I know this is a bit offtopic. But you also need to be aware of from where you are connecting. Many hotels, schools, research institutes, and agencies belong to the foreign affairs office do not have such block.
The situation is similar to the control in the Mao's era. At that time, many foreign books or translated copies are banned from regular citizens but available in university libraries or stores subject to approvals.
Seems to me this type of meta search engines are aiming at having the users to provide the company association properties of information. For example, if this book about Clark Gable is related to the movie or not.
To me this A9 seems like an extended version of Amazon's 'you might also be interested in these items'. Now they can more accurately figure out that if you like Clark Gable's biography, you are also interested in buying one or two of his particular movies.
According to some news, the launch will be broadcasted live on the state run CCTV. Everyone here at the university campus is talking about what if there is a failure. I guess Challenger, Columbia and the numerous failures are still so vivid in our mind now. Even the 92% success rate of the Long March rocket claimed by the Chinese authority does not make me more comfortable. Afterall, what is the real significance of a manned mission like this? Russia, the USA have all done manned space flight, long long time ago. This is not all about nation's pride? Give me a break!
And just why China is spending this huge amount of money into a manned mission instead of putting more money into helping the kids in remote areas to go to school and reduce the poverty rate in the rural areas?
As a Chinese, I am not really proud of this event at all.
As an earthling, I wish we are landing on the Mars by now.
I wish they make Mathematica or Matlab to run on my Palm. Though memory could be a problem for software like Matlab.
I can see a tablet computer good for such applications. Then the NB in Mathematica will be real NB that takes your hand written proves and calculations.
Check out this news piece at CNET.
I am living in Hong Kong right now. So I know that I would very much like my cell phone or PDA to warn me of the SARS. Now, just have to figure out which company offers such service.
I buy Erdos' view on this. God owns a book of proofs. We just try to figure out what's on his book. And then we enter this bizarre competition with God. Whenever we prove something, we don't get any points.
You can sign up for the "link with credit card" option. That means if the stored value on your Octopus card goes negative, a sum of HK$250 is automatically deposited into your Octopus card. You receive the charge on your credit card bill.
Octopus collects every transaction you do with your Octopus card. Big deal! Unless you enable the personalization option or link the card with your credit card, you can remain anonymous. And look, no coins!
in US, you don't see government pushing for free softwares. but we see a lot of this kind of government initiated free software campaigns in Asian countries, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong. so what's the deal? are we sacrificing economic freedom for software freedom?
Levy's ad like article is brilliant. Make me want to read the book more. I hope I won't be disappointed. Levy made this book sounds like a Manual of the universe. And perhaps a cookbook that you can follow and produce the whole universe on your computer. Ok, assume you have a superfast one than by the time you read up to here, Adam is kissing Eve in the Garden of Eden.
In the past few years I have read several books on evolutionary computing, or some that touch the complexity theory. It's a tricky subject. Few writers get it right. Many make the subject too philosophical. Where is the beef?
Cops in HK can stop you on the street and ask for your HKID card. If you cannot produce it, you have some serious explanation work to do back in the station. Last time I heard you have to pay a fine.
Here is a news I heard long time ago. Some cops stop girls on the street, asking for her ID card. Commenting on her age, picture on the ID card... etc. Later complaints were made and those cops faced disciplinary actions.
Yes, so in the future, they can perhaps scan your ID card, and then know your reading preference, how often you visit the public swimming pool, etc.
As I heard from a friend who was working on this smart chip ID project, the smartchip does not all carry that much information. Just as now, each government offices can only know the information they own and they are authorized to know. That's also why you don't see a giant computer system for the government but each government department has its own computing infrastructure. And that's also why it's so hard to implement the e-government.
A number of companies bid for this project. They actually selected one that smartcard will die in a couple of years just that you have to go back to the immigration office and exchange for a new one.
Hong Kong also have a Privacy Commisioner set up to monitor privacy issues like this.
"This government learned nothing from the USA's abuse of the Social Security number, this is much worse."
Generating a HKID card number with correct check digit is too easy. There were news about people using photocopies of ID card and successfully applied credit cards. I think we do learned something about number abusal. That's why they hope a smart chip ID card can help. Or maybe implant ID is the way to go?
In China there is a tradition of fearing business people dominating the society. Nothing much to do with Communism these days now. Bill Gates is so well known in China that you can find lots of unauthorized biographies about him or books about Microsoft in the bookstores in China. But he is just admirable, not respectful. Thanks a lot to the anti-trust law suit perhaps. Look at the foreign companies that are really doing well in China, either they make a great relationship with the top government officials, or they do have great reputation.
And when US companies compete overseas, they are not just competing with other local companies on the quality of products and services, they are also competing with the local traditions and culture. That is the hardest!
Yes. There are pirated copies for sale for Harry Potter and LOTR. Thanks again for those entertainment global domination plans. There are always people who want to buy pirated copies. And for me, I just like to read the original books. Movies, nah... it kills your imagination and fantasy!
Anyone who ever drive along 101, passing by Redwood City, around midnight will know why. They are perhaps the brightest buildings in Redwood City. PG&E bills drove them out of business for sure!
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I know this is a bit offtopic. But you also need to be aware of from where you are connecting. Many hotels, schools, research institutes, and agencies belong to the foreign affairs office do not have such block.
The situation is similar to the control in the Mao's era. At that time, many foreign books or translated copies are banned from regular citizens but available in university libraries or stores subject to approvals.
That means '911' takes more time to dial then '112'. My god, and the English picked '999'.
Check them out here.
Quality is more important than quantity in encyclopedia like reference. But there is no simple ways of voting down the articles that suck.
Another problem is I cannot cite Wikipedia in my reports or papers. I can certainly cite Britannica. And most schools have subscriptions to EB anyway.
Seems to me this type of meta search engines are aiming at having the users to provide the company association properties of information. For example, if this book about Clark Gable is related to the movie or not.
To me this A9 seems like an extended version of Amazon's 'you might also be interested in these items'. Now they can more accurately figure out that if you like Clark Gable's biography, you are also interested in buying one or two of his particular movies.
No prize for the 1 million-th downloader? Such as a cool firefox t-shirt?
According to some news, the launch will be broadcasted live on the state run CCTV. Everyone here at the university campus is talking about what if there is a failure. I guess Challenger, Columbia and the numerous failures are still so vivid in our mind now. Even the 92% success rate of the Long March rocket claimed by the Chinese authority does not make me more comfortable. Afterall, what is the real significance of a manned mission like this? Russia, the USA have all done manned space flight, long long time ago. This is not all about nation's pride? Give me a break!
And just why China is spending this huge amount of money into a manned mission instead of putting more money into helping the kids in remote areas to go to school and reduce the poverty rate in the rural areas?
As a Chinese, I am not really proud of this event at all.
As an earthling, I wish we are landing on the Mars by now.
I wish they make Mathematica or Matlab to run on my Palm. Though memory could be a problem for software like Matlab.
I can see a tablet computer good for such applications. Then the NB in Mathematica will be real NB that takes your hand written proves and calculations.
Check out this news piece at CNET.
I am living in Hong Kong right now. So I know that I would very much like my cell phone or PDA to warn me of the SARS. Now, just have to figure out which company offers such service.
I buy Erdos' view on this. God owns a book of proofs. We just try to figure out what's on his book. And then we enter this bizarre competition with God. Whenever we prove something, we don't get any points.
"There is a new Linux PDA from China ...
... in China/Hong Kong/Taiwan for some time."
So what's so new about this gadget?
Emails in your trash box will be automatically deleted. However, you are responsible for the rotten food.
You can sign up for the "link with credit card" option. That means if the stored value on your Octopus card goes negative, a sum of HK$250 is automatically deposited into your Octopus card. You receive the charge on your credit card bill.
Octopus collects every transaction you do with your Octopus card. Big deal! Unless you enable the personalization option or link the card with your credit card, you can remain anonymous. And look, no coins!
in US, you don't see government pushing for free softwares. but we see a lot of this kind of government initiated free software campaigns in Asian countries, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong. so what's the deal? are we sacrificing economic freedom for software freedom?
Levy's ad like article is brilliant. Make me want to read the book more. I hope I won't be disappointed. Levy made this book sounds like a Manual of the universe. And perhaps a cookbook that you can follow and produce the whole universe on your computer. Ok, assume you have a superfast one than by the time you read up to here, Adam is kissing Eve in the Garden of Eden.
In the past few years I have read several books on evolutionary computing, or some that touch the complexity theory. It's a tricky subject. Few writers get it right. Many make the subject too philosophical. Where is the beef?
either way... just saw the movie... still make me dizzy...
So I guess the trick is, to be creative and innovative, you need to live in the dreams all the time.
"not a problem" == "have been here for a long time"???
Cops in HK can stop you on the street and ask for your HKID card. If you cannot produce it, you have some serious explanation work to do back in the station. Last time I heard you have to pay a fine.
Here is a news I heard long time ago. Some cops stop girls on the street, asking for her ID card. Commenting on her age, picture on the ID card... etc. Later complaints were made and those cops faced disciplinary actions.
Yes, so in the future, they can perhaps scan your ID card, and then know your reading preference, how often you visit the public swimming pool, etc.
As I heard from a friend who was working on this smart chip ID project, the smartchip does not all carry that much information. Just as now, each government offices can only know the information they own and they are authorized to know. That's also why you don't see a giant computer system for the government but each government department has its own computing infrastructure. And that's also why it's so hard to implement the e-government.
A number of companies bid for this project. They actually selected one that smartcard will die in a couple of years just that you have to go back to the immigration office and exchange for a new one.
Hong Kong also have a Privacy Commisioner set up to monitor privacy issues like this.
"This government learned nothing from the USA's abuse of the Social Security number, this is much worse."
Generating a HKID card number with correct check digit is too easy. There were news about people using photocopies of ID card and successfully applied credit cards. I think we do learned something about number abusal. That's why they hope a smart chip ID card can help. Or maybe implant ID is the way to go?
Think of anything else that a Mindstorm can help you to change... ah... toilet papers.
In China there is a tradition of fearing business people dominating the society. Nothing much to do with Communism these days now. Bill Gates is so well known in China that you can find lots of unauthorized biographies about him or books about Microsoft in the bookstores in China. But he is just admirable, not respectful. Thanks a lot to the anti-trust law suit perhaps. Look at the foreign companies that are really doing well in China, either they make a great relationship with the top government officials, or they do have great reputation.
And when US companies compete overseas, they are not just competing with other local companies on the quality of products and services, they are also competing with the local traditions and culture. That is the hardest!
Did any one ever win them all?
Yes. There are pirated copies for sale for Harry Potter and LOTR. Thanks again for those entertainment global domination plans. There are always people who want to buy pirated copies. And for me, I just like to read the original books. Movies, nah... it kills your imagination and fantasy!
Anyone who ever drive along 101, passing by Redwood City, around midnight will know why. They are perhaps the brightest buildings in Redwood City. PG&E bills drove them out of business for sure!