But we need to give credit for companies that open source their products, even if those products are no longer bringing in $$$ for them
There have been times I wrote to software companies asking them to open source their truly obsolete products, such as compilers that run on OS/2, just so that younger generations, at least those who are curious enough to look at the source, could learn a thing or two how a compiler works
They refused
Of course they have all their rights to refuse to open up the source codes of their long obsolete software - and what I am saying is that no matter what, we still need to give due credit to the companies which open sourced their products, no matter for what reason they do so
First of all, the term 'organic' means much more than 'no artificial pesticide'
What Phillips is doing in this 'Growwise indoor farm' is wasting more energy than it needs to --- plants do not need green lights, that is why their leaves are green colored
The lights which plants need are blue light and red light - depending on the type of the plant, the percentage of red light versus that of blue light changes
From the picture of the "Growwise indoor farm" we can see that the LED used inside the farm give out white lights, and plants can only use 1% of the power of white light
In other words, this "Growwise indoor farm" has a much larger carbon footprint than it needed be, and thus, it should not be considered as 'organic'
There have been plenty of 'submerge cooling' stories online, but most of the time the 'liquid coolants' turned out to be some exotic chemicals (flourine or something) which are very expensive and some are actually very bad for the environment
Has anyone here run any kind of 'comparison test' on those liquid, on the level of their efficiency, cost, and whether or not they are environmentally safe or not?
It's not just Cameron. The people I know in the UK support this kind of thinking. A few years ago there was legislation introduced to assign a caseworker to *every* child in the UK. It didn't have as little support as you'd think. They are, broadly, a bunch of well-behaved socialist conformists who are afraid of the real world, and think that a panopticon surveillance state will make them "safe". It is disgusting
Just wow, socialism does not advocate panopticon surveillance, infact I don't think socialism has anything to say about matters relating to observation of the population. This is the sort of bullshit that got the US in the hellhole they're in now. I think the most applicable term for it is fascism
Tell us, my friend, how much do you know about socialism?
No, not the 'theoretical socialism' but the ones which had been implemented in real life
Do not tell us what you 'think', as what you 'think' doesn't matter in the whole scheme of things
But do tell us what you know, my friend
I am from China, a socialist country - in fact, I ran away from my own motherland because socialism had turned it into a hellhole
Massive social upheavals and people suffered greatly because under a socialistic society, it is the STATE (or whoever is in power) which dictates what happen, and the people must follow
Whoever dare to go against the grain will be tagged as 'anti-social' and even 'counter-revolutionalist' and are severely punished
I am not saying that capitalism is the panacea, but at the very least, under true form of capitalism, it is the individuals who are responsible for his or her own action, not the state
Those of you who never understand the real horror of socialism please understand this --- we who have gone through the baptism of fire under socialism will never sing hosannas praising socialism because we know how harmful it is
Privilege white people committing suicide? I'm playing my smallest violin in sympathy
1. Not all startup founders are 'white people' and not all of them are 'privileged' either
2. Most of the startup founders do not commit suicide
3. Stress level for startup founders - no matter what kind of startup - is high, but this is natural, as the journey of starting up a new company (in any industry) is a rocky road filled with a mix of excitement / trepidation / frustration
As for the percentage of the excitement versus that of trepidation versus that of frustration largely depends on
A. The regional / global industrial environment in which the startup is involved with
B. The structure of the startup
C. The corporate culture of the startup, ie, the attitude of the close-knit of people working in the startup
D. The personality type of the founder himself or herself
I personally have involved in quite a number of startups and every single one has their own perculiar 'pain of labor' - and for each of the 'pain of labor', if the founder sees it as a 'challenge' it would be tackled with zeal. However, if the same 'pain of labor' is seen as 'trouble' then the thing could become a protracted problem for the company
They're not prizing education, but the ability to make certain tiers of education
If the German / Asian education systems are flawed, please tell me why they keep on producing innovative young people while America has to rely on immigrants from Germany and Asia to replenish its supply of innovative ideas?
As a Chinese I can tell you that we do prize not only education - but also knowledge and the use of knowledge to bettering the world at large
My primary education was in China. Secondary school and up, I got it in the USA - and the contrast is that in China we actually honor our teacher but in America it's the football stars and/or gangsters who got most admirations
In the secondary school that I went to in the States (near the Boston area) more than 80% were blacks. Decades have passed since I got out of that hellhole and I can tell you that it's the 20%, the non-blacks, who are contributing to the wellbeing of the American society via our taxes, our inventions and our companies that we started which are employing thousands of other Americans
Why can't the blacks do what we the 20%-ers are doing?
It's not that they can't, they do *NOT* want to, because for them, excellence in education isn't their priority --- they do not have to because they got their Jesse Jackson to speak out for them whenever there is/are troubles
As for the 20%-ers, we do not have our 'Jesse Jackson' to speak for us, we have to do it all by ourselves. That is why it is us, the 20%-ers, who are pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps
At first I did not think much of that saying, but, reading TFA, especially the part about "... people realize that information is more likely to be accidentally emailed out to the wrong address then hacked..." makes me wonder if there is a need for something far worse than the word "idiot"
I have nothing but utmost respect for those who shed their blood for freedom, unfortunately human history is such that those who died for the cause almost always died in vain
Not because they didn't win the battle - they did
But because whatever victory they have achieved would, one way or another, be completely eroded by politicians
No matter which culture - no matter which era
No matter if the battle took place 2000 years ago or 2000 years in the future, politicians will always be the ultimate victor
Those main reason 'natives' objected to the construction of the telescope not because of the sacredness of the mount Kea but the lack of a certain incentive --- namely, $$$
Money can move mountains if needed be... and in this case, as long as someone can pay those 'concerned natives' there will no longer be any objection, nor any protests over 'trampling of sacred ground'
Instead of Viagra, rhino horn's main function in traditional Chinese medicine is much more closer to Tylenol
Rhino horn has never been used as aphrodisiacs in Chinese medicine
As there are hundreds of other ingredients, vast majority of them plant based, such as barley or chrysanthemum, which work much better as fever reducer in traditional Chinese medicine, rhino horns are actually not needed at all
The commercialization of 'health' is no difference from the commercialization of anything else
Just like there are people willing to pay top dollar for Armani suits there are people happy to part their money to purchase things that they think are 'healthy'
Saudi Arabia exploits the situation whereby most of the moslems in many islamic countries are poor
For example - in Pakistan more than 80% of the children can't go to school because their parents simply can't afford to pay their school fees
In order to get their children to study, the poor parents in Pakistan enroll their children in madrassa - Islamic Religious School - financed largely by Saudi oil money
And in the madrassas the children from the age of 5 are inculcated with extremist islamic teachings. By the time they reach their teen years they have had more than 12 years of intensive brainwash, so much so that they are more than willing to die for the 'cause'
And Pakistan is not the only place in the world in which Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the brainwashing campaign for the next generation of islamic terrorists --- countries spanning the world, from Morocco to Nigeria to Kenya to Afghanistan to India to Yemen to Somalia to South Africa to Mali to Indonesia to the Philippines to even the Western nations, the fingerprints of Saudi Arab are everywhere
I have investments in various countries from India to Kenya to Colombia, amongst other countries
I am not saying that the West is not doing anything breathtaking - what I am saying is, if you guys are looking for fresh perspective on the tech scene, it's the places outside of the traditional Western sphere which is filled with real excitement
But of course, what I am saying is based on what I am experiencing --- YMMV
I wonder how much of a chance there is those times come back...
The ultimate step to controlling reality is to erase all evidence of a reality that contradicts the one you desire, to the point where even those harmed by the changes you promulgate will prefer your version to a conflicting one
Anyone who does that are desperados, and in the current era we live in, many entities - from humongous entity such as the government of the United States of America to that pitiful UK news rag joint are trying everything they can to erase the reality
They think they can hide the truth?
They think they can keep on repeating their bold face lies until they become truth?
While it is a great news that Assange is going to have his interview done in London we must not forget that England is also on board of the American spy gravy train as a full member
We do not need to look far and wide to understand England's role on helping America to spread its propaganda other than its claim that the British spies have been 'harmed' with Snowden's files being successfully decrypted by the Russian and Chinese government
The British 'drama' conveniently plays out while its American partner hoarding news headline of data on millions of its civil servants' being stolen by "Chinese hackers', even after revelations that the whole thing is nothing more than an inside job
What we have witnessed thus far has been a false flag fest - false flags that play out one after another hitting out on the Russian bogeyman and the Chinese bogeyman
Even when Mr. Assange's interview is to be held in London, let us not forget that he is still being entrapped inside London by none other than the British government
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously. Name one job which doesn't encourage you to go in to work even when you are sick
The Capitol Hill!!
But wait ... they are all sick to the core to begin with !!
But we need to give credit for companies that open source their products, even if those products are no longer bringing in $$$ for them
There have been times I wrote to software companies asking them to open source their truly obsolete products, such as compilers that run on OS/2, just so that younger generations, at least those who are curious enough to look at the source, could learn a thing or two how a compiler works
They refused
Of course they have all their rights to refuse to open up the source codes of their long obsolete software - and what I am saying is that no matter what, we still need to give due credit to the companies which open sourced their products, no matter for what reason they do so
First of all, the term 'organic' means much more than 'no artificial pesticide'
What Phillips is doing in this 'Growwise indoor farm' is wasting more energy than it needs to --- plants do not need green lights, that is why their leaves are green colored
The lights which plants need are blue light and red light - depending on the type of the plant, the percentage of red light versus that of blue light changes
From the picture of the "Growwise indoor farm" we can see that the LED used inside the farm give out white lights, and plants can only use 1% of the power of white light
In other words, this "Growwise indoor farm" has a much larger carbon footprint than it needed be, and thus, it should not be considered as 'organic'
There have been plenty of 'submerge cooling' stories online, but most of the time the 'liquid coolants' turned out to be some exotic chemicals (flourine or something) which are very expensive and some are actually very bad for the environment
Has anyone here run any kind of 'comparison test' on those liquid, on the level of their efficiency, cost, and whether or not they are environmentally safe or not?
The ones who are truly intellectually bankrupted, aka 'The sheeples ', believe in every single thing the authority tells them
Baaaaaaaaah ....
Unfortunately they forgot to enable a channel on Galileo and lost half the data on decent
There is a thing known as "Forgot" and then there is an entirely different thing known as 'conveniently forgetting'
They might be able to fool the joe sixpacks with the 'oh we forgot to enable that channel' but it ain't gonna be an easy sale on us geeks
It's not just Cameron. The people I know in the UK support this kind of thinking. A few years ago there was legislation introduced to assign a caseworker to *every* child in the UK. It didn't have as little support as you'd think. They are, broadly, a bunch of well-behaved socialist conformists who are afraid of the real world, and think that a panopticon surveillance state will make them "safe". It is disgusting
Just wow, socialism does not advocate panopticon surveillance, infact I don't think socialism has anything to say about matters relating to observation of the population. This is the sort of bullshit that got the US in the hellhole they're in now. I think the most applicable term for it is fascism
Tell us, my friend, how much do you know about socialism?
No, not the 'theoretical socialism' but the ones which had been implemented in real life
Do not tell us what you 'think', as what you 'think' doesn't matter in the whole scheme of things
But do tell us what you know, my friend
I am from China, a socialist country - in fact, I ran away from my own motherland because socialism had turned it into a hellhole
Massive social upheavals and people suffered greatly because under a socialistic society, it is the STATE (or whoever is in power) which dictates what happen, and the people must follow
Whoever dare to go against the grain will be tagged as 'anti-social' and even 'counter-revolutionalist' and are severely punished
I am not saying that capitalism is the panacea, but at the very least, under true form of capitalism, it is the individuals who are responsible for his or her own action, not the state
Those of you who never understand the real horror of socialism please understand this --- we who have gone through the baptism of fire under socialism will never sing hosannas praising socialism because we know how harmful it is
The link - http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
Privilege white people committing suicide? I'm playing my smallest violin in sympathy
1. Not all startup founders are 'white people' and not all of them are 'privileged' either
2. Most of the startup founders do not commit suicide
3. Stress level for startup founders - no matter what kind of startup - is high, but this is natural, as the journey of starting up a new company (in any industry) is a rocky road filled with a mix of excitement / trepidation / frustration
As for the percentage of the excitement versus that of trepidation versus that of frustration largely depends on
A. The regional / global industrial environment in which the startup is involved with
B. The structure of the startup
C. The corporate culture of the startup, ie, the attitude of the close-knit of people working in the startup
D. The personality type of the founder himself or herself
I personally have involved in quite a number of startups and every single one has their own perculiar 'pain of labor' - and for each of the 'pain of labor', if the founder sees it as a 'challenge' it would be tackled with zeal. However, if the same 'pain of labor' is seen as 'trouble' then the thing could become a protracted problem for the company
The above is based on my own experience
YMMV
Is there any other way for a Middle Eastern country to earn our respect ...
Let's expand your query into :
Is there any way for any country to earn the respect of others
So... how to earn _true_ respect from others?
They're not prizing education, but the ability to make certain tiers of education
If the German / Asian education systems are flawed, please tell me why they keep on producing innovative young people while America has to rely on immigrants from Germany and Asia to replenish its supply of innovative ideas?
As a Chinese I can tell you that we do prize not only education - but also knowledge and the use of knowledge to bettering the world at large
My primary education was in China. Secondary school and up, I got it in the USA - and the contrast is that in China we actually honor our teacher but in America it's the football stars and/or gangsters who got most admirations
In the secondary school that I went to in the States (near the Boston area) more than 80% were blacks. Decades have passed since I got out of that hellhole and I can tell you that it's the 20%, the non-blacks, who are contributing to the wellbeing of the American society via our taxes, our inventions and our companies that we started which are employing thousands of other Americans
Why can't the blacks do what we the 20%-ers are doing?
It's not that they can't, they do *NOT* want to, because for them, excellence in education isn't their priority --- they do not have to because they got their Jesse Jackson to speak out for them whenever there is/are troubles
As for the 20%-ers, we do not have our 'Jesse Jackson' to speak for us, we have to do it all by ourselves. That is why it is us, the 20%-ers, who are pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps
Ever heard of Umm Qirfa?
Never heard of the name?
Read this link --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Read how that old noble woman was killed
Read who was the one ordering the murder of that old lady
Extremism?
Comparing to the extreme cruel way that old noble lady was murdered, the beheadings carried by the ISIL assholes become lame and mild mannered
You don't even know what islam is!
... that 99.999% of the humans are idiots
At first I did not think much of that saying, but, reading TFA, especially the part about "... people realize that information is more likely to be accidentally emailed out to the wrong address then hacked ..." makes me wonder if there is a need for something far worse than the word "idiot"
... always got short changed
Country by country, region by region, media by media, they will find ways to fleece us
I have nothing but utmost respect for those who shed their blood for freedom, unfortunately human history is such that those who died for the cause almost always died in vain
Not because they didn't win the battle - they did
But because whatever victory they have achieved would, one way or another, be completely eroded by politicians
No matter which culture - no matter which era
No matter if the battle took place 2000 years ago or 2000 years in the future, politicians will always be the ultimate victor
Those main reason 'natives' objected to the construction of the telescope not because of the sacredness of the mount Kea but the lack of a certain incentive --- namely, $$$
Money can move mountains if needed be ... and in this case, as long as someone can pay those 'concerned natives' there will no longer be any objection, nor any protests over 'trampling of sacred ground'
Instead of Viagra, rhino horn's main function in traditional Chinese medicine is much more closer to Tylenol
Rhino horn has never been used as aphrodisiacs in Chinese medicine
As there are hundreds of other ingredients, vast majority of them plant based, such as barley or chrysanthemum, which work much better as fever reducer in traditional Chinese medicine, rhino horns are actually not needed at all
The commercialization of 'health' is no difference from the commercialization of anything else
Just like there are people willing to pay top dollar for Armani suits there are people happy to part their money to purchase things that they think are 'healthy'
Saudi Arabia exploits the situation whereby most of the moslems in many islamic countries are poor
For example - in Pakistan more than 80% of the children can't go to school because their parents simply can't afford to pay their school fees
In order to get their children to study, the poor parents in Pakistan enroll their children in madrassa - Islamic Religious School - financed largely by Saudi oil money
And in the madrassas the children from the age of 5 are inculcated with extremist islamic teachings. By the time they reach their teen years they have had more than 12 years of intensive brainwash, so much so that they are more than willing to die for the 'cause'
And Pakistan is not the only place in the world in which Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the brainwashing campaign for the next generation of islamic terrorists --- countries spanning the world, from Morocco to Nigeria to Kenya to Afghanistan to India to Yemen to Somalia to South Africa to Mali to Indonesia to the Philippines to even the Western nations, the fingerprints of Saudi Arab are everywhere
and, supposedly, the russians are returning to using type-writers instead of computers, for their secret memos and spy schtuff
Talking about typewriters ... China recently executed a typist who leaked sensitive information to foreign spy (or spies)
That only goes to show that there always exist the possibilities of leakage no matter which route it takes
I have investments in various countries from India to Kenya to Colombia, amongst other countries
I am not saying that the West is not doing anything breathtaking - what I am saying is, if you guys are looking for fresh perspective on the tech scene, it's the places outside of the traditional Western sphere which is filled with real excitement
But of course, what I am saying is based on what I am experiencing --- YMMV
I wonder how much of a chance there is those times come back...
The ultimate step to controlling reality is to erase all evidence of a reality that contradicts the one you desire, to the point where even those harmed by the changes you promulgate will prefer your version to a conflicting one
Anyone who does that are desperados, and in the current era we live in, many entities - from humongous entity such as the government of the United States of America to that pitiful UK news rag joint are trying everything they can to erase the reality
They think they can hide the truth?
They think they can keep on repeating their bold face lies until they become truth?
What are they thinking?
While it is a great news that Assange is going to have his interview done in London we must not forget that England is also on board of the American spy gravy train as a full member
We do not need to look far and wide to understand England's role on helping America to spread its propaganda other than its claim that the British spies have been 'harmed' with Snowden's files being successfully decrypted by the Russian and Chinese government
The Intercept has a piece on it --- https://firstlook.org/theinter...
The British 'drama' conveniently plays out while its American partner hoarding news headline of data on millions of its civil servants' being stolen by "Chinese hackers', even after revelations that the whole thing is nothing more than an inside job
What we have witnessed thus far has been a false flag fest - false flags that play out one after another hitting out on the Russian bogeyman and the Chinese bogeyman
Even when Mr. Assange's interview is to be held in London, let us not forget that he is still being entrapped inside London by none other than the British government
How many years it officially took the hackers to stumble across the existence of the embedded NSA backdoor inside MS Windows??
Way before the news of that 'discovery' was told to the world, a friend of mine found it, but was told to 'shut up or else' by his then boss
Apparently they (and many other people) already knew about it for quite a while, but none of them bother to tell the world about it
After all, China and Russia are supposed to be the bad dude, and Snowden is supposed to be a traitor
Who are us to argue with the mighty Uncle Sam?