Motherboards: Gigabyte (2 boards + 1 RMA [my fault], 5 years)
Hard Drives: IBM/Hitatchi DeskStar (4 drives, increasing size not failures, 6 years)
GPU: nVidia (2 cards, Ti500 and 8600GT, almost 8 years)
Optical Drives: Lite-On (4 drives, 6 years)
Interestingly, the only flip-flop I've had lately is AMD to Intel. AMD rocked Intel in heat/stability/efficiency back around the Barton/P4 era. Since Duo Core, though, there's no turning back.
That's because US immigration policy is more rational. You can get into the US if you have a job offer. I love your deep sense of sarcasm! US immigration is pathetic at best; people getting visas through a lottery for god's sake. And employers are not even bothering to get the best people anymore, because on April fool's day, when applications for work visas start; the full year's quota is filled.
As Lexington puts it: Congress is doing its best to lose the global talent war.
It's not only "lack of support". It's also a question of liability. Who do you sue when things go wrong? It's much easier to hold a company liable when you paid for their product. ha-ha. So windows gives a BSOD and your patient dies. Try suing Microsoft and see what happens. They'll point to the EULA and that's that. You've accepted it. And that's that.
...I'll believe it when I see it. Exactly.
This is a routine rite of passage for all Pattern Recognition researchers: when they need to justify more funding, they claim to be "just around the corner", hence we have this type of hyperbole. The paper is ridiculously simplistic, and does not deserve/. attention.
Before we have this tech, we will have to solve Bongard problems.
Machines can't even distinguish the content between two sets of B&W (binary) images with simple figures. Solve Bongard problems, and you'll be just around the corner. Sadly, the only real attempt to date has been Harry Foundalis' from Indiana U. Bloomington. Nobody seems to care about it.
oh yeah, right. These people can't work on www.odesk.com, neither can they get grad degrees, neither can they take jobs in Google or Facebook or anywhere else. They're very far away in that weird place called China...
The fact concerning absolute numbers is relevant, precisely because they are competing against you and me and everyone else. Don't think you're encapsulated because the vast majorities of people in India are illiterate.
These folks aren't.
They are 2 websites! Different traffic, different stats:
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NOW LOOK AT THE DATA AND WHICH SOULD HAVE MORE TRAFFIC AND MORE COMMENTS?
What kind of apples to apples comparison is this? Because they have the same subject and age only? Rubisssssshhhhhh...
http://www.slideshare.net/linhares/outline-of-globalization-course-at-fgvebape
Check out slide 9, which compares the explosion of engineering degrees in China, India (& to a certain extent the EU) to the US and Japan. I use it on my classes, and people think it must be bogus. Data from Morgan Stanley, by the way.
"What do you mean Ubuntu won't install skype?"
Stop with the verse shit. I'm not a frigging poet. Multiverse, Universe, shittyverse. Who cares if skype or google earth are NOT free as in speech? They're cool and _users_ want them. Users know about one repository: the internet. Each little new thing we have to teach them about just throws them away.
If you really think users _should_ care whether something comes from multiverse or restricted, you're into fundamentalist propaganda, which is obviously unable to make things mainstream.
Jesus guys, make it "a download center" and take away all unnecessary terminology and F/OSS propaganda.
Well, I'm Brazilian from Rio and all have contact will all sorts of people here; from billionaires to people who can't read even numbers on a bill. By what I've seen around, _most_ people will prefer having _anything_ rather than nothing.
The behavior that you point out, however, does also exist. It is only confined to a minority. A particularly striking example is Carnaval, in which (very poor) people might save money for a year in order to afford entry and a high-profile fantasy going around 2000 bucks (USD). That's of course a lot for poor people in a middle income country such as Brazil.
There's a Pulitzer in here somewhere. This smells of corruption, of one hand washing another, of deals behind secretive doors. If I were a young journalist student graduating, I would be following the money trail of Mr Negroponte & Co.
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Motherboards: Gigabyte (2 boards + 1 RMA [my fault], 5 years) Hard Drives: IBM/Hitatchi DeskStar (4 drives, increasing size not failures, 6 years) GPU: nVidia (2 cards, Ti500 and 8600GT, almost 8 years) Optical Drives: Lite-On (4 drives, 6 years)
Interestingly, the only flip-flop I've had lately is AMD to Intel. AMD rocked Intel in heat/stability/efficiency back around the Barton/P4 era. Since Duo Core, though, there's no turning back.
You must be new hereFor those that insist the US is NOT in a recession, because numbers "never" lie, well, you are right. The real issue may NOT be a recession as technically defined. The real issue is that America in RELATION to the world is going down at a scary rate. Consider this quote: "OPEC could âoepotentially buy Bank of America in one month worth of production, Apple computers in a week and General Motors in just three days.â The dollar is in skydive, house prices are still skyhigh, oil is soaring, food is soaring, and other commodities are soaring. Soon we will be paying for getting oxygen back into this planet. It won't come cheap.
I hope this is not the first time someone mentioned this in /., but girls are even better with no shorts on!
Then again, he might tell me that I should get an iPod for the US, and another one in Canada. The same goes with all my music.
...I'll believe it when I see it. Exactly. This is a routine rite of passage for all Pattern Recognition researchers: when they need to justify more funding, they claim to be "just around the corner", hence we have this type of hyperbole. The paper is ridiculously simplistic, and does not deserveoh yeah, right. These people can't work on www.odesk.com, neither can they get grad degrees, neither can they take jobs in Google or Facebook or anywhere else. They're very far away in that weird place called China... The fact concerning absolute numbers is relevant, precisely because they are competing against you and me and everyone else. Don't think you're encapsulated because the vast majorities of people in India are illiterate. These folks aren't.
Per capita the US beats China and India in anything. If you a truck drops a piano in India, 70 people are severely injured.
P-L-E-A-S-E!!! http://siteanalytics.compete.com/polygraphplace.com+antipolygraph.org/?metric=uv
They are 2 websites! Different traffic, different stats: ===== Antipolygraph.org: Google PageRank: 5 DETAILS Alexa Rank: N/A Compete Rank: 95,912 DETAILS Quantcast Rank: 81,376 DETAILS Google BackLinks: 101 DETAILS Yahoo BackLinks: 6,704 DETAILS Live Search BackLinks: 5 DETAILS Technorati Links: 193 DETAILS ==== www.polygraphplace.com: Google PageRank: 5 DETAILS Alexa Rank: N/A Compete Rank: 339,102 DETAILS Quantcast Rank: 304,754 DETAILS Google BackLinks: 42 DETAILS Yahoo BackLinks: N/A DETAILS Live Search BackLinks: 0 DETAILS Technorati Links: 1 DETAILS NOW LOOK AT THE DATA AND WHICH SOULD HAVE MORE TRAFFIC AND MORE COMMENTS? What kind of apples to apples comparison is this? Because they have the same subject and age only? Rubisssssshhhhhh...
http://www.slideshare.net/linhares/outline-of-globalization-course-at-fgvebape Check out slide 9, which compares the explosion of engineering degrees in China, India (& to a certain extent the EU) to the US and Japan. I use it on my classes, and people think it must be bogus. Data from Morgan Stanley, by the way.
"What do you mean Ubuntu won't install skype?" Stop with the verse shit. I'm not a frigging poet. Multiverse, Universe, shittyverse. Who cares if skype or google earth are NOT free as in speech? They're cool and _users_ want them. Users know about one repository: the internet. Each little new thing we have to teach them about just throws them away. If you really think users _should_ care whether something comes from multiverse or restricted, you're into fundamentalist propaganda, which is obviously unable to make things mainstream. Jesus guys, make it "a download center" and take away all unnecessary terminology and F/OSS propaganda.
Linux is mainstream in servers; but definitely not on the desktop.
Well, I'm Brazilian from Rio and all have contact will all sorts of people here; from billionaires to people who can't read even numbers on a bill. By what I've seen around, _most_ people will prefer having _anything_ rather than nothing. The behavior that you point out, however, does also exist. It is only confined to a minority. A particularly striking example is Carnaval, in which (very poor) people might save money for a year in order to afford entry and a high-profile fantasy going around 2000 bucks (USD). That's of course a lot for poor people in a middle income country such as Brazil.
Thomas Schelling got a nobel prize for saying that in a fancy way. Schelling's "Choice and Consequence". Best of luck in all your future endeavors.
not really true
Can his wife claim she hired him and use that money as a charitable contrib?
have your heard of something called (hyper)inflation?
There's a Pulitzer in here somewhere. This smells of corruption, of one hand washing another, of deals behind secretive doors. If I were a young journalist student graduating, I would be following the money trail of Mr Negroponte & Co.