I have spoken with many students in China. All of them use pinyin input system. 'QWERTY' is not just for Westerners; since pinyin is a letter based alphabet, the layout of the keyboard (obviously) determines the letter typed. Given an alternate layout, their typing speed would be crippled.
There are two other major forms of character input. The first is character recognition, often used on cell phones. The user draws a character on a touch screen, and the software interprets it. The second is stroke input, available on computers and cell phones. There are literally 5 keys, each representing one of five basic strokes. The user inputs a sequence of strokes and is given a list of character beginning with them. Because all characters have a unique way of being written, the more strokes the user input the smaller the list becomes.
I have seen a couple people use the first method, and seen none use the second. Pinyin is the predominant form of character input in mainland China.
Many people associate true AI with the slave race scenario. I don't see this. If we are truly advanced enough to create intelligence, then certainly we can use that knowledge to improve our own brains.
Can you site sources verifying that Chinese citizens accessing censored information have been arrested in the last 5 years? I understand that you can be arrested for preaching but not just for listening.
Oh really? I live in Beijing myself. Here are some websites for you to try accessing: www.wikipedia.org (do a wikipedia search on tiananmen massacre and then see what happend) news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4960762.stm www.blogspot.com
Oh here's an interesting tidbit of knowledge for you slashdoters. Accessing most Western websites from China is blasted slow. But running bittorrent is just as fast as if I was back home. (For some reason I recently started to be able to stream youtube videos, haven't quite figure that one out)
The tagging system here seriously sucks. Tags should be there to enable users to efficiently look up relevent topics. Not so that slashdot editors can express their rather childish opinion of the article. (This is why I have tag display turned off)
Wait. So you're telling me that in the fastest growing economy in the world one cannot find honest work? How does this enterprise help anyone? Who do you think runs and owns the printing and burning presses? Don't you think the economy would benifit more with street vendors building infrastructure rather than selling candy?
Uh. I don't see what sort of random selection mechanism they are using here. From my experiences, they just have a worker standing at the lineup to the security checkpoint who decides whether or not you get searched.
My first name is of recognizeable middle-eastern decent. My last name is obviously not. I have traveled 3 times since 9/11. Once to Europe, once to Japan, and once to China. Each time I have been taken aside and given the special treatement at the security checkpoint. Once in London, once in California, and once in Detroit. In my most recent flight one of my luggage bags was checked, and then promptly sent to the wrong country.
What the hell? Is that the best picture they could get? Would it be too hard to remove the headphones? Would it stress the camera too much to take multiple angle shots?
I agree. I hate how the tagging system is being used to tell us what we should think of the article before we read it. I have stopped logging into to slashdot because it's just too much.
I think that the movie being too close or too far from the game is a non issue. The average Joe who watched Mario Bros couldn't care less. The average Joe just knows a good movie from a bad movie.
No, you can have a card you carry around with a pseudo-random number generator, and a screen that displays a new number every 5 minutes. You then have a remote computer have the same number generator. Keeping this card safe isn't any more difficult than looking after your keys.
Because I find all internet adds anoying*, and have the means to block them. T.V. adds are occasionally entertaining, but I would skip them if I could. I haven't bought a magazine for over 6 years, and I sure as hell wouldn't buy books if they put adds in them the same way magazines do.
*This probably because they obstruct site content, and I don't care whether your site sends me to an add 'gateway' each time I click on a link, or whether it plasters each and every page with adds - they are all anoying.
No, this guy is refering to the microeconomic concept of declining marginal utility. There are few non-media inovations in the video game industry, and few companies try to inovate. Without inovation non-necesity products stops being succesful money makers. Video games are, you guessed it, a non-necessity. There is a limit to how much the media side of computer games can be inovated, once this limit is reached the industry will have to relly on other inovations or fall apart. Dvorak is incorrect in his assesment because he ignores the possibility of the game industry adapting, that is: becoming more inovative.
Okay. I'll bite. The argument that you can't make money giving music away is incorrect. Proof: look at the success of the ipod, itunes operates practically at cost. If the music industry had any brains they would have come up with the ipod and be the ones raking in the dough. Instead they choose to fight an uphill battle.
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I have spoken with many students in China. All of them use pinyin input system. 'QWERTY' is not just for Westerners; since pinyin is a letter based alphabet, the layout of the keyboard (obviously) determines the letter typed. Given an alternate layout, their typing speed would be crippled. There are two other major forms of character input. The first is character recognition, often used on cell phones. The user draws a character on a touch screen, and the software interprets it. The second is stroke input, available on computers and cell phones. There are literally 5 keys, each representing one of five basic strokes. The user inputs a sequence of strokes and is given a list of character beginning with them. Because all characters have a unique way of being written, the more strokes the user input the smaller the list becomes. I have seen a couple people use the first method, and seen none use the second. Pinyin is the predominant form of character input in mainland China.
Google has learned how to do business in China.
Congrats to them.
Many people associate true AI with the slave race scenario. I don't see this. If we are truly advanced enough to create intelligence, then certainly we can use that knowledge to improve our own brains.
Strange, I'm not having that problem. I've uploaded as fast as 60kB/s. Maybe it's ISP specific?
Can you site sources verifying that Chinese citizens accessing censored information have been arrested in the last 5 years? I understand that you can be arrested for preaching but not just for listening.
Oh really? I live in Beijing myself. Here are some websites for you to try accessing:m
www.wikipedia.org (do a wikipedia search on tiananmen massacre and then see what happend)
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4960762.st
www.blogspot.com
Oh here's an interesting tidbit of knowledge for you slashdoters. Accessing most Western websites from China is blasted slow. But running bittorrent is just as fast as if I was back home. (For some reason I recently started to be able to stream youtube videos, haven't quite figure that one out)
The tagging system here seriously sucks. Tags should be there to enable users to efficiently look up relevent topics. Not so that slashdot editors can express their rather childish opinion of the article. (This is why I have tag display turned off)
Wait. So you're telling me that in the fastest growing economy in the world one cannot find honest work? How does this enterprise help anyone? Who do you think runs and owns the printing and burning presses? Don't you think the economy would benifit more with street vendors building infrastructure rather than selling candy?
Um, try honest work?
Kids at your school are allowed to use their cell phones during an exam?
Uh. I don't see what sort of random selection mechanism they are using here. From my experiences, they just have a worker standing at the lineup to the security checkpoint who decides whether or not you get searched.
My first name is of recognizeable middle-eastern decent. My last name is obviously not. I have traveled 3 times since 9/11. Once to Europe, once to Japan, and once to China. Each time I have been taken aside and given the special treatement at the security checkpoint. Once in London, once in California, and once in Detroit. In my most recent flight one of my luggage bags was checked, and then promptly sent to the wrong country.
What the hell? Is that the best picture they could get? Would it be too hard to remove the headphones? Would it stress the camera too much to take multiple angle shots?
I believe that everytime you go to sleep you die and it's another consciousness taking your place.
I agree. I hate how the tagging system is being used to tell us what we should think of the article before we read it. I have stopped logging into to slashdot because it's just too much.
So like, any reasonable shoplifter should shoot the cash attendant on his way out because it's just another crime.
I think that the movie being too close or too far from the game is a non issue. The average Joe who watched Mario Bros couldn't care less. The average Joe just knows a good movie from a bad movie.
"Isn't progress wonderful?"
Yes, but your short sightedness sure isn't.
No, you can have a card you carry around with a pseudo-random number generator, and a screen that displays a new number every 5 minutes. You then have a remote computer have the same number generator. Keeping this card safe isn't any more difficult than looking after your keys.
Because I find all internet adds anoying*, and have the means to block them. T.V. adds are occasionally entertaining, but I would skip them if I could. I haven't bought a magazine for over 6 years, and I sure as hell wouldn't buy books if they put adds in them the same way magazines do.
*This probably because they obstruct site content, and I don't care whether your site sends me to an add 'gateway' each time I click on a link, or whether it plasters each and every page with adds - they are all anoying.
Hmmm.. doesn't work in Opera 7, weird.
Case in point: http://www.expedia.ca/
No, this guy is refering to the microeconomic concept of declining marginal utility. There are few non-media inovations in the video game industry, and few companies try to inovate. Without inovation non-necesity products stops being succesful money makers. Video games are, you guessed it, a non-necessity. There is a limit to how much the media side of computer games can be inovated, once this limit is reached the industry will have to relly on other inovations or fall apart. Dvorak is incorrect in his assesment because he ignores the possibility of the game industry adapting, that is: becoming more inovative.
You're using a dvorak keyboard aren't you? ;)
Okay. I'll bite. The argument that you can't make money giving music away is incorrect. Proof: look at the success of the ipod, itunes operates practically at cost. If the music industry had any brains they would have come up with the ipod and be the ones raking in the dough. Instead they choose to fight an uphill battle.