I guess they know to whom they issued the new prototypes so they can just ask these people to give them back to find who lost it after the story came out on Gizmodo.
Imagine how it feels to live in Europe...
This being said, the Japanese government is strongly supporting research in the field of robotics with the hope of having sci-fi like robots in the next 20-30 years, meaning intelligent humanoid-like robots. The reason is relatively simple, they are anticipating the collapse of their population which is aging really fast with a fertility rate per woman of about 1.3 (not sure about that one). It's the only industrialized country in which the fertility rate did not stabilize at around 2.1 after declining in the 20th century (there was a good paper about it in The Economist recently but I cannot find it online). So they hope to replace workers by robots, including caretakers for the elderly, cooks and so on. It seems that the most obvious solution would be to allow more immigrants or change something to the way the society is organized but according to the Japanese I know, this seems unlikely to ever happen so they go the way of technological progress.
There are some FPS on the iPhone were you move using a virtual joystick in the lower left corner and look around using the rest of the screen. It's not perfect but it's ok to play casually on a small mobile device.
Switzerland has very little regard for free speech. Very little regard for things that are unpopular or disliked and has an aging, reactionary voter base.
Aaaaah Switzerland, this famous dictatorship... And you are supporting these claims how? Because I happen to live in that country but it doesn't seem to be the country you are describing. Free speech? Very little regard for things that are unpopular or disliked? What the hell are you talking about exactly? Do you have examples that make Switzerland stand out of the crowd of European countries?
Agreed, the ban on minarets is not exactly the vote we can be most proud of. I would just like to point to the fact that Switzerland is no different from other European countries in that regard as was demonstrated by numerous polls in Europe following this particularly infamous vote. Also on votes asking whether or not to put a cap on immigration, the Swiss people have constantly voted no (there was several votes on this question since the 70s) and we have also accepted to embrace bilateral agreements with the EU and extend those agreements to the new EU members from Eastern Europe so I don't really see more reactionary voters than in any other western country. The only difference is probably that pretty much everything goes into a public vote and is hence very visible.
Is her claim to legitimacy compromised by the fact that she only admitted it after it was discovered by someone else?
Definitely yes. In the case of electronic music, it is obvious right from the beginning that samples are samples. The creativity resides in the fact that those are assembled in original ways creating a new piece of music. When you copy words, there is no such thing like mixing beats and samples.
"attraper" is not much used in that context in French (at least in France). That's what a school kid would say. "appréhender" definitely sounds better. And you would certainly not use "attraper" while discussing with your buddies in front of a beer but rather "coincer", "gauler" or even "piquer" all of them meaning originally something else (ok I don't know for "gauler").
In the case of France right now, I think that it is a lot of the first option, i.e. they want to appear like they are doing something. Regional elections are coming soon (March) and discontent is growing in the population plus most of the moderate people who once voted for NS are disillusioned since he failed to implement anything serious but minor reforms. Finally his personal behavior is getting on the nerves of many. I think that the government is afraid of losing votes on the far right so they are pushing some sort of a security agenda. In recent months they already talked of banning the veil for women in public spaces and tried to have some national debate on the "French identity".
I have to admit that I was thinking specifically of murders. However the Daily Mail article seems to suggest that the UK stands out in Europe. The next EU country in that list is down 20% and the one after that 45%. Still it comes as a surprise to me that the US are so low, even lower than France.
There is almost no violent crime in the UK by US standards (suggesting the surveillance state pays off), [...]
Nonsense, there is almost no violent crime in most of the Western world by US standards. It doesn't say anything about the efficiency of surveillance in the UK but rather about the climate in the US.
I simply don't understand. I assume that at home almost everyone as a monitor/screen better than the one from the iPad to watch videos, browse the web, etc... So the iPad could be useful on the go but it's too big for commuting time during which you can use your smartphone to watch videos or casually play video games and it's not a computer so it's pretty useless for long trips.
College degrees are way overrated. This is coming from someone with multiple degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.
In the world where I live, one usually gets a bachelor degree, then a master degree, then - maybe - an advanced degree like a PhD. So I cannot help to wonder how you managed to get multiple degrees from three universities.
And yes you do not use all of the things you learned at the university but I like to think that you develop some special analytical, learning and problem solving skills that you do not develop while being on the job. And I'd like you to tell me in which working environment I could have learned at the same time programming, calculus, statistics and surgery which I still use everyday.
I think that this has to do with the fact that a lot of MDs have little to no understanding of basic science principles, at least around where I live. They have too little basic science training. I remember this course on PET I attended at the Physics Dept. of my University. When the lecturer started to talk about anti-matter, the MDs looked as if they just had been teleported into a Star Trek episode and that is a tool they were using every single day!
I thought exactly about the same thing. It would be useful though to have a longer time stretch to see if the pattern is meaningful or if it periodically repeats over days, weeks or months.
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I guess they know to whom they issued the new prototypes so they can just ask these people to give them back to find who lost it after the story came out on Gizmodo.
Imagine how it feels to live in Europe... This being said, the Japanese government is strongly supporting research in the field of robotics with the hope of having sci-fi like robots in the next 20-30 years, meaning intelligent humanoid-like robots. The reason is relatively simple, they are anticipating the collapse of their population which is aging really fast with a fertility rate per woman of about 1.3 (not sure about that one). It's the only industrialized country in which the fertility rate did not stabilize at around 2.1 after declining in the 20th century (there was a good paper about it in The Economist recently but I cannot find it online). So they hope to replace workers by robots, including caretakers for the elderly, cooks and so on. It seems that the most obvious solution would be to allow more immigrants or change something to the way the society is organized but according to the Japanese I know, this seems unlikely to ever happen so they go the way of technological progress.
I will only be really impressed when it can smoke cigars, swear and run on booze.
I am sorry I don't have any mod points left, +1 Funny.
There are some FPS on the iPhone were you move using a virtual joystick in the lower left corner and look around using the rest of the screen. It's not perfect but it's ok to play casually on a small mobile device.
I think it's more a matter of decency than freedom of speech.
Even curling?
Violent games are not banned. It's not even discussed in the parliament but merely in a commission, RTFA.
As of February 2009 it is estimated that the SVP retains around 23% of the popular vote... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_People's_Party Majority party?
Switzerland has very little regard for free speech. Very little regard for things that are unpopular or disliked and has an aging, reactionary voter base.
Aaaaah Switzerland, this famous dictatorship... And you are supporting these claims how? Because I happen to live in that country but it doesn't seem to be the country you are describing. Free speech? Very little regard for things that are unpopular or disliked? What the hell are you talking about exactly? Do you have examples that make Switzerland stand out of the crowd of European countries? Agreed, the ban on minarets is not exactly the vote we can be most proud of. I would just like to point to the fact that Switzerland is no different from other European countries in that regard as was demonstrated by numerous polls in Europe following this particularly infamous vote. Also on votes asking whether or not to put a cap on immigration, the Swiss people have constantly voted no (there was several votes on this question since the 70s) and we have also accepted to embrace bilateral agreements with the EU and extend those agreements to the new EU members from Eastern Europe so I don't really see more reactionary voters than in any other western country. The only difference is probably that pretty much everything goes into a public vote and is hence very visible.
Is her claim to legitimacy compromised by the fact that she only admitted it after it was discovered by someone else?
Definitely yes. In the case of electronic music, it is obvious right from the beginning that samples are samples. The creativity resides in the fact that those are assembled in original ways creating a new piece of music. When you copy words, there is no such thing like mixing beats and samples.
Nope sir. It seems that there is always room on the flank for that.
"attraper" is not much used in that context in French (at least in France). That's what a school kid would say. "appréhender" definitely sounds better. And you would certainly not use "attraper" while discussing with your buddies in front of a beer but rather "coincer", "gauler" or even "piquer" all of them meaning originally something else (ok I don't know for "gauler").
In the case of France right now, I think that it is a lot of the first option, i.e. they want to appear like they are doing something. Regional elections are coming soon (March) and discontent is growing in the population plus most of the moderate people who once voted for NS are disillusioned since he failed to implement anything serious but minor reforms. Finally his personal behavior is getting on the nerves of many. I think that the government is afraid of losing votes on the far right so they are pushing some sort of a security agenda. In recent months they already talked of banning the veil for women in public spaces and tried to have some national debate on the "French identity".
I guess he meant "appréhender".
Backup anyone?
I have to admit that I was thinking specifically of murders. However the Daily Mail article seems to suggest that the UK stands out in Europe. The next EU country in that list is down 20% and the one after that 45%. Still it comes as a surprise to me that the US are so low, even lower than France.
There is almost no violent crime in the UK by US standards (suggesting the surveillance state pays off), [...]
Nonsense, there is almost no violent crime in most of the Western world by US standards. It doesn't say anything about the efficiency of surveillance in the UK but rather about the climate in the US.
I simply don't understand. I assume that at home almost everyone as a monitor/screen better than the one from the iPad to watch videos, browse the web, etc... So the iPad could be useful on the go but it's too big for commuting time during which you can use your smartphone to watch videos or casually play video games and it's not a computer so it's pretty useless for long trips.
even in the poor state of AI nowadays. Just look at the story above this one on the front page (the one about South Carolina).
Is it useful for something else than browsing the web from your bath tub?
I reached the same conclusion reading slashdot.
College degrees are way overrated. This is coming from someone with multiple degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.
In the world where I live, one usually gets a bachelor degree, then a master degree, then - maybe - an advanced degree like a PhD. So I cannot help to wonder how you managed to get multiple degrees from three universities.
And yes you do not use all of the things you learned at the university but I like to think that you develop some special analytical, learning and problem solving skills that you do not develop while being on the job. And I'd like you to tell me in which working environment I could have learned at the same time programming, calculus, statistics and surgery which I still use everyday.
I think that this has to do with the fact that a lot of MDs have little to no understanding of basic science principles, at least around where I live. They have too little basic science training. I remember this course on PET I attended at the Physics Dept. of my University. When the lecturer started to talk about anti-matter, the MDs looked as if they just had been teleported into a Star Trek episode and that is a tool they were using every single day!
I thought exactly about the same thing. It would be useful though to have a longer time stretch to see if the pattern is meaningful or if it periodically repeats over days, weeks or months.