We like economy and precision in programming languages. You may have many complaints about English, but it's pretty damn good common language due to its slutty tendency - it soaks in whatever useful from other languages.
In general, I don't want poetry in coding. I definitely don't want Egyptian glyphs or Chinese ideograms.
Them Koreans are turning out some damn good movies. Just saw couple by a dude named "Bong":-) Seriously, I'm impressed - though sucks having to "read" the movies.
You caught me there for lousy phrasing, but Newton and company published in Latin because that was the common language for scholarly publication in their time, just as the English is the common language of international commerce today.
Latin and other classics were just old snobbery of math illiterates in the bygone age. It's comparable to the medieval Chinese scholarship focusing on Confucius classics.
But math is fundamental because all sciences, including social sciences, rely on it. Social sciences especially would improve much if their practitioners were better grounded in math.
Can we escape from the pervasive ads? Sure, people can choose to do whatever they well damn please, but I just don't want this to become the dominant mode of just about every business.
Don't we have enough weaseling in our life as it is?
Don't know about switching recognition to Taiwan, but China definitely shot its load prematurely.
We can restart producing "rare" earth metals within a few years. China's Asian neighbors are spooked. We (hopefully) are realizing we can't base our economy on paper trading, lawyering, and IPs.
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Medical science is one of the worst offenders for variety of reasons. There is an excellent critique of the modern science "system":
http://www.amazon.com/Betrayers-truth-William-Broad/dp/0671447696
It's out of print, being almost 30 years old, but it's as relevant today as ever.
We like economy and precision in programming languages. You may have many complaints about English, but it's pretty damn good common language due to its slutty tendency - it soaks in whatever useful from other languages.
In general, I don't want poetry in coding. I definitely don't want Egyptian glyphs or Chinese ideograms.
Them Koreans are turning out some damn good movies. Just saw couple by a dude named "Bong" :-) Seriously, I'm impressed - though sucks having to "read" the movies.
Hollywood seriously needs to step up.
You caught me there for lousy phrasing, but Newton and company published in Latin because that was the common language for scholarly publication in their time, just as the English is the common language of international commerce today.
Latin and other classics were just old snobbery of math illiterates in the bygone age. It's comparable to the medieval Chinese scholarship focusing on Confucius classics.
But math is fundamental because all sciences, including social sciences, rely on it. Social sciences especially would improve much if their practitioners were better grounded in math.
Hush.
That's a straight-up "insightful" comment.
It's feasible with high quality Denon Super High Fidelity Power Ethernet(TM) cable. You can look it up at Amazon.com
Somebody in the know prove me wrong.
Can we escape from the pervasive ads? Sure, people can choose to do whatever they well damn please, but I just don't want this to become the dominant mode of just about every business.
Don't we have enough weaseling in our life as it is?
You will pry my brain off my cold dead...
No you won't.
Didn't know that. Do they still sell desktop boxes (anything other than laptop sort)?
20 years ago (actually, bit older), NEC was the king of PC in Japan. They got out of the business entirely for some time now.
You had it coming, smart ass.
Damn and blast them. What we need is to automate away all the asinine programmers. You know, like with those Rational stuff. :-)
Don't know about switching recognition to Taiwan, but China definitely shot its load prematurely.
We can restart producing "rare" earth metals within a few years. China's Asian neighbors are spooked. We (hopefully) are realizing we can't base our economy on paper trading, lawyering, and IPs.
It will be an interesting decade.
"Global supply chains are far too interconnected for something so drastic."
Tell that to the Chinese who's doing the cut-off.
What is money? Think about that.
WRONG.
Revolution might do us some good. It will fuck up China.
We have less than 400m people in the land. China has got 1.3B.
We have oil reserve in the land. China's got squat.
It's premature for China to play hardball with us.
Obama: Make them PAY.
We can win/lose this easy.
Cut off the trading ties. We'll suffer nasty. We might have a revolution. But China most definitely WILL HAVE A REVOLUTION. CPC WILL BE FUCKED.
It might help us in the end. China? It will fuck them over any way you screw it.
Bullshit. That guy is a has-been attention whore. It's best to simply ignore the senile old dude.
This rise of stupid patents (to build legal ammunition) makes me think of the rise of stupid research papers (to build academic CV).
Is that nastaliq?
Compound that with the huge amount of money in medical research, it just becomes a cesspool of bad science.
For job security, that is, would be C++ modules glued together with Perl.
I've got a headache just typing this post.