Many analysts believe that the protests over Tibet have only served to strengthen Chinese nationalism rather than evoke sympathy for the Tibetan cause.
I would say they already had a strong Chinese nationalism, and they are being able to channel it not.
I have long held that Tibetans are doomed. It is the exact reason why Gandhism fails - it has in the core a belief that oppressor will feel you pain at some point (or shame at oppressing you, whichever way you put it).
But in this day and age of "remote" media, there is no (visual) connection between people - and the assumption fails at the very premise.
If Tibetans had an army, fought a war - and lost - they would have a much better say.
Every time there is a story about India, all comments are about call centers (yeah! I know they suck!), or Cows. Still, I have never read so much crap on Slashdot before.
As an Indian, I have never, never, found caste being a problem, except when you want to marry a girl - and when a guy wants to bail out of some situation and invokes this card. Your hyperbole about "authority" and "cultural difference" is nothing but rotting xenophobia. That, or you are just pain trolling.
GP was dead on point when it stated that most Indians are taught programming in the companies - they completely lack any interest in over the top performance - they know they are cheap workers, and they know their job is laborious. So much for the motivation.
I guess that over there, they learn to work based only on what is given them, and not to think as independently as we are over here, to look for a new way to do things, etc.
O RLY? So you don't know anything about "over there" and want to make sweeping uninformed statements... I wonder why you are not preferred.
Of course, this is based only on my observations from work experience.
I doubt GP had taken India culture as a course, or spent years in India. What you understand from what you see is a product of your mind. Until the Indians have personally told you how they are not taught to innovate(?), it is xenophobia - a complete lack of interest in people who are taking your jobs.
Yeah right. The forum is full of pics of him AND his girlfriend from Facebook. If you really checked the forum, they are posting the thread to literally every news site just for humiliating the guy.
Actually, bipedal movement like this, which involves gravity, is more efficient energy wise. Bipedal movement by itself (read motor driven) is not efficient. I think that's what GP meant. For example, imagine a robot with very little energy to move, on Mars, "walking away from the trouble"...
And when you use wheels, you cannot effectively use gravity, since they are inherently symmetric.
What I would like to see now, is that after gaining a little moment, the robot replaces the "feet" with a wheel, effectively making it a skateboarder. That would be awesome!
You should apologize for people who pester me everyday at some random corner telling me how Jesus loves me, and that I should "think about these things".
Well, all the computers in my institute run on Linux.
Almost all of the supercomputers run Linux or BSD.[1]
As John Ousterhout said: "The second problem I have seen (really more of a limitation) is that open-source software hasn't broken out of the "tools and systems" arena." So while I can give you that, it makes me think about Apache, Firefox, MySQL etc.
So, yeah, "open source has been a ridiculously huge success".
Actually, Linux's requirements seem to be coming down in some areas. KDE4, despite having way more eyecandy is actually supposed to required less resources than KDE3. Sorry, but that is just not true. KDE4 requires less resources on a modern computer, because it uses new functions found in modern processors. I cannot be bothered to actually cite this, but I know my "Qt/KDE enthusiast" programmer friend who was told at KDE mailing list that any computer older than 3 years is not supported by KDE4 team.
I know it sounds reasonable enough, but in poorer countries like India, more people are running old computers than newer ones.
3) Aesthetics - OOo still looks like it's stuck in the mid 90's. MS Office has nicer fonts by default.
Oh, come on!
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
And I work on a machine with 512 MB ram and 2 GHz athlon amd, and although it is sluggish, it is NOT intolerable! And please please please try this alpha - I am blown away! Beside all the things that already mentioned in TFA, you can now change templates on the fly in impress! AND it has got pretty tables from MS Office 2007.
You get this for free, you get this on Linux - I wish I had money to spend it on the development. I have more respect for Sun today.
Why shouldn't they? I live near Sarnath, India - a place full with Tibetans. They do peaceful marches in Delhi sometimes. They don't get reported in newspapers too...
The reality is that they have listened to Dalai Lama for so long, and it has bought NOTHING to them. Until now there Chinese "neighbors" were also poor, but now Tibetans see that religion is not helping and they need to take materialism seriously. It is a revolution for them - something that will fail no doubt, because people in power, both western and Chinese, are basking in profit.
And by the way, "Hollywood" is not "West". This sort of thinking is childish and nothing else. There is no mention of Taiwan in movies, but its existence in itself is proof of western interference.
The simple reality is that Taiwan is manufacturing, while Tibet is just a mostly sparse barren plateau. While you want to paint it as rivalry, it is mostly something mentioned already here.
But you know what, may be they ARE Chinese... if there is one thing that I learned after leaving India, then it is that people stick to all the "theories" they have been taught in child-hood, and will defend it till they are shown they look like idiots, after which they will stop defending, but still believe.
How would you feel if suddenly a lot of Chinese start living in Australia, so much so that native Australians become minority (to put it in context, you get no democracy)?
It should not be that hard, since you did the same to Aboriginal People. Except that it was really a long time ago, and world has moved on.
The act in China tells us that the world has actually not moved on - that or China is catching up:)
(Now, day before) yesterday I was using beta 3... but as I said, it is there, but I cannot reproduce it.
This does not mean I am trying to downplay the development, because Firefox beta 3 was a breeze after the mess that was v2... but one should not report opinions as "facts"! It is like Ahmadinejad saying they do not have any homosexuals in Iran!
It amazes me how Firefox fanboys will say this everytime!
Yesterday I had two pages opened - two! One was Unicode reference page and other was some forum, when suddenly my 512 MB ram was full and by the time I opened a terminal and ran vmstat, already 300 MB of swap was used! I killed firefox and restarted, with "Restore Session" and it happened again. Then I restarted it without restoring and entered the two URLs again, but everything went fine. Thus, I couldn't report it as a bug.
But it is just so amazing to see people saying something as a "fact"!!!
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I would say they already had a strong Chinese nationalism, and they are being able to channel it not.
I have long held that Tibetans are doomed. It is the exact reason why Gandhism fails - it has in the core a belief that oppressor will feel you pain at some point (or shame at oppressing you, whichever way you put it).
But in this day and age of "remote" media, there is no (visual) connection between people - and the assumption fails at the very premise.
If Tibetans had an army, fought a war - and lost - they would have a much better say.
Hmmm... so when are we going to see Giant Coral reefs draining the Gaea out of it's soul?
Yeah, you are correct. I don't know how to say it though...
:(
There has to be a word for it and it looks like I almost remember it, but I don't
That when RMS himself says that Sun is the biggest single corporate contributor to open source.
Slashdot's credibility is drowning.
All I am saying is that if you are working as a H1B visa worker in USA, there is a high chance that your caste wasn't stopping you from doing it.
Some other people are saying I should grow thicker skin :). I agree.
To you, I will just say, nice straw man.
I also quit smoking :)
As an Indian, I have never, never, found caste being a problem, except when you want to marry a girl - and when a guy wants to bail out of some situation and invokes this card. Your hyperbole about "authority" and "cultural difference" is nothing but rotting xenophobia. That, or you are just pain trolling.
GP was dead on point when it stated that most Indians are taught programming in the companies - they completely lack any interest in over the top performance - they know they are cheap workers, and they know their job is laborious. So much for the motivation.O RLY? So you don't know anything about "over there" and want to make sweeping uninformed statements... I wonder why you are not preferred.I doubt GP had taken India culture as a course, or spent years in India. What you understand from what you see is a product of your mind. Until the Indians have personally told you how they are not taught to innovate(?), it is xenophobia - a complete lack of interest in people who are taking your jobs.
Yeah right. The forum is full of pics of him AND his girlfriend from Facebook. If you really checked the forum, they are posting the thread to literally every news site just for humiliating the guy.
Of course, it is not vigilantism.
Actually, bipedal movement like this, which involves gravity, is more efficient energy wise. Bipedal movement by itself (read motor driven) is not efficient. I think that's what GP meant. For example, imagine a robot with very little energy to move, on Mars, "walking away from the trouble" ...
And when you use wheels, you cannot effectively use gravity, since they are inherently symmetric.
What I would like to see now, is that after gaining a little moment, the robot replaces the "feet" with a wheel, effectively making it a skateboarder. That would be awesome!
The problem with your truth table is here:
C G G 2 3 NO LOSE
C G G 2 3 YES WIN
C G G 3 2 NO LOSE
C G G 3 2 YES WIN
which actually should be:
C G G 2 3 NO LOSE
C G G 2 3 YES LOSE
C G G 3 2 NO LOSE
C G G 3 2 YES LOSE
because you chose "G"oat in the fist chance, and you lose right there, because don't get the second chance.
I just laughed thinking this is another dupe, but then I remembered that I was reading Firehose this morning.
:p
Ok, my expectations from Slashdot are abysmal these days.
No no! That's "Apple" "iPhone".
Don't misrepresent average people, both of you!
You should apologize for people who pester me everyday at some random corner telling me how Jesus loves me, and that I should "think about these things".
Just kidding.
Btw, I am a Hindu and I don't believe in God(s).
Well, all the computers in my institute run on Linux.
Almost all of the supercomputers run Linux or BSD.[1]
As John Ousterhout said: "The second problem I have seen (really more of a limitation) is that open-source software hasn't broken out of the "tools and systems" arena."
So while I can give you that, it makes me think about Apache, Firefox, MySQL etc.
So, yeah, "open source has been a ridiculously huge success".
I know it sounds reasonable enough, but in poorer countries like India, more people are running old computers than newer ones.
Ah! I didn't know that. Pure genius...
Why shouldn't they? I live near Sarnath, India - a place full with Tibetans. They do peaceful marches in Delhi sometimes. They don't get reported in newspapers too...
The reality is that they have listened to Dalai Lama for so long, and it has bought NOTHING to them. Until now there Chinese "neighbors" were also poor, but now Tibetans see that religion is not helping and they need to take materialism seriously. It is a revolution for them - something that will fail no doubt, because people in power, both western and Chinese, are basking in profit.
And by the way, "Hollywood" is not "West". This sort of thinking is childish and nothing else. There is no mention of Taiwan in movies, but its existence in itself is proof of western interference.
The simple reality is that Taiwan is manufacturing, while Tibet is just a mostly sparse barren plateau. While you want to paint it as rivalry, it is mostly something mentioned already here.
Ah! Thanks for being another one who was amazed!
But you know what, may be they ARE Chinese... if there is one thing that I learned after leaving India, then it is that people stick to all the "theories" they have been taught in child-hood, and will defend it till they are shown they look like idiots, after which they will stop defending, but still believe.
How would you feel if suddenly a lot of Chinese start living in Australia, so much so that native Australians become minority (to put it in context, you get no democracy)?
:)
It should not be that hard, since you did the same to Aboriginal People. Except that it was really a long time ago, and world has moved on.
The act in China tells us that the world has actually not moved on - that or China is catching up
No! I bet you are using Firefox. Just Ctrl+Shift+R (hard reload) again and see the dance :)
(Now, day before) yesterday I was using beta 3... but as I said, it is there, but I cannot reproduce it.
This does not mean I am trying to downplay the development, because Firefox beta 3 was a breeze after the mess that was v2... but one should not report opinions as "facts"! It is like Ahmadinejad saying they do not have any homosexuals in Iran!
Yesterday I had two pages opened - two! One was Unicode reference page and other was some forum, when suddenly my 512 MB ram was full and by the time I opened a terminal and ran vmstat, already 300 MB of swap was used! I killed firefox and restarted, with "Restore Session" and it happened again. Then I restarted it without restoring and entered the two URLs again, but everything went fine. Thus, I couldn't report it as a bug.
But it is just so amazing to see people saying something as a "fact"!!!