If you try to interview those freshly fired sweatshop workers in Guangdong, they'll have a different opinion.
The educated and traveled/worldly Chinese population is also those in the the top 1% income bracket in China - have you seen one of those Dongguan sweatshop workers in the United States? Even those guys and girls are doing much better than their rural counterparts. If you're among the top 1% earners of your country, have a nice house (or more than one house), a nice car, a nice wife, eats gourmet food every day, people hail and bow down to you every day, can freely cut into queues due to your "good relations" with government officials, etc... Then of course you'll feel fine and dandy.
You can actually buy Microsoft Office 2004 (or 2008- but 2008 doesn't work well with Spaces) and use it on a Mac. If Windows is absolutely required, VMWare Fusion isn't that expensive either.
But how can you guarantee the safety of workers when they're setting up the drill? That's no small drill and would need some time to set up properly, and while the workers are setting up the drill the volcano may explode.
We should average out the practices of the world's biggest financial institutions and simulate that in our schools as well. Many parents want their children to become financiers, you know?
Unsecured WAP is so last year - if I want an alternative Internet access route (not that my company limits or monitors anything), I can just tether my computer with my iPhone 3G.
To further prepare students for the real world, every school in the United States should have a simulation of the 2008 credit meltdown - teachers will be giving out financial advices similar to this one so students will pay them, even borrowing money to pay them, in exchange for fantastic future returns (whether in more money, in grades or in a "future career"). The teachers will then use all the money on luxury resorts. In the event the students asks for money back (or better grades, "rewarding career", etc.), the teacher will ask the parents to beat the children up at home until they stop asking.
But that's still not real enough. The world nowadays is full of terrorists from Middle East and pirates from Sweden and Somalia. Schools should simulate that as well - you know, just to get our children fully prepared for the future. Oh, WWIII may happen in the future as well, we should give every school children in the United States an assault rifle, pistol, ammo, grenades, painkillers, antibiotics, rations, etc. - everything in the back pack of a real US soldier! When your son or daughter's school seem like a battlefield in the future, don't panic! We're just preparing them for the real world! Think of the children!
Don't worry, I'm sure Congress will audit the Federal Reserve and we'll get to the bottom of this mess!
You're trusting your politicians would someday, somehow, become competent?
Oh man. I don't know how to say this... But, you know, I'm actually a prince in Nigeria, and I have need to transfer a large sum of funds overseas. Can you help?
USB 4.0: Sub-light Speed
USB 5.0: Light Speed
USB 6.0: Ridiculous Speed
USB 7.0: Ludicrous Speed
USB 8.0: Ludicrous Speed! Go!
USB 9.0: Aaaah! What have we done!
USB X: My brains! Are going into my feet!
According to Far, Mac OS X runs "a little faster than Vista" with an SSD drive, but Linux is "always faster" than Vista or Mac OS X -- to the tune of 1% to 2% -- because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in the background."
Ok, so Linux and Windows 2000 never run anything in the background. My head exploded so I stopped reading.
There's no need to wrap a closure in a "function class" in Python. And I don't have to cast everything down to Object every so often. So while, theoretically, you can do functional programming in both Java and Python, in practice it is much easier in Python.
There's no need to wrap the "main()" function in a class in Python - in fact, I can go without writing the main(). Looks like a minor point but it saves a good portion of your time for trivial programs. Also, I don't need to compile it.
I have list and dictionary literals; I don't have to care what is the "type" of the list and dictionary when I create it - type of elements can be examined by duck typing or isinstance() if I need to - but usually it isn't needed; list comprehension is a really good time saver, makes the code easier to read as well.
I have an interactive command line for doing experiments. I can even read manuals in the command line via the help() function.
I have exec() in Python. It isn't as useful or as dynamic as eval() in Lisp, but that's something Java definitely cannot do on a language level. Sure, you can write a library that calls the Java compiler real time to emulate that... but I'm talking about the language itself.
Doesn't look very "same class" to me. At least when I'm considering which language to use for solving which problem.
Well, the Chinese engineer population you've seen are most likely among the top 1% of all students (otherwise they wouldn't have a chance to work with a foreigner in their whole life). So using that to compare with the average American engineer isn't really fair.
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They don't have to convince themselves, things are fine and dandy for THEM. It's just not so nice for the other 99% of the population.
If you try to interview those freshly fired sweatshop workers in Guangdong, they'll have a different opinion.
The educated and traveled/worldly Chinese population is also those in the the top 1% income bracket in China - have you seen one of those Dongguan sweatshop workers in the United States? Even those guys and girls are doing much better than their rural counterparts. If you're among the top 1% earners of your country, have a nice house (or more than one house), a nice car, a nice wife, eats gourmet food every day, people hail and bow down to you every day, can freely cut into queues due to your "good relations" with government officials, etc... Then of course you'll feel fine and dandy.
But then why don't they switch to the iPhone?
Surely touching the torpedo and then touching the enemy's battleship is even easier than clicking? Even a kid can do it.
That's not "covering their asses" - they're doing it exactly to stir up more controversy. See? More controversy, more views, more money.
Also, seeing as most people are not tech savvy, appealing to the stupid IS a good PR strategy in this case.
You can actually buy Microsoft Office 2004 (or 2008- but 2008 doesn't work well with Spaces) and use it on a Mac. If Windows is absolutely required, VMWare Fusion isn't that expensive either.
Why is the parent modded funny?
That won't work. Politicians mostly think the Internet is just a bunch of tubes.
vim is available in Cocoa (Mac OS X's native UI toolkit) as MacVim. And with a little tuning, vim in Mac OS X's Terminal isn't half bad as well.
And in A.D. 2101, war was beginning.
You can make a flip flop with 14 transistors, and flip flops can still be considered basic.
That person should be fired, the technical problem is obviously between the desk and the chair.
That's because you aren't in the target market.
No, the year of Linux on the desktop will be on "Top Tech Breakthoughs of Year Aleph-1".
Congratulations man! You've just won an Internet! All the tubes are belong to you!
But how can you guarantee the safety of workers when they're setting up the drill? That's no small drill and would need some time to set up properly, and while the workers are setting up the drill the volcano may explode.
We should average out the practices of the world's biggest financial institutions and simulate that in our schools as well. Many parents want their children to become financiers, you know?
Unsecured WAP is so last year - if I want an alternative Internet access route (not that my company limits or monitors anything), I can just tether my computer with my iPhone 3G.
To further prepare students for the real world, every school in the United States should have a simulation of the 2008 credit meltdown - teachers will be giving out financial advices similar to this one so students will pay them, even borrowing money to pay them, in exchange for fantastic future returns (whether in more money, in grades or in a "future career"). The teachers will then use all the money on luxury resorts. In the event the students asks for money back (or better grades, "rewarding career", etc.), the teacher will ask the parents to beat the children up at home until they stop asking.
But that's still not real enough. The world nowadays is full of terrorists from Middle East and pirates from Sweden and Somalia. Schools should simulate that as well - you know, just to get our children fully prepared for the future. Oh, WWIII may happen in the future as well, we should give every school children in the United States an assault rifle, pistol, ammo, grenades, painkillers, antibiotics, rations, etc. - everything in the back pack of a real US soldier! When your son or daughter's school seem like a battlefield in the future, don't panic! We're just preparing them for the real world! Think of the children!
Don't worry, I'm sure Congress will audit the Federal Reserve and we'll get to the bottom of this mess!
You're trusting your politicians would someday, somehow, become competent?
Oh man. I don't know how to say this... But, you know, I'm actually a prince in Nigeria, and I have need to transfer a large sum of funds overseas. Can you help?
USB 4.0: Sub-light Speed
USB 5.0: Light Speed
USB 6.0: Ridiculous Speed
USB 7.0: Ludicrous Speed
USB 8.0: Ludicrous Speed! Go!
USB 9.0: Aaaah! What have we done!
USB X: My brains! Are going into my feet!
According to Far, Mac OS X runs "a little faster than Vista" with an SSD drive, but Linux is "always faster" than Vista or Mac OS X -- to the tune of 1% to 2% -- because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in the background."
Ok, so Linux and Windows 2000 never run anything in the background. My head exploded so I stopped reading.
Doesn't look very "same class" to me. At least when I'm considering which language to use for solving which problem.
Well, the Chinese engineer population you've seen are most likely among the top 1% of all students (otherwise they wouldn't have a chance to work with a foreigner in their whole life). So using that to compare with the average American engineer isn't really fair.
Where did you get those numbers from?
No... that's an ape's brain in a human body, the inverse of what the parent is saying.