it seems a lot of people here complain about the video quality. you need to check two things
1. make sure you have a broadband, at least a 1.5Mbps connection.
2. when the movie begins, press "shift B" to enable a bandwidth selection menu, and switch to a higher bandwidth
There no conflict of common interests between Tibetan and the general Chinese. China has been messed up by communism for nearly 50 years. Tibetan did not suffer more than the general Chinese did in other areas.
In fact, nowadays, Tibetan, regarded as a minority of Chinese in China, have the right to have the second child, on which Han Chinese are very jealous.
just for your information, people in china can easiely recognize whether a product is made by prisioners since such products are usually branded as "XinSheng" which means "re-born". those kinds of products are very rare in the market now. years ago, about more than ten years ago, my mom boght a soap which is made by prisoners. before i left china five years ago, you can rarely find such products in the market and it is mainly because those products are very low-quality and nobody likes it.
that is true the prisoners need to work to support themselves, but they just work on low-quality soap or gloves. nothing you buy from wal-mart is possibbly made by chinese prisoners. as a matter of fact, prisoners now usually work on local city construction projects, such as dig a hole, fix the road, etc., not your wal-mart products.
aborting babies is another famous rumor about china. it happens (not very common) maybe ten years ago. but now, for most families, baby girls are equally popular as baby boys. recently, there are some by-laws established in some cities which say aborting is not allowed if the woman is pregananet for more than four months, no matter for what reasons.
Well, as long as you stay away from politics, everything is fine. You can shop online, post online , share files online, and play online.
For example, online gaming is a huge industry in china. "According to a report from the China Game Producers' Association, sales of online games reached 2.47 billion yuan (US$298 million) in 2004, a year-on-year rise of 48 per cent. The number of online gamers also grew to 26.33 million."
"Chinese researchers have developed a technology to access the Internet via power lines, which is expected to rapidly increase Internet usage in China.
Developed by the Fujian Electric Power Testing and Research Institute and known as 10MBPS digitized power line (DPL) the technology enables computers to access the Internet via an USB power line communication adapter.
With a modem, it also allows data communication to be made via a power line between computers and any electrical equipment, such as computers, TV, DVD and even heating devices, making remote control easier.
Lin Han, president of the research institute, said that the technology is superior in speed and stability to similar technology in foreign countries . "It works well with a voltage range from 180-240 volts, with a maximum data transmission speed of 10MB per second.
According to the institute, the technology is now ready for commercial use. When mass produced, the special modem required will cost around 500 yuan (60.24 U.S. dollars), which is about the same cost as conventional modems.
The institute still has to go through a series of formalities before commercializing the technology. "
About one third of the population in Lower British Columbia Mainland is of Chinese origin. Early Chinese settled there when they built the railroads hundreds years ago.
I guess you might live in Vancouver and have a bad experience with some Chinese. The fact is, most Chinese currently living in Vancouver are rich people from Hong Kong. The attitude about you might not be something about race. Most likely it is the culture difference or social-class difference. Some might even deny they are Chinese. Contrary to your point#1, they left Hong Kong because they were afraid of the communist party when Hong Kong was returned to China in 1989. That group is totally different from the poorest peasants (they are the poorest even in China) living in Chinatown restaurants. These illegal immigrants come from one province (FuJian) mainland China. They live in Chinatown forever and they don't mingle into local. That's true. But that is only a small part. Also, they mind their own business, and they work hard to make a living. Even being hungry, they won't rob you or make any troubles.
The third group might be the largest group recently coming from mainland China. They are students and engineers as legal immigrants. They do NOT live in Chinatown. They work in tech companies, universties, hosipitals, almost everywhere. They are integrating into the local country and contribute to the country.
So when you talk about Chinese. Please do not mix them up. They are different. As a matter of fact, every single Chinese is unique. Do NOT sterotyping. The Chinese peopole living in Chinatown won't do a name-calling or feel superior to you. Most likely the rich Hong Kong might have an attitude about you, but I believe that might be related to the social class, not race. Even us, poor software engineers from mianland China have some bad experiences about being looked down upon by some rich Hong Kong women.
There are a lot of customers in China, and there are even more potential customers there. For example, for cell phone users, the number of cell phone users in China is already larger than the population of the USA.
The number of mobile users in China is 329.92 million. Compared to last year, the number is increased by 59.97 million. The penetration rate of cell phone is 24.8%. That means, in every 4 chinese, there is one mobile phone user.
By the way, the number of landline telephone users in China is 313.15 million. There are 50.4 million new landline phone users in the past year. The penetration rate for landline phone is 24.5%.
The number of Internet users is 90 million (3 million new internet users in recent 3 months), and among them 22.86 million users use broadband connection ( the growth rate for broadband users is 105%, compared with the number for last year).
Considering that there is a large portion of people who are small children and old seniors, 24.8% cell phone penetration rate is very big. Let's just say your information about China is not correct. During 7-day Chinese New Year holidays, 10 billion text messages (SMS) were sent. The China telecom companies make 1 billion yuans in just seven days.
Today's China is not like USSR 50 years ago. There are some major differences between the two. First, China is no longer planned economy any more. Second, China is opening and doing business with all other countries around the world. Third, China has a lot of related or culturally related rich neighbors. As a matter of fact, China's largest trading partner is not US, but Japan. Also, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea are acting as the bridges between the east and the west. In Shanghai city, the population of Taiwanese has reached 300,000. Most of them have settled down there and enjoyed their lives. Investment from Hong Kong played a crucial role in early stages of reform. South Korea has a close connection with Liaoning Province and Shandong Province in China. In fact, North Korea is very mad that China has a closer relationship with South Korea. All of the above show that China is no longer an isolated, mysterious, and closed castle.
You are right that the weakest link in Today's China is its social/policital infrastructure. China is still politically unstable and unpreditable. But it seems that it is on the right track, and it is now in a transition stage.
regarding the industrial outsoucing problem, how about re-calcuate the emissions based on the companies and their home country?
say, if Dell moves its manufacturing lines to China, the emissions produced by Dell in China should be counted as US's emissions since Dell's headquarter is in US.
besides those responsibilities and saving earth talks, to rich country like US, this treaty could also create new jobs and motivate the R&D of new clean engery.
don't you see its positive sides?
also, my point is that how come China becomes a good excuse for US?
china has serious polution problems because it becomes world manufacturing center. most of them are not working on products for themselves, but for American people.
when you transfer manufacturing jobs to china, the polution is also transferred there.
i am just wondering why a poor country like China is a good excuse for US?
continue to enjoy your luxury goods, but do not forget you could also be left behind of clean energy techologies from other countries since you do not have any motivations.
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it seems a lot of people here complain about the video quality. you need to check two things 1. make sure you have a broadband, at least a 1.5Mbps connection. 2. when the movie begins, press "shift B" to enable a bandwidth selection menu, and switch to a higher bandwidth
is there an IRS in the virtual world?
There no conflict of common interests between Tibetan and the general Chinese. China has been messed up by communism for nearly 50 years. Tibetan did not suffer more than the general Chinese did in other areas.
In fact, nowadays, Tibetan, regarded as a minority of Chinese in China, have the right to have the second child, on which Han Chinese are very jealous.
when is the real-time traffic information available?
it was published three times?
This is a real-time system. Using Java, PHP, .Net to control the train speed? What a team!!
just for your information, people in china can easiely recognize whether a product is made by prisioners since such products are usually branded as "XinSheng" which means "re-born". those kinds of products are very rare in the market now. years ago, about more than ten years ago, my mom boght a soap which is made by prisoners. before i left china five years ago, you can rarely find such products in the market and it is mainly because those products are very low-quality and nobody likes it. that is true the prisoners need to work to support themselves, but they just work on low-quality soap or gloves. nothing you buy from wal-mart is possibbly made by chinese prisoners. as a matter of fact, prisoners now usually work on local city construction projects, such as dig a hole, fix the road, etc., not your wal-mart products. aborting babies is another famous rumor about china. it happens (not very common) maybe ten years ago. but now, for most families, baby girls are equally popular as baby boys. recently, there are some by-laws established in some cities which say aborting is not allowed if the woman is pregananet for more than four months, no matter for what reasons.
Well, as long as you stay away from politics, everything is fine. You can shop online, post online , share files online, and play online. For example, online gaming is a huge industry in china. "According to a report from the China Game Producers' Association, sales of online games reached 2.47 billion yuan (US$298 million) in 2004, a year-on-year rise of 48 per cent. The number of online gamers also grew to 26.33 million."
not a big chunk. i think the number of blocked web sites is less than one hundred.
but that is just physical media. It could not be worse than air (wireless).
secure communication could be achieved in network layer, or even higher.
"Chinese researchers have developed a technology to access the Internet via power lines, which is expected to rapidly increase Internet usage in China.
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Developed by the Fujian Electric Power Testing and Research Institute and known as 10MBPS digitized power line (DPL) the technology enables computers to access the Internet via an USB power line communication adapter.
With a modem, it also allows data communication to be made via a power line between computers and any electrical equipment, such as computers, TV, DVD and even heating devices, making remote control easier.
Lin Han, president of the research institute, said that the technology is superior in speed and stability to similar technology in foreign countries . "It works well with a voltage range from 180-240 volts, with a maximum data transmission speed of 10MB per second.
According to the institute, the technology is now ready for commercial use. When mass produced, the special modem required will cost around 500 yuan (60.24 U.S. dollars), which is about the same cost as conventional modems.
The institute still has to go through a series of formalities before commercializing the technology. "
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http://english.people.com.cn/200201/29/eng20020
Is it possible to build a patent free H.264 baseline decoder?
About one third of the population in Lower British Columbia Mainland is of Chinese origin. Early Chinese settled there when they built the railroads hundreds years ago.
I guess you might live in Vancouver and have a bad experience with some Chinese. The fact is, most Chinese currently living in Vancouver are rich people from Hong Kong. The attitude about you might not be something about race. Most likely it is the culture difference or social-class difference. Some might even deny they are Chinese. Contrary to your point#1, they left Hong Kong because they were afraid of the communist party when Hong Kong was returned to China in 1989. That group is totally different from the poorest peasants (they are the poorest even in China) living in Chinatown restaurants. These illegal immigrants come from one province (FuJian) mainland China. They live in Chinatown forever and they don't mingle into local. That's true. But that is only a small part. Also, they mind their own business, and they work hard to make a living. Even being hungry, they won't rob you or make any troubles.
The third group might be the largest group recently coming from mainland China. They are students and engineers as legal immigrants. They do NOT live in Chinatown. They work in tech companies, universties, hosipitals, almost everywhere. They are integrating into the local country and contribute to the country.
So when you talk about Chinese. Please do not mix them up. They are different. As a matter of fact, every single Chinese is unique. Do NOT sterotyping. The Chinese peopole living in Chinatown won't do a name-calling or feel superior to you. Most likely the rich Hong Kong might have an attitude about you, but I believe that might be related to the social class, not race. Even us, poor software engineers from mianland China have some bad experiences about being looked down upon by some rich Hong Kong women.
There are a lot of customers in China, and there are even more potential customers there. For example, for cell phone users, the number of cell phone users in China is already larger than the population of the USA.
Just for your information:
Data till 11/2004
The number of mobile users in China is
329.92 million. Compared to last year, the number is increased by 59.97 million. The penetration rate of cell phone is 24.8%. That means, in every 4 chinese, there is one mobile phone user.
By the way, the number of landline telephone users in China is 313.15 million. There are 50.4 million new landline phone users in the past year. The penetration rate for landline phone is 24.5%.
The number of Internet users is 90 million (3 million new internet users in recent 3 months), and among them 22.86 million users use broadband connection ( the growth rate for broadband users is 105%, compared with the number for last year).
Considering that there is a large portion of people who are small children and old seniors, 24.8% cell phone penetration rate is very big. Let's just say your information about China is not correct. During 7-day Chinese New Year holidays, 10 billion text messages (SMS) were sent. The China telecom companies make 1 billion yuans in just seven days.
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=glo bal&lang=none
they are quite visible. In global top 20 web sites, 6 sites are chinese web sites.
i don't aglee with you. this is veli veli wrong. lere is no future for engilsh. the future of english is Hinglish and Chinglish. :-)
Today's China is not like USSR 50 years ago. There are some major differences between the two. First, China is no longer planned economy any more. Second, China is opening and doing business with all other countries around the world. Third, China has a lot of related or culturally related rich neighbors. As a matter of fact, China's largest trading partner is not US, but Japan. Also, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea are acting as the bridges between the east and the west. In Shanghai city, the population of Taiwanese has reached 300,000. Most of them have settled down there and enjoyed their lives. Investment from Hong Kong played a crucial role in early stages of reform. South Korea has a close connection with Liaoning Province and Shandong Province in China. In fact, North Korea is very mad that China has a closer relationship with South Korea. All of the above show that China is no longer an isolated, mysterious, and closed castle.
You are right that the weakest link in Today's China is its social/policital infrastructure. China is still politically unstable and unpreditable. But it seems that it is on the right track, and it is now in a transition stage.
I don't think China will repeat USSR's path.
regarding the industrial outsoucing problem, how about re-calcuate the emissions based on the companies and their home country?
say, if Dell moves its manufacturing lines to China, the emissions produced by Dell in China should be counted as US's emissions since Dell's headquarter is in US.
just garments?
btw, why china needs more energy?
besides those responsibilities and saving earth talks, to rich country like US, this treaty could also create new jobs and motivate the R&D of new clean engery.
don't you see its positive sides?
also, my point is that how come China becomes a good excuse for US?
china has serious polution problems because it becomes world manufacturing center. most of them are not working on products for themselves, but for American people.
when you transfer manufacturing jobs to china, the polution is also transferred there.
i am just wondering why a poor country like China is a good excuse for US?
continue to enjoy your luxury goods, but do not forget you could also be left behind of clean energy techologies from other countries since you do not have any motivations.
you may forget that chinese people do not have a high quality of life.
most products they manufacture are not for themselves. in another words, a large portion of chinese people are working FOR America.
when US outsourced manufacturing jobs to China, the pollution is also transferred there.
now, suddenly China becomes an excuse for the richest country - US?
what a good excuse!
To US, this treaty could only make American people to use less luxury.
To China, this treaty could make people starve.
Now China becomes a good excuse for the states?
as long as they show the results, it can be verified.
in theory, given a hash number, it takes centuries to find the collision.
given the hash number, if you could come up with a collision in days or even in months on your PC. that means you break the code.
in order to believe it is broken, you don't need to know the details of the alorithm.