Separately, the court also upheld a ruling on a similar case against Internet company Baidu. A lower court in November 2006 had found that Baidu had facilitated copyright infringement. But because this case was filed under older Chinese copyright laws in 2005, the company was not liable for copyright infringement, the IFPI said.
"We are disappointed that the court did not find Baidu liable," Kennedy said in a statement. "But that judgment was about Baidu's actions in the past, under an old law that is no longer in force. Baidu should now prepare to have its actions judged under the new law. We are confident a court would hold Baidu liable as it has Yahoo China."
So maybe Baidu has fixed their acts?
Oh... wait... is Baidu.com a Chinese company? That's hard to say because the fact is most successful Chinese Internet companies, including alibaba.com, which was funded by Softbank and Yahoo and which now owns Yahoo China, are funded and run by western VCs. But then that would answer your concern. Who cares the thousands of little real Chinese websites like the pirate DVD sellers across streets in China.
most if not all Jane and Joe Sixpack users never need Super Computer power to surf the net, read e-mail and watch videos. Not true at all! I predict that most Joe's and large number of Jane's will need at least 32 cores just for this single application that they have to run. What's that killer app? Decompressing and streaming multiple HARD CORE videos to their new dual flat-panels Single core will not maximize smooth enjoyment in the same amount of time. Go Multi Cores!
XP's system requirements were about the same as those of Windows 2000: it walked in 128 MiB of RAM and ran in 256 MiB. No way! i used to have a Compaq laptop with 128MB RAM back in 2001. It ran so slow, and in one week I had to buy an extra 256MB to make it 384MB. I paid for upgrade to a total of 512MB RAM for a later Samsung laptop at purchase, it ran well at the beginning but overtime it got slower and slower despite of my rather frequent cleanups and defargs. I think that's biggest problem with XP -- getting slower overtime -- and I don't mind Vista demand more at the beginning I just wish it does not get unfixable degradation over time.
When are we going to feel tired bashing Vista? Until the next Windows release?
Come on... I'm not a fan of MS and I'm posting this with Firefox but I have been running Vista on two machines -- one laptop one desktop -- and two machines on XP. i just don't see anything really bad with Vista. If nothing else, it looks more pleasant. In contrast, one of XP machine is running like snail still after several attempts to clean ups, defrags, and registry cleanings; so i don't even want to boot it up anymore.
Does the extra little candies worth your money? for some here, it is not no matter how good it is. For others, the eye candy worths everything. Isn't that what iPhone is all about?
Not only that, these Chinese subsidiaries are not really the real one operate in China either. Because China does not allow foreign or joint-venture companies to hold an Internet Content provider (ICP) license; so typically the foreign company and its subsidiaries would own the IPs and the domain name but delegate some trusted Chinese nationals to set up a shell company to hold the ICP and business licenses. There are plenty of lawyers helping you do that.
The sentiment represents Americans' worry about a credible up-and-coming competitor who has the drive and the pocket to surpass what Americans, not what have accomplished by them.
While China has produced large number of engineers and scientists and has the ability to imitate quickly, they lacks creativity and they are unable to retain the best. For example, most top rank students from top rank universities like Beijing University, Tsinghua, etc. ends up as foreign students in American universities where they made greater scientific discoveries than those happening inside China. And most of them have acquired greencards and U.S. citizenship.
Not even China and India, but even Japan and Europe cannot compete with the U.S. in terms of retaining the best minds, due to various economical, cultural and political reasons. Maybe your HR manager is right: the most important assets are human beings.
If the U.S. government made fewer mistakes like pissing off Dr. Tsien Hsue Shen (who, in retaliation, went back to China to boostrap their missile and rocket programme) or suing Wen Ho Lee, the American people have no worry about their competitiveness.
This is a popular one. It's like the economy would get all screwed up if people stopped dying on seventy year clocks because all the old geezer's saving would just accumulate insane interests until the oldest people had all the money. I'm not sure where you heard of this argument, but shouldn't it be that old people eventually run out of their savings and become social liability? Given the current level of medical expense, we cannot nearly afford it without working and paying insurance; not to mention that while medicines have progressed considerably, no major disease seems to be completely curable without life-long medication.
"If you want to open a business in China, it is virtually impossible," Trump said. "And yet, if China wants to come here and do something, there is no problem whatsoever."... I'm a U.S. citizen and I own a business in China. Many successful Chinese Web companies are indeed founded by Chinese Americans and/or funded by U.S. venture capitalists -- like baidu.com, sina.com, alibaba.com.
Of course, you do need connections to government officials or others to be of any significance. but that can be solved by money because all Chinese officials like to (a) diversify their portfolio outside of China before they got caught up and executed for taking bribery; (b) send their children oversea.
By tweaking their design, improving conditions for the bacteria, and adding a small jolt of electricity,..., such as yields of 91 percent using vinegar (acetic acid) and 68 percent using cellulose,' Next, the researchers plan to further improve microbes' working conditions by giving them free cokes and coffee instead of vinegar in order to produce more yields. Finally, to maximize outputs, they must find a way to remove the music-playing iPods and the flat-panels that display slashdot pages from the microbes' office cubes -- without causing a strike; as a side benefit, the electricity is not needed anymore.
That's the attitude for safety nowaday: the cost of the recall plus inventory loss is much lower than any potential lawsuit. Most of these "standards" seem questionable to me -- like you have to consume 100 times of the allowed quantity for a prolong period of time to actually get sick -- but you would die sooner if you consume 10x of allowed amount of water, oxygen, vitamins or anything else for a much shorter period of time.
There are 1.3 billion people in China consuming local products (which should have much lower quality than the export ones) yet there life expectancy match up to that of the US. And most of health problem there lately resemble that of the US: too much fat, over nutrition. They would have consumed large amount of lead in the products and paints which, in excessive amount, would have cause lower IQ, but they have produced large number of college graduates.
Come on... we are a democracy country. We don't need any revolution. Revolution is only for taking out oppressive dictatorships like Saddam Hussein and China.
You're supposed to just need to go out and VOTE -- and the perfect government will be selected for you. After all, those freedom fighters around the world are fighting to death for the ``democracy''. And you already have it. Don't you feel better off? You are asking too much.
I have dealt with them before. I couldn't get my adSense served and so I filled out the contact form. The only reply I got was from an automated email program. Nobody answered the support line. No where to buy a support contract. I got hold of some indirect friend working inside Google and he said he couldn't help me find a support person either.
It is the worst support I have ever seen.... but that's why google is so successful... they have so many users; they don't need to worry about YOU anymore.
Although it does present an interesting question for evolutionary theory - why does this perception ability exist? Because it is clearly advantageous for the highly intelligent beings to have faith and believe in God (whether it exists or not). For example, people will be less likely killing each other on the fear of revenge by the God. Evolution creates God.
My dad gets Type II and is on diet program but he decides to injecting insulin every day so he can eat more normal. He said if he has to eat tasteless veggie everyday for the rest of his life, what's left in his life?
Eating is probably the most important source of entertainment of human life, likely ahead of sex.
America cannot remain as great as it used to be exactly because there are too many ignorant people like you who know nothing about other countries except what the American mainstream media tell them.
If Wikia continues to serve ads over Guild Wiki's content, how can the thousands of contributors to the site stop them without going to the expense/trouble of hiring attorneys Have they heard about CLASS ACTION?
As a legal immigrant from China in the 80's, I would say that people there in the 1970's were desperate to leave China for survival. Since mid-80's people desperate to go USA because they believed USA was heaven. Many people desperate to come to US nowaday either because they or their offsprings wanted to get US college degree or because they want to hide their wealth for which they collected in some less than legitimate methods.
Do the later two consider true desperation? maybe.
I was born in China in the 1970's. when I was kid and I had no many toy so I tried to fold a paper ship out of a newspaper, but my sister, who is 5 years older, told me not to do that because there was the picture of Chairman Mao on the paper. that was pretty much the only self-discipline event I have remembered. Then starting in the early 1980's, thing started loosen up. Nobody cared or worried if you said bad things about the government or the part or the leaders; we listened to radio from Hong Kong as well as Voice of America on the short-wave. Blaming and criticizing the government and the party are the daily topics around the lunch/dinner tables.
In the current days, things are even more open. Like in July, when the government suddenly raised the stock transaction fee (to curb the rampant stock market,) there were over 270,000 messages in the sina.com.com news discussion board -- almost all of them were slashing on the government and its credibility in explicit wording as well as calling for democratic reform. What usually got blocked nowaday are the three topics: tiananmen, Fa Lun Gong and Taiwan independence.
If you don't try to promote your messages on mass media and make yourself a big figure, nobody cares. All people and the government care nowaday is money.
I'm working on a software company here in the Silicon Valley. Last week, an Indian engineer, who is a key guy in the team, decided to quit and move back to India -- not because his h-1 visa was expired but because he figured he could have made more money after taking into the effects of the US income tax.
I agreed with you. I found the news from these American mainstream media (and British ones like Economist.com) is just no better than those rubbish from China Central Television. You can even find better and more balance coverages in censored sites like sina.com.cn. For long time, the only issues American media consider news worthy are the human rights, taiwan, tibet and fa lun gong. Not until recently they start covering issues like product safety which have been exposed in Chinese media for years.
And by the way, most English media sites like CNN and CBS are not blocked at all in China; the government is more aggressive blocking Chinese media sites (from Hong Kong and Taiwan).
As long as the topic of China is concerned, I would consider news coverage from Hongkong being the most balance, revealing the best and worst of what's going on in China.
I actually realized my writing mistake after I posted it. I meant he was awaken from sleep. According to him, the intruder descended from the window and he just pretended sleeping until the intruder leave in fear of getting hurt.
Shenzhen has had a bad reputation for crimes.... well... comparable to Oakland, California.
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"We are disappointed that the court did not find Baidu liable," Kennedy said in a statement. "But that judgment was about Baidu's actions in the past, under an old law that is no longer in force. Baidu should now prepare to have its actions judged under the new law. We are confident a court would hold Baidu liable as it has Yahoo China."
So maybe Baidu has fixed their acts?
Oh... wait... is Baidu.com a Chinese company? That's hard to say because the fact is most successful Chinese Internet companies, including alibaba.com, which was funded by Softbank and Yahoo and which now owns Yahoo China, are funded and run by western VCs. But then that would answer your concern. Who cares the thousands of little real Chinese websites like the pirate DVD sellers across streets in China.
If the Universe was not created by God (or whoever,) where does every come from. The answer must be NOTHING.
If the Universe was created by God (or whoever,) where does God come from. The answer must be NOTHING.
Where does NOTHING come from? Who cares?
So the answer is: I don't care!
When are we going to feel tired bashing Vista? Until the next Windows release?
Come on... I'm not a fan of MS and I'm posting this with Firefox but I have been running Vista on two machines -- one laptop one desktop -- and two machines on XP. i just don't see anything really bad with Vista. If nothing else, it looks more pleasant. In contrast, one of XP machine is running like snail still after several attempts to clean ups, defrags, and registry cleanings; so i don't even want to boot it up anymore.
Does the extra little candies worth your money? for some here, it is not no matter how good it is. For others, the eye candy worths everything. Isn't that what iPhone is all about?
Not only that, these Chinese subsidiaries are not really the real one operate in China either. Because China does not allow foreign or joint-venture companies to hold an Internet Content provider (ICP) license; so typically the foreign company and its subsidiaries would own the IPs and the domain name but delegate some trusted Chinese nationals to set up a shell company to hold the ICP and business licenses. There are plenty of lawyers helping you do that.
The sentiment represents Americans' worry about a credible up-and-coming competitor who has the drive and the pocket to surpass what Americans, not what have accomplished by them.
While China has produced large number of engineers and scientists and has the ability to imitate quickly, they lacks creativity and they are unable to retain the best. For example, most top rank students from top rank universities like Beijing University, Tsinghua, etc. ends up as foreign students in American universities where they made greater scientific discoveries than those happening inside China. And most of them have acquired greencards and U.S. citizenship.
Not even China and India, but even Japan and Europe cannot compete with the U.S. in terms of retaining the best minds, due to various economical, cultural and political reasons. Maybe your HR manager is right: the most important assets are human beings.
If the U.S. government made fewer mistakes like pissing off Dr. Tsien Hsue Shen (who, in retaliation, went back to China to boostrap their missile and rocket programme) or suing Wen Ho Lee, the American people have no worry about their competitiveness.
Our core competitiveness is our green card.
Now let's start eating!!!!
When doing business, in fact, you get more attention and benefits if you look like a Caucasion.
Of course, you do need connections to government officials or others to be of any significance. but that can be solved by money because all Chinese officials like to (a) diversify their portfolio outside of China before they got caught up and executed for taking bribery; (b) send their children oversea.
That's the attitude for safety nowaday: the cost of the recall plus inventory loss is much lower than any potential lawsuit. Most of these "standards" seem questionable to me -- like you have to consume 100 times of the allowed quantity for a prolong period of time to actually get sick -- but you would die sooner if you consume 10x of allowed amount of water, oxygen, vitamins or anything else for a much shorter period of time.
There are 1.3 billion people in China consuming local products (which should have much lower quality than the export ones) yet there life expectancy match up to that of the US. And most of health problem there lately resemble that of the US: too much fat, over nutrition. They would have consumed large amount of lead in the products and paints which, in excessive amount, would have cause lower IQ, but they have produced large number of college graduates.
Come on... we are a democracy country. We don't need any revolution. Revolution is only for taking out oppressive dictatorships like Saddam Hussein and China.
You're supposed to just need to go out and VOTE -- and the perfect government will be selected for you. After all, those freedom fighters around the world are fighting to death for the ``democracy''. And you already have it. Don't you feel better off? You are asking too much.
I have dealt with them before. I couldn't get my adSense served and so I filled out the contact form. The only reply I got was from an automated email program. Nobody answered the support line. No where to buy a support contract. I got hold of some indirect friend working inside Google and he said he couldn't help me find a support person either.
It is the worst support I have ever seen.... but that's why google is so successful... they have so many users; they don't need to worry about YOU anymore.
My dad gets Type II and is on diet program but he decides to injecting insulin every day so he can eat more normal. He said if he has to eat tasteless veggie everyday for the rest of his life, what's left in his life?
Eating is probably the most important source of entertainment of human life, likely ahead of sex.
America cannot remain as great as it used to be exactly because there are too many ignorant people like you who know nothing about other countries except what the American mainstream media tell them.
Do the later two consider true desperation? maybe.
I was born in China in the 1970's. when I was kid and I had no many toy so I tried to fold a paper ship out of a newspaper, but my sister, who is 5 years older, told me not to do that because there was the picture of Chairman Mao on the paper. that was pretty much the only self-discipline event I have remembered. Then starting in the early 1980's, thing started loosen up. Nobody cared or worried if you said bad things about the government or the part or the leaders; we listened to radio from Hong Kong as well as Voice of America on the short-wave. Blaming and criticizing the government and the party are the daily topics around the lunch/dinner tables. In the current days, things are even more open. Like in July, when the government suddenly raised the stock transaction fee (to curb the rampant stock market,) there were over 270,000 messages in the sina.com.com news discussion board -- almost all of them were slashing on the government and its credibility in explicit wording as well as calling for democratic reform. What usually got blocked nowaday are the three topics: tiananmen, Fa Lun Gong and Taiwan independence. If you don't try to promote your messages on mass media and make yourself a big figure, nobody cares. All people and the government care nowaday is money.
Maybe he started a trend.
And by the way, most English media sites like CNN and CBS are not blocked at all in China; the government is more aggressive blocking Chinese media sites (from Hong Kong and Taiwan).
As long as the topic of China is concerned, I would consider news coverage from Hongkong being the most balance, revealing the best and worst of what's going on in China.
Agree... but what D needs is a better name nowaday. otherwise, it will not succeed as a mainstream language.
I actually realized my writing mistake after I posted it. I meant he was awaken from sleep. According to him, the intruder descended from the window and he just pretended sleeping until the intruder leave in fear of getting hurt.
Shenzhen has had a bad reputation for crimes.... well... comparable to Oakland, California.