The China of 2014 is moving as quickly as it can towards becoming a major military power, and let us not forget that China is a nuclear power, so the idea that even if Japan went all the way, amended its constitution and formed a fully fleshed armed forces with nuclear capability (and everyone already believes that Japan is already nuclear capable), that it would mean the imminent invasion of China.
China does not fear invasion, or anything like it. What it fears is that its own imperial ambitions will be completely constrained.
The militaristic Japan of the last century is a useful propaganda bogeyman for China, but as a real threat to anything but contested maritime boundaries, it doesn't exist.
There were no high level pleas for peace from Japan. Tojo and his government were of the opinion that Japan should go down in flames rather than surrender. And the Americans were likely concerned about the Soviets as well. A quick end to the war and surrender to the US was far preferable to what happened in Central and Eastern Europe. In the end the Soviets did seize some Japanese territory, and if the land invasion had gone ahead, at least some portion of the main islands would have ended up in the USSR's hands.
Oh come on. The Japan of 2014 is not the Japan of 1945. Virtually everyone from that generation is dead or beyond any political influence. I have some issues with Japan over its acceptance of some its activities during its empire days, but all in all, it has been a well behaved member of the international community and one of the West's most important Asian allies. I doubt it even wants to have nuclear weapons, but considering the way China has been behaving of late, any prudent Japanese government is going to want to make it clear that it's lack of nuclear deterrent is due to the decision not to have one, and not because of any technical difficulties.
China cannot continue to poke its neighbors with sticks and not expect that those neighbors will not begin to ponder just how much longer they're going to be poked. Japan is a major industrial power, one of the wealthiest and most advanced nations on the planet, and if China doesn't want to feel threatened by Japan, then it needs to stop pushing buttons itself.
I think if Japan were sufficiently provoked, yes, I think they would build a nuclear bomb. I have a pretty good suspicion, considering Japans technical sophistication, that a nuclear weapons program would not be hard to achieve, and clearly China knows this.
Exactly. China's claims over disputed waters with its neighbors is creating the conditions in which those neighbors either cozy up to the US, or, in the case of a heavily industrialized and wealthy nation like Japan, begin to reconsider their position so far as military position and investment.
If your logic held, we'd all be running OS/2 right now, and Windows would be a distant memory of some flaky OS code-named Chicago all them years ago.
In reality, bugginess is irrelevant. What counts is acceptance and penetration, and in that vein, Android hasn't just beaten BB, it's literally wiped it off the map.
Yes, I know QNX shows up in some embedded hardware (which was what it was designed for the in the first place), but as a mainstream smartdevice OS it is now officially a failure.
And honestly, I have two Android devices (Nexus 7 2012 edition and Nexut 5). Yeah, every once in a while an app burps, but I have no major stability issues that I can think of. Not only that, if I don't like Google's version of Android, there's always Cyanogenmod (though the devices work so well I have no desire to go that route).
Frankly, I think the day of the keyboard on a phone is gone. Yes, there are a few stalwarts left that prefer it to touch screen, but they are a shrinking group. Android manufacturers aren't interested in manufacturing phones with keyboards because they'd end up like Q10, hundreds of thousands of units taking up space in warehouses.
The touchscreen won. I doubt in ten years there will be any keyboard phones to buy.
Can you define "popular" for me? Sales figures indicate they are a bit player that is even losing enterprise share. I see no indication of even a negligible uptick in sales in Canada or anywhere else. BB's value seems solely defined these days by its patent portfolio and secure messaging system. The hardware has been in a major decline for four or five years now, and shows absolutely no sign of recovery.
Whether its malice, incompetence or some other reason, the fact is that crap is being sold under their name. Better, to my mind, to simply not manufacture until supply chain issues are resolved than to try to put lipstick on a pig.
Yeah, I always considered them the premium "go to" brand. I buy cheap RAM for workstations and other hardware I'm not too worried about, but when we add more RAM to our servers, it's usually Kingston.
If they're just going to sell shit and slap their name on it, fuck 'em. I can buy shit RAM without the name tax added on.
Well, I don't know about you, but I feel safer knowing the NSA is keeping those filthy terrorists, the ACLU, away from information of high importance to national security. Why we don't jail anyone who even reads the Constitution is beyond me.
One of the chief reasons that Windows 2000 never took off as a consumer OS was because of the lack of drivers. It was a pretty decent OS, but if you were using it as a home OS you really had to pay attention to the HCLs. Once XP took off in a big way, I could use XP drivers in a lot of cases, but after XP SP2 I saw on reason on a home or office computer to run Windows 2000. I was still running it as a server OS up until around 2009 or so.
I was fortunate enough to have administered a network that had a few Windows 2000 Pro machines on it, and man oh man what a great OS. Very snappy even on some of the lower end hardware. I used it at home for years, until XP SP2, at which point I felt XP had patched enough bugs to take over. But still, Windows 2000 was one of the better versions that MS put out.
You do understand the law is largely unenforceable, right? Sure Google and Microsoft might comply, but the information is still there and someone else can create searchable lists.
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Like a sensible education in the sciences?
Frankly I think we all need strong military protection from Jeff Bezos.
The China of 2014 is moving as quickly as it can towards becoming a major military power, and let us not forget that China is a nuclear power, so the idea that even if Japan went all the way, amended its constitution and formed a fully fleshed armed forces with nuclear capability (and everyone already believes that Japan is already nuclear capable), that it would mean the imminent invasion of China.
China does not fear invasion, or anything like it. What it fears is that its own imperial ambitions will be completely constrained.
The militaristic Japan of the last century is a useful propaganda bogeyman for China, but as a real threat to anything but contested maritime boundaries, it doesn't exist.
There were no high level pleas for peace from Japan. Tojo and his government were of the opinion that Japan should go down in flames rather than surrender. And the Americans were likely concerned about the Soviets as well. A quick end to the war and surrender to the US was far preferable to what happened in Central and Eastern Europe. In the end the Soviets did seize some Japanese territory, and if the land invasion had gone ahead, at least some portion of the main islands would have ended up in the USSR's hands.
Oh come on. The Japan of 2014 is not the Japan of 1945. Virtually everyone from that generation is dead or beyond any political influence. I have some issues with Japan over its acceptance of some its activities during its empire days, but all in all, it has been a well behaved member of the international community and one of the West's most important Asian allies. I doubt it even wants to have nuclear weapons, but considering the way China has been behaving of late, any prudent Japanese government is going to want to make it clear that it's lack of nuclear deterrent is due to the decision not to have one, and not because of any technical difficulties.
China cannot continue to poke its neighbors with sticks and not expect that those neighbors will not begin to ponder just how much longer they're going to be poked. Japan is a major industrial power, one of the wealthiest and most advanced nations on the planet, and if China doesn't want to feel threatened by Japan, then it needs to stop pushing buttons itself.
I think if Japan were sufficiently provoked, yes, I think they would build a nuclear bomb. I have a pretty good suspicion, considering Japans technical sophistication, that a nuclear weapons program would not be hard to achieve, and clearly China knows this.
Exactly. China's claims over disputed waters with its neighbors is creating the conditions in which those neighbors either cozy up to the US, or, in the case of a heavily industrialized and wealthy nation like Japan, begin to reconsider their position so far as military position and investment.
If your logic held, we'd all be running OS/2 right now, and Windows would be a distant memory of some flaky OS code-named Chicago all them years ago.
In reality, bugginess is irrelevant. What counts is acceptance and penetration, and in that vein, Android hasn't just beaten BB, it's literally wiped it off the map.
Yes, I know QNX shows up in some embedded hardware (which was what it was designed for the in the first place), but as a mainstream smartdevice OS it is now officially a failure.
And honestly, I have two Android devices (Nexus 7 2012 edition and Nexut 5). Yeah, every once in a while an app burps, but I have no major stability issues that I can think of. Not only that, if I don't like Google's version of Android, there's always Cyanogenmod (though the devices work so well I have no desire to go that route).
Frankly, I think the day of the keyboard on a phone is gone. Yes, there are a few stalwarts left that prefer it to touch screen, but they are a shrinking group. Android manufacturers aren't interested in manufacturing phones with keyboards because they'd end up like Q10, hundreds of thousands of units taking up space in warehouses.
The touchscreen won. I doubt in ten years there will be any keyboard phones to buy.
Can you define "popular" for me? Sales figures indicate they are a bit player that is even losing enterprise share. I see no indication of even a negligible uptick in sales in Canada or anywhere else. BB's value seems solely defined these days by its patent portfolio and secure messaging system. The hardware has been in a major decline for four or five years now, and shows absolutely no sign of recovery.
Yes, the Android subsystem in BB sucks.
Whether its malice, incompetence or some other reason, the fact is that crap is being sold under their name. Better, to my mind, to simply not manufacture until supply chain issues are resolved than to try to put lipstick on a pig.
Yeah, I always considered them the premium "go to" brand. I buy cheap RAM for workstations and other hardware I'm not too worried about, but when we add more RAM to our servers, it's usually Kingston.
If they're just going to sell shit and slap their name on it, fuck 'em. I can buy shit RAM without the name tax added on.
JavaScript is a lot of things, but fast prototyping language it ain't. You spend as much time peering through references as you do coding.
Chemistry isn't your strong suit, is it....
I can't believe Juniper just handed over their VARs beta products without some sort of an NDA. That just seems utterly bizarre and inept.
Or, to put it another way, Congressmen are vile repugnant greedy pigs.
Well, I don't know about you, but I feel safer knowing the NSA is keeping those filthy terrorists, the ACLU, away from information of high importance to national security. Why we don't jail anyone who even reads the Constitution is beyond me.
Gosh science is so expensive. Let's shut it down so we can remain ignorant fucktards forever!
Fuck that! I'm going to build a Faraday cage hat! Tinfoil hats are for poseurs.
I do most of my access to our Server 2012 machines via Windows 7 remote admin tools and Powers hell. Why would you even bother logging in?
You can't take a leak in the technology world any more without someone trying to claim IP ownership of your urethra.
One of the chief reasons that Windows 2000 never took off as a consumer OS was because of the lack of drivers. It was a pretty decent OS, but if you were using it as a home OS you really had to pay attention to the HCLs. Once XP took off in a big way, I could use XP drivers in a lot of cases, but after XP SP2 I saw on reason on a home or office computer to run Windows 2000. I was still running it as a server OS up until around 2009 or so.
I was fortunate enough to have administered a network that had a few Windows 2000 Pro machines on it, and man oh man what a great OS. Very snappy even on some of the lower end hardware. I used it at home for years, until XP SP2, at which point I felt XP had patched enough bugs to take over. But still, Windows 2000 was one of the better versions that MS put out.
You do understand the law is largely unenforceable, right? Sure Google and Microsoft might comply, but the information is still there and someone else can create searchable lists.