I'm not saying that they shouldn't, it's just the timing is not considerate. If it's now a few weeks after the disaster and the rescue effort has been mostly completed, I wouldn't object at all. (And it would be a better article anyway since they would have more facts.) I would perhaps still personally find it condescending and prejudiced (the latter's from the none-earthquake stuff he referenced), but at least political commentator's superiority complex is prevalent everywhere in the world.
I'm not singling out NYT. I take offence at any media, foreign or Chinese, trying to focus on the politics at the current moment as well, as do many people in China. It's cold-hearted just the same.
Heh, I'm not trying to convince anyone here, just stating what I observe. On the other hand, people in the West constantly try to spread their values to the rest of the world, China included. I don't want to discuss whether or not those values are correct, but if you want to do it, at least do it well. Being tactless and deride other people's sentiments as stupid is not going to make anybody more receptive to your ideas. You are the one who have things to learn from your own little demonstration.
See, people in the West doesn't see a problem with such an article, while many in China would take offence, that's part of the problem. In addition to having an agenda (not that I fault them, everyone does), the Western media lacks tact, at least in ways familiar to the Chinese people. To many people, in times of crises, analyses of people actively helping as strictly interest-driven entities are not at all welcoming. However true they may or may not be, they just are (or at least come off as being) really cold-hearted. Go on any Chinese forum discussing the earthquake, the overwhelming opinion would be to comment on the politics of it all after those trapped under the debris are rescued, and residents of the affected areas have food and shelter. If an article like the NYT one would appear on a Chinese newspaper, it could only serve to weaken the public's focus on the diaster, awaken a legion of "experts" who are nothing more than parrots of the West, and discourage the rescue workers who, while being part of the government, are nonetheless just average people trying to help as best as they can in a trying time for their country. The Chinese people are not stupid, we all know the government has its own interests -- that's a given -- but there is a time for everyhing, and articles like that one, especially when it's from outside China, are callous at best.
An heavily prejudiced article ridden with spelling mistakes, cold-heartedly commenting on another people during their time of crisis in a highly condescending tone as if examining a biological speciman, with thoughts from an academic in the West's pocket -- whatever respect I still had for the NYT just went down the drain.
Having an ability to customize != different interface on every computer
Inexperienced users will just leave everything as the default, and I don't see how that would make things difficult when they get a new computer.
"China is the worlds largest exporter of sex toys and novelties, with an estimated 1,000 factories involved in the manufacture of adult healthcare products. The Chinese government estimates that about one-third of all adult products and 80 percent of sex toys and condoms sold worldwide are made in China, with annual revenues from sales of Chinese adult products reaching RenMinBi 50 billion ($6.7 billion)."
It's not really porn that's making that much money...
If Google did indeed rip off their Chinese counterparts my feeling is... more power to 'em.
If you said "If Google did indeed rip off a competitor who ripped off previously..." or "If Google did indeed rip off their Chinese counterparts my feeling is that they are just in an environment where this is not a big deal.", then you might have some credibility. Instead, you are now advocating plagiarising all Chinese IPs because an admittedly large number of companies and individuals in China do not respect Western IPs. Sogou never did violate any Western IP, why are they harmed in this? You might not have realized this, but by what you have said the answer would have been "because they are Chinese". If advocating hurting a company because of their country of origin, and let's face it, that would mean race in China's case, is not racism, I don't know what is.
How Pinyin Chinese IMEs work is they primarily use a database of words, algorithms are used to form words for the first time, the similarity in the databases used by Google and Sogou. The most damning evidence IMO is that Google Pinyin actually produces the names of several Sogou employees(Zhao Liyang, Tong Zijian, Lu(v) Jieyong), which Sogou apparently put into their word database as a kind of signature. Since the chances of getting anything but famous people's name correct out of box for any IME are quite low (e.g. Google Pinyin doesn't produce the name of any person in my family the first time), there's definitely something fishy going on here.
As for the typoes, most of them can definitely be explained away as coincidences, as they are common pronounciation errors many people will make. The only one in there that can been seen as evidence of plagiarism is "Ping Gong". It's supposed to be "Feng Gong", the name of a Chinese comedian. As even non-Chinese speakers can see, they are nothing like each other pronouciation-wise.
There are possibly more to this than Google plagiarising, though. For example, Sogou releases the typoes it has fixed publicly, that's how people realized that there are similarities. However, it seems Sogou hasn't actually fixed some of those typoes, even though they said on the release that they have. Google actually fixed all of those already, according to some users on forums.
Maybe both Google and Sogou licensed their databases from a single source? Maybe the parent post is close, since both Sogou and Google have data coming from their respective search engines, maybe the similarity is because people searching for similar things? However, until Google can come up with an explanation about those employee names being in their database, it is most likely that they copied from Sogou.
How does SSO change anything? I suspect most people will assume a single identity across multiple sites, even without OpenID. Few people value their privacy enough to make up different fake personal information each time their search result involves a thread in a forum that requries registration to view, or when they come across a neat participatory website that they want to join. This just simplifies it for them, really.
Um, so? That doesn't make it inappropriate to block traffic from places where the overwhelming majority of the packets are toxic.
I would think that the majority of inbound mail those places get from say the US will be "toxic" as well. When legitimate traffic between two regions are scarce (like between places with differing languages and a large geographical seperation), of course the spam will seem overwhelming by proportion.
In Chinese, the cerebrum can be literally translated as the "greater brain", while the cerebellum is called the "lesser brain". That's probably where the name came from.
It started out innocent enough, and they were actually quite informative for a little while. Soon after though, everything started getting tagged with it, and it's getting way more annoying than the fud ones. Now every single article on the front page is tagged with itsatrap, except one, which is tagged with !itsatrap.
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I'm not saying that they shouldn't, it's just the timing is not considerate. If it's now a few weeks after the disaster and the rescue effort has been mostly completed, I wouldn't object at all. (And it would be a better article anyway since they would have more facts.) I would perhaps still personally find it condescending and prejudiced (the latter's from the none-earthquake stuff he referenced), but at least political commentator's superiority complex is prevalent everywhere in the world.
I'm not singling out NYT. I take offence at any media, foreign or Chinese, trying to focus on the politics at the current moment as well, as do many people in China. It's cold-hearted just the same.
Heh, I'm not trying to convince anyone here, just stating what I observe. On the other hand, people in the West constantly try to spread their values to the rest of the world, China included. I don't want to discuss whether or not those values are correct, but if you want to do it, at least do it well. Being tactless and deride other people's sentiments as stupid is not going to make anybody more receptive to your ideas. You are the one who have things to learn from your own little demonstration.
See, people in the West doesn't see a problem with such an article, while many in China would take offence, that's part of the problem. In addition to having an agenda (not that I fault them, everyone does), the Western media lacks tact, at least in ways familiar to the Chinese people. To many people, in times of crises, analyses of people actively helping as strictly interest-driven entities are not at all welcoming. However true they may or may not be, they just are (or at least come off as being) really cold-hearted. Go on any Chinese forum discussing the earthquake, the overwhelming opinion would be to comment on the politics of it all after those trapped under the debris are rescued, and residents of the affected areas have food and shelter. If an article like the NYT one would appear on a Chinese newspaper, it could only serve to weaken the public's focus on the diaster, awaken a legion of "experts" who are nothing more than parrots of the West, and discourage the rescue workers who, while being part of the government, are nonetheless just average people trying to help as best as they can in a trying time for their country. The Chinese people are not stupid, we all know the government has its own interests -- that's a given -- but there is a time for everyhing, and articles like that one, especially when it's from outside China, are callous at best.
An heavily prejudiced article ridden with spelling mistakes, cold-heartedly commenting on another people during their time of crisis in a highly condescending tone as if examining a biological speciman, with thoughts from an academic in the West's pocket -- whatever respect I still had for the NYT just went down the drain.
Having an ability to customize != different interface on every computer Inexperienced users will just leave everything as the default, and I don't see how that would make things difficult when they get a new computer.
Those six are all the more reason to avoid adding a number seven.
They did destroy some stuff inside though, which didn't happen here, from the looks of it.
...to have spent a century with a piece of metal embedded in one's neck, of all places. Poor animal.
From the link:
It's not really porn that's making that much money...
Read your own link, 89% of porn pages are from the US.
The race card is actually perfectly played here.
If Google did indeed rip off their Chinese counterparts my feeling is ... more power to 'em.
If you said "If Google did indeed rip off a competitor who ripped off previously..." or "If Google did indeed rip off their Chinese counterparts my feeling is that they are just in an environment where this is not a big deal.", then you might have some credibility. Instead, you are now advocating plagiarising all Chinese IPs because an admittedly large number of companies and individuals in China do not respect Western IPs. Sogou never did violate any Western IP, why are they harmed in this? You might not have realized this, but by what you have said the answer would have been "because they are Chinese". If advocating hurting a company because of their country of origin, and let's face it, that would mean race in China's case, is not racism, I don't know what is.
How Pinyin Chinese IMEs work is they primarily use a database of words, algorithms are used to form words for the first time, the similarity in the databases used by Google and Sogou. The most damning evidence IMO is that Google Pinyin actually produces the names of several Sogou employees(Zhao Liyang, Tong Zijian, Lu(v) Jieyong), which Sogou apparently put into their word database as a kind of signature. Since the chances of getting anything but famous people's name correct out of box for any IME are quite low (e.g. Google Pinyin doesn't produce the name of any person in my family the first time), there's definitely something fishy going on here.
As for the typoes, most of them can definitely be explained away as coincidences, as they are common pronounciation errors many people will make. The only one in there that can been seen as evidence of plagiarism is "Ping Gong". It's supposed to be "Feng Gong", the name of a Chinese comedian. As even non-Chinese speakers can see, they are nothing like each other pronouciation-wise.
There are possibly more to this than Google plagiarising, though. For example, Sogou releases the typoes it has fixed publicly, that's how people realized that there are similarities. However, it seems Sogou hasn't actually fixed some of those typoes, even though they said on the release that they have. Google actually fixed all of those already, according to some users on forums.
Maybe both Google and Sogou licensed their databases from a single source? Maybe the parent post is close, since both Sogou and Google have data coming from their respective search engines, maybe the similarity is because people searching for similar things? However, until Google can come up with an explanation about those employee names being in their database, it is most likely that they copied from Sogou.
The GP must have never seen what happened to Jason Jones...
You didn't get modded funny, so... should I punch you in the stomach now?
Yeah, it's actually quite scary that it's real. Ironically, I had to look it up on Wikipedia to know that it's not fake.
Windows XP++
The plus sign has never felt so insulted...
If you bought it, then a no-cd patch is in no way piracy.
How does SSO change anything? I suspect most people will assume a single identity across multiple sites, even without OpenID. Few people value their privacy enough to make up different fake personal information each time their search result involves a thread in a forum that requries registration to view, or when they come across a neat participatory website that they want to join. This just simplifies it for them, really.
The actual site. Looks like it's currently 5RMB (~65cents US as of today) per query.
So is it most dense or densest? Make up your mind!
I would think that the majority of inbound mail those places get from say the US will be "toxic" as well. When legitimate traffic between two regions are scarce (like between places with differing languages and a large geographical seperation), of course the spam will seem overwhelming by proportion.
In Chinese, the cerebrum can be literally translated as the "greater brain", while the cerebellum is called the "lesser brain". That's probably where the name came from.
Kind of reminds me of this....
It started out innocent enough, and they were actually quite informative for a little while. Soon after though, everything started getting tagged with it, and it's getting way more annoying than the fud ones. Now every single article on the front page is tagged with itsatrap, except one, which is tagged with !itsatrap.
We should really have the ability to mod tags as well.