I don't mind looking up for new words but if you ask me to look up for jargon then I am quite sure the author doesn't know how to communicate or doesn't have much to communicate to begin with.
If this is serious, it will be an arms race for funding with a lot of waste. The Chinese will only start the wars they think they can win. And there is no miscalculation on the Chinese side. Believe me the Chinese are very good at calculation, on things you'd never imagine.
The Chinese government are trying to make USA look like a bigger hegemony than it is, and occasionally provoke a little, so that the Chinese people will feel they have to unite together no matter what. The bottom line is, the Chinese government is full of incompetent people that they'll try anything to maintain their power or transfer power to their puppets.
And not to be out done, the US government seems to be shooting for the maximum security for it's people, by pursuing the best and most expensive weapons. It must think that the people really need such good sleep that 100% guarantee has to be achieved. Of course nobody needs to worry about earthquakes when asleep.
Of course a lot of this is just that maybe someone wanted to publish an article. But when the two nations are so economically connected and there are a lot of economical issues in both, many would most likely welcome some distractions.
The reason the government is doing this is because the people are not fighting back under the impression that "it's for your own good". I am from a communist country and I am quite familiar with this kind of "for your own good" programs as if the government were some kid of a big daddy. Democracy cannot be taken for granted. Even people grown up in a democracy would try to find ways to undermine democracy. Those people are usually incompetent and don't understand democracy and freedom in the first place. I am quite surprised that Americans are not more vocal about this by refusing to fly for a month (all at the same time of course). The only way for the evil to prevail is for the good not to do anything.
Perhaps you got hired in the first place was because the one who hired you also lied on his/her resume or had other indiscretion. And you might have looked away from others' dishonesty because of your own flaw. This is how corruption starts and when push becomes shovel, the power struggle can get really weird.
Lying on the resume about degrees is rampant among Chinese communists and they have twisted the concept of respect into something not based on achievement, but on covering each others' lies. Believe me, you wouldn't want to live in that kind of culture.
There was a high jump champion who was able to break the world record by a few centimeters. But to claim multiple record breakers, he improved his performance by one centimeter at a time. I wonder if Intel is in this position as well. Based on the performance gain for each generation (especially if you consider the ever increasingly bloated software), it does seem like Intel is enjoying "hardware updating" as much as Microsoft is with software updating.
These might create some ire but more of ASPIRATIONS.
The political system in China has always been oppressive and people actually think that's the norm. In China being an official is regarded as an privilege. This has changed a lot since the last dynasty but a change at a cultural level has not happen. Today people in China still don't believe in equals rights for all. So powerful people in China can safely create such discriminating systems and actually use that as a demonstration of their power.
It will not surprise me that 20 or 30 years later, we may envy at their social and political progress too.
I am not quite optimistic here. In an equal society you would want others to be rich so that you can be rich too. In an oppressive you would want to others to live in a certain way so that you can use them. There has been reports that Bush told Jiang (then Chinese President), maybe jokingly, that it's so easy to wield power in China than in America. You see, the influence is mutual.
I hope westerners would refuse to participate in any discriminating systems. But the history the Friendship Stores indicates that it's hard to refuse an good offer because of principles. And the name of the stores is also interesting. Now I think about it, it served it's dual purpose quite well. It does promote friendship. But it also reinforces inequality.
could be just your machine. On a gaming machine with big monitors, it plays HD content much better than flash. If their servers can meet the demand, they really should get rid of all the DVDs.
Hate to reply to my self but I just found out they only changed the "Watch Instantly" section. This leads me to think they might be intentionally discouraging people to watch too many movies. Maybe their servers are having trouble keeping up with the demand.
The scrolling is too slow and there is no button to quickly flip the panels as before. The play button on the picture seems handy but overall, conevient browsing of movie titles are more important, so this redesign is an F. I might have to vote with my money by scaling down my subscription (It has been difficult to find good titles already).
They probably tricked Google into sending the password to them through the password reset process. They might've also hacked google people first and those people might have access to internal data. The lesson is, if you host your data on someone else's site, password strength is just one small factcor in securing your data.
I am not sure if there is any difference between EC2 or a cheaply rented VPS. I've a very cheap VPS with un-meterd bandwidth. So I think it then depends on the network backbone that connects your server to the world.
QA should genenally more tech savvy than their users and in case of microsoft, especially their developer tools division (or sth like that), the users are programmers. So QA at such places sometimes have to be even more than programmers. But in most cases, QA do not look at source code and that makes them much more vulnerable to competition from cheap labor. Do you really need a computer science degree to just use software? Yes there are good testers who can reproduce a random bug even when the programmers are clueless, but QA mostly just run a lot of routine work like setting up machines and verifying the same thing on different platforms. I don't mean to bash QA here. Just poting out that the qualifications generally are much lower AND different.
We're speculating that this may be a public relations tactic to try and get some external funding
This could be a semi bluff. If graudates from this university would often end up as QA (testers), then it would be very difficult to compete with cheap Indian workers (In the company I work even Indians are being replaced by indians in india). I think in the long term in the US only high quality engineers will survivie and correspondingly only high quality departments will survive.
You might not have noticed s/he said "Anti-Asian" comment. Apparently s/he considers "Asian" as a single race, so that "Asian American" is a concept to build on.
That's engineering effort, or man power, or what you would call cheap labor. I think if China and American could work as one nation, humans could be on the Mars a lot sooner.
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I don't mind looking up for new words but if you ask me to look up for jargon then I am quite sure the author doesn't know how to communicate or doesn't have much to communicate to begin with.
If this is serious, it will be an arms race for funding with a lot of waste. The Chinese will only start the wars they think they can win. And there is no miscalculation on the Chinese side. Believe me the Chinese are very good at calculation, on things you'd never imagine. The Chinese government are trying to make USA look like a bigger hegemony than it is, and occasionally provoke a little, so that the Chinese people will feel they have to unite together no matter what. The bottom line is, the Chinese government is full of incompetent people that they'll try anything to maintain their power or transfer power to their puppets. And not to be out done, the US government seems to be shooting for the maximum security for it's people, by pursuing the best and most expensive weapons. It must think that the people really need such good sleep that 100% guarantee has to be achieved. Of course nobody needs to worry about earthquakes when asleep. Of course a lot of this is just that maybe someone wanted to publish an article. But when the two nations are so economically connected and there are a lot of economical issues in both, many would most likely welcome some distractions.
The reason the government is doing this is because the people are not fighting back under the impression that "it's for your own good". I am from a communist country and I am quite familiar with this kind of "for your own good" programs as if the government were some kid of a big daddy. Democracy cannot be taken for granted. Even people grown up in a democracy would try to find ways to undermine democracy. Those people are usually incompetent and don't understand democracy and freedom in the first place. I am quite surprised that Americans are not more vocal about this by refusing to fly for a month (all at the same time of course). The only way for the evil to prevail is for the good not to do anything.
Perhaps you got hired in the first place was because the one who hired you also lied on his/her resume or had other indiscretion. And you might have looked away from others' dishonesty because of your own flaw. This is how corruption starts and when push becomes shovel, the power struggle can get really weird. Lying on the resume about degrees is rampant among Chinese communists and they have twisted the concept of respect into something not based on achievement, but on covering each others' lies. Believe me, you wouldn't want to live in that kind of culture.
There was a high jump champion who was able to break the world record by a few centimeters. But to claim multiple record breakers, he improved his performance by one centimeter at a time. I wonder if Intel is in this position as well. Based on the performance gain for each generation (especially if you consider the ever increasingly bloated software), it does seem like Intel is enjoying "hardware updating" as much as Microsoft is with software updating.
So why not put the ISS on the market?
These might create some ire but more of ASPIRATIONS.
The political system in China has always been oppressive and people actually think that's the norm. In China being an official is regarded as an privilege. This has changed a lot since the last dynasty but a change at a cultural level has not happen. Today people in China still don't believe in equals rights for all. So powerful people in China can safely create such discriminating systems and actually use that as a demonstration of their power.
It will not surprise me that 20 or 30 years later, we may envy at their social and political progress too.
I am not quite optimistic here. In an equal society you would want others to be rich so that you can be rich too. In an oppressive you would want to others to live in a certain way so that you can use them. There has been reports that Bush told Jiang (then Chinese President), maybe jokingly, that it's so easy to wield power in China than in America. You see, the influence is mutual.
I hope westerners would refuse to participate in any discriminating systems. But the history the Friendship Stores indicates that it's hard to refuse an good offer because of principles. And the name of the stores is also interesting. Now I think about it, it served it's dual purpose quite well. It does promote friendship. But it also reinforces inequality.
could be just your machine. On a gaming machine with big monitors, it plays HD content much better than flash. If their servers can meet the demand, they really should get rid of all the DVDs.
Hate to reply to my self but I just found out they only changed the "Watch Instantly" section. This leads me to think they might be intentionally discouraging people to watch too many movies. Maybe their servers are having trouble keeping up with the demand.
The scrolling is too slow and there is no button to quickly flip the panels as before. The play button on the picture seems handy but overall, conevient browsing of movie titles are more important, so this redesign is an F. I might have to vote with my money by scaling down my subscription (It has been difficult to find good titles already).
If we're to have a space overlord, I'd rather it be of the United States/Europe/Japan variety than the China variety.
Neither of them have had a good track record as a land overload. Amazing people would blindly follow their "we are the good guy" crap.
I meant the subset of characters that is obscure, not that all Chinese characters are obscure.
We should also allow unicode characters. Those obscure Chinese characters that no one can write by hand would be really handy.
even if the hashing function is fast, you can use many iterations to slow it down.
You are right about that. I meant to say the hacker could change your password of his/her choosing.
I have no idea how they figured out my password,
They probably tricked Google into sending the password to them through the password reset process. They might've also hacked google people first and those people might have access to internal data. The lesson is, if you host your data on someone else's site, password strength is just one small factcor in securing your data.
Bandwidth choke-points are gone
I am not sure if there is any difference between EC2 or a cheaply rented VPS. I've a very cheap VPS with un-meterd bandwidth. So I think it then depends on the network backbone that connects your server to the world.
QA should genenally more tech savvy than their users and in case of microsoft, especially their developer tools division (or sth like that), the users are programmers. So QA at such places sometimes have to be even more than programmers. But in most cases, QA do not look at source code and that makes them much more vulnerable to competition from cheap labor. Do you really need a computer science degree to just use software? Yes there are good testers who can reproduce a random bug even when the programmers are clueless, but QA mostly just run a lot of routine work like setting up machines and verifying the same thing on different platforms. I don't mean to bash QA here. Just poting out that the qualifications generally are much lower AND different.
We're speculating that this may be a public relations tactic to try and get some external funding
This could be a semi bluff. If graudates from this university would often end up as QA (testers), then it would be very difficult to compete with cheap Indian workers (In the company I work even Indians are being replaced by indians in india). I think in the long term in the US only high quality engineers will survivie and correspondingly only high quality departments will survive.
we can continue spending money on all kinds of ridiculous things that don't actually matter to anybody in particular at all
It has to benefit someone in some way unless the people who spend the money are total idiots. Then that looks like embezzlement to me.
typo: money -> monkey
In his own words, it is "real science, a real job, and a real pursuit".
Any real result in his lifetime?
I build business software applications and it pays the bills and affords a certain degree of freedom.
Are you saying you are a code money? You don't have to unless that's the only way you can see.
You just repeat the definition of innovation.
You might not have noticed s/he said "Anti-Asian" comment. Apparently s/he considers "Asian" as a single race, so that "Asian American" is a concept to build on.
the Chinese have something to offer
That's engineering effort, or man power, or what you would call cheap labor. I think if China and American could work as one nation, humans could be on the Mars a lot sooner.