Don't you study other languages in american schools?
The answer to that is basically NO. I'm an American who has also lived in Hamburg, Germany and London, England. Compared to much of Europe there is very little foreign language instruction in the USA during the first 13 years of schooling. An average American might get 3 years of low quality Spanish instruction in high school. The American system of education is also organized in a vastly different manner than the systems of most European countries so it is hard to make comparisons beyond this.
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Yeah at least looking at job boards there does appear to be a shortage of very highend people. I think you may be correct that part of the problem is organizational and that if better structures are used not so many gurus are required.
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While payscale and health benefits may not be the issues that inspire IT workers to unionize, there are other issues. H1-B visa workers are of course often abused and it would seem that a union would make a hell of a lot of sense for them. There is also the issue of the "IT shortage." IT unions cold lobby politicians to realize that the "IT shortage" does not exist.
Some DSL competition still exists. Check ispmenu for comparison of DSL services still available at any particular address. [/plug] It also compares dialups.
ispmenu.com allows you to check and compare business and residential DSL services available at your address/phone. [/plug] There are still options other than the BabyBells out there.
This would be much nicer if it was NASA trying to build a robot to crawl around Mars and take pictures rather than the Defense Department trying to create another weapon.
Although constructing such a huge building scores high on the coolness factor and even generates a bunch of tourism and national pride such a project is a terrible idea.
There are several problems.
Today's tallest buildings such as the towers in Kuala Lampur are actually less useful and efficient than somewhat smaller sky-scrappers because of the amount of building space occupied by elevators. Once a building reachs a certain number of stories/height the amount of space inside the building that needs to be devoted to elevators becomes so large as to make the building economically impractical.
As another poster noted the price tag of about 15B USD is extremely high
There is also the issue of earthquakes and wind. Constructing the largest sky-scrappers today takes most to all of architects and civil engineers Knowhow to prevent them from falling over in a storm of earthquake. The proposed Arcology goes way beyond anything we seem to have the Knowhow to do, which is quite dangerous. We also have 0 experience in building things of this size.
Speaking of dangerous, China has quite a reputation for buildings that collapse due to poor construction. This is because the Chinese goverment is not regulating construction effectively. Here are a couple stories on the recent collapse of a shopping mall in China in which dozens of people died. Time of India    Chinadaily Note... this is not the recent case of a school explosion in China which killed 41.
If China needs to build large buildings to stop urban sprawl, which may well be the case, multiple 60 or 70 story buildings would be a much better solution.
While this is serious, it is also such a NYC problem... I found this dead guy and I didn't have a cell phone on me and the payphone didn't work so I had to go to the subway...
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't just build an Instant Messanger into their OS's like they did with IE and make that the standard by brute force. Conceivably Microsoft could agree to an IM truce with AOL and have their Windows/MSN IM work with AOL and ICQ. Then that would be the standard. The Bush administration wouldn't go after such an action on anti-trust grounds and that is the only possible deterant I can come up with. Dominance of IM also further isolates non-Microsoft OS's.
I think this is a good question. The current Celerons are P-III's with half of the cache disabled and a 100MHz FSB. The Durons really kick their ass in performance at the same clock speed. With the move of the P4 to the mainstream and the P-III to the lowerend space now sort of occupied by the Celeron, what becomes of the Celeron. One would hope that Intel would just ditch the Celeron totally soon and sell P-III's with both the 100 and 133 FSB's. I am not sure that Intel is going to do this though. Intel might change things around a little and modify the Celeron again or simply call P-III's new Celerons and stop most P-III production. For example, Intel could stop selligng the current Celerons and rename the 100MHz FSB P-III's Celerons and continue to call the 133MHz FSB P-III's P-III.
In any case AMD may be put into a more difficult situation because a P-III will outperform clock for clock a Duron.
The 1.2GHz Athlon (266FSB) performs pretty even with the 1.5GHz P4. The 1.33 GHz Athlon (266FSB) outperforms the 1.5GHz P4 by a bit so it still makes sense to buy the Athlon. The difference is it is now not totally unreasonable to go with the 1.5GHz P4, especially if you are doing one of the few tasks that the P4 really does well at.
yeah... this is in some ways similar to the drug war I guess. Catch some little meaningless people that make up the demand and punish the fuck out of them... don't treat the demand and don't really address the supply.
I am not sure what to make of this situation... Arresting students for trading MP3's is very bad of course and is a terror tactic aimed at scaring other students and the general public. On the one hand Americans like myself shouldn't expect this kind of thing in the US, but on the other hand it isn't inconceivible either that somehow the RIAA would find a way to single out and arrest some students.
The other part of this that does not make any sense at all is why the Recording Industry is doing this in Taiwan. There are bootleg CD's sold in stores all the place right? That has to be costing the recording industry many times as much as lost revenue from MP3's. Is the case law and legal system in Taiwan such that making and selling pirate CD's is impossible to prosecute, but owning MP3's is easy?
CNET has this article on the death of Northpoint and the migration of customers to other places that provides some clarity for what I am talking about.
Covad, Northpoint and Rhythms are not the providers, but rather the intermediaries that providers use. All providers must use them or else a telco like Verizon. Many providers were in big trouble when Northpoint went under as it was their intermediary. Covad and Rhythms are also getting into the provider business too though.
I think they are mostly Covad partners... some of the business ones are probably Rhythms though since they do business, not really consumer... it wouldn't make sense to list Northpoint ones any more now would it and those are the only three options other than the telcos?
to plug the company I work for... ispmenu.com allows you to search and compare DSL and dialup providers available at your address. If your ISP is going down you can find a new one, at least until all of the ISP's have been gobbled up and Earthlink and Verizon merge or something.
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Don't you study other languages in american schools?
The answer to that is basically NO. I'm an American who has also lived in Hamburg, Germany and London, England. Compared to much of Europe there is very little foreign language instruction in the USA during the first 13 years of schooling. An average American might get 3 years of low quality Spanish instruction in high school. The American system of education is also organized in a vastly different manner than the systems of most European countries so it is hard to make comparisons beyond this.
The NYTimes article.
Ace's Hardware has a nice summary and set of links for the Athlon 4.
Unfortunately Sharkyextreme and HardOCP do not have reviews of the chip up for comparison yet.
Tom's does have a review up.
Here is the NYTimes article
Yeah at least looking at job boards there does appear to be a shortage of very highend people. I think you may be correct that part of the problem is organizational and that if better structures are used not so many gurus are required.
While payscale and health benefits may not be the issues that inspire IT workers to unionize, there are other issues. H1-B visa workers are of course often abused and it would seem that a union would make a hell of a lot of sense for them. There is also the issue of the "IT shortage." IT unions cold lobby politicians to realize that the "IT shortage" does not exist.
Some DSL competition still exists.
Check ispmenu for comparison of DSL services still available at any particular address. [/plug] It also compares dialups.
ispmenu.com allows you to check and compare business and residential DSL services available at your address/phone. [/plug] There are still options other than the BabyBells out there.
This would be much nicer if it was NASA trying to build a robot to crawl around Mars and take pictures rather than the Defense Department trying to create another weapon.
Although constructing such a huge building scores high on the coolness factor and even generates a bunch of tourism and national pride such a project is a terrible idea.
There are several problems.
Today's tallest buildings such as the towers in Kuala Lampur are actually less useful and efficient than somewhat smaller sky-scrappers because of the amount of building space occupied by elevators. Once a building reachs a certain number of stories/height the amount of space inside the building that needs to be devoted to elevators becomes so large as to make the building economically impractical.
As another poster noted the price tag of about 15B USD is extremely high
There is also the issue of earthquakes and wind. Constructing the largest sky-scrappers today takes most to all of architects and civil engineers Knowhow to prevent them from falling over in a storm of earthquake. The proposed Arcology goes way beyond anything we seem to have the Knowhow to do, which is quite dangerous. We also have 0 experience in building things of this size.
Speaking of dangerous, China has quite a reputation for buildings that collapse due to poor construction. This is because the Chinese goverment is not regulating construction effectively. Here are a couple stories on the recent collapse of a shopping mall in China in which dozens of people died. Time of India    Chinadaily Note... this is not the recent case of a school explosion in China which killed 41.
If China needs to build large buildings to stop urban sprawl, which may well be the case, multiple 60 or 70 story buildings would be a much better solution.
While this is serious, it is also such a NYC problem... I found this dead guy and I didn't have a cell phone on me and the payphone didn't work so I had to go to the subway...
What is worse is many payphones break and are left unfixed so when you go to call 911 it does not work.
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't just build an Instant Messanger into their OS's like they did with IE and make that the standard by brute force. Conceivably Microsoft could agree to an IM truce with AOL and have their Windows/MSN IM work with AOL and ICQ. Then that would be the standard. The Bush administration wouldn't go after such an action on anti-trust grounds and that is the only possible deterant I can come up with. Dominance of IM also further isolates non-Microsoft OS's.
The first article.
The more recent article.
I think this is a good question. The current Celerons are P-III's with half of the cache disabled and a 100MHz FSB. The Durons really kick their ass in performance at the same clock speed. With the move of the P4 to the mainstream and the P-III to the lowerend space now sort of occupied by the Celeron, what becomes of the Celeron. One would hope that Intel would just ditch the Celeron totally soon and sell P-III's with both the 100 and 133 FSB's. I am not sure that Intel is going to do this though. Intel might change things around a little and modify the Celeron again or simply call P-III's new Celerons and stop most P-III production. For example, Intel could stop selligng the current Celerons and rename the 100MHz FSB P-III's Celerons and continue to call the 133MHz FSB P-III's P-III.
In any case AMD may be put into a more difficult situation because a P-III will outperform clock for clock a Duron.
You have to figure that the Athlon 1.33GHz will be dropping at the very least $15 in response.
$230 - P4 1.5GHz (400MHz FSB)
$201 - Athlon 1.33GHz (266MHz FSB)
The 1.2GHz Athlon (266FSB) performs pretty even with the 1.5GHz P4. The 1.33 GHz Athlon (266FSB) outperforms the 1.5GHz P4 by a bit so it still makes sense to buy the Athlon. The difference is it is now not totally unreasonable to go with the 1.5GHz P4, especially if you are doing one of the few tasks that the P4 really does well at.
yeah... this is in some ways similar to the drug war I guess. Catch some little meaningless people that make up the demand and punish the fuck out of them... don't treat the demand and don't really address the supply.
I am not sure what to make of this situation...
Arresting students for trading MP3's is very bad of course and is a terror tactic aimed at scaring other students and the general public. On the one hand Americans like myself shouldn't expect this kind of thing in the US, but on the other hand it isn't inconceivible either that somehow the RIAA would find a way to single out and arrest some students.
The other part of this that does not make any sense at all is why the Recording Industry is doing this in Taiwan. There are bootleg CD's sold in stores all the place right? That has to be costing the recording industry many times as much as lost revenue from MP3's. Is the case law and legal system in Taiwan such that making and selling pirate CD's is impossible to prosecute, but owning MP3's is easy?
CNET has this article on the death of Northpoint and the migration of customers to other places that provides some clarity for what I am talking about.
Covad, Northpoint and Rhythms are not the providers, but rather the intermediaries that providers use. All providers must use them or else a telco like Verizon. Many providers were in big trouble when Northpoint went under as it was their intermediary. Covad and Rhythms are also getting into the provider business too though.
http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/04/10/health/10STE M.html
Often replacing the www with channel will bypass the login requirement at the NYTimes.
and the karma whoring additional NYTimes info...
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Telocity uses Northpoint, which is out of business (therefore not listed). Has your DSL with Telocity been switched to non-Northpoint?
I think they are mostly Covad partners... some of the business ones are probably Rhythms though since they do business, not really consumer... it wouldn't make sense to list Northpoint ones any more now would it and those are the only three options other than the telcos?
I think webhostingmenu.com has some pretty good deals. I think the Thinkhost at $10/mn is really good. I am a bit wary of the $5/mn of your-site.com because that is so cheap.
to plug the company I work for...
ispmenu.com allows you to search and compare DSL and dialup providers available at your address. If your ISP is going down you can find a new one, at least until all of the ISP's have been gobbled up and Earthlink and Verizon merge or something.