The TRON house demo from 1989 was genuinely ahead of its time. Hard to compete on technology when your competitor has the US trade office backing them.
Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
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Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
apparently China decision to ban US tech company and build their own counterpart is seen as Genius after 20 years
One of the advantages of an autocracy: you don't need people's approval every 5 years so you can plan for decades. When you're right it is awesome. When you're wrong, well that's what the army is for.
> One of the advantages of an autocracy: you don't need people's approval every 5 years so you can plan for decades.
This is a funny thing to say about a system known for its regular issuance of 5-year plans. They have festivals and everything.
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The technology doesn't have to be the best, it just needs to get lucky enough to become a standard and build a moat with that. I don't know about that. Top 500 supercomputers running Linux. I use both Linux and Win10, for instance (won't switch to Win11 no matter what), but whenever I have to use Windows, I wonder how this garbage could ever become so dominating in the first place. Inefficiency is very clearly a wo…
But the idea that Windows is a "better OS" really seems accurate for people in the Third World. This is because Korean language support on Linux is terrible, and since all the commands are in English, it takes quite a bit of time to get used to it. Not only that, but there are so many distributions that you do not even know what to configure, and rather than doing RTFM, I just want to get my "work" done. In that rega…
> But the idea that Windows is a "better OS" really seems accurate for people in the Third World. This is because Korean language support on Linux is terrible
Who in the third world is supposed to speak Korean?
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#54Of course. Why would the US allow what's essentially their colony in all but name to control that much stack for a critical tech?
And we can blame greed of a Japanese man for actually causing the failure
If you're referring to Masayoshi Son he's Korean by ethnicity, Japanese by nationality.
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
But the idea that Windows is a "better OS" really seems accurate for people in the Third World. This is because Korean language support on Linux is terrible, and since all the commands are in English, it takes quite a bit of time to get used to it. Not only that, but there are so many distributions that you do not even know what to configure, and rather than doing RTFM, I just want to get my "work" done. In that rega…
> But the idea that Windows is a "better OS" really seems accurate for people in the Third World. This is because Korean language support on Linux is terrible Who in the third world is supposed to speak Korean?
In this case, I'd appreciate it if you could understand it as my 'native language.' When you input a language that isn't English into a computer, it often doesn't work well with ASCII—it frequently breaks in many places.
Because the standards for computer work are mostly set by the US, people in Asia often call the ASCII system 'the privilege of one byte.' A single hardware switch maps directly to one byte of memory. You don't need an IME—Linux requires programmers to configure that manually.
For native languages like Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic, you can't just type characters onto the screen directly. IME daemons like ibus or fcitx run in the background, intercept key events, and compose them in buffers. In that regard, Windows is much better. And this ties in well with the topic of this post
Using Linux outside the English speaking world means you have to study encoding history and filesystem structures just to open a document. It practically becomes a hobby. It's awful.
But Windows solves that problem first, because it wants to sell Windows in those countries. NTFS stores filenames in UTF-16, so multilingual input is standard. When you open a terminal in Linux, you get the horrible experience of seeing your native language rendered as broken characters. I do use Linux, of course. I think its lightweight nature is a plus, but in my work environment, Linux is hard to use properly except on servers
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the advantages of an autocracy: you don't need people's approval every 5 years so you can plan for decades. When you're right it is awesome. When you're wrong, well that's what the army is for.
It also makes feedback illegal, so corruption and bad decisions get unfixed, untill both not only eat any gains but make the whole thing collapse.
Yeah but China have death penalty for corruption while Trump literally selling subscription for faster tweet access
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The financial center of the world selects its winners nearby. As simple as that. Businesses outside of the US have never had much of a chance. China does the same now, as the engineering center of the world. And they have to because the financial center is hyping them as a threat.
A dictatorship with the explicit goal of invading Taiwan, which is not only a close ally, but also of global geostrategic importance. That's not "hype".
You're confusing "ally" and "vassal". Allies are countries that send troops to help you in war.
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
A dictatorship with the explicit goal of invading Taiwan, which is not only a close ally, but also of global geostrategic importance. That's not "hype".
You're confusing "ally" and "vassal". Allies are countries that send troops to help you in war.
Whereas vassals are countries that you draft to help you in war?
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
The financial center of the world selects its winners nearby. As simple as that. Businesses outside of the US have never had much of a chance. China does the same now, as the engineering center of the world. And they have to because the financial center is hyping them as a threat.
A dictatorship with the explicit goal of invading Taiwan, which is not only a close ally, but also of global geostrategic importance. That's not "hype".
On the other hand, we can't tell if the US has a goal or not in the middle east or if destabilising countries is the geostrategy unto itself.
People really need to dial down the hype, engage with the real world where large countries get to have a sphere of influence and start talking realistically about what behaviour is tolerable. I still haven't heard anyone make a case for why we keep hitting the Russians given what acceptable US foreign policy looks like. One of the two is worse and it isn't the policies written in Cyrillic.
Re: Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
#60Feels like clickbait to me. There were lots of OSes. Things like GEM, OS/2, Next, BeOS, GeOS, MSX, ... they didn't succeed and I'm sure you can write some clickbait article about why with conspiratorial anecdotes.
The title is certainly clickbait-y. But the content is still interesting. And not sloppy.
It is, but claiming that it was "killed by the US government", and suggest it would have became the dominant OS is dubious at best.
So it's not just clickbait-y, it misleading at best if not just a lie.