The govt has done that already, they pressed the Chinese to let RMB appreciate against USD by 5% annual and a bond yield of less than 5%. Now the chinese are holding... shit, there is not enough zeros for my calculator.....
Some people think google and Yahoo are run by FBI. If the google earth server receive GPS trail of sensitive region in China, it might be collected in some where within the pentagon.
That's because rice in Hong Kong is cooked differently. Chinese in that neighborhood like soft rice, it is made by pouring water into a pot of raw rice, filling the water level to about 3/4 inch above the surface of rice and slowly cooked until all water evaporates.
Westerners like rice more chewy, so for the same rice, it is put into a big pot of hot water and the rice is cooked like sphagetti.
For a pair of NIKE shoes, how much do you think the Americans are paying the factory. I think you got no clue. Walmart is buying DVD machine from China and the factory is making just US$1 per machine. The most important thing is not how much the Chinese earn, the point is, the Americans are earning X times the Chinese. While you are busy creating this message other fellow citizens are busy flipping through http://www.alibaba.com.cn/ in sourcing cheap products to import.
No one I met in China would even talk or think about taking on and attacking other countries.
Many Japanese goods compare favorably over US goods in terms of price and service. If you would like to reduce the deficit, you are welcome to set up your office in Hong Kong or Shanghai where many foreign companies are racing to open their far east office.
I would think the IT folks were not clueless, but helpless. Especially when the upper management is run by accountants who do not know the difference between 99% uptime and the 99.99% uptime. They think the difference is insignificant and the saving is immense.
In the study of NMR, chemist identify a certain plastics by a radio transmitter. It is found that by tuning the transmitter, they found the plastics has a particular frequency profile which clearly identifies a particular plastics. The peaks in the frequency profile reflects, say, carbon - carbon bond at frequency-1, and carbon - oxygen bond at frequency-2, etc.
Now, the recycle guys took this frequency profile, tuning up their own transmitter at frequency-2 and blast the plastics when they want to cut it at the carbon - oxygen bond. So instead roasting the plastics with hell fire, recycle guys selectively cutting the plastics at a particular bonding which is identified by the frequency.
According to the article, they are using 1200 different frequency as selective targeting and shape the output to their decided products.
The poor fellow in the story bought some bootleg movies, he put them in his machine for others to upload using BT. Hoping others to reciprocate by similar action, thus there will be thousands free movies to view. How nice.
The local custom office got complaints from the copyright holders to nail this guy. And put his name on the Guineas book of record to be the first victim indicted for abusing BT.
My espresso machine has no pump. But I love the crema of espresso. This is how I make it from a pumpless machine:
My machine is a credit-card-free-promotion-gift espresso machine. It has no pump. There is a single knob with three positions. 'Off', 'Brew', 'Steam'. It is fitted with the regular portafilter and a steam jet.
Ground the coffee need for 1 or 2 cups of coffee. Fill the coffee grind into the filter-basket. Shake the basket to make the grind level. Then temp it. I am using a mini-cream jug as a temper. Its base fit exactly into the filter basket.
Next turn on the steam, use a spoon with a paper towel in it. Clog the steam jet so the steam cannot come out. After two-three minutes, the pressure inside the machine built up, the pressurized steam will fizz at the junction of steam jet and paper towel. Quickly turn the knob from 'steam' to 'brew'. The pressure inside the machine is directed to the portafilter. Soon dark concentrated coffee extract come out drop by drop, and my beloved crema follows. There are two distinct phases of extraction. After 45 seconds to 70 seconds, the extract came out of the portafilter turned from liquid droplets into hizzing steam. When the steam is observed, it is a sign of water over 100 degree C. According to the textbook, the best coffee is made below 95 degrees. The steam is a sign of overcooking. During this stage the excellent aroma taste is spoiled and more bitter substance is dissolved.
So, to get a nice cup of espresso, apply the 25 seconds rules. Meaning drip for 25 seconds. Pull out the collecting jar and ignore the extracts after 25 seconds.
I have been brewing with pressurize steam for months now, and still alive.
I also roast green bean with hot air gun, with temperature carefully monitored with a thermo-couple.
Disclaimer: clogging the steam jet is dangerous, it might cause explosion. Don't repeat my steps if your are not sure about the hazard involved. You are responsible for the lost of finger, marriage or your house.
Seen on Chinese highway, car with the front part a Mercedes. A typical circle with three spikes. The back looks like a Japanese car. I said that's interesting. Then fellows told me it is probably an import made in Vietnam. I was speechless at that moment.
It is interesting to find from the website that the Egyptian were using translational method instead of rotational method. Some findings had shown the heavy rock were so heavy to be pulled. The builders prayed to their god. And so their god sent the primitive engineers to help the Egyptian. And it was the scarab.
If you happened to move an metal barrel of 2' in diameter and a height of 4', you would notice that there are two ways to do it. Either slide along the floor or lay it horizontally with the axis along the floor. It is much easier to roll it than sliding.
The exact structure of how the rectangular block was made into a cylinder is not known, and it should be studied further.
The scene around the pyramid construction site should look like scarabs pushing the 'shxt' with their hind legs.
And it was the scarab who first laughed at those who don't know what a wheel is and those who reinvented the wheel. The Egyptians were so impressed by the saving in effort, they made scarab an immortal figure.
I would like to tell the 100% MS die hard devotees that installing linux on some of their spare machines is actually helping themselves. The Penguins are not trying to take over the world. There is no harm done using a linux machine on some part of their system. There is no major financial overhead if people just install one or two server program to do daily routine job. The true benefit is to encourage MS to put up better programs and in faster development cycle. Can you imagine running IE free if there is no Netscape. People has to pay more, and cornered to some MS proprietory network for a premium access if there is no competition. So if you want to see a better WORD, and handy EXCEL, a more secure OS etc... install LINUX.
when you are drive a bus and got hit by a falling brick, you'll think gee, we need a tank. Ok, put an armour here, put an armour there, voila, we have a tank. And that's the tank running on almost every desktop.
A poor design is a poor design. It been pointed out by many/.ers that a cargo vessel should optimize for payload capacity, a passenger vessel should optimize for safety. A vessel that is both optimize (reads compromise) for passenger and payload is neither safe nor economical in terms $ / kg.
Citigroup has a lot of money, so making them pay is not the best option. Just find out the SOB who is reponsible for this mess, transfer him to an island in offshore Bahama for two years to collect coconut. Then the message will spread in the organization.
Slashdot Mirror
The statement is a little dated, it might help new slashdotter if you include the price of RAM when that statement was made.
The govt has done that already, they pressed the Chinese to let RMB appreciate against USD by 5% annual and a bond yield of less than 5%. Now the chinese are holding ... shit, there is not enough zeros for my calculator.....
Some people think google and Yahoo are run by FBI. If the google earth server receive GPS trail of sensitive region in China, it might be collected in some where within the pentagon.
Westerners like rice more chewy, so for the same rice, it is put into a big pot of hot water and the rice is cooked like sphagetti.
No one I met in China would even talk or think about taking on and attacking other countries.
Many Japanese goods compare favorably over US goods in terms of price and service. If you would like to reduce the deficit, you are welcome to set up your office in Hong Kong or Shanghai where many foreign companies are racing to open their far east office.
I would think the IT folks were not clueless, but helpless. Especially when the upper management is run by accountants who do not know the difference between 99% uptime and the 99.99% uptime. They think the difference is insignificant and the saving is immense.
After watching this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GRPP075K9o&NR=1
I figured 300m is the snorkeling range
Now, the recycle guys took this frequency profile, tuning up their own transmitter at frequency-2 and blast the plastics when they want to cut it at the carbon - oxygen bond. So instead roasting the plastics with hell fire, recycle guys selectively cutting the plastics at a particular bonding which is identified by the frequency.
According to the article, they are using 1200 different frequency as selective targeting and shape the output to their decided products.
umm... according to the TFA '1200 different frequencies within the microwave range' is used to crack the plastics.
The local custom office got complaints from the copyright holders to nail this guy. And put his name on the Guineas book of record to be the first victim indicted for abusing BT.
My machine is a credit-card-free-promotion-gift espresso machine. It has no pump. There is a single knob with three positions. 'Off', 'Brew', 'Steam'. It is fitted with the regular portafilter and a steam jet.
Ground the coffee need for 1 or 2 cups of coffee. Fill the coffee grind into the filter-basket. Shake the basket to make the grind level. Then temp it. I am using a mini-cream jug as a temper. Its base fit exactly into the filter basket.
Next turn on the steam, use a spoon with a paper towel in it. Clog the steam jet so the steam cannot come out. After two-three minutes, the pressure inside the machine built up, the pressurized steam will fizz at the junction of steam jet and paper towel. Quickly turn the knob from 'steam' to 'brew'. The pressure inside the machine is directed to the portafilter. Soon dark concentrated coffee extract come out drop by drop, and my beloved crema follows. There are two distinct phases of extraction. After 45 seconds to 70 seconds, the extract came out of the portafilter turned from liquid droplets into hizzing steam. When the steam is observed, it is a sign of water over 100 degree C. According to the textbook, the best coffee is made below 95 degrees. The steam is a sign of overcooking. During this stage the excellent aroma taste is spoiled and more bitter substance is dissolved.
So, to get a nice cup of espresso, apply the 25 seconds rules. Meaning drip for 25 seconds. Pull out the collecting jar and ignore the extracts after 25 seconds.
I have been brewing with pressurize steam for months now, and still alive.
I also roast green bean with hot air gun, with temperature carefully monitored with a thermo-couple.
Disclaimer: clogging the steam jet is dangerous, it might cause explosion. Don't repeat my steps if your are not sure about the hazard involved. You are responsible for the lost of finger, marriage or your house.
Seen on Chinese highway, car with the front part a Mercedes. A typical circle with three spikes. The back looks like a Japanese car. I said that's interesting. Then fellows told me it is probably an import made in Vietnam. I was speechless at that moment.
If you happened to move an metal barrel of 2' in diameter and a height of 4', you would notice that there are two ways to do it. Either slide along the floor or lay it horizontally with the axis along the floor. It is much easier to roll it than sliding.
The exact structure of how the rectangular block was made into a cylinder is not known, and it should be studied further.
The scene around the pyramid construction site should look like scarabs pushing the 'shxt' with their hind legs.
And it was the scarab who first laughed at those who don't know what a wheel is and those who reinvented the wheel. The Egyptians were so impressed by the saving in effort, they made scarab an immortal figure.
I would like to tell the 100% MS die hard devotees that installing linux on some of their spare machines is actually helping themselves. The Penguins are not trying to take over the world. There is no harm done using a linux machine on some part of their system. There is no major financial overhead if people just install one or two server program to do daily routine job. The true benefit is to encourage MS to put up better programs and in faster development cycle. Can you imagine running IE free if there is no Netscape. People has to pay more, and cornered to some MS proprietory network for a premium access if there is no competition. So if you want to see a better WORD, and handy EXCEL, a more secure OS etc... install LINUX.
if you notice the C in OLPC, its not for adults.
it is interesting to find that no one is suggesting 'a beowulf cluster of free Oracles'.
when you are drive a bus and got hit by a falling brick, you'll think gee, we need a tank. Ok, put an armour here, put an armour there, voila, we have a tank. And that's the tank running on almost every desktop.
It's a 'NOT REALLY' cover, not O'Reilly cover.
Hook up your speaker to Micheal Jackson, at lower volume, that you're having a party, the whales and dolphins will get the message and go away.
A poor design is a poor design. It been pointed out by many /.ers that a cargo vessel should optimize for payload capacity, a passenger vessel should optimize for safety. A vessel that is both optimize (reads compromise) for passenger and payload is neither safe nor economical in terms $ / kg.
People told me HP is an inkjet refill company.
Six Apollo mission center round here where you can zoom in to find cheese. The answer must be pizza shop.
zoom the other way to the minimum resolution, you'll see something like a hollywood scene backdrop, umm ... looks curious
They are the same tourists who took pictures of Pearl Harbour 60 years ago.
Citigroup has a lot of money, so making them pay is not the best option. Just find out the SOB who is reponsible for this mess, transfer him to an island in offshore Bahama for two years to collect coconut. Then the message will spread in the organization.