This just proves my point, there is an additional mapping from the entire word "compare" to the sound for it and "able" to the sound for it. When you see it together you'll pronounce it as it were two separate words, which is odd. And this doesn't contradict the fact that you have a visual storage for initially recognizing the words. I guess I'm just saying you don't go letter by letter and sound out the word. Because if people did they'd pronounce comparable correctly every time. Comparable has no special tricks, and follows all the rules of English pronunciation (at least in American English).

Biological Sciences have a lot of need for Computer Sciences right now. Everything from Genetics to Molecular Biology spends on staggering amounts of Statistics and CS work. I have a few friends of mine working for the National Health Institute and at Medical Schools and they all need CS and Stats background. So there is a pretty deep connect between Biology and CS right now. So yes, there is a very close relationship.

Obviously, a software firm may ask you why you got a Biological Sciences Ph.D. as opposed to a CS one, and why you are qualified. You may also get filtered out if CS is not on your resume as well. So, if you do get the Ivy Ph.D. you'll have some work cut out for you on your resume to make sure you come off the right way on paper.

Also, if you end up working for a Bio Tech, then this argument is moot, they would take a Biologist any day of the week.

You're missing the point.

The fact that the non-native reader tries to read it as compare+able shows that sounds are associated with the entire word as opposed to individual letters the same way as an ideogram would.

I don't know why this is even up for debate. If you look at any ideogram languages, you can't just sound out each word. Especially Chinese, where there are character that sound the same but have different characters. Or even the same character can be read differently depending on context. You definitely memorized the shape. The article is definitely right that we must be storing a visual dictionary of sorts. If we had to sound out each word, then ideogram languages would have never been invented, too inefficient.

But this also doesn't mean that you don't also associate shapes to sounds. The reason you pronounce it like "compare" + "able" is because you associated the shape "compare" to its sound and "able" to its sound. When put together, it would come out as "compare" + "able". This doesn't prove that you sound out the words as you see them. However, English is a language that runs on syllables, and "compare" is a multiple syllable word, so it gets broken up in the official pronunciation of the word comparable.

I guess it's better than the PETA.xxx they tried.

Mad props to Nintendo if they add an DLC that gives the skinless Tanuki an appearance in game.

Seriously? If anyone it's inept, it's the cable companies. Government mandated you to do a test. You screwed up. How this is a government failure is beyond comprehension.

I'm pretty sure they meant in China, China hasn't built a supercomputer that didn't use Intel or AMD chips before this one. They were listing reasons why this computer is significant for China.

Better, but still xenophobic and racist...

Can't wait until some Horde guild grabs a world first with only Pandarens. :)

Funny, but a Chinese person would reply an egg, because the all that is in the universe was born out of an egg in Chinese mythology. See Pangu.

Agreed the university are a oligopoly and have enough clout to price discriminate. The issue is that when you take away the subsidy the university wouldn't downward price match the same drop in available resources.

In fact a lot of Universities will give you very aggressive Financial aid packages when you are applying to lure you in and then each year reduce the aid significantly. It is highly possible that the Universities will price match the drop for only the first year.

Agreed, all countries censor, just to a different extend. China does it much more so and openly than most other nations out there.

Of course blocking twitter and other social media that is not state controlled is a great idea for China. When you have to manage over 1.2 billion people, it's very very hard to make everyone happy. The US only has 300+ million and it's already hard for congress to agree on anything. Now if you make that 4 times as many people, it's even hard to agree. And as a single party state, you must make it as hard as possible for people to riot and try to brainwash them into being complacent. This leads to all sorts of Human Rights violations, but what kind you do if you don't want a social meltdown?

A lot of people talk about "democracy" for China as if China can just jump to a multi-party system and everything will magically be better. However, reality doesn't work like that. Switching forms of government will always create large amounts of turmoil, both socially and economically. Socially because not everyone will be happy with the new form of government and the policies instituted. This will often lead to splitting of the state given a weak central government. Economically because businesses do not know what policies the new government will implement and the social turmoil. Business tend to be very conservative given economic uncertainty (you can see if very well currently in the US and Europe, businesses are not hiring and not spending on acquisitions).

Agreed. Smoking and Cancer researches are funded by politics, so there will always be politics in science.