Almost. It's not the calories that you eat that matter, however. It's the calories that you ABSORB vs the calories that you burn.
And the calories you absorb can differ significantly from the nutrition labeling, depending on how you process (e.g. cook) the food, see: http://theconversation.com/why...
Oracle's attack on The Apache Foundation and Harmony is basically a worst case scenario for Java. Microsoft would have to sue the Mono project and start clubbing baby seals to top it.
I spent a few years in different cities in China. Here's my take: in order to balance speed and access, you really only want to tunnel/proxy/vpn what you absolutely have to. Most sites aren't going to be blocked so using something like FoxyProxy is pretty essential. If you'll have VPN access, set up rules so that just the traffic that needs to go through the VPN (plus DNS) is getting tunneled.
Also, multiple workarounds for access is important too: you could very well get stuck somewhere where everything but ports 80, 443 are blocked, ruling out your ssh tunnel (unless you've thoughtfully set your ssh server to listen on a different port) and having a web proxy might save the day. Or one proxy goes down, get blocked, is too slow, etc.
I personally used a combination of ssh tunnels, web proxies, a paid VPN service and Tor.
Also, note that the great firewall isn't just a blacklist. It also performs packet inspection for keywords/phrases before issuing TCP resets to both parties, so your proxies definitely should be SSL enabled, even if it's just with a self-signed cert.
Went from Jaunty to Karmic on a Dell Mini 9 (both were the Netbook Remix editions) and was greeted with no wireless and no microphone in Skype. The former is a documented issue with the Broadcom drivers and has a fairly straightforward workaround if you're within reach of a wired ethernet connection. The latter appears to be a problem with Skype 2.1.0.47 (current version in Medibuntu for Karmic, and a "beta" no less) and PulseAudio. So far, the workarounds for the latter appear to be to downgrade Skype or remove Pulse.
You don't know what they are thinking? I do. They are thinking that they'll be able to sell to that subset of the European market that does not care about 'latin only'. They can learn from their experience in that market, make some customers happy, and earn some money while behind the scenes they can be working on a Kindle that can handle non-latin characters.
In other words, first mover advantage is more important than perfection in a 1.0 product. Amazon understands this.
Amazon never had the first mover advantage. Sony easily beat Amazon to market. Amazon obviously had more success, however. The Kindle runs Linux and Java. There's no excuse for failing to support unicode fonts in that environment. We're not even talking about poor interface issues for right-to-left languages. Most users for whom the Kindle's latin-only fixation is a problem would be well pleased if the Kindle just used a Unicode font!
A physical DVD, including packaging, is close to $1.50.
A physical DVD, purchased from a brick and mortar store in central Shanghai (the city with the highest cost of living in China, AFAIK) retails for 7RMB*, which approximately USD1.03. Of course this is a "fake" DVD, but it includes full color printing on the DVD itself as well as a full-color jacket insert. I'll grant that the quality of the printing is of lesser quality than a legitimate DVD, but factoring in rent, wages, payoffs, returns (yes, they accept returns for defective merchandise), I don't think the production of a physical DVD approaches USD1.50.
* I've seen as low as 5RMB and as high as 12RMB, but the former are from street sellers and the latter for shops that have a largely foreign clientele.
The alleged drunk driver refused a breathalyzer test at the time, which some people consider an admission of guilt.
Not to take away from your point, but according to the Chicago Sun-Times report, the driver requested a breathalyzer test on the scene, but the officer claimed he didn't have a breathalyzer device in his squad car. The driver only refused the test later, at the police station.
Appealing to the authority of an obscure website to make an argument against an appeal to authority is either terribly clever or terribly obtuse. Well done!
Naw, that's too much work. All we need to do for now is abolish Viacom.:-)
With apologies to Douglas Adams: The average corporation would not think twice before doing something so pointlessly hideous to you that you will wish copyright had never existed (or if you are a clearer thinker that the corporation had never existed).
I can't access it from Shanghai. However, if the Sourceforge website is being blocked, it's not from a tcp reset as is typical for most (all?) of the sites blocked by the Great Firewall. Sourceforge is just timing out so it's entirely possible this is all just paranoia. Notably, svn access is working just fine--which is to say, just as slowly as ever.
If a human foot print is found next to a fossilized dinosaur bone, would that not prove that Evolution is wrong?
No, evolution says nothing about dinosaurs and humans being unable to live at the same time. [...] Geologists and paleontologists would be pretty shocked if such a thing were to be found, but evolution wouldn't be affected in any significant way. Richard Dawkins writes: "If a single, well-verified mammal skull were to turn up in 500-million year-old rocks, our whole modern theory of evolution would be utterly destroyed" [The Blind Watchmaker, 3rd ed., p. 320]. J. B. S. Haldane also said that "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian" would constitute evidence that might contradict evolution.
if money's no object, a two-pound Sony sub or even an MBA just to toy around with wouldn't be out of the question, either I like the fact that the above reads just as well if not better if you imagine having enough money to toy with a recent business school graduate.
Sorta like the "People's Republic of China". The People's Republic of China is fine, if you take simply take the definition of republic to mean, "not a monarchy". As I recall, Plato's Republic still had a monarch, albeit a philosopher king.
China's neighbor has the more ironic name: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea, not to be confused with the Republic of Korea, aka South Korea.
Last year and through part of this year, there were reports of some sort of DNS poisoning in China involving vnet.cn. See: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=60083 for one report of the behavior. In the link I posted, the user was worried the problem was due to some sort of malware, but I witnessed the same behavior firsthand (domain names apparently at random resolving to a vnet.cn address) where the problem was not due to malware local to a particular user's machine. In the cases I witnessed, the DNS servers were operated by China Telecom.
Many ancient Greek philosophers believed democracy to be the worst form of government (consider Plato & Aristotle). So it's not exactly a new argument and it certainly isn't an argument without its merits.
Moreover, the democracy you are speaking so heavily in favor of (not just in the parent post, but throughout this thread), sounds like simple majority rule, which is perhaps why someone else threw the phrase "proletarian dictatorship" at you. Simple majority rule can easily take the form of tyranny, which is why, for example, the idea of inalienable rights is so fundamental.
Are you supporting the new Economy Plus section offered by some airlines? The problem with United's Economy Plus is that this "higher quality service for a bit more money" was achieved by sacrificing the service for the rest of the economy cabin. In my experience (international flights on United, American, and Continental), regular economy seats on United fall painfully short on legroom versus other carriers. Moreover, even if you want to fly Economy Plus, you probably won't get it unless you are a fairly frequent flyer on United or you purchased a full-fare economy ticket. Also see the following rant on United's Economy Plus.
As an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how much better some of the Asian carriers (e.g. Korean Air, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Malaysian Airlines) are compared to their U.S. counterparts. Better seats, legroom, in-flight entertainment, food, courteous service, etc. for what appear to me as by and large similar fares.
When was the last time the Chinese government allowed the purchase of a Chinese company? Never.
What I know about finance might fit on the tip of a pencil eraser, but it's ridiculous to claim that a Chinese company has never been acquired by a foreign firm. There's a giant banking & legal industry in China around the foreign acquisition of Chinese firms. Depending on the source (e.g., IMF vs Beijing Communication University), foreign investment accounts for as little as 10% of total investment to as much as 75% control of industry in China.
Beer being a subject nearer and dearer to my heart, I find it makes discussions of finance a little more palatable: In 2004, Anheuser-Busch acquired 99.7% of Harbin Brewery for USD 600 million. That same year, Interbrew (i.e. InBev, i.e., makers of Stella Artois, Beck's, etc.) acquired 70% of Zhejiang Shiliang Brewery for USD 53.2 million. In 2003, Interbrew acquired 50% and 70% stakes in Kaikai Beer Group and Golden Lion Beer, respectively. Also in 2003, Carslberg acquired 100% of Kunming Huashi Brewery.
I talked to a nice girl from China who had no idea there were places you could have multiple children. She thought that everything her Government did was good and for her protection. If they want their freedom, they're sure not trying to get it. They seem to be happy to live under the control of their government.
Using a sample size of 1 out of 1,321,851,888, you were able to deduce what the other 1,321,851,887 Chinese people want?
Moreover, most Chinese know there are places you can have multiple children, as China is included among those places. The one child policy has only ever applied to Han Chinese living in urban areas, and even then, having a second child usually only requires one pay a fine.
let's look at the world's most expensive cities. London is number two (after Moscow). Copenhagen 6th, Geneva 7th, Zurich 9th, Oslo 10th, Milan 11th, and so on. Seoul is #3, Tokyo #4, and Hong Kong #5. The most expensive city in North America is NYC, and it's only #15. LA, our only other in the top 50, is #42. These survey rankings seemed off to me. Looking at your link, the rankings are actually the most expensive cities in the world...for expats.
Flats in New York City are not $4081. To be sure, there are flats for that amount and more, but that's not representative of the norm. Flats in Beijing are most certainly not $2900. Moreover, I don't even think the data is proportionately skewed. The link puts Shanghai six places down from Beijing, which anyone living in China could tell you is just wrong. And the cost of living in China even for expats is so much lower than either New York or LA, yet the survey places LA some twenty places down from Beijing and Shanghai. I won't even get started on ranking Seoul above Tokyo in cost of living.
Anyway, I'm not necessarily disputing your general point, but the survey you linked to is just, well, wrong.
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Almost. It's not the calories that you eat that matter, however. It's the calories that you ABSORB vs the calories that you burn.
And the calories you absorb can differ significantly from the nutrition labeling, depending on how you process (e.g. cook) the food, see: http://theconversation.com/why...
No, the best part is the 3D rendering. It's as if you were looking at a real book with real pages!
Revolutionary! Bringing the BookBook to the masses is an admirable goal.
The only country that requires finger-prints is the US, as long as you stay out of the US you do not need fingerprints for traveling.
Many countries require fingerprints for entry. See, for example: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/biometrics-international.asp
And the above list is certainly not exhaustive. Malaysia fingerprints everyone. China has evidently recently started. etc. etc.
Oracle's attack on The Apache Foundation and Harmony is basically a worst case scenario for Java. Microsoft would have to sue the Mono project and start clubbing baby seals to top it.
So we're just waiting for the suit now? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_re_as/as_new_zealand_seals_clubbed.
I spent a few years in different cities in China. Here's my take: in order to balance speed and access, you really only want to tunnel/proxy/vpn what you absolutely have to. Most sites aren't going to be blocked so using something like FoxyProxy is pretty essential. If you'll have VPN access, set up rules so that just the traffic that needs to go through the VPN (plus DNS) is getting tunneled.
Also, multiple workarounds for access is important too: you could very well get stuck somewhere where everything but ports 80, 443 are blocked, ruling out your ssh tunnel (unless you've thoughtfully set your ssh server to listen on a different port) and having a web proxy might save the day. Or one proxy goes down, get blocked, is too slow, etc.
I personally used a combination of ssh tunnels, web proxies, a paid VPN service and Tor.
Also, note that the great firewall isn't just a blacklist. It also performs packet inspection for keywords/phrases before issuing TCP resets to both parties, so your proxies definitely should be SSL enabled, even if it's just with a self-signed cert.
Went from Jaunty to Karmic on a Dell Mini 9 (both were the Netbook Remix editions) and was greeted with no wireless and no microphone in Skype. The former is a documented issue with the Broadcom drivers and has a fairly straightforward workaround if you're within reach of a wired ethernet connection. The latter appears to be a problem with Skype 2.1.0.47 (current version in Medibuntu for Karmic, and a "beta" no less) and PulseAudio. So far, the workarounds for the latter appear to be to downgrade Skype or remove Pulse.
You don't know what they are thinking? I do. They are thinking that they'll be able to sell to that subset of the European market that does not care about 'latin only'. They can learn from their experience in that market, make some customers happy, and earn some money while behind the scenes they can be working on a Kindle that can handle non-latin characters.
In other words, first mover advantage is more important than perfection in a 1.0 product. Amazon understands this.
Amazon never had the first mover advantage. Sony easily beat Amazon to market. Amazon obviously had more success, however. The Kindle runs Linux and Java. There's no excuse for failing to support unicode fonts in that environment. We're not even talking about poor interface issues for right-to-left languages. Most users for whom the Kindle's latin-only fixation is a problem would be well pleased if the Kindle just used a Unicode font!
A physical DVD, including packaging, is close to $1.50.
A physical DVD, purchased from a brick and mortar store in central Shanghai (the city with the highest cost of living in China, AFAIK) retails for 7RMB*, which approximately USD1.03. Of course this is a "fake" DVD, but it includes full color printing on the DVD itself as well as a full-color jacket insert. I'll grant that the quality of the printing is of lesser quality than a legitimate DVD, but factoring in rent, wages, payoffs, returns (yes, they accept returns for defective merchandise), I don't think the production of a physical DVD approaches USD1.50.
* I've seen as low as 5RMB and as high as 12RMB, but the former are from street sellers and the latter for shops that have a largely foreign clientele.
The alleged drunk driver refused a breathalyzer test at the time, which some people consider an admission of guilt.
Not to take away from your point, but according to the Chicago Sun-Times report, the driver requested a breathalyzer test on the scene, but the officer claimed he didn't have a breathalyzer device in his squad car. The driver only refused the test later, at the police station.
Argumentum ad verecundiam doesn't impress me very much.
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#authority
Appealing to the authority of an obscure website to make an argument against an appeal to authority is either terribly clever or terribly obtuse. Well done!
Naw, that's too much work. All we need to do for now is abolish Viacom. :-)
With apologies to Douglas Adams:
The average corporation would not think twice before doing something so pointlessly hideous to you that you will wish copyright had never existed (or if you are a clearer thinker that the corporation had never existed).
I've been seeing this, too. Very annoying.
I can't access it from Shanghai. However, if the Sourceforge website is being blocked, it's not from a tcp reset as is typical for most (all?) of the sites blocked by the Great Firewall. Sourceforge is just timing out so it's entirely possible this is all just paranoia. Notably, svn access is working just fine--which is to say, just as slowly as ever.
Some of the sites that I know to be blocked:
Blogger
Blogspot
Flickr (only the photo serving subdomains)
Typepad
Wordpress
Formerly blocked, but now open:
Wikipedia
BBC News
As far as I'm aware, the blocks on the blog-related sites are domain or netblock level--not the result of keyword or content-level filtering.
*Sounds* interesting. Does the demo portal (http://inno02.fh-pforzheim.de:8080/openmeetings/) work for anyone? After Flash loads, I just see an autoconnect url printed to the screen.
China's neighbor has the more ironic name: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea, not to be confused with the Republic of Korea, aka South Korea.
Last year and through part of this year, there were reports of some sort of DNS poisoning in China involving vnet.cn. See: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=60083 for one report of the behavior. In the link I posted, the user was worried the problem was due to some sort of malware, but I witnessed the same behavior firsthand (domain names apparently at random resolving to a vnet.cn address) where the problem was not due to malware local to a particular user's machine. In the cases I witnessed, the DNS servers were operated by China Telecom.
Many ancient Greek philosophers believed democracy to be the worst form of government (consider Plato & Aristotle). So it's not exactly a new argument and it certainly isn't an argument without its merits.
Moreover, the democracy you are speaking so heavily in favor of (not just in the parent post, but throughout this thread), sounds like simple majority rule, which is perhaps why someone else threw the phrase "proletarian dictatorship" at you. Simple majority rule can easily take the form of tyranny, which is why, for example, the idea of inalienable rights is so fundamental.
As an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how much better some of the Asian carriers (e.g. Korean Air, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Malaysian Airlines) are compared to their U.S. counterparts. Better seats, legroom, in-flight entertainment, food, courteous service, etc. for what appear to me as by and large similar fares.
An oldie but strangely, still topical in these circles.
When was the last time the Chinese government allowed the purchase of a Chinese company? Never.
What I know about finance might fit on the tip of a pencil eraser, but it's ridiculous to claim that a Chinese company has never been acquired by a foreign firm. There's a giant banking & legal industry in China around the foreign acquisition of Chinese firms. Depending on the source (e.g., IMF vs Beijing Communication University), foreign investment accounts for as little as 10% of total investment to as much as 75% control of industry in China.
Beer being a subject nearer and dearer to my heart, I find it makes discussions of finance a little more palatable: In 2004, Anheuser-Busch acquired 99.7% of Harbin Brewery for USD 600 million. That same year, Interbrew (i.e. InBev, i.e., makers of Stella Artois, Beck's, etc.) acquired 70% of Zhejiang Shiliang Brewery for USD 53.2 million. In 2003, Interbrew acquired 50% and 70% stakes in Kaikai Beer Group and Golden Lion Beer, respectively. Also in 2003, Carslberg acquired 100% of Kunming Huashi Brewery.
Ganbei!
I talked to a nice girl from China who had no idea there were places you could have multiple children. She thought that everything her Government did was good and for her protection. If they want their freedom, they're sure not trying to get it. They seem to be happy to live under the control of their government.
Using a sample size of 1 out of 1,321,851,888, you were able to deduce what the other 1,321,851,887 Chinese people want?
Moreover, most Chinese know there are places you can have multiple children, as China is included among those places. The one child policy has only ever applied to Han Chinese living in urban areas, and even then, having a second child usually only requires one pay a fine.
Flats in New York City are not $4081. To be sure, there are flats for that amount and more, but that's not representative of the norm. Flats in Beijing are most certainly not $2900. Moreover, I don't even think the data is proportionately skewed. The link puts Shanghai six places down from Beijing, which anyone living in China could tell you is just wrong. And the cost of living in China even for expats is so much lower than either New York or LA, yet the survey places LA some twenty places down from Beijing and Shanghai. I won't even get started on ranking Seoul above Tokyo in cost of living.
Anyway, I'm not necessarily disputing your general point, but the survey you linked to is just, well, wrong.