The video was taken as an ambush interview with a cheap phone and after numerous beers, I was told. Kaiser is generally more eloquent.

Anyways, he explains this a bit on his own Ogilivy blog: http://digitalwatch.ogilvy.com.cn/en/?p=132

But, honestly, isn’t this just a human trait? What nationality *doesn’t* think they are the “best”?

Yeah, it was assembled by a poor chinese kid, from parts fabbed in germany, with instruction manuals printed in mexico. It’s called globalisation… another reason why Nate is ironic. Apparently he get’s misty eyed for a time before American imperialism… such as conquering China using opium, like civilized people.

Linux uses core components and concepts from Unix… Linus could have been ‘inspired’ by the freakin Mona Lisa… doesn’t mean that’s where he got the system architectures from, etc. Not to put too fine of a point on it… SCO didn’t give a crap about Minix when they sued different Linux users/vendors and neither did the court systems. The only people who care about Minix are… ridiculous flame warriors.

But lets just face it… you’re having just as much fun epeening by correcting IP with TCP as I am laughing at sour grapes Nate. I’m not saying Europe doesn’t export things.. take philosophy… like facism and communism. Where would the world be without those? lol

The page you’re reading was encoded in HTML which is a European technology.
You’re comment was submitted over a medium called HTTP which is a European technology. (CERN/W3C).

Actually Linux was inspired by Minix, which is, guess what, European. Created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Oh, and both your CPU and hard drive was probably manufactured by some underpaid Chinese kid.

And…IP does not ensure that data made it from your PC to the web server, you know, there is TCP for that.

…or maybe we could just skip this ridiculous flame war. USA produces a lot of good things and a lot of crap too, the same goes for Europe. I’ve accepted that, can you?

“What’s with the assumption that the US dominates the web?”

How about because it’s American originated technology that even enabled your ridiculous whining.

* You linked to this website with a 90% or so probablity that you’re using a Windows variant OS, from America. Even if you’re using Linux… it’s based on Unix, again from America.

* The processor that runs said OS.. again highly probable that it was made by an American company, this time Intel or AMD.

* The hard drive your complaint is stored on? Originally produced by IBM in the 1950s.

* The internet that you used to see this site? Originally Arpanet… from the US.

* The protocol that ensured your data made it from your PC to this web server? IP… made at Stanford based off a prior system of radios implemented in Hawaii… in the USA. (Improved with help from England for IPv3-4)

Not to mention that many of the movies, music, and software being pirated on this new P2P network are American in origin. The people watching these movies may have even had chicken from one of KFC’s 1800 Chinese locations…

Perhaps that’s where the assumption comes from. Sure the US is in decline as a super power… our day in the sun is nearly over. Just like it was for Europe… 400 years ago if you’re Continental, 100 years ago if you’re a Brit.

Hope you (or your kids more like, if Europeans had kids anymore) like Dim Sum and wontons. You can eat that while watch a holographic news vid about the Ethiopians’ callous disregard for Chinese intellectual property.

QQlive, very good quality, also very popular since it is a brach of QQ.com, the majority of Chinese IM software, 50 stuffs. http://tv.qq.com/download.htm

TVKoo, the smart software which could be run in most continet, with the best quality globally, most piracy content, less than 10 researchers. http://www.tvkoo.com/en/download.htm

pplive, the most popular software in China, many venture capitals invested, some piracy content, 100 stuffs. http://www.pplive.com/zh-cn/download.html

PPstream, good quality and website, some piracy content, also invested by some oversea veture capitals, 80 stuffs.http://www.ppstream.com/download.html

Sogou, a software which is good enough when there are a few users concurrently, invested by Sohu.com, one of the majoy web in China, piracy content, 20-30 researchers. http://tv.sohu.com/zhibo/

Sinalive, a software with TVkoo, PPstream P2P engine inside, legal content, mostly formal users, 20 stuffs as a branch of sina.com, the most popular news web in China. http://uc.sina.com.cn/download......4.0.0.exe

All above are free to download. After you tried them, you will find the gap between those Chinese P2P live solutions and western competitors.

The original complaint before you started getting all hissy fitted was that the article suggest that this development is beating the “American know how” without mention of the rest of the world.

On someone else’s point the fact is simply put that America has a lot to learn. Kids there are definitely getting a much lower quality of education compared to many places in Europe. This certainly doesn’t help development of new ideas nor does the stifling of ideas by many schools in the Creation vs evolution debate. Science as a field is where concepts need to be shown and let the mind of the individual make up their own choice.

I don’t believe in god my partner does, I wont ever force my point of view on them, I will happily discuss it with them however without ending in an “I’m right and you are wrong” situation. This just highlights one reason why North America is loosing out to the western pacific area. Just not moving with the times and accepting not everyone has the same point of view or opinion on things.

One thing that has to be pointed out here is that China doesn’t have much reason to play watch dog over pirates, other than to maintain international relations. As it is, they are a major supplier for physical bootlegs and knock-offs.

Besides that, nobody is stopping U.S. programmers from innovating. The premise of P2P is not illegal. Using the technology to pirate is. Anyone state-side should be just as limitless in their ability to innovate in that arena. Public beta testing might be a hurdle, though.

You have stuff to learn from them as well

We all do

Faster than “Napalm kills innocents kids in Vietnam”, “Bush has killed more people than Saddam in Iraq”, “First nuclear bomb was not Japanese” and so on…

What’s with the assumption that the US dominates the web?

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there is none. the fact is that US dominates the foundation of technologies.

php built from perl = .us
linux built because of unix = .us
mp3 built from mpeg = .us

so if you want to say that euros have to wait for something good to build on and that means us != web, that’s fine. just hope we don’t drag our feet with future technologies, you might have to create something without holding onto our coattails.

but nice try (hurts to look under the rug, don’t it).

It is the sad state of US internet infrastructure, not frivolous lawsuits, that has greatly dented America’s development. Look at places like South Korea and Japan that have also invested in infrastructure, they also far surpass the US in every measure when it comes to net use and profit.