[quote]It cost less than the Dell, about the same as the HP, and $350 more than the Lenovo. And it was $1200 more than the Sony[/quote]
okay, I haven't been following the high-end laptop market (caz I don't need one besides more powerful than a netbook), but since when did SONY become the least expensive of them all??
I pay $50k for a college education, they come here to the same school and get massively subsidized.
First, really smart people from anywhere gets subsidized, period. Other than that, foreign students pays high tuition and no program to subsidize them (some would work illegally on the side).
Most the subsidies you talked about are in science/tech Ph.D. programs where there is usually fee remission with TA-ship/RA-ship. Not every PI enthusiastically takes on foreign student because they do cost more of their grant money. Frankly I think the issue is that there aren't just enough native Ph.D. students (for whom fee is cheat once they establish residency) because for some reason, Americans tend to shun these degrees??
Huh? I guess I have to follow the literature more. I heard him very enthusiastically telling students about this idea of reflected gravitational wave from superconductor when I took his laser physics class back in UCB---before he moved to Merced---in '02.
Why can't a REPUBLICAN [politician?] actually come along and have the courage to say, we shouldn't teach that non-science crap to our kids because "I don't want [my kids] to die poor and diseased!!"
Development of the software in the first place is a very small piece of that pie and without the source code and the ability to modify and distribute it only one company gets to compete in that huge market, which is very bad for the consumer.
Yes, where in capitalism does it say consumers necessarily benefit? It is usually a fortunate byproduct in the long run with competition, but in the short run (could be decades) with new technology, Capitalism makes damn sure that capitalists won first.
The added "h" means you have to pronounce the consenent with a curling-tongue, quite unnatural for western speakers.
Shanzhai usually means a mountain strong hold of bandits. I suppose the potentially illegal part here is with respect to IP laws? Then again, the Chinese never quite respected those in the first place.
I was reading somewhere that there was even an SZ version of the Chinese New Year TV show---the bigger show in China---this year because people are sick and tired of the official TV channel. Imagine a garage-version of the Super Bowl?
I use scheduleworld.com and have pretty much given up of synchronizing with Gmail because every time I do it, Gmail complete mess up the first-name/middle-name/last-name of the contact because gmail assume that the display name is in the form of firstname lastname. Is this a nonissue with English-speaking world? Where I live, I want different display format for different names. F-L for Western names and L-F for Asian names. To me, Gmail contact is pretty feature-limited.
Here's my question. How do they know about the biological responses of a terrorist about to commit an act? Surely they are just making educated guesses (therefore can lead to false positives). They can't really measure someone who's about to commit an act, right? Or whoever doing the experiment would have been blown off.
Frankly, while it's sad that people hurt each other, personally the loss of a (to me) random life among billions is not something I have time to worry about. I offering my condolences to the family of the deceased and leave it at that.
On the other hand, the ReiserFS / Reiser4 code is something I feel could be worth saving still. But will the stigma of the Reiser name hamper any efforts to keep the project alive?
Maybe it could be worthwhile to rename / fork the project under a totally new name, as to disassociate the code from this unfortunate event.
And frankly, the MurderFS joke is old by now...
How about killer-FS? Now that it has taken on an extra literal meaning in addition to the usual marketing one.
Neither vp candidates are nerd friendly (or known to be, Biden is supposedly anti-net-neutrality?), so let's drop that comparison.
I think part of the jobs of a vp is to act as adviser to the president and be ready to take over (one can suggests that Obama has assassination risk and McCain has, well he's old).
So I can see Biden helping Obama in his less-than-experienced field of foreign policy and such. And I can also see Biden taking over the presidency should Obama die. I fail to see how Palin, a mere city and state level official, can be of any help to McCain except for getting him elected. Will McCain himself trust her to take over should he kick the bucket? Somehow I don't think McCain would have much use for her once he takes office.
I am sure both picks have political motivations behind it (blue collar voter and Hillary voter), but it seems that Palin's pick is nothing but that: just to get elected. Can he convince voter (or himself) that he can trust Palin, who is decades his junior? And that is what makes this choice seem so disingenuous to me.
Good argument for Apple Inc., but why should consumer's--in this case, Psystar--right-of-first-purchase be trumped by Apple's desire to make a better product and money? I think Psystar will probably make crappy mac clone and I don't applaud them for it, but sure as hell I support their right to do so.
What's dogmatic about this? So "old" chemistry is build understand the assumption of valency. This still works for whatever it worked for before. Now under some extreme condition that when atoms are pressed closer together, the inner electronic structure contribution become comparable to valency contribution. Anything surprising here? No.
The way I understand it is that the whole valency thing is sort of like a perturbation theory approach and we all know that perturbation fails sometimes when the perturbation is too big. This is the case here. Probably the interesting thing here is just someone found how to go beyond the old method in situation when it fails. And all scientific theory/model fails in some condition (many we have no known way of moving forward with). This is just science at work.
I would argue that anyone who's in their early teens during '89 knows well what happened (I was). Quite frankly, now a day with the economic opportunity everywhere, few CARE TO REMEMBER (unfortunately). Many would argue that it was an unorganized uprising of bunch of young hot heads doomed to fail. Human right is important, but most Chinese, I would sadly argue, do not hold it nearly in such high places as the west does.
You are right though, average citizen doesn't know what VPN is. Then again, same situation in US.
I have been a Gentoo/Debian guy for a long time. When it comes time to replace my parents' computer few weeks ago, I thought Ubuntu would give me the least head ache. So I did, and I can't believe how damn easy it was. Two minutes was all it takes to get firefox-3 running with compiz and all the fancy shit. That weekend, I installed 4 copies.
I'll probably never use Ubuntu myself because everything feels so nicely wrapped up and hidden, but I do appreciate how it is great to lay users. If buying a copy at BestBuy (almost just for the heck of it) will increase its (and Linux in general) visibility, I'll do it for just that reason.
I agree that Opera in many respect is superior. However, there must be reasons for its unpopularity. After all, Pheonix/Firebird/Firefox came later in the game and easily surpassed Opera, leaving only a bunch of niche user constantly whining about it on/.
Maybe it's the license? maybe it's lack of marketing? Maybe it's some issue with usability with normal non-geek user. I don't know. When I used Opera, I found it neither significantly better or worse than Mozilla. In the eyes of few (percentage wise), this could be another case in which technologically superior solution (I am not asserting that Opera is superior) does not become the most popular solution.
The fact is this: in the battle for popularity, Opera lost.
Suppose China were found unequivocally guilty by this congressional hearing, what kind of punishment/sanction is our pro-business government (both parties) going to impose? There'll surely be economical retaliation and Walmark are not going to like that.
Just like suppose Windows were found to be running on most of the hacked computer, is our government going to to tough enough to demand replacing all our military computers with something more secure? Not when a multi billion contractor from Redmond has anything to say about it.
This raises another point. Surely our enemies with resource (and computer resource is cheap and abundant) are going to try to hack us. Shouldn't we be more focused on securing our system: something we can do pro-actively. Instead of blaming the attacker, over whom we have to jurisdiction (or unwilling) to punish, shouldn't we punish those people who leave us vulnerable here, at home, when we are paying them shit load of tax money to secure our infrastructure? And if the infrastructure is to blame, should we blame congress?
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[quote]It cost less than the Dell, about the same as the HP, and $350 more than the Lenovo. And it was $1200 more than the Sony[/quote] okay, I haven't been following the high-end laptop market (caz I don't need one besides more powerful than a netbook), but since when did SONY become the least expensive of them all??
I pay $50k for a college education, they come here to the same school and get massively subsidized.
First, really smart people from anywhere gets subsidized, period. Other than that, foreign students pays high tuition and no program to subsidize them (some would work illegally on the side). Most the subsidies you talked about are in science/tech Ph.D. programs where there is usually fee remission with TA-ship/RA-ship. Not every PI enthusiastically takes on foreign student because they do cost more of their grant money. Frankly I think the issue is that there aren't just enough native Ph.D. students (for whom fee is cheat once they establish residency) because for some reason, Americans tend to shun these degrees??
Huh? I guess I have to follow the literature more. I heard him very enthusiastically telling students about this idea of reflected gravitational wave from superconductor when I took his laser physics class back in UCB---before he moved to Merced---in '02.
Why can't a REPUBLICAN [politician?] actually come along and have the courage to say, we shouldn't teach that non-science crap to our kids because "I don't want [my kids] to die poor and diseased!!"
Development of the software in the first place is a very small piece of that pie and without the source code and the ability to modify and distribute it only one company gets to compete in that huge market, which is very bad for the consumer.
Yes, where in capitalism does it say consumers necessarily benefit? It is usually a fortunate byproduct in the long run with competition, but in the short run (could be decades) with new technology, Capitalism makes damn sure that capitalists won first.
Oops, sorry, obvious didn't RTFA. Now I did....
The added "h" means you have to pronounce the consenent with a curling-tongue, quite unnatural for western speakers.
Shanzhai usually means a mountain strong hold of bandits. I suppose the potentially illegal part here is with respect to IP laws? Then again, the Chinese never quite respected those in the first place.
I was reading somewhere that there was even an SZ version of the Chinese New Year TV show---the bigger show in China---this year because people are sick and tired of the official TV channel. Imagine a garage-version of the Super Bowl?
will probably buy some of these if its functionality is reversed: detect a projectile then move _into_ the line of the fire.
I use scheduleworld.com and have pretty much given up of synchronizing with Gmail because every time I do it, Gmail complete mess up the first-name/middle-name/last-name of the contact because gmail assume that the display name is in the form of firstname lastname. Is this a nonissue with English-speaking world? Where I live, I want different display format for different names. F-L for Western names and L-F for Asian names. To me, Gmail contact is pretty feature-limited.
Yeah, science is pretty harsh.
Here's my question. How do they know about the biological responses of a terrorist about to commit an act? Surely they are just making educated guesses (therefore can lead to false positives). They can't really measure someone who's about to commit an act, right? Or whoever doing the experiment would have been blown off.
I was at Sears auto center today. I could almost swear that their repair/billing system looks like something written for 3.x running on win95/98.
Can't confirm it one way or another though.
Frankly, while it's sad that people hurt each other, personally the loss of a (to me) random life among billions is not something I have time to worry about. I offering my condolences to the family of the deceased and leave it at that.
On the other hand, the ReiserFS / Reiser4 code is something I feel could be worth saving still. But will the stigma of the Reiser name hamper any efforts to keep the project alive?
Maybe it could be worthwhile to rename / fork the project under a totally new name, as to disassociate the code from this unfortunate event.
And frankly, the MurderFS joke is old by now...
How about killer-FS? Now that it has taken on an extra literal meaning in addition to the usual marketing one.
Neither vp candidates are nerd friendly (or known to be, Biden is supposedly anti-net-neutrality?), so let's drop that comparison.
I think part of the jobs of a vp is to act as adviser to the president and be ready to take over (one can suggests that Obama has assassination risk and McCain has, well he's old).
So I can see Biden helping Obama in his less-than-experienced field of foreign policy and such. And I can also see Biden taking over the presidency should Obama die. I fail to see how Palin, a mere city and state level official, can be of any help to McCain except for getting him elected. Will McCain himself trust her to take over should he kick the bucket? Somehow I don't think McCain would have much use for her once he takes office.
I am sure both picks have political motivations behind it (blue collar voter and Hillary voter), but it seems that Palin's pick is nothing but that: just to get elected. Can he convince voter (or himself) that he can trust Palin, who is decades his junior? And that is what makes this choice seem so disingenuous to me.
Good argument for Apple Inc., but why should consumer's--in this case, Psystar--right-of-first-purchase be trumped by Apple's desire to make a better product and money? I think Psystar will probably make crappy mac clone and I don't applaud them for it, but sure as hell I support their right to do so.
How is this news for nerd again? Multiple wifes? Not any nerd I know of.
What's dogmatic about this? So "old" chemistry is build understand the assumption of valency. This still works for whatever it worked for before. Now under some extreme condition that when atoms are pressed closer together, the inner electronic structure contribution become comparable to valency contribution. Anything surprising here? No.
The way I understand it is that the whole valency thing is sort of like a perturbation theory approach and we all know that perturbation fails sometimes when the perturbation is too big. This is the case here. Probably the interesting thing here is just someone found how to go beyond the old method in situation when it fails. And all scientific theory/model fails in some condition (many we have no known way of moving forward with). This is just science at work.
I would argue that anyone who's in their early teens during '89 knows well what happened (I was). Quite frankly, now a day with the economic opportunity everywhere, few CARE TO REMEMBER (unfortunately). Many would argue that it was an unorganized uprising of bunch of young hot heads doomed to fail. Human right is important, but most Chinese, I would sadly argue, do not hold it nearly in such high places as the west does.
You are right though, average citizen doesn't know what VPN is. Then again, same situation in US.
"white-collar resort-prison". If recaptured, he should be sent to a "pound me in the ass prison".
(obligatory Office Space reference).
I would do that exactly.
I have been a Gentoo/Debian guy for a long time. When it comes time to replace my parents' computer few weeks ago, I thought Ubuntu would give me the least head ache. So I did, and I can't believe how damn easy it was. Two minutes was all it takes to get firefox-3 running with compiz and all the fancy shit. That weekend, I installed 4 copies.
I'll probably never use Ubuntu myself because everything feels so nicely wrapped up and hidden, but I do appreciate how it is great to lay users. If buying a copy at BestBuy (almost just for the heck of it) will increase its (and Linux in general) visibility, I'll do it for just that reason.
I agree that Opera in many respect is superior. However, there must be reasons for its unpopularity. After all, Pheonix/Firebird/Firefox came later in the game and easily surpassed Opera, leaving only a bunch of niche user constantly whining about it on /.
Maybe it's the license? maybe it's lack of marketing? Maybe it's some issue with usability with normal non-geek user. I don't know. When I used Opera, I found it neither significantly better or worse than Mozilla. In the eyes of few (percentage wise), this could be another case in which technologically superior solution (I am not asserting that Opera is superior) does not become the most popular solution.
The fact is this: in the battle for popularity, Opera lost.
superman?
Suppose China were found unequivocally guilty by this congressional hearing, what kind of punishment/sanction is our pro-business government (both parties) going to impose? There'll surely be economical retaliation and Walmark are not going to like that.
Just like suppose Windows were found to be running on most of the hacked computer, is our government going to to tough enough to demand replacing all our military computers with something more secure? Not when a multi billion contractor from Redmond has anything to say about it.
This raises another point. Surely our enemies with resource (and computer resource is cheap and abundant) are going to try to hack us. Shouldn't we be more focused on securing our system: something we can do pro-actively. Instead of blaming the attacker, over whom we have to jurisdiction (or unwilling) to punish, shouldn't we punish those people who leave us vulnerable here, at home, when we are paying them shit load of tax money to secure our infrastructure? And if the infrastructure is to blame, should we blame congress?
did it run Windows?
when catholic officially embraces Scientology. Any day now...