Has there really been anything that has started in China and made it big in Europe/North America? I really can't think of anything. Sure, there's been stuff that's been Korean and Japanese and sold quite well, but the Japanese and Korean markets are much different than the Chinese market.
They might not be as successful as their Japanese counterparts, but from the top of my head Huawei, Lenovo and Haier are chinese.
Some time ago Japan was today's China, they were just copying and improving upon others designs, and they were regarded as lower quality products. Now they are leading in the automobile industry, electronics, and pretty much everything.
I think the same kind of evolution is possible in China in the next few years. The only thing they are lacking is the ethics and values, but maybe its not necessary.
I know it works well in landscape mode, but most phones can be used both ways, so why not the n900? It does implement auto-rotation after all.
Don't get me wrong, I love my n900, but I don't deceive myself like other people into thinking this is the best design ever, it has flaws. Maybe when it was released it was good enough, but nowadays a new device would have to be: - multitouch and more precise screen, perhaps capacitive - at least 30% thinner - no camera protuberance - better battery life - faster cpu, maybe multicore - more memory
Things that I would like to stay the same: - speakers, better quality than others - keyboard
You have to be kidding, the n900 has a terrible design, the whole thing appears to be upside down. The microusb port is surface mounted, its so delicate that it comes right off unless you are not extremely careful. Additionally, the port is on the top, that means that its hard to use while charging because a cable pops from the top and puts additional stress on it. The battery lasts less than a day, so you have to charge it even more frequently. The unlock and headphone connector is at the bottom, it should be on the top, the whole thing is upside down. Besides all that, the thing is too thick, and the camera protrudes, when you put it on a desk its not flat.
I second that! Is there any research going on to grow hair??? I know being bald is not as bad as having a heart problem, but it is definitely something that people need and would make a lot of money in return.
In my experience Perl is fast, less resource intensive than other interpreters such as Python, is really good for regular expressions and data structures, and it just gets the job done in a short development time.
It is a real comparison, hence the word "proportionally", which means the debt per inhabitant, the rest is presuming that microsoft, no matter what, is going to keep on making money forever so Bill Gates, no matter how many money he owes, is going to be able to pay back: these are assumptions made by rating agencies as Moody's, where the same experts who could not foresee at all a quite predictable recession work for, btw.
For a real comparison it should be based on debt / GDP ratio, not on inhabitant.
"- require registration to submit comments (no more AC) - even more restrictions on submitting comments than what we currently have" - by alantus (882150) on Thursday January 05, @07:11AM (#38594530)
Attempts @ censoring fact/truth indicates FEAR on your part. Here's some facts/truths for you to chew on goof:
Fear of what exactly? (In case you don't get it: its a rhetorical question, don't bother to answer it). I never disputed your "facts/truths", I never even read them. Maybe everything you say is true: Linux security sucks and Windows rules, but since you since you came of as a complete douche, why would anybody care to dispute your "facts/truths" in a serious and constructive conversation? Instead we chose to do the obvious and treat you like the moron you appear to be.
If only he had posted this once, maybe someone would take it seriously, but now he just looks like a douchebag.
I'm all for an open internet and everything, but it just takes one moron to ruin the whole thing for many others. The obvious solutions to prevent this kind of abuse would degrade the whole experience for everybody else: - require registration to submit comments (no more AC) - even more restrictions on submitting comments than what we currently have
That might be true in your country, but in other countries IT is a broad term that also applies to programming and computer science. In my IT department we have programmers, network administrators, helpdesk, etc.
Think of it as something similar to football, which has a different meaning in the US than in the rest of the world. Are you also trying to teach people from other countries what football really is?
One nice thing to consider would be implementing some kind of Slashdot-to-NNTP server, that way be very convenient to use KNode or any other news program to read stories, comments, and post stuff. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be extremely cool.
What is even more retarded is assuming that "desperately imitate what happened decades ago" was referring to India producing the tablets rather than China launching a space station.
A nation that things it owns the whole world, can torture other country's ppls, can force them to act in ways it wants, and that is in everyone else's face.
What you say is actually true. The United States of America is the mightiest, richest, dominant and most influential country in the world. So whatever we say or do, the rest of the world bends to our will. That's just the way it is now, sorry if that offends you but its true.
Oh and for a nation so hated by the rest of the world, don't you think its odd more people are immigrating here than in any other country still? Yeah that's what I thought.
I just completely destroyed you. I win.
You are just saying random things with no proof to back it up.
While "mightiest", "dominant" and "influential" are all subjective indicators, richness and immigration rates are not.
All wars have a public relations side, and through the media its possible to get more support for your cause. Increasing civilian casualties is a way to obtain it, mainly through public condemnation, political pressure, donations, etc. This can even go as far as staging "live" action from a "war zone", and even tampering with video evidence before presenting it to court.
Of course, you can do what the Israelis do, and despite all evidence to the contrary claim that you're being attacked from inside mosques and schools, and blow them to bits anyway.
That way you get the best of all possible worlds; you get to blow up innocent civilians (frequently children) thus maximising the terror impact, you get to destroy important infrastructure like hospitals, schools and churches that are protected under the Geneva Convention, and you get to mount a great smear campaign on the enemy.
Since when are hospitals, schools and churches "important infrastructure"? In war time I would consider "important infrastructure" things of military value: enemy units, weapon deposits, roads used to transport weapons, etc.
So when Israel attacks a smuggling tunnel, it is of military value, since its used to smuggle weapons. In the same way as mosques and schools become of military value when they are used to fire missiles.
I don't think the arabs are trying hard to aim at military targets when they fire missiles indiscriminately. Even before the wall that divides the conflicting region was built, and the arabs could aim their attacks better, they chose more frequently civilians than soldiers. Take for example their latest attack: a number of them were able to cross into Israel with automatic weapons and anti-tank missiles, and fired indiscriminately at whomever happened to be driving by, in this case 2 buses and a private car. They fired an anti-tank missile to the car. Somehow I don't think that car was of military value.
The reason for all the complaining is because KDE 4 was a big step backwards compared to KDE 3.
Some users decided to give it a shot anyway thinking that with time this would improve, but the developers focus their attention in things that users don't care much about, like the whole semantic desktop thing.
Modern bathrooms in Japan have lots of plastic. The shower/tub room is all made out of plastic, and by that I mean that the floor, walls and ceiling is made out of big plastic pieces in which you can barely see the junctions. I guess the purpose is to make it easy to clean (doesn't really get dirty). But on the other hand there is no flexibility, one buys the room pre-made in a standard size, and usually the tub is small and deep.
Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet? Do you have any reference for that or are you just speaking out of your ass?
A comment after the wired article points to a link: "(Accuracy of the information has not been confirmed by Israel) In a surprise admission a couple days ago, at the retirement party of the Chief of the Israeli Armed Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, he celebrated as one of his achievements that Israel was behind the “StuxNet” attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges and an air attack on a Syrian nuclear reactor. This was published in The Haaretz (http://translate.google.com/tr... as well as later in The Telegraph. "
So first you say "Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet", then you post a quote of a newspaper talking about a comment in a retirement party that begins with "Accuracy of the information has not been confirmed by Israel". At this point it should be obvious even for you that Israel hasn't claimed credit for Stuxnet.
Last I checked, the only country claiming credit for Stuxnet was Israel, ie, a country that refuses international inspections of its atomic facilities and "neither confirms nor denies" that it has the bomb (confirming would mean losing US aid that is contingent on not developing these weapons).
Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet? Do you have any reference for that or are you just speaking out of your ass? Israel never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and as such doesn't enjoy the benefits of doing so. Iran on the other hand signed and ratified the NPT, so it gets said benefits while at the same time develops its nuclear weapons and lies shamelessly about its true intentions.
Israel also has a track record of invading other countries whereas Iran does not.
Measured by past actions, Israel is a far more dangerous country than Iran. It certainly has nukes, has a power mad and oppressive government that regularly ignores basic human rights, is warlike, and shows zero interest in making peace with its neighbours. Infecting 100,000+ computers with a virus and assassinating scientists in order to achieve its foreign policy objectives is exactly the kind of reckless behavior I'd associate with madmen.
Measured by past actions I would say every single country surrounding Israel is way more dangerous. Who do you think finances, trains and equips terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas with rockets?
Basically every single war fought against Israel by the arab countries had the objective to "push the jews into the sea", and every single time they have failed. For Israel its a war for survival. For the arabs its a war to found one more muslim state (because there aren't enough of them already).
With 83% market share in China I would have expected way more than 10 million english searches a day. I guess Internet is not so widespread in China as in other Asian countries likes Japan or South Korea.
- Search functionality is worse than it used to be - User interface with tabs is complicated (I know it can be disabled) - Can't add entries to LDAP addressbooks - Can't browse LDAP addressbooks (only filter)
It seems like the LDAP missing features have never been implemented because the main focus is on changing the UI with every new release.
Didn't notice I was an anonymous coward, reposting after logging in.
Yes, its true that most arab countries won't let you in if your passport has an Israeli stamp or visa. I would never go to any of these countries anyway, so I don't care. Just out of principle I will get my passport stamped if I go to Israel.
I remember that the list of countries was in Wikipedia, but strangely it was removed. If only I could figure out how to use Wikipedia's revision system I could find out the reason behind this.
Based on this old revision, the countries to blame for this moronic behavior are: Algeria, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
This was a good opportunity for RMS to put his words to work and he just messed up. Hopefully he'll rectify and cancel his trip altogether.
Slashdot Mirror
Has there really been anything that has started in China and made it big in Europe/North America? I really can't think of anything. Sure, there's been stuff that's been Korean and Japanese and sold quite well, but the Japanese and Korean markets are much different than the Chinese market.
They might not be as successful as their Japanese counterparts, but from the top of my head Huawei, Lenovo and Haier are chinese.
Some time ago Japan was today's China, they were just copying and improving upon others designs, and they were regarded as lower quality products. Now they are leading in the automobile industry, electronics, and pretty much everything.
I think the same kind of evolution is possible in China in the next few years. The only thing they are lacking is the ethics and values, but maybe its not necessary.
I know it works well in landscape mode, but most phones can be used both ways, so why not the n900? It does implement auto-rotation after all.
Don't get me wrong, I love my n900, but I don't deceive myself like other people into thinking this is the best design ever, it has flaws.
Maybe when it was released it was good enough, but nowadays a new device would have to be:
- multitouch and more precise screen, perhaps capacitive
- at least 30% thinner
- no camera protuberance
- better battery life
- faster cpu, maybe multicore
- more memory
Things that I would like to stay the same:
- speakers, better quality than others
- keyboard
You have to be kidding, the n900 has a terrible design, the whole thing appears to be upside down.
The microusb port is surface mounted, its so delicate that it comes right off unless you are not extremely careful.
Additionally, the port is on the top, that means that its hard to use while charging because a cable pops from the top and puts additional stress on it. The battery lasts less than a day, so you have to charge it even more frequently.
The unlock and headphone connector is at the bottom, it should be on the top, the whole thing is upside down.
Besides all that, the thing is too thick, and the camera protrudes, when you put it on a desk its not flat.
If you want a good design look at the E71.
I second that! Is there any research going on to grow hair???
I know being bald is not as bad as having a heart problem, but it is definitely something that people need and would make a lot of money in return.
In my experience Perl is fast, less resource intensive than other interpreters such as Python, is really good for regular expressions and data structures, and it just gets the job done in a short development time.
pick apart individual sentences and words
Ok!
earthquake-proofing a house is a waste of money
I disagree, preserving life will always be more important than money, after all you can always make more money if you are alive.
It is a real comparison, hence the word "proportionally", which means the debt per inhabitant, the rest is presuming that microsoft, no matter what, is going to keep on making money forever so Bill Gates, no matter how many money he owes, is going to be able to pay back: these are assumptions made by rating agencies as Moody's, where the same experts who could not foresee at all a quite predictable recession work for, btw.
For a real comparison it should be based on debt / GDP ratio, not on inhabitant.
"- require registration to submit comments (no more AC) - even more restrictions on submitting comments than what we currently have" - by alantus (882150) on Thursday January 05, @07:11AM (#38594530)
Attempts @ censoring fact/truth indicates FEAR on your part. Here's some facts/truths for you to chew on goof:
Fear of what exactly? (In case you don't get it: its a rhetorical question, don't bother to answer it).
I never disputed your "facts/truths", I never even read them. Maybe everything you say is true: Linux security sucks and Windows rules, but since you since you came of as a complete douche, why would anybody care to dispute your "facts/truths" in a serious and constructive conversation? Instead we chose to do the obvious and treat you like the moron you appear to be.
If only he had posted this once, maybe someone would take it seriously, but now he just looks like a douchebag.
I'm all for an open internet and everything, but it just takes one moron to ruin the whole thing for many others.
The obvious solutions to prevent this kind of abuse would degrade the whole experience for everybody else:
- require registration to submit comments (no more AC)
- even more restrictions on submitting comments than what we currently have
You forgot to build firefox with --enable-readline
That might be true in your country, but in other countries IT is a broad term that also applies to programming and computer science.
In my IT department we have programmers, network administrators, helpdesk, etc.
Think of it as something similar to football, which has a different meaning in the US than in the rest of the world. Are you also trying to teach people from other countries what football really is?
One nice thing to consider would be implementing some kind of Slashdot-to-NNTP server, that way be very convenient to use KNode or any other news program to read stories, comments, and post stuff. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be extremely cool.
What is even more retarded is assuming that "desperately imitate what happened decades ago" was referring to India producing the tablets rather than China launching a space station.
A nation that things it owns the whole world, can torture other country's ppls, can force them to act in ways it wants, and that is in everyone else's face.
What you say is actually true. The United States of America is the mightiest, richest, dominant and most influential country in the world. So whatever we say or do, the rest of the world bends to our will. That's just the way it is now, sorry if that offends you but its true.
Oh and for a nation so hated by the rest of the world, don't you think its odd more people are immigrating here than in any other country still? Yeah that's what I thought.
I just completely destroyed you. I win.
You are just saying random things with no proof to back it up.
While "mightiest", "dominant" and "influential" are all subjective indicators, richness and immigration rates are not.
Qatar, Luxembourg, Singapore, Norway, Brunei, United Arab Emirates are all richer than the US, as they have higher PPP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
Canada is the country with most immigration when in gross figures. By migrants per 1000 population USA is ranked number 16 worldwide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate
All wars have a public relations side, and through the media its possible to get more support for your cause.
Increasing civilian casualties is a way to obtain it, mainly through public condemnation, political pressure, donations, etc.
This can even go as far as staging "live" action from a "war zone", and even tampering with video evidence before presenting it to court.
Of course, you can do what the Israelis do, and despite all evidence to the contrary claim that you're being attacked from inside mosques and schools, and blow them to bits anyway.
That way you get the best of all possible worlds; you get to blow up innocent civilians (frequently children) thus maximising the terror impact, you get to destroy important infrastructure like hospitals, schools and churches that are protected under the Geneva Convention, and you get to mount a great smear campaign on the enemy.
Since when are hospitals, schools and churches "important infrastructure"?
In war time I would consider "important infrastructure" things of military value: enemy units, weapon deposits, roads used to transport weapons, etc.
So when Israel attacks a smuggling tunnel, it is of military value, since its used to smuggle weapons. In the same way as mosques and schools become of military value when they are used to fire missiles.
I don't think the arabs are trying hard to aim at military targets when they fire missiles indiscriminately. Even before the wall that divides the conflicting region was built, and the arabs could aim their attacks better, they chose more frequently civilians than soldiers.
Take for example their latest attack: a number of them were able to cross into Israel with automatic weapons and anti-tank missiles, and fired indiscriminately at whomever happened to be driving by, in this case 2 buses and a private car. They fired an anti-tank missile to the car. Somehow I don't think that car was of military value.
I would mod you up if I had the points.
I just find it crazy that X requires python!
The reason for all the complaining is because KDE 4 was a big step backwards compared to KDE 3.
Some users decided to give it a shot anyway thinking that with time this would improve, but the developers focus their attention in things that users don't care much about, like the whole semantic desktop thing.
Just check out this blog entry from one of the KDE developers:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-dont-need-no-stinking-nepomuk-right.html
This guy is completely disconnected from the users.
Modern bathrooms in Japan have lots of plastic.
The shower/tub room is all made out of plastic, and by that I mean that the floor, walls and ceiling is made out of big plastic pieces in which you can barely see the junctions.
I guess the purpose is to make it easy to clean (doesn't really get dirty). But on the other hand there is no flexibility, one buys the room pre-made in a standard size, and usually the tub is small and deep.
Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet? Do you have any reference for that or are you just speaking out of your ass?
A comment after the wired article points to a link:
"(Accuracy of the information has not been confirmed by Israel) In a surprise admission a couple days ago, at the retirement party of the Chief of the Israeli Armed Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, he celebrated as one of his achievements that Israel was behind the “StuxNet” attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges and an air attack on a Syrian nuclear reactor. This was published in The Haaretz (http://translate.google.com/tr... as well as later in The Telegraph. "
So first you say "Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet", then you post a quote of a newspaper talking about a comment in a retirement party that begins with "Accuracy of the information has not been confirmed by Israel".
At this point it should be obvious even for you that Israel hasn't claimed credit for Stuxnet.
Madmen? Compared to what?
Last I checked, the only country claiming credit for Stuxnet was Israel, ie, a country that refuses international inspections of its atomic facilities and "neither confirms nor denies" that it has the bomb (confirming would mean losing US aid that is contingent on not developing these weapons).
Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet? Do you have any reference for that or are you just speaking out of your ass?
Israel never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and as such doesn't enjoy the benefits of doing so.
Iran on the other hand signed and ratified the NPT, so it gets said benefits while at the same time develops its nuclear weapons and lies shamelessly about its true intentions.
Israel also has a track record of invading other countries whereas Iran does not.
Measured by past actions, Israel is a far more dangerous country than Iran. It certainly has nukes, has a power mad and oppressive government that regularly ignores basic human rights, is warlike, and shows zero interest in making peace with its neighbours. Infecting 100,000+ computers with a virus and assassinating scientists in order to achieve its foreign policy objectives is exactly the kind of reckless behavior I'd associate with madmen.
Measured by past actions I would say every single country surrounding Israel is way more dangerous.
Who do you think finances, trains and equips terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas with rockets?
Basically every single war fought against Israel by the arab countries had the objective to "push the jews into the sea", and every single time they have failed.
For Israel its a war for survival. For the arabs its a war to found one more muslim state (because there aren't enough of them already).
With 83% market share in China I would have expected way more than 10 million english searches a day.
I guess Internet is not so widespread in China as in other Asian countries likes Japan or South Korea.
- Search functionality is worse than it used to be
- User interface with tabs is complicated (I know it can be disabled)
- Can't add entries to LDAP addressbooks
- Can't browse LDAP addressbooks (only filter)
It seems like the LDAP missing features have never been implemented because the main focus is on changing the UI with every new release.
http://kids.yahoo.com/
Didn't notice I was an anonymous coward, reposting after logging in.
Yes, its true that most arab countries won't let you in if your passport has an Israeli stamp or visa. I would never go to any of these countries anyway, so I don't care. Just out of principle I will get my passport stamped if I go to Israel.
I remember that the list of countries was in Wikipedia, but strangely it was removed. If only I could figure out how to use Wikipedia's revision system I could find out the reason behind this.
Based on this old revision, the countries to blame for this moronic behavior are: Algeria, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
This was a good opportunity for RMS to put his words to work and he just messed up.
Hopefully he'll rectify and cancel his trip altogether.