This article solves a mystery that has puzzled my family for years. My dad suffered Parkinsonism for many years, and most of his life favored bland food. In the last couple years of his life, when the disease was at its peak, he had an intense craving for peppers that we all thought were signs of dementia. He would not only eat peppers but sometimes eat salsa and drink hot sauce directly from jars in the fridge. So perhaps his body was craving the nicotine in the peppers, who knows. RIP.
MOOCs make me lazy. 9 weeks into my first two Coursera courses, simply archiving the course e-mail, and now it's final exam week. ..oh my! To think I'd actually have to read a textbook too? So what if it's free. ..MOOCs are lame.
Ironic twist of values in the USA. The former progressives now favor tyranny and the former neocons now champion freedom. Not sure what to make of my once predictable homeland.
Meanwhile, I can find up-to-date-enough Photoshop for less than a buck from any Shanghai DVD cart. Viruses indubitably included.
I'll take the cloud solution.
My company keeps churning out modern software for customers, while running its own enterrprise on Office/Sharepoint 2007.
Yeah, it kinda sucks to run old apps but it would suck even more if we couldn't use this outdated infrastructure to develop modern SW for our revenue stream.
There are two types of noodles here in China that I enjoy simply for watching the human chef prepare:
- Daoxiaomian are the knife-cut noodles these robots make.
- Lamian are a pulled noodle that these robots can not make.
Both noodle types are typically found in the same establishment, typically a Halal eatery staffed by a Muslim family from Xinjiang or Qinghai. At least that's what I have experienced in cities outside the capital of Beijing. Since the same dude who cuts the Daoxiaomian also pulls the Lamian I don't see how this would actually save the typical noodle-joint owner any real money.
But it would still be cool to see a noodle-pulling robot. A simple noodle-cutting robot is boring.
Since those whom we label conservatives are actually liberals, albeit more classically liberal than the progressive liberals we call liberals, it shouldn't be surprising that opinions could change . That is, both are extremes of the liberal point of view which values individual freedom, and the policies surrounding that freedom are more often in dispute than the value of freedom. Or one would hope.
What do do with the 10,000 pornographic movies I hoarded behind the Great Firewall of China? I feel a bit like Noah Levenstein, in that my nephews and grandsons might be grateful but the rest of the familiy should never know about their ancestor's stash.
This happened to me also. They changed their method of suggesting names derived from contact lists, and offered checkboxes so you could deselect names before submitting. Several of the names that I deselected recieved invites, and now I have contacts that I really didn't want at all. I just hope those who didn't accept my false invitation don't report me as a spammer. That would suck even more than this glitch.
Though I now live very close to Shenzhen, I spent three years of my life working in Cupertino as an Apple engineer. The press can bitch and moan all it wants about Chinese working conditions, and frankly they are pretty well off compared to burning out in Cupertino. Sure, SCV employees earn more money, but pay the price in lack of sleep, destroyed relationships, and premature graying.
As an American citizen, I feel like unwarranted search and seizure of my data is un-Constitutional. Doing this to foreign visitors is simply inhospitable, considering our slowing economy needs global tourism and commerce. Last I checked, the Constitution applies to anyone on US soil, and recently, in the case of Gitmo, ruled that our rights extend to foreign soil as well.
As an individual, this would piss me off only because I don't like strangers running apps on my computer in the first place. I won't even let the local DSL installer run their garbage CD on my computer.
BTW, are the Feds entitled to our login passwords without a subpoena? What if I forget under the duress of border-crossing?
I'd like to see them try to copy files from my wife and I's twin Linux ePCs, with Chinese operating systems. Then deny me re-entry because of their computer illiteracy.
Better yet, I think I'll remain in exile until my Congress grows a brain.
The Silver State is my home state. Having the perspective of living in coal-fired countries with perpetual black skies, I'm a big fan of nuclear power, which is comparatively clean, cheap, and efficient. Practically, it makes sense to bury nuclear waste under mountains in Nevada.
FYI most of the Great Basin is desert wilderness. Already, nuclear testing has been going on for decades with waste storage not becoming an issue until Yucca mountain was proposed.
We stand to ruin more of our environment, meaning the environment that PEOPLE are the part of, by burning coal and petroleum in populated areas. Leaving nuclear waste inside a mountain bunker in my home state is okay by me.
By the same token, we should be open to harvesting oil in the ANWR, which is a tundra wasteland that none of us are likely to go to in our lifetimes. We'd only need a small plot of acreage for this task, anyway. If you're worried about the caribou, we have plenty of rooms in Nevada's abandoned casinos for their shelter.
The Chinese got us beat in the legal downloading schemes. You can find a kiosk in many supermarkets, plug your USB flash drive in, insert a 1RMB coin, and download current pop songs for 5 minutes. If you are fast with directory navigation, you can grab at least 10 MP3 songs in this time. Note that the artists supply their songs to the kiosk service provider, ie. these are not bootlegged songs even though many other things are bootlegged here.
Not everyone in China can afford a computer, however it's easy to find combination optical disc players with a USB port in front. With a market of billions in Red China, this scheme has our DSL-dependent MP3 hoarding schemes beat.
Beating the Chi-Coms back to the moon, after we already been there and done thatover 40 years ago, is a ridiculous goal for space exploration. We know all we need to know about that big rock in the sky, and if the Reds want second helpings let'em have it, I say.
Shanghai maglev is great fun, but only for the short haul on an essentially straight line. At peak speed it is really hard to move out of your seat, and a slight twisting of the train can be felt. While the Chi-Coms are considering building longer routes for maglevs, I don't think that's such a good idea, because of this contortioning that happens. Their first application of maglev technology for airport-city transfer is ideal, however, and it's exciting to hear about Munich's project.
Overanalyzing the Iraq occupation after the fact is like worrying about the girlfriend who just dumped you. It's over, and we won't be getting any for quite some time. But just for grins, here's my two measly cents:
If the US goal is to establish a democratic government for Iraq, then it was wise to disband their military and help them re-organize, as we are doing now. Corporations do this all the time. But we should be questioning whether we need to be setting up puppet democracies in places where most of the citizens don't seem to appreciate them. Usually, we wind up fighting maniacs with US-made weapons years later.
We did secure many stockpiles of high explosives and other weapons, and destroyed many of them. This might not have made economic sense, as the same weapons could be re-used against the enemy. The Russians seemed to realize that, and no-doubt these weapons are recirculated on the black market.
As to whether the US government had or has a sufficent grasp of reality in trying to put a stable government in place, I believe the real powers pulled the wool over our eyes, and made us think this was feasible.
Our tactics are working in some ways, for example the Marines did an efficient routing of insurgents in Fallujah. Short-term goals and military objectives are generally met, but the long-term goal is elusive. I realize us civvies will never be told the truth, but I think that the goal we have "collectively signed off" on isn't the real goal, and that's part of why so many of us are frustrated with this nonsense.
In some ways, the Iraq war is a smokescreen for the jihad going on in our own country, and in most of the world right now. The military can't save us from religious loonies who are out to behead us and stake notes to our chests. Not even our 2nd amendment can help us with that one.
As to the theme of this thread, the laser-gizmo in the 747, half-a-billion is a drop-in-the-bucket compared to the rest of the defense budget. But to give it money based on a ground test is presumptive. How do we know this thing can be flown around and operated by human beings, and ensure them a safe landing after it's deployment? Chemical reactions and excessive heat in the back of a jet should be cause for scepticism. Perhaps this is just another corporate handout: I thought star-wars was still in place for annihilating missiles in flight. Might be more economical to just drop a few well-placed nukes on the sources of potential missiles.
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22k USD ensures only spoiled rich Goth kids'll use them. That may not be a good thing. But online videos are about to get even more creepy.
if the curricula is kept up-to-date.
With location-tracking, I feel like a sitting duck. Now I don't even want a smartphone.
Lot's of folks got dogs in this race. Farmer was an idiot to push this one.
Class envy is like so, classless.
Phones use less RF energy the closer they are to a grid antenna.
This article solves a mystery that has puzzled my family for years. My dad suffered Parkinsonism for many years, and most of his life favored bland food. In the last couple years of his life, when the disease was at its peak, he had an intense craving for peppers that we all thought were signs of dementia. He would not only eat peppers but sometimes eat salsa and drink hot sauce directly from jars in the fridge. So perhaps his body was craving the nicotine in the peppers, who knows. RIP.
MOOCs make me lazy. 9 weeks into my first two Coursera courses, simply archiving the course e-mail, and now it's final exam week. . .oh my! To think I'd actually have to read a textbook too? So what if it's free. . .MOOCs are lame.
Ironic twist of values in the USA. The former progressives now favor tyranny and the former neocons now champion freedom. Not sure what to make of my once predictable homeland.
Meanwhile, I can find up-to-date-enough Photoshop for less than a buck from any Shanghai DVD cart. Viruses indubitably included. I'll take the cloud solution.
My company keeps churning out modern software for customers, while running its own enterrprise on Office/Sharepoint 2007. Yeah, it kinda sucks to run old apps but it would suck even more if we couldn't use this outdated infrastructure to develop modern SW for our revenue stream.
Facebook also introduced something called “parameterization” ? My hiny. Those tree diagrams come straight out of transformational linguistics.
There are two types of noodles here in China that I enjoy simply for watching the human chef prepare: - Daoxiaomian are the knife-cut noodles these robots make. - Lamian are a pulled noodle that these robots can not make. Both noodle types are typically found in the same establishment, typically a Halal eatery staffed by a Muslim family from Xinjiang or Qinghai. At least that's what I have experienced in cities outside the capital of Beijing. Since the same dude who cuts the Daoxiaomian also pulls the Lamian I don't see how this would actually save the typical noodle-joint owner any real money. But it would still be cool to see a noodle-pulling robot. A simple noodle-cutting robot is boring.
Since those whom we label conservatives are actually liberals, albeit more classically liberal than the progressive liberals we call liberals, it shouldn't be surprising that opinions could change . That is, both are extremes of the liberal point of view which values individual freedom, and the policies surrounding that freedom are more often in dispute than the value of freedom. Or one would hope.
What do do with the 10,000 pornographic movies I hoarded behind the Great Firewall of China? I feel a bit like Noah Levenstein, in that my nephews and grandsons might be grateful but the rest of the familiy should never know about their ancestor's stash.
This happened to me also. They changed their method of suggesting names derived from contact lists, and offered checkboxes so you could deselect names before submitting. Several of the names that I deselected recieved invites, and now I have contacts that I really didn't want at all. I just hope those who didn't accept my false invitation don't report me as a spammer. That would suck even more than this glitch.
Motion sickness cinema?
Though I now live very close to Shenzhen, I spent three years of my life working in Cupertino as an Apple engineer. The press can bitch and moan all it wants about Chinese working conditions, and frankly they are pretty well off compared to burning out in Cupertino. Sure, SCV employees earn more money, but pay the price in lack of sleep, destroyed relationships, and premature graying.
As an American citizen, I feel like unwarranted search and seizure of my data is un-Constitutional. Doing this to foreign visitors is simply inhospitable, considering our slowing economy needs global tourism and commerce. Last I checked, the Constitution applies to anyone on US soil, and recently, in the case of Gitmo, ruled that our rights extend to foreign soil as well. As an individual, this would piss me off only because I don't like strangers running apps on my computer in the first place. I won't even let the local DSL installer run their garbage CD on my computer. BTW, are the Feds entitled to our login passwords without a subpoena? What if I forget under the duress of border-crossing? I'd like to see them try to copy files from my wife and I's twin Linux ePCs, with Chinese operating systems. Then deny me re-entry because of their computer illiteracy. Better yet, I think I'll remain in exile until my Congress grows a brain.
The Silver State is my home state. Having the perspective of living in coal-fired countries with perpetual black skies, I'm a big fan of nuclear power, which is comparatively clean, cheap, and efficient. Practically, it makes sense to bury nuclear waste under mountains in Nevada. FYI most of the Great Basin is desert wilderness. Already, nuclear testing has been going on for decades with waste storage not becoming an issue until Yucca mountain was proposed. We stand to ruin more of our environment, meaning the environment that PEOPLE are the part of, by burning coal and petroleum in populated areas. Leaving nuclear waste inside a mountain bunker in my home state is okay by me. By the same token, we should be open to harvesting oil in the ANWR, which is a tundra wasteland that none of us are likely to go to in our lifetimes. We'd only need a small plot of acreage for this task, anyway. If you're worried about the caribou, we have plenty of rooms in Nevada's abandoned casinos for their shelter.
The Chinese got us beat in the legal downloading schemes. You can find a kiosk in many supermarkets, plug your USB flash drive in, insert a 1RMB coin, and download current pop songs for 5 minutes. If you are fast with directory navigation, you can grab at least 10 MP3 songs in this time. Note that the artists supply their songs to the kiosk service provider, ie. these are not bootlegged songs even though many other things are bootlegged here. Not everyone in China can afford a computer, however it's easy to find combination optical disc players with a USB port in front. With a market of billions in Red China, this scheme has our DSL-dependent MP3 hoarding schemes beat.
Beating the Chi-Coms back to the moon, after we already been there and done thatover 40 years ago, is a ridiculous goal for space exploration. We know all we need to know about that big rock in the sky, and if the Reds want second helpings let'em have it, I say.
Shanghai maglev is great fun, but only for the short haul on an essentially straight line. At peak speed it is really hard to move out of your seat, and a slight twisting of the train can be felt. While the Chi-Coms are considering building longer routes for maglevs, I don't think that's such a good idea, because of this contortioning that happens. Their first application of maglev technology for airport-city transfer is ideal, however, and it's exciting to hear about Munich's project.
Nonsense! Everyone knows the real Atlantis is right here in Reno.
Overanalyzing the Iraq occupation after the fact is like worrying about the girlfriend who just dumped you. It's over, and we won't be getting any for quite some time. But just for grins, here's my two measly cents: If the US goal is to establish a democratic government for Iraq, then it was wise to disband their military and help them re-organize, as we are doing now. Corporations do this all the time. But we should be questioning whether we need to be setting up puppet democracies in places where most of the citizens don't seem to appreciate them. Usually, we wind up fighting maniacs with US-made weapons years later. We did secure many stockpiles of high explosives and other weapons, and destroyed many of them. This might not have made economic sense, as the same weapons could be re-used against the enemy. The Russians seemed to realize that, and no-doubt these weapons are recirculated on the black market. As to whether the US government had or has a sufficent grasp of reality in trying to put a stable government in place, I believe the real powers pulled the wool over our eyes, and made us think this was feasible. Our tactics are working in some ways, for example the Marines did an efficient routing of insurgents in Fallujah. Short-term goals and military objectives are generally met, but the long-term goal is elusive. I realize us civvies will never be told the truth, but I think that the goal we have "collectively signed off" on isn't the real goal, and that's part of why so many of us are frustrated with this nonsense. In some ways, the Iraq war is a smokescreen for the jihad going on in our own country, and in most of the world right now. The military can't save us from religious loonies who are out to behead us and stake notes to our chests. Not even our 2nd amendment can help us with that one. As to the theme of this thread, the laser-gizmo in the 747, half-a-billion is a drop-in-the-bucket compared to the rest of the defense budget. But to give it money based on a ground test is presumptive. How do we know this thing can be flown around and operated by human beings, and ensure them a safe landing after it's deployment? Chemical reactions and excessive heat in the back of a jet should be cause for scepticism. Perhaps this is just another corporate handout: I thought star-wars was still in place for annihilating missiles in flight. Might be more economical to just drop a few well-placed nukes on the sources of potential missiles.