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Seconded, its extremely aggravating, I remember clearly when I had the horror of working with an old version of .NET C# with a big project on a SHARED slow server, which took roughly 1-2mins to compile, can you imagine trying to learn and debug C# code under this environment? Right, not a good idea.

agree their ads annoy me heaps

have you tried eating differently, or moving to the country side, does that help at all?

how about florescent pink?

I hope they can use this technology to make lightsabers, I would want the lightsaber over wireless electricity.

WTF IS THIS ?!?!

Glass at normal temperature flows, but incredibly slowly, you can see from old window glass which is thin at the top and thicker at the bottom.

seems pretty self explanatory, just type in iphone like it says ;)

What if time was multidimensional?

I thought getting a column required that you know nothing ;p well on the internets anyway

I can clearly articulate why I don't like vista:

1. Its most annoying feature in my opinion (and its activated by default) is that it caches all your most recently most programs into memory every time your computer starts. Not only do I think this is a stupid feature, it takes ages to complete, hordes the memory, makes your hdd go nuts, and most of all I had no idea wtf was happening with my new computer.

2. file-indexing is activated by default - Microsoft didn't seem to realize this in conjunction with feature #1 makes your computer go crazy every time you start Vista. And it took me a while to figure out what was going on. My new computer which i bought 2 month ago was thus brought to a crawl every time I started up.

3. Interface is pretty but not intuitive, a lot of stuff is moved around for no apparent reason, eg you now have to wade through 3 or 4 links just go get to your network connection properties, which is something that should be more readily accessible to the average user.

I know these are all options which can be modified, but hell it took me a good few hours to figure out, and it annoyed me like crazy. Windows XP in comparison just seems faster, simpler and gets the job done quicker.

I see.. I wasn't using https before, I'll read more about this when I get back home. Is this really common? Why does gmail not set https on by default

Wow thanks for posting this I was looking for a good lecture to watch. Not only does this talk have interesting ideas, it is also good to learn from Mr Soros on the pursuit of knowledge and how to live as a human being.

Back in high school tried doing this by printing out the alphabet with a font I liked, and could be written without too much hassle. Then I tried to imitate this, with success for a few month but it didn't last as my style changed.

I find chrome has a few problems, firstly it can start to perform very badly when many tabs are open - a bit buggy, and secondly it does not display as many pages correctly as firefox.

All in all I love the speed of chrome - but reliability of firefox is still a very big + for me.

Protoss voice:

"psi limit exceeded, require more cpu quota"

Dude there's 1 billion people in China, you can't just say, ok lets make everybody middle class. Have you any idea what kind of demographic shift that would imply? Currently around 70% still live in rural areas (figure off top of my head), for good reason, because 1. they would literally not fit into the cities, and 2. you can't just abandon the rural industry.

I would argue that the government has to play a role in controlling population flow and income, its very very scary if you give the same resources to 1 billion people and let them lose, if it works great, but if it fails, well that will be an epic fail.

Already in this economic crisis there is rumors of potential civilian riots due to loss of jobs, we're talking about the maybe less then 50 million (5% of population) rural workers who may lose their jobs due to closing factories. Imagine if the government gave incentives for just 10% more of the rural population to move to the cities - this effect would be multiplied many times.

'Shanghai looked more like Manhattan on a Sunday'

He was obviously didn't know where to find the jackpot.

To experience the real culture of Shanghai you need to live life closer to the 'locals', not in some hotel in Pudong(east), all you'll find there is tall buildings. Hell I haven't even seen half of the places in those pictures.

If you took a moment to observe the locals that would be culture, the people in Shanghai are distinct to other parts of China, with traits such as quick wit and hard work, indeed they speak their own dialect. If he is trying to find old buildings as evidence of culture, Shanghai is not the best place, although there are quite a few around, including the famous tourist attraction Cheng Huang Miao:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1108224679049820088RZkVRy

Interesting video:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs&NR=1

how the hell did you notice that, pure madness!

ok if you look at the window to the left of the top right most window, its the silhouette of batman !!!!!!!

Aye, this also has truth. I always hold the opinion that my parents sacrificed too much, they set out and worked long hours in hope to provide a better future for themselves and me. However they did not revise their thinking, and even 10 years down the road when finance was no longer an issue they're still inexplicably drudging along, all in the name of sacrifice.

This illustrates that sacrifice prolonged has dangers, namely it dulls purpose, and gives you an excuse to choose a passive approach to life.

This type of sacrifice is different in the sense you're sacrificing for 'a better life' as opposed to sacrificing for 'your purpose' or the purpose of your family. And its very dangerous to sacrifice for 'a better life' per se, because we humans are never satisfied ;p

Aye this has truth, looking back I pretty much wasted my university years playing games because I was not willing to sacrifice the comfort of living with parents and moving out, which would have forced me to work and given me more purpose.

As a result I learned little (of coursework anyway), my health deteriorated (played too much games), and there was tension in the family relationships because you can sense when someone is wasting their lives.

Which is the long version of: Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18)

I wasted life even whilst knowing it was wrong, but what you have to do is give yourself a purpose, and getting that purpose is the hardest thing.

Have you seen how long they've been at over 9%? ;p

This site is the bomb! Could improve the speed a little tho ;p

first hand?????

I thought it was a made up story till i got to the end O.o

I either spend these nights playing dota (I cram these into a binge dota session), reading (If I find something) or playing the violin.

lol! No man you should be playing board games, reading stories and teaching them to code !!!!!

Yes this is genius ^_^_^_^_^

We can always sub-categorize:

American adults? or Adults who take credit when offered to them without thinking about consequences

I think his point was whether this category of people should be labeled as adults because they don't perceive or that they ignore the risk of not being able to repay, which leads to hardship for not just them but other innocent people.