In China, businesses that try to make money off of closed software with fail due to rampant piracy. Since Linux is free anyways, services based on Linux is a better model.
China has an upper class and middle class of about the same numbers as the US - 25 million and 200 million, respectively. But it has a huge poor farmer and urban labor lower class- thereabouts 800-1000 million.
If you restrict the discussion to the middle class,
they are probably making about $10,000 in equivalent US purchasing power- about quarter US median income. That number is a little dicey, because economic sectors vary widely and the Chinese currency is assumed artificially lower than free market price by 50-100%.
I try to get Beijing condo prices out of visitor-owners. China has been replacing traditional housing with condo-towers for some years. I heard numbers of RMB 10,000 / meter2,
whihc is about $100 / sqft US. A starter condo is about 50 meters or $50,000. It works out to five years salary of average middle class-
not wholly out of line with US middle class housing.
George Takei (Sulu actor) was complaining at recent convention that a radio show was manufacturing sentences he didnt say. He said they feed a recent books-on-tape he had performed into dice-and-splice software to do this. Gerge is a fairly outspoken liberal in local politics, and this could have been the motivation for harassing him.
A rider on the general immigration bill Congress was considering before Easter break increased H1B visas by 200,000. Its was one of the these "midnight" admendents added a few hours before the bill was to be voted on so no one would see it. The bill was tabled until after Easter break because there is no strong overall immigration consensus yet.
I thought this was also called the anthropic principle: intelligence and advanced carbon-water life might not be possible with constants much different than we are. Some say this implies the teleology (goal-directed universe) of intelligent design.
Synopsis of proposed Brokeback Planet screenplay:
Ensign Sulu has longtime romantic affair with fellow cadet. Unfortunately they're assigned different starships after graduation. Every year they rondevous back in San Francisco (location of the Starfleet HQ and Academy) for a torrid affair, until the affair ends in tragedy.
(What did you expect when you locate Star Fleet Academy in San Francisco's Presido? [ currently occupied Industrial Light and Magic ])
At least on digg you know who is modding you up or down.
Plus everyone's article and comments are accepted.
On slashdot you have no idea who is removing your submitted articles and comments, not who is modding you down.
In both groups there is an intolerant and active "politically correct" core. If you dont agree with them on IT or social comments, you get abused.
My prediction is this comment will disappear because it is "wrong".
A few of us geezers can remember when Reagan bought into the "Star Wars" defense in the mid-1980s on the basis of flimsy experiments. Twenty years lter they have yet to pan out, even in the most contrived missile tests.
I recall the stimulus was that MIT Prof Peter Hagelstein demonstrated the first XRay laser (which required a nuclear explosion source at that time). The late hawk Stanford Prof Edwin Teller (developer of the US hydrogen bomb) persuaded the Reagan administration you could build a missle defense with XRay lasers.
There are so many conditions that will preclude one buying cheap personal medical insurance, that I want to minimize errors getting into my "official medical record". Borderline-high blood pressure is common exclusionary consdition. Out company used a self-assesment form that asked employees to answer what the employee may have perceived a certain condition rather than a doctor diagnosis.
I wonder if anyone in the US outside of a few nerds will notice this accomplishment. NASA/JPL have become adept at getting results out quickly, even in realtime, via the web and satellite TV feeds. Our science museum routinely holds a "nerd party" viewing these events when they happen, thanks to NASA PR.
Take for example the Mars probes. NASA puts its raw results on the website in a day or two of receiving them while ESA's trickle out months later, if at all.
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As much as I admire Woz's contributions, he left the scene a quarter century ago while Jobs continues to pull new (megahit) rabbits out of the hat. Woz would be a more pleasant neighbor and guy to hang out with, but Jobs still fires the imagination.
Much of UNIX early development was on PDP-11s which averaged 1/8th megabyte of core. MicroSoft used to sell a version of PC-UNIX called Xenix on 64 KB PCs. It was underpowered compared to PDP UNIX. LAter MicroSoft sold Xenix to SCO.
One earth 98% of the carbon is in carbonates. It takes millions of years for changes in plate tectonic subduction volcanics (release) and oceanic PH (capture) to really significally affect this.
Venus's atmosphere has ninety times the CO2 as does earth. Its not know whether Venus has much in the way of carbonate rocks. But if it doesnt have plate tectonic and ocean to recycle the carbon, its probably not much.
It used to be junior high and high school that most guys would take hand drafting classes. Wther they'd to on to college to be engineers or just be a mechanic, it was thought important to understand skills like precise machinery description, multiple views, clean line drawing and lettering, etc. This was one of the first skills to be computerized in CAD products of the 1980s.
I dont understand when people assume is any privacy at all unless you do it yourself with PGP (or the newly announced digital streaming PGP). Its so easy to evesdrop on anyone else. Plus even easier for the US governement with its largest collection of supercomputers and switches on the planet.
There were earlier experiments with converting a visual array to pressure sensors on the skin of one's back. After a few weeks the user forgot it was coming through the skin and subsconsciously thought they were seeing. The brain is remarkably plastic. Other similar experiments include upside-down googles. People learing braille and morse-code stop seeing the dots and dashes after a while and see just words.
Its pretty easy for individuals to take charge and personally reduce their "carbon footprint". There are several web calculators that given your gasoline, home natural gas and home electricity consumption (coal or nuclear), bus and airline miles a year, will tell you how many tons of carbon you are personally responsible for emitting. People have manyoptions for reducing all three of these and probably save money at the same time.
With real estate going up so much every month, my bank decided to bypass mortgage brokers and give out instant mortgages via ATMs.
When you key your pin in, your now see the third line "MORTGAGE ACCOUNT" below "CHECKING ACCOUNT" and "SAVINGS ACCOUNT". When you select MORTGAGE ACCOUNT, you can ask for an instant appraisal (linked to Zillow.com) and the day's mortgage rates. If you like what you see, then you can apply for an instant cash out mortgage and it appears in your account. Then you can do waht you want with the new cash.
This new feature was activated April 1, 2006 according to the disclosure.
It was the Steves' boomer generation that coined this iconic phrase. Every new generation thinks its wiser (and probably is) than the generations that proceded it.
So far Apple seems to have found the corporate "fountain of eternal youth" having three mega-hits among its dozens of products (Apple-II, Mac, iPod/iTune). And wouldnt be surprised to see another each decade to come if Jobs can stay at the helm (cancer survivor).
Something like over 300 Americans have fallen for the Nigerian 419 schemes too. Sixty minutes did a piece on a victim several years ago. Earlier year the son of demented California college professor tried to get guardianship over his father who fell for the scheme too.
Judging by the fact I still get several of these emails a week, and used to get US mail paper letters in the 1980s; they perputrators are getting results from less than one per million emails. But someone is still making money.
Though Windows/IE takes less than an hour on average to become infected with spyware after connecting to the Net, Lenevo saves you the trouble by pre-loading it.
Sounds like some "politically correct" person couldnt stand an opinion different from their own, and modded me down. All I can say is get out of your parent's basement and out into the real world to see what life is really like.
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In China, businesses that try to make money off of closed software with fail due to rampant piracy. Since Linux is free anyways, services based on Linux is a better model.
Hmm. I wonder where all the smart people are moving ...
China has an upper class and middle class of about the same numbers as the US - 25 million and 200 million, respectively. But it has a huge poor farmer and urban labor lower class- thereabouts 800-1000 million.
If you restrict the discussion to the middle class, they are probably making about $10,000 in equivalent US purchasing power- about quarter US median income. That number is a little dicey, because economic sectors vary widely and the Chinese currency is assumed artificially lower than free market price by 50-100%.
I try to get Beijing condo prices out of visitor-owners. China has been replacing traditional housing with condo-towers for some years. I heard numbers of RMB 10,000 / meter2, whihc is about $100 / sqft US. A starter condo is about 50 meters or $50,000. It works out to five years salary of average middle class- not wholly out of line with US middle class housing.
George Takei (Sulu actor) was complaining at recent convention that a radio show was manufacturing sentences he didnt say. He said they feed a recent books-on-tape he had performed into dice-and-splice software to do this. Gerge is a fairly outspoken liberal in local politics, and this could have been the motivation for harassing him.
A rider on the general immigration bill Congress was considering before Easter break increased H1B visas by 200,000. Its was one of the these "midnight" admendents added a few hours before the bill was to be voted on so no one would see it. The bill was tabled until after Easter break because there is no strong overall immigration consensus yet.
After taxes, credit cards, $4 gasoline, whose has cash left? :-)
I thought this was also called the anthropic principle: intelligence and advanced carbon-water life might not be possible with constants much different than we are. Some say this implies the teleology (goal-directed universe) of intelligent design.
Synopsis of proposed Brokeback Planet screenplay:
Ensign Sulu has longtime romantic affair with fellow cadet. Unfortunately they're assigned different starships after graduation. Every year they rondevous back in San Francisco (location of the Starfleet HQ and Academy) for a torrid affair, until the affair ends in tragedy.
(What did you expect when you locate Star Fleet Academy in San Francisco's Presido? [ currently occupied Industrial Light and Magic ])
At least on digg you know who is modding you up or down. Plus everyone's article and comments are accepted.
On slashdot you have no idea who is removing your submitted articles and comments, not who is modding you down.
In both groups there is an intolerant and active "politically correct" core. If you dont agree with them on IT or social comments, you get abused.
My prediction is this comment will disappear because it is "wrong".
A few of us geezers can remember when Reagan bought into the "Star Wars" defense in the mid-1980s on the basis of flimsy experiments. Twenty years lter they have yet to pan out, even in the most contrived missile tests.
I recall the stimulus was that MIT Prof Peter Hagelstein demonstrated the first XRay laser (which required a nuclear explosion source at that time). The late hawk Stanford Prof Edwin Teller (developer of the US hydrogen bomb) persuaded the Reagan administration you could build a missle defense with XRay lasers.
There are so many conditions that will preclude one buying cheap personal medical insurance, that I want to minimize errors getting into my "official medical record". Borderline-high blood pressure is common exclusionary consdition. Out company used a self-assesment form that asked employees to answer what the employee may have perceived a certain condition rather than a doctor diagnosis.
I wonder if anyone in the US outside of a few nerds will notice this accomplishment. NASA/JPL have become adept at getting results out quickly, even in realtime, via the web and satellite TV feeds. Our science museum routinely holds a "nerd party" viewing these events when they happen, thanks to NASA PR.
Take for example the Mars probes. NASA puts its raw results on the website in a day or two of receiving them while ESA's trickle out months later, if at all.
As much as I admire Woz's contributions, he left the scene a quarter century ago while Jobs continues to pull new (megahit) rabbits out of the hat. Woz would be a more pleasant neighbor and guy to hang out with, but Jobs still fires the imagination.
Much of UNIX early development was on PDP-11s which averaged 1/8th megabyte of core. MicroSoft used to sell a version of PC-UNIX called Xenix on 64 KB PCs. It was underpowered compared to PDP UNIX. LAter MicroSoft sold Xenix to SCO.
One earth 98% of the carbon is in carbonates. It takes millions of years for changes in plate tectonic subduction volcanics (release) and oceanic PH (capture) to really significally affect this.
Venus's atmosphere has ninety times the CO2 as does earth. Its not know whether Venus has much in the way of carbonate rocks. But if it doesnt have plate tectonic and ocean to recycle the carbon, its probably not much.
It used to be junior high and high school that most guys would take hand drafting classes. Wther they'd to on to college to be engineers or just be a mechanic, it was thought important to understand skills like precise machinery description, multiple views, clean line drawing and lettering, etc. This was one of the first skills to be computerized in CAD products of the 1980s.
I dont understand when people assume is any privacy at all unless you do it yourself with PGP (or the newly announced digital streaming PGP). Its so easy to evesdrop on anyone else. Plus even easier for the US governement with its largest collection of supercomputers and switches on the planet.
People are always running, walking, biking, backpacking, mountain climbing here. Short things on the weekdays and adventures on the weekend.
There were earlier experiments with converting a visual array to pressure sensors on the skin of one's back. After a few weeks the user forgot it was coming through the skin and subsconsciously thought they were seeing. The brain is remarkably plastic. Other similar experiments include upside-down googles. People learing braille and morse-code stop seeing the dots and dashes after a while and see just words.
Its pretty easy for individuals to take charge and personally reduce their "carbon footprint". There are several web calculators that given your gasoline, home natural gas and home electricity consumption (coal or nuclear), bus and airline miles a year, will tell you how many tons of carbon you are personally responsible for emitting. People have manyoptions for reducing all three of these and probably save money at the same time.
With real estate going up so much every month, my bank decided to bypass mortgage brokers and give out instant mortgages via ATMs.
When you key your pin in, your now see the third line "MORTGAGE ACCOUNT" below "CHECKING ACCOUNT" and "SAVINGS ACCOUNT". When you select MORTGAGE ACCOUNT, you can ask for an instant appraisal (linked to Zillow.com) and the day's mortgage rates. If you like what you see, then you can apply for an instant cash out mortgage and it appears in your account. Then you can do waht you want with the new cash.
This new feature was activated April 1, 2006 according to the disclosure.
It was the Steves' boomer generation that coined this iconic phrase. Every new generation thinks its wiser (and probably is) than the generations that proceded it.
So far Apple seems to have found the corporate "fountain of eternal youth" having three mega-hits among its dozens of products (Apple-II, Mac, iPod/iTune). And wouldnt be surprised to see another each decade to come if Jobs can stay at the helm (cancer survivor).
Something like over 300 Americans have fallen for the Nigerian 419 schemes too. Sixty minutes did a piece on a victim several years ago. Earlier year the son of demented California college professor tried to get guardianship over his father who fell for the scheme too.
Judging by the fact I still get several of these emails a week, and used to get US mail paper letters in the 1980s; they perputrators are getting results from less than one per million emails. But someone is still making money.
Though Windows/IE takes less than an hour on average to become infected with spyware after connecting to the Net, Lenevo saves you the trouble by pre-loading it.
(A joke, not a troll)
Sounds like some "politically correct" person couldnt stand an opinion different from their own, and modded me down. All I can say is get out of your parent's basement and out into the real world to see what life is really like.