I've seen japanese trains, with the way they cram them in like sardines, could you honestly watch one of these devices:P
I live in Japan, I ride those trains, and yes, people can and do watch TV on their cell phones no matter how crowded it is. The trick is getting your phone (and arm) into position before you get packed into the crowd.
Yes,.NET is complex, or rather it has a hell of a lot of libraries. That, however, is not necessarily a bad thing. It saves you from having to reinvent the wheel every time you write something.
Instead you spend the time rummaging through your toolbox trying to look for the one wheel that's exactly the right size, with the proper axle connections and everything, and pray that it doesn't fall off when you make a left turn.
(I jest, I jest. But I have found that after a certain point, the effort required to deal with complex libraries properly begins to outweigh the benefit of code reuse.)
The other time was at Nagoya airport where they took me from the walkway to the plane (the term escapes me at the moment) and went through all my luggage and had me turn on all of my electronic devices (cell phone, mp3 player, laptop, camera, etc) and then let me get on. I was the first down that walkway and the last to board the plane, I was the only one searched.
I'm not sure why that would've happened on a domestic flight (maybe it's because it was connecting), but apparently the US requires that "random" checking on all US-bound flights, where "random" means "take the first person that comes by, then when you're done with them take the next person who comes by, and repeat until everyone's on board". So I'd give good odds they didn't choose you specifically--you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Ministry of Justice said they'll have to "review the procedures" because there's "still some trial and error going on". I guess one can always hope they'll see the light, but it looks more likely they'll just say "Grab people's hands and make sure there's no tape on them."
The fact that the microsoft tag is in color does seem to limit its use to color print only. Also I wonder how well it works if the colors are not perfectly aligned as is often possible for example in newspaper print.
That could be why they chose triangles: so no matter which way the colors are misaligned, they have a good chance of figuring out what the original code is. With squares, for example, if the misalignment is exactly along one axis you could end up with twice as many half-width rectangles. Newspapers and the like are probably also why they chose cyan, magenta, and yellow (the primary colors of printing).
And to be honest, I really can't see either catching on...
I don't know about "catching on" in the sense of people actually using them (I don't), but they're incredibly common in Japan, and have been for the last few years. Advertisements have them, magazines have them, McDonald's hamburger wrappers have them... Granted, it could all be a mass delusion of marketroids, but I doubt so many companies would go to the effort of putting the codes on--and continuing to put them on year after year--unless there was feedback saying it was effective.
A man carrying a musket rushed at him. Another threw a brick, knocking him off his feet. George Kyle picked himself up and ran. He never did cast his vote. Nor did his brother, who died of his wounds.
Read The Fine Link from "Golomb ruler", and be enlightened. If you can make the summary more concise by moving some of it to a separate layer, then why not? The web is all about three-dimensional text, after all.
I was really happy with Firefox pre 1.0, and have steadily gotten less happy. I still use it because I'd rather have my nuts crushed than go back to IE.
Then how about Seamonkey? It's got all the goodness of the Mozilla browser without the Windowsy handholding and lecturing that's crept into Firefox over the versions.
And those of us who haven't been caught up in the wave of cynicism that seems to be sweeping modern society, I suppose. I am me; why should I pretend to be anyone else? (Yes, that is a rhetorical question.)
My Panasonic Let's Note (CF-R5) actually gets the 11 hours it claims on the standard battery (well, down to about 8 or 9 after a couple years of usage, but hey, it'll still last most of a transoceanic flight). Maybe they have more standardized testing methods here in Japan?
Amusing side note: the next model in the same line came with Vista, and only got 8 hours...
It seems we are indeed from different universes, so I guess there's no point in continuing this discussion. If I visit yours, I'll make sure to take a close look at any "MMOs" before playing them. (In fact, I could probably skip playing them entirely and save myself a bunch of time, but that's another thread...)
It's not an MMO because MMOs aren't persistent, just like a Perl script isn't a 1950's mainframe program because 1950's mainframe programs weren't scripted. A game with a persistent environment would be a fundamentally different type of game from the MMOs people play now, and calling it an MMO is like calling mainframe assembly routines and Perl scripts both "programs": true, but misleading.
Persistence in MMOs (in the sense the article talks about) is a stupid idea, mainly because the addicts are going to finish off every new quest or what have you before normal people have a chance to, and that leaves normal people nothing to do but sit around and grind. If it bothers you that the Demon King of Evil is going to pop right up again after you defeat him, then you're thinking about the game the wrong way; treat it as a story for your character, not for the entire world.
I live in the Weststadt residential neighborhood of Heidelberg, Germany. Heidelberg is a beautiful city, and sees many tourists. For some reason, the Japanese tour groups frequently travel down my street. Also, for some reason, many of the older Japanese tourists frequently take pictures of me doing such mundane things as bringing home groceries.
Do those pictures show up on the Internet? Or are they, as you suggest, just sitting in several dozen Japanese photo albums?
That's the signal difference here, and I think it's what everybody crying "hypocrisy" is missing. The privacy problem only arises when photos make their way onto the Internet where anyone can see them, not only the people who were actually there at the time. (It's kind of like copyright here in Japan: you're explicitly allowed to make copies of things for personal use—it's when you start distributing that you get in trouble.)
The way I look at the traditional public/private issue is this: People were willing to accept the lack of privacy in public places because they could see everyone who might be looking at them. In other words, you knew who you were giving up your privacy to, so you could judge how to limit your behavior; and in order to see you in a public location, the person watching would, in general, have to be in public as well. The problem Street View (and things like Flickr) raise is that anyone, at any time, can look at such "public" images—it's no longer a tit-for-tat, and moreover, the viewer may not have the context necessary to interpret the image correctly. Suppose the Google van caught you flipping the bird. Maybe you were just telling a friend how you felt about somebody who rear-ended you; but will the HR guy at the company you just applied to know that when he finds the image plastered all over the Internet?
The letter translated in TFA does raise some good Japan-specific points, but I think the basic problem applies the world over, and I really don't think it's Google's place to unilaterally decide what should and shouldn't be "private" in the Internet era.
(I knew I shouldn't have modded in this discussion. Oh well.)
Most Chinese dictionaries actually sort characters first by the radical and then by stoke count within each group of radicals. I'm curious why they used just the stroke count ordering for the Olympics.
Because the Olympics aren't a dictionary? (: Listing by stroke count / reading seems to be another accepted way of doing things, at least to judge from the song lists I see in karaoke places.
Clearly you haven't seen Japanese Diet sessions, where even the fighting is scripted. (It's kind of funny, in a depressing sort of way, to watch the opposition members grinning as they try and grab the microphone away from the committee chair or whatnot.)
Not that TFA says anything about whether C or C++ are actually involved, but:
The C/C++ feature that the compiler has no idea of the size of an array claims another example of misuse.
The lack of array size information is a feature of C/C++, and a well-known one at that. If you don't know how to deal with it, you shouldn't be using the language, much less talking about it.
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I've seen japanese trains, with the way they cram them in like sardines, could you honestly watch one of these devices :P
I live in Japan, I ride those trains, and yes, people can and do watch TV on their cell phones no matter how crowded it is. The trick is getting your phone (and arm) into position before you get packed into the crowd.
Yes, .NET is complex, or rather it has a hell of a lot of libraries. That, however, is not necessarily a bad thing. It saves you from having to reinvent the wheel every time you write something.
Instead you spend the time rummaging through your toolbox trying to look for the one wheel that's exactly the right size, with the proper axle connections and everything, and pray that it doesn't fall off when you make a left turn.
(I jest, I jest. But I have found that after a certain point, the effort required to deal with complex libraries properly begins to outweigh the benefit of code reuse.)
Their might be built-in functionality in the virus itself for such operations, but I'd think that would increase the size of the binary too much.
In this day and age? Hardly. Not when the virus writer got around a blocking attempt by including a 75k data file right in the virus itself.
Just not for you.
The other time was at Nagoya airport where they took me from the walkway to the plane (the term escapes me at the moment) and went through all my luggage and had me turn on all of my electronic devices (cell phone, mp3 player, laptop, camera, etc) and then let me get on. I was the first down that walkway and the last to board the plane, I was the only one searched.
I'm not sure why that would've happened on a domestic flight (maybe it's because it was connecting), but apparently the US requires that "random" checking on all US-bound flights, where "random" means "take the first person that comes by, then when you're done with them take the next person who comes by, and repeat until everyone's on board". So I'd give good odds they didn't choose you specifically--you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Japan's fingerprint screening system can be fooled by putting tape over your fingers. Seriously.
The Ministry of Justice said they'll have to "review the procedures" because there's "still some trial and error going on". I guess one can always hope they'll see the light, but it looks more likely they'll just say "Grab people's hands and make sure there's no tape on them."
The fact that the microsoft tag is in color does seem to limit its use to color print only. Also I wonder how well it works if the colors are not perfectly aligned as is often possible for example in newspaper print.
That could be why they chose triangles: so no matter which way the colors are misaligned, they have a good chance of figuring out what the original code is. With squares, for example, if the misalignment is exactly along one axis you could end up with twice as many half-width rectangles. Newspapers and the like are probably also why they chose cyan, magenta, and yellow (the primary colors of printing).
And to be honest, I really can't see either catching on...
I don't know about "catching on" in the sense of people actually using them (I don't), but they're incredibly common in Japan, and have been for the last few years. Advertisements have them, magazines have them, McDonald's hamburger wrappers have them... Granted, it could all be a mass delusion of marketroids, but I doubt so many companies would go to the effort of putting the codes on--and continuing to put them on year after year--unless there was feedback saying it was effective.
From TFA:
The Forrester report "How Much Monday are Your Idle PCs Wasting?" is available for $279.
(And if you can sell common sense for $279 a pop, I'm in the wrong business.)
I'd like to see Karl Rove top that.
Please, don't give him ideas . . .
Read The Fine Link from "Golomb ruler", and be enlightened. If you can make the summary more concise by moving some of it to a separate layer, then why not? The web is all about three-dimensional text, after all.
I was really happy with Firefox pre 1.0, and have steadily gotten less happy. I still use it because I'd rather have my nuts crushed than go back to IE.
Then how about Seamonkey? It's got all the goodness of the Mozilla browser without the Windowsy handholding and lecturing that's crept into Firefox over the versions.
And it was generally seen as a Good Thing. How times change, huh?
And those of us who haven't been caught up in the wave of cynicism that seems to be sweeping modern society, I suppose. I am me; why should I pretend to be anyone else? (Yes, that is a rhetorical question.)
My Panasonic Let's Note (CF-R5) actually gets the 11 hours it claims on the standard battery (well, down to about 8 or 9 after a couple years of usage, but hey, it'll still last most of a transoceanic flight). Maybe they have more standardized testing methods here in Japan?
Amusing side note: the next model in the same line came with Vista, and only got 8 hours...
It seems we are indeed from different universes, so I guess there's no point in continuing this discussion. If I visit yours, I'll make sure to take a close look at any "MMOs" before playing them. (In fact, I could probably skip playing them entirely and save myself a bunch of time, but that's another thread...)
It's not an MMO because MMOs aren't persistent, just like a Perl script isn't a 1950's mainframe program because 1950's mainframe programs weren't scripted. A game with a persistent environment would be a fundamentally different type of game from the MMOs people play now, and calling it an MMO is like calling mainframe assembly routines and Perl scripts both "programs": true, but misleading.
What if we want a different kind of game? Is that wrong?
No, but it's also not an MMO.
Show me an athlete who refuses his medal to make a point and then I might think the olympics are any different from the soccer world championship.
You mean like this guy?
Persistence in MMOs (in the sense the article talks about) is a stupid idea, mainly because the addicts are going to finish off every new quest or what have you before normal people have a chance to, and that leaves normal people nothing to do but sit around and grind. If it bothers you that the Demon King of Evil is going to pop right up again after you defeat him, then you're thinking about the game the wrong way; treat it as a story for your character, not for the entire world.
I live in the Weststadt residential neighborhood of Heidelberg, Germany. Heidelberg is a beautiful city, and sees many tourists. For some reason, the Japanese tour groups frequently travel down my street. Also, for some reason, many of the older Japanese tourists frequently take pictures of me doing such mundane things as bringing home groceries.
Do those pictures show up on the Internet? Or are they, as you suggest, just sitting in several dozen Japanese photo albums?
That's the signal difference here, and I think it's what everybody crying "hypocrisy" is missing. The privacy problem only arises when photos make their way onto the Internet where anyone can see them, not only the people who were actually there at the time. (It's kind of like copyright here in Japan: you're explicitly allowed to make copies of things for personal use—it's when you start distributing that you get in trouble.)
The way I look at the traditional public/private issue is this: People were willing to accept the lack of privacy in public places because they could see everyone who might be looking at them. In other words, you knew who you were giving up your privacy to, so you could judge how to limit your behavior; and in order to see you in a public location, the person watching would, in general, have to be in public as well. The problem Street View (and things like Flickr) raise is that anyone, at any time, can look at such "public" images—it's no longer a tit-for-tat, and moreover, the viewer may not have the context necessary to interpret the image correctly. Suppose the Google van caught you flipping the bird. Maybe you were just telling a friend how you felt about somebody who rear-ended you; but will the HR guy at the company you just applied to know that when he finds the image plastered all over the Internet?
The letter translated in TFA does raise some good Japan-specific points, but I think the basic problem applies the world over, and I really don't think it's Google's place to unilaterally decide what should and shouldn't be "private" in the Internet era.
(I knew I shouldn't have modded in this discussion. Oh well.)
Most Chinese dictionaries actually sort characters first by the radical and then by stoke count within each group of radicals. I'm curious why they used just the stroke count ordering for the Olympics.
Because the Olympics aren't a dictionary? (: Listing by stroke count / reading seems to be another accepted way of doing things, at least to judge from the song lists I see in karaoke places.
Maybe the guy doing the setup prefers CRTs to LCDs?
Clearly you haven't seen Japanese Diet sessions, where even the fighting is scripted. (It's kind of funny, in a depressing sort of way, to watch the opposition members grinning as they try and grab the microphone away from the committee chair or whatnot.)
Not that TFA says anything about whether C or C++ are actually involved, but:
The C/C++ feature that the compiler has no idea of the size of an array claims another example of misuse.
The lack of array size information is a feature of C/C++, and a well-known one at that. If you don't know how to deal with it, you shouldn't be using the language, much less talking about it.