So we meet again. How's your anti-Taiwan propaganda campaign coming along?
Since everybody's tripping over themselves in a rush to be in China, as it's #1 in the "What's Hot" list, I don't see how the Taiwanese businessmen are any different. Like everybody else, the Taiwanese have their own "Benedict Arnold" CEOs.
Last time I checked, the Chicoms are not the only ones who have a problem with "Taiwan authorities" attempting to re-draw political boundaries. The US administration also get VERY nervous. Phones start ringing, and both Chicoms and US start issuing warnings to the Taiwanese. Anything the Taiwanese does has to go through 2 filters, the Chinese one and the American one. The Chinese are not the problem really. As the preeminent power in the Pacific in the forseeable future, the Americans are the ones that make or break a deal.
Of course, it would help if the Taiwanese themselves grow a collective set of balls. But that may be too much to ask.
The cat's out of the bag on this one. You'll have to wait for the novelty to wear off like all the other overused overhyped terminology like "information superhighway", cyber-this and cyber-that, etc.
Of course this idea is silly. So is putting a light inside your PC, or most case modding in general.
A built-in light and a see-through window in your PC case do have practical uses, as I've discovered. I'm not a case modder, just happened to have bought these things for other reasons (price, etc). It's pretty easy to check on fan operations with a quick glance without taking the cover off and going in with a flashlight.
Foreigners own about 43% of our treasury bonds in 2004. But that only demonstrates their faith in the ability of the American taxpayer to pay enough taxes for debt service. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
Same thing happened to my 40GB notebook drive. It decides to die one day and crashed the OS. But no, it was not completely dead, I was able to boot it one last time, until in subsequent reboots it stop sooner and sooner until it won't spin up at all. I tried swapping an identical controller card but didn't help. In desperation to retrieve personal financial data (last backup was a month ago), I resolved to open up the drive. Turns out to be a stuck spindle. It was REALLY stuck too. Had to exert some force with the torx wrench to get it loose. But after that it runs fine and I was able to backup all my data. This was done in my office, which was pretty dust-free. I made the mistake of unscrewing the actuator arm, and it made quite a racket as it thrashed back and forth across the platter. But I screwed it back, put the cover back on, and it seemed to work fine. Still, I don't trust that drive anymore. I now designate it for mailing pr0n to friends.
Actually, written language has fragmented into two: traditional and simplified. In cold-war parlance, traditional characters were used by "Free Chinese", while simplified were used by "Godless Red Communists". Those raised and educated on traditional characters find the simplified ones very "strange", and vice versa. I was in China a few times but couldn't make out 1/2 of of the words there. Some I guessed at the meaning between recognized characters, but other I had to ask my Chinese colleague for help. Most western students of Chinese prefer simplified because it's "simpler". But to us, the simplified characters has lost most of their connotative meaning.
And run the CPU at 50MHz instead of 3GHz. Yay, how fun. Oh and oops, the FPGA place-and-route software is not open source. Good luck writing your own, assuming you can pry the information from Altera or Xilinx or any of the "closed source" FPGA vendors. Yay, how fun.
And by using a MIPS or ARM-compatible core you're open to IP infringement lawsuits. Yay, how fun.
Well, personally, what I seem to mean when I say "Asians" is "people who appear to be from countries in Southeast Asia (i.e. China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, etc.) or descended from people in those countries".
Engineering women are only slightly more attractive than prison "women". The ratio seems to be in the same neighborhood, about 1:10 in EE. Someone with actual exprison perience feel free to correct me.
However, the fact is that most people in the world are racist to a certain degree. Most of that is due to innocent unfamiliarity to people different from them. It either gets diluted or reinforced with familiarity, you never know. For example, many Chinese feel that white people are racist (partly due to a lot of historical baggage). However, they don't hesitate to think that most blacks are dangerous criminals to be avoided. Funny thing is they don't realize they're being racist until you point it out to them. But even if they stop saying things out loud, they still think so inside. Laws censoring racist speech may shut people up, but their minds are their own.
Yes you have a point. But the situation is not as straightforward as you think. The HTPC is hooked up to the family's big screen TV (in the family room of course). My parents DO want video output from the PC, either in form of web streaming video or from the file server. Before that, we would have to run a trio of RCA cables to the family room PC, with all the extra work managing video to display correctly on both PC monitor and TV. Everytime something's not right (no video/audio), my brother or I would be called in to fix it. Since the PC also has to do other things such as spreadsheets and stuff, it's not the best place to do video playback to TV, and is probably the primary reason TV output breaks so often. Plus, the PVR software that came with the video card (ATI AIW) isn't the easiest to use, and would often confuse my parents. So they still resort to recording shows using the VCR. The problem with that is they never really did learn how to program the VCR, so it usually falls on either me, my wife, or my brother to do it for them.
We figured that the best way is to have a dedicated HTPC with SIMPLIFIED interface operated via a single REMOTE CONTROL. Of course, with HTPC I also installed dual-tuner cards, so you get to watch and control everything through a single interface. My dad complains that the interface is too complicated if all he wants to do is watch TV. He has a point, but the HTPC will save him from having to learn to program the VCR, so I still insist that he learn to use it. It'll save everyone else a lot of trouble down the road.
Each day I would force my dad to use the HTPC I set up for him by unplugging the antenna from VCR. And each day when I get back from work I'd find the antenna cable right back on the VCR.
I just completed a 12-drive RAID array 2 weeks ago. Got 13 Seagate SATA Barracudas (1 boot drive). I also got a new Antec TruePower2 550W PSU. Problem is, it's one of those new EPS12V 2.0 split-power-rail deals where they split 12V current between MB and everything else. Well, guess what? The PSU quit about 1/2 second after I turned it on. Turns out that each Seagate drive requires 2A of current to spin up (no staggered spinup support yet). Going back to an older combined-rail PSU (True550) solved the problem. But if I were to use the a newer-spec PSU, it'll have to be over 700W to power these babies. That of course worries me.
Don't hold your breath. Most Chinese students are here to study science and engineering, so that China can overtake the U.S. in technology and manufacturing. Not many are studying humanities, which is our one chance to train them in western ideals. Many of them are thoroughly indoctrinated with party propaganda that the great Han race will soon rule the world. And when that time comes they will exact retribution for humiliation inflicted upon them in the past 2 centuries.
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So we meet again. How's your anti-Taiwan propaganda campaign coming along?
Since everybody's tripping over themselves in a rush to be in China, as it's #1 in the "What's Hot" list, I don't see how the Taiwanese businessmen are any different. Like everybody else, the Taiwanese have their own "Benedict Arnold" CEOs.
Last time I checked, the Chicoms are not the only ones who have a problem with "Taiwan authorities" attempting to re-draw political boundaries. The US administration also get VERY nervous. Phones start ringing, and both Chicoms and US start issuing warnings to the Taiwanese. Anything the Taiwanese does has to go through 2 filters, the Chinese one and the American one. The Chinese are not the problem really. As the preeminent power in the Pacific in the forseeable future, the Americans are the ones that make or break a deal.
Of course, it would help if the Taiwanese themselves grow a collective set of balls. But that may be too much to ask.
The cat's out of the bag on this one. You'll have to wait for the novelty to wear off like all the other overused overhyped terminology like "information superhighway", cyber-this and cyber-that, etc.
Already been done by those wacky Japanese. Check out the "light up dress". Needs better execution though.
A built-in light and a see-through window in your PC case do have practical uses, as I've discovered. I'm not a case modder, just happened to have bought these things for other reasons (price, etc). It's pretty easy to check on fan operations with a quick glance without taking the cover off and going in with a flashlight.
Yeah, him/her and several thousand others who bought the same skin.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/Z1/Current/ z1.pdf
Foreigners own about 43% of our treasury bonds in 2004. But that only demonstrates their faith in the ability of the American taxpayer to pay enough taxes for debt service. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
You have a girlfriend? We don't like yer kind 'round here.
Same thing happened to my 40GB notebook drive. It decides to die one day and crashed the OS. But no, it was not completely dead, I was able to boot it one last time, until in subsequent reboots it stop sooner and sooner until it won't spin up at all. I tried swapping an identical controller card but didn't help. In desperation to retrieve personal financial data (last backup was a month ago), I resolved to open up the drive. Turns out to be a stuck spindle. It was REALLY stuck too. Had to exert some force with the torx wrench to get it loose. But after that it runs fine and I was able to backup all my data. This was done in my office, which was pretty dust-free. I made the mistake of unscrewing the actuator arm, and it made quite a racket as it thrashed back and forth across the platter. But I screwed it back, put the cover back on, and it seemed to work fine. Still, I don't trust that drive anymore. I now designate it for mailing pr0n to friends.
Actually, written language has fragmented into two: traditional and simplified. In cold-war parlance, traditional characters were used by "Free Chinese", while simplified were used by "Godless Red Communists". Those raised and educated on traditional characters find the simplified ones very "strange", and vice versa. I was in China a few times but couldn't make out 1/2 of of the words there. Some I guessed at the meaning between recognized characters, but other I had to ask my Chinese colleague for help. Most western students of Chinese prefer simplified because it's "simpler". But to us, the simplified characters has lost most of their connotative meaning.
And by using a MIPS or ARM-compatible core you're open to IP infringement lawsuits. Yay, how fun.
Dude, thanks a lot for posting the "vague obscenity charges" link. I'm sure HR people appreciate seeing nude breasts when they walk by my cubicle.
It beats being a pinko-commie nerd any day.
FYI, Japan is not in SE Asia.
Engineering women are only slightly more attractive than prison "women". The ratio seems to be in the same neighborhood, about 1:10 in EE. Someone with actual exprison perience feel free to correct me.
However, the fact is that most people in the world are racist to a certain degree. Most of that is due to innocent unfamiliarity to people different from them. It either gets diluted or reinforced with familiarity, you never know. For example, many Chinese feel that white people are racist (partly due to a lot of historical baggage). However, they don't hesitate to think that most blacks are dangerous criminals to be avoided. Funny thing is they don't realize they're being racist until you point it out to them. But even if they stop saying things out loud, they still think so inside. Laws censoring racist speech may shut people up, but their minds are their own.
We figured that the best way is to have a dedicated HTPC with SIMPLIFIED interface operated via a single REMOTE CONTROL. Of course, with HTPC I also installed dual-tuner cards, so you get to watch and control everything through a single interface. My dad complains that the interface is too complicated if all he wants to do is watch TV. He has a point, but the HTPC will save him from having to learn to program the VCR, so I still insist that he learn to use it. It'll save everyone else a lot of trouble down the road.
Each day I would force my dad to use the HTPC I set up for him by unplugging the antenna from VCR. And each day when I get back from work I'd find the antenna cable right back on the VCR.
mmmm...succulent neanderthal steak...(drool)...
I just completed a 12-drive RAID array 2 weeks ago. Got 13 Seagate SATA Barracudas (1 boot drive). I also got a new Antec TruePower2 550W PSU. Problem is, it's one of those new EPS12V 2.0 split-power-rail deals where they split 12V current between MB and everything else. Well, guess what? The PSU quit about 1/2 second after I turned it on. Turns out that each Seagate drive requires 2A of current to spin up (no staggered spinup support yet). Going back to an older combined-rail PSU (True550) solved the problem. But if I were to use the a newer-spec PSU, it'll have to be over 700W to power these babies. That of course worries me.
I sense a marketing opportunity for my ScatBlocker(TM).
Somebody's been watching too much anime.
And people wonder why Linux still hasn't penetrated the desktop market.
Scopes? Real audiophiles don't need scopes. Their golden eardrums are all they need.
Yeah, climbing the corporate ladder is sooooo 80's.
Don't hold your breath. Most Chinese students are here to study science and engineering, so that China can overtake the U.S. in technology and manufacturing. Not many are studying humanities, which is our one chance to train them in western ideals. Many of them are thoroughly indoctrinated with party propaganda that the great Han race will soon rule the world. And when that time comes they will exact retribution for humiliation inflicted upon them in the past 2 centuries.