I used jockey a snow cat grooming snow late at night in the Sierras, and I had my choice of precisely two stations as well. One was rock and the other was roll. I'd have killed for an iPod then.
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I'm in Shenzhen, Guanlan, 2km from Mission Hills Golf Club - we should get together - I'd love to chat, thanks.
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You've obviously never actually been to China in a last few decades and seen the fantastic speed at which it's developing.
But grasshopper - I am here:)
I've been visiting China since 1990 - I now live and work in the fastest growing province in the country. I've also lived and worked in both Japan and South Korea.
And all those rich locals...yes, but their numbers are almost too low to measure. If you're not here like me, and want to come over and visit, I'll be more than happy to show you around, seriously:)
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driving the transformation of China
Driving....by an outsider's POV, perhaps. More like 'participating' when viewed by the principals involved. Two-way street.
China consciously takes/negotiates what it needs and wants...it doesn't just open the door and say come on in, which is in direct contrast to other countries that have and are being strictly 'driven'.
This is the difference that many are missing.
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The Chinese would be left to their own devices and thus condemned to a slow progress which could be counterbalanced by the world community.
Hardly.
China works with a different idea of time and scope from other cultures. Where the US shifts, as an example, seem to be 50 years or less, China does 500. Other nations, of course miss this and pick up only the short term indicators, setting them up to misunderstand how China functions.
China may seem slow to someone with less than 300 years of history, but that only seems natural give the point of view....the only point of view...someone that hasn't survived for 5000+ years can't appreciate.
China knows how to learn from other cultures - don't mistake this for 'condemned to a slow progress' in the negative. It is progress that is balanced and paced and serves as one of the prime examples of why the culture has survived longer than any other. China will do just fine, western ideals not withstanding.
You, sir, missed the chagrin. I admitted my ingorance with a slap that missed and came back to me.
It's a joke...sort of like your concern that a wiki is at risk of dieing due to the very type of activity that brought about the need for it in the first place.
I'm squashing an earthworm in my hand...want to defend it before my actions threaten the known universe? Better hurry....I see fluids.
Consumers think they're buying the best in technology (with flat-panel televisions), but it's more of an emotional purchase.
Emotional purchase? Yes, I know, marketers and retailers think the buyers are all dumb as bricks. These are not the ones checking the needs of consumers and developing the products, however.
Since when was video quality the only factor? Power consumption, less space, more features and the abscence of x-rays from a CRT are viable reasons for many to go with LCD.
I can find both CRT and LCD good and bad, so that should actually factor out.
Has anyone noticed a pattern in scientific achievement?
If you mean did the Chinese have a working sundial before the western world was formed, thus getting points on the board long ago,...yes, I see a pattern.
they are going to great lengths to fix a problem they created in the first place.
The real irony lies in the fact that they (MS) aren't 'fixing' the problem. MS is buying a company that 'fixed' it and passing that off as charitable intent... MS remains clueless outside of pimping.
I don't understand how the cashiers didn't catch on.
The cashiers are part of the con - crook #1 goes to work at WalMart, and then crook B goes to A's register/checkout lane. Scan, pay small money, leave, rinse, repeat.
And before you think you can do it too, this hole has already been plugged - think up your own scam.
The system knows exactly where the committed car is, and if it's not available for the next cusmtomer, another one that is ready will be queued accordingly.
Actually, she was more of what I recall as being the 'Y' wife....why did I marry you - why don't you wash the car - why don't you shut up - why don't you drop dead - why don't you go to hell - why don't you get lost - why don't you get a life...that sort of thing:)
Check these out....from Monster - I get these every day, and they just keep growing. Your job search agent titled "China agent 01 writer/project mgr." matched new jobs based on your search criteria.
Dec 22 22:34:52, Subcontract Manager,MRI - Hong Kong,CN Dec 22 15:24:27, Asian Marketing Director - Located in China,Pentair, Inc.,CN-Shanghai Dec 22 15:36:17, Sourcing Manager - Office Supplies - Asia,Staples,CN-Shekou, China Dec 22 15:42:31, Export / Shipping / Operations Manager,Staples,CN-Shekou, China Dec 22 15:55:32, Customer Service Manager,GE Energy,CN Dec 22 01:47:31, MANAGER (SAP) - BEIJING,Bentley
Dec 12 16:27:43, Recruitment Manager,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China Dec 12 16:05:21, Human Resources Manager - China (BJ/SH),Hudson Global Resources,CN-China Dec 12 10:14:33, HR Director,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China Dec 12 09:30:57, Equipment Engineering Manager (Shanghai based),Hudson Global Resources,CN-China Dec 12 08:10:53, Senior Relationship Manager - Corporate Banking,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China Dec 12 08:19:25, Electrical Design Manager,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China Dec 12 01:54:21, Sr Human Resource Manger - US MNC,Harton Reed Limited,CN
No kidding? I can do that...just a matter of find the time I guess.
I originally did four years working in Japan for a firm making MRI machines - living outside the US is not for everyone, but it works for me... I then went back to the states, and got tired of the job market all over again, and ended up working for a huge electronics firm in Korea for another 4 years...all the while, wishing I was living/working in China, which I'd visited several times. I thought about going to China instead of Korea, but the job and business climate didn't seem quite ready for my needs at that time.
I waited for WTO to finish, so that I could come here and find better work and higher pay - I wanted the environment to take shape before I got here.
I finished in Korea and went back to the states, and found the same depressed job market, with so many out of work in the tech sector and pay flat, etc.
I tried to find a job in China, while sitting the Portland, but that didn't go anywhere. I knew the jobs were here, but I had to be here to participate. I finally sold everything off, pocketed the money and moved into a hotel, just inside China, right across from HongKong.
The recruiters won't take a close look at you if you don't fit the need that is on the sheet in front of them at the moment, so I had to cold call on local businesses - the ones that let me talk, and understood my resume, were all very interested, and next thing I knew I was turning down work and picking the job that interested me the most. I wanted to avoid a company that was staffed w/Americans, and work in an environment where I could study Chinese culture and business close up.
I now manage over 250 workers - just having an American around seems to make them want to do their best. Again, while there are many talented youngsters, there are not enough experienced managers to guide them and teach them how the rest of the world works and thinks. It's kind of fun watching them learn and catch on - The Chinese are not worker-bots like the Japanese or Koreans...they are more like westerners, in that they can act individually, etc.
As I said, living & working outside your own culture isn't for everyone. You need a thick skin and tons of patience. If you can settle in and know that there are good days and bad, you too can come to Asia and have the career you've been forced to put off elsewhere.
The job market is busting at the seams for middle managers. They have lots of smart techs, but it will be one more generation before they learn TQM, etc. If you know how to run a business, factory or project, you can start now. I walked right into an Operations Manager position for a small manufacturing tech firm, turning down 3 other offers at the same time.
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Don't we want to keep American predominance on the Net, by using our advantages in brains, capital and momentum to overcome momentary disadvantages in geography?
1.) I lived in Seoul for the last 4 years, and enjoyed it when they upgraded me from ADSL to VDSL, no charge, just to free up space in the lower speed catagories. I'm in China now, and IPv6 is underway.
2.) American predominance? Don't look now, but English will be surpassed as the most widely used language on the net in less than two years - or sooner.
I used jockey a snow cat grooming snow late at night in the Sierras, and I had my choice of precisely two stations as well. One was rock and the other was roll. I'd have killed for an iPod then.
I'm in Shenzhen, Guanlan, 2km from Mission Hills Golf Club - we should get together - I'd love to chat, thanks.
You've obviously never actually been to China in a last few decades and seen the fantastic speed at which it's developing.
:)
:)
But grasshopper - I am here
I've been visiting China since 1990 - I now live and work in the fastest growing province in the country. I've also lived and worked in both Japan and South Korea.
And all those rich locals...yes, but their numbers are almost too low to measure. If you're not here like me, and want to come over and visit, I'll be more than happy to show you around, seriously
driving the transformation of China
Driving....by an outsider's POV, perhaps. More like 'participating' when viewed by the principals involved. Two-way street.
China consciously takes/negotiates what it needs and wants...it doesn't just open the door and say come on in, which is in direct contrast to other countries that have and are being strictly 'driven'.
This is the difference that many are missing.
The Chinese would be left to their own devices and thus condemned to a slow progress which could be counterbalanced by the world community.
Hardly.
China works with a different idea of time and scope from other cultures. Where the US shifts, as an example, seem to be 50 years or less, China does 500. Other nations, of course miss this and pick up only the short term indicators, setting them up to misunderstand how China functions.
China may seem slow to someone with less than 300 years of history, but that only seems natural give the point of view....the only point of view...someone that hasn't survived for 5000+ years can't appreciate.
China knows how to learn from other cultures - don't mistake this for 'condemned to a slow progress' in the negative. It is progress that is balanced and paced and serves as one of the prime examples of why the culture has survived longer than any other. China will do just fine, western ideals not withstanding.
You, sir, missed the chagrin. I admitted my ingorance with a slap that missed and came back to me.
It's a joke...sort of like your concern that a wiki is at risk of dieing due to the very type of activity that brought about the need for it in the first place.
I'm squashing an earthworm in my hand...want to defend it before my actions threaten the known universe? Better hurry....I see fluids.
Consumers think they're buying the best in technology (with flat-panel televisions), but it's more of an emotional purchase.
Emotional purchase? Yes, I know, marketers and retailers think the buyers are all dumb as bricks. These are not the ones checking the needs of consumers and developing the products, however.
Since when was video quality the only factor? Power consumption, less space, more features and the abscence of x-rays from a CRT are viable reasons for many to go with LCD.
I can find both CRT and LCD good and bad, so that should actually factor out.
With all the positive press OSS gets, nerd-chic these days is to use IE.
:)
Right, and I suppose that logic explains why you carry a chalkboard and a light-stick instead of a cellphone?
I'm not buying this broke-ass excuse tout today, sorry
The crab is a supernova remnant
Thus the name 'Crab Nebula'? I see now, thanks for clearing that up.
And the The Crab pulsar? Next I guess you're going to spoil all I have left and tell me it is actally a variable star?
Very cruel...have you no shame.
Has anyone noticed a pattern in scientific achievement?
If you mean did the Chinese have a working sundial before the western world was formed, thus getting points on the board long ago,...yes, I see a pattern.
[clip] has now discovered the first direct clue that magnetic fields might indeed create these remarkable shapes
When pushed for an explanation of why the crab nebula was so different, one scientist responded with a huff and withdrew into his basement office.
In other news...
A couple in the Hamptons has asked the same group of scientists to determine why socks dissapear in the dryer. Film at eleven.
...?
While I won't go there, I'm sure someone did/will.
they are going to great lengths to fix a problem they created in the first place.
The real irony lies in the fact that they (MS) aren't 'fixing' the problem. MS is buying a company that 'fixed' it and passing that off as charitable intent... MS remains clueless outside of pimping.
I don't understand how the cashiers didn't catch on.
The cashiers are part of the con - crook #1 goes to work at WalMart, and then crook B goes to A's register/checkout lane. Scan, pay small money, leave, rinse, repeat.
And before you think you can do it too, this hole has already been plugged - think up your own scam.
The system knows exactly where the committed car is, and if it's not available for the next cusmtomer, another one that is ready will be queued accordingly.
U.S. to restart cattle trade with Canada - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6766787/ - (cue Rawhide theme!)
By 1959, over 400 Simon plans were sold. How much more impersonal of a statistic can you have?
I've had sample runs with more units than that.
Actually, she was more of what I recall as being the 'Y' wife....why did I marry you - why don't you wash the car - why don't you shut up - why don't you drop dead - why don't you go to hell - why don't you get lost - why don't you get a life...that sort of thing :)
,,,of when my GF compared herself to the x-wife. I knew the outcome from the beginning...who wouldn't?
I just found a copykat site last week of a site I've had up for the last year. No direct email to contact him, but I found one for his wife.
.mac and all I needed to do was to send a mail to abuse@dot mac and that was it. One day...gone.
He was hosting on
Check these out....from Monster - I get these every day, and they just keep growing.
Your job search agent titled "China agent 01 writer/project mgr." matched new jobs based on your search criteria.
Dec 22 22:34:52, Subcontract Manager,MRI - Hong Kong,CN
Dec 22 15:24:27, Asian Marketing Director - Located in China,Pentair, Inc.,CN-Shanghai
Dec 22 15:36:17, Sourcing Manager - Office Supplies - Asia,Staples,CN-Shekou, China
Dec 22 15:42:31, Export / Shipping / Operations Manager,Staples,CN-Shekou, China
Dec 22 15:55:32, Customer Service Manager,GE Energy,CN
Dec 22 01:47:31, MANAGER (SAP) - BEIJING,Bentley
Dec 12 16:27:43, Recruitment Manager,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China
Dec 12 16:05:21, Human Resources Manager - China (BJ/SH),Hudson Global Resources,CN-China
Dec 12 10:14:33, HR Director,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China
Dec 12 09:30:57, Equipment Engineering Manager (Shanghai based),Hudson Global Resources,CN-China
Dec 12 08:10:53, Senior Relationship Manager - Corporate Banking,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China
Dec 12 08:19:25, Electrical Design Manager,Hudson Global Resources,CN-China
Dec 12 01:54:21, Sr Human Resource Manger - US MNC,Harton Reed Limited,CN
No kidding? I can do that...just a matter of find the time I guess.
I originally did four years working in Japan for a firm making MRI machines - living outside the US is not for everyone, but it works for me... I then went back to the states, and got tired of the job market all over again, and ended up working for a huge electronics firm in Korea for another 4 years...all the while, wishing I was living/working in China, which I'd visited several times. I thought about going to China instead of Korea, but the job and business climate didn't seem quite ready for my needs at that time.
I waited for WTO to finish, so that I could come here and find better work and higher pay - I wanted the environment to take shape before I got here.
I finished in Korea and went back to the states, and found the same depressed job market, with so many out of work in the tech sector and pay flat, etc.
I tried to find a job in China, while sitting the Portland, but that didn't go anywhere. I knew the jobs were here, but I had to be here to participate. I finally sold everything off, pocketed the money and moved into a hotel, just inside China, right across from HongKong.
The recruiters won't take a close look at you if you don't fit the need that is on the sheet in front of them at the moment, so I had to cold call on local businesses - the ones that let me talk, and understood my resume, were all very interested, and next thing I knew I was turning down work and picking the job that interested me the most. I wanted to avoid a company that was staffed w/Americans, and work in an environment where I could study Chinese culture and business close up.
I now manage over 250 workers - just having an American around seems to make them want to do their best. Again, while there are many talented youngsters, there are not enough experienced managers to guide them and teach them how the rest of the world works and thinks. It's kind of fun watching them learn and catch on - The Chinese are not worker-bots like the Japanese or Koreans...they are more like westerners, in that they can act individually, etc.
As I said, living & working outside your own culture isn't for everyone. You need a thick skin and tons of patience. If you can settle in and know that there are good days and bad, you too can come to Asia and have the career you've been forced to put off elsewhere.
The job market is busting at the seams for middle managers. They have lots of smart techs, but it will be one more generation before they learn TQM, etc. If you know how to run a business, factory or project, you can start now. I walked right into an Operations Manager position for a small manufacturing tech firm, turning down 3 other offers at the same time.
...can't wait to read it, actually. Right after I finish reading the Worldwide Service Agreement that came with my lawnmower.