Or some arrangement like that between USA and Canada?
The status quo won't last long. You guys better speak up when you still have leverage. I do hope Taiwan can have some positive political influence on mainland China.
I think Foxconn is more compassionate in this specific instance than a typical US company, but the whole thing backfired.
What you said is probably true but it reflects the tragedy of a country not being ruled by law. If worker can sue to address their grievances, there is no need for the fox to shed any tears.
This is about work related suicides, and each one of them must be looked into separately and not as a mere number in a statistic. The case with the lost iPhone should especially be taken seriously in regarding to whether executives behaved like Gestapos.
Chinese characters are a "syllabary", i.e., each represents a single syllable.
I am not sure that's true. Every single syllable can usually pronounce many characters. This may be difficult for English speakers to understand, but the separation of characters and syllables are intentional, so that many different dialects can use the same characters. And that's the same reason Japanese and other Asian languages can use the Chinese characters.
BTW, Wikipedia says that many new characters are still being included in the Chinese dictionary. I am not sure if they are newly created or just newly collected. But anyway for daily use, they probably don't matter.
There might be some cultural misunderstanding. I grew up in the third world so airline food seems pretty good to me and I don't get airline food jokes.
I meant if people know the original or others meanings of a word, they might be less inclined to joke about it every time they see the word. As others pointed out they are other names with this kind of connotation, but they were all well established real names before their slang meanings.
The idea of smart underwear is actually quite dangerous. The smart part would rely on software. It's one thing to do measurement, but it's a whole new ball game to give software the control to release medicine into the body. I don't think there would some nice UI to prompt you for permission when a certain drug is injected in you.
Practically none. In Chinese, usually two (the most common case), three, or more characters form a word, which is equivalent to an English word. Chinese words are still being created by combining different characters. But new characters themselves are extremely rare nowadays as existing characters are already much more than necessary.
I am a native Chinese speaker. The human mind has more than enough power to memorize the pronunciations of words even if the words give no clue of pronunciations. Eventually, when you look at the word the pronunciation just pops up in the mind automatically. The reverse is also true.
I can see why adults would have problems learning Chinese characters. But from my experience learning English, it also feels overwhelming even if there is some association between words and pronunciations. There are so many other things to learn as well.
The issue is Chrome, FireFox and Opera all rely on either MS or Apple at the OS level. It's like in the 90's, Application vendors replied on MS for win32 APIs. And that didn't end up well with some who competed with MS.
Currently web pages are still using quite simple graphics. With HTML5, even 2D graphics might need hardware acceleration support from new APIs. MS is providing Direct2D (a new 2d, not 3d API), but I am not sure how good it is. Apple of course is doing its own thing but Safari will certainly be the one taking full advantage of it on OSX.
On Linux, I don't know where the 2d acceleration will come from. Not a good prospect there. Cairo doesn't have acceleration in a practical manner.
The real battle here is not just browsers. It's about who defines the next-gen application development. MS has been sitting on its existing code for a long time and I am sure it's watching the development closely.
No, the bottleneck is not the JavaScript engine. From the HTML5.0 demos I've seen do far, graphics rendering is the key, and hardware acceleration is the difference maker. It seems now Microsoft and Apple both have a lethal weapon on their own platform. It's interesting to see how Chrome, FireFox and Opera can compete with them.
Yeah I was just speculating. I read that Google is investing in a multi-million dollar wind farm. So this might provide some useful technology for that.
How about this: they are showing what Adobe can do with a pluggin vs what someone could do with a scripting language. Still not clever enough to your taste?
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Ma Ying-Jeou, likely does not want unification
Not even under the name Republic Of China?
Or some arrangement like that between USA and Canada?
The status quo won't last long. You guys better speak up when you still have leverage. I do hope Taiwan can have some positive political influence on mainland China.
I think Foxconn is more compassionate in this specific instance than a typical US company, but the whole thing backfired.
What you said is probably true but it reflects the tragedy of a country not being ruled by law. If worker can sue to address their grievances, there is no need for the fox to shed any tears.
This is about work related suicides, and each one of them must be looked into separately and not as a mere number in a statistic. The case with the lost iPhone should especially be taken seriously in regarding to whether executives behaved like Gestapos.
Chinese characters are a "syllabary", i.e., each represents a single syllable.
I am not sure that's true. Every single syllable can usually pronounce many characters. This may be difficult for English speakers to understand, but the separation of characters and syllables are intentional, so that many different dialects can use the same characters. And that's the same reason Japanese and other Asian languages can use the Chinese characters.
BTW, Wikipedia says that many new characters are still being included in the Chinese dictionary. I am not sure if they are newly created or just newly collected. But anyway for daily use, they probably don't matter.
There might be some cultural misunderstanding. I grew up in the third world so airline food seems pretty good to me and I don't get airline food jokes.
By established I meant in English.
I meant if people know the original or others meanings of a word, they might be less inclined to joke about it every time they see the word. As others pointed out they are other names with this kind of connotation, but they were all well established real names before their slang meanings.
hmmm, I get it. The most popular name in the USA is Richard Johnson.
a joke about a guy named Wang
OK, I know your funny bones wouldn't want to know this, but Wang in Chinese means King, a surname also popular in the states.
Actually no. But now that you mentioned it...
The idea of smart underwear is actually quite dangerous. The smart part would rely on software. It's one thing to do measurement, but it's a whole new ball game to give software the control to release medicine into the body. I don't think there would some nice UI to prompt you for permission when a certain drug is injected in you.
but how many new characters are being created
Practically none. In Chinese, usually two (the most common case), three, or more characters form a word, which is equivalent to an English word. Chinese words are still being created by combining different characters. But new characters themselves are extremely rare nowadays as existing characters are already much more than necessary.
I am a native Chinese speaker. The human mind has more than enough power to memorize the pronunciations of words even if the words give no clue of pronunciations. Eventually, when you look at the word the pronunciation just pops up in the mind automatically. The reverse is also true.
I can see why adults would have problems learning Chinese characters. But from my experience learning English, it also feels overwhelming even if there is some association between words and pronunciations. There are so many other things to learn as well.
In hindsight, We can say Bill Gates really wanted a PC running Windows on everyone's desktop. It's not really a bad intention.
Any medium. Of course you car has to travel in there too. I am no physicist, but I think you might find something to slow down light to a crawl.
The issue is Chrome, FireFox and Opera all rely on either MS or Apple at the OS level. It's like in the 90's, Application vendors replied on MS for win32 APIs. And that didn't end up well with some who competed with MS.
Currently web pages are still using quite simple graphics. With HTML5, even 2D graphics might need hardware acceleration support from new APIs. MS is providing Direct2D (a new 2d, not 3d API), but I am not sure how good it is. Apple of course is doing its own thing but Safari will certainly be the one taking full advantage of it on OSX.
On Linux, I don't know where the 2d acceleration will come from. Not a good prospect there. Cairo doesn't have acceleration in a practical manner.
The real battle here is not just browsers. It's about who defines the next-gen application development. MS has been sitting on its existing code for a long time and I am sure it's watching the development closely.
No, the bottleneck is not the JavaScript engine. From the HTML5.0 demos I've seen do far, graphics rendering is the key, and hardware acceleration is the difference maker. It seems now Microsoft and Apple both have a lethal weapon on their own platform. It's interesting to see how Chrome, FireFox and Opera can compete with them.
Yeah I was just speculating. I read that Google is investing in a multi-million dollar wind farm. So this might provide some useful technology for that.
I think not. Even dialing to planet close to a black hole is very dangerous. Remember they used this trick to blow up a sun?
How about this: they are showing what Adobe can do with a pluggin vs what someone could do with a scripting language. Still not clever enough to your taste?
Or more realistically, you can travel against the light.
Well, maybe once you pass the speed of light, you can't slow down and thus don't need power any more?
Why are they wasting this money in this gimmick where there are real energy-related science and engineering problems that can be pursued?
Generally speaking, scientists who requested funding feel better when they get some results, any results.
Let me know when you have a solar powered car traveling faster than light.
Christians have this goofy moral code that says they shouldn't steal and lie like the rest of the population of China.
So they would steal and lie like those pedophiles?