Dunno about you, but I ain't gonna be excited by AMD's offerings anymore, after what they dished to us on their Bulldozer roll out
For more than a year before Bulldozer came into being they told us that the Bulldozer gonna be revolutionary - they hyped the Bulldozer so much that many forums were filled with people just couldn't wait to get their hands on it
But when the rubber hits the tarmac everything gone flat - that Bulldozer was a dog
If the national security of a country is on the shoulder of the private industry, then that country will be hold ransom to the private corporation which owns that industry.
The United States of America is in danger of falling into that trap.
If the United States rely too much on SpaceX for its space-launch, SpaceX could easily raise its price 100-fold and the tax-payers will end up having to cough up the dough.
And the danger doesn't end there either.
What if one day Russia or Iran or China ends up owning SpaceX ?
What kind of national security are we going to have, if nightmarish scenario turn into reality ?
... In American math class they say "show your work". In Chinese math classes they say "do it in your head"...
When I was growing up in China, they didn't even need to tell us to "do it in our head" --- ever since we were babies we were already trained to do many things in our head, to plan ahead, to look for alternatives, and so on, and so forth.
Even when we were playing games, as a child, back in China, we were already counting while jumping blocks or throwing stones.
Doing complex multiplication / division in our head is just a matter of fact - it's nothing fancy, actually, once you get your brain wired up you can pretty much do many things, without even reaching for a slide-rule and/or calculator.
No, this ain't bragging - if the same thing is happening to people all around you you will naturally pick it up as well.
As for your daughter, Shanghai Bill, don't let her get the habit to reach for the calculators. Keep her ability in doing things in her head alive, it would be very beneficial for her when she grows up.
In the case of the Toyota Group, the bank controlling everything is the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Wrong !
The stake of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in the Toyota Group is small.
The vast majority of the Toyota Group, as has outlined by user Jeeeb, is under the control of the Mitsui Group and the Marubeni Group.
Incidentally, neither Mitsui Group nor Marubeni Group, NOR the Mitsubishi Financial group, is under the control of foreigners (either foreign banks and/or foreign individuals).
Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Marubeni, and Yamaha are among the most vital clans in Japan. The clans can be traced far back to the Samurai era, and their influence on Japan is much MUCH MORE than you can ever imagine.
I myself have many investments in Japan. I am very familiar with the corporate structure (and who own what) in Japan.
There was a piece of news that 3 young people from Californiat (if I remember correctly) actually built a *WORKING* health-care site, similar to what Obamacare tried to do but failed, using nothing but FOSS !
I do not know what kind of license they put their website under, but the matter of the fact is, FOSS WORKS !!
I was from China, and I am a naturalized citizen of the United States of America.
Regarding education - back when I escaped from China (that was some 40 odd years ago) the schools in East Asia (countries which were/are heavily influenced by the Confucianism school of thought such as China, Korea, Japan, Singapore ) were pretty much based on the top-down rote-learning mode - whereby the students have no say, and they must do EVERYTHING their teachers told them to do.
It operated that way because the basic tenet of the Confucianism teaching is that the young uns are SLAVES to their elders (it's pretty much based on the blind obedience mode).
When I reached the West I was totally astounded when my classmate actually questioned the teachers !
That was a super NO-NO in Asia.
Back then, even if the student asked a totally legitimate question to the teacher in class that student will be summoned to the headmaster and/or discipline master's office for punishment.
That was how the Asian school had operated back then.
Now... except for Korea, which is still practicing strict Confucianism as what it has been doing for the past 2,000 years... many schools in the East Asian countries (those populated by yellow-skin folks) have drastically improved their teaching method.
Nowadays students are encouraged to solve problems, rather than to remember the facts laid out by their teachers.
From Singapore to Tokyo to Hong Kong to Taiwan, everywhere I go I see great improvements.
As for the other East Asian countries, those which are being populated by the brown skin folks such as Indonesia or the Philippines or Thailand, their schools are still as sucks as 50 years ago.
I see that there are people here trying to justify their own country's failing by saying that the "comparison is not fair", that the comparison is comparing "cities to countries".
For those folks, what I see is nothing much but sour grapes.
Yes, comparing schools in Hong Kong or Singapore to schools in the United States of America is comparing schools in CITIES to a LARGE COUNTRY --- but so what ?
If the schools in the United States of America sux, it's STILL SUX, no matter if it's in the city of Detroit or if it's in the city of Little Rock.
How many of my fellow Americans have been to the public schools ? How many of you have seen the effect of gangsterism in the public schools in America ?
I have.
I have 2 friends who were teachers in public schools in America who were MURDERED by their students.
On the other hand, I have a lot of friends who teach in schools in Asia, and so far, none of them have been killed by their students yet.
When I asked my teacher friends in Asia about a recent news of a math teacher in Boston who got her throat slit by her student. all of them were horrified by that news.
But when I post that same news to my friends who used to teach (and some are STILL teaching) in American public schools, they just shrug.
This reflects how bad the American school system has become.
You guys may want to deny it as much as you can, but for one who was from afar (I am not a product of the American high school system), the American school system has failed.
Wearing stuffs like this that distract the wearers from the reality around them is dangerous.
Not only they could walk into walls, they also could be distracted enough (like this Epson thingy which actually plays movie) to walk into the middle of a very busy thoroughfare !
As if we haven't had enough of drivers distracted by their phones, now we are equipping the pedestrians with glasses which actually blind them from what is going on around them.
The number one problem is many top brains burned too brightly and sometimes they burn out too fast
I've been in the industry since the 1970's, have had worked with geniuses that could out-produce a contingent of code monkeys for any given task, and I've seen too many cases of burn-outs amongst those top brains
Your story of Bill Gates' share in Microsoft does not apply to the working of the Bitcoin market, for at least 2 reasons ---
1. Unlike Bill Gates' shares in Microsoft (when he used to own a large portion of it), no one wallet contains more than 10% of total number of available bitcoins worldwide.
2. That 1000+ bitcoins that were stolen amount to less than 0.01% of the amount of bitcoins that have already been successfully mined.
In other words, even if Bill Gates was to sell 0.01% of the total number of Microsoft's share in the market it would not cause a run on Microsoft's share price.
There are so many kinds of altcoins that they are no longer funny.
From litecons to worldcoins to feathrecoins to bbq to your "zerocoins"... which one of them will survive, and worse, which one of them are pure scams ?
Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun in Chinese mythology is "Grandfather Sun"
Why don't you go ask 100 Chinese and see how many of them ever heard of that "Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun" ?
That character is one of the many many "minor characters" inside the Chinese fiction "Tale of the Monkey God"
Even the "Niu Mo Wang" (the Buffalo King), another character from the same tome, is more "famous" than that "Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun" and yet, nobody, at least none of the Chinese that I know of, pray to that "Buffalo King".
I would disagree - there are a lot of Americans that watch Netflix or Idol, but they are not necessarily lacking the will and ability to advance technology
I do not have any statistic to prove it, what I am going to say is solely based on my personal, anecdotal experience.
When I was doing my post-graduate research I was the only Chinese in the entire research complex (and it is huge).
Over there there were few other "foreigners" like me. Most other researchers (whether they be the "regulars" or "post-grads") were born and bred Anglo-Saxon Americans.
Nowadays if you walk into any research facility located inside the United States you would see a lot of "foreign faces", whether they be from Korea or India or Japan or Brazil or China.
Even the white-skinned researchers many of them are no longer of the born and bred American Anglo Saxon stock.
Many of the Caucasoid researchers that are currently working in the American labs are from Russia or Poland or Armenia or Romania (of the former Eastern European countries).
There have been a steep decline of the REALLY BORN AND BRED AMERICANS doing critical research in American labs, at least from my own perspective.
There's still very much a startup culture in America, and thankfully even a strong hardware startup culture is coming around thanks to Kickstarter
Again I do not have the statistic to prove it, but casual reading of the kickstarter campaign reveal names that does not actually sound "American".
Same thing happen in the startup scene - for the past 2 decades or so I have been investing in many startups, inside and outside of America.
And of the many fresh faces that I have interviewed fewer than 40% are from America.
Most of the energetic young uns who have incredible ideas are from other countries.
It is as if ambition and thinking no longer play vital role for the American Spirit.
Actually there is a VERY VERY SUITABLE SITE for dumping the chemical.
It's at the Fukushima site, of Japan.
Since the sea over there has already been HEAVILY POLLUTED BY RADIOACTIVE WASTE, adding a little bit more chemical into the mix won't make the situation any more worse
On the other hand, dumping the chemical into the Mediterranean Sea would complicate things a lot - as there ARE a lot of countries which would be affected, from Spain to France to Italy to Greece to Turkey to Syria to Lebanon to Israel to Egypt to Tunisia... all the way to Morocco
Of course those Japanese won't be happy about my proposal.
But then, when the Japanese kill whales and dolphins, they do not care how the rest of the world feel.
Why should we care about how they feel now, if we dump those chemicals near Fukushima ?
Yes, rebels without a clue that should be put away
... of the many (former )criminals in the West that have been released back to the society, some of them were released solely based on the political reasons ~ such as they were of the "under privileged group" and so on
And once they were released back to the society they commit crimes again, and again, and again
Although I've been an American citizen for more than 3 decades, as a person whose origin was not from the Western nation, I can NOT understand why on earth the Western society is more willing to put more innocent people on the harm's way than locking up those crazy fuckers?
I mean, who cares if they were from the "under-privileged groups"? Who cares if they were from "broken family" ? Who cares if they were being "abused" before they commit their crime ?
Why is the human rights of the criminals that MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than that of their victims ?
That is the ONE THING that I can never understand, despite having to live in the West since the early 1970's.
Anyone can pick arbitrary milestones to make a point, but that doesn't make it meaningful.
I think the more informative numbers would be the cost (in inflation adjusted dollars) for the various projects. I don't know what they are, but I suspect China and India are doing their missions for a fraction of what it cost the US to do it, which means they will probably be doing more in the near future.
The biggest differentiating factor does not come with a number attached.
What India and China have, and what the West is sorely lacking, is the DETERMINATION to make their country more technologically advance.
England used to be one of the top country in the world in term of technology, and what happened ?
They taught their children how to use Microsoft Word in school, rather than how to program.
America is still (one of the) top country (countries) in the world in term of technology, but technology is far from being what the average American is interested in.
The Americans are wasting their time debating the never-ending pro and anti-abortion issue.
The Americans prefer to watch Netflix, to vote for their next American Idol, than to encourage and lead their children towards learning the how-tos in technology.
In other words, the Indians and the Chinese have much more curiosity than the people in the Western countries, and their curiosities are propelling onwards in strengthening themselves and their respective countries in Science and Technology, while the West, still sitting in their comfortable Lazy-Boy watching the latest flix from Hollywood.
While it is true that Asian countries (especially China and India) are playing catch up in the space race, they are catching up pretty quickly.
It is very very true that what India and China are doing the West (and Russia) had done some decades ago.
It is also true that what China is doing (and what India is doing also) is nothing new in the Western standard, one shouldn't stay put just because one's opponents are just beginning to do the "old stuff", or else, one day, the opponent may just have passed you by.
To India and China, congratulation of what you guys are doing !
But will they make you buy insurance in order to visit?
With Mooncare coverage (c), not only you get the necessary coverage to visit the moon, we will make sure that your tax dollars be funded into the development of a better Mooncare (c) website !
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Dunno about you, but I ain't gonna be excited by AMD's offerings anymore, after what they dished to us on their Bulldozer roll out
For more than a year before Bulldozer came into being they told us that the Bulldozer gonna be revolutionary - they hyped the Bulldozer so much that many forums were filled with people just couldn't wait to get their hands on it
But when the rubber hits the tarmac everything gone flat - that Bulldozer was a dog
No man, I just ain't gonna believe AMD anymore
If the national security of a country is on the shoulder of the private industry, then that country will be hold ransom to the private corporation which owns that industry.
The United States of America is in danger of falling into that trap.
If the United States rely too much on SpaceX for its space-launch, SpaceX could easily raise its price 100-fold and the tax-payers will end up having to cough up the dough.
And the danger doesn't end there either.
What if one day Russia or Iran or China ends up owning SpaceX ?
What kind of national security are we going to have, if nightmarish scenario turn into reality ?
When I was growing up in China, they didn't even need to tell us to "do it in our head" --- ever since we were babies we were already trained to do many things in our head, to plan ahead, to look for alternatives, and so on, and so forth.
Even when we were playing games, as a child, back in China, we were already counting while jumping blocks or throwing stones.
Doing complex multiplication / division in our head is just a matter of fact - it's nothing fancy, actually, once you get your brain wired up you can pretty much do many things, without even reaching for a slide-rule and/or calculator.
No, this ain't bragging - if the same thing is happening to people all around you you will naturally pick it up as well.
As for your daughter, Shanghai Bill, don't let her get the habit to reach for the calculators. Keep her ability in doing things in her head alive, it would be very beneficial for her when she grows up.
In the case of the Toyota Group, the bank controlling everything is the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Wrong !
The stake of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in the Toyota Group is small.
The vast majority of the Toyota Group, as has outlined by user Jeeeb, is under the control of the Mitsui Group and the Marubeni Group.
Incidentally, neither Mitsui Group nor Marubeni Group, NOR the Mitsubishi Financial group, is under the control of foreigners (either foreign banks and/or foreign individuals).
Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Marubeni, and Yamaha are among the most vital clans in Japan. The clans can be traced far back to the Samurai era, and their influence on Japan is much MUCH MORE than you can ever imagine.
I myself have many investments in Japan. I am very familiar with the corporate structure (and who own what) in Japan.
Unlike Ford or GM, Toyota and Honda are definitely NOT owned by banks !
Toyota is owned by the group of inter-connected companies that is controlled by the Toyoda clan of Japan.
Same with Honda - owned by the group of inter-connected companies that is controlled by the Honda clan of Japan.
There was a piece of news that 3 young people from Californiat (if I remember correctly) actually built a *WORKING* health-care site, similar to what Obamacare tried to do but failed, using nothing but FOSS !
I do not know what kind of license they put their website under, but the matter of the fact is, FOSS WORKS !!
I was from China, and I am a naturalized citizen of the United States of America.
Regarding education - back when I escaped from China (that was some 40 odd years ago) the schools in East Asia (countries which were/are heavily influenced by the Confucianism school of thought such as China, Korea, Japan, Singapore ) were pretty much based on the top-down rote-learning mode - whereby the students have no say, and they must do EVERYTHING their teachers told them to do.
It operated that way because the basic tenet of the Confucianism teaching is that the young uns are SLAVES to their elders (it's pretty much based on the blind obedience mode).
When I reached the West I was totally astounded when my classmate actually questioned the teachers !
That was a super NO-NO in Asia.
Back then, even if the student asked a totally legitimate question to the teacher in class that student will be summoned to the headmaster and/or discipline master's office for punishment.
That was how the Asian school had operated back then.
Now ... except for Korea, which is still practicing strict Confucianism as what it has been doing for the past 2,000 years ... many schools in the East Asian countries (those populated by yellow-skin folks) have drastically improved their teaching method.
Nowadays students are encouraged to solve problems, rather than to remember the facts laid out by their teachers.
From Singapore to Tokyo to Hong Kong to Taiwan, everywhere I go I see great improvements.
As for the other East Asian countries, those which are being populated by the brown skin folks such as Indonesia or the Philippines or Thailand, their schools are still as sucks as 50 years ago.
I see that there are people here trying to justify their own country's failing by saying that the "comparison is not fair", that the comparison is comparing "cities to countries".
For those folks, what I see is nothing much but sour grapes.
Yes, comparing schools in Hong Kong or Singapore to schools in the United States of America is comparing schools in CITIES to a LARGE COUNTRY --- but so what ?
If the schools in the United States of America sux, it's STILL SUX, no matter if it's in the city of Detroit or if it's in the city of Little Rock.
How many of my fellow Americans have been to the public schools ? How many of you have seen the effect of gangsterism in the public schools in America ?
I have.
I have 2 friends who were teachers in public schools in America who were MURDERED by their students.
On the other hand, I have a lot of friends who teach in schools in Asia, and so far, none of them have been killed by their students yet.
When I asked my teacher friends in Asia about a recent news of a math teacher in Boston who got her throat slit by her student. all of them were horrified by that news.
But when I post that same news to my friends who used to teach (and some are STILL teaching) in American public schools, they just shrug.
This reflects how bad the American school system has become.
You guys may want to deny it as much as you can, but for one who was from afar (I am not a product of the American high school system), the American school system has failed.
Wearing stuffs like this that distract the wearers from the reality around them is dangerous.
Not only they could walk into walls, they also could be distracted enough (like this Epson thingy which actually plays movie) to walk into the middle of a very busy thoroughfare !
As if we haven't had enough of drivers distracted by their phones, now we are equipping the pedestrians with glasses which actually blind them from what is going on around them.
... even a tricycle can become deadly.
Stop blaming the car.
The problem is the driver.
That Porsche may have 600 hp, but in the hand of an excellent driver, it would be still a very safe car.
The number one problem is many top brains burned too brightly and sometimes they burn out too fast
I've been in the industry since the 1970's, have had worked with geniuses that could out-produce a contingent of code monkeys for any given task, and I've seen too many cases of burn-outs amongst those top brains
TFA used two "revert"s and I am wondering if the use of "revert"s is correct or should the word be "reverse", instead ?
Your story of Bill Gates' share in Microsoft does not apply to the working of the Bitcoin market, for at least 2 reasons ---
1. Unlike Bill Gates' shares in Microsoft (when he used to own a large portion of it), no one wallet contains more than 10% of total number of available bitcoins worldwide.
2. That 1000+ bitcoins that were stolen amount to less than 0.01% of the amount of bitcoins that have already been successfully mined.
In other words, even if Bill Gates was to sell 0.01% of the total number of Microsoft's share in the market it would not cause a run on Microsoft's share price.
There is another altcoin with the name of "Bitcoin 2".
Yep, they TOO claim to be the extension/I to Bitcoin
But when you talk to people who do serious mining, they'd laughed at that thought.
There are so many kinds of altcoins that they are no longer funny.
From litecons to worldcoins to feathrecoins to bbq to your "zerocoins" ... which one of them will survive, and worse, which one of them are pure scams ?
RMS wants a totally anonymous payment system but never offer us a clue on how to achieve it.
Give us some clues, RMS. At the very least, show us where to look for the clues, please !
Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun in Chinese mythology is "Grandfather Sun"
Why don't you go ask 100 Chinese and see how many of them ever heard of that "Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun" ?
That character is one of the many many "minor characters" inside the Chinese fiction "Tale of the Monkey God"
Even the "Niu Mo Wang" (the Buffalo King), another character from the same tome, is more "famous" than that "Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun" and yet, nobody, at least none of the Chinese that I know of, pray to that "Buffalo King".
I would disagree - there are a lot of Americans that watch Netflix or Idol, but they are not necessarily lacking the will and ability to advance technology
I do not have any statistic to prove it, what I am going to say is solely based on my personal, anecdotal experience.
When I was doing my post-graduate research I was the only Chinese in the entire research complex (and it is huge).
Over there there were few other "foreigners" like me. Most other researchers (whether they be the "regulars" or "post-grads") were born and bred Anglo-Saxon Americans.
Nowadays if you walk into any research facility located inside the United States you would see a lot of "foreign faces", whether they be from Korea or India or Japan or Brazil or China.
Even the white-skinned researchers many of them are no longer of the born and bred American Anglo Saxon stock.
Many of the Caucasoid researchers that are currently working in the American labs are from Russia or Poland or Armenia or Romania (of the former Eastern European countries).
There have been a steep decline of the REALLY BORN AND BRED AMERICANS doing critical research in American labs, at least from my own perspective.
There's still very much a startup culture in America, and thankfully even a strong hardware startup culture is coming around thanks to Kickstarter
Again I do not have the statistic to prove it, but casual reading of the kickstarter campaign reveal names that does not actually sound "American".
Same thing happen in the startup scene - for the past 2 decades or so I have been investing in many startups, inside and outside of America.
And of the many fresh faces that I have interviewed fewer than 40% are from America.
Most of the energetic young uns who have incredible ideas are from other countries.
It is as if ambition and thinking no longer play vital role for the American Spirit.
In most the major religions that have Sun as a diety ( Ancient Egyptian, Aztec, Roman, Greek, Chinese, Bhuddist)
I may be an American citizen but I am still a Chinese, by ethnicity.
Someone must have forgotten to tell me that the Sun is a diety.
Video from NASA -
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.php?id=1188
Actually there is a VERY VERY SUITABLE SITE for dumping the chemical.
It's at the Fukushima site, of Japan.
Since the sea over there has already been HEAVILY POLLUTED BY RADIOACTIVE WASTE, adding a little bit more chemical into the mix won't make the situation any more worse
On the other hand, dumping the chemical into the Mediterranean Sea would complicate things a lot - as there ARE a lot of countries which would be affected, from Spain to France to Italy to Greece to Turkey to Syria to Lebanon to Israel to Egypt to Tunisia ... all the way to Morocco
Of course those Japanese won't be happy about my proposal.
But then, when the Japanese kill whales and dolphins, they do not care how the rest of the world feel.
Why should we care about how they feel now, if we dump those chemicals near Fukushima ?
Yes, rebels without a clue that should be put away
... of the many (former )criminals in the West that have been released back to the society, some of them were released solely based on the political reasons ~ such as they were of the "under privileged group" and so on
And once they were released back to the society they commit crimes again, and again, and again
Although I've been an American citizen for more than 3 decades, as a person whose origin was not from the Western nation, I can NOT understand why on earth the Western society is more willing to put more innocent people on the harm's way than locking up those crazy fuckers?
I mean, who cares if they were from the "under-privileged groups"? Who cares if they were from "broken family" ? Who cares if they were being "abused" before they commit their crime ?
Why is the human rights of the criminals that MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than that of their victims ?
That is the ONE THING that I can never understand, despite having to live in the West since the early 1970's.
Anyone can pick arbitrary milestones to make a point, but that doesn't make it meaningful.
I think the more informative numbers would be the cost (in inflation adjusted dollars) for the various projects. I don't know what they are, but I suspect China and India are doing their missions for a fraction of what it cost the US to do it, which means they will probably be doing more in the near future.
The biggest differentiating factor does not come with a number attached.
What India and China have, and what the West is sorely lacking, is the DETERMINATION to make their country more technologically advance.
England used to be one of the top country in the world in term of technology, and what happened ?
They taught their children how to use Microsoft Word in school, rather than how to program.
America is still (one of the) top country (countries) in the world in term of technology, but technology is far from being what the average American is interested in.
The Americans are wasting their time debating the never-ending pro and anti-abortion issue.
The Americans prefer to watch Netflix, to vote for their next American Idol, than to encourage and lead their children towards learning the how-tos in technology.
In other words, the Indians and the Chinese have much more curiosity than the people in the Western countries, and their curiosities are propelling onwards in strengthening themselves and their respective countries in Science and Technology, while the West, still sitting in their comfortable Lazy-Boy watching the latest flix from Hollywood.
While it is true that Asian countries (especially China and India) are playing catch up in the space race, they are catching up pretty quickly.
It is very very true that what India and China are doing the West (and Russia) had done some decades ago.
It is also true that what China is doing (and what India is doing also) is nothing new in the Western standard, one shouldn't stay put just because one's opponents are just beginning to do the "old stuff", or else, one day, the opponent may just have passed you by.
To India and China, congratulation of what you guys are doing !
To the West, please wake the fuck up !
India's Mars probe finally leaves Earth-bound orbits on the 1st of December 2013.
On the very same day, China is set to launch its first lunar lander.
Both India and China are from Asia.
Where are the Europeans ?
Where are the Americans ?
What the heck happened to the usually technologically more advanced societies of the Western countries ?
Asia is playing catch up very very fast, and before long, they might even get ahead of you guys !
But will they make you buy insurance in order to visit?
With Mooncare coverage (c), not only you get the necessary coverage to visit the moon, we will make sure that your tax dollars be funded into the development of a better Mooncare (c) website !