IIRC, Premier Wen was the first Premier to speak against the Cultural Revolution. He also says that a lack of reforms might start another one. He's actually censored a bit in China.
Hu's less interesting - he never says anything except the consensus position.
Luke (totally not Larry Page) Rattigan: How do you tell each other apart?
General Staal: We say the same of humans.
I've heard that "Sontaran" (San-Ta-Ren?) is actually from Mandarin, meaning "Outer Space Man". I can't find the exact characters, not that slashdot will accept unicode anyway.
Rare earth metals is a strategic cock-up by China.
China subsidizes (or effectively subsidizes, by having government owned entities produce things cheaper but less profitably than private comanies) a lot of basic inputs. Power, steel, that kind of thing.
That makes Chinese manufacturing very attractive. It's not just about labor costs (you can get cheaper labor in India). It's about cheap power, land, steel, transport, etc. Manufacturers come to China, Chinese workers absorb the know-how (either legitimately, or by stealing IP), and then China can make their own stuff better.
Rare earths is a continuation of that strategy, but it doesn't work. They are expensive enough to export, so China's subsidies just mean cheaper Japanese products (epic fail, as China wants to beat Japan at this sort of thing). They can try to restrict exports, but that can just mean dodgy rare earth products get "manufactured", then shipped overseas where they are ripped apart for the rare earth. Or they just get smuggled out.
Buildings are generally engineered to stay up in earthquakes. The worst earthquake *ever* was in Shaanxi, 1556. It killed over 800,000, because so many people were living in caves (which collapsed). It was estimated to be magnitude 8, about the same size as the 2008 Sichuan quake (which killed about 70,000 people, despite the higher population, and some buildings being badly made).
With 30 million people living in caves, you don't need a huge proportion to collapse for it to be an unbelievably horrific disaster. It's happened before. It can happen again. And it's no longer the 1500s, when there weren't as many lives at risk, no-one had the knowledge or resources to mitigate against it, peasants were expect to die unnatural deaths anyway. A large quake near Manila might be worse (due to the density, potential for a stronger quake due to it being on a bigger fault, and tsunami potential) but it's it's one of the worst predictable (as in - it could happen, so people should be planning on what to do to prevent too many deaths) disasters that can occur in the world.
That's kind of true, but in the category I'm interested in ("ultraportables" - reasonably powerful, lightweight laptops) everyone overcharges by 30%; and Apple has the best screen, best touchpad, best speakers, and runs an OS I kind of like.
I considered a generic lightweight laptop (which I'd load with Ubuntu or Mint), but I couldn't find any that were good enough. There's finally a few coming out which don't get blow away by the Macbook Air. Maybe next upgrade.
Now, if you are talking about performance laptops, "all-in-ones" (yuck - laptop parts, desktop portability), small forms (why bother?), desktops (which Apple doesn't even make), workstations, or servers then Apple makes a bit less sense.
Both the LPA (Liberal Party of Australia) and ALP (Australian Labor Party) are social democrats. Both the LPA and ALP run welfare states. The LPA is opposed to publicly owned utilities (because it's apparently better to have private companies overcharging everyone while running down infrastructure than public ones paying their union members too much), but supports public welfare, so they are social democrats. The ALP is more or less socialist, supporting publicly owned utilities.
Actually, the Liberals in Australia are right-wing phoney Libertarians (ala the US Republicans). They tend to spend just as much as the socialist Labor party, so they aren't strictly libertarian, but they get a lot of the libertarian vote.
Chinese never end syllables with a consonant (except "n" or "ng"). So if you have a consonant cluster, it will sound totally alien to a Chinese speaker. They aren't used to pronouncing things that way. It's like trying to say a German word (like "AngstschweiB") you are English.
So they tend to insert vowels, to break up the clusters. "He-lo, my name-a is Li, and-a my En-ga-lish-a isa not-a so good-a."
On the other hand, the word "Irony" will sound like three Chinese words stitched together (maybe "ai re ni" - "love, hot, you").
Speaking of other phones, does anyone know where to find the sensor *size* (as in, physical area) of any phones? They all just say how many Mega-Pixels, which is almost completely useless. Sensor size is one of the best measures of how well a camera works in adverse conditions (indoor light, for example), but they never publish it.
Ironically, "IRONY" is one of the few English words which most Chinese speakers will be abe to pronounce nearly perfectly, as it lacks consonant clusters, and ends on a vowel.
It's suggested by another poster that they need to pump all the air out of a tube. Creating a hard vacuum can take a long time. Anything else (charging capacitors) will be much faster. Calibration could be an issue, if they don't want to accidentally fry you.
No, he's just annoyed at the legalistic interpretation of moral judgements.
If I find $10 on the side of the road (and can't see who dropped it), I'm going to pocket it. Finders keepers. Technically, it's a crime, but it's not (IMO) wrong.
If it's traceable (i.e. a wallet, phone) I'll make a reasonable effort to trace the owner, or hand it over to the police.
To me, it depends on whether the owner is likely to get it back anyway. It's reasonable to assume that dropped money is never coming back. It's reasonable to assume that a dropped wallet will be picked up by someone who will make an effort to return it, or found by the owner (who's going to be looking). The police might not make a distinction, but I do. Sometimes the law (or what people assume the law is) can be "wrong". That's his point.
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Actually, it can increase your chance of survival. The doctors may try harder to stabilize you if they know you're a potential donar, because they know that even if you don't survive your organs are worth something. There's a slim chance that the extra effort to stabilize you will save your life, if the doctors were wrong to write you off too early. Assuming ER doctors (or paramedics) are more likely to make a bad call than a doctor deciding to switch you off in the ICU (where they have time to think), the organ card might be a net gain for you.
Either way, if he's not found guilty, why punish him?
I though it was established in the Magna Carta that you can't punish someone unless they are found guilty by a jury of their peers. If social services has any dirt, they should take him to court.
The assumption people make is that all the kinetic energy goes into a wave. That's not a given. It can dissipate as heat as the meteor falls through the water, or create incoherent waves. The Indian Ocean tsunami was so bad because the plate "flicked" up, splashing the water. It might be more like punching the water, which would still make a bit of a splash; but it might not make a huge wave.
That said, I wouldn't be swimming anywhere near it.
Athens had a few cock-ups, but so has every other state. It's just that the eloquent (and somewhat egotistical) Socrates* hated the ignorant citizenry making decisions, and thought that it would be far better if people like himself were in charge. The Thirty Tyrants followed his suggestions, and took over; which led to Socrates being executed once their revolution had ended. Plato, a big fan of Socrates, then wrote the ultimate hatchet job on Democracy.
tl'dr - Athens screwed up a few times, so their system of government is seen as bad.
The best idea (and the one Socrates was least keen on) from Greek democracy was Sortition. It's essentially a jury system - a bunch of randomly selected citizens makes the decision. This is more representative than elections, and because the citizens on the jury know their vote will carry a lot of weight they have a big incentive to make a more educated decision (unlike most voters). They can also be given lots of resources (such as access to expert witnesses) to help make their decision; but they can rely on good-old common sense if they think the expert witnesses aren't putting the people's best interests first.
* Who never wrote anything down, so this is all arguable.
I guess it depends on what web pages you are running. People are leveraging massive libraries to write javascript, not just twiddling a few elements. Some are generating JS using compilers.
A motorbike is an efficient way to move a person. It's not an efficient way to tow a trailer. At some point, you have to upgrade.
Actually, I remember Intel doing a lot of work on a new Wolf 3D engine specifically designed for excellent scaling, rather than raw performance on a single GPU.
This isn't Wolf3D. It's a much better engine (especially if you are Intel), with Wolf3D content.
Or... the counter-terrorist feeding frenzy encouraged good innovative engineers to do military contracting, which made it harder for the private sector to innovate (thus fewer new jobs were made).
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IIRC, Premier Wen was the first Premier to speak against the Cultural Revolution. He also says that a lack of reforms might start another one. He's actually censored a bit in China.
Hu's less interesting - he never says anything except the consensus position.
From "Doctor Who" The Sontaran Stratagem:
Luke (totally not Larry Page) Rattigan: How do you tell each other apart?
General Staal: We say the same of humans.
I've heard that "Sontaran" (San-Ta-Ren?) is actually from Mandarin, meaning "Outer Space Man". I can't find the exact characters, not that slashdot will accept unicode anyway.
Rare earth metals is a strategic cock-up by China.
China subsidizes (or effectively subsidizes, by having government owned entities produce things cheaper but less profitably than private comanies) a lot of basic inputs. Power, steel, that kind of thing.
That makes Chinese manufacturing very attractive. It's not just about labor costs (you can get cheaper labor in India). It's about cheap power, land, steel, transport, etc. Manufacturers come to China, Chinese workers absorb the know-how (either legitimately, or by stealing IP), and then China can make their own stuff better.
Rare earths is a continuation of that strategy, but it doesn't work. They are expensive enough to export, so China's subsidies just mean cheaper Japanese products (epic fail, as China wants to beat Japan at this sort of thing). They can try to restrict exports, but that can just mean dodgy rare earth products get "manufactured", then shipped overseas where they are ripped apart for the rare earth. Or they just get smuggled out.
Buildings are generally engineered to stay up in earthquakes. The worst earthquake *ever* was in Shaanxi, 1556. It killed over 800,000, because so many people were living in caves (which collapsed). It was estimated to be magnitude 8, about the same size as the 2008 Sichuan quake (which killed about 70,000 people, despite the higher population, and some buildings being badly made).
With 30 million people living in caves, you don't need a huge proportion to collapse for it to be an unbelievably horrific disaster. It's happened before. It can happen again. And it's no longer the 1500s, when there weren't as many lives at risk, no-one had the knowledge or resources to mitigate against it, peasants were expect to die unnatural deaths anyway. A large quake near Manila might be worse (due to the density, potential for a stronger quake due to it being on a bigger fault, and tsunami potential) but it's it's one of the worst predictable (as in - it could happen, so people should be planning on what to do to prevent too many deaths) disasters that can occur in the world.
That's kind of true, but in the category I'm interested in ("ultraportables" - reasonably powerful, lightweight laptops) everyone overcharges by 30%; and Apple has the best screen, best touchpad, best speakers, and runs an OS I kind of like.
I considered a generic lightweight laptop (which I'd load with Ubuntu or Mint), but I couldn't find any that were good enough. There's finally a few coming out which don't get blow away by the Macbook Air. Maybe next upgrade.
Now, if you are talking about performance laptops, "all-in-ones" (yuck - laptop parts, desktop portability), small forms (why bother?), desktops (which Apple doesn't even make), workstations, or servers then Apple makes a bit less sense.
Both the LPA (Liberal Party of Australia) and ALP (Australian Labor Party) are social democrats. Both the LPA and ALP run welfare states. The LPA is opposed to publicly owned utilities (because it's apparently better to have private companies overcharging everyone while running down infrastructure than public ones paying their union members too much), but supports public welfare, so they are social democrats. The ALP is more or less socialist, supporting publicly owned utilities.
Actually, the Liberals in Australia are right-wing phoney Libertarians (ala the US Republicans). They tend to spend just as much as the socialist Labor party, so they aren't strictly libertarian, but they get a lot of the libertarian vote.
If there's an earthquake, a house has a lower chance of burying you alive.
Chinese never end syllables with a consonant (except "n" or "ng"). So if you have a consonant cluster, it will sound totally alien to a Chinese speaker. They aren't used to pronouncing things that way. It's like trying to say a German word (like "AngstschweiB") you are English.
So they tend to insert vowels, to break up the clusters. "He-lo, my name-a is Li, and-a my En-ga-lish-a isa not-a so good-a."
On the other hand, the word "Irony" will sound like three Chinese words stitched together (maybe "ai re ni" - "love, hot, you").
I think Zynga's working on it.
Yep, so all you need to do is check their Facebook profile, and find their DOB.
Speaking of other phones, does anyone know where to find the sensor *size* (as in, physical area) of any phones? They all just say how many Mega-Pixels, which is almost completely useless. Sensor size is one of the best measures of how well a camera works in adverse conditions (indoor light, for example), but they never publish it.
how you say irony in chinese?
Not sure, but with a Chinese accent, it's ILONY
Ironically, "IRONY" is one of the few English words which most Chinese speakers will be abe to pronounce nearly perfectly, as it lacks consonant clusters, and ends on a vowel.
It's suggested by another poster that they need to pump all the air out of a tube. Creating a hard vacuum can take a long time. Anything else (charging capacitors) will be much faster. Calibration could be an issue, if they don't want to accidentally fry you.
Then you make your next million by deleting a single line which says "sleep(16*60*60)"
No, he's just annoyed at the legalistic interpretation of moral judgements.
If I find $10 on the side of the road (and can't see who dropped it), I'm going to pocket it. Finders keepers. Technically, it's a crime, but it's not (IMO) wrong.
If it's traceable (i.e. a wallet, phone) I'll make a reasonable effort to trace the owner, or hand it over to the police.
To me, it depends on whether the owner is likely to get it back anyway. It's reasonable to assume that dropped money is never coming back. It's reasonable to assume that a dropped wallet will be picked up by someone who will make an effort to return it, or found by the owner (who's going to be looking). The police might not make a distinction, but I do. Sometimes the law (or what people assume the law is) can be "wrong". That's his point.
Actually, it can increase your chance of survival. The doctors may try harder to stabilize you if they know you're a potential donar, because they know that even if you don't survive your organs are worth something. There's a slim chance that the extra effort to stabilize you will save your life, if the doctors were wrong to write you off too early. Assuming ER doctors (or paramedics) are more likely to make a bad call than a doctor deciding to switch you off in the ICU (where they have time to think), the organ card might be a net gain for you.
Either way, it makes *very* litte difference.
Either way, if he's not found guilty, why punish him?
I though it was established in the Magna Carta that you can't punish someone unless they are found guilty by a jury of their peers. If social services has any dirt, they should take him to court.
Um. Not really. http://idisk.mac.com/mpaineau-Public/paine_tsunami_asteroid99.pdf
The assumption people make is that all the kinetic energy goes into a wave. That's not a given. It can dissipate as heat as the meteor falls through the water, or create incoherent waves. The Indian Ocean tsunami was so bad because the plate "flicked" up, splashing the water. It might be more like punching the water, which would still make a bit of a splash; but it might not make a huge wave.
That said, I wouldn't be swimming anywhere near it.
A surprising number of people were big on eugenics back then.
Athens had a few cock-ups, but so has every other state. It's just that the eloquent (and somewhat egotistical) Socrates* hated the ignorant citizenry making decisions, and thought that it would be far better if people like himself were in charge. The Thirty Tyrants followed his suggestions, and took over; which led to Socrates being executed once their revolution had ended. Plato, a big fan of Socrates, then wrote the ultimate hatchet job on Democracy.
tl'dr - Athens screwed up a few times, so their system of government is seen as bad.
The best idea (and the one Socrates was least keen on) from Greek democracy was Sortition. It's essentially a jury system - a bunch of randomly selected citizens makes the decision. This is more representative than elections, and because the citizens on the jury know their vote will carry a lot of weight they have a big incentive to make a more educated decision (unlike most voters). They can also be given lots of resources (such as access to expert witnesses) to help make their decision; but they can rely on good-old common sense if they think the expert witnesses aren't putting the people's best interests first.
* Who never wrote anything down, so this is all arguable.
I guess it depends on what web pages you are running. People are leveraging massive libraries to write javascript, not just twiddling a few elements. Some are generating JS using compilers.
A motorbike is an efficient way to move a person. It's not an efficient way to tow a trailer. At some point, you have to upgrade.
Actually, I remember Intel doing a lot of work on a new Wolf 3D engine specifically designed for excellent scaling, rather than raw performance on a single GPU.
This isn't Wolf3D. It's a much better engine (especially if you are Intel), with Wolf3D content.
Or ... the counter-terrorist feeding frenzy encouraged good innovative engineers to do military contracting, which made it harder for the private sector to innovate (thus fewer new jobs were made).
Generally?