Is China really blocking all the US search engines?(readwriteweb.com)
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Is China really blocking all the US search engines?
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The answer seems to be unclear!
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The constant "concern" over China becoming some sort of significant world super power/super economy really puzzles me.
There is nothing about the way China is acting, as a country, to indicate that they have any real ability to scale.
It has been said, (and I happen to agree) that the thing that makes the US so attractive from a standpoint of innovation is the government. I have a lot of issues with the US Government (and I don't just mean in a me-too anti-Bush sort of way), but overall in the US are not limited to the information you can access, in your opportunity to create wealth, and in your ability to keep that wealth and do with it what you please. At least as compared to the rest of the world. I recognize the obvious problems with various FOIA requests, taxes, patents, etc. But overall you are free in the US to design, develop and sell any product or service that you feel will have a value.
Then you look at China, and the government of a few is trying to manage the efforts of billions. This is like taking everything you should have learned from "The Mythical Man Month", and extrapolating out to the worst possible case.
It may take 20 years, but China is going to implode from their own lack of management. OR, they will get smart and make massive changes to the way things are done, so that they can become something other than just another lowest-cost-bidder.
I cannot think of any case in history where their "model" has been successful.
There is nothing about the way China is acting, as a country, to indicate that they have any real ability to scale.
It has been said, (and I happen to agree) that the thing that makes the US so attractive from a standpoint of innovation is the government. I have a lot of issues with the US Government (and I don't just mean in a me-too anti-Bush sort of way), but overall in the US are not limited to the information you can access, in your opportunity to create wealth, and in your ability to keep that wealth and do with it what you please. At least as compared to the rest of the world. I recognize the obvious problems with various FOIA requests, taxes, patents, etc. But overall you are free in the US to design, develop and sell any product or service that you feel will have a value.
Then you look at China, and the government of a few is trying to manage the efforts of billions. This is like taking everything you should have learned from "The Mythical Man Month", and extrapolating out to the worst possible case.
It may take 20 years, but China is going to implode from their own lack of management. OR, they will get smart and make massive changes to the way things are done, so that they can become something other than just another lowest-cost-bidder.
I cannot think of any case in history where their "model" has been successful.