I know nothing about the prevalence of sarcasm in China/Asia (though I suspect you're on to something because people tend to be more polite to one another--at least superficially/literally--in Asia), but my wife of ten years grew up in China and said to me minutes ago that her sarcasm muscles have grown much stronger during our ten years of marriage. She then tossed several choice remarks in my direction, to flex her new muscles I suppose.
You can read 50 FREE (as in beer) pages from my new book that addresses this exact question. It's called "Management Secrets of the New England Patriots."
I switched a month ago to OO because Word kept choking on my 600-page book (and not letting me recover). Since switching, I've had ZERO problems. Word has many pseudo-features, but it's unreliable bloatware. I also created my book cover using GIMP after creating it in Powerpoint and learning that my slightly outdated version of Adobe Acrobat has a bug that prevents creating a PDF from larger-than-normal-sized PowerPoint pages. Adobe's only "workaround" is buying the most recent version of Acrobat. Go open source!
This is a useful tool, but I can't use it.
Like many ISPs, mine (Cablevision / Optimum Online) prohibits servers. We cannot "Run any type of server on the system. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCKS, SQUID, DNS or any multi-user forums." Cablevision blocks ports commonly used by servers, including 25 and 80.
Cablevision even started blocking connections to remote mail servers without any warning. I used to run a mail server on a remote (non-OptimumOnline) webhost. After my outgoing email suddenly started failing, I wasted a day diagnosing the problem: Cablevision had shut off outbound port 25 without bothering to notify anyone! (www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11121551, www.hardwaregeeks.com/comments.php?shownews=2284)
With more and more useful broadband apps like this one, policies banning servers are completely out-of-touch and archaic. Maybe it's time to move to Korea. Bush brags about bringing "freedom" to Iraq but blocks competition in telecom that would force companies to adopt reasonable policies and treat customers with respect.
Because many articles are syndicated, when an article I want to read is on a news site requiring registration (other than NYT and WP, both of which I bit the bullet on and registered for because they're simply essential), I can usually find the same article on another site. GoogleNews helps me read what I want without registering by letting me (via keyword/keyphrase search) find multiple publishers of the same article! For hot news stories, there are always a gazillion articles saying virtually the same thing, and GoogleNews thoughtfully groups them together so I can view one that doesn't require registration. (Have you noticed how often newspapers take an Associated Press story, make superficial changes, and then pass it off as original content???)
GoogleNews is even more valuable because the ability to bypass registration-only websites discourages newspapers from erecting walls. If ten papers run the same Associated Press article but eight require registration, which one do I visit? If everyone did this, only newspapers with original content could erect barriers.
Content duplication similarly helps me dig up archived articles that newspapers want me to pay $5 to view. I can frequently find the same article somewhere else via GoogleNews or Google.
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Thanks. Yeah, I'm pissed. How can I protest this? "Mission accomplished." -- Very funny!
Just a small part of their plan to dominate space, the skies, the Internet(s), the media, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, the moon, Mars, etc.
I know nothing about the prevalence of sarcasm in China/Asia (though I suspect you're on to something because people tend to be more polite to one another--at least superficially/literally--in Asia), but my wife of ten years grew up in China and said to me minutes ago that her sarcasm muscles have grown much stronger during our ten years of marriage. She then tossed several choice remarks in my direction, to flex her new muscles I suppose.
--James
You can read 50 FREE (as in beer) pages from my new book that addresses this exact question. It's called "Management Secrets of the New England Patriots."
James
PatriotsBook.com
I switched a month ago to OO because Word kept choking on my 600-page book (and not letting me recover). Since switching, I've had ZERO problems. Word has many pseudo-features, but it's unreliable bloatware. I also created my book cover using GIMP after creating it in Powerpoint and learning that my slightly outdated version of Adobe Acrobat has a bug that prevents creating a PDF from larger-than-normal-sized PowerPoint pages. Adobe's only "workaround" is buying the most recent version of Acrobat. Go open source!
This is a useful tool, but I can't use it. Like many ISPs, mine (Cablevision / Optimum Online) prohibits servers. We cannot "Run any type of server on the system. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCKS, SQUID, DNS or any multi-user forums." Cablevision blocks ports commonly used by servers, including 25 and 80. Cablevision even started blocking connections to remote mail servers without any warning. I used to run a mail server on a remote (non-OptimumOnline) webhost. After my outgoing email suddenly started failing, I wasted a day diagnosing the problem: Cablevision had shut off outbound port 25 without bothering to notify anyone! (www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11121551, www.hardwaregeeks.com/comments.php?shownews=2284) With more and more useful broadband apps like this one, policies banning servers are completely out-of-touch and archaic. Maybe it's time to move to Korea. Bush brags about bringing "freedom" to Iraq but blocks competition in telecom that would force companies to adopt reasonable policies and treat customers with respect.
Because many articles are syndicated, when an article I want to read is on a news site requiring registration (other than NYT and WP, both of which I bit the bullet on and registered for because they're simply essential), I can usually find the same article on another site. GoogleNews helps me read what I want without registering by letting me (via keyword/keyphrase search) find multiple publishers of the same article! For hot news stories, there are always a gazillion articles saying virtually the same thing, and GoogleNews thoughtfully groups them together so I can view one that doesn't require registration. (Have you noticed how often newspapers take an Associated Press story, make superficial changes, and then pass it off as original content???)
GoogleNews is even more valuable because the ability to bypass registration-only websites discourages newspapers from erecting walls. If ten papers run the same Associated Press article but eight require registration, which one do I visit? If everyone did this, only newspapers with original content could erect barriers.
Content duplication similarly helps me dig up archived articles that newspapers want me to pay $5 to view. I can frequently find the same article somewhere else via GoogleNews or Google.