The parent is just another child troll. If you actually lived outside of the US for any length of time, you would know that the US has some of the safest, politest, and most law abiding drivers in the world. Before you say I am wrong, try driving, or even just riding in a taxi, in Africa, Asia, or the Middle East. I have done it; I doubt you have.

As you leave the US you will also discover that true multi-lingual capabilities are rare. Yes, people can understand several dialects; much like you can probably understand and communicate with a Scotsman. Further, with great difficulty you can probably exchange minimal information with some Dutch. This reflects the multi lingual capabilities found around the world. Keep in mind, just this year the Chinese ministry of education released a report that stated that over 40% of Chinese cannot even speak Chinese at an elementary level.

IT is ok to feel good about yourself; but, to publicly state a form of “I am so great because the people around me are so dumb” makes you look foolish. It really is misplaced Hubris.

There is another datacap problem in China; while my peer to peer is unlimited (for all intents and purposes), Google is very limited. Google searches only work about 80% of the time and following links from Google provides a failure in more than 50% of the attempts. In China the government makes a strong effort to push people toward the Baidu and one of the ways is to severely throttle Google.

As much as it would in hindrance to me, Google is better off ignoring the demands of the Chinese government. The, so called, large market is not here because the Chinese government pushes users to the domestic rival. There is no benefit in trying to arrive in an optimal free market solution in a market that is not free.

This is in the article
"We tried to contact developers to notify our findings, but with no luck: we wrote an e-mail to Tencent technical support both on August 30th and on September 3th, but we got no reply."

This is a common problem when dealing with Chinese companies. They are so accustomed to dealing face to face that they forget to check other means of communication. I frequently find that I need to send an SMS to a Chinese person if I have sent them email, asking them to check their email.

I only got 6/9 then I went back and looked at the mean score. I have to say that I was shocked that it was so low.

Sorry, it doesn’t wash. First of all, I would recommend reading Outliers by Malcomb Gladwell. There are many determents of success. Being good is only one of them.

People graduating in a recession will do worse, as a group than people graduating in a booming economic period. Does that mean that, somehow, that group is intrinsically inferior?

People who graduate from a HS in an economically depressed area will do worse than a similar group from a non-depressed area. Men taller than average will be more successful, heaven forbid that a person is born with a visible disability. I can go on; but, the point, and the trend, is clear; there are many determinants of success. Yes, we can all point to exceptions; but, they are just that, exceptions. If you are fighting a stacked deck you have to be significantly better than average to be successful, and the odds say that you are not significantly better than average. Alternatively, of you are riding with the stacked deck you only need to be average to be successful, and the odds say you are close to average.

Yes, I will use myself as an example. I worked hard and completed my MBA. However, quite frankly, I am short and less attractive than average. Further, I come from a very isolated rural area; as such, I lack useful contacts and, due to a minor disability, was unable to join the Army, which is how a significant number of young men escape rural poverty. The result is that I earn less than 30K/yr.

Now here is the real sad part, I am doing so much better than my HS graduating class that many of my previous peers were uncomfortable talking to me. That is right, at less than 30K I was the success story.

I really recommend that you read Outliers.

Goal seek (an automated approach for successive approximations).

Yes. I know I can do the same by working out a calculus equation; but I lack the time and willingness to work that hard when I actually have other things to do.

See Wikipedia "False Dilemma"

"Jump to: navigation, search A false dilemma (also called the fallacy of the false alternative, false dichotomy, the either-or fallacy, fallacy of the excluded middle, fallacy of false choice, black-and/or-white thinking, or the fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses) is a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. The options may be a position that is between two extremes (such as when there are shades of grey) or may be completely different alternatives. The opposite of this fallacy is argument to moderation."

These is a middle path between soft words and violence.

This seems more sensible than the American way of consigning people that dont fit the social mold to a proverbal rubbish heap. The tax breaks probably cost less then the loss in national productivity that occurs when people are not given the opportunity to do their best because of minor things that, when looked at with an objective eye, don't reduce performance.

I have an MBA from a state university; however, I also have very minor cerbral palsy, and yes, a just a touch of autism (used to be Aspergers untill the DSM change). The result is that, in America, the only jobs I am"qualified" for are washing dishes and watching security monitors. That is a waste of investment in training at a national level and leads to an overall loss in productuivity, both on a personal and a national level.

Tax breaks are not the most expensive way to deal with finding suitable employment for th emildly disabled. What America is dong now looks like a much more expensive way.

You don't learn to use th equipment in the University course. Those are taught in the Technology courses at the Community College level.

As far as the article goes, I strongly agree. I wen to a community college and studied electronic technology. I then went to work repairing copiers, faxes, and networked printers. Then, after over ten years of being a repairman, I got the stupid idea of moving up the ladder. i went back to college and got my BA, and eventually an MBA.

The result is that I am, essentially, unemployed and unemployable. No one wants a repairman for a professional position and no one wants someone with a professional degree for a repairman. Faced with the choice between being a security guard or dishwasher in America (really the only offers I got after getting my MBA at a State University) or teaching in China, I chose teaching in China.

I would have been better off 1. staying in copier repair; or, 2. becoming a truck driver. I suspect that when I return to the US I probably will become a truck driver.

If it makes you feel any better I have an MBA and I ended up with only two offers: one as a dishwasher and one as an entry level security guard. The dish-washing "position" only offered minimum wage because I don't speak Spanish; Chinese yes, Spanish no.

I finally left the country and took a position teaching at a small private High School; to add, my students score quite well on the standardized tests. I am frequently asked why I don't stay in America (more frequently by Americans than Chinese). The simple facts are that there were no jobs. It really does not matter that my country paid a lot to educate me and prepare me for the workforce if it then failed to provide opportunities to use that training; I had to do elsewhere.

Right, there is no magic bullet to education. There are just a variety of tools in the kit.

If I really care about what I am typing, I type it in word first. My students know I am the worlds worst typist when I type on the overhead; that is why I make an effort to use class material that I have written in advance. If I take the time to write well, which I am definitely not doing now, I can write, and have written, material suitable for publication

I will also add that I am a business teacher, I wrote well enough to make it through an MBA program (oddly enough, I was even called on to help edit for the ESL students). However, for all the amusement your jackass answer provided, it did not address the question. -- Grade F

I read the article and went to edX. At edX I signed up; but, I can not find out about this system. Quite Frankly, I am a teacher and I need my students to be writing more; however, I do not have the time to grade all of their papers so I have been assigning more objective homework that I would like.

A system like this may work as a first pass filter to do the bulk of the grading, allowing me to focus on identifying common problems and developing lessons based on common errors rather than tying myself down with a huge stack of papers. This would also benefit the students by providing them with more consistent grading and feedback.

This may not be what I go with; but, I would like to have a look at it. That takes me back to my question, can anyone point me to somewhere that I can get more information on this?

They are not free because the developer intended them to be free, or browser based. They are free because they have been cracked and are available for free from numerous websites (on another note, that is part of the reason torrents never really caught on in China, the stuff can be downloaded from normal sites). Just do a search on Baidu; or check tudou.com.

It is easy to cast aside observations that conflict with our values as the product of a mistaken mind; however, take note that I am the person who lives in China. I have done so since 2006. In addition to regular, daily contacts in an all Chinese environment I regularly read Chinese news and articles about attitudes of young Chinese (As it is important for me to do so for professional reasons). It might run into your Bias filter; but, surveys and studies have shown that the Chinese are not particularly interested in Politics and those that are, are generally turned off by American style freedom.

You might disrespect me because my years of observations conform to many studies; but conflict with your biases. However, that does not discount my years of observations and conversations. It also does not discount the work on this topic done by both the BBC and Al Jazeera or the Pew Research Center. In fact, all it does is shows that your bigotry interferes with your ability to absorb new information.

Oh, and they don't all look the same (although, funny enough, several of them, including a friend of many years, tell me that we all look the same to them. . . ).

Just to ask, where have you seen this? As in, what city and district?

I was in several computer markets (as you know, "store" does not quite describe the situation in a Chinese building of small shops) last weekend. I saw no linux.

That is not only in my city; but in the many I visit. If there is an Ubuntu store or Kosk in Shanghai I would like to know where it is, just so I can visit it (I am not in Shanghai; but, it is only a few hours travel away). I will also be in HK next week, near Wan Chi, If there are any in that district I would also be interested.