Selling lamb and sugar to the US is no picnic either; but I think all countries make some sort of effort to give a competitive advantage to their own industries. All these efforts get called different things that aren't always obvious, but they are pretty widespread.
China was making products that were competitive with First-World versions long before the recent increases in the relative wealth of the inhabitants of Shanghai. (Almost none of which is attributed to outsourcing, the booming economy of China is a little more involved than that.)
If a tiny proportion more of the people in India and China are now able to afford luxury items that increases the demand for such items for all manufacturers, including First-World ones.
Manufacturers in China would be crazy to neglect the burgeoning local market for these sorts of toys, and if they can fulfil an international market for them, why wouldn't they?
I have to agree. What exactly is this algorithm? It makes it very difficult for me to work out if I think it's any good or not without actually seeing it. Other people's mileage may vary, of course...
I'm sorry I have no references to hand. I was under the impression that the biggest indicator of a student's future success in computing is not computer experience but their marks in mathematics. If that's so, then it's true that having computers in classrooms is not the most important thing for preparing students for the computerised world.
Off on a tangent, I was also under the impression that learning music normally had a positive influence on a student's ability with mathematics. Perhaps cheap musical instruments are something that can easily be provided to the developing world?
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No-one on /. would be interested in those films anyway. We're not missing much.
Yeah, that ball they're using doesn't look anything like a foot. It's shaped more like a head, perhaps??
Selling lamb and sugar to the US is no picnic either; but I think all countries make some sort of effort to give a competitive advantage to their own industries. All these efforts get called different things that aren't always obvious, but they are pretty widespread.
China was making products that were competitive with First-World versions long before the recent increases in the relative wealth of the inhabitants of Shanghai. (Almost none of which is attributed to outsourcing, the booming economy of China is a little more involved than that.) If a tiny proportion more of the people in India and China are now able to afford luxury items that increases the demand for such items for all manufacturers, including First-World ones. Manufacturers in China would be crazy to neglect the burgeoning local market for these sorts of toys, and if they can fulfil an international market for them, why wouldn't they?
Lots of people forgot what they were doing in the 60's and 70's...
I have to agree. What exactly is this algorithm? It makes it very difficult for me to work out if I think it's any good or not without actually seeing it. Other people's mileage may vary, of course...
I'm sorry I have no references to hand. I was under the impression that the biggest indicator of a student's future success in computing is not computer experience but their marks in mathematics. If that's so, then it's true that having computers in classrooms is not the most important thing for preparing students for the computerised world. Off on a tangent, I was also under the impression that learning music normally had a positive influence on a student's ability with mathematics. Perhaps cheap musical instruments are something that can easily be provided to the developing world?