I am quite sure you could do it yourself, but here are the answers for the other readers :
Two of the three blog posts are from Han Han, a very popular and influential blogger, who recently explained his positions on democracy and revolution (he followed up with another post about freedom). Pretty boring stuff actually, but gave rise to political discussions in blogs and weibo. The third blog post was an answer from another blogger to this post about revolution by Han Han.
The three Weibo queries give the same answer : According the the relevant regulations and policies, no results are shown for "..." (the query terms were Communist Party, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao)
Nice try, but Facebook failing in China is due to it not being accessible from there. Why would Chinese language have anything to do with it ? Maybe it would fail anyway, but for the moment it did not even have the possibility to try.
I live in China and I can assure you that the censorship is not invented by reporters. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blogspot, Dailymotion, etc. are all blocked. A lot of smaller blogs and websites specialized on China are also blocked (Peking Duck, China Digital Times, etc. ). Gmail has a lot of issues, Google Cache is unavailable, Wikipedia is censored on sensitive subjects, etc.
For website in China, it is not much better. Sina Weibo (the Twitter equivalent) can delete posts very quickly and censor a lot of search terms. Popular political bloggers often get their more sensitive articles removed (Han Han is a good example).
What are these China-based blogs that deny censorship ? I am quite sure they would be interesting to follow.
Now for the weird one, much of the information about the riots and protests in China is only available in China. It seems that no one outside of China wants to cover Chinese "bad news" other than the economic issues.
I call bullshit on this one, do you have any concrete example to back it up ? Do you mean the treatment of Chen Guangcheng ? Ai Weiwei in jail ? The uprising in Wukan ? Anything about Tibet ? What are the story that you deem significant enough to deserve a worldwide coverage but did not get it (and did get a treatment in the local media) ?
The Chinese abroad I have seen complain much more often that too many bad news are covered, and not enough good news about China's achievements.
This argument is valid, but it is not in the TSA's defense, it only highlights that the whole thing is useless. If I were a terrorist aiming the US, I would first choose carefully the country from where I start, no need to fly a domestic flight.
The Peak Earth is already there. China's production and export quotas are lower and lower, the Diaoyu incident with Japan made other countries realize they do not want to depend of Chine for their rare earths supply, so everyone is trying to reopen their mines. It is however a complex process and reopen an old mine (US, Australia, South Africa) will take at least 2 or 3 years. Whole new projects (Africa, Vietnam, Korea) will probably take more, around 4 or 5 years.
This is why China is acting fast on this, they have a two or three years window where they want to maximize their advantage: it can be used to drive prices higher and make money, as a diplomatic tool with Japan, but more importantly to make manufacturers move to Chine for their high-tech products and export the high value added end product instead of the raw rare earth. Oh, and if possible, gain access to the technology...
China is not using the Internet you built, everyone is using an Internet where both the US and China are present. To remove that is the shortest path to an open war as Internet is the best way for each country to understand each other and communicate with each other. There is still the problem of language, which means most Chinese netizens never go to foreign websites anyway, but most of the communications between foreigners and Chinese are on-line nowadays.
Do you really want to stop all economic trade ? All cultural exchanges ? Do you want most foreigners to leave China ?
English as a second language is good enough to do business, maybe not to write articles and discuss philosophy.
See, English is not my mother tongue (bonus point if you can guess from my writing where I come from). I have a decent English, can read without any problem, but it is much more cumbersome and slow for me to write in English than in my native language. Don't think that the Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese contributors to Wikipedia would contribute the same amount if they had to write in English.
It would also be terribly unfair to them. Have you ever been to a meeting with native speakers and non-native speakers ? It is obvious that they do not have the same mastery of the language and very often it translates in self-confidence and ability to convince. OK, I live in China, when the phenomenon is especially clear, but it is true to some extend for everyone.
Oh, and which language would that be ? You are not supposing that everyone has English as a mother tongue, are you ? Esperanto maybe ?
On the contrary, Wikipedia can now double as a wonderful dictionary for some specialized vocabulary (math notions, proper nouns, etc.) by looking at the interwiki links.
Two things : * First it is the 12th 5 years plan. * More importantly, the proposed reduction of CO2 emission is *per unit of GDP*, so the absolute value should continue to rise, as the GDP growth should be more than enough to offset the higher relative efficiency.
Maybe you should look up the term, "justice" and see what it's all about.
I will give you a hint, this is not about sending seals to kill a guy in the middle of the night. Justice implies presumption of innocence, trial and conviction, even for the Big Bad Guy.
Genetic algorithms are an optimisation algorithm, but what do you want to optimise exactly ? What are your individuals here ?
The idea of using a large collection of solved problem to check and improve the accuracy of the method looks more like neural network to me. Indeed, this seems to be a common method for OCR. For example : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/simple_ocr.aspx
I would love to RTFA, but I can't access the report myself. They must have some technical difficulties in Beijing these days, because freedomhouse.org seems to be unavailable.
It's a pretty clean sunny day in Beijing, thank you very much.
Really, I know it is fashionable to bash Beijing for pollution around here, but it is not that bad. Try Linfen next time, you will be closer to the truth...
It is infuriating because of the difference in output quality, not because Word is proprietary or whatever other reason. Can you guess how the first poster was able to know the article was typeset using Word ? The paragraphs of text are not justified, the 'fi' ligature are not made, formulas are awful, the link for figure 1 is separated from the picture by a page break, etc.
Actually, it is not actually Word's fault here, it is just a very badly typeset paper and one can do much better with Word.
I also didn't understand your remark about TeX types using Acrobat and CutePDF. You do know that TeX will already output a PDF without conversion step necessary, right ? Why would they want to generate a PDF ?
Slashdot Mirror
Read about the Great Gatsby Curve : http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/the-great-gatsby-curve/
The same thing happens in India. I sometimes get a little caramel to replace a rupee (2 cents at the current exchange rate).
Do not forget health consequences. I am OK with waiting some more and have time to check that we are not creating the next asbestos ...
Do not despair, India is much worse and they will soon outnumber China.
I am quite sure you could do it yourself, but here are the answers for the other readers :
Two of the three blog posts are from Han Han, a very popular and influential blogger, who recently explained his positions on democracy and revolution (he followed up with another post about freedom). Pretty boring stuff actually, but gave rise to political discussions in blogs and weibo. The third blog post was an answer from another blogger to this post about revolution by Han Han.
The three Weibo queries give the same answer : According the the relevant regulations and policies, no results are shown for "..." (the query terms were Communist Party, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao)
Nice try, but Facebook failing in China is due to it not being accessible from there. Why would Chinese language have anything to do with it ? Maybe it would fail anyway, but for the moment it did not even have the possibility to try.
I live in China and I can assure you that the censorship is not invented by reporters. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blogspot, Dailymotion, etc. are all blocked. A lot of smaller blogs and websites specialized on China are also blocked (Peking Duck, China Digital Times, etc. ). Gmail has a lot of issues, Google Cache is unavailable, Wikipedia is censored on sensitive subjects, etc.
For website in China, it is not much better. Sina Weibo (the Twitter equivalent) can delete posts very quickly and censor a lot of search terms. Popular political bloggers often get their more sensitive articles removed (Han Han is a good example).
What are these China-based blogs that deny censorship ? I am quite sure they would be interesting to follow.
Now for the weird one, much of the information about the riots and protests in China is only available in China. It seems that no one outside of China wants to cover Chinese "bad news" other than the economic issues.
I call bullshit on this one, do you have any concrete example to back it up ? Do you mean the treatment of Chen Guangcheng ? Ai Weiwei in jail ? The uprising in Wukan ? Anything about Tibet ? What are the story that you deem significant enough to deserve a worldwide coverage but did not get it (and did get a treatment in the local media) ?
The Chinese abroad I have seen complain much more often that too many bad news are covered, and not enough good news about China's achievements.
I think he is talking about this bug : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051
There is no way to have default printer settings, which means setting again the options you need every time. This is the fourth most hated bug in KDE.
This argument is valid, but it is not in the TSA's defense, it only highlights that the whole thing is useless. If I were a terrorist aiming the US, I would first choose carefully the country from where I start, no need to fly a domestic flight.
Yes, to make the credulous wannabe settler want to go there. I was not much greener when it was discovered than now.
The Peak Earth is already there. China's production and export quotas are lower and lower, the Diaoyu incident with Japan made other countries realize they do not want to depend of Chine for their rare earths supply, so everyone is trying to reopen their mines. It is however a complex process and reopen an old mine (US, Australia, South Africa) will take at least 2 or 3 years. Whole new projects (Africa, Vietnam, Korea) will probably take more, around 4 or 5 years.
This is why China is acting fast on this, they have a two or three years window where they want to maximize their advantage: it can be used to drive prices higher and make money, as a diplomatic tool with Japan, but more importantly to make manufacturers move to Chine for their high-tech products and export the high value added end product instead of the raw rare earth. Oh, and if possible, gain access to the technology ...
Actions consisting mostly of denying.
China is not using the Internet you built, everyone is using an Internet where both the US and China are present. To remove that is the shortest path to an open war as Internet is the best way for each country to understand each other and communicate with each other. There is still the problem of language, which means most Chinese netizens never go to foreign websites anyway, but most of the communications between foreigners and Chinese are on-line nowadays.
Do you really want to stop all economic trade ? All cultural exchanges ? Do you want most foreigners to leave China ?
Read again : The labels take 90%, the artist keeps 10%.
English as a second language is good enough to do business, maybe not to write articles and discuss philosophy.
See, English is not my mother tongue (bonus point if you can guess from my writing where I come from). I have a decent English, can read without any problem, but it is much more cumbersome and slow for me to write in English than in my native language. Don't think that the Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese contributors to Wikipedia would contribute the same amount if they had to write in English.
It would also be terribly unfair to them. Have you ever been to a meeting with native speakers and non-native speakers ? It is obvious that they do not have the same mastery of the language and very often it translates in self-confidence and ability to convince. OK, I live in China, when the phenomenon is especially clear, but it is true to some extend for everyone.
Oh, and which language would that be ? You are not supposing that everyone has English as a mother tongue, are you ? Esperanto maybe ?
On the contrary, Wikipedia can now double as a wonderful dictionary for some specialized vocabulary (math notions, proper nouns, etc.) by looking at the interwiki links.
Two things :
* First it is the 12th 5 years plan.
* More importantly, the proposed reduction of CO2 emission is *per unit of GDP*, so the absolute value should continue to rise, as the GDP growth should be more than enough to offset the higher relative efficiency.
Just make your debt super top secret, then make Wikileaks leak it !
Maybe you should look up the term, "justice" and see what it's all about.
I will give you a hint, this is not about sending seals to kill a guy in the middle of the night. Justice implies presumption of innocence, trial and conviction, even for the Big Bad Guy.
Genetic algorithms are an optimisation algorithm, but what do you want to optimise exactly ? What are your individuals here ?
The idea of using a large collection of solved problem to check and improve the accuracy of the method looks more like neural network to me. Indeed, this seems to be a common method for OCR. For example : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/simple_ocr.aspx
What rank is China ? Is there anyone below ?
I would love to RTFA, but I can't access the report myself. They must have some technical difficulties in Beijing these days, because freedomhouse.org seems to be unavailable.
Zhucheng is the city where it was found.
Surnames in China are usually formed with a single vowel.
It's a pretty clean sunny day in Beijing, thank you very much.
Really, I know it is fashionable to bash Beijing for pollution around here, but it is not that bad. Try Linfen next time, you will be closer to the truth ...
It is infuriating because of the difference in output quality, not because Word is proprietary or whatever other reason. Can you guess how the first poster was able to know the article was typeset using Word ? The paragraphs of text are not justified, the 'fi' ligature are not made, formulas are awful, the link for figure 1 is separated from the picture by a page break, etc.
Actually, it is not actually Word's fault here, it is just a very badly typeset paper and one can do much better with Word.
I also didn't understand your remark about TeX types using Acrobat and CutePDF. You do know that TeX will already output a PDF without conversion step necessary, right ? Why would they want to generate a PDF ?
Numpy seems to support Python3
Just check Wikipedia, with a link to http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.5.0/NOTES.txt/download
You can also find the announcement from last July : http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2010-July/051436.html