"every single Chinese parent would rather their kid go the oxbridge route than any chinese school" - citation needed!
The oxbridge (as in "the bridge of the ox", a very logical outcome from "the ford of the ox" and "the bridge of the cam") are more of commercial enterprises than teaching institutions, and the preference for them are first and foremost the result of commercial advertising. The business model in here is to attract a great mass of pupils, be very selective about it (in order to have high-profile prospects), be very expensive (because the networking happening there must worth the hassle), then selling the achievements of these high-potenial strictly-preselected material to others as the results of its own merit. The research, the eccentric curriculum, or any other quirk that sets these institutions apart from others are just secondary. That is the naked truth.
I deeply believe that, as kay said, we are relative and will stop perceive things after a will, forgetting.. anything old will be new, even if it's normal, slow and ~sensical. Cycles. Or orbitals as I like to see them.
Its the difference between looking at something from a different angle and looking at it from space. It's much harder to go to space [than] to turn your head (well, was much harder before anyone did it - now its easy).
I think it's about inferential distance. "News" is only 1 or 2 inferential steps from common knowledge. "New" is several step removed, and as such look alien, crazy, or pointless.
There's a whole bunch of stuff in that that's inaccurate/outdated, re Wifi Sharing (opt in, even for contacts).
Not to mention a bunch of stuff (Do Not Track) that is set by default that has been explicitly enabled (or disabled, depending on defaults) to look worse. You can argue about whether you should have an "opt-in" for some of these things at all, yes, but this image makes it look like many things are opt-out, when they are in fact opt-in.
Telemetry is the same diagnostics that OS X and even Linux Mint and other distributions do.
Nevermind my information (that's bad enough), what happens when I'm on a VPN and RDP into my work machine and working with other peoples' sensitive information?
Has anyone captured any traffic from these features to determine what extent they're sending keystrokes?
In my opinion - everybody already gave up their freedoms via Android and iOS, so (someone at) Microsoft feels like there won't be a problem with demanding the same on Windows.
Moves like this always draw ire from us power users, but with enough public outcry, we get what we want. Sometimes we get it through third party software. It's a game that's been played many times with many different companies because unfortunately, greed powers much of the world.
One can have all his freedom with Android, iOS and Windows <10 - it's just gets harder with every new version.
And there hopefully will be an public outcry and/or tools to remove the telemetry logging, cloud lock-in, etc from Win10 too. In the end an OS upgrade should have a benefit, in the worst case Win7 is supported until 2020.
Moldovan (from Cahul) here. Many of my friends emigrated in Canada. Good friends, which I miss. While I appreciate your good impression of us, I don't share your wish for more of us going there. Although I'm somewhat content for those finding a better life than it could have been here, I'm not content with loosing our best and brightest among us, and thus not so content about Canada facilitating this brain drain in any way. In the end, although I'm fully aware what the subject of general discussion is (i.e. decrying the immigration hurdles), I have to say that for us who chose not to emigrate the changes in Canada's immigration policies comes as a good thing.
From a simple test, this tool is at the hobby level. The text is not interpreted semantically, because the so-called summarization is nothing but blocks of text from the original text, copied ad-literam. It lacks any kind of rewording. My guess is that for content retrieval it employs the the most rudimentary model one can think of [1], does a plain token indexation, then chooses the blocks with the highest density of non-ordinary words.
This is no hobby level system. I've done side-by-side comparisons and they've got something else going on here that beats other systems hands down. You've also seemed to miss the fact that these guys are enabling the context to be controlled using any word.
The oxbridge (as in "the bridge of the ox", a very logical outcome from "the ford of the ox" and "the bridge of the cam") are more of commercial enterprises than teaching institutions, and the preference for them are first and foremost the result of commercial advertising. The business model in here is to attract a great mass of pupils, be very selective about it (in order to have high-profile prospects), be very expensive (because the networking happening there must worth the hassle), then selling the achievements of these high-potenial strictly-preselected material to others as the results of its own merit. The research, the eccentric curriculum, or any other quirk that sets these institutions apart from others are just secondary. That is the naked truth.