On the same day that Roger Clemens testified on performance enhancing drugs, Ben Bernanke testified that he would provide a plan to deal with the pending credit card crisis at the behest of a legislator (I forgot his name and do not care).
The point is: the report or plan is sorta due today … Opening Day.
It will likely be delayed as all the rules are about to change on Wall Street.
Arizona AIMS Math Test is on April 8, next Tuesday. Now is the time to start cramming. If you want to do well on the exam, you need to do the following:
practice reading the confusing exam questions
practice eliminating invalid choices
practice long-division
start sleeping well, so you remember all you “learn”.
The test is essentially useless, but you need to pass to prove to yourself that you can jump through this hoop.
English to Chinese translators use Primezero i18n Terminal for a few key tasks:
to remind them about other words — they can click any character to find word branches
to find mistakes within the terminal and find them — this exercise is great practice for proofreading
to discover new ideas about words to be added to lexicon — it is wonderful to see more and more translations from different points of view, from different parts of the world, from different contexts
By building the The Terminal as a simple platform, there are several uses for each creative user.
I am trying to keep the Chinese word (Hanzi) to Pinyin converter as simple as possible, but I many users want more advanced features. I have no idea when to add a feature into the product scope. I have no idea when scope creep occurs.
But,
I do know that when thousands of people use your service, you learn a lot about customer need. And for that I am very grateful.
Primezero i18n Terminal Hanzi To Pinyin Conversion Utility:
As time passes, people are beginning to wake up and understand the grim reality.
You need a job.
You need a job that produces something tangible.
You need a job that will give you long-term stability.
You need a job that is recession-proof.
You need a recession-proof job that will not be outsourced.
Well, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority are running out of ammunition (interest rate cuts) to help stabilize the economy and maintain the feeling that people are wealthier.
Even the ultra-rich elite people feel poorer, and THAT is grounds for deep concern.
Primezero Research is now expanding the custom Chinese flash cards printing program beyond college campuses and select financial services companies.
Now, many more users can order single flashcards starting from 8 cents per card. You can order directly from the Primezero i18n Terminalin the search results.
A great example of why the details matter. This car is just AMAZING!, but then the wheels steal the show. Attention to detail is so important in design and fabrication.
I would like to develop interactive Chinese learning software for the Wii. One of the things I am looking at is the Wii Fit. I think it would be nice to create games that provided spatial intelligence of culture. How do I do that? Well, it’s time to ask friends.
Primezero provides Arizona’s longest-running, continuous AIMS Math Test Preparation and Tutoring services for free, but Easter Sunday is definitely a day of rest here regarding the AIMS test.
Please take time this Easter Sunday to relax, rejuvenate, enjoy family and reflect on the meaning of this special day. There is plenty of studying to do on Monday. Happy Easter!
When I started studying Mandarin, I was frustrated.
I needed to carry several heavy dictionaries because each one provided a certain lookup method. One was a good English-Chinese dictionary. Another was a good Hanyu Pinyin dictionary. I really liked the Hanyu Pinyin dictionaries because they allowed to hear a word and look up it up.
The Primezero i18n Terminal takes several Hanyu Pinyin lookup methods from various dictionaries and makes them usuable from a single search box. These features (many also available in Primezero Chinese Tools) are still in the testing phase:
Still working on some new features for the Primezero English to Chinese Dictionary. One of the things I really love working on is immediately improving information retrieval for you.One recent improvement is the umulat pinyin input (ü = v = uu = u:)
There are more features available that are not quite ready for showtime, but there is a plethora of words for engineering, finance, and healthcare available.
If you are preparing for the Grade 8 AIMS Math Test, here is some free tutoring for you. I am posting possible solutions to the sample test questions available from the Arizona Department of Education website, between now and end of March.
Good list of Chinese measure words, which should not be overused. Sometimes just better to use GE general classifier for many situations. More on exactly why later on …
Mudslinging starts between two platforms that have great features, but are still inferior to using emacs or vi for quick updates.
Short and Sweet: Root cause is the lack of retail sales has cooled the social networking advertising revenue significantly, so Internet wealth cycles are harder to predict or control, therefore frustrating companies who are used to pointing, clicking, farting and making money.
If you want to see the apparent cause (symptoms), keep reading…
It all started when Anil made an excellent case for upgrading to Movable Type (yes, some tongue in cheek, but some good points all the same).
Then, there was a group of people defending the hours and hours they have spent troubleshooting their WordPress installs and upgrades … ya, it’s called Pride of Ownership. (”it’s good because I spent tons of hours looking at it” — just like the people who say “i spent twice as much so it is twice as good”)
… um,right.
Both sides Anil and Matt are making good points in the comments, but both are too entrenched in VC Doo Doo to merge their platforms for a sleek new product. So, what you are witnessing is atrophy due to cash flow problems (which I discussed earlier), but a good buying opportunity after either property becomes financially distressed.
What’s worse?
Both groups of VCs backing these operations will invite more “conflict” — er, bickering — in hopes that the media will pick up the story and generate buzz noise. That’s business, but here’s the kicker:
If they do not find a way to improve overall user experience, both will lose to Google’s brand spankin’ new Blogger.com platform.
Please note. I’m not a blog expert. I am a computational linguist specializing in semantics and user-centered information retrieval. I don’t know anything about blogging.
You’ll have to see it yourself …
Remember, hedge funds cannot bail out Web 2.0 companies anymore.
It is sink or swim as commercial paper becomes rotten and lackluster retail sales take the wind out of blanket advertising on blogs.
Hedge funds are pouring money into things that are real. Uh, like gold and wheat.
The funds that do not survive the credit problem, will fail FAST.
You may know this, but you and Google are going to be best friends. Google will know more about you than your family, in fact. This will be an exciting time to be an advertiser — even more interesting to be a consumer.
Below is the press release:
Google Closes Acquisition of DoubleClick
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (March 11, 2008) - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)
announced today that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick,
a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to
advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We
are thrilled that our acquisition of DoubleClick has closed. With
DoubleClick, Google now has the leading display ad platform, which
will enable us to rapidly bring to market advances in technology and
infrastructure that will dramatically improve the effectiveness,
measurability and performance of digital media for publishers,
advertisers and agencies, while improving the relevance of advertising
for users.”
About Google Inc.
Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a
top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted
advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google
is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the
Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
About DoubleClick, Inc.
DoubleClick is a premier provider of digital marketing technology and
services. The world’s top marketers, publishers and agencies utilize
DoubleClick’s expertise in ad serving, rich media, video, mobile,
search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the
digital medium. From its position at the nerve center of digital
marketing, DoubleClick provides superior insights and insider
Some Hong Kongers just woke up the other day and realized that there is no manufacturing left in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong’s economy is actually quite complicated, but the best way to describe it is as follows:
Hong Kong’s manufacturing is food preparation, like McDonald’s and Burger King.
Programmers in Hong Kong are not provided ample opportunity or good salary in IT.
Top students in Hong Kong are stuck selling real estate. The average students are pushing annuities at Wealth Management firms.
As people begin to unfold the credit derivatives and structured products, problems are surfacing about actual commodities delivery: gold, wheat, pigs, etc. … and who really owns the products?
Furthermore, Hong Kongers may need to start moving to the mainland to find work in the factories they once owned.
It has been brought to my attention that some of my vendors cannot deliver or start orders on products because some U.S. banks are unable to settle international transfers.
In case you are having the same problem, I just wanted to let you know that others are also going through this headache. This is disturbing.
Using emergent semantics by means of ontologies comprised of data from users who are visually authenticating contextualized datasets is extremely handy in psycho-graphic profiling; however, not required in machine learning.
Translation is:
Everything in the world has been seen, heard and spoken. Twice.
If someone says something and points at an object and someone understands that message whilst pointing at the same object, then the startup company does not need to collect personal data on the two individuals pointing at the object .. *cough* .. Facebook.
Unless you are planning to sell that data to the highest bidder, of course.
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Ding! * Yep,
I think Facebook will need a DO NOT CALL LIST soon.
Factories are shutting down all over Southern China. With this development may come an upheaval of Hong Konger amenities and family support services.
Discussing these issues with colleagues has left me rather downtrodden, but this is the reality of the “bubble”.
Well – more like a game of musical chairs. The migrants workers in China had perspective, because they are keen to see scarcity in the presence of temporary excess. The understood that while
* Start the music. * (something by Vivaldi)
When engineering jobs were shipped to China from America, anyone in Southern China could open a factory and hire workers. This is what many of the Hong Kongers did.
With economic investment agreements, such as CEPA, the future was supposed to be a dream of mercantilism. However, as more Hong Kongers lost good-paying jobs, many were forced to take lower paying jobs to feed their families.
They sought refuge and comfort in the Hong Kong stock market, where you could roll dice and pick stocks and become rich overnight or at least pay the bills. But, for many that did not last for long.
Then, there was the investment real estate boom in Hong Kong, then there was … wait…
* The music stopped. *
Silence.
Uh-oh, not enough chairs.
Hong Kongers, on the other hand, have a short memory and were not ready for the music to stop. Several farmers are saving their pigs from market to take a loss upfront, but they know will have food for remainder of the year.
Let me re-phrase this so you can completely understand what I am talking about: Chinese migrant workers are not returning to the factories. Expect delays on shipping for anything made in China.
You can order directly from the 
