And THAT was probably his best-reasoned and highest quality argument.
The rest of his argument is based off of eyeballing the flow rate of a video of oil and gas coming out of a pipe for which he can't even get an accurate diameter, and then incorrectly guessing the pressure, and then using his fishpond as an analogy.
Or effectively a demo-style release, playable from start to finish and with a full feature set as advertised on the box, but missing the cool bits that actually make the game. I noticed this with some of the racing games I had on xbox 360 - many of the cars are not included in the initial release, and you have to buy them later: what the hell is the point of a car racing game without cars?
China is also extending the rail networks in Tibet, and possibly the most serious threat to China's internal stability came from the riots in Xinjiang province last year. Tensions in both Tibet and Xinjiang are still simmering, largely because the non-Han residents feel left out of the equation every time jobs and wealth opportunities appear in their areas.
There is also a credible threat (well, depending on who you choose to get your news from, but hey)from the resident Chinese Muslim population, many of whom live in Xinjiang province, and who identify more with Pakistan, Khazakhstan and Turkmenistan than they do with the Middle Kingdom.
I'm wondering if the routing of the railway line has something to do with this, to give idle hands some work and some access to cash in these areas, and to extend influence into neighbouring countries so that if something happens in the future, China has some real leveraging tools to get things going in the direction that they like. Hell, it could even be used as a reason for a pre-emptive invasion: " Well , we had to go in, it was clear for all to see that country X was not able to safeguard a vital international asset that all of Asia and Europe uses. But no need to thank us for the invasion, we were only doing what any country would have done."
No, a tilt-shift would be the lens to go for. Architectural photography favours this type of lens because you can adjust it to match the plane of the subject, and it would be pretty easy to do this for the very easily identified image plane of the map under glass.
Distortion-free in one easy step.
More of a worry, really is getting all sections of each image evenly lit without reflections. Not as easy as you'd first assume.
I remember seeing an article, either on Wired or here (too lazy to google it right now) that was allegedly an anonymous insider's account of facebook's upcoming changes. They were quite adamant that there has always been a super-password - it used to be "Chuck Norris" - which has access to ALL of the accounts on facebook.
But it does seem terminally stupid of the competition to open facebook accounts. Surely they should be aware of the lack of privacy inherent in making that move? After all, they're trying to do build similar systems.
And you're sure that ALL the components of the computer that you just wrote this with were produced in the US? Or are you a 'producer', who produced every single part of it yourself? What about those of us who don't live in the U.S.? I actually do live in China - should I choose U.S. made products, and instead of helping China bootstrap itself, support a one-sided cultural and economic hegemonic power with a long track record of destructive meddling in other countries affairs?
Personally, I'd rather choose to buy the best item according to the needs that I have identified, thus supporting good business and encouraging innovation and change. But by all means, buy American, although I have no idea how you can really do that, especially in tech products, these days.
Disclaimer: Not supporting any specific govt here, I just don't see how you can argue that because some people choose a better price for a consumer product, they are parasites compared to people who shop in mom and pop stores.
Or just a different term for the protagonist in said pr0n...
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I think you got that backwards: it should be that the undergrads don't need Profs, if the books are any good.
The fundamentals of University education should be an excellent library and time to explore your subject in it. You shouldn't rely on teachers there to get your education.
Ah, yes. I should have been thinking of the children all along. This erosion loss of my own right to privacy is all good, because of the benefits to the children.
No matter that most kids are abused at their home or in the home of another family member or close family friend. Let's put security cams up in the mall. That'll solve it.
But seriously now, I'm not sure about the implications of these things: would a mall count as public or private? Generally, you wouldn't be allowed to take photos in a mall because it's private property, and they're obviously allowed to take photos of you, because they own the joint. However, what would Joe Public be able to do if he was flagged as a criminal through a false positive?
I'd be pretty pissed if some fool tasered me while I was grocery shopping on a Saturday morning 'cos the camera erroneously ID'd me as the local pedobear or whatever...
In a low-tech, low-cost, grunts-with-guns battle, sure. All you want is for more of your guys to survive, and you've won. Soldiers in these armies are easily replaceable: give a gun to a civilian, drill them 'till they lose the use of independent thought, and you've replaced the dead soldier.
But modern armies are high tech, and that means that there is a lot of training invested in the men on the ground. Lose them, you lose all the training and experience that they had. So keeping them alive and possibly able to fight again is a big plus.
Maybe downmodding should be more expensive to your moderator points, or become progressively more expensive, while upmoddinng could be cheaper, or become progressively cheaper.
For example, the first downmod you make could cost you 1 point, the second, 2 points (even though the comment would only lose 1 point). Upmodding could work the opposite way, but in smaller increments: first, you would lose 1 point, then smaller increments, in order to make it possible to get 7 mod points for upmodding but only 3 for downmodding.
Doesn't stop burying, but makes it more expensive, so people may think twice about wasting points on your comment.
I can't believe people don't have anything better to do with their time than try to stifle other people's comments, though. Madness.
I'm not sure of the real hours of American schools, not being American, but I was surprised to hear that kids there had longer hours than kids in Asia. Still, I think the article meant gov't school hours, rather than private, over which the gov't have no control.
Your wife's school experience doesn't sound wildly different to any of the schools I worked at in Taiwan. That said, kids at my schools used to get off at about 16:00- ish, depending on grade level. But they'd have Tuesday afternoon completely off, and an hour and a half for lunch - to eat, and to sleep, which everyone did, from the p1 students right up to the principal and the secretaries. It was bizarre walking round the school then, felt like you were living Cormac McCarthy's dream.
In Hong Kong school ends at about 15:00-15:30, depending on school. But then, off to bushiban (tutorial school)'till god knows what hour. And like you say, kids who don't go to private tutors are seriously disadvantaged in the heavily exam-orientated setups that characterize asian education systems.
When kids are at school here, though, they're grafting: very little wasted time.
I currently teach in an Asian school, and I have taught in more than one country on that list. I'll tell you the reason that Asian kids do better at math and science: they work their butts off. The amount of homework they get is scary, and most kids are enrolled in an after-school math program as well, to get more time with a teacher and more time doing homework. Added to this, the level of math being taught is way higher then I remember it being at school back home.
I guess this is a cultural thing, as you pointed out: because this state of affairs hasn't grown up in a vacuun, and society here does value achievement in these subject areas. Kids are rewarded for doing well, and even more amazingly respected by their peers who don't get results which are as good.
But kids here graft. That's why they are better at what they do.
Most countries in Asia tend to have good connections on subways and in tunnels. I can connect in Hong Kong even when I'm going under Victoria Harbour.
Unfortunately, you do pay a monthly fee for the service, but it's pretty small. Unlimited data usage (uploading and downloading) plans for mobiles with free sms's and a good 26 hours of free talk time cost about $30 US a month.
I'm sure it's the same in Japan - so no worries that you won't be able to connect to the server. Just sucks that you have to.
I think that's just the result of Asus trying to mess with the underlying design of the eee as little as possible. Besides, it helps to inflate the unit price a little, and attempts to widen the customer pool slightly.
On a side note, 1984 isn't the problem with these features, although your argument is valid my tin hat is glowing as I type this. The problem isn't surveillance as much as failure to read and think 'cos I'm playing some stupid internet penguin game/talking to my inane mates/ listening to muckracker and the drooling vegetables on Last.Fm
It's not Orwell, but Huxley we have to worry about here: Brave New World here we come.
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And THAT was probably his best-reasoned and highest quality argument.
The rest of his argument is based off of eyeballing the flow rate of a video of oil and gas coming out of a pipe for which he can't even get an accurate diameter, and then incorrectly guessing the pressure, and then using his fishpond as an analogy.
Yep - I'm convinced.
Which Snake Plissken will then surf while chasing a runaway convertible. Or possibly a helicopter.
Kind of hard to invade, conquer and annex a territory that already belongs to them, though.
Just in time for me to use them while operating my flying car, then!
One of the best posts I've read in a long time, and definitely on topic - what the hell is going on with the moderating here?
Or effectively a demo-style release, playable from start to finish and with a full feature set as advertised on the box, but missing the cool bits that actually make the game. I noticed this with some of the racing games I had on xbox 360 - many of the cars are not included in the initial release, and you have to buy them later: what the hell is the point of a car racing game without cars?
China is also extending the rail networks in Tibet, and possibly the most serious threat to China's internal stability came from the riots in Xinjiang province last year. Tensions in both Tibet and Xinjiang are still simmering, largely because the non-Han residents feel left out of the equation every time jobs and wealth opportunities appear in their areas.
There is also a credible threat (well, depending on who you choose to get your news from, but hey)from the resident Chinese Muslim population, many of whom live in Xinjiang province, and who identify more with Pakistan, Khazakhstan and Turkmenistan than they do with the Middle Kingdom.
I'm wondering if the routing of the railway line has something to do with this, to give idle hands some work and some access to cash in these areas, and to extend influence into neighbouring countries so that if something happens in the future, China has some real leveraging tools to get things going in the direction that they like. Hell, it could even be used as a reason for a pre-emptive invasion: " Well , we had to go in, it was clear for all to see that country X was not able to safeguard a vital international asset that all of Asia and Europe uses. But no need to thank us for the invasion, we were only doing what any country would have done."
No, a tilt-shift would be the lens to go for. Architectural photography favours this type of lens because you can adjust it to match the plane of the subject, and it would be pretty easy to do this for the very easily identified image plane of the map under glass.
Distortion-free in one easy step.
More of a worry, really is getting all sections of each image evenly lit without reflections. Not as easy as you'd first assume.
I remember seeing an article, either on Wired or here (too lazy to google it right now) that was allegedly an anonymous insider's account of facebook's upcoming changes. They were quite adamant that there has always been a super-password - it used to be "Chuck Norris" - which has access to ALL of the accounts on facebook.
But it does seem terminally stupid of the competition to open facebook accounts. Surely they should be aware of the lack of privacy inherent in making that move? After all, they're trying to do build similar systems.
And you're sure that ALL the components of the computer that you just wrote this with were produced in the US? Or are you a 'producer', who produced every single part of it yourself? What about those of us who don't live in the U.S.? I actually do live in China - should I choose U.S. made products, and instead of helping China bootstrap itself, support a one-sided cultural and economic hegemonic power with a long track record of destructive meddling in other countries affairs?
Personally, I'd rather choose to buy the best item according to the needs that I have identified, thus supporting good business and encouraging innovation and change. But by all means, buy American, although I have no idea how you can really do that, especially in tech products, these days.
Disclaimer: Not supporting any specific govt here, I just don't see how you can argue that because some people choose a better price for a consumer product, they are parasites compared to people who shop in mom and pop stores.
Or just a different term for the protagonist in said pr0n...
I think you got that backwards: it should be that the undergrads don't need Profs, if the books are any good.
The fundamentals of University education should be an excellent library and time to explore your subject in it. You shouldn't rely on teachers there to get your education.
Ah, yes. I should have been thinking of the children all along. This erosion loss of my own right to privacy is all good, because of the benefits to the children.
No matter that most kids are abused at their home or in the home of another family member or close family friend. Let's put security cams up in the mall. That'll solve it.
But seriously now, I'm not sure about the implications of these things: would a mall count as public or private? Generally, you wouldn't be allowed to take photos in a mall because it's private property, and they're obviously allowed to take photos of you, because they own the joint. However, what would Joe Public be able to do if he was flagged as a criminal through a false positive?
I'd be pretty pissed if some fool tasered me while I was grocery shopping on a Saturday morning 'cos the camera erroneously ID'd me as the local pedobear or whatever...
Ah, but could it be seen from Alaska?
In a low-tech, low-cost, grunts-with-guns battle, sure. All you want is for more of your guys to survive, and you've won. Soldiers in these armies are easily replaceable: give a gun to a civilian, drill them 'till they lose the use of independent thought, and you've replaced the dead soldier.
But modern armies are high tech, and that means that there is a lot of training invested in the men on the ground. Lose them, you lose all the training and experience that they had. So keeping them alive and possibly able to fight again is a big plus.
Works for Slashdot, doesn't it?
Maybe downmodding should be more expensive to your moderator points, or become progressively more expensive, while upmoddinng could be cheaper, or become progressively cheaper.
For example, the first downmod you make could cost you 1 point, the second, 2 points (even though the comment would only lose 1 point). Upmodding could work the opposite way, but in smaller increments: first, you would lose 1 point, then smaller increments, in order to make it possible to get 7 mod points for upmodding but only 3 for downmodding.
Doesn't stop burying, but makes it more expensive, so people may think twice about wasting points on your comment.
I can't believe people don't have anything better to do with their time than try to stifle other people's comments, though. Madness.
I'm not sure of the real hours of American schools, not being American, but I was surprised to hear that kids there had longer hours than kids in Asia. Still, I think the article meant gov't school hours, rather than private, over which the gov't have no control.
Your wife's school experience doesn't sound wildly different to any of the schools I worked at in Taiwan. That said, kids at my schools used to get off at about 16:00- ish, depending on grade level. But they'd have Tuesday afternoon completely off, and an hour and a half for lunch - to eat, and to sleep, which everyone did, from the p1 students right up to the principal and the secretaries. It was bizarre walking round the school then, felt like you were living Cormac McCarthy's dream.
In Hong Kong school ends at about 15:00-15:30, depending on school. But then, off to bushiban (tutorial school)'till god knows what hour. And like you say, kids who don't go to private tutors are seriously disadvantaged in the heavily exam-orientated setups that characterize asian education systems.
When kids are at school here, though, they're grafting: very little wasted time.
I currently teach in an Asian school, and I have taught in more than one country on that list. I'll tell you the reason that Asian kids do better at math and science: they work their butts off. The amount of homework they get is scary, and most kids are enrolled in an after-school math program as well, to get more time with a teacher and more time doing homework. Added to this, the level of math being taught is way higher then I remember it being at school back home.
I guess this is a cultural thing, as you pointed out: because this state of affairs hasn't grown up in a vacuun, and society here does value achievement in these subject areas. Kids are rewarded for doing well, and even more amazingly respected by their peers who don't get results which are as good.
But kids here graft. That's why they are better at what they do.
Most countries in Asia tend to have good connections on subways and in tunnels. I can connect in Hong Kong even when I'm going under Victoria Harbour.
Unfortunately, you do pay a monthly fee for the service, but it's pretty small. Unlimited data usage (uploading and downloading) plans for mobiles with free sms's and a good 26 hours of free talk time cost about $30 US a month.
I'm sure it's the same in Japan - so no worries that you won't be able to connect to the server. Just sucks that you have to.
I think that's just the result of Asus trying to mess with the underlying design of the eee as little as possible. Besides, it helps to inflate the unit price a little, and attempts to widen the customer pool slightly. On a side note, 1984 isn't the problem with these features, although your argument is valid my tin hat is glowing as I type this. The problem isn't surveillance as much as failure to read and think 'cos I'm playing some stupid internet penguin game/talking to my inane mates/ listening to muckracker and the drooling vegetables on Last.Fm It's not Orwell, but Huxley we have to worry about here: Brave New World here we come.
Parent poster also seem to be unclear on the definition of fact - and no, "uneducated, knee-jerk emotional response" isn't even close.
Bitter...
And obviously that article would be hosted by a South African media company.