You're assuming that the exchange rate between dollar and yuan is settled like the exchange rates between other countries. In short, it's not. It's simply a figure that is set by the Chinese government, sort of like the interest rate is set by the UK bank (I don't know about the American interest rates)
...actually know anything about the economics of China currently? For example that VW has ~80% of its revenue stream in China. Or that China is really only Communist in name -- there are party internal sub-parties that participate in internal elections. Admittedly not entirely free, and still a little totalitarian, but nothing worse than 20's Europe. As far as one comment on GDP growth goes, just remember that the current dollar-yuan conversion rate is set delibrately low by the Chinese government to encourage foreign investments; the US would like is to be around 4 or 5 yuan per dollar (currently at about 9), which is still higher than what it would stablise on a floating market. China's actually GDP is about 4 times higher than it's current value in dollars. As far as Windows in China goes, I don't know of any business that actually uses anything but Windows. And legitimately. Homes use it too, perhaps not too legitimately. Servers are obviously not. The next person who posts on this topic with nothing but rumours and data that is more than 18 months out should just be modded to hell and back.
This is interesting. It seems that many people all over the world have this view. But to say that it is wrong would be an understatement. How many people who make these kinds of statements have actually experienced both sides of the fence?
Now, I don't live in the USA, but here in the UK the situation is very much the same; or at least the feeling that is being expressed by many posters resonate with my own experiences. I'm a first generation immigrant into the UK, from China. Admittedly my parents are academics, and so there is an emphasis on education. But, when I first arrived, I went to primary school for a while. And then to a very normal public secondary school for 5 years (the education system here differs in the details). For the last two, I've been at (arguably) the best private school that money can buy in Britain -- Winchester College, on a scholarship. So I have seen both sides of the fence, and the grasses that grow there.
One of the previous comments already left said that he felt that children suddenly loose interest around 4th grade. That may be a little premature by my accounting, but there is definitely that phenomenon. I personally have a very inquisitive nature, but through those 5 years, I did feel that I was battling against the stream to learn or discover whatever it is that I trying for, and I feel that many friends who started out at 11 with the same nature simply gave up as they settled in with the flow and simply accepted that what they were being taught was adequet. I would actually never have thought that had it not been for the following 2 years in the private school. The comparison is hard to metaphorise (is that a word?); but suffice it to say, it is large. Never, when I wanted knowledge, did I feel that I had to work against the system; and it seems that I wasn't the only one either -- all of the students, most of whom I would rate as on par with my friends from the previous school, had simply more drive to learn.
As a particularly acute example, which perhaps point to the real difference, follows. In my two years at the public school, otherwise known as the GCSE period, the approaches of two of my teachers radically diverged. My maths teacher, who was young, fresh out of teacher training, and still non-cynical, found that I could really take the GCSE maths paper two years early, so he let me. He did all the paperwork himself, and helped me to revise. In contrast, my science teacher, who was quite senior (in the sense of experience, not age), did no such thing, even when I requested it (for information, I'm much better at sciences than I am at maths). The reason cited was that I would have nothing to do for the next two years. The maths teacher simply let me get on with the next part of the British education system, at my own pace, and asking him for guidance when neccessary (not really). A similar proposal to the science teacher met with flat rejection, on the grounds that everyone was far too busy.
Now this isn't a case of money; the teachers at the private institution simply worked harder -- we could arrange meeting with them at any time we wanted to discuss anything we wanted. Literally. Even midnight.
As far as the suggestion that people in private schools form the connections that keep that group of people in power goes, that is just complete bullshit. No other way of putting it. Most people that leave the private schools leave with connections that will give them at worst cushy jobs, but it will not automatically give them the power that is suggested. Instead, the top group out of the public school bunch will get the power, because they have been through shit and still manage to get a decent education -- it's called self-education. It is possible. It just so happens that it's harder to keep up the self-education at a public school -- you have to do all of the work yourself, and keep the momentum going.
As has been hinted at implicitly in some posts, the real difference between state and private lies in the bottom l
It's the.NET framework, but cross platform. It currently consists mainly of a C# compiler and the.NET framework libraries. Several GNOME related libaries (think GTK+) have had bindings made for it.
The problem is to finish at all at the moment. It may seem wierd, but the billions that NASA poured into developing those rovers cannot come close to matching the neccessary ability to, say, drive around a termite mound.
Pretty well, except for the speed thing, and the distance covered. From what they say, an average speed of 25 miles per hour will be needed to even complete the course in time. The rovers can presumably plod along and if it gets stuck it stops and asks for human intervention. The rules of the competition designate that no communication is allowed. From a piece that I read somewhere like New Scientist, it seems that with 4 Itaniums and 4 Xeons they're still not computing obstacle avoidance fast enough. For the qualification the team ran the vehicle at a walking paced 5 miles an hour. There's gonna be a lot more work needed until they can manage to finish in time.
I love this kind of posting, where someone who can be assured of a life in a wealthy country condemns another country's policies, without thinking about what their country had to get through to be where they are now. Case studies:
And I'm not even a history student... So until those people come up with some good ideas of they're own that can best the current one, I suggest those useless waste-of-a-space so-called human rights activitists go and stick their head up a donkey's backend for a few decades.
I'm all for making China a "better" society, but not until I know that my grandparents can live on their pension.
That might just be because of the smog there - you can bearly see the ground from 20 storeys up. Perfect place to develop doomsday devices away from the peering eyes of the US government... *insert evil cackle*
Seriously though, I could almost taste the sulphuric acid in the air last time I went back...
I've just written a small test program in python involving socket handling. It crashes with a mean time to live of about 30 seconds. Java (on every possible platform with the exception of MacOS X) is slow as constipated shit. I would very much like to see someone write a desktop/event handling application in ML, and by event I mean human event.
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You're assuming that the exchange rate between dollar and yuan is settled like the exchange rates between other countries. In short, it's not. It's simply a figure that is set by the Chinese government, sort of like the interest rate is set by the UK bank (I don't know about the American interest rates)
...actually know anything about the economics of China currently? For example that VW has ~80% of its revenue stream in China. Or that China is really only Communist in name -- there are party internal sub-parties that participate in internal elections. Admittedly not entirely free, and still a little totalitarian, but nothing worse than 20's Europe. As far as one comment on GDP growth goes, just remember that the current dollar-yuan conversion rate is set delibrately low by the Chinese government to encourage foreign investments; the US would like is to be around 4 or 5 yuan per dollar (currently at about 9), which is still higher than what it would stablise on a floating market. China's actually GDP is about 4 times higher than it's current value in dollars. As far as Windows in China goes, I don't know of any business that actually uses anything but Windows. And legitimately. Homes use it too, perhaps not too legitimately. Servers are obviously not. The next person who posts on this topic with nothing but rumours and data that is more than 18 months out should just be modded to hell and back.
This is interesting. It seems that many people all over the world have this view. But to say that it is wrong would be an understatement. How many people who make these kinds of statements have actually experienced both sides of the fence?
Now, I don't live in the USA, but here in the UK the situation is very much the same; or at least the feeling that is being expressed by many posters resonate with my own experiences. I'm a first generation immigrant into the UK, from China. Admittedly my parents are academics, and so there is an emphasis on education. But, when I first arrived, I went to primary school for a while. And then to a very normal public secondary school for 5 years (the education system here differs in the details). For the last two, I've been at (arguably) the best private school that money can buy in Britain -- Winchester College, on a scholarship. So I have seen both sides of the fence, and the grasses that grow there.
One of the previous comments already left said that he felt that children suddenly loose interest around 4th grade. That may be a little premature by my accounting, but there is definitely that phenomenon. I personally have a very inquisitive nature, but through those 5 years, I did feel that I was battling against the stream to learn or discover whatever it is that I trying for, and I feel that many friends who started out at 11 with the same nature simply gave up as they settled in with the flow and simply accepted that what they were being taught was adequet. I would actually never have thought that had it not been for the following 2 years in the private school. The comparison is hard to metaphorise (is that a word?); but suffice it to say, it is large. Never, when I wanted knowledge, did I feel that I had to work against the system; and it seems that I wasn't the only one either -- all of the students, most of whom I would rate as on par with my friends from the previous school, had simply more drive to learn.
As a particularly acute example, which perhaps point to the real difference, follows. In my two years at the public school, otherwise known as the GCSE period, the approaches of two of my teachers radically diverged. My maths teacher, who was young, fresh out of teacher training, and still non-cynical, found that I could really take the GCSE maths paper two years early, so he let me. He did all the paperwork himself, and helped me to revise. In contrast, my science teacher, who was quite senior (in the sense of experience, not age), did no such thing, even when I requested it (for information, I'm much better at sciences than I am at maths). The reason cited was that I would have nothing to do for the next two years. The maths teacher simply let me get on with the next part of the British education system, at my own pace, and asking him for guidance when neccessary (not really). A similar proposal to the science teacher met with flat rejection, on the grounds that everyone was far too busy.
Now this isn't a case of money; the teachers at the private institution simply worked harder -- we could arrange meeting with them at any time we wanted to discuss anything we wanted. Literally. Even midnight.
As far as the suggestion that people in private schools form the connections that keep that group of people in power goes, that is just complete bullshit. No other way of putting it. Most people that leave the private schools leave with connections that will give them at worst cushy jobs, but it will not automatically give them the power that is suggested. Instead, the top group out of the public school bunch will get the power, because they have been through shit and still manage to get a decent education -- it's called self-education. It is possible. It just so happens that it's harder to keep up the self-education at a public school -- you have to do all of the work yourself, and keep the momentum going.
As has been hinted at implicitly in some posts, the real difference between state and private lies in the bottom l
Gentoo has as well. I won't post a link to packages.gentoo.org though, the poor sods aren't really up to a /.'ing.
It's the .NET framework, but cross platform. It currently consists mainly of a C# compiler and the .NET framework libraries. Several GNOME related libaries (think GTK+) have had bindings made for it.
The problem is to finish at all at the moment. It may seem wierd, but the billions that NASA poured into developing those rovers cannot come close to matching the neccessary ability to, say, drive around a termite mound.
Pretty well, except for the speed thing, and the distance covered. From what they say, an average speed of 25 miles per hour will be needed to even complete the course in time. The rovers can presumably plod along and if it gets stuck it stops and asks for human intervention. The rules of the competition designate that no communication is allowed. From a piece that I read somewhere like New Scientist, it seems that with 4 Itaniums and 4 Xeons they're still not computing obstacle avoidance fast enough. For the qualification the team ran the vehicle at a walking paced 5 miles an hour. There's gonna be a lot more work needed until they can manage to finish in time.
I hope you do like my example of Africa - after you get my point.
I love this kind of posting, where someone who can be assured of a life in a wealthy country condemns another country's policies, without thinking about what their country had to get through to be where they are now. Case studies:
* Britain-India
* Britain-Africa
* America-Indigineous Indians
* America-Africa
* France-Africa
And I'm not even a history student... So until those people come up with some good ideas of they're own that can best the current one, I suggest those useless waste-of-a-space so-called human rights activitists go and stick their head up a donkey's backend for a few decades.
I'm all for making China a "better" society, but not until I know that my grandparents can live on their pension.
That might just be because of the smog there - you can bearly see the ground from 20 storeys up. Perfect place to develop doomsday devices away from the peering eyes of the US government... *insert evil cackle*
Seriously though, I could almost taste the sulphuric acid in the air last time I went back...
I've just written a small test program in python involving socket handling. It crashes with a mean time to live of about 30 seconds. Java (on every possible platform with the exception of MacOS X) is slow as constipated shit. I would very much like to see someone write a desktop/event handling application in ML, and by event I mean human event.