From the article: "This can be used as a standard PC on standard power," MacLellan told ZDNet UK, "or it can be used with power-over-Ethernet, and that really makes it efficient."
I'm not an American, and I do trust the media in my country to give me an accurate representation, because they have no reason to be biased either way.
By saying that, you look just as naive as those only believe what Fox news tells. No source is 100% reliable. Western mass media are good at reporting domestic news. They are better with the facts. But when it comes to a far and foreign country, the media are just as biased as some government controlled sources, more or less. Like Fong said, we've learned that the hard way.
Lets put it like this, search for "tiananmen square" on google.cn and come burbling to me about media suppression then.
So you think we don't know this? How naive! Independent thinkers never put their trust on any single source, or sources. They never easily assume anything. Many intelligent Chinese people are well aware of the censorship, and we have fought our ways to poke holes through the system. As for those Chinese living outside the mainland, alternative sources are just finger taps away, in Chinese and English alike. These alternative sources present very different views on the same event and we have long got used to the exposure to different sources, each has its own bias. But when pieced together, they give us a fidel view of the real world. In addition, don't underestimate what word of mouth in spreading information.
There's a important fact worth mentioning though. A huge gap exists between English and Chinese free media in the perception of events happening. There are insightful reports about China in your mass media, thanks to the good journalism tradition in the west. However, for most of China-related news, the western media are somewhat distant, shallow and full of opinionated interpretations, which are far from the truth.
Of course, without comparison, you wouldn't know anything about that. Being bilingual is our advantage.
Ignorance and arrogance go hand in hand,
In your case, I think this is very true.
and the Chinese have a surplus of both, fuelled by propaganda and an incredible degree of brainwashing.
Another exposure of your simplistic world view. Have you ever learn anything from others posts?
Maybe you might want to export some along with the cheap underwear? I mean since advanced chipsets are too complicated to understand, that is, even if you steal the prototypes.
Again, out-dated impression. Do you know how many Chinese engineers working in the Silicon Valley as IC designers? Do you know the percentage of chipsets made by Chinese manufacturers in Taiwan, Shanghai and Beijing every year?
Ignorance is not a problem, as long as one is modest enough to learn. But arrogance is, for it reinforces the false believes and prevent people from getting close to the truth. Wake up, dude. Time is changing, don't pretend you don't see it.
Yes, you'd like that wouldn't you? Sorry, but we respect the rights of individuals to have free speech around here. Might be an alien concept, but give it a bit of thought, it grows on you.
Funny what makes you think free speech is your exclusive patent? Many Chinese like me, learned this long ago, not from textbooks, but from the brutal reality of history. Culture Revolution has given us 1st-hand experience about the importance of free speech and the underlying principle of equality. However, I seriously doubt you really grasp that at all. From your posts, whenever anyone experss an opinion you don't like, you dismiss it as bollocks or baseless arguments. Deep down, that is a sign of lacking spirit of equality. I wonder what you'd do to your opponents if you were given some Big Brother power one day.
Oh enlighten me to the superiority of your ways. From what I see so far from you, you have much to teach in the art of the baseless argument, oh mastah.
I've never claimed superiority of my ways. What I advocate is to respect and appreciate the greatness of other cultures. It is you who assumes the superiority of your way and insult people from other background than you. And yes, you are the one constantly makes arguments based on the "facts you know", which unfortunately, when it comes to other cultures, either are false, obsolete and second-hand, or simply amount to a very small fraction of reality.
they resort to the tragic event at Tiananmen Square, in the hope that demeaning the opponent would give them the moral superiority...waffle...How does slave trade or burning witches sound to you? How about the shooting of civilians by the US troops and local police in Kabul as we saw it in the news yesterday?
You can't even distiguish the people from the regime, can you? "Intellectual debater"?...you'd probably be one of those jackbooted thugs...it's very likely you'd be brainwashed by some propaganda machine and turning your gun at the free thinking people.
Will you stop distorting others comments and putting words in my mouth please? As far as I am aware, free speech does not include inventing speeches for others. Or maybe it's your patented version of free speech. Then I have nothing to say.
This is going to rock your kasbah, sparky, but I'm not American. Don't live there, don't especially want to. So that makes you racist and jumping to far more ill informed conclusions than I ever have.
So when I explicitly mentions US troops, you think I'm a racist against Americans? That is a wonderful way of distortion. We didn't even have this during the Culture Revolution!
Let me repeat my point here, in case you can't read properly in English. "Every nation has its darkside at some point in the history. How does slave trade or burning witches sound to you? How about the shooting of civilians by the US troops and local police in Kabul as we saw it in the news yesterday?" If you still can't grasp that, I really don't know how you manage your job at Intel. Or do you?
Oh and the square is just one incident of many, and one which I seriously doubt you attended.
How much do you know about things happened there in 1989, beyond limited western media coverage? Have you ever bothered to research into the backgrounds and aftermath? What sources have you consulted? Tell me, what is "fan3 guan1dao3", for example? You can just assume, but I experienced those days myself, I read numerous articles, books about it and I still don't think I know enough to make a judgement. As for your doubt, believe it or not. I can't care less.
Besides, whats a rampant racist like me doing learning eight languages? Obviously its to better abuse the natives! Ahhhh I am enlightened.
Knowing a few more phrases than "nihao" alone does not make you understand Mandarin. Same is true about other languages you claim to have learnt. You need to appreciate the underlying culture. I'm s
Right. If you could just pick one point and then stick to it like a good man, it might help you out a little. I guess the old propaganda school isn't up to much in the arena of intellectual debating, huh?:D I'll do my best to track down the main threads, you can work it out yourself from there.
What do you mean by "track down the main thread"? The article is about China's case against Intel in regarding to wireless network encryption standards. All you did is picking at China and pretending you know everything about it. Sadly, the more you talk, the more you expose to everybody about your ignorance. If you call this "intellectual debate", you're living in your own world.
I call em like I see em, son. I have no need to claim innocence, since I was never guilty in the first place, of whatever crime you seem to be accusing me of. Probably one of your infamous "thought crimes".
Let others be the judge. For your convenience, I just googled the word "racism" for you.
definition: racialism is a form of discrimination based on race, especially the belief that one race is superior to another. Racism may be expressed individually and consciously, throughxplicit thoughts, feelings, or acts, or socially and unconsciously, through institutions that promote inequality between races.
However you try to insinuate, it won't help you out of this. If you could listen and learn something from others at the beginning, you could've avoided being such an asshole. Pathetically, all we see here is a self-righteous bigot's refusal of enlightment from others.
And how very great it is. Any culture that feels the need to mow down defenceless students in cold blood, invade sovereign nations, lock up the very minds of its own citizens, and then tries to fob off its genocidal lies as the truth, how mighty that nation is. Oh no wait, my mistake, it makes me sick.
I knew it. Every time someone like you running out of true thought, they resort to the tragic event at Tiananmen Square, in the hope that demeaning the opponent would give them the moral superiority. On the contrary, it just, again, exposed your ignorance of history. Every nation has its darkside at some point in the history. How does slave trade or burning witches sound to you? How about the shooting of civilians by the US troops and local police in Kabul as we saw it in the news yesterday?
Don't take me wrong. I have no intention to defend the CCP's wrong doings. Actually, I was there in the protesting crowd in 1989 and I believe it's going to be rectified in not so far future. If you'd followed what's happening in Chinese politics like I do, you'd know that the new CCP leaders are carefully attempting to distant theirselves from the generation in power at that time. I have good reason to believe things are changing for the better in China. It's the result of the efforts of free thinking Chinese people, domestic and abroad. It's also a indirect consequence of rapid economy growth in the last decade.
Guess it's a waste of time explaining that to you. You can't even distiguish the people from the regime, can you? "Intellectual debater"?
Yes but the jolly part is I am not in China, so you can't have the jackbooted thugs kick down my door.
Fortunately we don't have you in China, or you'd probably be one of those jackbooted thugs. Given the narrow-minded thinking you've demonstrated very well to us here, it's very likely you'd be brainwashed by some propaganda machine and turning your gun at the free thinking people.
And by the way, I never said China was a slave owning culture, that was an exampli gratia of cultural low ground.
And now you're pretending the innocent finally? After insulting the Chinese all together in your posts and arrogantly dismissing others' patient explanation to you about subtle differences between Western and Chinese culture, huh?
I am a Chinese, now living in the UK. I've seen assholes in China and I've seen assholes here. I would never view the English or the Irish as rogue nations when the drunk asshole I met on the street happened to be an English or Irish. That's something we called racisim, in the East and West alike.
I don't know about 808140, but I agree with what he said. Even if he were indeed a Chinese, which I'd be very glad to learn, that does not make his point less valid.
You might have been to China. But your presumptious attitude has failed you when you had a wonderful chance to learn and appreciate the greatness of another culture. Your narrow-minded superiority made you a victim of ignorance. I really feel sorry for you.
If you feel upset about whatever China is doing in changing the world, my advice would be, "dig a hole in your basement, and live in there for the rest of your life. No internet, no TV, and no newspaper, as those will inevitably bring you the news you don't like."
Finally, following your logic of accusing 808140, I suspect you work for Intel, who's heavy-handed monopoly has got a blow from its former friend Dell. Let's accept it. times change. We Chinese have learned that, have you?
The grandparent post is FUD. Just that Lenovo started elsewhere does not mean it will flop. 20 years ago a lot of people though the same about Toyota. Hasn't anyone learn from history?
As for customer service, Lenovo has done a pretty good job in China. The US might be a different market. But...hey, let time tell...
I can see the funny bit of this post. However, I'd like to point out a technical mistake.
In Gentoo, as indicated by the kernel name,/boot is normally a seperate partition, AND is not automatically mounted at boot time. Therefore, to delete the kernel, you'd have to do a
# mount/boot
(if your/etc/fstab contains the correct entry for/boot)
Everybody returns the trolly to the cart pool in order to get their £1 back. So there's no need to hire extra hand collecting carts all over the car park with this mechanism.
With or without this so-called deposit, carts get stollen sometimes. £1 and a shopping cart, hardly match on value.
if there's a way to use Linux rescue CDs to do the same job, i.e. to fix an infected Windows drive?
Or simply put, what are Ad-Aware and McAfee's equivalents in Linux? Of course, I mean cleaning Windows not Linux, guess everybody here understands that.;-)
If there's such tools in Linux, then maintaining a Windows PC would be as simple as make it dual-boot with a bullet-proof Linux distro and switch it to Linux everynight and let Linux do all the magic. If you need to change anything, just ssh into the box, no matter how far you're from it. No CD burning(of course, Knoppix-like tools are always welcome), no sitting in front of every sick PC and waiting it to boot, everything is just as elegant as a xterm. How nice would it be!
Selling new PC with DOS/Linux in China isn't new at all, even from major brands(including local ones of course). Everybody seems doing so nowadays and HP might be too late to follow their local competitors.
IIRC, the first major brand did this was Great Wallhttp://www.greatwall.com.cn/. In the late 90s, Great Wall began selling some of its entry level PCs preloaded with IBM's PCDOS. IBM got some RMB100 for each system sold, it's a lot cheaper then MS tax though. Almost everyone buying this installed pirated Windows on it. MS was mad but could do nothing about it.
From then on, there have been many vendors selling their low-end desktops and laptops with various OSes other than Windows installed. Lenovo being one of them, once sold their PC with Happy Linux, a distro made by Lenovo itself. Lenovo was still named Legend back then.
The reason Great Wall sells PCDOS(yes, it still does) is that IBM has very good relationship with Great Wall. In fact, the most profitable part of Great Wall's business is called IIPC, in which IBM holds 80% share, and it manufactures both IBM and Great Wall branded PCs. Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC business is a major blow to Great Wall indeed. I guess Cringely just missed out Great Wall when naming the losers.
The so-called Taiwan Independence movement is actually in every sense DEPENDENT on foreign powers. Emotionally, older supporters are reminiscent of Japanese occupation. Many of them participated the Japanese military invasion to southeast asian countries during the WWII and see the defeat of the Japan Empire as a great misfortune and hence resent the ROC. Ironically, among them is the ROC's ex-president Lee Tung-hui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Teng-hui.
In military, they simply rely on the US to provide weapon and protection. Many pan-green supporters naively believe that they can drag the US into a Taiwan Independence war against the PRC, thus defeating the mainland to achieve their goal.
More to the point, they need an external enemy on which to focus their populace's hatred and discontent. Separatists in Taiwan serve that purpose wonderfully.
That sounds familiar. Politicians _NEED_ enemies to have people listening to them. When they want one, they usually can find one. If they don't find one, they creat one. And their followers blindly believes it and unite against the enemy. And the politicians can safely disregard all his own problems and stay in power indefinitely.
The same pattern happened again and again in every country and every once a while. In fact, the Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was elected (his election is still in heated disbute among pan-blue and pan-green supporters. There were probably more flaws in that election the the recent Ukraine one.) by making the PRC an enemy and then portaiting his opponents as "Chinese collaborators", or traitors of Taiwan, much the same way the Bush camp used the war on terror to attack Kerry.
But, if you want to reduce the whole Taiwan Strait tension to governments' propaganda, you are ignoring the problem's deep history background and Chinese nationalism roots. Taiwan was ceded to Japan from China in her weakest time and won back after WWII. The seperation status is the direct result of a civil war(1946-49). US military interference after the Korean War made it last for so long. To the 1.3 billion mainlanders, the seperation is the deepest cut in the dragon's heart, only ultimate re-unification can heal it. It is not the CCP's makeshift propaganda but a spontaneous feeling rooted in Chinese nationalism. To modern Chinese, this is just as sacred as religion in other parts of the world.
Yeah, they are rid of the cumbersome slot 1 package as well. These were meant to be PII mobile edition.
According to this posthttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131963&cid =11020014(a bit lazy to verify the source;), even desktop PIIIs with much higher frequency can do nearly as low power consumption as these PII embedded. That's when they're working at full speed. Imagine what happens when you just underclock the FSB to 66MHz! That means both better performance and lower power consumption. And what about PIII mobile?
There is no point to keep PII in embedded systems for power consumption reason. The guy apparently made a mistake.
According to the summary:
The Register has the scoop that 'this week Intel told its customers that it is to formally discontinue production of the Pentium II at 266, 333, 366 and 466MHz.
These PIIs all have a FSB of 66MHz. They are the first generation PII. Then Intel introduced 100MHz FSB and used them first on newer PIIs which run at 350, 400, 450MHz. They made some improvements over PII senior's terrible heat/power consumption issues. So your example doesn't fit very much into the case here.
The article is simly wrong about PII's power consumption.
From the article: That the part has held on for so long, past the introduction of the Pentium III and the P4, is a sign of its appeal to manufacturers of embedded systems for which high clock speeds and commensurately high power consumption and heat dissipation figures are a problem.
It does imply that embedded system manufacturers choose PII over PIII for better power efficiency and less heat generated.
However, it is not a fact. PII simply generates more heat than same frequency PIII and is slower of course. That is partly because of PII's higher core voltage. Each time Intel or AMD introduces new CPU cores, they tend to lower the core voltage in respect to the predecessors, a result of shrinking the transistor size. Without achiving this, they wouldn't be able to put more transistors on the die or avoid the generated heat from burning the core.
I have once put a PIII 450MHz into my old PII box to replace the 233MHz CPU. Since the mobo doesn't support 100MHz FSB, the PIII is runing at 300MHz with a 66MHz FSB. It used to require a fan to cool the PII. Now I can simply use only heat sink to cool it passively. Needless to say, I'm quite happy with it.
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Gentoo may not support as many platforms as Debian, but did you know Gentoo was the first distro to fully support AMD64?
Debian claims to be the Universal Operating System. No wonder it supports so many platforms. And it has existed long before Gentoo came into being. Debian also has maturer community and larger user base. Some debian-based distros like Knoppix and Ubuntu are at least as successful as Gentoo. It is kinda like comparing the programming skill of a veteran programmer to a new kid that only programmed in Java, and blaming him for not mastering C++.
Having said that, I believe Gentoo has the potential to match Debian to say the least. Features aside, Gentoo updates faster than Debian. 4 releases in a year is really something. While Woody was released on 19th of July, 2002, next Debian stable Sarge won't be available until next September. It's 3 years in between Debian's two stable releases. It is just a bit too slow to me.
I know Debian's stable is _REALLY_ stable and no Gentoo release can match that. But stability isn't why one uses Gentoo. Others may have their own reasons, I use it because it's much easier to try out things on it.
A gentoo user myself, I think the compiling time thing really doesn't matter that much. If people really hate it so much, nobody are forcing them to use gentoo. And they will miss out a lot of great gentoo features as well, such as really easy package management, ultimate customizing ability, great documentation and a mature community.
I think the grandparent is right about these people. They just want to make some fun with something, anything. Gentoo's compiling time just happened to be one of those things. They are free to laugh of course, but playing smart arse isn't smart enough after all, if being ignorant is to be avoided.
Name an actual climatologist who seriously believes doing nothing at all is better than Kyoto.
There'll always be. Whom do you think those pro-fossil-fuel researches sponsored by big oil companies were done by?
Every now and then, there will be some so-called climatologist come up with his/her research saying "it's normal, it happened before, no evidence, nothing to prove, etc, etc." No matter how flawed their researches are, they have fund and their conclusions goes to the public.
The same had happened to tabacco industy and it took a heck of evidence and law suits to shut them up.
And now there are MS-sponsored research saying Windows TCO blah blah blah.Anyone remember the infamous Ken Brown?
There will always be souls to be bought. Big company's money is the one to blame.
Shouting out loud doesn't mean you are right I'm afraid.
No one argues the US has better freedom of expression than China, and I'm all for freedom of expression. However that doesn't entitle you or any US citizen the moral highground. I guess your opposite has a more balanced view and insight into the reality of press freedom.
Putting dissents into prison is a method that has limited effect and won't last. It can only silence the voice for a while, however, at the price of making the government more dissents than they can possibly make prisons to accommondate. That has been proven repeatedly in history. The CCP also knows it. They won't be doing this for long. As things have already changed so much, I have reason to expect the situation will continue to change to the better. Before criticising the political reality in China, please bare in mind that it used to be much much worse 20, or even 10 years ago and that China has only enjoyed growing freedom in its economy system for less than the length of Vietnam War. I'm not saying the CPP government should not be criticised, but it certainly takes a more balanced view to criticise them to the point.
On the other hand, in the US, the government may not have direct control over the media, but the money behind both the two parties certainly has the most sophisticated control of the press. The mass just lives happily with what they are fed with. Few is aware of the wrong doings of their government. Even less is concerned with what their mighty military power is used for. Most Americans just don't care what's happening in the world, they just obsessed with themselves, thanks to the side effect of US-style press freedom.
First of all, double standards are common place in US politics. The great thing is, politicians can always choose the convenient one when they need and ignore the other. The bad thing is, they sometimes have to explain why choose this over the other. But fortunately, most of the time they don't, because the mass are dumb enough to follow their propaganda and the elite is either too weak to criticise or have no interest to comment.
In this case, the answer, as usual, is sheer convenience to apply method A to cuba and B to china. For China is so big, no one can starve China but China itself but cuba is small and closer to the US mass. it is ideal to make an example of fighting communism here. Although everyone knows that cuba's military power can harm to the US, making them an enemy is perfectly convenient. Poverty and starvation in Cuba, who cares? Whitehouse does not have relatives there!
Something "free" or "cheap" might be so for a reason.
I would call that FUD.
Just because it's free or cheap doesn't mean it's inferior in quality. Similarly, being expensive doesn't guarantee the quality would be good either.
Actually, for example, *BSDs are arguably the best network operating system and they are free. It is those overpriced proprietary OSes made by you-know-who that are riddled with bugs and security problems.
Software products do not suffer from resource scarcity like traditional commodity, such as cars, does. When a piece of software is written, it can be copied, compiled and ported to unlimited machines, the cost of it doesn't grow in proportion with the number of machines using it. The more people using it, the cheaper it goes.
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"This can be used as a standard PC on standard power," MacLellan told ZDNet UK, "or it can be used with power-over-Ethernet, and that really makes it efficient."
I guess the DC 5v connector is only optional.
Well, you've proven that to many others when you replied to 808140, haven't you?
By saying that, you look just as naive as those only believe what Fox news tells. No source is 100% reliable. Western mass media are good at reporting domestic news. They are better with the facts. But when it comes to a far and foreign country, the media are just as biased as some government controlled sources, more or less. Like Fong said, we've learned that the hard way.
Lets put it like this, search for "tiananmen square" on google.cn and come burbling to me about media suppression then.
So you think we don't know this? How naive! Independent thinkers never put their trust on any single source, or sources. They never easily assume anything. Many intelligent Chinese people are well aware of the censorship, and we have fought our ways to poke holes through the system. As for those Chinese living outside the mainland, alternative sources are just finger taps away, in Chinese and English alike. These alternative sources present very different views on the same event and we have long got used to the exposure to different sources, each has its own bias. But when pieced together, they give us a fidel view of the real world. In addition, don't underestimate what word of mouth in spreading information.
There's a important fact worth mentioning though. A huge gap exists between English and Chinese free media in the perception of events happening. There are insightful reports about China in your mass media, thanks to the good journalism tradition in the west. However, for most of China-related news, the western media are somewhat distant, shallow and full of opinionated interpretations, which are far from the truth.
Of course, without comparison, you wouldn't know anything about that. Being bilingual is our advantage.
Ignorance and arrogance go hand in hand,
In your case, I think this is very true.
and the Chinese have a surplus of both, fuelled by propaganda and an incredible degree of brainwashing.
Another exposure of your simplistic world view. Have you ever learn anything from others posts?
Maybe you might want to export some along with the cheap underwear? I mean since advanced chipsets are too complicated to understand, that is, even if you steal the prototypes.
Again, out-dated impression. Do you know how many Chinese engineers working in the Silicon Valley as IC designers? Do you know the percentage of chipsets made by Chinese manufacturers in Taiwan, Shanghai and Beijing every year?
Ignorance is not a problem, as long as one is modest enough to learn. But arrogance is, for it reinforces the false believes and prevent people from getting close to the truth. Wake up, dude. Time is changing, don't pretend you don't see it.
Funny what makes you think free speech is your exclusive patent? Many Chinese like me, learned this long ago, not from textbooks, but from the brutal reality of history. Culture Revolution has given us 1st-hand experience about the importance of free speech and the underlying principle of equality. However, I seriously doubt you really grasp that at all. From your posts, whenever anyone experss an opinion you don't like, you dismiss it as bollocks or baseless arguments. Deep down, that is a sign of lacking spirit of equality. I wonder what you'd do to your opponents if you were given some Big Brother power one day.
Oh enlighten me to the superiority of your ways. From what I see so far from you, you have much to teach in the art of the baseless argument, oh mastah.
I've never claimed superiority of my ways. What I advocate is to respect and appreciate the greatness of other cultures. It is you who assumes the superiority of your way and insult people from other background than you. And yes, you are the one constantly makes arguments based on the "facts you know", which unfortunately, when it comes to other cultures, either are false, obsolete and second-hand, or simply amount to a very small fraction of reality.
they resort to the tragic event at Tiananmen Square, in the hope that demeaning the opponent would give them the moral superiority...waffle...How does slave trade or burning witches sound to you? How about the shooting of civilians by the US troops and local police in Kabul as we saw it in the news yesterday?
You can't even distiguish the people from the regime, can you? "Intellectual debater"?...you'd probably be one of those jackbooted thugs...it's very likely you'd be brainwashed by some propaganda machine and turning your gun at the free thinking people.
Will you stop distorting others comments and putting words in my mouth please? As far as I am aware, free speech does not include inventing speeches for others. Or maybe it's your patented version of free speech. Then I have nothing to say.
This is going to rock your kasbah, sparky, but I'm not American. Don't live there, don't especially want to. So that makes you racist and jumping to far more ill informed conclusions than I ever have.
So when I explicitly mentions US troops, you think I'm a racist against Americans? That is a wonderful way of distortion. We didn't even have this during the Culture Revolution!
Let me repeat my point here, in case you can't read properly in English. "Every nation has its darkside at some point in the history. How does slave trade or burning witches sound to you? How about the shooting of civilians by the US troops and local police in Kabul as we saw it in the news yesterday?" If you still can't grasp that, I really don't know how you manage your job at Intel. Or do you?
Oh and the square is just one incident of many, and one which I seriously doubt you attended.
How much do you know about things happened there in 1989, beyond limited western media coverage? Have you ever bothered to research into the backgrounds and aftermath? What sources have you consulted? Tell me, what is "fan3 guan1dao3", for example? You can just assume, but I experienced those days myself, I read numerous articles, books about it and I still don't think I know enough to make a judgement. As for your doubt, believe it or not. I can't care less.
Besides, whats a rampant racist like me doing learning eight languages? Obviously its to better abuse the natives! Ahhhh I am enlightened.
Knowing a few more phrases than "nihao" alone does not make you understand Mandarin. Same is true about other languages you claim to have learnt. You need to appreciate the underlying culture. I'm s
What do you mean by "track down the main thread"? The article is about China's case against Intel in regarding to wireless network encryption standards. All you did is picking at China and pretending you know everything about it. Sadly, the more you talk, the more you expose to everybody about your ignorance. If you call this "intellectual debate", you're living in your own world.
I call em like I see em, son. I have no need to claim innocence, since I was never guilty in the first place, of whatever crime you seem to be accusing me of. Probably one of your infamous "thought crimes". Let others be the judge. For your convenience, I just googled the word "racism" for you.
definition: racialism is a form of discrimination based on race, especially the belief that one race is superior to another. Racism may be expressed individually and consciously, throughxplicit thoughts, feelings, or acts, or socially and unconsciously, through institutions that promote inequality between races.
However you try to insinuate, it won't help you out of this. If you could listen and learn something from others at the beginning, you could've avoided being such an asshole. Pathetically, all we see here is a self-righteous bigot's refusal of enlightment from others.
And how very great it is. Any culture that feels the need to mow down defenceless students in cold blood, invade sovereign nations, lock up the very minds of its own citizens, and then tries to fob off its genocidal lies as the truth, how mighty that nation is. Oh no wait, my mistake, it makes me sick.
I knew it. Every time someone like you running out of true thought, they resort to the tragic event at Tiananmen Square, in the hope that demeaning the opponent would give them the moral superiority. On the contrary, it just, again, exposed your ignorance of history. Every nation has its darkside at some point in the history. How does slave trade or burning witches sound to you? How about the shooting of civilians by the US troops and local police in Kabul as we saw it in the news yesterday?
Don't take me wrong. I have no intention to defend the CCP's wrong doings. Actually, I was there in the protesting crowd in 1989 and I believe it's going to be rectified in not so far future. If you'd followed what's happening in Chinese politics like I do, you'd know that the new CCP leaders are carefully attempting to distant theirselves from the generation in power at that time. I have good reason to believe things are changing for the better in China. It's the result of the efforts of free thinking Chinese people, domestic and abroad. It's also a indirect consequence of rapid economy growth in the last decade.
Guess it's a waste of time explaining that to you. You can't even distiguish the people from the regime, can you? "Intellectual debater"?
Yes but the jolly part is I am not in China, so you can't have the jackbooted thugs kick down my door.
Fortunately we don't have you in China, or you'd probably be one of those jackbooted thugs. Given the narrow-minded thinking you've demonstrated very well to us here, it's very likely you'd be brainwashed by some propaganda machine and turning your gun at the free thinking people.
And now you're pretending the innocent finally? After insulting the Chinese all together in your posts and arrogantly dismissing others' patient explanation to you about subtle differences between Western and Chinese culture, huh?
I am a Chinese, now living in the UK. I've seen assholes in China and I've seen assholes here. I would never view the English or the Irish as rogue nations when the drunk asshole I met on the street happened to be an English or Irish. That's something we called racisim, in the East and West alike.
I don't know about 808140, but I agree with what he said. Even if he were indeed a Chinese, which I'd be very glad to learn, that does not make his point less valid.
You might have been to China. But your presumptious attitude has failed you when you had a wonderful chance to learn and appreciate the greatness of another culture. Your narrow-minded superiority made you a victim of ignorance. I really feel sorry for you.
If you feel upset about whatever China is doing in changing the world, my advice would be, "dig a hole in your basement, and live in there for the rest of your life. No internet, no TV, and no newspaper, as those will inevitably bring you the news you don't like."
Finally, following your logic of accusing 808140, I suspect you work for Intel, who's heavy-handed monopoly has got a blow from its former friend Dell. Let's accept it. times change. We Chinese have learned that, have you?
The grandparent post is FUD. Just that Lenovo started elsewhere does not mean it will flop. 20 years ago a lot of people though the same about Toyota. Hasn't anyone learn from history?
As for customer service, Lenovo has done a pretty good job in China. The US might be a different market. But...hey, let time tell...
I can see the funny bit of this post. However, I'd like to point out a technical mistake. In Gentoo, as indicated by the kernel name, /boot is normally a seperate partition, AND is not automatically mounted at boot time. Therefore, to delete the kernel, you'd have to do a
# mount /boot
(if your /etc/fstab contains the correct entry for /boot)
And he's not the CEO any more - what's his new job title? Chairman?
Now I vaguely recall the ballmer-chimpanzee video. It was a brilliant joke.
Don't get me wrong. I hate MS products too. But I really think what make MS evil is more to do with their marketing, not technology.
Everybody returns the trolly to the cart pool in order to get their £1 back. So there's no need to hire extra hand collecting carts all over the car park with this mechanism.
With or without this so-called deposit, carts get stollen sometimes. £1 and a shopping cart, hardly match on value.
if there's a way to use Linux rescue CDs to do the same job, i.e. to fix an infected Windows drive? Or simply put, what are Ad-Aware and McAfee's equivalents in Linux? Of course, I mean cleaning Windows not Linux, guess everybody here understands that. ;-)
If there's such tools in Linux, then maintaining a Windows PC would be as simple as make it dual-boot with a bullet-proof Linux distro and switch it to Linux everynight and let Linux do all the magic. If you need to change anything, just ssh into the box, no matter how far you're from it. No CD burning(of course, Knoppix-like tools are always welcome), no sitting in front of every sick PC and waiting it to boot, everything is just as elegant as a xterm. How nice would it be!
IIRC, the first major brand did this was Great Wallhttp://www.greatwall.com.cn/. In the late 90s, Great Wall began selling some of its entry level PCs preloaded with IBM's PCDOS. IBM got some RMB100 for each system sold, it's a lot cheaper then MS tax though. Almost everyone buying this installed pirated Windows on it. MS was mad but could do nothing about it.
From then on, there have been many vendors selling their low-end desktops and laptops with various OSes other than Windows installed. Lenovo being one of them, once sold their PC with Happy Linux, a distro made by Lenovo itself. Lenovo was still named Legend back then.
The reason Great Wall sells PCDOS(yes, it still does) is that IBM has very good relationship with Great Wall. In fact, the most profitable part of Great Wall's business is called IIPC, in which IBM holds 80% share, and it manufactures both IBM and Great Wall branded PCs. Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC business is a major blow to Great Wall indeed. I guess Cringely just missed out Great Wall when naming the losers.
In military, they simply rely on the US to provide weapon and protection. Many pan-green supporters naively believe that they can drag the US into a Taiwan Independence war against the PRC, thus defeating the mainland to achieve their goal.
That sounds familiar. Politicians _NEED_ enemies to have people listening to them. When they want one, they usually can find one. If they don't find one, they creat one. And their followers blindly believes it and unite against the enemy. And the politicians can safely disregard all his own problems and stay in power indefinitely.
The same pattern happened again and again in every country and every once a while. In fact, the Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was elected (his election is still in heated disbute among pan-blue and pan-green supporters. There were probably more flaws in that election the the recent Ukraine one.) by making the PRC an enemy and then portaiting his opponents as "Chinese collaborators", or traitors of Taiwan, much the same way the Bush camp used the war on terror to attack Kerry.
But, if you want to reduce the whole Taiwan Strait tension to governments' propaganda, you are ignoring the problem's deep history background and Chinese nationalism roots. Taiwan was ceded to Japan from China in her weakest time and won back after WWII. The seperation status is the direct result of a civil war(1946-49). US military interference after the Korean War made it last for so long. To the 1.3 billion mainlanders, the seperation is the deepest cut in the dragon's heart, only ultimate re-unification can heal it. It is not the CCP's makeshift propaganda but a spontaneous feeling rooted in Chinese nationalism. To modern Chinese, this is just as sacred as religion in other parts of the world.
According to this posthttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131963&cid =11020014(a bit lazy to verify the source ;), even desktop PIIIs with much higher frequency can do nearly as low power consumption as these PII embedded. That's when they're working at full speed. Imagine what happens when you just underclock the FSB to 66MHz! That means both better performance and lower power consumption. And what about PIII mobile?
There is no point to keep PII in embedded systems for power consumption reason. The guy apparently made a mistake.
The Register has the scoop that 'this week Intel told its customers that it is to formally discontinue production of the Pentium II at 266, 333, 366 and 466MHz.
These PIIs all have a FSB of 66MHz. They are the first generation PII. Then Intel introduced 100MHz FSB and used them first on newer PIIs which run at 350, 400, 450MHz. They made some improvements over PII senior's terrible heat/power consumption issues. So your example doesn't fit very much into the case here.
The article is simly wrong about PII's power consumption.
That the part has held on for so long, past the introduction of the Pentium III and the P4, is a sign of its appeal to manufacturers of embedded systems for which high clock speeds and commensurately high power consumption and heat dissipation figures are a problem.
It does imply that embedded system manufacturers choose PII over PIII for better power efficiency and less heat generated.
However, it is not a fact. PII simply generates more heat than same frequency PIII and is slower of course. That is partly because of PII's higher core voltage. Each time Intel or AMD introduces new CPU cores, they tend to lower the core voltage in respect to the predecessors, a result of shrinking the transistor size. Without achiving this, they wouldn't be able to put more transistors on the die or avoid the generated heat from burning the core.
I have once put a PIII 450MHz into my old PII box to replace the 233MHz CPU. Since the mobo doesn't support 100MHz FSB, the PIII is runing at 300MHz with a 66MHz FSB. It used to require a fan to cool the PII. Now I can simply use only heat sink to cool it passively. Needless to say, I'm quite happy with it.
Debian claims to be the Universal Operating System. No wonder it supports so many platforms. And it has existed long before Gentoo came into being. Debian also has maturer community and larger user base. Some debian-based distros like Knoppix and Ubuntu are at least as successful as Gentoo. It is kinda like comparing the programming skill of a veteran programmer to a new kid that only programmed in Java, and blaming him for not mastering C++.
Having said that, I believe Gentoo has the potential to match Debian to say the least. Features aside, Gentoo updates faster than Debian. 4 releases in a year is really something. While Woody was released on 19th of July, 2002, next Debian stable Sarge won't be available until next September. It's 3 years in between Debian's two stable releases. It is just a bit too slow to me.
I know Debian's stable is _REALLY_ stable and no Gentoo release can match that. But stability isn't why one uses Gentoo. Others may have their own reasons, I use it because it's much easier to try out things on it.
Just my 2 pence. :)
I think the grandparent is right about these people. They just want to make some fun with something, anything. Gentoo's compiling time just happened to be one of those things. They are free to laugh of course, but playing smart arse isn't smart enough after all, if being ignorant is to be avoided.
There'll always be. Whom do you think those pro-fossil-fuel researches sponsored by big oil companies were done by?
Every now and then, there will be some so-called climatologist come up with his/her research saying "it's normal, it happened before, no evidence, nothing to prove, etc, etc." No matter how flawed their researches are, they have fund and their conclusions goes to the public.
The same had happened to tabacco industy and it took a heck of evidence and law suits to shut them up.
And now there are MS-sponsored research saying Windows TCO blah blah blah.Anyone remember the infamous Ken Brown?
There will always be souls to be bought. Big company's money is the one to blame.
Shouting out loud doesn't mean you are right I'm afraid.
No one argues the US has better freedom of expression than China, and I'm all for freedom of expression. However that doesn't entitle you or any US citizen the moral highground. I guess your opposite has a more balanced view and insight into the reality of press freedom.
Putting dissents into prison is a method that has limited effect and won't last. It can only silence the voice for a while, however, at the price of making the government more dissents than they can possibly make prisons to accommondate. That has been proven repeatedly in history. The CCP also knows it. They won't be doing this for long. As things have already changed so much, I have reason to expect the situation will continue to change to the better. Before criticising the political reality in China, please bare in mind that it used to be much much worse 20, or even 10 years ago and that China has only enjoyed growing freedom in its economy system for less than the length of Vietnam War. I'm not saying the CPP government should not be criticised, but it certainly takes a more balanced view to criticise them to the point.
On the other hand, in the US, the government may not have direct control over the media, but the money behind both the two parties certainly has the most sophisticated control of the press. The mass just lives happily with what they are fed with. Few is aware of the wrong doings of their government. Even less is concerned with what their mighty military power is used for. Most Americans just don't care what's happening in the world, they just obsessed with themselves, thanks to the side effect of US-style press freedom.
In this case, the answer, as usual, is sheer convenience to apply method A to cuba and B to china. For China is so big, no one can starve China but China itself but cuba is small and closer to the US mass. it is ideal to make an example of fighting communism here. Although everyone knows that cuba's military power can harm to the US, making them an enemy is perfectly convenient. Poverty and starvation in Cuba, who cares? Whitehouse does not have relatives there!
That reminds me some widely used proprietary software that is tied to an open hardware platform ... x86. ;)
I would call that FUD.
Just because it's free or cheap doesn't mean it's inferior in quality. Similarly, being expensive doesn't guarantee the quality would be good either.
Actually, for example, *BSDs are arguably the best network operating system and they are free. It is those overpriced proprietary OSes made by you-know-who that are riddled with bugs and security problems.
Software products do not suffer from resource scarcity like traditional commodity, such as cars, does. When a piece of software is written, it can be copied, compiled and ported to unlimited machines, the cost of it doesn't grow in proportion with the number of machines using it. The more people using it, the cheaper it goes.