Conjectures: 1. Poor families kids have worse nutrition in average, limiting height development. Kids from poor families also receive less education.
=> tall people earn more
2. Immigrants from Asian countries are shorter in general. Immigrants also earn less for various reasons.
=> tall people (mainly locals) earn more.
3. Professional sports player earn a lot. They tend to be taller (How many NBA players are shorter than 6 feet?), pulling up the average for tall people.
Like, say, with energy deregulation in California? Or privatized public schools? Or the free market for health insurance, which has left millions uninsured?
All three examples shouldn't be considered as problematic free market. California never really deregulate it's energy market (the blackout is a result of misalign of incentive when price of hydro is freely adjusted). Privatised public schools endure as much as the shortcoming of public schools, while it may save some taxpayer's money for other issues (not to mention some interest group intentionally misalign resources after privatisation to create an illusion of failed privatisation). For those who have no health insurance under privatised market, how many of them would buy health insurance even if the government give them enough money to buy it?
No, free market is not the answer to everything. Just as asking the government to run everything isn't the answer to the same problem. Worldcom/Enron-type problem isn't problem of free market. It is the problem of WILD market. The actual solution is not to pseudo-analysis which label all private enterprise as greedy, but to study how each incentive arrangement (or institution) would give what outcome.
You may not be aware of it, how you get 911 service on your cell is determined by market forces already. The mobile system is not capable to handle a sudden increase in 911 call volumn at the same time. This is not a problem of free market. Either the regulator knows that and explicitly rate cell service as non-essential, or the regulator did a half ass job and did not specify clearly the cost of using the public spectrum.
Though the simple task of manufacture has been handed down to the Chinese, it is still the western companies that design and market the devices.
This is a troll, I would mod it down if I have mod points. Get your fact first. A lot of notebook computers are designed by Taiwanese companies (ever heard about how Asus is heading towards ODM on notebook, not to mention Compal?), not the traditional western companies. And most probably Asia is the test point for marketing the latest model of notebook computers.
At least, it's not that difficult to identify many notebooks from many different brand names shared a similar design: all of them are customized product from ODM solutions provided by one of the Taiwanese companies (Compal was/is?? the leader in this area.)
Mainland China is catching up fast in the area of designing too. It wouldn't surprise me if major new consumer computer products are mainly designed in Mainland China in 5 years. All you need is a couple thousands well trained engineers and industrial designers.
You can read the original Intellect's analysis in here.
The ZDNet article misinterprets many things Intellect suggest: 1. Intellect does not suggest OSS licenses are all bad. Only GNU GPL could be problematic for the Government uses (ZDNet's title is so misleading) 2. The "GPL not suitable for secretive government bodies" is also overblown. The Intellect just suggests that if the Government wants to maintain confidential codes, they can't do it under GPL.
All in all it's fair to recommend the Government not going for 1 type of development model/license by default. The only question I have on the Intellect's analysis is that they suggested that businesses can't get back value of their IP under GPL. As far as I understand, GPL does not require distributing their software free (as in beer), nor giving up the right of redistribution (so I can't distribute a piece of GPL software in which the copywrite holder does not grant me the redistribution rights.) In that sense, GPL won't hinder commercial interest in software development as suggested in Intellect's paper, and the whole analysis could falls apart. But I'm not sure I'm correct on the GPL, better have someone more familiar with GPL to point it out.
It's just amazing that, when you walked into any government related building in DC, you gotta go through a metal detector. All visitors are treated as potential terrorists.
Then it's always a pain to fly. All those hassle, especially if you have the wrong look (I thought being a Chinese Canadian is easier, not so. Security officer in airports like to pick me, because they know for sure there's nothing to look at, just to pass the quota.)
How about Americans visiting other countries? Better pretended to be Canadians.
That's how the terrorists won. Canadians, on the other hand, just refuse to live like that. The first step Canadians do: be friendly to others. Respect the difference, accept other's value. No matter how inefficient or stupid Canadian governments sometimes are, Canadians still can live peacefully.
So, if you have the right to vote in US, exercise your right and tell your government what you think.
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1. Set fire on oil well 2. When the smoke is thick enough, set tons of blocks of explosive on the road they are going. 3. Hide in a safe place and watch the explosion when their fleet pass
The problem is the availability of timely information, not just the information. I heard a story that the casuality of Canadians in Korean War is very small although they have bad equipments and weapons. Over-relying on equipments is the main reason of getting kill on battlefield.
An article (recently posted on Slashdot) mentioned that the larger the company, the more likely they were to move IT jobs overseas. In the long run, this is a counter-productive move.
No, in the short run, this is a counter-productive move. Your problem is you can't work with less productive co-workers who are not speaking English as their first language. Your problem also is because of the lack of training from your company provided to them.
Yes, they are cheap. As if you hire a bunch of high-school kid to do the job, they have to be well trained. In the long run, when their productivity is on par, this is a productive move.
What you are against is the transfer of technology, not the practice of moving off-shore. Your company doesn't want to pay for the skilled workers in local, moving off-shore is better than pay the same amount for unskilled workers in the local because they don't have the incentive to learn while workers in off-shore company do want to keep their jobs.
Mod me down if you want but reason should be more specific.
Call it: The Browser Formerly Known as Phoenix
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Are you sure their mod contains pirated BIOS? It is possible to sell just the mod chip without BIOS. The buyer put whatever they like in it through their computers.
I guess you are speculating. That's fun. Let me speculate too: 1. MS et al. got injunction to halt Lik-sang's business by telling the court that Lik-sang did something violating their copyrighted. 2. Lik-sang closed door. Also couldn't say anything about the case because of the injunction. 3. Lik-sang fighted back from the court, saying that it is something questionable, but not necessary doing harm to MS et al. Also, it is unfair to stop Lik-sang business altogether, when there are a lot of legitimate products. 4. The court left the injunction. Lik-sang open door again. The previous orders can be shipped now. 5. The court advice Lik-sang not to sell products that are still in question, to avoid complicating the case. 6. They are still fighting in court, so all mod chips are gone from the web site.
So is the final ruling come yet? What I remembered the Court in HK may grant injunctions if there's one side evidence that harm is done. I wouldn't surprised if M$ etc. can show the court Lik Sang's business hurts them in a day, but it doesn't mean the case has it's own merit.
Hope things work out for Lik Sang. I still want my dreamcast data cable.
Many things to be questioned: 1. Hongkong's Custom won't give a damn to Microsoft, unless there's solid evidence they are selling copyright infringed products. If you have taken a look at the product Lik Sang has offered, most of the product could be obtained from other sources, which MS did not shut them down. The only problematic product is the OpenXbox's PC-BioXX. 2. From cache of Google, Lik Sang's PC-BioXX did not offer a copy of BIOS included. Thus I would say the Lik Sang won't be that stupid to give MS an excuse. 3. HK is a small place. If Lik Sang is shut down because of that, the news would be on HK's newsgroups very soon, sooner than what you would hear from source outside. There's nothing like that yet. 4. And how come it is "A representative in Microsoft's Australian subsidiary confirmed that the company has taken legal action against Hong Kong-based Lik Sang."??? Microsoft has operations in Hong Kong. It is extremely stupid to get Australian subsidiary to work a HK problem, when they have all the people they needed in HK. 5. HK Custom has tradition to announce any raid on companies selling pirated software. Didn't see that in news from HK though.
It seems to me that some competitors of Lik Sang are spreading rumor during the down time of Lik Sang's server.
I have no chance to read his new paper. From the interview and his old paper, I guess he's running time series data of total CD sales on a bunch of variables including income, and use a point in time or volumn of file sharing (which how it was measured??) Better model he might used is a structural demand and supply model but that won't change the empirical problem he is facing.
This is indeed not going to tell you anything trustworthy, even anything is statistical significant. Even he admitted that there may be a bunch of ommitted variables that may contribute to the significant estimated impact of file sharing. From the small income effect on the CD sales he described I would tend to think he's running a reduced form equation model. Which, the parameters he estimated, compound with the ommitted variables (and what instruments he had) most probably making the estimates not interpretable.
It would be interesting if they have surveyed the music consumption pattern of people before file sharing is wirespread, and now do a follow up survey on the same people and study their music consumption pattern. This panel data will gives much better description on the change in behaviour pattern because of file sharing. Another way is to survey now, identifying the group of people that are less likely to do file sharing and compare their consumption patterns with the similarly group of people that are actively sharing files on internet. Say, people with broadband access may share more music than others. That's more trustworthy by using micro-data.
Accenture broke up with Arthur Andersen LLC in a nasty way in 2000. Originally it wasn't part of AA, so when they broke up, AA didn't allow the current Accenture company to take Arthur Andersen Consulting's name. AA has it's own consulting business in accounting.
As far as I know, the separation and name change turns out a to be good to Accenture, as they distant themselves away from the whole mess.
Don't assume people in other countries don't really know how bad it could be for allowing SPAM.
I wonder whether there's official statistics which is the most SPAM originating country. My guess: USA (just because of the large amount of internet users)
It's a tablet PC as mentioned in previous post. And the raw RF signal needs really high bandwidth, making wireless monitor impractical in the simplest setup. But here's a thought: What the tablet PC do is compressing the signal in some way (the Citrix or RDP) and transfer through WiFi. So if we have specially designed real-time video signal compression chips, theorectically we can achieve even more efficient results than the tablet PC with remote desktop.
Is there really a bandwidth problem? I have no idea how advance the current compression technology is. Maybe it is possible to squeeze into 10M bandwidth.
It's difficult for normal users to remember
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Have you ever walked by a secretary's desk and found that he/she had a piece of paper with all passwords on it?
Tell normal users to remember "aybab2u!" is not really workable. They can't remember when they have 5 or more accounts, and then they would write it down.
Just let the users pick whatever they want, and it's the sysadmin's job to secure system (like detecting any cracking attempt?) Asking for difficult to crack passwords encourage written down passwords, which someone with some social engineering skills would get that easier than cracking. (Point of view from 1 article in 2600 magazine.)
The original is slashdotted. I can't get there and read.
What I think, they spend effort to make sure the Midori Linux is working well on their Aquapad. Also, does it mean they provide support too? If so, it's reasonable to charge a price on these. Of course, I expect to receive at least the same support level from Microsoft for windows (which is none) from this company for linux.
I gave the same answers but I beg to disagree
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I gave the same (yes, yes, no) as you did, yet I couldn't agree even a tiny bit on your logic.
The flaw is, at the time I "buy" the product, if I know for sure this product I can't have the commonly "fair use" principles applied, yet I decide to "buy" it, essentially I agree the conditions set forth in the contract. I might not like it, but I still am better off from this deal. I can also not taking the product at all.
If I do not know the product is not under the commonly applicable "fair use" principles at the time I buy it, that's another issue. But it does not relate to the freedom.
If a seller and user could not choose what kind of contract to carry out business, that's the lost of outmost freedom.
I don't know how to put it. But given that you can reproduce all their results, and they did run a lot of testing under different situations using different tests, you may disagree on what they conclude, but you can't disagree with the test results they have. It sounds unbias to me.
And given there are a lot of tests they have run, the human bias of choosing particularly one type of tests to favor the results could also be reduced.
Maybe THG is really biased, but it's not more than the views of those who attack THG.
Now we have two situations, that THG produce results of heat death of Athlon and AMDZONE produce complete workable Athlon results when heatsinks are removed, by using two different chipsets. I just wonder when people would stop argue which one is accurate, and really put some thoughts on the results.
I have seen the speed of pirated VideoCD getting to the market in HK. Normally, you can find the pirated version of a movie on the street before the official release. Even if copyright owner put huge effort into protecting the master copy and the production process, pirated version can appear within 2 days. The whole process involve some retailer get the official release, send it back to mainland China (it used to be by courier, now through internet) and pressed CD would be ready in the next day.
This story shows that technologically physical medium production may not need long time to setup. I believe the whole thing is slow because you have to go through all the process of registration (making sure you're not asking the factory to press pirated version of software), and the less competitive response time from factory because the market is protected by the government tariff.
Can't believe it. Please, this guy may not quote the best arguments in the world, you don't have to mod it as troll? Did you mod it as troll just because the guy is saying minority opinion.
God bless America. If you think those are lies, tell your counter arguments like many others did. Mod it as troll doesn't help people understand, nor helping Americans to win the war they think they are fighting.
Some college students would study whatever economic theories I taught, without asking why. Even worse, they just study, never learn. High school didn't provide them environment, nor encourage them to see the real world. Theories become irrelevant, not because they are irrelevant, but students were ignorant about the world.
Knowledge is only not applicable, never useless. You never know when will some knowledge is applicable. And the critical thinking behind a lot of knowledge could be applicable in some completely irrelevant situation.
We have general college education not because we don't want to provide students more in-depth knowledge in the relevant area. It is because the high schools fail to make students to learn the skills of learning. They fail to open student minds. They also fail to make students to learn what they don't know. College become the remedy.
I won't say it's either economics or psychology. For one, I haven't had a friend yet that fall into this $15 trap after grown up.
Although I study some economics (more than usual), I don't go with the reason of force opening of cash register. If I intended to pocket the cash, I would have prepared a bag of penny in my pocket, so I don't need to ring the register for change. The penny change only stop cashier the temptation of occasional pocketing or those who can't add or subtract in mind.
If you have been in other large cities in the other side of the world, you will find that the usage of.99 or.95 is not as much as you can see in North America (I haven't been to Europe yet so can't say anything.)
I don't know Korean, but for Chinese and Japanese input methods, it's very common to let phrase appear for choice after one word is input. It isn't useful for English using keyboard, coz' reading the screen to find the correct word after inputing a few characters just slowing thing down. However, that's a good idea on Palm, where there's no keyboard and you need to search for that character key to touch anyway.
Now I can tell my friends who told me that CJK input methods were not interesting to English speaking world were wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Conjectures:
1. Poor families kids have worse nutrition in average, limiting height development.
Kids from poor families also receive less education.
=> tall people earn more
2. Immigrants from Asian countries are shorter in general. Immigrants also earn less for various reasons.
=> tall people (mainly locals) earn more.
3. Professional sports player earn a lot. They tend to be taller (How many NBA players are shorter than 6 feet?), pulling up the average for tall people.
=> tall people (mainly athelets) earn more.
the rant can go on...
Like, say, with energy deregulation in California? Or privatized public schools? Or the free market for health insurance, which has left millions uninsured?
All three examples shouldn't be considered as problematic free market. California never really deregulate it's energy market (the blackout is a result of misalign of incentive when price of hydro is freely adjusted). Privatised public schools endure as much as the shortcoming of public schools, while it may save some taxpayer's money for other issues (not to mention some interest group intentionally misalign resources after privatisation to create an illusion of failed privatisation). For those who have no health insurance under privatised market, how many of them would buy health insurance even if the government give them enough money to buy it?
No, free market is not the answer to everything. Just as asking the government to run everything isn't the answer to the same problem. Worldcom/Enron-type problem isn't problem of free market. It is the problem of WILD market. The actual solution is not to pseudo-analysis which label all private enterprise as greedy, but to study how each incentive arrangement (or institution) would give what outcome.
You may not be aware of it, how you get 911 service on your cell is determined by market forces already. The mobile system is not capable to handle a sudden increase in 911 call volumn at the same time. This is not a problem of free market. Either the regulator knows that and explicitly rate cell service as non-essential, or the regulator did a half ass job and did not specify clearly the cost of using the public spectrum.
Though the simple task of manufacture has been handed down to the Chinese, it is still the western companies that design and market the devices.
This is a troll, I would mod it down if I have mod points. Get your fact first. A lot of notebook computers are designed by Taiwanese companies (ever heard about how Asus is heading towards ODM on notebook, not to mention Compal?), not the traditional western companies. And most probably Asia is the test point for marketing the latest model of notebook computers.
At least, it's not that difficult to identify many notebooks from many different brand names shared a similar design: all of them are customized product from ODM solutions provided by one of the Taiwanese companies (Compal was/is?? the leader in this area.)
Mainland China is catching up fast in the area of designing too. It wouldn't surprise me if major new consumer computer products are mainly designed in Mainland China in 5 years. All you need is a couple thousands well trained engineers and industrial designers.
You can read the original Intellect's analysis in here.
The ZDNet article misinterprets many things Intellect suggest:
1. Intellect does not suggest OSS licenses are all bad. Only GNU GPL could be problematic for the Government uses (ZDNet's title is so misleading)
2. The "GPL not suitable for secretive government bodies" is also overblown. The Intellect just suggests that if the Government wants to maintain confidential codes, they can't do it under GPL.
All in all it's fair to recommend the Government not going for 1 type of development model/license by default. The only question I have on the Intellect's analysis is that they suggested that businesses can't get back value of their IP under GPL. As far as I understand, GPL does not require distributing their software free (as in beer), nor giving up the right of redistribution (so I can't distribute a piece of GPL software in which the copywrite holder does not grant me the redistribution rights.) In that sense, GPL won't hinder commercial interest in software development as suggested in Intellect's paper, and the whole analysis could falls apart. But I'm not sure I'm correct on the GPL, better have someone more familiar with GPL to point it out.
Americans, look what your lives have change.
It's just amazing that, when you walked into any government related building in DC, you gotta go through a metal detector. All visitors are treated as potential terrorists.
Then it's always a pain to fly. All those hassle, especially if you have the wrong look (I thought being a Chinese Canadian is easier, not so. Security officer in airports like to pick me, because they know for sure there's nothing to look at, just to pass the quota.)
How about Americans visiting other countries? Better pretended to be Canadians.
That's how the terrorists won. Canadians, on the other hand, just refuse to live like that. The first step Canadians do: be friendly to others. Respect the difference, accept other's value. No matter how inefficient or stupid Canadian governments sometimes are, Canadians still can live peacefully.
So, if you have the right to vote in US, exercise your right and tell your government what you think.
1. Set fire on oil well
2. When the smoke is thick enough, set tons of blocks of explosive on the road they are going.
3. Hide in a safe place and watch the explosion when their fleet pass
The problem is the availability of timely information, not just the information. I heard a story that the casuality of Canadians in Korean War is very small although they have bad equipments and weapons. Over-relying on equipments is the main reason of getting kill on battlefield.
An article (recently posted on Slashdot) mentioned that the larger the company, the more likely they were to move IT jobs overseas. In the long run, this is a counter-productive move.
No, in the short run, this is a counter-productive move. Your problem is you can't work with less productive co-workers who are not speaking English as their first language. Your problem also is because of the lack of training from your company provided to them.
Yes, they are cheap. As if you hire a bunch of high-school kid to do the job, they have to be well trained. In the long run, when their productivity is on par, this is a productive move.
What you are against is the transfer of technology, not the practice of moving off-shore. Your company doesn't want to pay for the skilled workers in local, moving off-shore is better than pay the same amount for unskilled workers in the local because they don't have the incentive to learn while workers in off-shore company do want to keep their jobs.
Mod me down if you want but reason should be more specific.
TBFKAP
I like that
In case you saw the "Asian" in Mac Porn, the Chinese writing in the background is from ... Bible.
That's erotic.
Are you sure their mod contains pirated BIOS? It is possible to sell just the mod chip without BIOS. The buyer put whatever they like in it through their computers.
I guess you are speculating. That's fun. Let me speculate too:
1. MS et al. got injunction to halt Lik-sang's business by telling the court that Lik-sang did something violating their copyrighted.
2. Lik-sang closed door. Also couldn't say anything about the case because of the injunction.
3. Lik-sang fighted back from the court, saying that it is something questionable, but not necessary doing harm to MS et al. Also, it is unfair to stop Lik-sang business altogether, when there are a lot of legitimate products.
4. The court left the injunction. Lik-sang open door again. The previous orders can be shipped now.
5. The court advice Lik-sang not to sell products that are still in question, to avoid complicating the case.
6. They are still fighting in court, so all mod chips are gone from the web site.
Does it sound better?
So is the final ruling come yet? What I remembered the Court in HK may grant injunctions if there's one side evidence that harm is done. I wouldn't surprised if M$ etc. can show the court Lik Sang's business hurts them in a day, but it doesn't mean the case has it's own merit.
Hope things work out for Lik Sang. I still want my dreamcast data cable.
Guess nobody is questioning this is just a rumor.
Many things to be questioned:
1. Hongkong's Custom won't give a damn to Microsoft, unless there's solid evidence they are selling copyright infringed products. If you have taken a look at the product Lik Sang has offered, most of the product could be obtained from other sources, which MS did not shut them down. The only problematic product is the OpenXbox's PC-BioXX.
2. From cache of Google, Lik Sang's PC-BioXX did not offer a copy of BIOS included. Thus I would say the Lik Sang won't be that stupid to give MS an excuse.
3. HK is a small place. If Lik Sang is shut down because of that, the news would be on HK's newsgroups very soon, sooner than what you would hear from source outside. There's nothing like that yet.
4. And how come it is "A representative in Microsoft's Australian subsidiary confirmed that the company has taken legal action against Hong Kong-based Lik Sang."??? Microsoft has operations in Hong Kong. It is extremely stupid to get Australian subsidiary to work a HK problem, when they have all the people they needed in HK.
5. HK Custom has tradition to announce any raid on companies selling pirated software. Didn't see that in news from HK though.
It seems to me that some competitors of Lik Sang are spreading rumor during the down time of Lik Sang's server.
I have no chance to read his new paper. From the interview and his old paper, I guess he's running time series data of total CD sales on a bunch of variables including income, and use a point in time or volumn of file sharing (which how it was measured??) Better model he might used is a structural demand and supply model but that won't change the empirical problem he is facing.
This is indeed not going to tell you anything trustworthy, even anything is statistical significant. Even he admitted that there may be a bunch of ommitted variables that may contribute to the significant estimated impact of file sharing. From the small income effect on the CD sales he described I would tend to think he's running a reduced form equation model. Which, the parameters he estimated, compound with the ommitted variables (and what instruments he had) most probably making the estimates not interpretable.
It would be interesting if they have surveyed the music consumption pattern of people before file sharing is wirespread, and now do a follow up survey on the same people and study their music consumption pattern. This panel data will gives much better description on the change in behaviour pattern because of file sharing. Another way is to survey now, identifying the group of people that are less likely to do file sharing and compare their consumption patterns with the similarly group of people that are actively sharing files on internet. Say, people with broadband access may share more music than others. That's more trustworthy by using micro-data.
I'm getting more confused.
Accenture broke up with Arthur Andersen LLC in a nasty way in 2000. Originally it wasn't part of AA, so when they broke up, AA didn't allow the current Accenture company to take Arthur Andersen Consulting's name. AA has it's own consulting business in accounting.
As far as I know, the separation and name change turns out a to be good to Accenture, as they distant themselves away from the whole mess.
Don't assume people in other countries don't really know how bad it could be for allowing SPAM.
I wonder whether there's official statistics which is the most SPAM originating country. My guess: USA (just because of the large amount of internet users)
It's a tablet PC as mentioned in previous post. And the raw RF signal needs really high bandwidth, making wireless monitor impractical in the simplest setup. But here's a thought: What the tablet PC do is compressing the signal in some way (the Citrix or RDP) and transfer through WiFi. So if we have specially designed real-time video signal compression chips, theorectically we can achieve even more efficient results than the tablet PC with remote desktop.
Is there really a bandwidth problem? I have no idea how advance the current compression technology is. Maybe it is possible to squeeze into 10M bandwidth.
Have you ever walked by a secretary's desk and found that he/she had a piece of paper with all passwords on it?
Tell normal users to remember "aybab2u!" is not really workable. They can't remember when they have 5 or more accounts, and then they would write it down.
Just let the users pick whatever they want, and it's the sysadmin's job to secure system (like detecting any cracking attempt?) Asking for difficult to crack passwords encourage written down passwords, which someone with some social engineering skills would get that easier than cracking. (Point of view from 1 article in 2600 magazine.)
The original is slashdotted. I can't get there and read.
What I think, they spend effort to make sure the Midori Linux is working well on their Aquapad. Also, does it mean they provide support too? If so, it's reasonable to charge a price on these. Of course, I expect to receive at least the same support level from Microsoft for windows (which is none) from this company for linux.
I gave the same (yes, yes, no) as you did, yet I couldn't agree even a tiny bit on your logic.
The flaw is, at the time I "buy" the product, if I know for sure this product I can't have the commonly "fair use" principles applied, yet I decide to "buy" it, essentially I agree the conditions set forth in the contract. I might not like it, but I still am better off from this deal. I can also not taking the product at all.
If I do not know the product is not under the commonly applicable "fair use" principles at the time I buy it, that's another issue. But it does not relate to the freedom.
If a seller and user could not choose what kind of contract to carry out business, that's the lost of outmost freedom.
Seems a lot of people THG as biased.
I don't know how to put it. But given that you can reproduce all their results, and they did run a lot of testing under different situations using different tests, you may disagree on what they conclude, but you can't disagree with the test results they have. It sounds unbias to me.
And given there are a lot of tests they have run, the human bias of choosing particularly one type of tests to favor the results could also be reduced.
Maybe THG is really biased, but it's not more than the views of those who attack THG.
Now we have two situations, that THG produce results of heat death of Athlon and AMDZONE produce complete workable Athlon results when heatsinks are removed, by using two different chipsets. I just wonder when people would stop argue which one is accurate, and really put some thoughts on the results.
I have seen the speed of pirated VideoCD getting to the market in HK. Normally, you can find the pirated version of a movie on the street before the official release. Even if copyright owner put huge effort into protecting the master copy and the production process, pirated version can appear within 2 days. The whole process involve some retailer get the official release, send it back to mainland China (it used to be by courier, now through internet) and pressed CD would be ready in the next day.
This story shows that technologically physical medium production may not need long time to setup. I believe the whole thing is slow because you have to go through all the process of registration (making sure you're not asking the factory to press pirated version of software), and the less competitive response time from factory because the market is protected by the government tariff.
Can't believe it. Please, this guy may not quote the best arguments in the world, you don't have to mod it as troll? Did you mod it as troll just because the guy is saying minority opinion.
God bless America. If you think those are lies, tell your counter arguments like many others did. Mod it as troll doesn't help people understand, nor helping Americans to win the war they think they are fighting.
Some college students would study whatever economic theories I taught, without asking why. Even worse, they just study, never learn. High school didn't provide them environment, nor encourage them to see the real world. Theories become irrelevant, not because they are irrelevant, but students were ignorant about the world.
Knowledge is only not applicable, never useless. You never know when will some knowledge is applicable. And the critical thinking behind a lot of knowledge could be applicable in some completely irrelevant situation.
We have general college education not because we don't want to provide students more in-depth knowledge in the relevant area. It is because the high schools fail to make students to learn the skills of learning. They fail to open student minds. They also fail to make students to learn what they don't know. College become the remedy.
I won't say it's either economics or psychology. For one, I haven't had a friend yet that fall into this $15 trap after grown up.
.99 or .95 is not as much as you can see in North America (I haven't been to Europe yet so can't say anything.)
Although I study some economics (more than usual), I don't go with the reason of force opening of cash register. If I intended to pocket the cash, I would have prepared a bag of penny in my pocket, so I don't need to ring the register for change. The penny change only stop cashier the temptation of occasional pocketing or those who can't add or subtract in mind.
If you have been in other large cities in the other side of the world, you will find that the usage of
I don't know Korean, but for Chinese and Japanese input methods, it's very common to let phrase appear for choice after one word is input. It isn't useful for English using keyboard, coz' reading the screen to find the correct word after inputing a few characters just slowing thing down. However, that's a good idea on Palm, where there's no keyboard and you need to search for that character key to touch anyway.
Now I can tell my friends who told me that CJK input methods were not interesting to English speaking world were wrong.