Such phones have existed for long in Japan (see for example on the kddi website. I believe that, with their big keys, they are aimed at the elderly market.
The director said that this was the future of theater. You could have robots acting the way you envision it, without having to care with all the problems human actors tend to bring with him. I saw it on the Japanese TV last night. My opinion is that if he doesn't like directing actors, he should look for another job.
I don't share your interpretation. In the movie, Kirk, Scott, Sulu, Chekov and McCoy go to find Spock body in order to perform a Vulcan ritual to free Spock's katra which he "uploaded" into McCoy's mind before dying and also to prevent McCoy from becoming crazy, and in order to do this they have to desobey superior's orders, steal the Enterprise and sabotage another ship, which is likely to bring them to Martial Court. So it's more in my opinion about friendship and loyalty among the crew of the USS Enterprise, and not about the US constitution; it's just people who say that, as individuals, they are willing to take risks to save one of them. The principle on which the US constitution was founded is the protection of individual rights and freedom. But for the rest, as any other country, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". That's why the US has an army, some tens of thousands of people who are ready to die and whom the government is willing to sacrifice in order to protect hundreds of millions.
Koreas probably won't reunite soon in reality, but their maps show only one country. If you look at maps of Korea (from 6:30, it's in japanese but you can still see the maps) either made by the South or the North, there is no division between the two countries. From what I understand, they still think of themselves as one people.
The ability to sell indeed would be great indeed, as well as the ability to give (i.e. transfer freely a book from one kindle account to another) - or lending for an unlimited period of time. ^^ I don't know how it works in other countries, but in France kids have to buy schoolbooks from junior high school, and usually sell them when they move to the upper class. I would have loved to have a Kindle not to have to carry those heavy paperbacks from home to school and back everyday, but I know I couldn't have afforded to buy every new book each year.
I am sure I will buy a Kindle some day, because I think it is a really good product (and I would have indeed bought an XL if the pdf support and the keyboard were better) and I will surely enjoy not having to carry books anymore, yet I feel somehow sad about it. The sheer weight of books is a strong incentive for their giving. When I moved to Japan, I gathered friends of family and told them to take all the books you want, there's no point they stay in boxes (yet my comics were off-limit:) ). When I travel back to France, I usually take one or two novels with me (airplane food), give them to my mother or my sister when I arrive, buy some more books there and leave them where I finish them (friends' or family's, cafes, trains, etc.. hoping that somebody will pick them up and enjoy them). When I will move back to Europe, I also plan to give most of my books to French and English libraries in Japan. If all those were on Kindle, I'd probably keep them.
Now, instead of having singing idols cosplaying into game characters, we can directly have singing game characters. And we don't have to worry about it getting old. I am sure fans will be pleased. As for me, I couldn't care less.
many new vinyl albums come with digital download cards that have a code that customers can redeem online to get the digital version of a record at no additional cost
I think we have here a case where one format does not replace another. It disrupts the time scheme LP -> tape -> CD -> mp3 -> ?? Let's face it, the LP is not exactly the most practical format around. The main advantages of tapes and CDs over LPs were mainly portability (the sound quality is a point that can be debated but I don't think it is really the point) and ease of sharing. MP3s are also portable, easy to share, and they have the further advantage of being stored in one place (the HD on my computer or portable music player.
If I play all my MP3 music library, I will have ~4 weeks of music nonstop. It's great when I don't know what to listen to, I play it in random mode, and I sometimes (re-)discover some tunes. It's also a great excuse when I have friends at home and they don't like the music. "Yes, I also have shitty music, but I didn't chose to play it now, it's this random function, you know".
But sometimes I want to listen to a particular album, and then I really appreciate that I can have it as an LP. It may be some kind of fetishism, but I appreciate to have to go to the shelves, look for the vinyl, look at the picture, take it out, put it on the turntable, play it, and after 20min getting up from the couch to turn it. It may sound strange, but because it is unpractical, it actually helps me to concentrate on the music.
It was recognized as an island and part of Japan's soveriegn land by treaties with the US in WW2, but historically has been used by both China and Japan.
It's true that Japan isn't self-sufficient in food (coverage ~43%), and the only product where they are self-sufficient is rice, thanks partially to high tariffs on rice import. If I go to the closest supermarket and look at fresh products, I got: milk from Nagano / Hokkaido prefecture, lettuce from Miike prefecture, salmon from Chile, beef from Australia, pork from the US, chicken from Aichi prefecture. Of course, bananas are from the Philippines, oranges from California, onions from China, and for transformed products the origin is not mentioned.
It's a safe bet that it will simply select an entry at random from the list of beverages currently in stock.
So that people will be recommended water because the machine has run out of pepsi? ^^
By the way, vending machines don't make things worse, not in Japan at least. From the Japan-Thailand business forum: In 1950, 80% was occupied by carbonated beverages such as lemon soda and soda pop. Then, the vending machine became more and more popular in Japanese life style, which promoted big growth of fruit juice, coca cola, canned coffee, and so on. Recently, categories of tea, such as green tea and oolong tea, and mineral water are in a growing trend, while carbonated beverages and fruit juices are in a decreasing trend.. If you look at the graph I linked to, you will see that tea is the largest player in soft drink market, not really an unhealthy drink. I guess the microcontroller will respect the market segmentation, so it will be more likely to propose tea to the young woman and cola to the fat kid, and it wouldn't be business-wise to do otherwise. The main difference with usual vending machines is that it might be used to promote new products or brands, and to quicken their adoption.
I'd like to know how you can fool a soft drink vending machine into selling you beer. Really. That would make my day.
(and as mentioned in another comment, we used to have unregulated cigarette vending machines here, and we still can find beer vending machines too, but alas those are becoming rare.)
I have three machines like that. I'm not sure of any reliable way to differentiate dedicated stand alone desktops.
Would you count as 3 users for this number? This article mentions that fedora counts unique IP addresses, if it said how the ubuntu number was found, I missed it.
And how is it possible to count for many users using the same computer? Me and my girlfriend share the same desktop computer (ubuntu/windows dual boot) in addition to our respective laptops (Mac for her / Arch linux for me).
Anyway, such estimates are just to give an order of magnitude. They say 12 million, who cares if it is 11 or 13?
All the energy which is not converted into electricity is lost as heat, and this heat should be dissipated somehow, since the efficiency decreases with temperature,right? Can't this "lost" energy be used to heat water up? I think a combination of solar panel and solar water heater would be nice.
I need a license to use a car. I use the internet. Ergo I need a license to use the internet.
100% pure syllogism, beautifuly wrapped-up into a car analogy. I'm afraid many people will say: "yeah! that's true! we need an internet license!" What we need is more education...
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Now I know why the Golf Mk4 is the poorest of the series.
Such phones have existed for long in Japan (see for example on the kddi website. I believe that, with their big keys, they are aimed at the elderly market.
I don't care! My data are protected from evil in my cross usb drive!
FTA:
As long as it doesn't require me to do any math [...], I will write anything
The director said that this was the future of theater. You could have robots acting the way you envision it, without having to care with all the problems human actors tend to bring with him.
I saw it on the Japanese TV last night. My opinion is that if he doesn't like directing actors, he should look for another job.
I don't share your interpretation. In the movie, Kirk, Scott, Sulu, Chekov and McCoy go to find Spock body in order to perform a Vulcan ritual to free Spock's katra which he "uploaded" into McCoy's mind before dying and also to prevent McCoy from becoming crazy, and in order to do this they have to desobey superior's orders, steal the Enterprise and sabotage another ship, which is likely to bring them to Martial Court.
So it's more in my opinion about friendship and loyalty among the crew of the USS Enterprise, and not about the US constitution; it's just people who say that, as individuals, they are willing to take risks to save one of them.
The principle on which the US constitution was founded is the protection of individual rights and freedom. But for the rest, as any other country, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". That's why the US has an army, some tens of thousands of people who are ready to die and whom the government is willing to sacrifice in order to protect hundreds of millions.
Koreas probably won't reunite soon in reality, but their maps show only one country.
If you look at maps of Korea (from 6:30, it's in japanese but you can still see the maps) either made by the South or the North, there is no division between the two countries.
From what I understand, they still think of themselves as one people.
Unless he was a Jedi and could use the Force...
The ability to sell indeed would be great indeed, as well as the ability to give (i.e. transfer freely a book from one kindle account to another) - or lending for an unlimited period of time. ^^
I don't know how it works in other countries, but in France kids have to buy schoolbooks from junior high school, and usually sell them when they move to the upper class. I would have loved to have a Kindle not to have to carry those heavy paperbacks from home to school and back everyday, but I know I couldn't have afforded to buy every new book each year.
I am sure I will buy a Kindle some day, because I think it is a really good product (and I would have indeed bought an XL if the pdf support and the keyboard were better) and I will surely enjoy not having to carry books anymore, yet I feel somehow sad about it. The sheer weight of books is a strong incentive for their giving. When I moved to Japan, I gathered friends of family and told them to take all the books you want, there's no point they stay in boxes (yet my comics were off-limit :) ). When I travel back to France, I usually take one or two novels with me (airplane food), give them to my mother or my sister when I arrive, buy some more books there and leave them where I finish them (friends' or family's, cafes, trains, etc.. hoping that somebody will pick them up and enjoy them). When I will move back to Europe, I also plan to give most of my books to French and English libraries in Japan. If all those were on Kindle, I'd probably keep them.
Now, instead of having singing idols cosplaying into game characters, we can directly have singing game characters. And we don't have to worry about it getting old. I am sure fans will be pleased. As for me, I couldn't care less.
I am not sure it is a record-breaking galaxy, but Hubble is definitely a record-breaking telescope!
Try with LP
FTA
many new vinyl albums come with digital download cards that have a code that customers can redeem online to get the digital version of a record at no additional cost
and btw, here are the last LPs I bought Songs from Matt Elliott
I think we have here a case where one format does not replace another. It disrupts the time scheme LP -> tape -> CD -> mp3 -> ??
Let's face it, the LP is not exactly the most practical format around. The main advantages of tapes and CDs over LPs were mainly portability (the sound quality is a point that can be debated but I don't think it is really the point) and ease of sharing. MP3s are also portable, easy to share, and they have the further advantage of being stored in one place (the HD on my computer or portable music player.
If I play all my MP3 music library, I will have ~4 weeks of music nonstop. It's great when I don't know what to listen to, I play it in random mode, and I sometimes (re-)discover some tunes. It's also a great excuse when I have friends at home and they don't like the music. "Yes, I also have shitty music, but I didn't chose to play it now, it's this random function, you know".
But sometimes I want to listen to a particular album, and then I really appreciate that I can have it as an LP. It may be some kind of fetishism, but I appreciate to have to go to the shelves, look for the vinyl, look at the picture, take it out, put it on the turntable, play it, and after 20min getting up from the couch to turn it. It may sound strange, but because it is unpractical, it actually helps me to concentrate on the music.
It was recognized as an island and part of Japan's soveriegn land by treaties with the US in WW2, but historically has been used by both China and Japan.
Please check your facts
The island has never been used. It is claimed by the PRC only since 1971, though it is true that it was known to them for a looooong time.
Japan's holding a Chinese fishing captain who was fishing off of waters claimed by both Japan and China.
Let me fix that for you: Japan's holding a Chinese fishing captain whose boat has rammed a Japanese military ship in Japanese waters.
If you want a bit of history about the Daioyu / senkaku islands, here is an an article in the French newspaper "Le Monde" (through google translate
It's true that Japan isn't self-sufficient in food (coverage ~43%), and the only product where they are self-sufficient is rice, thanks partially to high tariffs on rice import.
If I go to the closest supermarket and look at fresh products, I got: milk from Nagano / Hokkaido prefecture, lettuce from Miike prefecture, salmon from Chile, beef from Australia, pork from the US, chicken from Aichi prefecture. Of course, bananas are from the Philippines, oranges from California, onions from China, and for transformed products the origin is not mentioned.
It's a safe bet that it will simply select an entry at random from the list of beverages currently in stock.
So that people will be recommended water because the machine has run out of pepsi? ^^
By the way, vending machines don't make things worse, not in Japan at least. From the Japan-Thailand business forum: In 1950, 80% was occupied by carbonated beverages such as lemon soda and soda pop. Then, the vending machine became more and more popular in Japanese life style, which promoted big growth of fruit juice, coca cola, canned coffee, and so on. Recently, categories of tea, such as green tea and oolong tea, and mineral water are in a growing trend, while carbonated beverages and fruit juices are in a decreasing trend.. If you look at the graph I linked to, you will see that tea is the largest player in soft drink market, not really an unhealthy drink. I guess the microcontroller will respect the market segmentation, so it will be more likely to propose tea to the young woman and cola to the fat kid, and it wouldn't be business-wise to do otherwise. The main difference with usual vending machines is that it might be used to promote new products or brands, and to quicken their adoption.
I'd like to know how you can fool a soft drink vending machine into selling you beer. Really. That would make my day.
(and as mentioned in another comment, we used to have unregulated cigarette vending machines here, and we still can find beer vending machines too, but alas those are becoming rare.)
I have three machines like that. I'm not sure of any reliable way to differentiate dedicated stand alone desktops.
Would you count as 3 users for this number? This article mentions that fedora counts unique IP addresses, if it said how the ubuntu number was found, I missed it.
And how is it possible to count for many users using the same computer? Me and my girlfriend share the same desktop computer (ubuntu/windows dual boot) in addition to our respective laptops (Mac for her / Arch linux for me).
Anyway, such estimates are just to give an order of magnitude. They say 12 million, who cares if it is 11 or 13?
From wikipedia: Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010)
So he actually died at 68.
(and everyone knows that 68 in hex is 88 in base 12)
All the energy which is not converted into electricity is lost as heat, and this heat should be dissipated somehow, since the efficiency decreases with temperature,right? Can't this "lost" energy be used to heat water up? I think a combination of solar panel and solar water heater would be nice.
I need a license to use a car. I use the internet. Ergo I need a license to use the internet.
100% pure syllogism, beautifuly wrapped-up into a car analogy. I'm afraid many people will say: "yeah! that's true! we need an internet license!"
What we need is more education...
If you buy a british car in the US, you will get the steering wheel on the left side.
Same goes for spelling on a US site.
Oh, in case you don't know what a "steering wheel" is, it's what you call a "driving wheel".
I have n "" letter n my keybard, yu insensitive cld!