Even Columbo used dodgy methods to resolve his cases.
OT, but Columbo was really a puzzle series, with little relation to reality. Agatha Christie style mysteries, in LA instead of a 1930s manor house. I often thought that I'd like to see what happened after he'd "solved" the case, often with a single piece of telling evidence. I think the DA would throw many out without even trying to take them to court, any decent lawyer (and most of the perps were millionaires, so they could get the best) would go before the judge and they'd get the evidence declared inadmissible in discovery.
Obviously it was the police department 's misjudgement of the serious of the matter. Otherwise they would either have got a subpoena (if it was actually important) or not bothered (if it wasn't).
They DID get a subpoena -- they're just bitching that the librarian actually made them do that. It took a couple of hours; and it was all in aid of IDing a guy who made sexual remarks to a girl outside the library -- something that should be followed up, but not obviously worth throwing away the rule book for to get him faster.
let's take a quick and dirty look: China's economy is 1/5 that of the US economy
This is indeed dirty, i.e., meaningless. For one thing, economic statistics in China are notoriously unreliable; under-reported to avoid tax and duties, over-reported to meet targets. Secondly, salaries in China are much, much lower than the US, so the "size of the economy" doesn't tell you how many jobs it supports.
Also, the number of graduates has been increasing explosively (see the stats I linked earlier). While there is a hump of very recent graduates finding it hard to get a job; as a group, graduates are still a very small part of the workforce. Which fits in with my own personal experience, having lived and worked in Hong Kong for the last 10 years.
The "point" I was disputinug was your claim that "the LOWEST most UNDERPAID person, usually the office boy will almost certinaly have a bachelors degree". From my experience of working in China and Hong Kong over the last 10 years, this is completely untrue. The statistics I quoted support that. What supports your position?
Read your own figures, ratios are all very nice and pretty, however multiply those ratios by their repespective countries populations.
You seem not to understand what a ratio is. Anyway, the point is that being a graduate in China is VERY rare still, (proprtionally, though in absolute terms there are millions of them; amongst the 1.3 BILLION population) your personal experience notwithstanding.
I mean you go to any office and the LOWEST most UNDERPAID person, usually the office boy will almost certinaly have a bachelors degree. University graduates are so common in china there is just not enough work for all of them.
What a load of bullshit. Graduates may not get the jobs they'd like, but they are certainly NOT common. See these Unesco figures for the number of students enrolled in tertiary education as a proportion of the tertiary school-age population. In 2002, China's ratio was 16%, compared to 83% for the US, 51% for Japan, for example. Whatever offices you're visiting (Fortune 500 branches?) are extremely untypical of China as a whole.
people would get mad and throw it at the cashiers if it was colder.
This seems a little unlikely, if you'll excuse my saying so. 1) if customers threw a cup of hot coffee at a cashier, they'd have scalded them, and charged with assault, even if it wasn't quite the 180F of the famous case. 2) Evidence in the case showed that McDonald's coffee was served much hotter than other restaurants.
I don't know why anyone would take McDonald's coffee home, or to their office, to drink later. It's crap compared with any instant, let alone brewed coffee, you can make yourself if you can boil water. Even 7-Eleven coffee is cheaper and less nasty if you're desperate for a caffeine hit.
Explain to me how verifying a 14-year-old's driver's license or credit card number is going to work.
Presumably, they meant that a 14-year-old would thus not be allowed to get messages from a 19-year -old. Unless, of course, the 19-year-old was pretending to be 15.
At the time of the U.S.-China incident, there was no way the U.S. crew could quickly erase hard drives on the surveillance aircraft before landing on Chinese soil. The Chinese eventually gained access to U.S. military secrets.
This sounds like bullshit to me. News articles say the collision was 70 miles off Hainan, and the plane landed there 15 or 20 minutes later. If they'd had time to pull their drives and run them through a magentic wiper, as advocated by these guys, they could have just thrown them out a hatch into the ocean. That strikes me as pretty secure method of disposal. I think the "military secrets" were more likely to be the hardware rather than the data, which would be rather harder to destroy while in flight without endangering the plane.
Yes, having kids learn how to use the office software that has overwhelming market share is doing them *such* a disservice. (sarcasm here)
If it isn't done to the exclusion of learning anything else. More important to say, learn to read and write without the dubious aid of MS Word's squiggly lines first. I'd rate touch typing a much better skill to than knowing the vagaries of a particular word processor. The interface is constantly changing, but the important features are trivial to learn if you've used any alternative tool (since most mimic MS products now, as MS used to mimic Lotus and WordPerfect).
The motive is obviously a long-term strategy, to forestall any ideas schools may have of using anything but MS software.
Their schools are now going to have some money that would have been spent on software
Only if they were going to buy the software MS is now giving them. Very likely in the absence of the gift (which despite its stated value of "$30 million", costs MS a few dollars in CD replication charges) they would have struggled on with their current software (and how could htey install new MS software wihtout a significant hardware budget anyway?, or possibly rolled their own FOSS solution, or lobbied Apple, Sun or some other deep-pocketed company to fill the gap.
But you would agree if it were known apriori there could be NO application to a research avenue, there isn't much use for the research.
You can confidently say there is no application (this millenium at least) for at least half of physics research, most astronomical or maths research, not to mention the Arts, where people would be highly offended if you even asked them for a practical application.
Yes, but it's an argument scientists and science journalists asked for when they decided to use terms like "missing link".
The phrase is NOT USED AT ALL in TFA. The Slashdot submitter presumably added it to spice it up and bring out the usual flame war. Scientists haven't used the term for decades. Blame the creationists and tabliod journalists for its currency.
Really? Who said that? It wasn't even mentioned in TFA. It seems a reflex to add the phrase when mentioning any significant fossil discovery. I also like how the word "evolution" is prominently in the headline. It seems calculated to bring on rerun #497 of Slashdot's evolution vs creationism flamewar. Well, it's usually good for 800 posts, maybe after they get back from Church on Sunday.
More interesting perhaps:
During Gansus's time, a group of birds called the Enantiornitheans--known as opposite birds because their wing joints are reversed compared to their modern relatives--dominated the skies. But the opposite birds perished along with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. How Gansus's group--the ornithurans--persevered remained to be discovered. "It's hard to answer this question just based on bird fossils," says lead author Hai-lu You of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. "We need more information on the paleoclimate."
In 2004 there was research on just what might have happened when the Chicxulub (dino-killer) asteroid struck. The suggestion was a global firestorm; the surviving animals often seemed to be burrowers, especially in river banks (thus crocodiles survived while their cousins went up in smoke). Perhaps this aquatic bird had similar luck.
If registers start policing spam on their sites, they will have stepped onto a steep, slippery slope that leads to policing content.
I think it's quite legitimate for a registrar to have terms of service and to reject hosting domains that violate these. If a registrar doesn't like porn, or multi-level marketing, or viagra sales, that's fine, as long as the customers are made aware of it beforehand. There are thousands of registrars, if you have a legitimate site you will ahve no problem finding hosting. But holding sites to ransom for any reason is another thing entirely, as it effectively censors a site. For spammers we can all shrug, but as noted elsewhere, it's easy to imagine abuse and false accusations.
The solution to this problem for software to have a "free version" that has all of the basic functionality that one needs to run the program on a day-to-day basis, and then when they try to do something fancy like shift the color tone, nag them to buy the full/regular version
Adobe has done that. They have PhotoDeluxe and PhotoShop Elements. I got a free copy of Deluxe bundled with a scanner.
When you're violating the copyright of citizens from other countries...
TFA talks about 1) the Pirate Bay: a tracker site. It doesn't have any copyright files on its servers. Arguably facilitates copyright infringement, but so does Google or Yahoo if you put in the right search terms. 2) AllofMP3: it has the right, under Russian law, to distribute the files it sells. Rights holders can just ask for their royalty checks, they refuse to do so and claim they're being robbed.
Slashdot Mirror
OT, but Columbo was really a puzzle series, with little relation to reality. Agatha Christie style mysteries, in LA instead of a 1930s manor house. I often thought that I'd like to see what happened after he'd "solved" the case, often with a single piece of telling evidence. I think the DA would throw many out without even trying to take them to court, any decent lawyer (and most of the perps were millionaires, so they could get the best) would go before the judge and they'd get the evidence declared inadmissible in discovery.
They DID get a subpoena -- they're just bitching that the librarian actually made them do that. It took a couple of hours; and it was all in aid of IDing a guy who made sexual remarks to a girl outside the library -- something that should be followed up, but not obviously worth throwing away the rule book for to get him faster.
I'm working at home with an 8-year-old to look after as well. She's at school half the day, but it's still a major distraction.
So you lock them up in a playpen with some kibble and hose them down once a day?
This is indeed dirty, i.e., meaningless. For one thing, economic statistics in China are notoriously unreliable; under-reported to avoid tax and duties, over-reported to meet targets. Secondly, salaries in China are much, much lower than the US, so the "size of the economy" doesn't tell you how many jobs it supports.
Also, the number of graduates has been increasing explosively (see the stats I linked earlier). While there is a hump of very recent graduates finding it hard to get a job; as a group, graduates are still a very small part of the workforce. Which fits in with my own personal experience, having lived and worked in Hong Kong for the last 10 years.
The "point" I was disputinug was your claim that "the LOWEST most UNDERPAID person, usually the office boy will almost certinaly have a bachelors degree". From my experience of working in China and Hong Kong over the last 10 years, this is completely untrue. The statistics I quoted support that. What supports your position?
You seem not to understand what a ratio is. Anyway, the point is that being a graduate in China is VERY rare still, (proprtionally, though in absolute terms there are millions of them; amongst the 1.3 BILLION population) your personal experience notwithstanding.
What a load of bullshit. Graduates may not get the jobs they'd like, but they are certainly NOT common. See these Unesco figures for the number of students enrolled in tertiary education as a proportion of the tertiary school-age population. In 2002, China's ratio was 16%, compared to 83% for the US, 51% for Japan, for example. Whatever offices you're visiting (Fortune 500 branches?) are extremely untypical of China as a whole.
I suppose we could laugh at the grammar, if not the idea.
Yeah, when it burns your tongue it doesn't taste so bad -- nothing does for a few days till the tastebuds regrow.
This seems a little unlikely, if you'll excuse my saying so. 1) if customers threw a cup of hot coffee at a cashier, they'd have scalded them, and charged with assault, even if it wasn't quite the 180F of the famous case. 2) Evidence in the case showed that McDonald's coffee was served much hotter than other restaurants.
I don't know why anyone would take McDonald's coffee home, or to their office, to drink later. It's crap compared with any instant, let alone brewed coffee, you can make yourself if you can boil water. Even 7-Eleven coffee is cheaper and less nasty if you're desperate for a caffeine hit.
Read about what really happened before drawing parallels.
Great idea. I can see teenagers flocking to a site like that. And celibacy is the cure for AIDS.
Presumably, they meant that a 14-year-old would thus not be allowed to get messages from a 19-year -old. Unless, of course, the 19-year-old was pretending to be 15.
If it isn't done to the exclusion of learning anything else. More important to say, learn to read and write without the dubious aid of MS Word's squiggly lines first. I'd rate touch typing a much better skill to than knowing the vagaries of a particular word processor. The interface is constantly changing, but the important features are trivial to learn if you've used any alternative tool (since most mimic MS products now, as MS used to mimic Lotus and WordPerfect).
The motive is obviously a long-term strategy, to forestall any ideas schools may have of using anything but MS software.
Their schools are now going to have some money that would have been spent on software
Only if they were going to buy the software MS is now giving them. Very likely in the absence of the gift (which despite its stated value of "$30 million", costs MS a few dollars in CD replication charges) they would have struggled on with their current software (and how could htey install new MS software wihtout a significant hardware budget anyway?, or possibly rolled their own FOSS solution, or lobbied Apple, Sun or some other deep-pocketed company to fill the gap.
You can confidently say there is no application (this millenium at least) for at least half of physics research, most astronomical or maths research, not to mention the Arts, where people would be highly offended if you even asked them for a practical application.
amhibious -> amphibious
amhibians -> amphibians
probbaly -> probably
If "preview" wasn't so damn slow I would do it more.
That's what "amhibious" means. You're probbaly thinking of "amhibians", like frogs, etc.
amhibious Biology. Living or able to live both on land and in water.
The phrase is NOT USED AT ALL in TFA. The Slashdot submitter presumably added it to spice it up and bring out the usual flame war. Scientists haven't used the term for decades. Blame the creationists and tabliod journalists for its currency.
More interesting perhaps:
In 2004 there was research on just what might have happened when the Chicxulub (dino-killer) asteroid struck. The suggestion was a global firestorm; the surviving animals often seemed to be burrowers, especially in river banks (thus crocodiles survived while their cousins went up in smoke). Perhaps this aquatic bird had similar luck.I think it's quite legitimate for a registrar to have terms of service and to reject hosting domains that violate these. If a registrar doesn't like porn, or multi-level marketing, or viagra sales, that's fine, as long as the customers are made aware of it beforehand. There are thousands of registrars, if you have a legitimate site you will ahve no problem finding hosting. But holding sites to ransom for any reason is another thing entirely, as it effectively censors a site. For spammers we can all shrug, but as noted elsewhere, it's easy to imagine abuse and false accusations.
Adobe has done that. They have PhotoDeluxe and PhotoShop Elements. I got a free copy of Deluxe bundled with a scanner.
TFA talks about 1) the Pirate Bay: a tracker site. It doesn't have any copyright files on its servers. Arguably facilitates copyright infringement, but so does Google or Yahoo if you put in the right search terms. 2) AllofMP3: it has the right, under Russian law, to distribute the files it sells. Rights holders can just ask for their royalty checks, they refuse to do so and claim they're being robbed.