It depends. If you're speaking Spanish, you're fine, as the Z sounds like the English S. If you're in Portuguese, no, because the Z from rice in portuguese is read differently. It's more like "arrÃs" in Catalan.
Sometimes they actually do. I was watching a program on tv last night here in spain, called "callejeros" (something like people of the street in spanish).
Now I know the best places to buy dope in Barcelona, even though I don't use them:-)
Outsourcing is just another commodity in this "Free Trade" world that is unfair to the USA. How can USA companies and their employees compete with people who steal?
Mind you that realities are different. The cost of pretty much everything in a place like the aforementioned places is way lower, being the salaries lower as well. That's why good food seems almost free for a 1st world tourist in those places.
But this reality is not passed to software. American companies outsource jobs to those places exactly because they're cheaper, but charge their software the same.
When I was a grad student there, I couldn't afford even the educational prices for an office license. So I tried to convince my teachers to accept the broken.docs that openoffice 1.x did at that time with little success. I eventually had to pirate it myself.
Now I can afford iWork (and a mac anyway), but that's because I live in europe. I would pretty much doing the same thing if I was there, because I need to, not that I want to.
Not to mention that pretty much everyone in science today uses linux under every piece of experiment they do... Although some uses ms word to write their papers (which we can see quite clearly when we have to review ugly papers).
Everyone is so demanding of EVs and wants them for nothing. Being on the bleeding edge of technology isn't cheap.
Electric engines aren't the bleeding edge of technology. They are known to work more or less the same for decades. Gasoline and diesel engines has evolved way more in the last 30 years than electric ones.
The battery is now evolving, but not to the bleeding edge.
And that's why the chinese are going to bring some interesting cards to the game. They know how to produce electric. They dominate battery technology. Teach them how to make nice designs and detroit is going to have a big problem in their oily hands.
And users don't particularly want to know or care about patent law. They'll just assume Apple is better or smarter than these other phones, and that the iPhone is better.
That's actually true. The iPhone raised the bar of what a mobile can do. 99% of the phones available in the market today just seems 20th century rubbish stuff, compared to it. And the ones who aren't, are iPhone copies.
They didn't need the patents until today to grow from nothing to be the most important smartphone ever, exactly because it was so much better.
But as it costs you an arm to have one, especially outside u.s., I'll have a crap sony ericsson instead...
Just as an example: I'll bet Apple patented the magnetic cord of the MacBook.
You bet they did. Ever noticed that you can't even buy alternative brands' rechargers even for the Macs? And now you see Sony doing those crap short round power connectors because Apple made they notice that stepping into a cable thus throwing your $1.2K notebook on the ground is not a good idea...
Well, some Brazilians who live in palestina as palestinians were called to go back to their country, but they refused to, saying they feel safer in Gaza.
I second that. It works, it is way faster than those nasty NAS with crappy linux distributions fitted into a 400mhz processor, and you can simply attach external usb drives for more space in hot-swap.
Besides, the external HDs may fit as a time machine.
Hey,the only things I care for are pictures. And I've accumulated about 80gb of them in the last 20 years.
Here's what I do:
1) set up a simple website with all of them. This site is basically an html generated from whatever those "html album" proggies. Don't depend on php nor anything else, just plain html. The pictures are stored into folders separated by date.
The advantages of this: - these folders are the same in my machine (where the pictures are in my/home). So I have two copies of them anyway - as I don't backup manually very often, I've created some space in my tv's media player (a tvix) with time machine. So every time I connect my computer there to upload some movie I've downloaded, I have a full backup of them.
The media player thing + time machine solves the issues of (a) doing backups regularly, as you will connect your computer to it often (b) you will always want more space for hd movies and music. So you WILL replace the hard drive every years or so.
And the website, besides of being an extra copy (with some searchable information being the album covers with some text), helps you by being found by archive.org and google cache.
And don't forget to copy all your data to gmail. Simple, searchable and free.
And let life keep going on. 500 giga is not too much to have on a backup, and in two years is not too much to have even in your notebook's hd.
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It depends. If you're speaking Spanish, you're fine, as the Z sounds like the English S. If you're in Portuguese, no, because the Z from rice in portuguese is read differently. It's more like "arrÃs" in Catalan.
Sometimes they actually do. I was watching a program on tv last night here in spain, called "callejeros" (something like people of the street in spanish).
Now I know the best places to buy dope in Barcelona, even though I don't use them :-)
No I'm not. Let me quote it again:
Outsourcing is just another commodity in this "Free Trade" world that is unfair to the USA. How can USA companies and their employees compete with people who steal?
Mind you that realities are different. The cost of pretty much everything in a place like the aforementioned places is way lower, being the salaries lower as well. That's why good food seems almost free for a 1st world tourist in those places.
But this reality is not passed to software. American companies outsource jobs to those places exactly because they're cheaper, but charge their software the same.
When I was a grad student there, I couldn't afford even the educational prices for an office license. So I tried to convince my teachers to accept the broken .docs that openoffice 1.x did at that time with little success. I eventually had to pirate it myself.
Now I can afford iWork (and a mac anyway), but that's because I live in europe. I would pretty much doing the same thing if I was there, because I need to, not that I want to.
The software pirates YOU!
If the company is investigated and the piracy is found out,
Piracy investigation in China? In which world do you live?
When you say unfair to usa, you forget that those pirated softwares are exported using US prices, being charged to india/china/russia/brazil salaries.
A single copy of a software may cost as much as one year of an employee's salary there.
Not to mention that pretty much everyone in science today uses linux under every piece of experiment they do... Although some uses ms word to write their papers (which we can see quite clearly when we have to review ugly papers).
Isn't it what happens most of the time? http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1069
Everyone is so demanding of EVs and wants them for nothing. Being on the bleeding edge of technology isn't cheap.
Electric engines aren't the bleeding edge of technology. They are known to work more or less the same for decades. Gasoline and diesel engines has evolved way more in the last 30 years than electric ones.
The battery is now evolving, but not to the bleeding edge.
And that's why the chinese are going to bring some interesting cards to the game. They know how to produce electric. They dominate battery technology. Teach them how to make nice designs and detroit is going to have a big problem in their oily hands.
And users don't particularly want to know or care about patent law. They'll just assume Apple is better or smarter than these other phones, and that the iPhone is better.
That's actually true. The iPhone raised the bar of what a mobile can do. 99% of the phones available in the market today just seems 20th century rubbish stuff, compared to it. And the ones who aren't, are iPhone copies.
They didn't need the patents until today to grow from nothing to be the most important smartphone ever, exactly because it was so much better.
But as it costs you an arm to have one, especially outside u.s., I'll have a crap sony ericsson instead...
Just as an example: I'll bet Apple patented the magnetic cord of the MacBook.
You bet they did. Ever noticed that you can't even buy alternative brands' rechargers even for the Macs? And now you see Sony doing those crap short round power connectors because Apple made they notice that stepping into a cable thus throwing your $1.2K notebook on the ground is not a good idea...
+1 here. It seems ignorance is a blessing there.
Not with the help of thinkgeek! http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/adca/
and that nowhere in Gaza was safe.
Well, some Brazilians who live in palestina as palestinians were called to go back to their country, but they refused to, saying they feel safer in Gaza.
Now that's a weird world...
This list is weird. AFAIK, there were two woman head of the state in the republic of Ireland.
Why is that troll? This guy has a point.
The same goes for anyone who thinks the people of the U.S. are just like Bush?
Yes you are.
Try the new Apple one. It saved my arms and my back.
yea, I used a model M previous to that.
Talk about frustration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6RZzdGki8
No way. Chicks use nano.
And that's preety much it. If you lock mac os, they will boot ubuntu/pirated xp/whatever from an usb thumbdrive.
Students are like this. Don't be a fool.
Nor a freaking nazi. If I were you, I would seek medical help. Your mind is not good.
I second that. It works, it is way faster than those nasty NAS with crappy linux distributions fitted into a 400mhz processor, and you can simply attach external usb drives for more space in hot-swap.
Besides, the external HDs may fit as a time machine.
Have you though about the apple's Time Capsule?
Hey,the only things I care for are pictures. And I've accumulated about 80gb of them in the last 20 years.
Here's what I do:
1) set up a simple website with all of them. This site is basically an html generated from whatever those "html album" proggies. Don't depend on php nor anything else, just plain html. The pictures are stored into folders separated by date.
The advantages of this: /home). So I have two copies of them anyway
- these folders are the same in my machine (where the pictures are in my
- as I don't backup manually very often, I've created some space in my tv's media player (a tvix) with time machine. So every time I connect my computer there to upload some movie I've downloaded, I have a full backup of them.
The media player thing + time machine solves the issues of (a) doing backups regularly, as you will connect your computer to it often (b) you will always want more space for hd movies and music. So you WILL replace the hard drive every years or so.
And the website, besides of being an extra copy (with some searchable information being the album covers with some text), helps you by being found by archive.org and google cache.
And don't forget to copy all your data to gmail. Simple, searchable and free.
And let life keep going on. 500 giga is not too much to have on a backup, and in two years is not too much to have even in your notebook's hd.
Don't worry- once you finish your Ph.D., you'll have at least 20-30 euros in your bank account.
Does that mean I will need to start doing stuff normal people do? Like eating other things than ramen and buy new shoes?
I learned to read with that age, which was considered a prodigy in my city (and a freak, BTW, in equal proportions).
I really dug into encyclopedias, and was very interested in science. Until I stole a book from a dad's friend.
It was COBOL. I was 4. Now I'm a sad CS teacher finishing my ph.D. in high-performance computing. And I have 12 euros in my bank account right now.
Let him live. And when time comes, guide him to a law school.