The problem is all the old Windows Mobile applications won't work - it might as well be a new OS. It's madness really - WinMo was never the most elegant of OSs but it had loads of software. If I'm going to move to a new OS it's much more likely to be Android than Windows Phone 7.
The thing you've got to bear in mind is that China is developing. Back in 1989 China was much poorer and peoples lives were much more controlled - to the point where the government told them where to live and where to work. Essentially it was sort of like North Korea. Then Tiananmen happened. The government basically won that round but they were seriously rattled. They decided on a policy of economic reform but kept the politics unchanged. Now I suspect that most Chinese people saw development as a priority. China quickly became capitalist. It's still rather poor - GDP per capita is between Albania and Turkemenistan. Still the state's strict control over the economy has largely gone. They can afford computers and can get on the internet. Chinese netizens have had regular skirmishes with the government, e.g. Grass Mud Horse.
More seriously there growing numbers of mass incidents, the PRC term for riots usually ones against corrupt local officials. Plus there's a good chance that rapid growth driven by exports might slow if America stops importing. And in any case 1989 is not the only outbreak of anti government activity - there was the Beijing Spring and pretty much total anarchy during the Cultural Revolution.
It's also interesting that the Beijing Spring happened in 1977 after Mao died. There was a second Beijing Spring in 1997 after Deng Xiaoping died - the China Democracy Party was founded and allowed to register by some local authorities until the central government banned it and rounded up the members.
Now Hu Jin Tao is about to retire. Essentially China is due for a political crisis. While it is inevitable that the Chinese government will try and slam the door, it's not completely guaranteed that they will succeed.
Project Pluto got pretty far - they tested the nuclear ramjet engines for example, and the TERCOM guidance system invented for Pluto was later used by the Tomahawk cruise missile.
Pluto's namesake was Roman mythology's ruler of the underworld -- seemingly an apt inspiration for a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)
There's an excellent documentary with video of test firing on youtube
It looks to me as if he's just got a sockpuppet he uses to troll people. Trolling means page views and page views means ad revenue. What's the problem really? He was writing for a bunch of IT trade rags, not the New York Times.
It costs you 100million to research and perfect a new technique. They steal it and setup a production line for 20million and begin competing with you for a far lower, possibly Govt. subsidized, cost.
They haven't really stolen the technique - you still have it. Actually they've just copied it.
On the upside all the Asian countries that managed to move up the engineering food chain from producing cheap tat for foreign companies to designing things people want also ended up with liberal political systems. And all the ones with illiberal political systems are stuck at the cheap tat phase at best.
I think the problem might be the way Indian consultancy companies are run. I've had European clients who weren't much good at producing things themselves but were still much better than the average Indian consultancy company they outsourced too. What was interesting is that when they brought the Indian developers over to Europe they were effective. Put them back at the Indian office and they were dreadful again. Visiting Indian companies showed why - the people seemed to be OK individually but they had loads of problems they couldn't resolve and no one in management seemed to be interested. So their productivity was awful.
Now you need to be careful here - the world is full of fucked companies. Still it was noticeable that all the Indian outsourcing companies I went to all seemed to be more fucked than the European clients, who were perilously close to fuckedville themselves.
1) My co workers don't have better social skills than me they just spend their time talking about nonsense like American Idol while I sit in the basement fiddling with a computer. The problem with the US is that hard work and education aren't respected, just bullshitting skills.
+5 Insightful
2) The Indians and Chinese aren't smart they're just book smart. They've got no idea how to apply their intelligence in a company.
I heard George Lucas is writing it. Young Gollum will be a comedy character to lighten the mood. His appearance has been changed a bit to appeal to the 5-10 age range that have the most pester power over merchandise sales, e.g. big floppy bunny ears. To save time it will all be CGI scenery. Human actors will be dosed with Thorazine to make them more docile and easier to pose.
He'd previously published his bank account details to try to make the point that it didn't matter if they they were publicly known. Someone filled in a Direct Debit form for Diabetes UK that didn't need a signature.
Why not? My bank details, involve my name, my bank account number and... That's it (BIC/SWIFT eventually for international trasactions). You do know what you can do with that information? Send ME money.
A "subscription" requires a residence and a German bank account so they can automatically debit (Lastschrift) and don't worry, they never make mistakes when debiting your account! And organizations doing Lastschrift never get hacked because they employ magic warrior fairies.
You shouldn't use sarcasm in Germany. It will be misunderstood.
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The problem is all the old Windows Mobile applications won't work - it might as well be a new OS. It's madness really - WinMo was never the most elegant of OSs but it had loads of software. If I'm going to move to a new OS it's much more likely to be Android than Windows Phone 7.
Can you try that again with more Braveheart e.g.
THEY CAN TAKE OUR LIVES BUT THEY CAN'T TAKE OUR WEB BROWSERS! FREEDOM!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
The thing you've got to bear in mind is that China is developing. Back in 1989 China was much poorer and peoples lives were much more controlled - to the point where the government told them where to live and where to work. Essentially it was sort of like North Korea. Then Tiananmen happened. The government basically won that round but they were seriously rattled. They decided on a policy of economic reform but kept the politics unchanged. Now I suspect that most Chinese people saw development as a priority. China quickly became capitalist. It's still rather poor - GDP per capita is between Albania and Turkemenistan. Still the state's strict control over the economy has largely gone. They can afford computers and can get on the internet. Chinese netizens have had regular skirmishes with the government, e.g. Grass Mud Horse.
More seriously there growing numbers of mass incidents, the PRC term for riots usually ones against corrupt local officials. Plus there's a good chance that rapid growth driven by exports might slow if America stops importing. And in any case 1989 is not the only outbreak of anti government activity - there was the Beijing Spring and pretty much total anarchy during the Cultural Revolution.
It's also interesting that the Beijing Spring happened in 1977 after Mao died. There was a second Beijing Spring in 1997 after Deng Xiaoping died - the China Democracy Party was founded and allowed to register by some local authorities until the central government banned it and rounded up the members.
Now Hu Jin Tao is about to retire. Essentially China is due for a political crisis. While it is inevitable that the Chinese government will try and slam the door, it's not completely guaranteed that they will succeed.
UK has very low cancer and heart disease survival rates.
That's because it's a National Health Service, i.e. it works for the good of the nation. Sick and weak individuals must be purged from the gene pool.
Also, in Britain isn't it metric fucktonnes?
It's pronounced TOE NEZ.
Well, there we can go into technical sophistry about what actually is meant by "maneuverable".
Technical sophistry is what made this site what it is today!
Project Pluto got pretty far - they tested the nuclear ramjet engines for example, and the TERCOM guidance system invented for Pluto was later used by the Tomahawk cruise missile.
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
Pluto's namesake was Roman mythology's ruler of the underworld -- seemingly an apt inspiration for a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)
There's an excellent documentary with video of test firing on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e88WtJvSt7E
If Einstein were alive today he'd be inventing things like goatkcd.
It looks to me as if he's just got a sockpuppet he uses to troll people. Trolling means page views and page views means ad revenue. What's the problem really? He was writing for a bunch of IT trade rags, not the New York Times.
It costs you 100million to research and perfect a new technique. They steal it and setup a production line for 20million and begin competing with you for a far lower, possibly Govt. subsidized, cost.
They haven't really stolen the technique - you still have it. Actually they've just copied it.
On the upside all the Asian countries that managed to move up the engineering food chain from producing cheap tat for foreign companies to designing things people want also ended up with liberal political systems. And all the ones with illiberal political systems are stuck at the cheap tat phase at best.
Or he started his own company. There are lot more struggling one man operations where the CEO is short of cash than Enrons.
I think the problem might be the way Indian consultancy companies are run. I've had European clients who weren't much good at producing things themselves but were still much better than the average Indian consultancy company they outsourced too. What was interesting is that when they brought the Indian developers over to Europe they were effective. Put them back at the Indian office and they were dreadful again. Visiting Indian companies showed why - the people seemed to be OK individually but they had loads of problems they couldn't resolve and no one in management seemed to be interested. So their productivity was awful.
Now you need to be careful here - the world is full of fucked companies. Still it was noticeable that all the Indian outsourcing companies I went to all seemed to be more fucked than the European clients, who were perilously close to fuckedville themselves.
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1) My co workers don't have better social skills than me they just spend their time talking about nonsense like American Idol while I sit in the basement fiddling with a computer. The problem with the US is that hard work and education aren't respected, just bullshitting skills.
+5 Insightful
2) The Indians and Chinese aren't smart they're just book smart. They've got no idea how to apply their intelligence in a company.
+5 Insightful
I heard George Lucas is writing it. Young Gollum will be a comedy character to lighten the mood. His appearance has been changed a bit to appeal to the 5-10 age range that have the most pester power over merchandise sales, e.g. big floppy bunny ears. To save time it will all be CGI scenery. Human actors will be dosed with Thorazine to make them more docile and easier to pose.
> but what happens if a person breaks their nose?!"
You just need to phone DHS and reactivate your face.
It's like "it's not gay if you're the pitcher" I suppose.
1. Swap the buttons
2. ???
3. Prifot
problem with that is anybody who has tried to run a completely free Linux like GNUSense knows what a royal gnuisance that is.
Fixed that for you.
He'd previously published his bank account details to try to make the point that it didn't matter if they they were publicly known. Someone filled in a Direct Debit form for Diabetes UK that didn't need a signature.
http://www.myfinances.co.uk/savings/news//bank-account-fraud/clarkson-caught-by-id-thieves-$483894.htm
One of the things that separates us from the brute beasts is tradition. Lunch at 12pm, tea in the afternoon and Nickelback at half past four.
Why not? My bank details, involve my name, my bank account number and... That's it (BIC/SWIFT eventually for international trasactions). You do know what you can do with that information? Send ME money.
Bzzt! WRONG!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7174760.stm
A "subscription" requires a residence and a German bank account so they can automatically debit (Lastschrift) and don't worry, they never make mistakes when debiting your account! And organizations doing Lastschrift never get hacked because they employ magic warrior fairies.
You shouldn't use sarcasm in Germany. It will be misunderstood.
That was Project Pluto, the best weapons system ever
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
Naah, if they get out and suffocate we'll render them into Soylent Green to feed the overpopulated cities. ++birds one stone.