(But if Microsoft wanted to, they could become the world's biggest producer of Linux software.)
what a good strategy, if they could be the major linux vendor, with a little bit tweak, they can finally convince people that Windows(r) is really better than Linux.
ye, the piracy in China is really an "industry": they have product manager to decide the product line, they have mature resale system, customers can return the damaged disc back, no question asked, (better than most legal licensed shop), all subtitles are localized with damn good translation...... to mention just a few.
some of you may already knew, this industry is acquiesced by the government, this industry can help the selling of the VCD/DVD player machine, which can bring more taxes...... you know, people in China can not afford the price of licensed copy. the average incoming of citizens is about 300 USD/M. (i know that's not a excuse for piracy, don't argue on this)
but the price is not the point, the point is the censorship. without piracy, people have no way to watch the western movies (not only HOLYWOOD, but also European movies, which is a lot more better than HW), even if they'd like to pay for (like me:-), without piracy, people can not even watch some native movies, just because they are not allowed by the propaganda dept. of CCP. there are only about 10 western movies can be imported into China in one year, several month later than its show time
in China, the TV and the news paper and most other offical/legal publications are all bullsh1t, you just can not live without piracy.
the most amazing thing is not how beautiful it is, nor it feeds the intelligence creatures, but how these intelligence creatures take all of these for granted and ruin it, each and every day.
Damn right! but do you have any idea of how the "capitalism" looks like, feels like, lives like, in an autarchy? that will surprise you and make you rethink of whether "It is also one of the best, and is the only one that can save China"
btw: China provides free (28.8 dial-up) internet access to their citizens.
which is not true. yes, citizens here can access Internet (well, filtered) without an ISP account, we only need to dial a special number (mostly, 163/263/990) with well-known username/password (mostly, 163/163). but that's not free (beer), all the fees are included in the telephone bill at every end of month.
until that day, these monster companies sell those tweaked equipment/program to your_government/your_ISP/your_boss, and you got arrested and tortured to death just because you say "DOD sucks, they use our taxes in some way without our permission!" on slashdot.
i hope some of the above posters can still say: "hey, business is business, what's wrong with MS/SUN/CISCO anyway?!"
just put yourself in other's shoes for a moment before you post non-sense. you insensitive clod!
some experts from the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, studying the polar ice caps, are now pointing out some of the advantageous side effects of global warming. They are predicting that in 5 to 10 summers from now the polar ice caps would disappear for around 2 months each year opening up the fabled SouthSouth passage for commercial shipping. This would effectively reduce the shipping distance between Australia and South Africa by 16800 miles compared to the route using the Indian ocean, or Pacific ocean and Atlantic ocean.
CCP banned sf.net in China, mostly due to the freenet project. so i can not spread that download page to my friends, or on BBS, because not many proxys available for them. and i can not upload freenet to my own site, i'm afraid. if freenet team guys setup a mirror other than sf.net, it will be blocked too, in no time. the only way i can figure out is the p2p, i've put the installer into my share folder of kazaa, hope you, kazaa users, out there, can make a little help too. thank you!
"I'm working in China, and for the last 3 days Google and some other sites were not accessible.
yea, CNN, BBC and many many other sites were not accessible, they all have routing problems.
But since even sending SMS to europe didn't work I don't think it was censoring, more like routing problems of some sort.
i can not boot my computer this morning, i think that's why my PS2 doesn't work.
Anyway, Google is back and reports of slashdot blocking are also overrated:)"
o? Google is never gone, i can use it all the time, what? you mean "www.google.com"? oh, sorry, but i still can not access it NOW, i'm in China. should i go for some technical support?
here is the news report on a major chinese news site, this site used to be neutrally, but it then has been controlled by China government, yes, i don't have the evidence to prove that it is "semiofficial", but it really is. i don't have much time, so i can only translate the main point of this report:
To purify the Internet, some search engine has been banned "without day"
obvioursly, the un-controlled "carpet searching" sometimes is really a "dust collector", it may leads the user to those illegal site and page, and since its server is oversea, so our country has no "supervision" with it. that's quite reasonable to ban those search engine.
yes, it doesn't mention google, but everybody know who it is.
and then, why there are some people think it's a rumor, think it's a "technical problem". the reason is google is still accessible thru some IP address. and many mirror is not banned (in case you dunno the heading chinese on that mirror site, that's "I NEED Google"). so it's quite understandable as "DNS failure" or something like this. why mirror is not banned? one possible reason is the dictator himself has no knowledge about internet, the banning was executed by operator, the operator's responsibility is to show the dictator: "look, www.google.com is not accessible". yea, some operators are still human being, that's why we in China can still access google thru some mirror.
confirm over...
(is this a confirmation to the fact, or a confirmation to the rumor? i bet those naive people who think CCP is not that bad will never give up this quesiton.:)
slashdot finally post this story on the fp...
i feel both gratified and worrying
the 16th All-Hands meeting of CCP will be held on 18th Nov at BeiJing, it will announce the fourth core-leader of the party (the first three is Mao, Deng, Jiang), the political battle just run in white hot. you can image how could this be, in a autarchy. currently, they are very sensitive about the public media, as well as the internet, this is so called "the very period", that's why google has been banned. it's quite understandable(not acceptable) from my point of view (No, i'm not brainwashed), google will be ok after this year.
my respect goes to google
for their disobedience
my useless indignation goes to Cisco and Yahoo!
for their "commercial operation"
as far as i know, the Great Firewall is not that simple, it's not only based on IP address filter, it do filter IP packet, i mean, even if i use some proxy server outside the wall, i still can not access some website (the proxy itself is not been blocked), i doubt the wall is based on content filter: if it find some sensitive words (mostly, the domain name of the website) in an IP packet, it just throw it out as junk.
i don't know if this comments will be seen by the slashdot editor, but i really don't like to see this kind story on slastdot, because CCP are fascistic, they are insane, they even banned sourceforge, they can ban slashdot in no time. i just afraid....
PlanetQuake3: Does the fact that the editor is integrated into the engine mean that there won't be an open source version that is continuously updated like GTKRadiant?
Tim Willits: Too early to say.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i think "build-in editor" doesn't mean there's only ONE executable. the rendering engine and the editor (create and manipulate brushes and objects) are different thing, even if they are integrated so tightly, there must be a interface, i don't think it's a must to be in one executable, and i do think Id won't do so.
if a guy decide to break the EULA of the game, i mean, he just reverse-engineering the executable, nothing (technical speaking) can stop him to cheat online. "it is a fundamentally unwinnable technical battle to make a completely cheat proof game of this type." - JC
so, i think p2p is not that a big deal to introduce insecure risk, we just do what we was doing: "play with our friend"
is there anyone can explain to me how come the Music Industry think they can prevent CD copy? i always think i can play it thru speaker, then record it as any format i like, or be more professional, rent a recording studio...
Slashdot Mirror
oh, wait, where is the delicious beef in my mouth? or i should image that by myself and pay you money? i can image that without your game, sir.
(But if Microsoft wanted to, they could become the world's biggest producer of Linux software.)
what a good strategy, if they could be the major linux vendor, with a little bit tweak, they can finally convince people that Windows(r) is really better than Linux.
ye, the piracy in China is really an "industry": they have product manager to decide the product line, they have mature resale system, customers can return the damaged disc back, no question asked, (better than most legal licensed shop), all subtitles are localized with damn good translation ...... to mention just a few.
...... you know, people in China can not afford the price of licensed copy. the average incoming of citizens is about 300 USD/M. (i know that's not a excuse for piracy, don't argue on this)
:-), without piracy, people can not even watch some native movies, just because they are not allowed by the propaganda dept. of CCP. there are only about 10 western movies can be imported into China in one year, several month later than its show time
some of you may already knew, this industry is acquiesced by the government, this industry can help the selling of the VCD/DVD player machine, which can bring more taxes
but the price is not the point, the point is the censorship. without piracy, people have no way to watch the western movies (not only HOLYWOOD, but also European movies, which is a lot more better than HW), even if they'd like to pay for (like me
in China, the TV and the news paper and most other offical/legal publications are all bullsh1t, you just can not live without piracy.
good, ALPHA is dead, can't wait the end day of SPARC...i'll smash down those shitty endian-detect code happily.
Cheer!
the most amazing thing is not how beautiful it is, nor it feeds the intelligence creatures, but how these intelligence creatures take all of these for granted and ruin it, each and every day.
sorry, a little bit offtopic.
it is even more capitalistic than the West
Damn right! but do you have any idea of how the "capitalism" looks like, feels like, lives like, in an autarchy? that will surprise you and make you rethink of whether "It is also one of the best, and is the only one that can save China"
btw:
China provides free (28.8 dial-up) internet access to their citizens.
which is not true. yes, citizens here can access Internet (well, filtered) without an ISP account, we only need to dial a special number (mostly, 163/263/990) with well-known username/password (mostly, 163/163). but that's not free (beer), all the fees are included in the telephone bill at every end of month.
teach her how to change the windows appearance (color scheme), that's what i taught my girl friend.
Probably the first "Informative" first post ever.
ye, anyone can laugh at him and say: "you stupid.", but he is one of the men who get the real profit. fudge the threat and get the budget, old trick.
until that day, these monster companies sell those tweaked equipment/program to your_government/your_ISP/your_boss, and you got arrested and tortured to death just because you say "DOD sucks, they use our taxes in some way without our permission!" on slashdot.
i hope some of the above posters can still say: "hey, business is business, what's wrong with MS/SUN/CISCO anyway?!"
just put yourself in other's shoes for a moment before you post non-sense. you insensitive clod!
maybe only you still think there is *land* after all ice cap at south pole melted.
in the forthcoming future:
some experts from the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, studying the polar ice caps, are now pointing out some of the advantageous side effects of global warming. They are predicting that in 5 to 10 summers from now the polar ice caps would disappear for around 2 months each year opening up the fabled SouthSouth passage for commercial shipping. This would effectively reduce the shipping distance between Australia and South Africa by 16800 miles compared to the route using the Indian ocean, or Pacific ocean and Atlantic ocean.
and they call themselve experts....
Ever suspected (or feared) that web users are mostly mindless sheep evaluating your website more by the eye candy than your carefully crafted content?
/., it has so many cute icons...Einstein, penguin...to mention just a few...
well, that's how i evaluating
CCP banned sf.net in China, mostly due to the freenet project. so i can not spread that download page to my friends, or on BBS, because not many proxys available for them. and i can not upload freenet to my own site, i'm afraid. if freenet team guys setup a mirror other than sf.net, it will be blocked too, in no time. the only way i can figure out is the p2p, i've put the installer into my share folder of kazaa, hope you, kazaa users, out there, can make a little help too. thank you!
this book is excellent, it's all about the theory of practice, the theory of daily programming work. so i don't think it can fit the submitter's taste
yes,it's definite routing problems, but is it an accident or is it intended?
anonymous reader writes:
:)"
"I'm working in China, and for the last 3 days Google and some other sites were not accessible.
yea, CNN, BBC and many many other sites were not accessible, they all have routing problems.
But since even sending SMS to europe didn't work I don't think it was censoring, more like routing problems of some sort.
i can not boot my computer this morning, i think that's why my PS2 doesn't work.
Anyway, Google is back and reports of slashdot blocking are also overrated
o? Google is never gone, i can use it all the time, what? you mean "www.google.com"? oh, sorry, but i still can not access it NOW, i'm in China. should i go for some technical support?
here is the news report on a major chinese news site, this site used to be neutrally, but it then has been controlled by China government, yes, i don't have the evidence to prove that it is "semiofficial", but it really is. i don't have much time, so i can only translate the main point of this report:
To purify the Internet, some search engine has been banned "without day"
obvioursly, the un-controlled "carpet searching" sometimes is really a "dust collector", it may leads the user to those illegal site and page, and since its server is oversea, so our country has no "supervision" with it. that's quite reasonable to ban those search engine.
yes, it doesn't mention google, but everybody know who it is.
and then, why there are some people think it's a rumor, think it's a "technical problem". the reason is google is still accessible thru some IP address. and many mirror is not banned (in case you dunno the heading chinese on that mirror site, that's "I NEED Google"). so it's quite understandable as "DNS failure" or something like this. why mirror is not banned? one possible reason is the dictator himself has no knowledge about internet, the banning was executed by operator, the operator's responsibility is to show the dictator: "look, www.google.com is not accessible". yea, some operators are still human being, that's why we in China can still access google thru some mirror.
confirm over...
(is this a confirmation to the fact, or a confirmation to the rumor? i bet those naive people who think CCP is not that bad will never give up this quesiton.
see my another post about this
China reportedly blocks Google access
slashdot finally post this story on the fp...
i feel both gratified and worrying
the 16th All-Hands meeting of CCP will be held on 18th Nov at BeiJing, it will announce the fourth core-leader of the party (the first three is Mao, Deng, Jiang), the political battle just run in white hot. you can image how could this be, in a autarchy. currently, they are very sensitive about the public media, as well as the internet, this is so called "the very period", that's why google has been banned. it's quite understandable(not acceptable) from my point of view (No, i'm not brainwashed), google will be ok after this year.
my respect goes to google
for their disobedience
my useless indignation goes to Cisco and Yahoo!
for their "commercial operation"
god or someone else bless us...
free speech rulz
yes, it's fascistic
as far as i know, the Great Firewall is not that simple, it's not only based on IP address filter, it do filter IP packet, i mean, even if i use some proxy server outside the wall, i still can not access some website (the proxy itself is not been blocked), i doubt the wall is based on content filter: if it find some sensitive words (mostly, the domain name of the website) in an IP packet, it just throw it out as junk.
i don't know if this comments will be seen by the slashdot editor, but i really don't like to see this kind story on slastdot, because CCP are fascistic, they are insane, they even banned sourceforge, they can ban slashdot in no time. i just afraid....
PlanetQuake3: Does the fact that the editor is integrated into the engine mean that there won't be an open source version that is continuously updated like GTKRadiant?
Tim Willits: Too early to say.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i think "build-in editor" doesn't mean there's only ONE executable. the rendering engine and the editor (create and manipulate brushes and objects) are different thing, even if they are integrated so tightly, there must be a interface, i don't think it's a must to be in one executable, and i do think Id won't do so.
client-server is insecure too.
if a guy decide to break the EULA of the game, i mean, he just reverse-engineering the executable, nothing (technical speaking) can stop him to cheat online. "it is a fundamentally unwinnable technical battle to make a completely cheat proof game of this type." - JC
so, i think p2p is not that a big deal to introduce insecure risk, we just do what we was doing: "play with our friend"
is there anyone can explain to me how come the Music Industry think they can prevent CD copy? i always think i can play it thru speaker, then record it as any format i like, or be more professional, rent a recording studio...