They definitely are not slower to read and I doubt the "write" part too. People do not read letters, they read patterns.
"Longer to learn" claim is interesting as it would seem to mean "harder to learn" and lower literacy rate, right? This is very untrue for Japanese.
BTW, the information in text on how to pronounce english is far from being sufficient to be understood. Otherwise there would not be pronunciations in dictionaries.
Oh yes they do. They wear nike, drink coke, eat in macdonalds,... exactly like everybody else.
They might think they are smarter and not driven by advertisements. But vast majority won't drink tap water, wear noname clothes and eat in no-brand restaurant though it would most likely be much better in almost every sense - except "cool" factor.
It will be missing good quality keyboard, 1280x720 display, 200gig SSD drive, 4gig memory, quad cores, OpenCL, 1000 hour battery life, weight less than 1kg, WiFi and 3G. And will be too expensive - I'd pay only 50.
In Finland there is company called Tieto (formerly TietoEnator). The sole reason why it stays in business is size. It is almost the only big player in the field. No small company can compete with their claims.
TietoEnator has horrible track record. Just to point two (of many): 1. Parliament voting system. Took several years as the first(?) system was overloaded by the votes - maximum of 200. Yes two hundred votes (given within few seconds) overloaded the system, the tests showed pretty much random output. BTW, there are as many as three possible votes (yes, no, abstain). 2. Car registry. Finland has 5.2 million inhabitants and less cars. Their system could not cope with the amount of updates to the database.
The biggest problem is that the buyer, usually government, will happily extend the price to several times the original to get something working... so it makes sense for the TietoEnator to put the least capable into the work.
Disagree, strongly. The owner must have used the computer the way s/he likes for ages. It is very hard for him to change the behaviour for extremely unlikely event (one that has never happened to him).
Sure the owner understand the situation, but... I do not know a single person who has worked according to the company rules to the last dot - as long as there have been any rules.
Don't ask them to sign "do you understand" document, it is probably the most career limiting move you can ever do.
Have a "common policy for all employers" approved by the owners. You can say "you are not following it, which means probably no-one else is either when they find out", but don't nag. Beyond that, there is nothing you can do.
I do not have to recompile FOSS drivers in every bloody kernel (security) update there is, i.e. about every month.
BTW: I do want proprietary drivers. Actually I really do not give a flying fuck whether they are proprietary or not as long as they work without a hassle.
I think you overestimate the actual cost and probability of success of medical tort lawsuits.
It bloody hell is hugely bigger than in lottery.
exposing him/herself to liability.
Is this likely or not? Above you claim it is not significant - if it is that unlikely then it can be used, right, as there is no real danger of any big liability? Put a tenner in a jar every week and give the jar to the patient who gets harmed by the Wii, no?
The only risk you are able to state is "liability". If it really is the biggest risk there is something wrong - and your claim of low probability of success is bullshit.
If the problem is snake oil salesmen, as the writer I responded said, criminal punishment does solve that.
If the problem is compensation for the victims - sure they would be compensated for their losses. But only losses, not several millions for a burned lap 'cause the coffee was a hot.
Getting a cert, or creating PGP key, is not the problem.
I do not know a single person who has PGP key or cert. Or more accurately and to the point, everyone I know I do not even know *IF* they have a PGP key and where that might be or how I might retrieve it.
Snake oil salesmen would get criminal punishment, as they do nowadays. There would just not be lottery-kind incentive to sue anybody.
Yes, a video game can give valuable information whether someone has a neurological condition. AFAIK no equipment can do that without a doctor and no (sane) doctor would ever rely on one positive output alone.
Not a single libertarian I have ever met has understood that there cannot be "free market" if not everyone has 1: free entrance to the market (you cannot compete against a steel mill in practice), 2: full information (both the sellers and buyers must have full information, "same" or "identical" is not enough), 3: a lot of buyers and sellers (there always have to be choice and everything must be sellable, "or else"), 4: there is no society, i.e. there is no point in trying to improve "good for all people", 5: environment has no inherent value whatsover. There are more, just the top of my head.
Thank god not all laws are there to "create free market" as it is definitely not something I do want.
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The children are "had" because they support you when you are old. Your pill would help absolutely nothing, unless it is forcefully given to the men.
Citation needed (to the studies).
They definitely are not slower to read and I doubt the "write" part too. People do not read letters, they read patterns.
"Longer to learn" claim is interesting as it would seem to mean "harder to learn" and lower literacy rate, right? This is very untrue for Japanese.
BTW, the information in text on how to pronounce english is far from being sufficient to be understood. Otherwise there would not be pronunciations in dictionaries.
not necessarily mainstream-style ones.
Oh yes they do. They wear nike, drink coke, eat in macdonalds, ... exactly like everybody else.
They might think they are smarter and not driven by advertisements. But vast majority won't drink tap water, wear noname clothes and eat in no-brand restaurant though it would most likely be much better in almost every sense - except "cool" factor.
Yeah, "I would buy too, if it just had ...".
It will be missing good quality keyboard, 1280x720 display, 200gig SSD drive, 4gig memory, quad cores, OpenCL, 1000 hour battery life, weight less than 1kg, WiFi and 3G. And will be too expensive - I'd pay only 50.
Translation: What it will miss is mass appeal.
I have every right to tell uninformed people not to buy it. There is nothing you can do to STFU me. Sorry ... well, not really.
In Finland there is company called Tieto (formerly TietoEnator). The sole reason why it stays in business is size. It is almost the only big player in the field.
No small company can compete with their claims.
TietoEnator has horrible track record. Just to point two (of many):
1. Parliament voting system. Took several years as the first(?) system was overloaded by the votes - maximum of 200. Yes two hundred votes (given within few seconds) overloaded the system, the tests showed pretty much random output. BTW, there are as many as three possible votes (yes, no, abstain).
2. Car registry. Finland has 5.2 million inhabitants and less cars. Their system could not cope with the amount of updates to the database.
The biggest problem is that the buyer, usually government, will happily extend the price to several times the original to get something working ... so it makes sense for the TietoEnator to put the least capable into the work.
Disagree, strongly. The owner must have used the computer the way s/he likes for ages. It is very hard for him to change the behaviour for extremely unlikely event (one that has never happened to him).
Sure the owner understand the situation, but ... I do not know a single person who has worked according to the company rules to the last dot - as long as there have been any rules.
Don't ask them to sign "do you understand" document, it is probably the most career limiting move you can ever do.
Have a "common policy for all employers" approved by the owners. You can say "you are not following it, which means probably no-one else is either when they find out", but don't nag. Beyond that, there is nothing you can do.
I do not have to recompile FOSS drivers in every bloody kernel (security) update there is, i.e. about every month.
BTW: I do want proprietary drivers. Actually I really do not give a flying fuck whether they are proprietary or not as long as they work without a hassle.
Wouldn't it therefore be "good" if there were more synergy?
Like, stable binary kernel interface (ABI)? It would actually help more FOSS, but collateral undamage is not that bad, is it?
This happens at least with Ubuntu 9.10 and www.google.fi with the cookies I happen to have.
For certain.
Goolge has the simplicity aspect right.
I *really* hate Google for destroying the right-click copy-link-location. Maybe I'll change to Bing, it does not do that.
My reply would be: "I hope you are happy with Windows 95, and, btw, thanks for not competing with us."
Microsoft is not "countering the targeted attacks".
Unless of course the German and France CERT teams recommendation to ditch IE is considered one.
I think you overestimate the actual cost and probability of success of medical tort lawsuits.
It bloody hell is hugely bigger than in lottery.
exposing him/herself to liability.
Is this likely or not? Above you claim it is not significant - if it is that unlikely then it can be used, right, as there is no real danger of any big liability? Put a tenner in a jar every week and give the jar to the patient who gets harmed by the Wii, no?
The only risk you are able to state is "liability". If it really is the biggest risk there is something wrong - and your claim of low probability of success is bullshit.
What on earth is so difficult with this?
If the problem is snake oil salesmen, as the writer I responded said, criminal punishment does solve that.
If the problem is compensation for the victims - sure they would be compensated for their losses. But only losses, not several millions for a burned lap 'cause the coffee was a hot.
Getting a cert, or creating PGP key, is not the problem.
I do not know a single person who has PGP key or cert. Or more accurately and to the point, everyone I know I do not even know *IF* they have a PGP key and where that might be or how I might retrieve it.
Oh boy ... Neither DEP not NX guarantees anything, so it really can work.
Sure, NX & DEP are very good tools in making the browser safer, but they are no silver bullet ("return to c-lib").
P.S. some OS's (hint, hint) have NX on (practically?) every program, as they do ASLR (address space randomization).
No.
Snake oil salesmen would get criminal punishment, as they do nowadays.
There would just not be lottery-kind incentive to sue anybody.
Yes, a video game can give valuable information whether someone has a neurological condition. AFAIK no equipment can do that without a doctor and no (sane) doctor would ever rely on one positive output alone.
Last time I was in hospital none of the computers I saw passed any of the tests you gave.
Something wrong somewhere?
So the problem is the "liability".
What would happen if the liability was removed or limited? Getting several million "liability" for essentially nothing is insane.
they shouldn't bring things in that scare their administrators
As a Finn I hope this happens. You know, stifling imagination and inventiveness is a sure way to ensure competitiveness will drop too.
Anything can, and will, scare other people. Teddy bears to geocaching to advertisements to ...
I'm sorry but I do not comprehend your question.
I will be really scared when encryption systems do comprehension.
Not a single libertarian I have ever met has understood that there cannot be "free market" if not everyone has 1: free entrance to the market (you cannot compete against a steel mill in practice), 2: full information (both the sellers and buyers must have full information, "same" or "identical" is not enough), 3: a lot of buyers and sellers (there always have to be choice and everything must be sellable, "or else"), 4: there is no society, i.e. there is no point in trying to improve "good for all people", 5: environment has no inherent value whatsover. There are more, just the top of my head.
Thank god not all laws are there to "create free market" as it is definitely not something I do want.