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Did I read this article right... that he feels injustice for not receiving his bonus?

This is interesting, this would certainly be a very new direction for foreign currency.

Another interesting point is this was not raised during the 2008 APEC meeting, much to the dismay of European countries.

However this time around things seem to have progressed, and Russia has put forth the proposal to the G20, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20090323/120689432.html

and this one with some humor:

http://mnweekly.ru/news/20090305/55369676.html

Your second point is certainly not universal, some people do a lot of work during college.

If you know what you really want to do before college, sure go for it, but in most cases people have no idea, college is a good place to keep busy and learn about your interests.

Go all out on gold, you could have 46kg, imagine having your front door made of pure gold!

He makes good points no doubt, but the article just seemed a little long winded to me, maybe the book is better.

After reading through it doesn't feel like there is much content in his writing, anybody else have this feeling?

I'm uncertain as to how your comment is upmodded so much with statements like this:

'Students graduate in to a world where connections, wealth, accident of birth and not talent determine your success in life.'

This is clearly true everywhere in the world, and if you meant to say that this is MORE true in China, then you better rethink because there is far more opportunity there right now compared to most places in the world. Might I suggest a few reasons why you cannot higher the 'best' cs graduates:

The best will go where the money is, are you offering enough money? A lot will go overseas. Another good reason is CS is not where the money is at in China. You must also remember that IT is a new field in China, and not long ago a computer and the internet was a luxury, ditto for the education of CS.

I am a Chinese who moved to the Australia when I was 9, the education system here seemed to me like kindergarten at the start, it was just play all day and do nothing. This moved to Chinese primary school year 4 level at the start of high school.

Anyway, although I attended one of the top public schools (my year was very strong), it provides no where near the same rigor nor depth of education, and most importantly the majority of students here did not actually want to learn, which was probably the one thing I hated most about this system, nobody cared, what a waste of youth and talent.

Chinese students at the end of high school are amongst the most well educated in the world, not to mention the vast differences in education and life culture, which a lot of westerners are ignorant about.

The big fallacy of the Chinese education system is that its hard to get IN to a university, and once you're there you're pretty much assured graduation (or the mentality is there), this is perhaps the reverse of western society and needs to be fixed.

So Google offers electricity and internet at the same time, why is this bad? Its not like they can enforce a monopoly, people will still have choice.

Its true they're doing this because they see the success of the Apple store, and its true this is scary, but I do hope for the sake of Microsoft that they succeed :P

I say this because I'm not an Apple fan, and seeing people pay so much money for Apple's stuff makes me a tad angry, but hey kudos to Apple for their success. What I want to see is some competition to the Apple store and this is also a good opportunity for Microsoft show its true colours, which I don't think its doing presently.

Microsoft makes a lot more then just an OS ;/

generating random numbers seems right.. maybe they switch chips when accuracy matters, or maybe they don't care if some of the output gets mangled since the human can 'ignore' the mistakes.

If you placed your life savings in a car and the car blew up, would you be angry with the car?

No hang on, that's not being rational, you can't blame the whole car, you must blame the faulty component that triggered the blast. Hell you'd better not be angry with it at all if you want any chance of making that money back again.

Exceptions to this include the nuclear bomb :p

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Bring forth the karma!

Or if you're like me and find all the white backgrounds hurt your eyes, its simple to enforce black background / green text which makes reading much easier on the eyes, it also makes grey text easier to read.

$5 thats roughly how much I pay for lunch

I have to say the reason I spent so much time using perl is because of its ease in handling text and such strength in regular expressions, which are fascinating. I now use regular expressions when ever I can, and I think in most cases it saves you a lot of time.

I still remember when I was young and starting to work with Perl, I found this zip file with the whole bible represented as (I think) 1 html file, with chapter / verse tags. So I posed this question to an online friend who was then studying in Germany, he had built many cgi sites (he made our clan page for Earth2025 if anybody still remembers that game) with perl and was very good at it. About a day later he icq'ed me this 1 page perl script, which created file index positions for all the chapters and verses. This was such an ingenious solution which made seeking a particular chapter/ verse range extremely fast, and all done with text files and perl.

I used to exercise a lot in high school but since college I've been doing less and less. Still, I seem to be unable to gain weight, its been like this my whole life, and it doesn't seem to matter what my diet is and how much I eat. My excuse for not exercising is that I would be even skinnier then I already am :)

Streaming can be useful if:

1. You just want to have a preview 2. You have a fast connection and you don't want to wait for the download / you just want to watch it once 3. You just want to click and watch

How about extra karma for the people who take time to up-mod new articles that eventually 'make it'?

Still, Microsoft office remains the supreme software suite for the office, I don't see anything on the horizon that is challenging this.

After all the hype about open office it still lacks the compatibility and efficiency of getting things done in ms office, because Windows is such a juggernaut and whether you like it or not many features are built specifically for Windows, which gives Microsoft such a gaping advantage which will not disappear until people stop using Windows, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Some good points, keep the balance, don't get focused on yourself - as Ali G says, 'respect, keep it real'

I really like that email sign up box near the bottom, simple and no need to load a new page :D

That can't be true, there are people(like me) who are willing to buy this even if its 10-20 times the price of plastic. For one it would be bio-degradable, and you wouldn't worry as much keeping this stuff around children because this is natural material.

Sure there are extremely poor people who might not be able to afford the extra money, but anybody concerned with the environment and their health would have sufficient reason to use this material. Another argument is that since plastic is so cheap, even if this liquid wood is many times the price of plastic it can still be affordable.

Don't people already use third party software to turn Gmail into a 'Gdrive'?

Its crazy, you would think this is horribly inefficient. I worked a bit with Oracle Siebel, its a customer relations management software and the company decided to use it for its system. The database is just this giant juggernaut with thousands of tables generated automatically, if you look closely there is redundancy everywhere, which I assume is for performance enhancement, but even then it is horribly slow.

Its absolutely drives you nuts because everything, from business information, to server configuration, and even even the interface - menu items, buttons, page layout, links, is stored in the database. Now this may make the software less 'bug free' and thus make less trouble for Oracle, but it is an absolute nightmare for the developer because everything has to be changed through the IDE, which is basically a retarded version of a database browser without the ability to run SQL update command, and only allows you to change one row at a time, you might as well as be a monkey. Working with the database directly is apparently against the rules of Oracle and will revoke the support from Oracle.

Good thing I stopped working there @_@

Very nice essay :) I'm an immigrant and looking back at how my mother always frowned when I wanted biscuits, or chips or fruit bars - it was because she didn't have any of that when she grew up and for the better.

If you like classical try youtube and Nathan Milstein, not only a pleasure to listen to but also to watch.

Here we go again... like it or not he used his time and abilities to minimise loss and generate net worth for his investors, and that is valuable.

It is valuable because I would pay a fee to him in order for him to manage my money. Indeed you do not need to have created something to be of value.

The financial markets are a place to trade value, it can be viewed as a game, with given rules, rules which are accepted by ALL market participants who are exposed to RISK whether they know it or not. He played the game better, whether out of luck or skill he won. Just like sports stars they play by the rules and are valuable without the need to create, because its just that entertaining to see peak human performance.

If you discard the important finance decisions to do with not only the allocation of resources, but also protecting your country from outside financial 'wars' then you could be creating so much value but not able to retain that value, just look what happened during the Asian financial crisis.

yes they r nice tasting =D