Local authority ignores mandates from central government, pretty routine in China, I'd say (despite what you might think about a strong central government): environmental regulation, land use/ownership/compensation guideline, anti-corruption laws, earthquake compensation, labor law etc. China actually have quite a few progressive law on the book, but are usually rendered unenforceable when the very people who are in charge of enforcing them stands to profit (read: kick-back from industry) by ignoring them and no independent judiciary system to hear petition of ordinary people whom these laws helps.
The only difference here is that it have a "positive" outcome.
When I read the title from RSS feed, I thought are people trying to get their kids more cultured by sending them to be educated by the international organization?
Then I read the summary and sure enough, it just reminds me of that movie even more.
Given a choice between creating an representative cross-section of America and an representative cross-section of their customer base, game makers are likely going to go with the people who are paying them money.
And how many of their customers have extremely well build muscle, ideally tanned skin tone, and over-sized boobs?
I used to live in SF. From the point of view of the city, it's a big stream of revenue. I heard that parking fee/limit is enforced even on Sunday now. From the point of view of the driver, I am not sure if paying for parking is that big of a deal. The hardest part is find a damn parking spot in the first place. A parking meter is still a lot cheaper than parking garages in the city.
Of course, until this technique become prevalence even for some non-techies (say, they can buy hacked RFID card on ebay), I am not sure the city would see it as an issue. Of course, they can probably prosecute who they caught with tempering government property? Not sure. Regardless, maybe someone in the city government should include a reasonable non-hackable warranty clause when they make future acquisition....Who am I kidding? This is SF city hall we are talking about.
As a male, let me just say that it is sometimes good to be in the minority. The downside is that unless you are a dirty old man, there is no way to take advantage of the beautification of the female portion of the human race.
The intake of doctors into med school is tightly controlled. They are not going to start raising their intake, oh, just because the market wants it. How else could they command the high salaries that they do?
I recently helped a friend prepare the physics part of her MCAT and in the processed learned a lot about medical school in the US. I came away with exact feeling you have that medical school is but an exclusive (not only by grades, but other standard) club that is rather convoluted to join and to be brainwashed in, with the understanding that some day down the road by reciting memorized stuff from thick books that one can command high salary and demands respect.
I also teaches run-of-the-mill freshmen physics. Judging from the amount of physics/chemistry the pre-meds manage to master in our classes---and they seems to be rather water down and targeted for future CMAT taker---I learned that in the future when I need a physician, extremely caution and comparative shopping is required. If medicine is a science, I just don't have a lot of faith in its practitioners.
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Magnetic field lines are not really like the lines on a topographic map. The lines of a magnetic field represent paths from high potential to low potential, rather than delineations of equal-potential regions.
You are talking about electric field. Magnetic field do not have a scalar potential to be talking about "high" and "low" from (which is related to the gradient of the potential). The vector potential of a magnetic field is very difficult to find common analogies with.
Well said. If you conduct a poll of adult Chinese/Asian American about who is a better roll model for their children, Steven Chu or Yao Ming?? I am sure Chu would win by a sizable margin.
A friend of mine taught a course in science journalism in China a while back, and he was appalled to find out that Chinese journalists would just make stories up. They didn't understand the difference between telling a good story and telling the truth.
I can attest to that. As a semi-native Chinese speaker with advanced science degree, About half of Chinese science news items (related to foreign discoveries) are just translated paraphrasing of a New Scientist or similar websites. Of the other half concerning Chinese scientists, >90% are just straight laughable crackpot stuff. The remaining from few respected institutions are run-of-the-mill boring real scientific discovery that does not get very much coverage.
The sad part is that Chinese science news, even on respected news websites, are often like gossip columns where the second category above gets perpetually propagated from site to site, blog to blog.
I really wish people would stop acting like we are so far behind because of Bush he only stopped research on embryonic not adult.
I am not sure about that. Remember SPUTNIK scared the s*** out of the American public and made us think that we had a serious missile gap with USSR. The truth is of course far different. As a result, we had a generation of citizens and politicians (under pressure from constituents?) devoted to scientific/technological advances that eventually lead us to the moon. A few more break-through coming from the communist-in-name-only China might be a good thing to sway public opinion.
Ditto to you. To me the most valuable thing about a University education is the ability to discuss problem/idea with the top-notch faculties who are forefront in their fields. No amount of email, webcam, and twitters will replace having a face-to-face conversation where he can just call you a crackpot then go on to explain in ten different ways why you are wrong.
Can someone make a good claim, based on statistics and such, how much do bandwidth really cost??
It is very difficult to make an inform judgment what the sliding scale price should be when you don't know anything. I heard broadband is pretty cheap at S. Korean / Singapore over copper lines.
Also if TW is raising price for top users, shouldn't it lower price for those emailing and browsing mom-and-pops? At what point does this become price gauging?
Hard to take side?
If you are unadulterated M$ hater, you celebrate.
If you are free software advocates and software-patent hater, you kick and scream.
Was that so hard?
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Local authority ignores mandates from central government, pretty routine in China, I'd say (despite what you might think about a strong central government): environmental regulation, land use/ownership/compensation guideline, anti-corruption laws, earthquake compensation, labor law etc. China actually have quite a few progressive law on the book, but are usually rendered unenforceable when the very people who are in charge of enforcing them stands to profit (read: kick-back from industry) by ignoring them and no independent judiciary system to hear petition of ordinary people whom these laws helps.
The only difference here is that it have a "positive" outcome.
By some accident I disabled noscript and got this error too.
I have never seen one of these since I have been running exclusively Linux for the last few years. I thought it's so funny that I couldn't resist the chance of a screen shot: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/mathfield/my_virus_problem.png
Of course, turning on NOSCRIPT and it goes away.
When I read the title from RSS feed, I thought are people trying to get their kids more cultured by sending them to be educated by the international organization?
Then I read the summary and sure enough, it just reminds me of that movie even more.
Last time performance work was attempted collaboratively on the internet?
"Snake on the plane"
They (or an executive) think a few hundred USD full refund can buy silent? Even I am not ready to sell out at that price.
Given a choice between creating an representative cross-section of America and an representative cross-section of their customer base, game makers are likely going to go with the people who are paying them money.
And how many of their customers have extremely well build muscle, ideally tanned skin tone, and over-sized boobs?
Someone should also publish a paper about the underrepresentation of female characters endowed with regular-sized boobs in video games.
...oops...PC police come knocking...
I used to live in SF. From the point of view of the city, it's a big stream of revenue. I heard that parking fee/limit is enforced even on Sunday now. From the point of view of the driver, I am not sure if paying for parking is that big of a deal. The hardest part is find a damn parking spot in the first place. A parking meter is still a lot cheaper than parking garages in the city.
Of course, until this technique become prevalence even for some non-techies (say, they can buy hacked RFID card on ebay), I am not sure the city would see it as an issue. Of course, they can probably prosecute who they caught with tempering government property? Not sure. Regardless, maybe someone in the city government should include a reasonable non-hackable warranty clause when they make future acquisition....Who am I kidding? This is SF city hall we are talking about.
As a male, let me just say that it is sometimes good to be in the minority. The downside is that unless you are a dirty old man, there is no way to take advantage of the beautification of the female portion of the human race.
I beg to diff:
http://www.justthelists.com/wp-content/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/upload/lh3.ggpht.com/_dlkAw43cLC0/SSgRH89ccdI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/RYd_n2QrZz8/s800/16-money.jpg
Took me a few second to realized why the south pole is on top of the image. The guy is in Australia.
The intake of doctors into med school is tightly controlled. They are not going to start raising their intake, oh, just because the market wants it. How else could they command the high salaries that they do?
I recently helped a friend prepare the physics part of her MCAT and in the processed learned a lot about medical school in the US. I came away with exact feeling you have that medical school is but an exclusive (not only by grades, but other standard) club that is rather convoluted to join and to be brainwashed in, with the understanding that some day down the road by reciting memorized stuff from thick books that one can command high salary and demands respect.
I also teaches run-of-the-mill freshmen physics. Judging from the amount of physics/chemistry the pre-meds manage to master in our classes---and they seems to be rather water down and targeted for future CMAT taker---I learned that in the future when I need a physician, extremely caution and comparative shopping is required. If medicine is a science, I just don't have a lot of faith in its practitioners.
Magnetic field lines are not really like the lines on a topographic map. The lines of a magnetic field represent paths from high potential to low potential, rather than delineations of equal-potential regions.
You are talking about electric field. Magnetic field do not have a scalar potential to be talking about "high" and "low" from (which is related to the gradient of the potential). The vector potential of a magnetic field is very difficult to find common analogies with.
Maybe it's because Japan has one of the lowest rape per capita countries.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita
Hence the need to relief these urges virtually. That would be a good thing, no??
Which brand/model of GPS works with openstreetmap, if such model exist at all?
I just mentally replaced two lines above
reporter A: do you like fishstick?
reporter B: do you like to put fishstick in your mouth?
Well said. If you conduct a poll of adult Chinese/Asian American about who is a better roll model for their children, Steven Chu or Yao Ming?? I am sure Chu would win by a sizable margin.
A friend of mine taught a course in science journalism in China a while back, and he was appalled to find out that Chinese journalists would just make stories up. They didn't understand the difference between telling a good story and telling the truth.
I can attest to that. As a semi-native Chinese speaker with advanced science degree, About half of Chinese science news items (related to foreign discoveries) are just translated paraphrasing of a New Scientist or similar websites. Of the other half concerning Chinese scientists, >90% are just straight laughable crackpot stuff. The remaining from few respected institutions are run-of-the-mill boring real scientific discovery that does not get very much coverage.
The sad part is that Chinese science news, even on respected news websites, are often like gossip columns where the second category above gets perpetually propagated from site to site, blog to blog.
May I recommend this comic? http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd042009s.gif
I really wish people would stop acting like we are so far behind because of Bush he only stopped research on embryonic not adult.
I am not sure about that. Remember SPUTNIK scared the s*** out of the American public and made us think that we had a serious missile gap with USSR. The truth is of course far different. As a result, we had a generation of citizens and politicians (under pressure from constituents?) devoted to scientific/technological advances that eventually lead us to the moon. A few more break-through coming from the communist-in-name-only China might be a good thing to sway public opinion.
Have anyone caught any of the continuing coverage on all the major network today?? You don't think people will panic after watching those??
Ditto to you. To me the most valuable thing about a University education is the ability to discuss problem/idea with the top-notch faculties who are forefront in their fields. No amount of email, webcam, and twitters will replace having a face-to-face conversation where he can just call you a crackpot then go on to explain in ten different ways why you are wrong.
I dont' fault Amazon on this one, but how about include a checkbox that says "Include Adult material" at the search engine?
Just like those useless "Click only if are above 18" button.
Can someone make a good claim, based on statistics and such, how much do bandwidth really cost??
It is very difficult to make an inform judgment what the sliding scale price should be when you don't know anything. I heard broadband is pretty cheap at S. Korean / Singapore over copper lines.
Also if TW is raising price for top users, shouldn't it lower price for those emailing and browsing mom-and-pops? At what point does this become price gauging?
Hard to take side?
If you are unadulterated M$ hater, you celebrate.
If you are free software advocates and software-patent hater, you kick and scream.
Was that so hard?
If your country/culture is good at something, you get to name stuff.
That's why stars have Arabic names. I am sorry, but this is just the case with computer science.