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Kingsoft/WPS office are in no was reverse engineered. The earliest versions were written by hand in assembly language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What does that have to do with the Chinese? Are these Chinese based products?
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"their reverse engineered Office software"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is a hierarchy of Chinese electronics manufacturers, from dirt-floored huts turning out dangerous and nonfunctional crap up to Foxconn's city-sized factories able to turn out iPods, and of course the defense contractors building fighter jets and moon rockets. Makers try to bootstrap their way up the hierarchy of capability and quality. The competitive pressure must be immense at the bottom. It's my suspicion that Chinese consumers have developed ways to tell who is who and are better able to avoid the junk than we are.
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: made in China for half the price including shipping worldwide
I once bought an electrical component from China. Good price and just what I needed. The only problem is that it did not work as advertised. It was a remote control switch that was supposed to have a range of 100 meters but it's actual range was barely 10 cm.
I will never ever buy stuff online from China ever again.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I know the feeling - I bought a 32GB SD card from China and it worked fine until you loaded more than 2GB on it. Turns out it was a 2GB card that reported itself as 32GB... My own fault, I knew it was too cheap.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, I've recently ordered something from China on eBay, it cost sumthin' like 3 bucks or so. I live in Hungary, and they granted me Free Shipping. Imagine that! They sent me something extremely cheep stuff from a distance of half of the Planet for free! I believe they invented teleportation for sure.
Make love, not Warcraft!
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You can already piece something like that together from AutomationDirect[^] for a few hundred dollars (US).
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Thanks - Not sure though how easy these thingies are to program and setup, looks like pieces for - how should I phrase it - "real" systems.
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Actually, the price points are good and they have lots of programming examples. I basically taught myself PLC programming using their stuff. We use the DirectLogic PLCs[^] in a lot of places because of their flexibility, size, and price.
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Hrm. Automation Direct looks more like an industrial automation supplier (automated assembly lines and its ilk). Didn't see much in the way of a source for the hobbyist.
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Yep, but Automation Direct is at the low end of the supply pool for most industries. They're known for very inexpensive, no-frills stuff.
I just offered it up as an idea.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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More powerful, I think, and more easier to use.
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Cool! I got littleBits a few years ago for my kid to get him interested in electronics. It was a fad to him. He enjoys math and science, just not interested in hardware for now.
Here's another[^] that looks interesting. Seems a few kickstarter projects have come up since then to make Lego-type electronics.
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Great thinking... It would be around $100
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I'd pay a dollar for that. (old saying)
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Is Catman the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right meow?
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I and my wife are both allergic to cats! Go away - far away! Do not pass GO. Do not collect 200!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Because the autoimmune system is out of control, thinking under such pressure can be difficult.
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Quote: Because the autoimmune system is out of control, thinking under such pressure can be difficult is impossible. FTFY
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The real cause of hay fever is a Devil attack or Cosmic System attack. God delivers the victim over into Devil's power, and Devil proceeds to attack. The spiritual attack from devil enslaves the person in the Cosmic System. He falls under Devils power, and the autoimmune system loses control and overreacts. Thus, the person becomes hypersensitive to external stimulants, especially those involving the nose, breathing, and spirituality. His nasal passages and sinuses are easily irritated, and he is hypersensitive to psychic attacks from people and their demons. People are a much bigger problem than pollen. Sneezes are caused by people in the vicinity along with their demons
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Nurse! Nurse! He's out of bed again!
This comment (c) @User-9037617 2016: Soapbox[^]
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He joined today. The Captain re-incarnated?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Writing style is the same.
Rhetoric is the same.
Paranoia ... Is looking much the same.
Hopefully he has learned not to abuse the lounge?
Oink! Oink! Flap! Flap! Floss! Floss!
(Herd of flying pigs, cleaning their teeth as they go by)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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