Exactly where did I do that? The point of my post was that China is developing nothing new. They are simply trying to catch up.
If you think the US does not have a myriad of people all...
I think you are trying to read too much, way too much into other people's words. I never said the U.S. doesn't do it. I was pointing out the concerted effort that China is making to grab technology.
By the way, how's that knee. You know they have medication so it doesn't jerk as much.
China is in the process of reverse engineering, embracing and extending, and using purchased technology to come up to par with the rest of the world.
"New" technologies are a bit of a stretch.
When I worked at Cymer and Lam Research, we had tons of Chinese engineers and scientists who, although not stated, were placed in U.S. corporations for what amounted to industrial espionage. Well, espionage by cooperation for those that weren't out-right spies.
Yes, the Chinese are advancing, but "new" is a strong term. Maybe "new for them"?
What you see in a software store isn't representative. For that half a row for Linux, assuming it's even there, I could fill half the store with what's downloadable.
Well, good for you, but you aren't the average computer user, no matter how much you want to claim to be. The average user walks into CompUSA, WalMart, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. and doesn't even bother checking Linux download sites to see what the choices are.
MS changes their UI quite a lot, so much so that it's not only possible but kind of likely, even inevitable that there is a Linux environment (Window Manager, file browser, etc) which looks much more like what people think of as Windows than Vista
But, still for the UI change in Office and Vista, the one thing the user knows is that he's using some version of Office at work/school and that's what he's going to use at home.
I know we all bitch about old designs, legacy support for outdated features, but, one of the things that keep people from moving from one OS to another is "existing base of installed software" and "knowledge of exisiting software". Like it or not, the major player is Microsoft. No matter how much a geek says, MS UI's suck, people are comfy with them. If alternative OS's had the same software offerings with the same UI, people would be able to move to them. The same holds true for processors.
No matter how well a processor performs, if there is no application base for it, no one is going to buy a machine with that processor. In this case, perception is reality. You walk into a software store, you see 16 rows of Windows applications, half a row of Linux, and 5 rows of Apple.
What processor family runs each of these? Guess who has moved to the dominant processor?
The only way to build a software base is to build in legacy support. Then start weening users away from the legacy features, get programmers to stop using those features (mainly those building the compilers that developers use), and move towards the more advanced features.
x86 rules for a reason. Microsoft rules for a reason. The customer is comfortable with them, and their perception is reinforced everytime they go to the store.
The kind of car that can get 100 mpg is going to be:
1. light = unsafe unless made of expensive materials
2. fuel efficient = excessively low acceleration and/or low top speed
3. aerodynamic = low to the ground = drives don't see you
If, and only if, you accept current design paradigms (heh).
The point of these competitions is to spur out-of-the-box thinking and materials. The space race gave us new manufacturable materials that are now so common place, we are amazed that they weren't around for our grandparents.
Today's light weight fuel efficient vehicles are much safer than the small cars of the 60's, (think Corvair and Mustang). The economy cars of the 70's, CVCC (now Civic), LUV P/U, Mustang, Chevette (shuvit), Corona, B210, and etc. had none of the acceleration and nowhere near the economy of the current economy cars. Not to mention EMISSIONS, which I've just mentioned.
This is just the type of thing needed to break the current barriers. Now, if they can also hold a prize for a vehicle thats meets those standards and can be retailed starting in a price bracket that includes lower to middle class incomes (currently $8K-$15K for a modest family car).
Really, if you want to postulate a conspiracy theory, for some reason, Masons, German bankers, the Federal Reserve, or CFR have got to be an element, or you can't appear on the whacked-out shows like Art Bell, and other conspiracy kooks won't take you seriously.
(Note: All sperring errors ar doo to the vodka martininini i had in the hotel lounge. Reporting from DevConnections in Orlando, Im Bue Hrinkley.)
Seriously, more porn would be good. Maybe we can so totally piss off the fundamentalist groups that they all drink the cool-aid and go home to meet Jeebus early. The world would be a better place with more porn and less rabid Christian hypocrits who don't admit they luck screwing the wife.
So, now we've got to protect stupid people and their children from our other protection schemes? The reason why people are so weak and vulnerable now is because we've shielded them too much from the harsh world around them. I'm starting to think that maybe we should let kids play with clackers, lawn darts, explosives, chemicals, and boiling water. Maybe if we lose a few and thin out the herd, the Rabid Church of Man-Caused-Global-Warming will stop whining about the population, and we might actually let Darwin kill off the inbreds, French, and people who like to talk on cell phones in movie theaters.
I used to think the Australians were a pretty bright bunch, but, you sir, have changed my mind. You now rank below the French-Canadians, who are now 2nd to the bottom on the list of Useful Cultures of the World.
The files show that between 1949 and 1972, France surrended a total of 122 times to suspected UFO invaders. There was another incident in which they negotiated a collaboration with alien grays, only to find out they were Basque shepards in ultra-lights, the language difficulty causing the misunderstanding.
It's long past time to recognize the disenfranchisement of felons for what it is; a denial of democracy.
Won't somebody, please, think of the felons?
While I don't agree with many of the laws that make one a felon, those that are felons for violent crimes and crimes of depravation, I don't care one wit for their rights beyond that of basic, very basic, human rights.
I'm the scary kind of Buddhist. I understand the concept. We do more harm to the person by locking them away. We do harm to many others by releasing him into the population. It is a kindness to stop a person from harming others and himself by sending him to next next incarnation sooner, so that he may start his healing and learning all that much faster.
I'd love to see this move to the 3D (Z Corp) printers for a very fast print cycle.
I also like this technology over color laserjet printers for FPO (first page out) speed. Cost will have to be another factor, hopefully it will be much cheaper than laser color toner.
You quote the highly reputable Wikipedia as a source of refutation:
"its figures from Nashville Electric Service. But company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never gave it any information."
However, as was pointed out to that argument, they didn't receive a request for the information because none was needed. It is published on the web. This is akin to me saying that you didn't eat lunch today because you weren't at Joe's Upchuck Palace. Gore's usage was not refuted, it was substantiated. The figures are a matter of public record, and available on a number of sites, for the entire town. Actually, if you check with your utility, you will probably find your address and usage figures are available online.
The Czech President has put into words an idea that I have had for a long time. That is, the "Global Warming" lobby has become a pseudo-religion, replacing dead Communism, as the socio-economic ideology that will eventually threaten the freedom of democracies and their citizens.
It is certainly acting like a religion, complete with those, all too ready to yell, "heresy" and pull out their "scriptures" of speculative (theory shot) studies, pounding them out as "truth" from the pulpit.
It is a church where the moderate, environmentally concerned is lambasted as "sinner" and "outcast" for not drinking the Holy Communion of climate hysteria.
I just reeled that all off the top of my head and some of it is no doubt apocryphal, but it just demonstrates that there are a whole host of reasons for going green apart from the endless arguments about global warming.
And, not to mention, that it is more "present" and the public can get behind these things a lot more easily than the "gloom and doom" hysteria.
"I want to live in a cleaner, nicer looking, nature smelling neighborhood. How can I make that happen?" The answer is much easier than trying to answer, "How do I stop the planet from getting hotter?"
This article from NASA JPL is very informative on the subject.
The researchers found some clear links between the sun's activity and climate variations. The Nile water levels and aurora records had two somewhat regularly occurring variations in common - one with a period of about 88 years and the second with a period of about 200 years.
I think we need to take a look at the hysteria. It is turn our attention away from what we can do to better this planet. And, the idea of carbon offsets just makes people feel better for their polution levels.
Global Warming has become the new Medieval Church and anyone who does not walk a precise line on the message faces the New Inquisition.
We do need to live more green, more clean, and more simple. But, the public won't buy off on that message if we keep tying it to the Holy Church of Global Warming Hysteria. If we can show more immediate effects of living green and clean the public will follow.
We need to separate those whose real agenda is socio-economic change from the environmental argument. They aren't really interested in the environment, anyway. We need to remove the scammers, like the "carbon offset" (unregulated, uncertified, non-verifiable) companies to improve public perception.
We need to substitue Ed Beagley Jr. for Al Gore. Ed lives, breathes, talks, and walks the environment. Al Gore, while talking about it, still jets around the world, when he could use his own invention, the Internet, to show up at appearances, he maintains a house in Tennessee that uses 20 times the amount of energy as his neighbors, he is a glutton who preaches about the wonders of a diet.
Companies are moving more and more to Dilbertization. Why? Because they want classic managers in charge of IT. In the early days, IT managers were kind of the strange ones in the management pool. It was because they were IT guys that were promoted into management, despite formal management education. Most large companies hired, from outside, their managers for other departments. Those that were hired from inside were "management material".
Companies now want to get away from the IT guy as manager. They want the IT guy to be a specialist. Managers aren't specialists. This means, the tide is toward managers who have 20,000 foot view of IT. Sweeping the tide back with a push broom would be easier than stopping the trend.
Gem from a comments list attached to this article:
You are kidding arent you ?
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
So, apparently, like man-caused-global-warming, the discussion about Linux is closed.
Do you want to sell upper management on quality or OSS?
Troll? No.
Now, the moderators haven't gotten past the first 2 lines, have you tried selling management on the "best tool for the job"? If the solution works, what does it matter if its OSS or not? The beauty of the question is the freedom to choose from as wide a pool of candidates for the best overall solution to the task.
Experience shows managers worry about two things: will it get the job done? And, will it be a problem later?
If you present management with any information beyond that, you are just asking for trouble.
Options:
"Sir and/or Ma'am, we can replace the framastat server with these two options. This option does the job, and won't cause us problems in the future."
"Sir and/or Ma'am, we can replace the framastat server with these two options. This option does the job, is GPL 3, is community supported and with the source code is available, we can make our own extensions and upgrades."
Option 1, the boss heard, it works and won't cause a problem. Option 2, he heard: "GPL" - What the fuck? "Community support" - Damn, no formal support plan? Who do I call? "Write our own extensions" - Now I have to hire a programmer?
Hint
Tell a manager nothing more than he really needs to make a decision.
APress has quickly become my new favorite. On my vast bookshelf at work, you can kind of chart the publishers:
Osbourne - for a lot of older stuff that we aren't using anymore. The books are all over 5 years old
Sams - for the quick and dirty, someone-handed-me-a-project-in-X and I have to know something about it (10 minute, 24 hours, 21 day guides)
Rational - Odd stuff, never liked their style
APress - for all the current stuff. The books are fast, laid out well, they seem to curry writers and experts in the field, such as Hillier for SharePoint and Office and Myers for WF. I have APress for my JavaScript, SharePoint, XML, SQL,.NET (VB,C#,ASP.NET)
Wrox - The one stand out, and I have one book by them. It's a SQL Analysis Server for MDX book. Why? Because I haven't found one that covers the topic from APress
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Exactly where did I do that? The point of my post was that China is developing nothing new. They are simply trying to catch up.
I think you are trying to read too much, way too much into other people's words. I never said the U.S. doesn't do it. I was pointing out the concerted effort that China is making to grab technology.
By the way, how's that knee. You know they have medication so it doesn't jerk as much.
China is in the process of reverse engineering, embracing and extending, and using purchased technology to come up to par with the rest of the world.
"New" technologies are a bit of a stretch.
When I worked at Cymer and Lam Research, we had tons of Chinese engineers and scientists who, although not stated, were placed in U.S. corporations for what amounted to industrial espionage. Well, espionage by cooperation for those that weren't out-right spies.
Yes, the Chinese are advancing, but "new" is a strong term. Maybe "new for them"?
Remember Freedows, the primary discipline problem for us was Reece Sellin, the project lead/owner/overlord.
Well, good for you, but you aren't the average computer user, no matter how much you want to claim to be. The average user walks into CompUSA, WalMart, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. and doesn't even bother checking Linux download sites to see what the choices are.
But, still for the UI change in Office and Vista, the one thing the user knows is that he's using some version of Office at work/school and that's what he's going to use at home.
I know we all bitch about old designs, legacy support for outdated features, but, one of the things that keep people from moving from one OS to another is "existing base of installed software" and "knowledge of exisiting software". Like it or not, the major player is Microsoft. No matter how much a geek says, MS UI's suck, people are comfy with them. If alternative OS's had the same software offerings with the same UI, people would be able to move to them. The same holds true for processors.
No matter how well a processor performs, if there is no application base for it, no one is going to buy a machine with that processor. In this case, perception is reality. You walk into a software store, you see 16 rows of Windows applications, half a row of Linux, and 5 rows of Apple.
What processor family runs each of these? Guess who has moved to the dominant processor?
The only way to build a software base is to build in legacy support. Then start weening users away from the legacy features, get programmers to stop using those features (mainly those building the compilers that developers use), and move towards the more advanced features.
x86 rules for a reason. Microsoft rules for a reason. The customer is comfortable with them, and their perception is reinforced everytime they go to the store.
If, and only if, you accept current design paradigms (heh).
The point of these competitions is to spur out-of-the-box thinking and materials. The space race gave us new manufacturable materials that are now so common place, we are amazed that they weren't around for our grandparents.
Today's light weight fuel efficient vehicles are much safer than the small cars of the 60's, (think Corvair and Mustang). The economy cars of the 70's, CVCC (now Civic), LUV P/U, Mustang, Chevette (shuvit), Corona, B210, and etc. had none of the acceleration and nowhere near the economy of the current economy cars. Not to mention EMISSIONS, which I've just mentioned.
This is just the type of thing needed to break the current barriers. Now, if they can also hold a prize for a vehicle thats meets those standards and can be retailed starting in a price bracket that includes lower to middle class incomes (currently $8K-$15K for a modest family car).
The simple answer for users, and it exists now: Revokeable Credit Cards.
The long term is separation of credit and banking from the Social Security system.
Have you ever noticed that you never see David Copperfield in the same place as the creator of the Moller Skycar?
The guy is either one of the most deluded inventors, financially incompetent, or a huckster. Or, all of the above.
The blogosphere has turned into spam, flamewars, threats, and general kookery. Welcome to the new Usenet.
Miss your meds much?
Really, if you want to postulate a conspiracy theory, for some reason, Masons, German bankers, the Federal Reserve, or CFR have got to be an element, or you can't appear on the whacked-out shows like Art Bell, and other conspiracy kooks won't take you seriously.
(Note: All sperring errors ar doo to the vodka martininini i had in the hotel lounge. Reporting from DevConnections in Orlando, Im Bue Hrinkley.)
They've given into them.
Expanded porn? Is that Al Gore in a speedo?
Seriously, more porn would be good. Maybe we can so totally piss off the fundamentalist groups that they all drink the cool-aid and go home to meet Jeebus early. The world would be a better place with more porn and less rabid Christian hypocrits who don't admit they luck screwing the wife.
So, now we've got to protect stupid people and their children from our other protection schemes? The reason why people are so weak and vulnerable now is because we've shielded them too much from the harsh world around them. I'm starting to think that maybe we should let kids play with clackers, lawn darts, explosives, chemicals, and boiling water. Maybe if we lose a few and thin out the herd, the Rabid Church of Man-Caused-Global-Warming will stop whining about the population, and we might actually let Darwin kill off the inbreds, French, and people who like to talk on cell phones in movie theaters.
I used to think the Australians were a pretty bright bunch, but, you sir, have changed my mind. You now rank below the French-Canadians, who are now 2nd to the bottom on the list of Useful Cultures of the World.
The files show that between 1949 and 1972, France surrended a total of 122 times to suspected UFO invaders. There was another incident in which they negotiated a collaboration with alien grays, only to find out they were Basque shepards in ultra-lights, the language difficulty causing the misunderstanding.
Won't somebody, please, think of the felons ?
While I don't agree with many of the laws that make one a felon, those that are felons for violent crimes and crimes of depravation, I don't care one wit for their rights beyond that of basic, very basic, human rights.
I'm the scary kind of Buddhist. I understand the concept. We do more harm to the person by locking them away. We do harm to many others by releasing him into the population. It is a kindness to stop a person from harming others and himself by sending him to next next incarnation sooner, so that he may start his healing and learning all that much faster.
I'd love to see this move to the 3D (Z Corp) printers for a very fast print cycle.
I also like this technology over color laserjet printers for FPO (first page out) speed. Cost will have to be another factor, hopefully it will be much cheaper than laser color toner.
You quote the highly reputable Wikipedia as a source of refutation:
However, as was pointed out to that argument, they didn't receive a request for the information because none was needed. It is published on the web. This is akin to me saying that you didn't eat lunch today because you weren't at Joe's Upchuck Palace. Gore's usage was not refuted, it was substantiated. The figures are a matter of public record, and available on a number of sites, for the entire town. Actually, if you check with your utility, you will probably find your address and usage figures are available online.
The Czech President has put into words an idea that I have had for a long time. That is, the "Global Warming" lobby has become a pseudo-religion, replacing dead Communism, as the socio-economic ideology that will eventually threaten the freedom of democracies and their citizens.
It is certainly acting like a religion, complete with those, all too ready to yell, "heresy" and pull out their "scriptures" of speculative (theory shot) studies, pounding them out as "truth" from the pulpit.
It is a church where the moderate, environmentally concerned is lambasted as "sinner" and "outcast" for not drinking the Holy Communion of climate hysteria.
And, not to mention, that it is more "present" and the public can get behind these things a lot more easily than the "gloom and doom" hysteria.
"I want to live in a cleaner, nicer looking, nature smelling neighborhood. How can I make that happen?" The answer is much easier than trying to answer, "How do I stop the planet from getting hotter?"
This article from NASA JPL is very informative on the subject.
I think we need to take a look at the hysteria. It is turn our attention away from what we can do to better this planet. And, the idea of carbon offsets just makes people feel better for their polution levels.
Global Warming has become the new Medieval Church and anyone who does not walk a precise line on the message faces the New Inquisition.
We do need to live more green, more clean, and more simple. But, the public won't buy off on that message if we keep tying it to the Holy Church of Global Warming Hysteria. If we can show more immediate effects of living green and clean the public will follow.
We need to separate those whose real agenda is socio-economic change from the environmental argument. They aren't really interested in the environment, anyway. We need to remove the scammers, like the "carbon offset" (unregulated, uncertified, non-verifiable) companies to improve public perception.
We need to substitue Ed Beagley Jr. for Al Gore. Ed lives, breathes, talks, and walks the environment. Al Gore, while talking about it, still jets around the world, when he could use his own invention, the Internet, to show up at appearances, he maintains a house in Tennessee that uses 20 times the amount of energy as his neighbors, he is a glutton who preaches about the wonders of a diet.
...I want to reclaim a donation?
I have a standing social contract, to donate CPU cycles, physical labor, and such to good causes.
The patent idea sounds good, but, because its an on-going giver, what if I want to reclaim it later? There are a host of reasons why I would do it:
Why not donate license to the idea without giving over the entire patent?
Companies are moving more and more to Dilbertization. Why? Because they want classic managers in charge of IT. In the early days, IT managers were kind of the strange ones in the management pool. It was because they were IT guys that were promoted into management, despite formal management education. Most large companies hired, from outside, their managers for other departments. Those that were hired from inside were "management material".
Companies now want to get away from the IT guy as manager. They want the IT guy to be a specialist. Managers aren't specialists. This means, the tide is toward managers who have 20,000 foot view of IT. Sweeping the tide back with a push broom would be easier than stopping the trend.
Gem from a comments list attached to this article:
So, apparently, like man-caused-global-warming, the discussion about Linux is closed.
Do you want to sell upper management on quality or OSS?
Troll? No.
Now, the moderators haven't gotten past the first 2 lines, have you tried selling management on the "best tool for the job"? If the solution works, what does it matter if its OSS or not? The beauty of the question is the freedom to choose from as wide a pool of candidates for the best overall solution to the task.
Experience shows managers worry about two things: will it get the job done? And, will it be a problem later?
If you present management with any information beyond that, you are just asking for trouble.
Options:
Option 1, the boss heard, it works and won't cause a problem. Option 2, he heard: "GPL" - What the fuck? "Community support" - Damn, no formal support plan? Who do I call? "Write our own extensions" - Now I have to hire a programmer?
Hint
Tell a manager nothing more than he really needs to make a decision.
God, I wish I hadn't burned my Mod points, you'd get a +1 Funny from me. God, I love this kind of humor. You're British, right?
APress has quickly become my new favorite. On my vast bookshelf at work, you can kind of chart the publishers: