The Chinese name of "Coca Cola" literally means "Tasty (Ke-Kou) and Pleasurable/Happiness (Ke-Le)". It's a phonetic approximation of the English words and a smart brand name invented by some marketing people.
Most other adaptation are just literal translations of the foreign words. The two characters of "Ying Die" means "hard" and "disk/plate".
"Yin Biao Ji" means "form printing machine". "Yin" is print. "Bian" is ambiguous by itself but putting in context, form will be the best back-translation. "Ji" is used for all kind of machines and automatic devices. A more popular translation is "Da-Yin-Ji", which just means printing (Da-Yin) machine (Ji).
"Hou Xian Dai Zhu Yi" is also a literal translation of post-modern-ism. "Hou" is "post" or "after". "Xian Dai" is "modern", which can be used as a noun or adjective. "Zhu Yi" is for all systems of philosophy or ideology... Like "Structuralism" is "Jie-Gou" (structural) and "Zhu-Yi" (ism).
Chinese characters are and can be used for phonetic translation of foreign language. There are words in Chinese which are phonetic translation of foreign words, like "Mo-Da" is a phonetic approximation of "Motor", "Di-Shi" means "Taxi" or the popular word for "Hacker", "Hei-Ke". It's just most Romanic languages have too many syllables to be comfortably pronounced in Chinese. All living languages have to introduce and incorporate foreign elements into themselves. Chinese can't really be the exception.
Unless your source can provide concrete historical incidents-. The belief that China wanted to take over Thailand is likely to be propaganda on the Thailand side.
Thai have their reasons to hate Chinese as a people because of the racial and economic tension between residents of Chinese descent and original native. But I can't recall any attempts of China trying to overtake Thailand.
Look at this map of "China" a thousand years ago during Song dynasty: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:China_11a.jpg". "Dali" in the map is the Yunan province in modern China. Thailand wasn't even on the border of China. The territories (or more accurately, sphere of influence) of older dynasties were even smaller. Vietnam, on the other hand, might have a lot of legitimate bones to pick with China. But that's another story.
The Mongolian Empire in China wanted to invade a lot of places, do you count that on Chinese?
The old Chinese dynasties regarded everybody as barbarian and wanted them to pay tribute, but I don't think that should be considered as attempts to take over?
To put it less nicely, the people you talked to were flattering themselves:). That region of the world was too savage and unimportant for the old, self-centered Chinese dynasties to bother.
On a side note, even the Southern China like GuangDong was considered barbaric until only a few centuries ago.
Are you a biologist? I'm one, and I wouldn't really calling their articles in life science excellent. Not that they're not good but Nature tends to publish only the flashy and catchy types of research.
Is it the same reason you call their articles on computing and economics poor? I'm curious whether they have the same issue in other disciplines.
A scientist, which I happen to be one, will usually just look at the table of content of Science or Nature. If they saw anything related to their field, they would go deeper and read more carefully. Most articles in these journals are so remote from one's research that you won't give a second glance.
It was an online poll. I think the parent is correct to assert that most scientists wouldn't pay any attention. Yes, you do sometimes browse the few scientific-related news item or commentary. But really you have better and more reliable source of news than them.
If they're serious, they should do it in a statistically correct way. What they're doing is analogous to survey the drug-use habit of IT workers in a slash-dot poll... doing a highly controversial survey this way in one of the top journal in science.
Only the right recipient will have the private key to read the email.
At least for gpg, there are two halves for a key. One is public for other people to encrypt the emails they send you. One is private that only you have - that is for decrypting the emails. So, if they had encrypted the email, the Times reporter would have only seen a bunch of gibberish. Other encryption algorithms should probably have a similar design.
I'm a first day donor in the US and I still haven't got anything, other an email that complained about my mailing address. I'm giving a lot of slack to the OLPC but it's not really a very nice way to treat your biggest supporters.
Research is indeed a funding game but there is no need to be so cynical...
First, we know more about mammalian brains and neurons than the honey-bee ones. The research in the last half century was mostly centered around the mammalian systems. Unless the governments are willing to fund projects on insects, or some wealthy philantropist is willing to take up the bills, expect similar things for the near future.
Second, the structure and organization of the cortex is quite similar across the whole brain and mammals. As the cortex (or more exactly, neocortex) is general regarded where most important cognitive processes occur, if you want to have some insight on a general computation network/machine, it's a reasonable place to start.
Third, it's probably easier to simulate the neocortex than the brain of honey bees, since as I said, we know more about mammals. Moreover, a lot of the structures and organization are quite regular in a cortical column, therefore, you'll have a better chance of guessing the missing information correctly.
Finally, don't be silly, a desktop won't make it. If you want a realistically simulation, you'll first need to have a good idea of the geometrical shapes of all the neurons and their projections, then a reasonable guess of the strength and locations of their synaptic contacts. You'll also need to have a good estimation of the channel density and distribution of the ionic channels. then the non-linear differential equations that govern their behaviors. Most of these numbers are not even measurable with current experimental technologies. I think these groups use some mathematical tricks to estimate these numbers... which is at least plausible for rat or mouse brain.
People have been dreaming of an abstract, reduced and simplified theory of the human brain since the study of the nervous system started. Nobody has quite managed yet... why don't you try?:)
Hate crime doesn't mean additional penalty for hating their victims. You don't usually commit crime on people unless you hate them, do you? Hate crime means crime being motivated by racial, national and religion bias (for now in the US). Amendment to expand the same law to gender, sexual orientation and disability has not been passed yet.
The motivation and circumstances of a crime has always been factors in criminal justice. A planned killing will be first-degree murder but doing so in self-defense is not usually considered a crime, even though the victim is dead in both cases.
You can argue that being "race-motivated" or "religion-motivated" are not important factors to warrant special considerations in the US... but you were not doing that. Justification for harsher punishments for hate-crimes is because they inflict greater personal and societal harm.
Hate crime is not a thought crime. It has nothing against the freedom of speech. Even the US Supreme Court has decided. Yes, it means you're free to believe that all Blue Martians are idiots or to claim that in your blog, as long as you don't go out and beat Blue Martians up out of such belief. Inciting violence against Blue Martians in your blog would be different - go ask a real lawyer.
It's not that hard to understand, isn't it?
No, I'm not a lawyer. I just spent ten minutes reading the Wikipedia.
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Anyway, they're solving a problem that doesn't really exist. We're growing far, far more food now than we actually eat if you look at corn and soybean production. Most of it goes into energy inefficient processes like industrial meat production. If we weren't artificially keeping the price of meat low through corn & soybean subsidies, feeding corn to cattle (which is very unhealthy for them, but marbles the beef nicely), and industrial cattle processing, people would be eating a lot less meat because it would be very expensive, like it used to be.
I don't think it make economic sense to produce staples like corn or soybean. It makes more sense to grow the higher-priced produces or fruits (non-tree bearing ones).
I for one would welcome fresher and better vegetables and fruits inside a city.
I'm not a molecular biologist, nor a patent lawyer...
If I read between the lines correctly, they have a rough idea of the functions of 482 genes of a bacteria. They think that 101 of them are non-essential for survial and 381 are for protein encoding (how many genes aren't?).
They want to patent the guess and ask any people who create new strains of bacteria base on that tiny bit of knowledge to pay up?!
I am a neuroscientist who used to work on olfaction.
His theory is unconventional but it didn't break any known biological principles. Odors are detected by olfactory receptor *neurons* located on the olfactory epithelium inside the nose (for vetebrates). There are some olfactory receptor *molecules* on the membrane of these neurons - to the confusion of most people, both the neurons and molecules are sometimes called "olfactory receptors". The consenses for the last decade is that these molecules recognize the shape of odor molecules through chemcial interactions. The binding of the odor molecules to the receptors changes the membrane potential of the olfactory receptor neurons which then transmit the information to the brain.
What he is proposing is instead of, or in additional to, the chemical interactions, the olfactory receptor molecules can recognize the odorant molecules through quantal properties. It's unconventional but it is not totally implausible. The interactions between receptor molecules and agonist (the molecules that bind and activate the receptors) are molecular level events. I'm not a quantal physicist but weird things could perceivably happen at those levels. And after the olfactory receptor molecules being activated, the signal goes to the brain in the same way as the conventional theory.
The weakness of the theory is more since it's an unconventional claim, it needs more than usual proof. The experiment is not hard to do and after ten years, I haven't heard of a single high profile experimental paper to support it (I could have missed it). So, it probably should be classified as a neat but unproven theory.
There is no such a thing as "Asian culture". I guess you're living in Japan. But even between Japanese, Chinese and Korean, three relatively similar and closely interacting cultures, there are still vast differences. For example, to a certain sense, those a yes-that-means-no and a yes-that-means-yes are only Japanese things. Most Chinese I know (and I'm one) are not that complicated. Not sure about Koreans.
India is in a totally different branch of culture.
How long have you lived in Asia? I guess after a while, you should be able to see the differences. For example, after 10 years in the US, I won't confused New York and California as a single country:).
I don't think you have much experience with Linux and then suddenly decided to switch over *7* machines to Linux? If that's the case, you'll of course have more trouble you ask for... Try to imagine installing Windows from scratch on 7 machines and teach people how to use them in 3 days.
Most things work well enough in Linux, I think you just don't know how or you have chosen a difficult distribution.
And your issues: Video card could not get maximum resolution. Which one? I can't imagine this can happen. Do you know how to change the resolution in X?
Capture program. I'm confused. You expect some programs written for Windows to work in Linux?
Printer. Those all-in-one printers are never well supported in Linux. Brother, in my impression, have the worst supported printers. Most vender's programs are written for Windows. Stick with Windows if these printers important to you. Otherwise, get a real, simple printer.
DSL support not available. It takes you that long to figure that out? But in many cases, the DSL modem serves as a router and a DSL modem. What you probably need to do is just to set your machines to get IP by DHCP. The others would be sorted out between your machines and the router. I'm using DSL and Linux can connect without issue.
Mpeg video skipping. ATI cards have their own drivers that you have to download. Only some distributions come with them. Not sure about why music should be skipping, sound card support is fine in Linux.
Logging into router. Not sure why. I guess your router uses a web server for control? They should use the simplest and standard-compliant html codes. And if Konqueror is not working the way you like, have you tried Firefox?
Linux is a bird nest of confustion. That's of course true. The same goes for any OS. You're lucky to have ghost and Windows preinstalled. I recently saw a friend installing XP on a Shuttle nForce system - it took forever and multiple installations. Windows is easier but it's mainly most work has been done for you.
Linux is neither slow nor unstable. Linux may look slow when you didn't have the accelerated display driver. Linux could be ugly, depend what do you mean by that.
Why on earth ANYONE would use Linux for a home system is a mystery. I don't really know. I'm a fulltime Linux user but I'm still surprise why novices bother to take the effort to learn...
Cappucino was an old computer, while PIII was still the top of the line Intel CPU. So, it's kind of silly to compare it with the current mac Mini.
I don't know where you get the price of $674. I got one Cappucino a while (2-3 years ago) back and was able to get a whole thing around $500. The newer version of Cappucino can run a P4 and is called Mocha. I can easily find a price of $389 at http://www.mini-system.net/mocha5043.html using Google. Cappucino and similar is still more expensive than a Mac-mini but your price is an overestimation.
Mac-mini is still the better deal.
But it's unfair to compare the product and price a mutli-billion international corperation can manage to that from a small computer manufacturer.
I understanding your point. Not calling them gangsters or thieves is more for being accurate than to defend them. Nobody is a nice guy. Everybody in power will somehow abuse his position. It's just a matter of check-and-balance.
Actually, I believe the economic performance of the Eastern Asian nations are the exceptions, rather than the norms. Each of the little tigers had, and now China have some advantages, capital influx, business know-how, social culture that, I guess, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries don't have. Moreover, each of them has several decades of stable environment (even for China, who started the economic reform in early 1980s) for economical development.
So, to a certain sense, it's that Chinese lady who doesn't understand (she should have known better and shut up:). The fact that an authoritarian government can lead to economical prosperity in eastern Asia doesn't mean the same thing can apply to other societies and cultures.
I'm not saying what she and some Chinese people are making the right choice - history is complex and unpredictable.
However, the Chinese government is giving out more than just enough food though. The economic growth has been double digits for more than a decade. Many people have grown from penniless to middle-class; some might have even become millinaires.
It might be hard for Chinese people to understand the concern of Ukrainians. But I guess it's equally hard for you to understand what a stable government and economic prosperity has done to the average Chinese people without seeing it first-hand for more than 10 years.
Given so many examples of Asian countries (Korean, Taiwan and to a certain extent Japan), who had put economy before politics, have now managed to developed into a modenized and prosperous democracy, I won't be surprised if Chinese want to follow the same path. Even if some of them cared about democracy, they could still wait.
One more thing: I'm not them, greedy and corrupted some of them might be, the Chinese officials are not gangster and thief. These words are too strong for them. Not sure about those in Ukraine, though - that's your country.
Just for information purpose, the US does NOT accept dual citizenship neither. You're supposed to give up all your other citizenship if you're naturalized.
What do you mean? Badminton *is* an event at the Olympics...
There are five medals for badminton: Man Single, Woman Single, Men Double, Woman Double and Mixed Double, one more than tennis and three more than volleyball.
It was always like that - at the beginning, China lead in Medals but as the medals of track & field come in, US and the European countries catch up. China is just in general better at the earlier events.
I wasn't watching very closely. But unless I've missed some new Chinese track-and-field stars, or US is being badly pressed by the other European nations in these areas, the same is likely to happen.
I'm Chinese but I'm still going to say: don't worry, US is likely to be number one in both gold and total medal counts. The second was usually either Germany or Russia but I don't know this time. Their performance so far has been lackluster.
I know quite a few American Jews though I can't claim myself knowing much about Jewish people or their culture. But I don't think you can equate Jews with Israeli, especially their opinions on this matter.
There is probably many different views even inside Israel - not to mention if you count the whole Jewish population in various countries of the whole world.
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The Chinese name of "Coca Cola" literally means "Tasty (Ke-Kou) and Pleasurable/Happiness (Ke-Le)". It's a phonetic approximation of the English words and a smart brand name invented by some marketing people.
Most other adaptation are just literal translations of the foreign words. The two characters of "Ying Die" means "hard" and "disk/plate".
"Yin Biao Ji" means "form printing machine". "Yin" is print. "Bian" is ambiguous by itself but putting in context, form will be the best back-translation. "Ji" is used for all kind of machines and automatic devices. A more popular translation is "Da-Yin-Ji", which just means printing (Da-Yin) machine (Ji).
"Hou Xian Dai Zhu Yi" is also a literal translation of post-modern-ism. "Hou" is "post" or "after". "Xian Dai" is "modern", which can be used as a noun or adjective. "Zhu Yi" is for all systems of philosophy or ideology... Like "Structuralism" is "Jie-Gou" (structural) and "Zhu-Yi" (ism).
Chinese characters are and can be used for phonetic translation of foreign language. There are words in Chinese which are phonetic translation of foreign words, like "Mo-Da" is a phonetic approximation of "Motor", "Di-Shi" means "Taxi" or the popular word for "Hacker", "Hei-Ke". It's just most Romanic languages have too many syllables to be comfortably pronounced in Chinese. All living languages have to introduce and incorporate foreign elements into themselves. Chinese can't really be the exception.
I found you using just baidu: "http://www.baidu.com/baidu?tn=baidu&cl=3&word=Michael+David+Crawford+mp3".
:)?
The first link is to last.fm: "http://cn.last.fm/music/Michael+David+Crawford".
Happier
Unless your source can provide concrete historical incidents-. The belief that China wanted to take over Thailand is likely to be propaganda on the Thailand side.
:). That region of the world was too savage and unimportant for the old, self-centered Chinese dynasties to bother.
Thai have their reasons to hate Chinese as a people because of the racial and economic tension between residents of Chinese descent and original native. But I can't recall any attempts of China trying to overtake Thailand.
Look at this map of "China" a thousand years ago during Song dynasty: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:China_11a.jpg". "Dali" in the map is the Yunan province in modern China. Thailand wasn't even on the border of China. The territories (or more accurately, sphere of influence) of older dynasties were even smaller. Vietnam, on the other hand, might have a lot of legitimate bones to pick with China. But that's another story.
The Mongolian Empire in China wanted to invade a lot of places, do you count that on Chinese?
The old Chinese dynasties regarded everybody as barbarian and wanted them to pay tribute, but I don't think that should be considered as attempts to take over?
To put it less nicely, the people you talked to were flattering themselves
On a side note, even the Southern China like GuangDong was considered barbaric until only a few centuries ago.
Are you a biologist? I'm one, and I wouldn't really calling their articles in life science excellent. Not that they're not good but Nature tends to publish only the flashy and catchy types of research.
Is it the same reason you call their articles on computing and economics poor? I'm curious whether they have the same issue in other disciplines.
It depends on what do you mean by read.
A scientist, which I happen to be one, will usually just look at the table of content of Science or Nature. If they saw anything related to their field, they would go deeper and read more carefully. Most articles in these journals are so remote from one's research that you won't give a second glance.
It was an online poll. I think the parent is correct to assert that most scientists wouldn't pay any attention. Yes, you do sometimes browse the few scientific-related news item or commentary. But really you have better and more reliable source of news than them.
If they're serious, they should do it in a statistically correct way. What they're doing is analogous to survey the drug-use habit of IT workers in a slash-dot poll... doing a highly controversial survey this way in one of the top journal in science.
Sigh... Be real.
Only the right recipient will have the private key to read the email.
At least for gpg, there are two halves for a key. One is public for other people to encrypt the emails they send you. One is private that only you have - that is for decrypting the emails. So, if they had encrypted the email, the Times reporter would have only seen a bunch of gibberish. Other encryption algorithms should probably have a similar design.
You are lucky.
I'm a first day donor in the US and I still haven't got anything, other an email that complained about my mailing address. I'm giving a lot of slack to the OLPC but it's not really a very nice way to treat your biggest supporters.
Research is indeed a funding game but there is no need to be so cynical...
... which is at least plausible for rat or mouse brain.
:)
First, we know more about mammalian brains and neurons than the honey-bee ones. The research in the last half century was mostly centered around the mammalian systems. Unless the governments are willing to fund projects on insects, or some wealthy philantropist is willing to take up the bills, expect similar things for the near future.
Second, the structure and organization of the cortex is quite similar across the whole brain and mammals. As the cortex (or more exactly, neocortex) is general regarded where most important cognitive processes occur, if you want to have some insight on a general computation network/machine, it's a reasonable place to start.
Third, it's probably easier to simulate the neocortex than the brain of honey bees, since as I said, we know more about mammals. Moreover, a lot of the structures and organization are quite regular in a cortical column, therefore, you'll have a better chance of guessing the missing information correctly.
Finally, don't be silly, a desktop won't make it. If you want a realistically simulation, you'll first need to have a good idea of the geometrical shapes of all the neurons and their projections, then a reasonable guess of the strength and locations of their synaptic contacts. You'll also need to have a good estimation of the channel density and distribution of the ionic channels. then the non-linear differential equations that govern their behaviors. Most of these numbers are not even measurable with current experimental technologies. I think these groups use some mathematical tricks to estimate these numbers
People have been dreaming of an abstract, reduced and simplified theory of the human brain since the study of the nervous system started. Nobody has quite managed yet... why don't you try?
Hate crime doesn't mean additional penalty for hating their victims. You don't usually commit crime on people unless you hate them, do you? Hate crime means crime being motivated by racial, national and religion bias (for now in the US). Amendment to expand the same law to gender, sexual orientation and disability has not been passed yet.
The motivation and circumstances of a crime has always been factors in criminal justice. A planned killing will be first-degree murder but doing so in self-defense is not usually considered a crime, even though the victim is dead in both cases.
You can argue that being "race-motivated" or "religion-motivated" are not important factors to warrant special considerations in the US... but you were not doing that. Justification for harsher punishments for hate-crimes is because they inflict greater personal and societal harm.
Hate crime is not a thought crime. It has nothing against the freedom of speech. Even the US Supreme Court has decided. Yes, it means you're free to believe that all Blue Martians are idiots or to claim that in your blog, as long as you don't go out and beat Blue Martians up out of such belief. Inciting violence against Blue Martians in your blog would be different - go ask a real lawyer.
It's not that hard to understand, isn't it?
No, I'm not a lawyer. I just spent ten minutes reading the Wikipedia.
Check on this: http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/g1g1/give_one_get_one_globally.html.
I don't think it make economic sense to produce staples like corn or soybean. It makes more sense to grow the higher-priced produces or fruits (non-tree bearing ones).
I for one would welcome fresher and better vegetables and fruits inside a city.
I'm not a molecular biologist, nor a patent lawyer...
If I read between the lines correctly, they have a rough idea of the functions of 482 genes of a bacteria. They think that 101 of them are non-essential for survial and 381 are for protein encoding (how many genes aren't?).
They want to patent the guess and ask any people who create new strains of bacteria base on that tiny bit of knowledge to pay up?!
Can you do that?
I am a neuroscientist who used to work on olfaction.
His theory is unconventional but it didn't break any known biological principles. Odors are detected by olfactory receptor *neurons* located on the olfactory epithelium inside the nose (for vetebrates). There are some olfactory receptor *molecules* on the membrane of these neurons - to the confusion of most people, both the neurons and molecules are sometimes called "olfactory receptors". The consenses for the last decade is that these molecules recognize the shape of odor molecules through chemcial interactions. The binding of the odor molecules to the receptors changes the membrane potential of the olfactory receptor neurons which then transmit the information to the brain.
What he is proposing is instead of, or in additional to, the chemical interactions, the olfactory receptor molecules can recognize the odorant molecules through quantal properties. It's unconventional but it is not totally implausible. The interactions between receptor molecules and agonist (the molecules that bind and activate the receptors) are molecular level events. I'm not a quantal physicist but weird things could perceivably happen at those levels. And after the olfactory receptor molecules being activated, the signal goes to the brain in the same way as the conventional theory.
The weakness of the theory is more since it's an unconventional claim, it needs more than usual proof. The experiment is not hard to do and after ten years, I haven't heard of a single high profile experimental paper to support it (I could have missed it). So, it probably should be classified as a neat but unproven theory.
There is no such a thing as "Asian culture". I guess you're living in Japan. But even between Japanese, Chinese and Korean, three relatively similar and closely interacting cultures, there are still vast differences. For example, to a certain sense, those a yes-that-means-no and a yes-that-means-yes are only Japanese things. Most Chinese I know (and I'm one) are not that complicated. Not sure about Koreans.
:).
India is in a totally different branch of culture.
How long have you lived in Asia? I guess after a while, you should be able to see the differences. For example, after 10 years in the US, I won't confused New York and California as a single country
Unless you are intentionally trolling...
I don't think you have much experience with Linux and then suddenly decided to switch over *7* machines to Linux? If that's the case, you'll of course have more trouble you ask for... Try to imagine installing Windows from scratch on 7 machines and teach people how to use them in 3 days.
Most things work well enough in Linux, I think you just don't know how or you have chosen a difficult distribution.
And your issues:
Video card could not get maximum resolution. Which one? I can't imagine this can happen. Do you know how to change the resolution in X?
Capture program. I'm confused. You expect some programs written for Windows to work in Linux?
Printer. Those all-in-one printers are never well supported in Linux. Brother, in my impression, have the worst supported printers. Most vender's programs are written for Windows. Stick with Windows if these printers important to you. Otherwise, get a real, simple printer.
DSL support not available. It takes you that long to figure that out? But in many cases, the DSL modem serves as a router and a DSL modem. What you probably need to do is just to set your machines to get IP by DHCP. The others would be sorted out between your machines and the router. I'm using DSL and Linux can connect without issue.
Mpeg video skipping. ATI cards have their own drivers that you have to download. Only some distributions come with them. Not sure about why music should be skipping, sound card support is fine in Linux.
Logging into router. Not sure why. I guess your router uses a web server for control? They should use the simplest and standard-compliant html codes. And if Konqueror is not working the way you like, have you tried Firefox?
Linux is a bird nest of confustion. That's of course true. The same goes for any OS. You're lucky to have ghost and Windows preinstalled. I recently saw a friend installing XP on a Shuttle nForce system - it took forever and multiple installations. Windows is easier but it's mainly most work has been done for you.
Linux is neither slow nor unstable. Linux may look slow when you didn't have the accelerated display driver. Linux could be ugly, depend what do you mean by that.
Why on earth ANYONE would use Linux for a home system is a mystery. I don't really know. I'm a fulltime Linux user but I'm still surprise why novices bother to take the effort to learn...
Cappucino was an old computer, while PIII was still the top of the line Intel CPU. So, it's kind of silly to compare it with the current mac Mini.
I don't know where you get the price of $674. I got one Cappucino a while (2-3 years ago) back and was able to get a whole thing around $500. The newer version of Cappucino can run a P4 and is called Mocha. I can easily find a price of $389 at http://www.mini-system.net/mocha5043.html using Google. Cappucino and similar is still more expensive than a Mac-mini but your price is an overestimation.
Mac-mini is still the better deal.
But it's unfair to compare the product and price a mutli-billion international corperation can manage to that from a small computer manufacturer.
"Sandbox" is not the direct translation from the Chinese version but it does capture the meaning very well.
It's a sandbox in the sense that the people from both places refraining from influence each others politically.
I understanding your point. Not calling them gangsters or thieves is more for being accurate than to defend them. Nobody is a nice guy. Everybody in power will somehow abuse his position. It's just a matter of check-and-balance.
Actually, I believe the economic performance of the Eastern Asian nations are the exceptions, rather than the norms. Each of the little tigers had, and now China have some advantages, capital influx, business know-how, social culture that, I guess, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries don't have. Moreover, each of them has several decades of stable environment (even for China, who started the economic reform in early 1980s) for economical development.
So, to a certain sense, it's that Chinese lady who doesn't understand (she should have known better and shut up
I'm not saying what she and some Chinese people are making the right choice - history is complex and unpredictable.
However, the Chinese government is giving out more than just enough food though. The economic growth has been double digits for more than a decade. Many people have grown from penniless to middle-class; some might have even become millinaires.
It might be hard for Chinese people to understand the concern of Ukrainians. But I guess it's equally hard for you to understand what a stable government and economic prosperity has done to the average Chinese people without seeing it first-hand for more than 10 years.
Given so many examples of Asian countries (Korean, Taiwan and to a certain extent Japan), who had put economy before politics, have now managed to developed into a modenized and prosperous democracy, I won't be surprised if Chinese want to follow the same path. Even if some of them cared about democracy, they could still wait.
One more thing: I'm not them, greedy and corrupted some of them might be, the Chinese officials are not gangster and thief. These words are too strong for them. Not sure about those in Ukraine, though - that's your country.
Just for information purpose, the US does NOT accept dual citizenship neither. You're supposed to give up all your other citizenship if you're naturalized.
If GWB were to endorse nuclear power, he might as well hand over the election to Kerry now.
:)?
Environmentalists would be all over him like ugly on an ape, and every other Democrat would accuse him of being in the pocket of the nuclear industry.
They aren't already
What do you mean? Badminton *is* an event at the Olympics...
There are five medals for badminton: Man Single, Woman Single, Men Double, Woman Double and Mixed Double, one more than tennis and three more than volleyball.
You didn't watch too many Olympics, did you?
It was always like that - at the beginning, China lead in Medals but as the medals of track & field come in, US and the European countries catch up. China is just in general better at the earlier events.
I wasn't watching very closely. But unless I've missed some new Chinese track-and-field stars, or US is being badly pressed by the other European nations in these areas, the same is likely to happen.
I'm Chinese but I'm still going to say: don't worry, US is likely to be number one in both gold and total medal counts. The second was usually either Germany or Russia but I don't know this time. Their performance so far has been lackluster.
Not necessarily. If PayPal improved their business practice after this Lawsuit, I guess it'd be a big win for the customers and consumers.
I know quite a few American Jews though I can't claim myself knowing much about Jewish people or their culture. But I don't think you can equate Jews with Israeli, especially their opinions on this matter.
There is probably many different views even inside Israel - not to mention if you count the whole Jewish population in various countries of the whole world.