It's been a while since I studied that era, but as I remember, the last time Germany invaded Poland, the international community tolerated it rather well. I don't think anyone really got their panties in a twist until they ran through France.
Actually, Britain and France declared war on Germany immediately upon the invasion of Poland.
Also, if I recall, foreign companies can't legally own land in Mainland China - they can just buy multi-decade leases.
That's because nobody can legally own land in Mainland China. Aside from the PRC government, of course. All anyone can buy in China is multi-decade (or shorter) leases.
If a US court had any rights to judge over what happened on foreign soil, perhaps. It doesn't. It's a stupid case and a waste of money on the side of the plaintiff. China was kind enough to actually acknowledge it with a letter. It needn't have.
Always safer to file a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. If the Chinese government really believed what you say is true, it should have done that instead of complain to the State department.
Yeah. Right.
Here is a clue. When all other moneys are in play against the dollar, and the Yuan does not move for several years, then I think that it is safe to assume that it is fixed against the dollar.
When the Yuan did not move for several years, it was officially fixed to the dollar. Since it has been officially unfixed, there has not been a period of "several years" in which it did not move against the dollar. FACT.
Now, maybe it hasn't been moving enough, and very likely it is still "secretly" fixed to the dollar for periods of 9 or 10 months with a brief controlled shift in between, but your "evidence" that it is fixed is false.
This does happen in the case of tangible assets such as oil, so I guess the fact we don't do the same for intellectual property is a tacit admission of some distinction between them vs other types of property.
I see it more as a tacit admission that we don't want to fuck with China. Given that they could basically tank our economy simply by refusing to buy our bonds, we probably don't want to do anything too aggressive towards them right now. Granted, we could do what you suggested to other countries and leave China alone, but then China would start lookin' at us all shifty-eyed, fearing that they would be next...
Showing absolute ignorance here, but anyone else think the "polynomial ham sandwich theorem" sounds like it was perhaps concocted by someone overweight?
This "memory palace" thing really is bullshit. It's just as absurd as "memory experts" (who are usually just promoting themselves and their products, frankly) you always see on talk shows who say it's all about neumonics or association.
I believe you mean mnemonics. As much as I hate bullshit, I hate it even more when people misspell that word, because it's close enough to this word that you could be creating legitimate confusion if the context were slightly less clear. If you need help remembering, there's a Keanu movie with the correct word in the title. It's about a guy who rents his memory space for organizations to store data in his brain, so once you watch it, it should be easy to associate that title with the concept of memory.
It seems to me that voice recognition is not the most efficient way to interact with a computer, especially when the user interface is well designed. For complicated tasks, and for interacting with computers where you may not have a normal desk or terminal, perhaps.
Efficient? No. Natural? Yes. I expect the generations growing up after speech recognition and natural-language parsing become both reliable and ubiquitous to use speech as their default interface. They will lose out on many of the efficiency gains a well-designed GUI or CLI will provide, but on the other hand the learning curve to use a computer will be almost flat.
On the contrary, I think it's the most natural way to interact with a computer. Back when science fiction authors first started trying to imagine what computers of the future would be like, they almost always imagined speech to be the interface. It was only experience, with the primitive 20th-century interfaces that we had, that habituated people to thinking that keyboards and mice were the way to interact with a computer. The command line and GUI are un-natural ways to communicate, which we've gotten used to; speech is a natural way to communicate, which (in the context of human-machine communication) we've gotten un-used to.
(Note: I actually find CLI and GUI to offer many advantages over speech interfaces and don't expect them to ever go away now that we have them...however, if speech processing had been practical as the next step after punch cards, I don't believe CLI or GUI would ever have been developed, at least not as primary interfaces with the amount of depth they have today)
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What will US export? Promises not to sue if someone will try to sell something in US (a.k.a. most of "IP")?
Given recent activities by big content, this might actually be a very valuable commodity...
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I mean if US companies did pull out of china
A frustrated China could not be reached for comment...
...but will be out of the bathroom "real soon."
Good. We're all dying to know if the US companies pulled out in time.
It's been a while since I studied that era, but as I remember, the last time Germany invaded Poland, the international community tolerated it rather well. I don't think anyone really got their panties in a twist until they ran through France.
Actually, Britain and France declared war on Germany immediately upon the invasion of Poland.
Also, if I recall, foreign companies can't legally own land in Mainland China - they can just buy multi-decade leases.
That's because nobody can legally own land in Mainland China. Aside from the PRC government, of course. All anyone can buy in China is multi-decade (or shorter) leases.
"The Chinese side hereby expresses strong concern over it and firmly rejects it" Does that really work in China?
Umm...Ahem. The Chinese government, in this day and age, can "firmly reject" whatever the hell it wants.
If a US court had any rights to judge over what happened on foreign soil, perhaps. It doesn't. It's a stupid case and a waste of money on the side of the plaintiff. China was kind enough to actually acknowledge it with a letter. It needn't have.
Always safer to file a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. If the Chinese government really believed what you say is true, it should have done that instead of complain to the State department.
Yeah. Right. Here is a clue. When all other moneys are in play against the dollar, and the Yuan does not move for several years, then I think that it is safe to assume that it is fixed against the dollar.
When the Yuan did not move for several years, it was officially fixed to the dollar. Since it has been officially unfixed, there has not been a period of "several years" in which it did not move against the dollar. FACT.
Now, maybe it hasn't been moving enough, and very likely it is still "secretly" fixed to the dollar for periods of 9 or 10 months with a brief controlled shift in between, but your "evidence" that it is fixed is false.
This does happen in the case of tangible assets such as oil, so I guess the fact we don't do the same for intellectual property is a tacit admission of some distinction between them vs other types of property.
I see it more as a tacit admission that we don't want to fuck with China. Given that they could basically tank our economy simply by refusing to buy our bonds, we probably don't want to do anything too aggressive towards them right now. Granted, we could do what you suggested to other countries and leave China alone, but then China would start lookin' at us all shifty-eyed, fearing that they would be next...
Showing absolute ignorance here, but anyone else think the "polynomial ham sandwich theorem" sounds like it was perhaps concocted by someone overweight?
...or someone starving.
I tried this method, putting everything into memory palaces When I tried to access them, I got back an "Error Code 404 Site Not Found"
I just get the message, "Thank you Mario. Your memory is in another palace."
make clean before sleep? Too much work...
Well then, someone is either extremely disgusting, or can't really satisfy a woman.
Who said anything about a woman? I thought we were talking about computers...
Slashdot: News for nerds not skilled at choosing a cheaper "ball & chains" memory aid called keychains. :)
That's not a memory aid, that's a restraint on the keys themselves. Case in point: my wife just loses her whole keychain (frequently).
Heh, I took the opposite approach. "Why bother training myself to remember where I left my keys? I have a wife for that!" ;)
If you're anything like Mr. Cooke, now you'll start claiming memory is just a myth, it's really just people asking their wives about things.
So this guy's like the Joe the Plumber of memory? :P
Exactly.
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems...
I don't. I just want to make fun of the terminology used in a juvenile manner.
This "memory palace" thing really is bullshit. It's just as absurd as "memory experts" (who are usually just promoting themselves and their products, frankly) you always see on talk shows who say it's all about neumonics or association.
I believe you mean mnemonics. As much as I hate bullshit, I hate it even more when people misspell that word, because it's close enough to this word that you could be creating legitimate confusion if the context were slightly less clear. If you need help remembering, there's a Keanu movie with the correct word in the title. It's about a guy who rents his memory space for organizations to store data in his brain, so once you watch it, it should be easy to associate that title with the concept of memory.
'Photographic memory is a detestable myth. Doesn't exist. In fact, my memory is quite average,' concludes Ed Cooke...
And yet this man has memory palaces. Average, indeed.
It seems to me that voice recognition is not the most efficient way to interact with a computer, especially when the user interface is well designed. For complicated tasks, and for interacting with computers where you may not have a normal desk or terminal, perhaps.
Efficient? No. Natural? Yes. I expect the generations growing up after speech recognition and natural-language parsing become both reliable and ubiquitous to use speech as their default interface. They will lose out on many of the efficiency gains a well-designed GUI or CLI will provide, but on the other hand the learning curve to use a computer will be almost flat.
On the contrary, I think it's the most natural way to interact with a computer. Back when science fiction authors first started trying to imagine what computers of the future would be like, they almost always imagined speech to be the interface. It was only experience, with the primitive 20th-century interfaces that we had, that habituated people to thinking that keyboards and mice were the way to interact with a computer. The command line and GUI are un-natural ways to communicate, which we've gotten used to; speech is a natural way to communicate, which (in the context of human-machine communication) we've gotten un-used to.
(Note: I actually find CLI and GUI to offer many advantages over speech interfaces and don't expect them to ever go away now that we have them...however, if speech processing had been practical as the next step after punch cards, I don't believe CLI or GUI would ever have been developed, at least not as primary interfaces with the amount of depth they have today)
Is there a mod for (-1: Full of Shit)???
Watson received the other two contestants' incorrect responses via speech recognition and used them to narrow down the correct response.
Apparently not very well...
gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init, uncompress, gasp; finger; find, route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice, more; yes; gasp; umount; head, halt, renice, restore, touch, whereis, which, route, mount, more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping, make clean; sleep
make clean before sleep? Too much work...
Rule #2: Build solitaire directly into clones of word and excel. Rule #3: Build facebook games directly into all office apps.
Rules #2 and #3 are really, really stupid. Unfortunately for the world, they're probably also correct.
Why no comments yet? Is everyone in denial?
Apparently you are...about all the other comments...