[yeah!] Re:Good...weeded out the idiot day traders
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I couldn't agree more.
The way things were going, any fool could put their money in the market and they'd come out quite well. You'd have to be trying to lose money.... This series of successes made all the people at my college think that actually knew what was going on -- way to overconfident and cocky...
Maybe I'm a freak, but I think you shouldn't invest what you're not prepared to lose, or at least should view risk as risk...
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Books on interfaces? (was Re:Tufte and UI/skins)
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I think Tufte is more of an information designer than an interface designer. There's a fine line between the two. But yes, Tufte wrote the book on visual info graphics.
... your very correct...
I've been doing lots of UI work lately, and although the Tufte books work fine for singular graphics, they really don't touch too much on interfaces.
see http://www.antionline.com/wargames/ it's cooperatively run by antionline and somebody else. It may have it's uses, but I think that most script kiddies to it to be annoying/show they have power, not just for the thrill of the hack. it's DOS, it's not as complex as rooting a box or finding a real volnerability (sp) -- the people that are doing that probably have their own boxes anyhow. willis/
We've got some of these at UC Berkeley. They're cool, and the idea is great, but the only problem is that administration of the server has to be really, really good.
One or two people with bad code/programs can make everything slow down a bit...
That, and sometimes the damn things don't log out correctly.
You know what he'll say? It's better. and then everybody will get really happy about it.
He chose it, so he probably likes it. Let's get some hardball questions about what's happening to our society and less shop talk. I bet you that people from here/. can probably school this guy in tech issues anyway.
But they've been dealt a hellof a shitty hand (huge population, 30 years of a failed economic model and disasterous personality cult, etc.)
It's shitty about human rights, but right now lots of folks still haven't been educated past 3rd grade. The government wants to get a reasonably established/healthy economy before giving up more slack. Uneven growth could result in another civil war, etc...
The government has been stressing stability for the last 20 years because the chinese people know from the past (the war with japan, civil war, great leap forward, cultural revolution) that radical change brings suffering.
I mean, sometimes they are bone stupid, sometimes they are stuck in their old ways, but really, they are doing what they think is best for their people most of the time.
(pre-emptive flame defense : torture isn't what's best for their people... but stability is what they place the highest. Don't be fooled, another Chinese revolution would be a pain in the ass for all countries involved, and probably kill millions of Chinese and ruin the global economy.)
I'm rambling, but seriously, THINK people.
children ==> "less poverty"
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Usually in the countryside, the more kids you have the better off you are... You can plow more fields, work more efficiently, and your family creates a web of influence... In these cases, people are having children in the hopes of taking them _out_ of poverty, or at least giving them some form of retirement...
In the section of Beijing near Peking University and Tsinghua University (the two most respected universities in China) there are tons of internet cafes and shops selling computer parts.
There's even a lot of people who call the area (haidian) Beijing Silicon Valley -- and Beijing is even known across the nation for it's technology...
I think most pressing would be a normal blocking client/proxy server that could load these lists...
However much you might not like censoring or blocking, libraries, etc, are going to block. It makes sense to give them a tool that blocks well, and only blocks what they have determined they want blocked. (via open url lists)
Some type of online porn site association might be good too -- if all porn sites registered then the lists would practically build themselves...
not to glamorous a project, but maybe somebody will take it.
also, when there is an execution, it's a pretty well known fact that the government will send the family a bill for the bullet (around 4 cents US,.3 RMB)
re: China's immense military power I think the fear over China's military is a little _too_ overestimated... For example: The US carrier group that was positioned near Taiwan during this summer's ruckus could have totally taken out the Chinese invasion force in one assault. And that wasn't even all of the US navy (something like one or two battle groups). They have no aircraft carriers. None. No power projection there.
George Segal wrote an article (tiny summary) about this in Foreign Affairs a little while ago -- China, although the potential is great, China is not too strong right now. There was some discussion about this a couple of years ago -- it's like there is a need to create an enemy to fill our cold-war mindsets (etc.etc.). Although in several ways China and the US/"western nations" are opposed, China is not the military power that the Soviet Union once was, and neither is China funding nuclear missiles in Cuba or whatever. It's just not the right enemy for the job.
"William Triplett, co-author of a new book on the PLA, said the Liberation Army Daily article appears to be the first time Beijing officially acknowledged having offensive computer-warfare capabilities."
I don't know about that, but I've seen lots of newspaper articles talking about hacking, and specifically the Chinese hacker response to the NATO bombing of their embassy on 8.5.99. I don't recall the exact text of all of those articles, but it always seemed like they thought it was pretty important, even if they never said anything about capabilities.
"All of this offensive-warfare talk, when China is not threatened by anyone, shows that the dragon is at the point where it doesn't have to hide its claws," Mr. Triplett said.
Their is a general Chinese tendancy to be the most hawkish when things at the center are the most weak. (i.e. right after liberation they got into the Korean War, during the cultural revolution they had border skirmishes with Russia, during the transition from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang zemin they raised a huge ruckus about taiwan (ending with the 7th(?) fleet parking itself in the Taiwan Straits in 96), and recently this beef with Taiwan is happening during a weak moment for them internally (falungong, economy problems, corruption)). It seems that when the "dragon" is the weakest, so to speak, it choses not to "hide its claws" the most. During the Cultural Revolution (a very weak point) people were always talking about the need to "beat down American Imperialism" (dadao meidi) -- they couldn't do anything back then.
I didn't see the original article, but here's my understanding of how the Chinese press works and how it fits in...
The main paper is "The People's Daily" (renmin ribao). It may be full of bs sometimes, but it is politically correct news. Usually contains some rant about hegemony or something somewhere.
The next level down are city level papers like "Beijing Daily" and "Chongqing Daily". These are less under central control, and more likely to report things a little more accurately or with less propoganda and moralizing.
The third level are special interest newspapers like "Shipping News" or "The People's Liberation Army Daily" or perhaps old part relics like "Information Reference" (xiaoxi cankao, this is more reliable, but more propaganda-ish) . These are the least reliable (in my opinion). Since they have less prestige and relics of the past, they put out more radical stuff to sell papers...
Also, sometimes the papers a little more distant from the People's Daily are used as test beds for new ideas or to create hype... The "Ming Pao" paper in Hong Kong did this during the summer, with lots of talk about invading Taiwan.
I'm assuming this article is not to make foreigners scared (this newspaper is directed to internal readers) and instead just to move papers. The military is big stuff in China -- much more obvious than in the US. Lots of people read "military news" or like "Military Affairs" (junshi)
Also, quite seriously, who in their right mind wouldn't be thinking about this type of stuff in this day and age. I mean... like other/.ers have said -- the US is doing the same damn thing, and probably better. Sometimes I get the feeling that people just like to pick on China -- or feel some sort of psychic need to let it fill the spot left by the USSR's collapse. They've drawn a shitty lot (the Chinese), at try thinking from their perspective every once in a while.
Granted I haven't check in a long time, but last time I looked at http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/ I though it was on the right track for super-collaberative stuff across the net... The formats are probably whack, but the idea is incredible.
Java interface (last time I checked) and I think the source is downloadable.
Probably not what you want, but cool none the less.
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The way things were going, any fool could put their money in the market and they'd come out quite well. You'd have to be trying to lose money.... This series of successes made all the people at my college think that actually knew what was going on -- way to overconfident and cocky...
Maybe I'm a freak, but I think you shouldn't invest what you're not prepared to lose, or at least should view risk as risk...
willis/
... your very correct...
I've been doing lots of UI work lately, and although the Tufte books work fine for singular graphics, they really don't touch too much on interfaces.
Anybody know some good books on interfaces?
see http://www.antionline.com/wargames/
it's cooperatively run by antionline and somebody else. It may have it's uses, but I think that most script kiddies to it to be annoying/show they have power, not just for the thrill of the hack.
it's DOS, it's not as complex as rooting a box or finding a real volnerability (sp) -- the people that are doing that probably have their own boxes anyhow.
willis/
We've got some of these at UC Berkeley. They're cool, and the idea is great, but the only problem is that administration of the server has to be really, really good.
One or two people with bad code/programs can make everything slow down a bit...
That, and sometimes the damn things don't log out correctly.
it is a nice idea, though...
in California, BUI (biking under the influence) is a crime, I think on the same level as DUI (driving under the influence)
I can only think of that guy that yells
Y O S H U A
on sproul...
and then everybody will get really happy about it.
He chose it, so he probably likes it.
Let's get some hardball questions about what's happening to our society and less shop talk. I bet you that people from here
In any case, let's rate this comment offtopic.
/willis
Something like this could be a pretty good xserver .
-- imagine having an application server at the concentrator for your block, and everybody running applications from the cable modems...
--imagine everybody with non-technical positions at an office all having a play station (200 bucks! swap it out if it breaks!)
willis/
China is not the perfect country.
surprise.
But they've been dealt a hellof a shitty hand (huge population, 30 years of a failed economic model and disasterous personality cult, etc.)
It's shitty about human rights, but right now lots of folks still haven't been educated past 3rd grade. The government wants to get a reasonably established/healthy economy before giving up more slack. Uneven growth could result in another civil war, etc...
The government has been stressing stability for the last 20 years because the chinese people know from the past (the war with japan, civil war, great leap forward, cultural revolution) that radical change brings suffering.
I mean, sometimes they are bone stupid, sometimes they are stuck in their old ways, but really, they are doing what they think is best for their people most of the time.
(pre-emptive flame defense : torture isn't what's best for their people...
but stability is what they place the highest. Don't be fooled, another Chinese revolution would be a pain in the ass for all countries involved, and probably kill millions of Chinese and ruin the global economy.)
I'm rambling, but seriously, THINK people.
Usually in the countryside, the more kids you have the better off you are... You can plow more fields, work more efficiently, and your family creates a web of influence... In these cases, people are having children in the hopes of taking them _out_ of poverty, or at least giving them some form of retirement...
The problem is when everybody does it...
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Things like 163 actually do have meaning -- they are plays off of the pronunciation of numbers...
163 == yao liu san == I want to wander(bad translation)
another one is 51go, which if read in the right sense is =wu yao GO == I want to GO (half English/half Chinese).
In the section of Beijing near Peking University and Tsinghua University (the two most respected universities in China) there are tons of internet cafes and shops selling computer parts.
There's even a lot of people who call the area (haidian) Beijing Silicon Valley -- and Beijing is even known across the nation for it's technology...
I'd post more, but I've got class...
the logo could be altered so that one can't see it anymore... and then you'd be back where you started.
I think most pressing would be a normal blocking client/proxy server that could load these lists...
However much you might not like censoring or blocking, libraries, etc, are going to block. It makes sense to give them a tool that blocks well, and only blocks what they have determined they want blocked. (via open url lists)
Some type of online porn site association might be good too -- if all porn sites registered then the lists would practically build themselves...
not to glamorous a project, but maybe somebody will take it.
It is, and so is yahoo's news section.
.3 RMB)
also, when there is an execution, it's a pretty well known fact that the government will send the family a bill for the bullet (around 4 cents US,
The US carrier group that was positioned near Taiwan during this summer's ruckus could have totally taken out the Chinese invasion force in one assault. And that wasn't even all of the US navy (something like one or two battle groups).
They have no aircraft carriers. None. No power projection there.
George Segal wrote an article (tiny summary) about this in Foreign Affairs a little while ago -- China, although the potential is great, China is not too strong right now.
There was some discussion about this a couple of years ago -- it's like there is a need to create an enemy to fill our cold-war mindsets (etc.etc.). Although in several ways China and the US/"western nations" are opposed, China is not the military power that the Soviet Union once was, and neither is China funding nuclear missiles in Cuba or whatever.
It's just not the right enemy for the job.
willis
"William Triplett, co-author of a new book on the PLA, said the Liberation Army Daily article appears to be the first time Beijing officially acknowledged having offensive computer-warfare capabilities."
I don't know about that, but I've seen lots of newspaper articles talking about hacking, and specifically the Chinese hacker response to the NATO bombing of their embassy on 8.5.99. I don't recall the exact text of all of those articles, but it always seemed like they thought it was pretty important, even if they never said anything about capabilities.
"All of this offensive-warfare talk, when China is not threatened by anyone, shows that the dragon is at the point where it doesn't have to hide its claws," Mr. Triplett said.
Their is a general Chinese tendancy to be the most hawkish when things at the center are the most weak.
(i.e. right after liberation they got into the Korean War, during the cultural revolution they had border skirmishes with Russia, during the transition from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang zemin they raised a huge ruckus about taiwan (ending with the 7th(?) fleet parking itself in the Taiwan Straits in 96), and recently this beef with Taiwan is happening during a weak moment for them internally (falungong, economy problems, corruption)).
It seems that when the "dragon" is the weakest, so to speak, it choses not to "hide its claws" the most. During the Cultural Revolution (a very weak point) people were always talking about the need to "beat down American Imperialism" (dadao meidi) -- they couldn't do anything back then.
so there. Yeah.
willis
The main paper is "The People's Daily" (renmin ribao). It may be full of bs sometimes, but it is politically correct news. Usually contains some rant about hegemony or something somewhere.
The next level down are city level papers like "Beijing Daily" and "Chongqing Daily". These are less under central control, and more likely to report things a little more accurately or with less propoganda and moralizing.
The third level are special interest newspapers like "Shipping News" or "The People's Liberation Army Daily" or perhaps old part relics like "Information Reference" (xiaoxi cankao, this is more reliable, but more propaganda-ish) . These are the least reliable (in my opinion). Since they have less prestige and relics of the past, they put out more radical stuff to sell papers...
Also, sometimes the papers a little more distant from the People's Daily are used as test beds for new ideas or to create hype... The "Ming Pao" paper in Hong Kong did this during the summer, with lots of talk about invading Taiwan.
I'm assuming this article is not to make foreigners scared (this newspaper is directed to internal readers) and instead just to move papers. The military is big stuff in China -- much more obvious than in the US. Lots of people read "military news" or like "Military Affairs" (junshi)
the People's Liberation Army Daily site (down? probably in gb-chinese as well)
a Beijing Scene article on the recent war fever in China (Beijing Scene is a popular expat weekly in Beijing)
Also, quite seriously, who in their right mind wouldn't be thinking about this type of stuff in this day and age. I mean... like other
Sometimes I get the feeling that people just like to pick on China -- or feel some sort of psychic need to let it fill the spot left by the USSR's collapse. They've drawn a shitty lot (the Chinese), at try thinking from their perspective every once in a while.
maybe I've been here too long.
willis.
it's good that it's open source, so people can fight back using the same damn stuff -- and it won't crash either!
willis.
The formats are probably whack, but the idea is incredible.
Java interface (last time I checked) and I think the source is downloadable.
Probably not what you want, but cool none the less.
willis.
I'd translate it
dui4 ni3 lai2 shuo1, yong4 linux hen3 rong2yi4
("for you/in terms of you, using linux is very easy)
also, I don't like seeing "~/\-" or other non-numeric tone markings... it seems to be too much of a pain to read. Too messy.
hell - I love Chinese.
scott/
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice,
transport of flickering pictures - in this century,
as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the
single aim of bringing men together.
-Antoine de Saint Exupery