Jan
20th
Fri
20th
Italian Lakes
- Stumbleupon gets arsey with your bookmarking and thinks you are a spammer;
- Twitter decides your sentence is too long for people;
- You want to share something but don't actually think it merits taking the effort to email the link to anyone.
Jan
9th
Mon
9th
However, if you replace Lorenz invariance with Galilean invariance in special relativity, all you have is Coulomb’s law for electrostatics equipped with the fact that it also works for moving charges. This sort of physics, however, is really just like Newtonian gravity but without the principle of equivalence.
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In a universe where the speed of light is infinite…
I am so glad this poster cleared that up for me.
spectators have started to wonder aloud if 2012 will be the year China’s system collapses (to be fair, this is an annual tradition)
Dec
19th
Mon
19th
The problem isn’t Mozilla breaking add-ons, it is add-on developers not maintaining their add-ons
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Yup, the problem isn’t the tsunami, it’s the villagers not rebuilding their huts. That’s how it goes with Firefox updates and all your plugins.
Dec
17th
Sat
17th
Corporate helplines fallaciously assume we memorize their numbers
Barclays ad “you only need one number to access all your banking needs” presumably means horrible automated switchboards and much longer to find what you want. Why on earth should one number for all your needs be a good thing?
Why not just publish a long list of different phone numbers for every main category of enquiry? It’s not like it would be hard to understand, or hard to publish, or hard to save in our contact book, or hard to look up on online, or significantly more expensive. It would be faster and friendlier to get to speak to the department you need.
Unless of course keeping everyone waiting while racking up special rate phone number bills is part of the plan to fund the call centre in the first place.
Dec
7th
Wed
7th
It is unclear how foreign workers can collect pension or unemployment benefits, because those who retire or lose their job usually lose the visa that allows them to stay in China
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Foreigners in China squeezed by pensions, taxes - Yahoo! Finance
(amusing understatement)
Dec
6th
Tue
6th
I happen to have 8 GB of RAM but Skype is not what I’ve bought it for.
Dec
5th
Mon
5th
in discussing whether or not capital is being misallocated it is not enough to assert that electric cars will one day be an important technology
Nov
3rd
Thu
3rd
if they cling to this mentality of treating Chinese customers as second-class consumers
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This is a typical whining China-centric view. Of course the corporations are not targeting Chinese. They just don’t give enough of a flying f*k about ANY consumers. Ultimately that is actually up to the consumers to educate themselves and vote with their feet. If you want quality organic food, you have to realize your total ignorance of the original concept of ‘organic’ if you think it is at all possible to find it in ANY supermarket…
The other side of foreign brands | Opinion | chinadaily.com.cn
