Besides, I don't see, from reading the blog, that they make it incompatible with OpenID. they just add two additional steps -- the user enters an gmail address and then the google server returns an OpenID URL. So normal OpenID websites still work, users just type in the URL instead of having the relying party goes find out.
So it is really a compatible augmentation to OpenID. Whether google patents this or uses other way to prevent others from doing that, I don't know and not technical.
That's exactly what Marx has envision the world should be run and it is a wonderful model. UNFORTUNATELY, the *only* problem is that outside of a few niche works like arts, software development, crafting, you can't find sufficient people really enjoy the works.
How many people *enjoy* serving burgers to you at the fast food restaurant w/o any compensation? How many people *enjoy* sweeping streets w/o any compensation? How many people *enjoy* take your trash to the landfill every week w/o ever asking for any compensation?
Sure, you may find one or two people actually enjoy doing that. But you can't possibly fill the demands for most tasks out there by just psychological reward alone.
Marx seemed to have said communism would be possible only if the economy is *highly* developed. Maybe he meant it is only possible when AI is intelligent enough that robots can do all these dirty jobs and yet not smart enough to ask for any compensation.
While we should damn China's censorship, we should definitely first stop/. from censoring contents it does not like. I have a track records of successful story submissions. Many of my submissions are related to China -- both POSITIVE and NEGATIVE. However, it couldn't help me to notice that SLAHSDOT would always put on hold and eventually reject any story that deems put a positive light on China's political and online freedom, even if the cited source is a rather conservative ones like The Economist. See my latest hanging submission (here is the original article) for example. The only "positive" stories the/. editor will post are those purely about technology -- like about their space development.
I hope that's only my illusion. But one can't stand on a moral high ground unless one acknowledges or at least open to all facts.
a list of politically charged words that includes words related to Falun Gong... the Chinese Communist Party... the Tom-Skype software blocks the transmission of these words
So Skype believes either (1) nothing bad would be said about FLG and nothing good would be said about CCP; or (2) FLG and CCP are in fact allies and both are cults.
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I think the java community has been talking about this kind of syntax for a long time but still not get it. does anyone know why? is it because of some MS patent on it?
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While they can make up whatever high goals -- to boost nationalism, to save the world, or whatever -- the entire execution is contingent on money and profits. China is a highly profit-driven place; a lot more than rich places. Companies have to see profits to do the tasks. And just like the U.S. and everywhere else in the world, China has to face the hurdle of creating job opportunities. Huge projects like these can save thousands jobs in their defunct state-owned factories. They also need to absorbs millions of college graduates every single year. Along the lines, officials also need to use these opportunities to take bribes to profit themselves.
That's exactly what happen in the U.S.: many companies need NASA projects for which they will hire thousands of people. Think about the scenario of laying off all the workers for the Shuttle program. Along the line, the politicians need to get donations.
So while pride and nationalism may play a role, these are largely about business and money.
After accounting adjustment, the summary is right: the Indian officials receiving the $85m just deposit $77.3m of which into their Barclay accounts and, on behalf of them, Barclay promptly invests the proceeds in the remaining assets of Lehman Brothers.
As the one who wrote the summary, I don't understand what's the big deal about the word 'taikonaut'. It has been used to described Chinese astronauts for years. As someone who are fluent in English and Chinese, I don't see any bad connotation either, except those cheap sound analogies people made up here. I like this word.
No time to read but I wish the first 100 pages are not a listing of the 8000+ contributors' names and credential while the last 500 pages list the citations of their publications.
Traditional software is a product, not a service. (In the new software-as-service model, it is subscription which you pay continuously as you use.) You are like asking Toyota to release all its design and manufacturing process of Camry to public domain after 5 years of selling that model, or even asking them to allow anyone go into the production plant and make a car for himself, freely.
Once you acquired a software product, nobody asks you to buy new upgrade versions. It is the consumer who wants the latest and greatest. You are like asking the car maker to send you a new car each model year after you buy one at particular year.
The only real difference between a software product and a hardware product like a car is that the "manufacturing plant" for software product usually costs about $1000 operable by a single person, whereas the one for car costs $1,000,000,000 and must be operated by a team of people.
I'm always amused by the level of altruism of people in the software field -- to the point of idiotic -- no professionals in other fields are so eager to eliminate their competitive barriers.
That the parents and coach of He Kexin lied about her age to the higher level sport administration in order to get in the national team, because they wouldn't take one exceeding certain age? Of course, this is as guilty as faking a higher age to qualify for the Olympic. Some Chinese scholar has already pointed out that the biggest social issue in China is lack of trust -- everyone would deceive others for a very fringe benefit.
The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
The answer is no. Why? Because the whole scheme here is to piggy-back on the Green marketing wave which is now fashionable even in China among the better off class.
And that means it is designed to push up the price of condos which are already costing near US$500K in Shanghai without this greenish feature (remember just condos, single house costs US $2m there.) And the average working people with decent jobs make about US $15K per year over there. So does it sound like something Normal People can buy?
Forget about the government, everything in China is about money.
Not really, they regard the West as hypocrites. The state media likes to play up images like Abu Ghraib and the various things going on at Gitmo. It's not entirely baseless, and that's the sad part.
Similarly, the West regard China as hypocrites. The western media likes to play up images like Tiananmen protester and the various things going on in Tibet. It's not entirely baseless, and that's the sad part.
Democracy is absolutely dependent on an educated populace. When people are illiterate and have no access to balanced information that shows both the good points and the bad points, it is totally illusory to think that Democracy may flourish.
Agree with this.
The Philippines have been bludgeoned for three centuries by the spanish into becoming a scatholic country
not quite agree with this. at most, just a small excuse. you already provided most of the reason for the Philippines in your first paragraph.
When I lived in China from 2003-06, I felt that every social issue there is so intrigue and inter-related that there's simply no solution than to wait out for population to shrink and grow economically prosperous on average. People I talked to about this issue generally have contradictory feelings -- on one hand they like the idea of "democracy" -- on the other they don't think it is the solution for China; they could point out failed examples like Mexico, India, Russia (under Yeltsin,) Philippines, Thai, eastern European countries,... or maybe the US political system (long before Bush). In short democracy is good on principles but does not do much better on what the people found really matter -- quality of life, jobs, education, health care -- than China's current way of doing things.
Given that there is no fool-proved democratic system for China's problems and full freedom in expression will eventually lead to call for democracy -- because it is always easier to motivate the disadvantageous mass on some bright promises (ref. to US elections) -- so people generally feel the currently level of control is OK even though they don't like it much.
These are just some of contractions in China, like all other issues.
That's exactly the impression you can get if you just follow any Chinese news portal for a small while. But who cares! All we need is to drum up exaggerated accusations which will reinforce with the popular anti-China sentiment mutually.
While there is this and few other more balanced stories published here and there, they will never go to the front page, just like the tons of anti-government comments you can see in a Chinese discussion forum would never make to the FP. Same effect, different paths.
Well... what about if this format is just basically a copy of ODF or MS OOXML with tag names and structure artificially and trivially altered. One can then reject this as the standard on the same ground as rejecting a trivial patent -- non-original no additional benefits.
I have not even heard of such office suite even though I read Chinese news everyday and in the software business. I heard of the "Gold Mountain" office suite. Everybody -- government or citizens -- use nothing but MS Office. But I'm willing to bet $100 that the above is exactly what's happening given the nature of tech standard coming from China: some guys connecting to some officials imitates an existing standard, make some useless alternation, push it as the "national standard" and wish to be able sell the software because of that. Of course, the good thing is that nobody -- not even the various government agencies -- would pay a shot for that.
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Besides, I don't see, from reading the blog, that they make it incompatible with OpenID. they just add two additional steps -- the user enters an gmail address and then the google server returns an OpenID URL. So normal OpenID websites still work, users just type in the URL instead of having the relying party goes find out.
So it is really a compatible augmentation to OpenID. Whether google patents this or uses other way to prevent others from doing that, I don't know and not technical.
That's exactly what Marx has envision the world should be run and it is a wonderful model. UNFORTUNATELY, the *only* problem is that outside of a few niche works like arts, software development, crafting, you can't find sufficient people really enjoy the works.
How many people *enjoy* serving burgers to you at the fast food restaurant w/o any compensation? How many people *enjoy* sweeping streets w/o any compensation? How many people *enjoy* take your trash to the landfill every week w/o ever asking for any compensation?
Sure, you may find one or two people actually enjoy doing that. But you can't possibly fill the demands for most tasks out there by just psychological reward alone.
Marx seemed to have said communism would be possible only if the economy is *highly* developed. Maybe he meant it is only possible when AI is intelligent enough that robots can do all these dirty jobs and yet not smart enough to ask for any compensation.
They have just successfully raised their PE simply by sending their per share stock price from 32 to 16. What an achievement!
While we should damn China's censorship, we should definitely first stop /. from censoring contents it does not like. I have a track records of successful story submissions. Many of my submissions are related to China -- both POSITIVE and NEGATIVE. However, it couldn't help me to notice that SLAHSDOT would always put on hold and eventually reject any story that deems put a positive light on China's political and online freedom, even if the cited source is a rather conservative ones like The Economist. See my latest hanging submission (here is the original article) for example. The only "positive" stories the /. editor will post are those purely about technology -- like about their space development.
I hope that's only my illusion. But one can't stand on a moral high ground unless one acknowledges or at least open to all facts.
To be accurate, you need to add a lot of ARMS, brought to you by Northrup Grumann and alike, to it.
a list of politically charged words that includes words related to Falun Gong ... the Chinese Communist Party ... the Tom-Skype software blocks the transmission of these words
So Skype believes either (1) nothing bad would be said about FLG and nothing good would be said about CCP; or (2) FLG and CCP are in fact allies and both are cults.
I think the java community has been talking about this kind of syntax for a long time but still not get it. does anyone know why? is it because of some MS patent on it?
Answer: F#%$
While they can make up whatever high goals -- to boost nationalism, to save the world, or whatever -- the entire execution is contingent on money and profits. China is a highly profit-driven place; a lot more than rich places. Companies have to see profits to do the tasks. And just like the U.S. and everywhere else in the world, China has to face the hurdle of creating job opportunities. Huge projects like these can save thousands jobs in their defunct state-owned factories. They also need to absorbs millions of college graduates every single year. Along the lines, officials also need to use these opportunities to take bribes to profit themselves.
That's exactly what happen in the U.S.: many companies need NASA projects for which they will hire thousands of people. Think about the scenario of laying off all the workers for the Shuttle program. Along the line, the politicians need to get donations.
So while pride and nationalism may play a role, these are largely about business and money.
Google News will never make such silly mistakes like Xinhua does. They only reincarnate the old ones. Subscribe to Google News today!
After accounting adjustment, the summary is right: the Indian officials receiving the $85m just deposit $77.3m of which into their Barclay accounts and, on behalf of them, Barclay promptly invests the proceeds in the remaining assets of Lehman Brothers.
As the one who wrote the summary, I don't understand what's the big deal about the word 'taikonaut'. It has been used to described Chinese astronauts for years. As someone who are fluent in English and Chinese, I don't see any bad connotation either, except those cheap sound analogies people made up here. I like this word.
No time to read but I wish the first 100 pages are not a listing of the 8000+ contributors' names and credential while the last 500 pages list the citations of their publications.
The only real difference between a software product and a hardware product like a car is that the "manufacturing plant" for software product usually costs about $1000 operable by a single person, whereas the one for car costs $1,000,000,000 and must be operated by a team of people.
I'm always amused by the level of altruism of people in the software field -- to the point of idiotic -- no professionals in other fields are so eager to eliminate their competitive barriers.
That the parents and coach of He Kexin lied about her age to the higher level sport administration in order to get in the national team, because they wouldn't take one exceeding certain age? Of course, this is as guilty as faking a higher age to qualify for the Olympic. Some Chinese scholar has already pointed out that the biggest social issue in China is lack of trust -- everyone would deceive others for a very fringe benefit.
log4 has all sorts of destination adapters, including JMS.
The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
The answer is no. Why? Because the whole scheme here is to piggy-back on the Green marketing wave which is now fashionable even in China among the better off class.
And that means it is designed to push up the price of condos which are already costing near US$500K in Shanghai without this greenish feature (remember just condos, single house costs US $2m there.) And the average working people with decent jobs make about US $15K per year over there. So does it sound like something Normal People can buy?
Forget about the government, everything in China is about money.
Not really, they regard the West as hypocrites. The state media likes to play up images like Abu Ghraib and the various things going on at Gitmo. It's not entirely baseless, and that's the sad part.
Similarly, the West regard China as hypocrites. The western media likes to play up images like Tiananmen protester and the various things going on in Tibet. It's not entirely baseless, and that's the sad part.
one ... which adds points up from a score of zero; the other ... which starts at 10.0 and subtracts
So that's "heavy on math" in the opinion of a slashdot submitter?
The product name is "Clear" so why would anyone buying the product expects any level of obfuscation?
Democracy is absolutely dependent on an educated populace. When people are illiterate and have no access to balanced information that shows both the good points and the bad points, it is totally illusory to think that Democracy may flourish.
Agree with this.
The Philippines have been bludgeoned for three centuries by the spanish into becoming a scatholic country
not quite agree with this. at most, just a small excuse. you already provided most of the reason for the Philippines in your first paragraph.
+1 on Informative
When I lived in China from 2003-06, I felt that every social issue there is so intrigue and inter-related that there's simply no solution than to wait out for population to shrink and grow economically prosperous on average. People I talked to about this issue generally have contradictory feelings -- on one hand they like the idea of "democracy" -- on the other they don't think it is the solution for China; they could point out failed examples like Mexico, India, Russia (under Yeltsin,) Philippines, Thai, eastern European countries, ... or maybe the US political system (long before Bush). In short democracy is good on principles but does not do much better on what the people found really matter -- quality of life, jobs, education, health care -- than China's current way of doing things.
Given that there is no fool-proved democratic system for China's problems and full freedom in expression will eventually lead to call for democracy -- because it is always easier to motivate the disadvantageous mass on some bright promises (ref. to US elections) -- so people generally feel the currently level of control is OK even though they don't like it much.
These are just some of contractions in China, like all other issues.
So the journalists can write a rant on China; those articles probably get more readerships and thumbs up than articles on the sports.
That's exactly the impression you can get if you just follow any Chinese news portal for a small while. But who cares! All we need is to drum up exaggerated accusations which will reinforce with the popular anti-China sentiment mutually.
While there is this and few other more balanced stories published here and there, they will never go to the front page, just like the tons of anti-government comments you can see in a Chinese discussion forum would never make to the FP. Same effect, different paths.
Well... what about if this format is just basically a copy of ODF or MS OOXML with tag names and structure artificially and trivially altered. One can then reject this as the standard on the same ground as rejecting a trivial patent -- non-original no additional benefits.
I have not even heard of such office suite even though I read Chinese news everyday and in the software business. I heard of the "Gold Mountain" office suite. Everybody -- government or citizens -- use nothing but MS Office. But I'm willing to bet $100 that the above is exactly what's happening given the nature of tech standard coming from China: some guys connecting to some officials imitates an existing standard, make some useless alternation, push it as the "national standard" and wish to be able sell the software because of that. Of course, the good thing is that nobody -- not even the various government agencies -- would pay a shot for that.