...but when asking this question what you are really asking is what is the value of knowledge.
Dude, that's exactly my point - advancement in science. I don't understand why people need to be so cynical about other countries space program. We do it here for the good of mankind, and they do it because it's a publicity stun, or for evil deeds. The original poster said this:
Basically, it's pure politics and not science....been there, done that.
Ditto. The problem is the games glorifying such act. Nobody is denying the existence of those crimes, and the need to act on those crimes. But by the lines of thought of original post that videogames reflect life, then there's nothing wrong with video game maker creating games on stuff like drug-traffik, gang-rape and market/sell to minors.
Now days, if China or India are after the research, they can just buy copies of the reports from both Russia and US now.
Dude, this is oversimplification. US (and Russia) spent billions if not trillions of dollars into space research, NASA will just handover the blueprint for a fee? Considering some of these research are confidental and maybe related to security to their country.
Troll? Is that the best you can do, moderator? You can mark me troll and flamebait all you can, but the fact being this posting serves NO PURPOSE other than to bash. If not, reply me and tell me what is the exact purpose of this article? Talking about troll, the article itself is a troll, and flamebait.
Yet another article sole purpose is China bashing, or put it up as a 'freak show'. Go to google and search for 'internet addiction'. What you'll find it is a not an uncommon phenomenon in the western world. Yeah the head gear looks scary, but that's just like brainwave scanner used in cognitive science here.
I totally denounce the way summary is written and poster allows such posting. It sounds as if people are being force to the clinic (which I don't see in the article, from CNN for gosh sake), and make it sounds horrifying and crazy that they will add '200 beds'. This addiction is uncommon, but problems happens here as well.
Guys, open your eyes instead of just read what you want to read, or post what you want to post. This/. culture of putting down ANYTHING 'China' is sickening me. We in the western world have access to such vast amount of information compare to developing country such as China, yet we would rather use tunnel vision: anything deviates from 'our way' is 'freak'. All prejudice starts from ignorance. Posters: please once and for all think about the way articles are being summarized; if you don't stop them you're pretty much helping to spread the hate.
I don't know what you think about stuff made in Taiwan, but a lot of mobos are from there and stuff like tyan, supermicro are widely used in datacenter applications. And oh yeah, they're starting to outsource manufacturing to mainland China lol.
Besides, if all our non-chinese electronics are really all that high quality, why do BestBuy and Walmart and those guys make a killing selling "extended warranty"?
Hmm, what you just said is somewhat contradictory. If they're making a killing selling 'extended warranty' that means they don't really have to replace that many pieces of their sold gears.
I don't have anything "against" stuff made in China per se, but they really have to work hard to shed the bad rep that they have. Occasionally I see news articles from Hong Kong about chinese-brand electronics spontaneously combusting causing small home fires. Not exactly confidence inspiring...
I've heard those news. It's not fun when your cellphone is warming your thigh and starting a fire.
The majority of the world uses it not because it's quality, but because it's much cheaper, and people have been lulled/tricked into not considering quality anymore.
True, but 'much cheaper' or 'chinese made' does not automatically implies 'poor quality'. This is the sweeping statement that the original poster made which I don't agree.
Moreover, we have to wonder why so much stuff that we use these days are made in China. Different people have different perception on quality, and I won't say that most of the Chinese stuff are "quality-made" per se. However, these Chinese made stuff has to reach a certain quality level in order be adopted so widely and used everyday by so many in household or business - and I dare to say, some of them depend on these Chinese made stuff. If they are so bad quality that will work for a moment and next moment it ceases to work, then I'll bet everybody will yell and holla about it, and refuse to buy anything made in China. I think it was like that maybe 5 - 10 years ago, and it's a fun joke about 'stuff made in China', but now apparently that's less and less of the case.
Dude, China has a big market for media consumption. If the Chinese entertainment industry forces its way to use a new format, other big consumer electronics companies or foreign entertainment companies must pay attention. Sony doesn't have to back it, but it'll lose a huge market.
Are you kidding man? You can't compare it with high-end uber-users stuff, but the 'quality' is up to the level that majority of the world uses it. Check out which piece of electronic in your home is not made in China.
Dude, I don't think we own those properties. We purchased the right to use the content. If we own the properties, shouldn't we get a share of the royalty?
one that happens to have one of most evil governments
Don't get me started on the good and evil bullshit. The/.ers beloved company of Google has picked the 'evil' side. So now you should really reconsider using anything google.
Ditto on the good and evil thing. The other thing is, the term Chinese Taipei is used by a lot local 'Taiwan' groups when they abroad out as a representative of their 'island'. It is not bullshit, of course, unless the locals want to BS themselves when they go abroad.
Nothing is ever our fault, we muyst always find someone else to hold responsible for problems that we should be tough enough and capable enough to not get into or to solve ourselves.
I agree there's too much blaming in this world. But how can everybody be expert in everything in this world? While so many here in/. promote and encourage the use of opensource software, we can't expect all end-users to read the source code and understand them inside-out, occasionally submit bug report and even suggest fixes. If I'm getting a building contractor, I expect him to build a safe building. If the building crumbles down, how is that my responsibility?
Yeah, opensource is free but it doesn't mean there's no responsibility either. It's like if a food vendor is handing out free samples of food. If it tastes horrible that's one thing, but if it's contaminated, the vendor's still responsible.
I have one of those Swissbit knife and I just love it. It's so small and comes with the knife feature. However, one of the biggest thing is everyone attached it to keychain and put in pocket ---> bad for traveling!! I was lucky the Toronto airport security allow me to pay $5 to send it back home instead of throwing it away... OT, I really wonder if the current airport security is hitting hard on Swiss Army Knife bottomline.
"...suggests a lawsuit by the Author's Guild against Google is acting against authors' best interest"
Yeah he said that, but is it really because the majority readers of his books are people who are for online indexing, and he'll be able to recoup revenue one way or another because of his audience, while majority of books by other by 'authors/publishers' targeting 6-pack Joe?
...inserting special characters such as underscoring into typing...
Hmm... unless the Chinese emails in English, adding underscore in between Chinese characters doesn't do much. Each Chinese character has a meaning by itself - unlike alphabets.
Well, does that mean the current law that we have here in the States cannot protect us or government from these threats, or we are not living in a sovereign democratic government?
Isn't that too dragconian and extreme to the other end? Does that mean somebody may go to jail if they choose to use paid software? Ok maybe not, but what's the point? It could be government spending guideline or whatever, but law??? It's like talking about outlawing unhealthy food. Government shall never tell us or even suggest what we should do. Unless they make it a law lol.
Not for long... The news' kinda too short (they charge subscription for detail versions). But in any case, like the chinese proverb, paper can't wrap around cover up fire.
Note: SCMP-South China Morning Post is Hong Kong English newspaper.
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Dude, that's exactly my point - advancement in science. I don't understand why people need to be so cynical about other countries space program. We do it here for the good of mankind, and they do it because it's a publicity stun, or for evil deeds. The original poster said this: Basically, it's pure politics and not science. ...been there, done that.
Ditto. The problem is the games glorifying such act. Nobody is denying the existence of those crimes, and the need to act on those crimes. But by the lines of thought of original post that videogames reflect life, then there's nothing wrong with video game maker creating games on stuff like drug-traffik, gang-rape and market/sell to minors.
Dude, this is oversimplification. US (and Russia) spent billions if not trillions of dollars into space research, NASA will just handover the blueprint for a fee? Considering some of these research are confidental and maybe related to security to their country.
Hmm, but really, what have we got from all the space research investment put into so far?
Troll? Is that the best you can do, moderator? You can mark me troll and flamebait all you can, but the fact being this posting serves NO PURPOSE other than to bash. If not, reply me and tell me what is the exact purpose of this article? Talking about troll, the article itself is a troll, and flamebait.
Isn't this a one-time biggest JAVA-related revenue generating opportunity for Sun? Sun's investment in Java must've slow and painful for them...
I totally denounce the way summary is written and poster allows such posting. It sounds as if people are being force to the clinic (which I don't see in the article, from CNN for gosh sake), and make it sounds horrifying and crazy that they will add '200 beds'. This addiction is uncommon, but problems happens here as well.
Guys, open your eyes instead of just read what you want to read, or post what you want to post. This /. culture of putting down ANYTHING 'China' is sickening me. We in the western world have access to such vast amount of information compare to developing country such as China, yet we would rather use tunnel vision: anything deviates from 'our way' is 'freak'. All prejudice starts from ignorance. Posters: please once and for all think about the way articles are being summarized; if you don't stop them you're pretty much helping to spread the hate.
Dude, I'm thinking this just may happen - co-existence of two formats, and dual-compatible drives.
Besides, if all our non-chinese electronics are really all that high quality, why do BestBuy and Walmart and those guys make a killing selling "extended warranty"?
Hmm, what you just said is somewhat contradictory. If they're making a killing selling 'extended warranty' that means they don't really have to replace that many pieces of their sold gears.
I don't have anything "against" stuff made in China per se, but they really have to work hard to shed the bad rep that they have. Occasionally I see news articles from Hong Kong about chinese-brand electronics spontaneously combusting causing small home fires. Not exactly confidence inspiring...
I've heard those news. It's not fun when your cellphone is warming your thigh and starting a fire.
True, but 'much cheaper' or 'chinese made' does not automatically implies 'poor quality'. This is the sweeping statement that the original poster made which I don't agree.
Moreover, we have to wonder why so much stuff that we use these days are made in China. Different people have different perception on quality, and I won't say that most of the Chinese stuff are "quality-made" per se. However, these Chinese made stuff has to reach a certain quality level in order be adopted so widely and used everyday by so many in household or business - and I dare to say, some of them depend on these Chinese made stuff. If they are so bad quality that will work for a moment and next moment it ceases to work, then I'll bet everybody will yell and holla about it, and refuse to buy anything made in China. I think it was like that maybe 5 - 10 years ago, and it's a fun joke about 'stuff made in China', but now apparently that's less and less of the case.
Dude, China has a big market for media consumption. If the Chinese entertainment industry forces its way to use a new format, other big consumer electronics companies or foreign entertainment companies must pay attention. Sony doesn't have to back it, but it'll lose a huge market.
Are you kidding man? You can't compare it with high-end uber-users stuff, but the 'quality' is up to the level that majority of the world uses it. Check out which piece of electronic in your home is not made in China.
Mozilla, opera, firefox, apache, tomcat...etc. Java will be removed and replaced by ActiveX-based emulation.
Dude, I don't think we own those properties. We purchased the right to use the content. If we own the properties, shouldn't we get a share of the royalty?
Don't get me started on the good and evil bullshit. The /.ers beloved company of Google has picked the 'evil' side. So now you should really reconsider using anything google.
Ditto on the good and evil thing. The other thing is, the term Chinese Taipei is used by a lot local 'Taiwan' groups when they abroad out as a representative of their 'island'. It is not bullshit, of course, unless the locals want to BS themselves when they go abroad.
I agree there's too much blaming in this world. But how can everybody be expert in everything in this world? While so many here in /. promote and encourage the use of opensource software, we can't expect all end-users to read the source code and understand them inside-out, occasionally submit bug report and even suggest fixes. If I'm getting a building contractor, I expect him to build a safe building. If the building crumbles down, how is that my responsibility?
Yeah, opensource is free but it doesn't mean there's no responsibility either. It's like if a food vendor is handing out free samples of food. If it tastes horrible that's one thing, but if it's contaminated, the vendor's still responsible.
I have one of those Swissbit knife and I just love it. It's so small and comes with the knife feature. However, one of the biggest thing is everyone attached it to keychain and put in pocket ---> bad for traveling!! I was lucky the Toronto airport security allow me to pay $5 to send it back home instead of throwing it away... OT, I really wonder if the current airport security is hitting hard on Swiss Army Knife bottomline.
Yeah he said that, but is it really because the majority readers of his books are people who are for online indexing, and he'll be able to recoup revenue one way or another because of his audience, while majority of books by other by 'authors/publishers' targeting 6-pack Joe?
Dude, my ASUS TNT2 from 5 years ago is fanless too :)
Hmm... unless the Chinese emails in English, adding underscore in between Chinese characters doesn't do much. Each Chinese character has a meaning by itself - unlike alphabets.
Well, does that mean the current law that we have here in the States cannot protect us or government from these threats, or we are not living in a sovereign democratic government?
Isn't that too dragconian and extreme to the other end? Does that mean somebody may go to jail if they choose to use paid software? Ok maybe not, but what's the point? It could be government spending guideline or whatever, but law??? It's like talking about outlawing unhealthy food. Government shall never tell us or even suggest what we should do. Unless they make it a law lol.
Not for long... The news' kinda too short (they charge subscription for detail versions). But in any case, like the chinese proverb, paper can't wrap around cover up fire. Note: SCMP-South China Morning Post is Hong Kong English newspaper.
Gosh, wtf is with you moderator(s)? This is a genuine question. I am no chip expert and wonder if this is a 'nice' by-product. Ok, mod this OT. Gees.