Alienz's comments

well....I wonder who and why Tcl is used.

As long as he didn't broken any law, and he didn't regret what he did, why someone would say he did anything wrong?

You may think, he earn his money in the US soil and he should contribute back to the US people. Morally correct. However, if that means he have to fund the US government by paying tax and portion of that money eventually used for launching a war in the middle east, I also think legally avoiding tax to the government is morally correct.

Try to think it is a parable: A flaw system (Texas court) exists today, and that kills people. So if you make a system today in good faith (e.g. a web or whatsoever) but didn't rule out all the flaws (which is hard), it can kill someday too.

Don't you know that? Terrorists did a great job in 2001! Since then, every one in United States are in terror, especially the US government. They did everything they believed to fight it, spend every penny they have, and torture every citizen of them whenever they are flying. If I were the terrorist I would be much glad: I don't need to do anything anymore but the whole US is in terror, forever!

As a final year E.E. Ph.D. student, I want my five years back.

For some reason, I found many professors in US are doing systems. That is something you can do, and can do better in the industry. Competing with the industry in a disadvantageous position is no fun. Before I was admitted to the Ph.D. program, I dreamed of exploring the science for the sake of pushing the human knowledge forward, but I can hardly see anyone in my neighbourhood is doing that. They are just pushing their publication count forward. That's it. It depends on the school culture, maybe. But I see this as a norm.

I read English (my second language since 3 yr old) and Chinese (my native language), and I am an amateur linguist. I can tell you that Chinese is NOT A language just as Romance is not a language. Spanish, Italian are language. But Chinese is not. It sounds interesting, but it is the fact. You read Chinese article from the communist China, or you read the Chinese classics like Analects of Confucious, or you read the government documents from Taiwan, or even the Japanese Emperor's Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War, you see different Chinese there. The fact is, not everything written in Chinese character is Chinese, just as not everything in Latin alphabets is Latin. The writing style, habit on use of words and sentence structures, etc. all matters. I can tell some characteristics about different "Chinese": The communist Chinese, like all communist regime's literature, is lengthy and full of unnecessary adjectives. It is annoying to read them. Interestingly, they like to judge a book on its length, the longer the better they think. The classic Chinese (pre-1920) is more "classical" and compact, but its use of words are more sophisticated because these classic literatures are for the educated, and by the educated. The taiwanese Chinese is the layman's version of classical Chinese, looks elegant but sometimes with sophisticated vocabularies. If you are looking for something easy to read, and concise, seek to Singapore or Malaysia.

I am not saying which is good or which is bad, but that's the style! Whether Chinese or English can read faster? If we put the language style aside, obviously Chinese. That's because Chinese writing system has much higher entropy and thus more information per square inch. However, writing style matters, a lot.

It is $22 Billion today's dollar from the 16th Century. Today's dollar and 16th century's dollar is totally different in value! The fed should be blamed.

As long as the work is a result of taxpayer's money, they SHOULD make it free for the public's access.

Don't assume modem = Internet. If you want to make your computer send & receive fax, you need to have one.

I am interested to know why they have the problem only this year? They are not using the same algorithm before? Or they just discovered the problem now but can't do anything to the previous lottery winners?

Totally agree. An 18 month old can be classified as a "terrible-two" already. This monster can draw all your attention. If you're at home typing a email, you need to do it in 2-3 installments. Thus a nanny or something to keep it away from you (even just in the next room) while you're at work is an absolute necessary.

PS: I am a parent of a 2-years and a 8-month.

Imagine if you can control Cisco and Juniper device with the same command. It make sense for you to be oblivious of the device's make and model. Same command, same effect. What's more is that, by saying your device is in OpenFlow version X, you can assume it can do this and that. This is unlike your Cisco box: same device, different IOS options, different capabilities.

All the Mathematics You Missed:

http://www.amazon.com/All-Mathematics-You-Missed-Graduate/dp...