SK does want reunitifaction, but in a managed fashion over time. Reunification is about the only long-term growth driver for SK to compete with Japan and China. Also, the thousand years of common history and language should not be discounted.
You are right that instant reunification would be way too costly, though.
"South Korea would probably pay China not to do that. Noone in South Korea - not the politicians, not the ordinary people - wants a re-unification. A re-unificatiion would be an absolute disaster for the South Korean economy. I know. I happen to live there (Seoul)."
Only a person without understanding of Korean history and sentiment would make such a wildly false blanket statement.
I for one wouldn't mind a second laptop that's cheaper than many PDA's, even at reduced featurset.
Only real negative I see is the ~7 inch display -- I hope they'd provide external display option, though I don't think it's likely due to cost constraint.
"an allegation that Dr. Hwang has denied on several occasions"
Where did anyone other than this slashdot submitter accuse Dr.Hwang of forcing anyone?
On the contrary, Dr.Hwang is well known for being exceptionally careful to keep his experiements in ethical domain, even at the expense of progresses in his experiments. Please examine the facts first before making a serious accusation like this
You get near 100% cell phone coverage in SF. Why? Network provides make money off that.
Same way.
Google will find a way to make money off by investing $$$$ to offer free wi-fi to people of SF.
More eyes looking at their ads, and more insight on their customer behaviour data comes to mind as potential source of $$$$$$$.
Xbox security was broken in due time.
It's only a matter of time if Apple indeed decides to use off-the-shelf Intel cpu.
Apple could demand a customized cpu from Intel, but I'm not sure whether Apple has enough market share to warrant Intel's development costs.
Studies summarized in Canada shows that: Over the 10-15 years, ~60% of sexual molesters reoffend with sexual crimes. ~77% of the boy rapists reoffend.
I think this is a strong rational for some sort of a watch-dog system, wouldn't you agree? GPS may or may not be the best answer, but people with 60 to 77% of chances of reoffending the same crime must be watched carefully for society's sake and for their own sake as well.
Consider what the vicitimized children would go through for their _lives_. We need a system to prevent such tregedies, and this is a step in the right direction, although it may perhaps be a bit crude.
Recidivism Rates...
In addition, the long-term follow-up study (15-30 years) of child molesters showed that the average recidivism rate for this group of offenders is actually lower than the average recidivism rate for non-sexual offenders (61% versus 83.2% respectively for any new conviction).
Likelihood of Recidivism
The long term follow-up study referred to above included a control group of non-sexual criminals. The highest rate of recidivism (77%) was for those with previous sexual offences, who selected boy victims outside the family and who were never married.3
I agree that it's probably the default behaviour of most folks in North America...
However, it doesn't apply to foreign markets, especially in Korea where google is a distant 3rd search engine at best. The search engines there have the concept of 'community search' where other people on the net help you find your stuff, which is surprisingly effective for commodity information (but not so much for speciality info)
Anyhow, I'm positive google's not the dominant leader in other markets either. (yet?)
Yeah, I'm laughing all right. You think Fugu and Sushi and other rare delicacies are indications that we are running out of new stuff to eat?
oh boy. Then, enjoy your billion dollar T-Rex burger....
Please mark the parent 'funny' not 'interesting'
Having said that, I believe that the solution is to accept the right of North Korean govt to exist, and start massive economic aids and trades to rebuild its economy. The eventual prosperity in North Korea will triger it to improve its democracy and human rights from themselves.
Suggesting that NK could be prosperous may sound funny. However, South Korea was poorer in 1950's and 60's than the current NKorea, but it has built ~10th biggest economy and one of the most democratic government within 3-4 decades. If SK did it, NK can do it too, especially with SK aids.
Remember how China began to change? It didn't start from military or political perspectives. It started from economic changes, and economic prosperity is the critical ingredient that must be in place before things like democracy and human rights can be properly advocated. I know China still doesn't guarantee proper human rights, but China is so much better than it used to be before its economic boom.
South Korea already has taken approach under the name of 'Sunshine Policy' US should adopt something similar because this policy already returned significant results since it began several years ago.
For example, a new joint economic cooperative area opened in a North Korean border city of GaeSung, and hundreds of South Korean companies are dying to invest in the area to take advantage of cheap but intelligent North Korean labour force. Also, many many thousands of S.Korean tourists visited North Korea.
If this trend of cooperation continues, NK will soon have no choice but to continue to open itself more as its economy slowly integrates with that of South Korea. This will make an immediate impact on the people of North Korea.
Thus, if America really wants to remove the North Korean 'threat' then it should invest a lot of its capital and allow trading with North Korea. (How'bout removing NK from the terrorist country and allow trading?)
However, it is crystal clear that Bush will never allow it. I don't think Bush will invade NK because even he is not stupid enough to offend SK, Japan, and China all at the same time. However, it saddens me to know that Bush will be directly responsible for delaying the integration process between SK and NK.
I understand that this will be a long process. But, there can be no quick fix for such a delicate situation. Slow and steady wins the game, as history has shown us.
South Korea has been trying to open North Korea by pouring down economic aids, and forgiving many of North Koreans typical irrationalities. Heck, North Korean vessel crossed border and killed several South Korean soldiers, but the economic adis still continue until this day.
However, Bush has taken the exact opposite approach. America's invasion of Iraq is an obvious proof to North Korea what would come next unless North Korea kneels before America like Libya.
Which policy is more effective in opening North Korea and helping the poor people there?
I insist it is South Korean's Sunshine policy. North Korea has already opened many of its doors, and it can only continue to do so as its economy slowly integrates with that of South Korea.
For example, a new joint economic cooperative area opened in a North Korean border city of GaeSung, and hundreds of South Korean companies are dying to invest in the area to take advantage of cheap but intelligent North Korean labour force.
Remember how China began to change? It didn't start from military or political perspectives. It started from economic changes, and it's continuing strong.
Thus, if America really wants to remove the North Korean 'threat' then it should invest a lot of its capital and allow trading with North Korea.
What is effective may not be always obvious. Invasion seems thrilling and obvious from the typical (republican) American perspectives, but history has repeatedly shown that is not the case at all.
You will realize that invasion is hopelessly ineffective either for improving the lives of people there or for satisfying the American national prides, if you know ANY history of Korea as a nation. For example, Did you know that Korea has fought again near 1000 invasions in ~5000 years of history, and still survived as independent nation (though split in two)?
Believe me, I feel for the poor souls in North Korea more than you do. (I'm Korean myself, living in Canada)
But, your typical American response of 'I am so righteous' simply disgusts me.
I cannot agree more.
For all the Americans here, I suggest you read papers from non-American points of view to realize how abusive your country has become 'for the sake of making it RIGHT'
I am sure the seek time on flash memory is superior to that of harddrives because it doesn't have to turn the platter.
Since, seek time would be more imporant for accessing numerous yet relatively small files than transfer rate, I think flash is the better choice.
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One, it is fully deployed and operational in canada. Link to NavCanada
Tow, flight data processor of CAATS is being reused in US as a core piece of the next generation ATC being built again this time by Lockeed.
So I wouldn't agree CAATS was no more successful... disclaimer: I worked on CAATS with other freaks. It's a beautiful piece of software.
SK does want reunitifaction, but in a managed fashion over time. Reunification is about the only long-term growth driver for SK to compete with Japan and China. Also, the thousand years of common history and language should not be discounted. You are right that instant reunification would be way too costly, though.
"South Korea would probably pay China not to do that. Noone in South Korea - not the politicians, not the ordinary people - wants a re-unification. A re-unificatiion would be an absolute disaster for the South Korean economy. I know. I happen to live there (Seoul)."
Only a person without understanding of Korean history and sentiment would make such a wildly false blanket statement.
Totally untrue.
Would it be marketable in North America?
I for one wouldn't mind a second laptop that's cheaper than many PDA's, even at reduced featurset.
Only real negative I see is the ~7 inch display -- I hope they'd provide external display option, though I don't think it's likely due to cost constraint.
That means there's no reason for the researchers to force anyone for eggs, especially at the expense of damanging its own ethics and reputation.
You say it's implied, but making assumptions without knowing the actual context is a step too close towards making false judgement.
Where did anyone other than this slashdot submitter accuse Dr.Hwang of forcing anyone?
On the contrary, Dr.Hwang is well known for being exceptionally careful to keep his experiements in ethical domain, even at the expense of progresses in his experiments. Please examine the facts first before making a serious accusation like this
Geek power!
You get near 100% cell phone coverage in SF. Why? Network provides make money off that. Same way. Google will find a way to make money off by investing $$$$ to offer free wi-fi to people of SF. More eyes looking at their ads, and more insight on their customer behaviour data comes to mind as potential source of $$$$$$$.
Yes, but for how long?
Xbox security was broken in due time. It's only a matter of time if Apple indeed decides to use off-the-shelf Intel cpu. Apple could demand a customized cpu from Intel, but I'm not sure whether Apple has enough market share to warrant Intel's development costs.
Studies summarized in Canada shows that:
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Over the 10-15 years, ~60% of sexual molesters reoffend with sexual crimes.
~77% of the boy rapists reoffend.
I think this is a strong rational for some sort of a watch-dog system, wouldn't you agree? GPS may or may not be the best answer, but people with 60 to 77% of chances of reoffending the same crime must be watched carefully for society's sake and for their own sake as well.
Consider what the vicitimized children would go through for their _lives_. We need a system to prevent such tregedies, and this is a step in the right direction, although it may perhaps be a bit crude.
Recidivism Rates
In addition, the long-term follow-up study (15-30 years) of child molesters showed that the average recidivism rate for this group of offenders is actually lower than the average recidivism rate for non-sexual offenders (61% versus 83.2% respectively for any new conviction).
Likelihood of Recidivism
The long term follow-up study referred to above included a control group of non-sexual criminals. The highest rate of recidivism (77%) was for those with previous sexual offences, who selected boy victims outside the family and who were never married.3
http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/docs/sxoffend/page1.h
I agree that it's probably the default behaviour of most folks in North America... However, it doesn't apply to foreign markets, especially in Korea where google is a distant 3rd search engine at best. The search engines there have the concept of 'community search' where other people on the net help you find your stuff, which is surprisingly effective for commodity information (but not so much for speciality info) Anyhow, I'm positive google's not the dominant leader in other markets either. (yet?)
Hi George, oops I mean Cheney. Anyways, please wake up, and be content with Iraq mess already.
"anonymous" should have been capitalized because it's a beginning of a sentence. ;-)
Yeah, I'm laughing all right. You think Fugu and Sushi and other rare delicacies are indications that we are running out of new stuff to eat? oh boy. Then, enjoy your billion dollar T-Rex burger.... Please mark the parent 'funny' not 'interesting'
Whatever happened to CherryOS?
coward, aren't you?
My apologies if I misunderstood your intentions.
Having said that, I believe that the solution is to accept the right of North Korean govt to exist, and start massive economic aids and trades to rebuild its economy. The eventual prosperity in North Korea will triger it to improve its democracy and human rights from themselves.
Suggesting that NK could be prosperous may sound funny. However, South Korea was poorer in 1950's and 60's than the current NKorea, but it has built ~10th biggest economy and one of the most democratic government within 3-4 decades. If SK did it, NK can do it too, especially with SK aids.
Remember how China began to change? It didn't start from military or political perspectives. It started from economic changes, and economic prosperity is the critical ingredient that must be in place before things like democracy and human rights can be properly advocated. I know China still doesn't guarantee proper human rights, but China is so much better than it used to be before its economic boom.
South Korea already has taken approach under the name of 'Sunshine Policy' US should adopt something similar because this policy already returned significant results since it began several years ago.
For example, a new joint economic cooperative area opened in a North Korean border city of GaeSung, and hundreds of South Korean companies are dying to invest in the area to take advantage of cheap but intelligent North Korean labour force. Also, many many thousands of S.Korean tourists visited North Korea.
If this trend of cooperation continues, NK will soon have no choice but to continue to open itself more as its economy slowly integrates with that of South Korea. This will make an immediate impact on the people of North Korea.
Thus, if America really wants to remove the North Korean 'threat' then it should invest a lot of its capital and allow trading with North Korea. (How'bout removing NK from the terrorist country and allow trading?)
However, it is crystal clear that Bush will never allow it. I don't think Bush will invade NK because even he is not stupid enough to offend SK, Japan, and China all at the same time. However, it saddens me to know that Bush will be directly responsible for delaying the integration process between SK and NK.
I understand that this will be a long process. But, there can be no quick fix for such a delicate situation. Slow and steady wins the game, as history has shown us.
South Korea has been trying to open North Korea by pouring down economic aids, and forgiving many of North Koreans typical irrationalities. Heck, North Korean vessel crossed border and killed several South Korean soldiers, but the economic adis still continue until this day.
However, Bush has taken the exact opposite approach. America's invasion of Iraq is an obvious proof to North Korea what would come next unless North Korea kneels before America like Libya.
Which policy is more effective in opening North Korea and helping the poor people there?
I insist it is South Korean's Sunshine policy. North Korea has already opened many of its doors, and it can only continue to do so as its economy slowly integrates with that of South Korea.
For example, a new joint economic cooperative area opened in a North Korean border city of GaeSung, and hundreds of South Korean companies are dying to invest in the area to take advantage of cheap but intelligent North Korean labour force.
Remember how China began to change? It didn't start from military or political perspectives. It started from economic changes, and it's continuing strong.
Thus, if America really wants to remove the North Korean 'threat' then it should invest a lot of its capital and allow trading with North Korea.
What is effective may not be always obvious. Invasion seems thrilling and obvious from the typical (republican) American perspectives, but history has repeatedly shown that is not the case at all.
However, what would invasion achieve in reality?
You will realize that invasion is hopelessly ineffective either for improving the lives of people there or for satisfying the American national prides, if you know ANY history of Korea as a nation. For example, Did you know that Korea has fought again near 1000 invasions in ~5000 years of history, and still survived as independent nation (though split in two)?
Believe me, I feel for the poor souls in North Korea more than you do. (I'm Korean myself, living in Canada)
But, your typical American response of 'I am so righteous' simply disgusts me.
America did not invent it, but it's the only country which _actively_ practices it in this generation.
I cannot agree more. For all the Americans here, I suggest you read papers from non-American points of view to realize how abusive your country has become 'for the sake of making it RIGHT'
Are you sure the graphic chip on Xbox is inferior to the one in Mac Mini? I find it almost impossible to believe.
it's also a digtal camera and mp3 player. Camcording is just one of the functions.
I am sure the seek time on flash memory is superior to that of harddrives because it doesn't have to turn the platter. Since, seek time would be more imporant for accessing numerous yet relatively small files than transfer rate, I think flash is the better choice.