Re: A "big" PC (compared to a "smart" phone).

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:23:19 -0500, chrisv wrote:

rbowman wrote:
 

Which will be the winner in the 21st century?

 
Well, that's easy enough.  China seems to have an unbeatable combination
of dictatorial control and capitalism.  They can do things that we
simply cannot (or cannot without first a decade of bickering, protests,
and lawsuits).
 
Plus they have that huge, homogeneous population.  They don't need to
import workers from the shitholes of the worlds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought

Xi is building on Deng Xiaoping's legacy. Deng managed to survive Mao and
saw what needed to be revised. Right or wrong both Xi and Deng follow
Marxist theory and tweaking it as needed, taking a very long view.

The US has never had an ideology other than vague Enlightenment sentiments
and is lucky if it can look forward a year or two. Biden reversed most of
Trump's executive orders on his first day on the job.

I'm reminded of a description of the trade talks between the US and Japan.
Every 4 years the US would send in a green crew of newbies. The Japanese
delegation would change when someone died and had to be replaced. They
knew they could run the new crop around in circles for 4 years and start
all over when the next crop arroved.