You don't have to spend that much. Take your old PC and get rid of the monitor, hook a NIC to it and use remote control software like VNC and you have a PC running your Windows applications on a window of your desktop.
IMHO, SunPCi is not for majority of computer users. I used both PC and workstation, and I never want to play Windows games on my workstation running GAUSS jobs. People don't want something that handle everything. Most people want a tool that handle specific jobs and handle that well.
One Chinese nuclear weapon scientist recalled that they had teams of mathmaticians doing calculations manually in the early days of research. This is the only way they can get around the problem that they do not have computers in calculation.
I don't know how complicate today's computer is and how powerful it is. But what's the most important resource is the brainpower. Given enough brainpower, the lack of fast computers is not going to be a problem.
Export restriction is to prevent powerful weapon technology falls on to the hands of assholes, just like security measures of computers and networks on the internet are to prevent script kiddies and malicious crackers. You won't put security measures to the level that nobody can use your system. A country shouldn't put up export restriction to the level that hurts herself in all aspects.
The original export restriction is a joke. Some ways of export restriction are still needed, though whether the current change is effective and helpful subjects to some debates.
One school says: free online content promote piracy, hurt sales.
Another school says: free online content promote the content, help sales.
Experiment: let the authors to choose whether to put their books online for free, and compare the sales figure overtime (use the sales figure before free release as control) or to other authors' works.
Conclusion? Extremely difficult to draw any scientific conclusion because of the SELF SELECTION. The authors choose to release their books free because they get comparatively higher benefits from the promotional/network effects than the authors choose not to release online. However, comparing sales figure overtime or across authors capture this comparative difference at the same time.
A better natural experiment is to randomly releasing the books free, independently from any authors' or publishers' preferences.
Or we model the decision and incorporate exogeneous factors in this estimation (Heckman's 2-stage method?) AFAIK, I haven't come across anything in this area yet.
I should go back to my desk and start to do a part of my thesis on this.
I have read something about advance notice law for the last 2 years.
Yes, WARN covered, but there're too many exceptions, and there's compensation in lieu of notice.
Also, in reality most local government officials don't know about how to determine any violation. There is a study that most local labor offices do not have any records of mass layoff (though WARN requires companies to provide information.)
And the problem is not those workers getting screwed. Even they are compensated, it's just plain cold to get back everything from the worker before telling the worker he/she is fired. In this situation, the worker can't make a scene.
I know it sounds like redundant, but many smart/. readers tend to argue either to teach the kid communication or let the kid excel and forget about anything else.
You know what, if the kid is really gifted, teach her/him the complexity of human society. Any soul who turned from natural sciences / engineering to social sciences would agree that studying human behaviour and society scientifically is much more difficult. So let the kid learn about human, and the kid can excel and learn what's important to live well in our society.
Things will get wrong when you guide them to the way that we thought we understand but actually we don't really understand.
They have to send your email unencrpted to SecureDelivery.com first to get it encrpted. If someone wants to intercept, they can intercept in this process easily. So the government is still possible to monitor.
It's more problematic then it seems: people thought that it's safe when indeed there's a big loophole.
I bet the trend is not similar in countries outside North America.
The relative outcomes of getting an EE degree to Sports and Recreation degree may not have changed, but the opportunity cost has. When I teach, I found that many students in Canada do not have even the minimal skills in math before they get into U/College.
It's relatively painful to catch up on math to go for a degree that needs a lot of math. Do we use as much math in Sports and Recreation as we do in, say, Economics?
Crusoe simply doesn't perform as well. In fact, it performs much more poorly
Any evidence? What the article argues is our measurements are biased against Crusoe. It would be more constructive to have some measurements that are not biased against Crusoe as much as the current benchmark test. For instance, we may design benchmark tests repeated for n times and take the average scores, and publish the scores for different n? There exists n* that closely match with actual work.
Or, at least the previous poster stated that, "I tried a Crusoe based notebook,......, and it simply doesn't perform..."
What if it involves in an accident?
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How crash proof is this new car? I wonder any puncture in the compressed air tank could make it explode.
I'm preparing the mid-term exam for my students. As more and more students are cheating nowadays, this device will definitely create a big trouble for the traditional way of examination. You can talk to somebody outside without being really notice.
That's cool. I can have the excuse to set extremely difficult questions in open book examination. Or, the student can choose to walk into examination hall completely naked (and pass the X-ray test for no device implant in body) for normal closed book exam.
The first year when I was in North America, when I read western-centered comments from westerners on Hongkong and China based on their casual observations, I would feel very angry, upset, mad, etc.
Now, I would just laugh and forget it.
Look, is it necessary to have a geek culture to develop good technology? Let's not forget China was advance in technology for a long time in history. There were no geek culture, yet there're ways to develop technology.
If you ask, is there any hacker's mind in China? Yes, there is. Do hackers in China really hack? They do. Do they try to distinguish themselves from others? No, they don't, because that will troubled them and block them from their hacking activities. That's the way Chinese prefer, express implicitly and practical. They also fight for the freedom.
It's the COST of communication that you can't find a network of hackers as you found in western world. I know, it has been rather affordable in the western world for a long time. But the same communication system is expensive in China for the last 50 years even the price is the same as in America: consider the living standard!!!
One more thing: I don't know why western people are so against communist countries, after all, communism is a western product!!! The bad things you saw in communist countries are not because the people in power are communists, it is because they are human! From the beginning how the communists get the power is by killing each other, and the system preserves this mechanism. I know this is offensive, but I do think, if you put any great western leader in a communist country's government, he would have been either 1. got rid of by others or 2. be as "bad" as other people in a communist government.
I'm stuck in Windows, don't have much chance to play around with Konqueror.
As far as I remember, Mozilla is supposed to run on both Win32 and Linux, while Konqueror is not even able to make to Win32. So, it's a much more complicated job to also accomodate Win32, right? Do you think it's fair to compare the development time for two products?
Indeed, Gecko has been there for quite a bit of time. Without the UI complications, development of Mozilla isn't going too bad compare to Konqueror.
If a seller can determine exactly how much you are willing to pay and "price discriminate" to single you out, they can turn your surplus into their surplus. This keeps the overall "happiness" (economists call it "utility") the same, but it will also lead to your being less happy, and that's what we may be seeing here.
A tiny supplement here. The overall "happiness" is not necessary the same under price discrimination. It's Pareto optimal (overall "happiness" maximized) when it's PERFECTLY price discriminated. However, if it isn't PERFECTLY price discriminated, the profit maximizing behaviour could decrease the overall "happiness." In reality, perfectly price discrimination doesn't exist.
you just cannot simply use an Asus or Abit motherboard to do it. Instead, you need to connect 4 wires on to the resistors to the motherboard that provides multiplier adjustment, or if you have a board that have nothing on multiplier adjustment, connect those 4 wires to your own golden finger device.
If you're really hardcore overclocker, you still can do it. If one doesn't dare to do it, don't blame AMD. AMD did provide a way to get around, while protecting their business effectively.
It's going to work for King, and other famous writer, but not any Joe Who.
This morning I heard around 50% people paid immediately. You know why? King has a large enough fan base, and those are the people who download it as soon as possible. So, we have a relative high percentage at first. This is not the same as the experiment in Scientific America, coz' that's simultanenous game. We now have a dynamic game, which is not the same.
The following is my analysis, borrowed from some observation of voting. I read somewhere that the voting rate of an election is higher when there is no clear leader in poll. This is because, a person may think that she/he is the marginal voter who make the difference by voting.
So, when the percentage is large initially, especially for a famous writer like King, the coming reader may put herself/himself as the marginal reader. $1 is not a big deal, at least it's less costful than going to poll station to vote. If I really like it, I will definitely pay, when I find that if I didn't pay will make a difference of all-or-nothing.
So it's going to work. If it fail, it's not because people are selfish, it's because less than 75% of people who downloaded his novel do not like this story.
Take a look on how Americans are choosing cars, you know those fuel cell or hybrid cars are not going to be common in North America soon. Although it's possible, fuel cell or hybrid engine are not as powerful as gasoline engine (otherwise you need to recharge soon, or use more gasoline in bybrid), and that means those fuel cell or hybrid cars are not going to be mid-size or above. Americans like larger cars in general. Streets in many cities elsewhere are not as wide as in North America and smaller cars are more popular. I suspect the demand is so small that production of these cars are not even get to the point of economy of scale. I bet, Japan will be the place you see more fuel cell / bybrid first, then Europe, then North America. Not to be soon.
If I were the decision maker of a small, poor country that use USD as currency, I would have encouraged those ISPs in my country to attract those business, or even start my own, targeted to the US public. Those tax revenue may be more than the current GDP.
Besides spreading the risk, one thing about insurance that many people forgot is, insurance companies have every incentive to suggest practical measures to the client to prevent those claiming situation. For example, when you buy fire insurance, they would evaluate your premises, tell you the premium, and suggest effective ways of prevention to lower your premium. Mostly those so call experts or consultant of fire prevention tells you to buy something impractical (consultant=sales), while the insurance companies are not interested in selling those thing.
Some of you may have experiences of getting advice from those so call risk management consultants of e-business from those large consultanting firms which actually are selling you M$ solutions, I think insurance on network security is a more pratical way. To know how good your measures of network security is, ask the insurance companies to give you assessment.
The CEO of ATI has said that many competitors are spreading rumors to affect the stock price of ATI. Indeed, if you take a closer look at those companies performance and their stock prices, you would notice that ATI has a pretty low value, no matter how large the market share they have.
Is it another rumor to push down ATI's share price?
My opinion is, ATI is not the company producing the fastest graphic chips, but a company producing the most cost-effective graphic chips, and good in marketing to OEM. They suck in marketing their own company though, always affected by rumor.
It seems that it's getting more people hate the large corporations' marketing strategies and their business practices. However, is the "right" or "wrong" so clear on these matters?
Brands, advertisement, marketing, etc.. can't be eliminated as long as it's costful for people getting to know some products. There's reason people buy the products being promoted. People are not stupid forever, if the goods are not up to their satisfaction, they won't buy again. Some may think it's unfair to small companies which produce better products. However, it's always unfair to small companies, since large companies can always devote more resources to develop products that are superior than any small companies' (they just didn't).
Unless some clever social activists can find a costless way to let people know about the best products, marketing from big corps is always there.
The arguments against sweat shops are also problematic: workers' welfare may not be improved without sweat shops, they may simply get unemployed and starved. The existence of sweat shops is not just because the employers are crude, but also the lack of "good" alternative employers out there to hire them. I'm not saying eliminating sweat shops is bad, or big companies should make products from sweat shops. The best way to deal with sweat shops problem, is to establish firms that treat workers well in those developing countries. If treating workers well can improve productivities, it can be more cost effective than those sweat shops.
Just sit in front of the desk and write a book bashing does not solve the real problem.
Copy any file around 4MB in your harddisk to a file with "Metallica" in it's name (make sure there's no copyright attached to the original file) and share it on your Napster.
Snapping a faked MP3 header on the file is even better.
to raise a topic like this when the vote on normal trade with China is progressing?
Make this clear, without normal trade with China, the one who suffers are the people, not those in power, and not those people you hate. I you don't that's the case, go and check the history. China had closed her door for years, and general citizen suffers. The improvement of lives in China for the last 20 years make most Chinese believe that they don't want to go back to the black old days. If you would like Chinese to believe an open, democratic, liberal, free society is better, DO MORE TRADE!
Freedom of speech has been improving, so as human rights. It's still not American's standard, but no country in the world can jump to Ethopia immediately. At least, I know scholars in Beijing can discuss about China Government over a lot of issues. (Scholars are used to be the group China Government hate most). Of course, some government officials still cannot tolerate people's criticism, but their power are getting down.
Of course, I love the freedom in western countries, especially the freedom people can bash other countries, other group of people, anybody without learning some facts or history first.
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You don't have to spend that much. Take your old PC and get rid of the monitor, hook a NIC to it and use remote control software like VNC and you have a PC running your Windows applications on a window of your desktop.
IMHO, SunPCi is not for majority of computer users. I used both PC and workstation, and I never want to play Windows games on my workstation running GAUSS jobs. People don't want something that handle everything. Most people want a tool that handle specific jobs and handle that well.
One Chinese nuclear weapon scientist recalled that they had teams of mathmaticians doing calculations manually in the early days of research. This is the only way they can get around the problem that they do not have computers in calculation.
I don't know how complicate today's computer is and how powerful it is. But what's the most important resource is the brainpower. Given enough brainpower, the lack of fast computers is not going to be a problem.
Export restriction is to prevent powerful weapon technology falls on to the hands of assholes, just like security measures of computers and networks on the internet are to prevent script kiddies and malicious crackers. You won't put security measures to the level that nobody can use your system. A country shouldn't put up export restriction to the level that hurts herself in all aspects.
The original export restriction is a joke. Some ways of export restriction are still needed, though whether the current change is effective and helpful subjects to some debates.
One school says: free online content promote piracy, hurt sales.
Another school says: free online content promote the content, help sales.
Experiment: let the authors to choose whether to put their books online for free, and compare the sales figure overtime (use the sales figure before free release as control) or to other authors' works.
Conclusion? Extremely difficult to draw any scientific conclusion because of the SELF SELECTION. The authors choose to release their books free because they get comparatively higher benefits from the promotional/network effects than the authors choose not to release online. However, comparing sales figure overtime or across authors capture this comparative difference at the same time.
A better natural experiment is to randomly releasing the books free, independently from any authors' or publishers' preferences.
Or we model the decision and incorporate exogeneous factors in this estimation (Heckman's 2-stage method?) AFAIK, I haven't come across anything in this area yet.
I should go back to my desk and start to do a part of my thesis on this.
You have too much free time to read my signature.
I have read something about advance notice law for the last 2 years.
Yes, WARN covered, but there're too many exceptions, and there's compensation in lieu of notice.
Also, in reality most local government officials don't know about how to determine any violation. There is a study that most local labor offices do not have any records of mass layoff (though WARN requires companies to provide information.)
And the problem is not those workers getting screwed. Even they are compensated, it's just plain cold to get back everything from the worker before telling the worker he/she is fired. In this situation, the worker can't make a scene.
I know it sounds like redundant, but many smart /. readers tend to argue either to teach the kid communication or let the kid excel and forget about anything else.
You know what, if the kid is really gifted, teach her/him the complexity of human society. Any soul who turned from natural sciences / engineering to social sciences would agree that studying human behaviour and society scientifically is much more difficult. So let the kid learn about human, and the kid can excel and learn what's important to live well in our society.
Things will get wrong when you guide them to the way that we thought we understand but actually we don't really understand.
I missed the fact that the channel is secured.
Though, it is still possible to intercept through the connection from user to Yahoo! (unless SSL is used, of course)
The government still can tap into it, by tapping into the Yahoo server / SecureDelivery.com server.
It's still more problematic then it seems: people thought that it's safe when indeed there's a big loophole
They have to send your email unencrpted to SecureDelivery.com first to get it encrpted. If someone wants to intercept, they can intercept in this process easily. So the government is still possible to monitor.
It's more problematic then it seems: people thought that it's safe when indeed there's a big loophole.
I bet the trend is not similar in countries outside North America.
The relative outcomes of getting an EE degree to Sports and Recreation degree may not have changed, but the opportunity cost has. When I teach, I found that many students in Canada do not have even the minimal skills in math before they get into U/College.
It's relatively painful to catch up on math to go for a degree that needs a lot of math. Do we use as much math in Sports and Recreation as we do in, say, Economics?
Crusoe simply doesn't perform as well. In fact, it performs much more poorly
Any evidence? What the article argues is our measurements are biased against Crusoe. It would be more constructive to have some measurements that are not biased against Crusoe as much as the current benchmark test. For instance, we may design benchmark tests repeated for n times and take the average scores, and publish the scores for different n? There exists n* that closely match with actual work.
Or, at least the previous poster stated that, "I tried a Crusoe based notebook, ......, and it simply doesn't perform..."
How crash proof is this new car? I wonder any puncture in the compressed air tank could make it explode.
I'm preparing the mid-term exam for my students. As more and more students are cheating nowadays, this device will definitely create a big trouble for the traditional way of examination. You can talk to somebody outside without being really notice.
That's cool. I can have the excuse to set extremely difficult questions in open book examination. Or, the student can choose to walk into examination hall completely naked (and pass the X-ray test for no device implant in body) for normal closed book exam.
The first year when I was in North America, when I read western-centered comments from westerners on Hongkong and China based on their casual observations, I would feel very angry, upset, mad, etc.
Now, I would just laugh and forget it.
Look, is it necessary to have a geek culture to develop good technology? Let's not forget China was advance in technology for a long time in history. There were no geek culture, yet there're ways to develop technology.
If you ask, is there any hacker's mind in China? Yes, there is. Do hackers in China really hack? They do. Do they try to distinguish themselves from others? No, they don't, because that will troubled them and block them from their hacking activities. That's the way Chinese prefer, express implicitly and practical. They also fight for the freedom.
It's the COST of communication that you can't find a network of hackers as you found in western world. I know, it has been rather affordable in the western world for a long time. But the same communication system is expensive in China for the last 50 years even the price is the same as in America: consider the living standard!!!
One more thing: I don't know why western people are so against communist countries, after all, communism is a western product!!! The bad things you saw in communist countries are not because the people in power are communists, it is because they are human! From the beginning how the communists get the power is by killing each other, and the system preserves this mechanism. I know this is offensive, but I do think, if you put any great western leader in a communist country's government, he would have been either 1. got rid of by others or 2. be as "bad" as other people in a communist government.
I'm stuck in Windows, don't have much chance to play around with Konqueror.
As far as I remember, Mozilla is supposed to run on both Win32 and Linux, while Konqueror is not even able to make to Win32. So, it's a much more complicated job to also accomodate Win32, right? Do you think it's fair to compare the development time for two products?
Indeed, Gecko has been there for quite a bit of time. Without the UI complications, development of Mozilla isn't going too bad compare to Konqueror.
Am I wrong on these? It seems that only Japanese manufacturers settled with Rambus.
Does it indicate that even the conflicts can be solven in a US courtroom, it's less costful for Japanese players to settle instead?
I'm going to see a nasty battle with Rambus.
If a seller can determine exactly how much you are willing to pay and "price discriminate" to single you out, they can turn your surplus into their surplus. This keeps the overall "happiness" (economists call it "utility") the same, but it will also lead to your being less happy, and that's what we may be seeing here.
A tiny supplement here. The overall "happiness" is not necessary the same under price discrimination. It's Pareto optimal (overall "happiness" maximized) when it's PERFECTLY price discriminated. However, if it isn't PERFECTLY price discriminated, the profit maximizing behaviour could decrease the overall "happiness." In reality, perfectly price discrimination doesn't exist.
you just cannot simply use an Asus or Abit motherboard to do it. Instead, you need to connect 4 wires on to the resistors to the motherboard that provides multiplier adjustment, or if you have a board that have nothing on multiplier adjustment, connect those 4 wires to your own golden finger device.
If you're really hardcore overclocker, you still can do it. If one doesn't dare to do it, don't blame AMD. AMD did provide a way to get around, while protecting their business effectively.
It's going to work for King, and other famous writer, but not any Joe Who.
This morning I heard around 50% people paid immediately. You know why? King has a large enough fan base, and those are the people who download it as soon as possible. So, we have a relative high percentage at first. This is not the same as the experiment in Scientific America, coz' that's simultanenous game. We now have a dynamic game, which is not the same.
The following is my analysis, borrowed from some observation of voting. I read somewhere that the voting rate of an election is higher when there is no clear leader in poll. This is because, a person may think that she/he is the marginal voter who make the difference by voting.
So, when the percentage is large initially, especially for a famous writer like King, the coming reader may put herself/himself as the marginal reader. $1 is not a big deal, at least it's less costful than going to poll station to vote. If I really like it, I will definitely pay, when I find that if I didn't pay will make a difference of all-or-nothing.
So it's going to work. If it fail, it's not because people are selfish, it's because less than 75% of people who downloaded his novel do not like this story.
Take a look on how Americans are choosing cars, you know those fuel cell or hybrid cars are not going to be common in North America soon. Although it's possible, fuel cell or hybrid engine are not as powerful as gasoline engine (otherwise you need to recharge soon, or use more gasoline in bybrid), and that means those fuel cell or hybrid cars are not going to be mid-size or above. Americans like larger cars in general. Streets in many cities elsewhere are not as wide as in North America and smaller cars are more popular. I suspect the demand is so small that production of these cars are not even get to the point of economy of scale. I bet, Japan will be the place you see more fuel cell / bybrid first, then Europe, then North America. Not to be soon.
If I were the decision maker of a small, poor country that use USD as currency, I would have encouraged those ISPs in my country to attract those business, or even start my own, targeted to the US public. Those tax revenue may be more than the current GDP.
Besides spreading the risk, one thing about insurance that many people forgot is, insurance companies have every incentive to suggest practical measures to the client to prevent those claiming situation. For example, when you buy fire insurance, they would evaluate your premises, tell you the premium, and suggest effective ways of prevention to lower your premium. Mostly those so call experts or consultant of fire prevention tells you to buy something impractical (consultant=sales), while the insurance companies are not interested in selling those thing.
Some of you may have experiences of getting advice from those so call risk management consultants of e-business from those large consultanting firms which actually are selling you M$ solutions, I think insurance on network security is a more pratical way. To know how good your measures of network security is, ask the insurance companies to give you assessment.
The CEO of ATI has said that many competitors are spreading rumors to affect the stock price of ATI. Indeed, if you take a closer look at those companies performance and their stock prices, you would notice that ATI has a pretty low value, no matter how large the market share they have.
Is it another rumor to push down ATI's share price?
My opinion is, ATI is not the company producing the fastest graphic chips, but a company producing the most cost-effective graphic chips, and good in marketing to OEM. They suck in marketing their own company though, always affected by rumor.
I don't really understand, maybe I'm plain stupid, what's wrong, people?
It seems that it's getting more people hate the large corporations' marketing strategies and their business practices. However, is the "right" or "wrong" so clear on these matters?
Brands, advertisement, marketing, etc.. can't be eliminated as long as it's costful for people getting to know some products. There's reason people buy the products being promoted. People are not stupid forever, if the goods are not up to their satisfaction, they won't buy again. Some may think it's unfair to small companies which produce better products. However, it's always unfair to small companies, since large companies can always devote more resources to develop products that are superior than any small companies' (they just didn't).
Unless some clever social activists can find a costless way to let people know about the best products, marketing from big corps is always there.
The arguments against sweat shops are also problematic: workers' welfare may not be improved without sweat shops, they may simply get unemployed and starved. The existence of sweat shops is not just because the employers are crude, but also the lack of "good" alternative employers out there to hire them. I'm not saying eliminating sweat shops is bad, or big companies should make products from sweat shops. The best way to deal with sweat shops problem, is to establish firms that treat workers well in those developing countries. If treating workers well can improve productivities, it can be more cost effective than those sweat shops.
Just sit in front of the desk and write a book bashing does not solve the real problem.
Copy any file around 4MB in your harddisk to a file with "Metallica" in it's name (make sure there's no copyright attached to the original file) and share it on your Napster.
Snapping a faked MP3 header on the file is even better.
to raise a topic like this when the vote on normal trade with China is progressing?
Make this clear, without normal trade with China, the one who suffers are the people, not those in power, and not those people you hate. I you don't that's the case, go and check the history. China had closed her door for years, and general citizen suffers. The improvement of lives in China for the last 20 years make most Chinese believe that they don't want to go back to the black old days. If you would like Chinese to believe an open, democratic, liberal, free society is better, DO MORE TRADE!
Freedom of speech has been improving, so as human rights. It's still not American's standard, but no country in the world can jump to Ethopia immediately. At least, I know scholars in Beijing can discuss about China Government over a lot of issues. (Scholars are used to be the group China Government hate most). Of course, some government officials still cannot tolerate people's criticism, but their power are getting down.
Of course, I love the freedom in western countries, especially the freedom people can bash other countries, other group of people, anybody without learning some facts or history first.