Do we mean better, or do we mean more amenable to japanese political influence?
I mean better. That's how the Germans have succeeded in Japan. That's how the French rebuilt Nissan. Meanwhile, the American makers for the last 30 years have been unable to even capture their homemarket and instead have been leaning on Washington to intervene.
Unfortunately, if you know anything about the markets you know that even while the Japanese may not place tariffs on automotive products from the US, their market is absolutely closed to US product through a number of other legal but fairly immoral actions.
Yet strangely, German cars do well in Japan, and Japan's second largest maker is owned by the French. Maybe if the American makers made better small cars and medium sedans, there would be more interest in them.
Close. Toyota is part of the Mitsui group with Mitsui Sumitomo at the center. Although Mitsui's stake in Toyota is relatively small and they are not the only bank. The remainder is cross holdings from other Mitsui Keiretsu members or publicly traded stocks.
SMFG is in turn publicly traded on several stock exchanges in Japan and the NYSE.
That said the head of Toyota is still from the Toyoda family.
MUFJ is head of the Mitsubishi group which includes Mitsubishi motors. They also are publicly listed in several Japanese exchanges and the NYSE.
Japan has huge amounts of capital and foreign exchange, so foreign holdings of Japanese corporations is low. It mostly goes the other way.
I don't think you are comparing equivalent figures. The Australian figures are adjusted for household size.etc. Here is a good explanation: http://mattcowgill.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/what-is-the-typical-australians-income-in-2013/
If you look at tax burden in Australia cs America the figures are quite similar. So I don't think it is fair to blame the welfare state either.
In fact it seems to have more to do with companies realizing they can charge more in the Australian market. Except for books. That's just protectionist bs legislation.
Maybe in the 1960s. Nowdays about a quarter of all marriages in Japan involve a non-Japanese spouse and one fifth of all child births involve a non-Japanese parent.
Sure some families want their children to marry Japanese but that's hardly unique to Japan. For example, lots of Jewish families want their children to marry Jews.
Anyway, it's not a shameful thing in modern Japan.
You mean like giving equal access to healthcare, pension and unemployment insurance from the day you set foot in Japan?
Or perhaps the streamlined immigration procedures and not tying immigration status or PR applications to remaining at the same employee...
Is the 4D bulk universe a black hole in a 5D hyper-bulk universe within a 6D... Is there a physicist in the house that can shed more light on this than the article/paper?
TFA shows that the bricks are a light brown. Should go quite well in warm, sunny climates (like... you know Australia!). Although even if they were black, I'm sure they could be painted with a reflective coating.
Are they flammable? The only compressed carbon i know offhand is coal. Nobody will want flammable bricks.
Diamond is another famous form of compressed carbon. These aren't coal or diamonds though. They are a carbon compound. If you stopped to think for a few seconds, you'd realize that they are almost certainly not flammable. High flammability means it has lots of energy stored. This rock is being made from the waste product (CO2) left over from extracting energy.
Are they cheap? It's hard to beat concrete for price.
Probably not but if the cost can be offset through carbon trading schemes like those active in Australia*, Europe and China they might be quite cost effective. The entire point of TFA is that they have found a way to make the conversion method practical.
Also btw. if you are worried about heat absorption, then you don't want to use concrete as a building material!
Solve those three potential problems and you might have something. And if they do you might want to forget about bricks and pavers and replace the cement block with them. That would sell. Billions of them.
Would it have been so hard to read the article and think before posting?
(*Technically Australia has a carbon tax but will be converting to an emissions trading scheme)
I understand and feel the revulsion that a healthy adult has towards child porn, but from an objective/legal point-of-view, the West got stupid about how they enforce such laws. Here's why: The basis of laws surrounding it is that the production of child porn harms a child - something that makes perfect sense, and should have laws in place to prevent/limit as much as logically possible. OTOH, who exactly is harmed in a comic strip? One would think that it would present a means of release for those pervs who do get into such crap, and to let them do so without harming anyone in the process. A teenaged kid sexting his/her SO should get a stern talking-to by the parents, and definitely should be enlightened on why that is a monumentally stupid idea - but no, the kid should not get tossed in the slammer and stigmatized for life.
Nice to see people speaking logically about this. Honestly I don't think youth gets sexualised any more in Japan than it does elsewhere and reading the news in my home country (Australia), I see a lot more incidents of child sexual abuse than reading/listening to the news in Japan.
As for TFA? I can see why it would make sense for some Japanese men to simply withdraw from society... Japan isn't exactly an easy-going culture to live in, competition for anything (females, jobs, status, whatever) is incredibly intense, and there are few other routes available to the typical Japanese man that doesn't involve a shitload of money (e.g. move self and family to another country whose culture you may get on better in.) These men still have a non-negotiable duty to care for their parents, and real estate/rent is frickin' astronomical anyway. They spent nearly every waking hour of their childhood with little outside of intense study and discipline, so it's not like they learned to be social mavens in the first place - they likely only found peace when they were alone.
I don't think this is a fair portrayal of modern life in Japan at all.
Rent for the most part in Japan is heap. I live in central Tokyo and pay $1000 in rent a month for a 3-room + toilet/bathroom modern flat next to a large park area. I would probably pay about $700 a month living in areas surrounding Tokyo (Chiba/Saitama/Kanagawa). Housing as well is generally quite affordable. $200,000-$300,000 will get you a large flat/town-house within reasonable commute distance of central Tokyo.
Competition for jobs is actually a lot less intense than I experienced back home in Australia. Japanese companies are much more willing to train employees, especially when they are young. Unemployment is currently at about 4% which is historically very high. Additionally in my personal experience it is a lot easier to get into fulltime employment in Japan than in Australia.
I'm married so it is hard for me to comment on the competition for available women but most people seem to find girlfriends/wives without too much problem.
Also your characterization of Japanese childhood is incredibly unfair. Japanese children do study more than I saw back-home but it is hardly every moment of their childhood and in exchange they get to slack off for 4 years in university
Hell - even if they do find a job and a wife, they may not leave home anyway. The answer why is pretty simple; If their parents own and don't rent, they stand a better chance of inheriting their parents' home than they do of ever being able to afford one of their own - which is pretty traditional in its own right. In most cases, it's not like they have as much potential competition from siblings, what with smaller family sizes over the decades.
Japan has changed a lot since the end of the bubble twenty years ago. Most young Japanese manage to go out into society and support themselves just fine.
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong are all East Asian nations (or special administrative areas) which are to varying degrees culturally similar to China and provide good examples of this. South Korea and Taiwan are particularly dramatic examples of moving from autocratic to democratic government. Although it is not in East Asia, you could also add Singapore and Malaysia to this list. Singapore interestingly still has an autocratic government, while (less developed) Malaysia is in a kind of transitional phase towards proper democracy. They all have cleaned up their environment a lot as citizen awareness and sensitivity towards environmental problems has increased.
I want it to do more, but I don't want it to be running Linux, or Android, or any other mainstream OS. Sure it means that I may get more apps, as developers are more familiar with it, but these general purpose operating systems just seem to slow things down in the end. My console just needs to play games, allow me to watch videos, and surge the web
So in other words the kernel only needs to provide:
Disk drivers and file-system drivers
Wireless/Ethernet drivers and a complete network stack
USB and input device drivers
Video card drivers and OpenGL-ES
Sound card drivers
Support for preemptive multitasking over multi-cores for games that want/need to utilize multiple cores (i.e. most modern games)
Virtual memory to support copy on write, memory mapped files and to provide protection from buggy games crashing the entire system and potential corrupting disk data
Power management
Miscellaneous functions such as executable loading,.etc.
Might as well use Linux by this stage. It would sure beat re-inventing the wheel. Plus it gives you a much greater chance of developers actually supporting your platform. The fact that your Android device slows down when receiving messages while gaming sounds like a problem with the design of Android.
I wouldn't rely on nationmaster.com for reliable, up-to-date information. That data is from 1998 and converted into US dollars based on 2001 PPP measurements. I would not say that is the most reliable source of information on the current state of education spending. According to that Thailand is outspending countries like South Korea, Singapore and Belgium on education..
I think the MacBook I bought in December 2008 has a 160 (or 120?) gb HDD. That's less than 4 years ago...
You may not care about having an SSD but I do. By far the biggest performance limitation on all my computers is disk read speed. Increasing read speed has a far bigger performance impact than adding more ram or more cores to the CPU. If you want mass storage buy an external USB drive. I think you can get a 1TB disk for around $100 these days. The disk you have the operating system on _should_ be an SSD in any half decent modern system.
Also if I recall correctly in 2000 I was a Compaq PC with a 4gb HDD. I think around 2001 I added a 30gb drive to it and that seemed big. 128gb would have been considered huge in 2000.
Meh all that's happened so far is a bunch of ministers have expressed the sentiment that Facebook should delete racists material from its website. Personally, I support their right to express that sentiment. If they go and make laws requiring websites to delete content deemed offensive on request then it will be a different issue all together but that hasn't happened so far.
So the internet filter was dropped and the government has been absolutely silent on it since then. We're not going to have browser history data retention laws. iiNet won its case and was found not responsible for its users copyright infringement and we haven't seen any government attempts to introduce French/NZ three-strikes or similar laws since then either. Oh and finally games are going to get an R-rating.
All in all, Australian democracy has worked quite well these last few years and the Australian internet is looking pretty free compared to a lot of other western countries. Oh and work on the nation wide fibre optic network continues as well.
That and authors and solicitors and technical documentation writers, patent writers, translators.etc. also use the word processor as their primary tool. Since he/she mentions spreadsheets as well he could also be involved in "small-data" data-modeling, office administration or similar.
Just because you lack the imagination to see otherwise doesn't mean he/she is stuck in a low level job. Although even if he/she was there would be no need to be an offensive ass about it. Typists and secretaries play a necessary role in society.
A graphics processor helps increase the performance of certain features, such as drawing tables in Excel 2013 Preview or transitions, animations, and video integration in PowerPoint 2013 Preview. Use of a graphics processor with Office 2013 Preview requires a Microsoft DirectX 10-compliant graphics processor that has 64 MB of video memory. These processors were widely available in 2007. Most computers that are available today include a graphics processor that meets or exceeds this standard. However, if you or your users do not have a graphics processor, you can still run Office 2013 Preview.
Also it would seem the requirements are rounded to the nearest 0.5gb and probably are for extremely heavy usage cases.
Thank you.
Just out of curiosity which other East-Asian languages have adopted hangul? I can't think of any. The Chinese haven't. They use their own characters and Roman characters for phonetic purposes. The Japanese haven't they use Chinese characters along with hiragana and katakana. The Mongolians haven't. They have their own native writing system that predates the creation of hangul. The Vietnamese (not sure if they count as East Asian) haven't. They use Roman characters. The Taiwanese speak Chinese and use non-simplified Chinese characters. I think that covers all of East Asia outside of Korea, unless there are some ethnic languages inside China that are using hangul...
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Do we mean better, or do we mean more amenable to japanese political influence?
I mean better. That's how the Germans have succeeded in Japan. That's how the French rebuilt Nissan. Meanwhile, the American makers for the last 30 years have been unable to even capture their homemarket and instead have been leaning on Washington to intervene.
Unfortunately, if you know anything about the markets you know that even while the Japanese may not place tariffs on automotive products from the US, their market is absolutely closed to US product through a number of other legal but fairly immoral actions.
Yet strangely, German cars do well in Japan, and Japan's second largest maker is owned by the French. Maybe if the American makers made better small cars and medium sedans, there would be more interest in them.
The current head is from the Toyoda family. His father was from the Toyoda family and his mother from the Mitsui family.
Close. Toyota is part of the Mitsui group with Mitsui Sumitomo at the center. Although Mitsui's stake in Toyota is relatively small and they are not the only bank. The remainder is cross holdings from other Mitsui Keiretsu members or publicly traded stocks. SMFG is in turn publicly traded on several stock exchanges in Japan and the NYSE. That said the head of Toyota is still from the Toyoda family. MUFJ is head of the Mitsubishi group which includes Mitsubishi motors. They also are publicly listed in several Japanese exchanges and the NYSE. Japan has huge amounts of capital and foreign exchange, so foreign holdings of Japanese corporations is low. It mostly goes the other way.
I don't think you are comparing equivalent figures. The Australian figures are adjusted for household size .etc. Here is a good explanation: http://mattcowgill.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/what-is-the-typical-australians-income-in-2013/
If you look at tax burden in Australia cs America the figures are quite similar. So I don't think it is fair to blame the welfare state either.
In fact it seems to have more to do with companies realizing they can charge more in the Australian market. Except for books. That's just protectionist bs legislation.
Maybe in the 1960s. Nowdays about a quarter of all marriages in Japan involve a non-Japanese spouse and one fifth of all child births involve a non-Japanese parent. Sure some families want their children to marry Japanese but that's hardly unique to Japan. For example, lots of Jewish families want their children to marry Jews. Anyway, it's not a shameful thing in modern Japan.
You mean like giving equal access to healthcare, pension and unemployment insurance from the day you set foot in Japan? Or perhaps the streamlined immigration procedures and not tying immigration status or PR applications to remaining at the same employee...
Is the 4D bulk universe a black hole in a 5D hyper-bulk universe within a 6D ... Is there a physicist in the house that can shed more light on this than the article/paper?
Yeah but only up to 42D.
Dear AC,
TFA shows that the bricks are a light brown. Should go quite well in warm, sunny climates (like... you know Australia!). Although even if they were black, I'm sure they could be painted with a reflective coating.
Are they flammable? The only compressed carbon i know offhand is coal. Nobody will want flammable bricks.
Diamond is another famous form of compressed carbon. These aren't coal or diamonds though. They are a carbon compound. If you stopped to think for a few seconds, you'd realize that they are almost certainly not flammable. High flammability means it has lots of energy stored. This rock is being made from the waste product (CO2) left over from extracting energy.
Are they cheap? It's hard to beat concrete for price.
Probably not but if the cost can be offset through carbon trading schemes like those active in Australia*, Europe and China they might be quite cost effective. The entire point of TFA is that they have found a way to make the conversion method practical.
Also btw. if you are worried about heat absorption, then you don't want to use concrete as a building material!
Solve those three potential problems and you might have something. And if they do you might want to forget about bricks and pavers and replace the cement block with them. That would sell. Billions of them.
Would it have been so hard to read the article and think before posting?
(*Technically Australia has a carbon tax but will be converting to an emissions trading scheme)
Precisely. They are almost irrelevant now, as Apple will be soon. China phone maker Xiaomi took 30,000,000 orders for its new "Red Rice" phone in just 5 hours. http://www.gizchai.com/2013/08/30000000-xiaomi-hongmi-aka-xiaomi-red.html
Yes.. 2-3% of China's population ordered that phone within 5 hours of release... I'm sure that press release is completely bullshit free.
I understand and feel the revulsion that a healthy adult has towards child porn, but from an objective/legal point-of-view, the West got stupid about how they enforce such laws. Here's why: The basis of laws surrounding it is that the production of child porn harms a child - something that makes perfect sense, and should have laws in place to prevent/limit as much as logically possible. OTOH, who exactly is harmed in a comic strip? One would think that it would present a means of release for those pervs who do get into such crap, and to let them do so without harming anyone in the process. A teenaged kid sexting his/her SO should get a stern talking-to by the parents, and definitely should be enlightened on why that is a monumentally stupid idea - but no, the kid should not get tossed in the slammer and stigmatized for life.
Nice to see people speaking logically about this. Honestly I don't think youth gets sexualised any more in Japan than it does elsewhere and reading the news in my home country (Australia), I see a lot more incidents of child sexual abuse than reading/listening to the news in Japan.
As for TFA? I can see why it would make sense for some Japanese men to simply withdraw from society... Japan isn't exactly an easy-going culture to live in, competition for anything (females, jobs, status, whatever) is incredibly intense, and there are few other routes available to the typical Japanese man that doesn't involve a shitload of money (e.g. move self and family to another country whose culture you may get on better in.) These men still have a non-negotiable duty to care for their parents, and real estate/rent is frickin' astronomical anyway. They spent nearly every waking hour of their childhood with little outside of intense study and discipline, so it's not like they learned to be social mavens in the first place - they likely only found peace when they were alone.
I don't think this is a fair portrayal of modern life in Japan at all.
Rent for the most part in Japan is heap. I live in central Tokyo and pay $1000 in rent a month for a 3-room + toilet/bathroom modern flat next to a large park area. I would probably pay about $700 a month living in areas surrounding Tokyo (Chiba/Saitama/Kanagawa). Housing as well is generally quite affordable. $200,000-$300,000 will get you a large flat/town-house within reasonable commute distance of central Tokyo.
Competition for jobs is actually a lot less intense than I experienced back home in Australia. Japanese companies are much more willing to train employees, especially when they are young. Unemployment is currently at about 4% which is historically very high. Additionally in my personal experience it is a lot easier to get into fulltime employment in Japan than in Australia.
I'm married so it is hard for me to comment on the competition for available women but most people seem to find girlfriends/wives without too much problem.
Also your characterization of Japanese childhood is incredibly unfair. Japanese children do study more than I saw back-home but it is hardly every moment of their childhood and in exchange they get to slack off for 4 years in university
Hell - even if they do find a job and a wife, they may not leave home anyway. The answer why is pretty simple; If their parents own and don't rent, they stand a better chance of inheriting their parents' home than they do of ever being able to afford one of their own - which is pretty traditional in its own right. In most cases, it's not like they have as much potential competition from siblings, what with smaller family sizes over the decades.
Japan has changed a lot since the end of the bubble twenty years ago. Most young Japanese manage to go out into society and support themselves just fine.
TFA doesn't seem to provide a link to the actual location on Google Maps.
So here it is: http://goo.gl/maps/56fXN
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong are all East Asian nations (or special administrative areas) which are to varying degrees culturally similar to China and provide good examples of this. South Korea and Taiwan are particularly dramatic examples of moving from autocratic to democratic government. Although it is not in East Asia, you could also add Singapore and Malaysia to this list. Singapore interestingly still has an autocratic government, while (less developed) Malaysia is in a kind of transitional phase towards proper democracy. They all have cleaned up their environment a lot as citizen awareness and sensitivity towards environmental problems has increased.
I want it to do more, but I don't want it to be running Linux, or Android, or any other mainstream OS. Sure it means that I may get more apps, as developers are more familiar with it, but these general purpose operating systems just seem to slow things down in the end. My console just needs to play games, allow me to watch videos, and surge the web
So in other words the kernel only needs to provide:
Might as well use Linux by this stage. It would sure beat re-inventing the wheel. Plus it gives you a much greater chance of developers actually supporting your platform. The fact that your Android device slows down when receiving messages while gaming sounds like a problem with the design of Android.
13y.o boy opens his brand new laptop that dad just got him:
"Do you have any kids? Yes / No"
"Um, no..."
I wouldn't rely on nationmaster.com for reliable, up-to-date information. That data is from 1998 and converted into US dollars based on 2001 PPP measurements. I would not say that is the most reliable source of information on the current state of education spending. According to that Thailand is outspending countries like South Korea, Singapore and Belgium on education..
I think the MacBook I bought in December 2008 has a 160 (or 120?) gb HDD. That's less than 4 years ago...
You may not care about having an SSD but I do. By far the biggest performance limitation on all my computers is disk read speed. Increasing read speed has a far bigger performance impact than adding more ram or more cores to the CPU. If you want mass storage buy an external USB drive. I think you can get a 1TB disk for around $100 these days. The disk you have the operating system on _should_ be an SSD in any half decent modern system.
Ahhh... I what a beautiful verb to have missed... Wish /. had an edit button
It's an SSD so not even comparable.
Also if I recall correctly in 2000 I was a Compaq PC with a 4gb HDD. I think around 2001 I added a 30gb drive to it and that seemed big. 128gb would have been considered huge in 2000.
Meh all that's happened so far is a bunch of ministers have expressed the sentiment that Facebook should delete racists material from its website. Personally, I support their right to express that sentiment. If they go and make laws requiring websites to delete content deemed offensive on request then it will be a different issue all together but that hasn't happened so far.
So the internet filter was dropped and the government has been absolutely silent on it since then. We're not going to have browser history data retention laws. iiNet won its case and was found not responsible for its users copyright infringement and we haven't seen any government attempts to introduce French/NZ three-strikes or similar laws since then either. Oh and finally games are going to get an R-rating.
All in all, Australian democracy has worked quite well these last few years and the Australian internet is looking pretty free compared to a lot of other western countries. Oh and work on the nation wide fibre optic network continues as well.
Russia is about 2.2x the size of Australia. I think you've been fooled by map projections.
That and authors and solicitors and technical documentation writers, patent writers, translators .etc. also use the word processor as their primary tool. Since he/she mentions spreadsheets as well he could also be involved in "small-data" data-modeling, office administration or similar.
Just because you lack the imagination to see otherwise doesn't mean he/she is stuck in a low level job. Although even if he/she was there would be no need to be an offensive ass about it. Typists and secretaries play a necessary role in society.
A graphics processor helps increase the performance of certain features, such as drawing tables in Excel 2013 Preview or transitions, animations, and video integration in PowerPoint 2013 Preview. Use of a graphics processor with Office 2013 Preview requires a Microsoft DirectX 10-compliant graphics processor that has 64 MB of video memory. These processors were widely available in 2007. Most computers that are available today include a graphics processor that meets or exceeds this standard. However, if you or your users do not have a graphics processor, you can still run Office 2013 Preview.
Also it would seem the requirements are rounded to the nearest 0.5gb and probably are for extremely heavy usage cases.
Thank you. Just out of curiosity which other East-Asian languages have adopted hangul? I can't think of any. The Chinese haven't. They use their own characters and Roman characters for phonetic purposes. The Japanese haven't they use Chinese characters along with hiragana and katakana. The Mongolians haven't. They have their own native writing system that predates the creation of hangul. The Vietnamese (not sure if they count as East Asian) haven't. They use Roman characters. The Taiwanese speak Chinese and use non-simplified Chinese characters. I think that covers all of East Asia outside of Korea, unless there are some ethnic languages inside China that are using hangul...