One time on a business trip, I had to sit NEXT to Kenny G.
Since it's a business trip, and I was trying to write code (despite using 99% of my willpower to not mouth off to my traveling companion), it was a bona fide "worst working condition".
If that were true, I'd expect Sydney, Australia to be a much larger tech hub that it currently is. We're basically the gay capital of the southern hemisphere,
In the case of "bread" and "full", the Cantonese pronunciation is about the same as Mandarin. They're both "bao", but have distinct intonations that should be pretty obvious.
Mandarin's much easier to learn, as it only has 4 distinct tones, whereas Cantonese has something like 9 or 13. The southern Chinese dialects pretty much require you to go "native" to learn it with the proper intonations.
This is very true. The stores in Chinatown in Vancouver are offloading pirated DVDs like never before - many for less than $1 each. They used to be closer to $7-$8.
Costco has a Philips DVP5592 player that is DivX-certified, has a USB2.0 port, and upscales to 1080p via HDMI. $40 over Thanksgiving, and it's $50 now.
I plug a external 300GB hard drive to it. That's over 400 movies @ 700MB each. They look decently enough even on my 46" plasma.
Can't wait until the BD players come down in price so I can play my h264's without a PC.
As an ex-RAV4 owner, I can tell you that it's not worth much off-road or on the snow. It's perfect for grocery shopping trips and such. Or a beach trip.
$0.41USD is about 2-3RMB. I remember eating lunch in a pretty comfortable family restaurant in Hangzhou (a pretty prosperous city about 3 hours away from Shanghai) for about 2RMB. This was about 10 years ago. Assuming doubling of prices due to inflation since then, it's not too bad if you think about it. US workers make between $5-$8 minimum wage. Eating out for lunch will probably run you at least $5-$7 in most places (no, the food I got in China for 2MB was vastly superior than the McD Dollar Menu). So in both countries, you're eating lunch for about an hour's worth of labor, give or take.
Of course, this doesn't take into account the whole guards watching you and asking for permission to pee thing that happens in the iPod factories. But there's no question financially in taking a factory job over farm work.
25%-30% of their costs are in marketing. I know quite a group of young pharmacists and doctors who just finished school not too long ago. They never have to pay for food. Every weekend is some drug company comping a steak/lobster/fois gras dinner at the most extravagant restaurant in town (over $150-$200/person easily with wine). I know 2 recruiters of pharmacists who retired at the age of 32 with yachts and mansions, and now makes even more money being a recruiter of recruiters.
I think they can afford to trim a little fat here and there and still make a very healthy profit.
I don't own any parts from Indonesia, but the ones from Malaysia and Taiwan tend to be things that are more high-value (high-grade DVD-Rs, BD-ROMs). Everything else was made in China.
A friend of mine works in the MS DRM team. Their algorithm gets cracked within a couple days of release by some Eastern European (actually, they have no idea where) hacker. It's a pretty complex security algorithm that involves randomizing pointer locations and such. Nevertheless, it will take the team over a month to figure out how they broke it and to release a patch. Only then, the patch will be compromised within a few days.
There are many interesting articles and image galleries about the models that Buick designs, manufactures, and sells exclusively in China and other parts of east Asia. These Buick models have received endless praise from the auto industry, and might have saved GM from their predicaments in the U.S. if perhaps they had decided to sell some of these models in the U.S.
According to my artist friend, China is the emerging market in modern expressionist art - the sort of stuff that doesn't flourish that much in a restrictive, conformist society.
My wife is a fashion designer, and it's quite obvious that the trends in manufacturing have been shifting for quite a number of years now. Clothes at Walmart (socks, underwear, t-shirts, etc.) used to be made in China. Now these low-value items are being made in Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, etc. At that time, the mid-to-high-end fashions were made in Korea, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. Now China has largely overtaken this mid-to-high-end market (dresses that go for up to $1,000 are frequently from China now).
Clothes today. Cars and planes in 25 years. Or is that Toyota still funny Japanese engineering that falls apart?
Also - with our recent peanut/salmonella/spinach/drugs health scares, it's not like we can point fingers at others anymore for having shabby food quality standards. I know we're still lightyears ahead of many countries, but the gap is certainly closing quite quickly.
My grandmother's place is like that too. They're government housing that was mass-manufactured in the late '40s. They're being systematically torn down for updated government housing now.
If I had to resort to an undocumented feature to get it into recovery mode - then it's bricking. At least it does to a normal user who expects Apple to "just work".
Funny I'm reading your comment as I'm doing a recovery restore on my iPod Touch. Every single software update has managed to brick it, necessitating a full recovery (which means all my data is gone and needs to be copied back).
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I've heard that they've had a number of child injury liability lawsuits from the playgrounds. So out they go.
When the construction of I-5 between Portland and Seattle ran through this guy's farm, he wasn't too happy about it.
One time on a business trip, I had to sit NEXT to Kenny G.
Since it's a business trip, and I was trying to write code (despite using 99% of my willpower to not mouth off to my traveling companion), it was a bona fide "worst working condition".
Then I'm sure you've seen the big-ass Mormon temple on 148th and I-90 just a couple miles away in Bellevue...
I'm sure that huge place requires a pretty substantial Mormon population to produce.
Maybe your sister should consult with these people before stepping into a movie theater again.
If that were true, I'd expect Sydney, Australia to be a much larger tech hub that it currently is. We're basically the gay capital of the southern hemisphere,
Or Buenos Aires for that matter.
In the case of "bread" and "full", the Cantonese pronunciation is about the same as Mandarin. They're both "bao", but have distinct intonations that should be pretty obvious.
Mandarin's much easier to learn, as it only has 4 distinct tones, whereas Cantonese has something like 9 or 13. The southern Chinese dialects pretty much require you to go "native" to learn it with the proper intonations.
This is very true. The stores in Chinatown in Vancouver are offloading pirated DVDs like never before - many for less than $1 each. They used to be closer to $7-$8.
Costco has a Philips DVP5592 player that is DivX-certified, has a USB2.0 port, and upscales to 1080p via HDMI. $40 over Thanksgiving, and it's $50 now.
I plug a external 300GB hard drive to it. That's over 400 movies @ 700MB each. They look decently enough even on my 46" plasma.
Can't wait until the BD players come down in price so I can play my h264's without a PC.
will have to eat at Olive Garden tonight
Why? Did they do something wrong?
Hair colour and eye colour are often advantages/disadvantages in life. Shallow or not im sure most parents will simply do whats best for baby.
I'm pretty sure hair dye and colored contacts cost very little compared to genetic screening, if the benefits of outward appearance are desired.
As an ex-RAV4 owner, I can tell you that it's not worth much off-road or on the snow. It's perfect for grocery shopping trips and such. Or a beach trip.
The last time the West tried to "criticize" China and to "encourage" them to open up trade, it didn't work out very well for China. Good luck trying to talk them into that again.
$0.41USD is about 2-3RMB. I remember eating lunch in a pretty comfortable family restaurant in Hangzhou (a pretty prosperous city about 3 hours away from Shanghai) for about 2RMB. This was about 10 years ago. Assuming doubling of prices due to inflation since then, it's not too bad if you think about it. US workers make between $5-$8 minimum wage. Eating out for lunch will probably run you at least $5-$7 in most places (no, the food I got in China for 2MB was vastly superior than the McD Dollar Menu). So in both countries, you're eating lunch for about an hour's worth of labor, give or take.
Of course, this doesn't take into account the whole guards watching you and asking for permission to pee thing that happens in the iPod factories. But there's no question financially in taking a factory job over farm work.
25%-30% of their costs are in marketing. I know quite a group of young pharmacists and doctors who just finished school not too long ago. They never have to pay for food. Every weekend is some drug company comping a steak/lobster/fois gras dinner at the most extravagant restaurant in town (over $150-$200/person easily with wine). I know 2 recruiters of pharmacists who retired at the age of 32 with yachts and mansions, and now makes even more money being a recruiter of recruiters.
I think they can afford to trim a little fat here and there and still make a very healthy profit.
Or the "Press any key to format c:" followed by the percentage incrementing once a second after the key is hit.
I don't own any parts from Indonesia, but the ones from Malaysia and Taiwan tend to be things that are more high-value (high-grade DVD-Rs, BD-ROMs). Everything else was made in China.
That's pretty amazing.
A friend of mine works in the MS DRM team. Their algorithm gets cracked within a couple days of release by some Eastern European (actually, they have no idea where) hacker. It's a pretty complex security algorithm that involves randomizing pointer locations and such. Nevertheless, it will take the team over a month to figure out how they broke it and to release a patch. Only then, the patch will be compromised within a few days.
It just takes one person...
The U.S. leads the world in safety mandates for cars, which I very much appreciate.
Although fuel efficiency standards are a whole another matter. In China, it was a 38MPG requirement in 2005 and 43MPG in 2008.
Here's an interesting anecdote - Buick.
There are many interesting articles and image galleries about the models that Buick designs, manufactures, and sells exclusively in China and other parts of east Asia. These Buick models have received endless praise from the auto industry, and might have saved GM from their predicaments in the U.S. if perhaps they had decided to sell some of these models in the U.S.
According to my artist friend, China is the emerging market in modern expressionist art - the sort of stuff that doesn't flourish that much in a restrictive, conformist society.
My wife is a fashion designer, and it's quite obvious that the trends in manufacturing have been shifting for quite a number of years now. Clothes at Walmart (socks, underwear, t-shirts, etc.) used to be made in China. Now these low-value items are being made in Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, etc. At that time, the mid-to-high-end fashions were made in Korea, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. Now China has largely overtaken this mid-to-high-end market (dresses that go for up to $1,000 are frequently from China now).
Clothes today. Cars and planes in 25 years. Or is that Toyota still funny Japanese engineering that falls apart?
Also - with our recent peanut/salmonella/spinach/drugs health scares, it's not like we can point fingers at others anymore for having shabby food quality standards. I know we're still lightyears ahead of many countries, but the gap is certainly closing quite quickly.
My grandmother's place is like that too. They're government housing that was mass-manufactured in the late '40s. They're being systematically torn down for updated government housing now.
So what happened to the guy(s) who reviewed your code submission? Or were code reviews optional back in the day?
If I had to resort to an undocumented feature to get it into recovery mode - then it's bricking. At least it does to a normal user who expects Apple to "just work".
Funny I'm reading your comment as I'm doing a recovery restore on my iPod Touch. Every single software update has managed to brick it, necessitating a full recovery (which means all my data is gone and needs to be copied back).