I think calling Anne Coulter's mentally derranged mussings an "opinion" is too much of a compliment. After all this is the woman who compared The New York Times to the 9/11 terrorists.
All you need is a marketable personality and the willingness to engage in a shoold-yard-like shouting match.
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Mod parent down. The poster and the editor did read the article and summarized it properly.
Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson did not get a more visible job. CNN has about twice as many viewers as MSNBC in America
My post was rated Troll, even though this week's issue of The Economist says pretty much the same thing.
But Lenovo may make things worse, given cultural differences between Americans and Chinese, big differences in pay and the need for interpreters at every meeting. Vincent Yan, finance director of TCL, which is going through the same experience with the French, has admitted that the cultural gap proved wider than expected. The more disruptive the IBM acquisition proves for Lenovo, the better it will be for Dell, a true global champion.
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Actually not always in the case of text searches, where it often refers to the size of the pattern (keyword) searched for.
Furthermore, even if it is the length of the database (which I seriously doubt) is that a database of all keywords in Google's? or a smaller set of selected topics?
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Actually the best search algorithms are described in terms of the length of the keyword, not the dictionary.
Read up on suffix trees and their modern derivatives.
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I know what the O is, I'm asking what the n is.
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You missed the point. Is n the size of the word typed so far? the total dictionary size? the number of completions in your answer set?
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This China trolling from desperate Americans worried about losing their economic and technological dominance in the near future needs to stop. I'm American, and let me tell you, no amount of whining is going to stop the PRC. The sleeping dragon is waking and the world, as Napoleon predicted, is trembling.
China is coming strong and just like the 20th century was all about a transition of might from the British Empire to the USA, I fully expect the 21st century to be the same but with USA to China instead. (China already has us by the balls with the large amount of US debt they hold).
Having said that, I fully expect the quality of the Thinkpads to drop. Mark my words. They will now have to do their own R&D and employ expensive design labour fource in the US. My own experience is that PRC firms don't know how to do that (yet).
Time to buy your replacement Thinkpad, before quality drops like no tomorrow. My experience dealing with Chinese corporations is that they are penny pinching low paid operations whose quality is kept in check only by the demands of the western corporations that contract work out to them in the first palce.
Lenovo has almost no R&D and corporate policies of paying their employess $0.25 an hour. Will they have the patience to pay the US based thinkpad designers $100K a year and let them show late to work? or will they give them copies of Chairman Mao's red book and tell them to work 10 hours a day for minimum wage? As I said before my experience suggest the latter is the likelier scenario.
Actually there is no problem: A company can easily determine how many click-throughs from Google eventually lead to sales, and thus assign a dollar value to their presence in Google. Now they divide this total value by the number of click-throughs reported by Google (even if said number is totally bogus) and that is exactly what they bid for in adwords.
The CFO is just not familiar enough with the basic economic behaviour.
Sceptism is fine (and to be encouraged) but equally you have to be prepared to change your position when the evidence is presented.
I have followed this for quite a while, and back over a decade ago when some of the most strident environmentalists were claiming warming as an undeniable fact it was in fact only a faint trace in the data. Since then more and more studies have reliably shown a warming trend, that overlaps somewhat with the growth in CO2.
We also know that in sufficiently large amounts CO2 alone could cause a greenhouse effect. What remains to be conclusively shown is that (a) such large amounts have been emitted (b) there is no compensating factor in the process (e.g. increased heat => more water vapour => more clouds => increased reflexivity of the earth => less heat => no global warming).
As time passes, and no alternative explanations are found to global warming this in itself becomes evidence for the CO2-warming theory; so slowly my skepticism wears away. At the current rate, I'd give it another five-to-ten years.
Either you are ingorant of what libertarianism is, or you are intenionally being libelous.
Actually I'm well informed about that libertarians stand for. I was debating with ESR the pros and cons of libertarianism back when you were likely just finishing elementary school.
Libertaniarism is good in this sense because at least you don't suffer from the perception that you protected by the government.
I'll flip this on its head. Government regulation is good as at least there is a chance the government might do something. With libertarianism there was never any chance of punishing the corporation.
Which is the exact same reason why libertaniarism would work so well. Let's do away with government and let the free market punish the guilty party, as thy punished UC into bankruptcy (NOT!).
But there are a lot of relatively inexpensive things that we could be doing, right now,
For sure, and those things will be of value even if global warming proves not to be there. For example less polution means cleaner cities, which is good for the health of its inhabitants global warming or no global warming.
However, there is a lesson for environmentalists out there not to squander their credibility with publicity-seeking exaggerated statements. While initially they might work in getting the public attention, these have a way to come back and bite you, as it is happening right now.
The advice of scientists used to be nearly gospel at the White House. Granted, it was often ignored for political reasons, not because it was disbelieved. Today politicians do not trust scientists advice any more, and the day its truly needed (e.g. a global pandemic) precious time will be lost by politicians wondering whether to believe their scientifc advisors or not.
Not true. I bought a Dell latitude without thinking twice about the name. It sucked. The next laptop I bought was an IBM since all my friends spoke highly of them. Mine is rugged and has worked like a charm for three years. I'll continue to buy thinkpads so long as the quality is there, which I doubt it will if the business is sold to a low cost Chinese company, as the article claims it might.
There is very good evidence from thousands of years of good scientific information (we have reliable records goind back hundreds of years and ice cores can take us back hundreds of thousands of years) that CO2 levels have risen dramatically.
Correct.
There is also relatively reliable evidence that the earth is warming up.
What is missing is the foolproof connection between them.
This is not to say it doesn't exist. For a long time a smoking gun connection was missing for the depletion of the ozone layer and CFCs. Then one day Crutzen, Molina and Rowland found it, and eventually got the Nobel prize for it.
At the same time, we should be ready to admit that (a) the connection might not be there and (b) environmental science has a track record of hysterical predictions that have not been backed up by reality. To wit: Malthusian population explosion, mass famine and scarcity, new ice age (this one was popular in the 70s), nuclear winter (first proposed by the science writer Sagan of all people, in Scientific American of all places).
So forgive us if we are sceptic when environmentalists cry wolf yet again.
This happens to me often, and as far as I can tell it has something to do with java apps running on the background. The most reliable way to reproduce the problem for me is to go to the CNN web site. The java icon immediately pops up on the taskbar, which tells me that CNN runs java applets. Then close the lid, placing the computer in sleep mode. When I reopen the computer the amount of times it takes to start is usually proportional to how long the lid was closed.
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Ah, another crock idea with-cool-sounding-name from the MIT Media Lab. No wonder half of the lab wants to walk away and change their name.
It's not only the weightm, but also the size. CRTs take a lot more living room space than DLP or plasma TVs.
You just have to have an opinion
I think calling Anne Coulter's mentally derranged mussings an "opinion" is too much of a compliment. After all this is the woman who compared The New York Times to the 9/11 terrorists.
All you need is a marketable personality and the willingness to engage in a shoold-yard-like shouting match.
Mod parent down. The poster and the editor did read the article and summarized it properly.
Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson did not get a more visible job. CNN has about twice as many viewers as MSNBC in America
Starbuck's is ok,
Starbucks coffee is way over-roasted. It is still way better than Folgers or Maxwell house which is why *$ does such brisk business.
That is about 1/3rd of what X-terminals went for most of last decade.
My post was rated Troll, even though this week's issue of The Economist says pretty much the same thing.
But Lenovo may make things worse, given cultural differences between Americans and Chinese, big differences in pay and the need for interpreters at every meeting. Vincent Yan, finance director of TCL, which is going through the same experience with the French, has admitted that the cultural gap proved wider than expected. The more disruptive the IBM acquisition proves for Lenovo, the better it will be for Dell, a true global champion.
Actually not always in the case of text searches, where it often refers to the size of the pattern (keyword) searched for.
Furthermore, even if it is the length of the database (which I seriously doubt) is that a database of all keywords in Google's? or a smaller set of selected topics?
Actually the best search algorithms are described in terms of the length of the keyword, not the dictionary.
Read up on suffix trees and their modern derivatives.
I know what the O is, I'm asking what the n is.
You missed the point. Is n the size of the word typed so far? the total dictionary size? the number of completions in your answer set?
Where n is???
This China trolling from desperate Americans worried about losing their economic and technological dominance in the near future needs to stop. I'm American, and let me tell you, no amount of whining is going to stop the PRC. The sleeping dragon is waking and the world, as Napoleon predicted, is trembling.
China is coming strong and just like the 20th century was all about a transition of might from the British Empire to the USA, I fully expect the 21st century to be the same but with USA to China instead. (China already has us by the balls with the large amount of US debt they hold).
Having said that, I fully expect the quality of the Thinkpads to drop. Mark my words. They will now have to do their own R&D and employ expensive design labour fource in the US. My own experience is that PRC firms don't know how to do that (yet).
Time to buy your replacement Thinkpad, before quality drops like no tomorrow. My experience dealing with Chinese corporations is that they are penny pinching low paid operations whose quality is kept in check only by the demands of the western corporations that contract work out to them in the first palce.
Lenovo has almost no R&D and corporate policies of paying their employess $0.25 an hour. Will they have the patience to pay the US based thinkpad designers $100K a year and let them show late to work? or will they give them copies of Chairman Mao's red book and tell them to work 10 hours a day for minimum wage? As I said before my experience suggest the latter is the likelier scenario.
My pastor had an even simpler answer: In Biblical times, the elders of the family were revered.
Is there any evidence that those "yearly figures" are actually not given in lunar months which are commonly used to this date in jewish dates?
Actually there is no problem: A company can easily determine how many click-throughs from Google eventually lead to sales, and thus assign a dollar value to their presence in Google. Now they divide this total value by the number of click-throughs reported by Google (even if said number is totally bogus) and that is exactly what they bid for in adwords.
The CFO is just not familiar enough with the basic economic behaviour.
Sceptism is fine (and to be encouraged) but equally you have to be prepared to change your position when the evidence is presented.
I have followed this for quite a while, and back over a decade ago when some of the most strident environmentalists were claiming warming as an undeniable fact it was in fact only a faint trace in the data. Since then more and more studies have reliably shown a warming trend, that overlaps somewhat with the growth in CO2.
We also know that in sufficiently large amounts CO2 alone could cause a greenhouse effect. What remains to be conclusively shown is that (a) such large amounts have been emitted (b) there is no compensating factor in the process (e.g. increased heat => more water vapour => more clouds => increased reflexivity of the earth => less heat => no global warming).
As time passes, and no alternative explanations are found to global warming this in itself becomes evidence for the CO2-warming theory; so slowly my skepticism wears away. At the current rate, I'd give it another five-to-ten years.
Either you are ingorant of what libertarianism is, or you are intenionally being libelous.
Actually I'm well informed about that libertarians stand for. I was debating with ESR the pros and cons of libertarianism back when you were likely just finishing elementary school.
Libertaniarism is good in this sense because at least you don't suffer from the perception that you protected by the government.
I'll flip this on its head. Government regulation is good as at least there is a chance the government might do something. With libertarianism there was never any chance of punishing the corporation.
Which is the exact same reason why libertaniarism would work so well. Let's do away with government and let the free market punish the guilty party, as thy punished UC into bankruptcy (NOT!).
But there are a lot of relatively inexpensive things that we could be doing, right now,
For sure, and those things will be of value even if global warming proves not to be there. For example less polution means cleaner cities, which is good for the health of its inhabitants global warming or no global warming.
However, there is a lesson for environmentalists out there not to squander their credibility with publicity-seeking exaggerated statements. While initially they might work in getting the public attention, these have a way to come back and bite you, as it is happening right now.
The advice of scientists used to be nearly gospel at the White House. Granted, it was often ignored for political reasons, not because it was disbelieved. Today politicians do not trust scientists advice any more, and the day its truly needed (e.g. a global pandemic) precious time will be lost by politicians wondering whether to believe their scientifc advisors or not.
Open your beloved Thinkpad. Check out where the components are made.
Korea and Taiwan, mostly. Only the new battery I just bought comes from Chine.
Do you still think Chinese can't make quality products?
I did not say such a thing. My contention is that a low cost Chinese company likely won't focus on quality as much as IBM does.
Not true. I bought a Dell latitude without thinking twice about the name. It sucked. The next laptop I bought was an IBM since all my friends spoke highly of them. Mine is rugged and has worked like a charm for three years. I'll continue to buy thinkpads so long as the quality is there, which I doubt it will if the business is sold to a low cost Chinese company, as the article claims it might.
This has nothing to do with the name.
There is very good evidence from thousands of years of good scientific information (we have reliable records goind back hundreds of years and ice cores can take us back hundreds of thousands of years) that CO2 levels have risen dramatically.
Correct.
There is also relatively reliable evidence that the earth is warming up.
What is missing is the foolproof connection between them.
This is not to say it doesn't exist. For a long time a smoking gun connection was missing for the depletion of the ozone layer and CFCs. Then one day Crutzen, Molina and Rowland found it, and eventually got the Nobel prize for it.
At the same time, we should be ready to admit that (a) the connection might not be there and (b) environmental science has a track record of hysterical predictions that have not been backed up by reality. To wit: Malthusian population explosion, mass famine and scarcity, new ice age (this one was popular in the 70s), nuclear winter (first proposed by the science writer Sagan of all people, in Scientific American of all places).
So forgive us if we are sceptic when environmentalists cry wolf yet again.
This happens to me often, and as far as I can tell it has something to do with java apps running on the background. The most reliable way to reproduce the problem for me is to go to the CNN web site. The java icon immediately pops up on the taskbar, which tells me that CNN runs java applets. Then close the lid, placing the computer in sleep mode. When I reopen the computer the amount of times it takes to start is usually proportional to how long the lid was closed.