I just found out your numbers are not correct. I don't know if you do it intentionally.
Mainland China contributed US$60 million (that number is from PRC government only. The number of donations from the public is not counted.) Considering Chinese in mainland are still extrememly poor, the number is good enough. A person who earns 100 dollars a day may find it is OK to donate just 1 dollar, but a person who earns 1 dollar a day may have difficulties to contribute even 10 cents.
Hong Kong (as a city) contributed 0.7 billion Hong Kong dollars that is US$ 89.7 million. That is, on an average, each person in Hong Kong contributes 100 HK$ which is about 13 US dollars. That is the world's highest record!
In terms of Taiwan, it contributed US$ 55.6 millon, and that put Taiwan as the number 8 on the list.
I just found out your numbers are not correct. I don't know if you do it intentionally.
Mainland China contributed US$60 million (that number is from PRC government only. The number of donations from the public is not counted.) Considering Chinese in mainland are still extrememly poor, the number is good enough. A person who earns 100 dollars a day may find it is OK to donate just 1 dollar, but a person who earns 1 dollar a day may have difficulties to contribute even 10 cents.
In terms of Taiwan, it contributed US$ 55.6 millon, and that put Taiwan as the number 8 on the list.
Hong Kong (as a city) contributed 0.7 billion Hong Kong dollars that is US$ 89.7 million. That is, on an average, each person in Hong Kong contributes 100 HK$ which is about 13 US dollars. That is the world's highest record!
Just for your information, the population of China is more than four times larger, compared to the states. Even if you count it as a whole, the overall GDP (according wordbank's 2003 data) of China is only a little bit more than 1/8 of US's.
Now you do the rest of the calculations if Chinese are generous or not, compared to the states.
since everybody is listening to the same channel, doesn't it cause any traffic trouble since all the drivers rush to the same road which is the most smooth five min ago?
This video search is just based on filename?
That's far behind the state-of-art of research.
It might be true that content-based video search is still not mature, but at least yahoo can do better than this filename-based search. For example, they can develop some web crawler to extract closed caption and movie title, or make use of the information on the web pages.
Personally I think SVG is a truly open standard. But for SWF, Macromedia just made it public. I think SWF is at most a semi-open format and Macromedia controls everything.
Regarding the software, Macromedia are still dominating the flash player, authoring tools and server-side products. Software from other companies probably are just based on Macromedia developer SDK.
i think this research simplifies the traffic control problem. this method might work for small intersections where the traffic distributions between two roads are highly asymmetric. but if we evaluate the city's traffic as a whole, it seems to me this is an optimization problem and i doubt this local optimization at SMALL intersections matters. the traffic problems exist at MAJOR intersections. i believe the real problem is how to simutanously adjust and schedule the lights at all MAJOR intersections such that the traffic (or any cost function) of the whole city is minimized.
"DId you know there is LESS pollition in LA then there was 25 years ago? with more cars on the road?
SO we are making strives toward better enviromental standards."
that's probably because the pollution is also 'outsourced' to china when you outsource those manufacturing jobs.
Pls forgive my English.
Don't you guys notice that Gmail only allows the registration by invitations? I doubt they are going to change that even if Gmail is no longer in beta mode. What does this registration model mean? That means that Gmail has collected precious data between their customers, not only the personal data for each person, but also the connections/relationship among the accounts. That is, their customer database is no longer purely flat, or rather the database is a tree-structured or probably even more complicated like a network. The connections might imply the relationship like families, friends, workmates, and people visiting the same forum and share the similar interests, and so on. The 1GB storage is just bait. Compared to the invaluable structured customer database, scanning the email content is nothing that big. People are worrying about the privacy thing regarding the content scanning. While the information about the connections is another privacy thing we exchange with Google for 1GB storage. Those Google guys are smart, and they will make good use of the precious data and make profit through advertisement or something else. So, the whole webmail war is a trap, or maybe it is proper to call it a smart email business model. Yahoo and Microsoft fall into the trap. Anyway Microsoft has extra money to burn for that. If we really don't care these privacy things, like me, we can enjoy the benefits from the webmail war.
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totally agree.
the increasing internet penetration rate could be a reason for increased spam.
I think you forgot to consider the currency value changes.
I just found out your numbers are not correct. I don't know if you do it intentionally.
Mainland China contributed US$60 million (that number is from PRC government only. The number of donations from the public is not counted.) Considering Chinese in mainland are still extrememly poor, the number is good enough. A person who earns 100 dollars a day may find it is OK to donate just 1 dollar, but a person who earns 1 dollar a day may have difficulties to contribute even 10 cents.
Hong Kong (as a city) contributed 0.7 billion Hong Kong dollars that is US$ 89.7 million. That is, on an average, each person in Hong Kong contributes 100 HK$ which is about 13 US dollars. That is the world's highest record!
In terms of Taiwan, it contributed US$ 55.6 millon, and that put Taiwan as the number 8 on the list.
I just found out your numbers are not correct. I don't know if you do it intentionally. Mainland China contributed US$60 million (that number is from PRC government only. The number of donations from the public is not counted.) Considering Chinese in mainland are still extrememly poor, the number is good enough. A person who earns 100 dollars a day may find it is OK to donate just 1 dollar, but a person who earns 1 dollar a day may have difficulties to contribute even 10 cents. In terms of Taiwan, it contributed US$ 55.6 millon, and that put Taiwan as the number 8 on the list. Hong Kong (as a city) contributed 0.7 billion Hong Kong dollars that is US$ 89.7 million. That is, on an average, each person in Hong Kong contributes 100 HK$ which is about 13 US dollars. That is the world's highest record!
Just for your information, the population of China is more than four times larger, compared to the states. Even if you count it as a whole, the overall GDP (according wordbank's 2003 data) of China is only a little bit more than 1/8 of US's.
Now you do the rest of the calculations if Chinese are generous or not, compared to the states.
programming is a labor job.
since everybody is listening to the same channel, doesn't it cause any traffic trouble since all the drivers rush to the same road which is the most smooth five min ago?
This video search is just based on filename? That's far behind the state-of-art of research. It might be true that content-based video search is still not mature, but at least yahoo can do better than this filename-based search. For example, they can develop some web crawler to extract closed caption and movie title, or make use of the information on the web pages.
Yeah, right, blame China. Chinese government is already terrible, why not say it also supports porn sites and sells sexual drugs online?
No, not chinese spammers. The reality is that most spamming emails and spamming traffic coming from China are created by US-based spammers.
I am wondering what kind of watermark algorithm is implmented there? Is it a fragile watermark or robust watermark?
Personally I think SVG is a truly open standard. But for SWF, Macromedia just made it public. I think SWF is at most a semi-open format and Macromedia controls everything.
Regarding the software, Macromedia are still dominating the flash player, authoring tools and server-side products. Software from other companies probably are just based on Macromedia developer SDK.
a $500 laptop that can only be used for two years. a $2000 laptop that can be used for five years. which one do you like?
i think this research simplifies the traffic control problem. this method might work for small intersections where the traffic distributions between two roads are highly asymmetric. but if we evaluate the city's traffic as a whole, it seems to me this is an optimization problem and i doubt this local optimization at SMALL intersections matters. the traffic problems exist at MAJOR intersections. i believe the real problem is how to simutanously adjust and schedule the lights at all MAJOR intersections such that the traffic (or any cost function) of the whole city is minimized.
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not until its intel edition is stable on home-made pcs.
"DId you know there is LESS pollition in LA then there was 25 years ago? with more cars on the road? SO we are making strives toward better enviromental standards." that's probably because the pollution is also 'outsourced' to china when you outsource those manufacturing jobs.
Pls forgive my English. Don't you guys notice that Gmail only allows the registration by invitations? I doubt they are going to change that even if Gmail is no longer in beta mode. What does this registration model mean? That means that Gmail has collected precious data between their customers, not only the personal data for each person, but also the connections/relationship among the accounts. That is, their customer database is no longer purely flat, or rather the database is a tree-structured or probably even more complicated like a network. The connections might imply the relationship like families, friends, workmates, and people visiting the same forum and share the similar interests, and so on. The 1GB storage is just bait. Compared to the invaluable structured customer database, scanning the email content is nothing that big. People are worrying about the privacy thing regarding the content scanning. While the information about the connections is another privacy thing we exchange with Google for 1GB storage. Those Google guys are smart, and they will make good use of the precious data and make profit through advertisement or something else. So, the whole webmail war is a trap, or maybe it is proper to call it a smart email business model. Yahoo and Microsoft fall into the trap. Anyway Microsoft has extra money to burn for that. If we really don't care these privacy things, like me, we can enjoy the benefits from the webmail war.