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Julia Lovell on translating Lu Xun's complete fiction: "His is an angry, searing vision of China" - http://www.danwei.org/transla...
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- Adam Morris
"Running an investment bank is not, in this sense, a game: it is not a closed world with a limited set of possibilities. It is an open world where one day a calamity can happen that no one had dreamed could happen, and where you can make a mistake of overconfidence and not personally feel the consequences for years and years—if at all."
- Adam Morris
My wife and I both have global healthcare coverage for accidents. Except ... wait for it ... North America. I wonder why it is that I can get ill in France, Africa, or Thailand and get taken cared of but if I get sick visiting my family tough luck.
I've been employed by three International Schools and not one of them had North American coverage.
- Adam Morris
This is bullshit: "The Hardest Hardship Cities: No 9 is Ho Chi Minh City."
Expatriates assigned to work in Saigon can find the city's heat and humidity oppressive. Other challenges include issues typical to many tropical cities in the developing world, such as threat of disease. "Also making life here less than ideal are pollution, limited medical facilities, inadequate infrastructure, dangerous traffic and crime," writes ORC.
- Adam Morris
Oppressive heat? Limited medical facilities? Disease? Where are all these things I keep hearing about?
- Adam Morris
I'm sick and tired of my stationary computer. So what should it be, a Macbook or a laptop? I need help with this.
Jorge Escobar, Derrick, Johnny and 3 other people liked this
MacBook, of course! ;-)
- Rutger Blom
Yeah, thats what I'm thinking. But still, it would cost me twice as much as an laptop. Hmm :P
- Patrik Johansson
13" Macbook Pro, unless you are way stronger than me in which case go for the 17" :-) PS, with this question you might want to enable any religious war defences that you may have! ;-)
- Andy Bold
Whatever brand as long as it runs Windows 7 ;)
- Jemm
It's more expensive, yes, but sometimes you want to spoil yourself with something really beautiful.
- Rutger Blom
Macbook - Quick Edit - you want a macbook because it works and does what you want it to do when you want to do it.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Jemm: I want to get away from Microsoft :P Rutger: Yeah you're right. Some luxury for myself. I think I deserve that hehe.
- Patrik Johansson
bought a white macbook about 3 years ago. haven't looked back since. plugged into a 23 inch monitor it's the cats pajamas.
- sean808080
MacBook.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Airbook.
- Adam Morris
MacBook!!
- Derrick
I'm pretty convinced. It's going to be a MacBook!:) This may take some time though, money and all. But MacBook it is!
- Patrik Johansson
Depends on what you do with it of course. I love my netbook too. Very cheap, very light. Runs XP smoothly and probably will run Win 7 smoothly, especially the new netbooks now. If all you do is office + web and maybe a movie or music than that's enough.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
O, want to get away from microsoft. Enter Ubuntu.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
you can get a MacBook for $1000 or a MacBook Pro for $1200. If you get a Mac, you can dual-boot into Windows. if you intend to take it mobile, a smaller screen is the way to go and just plug it into an external monitor, KB, HD, and mouse when you are back at base. Another option for mobile use is to get a netbook... Lugging around a heavy laptop bag quickly grows old. I have an iPhone,...
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- Mark Davidson
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Tobias: Ok! Yeah I've been thinking of a netbook too. But I'm not sure. I could have a netbook TOO, if I had a quite "good" pc/mac. Still want some power I guess.
- Patrik Johansson
If you are doing web-stuff only (like blog writing, friendfeed, twitter) and not into heavy graphics stuff, I totally recommend a netbook (I have an MSI Wind and my life has changed since I got it in terms of productivity)
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks for the tips Mark, will definitely consider that! Netbook seems quite good if you're on your way. But as you said, can be nice to have a "base" at home...with a slightly powerful computer. I'm thinking of take up some studies. Just some basic computer courses and after that something in web-development I think. Not sure yet.
- Patrik Johansson
Jorge: I don't think MSI Wind has come to Sweden yet. Any other tips for a good netbook?
- Patrik Johansson
The two key things to look for on a netbook: keyboard size and battery life. Make sure you try the keyboard before you buy it.
- Jorge Escobar
I agree with Jorge. If I could do it over again, I'd probably go with an HP netbook because of the keyboard. Having a netbook and then getting an iPhone, I find that I hardly use my netbook anymore. I can typically get the same things done and more quickly on the iPhone, than I can with my EeePC. with that said, there are times when the netbook is more handy. I have 2 GB of installed...
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- Mark Davidson
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An undisclosed feature of Snow Leopard: You can write full Cocoa apps in Applescript. My jaw has just hit the floor.
I thought they were done with Applescript. Turns out Automator is getting some more beef too. Stunned.
- Adam Morris
The last item on that chart says it all. http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
Knowing the top speed of a car doesn't tell you how fast you can drive in rush hour. To actually see the difference in page loads between all three browsers, you need slow-motion video. This one’s also a tie.
- Adam Morris
This lede paragraph basically says it all. #cnnsucceeds http://edition.cnn.com/2009...
Iran accuses the West of "meddling" in its disputed presidential election even as its election authority reportedly acknowledges that the number of ballots cast in dozens of cities exceeded the number of eligible voters in those areas.
- Adam Morris
any1 know the name of the trees in Beijing that smell like sperm? They r in full bloom these days
It could be gingko trees.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Oh thanks for that memory.
- Adam Morris
Back to reality about Vietnam :-(.
Let me guess. Centralized planning??
- Adam Morris
I just adjusted my gamma on my Mac to prepare my eyes for Snow Leopard. #geek http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
You know, I actually like this better.
- Adam Morris
The Global Language Monitor: "Web 2.0 beats Jai Ho, N00b and Slumdog . as the 1,000,000th English Word" - http://www.languagemonitor.com/
Anand Sharma, Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic, Daniel Rowley and 13 other people liked this
"As expected, with a new word created about every 98 minutes (14.7 per day) the English-language crossed the Million Word Mark on June 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am (Stratford-on Avon Time) Web 2.0 beats Jai Ho, N00b and Slumdog . as the 1,000,000th English Word" Can't wait to tell Tim O'Reilly when I interview him today!
- Leo Laporte
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I wouldn't really consider "Web 2.0" as a WORD per se. I mean, "Web" is a word, yes. But can you really call it a word if it has a space in it? haha Same goes for "words" like "Cloud Computing" and "Carbon Neutral" Wouldn't those be phrases? Not sure.
- Justin Flood @justinflood
Fascinating milestone, at several levels.
- Adam Morris
Ummm, isn't "Web 2.0" from the last century? How is that a "new" word/phrase/whatever?
- CAJ, somewhere else
I don't get it... Wouldn't "Web Two Point Oh" be four words?
- Dave Benson
Words do not contain spaces. The ASCII character " " cannot be contained by a word because then all possible phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and books would be defined as a single word.
- Sean OBrien
Good lord, I thought that said Bill O'reilly for a second.....
- Matthew DeVries
I like that everyone agrees that "Web 2.0" is not only not a word, but also bullcrap. It TOTALLY should have been NOOB
- Will Higgins™
I'm a bit disappointed that "noob" wasn't the 1,000,000th word. How is "Web 2.0" even "a" word, anyway? Does this mean that every time we call a thing (something) 2.0 or 3.0, etc., that it should be classified as a new word or phrase?
- Sudeaux
from Alert Thingy
Holy lexicography Batman! No, Web 2.0 is NOT a word, it's a phrase, or at best a term... practically a brand (claimed, for a while, to be an O'Reilly trademark)... not to mention that it was a stupid, moronic, oversimplification to explain technology to idiots. There never was a Web 2.0. There never will be. There won't be a Web 2.5 or 3.0 either. There is an Internet 2 being worked on...
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- Fred Davis
The idea that we know the exact number of words in the English language was somewhat debunked on the BBC Newsnight show last night: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1... (Before the millionth word announcement was made Jeremy Paxman spoke to Professor David Crystal, a leading linguist and Paul J J Payack, President of the Global Language Monitor to debate the the validity of the claim that the millionth word was about to appear.)
- Keith Harrison
Peking Duck blocked as Twitter, Hotmail, Flickr, etc. open - http://www.pekingduck.org/2009...
I love how China's bureaucracy is so hard to suss out.
- Adam Morris
Why oh why don't people write it as #Tian'anmen Square? There are RULES, people!
The rule that just never gets observed isn't a rule.
- Adam Morris
The rule that just never gets observed ain't a rule.
- Adam Morris
Postbox: A mail client for Mac and PC based on Mozilla technology - http://postbox-inc.com/
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Amin, Isaac Zahavi, Harry Mahardhika and 45 other people liked this
Been messing around with this today and it's very, very impressive. I don't know if it'll beat out Mail.app as my primary e-mail client but it's way better than Thunderbird (even better than Thunderbird 3).
- Akiva Moskovitz
from Bookmarklet
hmm...
- edythe
@Akiva: In all fairness, Thunderbird's been dead in the water for a while. Gmail + Gcal have killed everything except Outlook in the enterprise
- LANjackal
The 'lightning fast search' - is it all locally cached to enable that, or does it do server IMAP searches?
- Sparky
LANjackal, I routinely loathe Gmail.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I imagine it's a local index.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm checking it out. I like the interface, however "It's not Gmail". For you thats a good thing, but not for me. It threads conversations, but doesn't hide the repeated stuff. Too much scrolling!
- Sparky
Also: I'm not sure what they are going for with topics. Is it supposed to be tags?
- Sparky
For me, the less an e-mail client acts like Gmail, the better it is.
- Akiva Moskovitz
But what's the point of threading conversations if you don't hide the repeated bits? It's just putting emails in a long strip then. I don't see value in that.
- Sparky
Well, if people knew how to properly quote e-mail rather than lazily quoting it all, it wouldn't be an issue.
- Akiva Moskovitz
People shouldn't do that - machines should. Replying to email should be as quick as possible - hit a single key to start replying, type a response, and then no more than 2 keystrokes to send. Lazy quoting isn't a problem for Gmail or Outlook because they both do you the service of client-side hiding all the lazy quotes.
- Sparky
You're wrong. People should put more thought into their replies: they should select the quotes they want and they respond to them.
- Akiva Moskovitz
FWIW, I find Gmail's model horrifically disturbing if you're not using Gmail. It promotes TOFU and is generally a huge pain in the ass to anyone who choses not to drink the kool-aid. mutt(1) and vi(1) for lyph3 plz.
- matthew john ernisse
I love Gmail, but agree with Akiva about quoting. Proper quoting can't be done by a machine.
- Roger Benningfield
"proper" quoting sucks for context though. If you trim quotes and then we add a 3rd person to the thread how can they catch up other than manually forwarding them the 20 responses so far? A big part of what I do for a living is emailing and I can't imagine trying to jump into issues mid-stream if I couldn't read through the mile of responses when I first get it. From that point on I rely on the client to only show me net-new responses.
- Sparky
bleh, forward the thread as attachments, explode them into a folder and read them unfettered by all the cluttery nonsense. see also writing a synopsis. And that's about as much as I'm going to say about inline vs TOFU. This need not become holy war territory.
- matthew john ernisse
Forwarding the thread as attachments is a pain in the ass. Email shouldn't get in the way of productivity, rather be a quick and transparent conduit of information. Email is like IM that's indexed for eternity.
- Sparky
Sparkles, have you seen the Wave video?
- joey
Sparky, and trying to make heads or tails of a 20-level-deep quote pile is also a pain in the ass.
- Akiva Moskovitz
for this very reason I am super exited for wave. though a lot of the drawbacks of e-mail are MUA issues, not protocol issues.
- matthew john ernisse
Joey - I'm wet for wave. Akiva - trying to make heads or tails of only the last snip of a 20-level--deep quote pile is impossible.
- Sparky
I thought you might be.
- joey
Which is why you can send them the thread as an attachment.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If you send a 'properly' quoted thread as an attachment you A) have to keep doing that as a thread balloons and more people get added and B) the person has to click through 20 seperate attachments and figure out what order they go in. I'd rather have a single long strip I can scroll to the bottom of and work my way up. ALSO ALSO: the .eml format is not widely standardized, so you can't forward emails as attachments to people using other email clients.
- Sparky
If you send a 'properly' quoted thread as an attachment you A) have to keep doing that as a thread balloons and more people get added and B) the person has to click through 20 seperate attachments and figure out what order they go in. I'd rather have a single long strip I can scroll to the bottom of and work my way up. ALSO ALSO: the .eml format is not widely standardized, so you can't forward emails as attachments to people using other email clients.
- Sparky
ALSO - how the heck do you "properly" quote on a mobile device?
- Sparky
That would be a short-coming of the mobile device's mail client.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Name a single mobile device that makes selective quoting even possible (barring holding the delete key for obscene amounts of time).
- Sparky
That would be a short-coming of the mobile device's mail client.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That, or you have an unrealistic expectation that the world does something by hand that is entirely unneeded. I'd say that the majority of all email sent in the world is sent from Outlook or Gmail (the enterprise sends a LOT of mail) and both of those clients handle client side display of lazy quoting very well, and every mobile client in the world enforces lazy quoting.
- Sparky
And IE is the dominant browser in the market place yet it encourages all sorts of really bad behavior in both developers and in user expectations. Doesn't make it right.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Fair point. I still think it's a large amount of effort to quote something for a 3 word reply.
- Sparky
Jason - that is actually the one thing that still has me playing with Postbox. Search results as a tab is slick.
- Sparky
mernisse: I don't think most people care about TOFU so most clients don't care if they promote it or not. Honestly the only time I ever heard it mentioned (including 4 years at one of the nerdiest schools in the country) was at Frontier :P
- Benjamin Golub
Haha - google for 'tofu mail' and the results are so all over the board.
- Sparky
bolub: Which is fine by me :) I'm a big fan of using technology in the way that best suits you. Hence running Linux on a MacBook and barely ever replying to e-mail on my BlackBerry and my staunch use of inline replies. There is a fairly big rift between TOFU and inline even in large development communities such as lkml or {ubuntu,debian}-devel.
- matthew john ernisse
Akiva - one thing about your IE analogy. While IE sucks and everyone in the know hates it developers still have to code friendly to IE6 otherwise a large portion of their audience can't see it. Full quoting is inelegant but at least it always works.
- Sparky
That's still no excuse for it. You might as well encourage writing really inelegant code as long as it works.
- Akiva Moskovitz
You can write very elegant code - just make sure you write it twice: once for IE6 and once for everything else.
- Sparky
checking out Postbox e-mail client. strangely interesting. http://postbox-inc.com/
- Bill Carroll
I've been following this conversation through FF notification to Gmail. I've definitely have had a few sips of the Gmail "koolaide"... :-)
- Kevin Whalen
from email
this looks very good
- Michael
Jason, I never used Pegasus very much because, to me, it seemed like an inferior Mulberry (the best IMAP client to ever have existed).
- Akiva Moskovitz
... TOFU?
- cecily
another way of saying top-posting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... It stands for 'Text over Fullquote Under'
- matthew john ernisse
This looks really promising, but I don't get enough mail to make me want to go back to using a desktop client.
- cecily
Looks good, but at this point it would take *true* Gmail syncing (favorites, filters, labels, etc.) for me to return to a desktop client. Gmail is just far too capable as it is.
- LANjackal
I am again so very, very glad I don't use Gmail.
- Akiva Moskovitz
definitely liking it so far!
- holly
Gonna have to check this out...
- Michael McKean
People who use Thunderbird have nothing to lose and everything to gain by switching to Postbox. It's missing a few niceties such as being able to click on a date and make an iCal entry linking back to that e-mail, something I do constantly with Mail.app; it's also not automatically turning an http:// text into a link. Hopefully these things will be addressed in future versions (along with making the conversation mode a little more intelligent as Sparky as pointed out).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Installed it as a backup in case of Gmail failure. Now IMAPing my all my mail to my HDD. Good suggestion, Akiva.
- LANjackal
Just installed it and am checking it out. Thanks for the tip.
- amygeek
I was really impressed with it until I realized I just don't want to give up that much RAM to an email client. Back to Gmail for me.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I have been using postbox since the get-go. mail was constantly having issues with smtp, and I wanted a fresh start. I like the tab views and to-do integration, they added quick-look recently and it has been pretty rock solid overall. I highly recommend it
- joey
I won't be able to use it as my primary e-mail client until they integrate with iCal. I need to be able to click a date in an e-mail and add it as an iCal event linking back to the e-mail. I do that constantly.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Can't wait to give Postbox a whirl on my Mac. Mail.app sucks so hard it's just dying to be replaced.
- Adam Morris
I tried this app a bit yesterday on a Windows machine, and I really liked how it easily integrated with my Google Apps account, even threading conversations. I seemed to miss some functionality that is apparent in the OS X version though, but that wasn't _very_ needed. Seemed quite speedy, and the default settings were nice and not obnoxious (e.g. didn't save IMAP e-mail for offline use).
- Niklas Pivic
Thanks for the mini review ^Niklas :)
- Keshav Khera
Keshav: I'm glad to have helped, if I have. :-)
- Niklas Pivic
Talked to Ken Carroll of Chinesepod on methods to take training from the class room to social networks to save costs
How is this possible? The whole point of training is that it's relevant!
- Adam Morris
Why Voters Thought Obama Won
A Conservative for Obama - http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2...
"“Every great cause,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama."
- Adam Morris
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Bush III - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
"The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records."
- Adam Morris
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Teacher Accidentally Screens Porno to Classroom - Asylum | Men's Lifestyle | Humor, weird news, sex tips, fashion, dating, food and gadgets - http://www.asylum.com/2008...
At least the guy finally got caught
- Adam Morris
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What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Very effective use of web technology. Will share with my class.
- Adam Morris
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TouchStrokes virtual keyboard for touch screen kiosks - http://www.assistiveware.com/touchst...
Hello!
- Adam Morris
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Boinx Mouseposé - http://www.apple.com/downloa...
An essential for teachers really.
- Adam Morris
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Olympic artists angry - http://www.aftenposten.no/english...
Kids were abused, dancer lost the power to walk, and much of it was faked. That opening ceremony is more symbolic than China would have wanted.
- Adam Morris
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"Please a line!" These volunteers must have faked their way through certification... this is NOT Standard English...
I disagree, I've heard that in s'pore. Int'l English has its variations.
- Adam Morris
Edwards Cover Up Continues - http://politicalwire.com/archive...
Edwards is done. Congress ought to censure him.
- Adam Morris
Another facile David Brooks column on China: http://www.nytimes.com/2008... Christ, what an asshole.
God that has to be his worst ever.
- Adam Morris
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