I hate it when this is repeated whenever the results of scientific experiments are posted on Slashdot.
In almost all fields of study (except pure math), it is unnecessary to prove causation. For example, F = ma quantifies the observed correlation between force and acceleration, but it does not prove that the force "causes" acceleration or the other way. Furthermore, philosophically speaking, real-world casuality can only be probablistic.
Showing correlation is a constructive way to advance science. Shouting "correlation does not equal causation!!" every time is not.
In recent years though Japanese politicians and strategists have been reconsidering this posture, due largely to the continuing belligerence of North Korea, and more recently because of the strong nationalist and anti-Japan sentiments emanating from China. Memory of Japanese nationalism and militarism within East Asia is very very strong (partly because of Chinese govt efforts to remind everyone of Japan's atrocities at every opportunity). There is great suspicion within China and Korea (Nth and Sth) of Japan.
I would say it is the Japanese government who keep reminding everyone of Japan's atrocities by visiting Yasukuni War Shrine and denying history. Europeans would be very suspicious if Angela Merkel went to a war shrine built for Nazis once a year and denied the Holocaust had happened.
Attacking a satellite (or blinding it) is akin to doing the same to a ship on the open seas.
So we can do nothing if China sends ships on the open seas to spy on us? And 'it is a violation on the freedom of other nations and a violation of the neutrality of' open seas if we demand them to go away?
And please, look up the definition of "appropriation" in a dictionary. Blinding a ship is not "appropriating" a ship, and has nothing at all to do with "piracy". Man, how I hate this word.
There's another good reason: it's much harder (almost impossible) to rig both electronic and paper voting and make the numbers look similar. And people will think twice if there is a significant chance of getting caught red-handed in this kind of matter.
Implementing this idea would also mean that people would soon lose the ability to read the vast body of works already written in English; a huge translation effort would have to be undertaken, and a lot of works would still remain untranslated. Such a loss is not acceptable (unless you have Orwellian intentions in mind).
A bit off-topic, but this is exactly what's happened to Chinese, at least to a certain degree. Before the Communist Party took over China, people wrote using the "standard system" (which is still being used in Taiwan and Hong Kong today). It is often possible to guess the pronunciation and meaning by just looking at a Chinese character in the standard system. Now in mainland China, the official way to write Chinese is the simplified system, which "requires fewer strokes to write certain components and has fewer synonymous characters"(from the "Chinese language" entry in Wikipedia). Unfortunately IMO it adds much confusion and complexity to the language rather than making it easier to learn. And they fine heavily anyone who use the traditional system in China. However in a way they succeeded in isolating mainland Chinese from Taiwan and ancient Chinese writings, both of which detested by the Communist Party at the beginning of their rule.
It's been said a million times before, but they didn't lose the money through piracy. The number is plausible if they count every pirated DVD copy of a movie to have the same value of one sold in Blockbuster, but there's no way all these pirated DVDs will convert to retail sales if piracy is eliminated. And what about the quality of their music and movies? They admit it's pretty low these days, and now that's a real loss in money because people who used to buy CDs and DVDs now stopped to buy them because of the low quality. Why don't they do something about it?
I believe the sales will go down even more if there's no piracy, but that's another topic.
Well, in China, apparently not many. Sohu, a Chinese search engine publicly traded on NASDAQ with a market cap of US$1.02 billion, literally means "searching fox" in Chinese.
Well, I can always only cite sources that support my POV. It only helps to make my argument sound more convincing, but it has nothing to do neutrality, only that it hides my bias behind others'.
I mean... it's the U.S. vs the rest of the world, and no real information is added by referring to China and Iran like other countries support their suppression of freedom. Please editors, don't post flamebait ok? Oh I forgot this is Slashdot... never mind then.
RTFA:
This new VAIO TX series will be introduced to the market in Korea this year. We only dream to see these in North America sometime soon.
I suppose it's not in North Korea...
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I hate it when this is repeated whenever the results of scientific experiments are posted on Slashdot.
In almost all fields of study (except pure math), it is unnecessary to prove causation. For example, F = ma quantifies the observed correlation between force and acceleration, but it does not prove that the force "causes" acceleration or the other way. Furthermore, philosophically speaking, real-world casuality can only be probablistic.
Showing correlation is a constructive way to advance science. Shouting "correlation does not equal causation!!" every time is not.
Your name sounds funny in this context...
I guess people must have said the same thing about Yahoo many years ago.
Was there anything "revolutionary" about Google when it first came out, other than giving better results?
So we can do nothing if China sends ships on the open seas to spy on us? And 'it is a violation on the freedom of other nations and a violation of the neutrality of' open seas if we demand them to go away?
And please, look up the definition of "appropriation" in a dictionary. Blinding a ship is not "appropriating" a ship, and has nothing at all to do with "piracy". Man, how I hate this word.
There's another good reason: it's much harder (almost impossible) to rig both electronic and paper voting and make the numbers look similar. And people will think twice if there is a significant chance of getting caught red-handed in this kind of matter.
A bit off-topic, but this is exactly what's happened to Chinese, at least to a certain degree. Before the Communist Party took over China, people wrote using the "standard system" (which is still being used in Taiwan and Hong Kong today). It is often possible to guess the pronunciation and meaning by just looking at a Chinese character in the standard system. Now in mainland China, the official way to write Chinese is the simplified system, which "requires fewer strokes to write certain components and has fewer synonymous characters"(from the "Chinese language" entry in Wikipedia). Unfortunately IMO it adds much confusion and complexity to the language rather than making it easier to learn. And they fine heavily anyone who use the traditional system in China. However in a way they succeeded in isolating mainland Chinese from Taiwan and ancient Chinese writings, both of which detested by the Communist Party at the beginning of their rule.
In short, it's not a very good idea.
If you want to know more about Chinese language, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language.
I believe the sales will go down even more if there's no piracy, but that's another topic.
Well, in China, apparently not many. Sohu, a Chinese search engine publicly traded on NASDAQ with a market cap of US$1.02 billion, literally means "searching fox" in Chinese.
Well, I can always only cite sources that support my POV. It only helps to make my argument sound more convincing, but it has nothing to do neutrality, only that it hides my bias behind others'.
I mean... it's the U.S. vs the rest of the world, and no real information is added by referring to China and Iran like other countries support their suppression of freedom. Please editors, don't post flamebait ok? Oh I forgot this is Slashdot... never mind then.
RTFA: This new VAIO TX series will be introduced to the market in Korea this year. We only dream to see these in North America sometime soon. I suppose it's not in North Korea...
Anyone likes to watch "Judge Judy"?