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I'm pretty surprised that something like this is being given away. I'm not complaining though.

You went for 5 years? And why wouldn't it count?

Eh? Not sure what you mean.

This seems mildly interesting. I'll hang around. As for my ethnicity, refer to my sig.

Do you go to university? When I'm building something like that, I generally get a friend from architecture to help.

I want to suggest a good 7200 RPM external HDD, but I don't know any. What I can suggest is the WD My Passport Ultra, which is 5400 RPM, but by all reviews very quick. It's also small and thin, which should be good for an ultrabook. It is also under 300, so you save money as well! As for you, grow up and get off the thread. Posters like you are why I haven't posted in a while.

CS Major on a pre-medical track at a top 20 university. Don't feel comfortable revealing the exact one though.

Well, that's the problem with a lot of high schools in America. We lack vocational pathways in our public school system. Most high schools are, well, rightfully teaching students what they need to know to get to university, get a degree, and earn a great wage. Unfortunately, some students lack the necessary interest/drive to go to university, but have no alternative vocational pathway to take. So yeah, while your grievances are legitimate, just know that "shoving college down your throat" is just as legitimate.

They are just being polite. In Asian cultures, it is much more polite to avoid causing others trouble by staying out of their way, rather than going out on your way to help them/make conversation.

Severely misinformed. A crash course in the political and social climate: The political party currently in control in Taiwan and the communist party of China both currently maintain a "One China" policy, except with one key difference: each claim to be the legitimate government of the other. Taiwan is a multi-party democracy, and China is a communist nation. Taiwan has been completely self governed and self autonomous since its conception as a country. China just wants the island because we've got a ton of industry and are now a first world country, while China still has clay huts a couple miles out of their "cities." Of course, Taiwan, due to its small size, can never hope to declare independence while China holds the threat of war over us. Despite our technology, we'd literally run out of bullets and lose the war. Most Taiwanese hold a neutral view and want to hold the status quo. We don't want anything to do with China, so it's alright if they "claim" us as long as they don't actually do anything to us. The US are the staunchest allies of Taiwan, and have scrambled the USS Nimitz battle group in defense of Taiwan in 1996 after Chinese aggression during one of our elections. Communist China has pretty much been pissing off all the East Asian countries except for Thailand and North Korea since World War II. I know for a fact that there are many stereotypes and racial slurs for Chinese people in Taiwan and South Korea. I know that Japan holds a similar distaste for China, but I don't know how much. In fact, I was stopped outside of a Korean market once- an old Korean man demanded that I identify myself and if I was Chinese. I told him I was from Taiwan, and he promptly clapped me on the shoulder and said in broken English, "Ah, Taiwan, good good! China, bad!" He then let me go on my way.

I assumed you were speaking of the topmost positions of government, as in America, the highest any naturalized citizen (non Caucasian) has ever gotten has been as the Secretary of Labor, held by Elaine Chao. And again, the rareness of these cases is shown, as even in America, the only immigrant country, only two non caucasian, naturalized citizens have ever gotten even remotely close to the line of presidential secession. You can see how it would extremely rare for naturalized citizens to hold office in Japan, a country of a primary ethnic group. As for the people who work for Sony, I'm talking department heads and such. Your point that they just answer to a Japanese boss is pretty moot, as that doesn't extinguish their executive power at all. And as for your friend's experience- I've seen that a lot. This is not because the Japanese culture is unwelcoming, but because many otaku westerners have a weird concept of what Japan is/will be, despite how much they studied the culture. The culture shock drives them from Japan.

I'm a first-gen Taiwanese immigrant, and I'll go ahead and clear up a lot of things in this thread. This is complete and utter bullshit. The Japanese education system is almost exactly the same as the Taiwanese education system, mostly because of Japanese rule of Taiwan (then called Formosa) pre World War II. Currently, the Taiwanese system is a little more hardcore, but the Japanese system is not that far behind. In both education systems, you will go to school, you will do well, and then after that you will attend afternoon cram school (that are sometimes hilariously illegal due to visa issues, don't ask). This is true for even the average student. Of course, there are idiots and gangsters in the system just like any other country, but on average, education is very serious and very cutthroat. This trend extends into university life, as people compete to get into professional schools in order to join the upper echelons of society. If you can go to a good university in the USA, you should go there instead, and participate in study abroad programs to Japan. This way you get a diploma from a much better school, and still get the cultural learning experience. Bullshit. The Japanese are very open and welcoming to most cultures, especially western cultures. Fixed to make it true. Of course, this is also true of every single country except for America, since we are by nature a country of immigrants. Fixed. While Japanese culture is pretty welcoming, you will definitely be received better if you are Korean or Taiwanese. Taiwan and Japan relations have always been extremely close, and the proximity between Japan and South Korea fosters a lot of friendship. However, if you are (no offense) one of the darker southeastern Asians, there will be some some stigma and stereotypes towards you. This is also true in Taiwan. The relatively low development of southeastern countries is the reason for this. The exception to this rule is China. Everybody hates China, sorry. (The reason? Well, what the reason always is. Because the CCP.) That goes for pretty much all the Eastern Asian countries except for Thailand. And the Japanese are not salty about the whole affair at all. Seriously. Major corporations? Quite a lot. Japanese companies need to sell to other countries as well. They will of course have to have representatives from, say, the US branch of Sony at the Japanese branch of Sony. As for government, it is only natural for the Japanese to be governed by Japanese citizens by birth and not naturalization. This is true of every single country, even America. Sure, there are minority leaders in the congress, etc, but they are still American, born and raised. America is unique in that we are a country of immigrants and not a primary ethnic group.

During my first year of physics (sophomore), we would have to calculate the magnitude of the force (given the coefficient of kinetic friction and static friction) to pull a block up a ramp . So while we wouldn't do that exactly, we would go through the same steps, just actually solving the problem. I don't see how that would be too much work to be tested on, that style of question was pretty much one of the easiest open ended response questions we got.

This is quite possibly one of the most childish things I've ever read on this forum- and believe me, I've read a lot. Block them, forget them, if they come after you, file a restraining order. Let the law be on your side, not theirs, and honestly, this won't escalate at all.

I learned implicit differentiation in my junior year of high school. I learned basic kinematics in my sophomore year and advanced kinematics in my junior year. Granted, I pretty much took the highest level courses and skipped a ton of courses to get to them as well, but my high school was very crappy and underfunded. Perhaps these subjects were taught at your school, and you just didn't take them/didn't have the prerequisites? Or maybe its just a Canadian thing. Edit: On second read-thru, this sounds very condescending in tone. I'm actually legit curious, so no offense!