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I realise they do. I also realise they use it to maintain power, and undermine democracy and freedom... But should they?

As a dropbox team admin for my company, I recently removed a member from the team. It explains in bright red writing (from memory) that it will remove the members entire dropbox account.

I remember, because I contacted the team member, and got him to back everything up before I procceded.

I then contacted Dropbox support, to explain how stupid this was...

My point is, that admin should have some accountability, ignoring big red writing is usually a bad idea.

Really... Businesses should have political agendas and involve them selves in matters of state? That hasn't worked out so well in the past...

Traditional was already unified. Simplified was a simplification (to increase literacy levels), there is no evidence that simplified was a newspeakesqe version of chinese

It has nothing to do with Tibet nor Taiwan.

Citation?

Wait... That's historically true, isn't it? The Qin Dynasty unified China's writing system in an effort to unite the disparite cultures (not to censor them).

Lets not confuse history and propaganda.

You remember wrong. It was and is reported as pro-democracy protests, that were crushed by Deng Xiao Ping.

if random relatives know these stories they are hardly covered up.

Heaps of chinese news doesn't make it out of the country, because it's written in chinese, or published in Chinese (only) news outlets. It's not a cover up.

maybe you should go there... the stories are mostly western propaganda

Or an Australian, UK, Canadian, New Zealand, French, Italian, etc College. Remember the US isn't the only country in the world. Nor is it the attractive place it once was.

Sorry, I wasn't talking about the ability to create pixel based documents, and/or inches based. I was referring to transitioning between them. (i.e. normalizing your ppi of all your artwork and converting a pixel based document into an 'real' width).

This is of course just my opinion, just as that graph is someone else's opinion (i.e. there are no universal 'truths' here).

Lobbying (as in paid lobbyists) should be viewed as corruption.

Going to war with countries for no (valid) reason (in the age of the UN) should be corruption.

Breaking any international agreement and pretending you still follow them should be corruption.

Imprisoning people because they expose your corruption, should be corruption.

I think even with that small list I'm pretty sure most of "The West" would be red.

The West came up with some favourable rules for themselves then judged the rest of the world by those rules.

Great graph, it highlights the "West" quite well.

Shame it doesn't tell me ANYTHING about corruption :(

Great contribution, my point is still valid regardless of what you think of me... you, on the other hand, didn't make a useful point.

To say Adobe is tied to Postscript unlike Quark comes across as fanboy-ism. Given adobe are heavily invested in HTML. That said the OP clarified what he means by Desktop Publishing and it makes more sense.

HTML is inherently bad for print because of the pixel-inches transition... I'm not sure how quark gets around that, but it's a serious issue.

What CSS/HTML does Quark support?

... Right because Adobe ONLY produce InDesign.

For digital publishing, Adobe have Dreamweaver, Muse, Edge, (part of InDesign), Flash... all linked with Creative Cloud, which allows you to publish 'to-the-web' (Great for non-technical designers).

I would hazard a guess that you work for Quark, or are an Apple-like fanboy of them, to present such a one sided argument with a fraction of the complete information.

Built on Flash, the abandonware tech everyone is leaving.

Flex was pretty horrible, and only started getting reasonable after Flash 10, but there was a constant conflict between the Flex team, and the Flash team (within Adobe). You could even see passive aggressive comments written in the Flex source:

"Waiting for jso-en-so (Flash Team) to FIX THIS, until then use <some horrible workaround>"

Right and 99.9% of chinese run iOS... A more likely answer is you are just Racist.

Why not? Should web apps require javascript? Shouldn't the be usable even when javascript is unavailable.

7. Progressive Enhancement.

It should be mentioned more, the current trend of tech is leaving it behind, for no good reason... There should at least be a debate on it... but it seems it's in the "Too hard" basket right now.

Just like Nuclear Power != chernobyl

Stalinism != Communism

ShenZhen is the WORST example you could make. It is a Special Economic Zone, created as an experiment to look at the effects of urbanising the country side...

Go next door to Guangzhou, in the evening and walk along the streets and count the "migrants" (what Chinese call people from the country side in the cities) sleeping on the sidewalk because they have no "right" to housing or "legitimate" work.

Like Apache Gunships gunning down innocent families trying to help the wounded (also gunned down by said gunship)?

Yeah that was so 'openly' reported that the person who leaked it will probably spend the rest of his life in prison, and the organisation that reported is treated like a terrorist organisation... Such transparency.

Unfortunately the only people who can truly measure transparency are the ones on the 'inside'... So comparing transparency is nigh impossible.

> attempting to abandon the destructive policies of Communism. There's no little irony in the fact that as China has moved more Capitalist

I think you need to read more Marx. Capitalism is the way you generate the capital to fund Socialism. Marx was aware that even if your own country was Communist, others wouldn't be, so their would be a "Opening up" phase where you move your country through Capitalism, until internal capital is enough to keep your entire population 'comfortable'.

"Murdered"... No, there was no intent. They starved, because of a number of counter productive measures. Mao would not instigate the great leap forward had he known the consequences in advance.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki was murder

Rape of Nanjing was murder

The holocaust was murder

Great Leap forward was a very big unintentional mistake.

Absolute numbers are deceptive (and depressing) when talking about China, but it is often better to look at percentages.

Your Attack on the GP's morality is uncalled for. I think you need to check your own ideology and emotion at the door, and discuss things rationally.

Terrorists + bomb = nightmare (regardless of speed).

By this logic Planes are a bad idea too (no room for emergency, high speed, tiny windows with nothing to look at)...

I realise you've hit "someone is wrong on the internet" territory, and thus seem to be just ranting. But when you are telling me that peoples conceptual models of how to use email are flawed... you are losing credibility.

Computers should bend to people, not people to computers.

Quoting stats from your email accounts doesn't actually mean anything. You can't possibly make the claim you are making, only the sender knows if the email was 'finished' or not, not the receiver.

I didn't actually suggest any UI changes, only that existing UX (as in the experience) seems sub-optimal, because problems still occur.

It is weird to ask for the subject of an email before writing an email.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who has change (or left blank to begin with) the subject once I've written the email.

Also I've observed a lot of people who write the content first then fill out the top (To, CC, BCC) after. Often the content effects who should/can see the email.

The current UX is wrong given mis-sending, mis-addressing still occurs.

Not Long before the ancient greeks though... Perhaps they were related? (i.e Alexander the Great)

I didn't saying anything of the sort. But you dismantled that straw man rather deftly! Well Done!

I was referring in particular to "Human Rights". There are a number of different ways to approach building a productive society. Human Rights are one approach, there are others. Both are rational.