I'm game. You seem to have your thoughts on the issue composed. Most of the time, on Slashdot, I fail to learn anything from those that I chat with. You, on the other hand, seem to have this well thought out.
If I seem brief, it's merely because I'm working on the last few applications for fellowships and such. I'm a graduate student, and it's a busy time of year for that.
The thought of China using short range nukes against US troops is ridiculous. We'd hit them with ICBMs.
Certainly, China is using economics as a weapon against the US. What bothers me, at the moment, is that nobody really seems to care. Those in positions to destroy the US economic position are more than willing to do so in order to put a few dollars in their pockets.
Here's the rub though. The US is helping China to enter the WTO, which is against US interests. The only rationale that I can think of is to prevent Chinese military action, and to balance the other communist interests at work. China was the force that neutralized North Korea, and the balance of China's interests against the US was largely Clinton's work, if I recall, and was purely economic.
I don't think that the idea of China striking at the US is ridiculous at all. If they manage to destroy our economy, then strike at us with a ground invasion, it seems quite possible. I don't think that they would win the war, but perhaps the threat is enough for politicians who don't want to be responsible for an undoubtably bloody conflict.
That'said, all of my education is in computer science, perhaps you understand the situation at some angle that I don't, but this is what I've gathered. Then again, I have friends who are the children of Chinese government officials. It seems odd to send your kids to American schools, making American friends, with the end result being attacking the US, and they've been here since before Clinton.
It's not about preventing us from invading them, it's about preventing them from going to war with us.
We extend some support to prevent them from making a first strike. We also used them to help bargain North Korea down.
Also, yes, we use economic incentives all of the time to prevent wars. We've been limiting Cuba's growth for decades over the Soviet Union parking missiles there while JFK was in office. We attack them economically, rather than with bullets. Using economics like this is an old tactic.
You could put a shutdown button anywhere you like in either Windows or Linux... it's a pointless argument. It's probably a little simpler under Linux, since the way that I'm thinking of involves a run command and a DLL (and I'm not sure that you can do it) under Windows.
This is the problem with consumers these days. They're rather complain about the company than jump to the competition. People try to legislate companies into offering the products that they like. Ok, but capitalism is all about giving your money to the company that gives you what you want.
The EU can't pick up and use a different OS, so they try to bully MS into doing something they don't want to?
I'm not exactly for anti-competitive business strategies, but how about the EU stop doing silly things like this, and just use a different OS? They exist.
Minsky sheds some light on this topic in his book The Emotion Machine, which is supposed to be published in January sometime if I recall. A draft is on his website, http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
I don't want another television. I don't want another piece of garbage delivering media content to me. Some of us, in this world, want to do work on our computers, and don't want to pay for a bunch of equipment to that takes away our rights.
What next? Shall I pay you to punch me in the face?
No way man. I learned that lesson. Most of the students here regard me firmly as a top student, including several professors. I do research, I have publications, and I'm pretty prolific for a masters student.
My biggest shortcoming (the one that I'm looking at right now) is a failure to scale back projects to fit. I always "go for the gold." Now, I've got a professor waiting on me because she wants to give me a good grade, but my project isn't QUITE done. I'm trying to convince the same to do a paper on this (and the result is good) and to try to get submission done in... 2 weeks? Ack.
This comes after a group project that bombed because other group members weren't into the don't sleep for a week thing, and a semester project that rocked, but was also a week late (got a high grade, but pretty much was redeemed by a result that REALLY changes the way that a particular task is looked at).
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I'm game. You seem to have your thoughts on the issue composed. Most of the time, on Slashdot, I fail to learn anything from those that I chat with. You, on the other hand, seem to have this well thought out.
If I seem brief, it's merely because I'm working on the last few applications for fellowships and such. I'm a graduate student, and it's a busy time of year for that.
Does that mean that if I steal a loaf of bread, that I get free airfare to Australia?
China talked N. Korea down from their nuclear missile program. They were instrumental.
As for the economy... I'm not much worried about invasion after my homeland is leveled economically.
As for Chinese exchange students, I'm talking about a girl who has barely ever set foot in China. She's even planning on working in the US.
I certainly hope that the US does something to fix all of this, it's quite a mess.
If I understand right, you can make 200 gallons a year non-commercially. After that, you need some sort of commercial license.
I was the first to post on this.. There were 3 posts before me. How am I redundant?
The thought of China using short range nukes against US troops is ridiculous. We'd hit them with ICBMs.
Certainly, China is using economics as a weapon against the US. What bothers me, at the moment, is that nobody really seems to care. Those in positions to destroy the US economic position are more than willing to do so in order to put a few dollars in their pockets.
Here's the rub though. The US is helping China to enter the WTO, which is against US interests. The only rationale that I can think of is to prevent Chinese military action, and to balance the other communist interests at work. China was the force that neutralized North Korea, and the balance of China's interests against the US was largely Clinton's work, if I recall, and was purely economic.
I don't think that the idea of China striking at the US is ridiculous at all. If they manage to destroy our economy, then strike at us with a ground invasion, it seems quite possible. I don't think that they would win the war, but perhaps the threat is enough for politicians who don't want to be responsible for an undoubtably bloody conflict.
That'said, all of my education is in computer science, perhaps you understand the situation at some angle that I don't, but this is what I've gathered. Then again, I have friends who are the children of Chinese government officials. It seems odd to send your kids to American schools, making American friends, with the end result being attacking the US, and they've been here since before Clinton.
So, as New Year's Eve is coming, remember to use only tall glasses for your party!!!
Won't all of the real party animals be using the shorter glasses then? I tend to drink pretty lightly, but most of my friends...
It's not about preventing us from invading them, it's about preventing them from going to war with us.
We extend some support to prevent them from making a first strike. We also used them to help bargain North Korea down.
Also, yes, we use economic incentives all of the time to prevent wars. We've been limiting Cuba's growth for decades over the Soviet Union parking missiles there while JFK was in office. We attack them economically, rather than with bullets. Using economics like this is an old tactic.
Clock speed and processor speed are two fundamentally different things.
Moores law is an observation based on experience in the industry. It isn't a prescriptive mathematical model, so much.
I hit the power button on my laptop, for both.
You could put a shutdown button anywhere you like in either Windows or Linux... it's a pointless argument. It's probably a little simpler under Linux, since the way that I'm thinking of involves a run command and a DLL (and I'm not sure that you can do it) under Windows.
Buy a different brand.
This is the problem with consumers these days. They're rather complain about the company than jump to the competition. People try to legislate companies into offering the products that they like. Ok, but capitalism is all about giving your money to the company that gives you what you want.
It's 2005, everybody multithreads.
Many think that it's economic incentives that keep China and the US from entering into war.
It's not going to war over the economic move, it's that the economic move is part of a larger diplomatic effort to prevent the war.
The prospect of sparking off World War III probably has a lot to do with that.
This is slashdot... nobody follows the link anyway.
The EU can't pick up and use a different OS, so they try to bully MS into doing something they don't want to?
I'm not exactly for anti-competitive business strategies, but how about the EU stop doing silly things like this, and just use a different OS? They exist.
Minsky sheds some light on this topic in his book The Emotion Machine, which is supposed to be published in January sometime if I recall. A draft is on his website, http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
I don't want another television. I don't want another piece of garbage delivering media content to me. Some of us, in this world, want to do work on our computers, and don't want to pay for a bunch of equipment to that takes away our rights.
What next? Shall I pay you to punch me in the face?
Nah, I have the DVD at home. I'll look it up when I leave the lab tonight.
I don't remember the exact text, but the subtext, was actually along the lines of "in reruns."
Searching a p2p network is not a crime.
You might do something illegal on it, but that act is not a crime.
It was :-D
:-P
I'm just sleepy, and hacking at a late assignment. Puts a dude on edge
Ok, so, the point is, that she's willing to say "hey, this didn't happen to me, and it annoys me that you assume that it does."
That's a strong stance, thanks.
I concur with other posters on this one.
Police raiding your home, seizing your property, and dragging you through legal proceedings, when you've done nothing wrong sounds pretty bad to me.
No way man. I learned that lesson. Most of the students here regard me firmly as a top student, including several professors. I do research, I have publications, and I'm pretty prolific for a masters student.
My biggest shortcoming (the one that I'm looking at right now) is a failure to scale back projects to fit. I always "go for the gold." Now, I've got a professor waiting on me because she wants to give me a good grade, but my project isn't QUITE done. I'm trying to convince the same to do a paper on this (and the result is good) and to try to get submission done in... 2 weeks? Ack.
This comes after a group project that bombed because other group members weren't into the don't sleep for a week thing, and a semester project that rocked, but was also a week late (got a high grade, but pretty much was redeemed by a result that REALLY changes the way that a particular task is looked at).