Marx himself thought that he would be the one leading the people.
Marx himself also predicted that England would be the first country to revolt and turn communist, since it was the most industrialized country, thus when the workers in theoy would be most exploated.
In real life it turned out that the revolution came to one of the least industrialized countires in europe - Russia.
Goes to show that theory and reality is only the same thing in theory... but not in reality
The US executed more prisoners in 2002 than in the previous year, after executions spiked in 1999 totaling a more than 20-year record high of 98 executions. In addition, the US was the only known country in the world to execute juvenile offenders last year when three child offenders were executed in Texas. The execution of Scott Hain in Oklahoma on April 3, 2003, marked the first known juvenile offender execution worldwide this year.
Praticing capital punishment is one of the things China and the USA have in common. Although the US might have a lead in juvenile execution, they are however still far behind in total numbers of executions. China has an amazing lead on the reast of the world.
Side track:
Not allowing the people to select the leader of the country through voting is another common link between PRC and USA. I'm amazed that the US never managed to remove the electoral system. Why should people vote to select an electoral to go to the capital and vote on who should be the president. It made sense back in the days when railroads was the bleading edge communication technology, but lots have changed since then....
> >I wonder how hard it is to get internet access by just dialing up
> As I understand (by visiting/talking to people living in PRC), dial-up connections to the internet are easy to get and cheap
To clearify what I meant (a.k.a. "I should have used the Preview button"):
Dial-up accesss seems inexpencive and easy to get
if you have a fixed phone line
if you have a computer
However just like in Finland, the cell phones are starting to replace fixed lines in China among young people due to lower cost.
And if you want a new, fast computer for gaming, it is very pricy. All imports like AMD or Intel cpus etc. have very hight import tariffs. And the domestic alternatives seems a bit low-end.
So for gaming, "internet cafes" seems like the way to go in China
I wonder how hard it is to get internet access by just dialing up
As I understand (by visiting/talking to people living in PRC), dial-up connections to the internet are easy to get and cheap.
The problem is that computers are too expensive for many people. Specially young people.
And there is not much sense in buying an expensive computer, when you can use an internet cafe to a rather low rate. When travelling in China, most of the cyber cafes I used had rates in the range of $0.5-$1 per hour. Mostly with modern computers, and the price included free fill-up of mineral water or tea.
I saw a lot of younger people (6 months ago). All of them seemed to ignore the internet, and instead play games with/against each other.
and ofcause anyone hooked on a game, can have quite sevear withdraw symptoms... perhaps even using fire extinguishers?
One obeservation I have made during my journeys through China, is that they have loads and loads of laws and rules. And being a communist country, people ignore most of the laws.
The fear of punishment keeps people from breaking some of the laws. But since the athorities don't have the resources to check up on everything, they have to let a lot slide.
When the central government makes a drice at some kind of crime all the regions have to show some results. However I don't always think that the local athorities put so much effort into it...
On example is the search for pirated DVD movies. Every year China have a big drive to shut down the pirates. They raid shops and warehouses and confiscate tons of pirated DVD's. The week after the same people are back in the same stores selling pirated DVDs again. And the police have nice numbers of how many pirate shops they have shut down. Making the government very pleased.
So sometimes the numbers of how many operations they have shut down, might not mean so much, since it's hart to tell if they mean permanently or just temporarely.
The spread of news seems to be a very sensetive area for the Chineese government though, so perhaps they do have as strict enforcement of the law as reported
As a long time windows programmer I have seen tons of improvements in the development environement on windows over the last dozen years.
How about KDevelop 3?
(I haven't used any Windows IDE for many years, so I have no idea how well it compares. It would be nice if someone who have tried both could share some insights)
I'd use Mozilla if I could shift+click and get a new browser window. But every time that I install it, I end up removing it because of little annoyances that happen from my IE habits. I can't expect to make others use it (I deploy many PCs) if I don't do it myself.
I use Mozilla, Konquror and Opera depending on what OS and which computer I use (work, home, friends, etc).
Every computer I'm forced to use IE, I end up wishing I could remove it because of all the little annoyances.
No tabbed browsing - something all modern web-browsers seems to have.
Crappy network handling. Try spelling an URL wrong. IE hangs for 10-20 seconds with no ability to abort
Ctrl+N to open a new window. IE starts to re-load the contents of the previous window. I start typing a new URL. IE finishes loading the page and inserts the old URL in the middle of my typing. I scream out and install Mozilla on that computer too, regardless of protests from the computers owner
Seriously though, I haven't heard of any organized "silent protest" for a long time. Does the NSA really have so much computing power that it's useless to even try to bother them?
My personal suspicion is that the moon holds little or no lure for politicians looking to strike awe in media and the public.
Spending billions on a trip to mars sounds new and cool to anyone. While on the other hand spending money on "going back" to the moon might not win any points in the approval ratings.
I might be more cynical than most people, but I still hope that the plans are made with long term thinking, and sciense as motivation rather than just popularity.
I tried IE for Solaris a few years ago. I may have complained about Netscape 4.x for Solaris, but IE was ten times worse! It not only crashed like Netscape sometimes did. It would frequently kill my X-server all togeather. And on one occation it even managed to get the whole system to lock up.
A few weeks ago a group from Sun on tour visited our office. They were showing their new road maps and answering questions. I asked some general questions, giving them an opportunity for some sale talk.
They seemed to be intrerested in selling two things:
1. development software (i.e. compilers and development environents)
2. servers (i.e. bigger machines that they earn more money
I asked them about workstations, and they hardly bothered to answer. My guess is that a Sun Blade 1500 doesn't give much profit at all.
They pushed hard for their C/C++ complier and their Java IDE, and all its new features, and how easy it is to use for those that are skilled in Visual Basic.
...Well they might have said more, but that's what I remebered:)
My conclusion was that they wantet to sell licences for software and servers most of all.
I know of a case where a bunch of people got locked out of their cars for some hours. It was in a parkinglot in front of a shopping center.
After an investigation it turned out that in one of the high apartment buildings next to the parkinglot, someone had a wireless set of headphones jamming the keyless car locks.
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Marx himself also predicted that England would be the first country to revolt and turn communist, since it was the most industrialized country, thus when the workers in theoy would be most exploated.
In real life it turned out that the revolution came to one of the least industrialized countires in europe - Russia.
Goes to show that theory and reality is only the same thing in theory... but not in reality
Praticing capital punishment is one of the things China and the USA have in common. Although the US might have a lead in juvenile execution, they are however still far behind in total numbers of executions. China has an amazing lead on the reast of the world.
Side track:
Not allowing the people to select the leader of the country through voting is another common link between PRC and USA. I'm amazed that the US never managed to remove the electoral system. Why should people vote to select an electoral to go to the capital and vote on who should be the president. It made sense back in the days when railroads was the bleading edge communication technology, but lots have changed since then....
> As I understand (by visiting/talking to people living in PRC), dial-up connections to the internet are easy to get and cheap
To clearify what I meant (a.k.a. "I should have used the Preview button"):
Dial-up accesss seems inexpencive and easy to get
However just like in Finland, the cell phones are starting to replace fixed lines in China among young people due to lower cost.
And if you want a new, fast computer for gaming, it is very pricy. All imports like AMD or Intel cpus etc. have very hight import tariffs. And the domestic alternatives seems a bit low-end.
So for gaming, "internet cafes" seems like the way to go in China
As I understand (by visiting/talking to people living in PRC), dial-up connections to the internet are easy to get and cheap.
The problem is that computers are too expensive for many people. Specially young people.
And there is not much sense in buying an expensive computer, when you can use an internet cafe to a rather low rate. When travelling in China, most of the cyber cafes I used had rates in the range of $0.5-$1 per hour. Mostly with modern computers, and the price included free fill-up of mineral water or tea.
I saw a lot of younger people (6 months ago). All of them seemed to ignore the internet, and instead play games with/against each other.
and ofcause anyone hooked on a game, can have quite sevear withdraw symptoms... perhaps even using fire extinguishers?
The fear of punishment keeps people from breaking some of the laws. But since the athorities don't have the resources to check up on everything, they have to let a lot slide.
When the central government makes a drice at some kind of crime all the regions have to show some results. However I don't always think that the local athorities put so much effort into it...
On example is the search for pirated DVD movies. Every year China have a big drive to shut down the pirates. They raid shops and warehouses and confiscate tons of pirated DVD's. The week after the same people are back in the same stores selling pirated DVDs again. And the police have nice numbers of how many pirate shops they have shut down. Making the government very pleased.
So sometimes the numbers of how many operations they have shut down, might not mean so much, since it's hart to tell if they mean permanently or just temporarely.
The spread of news seems to be a very sensetive area for the Chineese government though, so perhaps they do have as strict enforcement of the law as reported
How about KDevelop 3?
(I haven't used any Windows IDE for many years, so I have no idea how well it compares.
It would be nice if someone who have tried both could share some insights)
I thought at first that they were talking about X-Windows... Or are there similar products capitalizing on the brand recognition of X-Windows?
I click on it every day I see it.
I wish there were more ways of diverting funds from M$ to the community :)
According to NetCraft their webserver is running FreeBSD
Here's the source to qrpff.pl:
I use Mozilla, Konquror and Opera depending on what OS and which computer I use (work, home, friends, etc).
Every computer I'm forced to use IE, I end up wishing I could remove it because of all the little annoyances.
No tabbed browsing - something all modern web-browsers seems to have.
Crappy network handling. Try spelling an URL wrong. IE hangs for 10-20 seconds with no ability to abort
Ctrl+N to open a new window. IE starts to re-load the contents of the previous window. I start typing a new URL. IE finishes loading the page and inserts the old URL in the middle of my typing. I scream out and install Mozilla on that computer too, regardless of protests from the computers owner
My favourite in devious encryption is currently Spam Mimic
If you were scanning all e-mails, would you put your resources on mails that looked encrypted or those that look like junk mail?
For me everyday is Echelon day :)
Seriously though, I haven't heard of any organized "silent protest" for a long time.
Does the NSA really have so much computing power that it's useless to even try to bother them?
I for one greet our new windowing system overlords!
My personal suspicion is that the moon holds little or no lure for politicians looking to strike awe in media and the public.
Spending billions on a trip to mars sounds new and cool to anyone. While on the other hand spending money on "going back" to the moon might not win any points in the approval ratings.
I might be more cynical than most people, but I still hope that the plans are made with long term thinking, and sciense as motivation rather than just popularity.
Anyone else remeber what Microsoft tried to do with Java, by "adapting" it.
Perhaps there is a new "better" way to get transparency in the microsoft implementation?
Here's an older benchmark made by Andrew Morton showing the anticipatory scheduler vs the previous one.
The benchmark was made before 2.6.0, but I still think it shows the big difference from the 2.4 IO scheduler.
Quote:
Executive summary: the anticipatory scheduler is wiping the others off the map, and 2.4 is a disaster.
...and for a few more you can just google some
You can see the ship from the outside here and here
Didn't IE for Solaris get discontinued years ago?
...so no wonder if it got discontinued
I tried IE for Solaris a few years ago. I may have complained about Netscape 4.x for Solaris, but IE was ten times worse! It not only crashed like Netscape sometimes did. It would frequently kill my X-server all togeather. And on one occation it even managed to get the whole system to lock up.
A few weeks ago a group from Sun on tour visited our office. They were showing their new road maps and answering questions. I asked some general questions, giving them an opportunity for some sale talk.
:)
They seemed to be intrerested in selling two things:
1. development software (i.e. compilers and development environents)
2. servers (i.e. bigger machines that they earn more money
I asked them about workstations, and they hardly bothered to answer. My guess is that a Sun Blade 1500 doesn't give much profit at all.
They pushed hard for their C/C++ complier and their Java IDE, and all its new features, and how easy it is to use for those that are skilled in Visual Basic.
...Well they might have said more, but that's what I remebered
My conclusion was that they wantet to sell licences for software and servers most of all.
Hasn't Sun Microsystems licensed Unix code from SCO? Wouldn't a Solaris subscription funnel even more money to SCO
No. Sun bought itself free a couple of years ago
I know of a case where a bunch of people got locked out of their cars for some hours. It was in a parkinglot in front of a shopping center.
After an investigation it turned out that in one of the high apartment buildings next to the parkinglot, someone had a wireless set of headphones jamming the keyless car locks.
So soon the computer industry will see the same marketing as for soft drinks...
I can picture the billboards: Buy a computer with a Pentium Light(tm) inside