You could make a phone cover that is swappable, so if you want a camera, you could just jpgrade the cover. Not that anyone wouldn't want a camera. There are plenty of locations where mobile phones are permitted but cameras are not. This is why you see some consumers get very excited when camera-less models of their favorite phone are released (e.g. the camera-less Treos). Even more extreme, I found the following article which discusses the demand for "kosher" cell phones: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20 060331/ai_n16200963.
From Pudon international airport to the center of Shanghai.
Longyang station is far from what I would call the center of Shanghai. Longyang station (the western terminus of the Maglev line) is still in Pudong--i.e., literally east of the Huangpu river. The Wikipedia article refers to the inconvenient location of the Longyang terminus and notes "[t]here is significant local criticism that the project was showy and wasteful, delivering no practical benefit to residents".
I was also surprised by the quality of the ride. It's actually a little rough/bumpy feeling at times, which is not at all what I would have expected from a magnetically levitated transport. Nevertheless, it's a fun ride and even with transferring at Longyang station, it's cheaper and marginally faster than taking a taxi from the airport to Puxi (west of the Huangpu river). In fact, these are precisely the reasons I'll be taking the Maglev again, when I arrive in Shanghai tomorrow:)
The context was metaphysics in a philosophy curriculum. You would be hard pressed to find faith healing in a metaphysics course. On the other hand, there was a fair amount of God in the metaphysics of Newton's time (c.f. Leibniz's monads).
morality is a universal constant Universal constant? I do not think it means what you think it means;)
All joking aside, it's hard to imagine how you could justify claiming that morality is a universal constant. You defined morality as "what is right". But what is right? And is "what is right" a universal constant? In this case, your addition of a level of indirection hasn't contributed anything.
With respect to a given action, you and I may disagree what is right. So, what is right is not universal in that respect. Aha!, you say, but for an individual, what is right with respect to a given action is universal. Yet, over time, an individual may change his mind as to whether a given action is right. So, what is right is not universal in that respect either. Finally, we may disagree over the very meaning of right and likewise, you yourself may change your mind as to the meaning of right.
There *IS* a lot of talk lately about eliminating the dollar bill.
I think it's the lowest-value paper currency in the industrialized world - by something like a factor of 4.If China is part of the industrialized world, then the one jiao note has the dollar beat quite handily: 10 jiao = 1 yuan (RMB) 8 RMB = 1 USD (or thereabouts)
I even remember using two one-jiao notes to pay an attendant at the subway station in Beijing to park a bicycle at the subway station when I went to visit a friend last year.
BadAnalogyGuy was so much more charming when he stuck to his forte: bad analogies. The political discourse is akin to McDonald's offering healthy menu items;)
Anyway, you took an article about a dispute over a software patent and turned it into it's really no suprise at all that the ultra-nationalistic Koreans have found an American company at fault for anything and everything and a backdoor attack on the "American hegemony". Hmm. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
if you hack the phone and use it with other carrier before N years expire, you owe the subsidy money back to the original telco
Without speaking to what a particular carrier contract says or does not say, hacking a phone in and of itself to work with another carrier before the initial contract expires doesn't seem to violate the spirit of the subsidy. Hacking the phone doesn't mean I'm not still paying the original carrier fees for the duration of the initial contract. It just means the phone is no longer locked to a particular carrier (consider traveling abroad with the phone when the original carrier is not willing to unlock the phone).
I think Europe is smarter than USA and will not destroy the lock-down supported expansion of mobile telephony. Europe and its GSM system is much ahead of americans in mobile communications and cannot alow it to collapse
In the first place, it's generally a lot easier to either get an unlocked handset or unlock a locked handset in Europe (at least the U.K., France, and Italy) than in the U.S. Secondly, as a matter of pure conjecture: the very ease of switching carriers may be what contributed to increased competition and thereby, advancements in in technology and services in Europe vs. U.S. Finally, of course it isn't GSM itself that is "much ahead of americans": I think it's hard to argue that GSM is definitively superior to CDMA, especially given that the immediate upgrade path for GSM appears to be (W-)CDMA. I certainly prefer GSM to CDMA, but this is more an artifact of being able to swap SIM cards when traveling, not because I think TDMA is superior to CDMA (that and I can't seem to use data and voice services simultaneously with the CDMA version of my phone, but I don't know what exactly is responsible for that).
As for Read or Die, that was a fun anime (the OAV, haven't seen the TV series).
It should only take a person a couple of weeks to acheive a basic conversational level in a foreign language, which can easily be done before each time you set off on vacation.
I actually agree with the general thrust of your post and until recently, even the bit of your post I quoted above. However, my most recent foreign language experience (visiting China), now leads to me strongly disagree (just with the bit I quoted above). A couple of months isn't adequate, let alone a couple of weeks. Most of the language students I met in Beijing, after 8 weeks of 20 hrs/week of classroom study had yet to achieve a "basic" conversational level. Of course, we could argue about what constitutes basic =) I was pretty happy to be able to order a beer and say thank-you, but I would call that essential, not basic;)
I met people who could speak two or three other (Western) languages, but after over a year of living/working in China, still couldn't explain over the telephone in Mandarin that they might be late for a meeting without assistance from a bilingual friend. I'm willing to bet there are other languages that impose a similar level of difficulty.
The system is designed primarily to work with XML source material
The digital object model is represented in XML, but there's certainly no bias favoring source material in XML. Datastreams by reference can point to any mime-typed material. For example, see the Spoken Word collection at Northwestern (audio recordings of Supreme Court arguments) or the University of Virginia Digital Image collection.
From the website, Fedora is "a general purpose repository service...devoted to...providing open-source repository software that can serve as the foundation for many types of information management systems".
Problem for some is that Fedora can be a little hard to grok. It's not an out-of-the-box repository to install and run, like the repository application mentioned in the article (DSpace). It's an architecture for building repository software. Once you understand the potential for building applications on top of Fedora, you start to see some light at the end of the tunnel for just the sort of issues the article raises.
most of the people i know who use sms regularly use it because it's significantly less expensive than the per minute voice charges. calling another mobile in france, for instance, is painfully expensive, where as an sms message is something like.1 euros.
Who cares when it's raining grilled pigeons and baked potatoes?
Sweet, the new Canons grill and bake at the same time? Now that's what I call convergence. Why it seems like just yesterday when you had to buy a grill, an oven and a digital camera all separately.
I'll have to see about hacking the firmware in my George Foreman iGrill to support the simultaneous grill & bake. Although I'd hate to be served a DMCA notice by George. I hear he still punches pretty hard.
So who knows anything about how this DHTML/JavaScript is implemented (commentary, not the source, which is obviously viewable)? It works amazingly well (zooming, panning), even during a slashdotting.
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition: biannual biannual b/pld/icons/ipa322.gifi,æ;niua/pld/icons/breve.gif l, a. and sb. [f. bi- pref.2 4, 4 b + annual. ]
A. adj. Used as = Half-yearly.
B. sb. = biennial sb. Hence bi'annually adv.
* 1877 Ouida Puck xii. 123 Every half-year his lawyers transmitted him..the biannual rental.
* 1884 Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 15/1 Plant out..annuals and bi-annuals.
* 1882 Century Mag. XXIII. 647 A change in the fashion of her clothes bi-annually at least.
"The Irish are the blacks of Europe; Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland; and Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin...so say it once and say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!"
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Not that anyone wouldn't want a camera. There are plenty of locations where mobile phones are permitted but cameras are not. This is why you see some consumers get very excited when camera-less models of their favorite phone are released (e.g. the camera-less Treos). Even more extreme, I found the following article which discusses the demand for "kosher" cell phones: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_2
From Pudon international airport to the center of Shanghai.
:)
Longyang station is far from what I would call the center of Shanghai. Longyang station (the western terminus of the Maglev line) is still in Pudong--i.e., literally east of the Huangpu river. The Wikipedia article refers to the inconvenient location of the Longyang terminus and notes "[t]here is significant local criticism that the project was showy and wasteful, delivering no practical benefit to residents".
I was also surprised by the quality of the ride. It's actually a little rough/bumpy feeling at times, which is not at all what I would have expected from a magnetically levitated transport. Nevertheless, it's a fun ride and even with transferring at Longyang station, it's cheaper and marginally faster than taking a taxi from the airport to Puxi (west of the Huangpu river). In fact, these are precisely the reasons I'll be taking the Maglev again, when I arrive in Shanghai tomorrow
The context was metaphysics in a philosophy curriculum. You would be hard pressed to find faith healing in a metaphysics course. On the other hand, there was a fair amount of God in the metaphysics of Newton's time (c.f. Leibniz's monads).
morality is a universal constant Universal constant? I do not think it means what you think it means ;)
All joking aside, it's hard to imagine how you could justify claiming that morality is a universal constant. You defined morality as "what is right". But what is right? And is "what is right" a universal constant? In this case, your addition of a level of indirection hasn't contributed anything.
With respect to a given action, you and I may disagree what is right. So, what is right is not universal in that respect. Aha!, you say, but for an individual, what is right with respect to a given action is universal. Yet, over time, an individual may change his mind as to whether a given action is right. So, what is right is not universal in that respect either. Finally, we may disagree over the very meaning of right and likewise, you yourself may change your mind as to the meaning of right.
There *IS* a lot of talk lately about eliminating the dollar bill.
I think it's the lowest-value paper currency in the industrialized world - by something like a factor of 4.If China is part of the industrialized world, then the one jiao note has the dollar beat quite handily:
10 jiao = 1 yuan (RMB)
8 RMB = 1 USD (or thereabouts)
I even remember using two one-jiao notes to pay an attendant at the subway station in Beijing to park a bicycle at the subway station when I went to visit a friend last year.
BadAnalogyGuy was so much more charming when he stuck to his forte: bad analogies. The political discourse is akin to McDonald's offering healthy menu items ;)
Anyway, you took an article about a dispute over a software patent and turned it into it's really no suprise at all that the ultra-nationalistic Koreans have found an American company at fault for anything and everything and a backdoor attack on the "American hegemony". Hmm. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
if you hack the phone and use it with other carrier before N years expire, you owe the subsidy money back to the original telco
Without speaking to what a particular carrier contract says or does not say, hacking a phone in and of itself to work with another carrier before the initial contract expires doesn't seem to violate the spirit of the subsidy. Hacking the phone doesn't mean I'm not still paying the original carrier fees for the duration of the initial contract. It just means the phone is no longer locked to a particular carrier (consider traveling abroad with the phone when the original carrier is not willing to unlock the phone).
I think Europe is smarter than USA and will not destroy the lock-down supported expansion of mobile telephony. Europe and its GSM system is much ahead of americans in mobile communications and cannot alow it to collapse
In the first place, it's generally a lot easier to either get an unlocked handset or unlock a locked handset in Europe (at least the U.K., France, and Italy) than in the U.S. Secondly, as a matter of pure conjecture: the very ease of switching carriers may be what contributed to increased competition and thereby, advancements in in technology and services in Europe vs. U.S. Finally, of course it isn't GSM itself that is "much ahead of americans": I think it's hard to argue that GSM is definitively superior to CDMA, especially given that the immediate upgrade path for GSM appears to be (W-)CDMA. I certainly prefer GSM to CDMA, but this is more an artifact of being able to swap SIM cards when traveling, not because I think TDMA is superior to CDMA (that and I can't seem to use data and voice services simultaneously with the CDMA version of my phone, but I don't know what exactly is responsible for that).
As for Read or Die, that was a fun anime (the OAV, haven't seen the TV series).
It should only take a person a couple of weeks to acheive a basic conversational level in a foreign language, which can easily be done before each time you set off on vacation.
;)
I actually agree with the general thrust of your post and until recently, even the bit of your post I quoted above. However, my most recent foreign language experience (visiting China), now leads to me strongly disagree (just with the bit I quoted above). A couple of months isn't adequate, let alone a couple of weeks. Most of the language students I met in Beijing, after 8 weeks of 20 hrs/week of classroom study had yet to achieve a "basic" conversational level. Of course, we could argue about what constitutes basic =) I was pretty happy to be able to order a beer and say thank-you, but I would call that essential, not basic
I met people who could speak two or three other (Western) languages, but after over a year of living/working in China, still couldn't explain over the telephone in Mandarin that they might be late for a meeting without assistance from a bilingual friend. I'm willing to bet there are other languages that impose a similar level of difficulty.
What about the way home?
Your sig is from Kant. See the end of The Critique of Practical Reason.
The system is designed primarily to work with XML source material
The digital object model is represented in XML, but there's certainly no bias favoring source material in XML. Datastreams by reference can point to any mime-typed material. For example, see the Spoken Word collection at Northwestern (audio recordings of Supreme Court arguments) or the University of Virginia Digital Image collection.
http://www.fedora.info/
(Not to be confused with the Linux distribution)
From the website, Fedora is "a general purpose repository service...devoted to...providing open-source repository software that can serve as the foundation for many types of information management systems".
Problem for some is that Fedora can be a little hard to grok. It's not an out-of-the-box repository to install and run, like the repository application mentioned in the article (DSpace). It's an architecture for building repository software. Once you understand the potential for building applications on top of Fedora, you start to see some light at the end of the tunnel for just the sort of issues the article raises.
Try: Comparison of nine Serial ATA RAID 5 adapters
Linux is for Lovers!
that was a damn good & honest apology =)
tip 'o the hat to you.
R E A D I N G, it's fundamental. Try your own dog food: take the time to understand "before just running your mouth".
most of the people i know who use sms regularly use it because it's significantly less expensive than the per minute voice charges. calling another mobile in france, for instance, is painfully expensive, where as an sms message is something like .1 euros.
eh? links, more detail about this?
Who cares when it's raining grilled pigeons and baked potatoes?
Sweet, the new Canons grill and bake at the same time? Now that's what I call convergence. Why it seems like just yesterday when you had to buy a grill, an oven and a digital camera all separately.
I'll have to see about hacking the firmware in my George Foreman iGrill to support the simultaneous grill & bake. Although I'd hate to be served a DMCA notice by George. I hear he still punches pretty hard.
It was cheaper to subtract.
So who knows anything about how this DHTML/JavaScript is implemented (commentary, not the source, which is obviously viewable)? It works amazingly well (zooming, panning), even during a slashdotting.
Why? What basis is there for such a claim (that "there needs to be a good reason")? I don't necessarily disagree, but let's not treat it as a given.
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Not every discussion needs to begin with first principles, especially not the sort to be found on
Biannually means every two years
f l, a. and sb. [f. bi- pref.2 4, 4 b + annual. ]
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition:
biannual
biannual b/pld/icons/ipa322.gifi,æ;niua/pld/icons/breve.gi
A. adj. Used as = Half-yearly.
B. sb. = biennial sb. Hence bi'annually adv.
* 1877 Ouida Puck xii. 123 Every half-year his lawyers transmitted him..the biannual rental.
* 1884 Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 15/1 Plant out..annuals and bi-annuals.
* 1882 Century Mag. XXIII. 647 A change in the fashion of her clothes bi-annually at least.
Also see WordNet
"The Irish are the blacks of Europe; Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland; and Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin...so say it once and say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!"
hey thanks, that's just what i was looking for; well, as far as subjects go. still haven't found a slide-out lcd that fits in a 5.25 bay.
i imagine this is just for (perceived) lack of market. it's not as if there aren't similar displays used in in-car dash systems.