• Can Software Companies Make Money in China?

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    Yes, but finding someone who can correctly read/write technical Chinese (good to have both simplified and traditional, the latter for those suckers off the mainland 😉 ) and also speak technical English with the same proficiency is not that easy. In fact we used to have a programmer who spoke Cantonese, he grew up in Hong Kong, and yet he was fairly bad at translating our software. Further, keep in mind because of transliteration systems like pinyin, younger people are becoming handicapped to the needlessly complex Chinese writing system (even so-called simplified).

    This may be why companies tend not to do Chinese right away, and what ends up happening is a local Chinese company ends up cloning it (Facebook, Google, etc) and so the original which is more popular in the west, ends up losing out. So, we try to put as much as we can in something other than English, Spanish, French, and Japanese, which seem to essentially rule the multilanguage software universe. As in we start with Eastern European languages, because the same thing which happens in China, also happens in places like Russia.

    Also internationally you have to price things with the non-western country in mind. For example we may charge $5 per user in the US, but in Turkey we end up charging only about $1.10 per user (if billing address is in Turkey, not just because they use Turkish). Our system of calculation is just based on the differences of income.

  • OpenStack Kilo Released

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  • JavaScript is Helping to Make Old Languages Useful Again

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  • CloudatCost and Fibernetics April to May Outage

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    @dafyre said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    @dafyre said:

    When the panel is working, I DO still have access to power on / off.

    Does it do anything? Or is it a marketing button?

    I should have thought to check it... but I was actually just waiting around for my system to come back up so I could make backups.

    A couple of us checked it. It does nothing.

  • A Short History of the OSWALD

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    Too soon?

  • OSv: The Operating System Written for the Virtualized World

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    I think CP/CMS and later z/VM beat them to it, also considering the latter was released in 2000.

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    I've seen DB2 in use, we had so many machines with it holding customer information.

    I was young then, and the memories have stayed with me.

    The horror, the horror..

    Then the company bought out another company which also had DB2 on some old Unix V knock off and some weird flat file thing on some PDP-somethings and we had to interlink the services and slowly transition everyone over.

  • Facebook's login system is being hijacked by China's Great Firewall

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    @Dashrender said:

    I'm lost, isn't this javascript transmitted over SSL? I'm guessing not, but then the question is why not?

    SSL is not allowed in China without a license for it. Even if you use it anyway, my understanding is that it is proxied and intercepted so it doesn't matter. But technically you are not even allowed to use SSL (SSL is a form of VPN which is a controlled access thing in China.)

    This is basically a huge scale Lenovo issue and has been pointed to as to why it is considered acceptable by some people for why Lenovo attempted something similar - because they are so used to this type of thing in China that hijacking SSL security seemed natural while in the west it is unthinkable.

  • Microsoft granted patent for glasses that detect wearer’s emotions

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    So this is a system that will detect that I become unhappy every time that someone is granted a patent?

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    Both a good day and a bad day for space travel, it would seem.

  • TechNet: The Startup Script is Dead

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    @coliver said:

    @thecreativeone91 said:

    @Dashrender said:

    @thecreativeone91 said:

    I'm been saying that Startup Scripts and ADUC Home Folders have been dead for user. Many still insist on doing things this way though. GPP is way more flexible though and actually works better.

    What do you replace home folder with?

    GPP Mapped Drives.

    I need to finish configuring this... Home drives aren't mapping correctly over our Site-to-site VPN. I am fairly certain this was a known issue which GPP solves.

    Yep. They don't get stored locally in any way as they aren't a policy. GPP does cache.

  • Google's low cost mobile service

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    Wow, 2004. That's crazy. That's SO old. Windows 2003 was new. Office 2003 was new. XP was newish.

    Oh, didn't notice that. A customer at Staples mentioned this quote to me yesterday, which was the first time I'd heard it.

  • WordPress 4.2 Is Out

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    That's one thing that I dislike about WordPress, the security is horrible. The whole design makes it incredibly easy to compromise.

  • Smallest Yet i.MX6 Module Has WiFi

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    I believe so.

  • Random Startup Generator Website

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    I am very interested in how they do the generation. Does it Google for ideas or what?

  • BtrFS Large Filesystem Performance Improvements Coming

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    @coliver said:

    If I remember correctly LibreOffice split off from OpenOffice because they wanted to focus on more features while OpenOffice wanted to work on stabilizing and feature compatibility.

    I agree, OpenOffice should merge back with LibreOffice if they can.

    Not quite. LO split off because of fears over the future of the management and the licensing of OO. Oracle bought them and was not treating the project well. There was real fear that the OO project was going to be shut down and the code removed from circulation. LO was formed to protect against that.

    OO and LO then additionally had some different opinions on development direction but that was purely in addition to the major issues that caused them to split.

  • What is Coming in Exchange 2016

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    odd, it was the link right off of the article site.

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    One of the reasons I didn't go with another Android phone after my last one broke is I don't trust google. I noticed things like it recommending me add people I've been around on google plus. Recommending contacts based on some random text etc.

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    I, too, am concerned that results on my phone are not as good as the results on the computer. I often get search pages that are nothing but ads and unable to find things that, on a computer, are easy to search for. I've never been happy with mobile-only pages or mobile-altered search results.