The president at one of my former companies was a colonel in the Army Security Agency. He used to tell me all sorts of things, including how the Russians bombarded the US embassy with radiation to get signature signals back. And this was in the 60s or before. The surveillance technology available to intelligence now must be quite interesting.
I'm wondering, since you are from the area, if you can share some of your first-hand experiences there. I'm an American living in Beijing: when I was in America, I dismissed the "free tibet" cause as liberal arts majors not having enough homework. Now that I am here, all I see are images of chinese on CCTV gushing about how interesting Tibetan culture is.. Perhaps you can provide me and some other people something I can take at face value?
After living in china, I've come to the conclusion that any media company that wants to profit with sales of legitimate media simply needs to reduce their profit margin. People in the street are not going to spend 60 or 70 yuan for a dvd.
I live in China, and it is just as easy to pirate chinese media. Ho hum.
The Chinese have always been good at lying and cheating, though of course that is overgeneralizing. Furthermore, as china becomes more metropolitan, the sharing of information can only increase. It's a side effect of being open to the global free market.
Pros and cons, trade-offs. At least there aren't so many fat chicks here.
Can't read the article right now, but I am guessing the way they "charge" for the votes is to take a percentage of the SMS fees. So, for the voter, it just costs the same as sending a text message, and the government will have a deal with the local telecoms (if they aren't state owned already) to get a share of those fees.
No, you have to enter contests early enough to be one of the lucky ones to get a free dev kit. I doubt you have to be a subscriber to enter the contests, either. But hell, if you love playing with that stuff, like I do, why not subscribe- it's a great resource and fun read.
I got a free kit from Renesas for the contest that is about to end. For the upcoming Philips-sponsored design contest for an Arm core(?) mcu, there are no kits, so you have to make your own board.
Seriously, the Nomads are so poorly designed.. I cannot see myself buying anything from Creative ever again. Not after buying a nomad and, a few years ago, a crappy Savage4 video card.
I even bought the Notmad software for the nomad.. Well, another $25 wasted. That is some shitty software.
I just cannot bring myself to buy in to the Apple gayness.:P
Yes.. Chinese people apparently love crappy American food, too.
While I lived there, I was appalled to see one of my chinese girlfriends gain a few pounds after indulging at KFC.. Chinese will be as fat as Americans some day.
And seeing people eat pizza with a knife and fork at Pizza Hut.
I should have done a better job cataloging all the queer things I saw during my stay.:)
I looked at U of M online while looking for a decent online electrical engineering masters degree.. What is up with the prices? From memory, it would cost me about $800 per credit hour for grad school. So, about $24,000 for a MSEE from there. That may not be unreasonable, but it seems to me that online degrees should not cost so much, because much of the course should be automated...
True, however times have changed Back then, it was survival.
These days, hunters used timed feeders to bait the game, turrets to give hide and have sight of the prey, high powered rifles... Simply not the same.
Last year, I built a deer feeder timer for a client. Baiting deer is legal in the state of Texas... I don't feel sorry for the game, but I guess I am not the intended audience for the sport. I get more of a thrill out of shooting people and being shot at in paintball.
I was just looking on ebay to see what I could get for my 1989-92 era comic book collection... Less than I spent buying the stuff. Guess the comics and collector cards will be spending another 15 or 20 years before I try to sell them again. I always thought it was a dumb hobby, but I went along with my friends.:P
I have a Creative Nomad Zen Nx, and I simply cannot believe how horrible the software is. I'm curious what software other people with the same problem use. I don't think I will buy any creative products in the future, as everything they produce seems seriously under engineered.
As for organization software for the Nomad, I have seen Notmad. Any good? Any firmware replacements out there?:P
Build a DVR? That is so lame!
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I want to build my own motherboard! And I want it to support one P4 Extreme edition, one Athlon 64, and one Ultrasparc. And I need to use all these 72 pin simms I have laying around.. So, I will need about 81 SIMM slots. Yes, 81. Oh, xga graphics, too.
I read tfa and saw nothing about locking in the chinese netizens.
Look, English literacy is on the rise in China in a major way. With all the influx of foreign investments and foreigners into china, the chinese people are having more contact than ever with the western world. Filtering out everything but chinese characters, while a technical possibility, is simple improbable.
I lived in china a few months last year, and I'm going back for the long haul soon- from what I have seen, the young, college educated Chinese like their access to information, albeit san porn, Taiwan, etc. To restrict their information flow even more would cause an outcry.
China already had two revolutions in the last century- first to overthrow the last imperial dynasty, and second, the communist revolution. The communist were able to seize control in 1949 largely because Mao was able to harness the discontent with Chiang Kai Shek's dictatorial government.
Another thing many westerners do not understand is the politcal apathy of many of china's intelligentsia. The people know they do not have control, so they put it out of their minds. Concerning censorship- that is a legacy of china's conservative, confucian culture. They have been conservative for a very long time, and traditions like that die hard. The majority of people there have no desire to view what they censor, like porn or what have you.
Just to qualify what I've said, I've lived in china, and I speak mandarin.
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The president at one of my former companies was a colonel in the Army Security Agency. He used to tell me all sorts of things, including how the Russians bombarded the US embassy with radiation to get signature signals back. And this was in the 60s or before. The surveillance technology available to intelligence now must be quite interesting.
I'm wondering, since you are from the area, if you can share some of your first-hand experiences there. I'm an American living in Beijing: when I was in America, I dismissed the "free tibet" cause as liberal arts majors not having enough homework. Now that I am here, all I see are images of chinese on CCTV gushing about how interesting Tibetan culture is.. Perhaps you can provide me and some other people something I can take at face value?
You're fighting an uphill battle, as megabyte still means 2^20 bytes.
Afterall, Slapdash logs your IP address.
:P
Oh, and I am posting this from Beijing.
Get a grip on reality.
And I love Taiwan.
After living in china, I've come to the conclusion that any media company that wants to profit with sales of legitimate media simply needs to reduce their profit margin. People in the street are not going to spend 60 or 70 yuan for a dvd.
I live in China, and it is just as easy to pirate chinese media. Ho hum.
The Chinese have always been good at lying and cheating, though of course that is overgeneralizing. Furthermore, as china becomes more metropolitan, the sharing of information can only increase. It's a side effect of being open to the global free market.
Pros and cons, trade-offs. At least there aren't so many fat chicks here.
I really love when people get royally trolled, and then they are inflexible when they must have things explained to them.
Can't read the article right now, but I am guessing the way they "charge" for the votes is to take a percentage of the SMS fees. So, for the voter, it just costs the same as sending a text message, and the government will have a deal with the local telecoms (if they aren't state owned already) to get a share of those fees.
You could, but then you'd be confirming your substandard education. :D
He's referring to the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension.. cult scifi from the 80s..
Very cute. What's the catch?
If that is your business, props for starting a business that lets you take pics of hot chicks. ;)
No, you have to enter contests early enough to be one of the lucky ones to get a free dev kit. I doubt you have to be a subscriber to enter the contests, either. But hell, if you love playing with that stuff, like I do, why not subscribe- it's a great resource and fun read.
I got a free kit from Renesas for the contest that is about to end. For the upcoming Philips-sponsored design contest for an Arm core(?) mcu, there are no kits, so you have to make your own board.
Seriously, the Nomads are so poorly designed.. I cannot see myself buying anything from Creative ever again. Not after buying a nomad and, a few years ago, a crappy Savage4 video card.
:P
I even bought the Notmad software for the nomad.. Well, another $25 wasted. That is some shitty software.
I just cannot bring myself to buy in to the Apple gayness.
Yes.. Chinese people apparently love crappy American food, too.
:)
While I lived there, I was appalled to see one of my chinese girlfriends gain a few pounds after indulging at KFC.. Chinese will be as fat as Americans some day.
And seeing people eat pizza with a knife and fork at Pizza Hut.
I should have done a better job cataloging all the queer things I saw during my stay.
I looked at U of M online while looking for a decent online electrical engineering masters degree.. What is up with the prices? From memory, it would cost me about $800 per credit hour for grad school. So, about $24,000 for a MSEE from there. That may not be unreasonable, but it seems to me that online degrees should not cost so much, because much of the course should be automated...
True, however times have changed Back then, it was survival.
These days, hunters used timed feeders to bait the game, turrets to give hide and have sight of the prey, high powered rifles... Simply not the same.
Last year, I built a deer feeder timer for a client. Baiting deer is legal in the state of Texas... I don't feel sorry for the game, but I guess I am not the intended audience for the sport. I get more of a thrill out of shooting people and being shot at in paintball.
I suppose you never wasted money when you were 10 years old?
I was just looking on ebay to see what I could get for my 1989-92 era comic book collection... Less than I spent buying the stuff. Guess the comics and collector cards will be spending another 15 or 20 years before I try to sell them again. I always thought it was a dumb hobby, but I went along with my friends. :P
We're simply more jaded.
I have a Creative Nomad Zen Nx, and I simply cannot believe how horrible the software is. I'm curious what software other people with the same problem use. I don't think I will buy any creative products in the future, as everything they produce seems seriously under engineered.
:P
As for organization software for the Nomad, I have seen Notmad. Any good? Any firmware replacements out there?
I want to build my own motherboard!
And I want it to support one P4 Extreme edition, one Athlon 64, and one Ultrasparc. And I need to use all these 72 pin simms I have laying around.. So, I will need about 81 SIMM slots. Yes, 81. Oh, xga graphics, too.
I read tfa and saw nothing about locking in the chinese netizens.
Look, English literacy is on the rise in China in a major way. With all the influx of foreign investments and foreigners into china, the chinese people are having more contact than ever with the western world. Filtering out everything but chinese characters, while a technical possibility, is simple improbable.
I lived in china a few months last year, and I'm going back for the long haul soon- from what I have seen, the young, college educated Chinese like their access to information, albeit san porn, Taiwan, etc. To restrict their information flow even more would cause an outcry.
More action for me when i am living in china.
I have no idea where you get your ideas laser brain. Chinese women are traditional, yes, but they like sex too.
China already had two revolutions in the last century- first to overthrow the last imperial dynasty, and second, the communist revolution. The communist were able to seize control in 1949 largely because Mao was able to harness the discontent with Chiang Kai Shek's dictatorial government.
Another thing many westerners do not understand is the politcal apathy of many of china's intelligentsia. The people know they do not have control, so they put it out of their minds. Concerning censorship- that is a legacy of china's conservative, confucian culture. They have been conservative for a very long time, and traditions like that die hard. The majority of people there have no desire to view what they censor, like porn or what have you.
Just to qualify what I've said, I've lived in china, and I speak mandarin.