who exactly would they sell their products to? Corporations aren't -IN- the US anyway, they're all multinational, based somewhere that doesn't tax them. Look at GE.
We have the market, they want access to that market. They have bases of operation and employ people here simply for that reason. This whole fear of corporations is utter crap. It's not true, it has no basis, it's propaganda.
For those of you struggling to figure out just exactly how you're supposed to pronounce this creatures name..
Zh is a tough sound to make for English speakers. The h represents aspiration of the z, and the z is pronounced as a 'ds' sound. Mix ds with a j, and you're pretty much there.
Fucking hell, why did they have to name this thing with -the- most difficult sound in the entire Chinese language?!
Well, I'm glad/. has confirmation that 'veteran' unix admins are superior to all other users. What a pathetic group of people. I thought chefs were egotistical.. Keep on trippin'.
A question that I've always had about this, 'the light took J billion years to get to where we are now, so it's this close to the big bang!" thing is: wouldn't that assume that where the earth is now is where it would have been had it existed at the time of the big bang? The matter that now makes up the earth was a part of the big bang and so moved outward away from the site at a speed lower than that of light in a vacuum, no? So no matter how far back you look, you're NEVER going to see the beginnings of the universe, because the light from everything that happened around the time of the big bang radiated out past us and is already gone. The only things we can see are things that happened far enough away that the light has not yet reached us until now. Considering how slowly the universe must have expanded in real terms (unless they're saying it expanded near c), how is it even possible that it's anywhere close to 600m years after the big bang? Someone please explain.
the first is just the irony of the country touted as having "A Bad Human Rights Record" (when in fact they are just using common sense to keep control over 1.3 billion people)
What the...? People don't say that China has a bad human rights record because of the One Child Policy. They say that for, among other things, the One China Policy. Did you hear about the unrest of the Tibetans and the slaughter they endured as a result? Did you hear about the Uyghur towns in XinJiang Province wherein the government went in one day saying that everyone needs to be in their homes tomorrow or be shot and then coming through the next day and killing everyone on the streets? You seem like a relatively informed person, did you hear about the rocket tests that destroyed entire towns? How about the supremely corrupt officials covering up reports of lakes polluted to the point of poisoning absolutely every last person in the bordering towns?
Don't get me wrong. I love China. Wonderful place, great people, amazing food, and a beautiful land. But that government is abhorrent when it comes to treating its people right.
Time Warner does it.. my p2p traffic almost always requires multiple router resets and much hand wringing. No one else in the apartment uses p2p, and none of them experience difficulty with the internet connection. How should I deal with this? I have no idea.
Every time any NASA proposal has come up, people always make your point. Just because you can't imagine what useful thing will come from this proposal does not mean it won't exist. It just means that it's beyond your imagination. Furthermore, one could reasonably suppose that your argument had been brought up before any of the missions that yielded the useful technologies listed on this list; had those arguments been listened to, we would have none of the technologies, thus the oc's point.
Say I had 50 electrons, all of which I chose x, and you measure those 50 electrons, 70% of which come up x.. pretty good measure of x, no? Just because we haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean its impossible. I thought that was a core principle of science, that we can never really know anything with certainty. Especially in such a young field.
Where's all that heat gonna go? Seems like if things spread out infinitely, there's gonna be quite a bit of heat, and things attracting to each other via gravity, things absorbing heat..
In the restaurant industry, if a recent grad really wants to work for the best restaurants, he'll go and work for free, especially if the place is in Europe, just to get his or her foot in the door.
If someone really wants to learn about sushi, they go to Japan and live on daikon tops and burnt rice for a few years in their boss's attic, and learn as much as they can.
You simply cannot expect that the best jobs will be handed to you, especially in a competitive field. You have to work, sacrifice, and bleed for a good position. If you're not willing to do that, you don't want it, and you're probably not worth it.
When, exactly, will people realize that the press run a STORY? So he's black, she's a woman. Who really cares? Only THE PRESS. Why? Because ooh, ooh, it's a STORY.
Yes, I dislike Clinton because she plays up the fact that she's a girl. Yes, I like Obama because he downplays the fact that he's black.
Was either of those responsible for how I voted? No. Issues were.
I think it is worthwhile to point out that during the 70s and 80s, many of these things were produced in the country of sale, usually the rich west. Now that almost all petty manufacturing has been outsourced to China, things have changed a bit. IAAELIC (I Am An Expatriate Living In China), and the expected lifespan of manufactured goods is here mindboggling. For instance, if you were to buy a professional stove/oven for a restaurant in the States, you would expect that stove to be a solid rock that would last at least 20 years. Here, they're content if the stove lasts TWO. Buildings are built in the same manner. Why build things to last if nothing ever does anyway? Why build a house with solid insulation when the government will probably tear it down in 5 years and you will never be able to recoup the expense of saving on energy bills? Manufacturing was outsourced to save money, the sourced companies keep cutting costs, keep cutting costs.. One of the harshest lessons in moving to China is that -=nothing=- is sacred. Any cost will be cut and parts replaced with things that look and act the same - for the time being.
I think that can readily be seen in the swath of manufactured goods going across the ocean.
While in certain areas (science and computer related fields), surely the field of information has narrowed so much that the number of experts becomes severely trimmed, however in my field, the basic information on Wikipedia is so utterly inane and worthless that providing a solid base upon which to have an even somewhat conversation would take weeks if not months. Granted, the typical public knowledge of my field (cooking, food and wine) is usually led by such masses and masses and masses of grandmothers and homewives that serious discussion in the public sphere is almost literally impossible. I have no problem with the cooking of your family, it simply isn't based in expertise, but rather tradition. I mildly became interested in editing Wikipedia to put together a worthwhile cooking section. But the idea of having a bunch of wildly enthusiastic (yet technically unskilled) amateurs editing my professional knowledge and asserting some sort of mob control over a whole mass of work that I did for nothing more than the faceless publics benefit, put me off in the face of setting off in that direction. After all, I have so much to educate myself upon that I could fill 10 lifetimes in just cooking education. Why should I waste my time, exactly?
Though I would agree that a wok is a very useful tool, I'd have to disagree with your last two points. You should follow a recipe the first time around, but more importantly than that, you should compare as many different recipes for a given item as you can get your hands on to see which are the most basic, most fundamental, and accurate. You can therefore toss out the ones that won't work. There are a lot of broken recipes around. Second, you most certainly CAN screw up. A lot of people do. I've been cooking professionally for 5 years (I'm very young), and I screw up fairly regularly. We learn from mistakes, so not admitting that you've made a mistake is missing an opportunity to improve.
That being said, enthusiasm amongst amateurs is a godsend. Too many people don't respect the work of professional cooks. Good to see an article on/. about my particular area of geekdom.
Have you ever had Scharffenberger? In my opinion it has the best flavour of any chocolate on the market. Not to mention the fact that the CEO actually travels to the countries in question, buys from the same growers consistently, invests in the regions and the communities, and takes the finished products back to the growers, 90% or so of whom have never tasted what they're actually growing. Aside from the politics, it's simply a damn good chocolate, which I prefer to Callebaut, Valrhona, or any of the other high end European chocolates that I've tasted. The fact that it's finicky should be noted. But so is Valrhona.
I constantly hear the argument that, 'artists don't make any money off record sales.' Yet when I went to Istanbul on vacation and hung out with a friend of a friend who happens to be one of the biggest names in Turkish music (not to mention the first to use a fretless guitar), he said that he was significantly hurt by piracy and can no longer sell albums or make any money off of recordings. Gigs are the only way for him to make cash (though he did leave out the sound tracks...) For a guy with two young girls to put through school and music as his only source of income, I would imagine it would hurt. He is a bit unique though because he is his own producer, he doesn't work with the big american labels, and he's big.
How is this a slow news day post? I mean, I know that most 'geeks' don't acknowledge the existence of food geeks or all of the exciting things happening in the realm of food science but..
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who exactly would they sell their products to?
Corporations aren't -IN- the US anyway, they're all multinational, based somewhere that doesn't tax them.
Look at GE.
We have the market, they want access to that market. They have bases of operation and employ people here simply for that reason.
This whole fear of corporations is utter crap. It's not true, it has no basis, it's propaganda.
Trolololol
For those of you struggling to figure out just exactly how you're supposed to pronounce this creatures name..
Zh is a tough sound to make for English speakers. The h represents aspiration of the z, and the z is pronounced as a 'ds' sound. Mix ds with a j, and you're pretty much there.
Fucking hell, why did they have to name this thing with -the- most difficult sound in the entire Chinese language?!
Well, I'm glad /. has confirmation that 'veteran' unix admins are superior to all other users. What a pathetic group of people. I thought chefs were egotistical..
Keep on trippin'.
I know he's not young, but he sure does span many of those categories and is doing something quite heroic.
When I was young, my hero was Nikolai Tesla..
A question that I've always had about this, 'the light took J billion years to get to where we are now, so it's this close to the big bang!" thing is: wouldn't that assume that where the earth is now is where it would have been had it existed at the time of the big bang? The matter that now makes up the earth was a part of the big bang and so moved outward away from the site at a speed lower than that of light in a vacuum, no? So no matter how far back you look, you're NEVER going to see the beginnings of the universe, because the light from everything that happened around the time of the big bang radiated out past us and is already gone. The only things we can see are things that happened far enough away that the light has not yet reached us until now. Considering how slowly the universe must have expanded in real terms (unless they're saying it expanded near c), how is it even possible that it's anywhere close to 600m years after the big bang?
Someone please explain.
this needs to be modded funny.
You could have replaced almost every single word that corresponded to the gaming industry and replaced it with the restaurant industry. Same thing.
the first is just the irony of the country touted as having "A Bad Human Rights Record" (when in fact they are just using common sense to keep control over 1.3 billion people)
What the...?
People don't say that China has a bad human rights record because of the One Child Policy. They say that for, among other things, the One China Policy. Did you hear about the unrest of the Tibetans and the slaughter they endured as a result? Did you hear about the Uyghur towns in XinJiang Province wherein the government went in one day saying that everyone needs to be in their homes tomorrow or be shot and then coming through the next day and killing everyone on the streets?
You seem like a relatively informed person, did you hear about the rocket tests that destroyed entire towns?
How about the supremely corrupt officials covering up reports of lakes polluted to the point of poisoning absolutely every last person in the bordering towns?
Don't get me wrong. I love China. Wonderful place, great people, amazing food, and a beautiful land. But that government is abhorrent when it comes to treating its people right.
Time Warner does it.. my p2p traffic almost always requires multiple router resets and much hand wringing. No one else in the apartment uses p2p, and none of them experience difficulty with the internet connection. How should I deal with this? I have no idea.
Every time any NASA proposal has come up, people always make your point. Just because you can't imagine what useful thing will come from this proposal does not mean it won't exist. It just means that it's beyond your imagination. Furthermore, one could reasonably suppose that your argument had been brought up before any of the missions that yielded the useful technologies listed on this list; had those arguments been listened to, we would have none of the technologies, thus the oc's point.
Panda ren.. only after learning to speak Chinese do I finally get it.
and those kids won't play a fake WoW.
Say I had 50 electrons, all of which I chose x, and you measure those 50 electrons, 70% of which come up x.. pretty good measure of x, no?
Just because we haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean its impossible.
I thought that was a core principle of science, that we can never really know anything with certainty. Especially in such a young field.
Where's all that heat gonna go? Seems like if things spread out infinitely, there's gonna be quite a bit of heat, and things attracting to each other via gravity, things absorbing heat..
In the restaurant industry, if a recent grad really wants to work for the best restaurants, he'll go and work for free, especially if the place is in Europe, just to get his or her foot in the door.
If someone really wants to learn about sushi, they go to Japan and live on daikon tops and burnt rice for a few years in their boss's attic, and learn as much as they can.
You simply cannot expect that the best jobs will be handed to you, especially in a competitive field. You have to work, sacrifice, and bleed for a good position.
If you're not willing to do that, you don't want it, and you're probably not worth it.
When, exactly, will people realize that the press run a STORY?
So he's black, she's a woman.
Who really cares? Only THE PRESS.
Why? Because ooh, ooh, it's a STORY.
Yes, I dislike Clinton because she plays up the fact that she's a girl.
Yes, I like Obama because he downplays the fact that he's black.
Was either of those responsible for how I voted?
No.
Issues were.
This male/female, black/white thing is over.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Pras
In Soviet Russia, sleep replaces YOU!
and,
whatcouldpossiblygowrong?!
I think it is worthwhile to point out that during the 70s and 80s, many of these things were produced in the country of sale, usually the rich west.
Now that almost all petty manufacturing has been outsourced to China, things have changed a bit.
IAAELIC (I Am An Expatriate Living In China), and the expected lifespan of manufactured goods is here mindboggling. For instance, if you were to buy a professional stove/oven for a restaurant in the States, you would expect that stove to be a solid rock that would last at least 20 years. Here, they're content if the stove lasts TWO. Buildings are built in the same manner. Why build things to last if nothing ever does anyway? Why build a house with solid insulation when the government will probably tear it down in 5 years and you will never be able to recoup the expense of saving on energy bills?
Manufacturing was outsourced to save money, the sourced companies keep cutting costs, keep cutting costs..
One of the harshest lessons in moving to China is that -=nothing=- is sacred. Any cost will be cut and parts replaced with things that look and act the same - for the time being.
I think that can readily be seen in the swath of manufactured goods going across the ocean.
Pras.
While in certain areas (science and computer related fields), surely the field of information has narrowed so much that the number of experts becomes severely trimmed, however in my field, the basic information on Wikipedia is so utterly inane and worthless that providing a solid base upon which to have an even somewhat conversation would take weeks if not months.
Granted, the typical public knowledge of my field (cooking, food and wine) is usually led by such masses and masses and masses of grandmothers and homewives that serious discussion in the public sphere is almost literally impossible. I have no problem with the cooking of your family, it simply isn't based in expertise, but rather tradition.
I mildly became interested in editing Wikipedia to put together a worthwhile cooking section. But the idea of having a bunch of wildly enthusiastic (yet technically unskilled) amateurs editing my professional knowledge and asserting some sort of mob control over a whole mass of work that I did for nothing more than the faceless publics benefit, put me off in the face of setting off in that direction.
After all, I have so much to educate myself upon that I could fill 10 lifetimes in just cooking education. Why should I waste my time, exactly?
Though I would agree that a wok is a very useful tool, I'd have to disagree with your last two points.
/. about my particular area of geekdom.
You should follow a recipe the first time around, but more importantly than that, you should compare as many different recipes for a given item as you can get your hands on to see which are the most basic, most fundamental, and accurate. You can therefore toss out the ones that won't work. There are a lot of broken recipes around.
Second, you most certainly CAN screw up. A lot of people do. I've been cooking professionally for 5 years (I'm very young), and I screw up fairly regularly. We learn from mistakes, so not admitting that you've made a mistake is missing an opportunity to improve.
That being said, enthusiasm amongst amateurs is a godsend. Too many people don't respect the work of professional cooks. Good to see an article on
Desertification? Don't you mean Dessertification??
Life sure would be better when tropical fruits abound!
Oh, life is sweet on the beach.
Have you ever had Scharffenberger? In my opinion it has the best flavour of any chocolate on the market. Not to mention the fact that the CEO actually travels to the countries in question, buys from the same growers consistently, invests in the regions and the communities, and takes the finished products back to the growers, 90% or so of whom have never tasted what they're actually growing.
Aside from the politics, it's simply a damn good chocolate, which I prefer to Callebaut, Valrhona, or any of the other high end European chocolates that I've tasted.
The fact that it's finicky should be noted. But so is Valrhona.
I constantly hear the argument that, 'artists don't make any money off record sales.'
Yet when I went to Istanbul on vacation and hung out with a friend of a friend who happens to be one of the biggest names in Turkish music (not to mention the first to use a fretless guitar), he said that he was significantly hurt by piracy and can no longer sell albums or make any money off of recordings. Gigs are the only way for him to make cash (though he did leave out the sound tracks...)
For a guy with two young girls to put through school and music as his only source of income, I would imagine it would hurt. He is a bit unique though because he is his own producer, he doesn't work with the big american labels, and he's big.
I'm a little veclemnt, talk amongst yourselves.
How is this a slow news day post? I mean, I know that most 'geeks' don't acknowledge the existence of food geeks or all of the exciting things happening in the realm of food science but..
/. hates food geeks.
oh hell with it.