A lot of people ARE making a lot of money under the current system, living standard have generally improved (even if it is accompanied by a widening of the gap between the rich and the poor), hence they are in no hurry to "overthrow" the government.
Freedom of Speech is desirable but it does not put food on the table or pay for the rents/bills, which is of far more immediate concern to most people.
It just does not appear on most chinese people's radar, even amongst the techies and the compscis, and even those with excellent English skills would find reading a similar website in Chinese much easier. Similarly, just consider how many non-Chinese slashdotters can actually read Chinese?
fine, so the game doesn't quite work the way i thought it did, but it is not that clearly described in the article (not at all in the summary). I still think that it is just a simple prediction model, anyone can do it if they had access to the right equipment. I stand by my original comment, what is your point?
all they have achieved is predicting how far away the game has placed the next jump, based on indirect observation. You can probably achieved the same result with any statistical prediction model. If the player can jump freely without having to catch the branches then I doubt their system would be that accurate.
This doesn't even have the slightest connection to second life, their system is not online and second life is not VR , in fact the article only mentions lawnmower man.
I look forward to the day when not every other article has second life crowbarred into it.
just because people don't vote doesn't mean they are apathetic, sometime it is just willful non-participation because they realised that the goverment doesn't listen and there no real alternatives.
prove it! I have travelled to and from china multiple times in the last few years (I live in the UK but my parents live in China). I have been able to access/. everytime.
Some people have ridiculously high opinion of/., it is not the BBC or even Wikipedia for that matter.
I don't know about other governemnts, but there's certainly no data retention laws for ISPs in the United States. I'm not certain if email has been ruled to be covered by privacy laws, but I'd certainly hope so.
In the US, less than 5% of ppl serve in the military, In china it is near 100% for at least 2 years .
a confusing statement and not true however you interpret it, students take up a month (or two month I don't know the exact details) of military training (not really military service) either before or after their first year of university (again I can't remember). It is more to teach students to be self reliant than anything else as most students are the only child in the family and some are rather spoilt and reliant on their parents.
The scars of WW2 are fresh in china's mind, and japan will likely we treated in the same manner as the president of Iran wants to treat israel, ie. wiped off the face of the map .
unlikely, the point about the conflict between israel and the muslim countries is that a lot of it stems from ideological differences. Something like do not exist between China and Japan. Plus wiping japan out gains nothing and is not good for business and the economy.
Riots in china's streets over Koizumi visiting a military shrine in japan speak to the level of anger that still boils , 60 years later .
Firstly, demonstration and protests are not the same as riots. Those in the west keep talking about that China should let it go because it is been more than half a century but you have to remember that the shrine is basically honouring war criminals, how would europe and the US feel if the German chancellor decides to do/visit a church service for those responsible for the concentration camp and holocaust. Hypothetically speaking of course, as it is incredibly unlikely, the germans seems to be much better at dealing with whole WW2 issue.
1) is a problem that do get reported every so often, if not on a national level then at least at an regional level. It is probably more acute in beijing because there are much more workers from other provinces.
2) is downright appalling, such heartlessness tend to be because the staff are heartless bastards.
3), 4) and 5) are most definitely illegal but China is a huge place and it is diffcult to completely stop this kind of things from happening, the goverment have tried to remedy these problems, but maybe they haven't try hard enough
I am surprised that you have witnessed either 6) or 7), doesn't seem like something that you just find on the streets. I am not saying it might not be true, though.
as for 8), it is a matter of judgement, what was the trivial crime?
Mostly of what you pointed out are really social problems or in half of the cases, plain crimes, not exactly crime against humanity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_humanit y#List_of_alleged_crimes_against_humanity_in_the_2 0th_century
Remember that train that blew up as it was going to make its way out of NK into China? What do you think that train was associated with carrying? How do you think nuke secrets made it to NK from Pakistan? By boat in international waters? No way! Through China. The Chinese have secretly been encouraging nuclear proliferation because they would rather we got into a nuke war with some minor player, like Pakistan, NK, or Iran.
This is rather speculative, do you have any evidence to back it up?
I don't think slashdot is blocked, at least it wasn't when I went back to visit my parent august 2004.
It might be a bit much to expect someone in China, for whom english is not their first language, to visit slashdot (it is not quite BBC news) and to care enough to read the comments and bother to reply, but I am only guessing here.
I'd have thought they would visit some equivalent chinese websites.
He is either completely nuts or so egotistical (with a healthy amount of greed) that he actually believes all this crap.
Although it sounds remarkably like Scientology, which I must say, is the best space opera I have ever read...
I suggest you talk to some people who have actually lived in China, it is hardly doom, gloom and three courses of brutal dicatorship a day.
And anyway, China's politic is changing, albeit slowly and I would prefer an evolutionary process than a revolutionary process which is will just create chaos afterward.
Yes, you are paranoid. You are seeing enemies around every corners.
... to keep people from being "infected" by rogue ideas like ownership, equality
ownership, a rogue idea? you haven't been to china lately have you? I am not gonna argue about equality, the word need to be better defined.
government existing through the sanction of the governed.
That is really funny(I am assuming you are an american), for a country run by a president who actually lost the election.
China is the closest thing to 1984 on the planet right now.
If that is so, I guess the US catching up really fast. Goverment agencies looking through everyone's e-mail, checking their library records, and generally "keep eye on" people who speak ill of the goverment. With Patriot II on the horizon, you'd soon be able to be locked up by your own goverment without charge and denied any access from outside. (I last heard this a few week ago on BBC).
True, the cloaked destroyers can be a complete bastard, I suppose you just have make sure you are at the peak of your fleet's strength before you take them on and manually adjust target as each destroyer blinks in and out of visibility.
For the final mission, if I remembered correctly you had to survive 3 attacks (or was it 2) before reinforcement arrives. I had half a dozens of minelayer corvette laying hundreds of mine in around the mothership (depends on where the attacks is coming from), they tends to do quite a bit of damage. Only problem is enough ships may eventually might get past in these attacks to take out the mothership. It is not too hard, might have be quicker than previous missions when it comes to repair and stuff.
I have been on the homeworld forum and it seems a lot of people use the tactics of using salvage frigate to capture the ions frigates while avoiding triggering the cut scenes or something.
Some people seem to enjoy the fact that they spend hours to capture all or most of ion frigates, don't quite understand it myself.
I completed the said mission differently, bearly in mind this maybe common knowledge to everyone else and just make me sounds ignorant but here it goes: I built half a dozens or of interceptors or scouts, then proceed to deliberately trigger the cut scenes by flying one of the interceptors within in the sphere but close to the edges so to attract the ion frigates. Once the ion frigates reached and presumably destroyed the interceptors they will stay exactly where they even if it is the edge of the map.
Repeat to lure all the ion frigates away.
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A lot of people ARE making a lot of money under the current system, living standard have generally improved (even if it is accompanied by a widening of the gap between the rich and the poor), hence they are in no hurry to "overthrow" the government. Freedom of Speech is desirable but it does not put food on the table or pay for the rents/bills, which is of far more immediate concern to most people.
It just does not appear on most chinese people's radar, even amongst the techies and the compscis, and even those with excellent English skills would find reading a similar website in Chinese much easier. Similarly, just consider how many non-Chinese slashdotters can actually read Chinese?
fine, so the game doesn't quite work the way i thought it did, but it is not that clearly described in the article (not at all in the summary). I still think that it is just a simple prediction model, anyone can do it if they had access to the right equipment. I stand by my original comment, what is your point?
all they have achieved is predicting how far away the game has placed the next jump, based on indirect observation. You can probably achieved the same result with any statistical prediction model. If the player can jump freely without having to catch the branches then I doubt their system would be that accurate.
This doesn't even have the slightest connection to second life, their system is not online and second life is not VR , in fact the article only mentions lawnmower man.
I look forward to the day when not every other article has second life crowbarred into it.
just because people don't vote doesn't mean they are apathetic, sometime it is just willful non-participation because they realised that the goverment doesn't listen and there no real alternatives.
prove it! I have travelled to and from china multiple times in the last few years (I live in the UK but my parents live in China). I have been able to access /. everytime.
/., it is not the BBC or even Wikipedia for that matter.
Some people have ridiculously high opinion of
That is because the US doesn't need one, all your traffics just get forwarded to NSA anyway.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/07/1
Hopefully, GalCiv2 will be the game that MOO3 should have been.
a confusing statement and not true however you interpret it, students take up a month (or two month I don't know the exact details) of military training (not really military service) either before or after their first year of university (again I can't remember). It is more to teach students to be self reliant than anything else as most students are the only child in the family and some are rather spoilt and reliant on their parents.
unlikely, the point about the conflict between israel and the muslim countries is that a lot of it stems from ideological differences. Something like do not exist between China and Japan. Plus wiping japan out gains nothing and is not good for business and the economy.
Firstly, demonstration and protests are not the same as riots. Those in the west keep talking about that China should let it go because it is been more than half a century but you have to remember that the shrine is basically honouring war criminals, how would europe and the US feel if the German chancellor decides to do/visit a church service for those responsible for the concentration camp and holocaust. Hypothetically speaking of course, as it is incredibly unlikely, the germans seems to be much better at dealing with whole WW2 issue.
1) is a problem that do get reported every so often, if not on a national level then at least at an regional level. It is probably more acute in beijing because there are much more workers from other provinces. 2) is downright appalling, such heartlessness tend to be because the staff are heartless bastards. 3), 4) and 5) are most definitely illegal but China is a huge place and it is diffcult to completely stop this kind of things from happening, the goverment have tried to remedy these problems, but maybe they haven't try hard enough I am surprised that you have witnessed either 6) or 7), doesn't seem like something that you just find on the streets. I am not saying it might not be true, though. as for 8), it is a matter of judgement, what was the trivial crime? Mostly of what you pointed out are really social problems or in half of the cases, plain crimes, not exactly crime against humanity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_humanit y#List_of_alleged_crimes_against_humanity_in_the_2 0th_century
such as?
except you won't know which version to pick.
I don't think so, I connected to my university (manchester) account via ssh while I was in china last year.
I don't think slashdot is blocked, at least it wasn't when I went back to visit my parent august 2004.
It might be a bit much to expect someone in China, for whom english is not their first language, to visit slashdot (it is not quite BBC news) and to care enough to read the comments and bother to reply, but I am only guessing here.
I'd have thought they would visit some equivalent chinese websites.
Of course china is gonna be worried about this sort of thing.
e ws/2002/01/20/wjet20.xml
After all a Boeing plane bought by the chinese goverment for presidential uses, was found to be bugged.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n
He is either completely nuts or so egotistical (with a healthy amount of greed) that he actually believes all this crap. Although it sounds remarkably like Scientology, which I must say, is the best space opera I have ever read...
These guys have no moral problem with driving tanks over college students. A common misconception, the tanks did not drive over anyone.
don't know about now, but when I went back last august, I accessed /. without any problem.
...and with great power comes HEAT VISION! hehe
I suggest you talk to some people who have actually lived in China, it is hardly doom, gloom and three courses of brutal dicatorship a day.
And anyway, China's politic is changing, albeit slowly and I would prefer an evolutionary process than a revolutionary process which is will just create chaos afterward.
True, the cloaked destroyers can be a complete bastard, I suppose you just have make sure you are at the peak of your fleet's strength before you take them on and manually adjust target as each destroyer blinks in and out of visibility. For the final mission, if I remembered correctly you had to survive 3 attacks (or was it 2) before reinforcement arrives. I had half a dozens of minelayer corvette laying hundreds of mine in around the mothership (depends on where the attacks is coming from), they tends to do quite a bit of damage. Only problem is enough ships may eventually might get past in these attacks to take out the mothership. It is not too hard, might have be quicker than previous missions when it comes to repair and stuff.
I have been on the homeworld forum and it seems a lot of people use the tactics of using salvage frigate to capture the ions frigates while avoiding triggering the cut scenes or something. Some people seem to enjoy the fact that they spend hours to capture all or most of ion frigates, don't quite understand it myself. I completed the said mission differently, bearly in mind this maybe common knowledge to everyone else and just make me sounds ignorant but here it goes: I built half a dozens or of interceptors or scouts, then proceed to deliberately trigger the cut scenes by flying one of the interceptors within in the sphere but close to the edges so to attract the ion frigates. Once the ion frigates reached and presumably destroyed the interceptors they will stay exactly where they even if it is the edge of the map. Repeat to lure all the ion frigates away.