China already has a far greater active military in numbers than the United States. At one point, the standing army of China was about 10 million, though it is now down to around 3 million (including reserves). Compare this with the US active forces of about 1 million (including reserves). Those numbers are being conservative for China and less so for the US.
As for raising troops, I think you are misinformed. Consider that China probably has between 300-400 million people available for the military to the United States' 80 million (generally, 1/4 of your population is fit for military service). You mention the fact that it has been "relaxed a little, but only in recent years" which is true, but only really applies to major cities. In the rural country side, people have been having for than one-child for decades now. Various reasons for this include the need for more than one-child to help with farm labor, etc. while in the city, having one child has meant keeping lots of economic incentives, which until recently were unattainable on one's own. Now that the economies are improving, people are having more than one-child and simply paying the monetary costs on their own. Overall, one-child policy has not skewed the population of young people too significantly over the past few decades.
This seriously does reflect the entire attitude over at Yahoo Mail. I am graduating from college soon and went to an on-campus interview for a position with Yahoo. The interviewer was a woman from Y!Mail who clearly did not understand how to properly conduct an interview. She asked me one or two serious questions which lasted about 5-10 minutes. For the remainder of the half hour, all she talked about was how great Y!Mail was, how great their system was, how incredible the setup was, etc. etc. etc. They really think they have the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Yeah, you don't want to follow that link at work. The title graphic has a phallus with circuit board texture on top. From their "About Slashdong":
Slashdong is about the cominbation of sex and technology. I've been a geek since as long as I remember, and being male, I like teh sex0rz. I like them a lot. So I figured, why not combine the two? There's a vast amount of humor in the subject, as well as some places to actually teach people things about electronics, engineering, and pimpin' it both large and in charge.
Essentially, it's about "porn in engineering" according to the sites creator.
Why should anybody spend money in commercial software when that money could be better spent in paying for the training you will obviously need?
No one is asking these people to spend money on commercial software. He is essentially saying what you are: let's forget about the cost associated with software and concentrate on the training that they will obviously need. This is not to say MS does not have an ulterior motive here. Clearly, they would like to train people on Windows and eventually have them buy MS software. But, the main point remains, and what most slashbots did not bother to consider:
"they will obviously need the training regardless of software costs; let's spend our efforts there."
While I agree that for MS this is probably a really good way to train them on Microsoft and have them buy MS in the future when they can afford it, I can't say that this is a particularly "bad thing." For Microsoft it makes good business sense while being charitable at the same time. Even after helping them, are they guaranteed to buy MS? Given the financial incentive to use free (as in beer) software, I would think many people would attempt to transition to those options. I would imagine computer skills are computer skills no matter what operating system you learned it on. A lot of the concepts are fundamentally the same.
RTFA. It's about how even after giving the people the software, it's not the important part, the training is and how Microsoft is spending efforts on training the people in Africa to use information technology. It's not about how Microsoft hates Africans or anything like that. It's not about how Microsoft is trying to exploit poor Africans by selling them software. It's simply bringing up the surprising fact that the primary barrier in Africa isn't the cost (though cost is a barrier), it's the fact that the people need training that is the main barrier to adoption according to MS. Considering how often people complain about FUD, it's quite annoying to see it from the/. crowd as well.
Actually, I saw a preso for this project a while ago. It was pretty neat, showed a lot of promise, and I see that it's been progressing nicely. Stanford KSL actually DOES like the Semantic Web. Sure, they receive DARPA funding, but that's not why the like the Semantic Web. Also, some of the features/scrapers have been built as requested by the gov't, but it's not like the entire project is for the gov't.
Heh, I see I was modded into oblivion here. I seriously just had no idea. As one poster mentioned, it's not hard to validate XML. Truthfully, I wasn't too sure what was broken, but I recall some things about the way IE handled XML DTDs, XSLT, etc. stuff on top or whatever (I don't know too much about this tuff) that wasn't in a "standards compliant" way.
We didn't/. Stanford. Almost all the research groups in the CS department run their own servers and the same is true of the graphics folks. It's simply one server that's being hammered and it can't handle the capacity. Bandwidth and network latency are fine - just the server itself does not have enough processing power/memory to handle all the requests (it's probably not much better than your desktop).
By the way, one of the guys, Levoy, is awesome. He did all that digital modelling of the statue of David stuff.
timothy's on a roll tonight! He had that Roland Piquepaille submission a few hours ago and now a dupe! Way to step it up timothy! If only the rest of the/. editors could reach these great standards. Oh, and I'm posting this at +2 (karma to burn and all) because people need to see that we must get rid of both Roland and timothy.
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Zonk: implementation, not "implimentation"
Oh, and how could I forget:
science rules
You know what you were thinking when you saw the poster's name:
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the Science Guy.
[I know you can hear this song in your head]
China already has a far greater active military in numbers than the United States. At one point, the standing army of China was about 10 million, though it is now down to around 3 million (including reserves). Compare this with the US active forces of about 1 million (including reserves). Those numbers are being conservative for China and less so for the US.
As for raising troops, I think you are misinformed. Consider that China probably has between 300-400 million people available for the military to the United States' 80 million (generally, 1/4 of your population is fit for military service). You mention the fact that it has been "relaxed a little, but only in recent years" which is true, but only really applies to major cities. In the rural country side, people have been having for than one-child for decades now. Various reasons for this include the need for more than one-child to help with farm labor, etc. while in the city, having one child has meant keeping lots of economic incentives, which until recently were unattainable on one's own. Now that the economies are improving, people are having more than one-child and simply paying the monetary costs on their own. Overall, one-child policy has not skewed the population of young people too significantly over the past few decades.
West Side!
I've had over a dozen interviews by this point. This was by far the worst.
This seriously does reflect the entire attitude over at Yahoo Mail. I am graduating from college soon and went to an on-campus interview for a position with Yahoo. The interviewer was a woman from Y!Mail who clearly did not understand how to properly conduct an interview. She asked me one or two serious questions which lasted about 5-10 minutes. For the remainder of the half hour, all she talked about was how great Y!Mail was, how great their system was, how incredible the setup was, etc. etc. etc. They really think they have the greatest thing since sliced bread.
We require more vespene gas
While I agree that for MS this is probably a really good way to train them on Microsoft and have them buy MS in the future when they can afford it, I can't say that this is a particularly "bad thing." For Microsoft it makes good business sense while being charitable at the same time. Even after helping them, are they guaranteed to buy MS? Given the financial incentive to use free (as in beer) software, I would think many people would attempt to transition to those options. I would imagine computer skills are computer skills no matter what operating system you learned it on. A lot of the concepts are fundamentally the same.
RTFA. It's about how even after giving the people the software, it's not the important part, the training is and how Microsoft is spending efforts on training the people in Africa to use information technology. It's not about how Microsoft hates Africans or anything like that. It's not about how Microsoft is trying to exploit poor Africans by selling them software. It's simply bringing up the surprising fact that the primary barrier in Africa isn't the cost (though cost is a barrier), it's the fact that the people need training that is the main barrier to adoption according to MS. Considering how often people complain about FUD, it's quite annoying to see it from the /. crowd as well.
Check out SCPD over at Stanford University.
Actually, I saw a preso for this project a while ago. It was pretty neat, showed a lot of promise, and I see that it's been progressing nicely. Stanford KSL actually DOES like the Semantic Web. Sure, they receive DARPA funding, but that's not why the like the Semantic Web. Also, some of the features/scrapers have been built as requested by the gov't, but it's not like the entire project is for the gov't.
Heh, I see I was modded into oblivion here. I seriously just had no idea. As one poster mentioned, it's not hard to validate XML. Truthfully, I wasn't too sure what was broken, but I recall some things about the way IE handled XML DTDs, XSLT, etc. stuff on top or whatever (I don't know too much about this tuff) that wasn't in a "standards compliant" way.
IE actually performed XML in a compliant way? If I recall correctly, it was doing some non-standard stuff anyways. I'm not surprised it gets broken.
Parent is a troll but I'll bite: http://www.stanfordrejects.com
http://www.stanfordrejects.com
kuroshin, -1
No. It won't be possible. How do you plan on emulating the touchscreen on the DS?
We didn't /. Stanford. Almost all the research groups in the CS department run their own servers and the same is true of the graphics folks. It's simply one server that's being hammered and it can't handle the capacity. Bandwidth and network latency are fine - just the server itself does not have enough processing power/memory to handle all the requests (it's probably not much better than your desktop).
By the way, one of the guys, Levoy, is awesome. He did all that digital modelling of the statue of David stuff.
timothy's on a roll tonight! He had that Roland Piquepaille submission a few hours ago and now a dupe! Way to step it up timothy! If only the rest of the /. editors could reach these great standards. Oh, and I'm posting this at +2 (karma to burn and all) because people need to see that we must get rid of both Roland and timothy.
The company still hasn't answered any questions about VX30 (possible GPL violation?). Does anyone have news/updates about this?
Read this comment.
This kid is just trying to drum up visitors to his site. The site itself is pretty much devoid of content and the code is taken without citation.