There's a good supplemental reading that outlines what is described in the article and it's titled Dogs & Demons: The fall of modern Japan It actually goes far more indepth into the nation's bureaucratic practices, but there is a blurb about researchers having to flee Japan to obtain freedom to pursue research and reap the benefits.
I recently finished reading this book and it was truly an eye-opener for understanding of how bureacracy is run in Japan, but the practice is followed very similarly for large conglomerates.
Here's a review from Amazon.com.
In what may prove to be a highly controversial book, Kerr argues that Japan is in big trouble: a self-destructive country that is systematically destroying its landscape, its environment, its very culture by adherence to ideas and policies that are decades out of date. The author describes land-preservation schemes that end up destroying the land; a national health program that's near collapse; an education system that values conformity over originality; money-eating government programs that no one can seem to stop. In 1994, Japan produced 91.6 million tons of concrete (30 times as much as the U.S.), much of it used to build structures that serve no purpose. In 1998, Japan's government spent $136 billion on public works, more than what it cost to build the Panama Canal. It's hard to know if Kerr hits the mark here, but he makes a strong case. Expect him to start showing up on talk shows soon, and when he does, the requests for this inflammatory position paper will begin to build. David Pitt -- Booklist
now i get 20 junk email for every 1 good email, so i'm forced to send all mail to the junk mail folder by default and then i add known individuals to my protected list as i come across them.
i can only speculate it started when ms started msn.... those bastards.
to make matters more infuriating, hotmail counts the bytesize in your junkmail folder!!!
ever consider that the warranty might have been priced into the retail price?
i'm sure the following crossed their marketing division:
1) gotta be cheaper than SCSI 2) gotta be faster than your typical IDE 3) gotta have the newest shiznat technology (SATA) 4) gotta make people believe they are getting more than they really think...
don't buy into the hype, prices are sure to go down in the next few months... just wait it out and get what you know and trust for now... first gen products are never that great, because there's always the 'fixed' version coming up around the corner.
i'm not exactly sure that would make it more 'productive'. i mean, i can type faster than i write already, and i'm almost getting to the point where i can have sentences typed out faster than i can say it out.... thank IM.
The new P4 runs at 3.06GHz, at 3 billion cycles per second.
That's nothing. I hear AMD is going to come out with a 3.06GHz chip that runs at 4 billion cycles per second!
but wait! let's say in an ideal situation, when two processes are run simultaneously, one utilizing the integer resources while another utilizing the floating point processor, it is technically feasible to achieve 6 billion cycles per seconds. that's the benefit of HT. now, whether it is likely to occur in RL is another story...
corea or korea. the correct way to describe south korea is "dae han min gook" (please don't make any 'gook' jokes) which translates to 'republic of korea'.
also, as a story i used to hear from my dad... japan and korea has had many conflicts over history. he mentioned that japan opted to name corea as korea because the 'k' comes after 'j'. sounds racist, but i haven't found any truth to this statement.
this is in no way a complete list, but here are some basic tools that you should/need-to know... even if it's basic knowledge.
editors: vi, emacs, and maybe know some ancient editor like 'ed'. pfft.
test manip: perl, sed, awk - and more the merrier
core unix utilities: grab UNIX in a nutshell by O'Reilly, you should know pretty much the whole book. typically, i use ls, touch, mkdir, rmdir, rm, echo, su, rlogin, source, grep, finger, who, ping, set
programmers utilities: top, ldd, dbx, make
regular expressions (skill): for any unix guru, you need to know your regular expressions. virtually all text tools allow you to use regex. so grab Mastering Regular Expressions by Oreilly
as i mentioned. this is not a complete list. get to know these, and just keep on expanding your knowledge! the good thing about unix is that there's about a 100 ways to do something and you just need to choose what's right for you.
it doesn't even support 1900Mhz GSM.... when will the quad-band model come out, eh?
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the japanese site provides a little bit more detail - essentially there's a microfine light grill in front of the lcd display bending the perceived light between the left and right eye creating a stereoscopic view much like 3d glasses. i've created a link to the sites through babelfish for those of you who can't read japanese. (the translation isn't perfect, but it's enough to get the gyst of things)
some people might disagree, but if the incentives are lucrative enough, i'll put my heart and soul into my work.
quality work also comes from passion. if you have the right mindset, and a great deal of passion for the field of work that you're in, there's nothing that should stop you from working more than normal hours while getting quality results.
I'm not sure what the contention ratio is, but would you even care if it cost close to $30/month? I've been doing some reading in another forum and speeds provided by 12mbit dsl are greater than what OOL is providing is the US. OOL is one of the fastest consumer cable modem services in the states.
Chimps and Humans are in the same order of primates haplorhini. Humans are descendants of family hominidae (which is the modern man extinct). If apes/chimps are resistent to AIDs and it's variants, we should very well be immune to AIDs and it's variants as well as we belong to the same suborder.
For some reason, the research seems to repeat Darwin's theory of Evolution...no?
Maybe there's some of you that can read japanese and give the rest of us some update, but YahooJP and many other japan telecoms are offering 12mbit DSL service. See: Yahoo!BB Japan
Wouldn't this mean it's waaaaay faster than a standard T1? Why don't they offer this kind of consumer service stateside?
you're stating the obvious here and it's a general fact that people who have more practical experiences will perform well in the field than those who don't. but i disagree with you when you say that recent graduate students who have no practical experience "can't think on their feet". it depends on the person, and how apt they are in grasping the material. you also state that the ones who "can think on their feet" are the ones who go out of their way to tinker with a problem and make it their responsibility. i really don't see how you can relate "thinking on one's feet" to being a proactive problem solver.
Personally, the ones that can't think on their feet are usually the ones that can't remember how to fix a customer's tech support problem even though they've been told how to fix it at least 3-10 times already. These are usually the ones that piss the customer's off the most and end up getting me involved in a pointless conference call with the customer due to some perceived "catastrophic bug."
again, stating the obvious. if you need to hire people who need to be told 3-10 on how to solve a problem, you're obviously not doing a good job hiring these people. just hire people who have alot of experience and with a great memory.
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It actually goes far more indepth into the nation's bureaucratic practices, but there is a blurb about researchers having to flee Japan to obtain freedom to pursue research and reap the benefits.
I recently finished reading this book and it was truly an eye-opener for understanding of how bureacracy is run in Japan, but the practice is followed very similarly for large conglomerates.
Here's a review from Amazon.com.
I'm glad things are starting to change...
the deathstar may be no more, but here comes the "meows"
Hitachi Deskstar drive "meows" during drive check
i have storage tower that all meow in unison! damn you hitachi! fix this shit!
hotmail wasn't ALWAYS like this though...
now i get 20 junk email for every 1 good email, so i'm forced to send all mail to the junk mail folder by default and then i add known individuals to my protected list as i come across them.
i can only speculate it started when ms started msn.... those bastards.
to make matters more infuriating, hotmail counts the bytesize in your junkmail folder!!!
ever consider that the warranty might have been priced into the retail price?
i'm sure the following crossed their marketing division:
1) gotta be cheaper than SCSI
2) gotta be faster than your typical IDE
3) gotta have the newest shiznat technology (SATA)
4) gotta make people believe they are getting more than they really think...
don't buy into the hype, prices are sure to go down in the next few months... just wait it out and get what you know and trust for now... first gen products are never that great, because there's always the 'fixed' version coming up around the corner.
99% of Iraq's population voted Saddam Hussein to be their supreme overlord because they thought he was cool.
damn, what a bunch of crock!
credit cards aren't exactly open source now are they?
i'm not exactly sure that would make it more 'productive'. i mean, i can type faster than i write already, and i'm almost getting to the point where i can have sentences typed out faster than i can say it out.... thank IM.
what??? spam is cured! check this: pork and ham, salt, water, sugar, sodium nitrite.... yummy goodness~
that is what it USED to be... new pricing suggests otherwise: AMD & Intel pricing comparison
The new P4 runs at 3.06GHz, at 3 billion cycles per second.
That's nothing. I hear AMD is going to come out with a 3.06GHz chip that runs at 4 billion cycles per second!
but wait! let's say in an ideal situation, when two processes are run simultaneously, one utilizing the integer resources while another utilizing the floating point processor, it is technically feasible to achieve 6 billion cycles per seconds. that's the benefit of HT. now, whether it is likely to occur in RL is another story...
there is hope! we need counter-exploitation! visit this site: http://www.cexx.org
my personal favorite is proxomitron! bye bye annoying popups!
does anybody think that xandros looks a bit too much like windows? for 99 bucks, why not just buy windows? wait... you can get it for 39.99... here's the link folks: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/campaign/Winp ro2.aspx
corea or korea. the correct way to describe south korea is "dae han min gook" (please don't make any 'gook' jokes) which translates to 'republic of korea'.
also, as a story i used to hear from my dad... japan and korea has had many conflicts over history. he mentioned that japan opted to name corea as korea because the 'k' comes after 'j'. sounds racist, but i haven't found any truth to this statement.
this is in no way a complete list, but here are some basic tools that you should/need-to know... even if it's basic knowledge.
editors:
vi, emacs, and maybe know some ancient editor like 'ed'. pfft.
test manip:
perl, sed, awk - and more the merrier
core unix utilities:
grab UNIX in a nutshell by O'Reilly, you should know pretty much the whole book. typically, i use ls, touch, mkdir, rmdir, rm, echo, su, rlogin, source, grep, finger, who, ping, set
programmers utilities:
top, ldd, dbx, make
regular expressions (skill):
for any unix guru, you need to know your regular expressions. virtually all text tools allow you to use regex. so grab Mastering Regular Expressions by Oreilly
as i mentioned. this is not a complete list. get to know these, and just keep on expanding your knowledge! the good thing about unix is that there's about a 100 ways to do something and you just need to choose what's right for you.
it doesn't even support 1900Mhz GSM.... when will the quad-band model come out, eh?
the japanese site provides a little bit more detail - essentially there's a microfine light grill in front of the lcd display bending the perceived light between the left and right eye creating a stereoscopic view much like 3d glasses. i've created a link to the sites through babelfish for those of you who can't read japanese. (the translation isn't perfect, but it's enough to get the gyst of things)
s harp.htm
Sharp's News Release : http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/020927.html
Impress Press Release : http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0927/
some people might disagree, but if the incentives are lucrative enough, i'll put my heart and soul into my work.
quality work also comes from passion. if you have the right mindset, and a great deal of passion for the field of work that you're in, there's nothing that should stop you from working more than normal hours while getting quality results.
I'm not sure what the contention ratio is, but would you even care if it cost close to $30/month? I've been doing some reading in another forum and speeds provided by 12mbit dsl are greater than what OOL is providing is the US. OOL is one of the fastest consumer cable modem services in the states.
Chimps and Humans are in the same order of primates haplorhini. Humans are descendants of family hominidae (which is the modern man extinct). If apes/chimps are resistent to AIDs and it's variants, we should very well be immune to AIDs and it's variants as well as we belong to the same suborder.
For some reason, the research seems to repeat Darwin's theory of Evolution...no?
attack of the killer pr0n pop-up ads? try using mozilla and save yourself the embarassment.
Maybe there's some of you that can read japanese and give the rest of us some update, but YahooJP and many other japan telecoms are offering 12mbit DSL service. See: Yahoo!BB Japan
Wouldn't this mean it's waaaaay faster than a standard T1? Why don't they offer this kind of consumer service stateside?
i just hope this will set a precedence for internet spam as well. it's a total boon for these spammers to get away with these sort of harassment.
you're stating the obvious here and it's a general fact that people who have more practical experiences will perform well in the field than those who don't. but i disagree with you when you say that recent graduate students who have no practical experience "can't think on their feet". it depends on the person, and how apt they are in grasping the material. you also state that the ones who "can think on their feet" are the ones who go out of their way to tinker with a problem and make it their responsibility. i really don't see how you can relate "thinking on one's feet" to being a proactive problem solver.
Personally, the ones that can't think on their feet are usually the ones that can't remember how to fix a customer's tech support problem even though they've been told how to fix it at least 3-10 times already. These are usually the ones that piss the customer's off the most and end up getting me involved in a pointless conference call with the customer due to some perceived "catastrophic bug."
again, stating the obvious. if you need to hire people who need to be told 3-10 on how to solve a problem, you're obviously not doing a good job hiring these people. just hire people who have alot of experience and with a great memory.
...that's cute! the H points to hp.com and P points to compaq.com. hehehe =)