Not to come to the defense of the islam, but you could make a similar list of quotes for the bible and probably any other religious book for that matter.
The real problem here is not religion as such but lack of education and general socio-economic and political circumstances in the muslim world.
We would do well to focus on these issues instead of selectively highlighting negative aspects of one religion where AFAIK all religions have a 'one true religion, kill the disbelievers' clause.
They found a way to invite the citizens to the opening, so obviously they managed to contact them fine. Only too late, I agree with gangadude, the developer would have shown some social grace to ask or at least inform these Austrians first.
But then again, this is not a specific Chinese thing, lack of social grace. And there are also examples of doing it right, like Gaoqiao New Town where they built a new section in Dutch style with cooperation of a dutch architectural bureau.
While I agree with your point about wage differences between management and engineers (or in my case, programmers) I think you're just being bitter here.
Without proper management, most engineers would be inventing the wheel each and every day again. Or dreaming up solutions independantly that do not match up in the larger picture. Or would just be slacking off themselves because no one is applauding their work.
Management does have a legitimate role, you know. Your failure to recognize this is probably your biggest hindrance for your career, even if the particular company you are working for now does have a topheavy management culture.
You need to appreciate and recognize the proper organization of a company before you can find one that functions like so and will allow you to function happily instead of bitterly ranting away on slashdot.
Not so. Using anti-biotics is like using a nuke against all your bacterial life and this may give room to some really nasty other micro-organisms like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans. Candida Albicans can influence production of serotonine thus causing mood swings, cause irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and will feast on sugars entering the bowels, thus causing hypoglycemia, which is like diabetes but in reverse.
For those one the verge of looking up GINI quotient:
"The Gini coefficient measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for example levels of income). A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has an exactly equal income). A Gini coefficient of one (100 on the percentile scale) expresses maximal inequality among values (for example where only one person has all the income).[3]"
Anyway, seems Reed/Elsevier (it's dutch/british if I remember correctly) adopted the American way of doing business. I rather imagine this would be called bribery in the Netherlands and the UK and would be illegal. At least I hope it is...
I'm sorry, can't resist to argue you here, I don't even care about your libertarian views or whatever the correct term is: it's all about point 1.
Saying you can't interpret a text is saying you may not give it meaning. You state the point as if interpretation is a voluntary thing, a way of twisting the 'true meaning' of a text, kind of like religious extremist might do.
However, without interpretation words will not make any sense.
Legally they may be in their right. Morally, not so much. They actually settled for 5$ million _less_ than they had already agreed to pay. And now they are trying to get the insurer to pay the money they already should have paid if they hadn't frauded and there wouldn't have been a case in the first place.
This is just sickening greed. They already got a profit of 5$ million dollars out of their cheating and are now seeking even more rewards for their fraud. If this isn't legally wrong, it should be.
Funny that you do seem to be aware of other languages existing but not so much of other countries. Siri is a joke in the Netherlands for instance, and most people speak at least a decent level of english over here. Never mind the rest of Europe or the world at large.
Google and Apple might both be American companies, but Google has a much less US-centric view. Moreover, as many manufacturers of Android smartphones are Asian, a large push will be forthcoming to make Android and voice options in Android accessable, accurate and localized for these countries.
AI also benefits from a large knowledge base. It really helps AI to know what other people meant / were actually looking for / wanted to know when the asked a similar question.
Google will beat Apple hands down on this front. They have such a immeasurable collection of correlated data collected already via the search engine and all the other sources they use... Apple can build all the data centres they like, they'll never ever catch up with google on this front.
For example: I can see Google is using my search history and cross checking that with what I input via the Google Voice search app. If the app doesn't recognize something I'm saying and I know I'll be looking for it more often, I just typ it into the google search engine and presto it learned another word.
I know I know this has all kinds of implications privacy wise, but it's just how AI is gonna work. I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt, and given the huge amount of data they've already collected, they either have some respect for privacy or really know how to cover up very well. Compare this to Facebook for instance who've had multiple burnings on privacy issues and have shown public disregard for the privacy of its users.
"I don't know about you but I can't remember the last time people lined up for a Samsung Galaxy phone unless Samsung bribes them. [mobilemag.com]"
Good for them. That's not bribing that clever marketing.
Anyone, the reason people don't have to line up for Samsung stuff might be because they actually make sure they have enough of them in stock and enough production capacity to make more. And the reason they do that might be because they actually make the hardware themselves, as opposed to Apple, who are dependant on... guess who... Samsung to make some really important components for their iPhones. (most notably the screens). Same goes for HTC btw who AFAIK couldn't use the AMOLED that the Samsung Galaxy SII uses because production was not enough to supply them.
I dunno, but maybe even if Hong Kong has this the English might like their broadband connections a little bit closer to their homes?
I (Netherlands) just this morning had my fibre installed into the house, and live in a small rural town. They have a nice system where they start a campaign in each individual town, and when more that 30% preorder a fibre glass connection, they connect the whole village/town/city in one go, free of costs.
That might be a model that could provide for quick rollouts in other countries too.
Oh do shut up. You haven't been paying attention if you haven't noticed how EU regulation has improved quality of service and pricing in the telecom sector in the past years.
And your derogative remarks on germans are really sad. Go get a life.
Speed test sites and consumer experience comparison sites have been around everywhere for years. This is an actual hardware device that should provide objective data to the EU
"I'll bet it doesn't test for throttling because it'd have to push through too much data and some people with data-caps would complain."
They warn in their requirements that the tests take about 3 GB monthly so ppl with a data cap shouldn't register or advise them in advance so they'll run a different test program.
Going to a controversial historical site (Jerusalem or maybe some sites in India) and having you phone overlay totally different historical facts on the ruins in front of you than the tour guide, who is rehashing the local, nationalized interpretation.
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I must be one of the few ppl happy with Unity. It actually reminds me most of WindowMaker which I have used for years before KDE and Gnome.
No sure if serious or just trolling ...
So you're suggesting a happy programmer is a bad programmer? That's ...eh... weird.
Selective quoting is ... selective.
Not to come to the defense of the islam, but you could make a similar list of quotes for the bible and probably any other religious book for that matter.
The real problem here is not religion as such but lack of education and general socio-economic and political circumstances in the muslim world.
We would do well to focus on these issues instead of selectively highlighting negative aspects of one religion where AFAIK all religions have a 'one true religion, kill the disbelievers' clause.
Sounds like the same argument used to justify drinking and driving.
They found a way to invite the citizens to the opening, so obviously they managed to contact them fine. Only too late, I agree with gangadude, the developer would have shown some social grace to ask or at least inform these Austrians first.
But then again, this is not a specific Chinese thing, lack of social grace. And there are also examples of doing it right, like Gaoqiao New Town where they built a new section in Dutch style with cooperation of a dutch architectural bureau.
Carefull, looking at them in the wrong way can land you sexual harassment charges in Sweden ...
While I agree with your point about wage differences between management and engineers (or in my case, programmers) I think you're just being bitter here.
Without proper management, most engineers would be inventing the wheel each and every day again. Or dreaming up solutions independantly that do not match up in the larger picture. Or would just be slacking off themselves because no one is applauding their work.
Management does have a legitimate role, you know. Your failure to recognize this is probably your biggest hindrance for your career, even if the particular company you are working for now does have a topheavy management culture.
You need to appreciate and recognize the proper organization of a company before you can find one that functions like so and will allow you to function happily instead of bitterly ranting away on slashdot.
Because according to the link you provided Android support is not included on this UFED thingy?
Not so. Using anti-biotics is like using a nuke against all your bacterial life and this may give room to some really nasty other micro-organisms like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans. Candida Albicans can influence production of serotonine thus causing mood swings, cause irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and will feast on sugars entering the bowels, thus causing hypoglycemia, which is like diabetes but in reverse.
For those one the verge of looking up GINI quotient:
"The Gini coefficient measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for example levels of income). A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has an exactly equal income). A Gini coefficient of one (100 on the percentile scale) expresses maximal inequality among values (for example where only one person has all the income).[3]"
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
Anyway, seems Reed/Elsevier (it's dutch/british if I remember correctly) adopted the American way of doing business. I rather imagine this would be called bribery in the Netherlands and the UK and would be illegal. At least I hope it is ...
Seems we're even better adapters
China and the US not pulling their weight is only the official reason I guess.
The true reason must be the enormous CO2 pollution that the exploitation of the tarsand oil or what is it called is causing.
I haven't worked with PHPMyAdmin for years (luckily) but even having it accessible from public IP adresses is a serious oversight, password or not.
I'm sorry, can't resist to argue you here, I don't even care about your libertarian views or whatever the correct term is: it's all about point 1.
Saying you can't interpret a text is saying you may not give it meaning. You state the point as if interpretation is a voluntary thing, a way of twisting the 'true meaning' of a text, kind of like religious extremist might do.
However, without interpretation words will not make any sense.
Legally they may be in their right. Morally, not so much. They actually settled for 5$ million _less_ than they had already agreed to pay. And now they are trying to get the insurer to pay the money they already should have paid if they hadn't frauded and there wouldn't have been a case in the first place.
This is just sickening greed. They already got a profit of 5$ million dollars out of their cheating and are now seeking even more rewards for their fraud. If this isn't legally wrong, it should be.
Funny that you do seem to be aware of other languages existing but not so much of other countries. Siri is a joke in the Netherlands for instance, and most people speak at least a decent level of english over here. Never mind the rest of Europe or the world at large.
Google and Apple might both be American companies, but Google has a much less US-centric view. Moreover, as many manufacturers of Android smartphones are Asian, a large push will be forthcoming to make Android and voice options in Android accessable, accurate and localized for these countries.
AI also benefits from a large knowledge base. It really helps AI to know what other people meant / were actually looking for / wanted to know when the asked a similar question.
Google will beat Apple hands down on this front. They have such a immeasurable collection of correlated data collected already via the search engine and all the other sources they use ... Apple can build all the data centres they like, they'll never ever catch up with google on this front.
For example: I can see Google is using my search history and cross checking that with what I input via the Google Voice search app. If the app doesn't recognize something I'm saying and I know I'll be looking for it more often, I just typ it into the google search engine and presto it learned another word.
I know I know this has all kinds of implications privacy wise, but it's just how AI is gonna work. I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt, and given the huge amount of data they've already collected, they either have some respect for privacy or really know how to cover up very well. Compare this to Facebook for instance who've had multiple burnings on privacy issues and have shown public disregard for the privacy of its users.
"I don't know about you but I can't remember the last time people lined up for a Samsung Galaxy phone unless Samsung bribes them. [mobilemag.com]"
Good for them. That's not bribing that clever marketing.
Anyone, the reason people don't have to line up for Samsung stuff might be because they actually make sure they have enough of them in stock and enough production capacity to make more. And the reason they do that might be because they actually make the hardware themselves, as opposed to Apple, who are dependant on ... guess who ... Samsung to make some really important components for their iPhones. (most notably the screens). Same goes for HTC btw who AFAIK couldn't use the AMOLED that the Samsung Galaxy SII uses because production was not enough to supply them.
I dunno, but maybe even if Hong Kong has this the English might like their broadband connections a little bit closer to their homes?
I (Netherlands) just this morning had my fibre installed into the house, and live in a small rural town. They have a nice system where they start a campaign in each individual town, and when more that 30% preorder a fibre glass connection, they connect the whole village/town/city in one go, free of costs.
That might be a model that could provide for quick rollouts in other countries too.
Oh do shut up. You haven't been paying attention if you haven't noticed how EU regulation has improved quality of service and pricing in the telecom sector in the past years.
And your derogative remarks on germans are really sad. Go get a life.
Speed test sites and consumer experience comparison sites have been around everywhere for years. This is an actual hardware device that should provide objective data to the EU
No, because the tests are only run when no network activity is detected.
"I'll bet it doesn't test for throttling because it'd have to push through too much data and some people with data-caps would complain."
They warn in their requirements that the tests take about 3 GB monthly so ppl with a data cap shouldn't register or advise them in advance so they'll run a different test program.
"Too many people have escaped learning math due to being afraid of it"
You do realize that having to escape something implies there is a good reason to fear it?
And that's why real humans don't believe in the bearded man in the sky.
There, fixed that for you.
Or a non-commercial example:
Going to a controversial historical site (Jerusalem or maybe some sites in India) and having you phone overlay totally different historical facts on the ruins in front of you than the tour guide, who is rehashing the local, nationalized interpretation.