Which Korea did you live in? I live in Korea now and use the subway systems to commute to work/school every day. The average subway car can be broken down like this: 10% (80% of seated passengers) : People sleeping or pretending to sleep so they dont have to get up for the grandmother/grandfather standing in front of them 10%: texting (nothing amazing there) 10-20%: watching a video on a PMP remainder: staring vacantly into space/recovering from the previous night's drinking binge.
These are averages, YMMV.
almost no one uses the 'web' on these trains, and almost anytime that i use the 'web' (more like wap than www) functions on my phone any koreans around me will freak out and tell me to be careful cos its so expensive. hell, i even have people request that i dont send them text messages above a certain character limit, cos then it defaults to MMS, which costs money to receive.
this will change over time as the poorly named 'wibro' takes hold.
5MB/s? I can get that at home here in Korea (54Mbit lines have been available here for ages). Pulled 20MB/sec at the last internet cafe i went to (which was about 2 years ago). Surely (for a deplyed network) 5MB/sec isnt considered fast in the US is it?? (Thats a serious question, as much as it sounds like trolling...)
This is a different situation from an american company having poor sales in an asian country. If a chinese product is not successful in the American market then the company has to find a way to address whatever issues (hardware or cultural) that are stopping it from being successful. Here we have a situation where the product and manufacturing process has remained identical, and the PRIMARY reason for not buying said product is that it is now owned by a chinese company.
"were they getting sales before that were just "benefit of the doubt" sales based on the reputation of the company and good will for an american firm, or were they legitimately better? if they were mostly based on reputation and good will, then Lenovo didn't really buy that."
your wording is a little strange there so im not 100% sure if you are saying what i think you are, but the bottom line is that lenovo bought a name and a customer base.
Im not usually a grammar/spelling nazi, but i can't let this one slide. You made a typo, should have read:
"Is it xenophobic? Yes. Hypocritical? Yeppers."
We (i say 'we' as the world, and not the default American 'we' that is spoken about so often in these parts) are all happy to buy our cheap laptops from Western companies who are exploiting eastern companies who are exploiting cheap eastern labour. When said companies build up enough wealth to take on the weatern companies then all of a sudden we become wary of buying from them, lest they become too rich or powerful. Lenovo paid a large sum of money to take over the thinkpad name and are building basically the same product. Not buying a product for the sole reason that you dont want the profits to go to another country (and make that country richer/more powerful) is xenophobia at work (fear or hatred of foreigners; in this case, fear).
"A woman who refuses to pick up her dog's crap after it takes a dump on the subway *deserves* to humiliated."
Hows the view from up there?
Humiliated perhaps, but it went much further than simple humiliation. Eventually her home address was posted on the internet, there were news stories on the national news channels about it and people were getting information about her parents/family and posting it etc etc. The girl had to quit her university because of it. Did she fuck up? of course, but you would have to look hard to find someone who hasnt had a shitty day and done something they wouldnt want the world to see.
^ Parent is insightful? No, i think you will find that the author was saying that the asteroid flew between the outermost satellites in GS orbit and the earth (ie: 'under' them). I am too lazy to find out if any at that distance have radar, but you get his point.
Why is it that no matter what is written, there is an army of grammar/context nazis waiting to cut it down?
"People like to share, to spread what little wealth and happiness they have around."
Paint me cynical but in my experience peoples first reaction when they finish a torrent is to shut it down, lest they 'give away' more than they downloaded. Human nature tends to lean more towards getting 'something for nothing' rather than sharing what they have.
This is generally not the case with open source torrents, but OS torrents are a drop in the ocean compared to pirated.
They provide more credibility because in order to sign up for a blog (or almost anything in this country) you have to input your National ID number. By no means foolproof, but a lot harder to spoof than a standard account.
Here in Korea you can get up 300 free SMS a month, and what do Japanese teens have to do with anything? Hello kitty is about as popular over here in Korea as it is in America...
As someone who lives in Korea (and enjoys the fine speeds u talk about;) I think you will find that the reason you have lower speeds there is because of the geography of the states. I know that the reason why BB is so crap in Australia... there simply isnt enough ppl per square Km to justify lighting billions in fibre. Here i live in the pockets of another 5000 people, so its a bit more viable to have the 100+Mbit connections.
To all the guys (and girls) bagging him because he is "only" giving such a small amount of his fortune, i ask you this (and answer truthfully):
How much of _YOUR_ paycheck has gone to charity this year?
Disclaimer: I think that the passing of this law is a pretty scary prospect, but...
Providing a copy of a first run film to a release group for mass distribution over the web? not exactly talking about small losses there... (yes i know about the film industry's "creative accounting" how they suck the souls out of fluffy white kittens for pleasure etc etc...)
...then again, hardly justification for a 3 year jail term either
Created Esc, interesting claim to fame.
I cant help but think of the Dr Evil line from Austin Powers...
"He used to make obscure claims... like he invented the exclamation point..."
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Which Korea did you live in? I live in Korea now and use the subway systems to commute to work/school every day. The average subway car can be broken down like this:
10% (80% of seated passengers) : People sleeping or pretending to sleep so they dont have to get up for the grandmother/grandfather standing in front of them
10%: texting (nothing amazing there)
10-20%: watching a video on a PMP
remainder: staring vacantly into space/recovering from the previous night's drinking binge.
These are averages, YMMV.
almost no one uses the 'web' on these trains, and almost anytime that i use the 'web' (more like wap than www) functions on my phone any koreans around me will freak out and tell me to be careful cos its so expensive. hell, i even have people request that i dont send them text messages above a certain character limit, cos then it defaults to MMS, which costs money to receive.
this will change over time as the poorly named 'wibro' takes hold.
5MB/s? I can get that at home here in Korea (54Mbit lines have been available here for ages). Pulled 20MB/sec at the last internet cafe i went to (which was about 2 years ago). Surely (for a deplyed network) 5MB/sec isnt considered fast in the US is it?? (Thats a serious question, as much as it sounds like trolling...)
This is a different situation from an american company having poor sales in an asian country. If a chinese product is not successful in the American market then the company has to find a way to address whatever issues (hardware or cultural) that are stopping it from being successful. Here we have a situation where the product and manufacturing process has remained identical, and the PRIMARY reason for not buying said product is that it is now owned by a chinese company. "were they getting sales before that were just "benefit of the doubt" sales based on the reputation of the company and good will for an american firm, or were they legitimately better? if they were mostly based on reputation and good will, then Lenovo didn't really buy that." your wording is a little strange there so im not 100% sure if you are saying what i think you are, but the bottom line is that lenovo bought a name and a customer base.
Im not usually a grammar/spelling nazi, but i can't let this one slide. You made a typo, should have read: "Is it xenophobic? Yes. Hypocritical? Yeppers." We (i say 'we' as the world, and not the default American 'we' that is spoken about so often in these parts) are all happy to buy our cheap laptops from Western companies who are exploiting eastern companies who are exploiting cheap eastern labour. When said companies build up enough wealth to take on the weatern companies then all of a sudden we become wary of buying from them, lest they become too rich or powerful. Lenovo paid a large sum of money to take over the thinkpad name and are building basically the same product. Not buying a product for the sole reason that you dont want the profits to go to another country (and make that country richer/more powerful) is xenophobia at work (fear or hatred of foreigners; in this case, fear).
"A woman who refuses to pick up her dog's crap after it takes a dump on the subway *deserves* to humiliated."
Hows the view from up there?
Humiliated perhaps, but it went much further than simple humiliation. Eventually her home address was posted on the internet, there were news stories on the national news channels about it and people were getting information about her parents/family and posting it etc etc. The girl had to quit her university because of it. Did she fuck up? of course, but you would have to look hard to find someone who hasnt had a shitty day and done something they wouldnt want the world to see.
You realise that you are posting on slashdot? "OK take it! Just don't puncture blow up betty!"
^ Parent is insightful? No, i think you will find that the author was saying that the asteroid flew between the outermost satellites in GS orbit and the earth (ie: 'under' them). I am too lazy to find out if any at that distance have radar, but you get his point.
Why is it that no matter what is written, there is an army of grammar/context nazis waiting to cut it down?
"People like to share, to spread what little wealth and happiness they have around."
Paint me cynical but in my experience peoples first reaction when they finish a torrent is to shut it down, lest they 'give away' more than they downloaded. Human nature tends to lean more towards getting 'something for nothing' rather than sharing what they have. This is generally not the case with open source torrents, but OS torrents are a drop in the ocean compared to pirated.
Those of us with hundreds of gigs worth of music really need to take a hard look at their hoarding issues...
You must be new here...
They provide more credibility because in order to sign up for a blog (or almost anything in this country) you have to input your National ID number. By no means foolproof, but a lot harder to spoof than a standard account.
Here in Korea you can get up 300 free SMS a month, and what do Japanese teens have to do with anything? Hello kitty is about as popular over here in Korea as it is in America...
As someone who lives in Korea (and enjoys the fine speeds u talk about ;) I think you will find that the reason you have lower speeds there is because of the geography of the states. I know that the reason why BB is so crap in Australia... there simply isnt enough ppl per square Km to justify lighting billions in fibre. Here i live in the pockets of another 5000 people, so its a bit more viable to have the 100+Mbit connections.
-- Fuck the grammar police.
To all the guys (and girls) bagging him because he is "only" giving such a small amount of his fortune, i ask you this (and answer truthfully): How much of _YOUR_ paycheck has gone to charity this year?
...
yeah, thought so.
Disclaimer: I think that the passing of this law is a pretty scary prospect, but...
...then again, hardly justification for a 3 year jail term either
Providing a copy of a first run film to a release group for mass distribution over the web? not exactly talking about small losses there... (yes i know about the film industry's "creative accounting" how they suck the souls out of fluffy white kittens for pleasure etc etc...)
Created Esc, interesting claim to fame. I cant help but think of the Dr Evil line from Austin Powers... "He used to make obscure claims... like he invented the exclamation point..."