I thought the major reason that the low-skilled labour wages are higher in the US and EU was because of minimum wage laws and more developed economies...?
One has to consider that the Hong Kong economy has only really developed in the past 50 years or so.
Nonetheless, even though low-skilled labours from mainland China are not allowed to come to Hong Kong for work (legally), they do have a major effect on Hong Kong's low-skilled labour market, because the factories have been moved to mainland China.
Besides, low-skilled labour having higher wages are not necessarily a good indicator, if most of them are unemployed. That was and still is one of the major concerns for Hong Kong's low income public since the minimum wage law went into effect earlier this year.
I agree. But I still don't understand why you called Hong Kong's (and Singapore's also, FWIW) economy "hybrid". It's my understanding that no economy is of pure capitalism, it's always a mixed. But we usually define an economy based on its most prominent and common characteristics, and if the US and European countries have free market/capitalist economies, I think Hong Kong's should be classified as one as well.
By your logic, the low income in the "unskiled" labour class in the US is influenced by the low cost of production in mainland China, which leads companies moving their factories and call support centres there, and so the poverty in the US results from communism as well...?
I could sort out all "score:5" comments by using CTRL-F, including those not at the starts of threads. How can I do it now? Tried changing back to D1 but it's not the same...
Guess when Google's guaranteed 99.9% services is downed, she is probably also trying to get it back up ASAP, without any mails, calls and/or forum postings asking she to do so.
I haven't looked into the contract terms, but if the remuneration paid back by Google for not achieving the 99.9% uptime cannot mitigate one's agony (in case it happens)... There are plenty of other options out there.
Granted, software (and to a larger extent, the human civilization), is in ever-development. From a certain perspective, one may call the previous version of a software a "Beta" of the current version.
While there are people out there refrained from using a positive integer version number for software with years of development history. Some others keep pumping out higher version numbers (or sometimes, skip some in between) for every single little feature added on top of some every-buggy software (worse still, keep charging for the "updates" a.k.a. "bugfixes").
Is Google's habit in classifying some of her products (forever?) in "Beta" stage, as others have claimed, lie in her ability to defend itself from liability claims...? Or, if it's just a kind of humour...? Or, if it's just some philosophic foresight...?
I think it would be better if the installer asks whether you would like to install the update service. But like you said, calling it "evil" maybe a bit far-fetched. : )
Better yet, integrate the update feature into the browser. Say check for updates at each program start, and maybe every 1 hour or so. It's no fun that every program on your PC has its own "updater" which automatically starts with your PC.
Look forward to a Google Update uninstaller.
P.S. Viewing Slashdot on Chrome is refreshing... Discussion 2 is such a mess under IE7.
Google may not have much incentive to kill off Firefox... But will the Mozilla foundation have enough resources and interest to sustain its development in a few years, in the market with IE, Chrome, Safari and various mobile browsers not utilizing the Gecko engines...?
But then, does/will it matter?
P.S. Come to think of it, we seem to be closer to that "browser as a platform" stuff which (IIRC) was envisioned long long ago (in terms of IT) when Netscape first appeared over the horizon... Cloud computing, ubiquitous connectivity, OS-indepedent...
Manufacturers have been claiming different "write cycle" figures but I read somewhere that the inherent write cycles for each address block is 10k (for MLC NAND) and 100k (for SLC NAND) as of now.
Through the use of wear leveling technologies, manufacturers are able to raise the theoretical write cycles by many times through.
So one has to be careful about this "write cycle" thing.
One thing I'm not sure is the shelf life of flash memory. Say if John saves some photos on his USB flash drive, put it in the safe. Assuming John still has a PC which can recognize and use the drive, will the data still be readable after 10 or 20 years...?
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I think for most home or small office uses, it would be better to use software RAID.
As I've read, at least for Linux's implementation, you can move the drives to another box and the RAID array can still be recognized.
Even worse... It seems that these are exactly the same models (maybe with different drive capacity) Infrant has been selling before being acquired by NetGear.
Isn't the idea that "it's always been there" far easier to grasp than "once there was nothing, now there is everything"?
If I were not mistaken, based on the current most popular theory, that the universe should be dead cool, if the universe have "always existed", which I assume is talking about something maybe, billions, or even trillions, of years.
At least that's my understanding from reading Stephen Hawking's books.
P.S. Don't forget that, afterall, it's based on merely a scientific theory, which has so far seem to provide a well enough explanation with regard to the universe age, and is consistent with the observation, so far.
I think mirroring a RAID at a friend's apartment is a good idea (in some cases). First of all it's the cost issue, and in case you really need to restore the data, it's probably easier and faster than downloading from a hosted solution.
There are some very cheap hosted solution who boast huge or even unlimited capacity but I doubt their reliability for such a low price.
One thing I would like to know, is that how do you backup when using the Infrant solution, or any other RAID setup whereas the HDD capacity is becoming larger and larger...?
(I understand that you don't have to backup EVERYTHING, like all of last week's TV shows as suggested in another post, but let's say you need to backup something, say >1.5TB...)
Using DVD is not quite practical since a modern HDD is easily >50 times the capacity of a single layer DVD.
Using Blu-ray or HD-DVD maybe a bit more practical, but the drive and discs are not cheap at this moment.
How about using tape? Don't know much about this. Is it possible to find a tape setup which is economic, say, under $150, for such usage these days?
Guess the Foleo will run a variant of Palm's Linux platform (not ALP, that's another thing) and not the aged Garnet.
One of the problems is, though, the public doesn't know much about that platform yet.
It seems to me that, the Foleo is directed to the business people whose daily job can be done by mainly reading and sending emails, with only occasion needs to use word processors, spreadsheets, and the web. It probably won't appeal to the general public, since it's too function-limited when compared to a notebook PC.
Also, the quoted battery life (5-hour?) is too short. I'll be expecting at least 10-hour for such device to be useful.
If Palm can get this right, it can as well be the next Blackberry in terms of popularity among the business people.
I prefer to keep my digital data on my PC. But seeing so often of people losing data because of PC failures and having no working backups, or whatever reason. For some people I would gladly recommend them to keep everything online at some more reputable service providers (in my mind, that's), and Google is one of them (as of writing, that's).
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I thought the major reason that the low-skilled labour wages are higher in the US and EU was because of minimum wage laws and more developed economies...?
One has to consider that the Hong Kong economy has only really developed in the past 50 years or so.
Nonetheless, even though low-skilled labours from mainland China are not allowed to come to Hong Kong for work (legally), they do have a major effect on Hong Kong's low-skilled labour market, because the factories have been moved to mainland China.
Besides, low-skilled labour having higher wages are not necessarily a good indicator, if most of them are unemployed. That was and still is one of the major concerns for Hong Kong's low income public since the minimum wage law went into effect earlier this year.
Cheers.
I agree. But I still don't understand why you called Hong Kong's (and Singapore's also, FWIW) economy "hybrid". It's my understanding that no economy is of pure capitalism, it's always a mixed. But we usually define an economy based on its most prominent and common characteristics, and if the US and European countries have free market/capitalist economies, I think Hong Kong's should be classified as one as well.
Cheers.
By your logic, the low income in the "unskiled" labour class in the US is influenced by the low cost of production in mainland China, which leads companies moving their factories and call support centres there, and so the poverty in the US results from communism as well...?
Would you mind to say a bit more about how Deming's theories are being mis-applied in education and medicine? I would like to hear more about that.
Thanks in advance.
I could sort out all "score:5" comments by using CTRL-F, including those not at the starts of threads. How can I do it now? Tried changing back to D1 but it's not the same...
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
http://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-reader/
What is he talking about...?
Guess when Google's guaranteed 99.9% services is downed, she is probably also trying to get it back up ASAP, without any mails, calls and/or forum postings asking she to do so.
I haven't looked into the contract terms, but if the remuneration paid back by Google for not achieving the 99.9% uptime cannot mitigate one's agony (in case it happens)... There are plenty of other options out there.
Alpha, Beta, Gamma...
Granted, software (and to a larger extent, the human civilization), is in ever-development. From a certain perspective, one may call the previous version of a software a "Beta" of the current version.
While there are people out there refrained from using a positive integer version number for software with years of development history. Some others keep pumping out higher version numbers (or sometimes, skip some in between) for every single little feature added on top of some every-buggy software (worse still, keep charging for the "updates" a.k.a. "bugfixes").
Is Google's habit in classifying some of her products (forever?) in "Beta" stage, as others have claimed, lie in her ability to defend itself from liability claims...? Or, if it's just a kind of humour...? Or, if it's just some philosophic foresight...?
Cheers.
I think it would be better if the installer asks whether you would like to install the update service. But like you said, calling it "evil" maybe a bit far-fetched. : )
Better yet, integrate the update feature into the browser. Say check for updates at each program start, and maybe every 1 hour or so. It's no fun that every program on your PC has its own "updater" which automatically starts with your PC.
Look forward to a Google Update uninstaller.
P.S. Viewing Slashdot on Chrome is refreshing... Discussion 2 is such a mess under IE7.
Google may not have much incentive to kill off Firefox... But will the Mozilla foundation have enough resources and interest to sustain its development in a few years, in the market with IE, Chrome, Safari and various mobile browsers not utilizing the Gecko engines...?
But then, does/will it matter?
P.S. Come to think of it, we seem to be closer to that "browser as a platform" stuff which (IIRC) was envisioned long long ago (in terms of IT) when Netscape first appeared over the horizon... Cloud computing, ubiquitous connectivity, OS-indepedent...
Manufacturers have been claiming different "write cycle" figures but I read somewhere that the inherent write cycles for each address block is 10k (for MLC NAND) and 100k (for SLC NAND) as of now.
Through the use of wear leveling technologies, manufacturers are able to raise the theoretical write cycles by many times through.
So one has to be careful about this "write cycle" thing.
One thing I'm not sure is the shelf life of flash memory. Say if John saves some photos on his USB flash drive, put it in the safe. Assuming John still has a PC which can recognize and use the drive, will the data still be readable after 10 or 20 years...?
I think for most home or small office uses, it would be better to use software RAID.
As I've read, at least for Linux's implementation, you can move the drives to another box and the RAID array can still be recognized.
Last time I tried (was 2.x something), it already had a local LDAP server which you can use to do the authentication.
Still it (OF) maybe an overkill for most, and need quite a bit technical knowledge to setup and configure.
How about Anytime Upgrade...?
Even worse... It seems that these are exactly the same models (maybe with different drive capacity) Infrant has been selling before being acquired by NetGear.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/21/netgear-expands-readynas-line/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/03/netgear-acquires-infrant-to-boost-storage-offerings/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/12/infrant-releases-the-readynas-nv/
How much does it worth to re-brand a product by a name-brand company? A Slashdot post.
How about Android for Treos?
If I were not mistaken, based on the current most popular theory, that the universe should be dead cool, if the universe have "always existed", which I assume is talking about something maybe, billions, or even trillions, of years.
At least that's my understanding from reading Stephen Hawking's books.
P.S. Don't forget that, afterall, it's based on merely a scientific theory, which has so far seem to provide a well enough explanation with regard to the universe age, and is consistent with the observation, so far.
Many thanks.
I think mirroring a RAID at a friend's apartment is a good idea (in some cases). First of all it's the cost issue, and in case you really need to restore the data, it's probably easier and faster than downloading from a hosted solution.
There are some very cheap hosted solution who boast huge or even unlimited capacity but I doubt their reliability for such a low price.
Indeed, the capacity disparity between removable media and hard drives is a problem for making backups.
Any recommendation for online backup services?
One thing I would like to know, is that how do you backup when using the Infrant solution, or any other RAID setup whereas the HDD capacity is becoming larger and larger...?
(I understand that you don't have to backup EVERYTHING, like all of last week's TV shows as suggested in another post, but let's say you need to backup something, say >1.5TB...)
Using DVD is not quite practical since a modern HDD is easily >50 times the capacity of a single layer DVD.
Using Blu-ray or HD-DVD maybe a bit more practical, but the drive and discs are not cheap at this moment.
How about using tape? Don't know much about this. Is it possible to find a tape setup which is economic, say, under $150, for such usage these days?
Guess the Foleo will run a variant of Palm's Linux platform (not ALP, that's another thing) and not the aged Garnet.
One of the problems is, though, the public doesn't know much about that platform yet.
It seems to me that, the Foleo is directed to the business people whose daily job can be done by mainly reading and sending emails, with only occasion needs to use word processors, spreadsheets, and the web. It probably won't appeal to the general public, since it's too function-limited when compared to a notebook PC.
Also, the quoted battery life (5-hour?) is too short. I'll be expecting at least 10-hour for such device to be useful.
If Palm can get this right, it can as well be the next Blackberry in terms of popularity among the business people.
I'm a Chinese but I have never heard of this. Would you be so kind to educate me on this...? Where did you hear such things?
I'm serious.
I prefer to keep my digital data on my PC. But seeing so often of people losing data because of PC failures and having no working backups, or whatever reason. For some people I would gladly recommend them to keep everything online at some more reputable service providers (in my mind, that's), and Google is one of them (as of writing, that's).