China further on intruding on its citizens who are already exploited and given no voice is a valid concern -- until it causes the rest of the world the slightest discomfort?
And what exactly would you have the rest of the world do about it? Chinese are already subject to an oppressive dictatorial government, as are North Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Laotians, Burmese, Iranians, Zimbabweans, and in general around half the total world population.
Yeah. I know what you're saying. I love the taxi drivers in particular. If you want to get a wonderful perspective on China, chat up one of them. (Outside of Beijing and Shanghai.)
Really? Almost universally I have been patiently explained that "tank guy" was sick, and he has been cared for by the government, getting the mental health care he needs. As a caveat, I am told what great people the PLA soldiers are, because they stopped for him. (Although there might be something to that. I wonder what happened to the tank driver....)
And, I think you'll agree that it is even less likely that a Chinese grew up completely isolated from world affairs, given the amount of control the CCP has over China.
Umm, have you been to China? Every radio station, every television station, every newspaper tows the party line. The Great Firewall blocks inordinate amounts of information. There are no ACLU backed librarians.
Without a burning desire to obtain truth regarding local affairs and recent history, there is no way for Chinese in China to educate themselves.
* How old are the Chinese people you met? My father is in his early 50s, and he left China in the mid 1980s. He is well aware that China fought the UN in the Korean War, reclaimed Tibet in 1959, beat India in 1962, feuded with the USSR, and tied Vietnam in the 1980s. I highly doubt that he's the only one who knows all those things.
College students, AKA educated people. Like I referred to in the post.
* The US-led counterattack at Incheon pushed the North Koreans all the way back to the Yalu River. The People's Volunteer Army then entered the war and pushed the UN back to the 38th parallel, no easy task considering that the UN forces were far better equipped than the PVA. I find it very unlikely that Chinese would not be taught this, especially since one battle in the Korean War marked the first time in a century that a Chinese army defeated a Western army.
As an aside, MccArthur's idiotic attack on Incheon (which should be considered as possible proof that a deity does exist and blesses fools) did in no way speed the advance along the Korean Peninsula. Now, had you read what I posted, I made several very specific comments. All Chinese know that they "beat the United States in Korea". They do not know that they were actually at war with the UN. They do not know that over one million Chinese died in a pointless war. They do not know how close they came to being wiped off the planet through the use of atomic weapons.
* If you ask Chinese whether the PLA invaded Tibet, I'm sure you'll get a lot of confused looks. The fact of the matter is, no modern Chinese government has ever accepted the claim that Tibet was independent before 1959. You see it as an invasion; they saw it as reclaiming rogue territory.
And if you call a duck a goose, does it make the duck a goose? It was an invasion.
* Regardless of what some hardcore Indian nationalists say, India lost the 1962 Sino-Indian War. This is not a secret in China.
Actually, it effectively is. History classes in China ignore this part of the Communist Party's glorious history. Almost anyone under the age of about 40 raised in China will have no idea that their government invaded India. And I never said that India won this war. They got spanked. What does that have to do with anything in my post?
* Anyone raised in China during the time the PRC began its feud with the USSR knows of the Sino-Soviet Split. Mao was pretty forthright in his dislike of the USSR when he started bitching with Khrushchev.
See above.
* China did not lose its border war with Vietnam. The result was inconclusive. Both sides suffered heavy casualties for such a brief war, and neither side gained or lost any territory. If you were old enough to remember events as a person living in 1980s China, then you'll remember this war.
Quit drinking the koolaid. When the largest military in the world is unable to inflict its will upon a relatively tiny neighbor when using military means, it loses.
* I can only say that the Chinese you know are either really young or never bothered to pay attention to their country's affairs when they were growing up.
Most are young, as most overseas Chinese are. Youth is not an excuse for appalling ignorance, particularly when the youth has been given an extensive education. The young overseas Chinese I have met are, without exception, among the most brainwashed people I have ever come across. As someone else states elsewhere, yes, there are spies in the Chinese community reporting back to the local consulate. But that is not an excuse for the appalling lack of knowledge that the overseas Chinese Masters and PhD students have concerning their country's recent past.
I agree with you entirely. But I am not talking about people on the street. People with Phds should be held to a higher standard and should be aware of their country's recent history.
On a side note. It's fairly debatable about the Chinese losing the Sino-Vietnam war. Both sides claim victory (as is expected) but it's not like China was kicked back out of Vietnam. Neither did they surrender or sign a ceasefire. In fact on their way out of the country they did a lot of damage to Vietnam.
Admittedly their goal of getting the Vietnamese to withdraw from Cambodia was a failure but does that count as losing the war? Surely if that's the case then America lost it's war in Afghanistan when they failed to find Bin Laden.
If the largest military in the world fails to achieve its military objectives while operating in its own backyard, it is a loss. China captured some Vietnamese villages, lost a lot of boys, and failed to achieve anything like a victory in a costly two year war.
You don't know overseas Chinese until you've been blasted with the evils of the US media industry (substitute publishing, indymedia, ad nos.). I have been in the overseas community since I met the lady who became my wife a decade ago. Since then, every Chinese person I brought the subject up with was unaware that North Korea invaded South Korea. None knew how many Chinese died in the war. One out of many knew that China fought the UN in the Korean War. Overseas Chinese do not know that China invaded Tibet. Many were unaware that China fought a war with India. Most did know of the Sino-Vietnam War, but did not know China lost. Many were also aware that China fought a low intensity war against the USSR for a decade.
All educated Chinese I have met, who should through their "education" know better regarding their government and its actions, are deliberately ignorant of recent history.
Maybe today's "exciting new technologies" will create programs capable of telling when a lazy ass reporter is lifting entire paragraphs straight from Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe.
The answer depends on how much he values his data, and what the different regulations are that affect lawyers. It also depends on what you mean by online. You seem to mean a web based application that will store information offsite.
Irregardless, at the very minimum, the information should be stored on a series of redundant disks, whether this be a RAID or something else. A server would make the information more easily accessible as well as more secure from hardware failure. However, there is a certain amount of insecurity that would result from this if you use anything but an airwall between the network and the Internet. However, with a good firewall and proper patching, this insecurity would be minimal.
More than likely, there needs to be encryption of the stored information as well. This CoreVault ought to do that. Another product called E-Vault should work as well.
It costs a good deal of money and HR effort to process an H1B visa. In fact, it is generally easier to hire an American. Americans are not so much more expensive that the cost differences are made up. Further, Americans are more productive, as they can do things like write and reason. Management provided by Americans is also generally superior. Most folks getting H1B visa are not "worker bees".
The reason that H1B visas are so in demand is that the quality of American students in regards to math, statistics, economics (micro), and other hard mathematical sciences, is so low. We do not have qualified American graduate students lining up at the second and third tier schools. The problem is the American education system, not immigration.
Math and science teachers should be paid more than history or other liberal arts teachers. More emphasis needs to be placed on learning and less on sports.
And even if this was not the case, we should be importing these highly skilled individuals anyways. I want an intelligent Indian, a hard working Pollack, and a Ph.D Chinese living next to me, not some cracker meth addict. This country was founded on having skilled and adventurous people come here looking for work.
I dunno. I found that a good minority of my users actually liked the Microsoft Assistant. They would watch it and its little antics amused them. All were ladies around 40 years of age or older. Heck, I had an accountant go off on me because I turned off her Microsoft Assistant.
Based on the response I saw, I think Microsoft was on to something, but it was never executed properly. There were two problems. First, IT people got in the way. Second, the platform and the application idea for end use was all wrong.
it was not a product for a productive business environment. The people who maintain and train on the products are advanced users, and for them, the Microsoft Assistant was not useful.
But more to the point, I do not believe Microsoft ever really understood what makes a computer efficient. The best "computers" for specific application use are dumb terminals using basic ASCII characters. The Microsoft Assistant is just the opposite of this. If the computer is to be used for a purpose, the Microsoft Assistant gets in the way. If the computer is an unknown machine to a person, having a face on it is useful.
But, people do not put smiley faces and instructions on hammers. Perhaps there was no way a Microsoft Assistant or a Microsoft Bob could be executed properly. A tool is a tool.
Still, the idea of my grandparents filing away a form in an animated desk has appeal. If the product were arranged in such a manner that it could be marketed, as part of a separate non-computer, it could work. If a way existed to integrate a browser with digital television and a more intelligent Microsoft Assistant and the product were marketed to the proper audience, maybe it still could pan out. But we are not there yet. Broadband connections still require passwords and modems/routers. The idea does hold promise. A non-computer with a built in broadband router and no need for passwords. Weâ(TM)re surprisingly close it seems sometimes. If it had a wireless keyboard and mouse or roller without the pain of Bluetooth MAC addresses and crap like that. And a television interface no more complicated than a single HDMI plug. Itâ(TM)s not for anyone who would ever even think of being on Slashdot, and maybe it couldnâ(TM)t work if a computer can only really be a tool and not a way of life, but it does seem plausible.
Post Up is correct. The screwnuts who wrote this article didn't include the IBM Model M, or the Unicomp replacement - the one I'm using at the moment. Do yourself a favor, get an IBM Model M.
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Let me get this straight.
China further on intruding on its citizens who are already exploited and given no voice is a valid concern -- until it causes the rest of the world the slightest discomfort?
And what exactly would you have the rest of the world do about it? Chinese are already subject to an oppressive dictatorial government, as are North Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Laotians, Burmese, Iranians, Zimbabweans, and in general around half the total world population.
Yeah. I have a solution. Stargoat, a Remington 870, and a box of shells.
But in the US, we at least have folks like Zinn to help "correct" history and the ACLU to make it harder to shut him up.
Yeah. I know what you're saying. I love the taxi drivers in particular. If you want to get a wonderful perspective on China, chat up one of them. (Outside of Beijing and Shanghai.)
Really? Almost universally I have been patiently explained that "tank guy" was sick, and he has been cared for by the government, getting the mental health care he needs. As a caveat, I am told what great people the PLA soldiers are, because they stopped for him. (Although there might be something to that. I wonder what happened to the tank driver....)
And, I think you'll agree that it is even less likely that a Chinese grew up completely isolated from world affairs, given the amount of control the CCP has over China.
Umm, have you been to China? Every radio station, every television station, every newspaper tows the party line. The Great Firewall blocks inordinate amounts of information. There are no ACLU backed librarians.
Without a burning desire to obtain truth regarding local affairs and recent history, there is no way for Chinese in China to educate themselves.
* How old are the Chinese people you met? My father is in his early 50s, and he left China in the mid 1980s. He is well aware that China fought the UN in the Korean War, reclaimed Tibet in 1959, beat India in 1962, feuded with the USSR, and tied Vietnam in the 1980s. I highly doubt that he's the only one who knows all those things.
College students, AKA educated people. Like I referred to in the post.
* The US-led counterattack at Incheon pushed the North Koreans all the way back to the Yalu River. The People's Volunteer Army then entered the war and pushed the UN back to the 38th parallel, no easy task considering that the UN forces were far better equipped than the PVA. I find it very unlikely that Chinese would not be taught this, especially since one battle in the Korean War marked the first time in a century that a Chinese army defeated a Western army.
As an aside, MccArthur's idiotic attack on Incheon (which should be considered as possible proof that a deity does exist and blesses fools) did in no way speed the advance along the Korean Peninsula.
Now, had you read what I posted, I made several very specific comments. All Chinese know that they "beat the United States in Korea". They do not know that they were actually at war with the UN. They do not know that over one million Chinese died in a pointless war. They do not know how close they came to being wiped off the planet through the use of atomic weapons.
* If you ask Chinese whether the PLA invaded Tibet, I'm sure you'll get a lot of confused looks. The fact of the matter is, no modern Chinese government has ever accepted the claim that Tibet was independent before 1959. You see it as an invasion; they saw it as reclaiming rogue territory.
And if you call a duck a goose, does it make the duck a goose? It was an invasion.
* Regardless of what some hardcore Indian nationalists say, India lost the 1962 Sino-Indian War. This is not a secret in China.
Actually, it effectively is. History classes in China ignore this part of the Communist Party's glorious history. Almost anyone under the age of about 40 raised in China will have no idea that their government invaded India. And I never said that India won this war. They got spanked. What does that have to do with anything in my post?
* Anyone raised in China during the time the PRC began its feud with the USSR knows of the Sino-Soviet Split. Mao was pretty forthright in his dislike of the USSR when he started bitching with Khrushchev.
See above.
* China did not lose its border war with Vietnam. The result was inconclusive. Both sides suffered heavy casualties for such a brief war, and neither side gained or lost any territory. If you were old enough to remember events as a person living in 1980s China, then you'll remember this war.
Quit drinking the koolaid. When the largest military in the world is unable to inflict its will upon a relatively tiny neighbor when using military means, it loses.
* I can only say that the Chinese you know are either really young or never bothered to pay attention to their country's affairs when they were growing up.
Most are young, as most overseas Chinese are. Youth is not an excuse for appalling ignorance, particularly when the youth has been given an extensive education. The young overseas Chinese I have met are, without exception, among the most brainwashed people I have ever come across. As someone else states elsewhere, yes, there are spies in the Chinese community reporting back to the local consulate. But that is not an excuse for the appalling lack of knowledge that the overseas Chinese Masters and PhD students have concerning their country's recent past.
I agree with you entirely. But I am not talking about people on the street. People with Phds should be held to a higher standard and should be aware of their country's recent history.
On a side note. It's fairly debatable about the Chinese losing the Sino-Vietnam war. Both sides claim victory (as is expected) but it's not like China was kicked back out of Vietnam. Neither did they surrender or sign a ceasefire. In fact on their way out of the country they did a lot of damage to Vietnam.
Admittedly their goal of getting the Vietnamese to withdraw from Cambodia was a failure but does that count as losing the war? Surely if that's the case then America lost it's war in Afghanistan when they failed to find Bin Laden.
If the largest military in the world fails to achieve its military objectives while operating in its own backyard, it is a loss. China captured some Vietnamese villages, lost a lot of boys, and failed to achieve anything like a victory in a costly two year war.
And yes, the Americans lost in Afghanistan.
Mod parent up as absolutely correct.
You don't know overseas Chinese until you've been blasted with the evils of the US media industry (substitute publishing, indymedia, ad nos.). I have been in the overseas community since I met the lady who became my wife a decade ago. Since then, every Chinese person I brought the subject up with was unaware that North Korea invaded South Korea. None knew how many Chinese died in the war. One out of many knew that China fought the UN in the Korean War. Overseas Chinese do not know that China invaded Tibet. Many were unaware that China fought a war with India. Most did know of the Sino-Vietnam War, but did not know China lost. Many were also aware that China fought a low intensity war against the USSR for a decade.
All educated Chinese I have met, who should through their "education" know better regarding their government and its actions, are deliberately ignorant of recent history.
Maybe today's "exciting new technologies" will create programs capable of telling when a lazy ass reporter is lifting entire paragraphs straight from Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe.
Not visited there, have you.
No no no. The best pirate repellent 32 pound carronade filled with grape.
The answer depends on how much he values his data, and what the different regulations are that affect lawyers. It also depends on what you mean by online. You seem to mean a web based application that will store information offsite.
Irregardless, at the very minimum, the information should be stored on a series of redundant disks, whether this be a RAID or something else. A server would make the information more easily accessible as well as more secure from hardware failure. However, there is a certain amount of insecurity that would result from this if you use anything but an airwall between the network and the Internet. However, with a good firewall and proper patching, this insecurity would be minimal.
More than likely, there needs to be encryption of the stored information as well. This CoreVault ought to do that. Another product called E-Vault should work as well.
MOD PARENT UP
Cool thing about a Constitutional Republic: if you're in the minority your vote does count.
Yes. We got that. Thank you for explaining.
Kharma whore.
Dude,
Stop sharing your hello kitty stuff already. We've already seen it.
It wasn't an improvement for my family, ni gun ni de ma.
It costs a good deal of money and HR effort to process an H1B visa. In fact, it is generally easier to hire an American. Americans are not so much more expensive that the cost differences are made up. Further, Americans are more productive, as they can do things like write and reason. Management provided by Americans is also generally superior. Most folks getting H1B visa are not "worker bees".
The reason that H1B visas are so in demand is that the quality of American students in regards to math, statistics, economics (micro), and other hard mathematical sciences, is so low. We do not have qualified American graduate students lining up at the second and third tier schools. The problem is the American education system, not immigration.
Math and science teachers should be paid more than history or other liberal arts teachers. More emphasis needs to be placed on learning and less on sports.
And even if this was not the case, we should be importing these highly skilled individuals anyways. I want an intelligent Indian, a hard working Pollack, and a Ph.D Chinese living next to me, not some cracker meth addict. This country was founded on having skilled and adventurous people come here looking for work.
Parent is correct. The notes belong to you, as you paid for the class. You have the right to the notes from the class.
Report this to the Dean of the college. This is ridiculous and even a tenured professor cannot steal from students.
You made me spit coffee on my monitor, you insensitive clod.
I dunno. I found that a good minority of my users actually liked the Microsoft Assistant. They would watch it and its little antics amused them. All were ladies around 40 years of age or older. Heck, I had an accountant go off on me because I turned off her Microsoft Assistant.
Based on the response I saw, I think Microsoft was on to something, but it was never executed properly. There were two problems. First, IT people got in the way. Second, the platform and the application idea for end use was all wrong.
it was not a product for a productive business environment. The people who maintain and train on the products are advanced users, and for them, the Microsoft Assistant was not useful.
But more to the point, I do not believe Microsoft ever really understood what makes a computer efficient. The best "computers" for specific application use are dumb terminals using basic ASCII characters. The Microsoft Assistant is just the opposite of this. If the computer is to be used for a purpose, the Microsoft Assistant gets in the way. If the computer is an unknown machine to a person, having a face on it is useful.
But, people do not put smiley faces and instructions on hammers. Perhaps there was no way a Microsoft Assistant or a Microsoft Bob could be executed properly. A tool is a tool.
Still, the idea of my grandparents filing away a form in an animated desk has appeal. If the product were arranged in such a manner that it could be marketed, as part of a separate non-computer, it could work. If a way existed to integrate a browser with digital television and a more intelligent Microsoft Assistant and the product were marketed to the proper audience, maybe it still could pan out. But we are not there yet. Broadband connections still require passwords and modems/routers. The idea does hold promise. A non-computer with a built in broadband router and no need for passwords. Weâ(TM)re surprisingly close it seems sometimes. If it had a wireless keyboard and mouse or roller without the pain of Bluetooth MAC addresses and crap like that. And a television interface no more complicated than a single HDMI plug. Itâ(TM)s not for anyone who would ever even think of being on Slashdot, and maybe it couldnâ(TM)t work if a computer can only really be a tool and not a way of life, but it does seem plausible.
Post Up is correct. The screwnuts who wrote this article didn't include the IBM Model M, or the Unicomp replacement - the one I'm using at the moment. Do yourself a favor, get an IBM Model M.
I like money too. We should hang out sometime.