Steady there, TeX. While it might be reasonable to assume that the parent post was a slam against the POV the game is trying to sell, it's also plausable that s/he thinks the concept won't prove compelling to the vast majority of gamers in the PRC, or anywhere else for that matter.
What's odd is that the game is a throwback to something the CPC really quit trying to sell to anyone but party cadres. However, there's never homogeneity of opinion in any organization, including the Party.
A few years back, the then new CEO of HP made much the same claim: we've done it all, this is a fully matured industry. Which logically led to her policy: let's milk it. HP and Compaq suffered for her (and the rest of the board and upper mgmt's) lack of vision.
If the executive vice president of innovation and technology for a technology firm utters that kind of garbage and doesn't find his ass on the street the next day, that firm is rotting from within. Welcome to the next long farewell from IBM.
The problem is they are making Foreign based companies responsible for the Actions of US citizens.
Hmmm, ever tried looking up anti-semitic sites on Yahoo from France? Tried bidding on swastika-embellished merchandise on eBay from Germany? The problem is they are making US-based companies responsible for the Actions of their citizens.
Because many US states license gambling in some form or another, some assume this is just a pissing match over something the US hasn't figured out how to tax, yet. However, there are many folks in the US who aren't at all happy with the spread of gaming here no matter what the tax revenue is, and quite a few of them sit in the US Congress.
What it comes down to is that some folks don't want to let the next Hitler find his voice, and other folks the next Al Capone to fund his.
It would seem we're missing some context. Did Citrin wipe the entire disk, or did he merely make sure to overwrite some word processing docs? In many companies, including my employer, you're REQUIRED to encrypt working files and delete-by-overwrite files no longer required when taking laptops off site.
Having RTFA, it looks like Mr. Citrin's problem was that he resigned first, THEN handed back the laptop. The judge ruled that Citrin's right to issue commands of any sort on the system ended upon resignation. If I'm reading that correctly, the solution for other soon-to-be-former employees or contractors seems simple: delete, then quit.
More than anything, use head main ting when separating from a company. 1) get your personal gear out of the office; 2) delete email and files relating to personal business (or that might reflect especially poorly on you); 4) clear your browser history and cache; 5) securely overwrite all free sectors on disk; 6) log out and power down; 7) resign. It looks like Mr. Citrin may have gone overboard and nuked all of the company data on the laptop, which is of value and use to the company and their next person to fill his position, and made it look like he had something to hide.
For selected text and photographic material, I like both the look and feel of the paper medium, but I particularly like the relative non-volatility and platform independence. I can pull the hardbound copy of - say - Dune off of the shelf, and I don't have to worry about batteries, cracked displays, software support and bit-rot, airline regulations, (to a large degree) theft, or transferability (lend, sell).
For technical references, I've liked the O'Reilly online bookshelf scheme, but for my core of technical references, I want them on a real shelf that doesn't disappear when my management decides to stop paying the bill.
What made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?
1) Because of a background assumption in most cultures that people were brought into being, without preamble, a few thousand years ago.
2) Within the Judeo/Christian/Islamic tradition, the widespread belief that the Lord will be wrapping things up, shortly, so that there won't be time for further/any evolutionary activity.
3) The popular conception that evolutionary change is always macroscopic and immediately apparent to the casual observer (ie. X-men).
The question is whether our current evolution pattern is actually in our best interest, or if the dumb are outbreeding the smart
You don't state any context for this, so I won't try to guess your assumptions. When that concern comes up in the US, it's usually prefaced by the stated assumptions that 1) poorer people are cranking out children in greater quantities than rich folks, and 2) wealth is a primary indicator of intellegence. Hence the common retort in conversation: if you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?
Let's repeat that: the Israelis aren't just fine in tech industries. While there's quite a bit of cultural affinity with the US, the Israelis have a national interest which overlaps that of the US in only a few areas. Their commercial interests even less so. They have, like the French, been more than happy to sell or resell intelligence, technologies, and material to nations the US would just as soon they didn't.
In the case of Sourcefire, I suspect the goodies that go into the US Federal Govt's version of Snort are more 'interesting' than what you and I can download. And, whether it's more interesting or not, hiding information from one's adversaries isn't all about the latest rocket science. A look at what used to be classified shows that it's what seems mundane that's the most important to hide. "When is Admiral Yamamoto's plane leaving?" "Uday is in that house." "The FBI standardized on Snort 1.5.x."
It's nothing to transfer Sourcefire's IP, or the cubes where the work really gets done, or the sales and customer support data to Haifa or Tel Aviv.
Compare that to P&O's sale to - in essence - the Sheik of Dubai. The infrastructure P&O runs stay in the US, the dock workers and their management up several rungs remain American. There's pissing and moaning because Al Qaeda has links in Dubai. No shit. Dubai, Singapore, Lichtenstein, to a large degree Israel, on and on... sucessful small nations have to be hard core entreprenuerial to stay afloat, which means everybody and their uncle are running contriband and shady deals through them, in addition to Costco's jugs of olive oil. Tax havens, duty free ports, and other such city-states of commerce don't stay in business by asking too many questions.
True, Napster Light does do a $0.99 deal, but it's buried beneath the $10 and $15/month come-ons. Obviously not core to their business, unless it turns out to be most of their business.
Blame MS? Nice try Napster, but I call bullshit. I've said it before and I'll reiterate: people don't want to rent by the month, they want to own on demand. The phone companies get away with monthly fees because that's the way it started... but it doesn't mean consumers are in love with the business model.
The article was dealing with the usual x86 scenario. Meanwhile, over on the PPC side, I had put a Mac 6100/66 out to pasture as a web and mail server with OS 8, then 9. As a desktop, it didn't do too badly, but as a server it blew.
Meanwhile, a Japanese hacker had patched the Linux kernel to run on stoneage Nubus Macs, so I used it to load up a Debian distro. With only 72MB of ram, 4MB video ram, it sucked rocks running X, but (comparitively) flew as a server.
Abstract: severely limit the tv, eBay a cheap laptop. Read, READ.
It'll be hard (on you), but your first step is to step away from the TV. Set a hard and fast rule for how much video per day/week. Let's say, a half hour of video gaming per day, one hour of Sesame Street per day, one movie per week. MAX. Do these with her, do not fall into the trap of electronic babysitting. Better yet, no video gaming, period.
Read to your child, and give her lots of opportunities to learn to read, and later read on her own. Encourage her to express herself in writing, and when her hands are bigger, by typing. The typing can either be via her own log in on your system (w/ everything locked down, and no net clients), or a cheapie (less than US$100) laptop from eBay. Also from eBay are a boatload of used age-specific typing/reading/math/etc tutors to load onto the laptop. At some point, an electronics experiment set from the likes of Radio Shack would be cool (and low voltage!).
Your daughter will soon enough learn how to use your tv, video recorder, cell phone, iPod, in-dash nav system, etc, so forget about needing to buy her a bunch of crap until middle school.
The Bush Administration lost a fight over tarrifs against Canadian wood products in the WTO as well, and decided to ignore the ruling. Being as this gambling ruling will piss off both the brick-n-mortar US casinos, GOP social conservatives, and the boys at Treasury, the Administration will probably blow off the WTO on this one, as well.
While I'll be on the Administration's side, for various reasons, it'll nevertheless show the complete and utter hypocrisy of big busines and their lapdogs in D.C. when it comes to global trade agreements (among other things). They sign up for this shit, then if it doesn't cut in their favor every time, they take their ball and go home.
We already know Dvorak writes stupid shit like this to drive traffic. Out of all the years he has headed back to the Apple trough when he's out of ideas, his prognostications have been right what, twice? For me, it's a better waste of my time to sit here pissing and moaning about it, than it is to add yet another/. referer on PCMag's web log.
US media has putting out a fair number of pieces documenting the guts of the mass distributors lately, so I won't begrudge AnandTech doing its own quickie.
...Meanwhile, USA Today reported that the US trade deficit grew yet again, largely due to imported finished goods. As I look at NewEggs' warehouse, I wonder how much of the crap within - and I mean ALL of it, from the steel girders, to the stock handling equipment, to the merchandise itself - came straight off the dock in LA Harbor? I'll bet dollars to doughnuts the only significant bit of local content is the concrete in the pad, the wood in the pallets, and the woodpulp in the cardboard.
Did I say USA Today? The morons who put together the piece on the trade deficit followed the numbers with the brillant analysis that it's due to the "insatiable" demand by consumers for imported products. True, as far as it goes, but totally lacking in context. One might assume, as many a poster on/. seems to, that it's a case of the consumers screwing themselves by knowing buying foreign goods.
In fact, other than grocery items, virtually all consumer goods, even consumer durables, are sourced outside of the US. There is no "choice" involved. Emblematic of this situation is NewEgg's warehouse, replicated across the LA Basin a thousand times.
I think Bill Xia already knows he's lost his China privileges. Arranging one's travel plans to avoid hubs you might be arrested in ain't all that big of a deal. And, if you've got a principle to fight for, you might consider it a badge of honor. Plenty of people skate around the US all the time, despite the hassle.
You comment reminds me of a college classmate back in '79. He figured that the Middle East had the oil, we needed it, so we had to dance to their tune. Jesus, I couldn't believe he was conceding to being such a pussy.
We're in a situation much like that for radio and tv early in the 20th century. We've got a technology that's been ripe for tinkering and hacking, or for use in specific business and scientific applications where some level of technical expertise can be brought to bear.
Like the Philco consoles of old, PC technology isn't bullet proof, so Grannie is left to fiddle with the knobs to hang onto her station... er, web site. At some point, computer vendors will get their products to the point where the delievery lady from Sears can drop the system onto the kitchen counter, spend five minutes getting it connected/configured, and it "just work".
In the meantime, any system barf or application setting gotcha can quickly evolve into techno-speak la-la land, so there's no book format that's going to be the silver bullet. Until the systems approach what most of the buyers can handle, the complexity of a cell phone say, we're going to be stuck attending the school of hard knocks, whether as students or instructors.
To: S.B.S. Shekhawat, Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Parliament House, New Delhi. Re: Google Maps & Parliamentarly Security
We have received your message expressing concern over the possibility that on-line services such as Google Maps and Google Earth may facilitate planning for those seeking to bring harm to the institutions of the national government.
It is my misfortune to inform you that the cat is out of the bag, and the reasons for this are two: 1) Pakistan has already purchased the necessary imagery from France, the United States, Russia, and China, and provided it to those extremists which are or will be in it's employ.
2) Those installations which are not already closed to the public have been or will be toured ("cased", if you've been watching too much satellite tv) both by elements from those groups mentioned in point (1), as well as from groups with access to neither the internet nor Pakistani intelligence.
Nevertheless, we will send a strongly worded note to Google, Ltd in Bangalore and Google, Inc. in Mountain View, if it will allow you to rest easier. If France can "put the screws" to Yahoo! over a few swastikas, surely we can convince Google to airbrush a few aerial photos, particularly of your home at 72, Gaurav Nagar, Civil Lines, Jaipur-302006 (Rajasthan).
Regards, Prithiviraj Chavan, minister of state, PMO, New Delhi
Today I woke up and...I hope we'll do a great job together."
Unless I rolled off the wrong side of the link this morning, the "Blog Except" is a joke. A well crafted joke, paraphrasing the nut of David Cowen's blog, but still an obvious joke. Ah well, I guess a well done cartoon can inform as well as a multi-column news piece.
Most chip design firms, Nvidia farms out production to various fabs, mostly overseas. With the ULI purchase, it's only a matter of time before all of the design goes overseas as well. Meaning that the value the US operations add will amount to warehousing and paper shuffling. If their order fulfillment is anything like Apple with the iPod, they won't even have warehousing to deal with.
So, regarding the economic theory of "constructive destruction", at what point does anyone actually start constructing anything with higher value added within the US? Unless the value added was when someone pulled the phrase "constructive destruction" out of their ass at some economic thinktank, and spent a couple of months concocting a PhD disertation around it. Gotcha.
Crying "Peace" - what purpose can it possibly serve to alert the media that attempts are being made? Who are the terrorists: Those attempting entry, or those publicizing the attempts? Or is some group setting up an attempt at justifying some potential action? Peace, please.
Who are the criminals: Those attempting entry, or those publicizing the attempt? "Shut up out there, woman! All that screamin' about your huhu'll make folks think we got a crime problem."
Children, can you spell a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t? I knew you could! Your stance reminds me of the guy I sat on a drunk driving jury with. He didn't care what the evidence was, he just didn't trust the cops. While I've seen evidence that the US Federal Government can't always be trusted, this isn't one of those cases.
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What's odd is that the game is a throwback to something the CPC really quit trying to sell to anyone but party cadres. However, there's never homogeneity of opinion in any organization, including the Party.
If the executive vice president of innovation and technology for a technology firm utters that kind of garbage and doesn't find his ass on the street the next day, that firm is rotting from within. Welcome to the next long farewell from IBM.
Hmmm, ever tried looking up anti-semitic sites on Yahoo from France? Tried bidding on swastika-embellished merchandise on eBay from Germany? The problem is they are making US-based companies responsible for the Actions of their citizens.
Because many US states license gambling in some form or another, some assume this is just a pissing match over something the US hasn't figured out how to tax, yet. However, there are many folks in the US who aren't at all happy with the spread of gaming here no matter what the tax revenue is, and quite a few of them sit in the US Congress.
What it comes down to is that some folks don't want to let the next Hitler find his voice, and other folks the next Al Capone to fund his.
I'm at a non-profit, hence the mental lapse!
Having RTFA, it looks like Mr. Citrin's problem was that he resigned first, THEN handed back the laptop. The judge ruled that Citrin's right to issue commands of any sort on the system ended upon resignation. If I'm reading that correctly, the solution for other soon-to-be-former employees or contractors seems simple: delete, then quit.
More than anything, use head main ting when separating from a company. 1) get your personal gear out of the office; 2) delete email and files relating to personal business (or that might reflect especially poorly on you); 4) clear your browser history and cache; 5) securely overwrite all free sectors on disk; 6) log out and power down; 7) resign. It looks like Mr. Citrin may have gone overboard and nuked all of the company data on the laptop, which is of value and use to the company and their next person to fill his position, and made it look like he had something to hide.
For technical references, I've liked the O'Reilly online bookshelf scheme, but for my core of technical references, I want them on a real shelf that doesn't disappear when my management decides to stop paying the bill.
1) Because of a background assumption in most cultures that people were brought into being, without preamble, a few thousand years ago.
2) Within the Judeo/Christian/Islamic tradition, the widespread belief that the Lord will be wrapping things up, shortly, so that there won't be time for further/any evolutionary activity.
3) The popular conception that evolutionary change is always macroscopic and immediately apparent to the casual observer (ie. X-men).
You don't state any context for this, so I won't try to guess your assumptions. When that concern comes up in the US, it's usually prefaced by the stated assumptions that 1) poorer people are cranking out children in greater quantities than rich folks, and 2) wealth is a primary indicator of intellegence. Hence the common retort in conversation: if you're so smart, how come you ain't rich?
For all I know, "sudo apt-get install snort". Way to go on that GED, BTW.
In the case of Sourcefire, I suspect the goodies that go into the US Federal Govt's version of Snort are more 'interesting' than what you and I can download. And, whether it's more interesting or not, hiding information from one's adversaries isn't all about the latest rocket science. A look at what used to be classified shows that it's what seems mundane that's the most important to hide. "When is Admiral Yamamoto's plane leaving?" "Uday is in that house." "The FBI standardized on Snort 1.5.x."
It's nothing to transfer Sourcefire's IP, or the cubes where the work really gets done, or the sales and customer support data to Haifa or Tel Aviv.
Compare that to P&O's sale to - in essence - the Sheik of Dubai. The infrastructure P&O runs stay in the US, the dock workers and their management up several rungs remain American. There's pissing and moaning because Al Qaeda has links in Dubai. No shit. Dubai, Singapore, Lichtenstein, to a large degree Israel, on and on... sucessful small nations have to be hard core entreprenuerial to stay afloat, which means everybody and their uncle are running contriband and shady deals through them, in addition to Costco's jugs of olive oil. Tax havens, duty free ports, and other such city-states of commerce don't stay in business by asking too many questions.
True, Napster Light does do a $0.99 deal, but it's buried beneath the $10 and $15/month come-ons. Obviously not core to their business, unless it turns out to be most of their business.
Blame MS? Nice try Napster, but I call bullshit. I've said it before and I'll reiterate: people don't want to rent by the month, they want to own on demand. The phone companies get away with monthly fees because that's the way it started... but it doesn't mean consumers are in love with the business model.
Meanwhile, a Japanese hacker had patched the Linux kernel to run on stoneage Nubus Macs, so I used it to load up a Debian distro. With only 72MB of ram, 4MB video ram, it sucked rocks running X, but (comparitively) flew as a server.
It'll be hard (on you), but your first step is to step away from the TV. Set a hard and fast rule for how much video per day/week. Let's say, a half hour of video gaming per day, one hour of Sesame Street per day, one movie per week. MAX. Do these with her, do not fall into the trap of electronic babysitting. Better yet, no video gaming, period.
Read to your child, and give her lots of opportunities to learn to read, and later read on her own. Encourage her to express herself in writing, and when her hands are bigger, by typing. The typing can either be via her own log in on your system (w/ everything locked down, and no net clients), or a cheapie (less than US$100) laptop from eBay. Also from eBay are a boatload of used age-specific typing/reading/math/etc tutors to load onto the laptop. At some point, an electronics experiment set from the likes of Radio Shack would be cool (and low voltage!).
Your daughter will soon enough learn how to use your tv, video recorder, cell phone, iPod, in-dash nav system, etc, so forget about needing to buy her a bunch of crap until middle school.
While I'll be on the Administration's side, for various reasons, it'll nevertheless show the complete and utter hypocrisy of big busines and their lapdogs in D.C. when it comes to global trade agreements (among other things). They sign up for this shit, then if it doesn't cut in their favor every time, they take their ball and go home.
We already know Dvorak writes stupid shit like this to drive traffic. Out of all the years he has headed back to the Apple trough when he's out of ideas, his prognostications have been right what, twice? For me, it's a better waste of my time to sit here pissing and moaning about it, than it is to add yet another /. referer on PCMag's web log.
...Meanwhile, USA Today reported that the US trade deficit grew yet again, largely due to imported finished goods. As I look at NewEggs' warehouse, I wonder how much of the crap within - and I mean ALL of it, from the steel girders, to the stock handling equipment, to the merchandise itself - came straight off the dock in LA Harbor? I'll bet dollars to doughnuts the only significant bit of local content is the concrete in the pad, the wood in the pallets, and the woodpulp in the cardboard.
Did I say USA Today? The morons who put together the piece on the trade deficit followed the numbers with the brillant analysis that it's due to the "insatiable" demand by consumers for imported products. True, as far as it goes, but totally lacking in context. One might assume, as many a poster on /. seems to, that it's a case of the consumers screwing themselves by knowing buying foreign goods.
In fact, other than grocery items, virtually all consumer goods, even consumer durables, are sourced outside of the US. There is no "choice" involved. Emblematic of this situation is NewEgg's warehouse, replicated across the LA Basin a thousand times.
You comment reminds me of a college classmate back in '79. He figured that the Middle East had the oil, we needed it, so we had to dance to their tune. Jesus, I couldn't believe he was conceding to being such a pussy.
Yep, Brin, Page, and Schmidt are only paying 15% on their haul, vs. the 28% I pay for taking a salary that's about 0.02% of Schmidt's gain.
Like the Philco consoles of old, PC technology isn't bullet proof, so Grannie is left to fiddle with the knobs to hang onto her station... er, web site. At some point, computer vendors will get their products to the point where the delievery lady from Sears can drop the system onto the kitchen counter, spend five minutes getting it connected/configured, and it "just work".
In the meantime, any system barf or application setting gotcha can quickly evolve into techno-speak la-la land, so there's no book format that's going to be the silver bullet. Until the systems approach what most of the buyers can handle, the complexity of a cell phone say, we're going to be stuck attending the school of hard knocks, whether as students or instructors.
To: S.B.S. Shekhawat, Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Parliament House, New Delhi.
Re: Google Maps & Parliamentarly Security
We have received your message expressing concern over the possibility that on-line services such as Google Maps and Google Earth may facilitate planning for those seeking to bring harm to the institutions of the national government.
It is my misfortune to inform you that the cat is out of the bag, and the reasons for this are two:
1) Pakistan has already purchased the necessary imagery from France, the United States, Russia, and China, and provided it to those extremists which are or will be in it's employ.
2) Those installations which are not already closed to the public have been or will be toured ("cased", if you've been watching too much satellite tv) both by elements from those groups mentioned in point (1), as well as from groups with access to neither the internet nor Pakistani intelligence.
Nevertheless, we will send a strongly worded note to Google, Ltd in Bangalore and Google, Inc. in Mountain View, if it will allow you to rest easier. If France can "put the screws" to Yahoo! over a few swastikas, surely we can convince Google to airbrush a few aerial photos, particularly of your home at 72, Gaurav Nagar, Civil Lines, Jaipur-302006 (Rajasthan).
Regards,
Prithiviraj Chavan, minister of state, PMO, New Delhi
Unless I rolled off the wrong side of the link this morning, the "Blog Except" is a joke. A well crafted joke, paraphrasing the nut of David Cowen's blog, but still an obvious joke. Ah well, I guess a well done cartoon can inform as well as a multi-column news piece.
Try? Yeah, looks like it. Spend time to correctly construct? Nope.
Most chip design firms, Nvidia farms out production to various fabs, mostly overseas. With the ULI purchase, it's only a matter of time before all of the design goes overseas as well. Meaning that the value the US operations add will amount to warehousing and paper shuffling. If their order fulfillment is anything like Apple with the iPod, they won't even have warehousing to deal with.
So, regarding the economic theory of "constructive destruction", at what point does anyone actually start constructing anything with higher value added within the US? Unless the value added was when someone pulled the phrase "constructive destruction" out of their ass at some economic thinktank, and spent a couple of months concocting a PhD disertation around it. Gotcha.
Who are the criminals: Those attempting entry, or those publicizing the attempt? "Shut up out there, woman! All that screamin' about your huhu'll make folks think we got a crime problem."
Children, can you spell a-p-p-e-a-s-e-m-e-n-t? I knew you could! Your stance reminds me of the guy I sat on a drunk driving jury with. He didn't care what the evidence was, he just didn't trust the cops. While I've seen evidence that the US Federal Government can't always be trusted, this isn't one of those cases.