As a chinese student studying in US, I do have something to say.
> by Anonymous Coward > Overseas Chinese, especially Taiwanese, are not foreigners. > Many of those over 50 were born in Mainland China. They're > returning to their native land and regaining some of the money > and property that was unjustly stolen from them.
Usually every time Slashdot has a story anything related to China, communist bashing usually follows. You know this world is full of catch-22s. Nationalist's land taken over by communist. But wfterall, what the United States did build on is their strong military power. Quoted from Black Hawk Down, "When bullets go pass your head, politics go right out of the window." But guns speak for politics. Every countries struggle like this, think about history of Texas and Israel. They fight. Power struggle.
For human right records, China certainly does not have a word to say. Lest not forget Tiananmen Square, but watched out for next 5 to 10 years. Power struggles and in-fights in the regime be taken account over this
>Asia feels heat as sofware piracy rises >http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconva lley/43 5 0115.htm [siliconvalley.com] > >Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday software piracy was on the rise worldwide and >China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia were the "hotspots" in Asia >where major counterfeiting activities thrived.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Now think about this, if you are a student, your monthly wages is less than $125 USD and you want to do 3D graphics just like you slashdot readers do, will you choose to buy a Maya 4.0 student version for a pirated $4 USD CD or $400 USD student version ?
Globalization hits every corners of the world. China is forced to open its market and they have to change, but standards has yet to follow. You really can't compare the wage of average Chinese wages with a piece of Microsoft Office.
By the way, ask yourself, did you ever you Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella and Hotline grab your favourite MP3's and Warez ? Pretty much the same moral story you know. It spares money (for more beer).
And of course again, that's why Linux is pretty hot. Watch out for the Redflag Linux.
> by aburnsio.com >About third-world outsourcing brain work: don't do it. > >Every company I've heard of doing this, and every programmer I've talked to that's had >to work with these third-world outsourcing companies, has had absolutely nothing good >to say about it. There may be exceptions, but in every case I know if it's nothing short of a disaster.
> >I don't want to sound pompous and say that third world programmers are no good, but usually they are no good.
First, think about should you classify China as a third-world country. Frankly it's kind of hazy to classify it between developed country and developing country.
It really depends on what kind of jobs for outsourcing isn't it ? Humans are hard to manage anyway. My analogy is to think about long distance love. Some do work out some don't. I bet you can't ask them to to a lexical analysis stuff but I'm sure most Chinese CS students have no trouble competing contracts on Visual Basic and MS SQL, and many MCSE, Cisco and Orcale stuff. In case you don't know, many favourite CS books in the States such as "UNIX Network Programming" by W.Richard Stevens have been licensed by academic publishers of Tsinghua, (I got one for $9), so watch your back and work hard on your CS class......
Watch out for Microsoft Research in Beijing. They do a lot of SQL stuff don't they ?
>by Astrorunner >"any ting you want." > >"Anything?" > >"Anyting"
I don't find this particularly funny. There're many good Chinese that speaks English well too, those who speaks English AND Chinese well will earn a lot there. I know many Asian American friends see this trend.
And again, many Japaneses don't speak good English, but money speaks, saving speaks. Look at your logitech mouse.
This new OS X has OpenLDAP built-in ! Look at the slapd.
Also the Windows authentication can now allow you to reliably mount a volume AND save it to favourite. If you save your password on keychain you could make yourself a big favour mounting Windows volume automatically. Big plus for corporate mac users. And sharing your HOME directory over SMB to other regular Windows user is another big favourite.
The firewall is JUST fantastic. Just click and point. No stupid checkpoint or Norton Firewall. It just comes free. Linux and BSD people should learn from Apple's easy GUI interface. Just click and point and they're done. No need "kill -HUP 23124" or whatever long set of stuff to worry.
Most user getting a Mac doesn't intend to do programming or "compile samba". They don't want a command prompt get in their way okay. It is a very logical choice to put the developer disk on a separate CD. It is just one click away and you'll get all the glories of BSD from openssh to make. I don't think gcc for OS X is bad at all. Even Apple's Project Builder use GCC and gdb. If you want to do Apple programming, learn Cocoa or Codewarrior for Carbon.
Do you really need to compile Samba when they're ready to download from versiontracker.com ?
I join the Apple Student Developer program and I've no trouble getting the developer tools online either. To say a fair word I don't think it is that difficult to grab the developer tools. Many folks port fantastic unix programs over to MacOS X without trouble and why can't you ? Just dig around and be familiar with it.
Hey if you are at Madison, WI, take a look at UW-Madison's surplus shop. I got a 17" Sun monitor for $17 USD, also they got zillion of Macs, each selling $10 to $20 USD, good for running NetBSD.
Okay.... they're ditching Linux. But after all FreeBSD is a proven server platform implemented from yahoo! to Mr. Gate's hotmail. Save your bandwidth slashdotting their server after upgrade. This is a more constructive way to express your will, rather than continuing to storm over "*BSD over Linux".
ActiveWorlds, I guess formerly is AlphaWorlds IMHO make a good virtual community. I guess if this Gadget is not limited to high end SGI workstations later, boundary between webpages and "webWorld" will be burred. And VRML can live off to its promises. VRML 2.0 hasn't received too much attention and CosmoPlayer from CosmoSoftware seemed to stop development. This could make VRML alive again.
Playing Quake seems to be not a big apps, but think about having real tele-presence. Imagine your girlfriend can do "Video" Conference right in front of your eyes ! However I think it is still a long way to beam a 3D object and render it 2000 miles away.
Personally I am amazed by this LCD so much. I have been to Siggraph 99 LA and I saw there is a Crystal Ball-like device developed from Germany. (Can somebody get the URL?) They paint a wire-frame object with Laser. In contrast, this LCD can render real objects.
Quoted from Wired News :
"In 20 years, I'd like to have people walk into a virtual room that would engage all your senses, hearing, touch, and smell".
I just want to see my honey in 3D, not with that Netmeeting thing in the size of stamp.
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As a chinese student studying in US, I do have something to say.
a lley/43 5 0115.htm [siliconvalley.com]
> by Anonymous Coward
> Overseas Chinese, especially Taiwanese, are not foreigners.
> Many of those over 50 were born in Mainland China. They're
> returning to their native land and regaining some of the money
> and property that was unjustly stolen from them.
Usually every time Slashdot has a story anything related to China, communist bashing usually follows. You know this world is full of catch-22s. Nationalist's land taken over by communist. But wfterall, what the United States did build on is their strong military power. Quoted from Black Hawk Down, "When bullets go pass your head, politics go right out of the window." But guns speak for politics. Every countries struggle like this, think about history of Texas and Israel. They fight. Power struggle.
For human right records, China certainly does not have a word to say. Lest not forget Tiananmen Square, but watched out for next 5 to 10 years. Power struggles and in-fights in the regime be taken account over this
>Asia feels heat as sofware piracy rises
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconv
>
>Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday software piracy was on the rise worldwide and
>China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia were the "hotspots" in Asia
>where major counterfeiting activities thrived.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Now think about this, if you are a student, your monthly wages is less than $125 USD and you want to do 3D graphics just like you slashdot readers do, will you choose to buy a Maya 4.0 student version for a pirated $4 USD CD or $400 USD student version ?
Globalization hits every corners of the world. China is forced to open its market and they have to change, but standards has yet to follow. You really can't compare the wage of average Chinese wages with a piece of Microsoft Office.
By the way, ask yourself, did you ever you Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella and Hotline grab your favourite MP3's and Warez ? Pretty much the same moral story you know. It spares money (for more beer).
And of course again, that's why Linux is pretty hot. Watch out for the Redflag Linux.
> by aburnsio.com
>About third-world outsourcing brain work: don't do it.
>
>Every company I've heard of doing this, and every programmer I've talked to that's had
>to work with these third-world outsourcing companies, has had absolutely nothing good
>to say about it. There may be exceptions, but in every case I know if it's nothing short of a disaster.
>
>I don't want to sound pompous and say that third world programmers are no good, but usually they are no good.
First, think about should you classify China as a third-world country. Frankly it's kind of hazy to classify it between developed country and developing country.
It really depends on what kind of jobs for outsourcing isn't it ? Humans are hard to manage anyway. My analogy is to think about long distance love. Some do work out some don't. I bet you can't ask them to to a lexical analysis stuff but I'm sure most Chinese CS students have no trouble competing contracts on Visual Basic and MS SQL, and many MCSE, Cisco and Orcale stuff. In case you don't know, many favourite CS books in the States such as "UNIX Network Programming" by W.Richard Stevens have been licensed by academic publishers of Tsinghua, (I got one for $9), so watch your back and work hard on your CS class......
Watch out for Microsoft Research in Beijing. They do a lot of SQL stuff don't they ?
>by Astrorunner
>"any ting you want."
>
>"Anything?"
>
>"Anyting"
I don't find this particularly funny. There're many good Chinese that speaks English well too, those who speaks English AND Chinese well will earn a lot there. I know many Asian American friends see this trend.
And again, many Japaneses don't speak good English, but money speaks, saving speaks. Look at your logitech mouse.
Hey by the way, MacOS X 10.2 Server ships with MySQL too !
This new OS X has OpenLDAP built-in ! Look at the slapd.
Also the Windows authentication can now allow you to reliably mount a volume AND save it to favourite. If you save your password on keychain you could make yourself a big favour mounting Windows volume automatically. Big plus for corporate mac users. And sharing your HOME directory over SMB to other regular Windows user is another big favourite.
The firewall is JUST fantastic. Just click and point. No stupid checkpoint or Norton Firewall. It just comes free. Linux and BSD people should learn from Apple's easy GUI interface. Just click and point and they're done. No need "kill -HUP 23124" or whatever long set of stuff to worry.
Most user getting a Mac doesn't intend to do programming or "compile samba". They don't want a command prompt get in their way okay. It is a very logical choice to put the developer disk on a separate CD. It is just one click away and you'll get all the glories of BSD from openssh to make. I don't think gcc for OS X is bad at all. Even Apple's Project Builder use GCC and gdb. If you want to do Apple programming, learn Cocoa or Codewarrior for Carbon.
Do you really need to compile Samba when they're ready to download from versiontracker.com ?
I join the Apple Student Developer program and I've no trouble getting the developer tools online either. To say a fair word I don't think it is that difficult to grab the developer tools. Many folks port fantastic unix programs over to MacOS X without trouble and why can't you ? Just dig around and be familiar with it.
Hey if you are at Madison, WI, take a look at UW-Madison's surplus shop. I got a 17" Sun monitor for $17 USD, also they got zillion of Macs, each selling $10 to $20 USD, good for running NetBSD.
Here is SWAP Shop Inventory website.
Okay.... they're ditching Linux. But after all FreeBSD is a proven server platform implemented from yahoo! to Mr. Gate's hotmail. Save your bandwidth slashdotting their server after upgrade. This is a more constructive way to express your will, rather than continuing to storm over "*BSD over Linux".
ActiveWorlds, I guess formerly is AlphaWorlds IMHO make a good virtual community. I guess if this Gadget is not limited to high end SGI workstations later, boundary between webpages and "webWorld" will be burred. And VRML can live off to its promises. VRML 2.0 hasn't received too much attention and CosmoPlayer from CosmoSoftware seemed to stop development. This could make VRML alive again.
Playing Quake seems to be not a big apps, but think about having real tele-presence. Imagine your girlfriend can do "Video" Conference right in front of your eyes ! However I think it is still a long way to beam a 3D object and render it 2000 miles away.
Personally I am amazed by this LCD so much. I have been to Siggraph 99 LA and I saw there is a Crystal Ball-like device developed from Germany. (Can somebody get the URL?) They paint a wire-frame object with Laser. In contrast, this LCD can render real objects.
Quoted from Wired News :
I just want to see my honey in 3D, not with that Netmeeting thing in the size of stamp.