You must be gravely misinformed about Taiwan. You make some blanket statement but didn't show the evidence to back yourself up, so I'd like to request you do that. In particular:
I know about Taiwanese government hiring Cassidy and Associates, but you said the "that type of legislation [they persuade] is detrimental to American interests." What exactly in Taiwan Security Enhancement Act is detrimental to American interest?
What are the sources indicating Eugene Hsu and David Yang were born in Taiwan?
Peter H. Lee might be pressured to plea guilty by the FBI. It is not clear from the source you cited that they have sufficient evidence against him. I find him receiving "compensation for the information he provided to the Chinese in the form of travel and hotel accommodations" hard to swallow. When you invite someone important don't you arrange their travel plans? I agree that, being in a sensitive position, he should be more careful accepting invitations. Can you show his intention is to leak information to China?
Wen Ho Lee plead guilty on mishandling of information (and his guilt is shared by many other Los Alamos scientists but he somehow became a scapegoat); the court dropped all other charges against him. You have to update your information.
Weapons of Mass Destruction is a joke. On what basis are they listing a Taiwanese company, Ecoma Enterprise Company, for giving technology and services to the Iranians?
"The Taiwanese have invested more than $100 billion into more than 50,000 businesses in mainland China." Nowadays everyone invests in China, even U.S. companies. If you have kids, their light up shoes are made in China as well.
Your take on Senkaku Islands is just wrong. Taiwan says it's theirs, not Japan's, not China's. In addition, the article you referenced (from BBC) does not mention "one China" at all. Where did you get that?
Your interpretation of the Taiwan referendum (which took place in March 20 this year) is also wrong. It merely reflects that most people prefer the status quo and are reluctant for radical changes, with fear of disruption of their lives, due to that fact that China has stationed long and short range missiles along the coast so any signs of Taiwan independence will cause these to fire. Yes, we Taiwanese people live with no national security at all, unlike you Americans who can joke about Cubans.
The Constitution of Taiwan comes from the days of Republic of China before World War II, and political reforms to revise that Constitution is only starting to take place recently. This is due to the fact that KMT (Kuo Ming Tang), which has its roots from Republic of China before World War II, had been in power until 5 years ago. I think you have to get some historic facts straight before you cite it to support your arguments.
Taiwanese schools are still teaching students pre-WW2 geography of China, so naturally Tibet and Mongolia are still part of it. To tell you the truth, nobody freaking cares!
That Nazi restaurant and the Hitler billboard are examples of poor taste and illustrate unfortunately how some people in Taiwan are ill-informed about the world outside. However, I fail to see the connection you're trying to make, alluding that Taiwanese are generally Hitler supporters. Most Taiwanese are just amused by his ludicrous moustache, and have no idea what he did.
The other day someone accused me of reading between the lines of what Aaron said about Frank on OSWD, and that I have bad English. I guess someone has even worse reading comprehension skills than I do.
You need to upgrade your tin foil hat to gold, and make sure your gold foil is not made in Taiwan nor China.
Obviously you favor Aaron's position, so you read Aaron's message in his favor and dismiss my reading comprehension skills. You're also putting word in his mouth, and you say I am hypocritical in the extreme? Give me a break!
Keep your petty personal insults to yourself please. Do you think your condescending attitude will win my sympathy for Aaron? And thanks for admitting that you don't know any better than I.
To be honest, I don't support either Frank or Aaron. I only ran into OSWD for a few times in the past, and I couldn't care less about them bickering at each other. They either work out their problems or not. Life goes on.
You buy my argument or not, life goes on. Feel free to keep bitching.
I don't have insider information, and I made the claim entirely on the basis of the two public posts by Aaron without even looking at what Frank says about the issue.
Aaron wrote:
Also, I don't have access to OSWD or access to my email account.... The problem is that Frank won't do the work to bring it back up. There are no technical problems anymore, he's just sitting on it.
Any person reading this gets the impression that Aaron is not allowed to build OSWD (not having access), nor even fork it (Frank is "sitting on it"), and that he can't do anything unless Frank does something ("Frank won't do the work to bring it back up"). Let's call this "The Great Confusion."
Now look at what Aaron wrote again:
I have a copy of the site, I think I might just put it up on another domain name. Give me a few days to arrange hosting.
Aaron contradicts his own words with "The Great Confusion." Now he's admitting that he could have forked OSWD if he wanted to. My intetion for the original "parent misinformation" post was to correct the misconception if you only read Aaron's first post.
I'm not saying Aaron doesn't deserve credit for his work, but he's expecting Frank to grant him the ownership. I don't care what you think whether Aaron deserves ownership through his hard work, but what he's doing, spreading misleading accusations to fuel his propaganda to force Frank into giving up OSWD, is downright outrageous.
Frank (OSWD owner) may have been a lazy bum, but Aaron (one who did a lot of work on OSWD) does have a copy of the content of OSWD database and nothing prevents him from forking a new site. I think Aaron's previous post is deliberately misleading, as he blames Frank to be the source of problem.
It seems more likely that Aaron is holding the site in ransom until Frank agrees to transfer OSWD ownership to him.
Apparently, according to this announcement on oswd.org,
I was looking to relaunch tomorrow, however, upon inspection of the data on the old server, I believe Aaron "MonkeyMan" Nikula has deleted the contents of the database. After reading some of what Aaron has posted on the SitePoint Forums, I am under the impression he has made a copy of the database before deletion.
Aaron (the one who did a large amount of work) is the one holding the site ransom until Frank (the original creator of OSWD) agrees to transfer ownership of the site to him. Aaron does have the database that constitute the designs on OSWD, and nothing prevents him from forking the site. All he wants now is the ownership.
Does an online degree hurt your chances to get into a great graduate school?"
Grad school admission staffs are also wondering whether people who graduated with an online degree is worth what is printed on the paper. Many professors are already skeptical about how an applicant's transcript reflects his/her true academic performance, with a traditional degree. An online degree has very little precedence, so they would only be even more skeptical. You not only have to have good grades, you also need to stand out on other things, like meeting a professor in a conference and show an active interest in his/her work.
Tiawan can afford the drug. The amount of money in the corruption-fueled grey economy of corrupt officials is more than enough to buy the drugs.... It's not about lack of money in Tiawan, but about priorities of spending.
Taiwan does have the money, but the BBC article failed to point out that Roche has been insufficient in supplying Tamiflu to meet worldwide demand. Taiwanese government plans to address the supply issue by manufacturing the drug in solutions. This has at least two benefits:
Solutions are much quicker to make than pills.
Ingredients can be stored longer, which reduces replenishing of the stock due to drug expiry.
Beyond meeting the supply, Taiwanese government does plan to compensate Roche for what Tamiflu is worth. As I understand it, a negotiation is still going on, but it is true that Taiwanese government has went ahead to produce the drug. BBC does not make it clear either.
rather than talk about how eBay itself should provide ad-supported auction service, why is it suggesting other telecomm companies to provide ad-supported services?
and as a company whose customer service over the phone is practically non-existent, phone charge should be least of their concerns.
I don't think it's an uncommon practice. NASA has released a number of artist rendition of various space missions, including Deep Impact of July 4 this year and Mars Rovers. Do you think that sort of increase in awe has casted any doubt on credibility of NASA's missions?
In case if someone doesn't realize, the lower four pictures are simulated artwork, which is what the blue heading indicates in Chinese. Please don't shout "they're fake."
On page 15 of the comic, the atom pictured in the lower left corner, under the influence of magnetic and electric fields, should have been an "Ion" not "Neutral".
A great Chinese contemporary philosopher-historian named Li Ao would agree with you. He said in a recent speech that Rights of Free Speech is akin to porn. The year that porn was made legal in Denmark, peeping crimes have dropped by 70%, and admitting sexual desires aren't such a big deal. Free speech is like that. When you don't get to make free speech, you just want it more. When you have it, it isn't a big deal.
He made a point that he is willing to give up rights of free speech in exchange of prosperity of the state (China), after having fought for the right for many years in Taiwan.
You have to realize that, not withstanding Articles 35 and 41, any right of speech, publication, or suggestions of criticisms on state organ must be made with the premise to protect the unity of the state. As long as you establish your loyalty to the state, it doesn't mean the government can randomly throw you in jail or run you over with tanks.
This is often overlooked by the "freedom fighters." They try to fight the system itself rather than fight under the accordance of the system. Take the open source versus proprietary war for example. There may exist open source extremists who would run around erasing copies of Windows and install Linux. However, some open source developers also make their software available for Windows, so even Windows users have choice. The difference is that, when you're promoting choice using open source software, you have to recognize that those who are using proprietary software also have a choice.
The goodie bag stuff for freedom defender is that, although you promote whatever you believe, freedom of speech or what not, there are people who choose to live happily under the current system of the state and the constitution. You simply shouldn't cause disturbance to other people's lives in the name of freedom. You have to find a way to defend your rights while preserving the unity of state.
This has been necessary for China in the past century due to extreme poverty and scacity of resources. It had been too costly to tear down a system and build a new one. If you want to improve the system, you must find a way to do that without disruption. That's the historical background of this constitution.
And think about why even Linus wouldn't approve some radical changes to the Linux kernel.
... is the executive of salesforce.com, a customer relations management company. Anyone can reasonably see that this is rather a "press release" article on the news, shouting "it's time to buy new computers!"
Except their argument don't hold water. They even said that getting a new computer isn't all buds and roses, since you could get infection soon if your computer is left unprotected. They still got away because people, even the editors of nytimes.com, only read the title of that article.
Any reasonable person *would* care if she understands that spyware and adware is having a negative impact on her experience online and, in general, using a computer; and that she is willing to keep her computer in shape. However, I think your mother has a strange case that is not representative of non-techies.
Even techies can be unreasonable. I have an uncle who works for a respectable software company that sells asset management products, and he is whole-heartedly loyal to Microsoft. He has for more than one occasion expressed disgust in Linux and free software. I have to give him credit for keeping his computers in shape even though he uses IE exclusively, but I now avoid any computer talk whenever I can't avoid talking to him.
But his daughter, my little cousin, being technically unprejudiced, really enjoyed playing Ksokoban and the Potato Guy.
I'm surprised someone can write a whole article just to say the contrapositive of "a wise person knows what he doesn't know."
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Actually the client is supposed to listen to DHCP responses actively even after it has been assigned an address, so a properly configured switch should simply drop DHCP responses from all machines but the designated DHCP server. All other machines are allowed to make DHCP requests.
Also, a more conservative switch should simply disable most activities of a port unless an interface is properly configured, indicated by a DHCP response sent to the interface. That way you can't just manually setup any IP address and start acting like you own it.
One trick to wreck havoc on a network has always been to cause IP address conflict with some key servers on the network. Or run a DHCP server that assigns bad addresses before the real DHCP server does. You can get very angry system admins to yell at you, excerting great frustrations, if you accidentally plug in your computer and enable internet sharing on the wrong interface.
Actually, the layer-3 standard, when fully implemented, allows the encoder to use left-over bits from previous frames or to borrow from next frames, so it is sort of like ABR. The chief technical difference is that, for CBR, all frames are marked the same bitrate despite bit borrowing, where as ABR marks each frame with the appropriate bitrate. Of course, with CBR, the actual frame boundary can drift very far away from frame markers. This means you shouldn't naively cut and concatenate MP3 files, but most decoders can deal with incomplete frames (by ignoring them).
Let's not be too pedantic about punctuations. I think it is a style that changes over time. I'm just reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the original 1818 text, whatever that means---edited to the taste of readers at that time, maybe. With modern MLA standards, some punctuations or even some word uses in there are laughable, yet who doubts that Frankenstein is a classic in science fiction?
Also, the Brits use run-on sentences all the times, punctuating whatever should be terminated by a period with commas. Americans would laugh at them very hard for looking like peasants. Oh well, we've always known that they get on each other's nerves.
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I hope you don't mean that Frank now has all the freedom he wants to import the designs one by one, by hand.
You must be gravely misinformed about Taiwan. You make some blanket statement but didn't show the evidence to back yourself up, so I'd like to request you do that. In particular:
The other day someone accused me of reading between the lines of what Aaron said about Frank on OSWD, and that I have bad English. I guess someone has even worse reading comprehension skills than I do.
You need to upgrade your tin foil hat to gold, and make sure your gold foil is not made in Taiwan nor China.
hypocritical ... reading comprehension lessons ... baseless accusations
Gee, the size of your vocabulary is truly impressive.
Oh damn, you're right. I'm so not a native English speaker because I've got perfect grammar!
mybe i shuld start speakin brokn english tom ake my self mor ecredible!
Obviously you favor Aaron's position, so you read Aaron's message in his favor and dismiss my reading comprehension skills. You're also putting word in his mouth, and you say I am hypocritical in the extreme? Give me a break!
Keep your petty personal insults to yourself please. Do you think your condescending attitude will win my sympathy for Aaron? And thanks for admitting that you don't know any better than I.
To be honest, I don't support either Frank or Aaron. I only ran into OSWD for a few times in the past, and I couldn't care less about them bickering at each other. They either work out their problems or not. Life goes on.
You buy my argument or not, life goes on. Feel free to keep bitching.
I don't have insider information, and I made the claim entirely on the basis of the two public posts by Aaron without even looking at what Frank says about the issue.
Aaron wrote:
Any person reading this gets the impression that Aaron is not allowed to build OSWD (not having access), nor even fork it (Frank is "sitting on it"), and that he can't do anything unless Frank does something ("Frank won't do the work to bring it back up"). Let's call this "The Great Confusion."
Now look at what Aaron wrote again:
Aaron contradicts his own words with "The Great Confusion." Now he's admitting that he could have forked OSWD if he wanted to. My intetion for the original "parent misinformation" post was to correct the misconception if you only read Aaron's first post.
I'm not saying Aaron doesn't deserve credit for his work, but he's expecting Frank to grant him the ownership. I don't care what you think whether Aaron deserves ownership through his hard work, but what he's doing, spreading misleading accusations to fuel his propaganda to force Frank into giving up OSWD, is downright outrageous.
Frank (OSWD owner) may have been a lazy bum, but Aaron (one who did a lot of work on OSWD) does have a copy of the content of OSWD database and nothing prevents him from forking a new site. I think Aaron's previous post is deliberately misleading, as he blames Frank to be the source of problem.
It seems more likely that Aaron is holding the site in ransom until Frank agrees to transfer OSWD ownership to him.
Apparently, according to this announcement on oswd.org,
Aaron (the one who did a large amount of work) is the one holding the site ransom until Frank (the original creator of OSWD) agrees to transfer ownership of the site to him. Aaron does have the database that constitute the designs on OSWD, and nothing prevents him from forking the site. All he wants now is the ownership.
Does an online degree hurt your chances to get into a great graduate school?"
Grad school admission staffs are also wondering whether people who graduated with an online degree is worth what is printed on the paper. Many professors are already skeptical about how an applicant's transcript reflects his/her true academic performance, with a traditional degree. An online degree has very little precedence, so they would only be even more skeptical. You not only have to have good grades, you also need to stand out on other things, like meeting a professor in a conference and show an active interest in his/her work.
Taiwan does have the money, but the BBC article failed to point out that Roche has been insufficient in supplying Tamiflu to meet worldwide demand. Taiwanese government plans to address the supply issue by manufacturing the drug in solutions. This has at least two benefits:
Beyond meeting the supply, Taiwanese government does plan to compensate Roche for what Tamiflu is worth. As I understand it, a negotiation is still going on, but it is true that Taiwanese government has went ahead to produce the drug. BBC does not make it clear either.
rather than talk about how eBay itself should provide ad-supported auction service, why is it suggesting other telecomm companies to provide ad-supported services?
and as a company whose customer service over the phone is practically non-existent, phone charge should be least of their concerns.
I don't think it's an uncommon practice. NASA has released a number of artist rendition of various space missions, including Deep Impact of July 4 this year and Mars Rovers. Do you think that sort of increase in awe has casted any doubt on credibility of NASA's missions?
In case if someone doesn't realize, the lower four pictures are simulated artwork, which is what the blue heading indicates in Chinese. Please don't shout "they're fake."
On page 15 of the comic, the atom pictured in the lower left corner, under the influence of magnetic and electric fields, should have been an "Ion" not "Neutral".
A great Chinese contemporary philosopher-historian named Li Ao would agree with you. He said in a recent speech that Rights of Free Speech is akin to porn. The year that porn was made legal in Denmark, peeping crimes have dropped by 70%, and admitting sexual desires aren't such a big deal. Free speech is like that. When you don't get to make free speech, you just want it more. When you have it, it isn't a big deal.
He made a point that he is willing to give up rights of free speech in exchange of prosperity of the state (China), after having fought for the right for many years in Taiwan.
You have to realize that, not withstanding Articles 35 and 41, any right of speech, publication, or suggestions of criticisms on state organ must be made with the premise to protect the unity of the state. As long as you establish your loyalty to the state, it doesn't mean the government can randomly throw you in jail or run you over with tanks.
This is often overlooked by the "freedom fighters." They try to fight the system itself rather than fight under the accordance of the system. Take the open source versus proprietary war for example. There may exist open source extremists who would run around erasing copies of Windows and install Linux. However, some open source developers also make their software available for Windows, so even Windows users have choice. The difference is that, when you're promoting choice using open source software, you have to recognize that those who are using proprietary software also have a choice.
The goodie bag stuff for freedom defender is that, although you promote whatever you believe, freedom of speech or what not, there are people who choose to live happily under the current system of the state and the constitution. You simply shouldn't cause disturbance to other people's lives in the name of freedom. You have to find a way to defend your rights while preserving the unity of state.
This has been necessary for China in the past century due to extreme poverty and scacity of resources. It had been too costly to tear down a system and build a new one. If you want to improve the system, you must find a way to do that without disruption. That's the historical background of this constitution.
And think about why even Linus wouldn't approve some radical changes to the Linux kernel.
For Unix devs:
1. Learn to CamlCase your API, variable names, etc.
2. Turn all '-' or '--' into '/' in command line arguments.
3. Use 'dir' instead of 'ls -l'
For Windows devs:
1. Learn to lowercase all your API, variable names, etc.
2. Turn all '/' into '-' or '--' in command line arguments.
3. Use 'ls -l' instead of 'dir'
... is the executive of salesforce.com, a customer relations management company. Anyone can reasonably see that this is rather a "press release" article on the news, shouting "it's time to buy new computers!"
Except their argument don't hold water. They even said that getting a new computer isn't all buds and roses, since you could get infection soon if your computer is left unprotected. They still got away because people, even the editors of nytimes.com, only read the title of that article.
I said it here.
Thou shalt clean up worms, spyware, adware, and public toilets for the rest of your life!
Any reasonable person *would* care if she understands that spyware and adware is having a negative impact on her experience online and, in general, using a computer; and that she is willing to keep her computer in shape. However, I think your mother has a strange case that is not representative of non-techies.
Even techies can be unreasonable. I have an uncle who works for a respectable software company that sells asset management products, and he is whole-heartedly loyal to Microsoft. He has for more than one occasion expressed disgust in Linux and free software. I have to give him credit for keeping his computers in shape even though he uses IE exclusively, but I now avoid any computer talk whenever I can't avoid talking to him.
But his daughter, my little cousin, being technically unprejudiced, really enjoyed playing Ksokoban and the Potato Guy.
Of course, there's always this possibility
I'm surprised someone can write a whole article just to say the contrapositive of "a wise person knows what he doesn't know."
Actually the client is supposed to listen to DHCP responses actively even after it has been assigned an address, so a properly configured switch should simply drop DHCP responses from all machines but the designated DHCP server. All other machines are allowed to make DHCP requests.
Also, a more conservative switch should simply disable most activities of a port unless an interface is properly configured, indicated by a DHCP response sent to the interface. That way you can't just manually setup any IP address and start acting like you own it.
One trick to wreck havoc on a network has always been to cause IP address conflict with some key servers on the network. Or run a DHCP server that assigns bad addresses before the real DHCP server does. You can get very angry system admins to yell at you, excerting great frustrations, if you accidentally plug in your computer and enable internet sharing on the wrong interface.
Actually, the layer-3 standard, when fully implemented, allows the encoder to use left-over bits from previous frames or to borrow from next frames, so it is sort of like ABR. The chief technical difference is that, for CBR, all frames are marked the same bitrate despite bit borrowing, where as ABR marks each frame with the appropriate bitrate. Of course, with CBR, the actual frame boundary can drift very far away from frame markers. This means you shouldn't naively cut and concatenate MP3 files, but most decoders can deal with incomplete frames (by ignoring them).
Let's not be too pedantic about punctuations. I think it is a style that changes over time. I'm just reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the original 1818 text, whatever that means---edited to the taste of readers at that time, maybe. With modern MLA standards, some punctuations or even some word uses in there are laughable, yet who doubts that Frankenstein is a classic in science fiction?
Also, the Brits use run-on sentences all the times, punctuating whatever should be terminated by a period with commas. Americans would laugh at them very hard for looking like peasants. Oh well, we've always known that they get on each other's nerves.