So, if they wanted to hand him over to the US so badly then why where they not eager to take that chance while they had it? You suppose the police would give him special treatment and send staff abroad just to question him because he doesn't feel like stopping by? He's a suspect like any other and simply delaying the course of justice. These are serious accusations that any responsible law enforcement and justice system need to deal with properly and this naturally involves interrogating the suspect.
Here I like to hear that he is checking the headers so he gets an idea what libraries are used, checks if the libraries are outdated, checks the lib known bugs... or whatever else he'd do, hell, nearly anything is fine. I want to know if he has some kind of general approach to bug hunting.
Sounds like you guys like to hire pretty damn confident programmers if the first thing they do when they get a bug report is to look for faults in the libraries.
Or, perhaps just using rather questionable libraries;)
On the other hand, I've been studying in China for nearly 2 years now and I've never in Europe met so many people studying subjects they don't really like that much. A theory and view which I share is that the nature of this work is just generally less attractive to the female brain (regardless of ability). Hence in countries like Sweden for instance, people are more free to choose what they want to study (and if) so we end up with jobs that relate stronger to our personal interest.
I guess I don't really count as chinese, just though I'd mention I'm reading this article inside china without any proxy. Maybe he got sloppy after 12 hours or so. Actually, while a lot of chinese are certanly under-paid, I find that many local friends of mine just work 7 hours a day.
Speaking of china, I just now realized something. SLASHDOT WORKS HERE! I haven't been able to access it for a year without proxy, anybody else accessing it from mainland china that can verify this? I guess it could have been that it was just blocked by this university and somehow works now because we just had a powerout, but it seems unlikely.
Kanji usually refers to the originally chinese characters used in japanese so I it sounds a bit backwards to say kanji-based languages but I admit this is besides the point:)
I think the reason why things are blocked in china is not so that a few people who are interested in enough to try to decipher any kind of codes like those you mention) can find out, actually most of these issues are probably less unknown and secret to chinese than what you think. It's about keeping it away from the great masses, not to have them bombarded with news/information/propaganda that would cause the masses to get upset and turn against their government. Ithink the blocking of the chinese language BBC news website while the english verison got unblocked years ago is an example of this.
About chinese name tatoos, i suppose you mean tatoos that contain transliterations of western names in chinese. Yes in this case you can pick characters that sound similar in pronounciation, usually characters whose meaning is something positive or related to the person somehow, but they don't exactly have any special "sound characters'. Beware though that lots (nearly all?) of tattoos containing chinese characters made in other countries are made by people with near zero understanding of the language. A lot of characters in chinese do share the same pronounciation and it does happend that some foul meaning characters get replaced by other characters with the same or similar prononciation. Though I think text containing a lot of these replacements would be so annoying and difficult to read that nobody would bother to read them.
China definitely has problems and the corruption certainly is one of them. But I think you are overstating the lack of freedom and government accountability. There is definitely some freedom here, otherwise I would doubt I would like it here so much. In fact for some there seems to be too much of it though... freedom/power not quite equally distributed.
There is certainly a degree of government accountability, In fact the government will tread very carefully around some issues and attempt to please the people. For instance admitting the rampant corruption and food safety issues. They seem deeply concerned about keeping their people content.
Completely blocking such common words would be insane, I just googled as well as searched baidu for the word 'freedom' in chinese and got a hundreds millions of results.Though I'm sure many of the pages found will be blocked but not merely from containing those words.
Ok, first, CONES do not stop someone. They're just to provide a more obvious warning sign (as if the maintenance trucks aren't enough).[...]Your daughter ignored her surroundings and got a very distinct reminder to not do it again..
Maybe she was busy looking at the trucks to see what they where up to?
So the USA finally have cellphones now? I thought the FCC would never let you have those bands;)
While in, for example Sweden, things have actually move forward to the point where providers let you use whatever mobile phone you feel like. It works great, and you can get 7.2 Mbps bandwith with "Turbo 3G"...
I guess regular newspapers doesn't scroll the same way. I have yet to see any larger on-line newspaper even attempt to use multiple columns in one page.
You see, I was attempting something called a joke. The point of this particular joke was to illustrate the inaccuracy of this stupid article.
The article stated, I quote, "And with as much as 1.5 Gb of onboard video memory and up to 128 processing units, these powerful GPU chips are much more effective than CPUs in performing many of these calculations."
Note "128 processing units"... Am I supposed to assume they mean pipelines or just being clueless?
Hello, I would like to order one of your _cheap_ PCs, specifically the one with 128 GPU:s which I will turn into a supercomputer with this great software. I need it to recover my lost windows password. Thank you.
And by the way do you still have those low-energy, standard socket 1.21 gigawatt bulbs?
When I started elementary school here in Sweden around the year 2000, we had a system like that (first class/open text) which was shared by all elementary schools in the municipality. Perhaps we didn't have as much as 100 megabytes at the time, but still...
Yeah, that's a bitch. They could've gone to college or technical school, but they didn't, and now they're stuck working jobs that a whole bunch of people are willing to do for very little money. Like it or not, stocking shelves just isn't a valuable skill.
There are tons obvious of reasons why many people get less education than others in the US.
And the fact that Walmart uses dirty methods that makes sure the worth of these peoples' labour stays low really makes me question how a fair trade this actually is. I'd say these people are getting ripped of. Your prevous reasoning seem to be based on assumptions that people always knows what everything is worth and never get fooled.
What Walmart is doing is simply unfair trade, I can't support a system that accepts or even relies on that.
Ever hear about inflation? Or how about lay offs? Those increased wages aren't just going to magically come from nowhere.
Yeah, but it's still possible to negotiate the price of labour just like its possible for companies to negotiate (set) the price of their goods and services. Though this works much better with a system relying more on collective bargaining (like the one applied in Sweden for example) than on minimum wages.
That's just bullshit. Working is mutual exploitation. I go to work for 8 hours a day because I value the money I get more than the work I put in. My employer pays me because they value my work more than they value the money they pay me. Both my employer and I receive value from the setup, and if either of those conditions ceases to be true, I'm going to stop working there. Same thing with Walmart. If the tard stocking shelves thinks their labor is worth more than minimum wage, they can find a job where they get paid what they're worth. Nobody's holding a gun to their head.
That's a beautiful thought, but it doesn't work like that in practice. One of the reasons why is that there is usually not an unlimited supply of jobs that one is able to get. Do you really think anyone would go get at job at Walmart in the first place if there's something better? We all need some things to survive and to live a decent life (you only get one) and some people apparently have to work at Walmart to get those things, there's the gun.
But the you can't just magically declare "My labor is worth $100 an hour" and expect people to pay you that much when there's a ton of people doing the same exact thing for a lot less money. Walmart pays what they do because their employees accept it. It's as simple as that.
Ever herd of organized labour?
You capitalism haters are all the same. You'll go on and on bitching about capitalism, but you'll never propose anything better. It isn't perfect, but it beats the shit out of every other economic system that's been devised.
Pure capitalism is really something awful. I'd propose a mixed economy just like what the US have right now (but with a better mix), though I guess I can't really be placed in the group of capitalism haters.
I'm sorry that I used these strong expressions and thereby scaring some people into thinking I was just doing that to piss them off. But seriously, it all seemed so great, but then "What? You mean you would actually like this thing to let you utilize your little country's 3G-net? And you would expect a company like Nokia to think of that? You would really like to use this device when you don't have direct access to an open wlan without also spending lots of additional money on a 3G phone? Madness...". I just expressed myself like that to illustrate the trauma from which I was suffering after having realized they did the same mistake AGAIN.
And don't forget, as you can use lots of different things to force a nail into something, it's completely irrational to talk about 'nail guns' while we really should talk about 'nail people'. We all know that 'nailing' is a human trait... right?
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So, if they wanted to hand him over to the US so badly then why where they not eager to take that chance while they had it? You suppose the police would give him special treatment and send staff abroad just to question him because he doesn't feel like stopping by? He's a suspect like any other and simply delaying the course of justice. These are serious accusations that any responsible law enforcement and justice system need to deal with properly and this naturally involves interrogating the suspect.
Here I like to hear that he is checking the headers so he gets an idea what libraries are used, checks if the libraries are outdated, checks the lib known bugs... or whatever else he'd do, hell, nearly anything is fine. I want to know if he has some kind of general approach to bug hunting.
Sounds like you guys like to hire pretty damn confident programmers if the first thing they do when they get a bug report is to look for faults in the libraries. Or, perhaps just using rather questionable libraries ;)
Now I see the real purpose behind that private restaurant at Apple they where talking about! "Pea soup and cabbage today again??"
Isn't one of the main purposes of using wind power to reverse the effects of global warming, in other words to change the climate?
On the other hand, I've been studying in China for nearly 2 years now and I've never in Europe met so many people studying subjects they don't really like that much. A theory and view which I share is that the nature of this work is just generally less attractive to the female brain (regardless of ability). Hence in countries like Sweden for instance, people are more free to choose what they want to study (and if) so we end up with jobs that relate stronger to our personal interest.
Now that's what I call losing face!
I guess I don't really count as chinese, just though I'd mention I'm reading this article inside china without any proxy. Maybe he got sloppy after 12 hours or so. Actually, while a lot of chinese are certanly under-paid, I find that many local friends of mine just work 7 hours a day.
Speaking of china, I just now realized something. SLASHDOT WORKS HERE! I haven't been able to access it for a year without proxy, anybody else accessing it from mainland china that can verify this? I guess it could have been that it was just blocked by this university and somehow works now because we just had a powerout, but it seems unlikely.
I think the reason why things are blocked in china is not so that a few people who are interested in enough to try to decipher any kind of codes like those you mention) can find out, actually most of these issues are probably less unknown and secret to chinese than what you think. It's about keeping it away from the great masses, not to have them bombarded with news/information/propaganda that would cause the masses to get upset and turn against their government. Ithink the blocking of the chinese language BBC news website while the english verison got unblocked years ago is an example of this.
About chinese name tatoos, i suppose you mean tatoos that contain transliterations of western names in chinese. Yes in this case you can pick characters that sound similar in pronounciation, usually characters whose meaning is something positive or related to the person somehow, but they don't exactly have any special "sound characters'. Beware though that lots (nearly all?) of tattoos containing chinese characters made in other countries are made by people with near zero understanding of the language. A lot of characters in chinese do share the same pronounciation and it does happend that some foul meaning characters get replaced by other characters with the same or similar prononciation. Though I think text containing a lot of these replacements would be so annoying and difficult to read that nobody would bother to read them.
China definitely has problems and the corruption certainly is one of them. But I think you are overstating the lack of freedom and government accountability. There is definitely some freedom here, otherwise I would doubt I would like it here so much. In fact for some there seems to be too much of it though... freedom/power not quite equally distributed. There is certainly a degree of government accountability, In fact the government will tread very carefully around some issues and attempt to please the people. For instance admitting the rampant corruption and food safety issues. They seem deeply concerned about keeping their people content. Completely blocking such common words would be insane, I just googled as well as searched baidu for the word 'freedom' in chinese and got a hundreds millions of results.Though I'm sure many of the pages found will be blocked but not merely from containing those words.
Ok, first, CONES do not stop someone. They're just to provide a more obvious warning sign (as if the maintenance trucks aren't enough).[...]Your daughter ignored her surroundings and got a very distinct reminder to not do it again..
Maybe she was busy looking at the trucks to see what they where up to?
Don't be led to believe that Russia is a member of the EU.
Communists can't be mods now?
So the USA finally have cellphones now? I thought the FCC would never let you have those bands ;)
While in, for example Sweden, things have actually move forward to the point where providers let you use whatever mobile phone you feel like. It works great, and you can get 7.2 Mbps bandwith with "Turbo 3G"...
If it's not going to be kept free, then what significant benefits are there of it being adopted?
I guess regular newspapers doesn't scroll the same way. I have yet to see any larger on-line newspaper even attempt to use multiple columns in one page.
Sorry, but that's pretty much completely untrue. Sweden has a strict drug policy and laws against buying sex.
You see, I was attempting something called a joke. The point of this particular joke was to illustrate the inaccuracy of this stupid article.
The article stated, I quote, "And with as much as 1.5 Gb of onboard video memory and up to 128 processing units, these powerful GPU chips are much more effective than CPUs in performing many of these calculations."
Note "128 processing units"... Am I supposed to assume they mean pipelines or just being clueless?
Hello, I would like to order one of your _cheap_ PCs, specifically the one with 128 GPU:s which I will turn into a supercomputer with this great software. I need it to recover my lost windows password. Thank you. And by the way do you still have those low-energy, standard socket 1.21 gigawatt bulbs?
When I started elementary school here in Sweden around the year 2000, we had a system like that (first class/open text) which was shared by all elementary schools in the municipality. Perhaps we didn't have as much as 100 megabytes at the time, but still...
Yeah, that's a bitch. They could've gone to college or technical school, but they didn't, and now they're stuck working jobs that a whole bunch of people are willing to do for very little money. Like it or not, stocking shelves just isn't a valuable skill.
There are tons obvious of reasons why many people get less education than others in the US.
And the fact that Walmart uses dirty methods that makes sure the worth of these peoples' labour stays low really makes me question how a fair trade this actually is. I'd say these people are getting ripped of. Your prevous reasoning seem to be based on assumptions that people always knows what everything is worth and never get fooled.
What Walmart is doing is simply unfair trade, I can't support a system that accepts or even relies on that.
Ever hear about inflation? Or how about lay offs? Those increased wages aren't just going to magically come from nowhere.
Yeah, but it's still possible to negotiate the price of labour just like its possible for companies to negotiate (set) the price of their goods and services. Though this works much better with a system relying more on collective bargaining (like the one applied in Sweden for example) than on minimum wages.
That's just bullshit. Working is mutual exploitation. I go to work for 8 hours a day because I value the money I get more than the work I put in. My employer pays me because they value my work more than they value the money they pay me. Both my employer and I receive value from the setup, and if either of those conditions ceases to be true, I'm going to stop working there. Same thing with Walmart. If the tard stocking shelves thinks their labor is worth more than minimum wage, they can find a job where they get paid what they're worth. Nobody's holding a gun to their head.
That's a beautiful thought, but it doesn't work like that in practice. One of the reasons why is that there is usually not an unlimited supply of jobs that one is able to get. Do you really think anyone would go get at job at Walmart in the first place if there's something better? We all need some things to survive and to live a decent life (you only get one) and some people apparently have to work at Walmart to get those things, there's the gun.
But the you can't just magically declare "My labor is worth $100 an hour" and expect people to pay you that much when there's a ton of people doing the same exact thing for a lot less money. Walmart pays what they do because their employees accept it. It's as simple as that.
Ever herd of organized labour?
You capitalism haters are all the same. You'll go on and on bitching about capitalism, but you'll never propose anything better. It isn't perfect, but it beats the shit out of every other economic system that's been devised.
Pure capitalism is really something awful. I'd propose a mixed economy just like what the US have right now (but with a better mix), though I guess I can't really be placed in the group of capitalism haters.
I guess this is only a problem for some countries, us europeans already have the baltic sea converted to one big toxic-algae pond.
I'm sorry that I used these strong expressions and thereby scaring some people into thinking I was just doing that to piss them off. But seriously, it all seemed so great, but then "What? You mean you would actually like this thing to let you utilize your little country's 3G-net? And you would expect a company like Nokia to think of that? You would really like to use this device when you don't have direct access to an open wlan without also spending lots of additional money on a 3G phone? Madness...". I just expressed myself like that to illustrate the trauma from which I was suffering after having realized they did the same mistake AGAIN.
And don't forget, as you can use lots of different things to force a nail into something, it's completely irrational to talk about 'nail guns' while we really should talk about 'nail people'. We all know that 'nailing' is a human trait... right?