... event though there are a lot of human elements in it I doubt it'll have real-world value. Game != Real-life, in terms of how people interact. Ask people who play FFA in real-time strategy.
That is, you could follow all the substantive recommendations (if there even are any) and still be deemed to have "undermined national unity" or "infringed upon national honor" based on nothing but the PRC's desire to get you.
A sophisticated computer vision system relies on a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers??? Reply: RTFM, but dude, can the poster at least make the headline coherent?
In fact, most have their rant typed out long before the story hits slashdot, and simply cut and paste into the comment box. .
In fact, those folks use a bot to automatically generate response to topics with keywords such as Apple, China, DRM, patent, Open Source, religion...etc.
People have so much animosity and argument about devices like iPad is because they kept referring anything that has a CPU/RAM/storage/display as a "computer". "Computer" implies a general purpose computational device and it is simply not in this case - devices like iPad has specific applications. I don't see people whine about washing machine with ARM/LCD it lacks an API so people can write an app to have it's LCD show stock ticker.
"....if there was a cheap and legal service as convenient as file-sharing tools like BitTorrent...." - Apple iTune store already proved this point to some degree.
Physical gaming media will not dry up in the near future - it's been brought up here in/. If the console makers won't let retailers to carry physical games, the retailers may refuses to carry their consoles altogether. The only way I can see happening is when e-commerce (online store) is so proliferate that there's a hugely reduced need for physical retailers for electronics/computers (e.g. when everybody knows how to use liondirect, oldegg..etc.).
A lot of people still cannot see beyond: if the device cannot do this, this and that...etc., it's not good enough!! Well, iPad is not, and never meant to be a general purpose computer.
About your comment on price, for me, I was looking into a device that can be like a netbook tablet. $499 isn't bad - Lenovo S10-3T and Asus T91MT are about the same range. Of course, they are general purpose computers instead of the restricted iPad. But I've to say iPad user experience is better - snappy, simple and responsive. I cannot wait until netbook/tablet are like that but right now they're no where near it.
It seems to me that a lot of +5 insightful/informative comments here in slashdot about China are nothing more than "narrative" but not based on first-person observation/experience.
Bank came first before there are any regulation. If there's a demand, this industry will grow. If government thinks this is an essential service people can't do without, they will regulate, eventually.
The era of the geek driving computer development is dead I have to respectfully disagree on the statement. The era of geek driving computer development is not dead (think about the advance stuff on HPC, virtualization...etc.), but instead, the era of user-design driven, consumer electronic appliances has begun. "Thing" that has a CPU inside does not imply that it is a "computer". iPad/iPhone are appliances not a general purpose computer. They have a few specific intended purpose and that's about it. It' just like an advance washing machine with an ARM inside and a LCD display. Slashdotters: we have to stop assuming anything with a CPU is a general purpose computer.
Last that I checked here most folks here thought those Chinese have center to 'treat' Internet addiction are nut case. May be they did their research already?
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... if open source indirectly implies 10x productivity increase.
... event though there are a lot of human elements in it I doubt it'll have real-world value. Game != Real-life, in terms of how people interact. Ask people who play FFA in real-time strategy.
Reminded me the first thing I did after I learned about unix process is to execute "while (1) fork()" on a shared SUN3 terminal :)
X Prize did push this sector from a private angle.
Sounds like Al Bundy :)
That is, you could follow all the substantive recommendations (if there even are any) and still be deemed to have "undermined national unity" or "infringed upon national honor" based on nothing but the PRC's desire to get you.
Oh, I see, so it works like patriot act then?
A sophisticated computer vision system relies on a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers??? Reply: RTFM, but dude, can the poster at least make the headline coherent?
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In fact, those folks use a bot to automatically generate response to topics with keywords such as Apple, China, DRM, patent, Open Source, religion...etc.
People have so much animosity and argument about devices like iPad is because they kept referring anything that has a CPU/RAM/storage/display as a "computer". "Computer" implies a general purpose computational device and it is simply not in this case - devices like iPad has specific applications. I don't see people whine about washing machine with ARM/LCD it lacks an API so people can write an app to have it's LCD show stock ticker.
"....if there was a cheap and legal service as convenient as file-sharing tools like BitTorrent...." - Apple iTune store already proved this point to some degree.
Physical gaming media will not dry up in the near future - it's been brought up here in /. If the console makers won't let retailers to carry physical games, the retailers may refuses to carry their consoles altogether. The only way I can see happening is when e-commerce (online store) is so proliferate that there's a hugely reduced need for physical retailers for electronics/computers (e.g. when everybody knows how to use liondirect, oldegg..etc.).
A lot of people still cannot see beyond: if the device cannot do this, this and that...etc., it's not good enough!! Well, iPad is not, and never meant to be a general purpose computer.
Ditto. I can't believe the selection is less and SSDs are gone. This is so weird.
About your comment on price, for me, I was looking into a device that can be like a netbook tablet. $499 isn't bad - Lenovo S10-3T and Asus T91MT are about the same range. Of course, they are general purpose computers instead of the restricted iPad. But I've to say iPad user experience is better - snappy, simple and responsive. I cannot wait until netbook/tablet are like that but right now they're no where near it.
It seems to me that a lot of +5 insightful/informative comments here in slashdot about China are nothing more than "narrative" but not based on first-person observation/experience.
Integrating a HBA/HCA onto a laptop? What's new?
Very cool but tons of post effects and editing. If this can happen in real-time that'll be awesome.
Bank came first before there are any regulation. If there's a demand, this industry will grow. If government thinks this is an essential service people can't do without, they will regulate, eventually.
For all those who f the cloud - have you ever thought about some of your most precious resource are in other people's hand? I.e. Bank?
Who would have imagined that most of the population would trust bank, debit/credit card, electronic commerce....etc.?
The era of the geek driving computer development is dead
I have to respectfully disagree on the statement. The era of geek driving computer development is not dead (think about the advance stuff on HPC, virtualization...etc.), but instead, the era of user-design driven, consumer electronic appliances has begun. "Thing" that has a CPU inside does not imply that it is a "computer". iPad/iPhone are appliances not a general purpose computer. They have a few specific intended purpose and that's about it. It' just like an advance washing machine with an ARM inside and a LCD display. Slashdotters: we have to stop assuming anything with a CPU is a general purpose computer.
LOL I think for this vapourware project, they only need to involve arts people and no need for any engineers.
Last that I checked here most folks here thought those Chinese have center to 'treat' Internet addiction are nut case. May be they did their research already?
Do you use XP/2000?
Yes - owning the decision doesn't imply making the decision.