Shove it buddy... until you have heard a man tell you his stories from being captured during WW-II by the Japs, you know NOTHING. that's right... you know NOTHING about it and wont until you interview survivors of that horrible era.
Hm. Have you perhaps read anything written from a Japanese perspective? And I'm not referring to the post-war pacifist Japanese perspective writings like "Fire on the Plain", or "The Burmese Harp", though those are good.
Most Japanese under the age of 50 don't give a rat's ass about the nukes dropped on Japan.
Oh really? Then why is the subject on my TV every night? The anti-war anti-nuclear issue is a major plank in the platforms of the 2nd and 3rd most powerful parties in Japan (shakaito and kyousanto (socialists and communists.))
I see people demonstrating against nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants almost every day on my way home from work. It is the general feeling here that the Japanese people are indeed scarred, and scarred far too much for their own good.
You're wrong. In an effort to save face, Japan was negotiating surrender terms with the Soviet Union.
Of course, had Japan been allowed to surrender to the USSR, it would have become part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Sorry if this sounds cynical, but the US had to have been taking this into account when the decision to use the bomb was made.
And about the "elements in the Japanese military" that never would have agreed... Japan's Meiji government was the military. I can't imagine what elements you might be referring to.
Kim, Jung-Il is not a religious fanatic like others.
For that matter, neither are Hussein or Khatemi. Hussein is a Baathist (== secular, bordering on socialist), and Khatemi is a medical doctor trained in England who is trying to democratize Iran.
Really, are there any religious fanatics on the list?
Actually, I read somewhere that Disney's rights to "Winnie the Pooh" are about 3 times more valuable worldwide from a merchandising standpoint than Mickey Mouse.
I don't have any particular problem with Linux "falling out of" the GPL. I understood the GPL's function was to keep software in the public domain so it could not be hijacked.
If congress rules that Linux is in the public domain, hooray for our side! Linus would no longer have exclusive rights to it, but neither would anyone else. Its not like Microsoft could snatch up Linux and copyright it after Linus's copyright expired. They would be able to create derivative works, but so what? That's progress:) All Microsoft's "improvements" to the system would be ours for the hacking after a short 5 years.
In Windows, devices are controlled by things called "drivers", which are not part of the kernel. Windows NT (for example) has a driver subsystem that is part of (or linked to, I forget) the kernel.
So what you're describing is much easier to do with Windows.
Hey, I'm a Linux nut, don't get me wrong, but you're mistaken.
Stop taking in all the MS Flamebait and read what Ballmer said that inspired this orgy of MS hate[...]
Offtopic, but since when did the word "hatred" drop out of the English language? I always thought that "hate" was a verb and "hatred" was the noun form, as in "this orgy of MS hatred."
I know it's not the fault of anyone here. I blame the subliterate toehead who came up with the slogan "Hate Is Not a Family Value."
Actually there are a couple of things that, to my chagrin, Linux can not do as well as Microsoft.
The one that comes immediately to mind is decent language support. With 2000 and XP, Microsoft has on-the-fly language switching integrated into the OS. I usually have English and the Japanese and Chinese IME's installed and can switch from one to the other at will. Unixes have bulky hard-to-use, difficult to configure servers for double-byte character entry. You can have Japanese or Chinese, but not both. And the incompatibility with Shift-JIS and EUC-JIS is a major major headache. You can't type shift-JIS on Linux, so you have to type all your web documents on Windows. This drawback alone probably keeps Linux off the desktop in Japan.
I have a DoCoMo 503i, which is just one generation behind state-of-the art.
It has a full-color display, sends and recieves email (of course), has iMode internet access (I have/. bookmarked, and can read in on the train), iAppli which is for games and stuff, (but I don't use it because you have to pay for all the good downloads).
Then the optional add-ons: I got a USB adapter that attaches to the bottom and lets me attach it to my laptop, which works as a portable modem (only 56k, but broadband phones should be available Real Soon Now). It also lets me up and download content to the phone (haven't done much with this.) You can also get a digital camera that fits into the speaker jack. You can set pictures you take as your "wallpaper", or attach them to emails or web form submissions.
I had a brief contract with an iMode content provider here in Japan who ran a sort of sex-chat BBS. My job was to go through the database and delete all the pictures of people's genitals that they took with their phone-camera while on the john, on the train, etc. (Blatant offers of prostitution and pictures of naughty bits were against the site's policy.)
iMode and iAppli are fairly standardized. I forget the name of the protocol, but iMode pages are written in stripped-down PHP code. iAppli is Java. Both standards are open.
It is able to do this only because NTT bought Verio's network backbone. (I was told that by doing so, it got around some specific restriction on offering service in the US.) I work for a Japanese telephone company, and I'm probably not supposed to say anything about this, but the acquisition of Verio by Japan, and the heavy investment in GlobalCrossing Asia by Chinese interests is just the beginning. American telecommunications infrastructure is just so cheap, and companies are going bankrupt so rapidly, that companies like mine would be stupid not to start buying it up wholesale.
It's not like you can do anything about it, but prepare to be invaded.
Yes, but everything you mentioned is also true of office jobs.
At least as a farmer there would be different jobs at different phases of the growing season. You don't sit in a combine for 12 hours every day all year, just when you're harvesting. (I forget, can a combine be used to plant?) So at worst you'd drive the combine for about 2 weeks twice a year.
Cow milking is over in about 45 minutes. But then you have fresh milk! Tell me that isn't rewarding.
And about the radishes... If the same thing kills them every year, I'm not going to be stupid enough to replant them every year. Besides, it's not the same every year. Some years are good, some years are bad. I know companies are the same way, but at least as a farmer I would have some control over the outcome. And I would be outside some of the time.
What I did was buy some Japanese computer industry magazines like "Super ASCII", "Unix User" (also published by ASCII), and Nikkei Linux.
When I could read and comprehend most of the articles, I assumed I was ready and moved. After that, it took me probably a whole year to get settled in and comfortable.
I don't think people are wired to work in companies. If you think about it, the world only became urbanized about 100 years ago.
I wonder what it would be like to be a farmer.
My only boss would be the soil and the elements.
I would get some excercise, which always improves my mood.
I imagine it's quite mentally stimulating and challenging and requires a great deal of intelligence to succeed. (what the hell is killing the radishess??)
I know this is about the tenth time I've said this on Slashdot, but it's true. Japan is so desperate for IT people, the government is considering "importing" about 700,000 foreigners per year to fill these jobs.
'Course at present time you need to be able to read and speak Japanese and handle your own visa, but I have yet to be turned down for a technical job here. Heck, my department just hired a kid to work in the networking department who barely knows how to work a mouse. He'll be configuring our Cisco routers. We're desperate I tell you!
Come to think of it, in both jobs I had here no one ever asked if I could read and write before giving me the job (most Americans can't), and were suprised afterwards when I could.
See for yourself on the Japanese national job database (Hello Work).
I just did a national search for general IT jobs and turned up 294724 hits.
Just as a side note, Japan has a nation-wide government run job database called Hello Work. I know in the US "government-run" is synonymous with "piece of crap." Not so in this case. It is detailed and very very comprehensive.
Basically, it works like this: You find a job via the website or using the touchscreen terminals in the Hello Work offices, then print out the jobs you're interested in (up to five per day). You then take the printouts to the office and give them to the people who work there, who then call the company for you and set up an interview with two of the companies you're interested in. Then they give you a card with your info and the company's info on it. After the interview, you give the card to the company. The neat part is, if the company doesn't want you, they have to give a good reason why not. This is to help fight job discrimination (especially against women and people over 50).
I got my current job this way. It's a very pleasant experience, not degrading at all the way I remember it being in the US.
One company tried to turn me down flat for an interview because I was non-Japanese. The wonderful public servant who was trying to set up the interview for me (Mr. Ikejiri, God bless his soul) actually got angry with the guy and browbeat them into meeting with me. Of course I didn't take that job, but it was cool having someone in your corner.
The whole concept is idiotic. How can a machine with no soul possibly perform an absolution for God? Who would visit such a confessional except for yuks?
I've about had it with technilogical futurists. These people have been predicting the same sorts of things for over 100 years. Progress to these people is unstoppable. They predict things only because they are technically possible, and never take into account anything deeper.
I predict that the public's fascination with technology for its own sake will have seriously diminished by 2010.
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Shove it buddy... until you have heard a man tell you his stories from being captured during WW-II by the Japs, you know NOTHING. that's right... you know NOTHING about it and wont until you interview survivors of that horrible era.
Hm. Have you perhaps read anything written from a Japanese perspective?
And I'm not referring to the post-war pacifist Japanese perspective writings like "Fire on the Plain", or "The Burmese Harp", though those are good.
Most Japanese under the age of 50 don't give a rat's ass about the nukes dropped on Japan.
Oh really? Then why is the subject on my TV every night? The anti-war anti-nuclear issue is a major plank in the platforms of the 2nd and 3rd most powerful parties in Japan (shakaito and kyousanto (socialists and communists.))
I see people demonstrating against nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants almost every day on my way home from work. It is the general feeling here that the Japanese people are indeed scarred, and scarred far too much for their own good.
You're wrong. In an effort to save face, Japan was negotiating surrender terms with the Soviet Union.
Of course, had Japan been allowed to surrender to the USSR, it would have become part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Sorry if this sounds cynical, but the US had to have been taking this into account when the decision to use the bomb was made.
And about the "elements in the Japanese military" that never would have agreed... Japan's Meiji government was the military. I can't imagine what elements you might be referring to.
just let them have Taiwan (pragmatism). they haven't fucked up Hong Kong too much.
You're a coward, an intellectual weakling, and a moral reprobate.
Not to mention a shitty geo-political strategist.
This is the strategy that Henry Kissinger, not widely known as a "shitty geo-political strategist", advocated.
It could be argued that most of the US's current problems are a result of too much political moralizing.
Kim, Jung-Il is not a religious fanatic like others.
For that matter, neither are Hussein or Khatemi. Hussein is a Baathist (== secular, bordering on socialist), and Khatemi is a medical doctor trained in England who is trying to democratize Iran.
Really, are there any religious fanatics on the list?
Actually, I read somewhere that Disney's rights to "Winnie the Pooh" are about 3 times more valuable worldwide from a merchandising standpoint than Mickey Mouse.
Those people all need to get jobs.
I don't have any particular problem with Linux "falling out of" the GPL. I understood the GPL's function was to keep software in the public domain so it could not be hijacked.
:) All Microsoft's "improvements" to the system would be ours for the hacking after a short 5 years.
If congress rules that Linux is in the public domain, hooray for our side! Linus would no longer have exclusive rights to it, but neither would anyone else.
Its not like Microsoft could snatch up Linux and copyright it after Linus's copyright expired. They would be able to create derivative works, but so what? That's progress
In Windows, devices are controlled by things called "drivers", which are not part of the kernel. Windows NT (for example) has a driver subsystem that is part of (or linked to, I forget) the kernel.
So what you're describing is much easier to do with Windows.
Hey, I'm a Linux nut, don't get me wrong, but you're mistaken.
Just out of curiosity, do Unixes break if you remove the sh or bash shell?
Just for your consideration, not everyone who writes unfixable cryptic software is out to screw people over.
Myself, for example.
Though perhaps criminal penalties for developers who write spaghetti code might have a positive effect on the software market.
Stop taking in all the MS Flamebait and read what Ballmer said that inspired this orgy of MS hate[...]
Offtopic, but since when did the word "hatred" drop out of the English language? I always thought that "hate" was a verb and "hatred" was the noun form, as in "this orgy of MS hatred."
I know it's not the fault of anyone here. I blame the subliterate toehead who came up with the slogan "Hate Is Not a Family Value."
Actually there are a couple of things that, to my chagrin, Linux can not do as well as Microsoft.
The one that comes immediately to mind is decent language support. With 2000 and XP, Microsoft has on-the-fly language switching integrated into the OS.
I usually have English and the Japanese and Chinese IME's installed and can switch from one to the other at will. Unixes have bulky hard-to-use, difficult to configure servers for double-byte character entry. You can have Japanese or Chinese, but not both.
And the incompatibility with Shift-JIS and EUC-JIS is a major major headache. You can't type shift-JIS on Linux, so you have to type all your web documents on Windows. This drawback alone probably keeps Linux off the desktop in Japan.
True, true.
/. bookmarked, and can read in on the train), iAppli which is for games and stuff, (but I don't use it because you have to pay for all the good downloads).
I have a DoCoMo 503i, which is just one generation behind state-of-the art.
It has a full-color display, sends and recieves email (of course), has iMode internet access (I have
Then the optional add-ons:
I got a USB adapter that attaches to the bottom and lets me attach it to my laptop, which works as a portable modem (only 56k, but broadband phones should be available Real Soon Now). It also lets me up and download content to the phone (haven't done much with this.)
You can also get a digital camera that fits into the speaker jack. You can set pictures you take as your "wallpaper", or attach them to emails or web form submissions.
I had a brief contract with an iMode content provider here in Japan who ran a sort of sex-chat BBS. My job was to go through the database and delete all the pictures of people's genitals that they took with their phone-camera while on the john, on the train, etc. (Blatant offers of prostitution and pictures of naughty bits were against the site's policy.)
iMode and iAppli are fairly standardized. I forget the name of the protocol, but iMode pages are written in stripped-down PHP code. iAppli is Java. Both standards are open.
It is able to do this only because NTT bought Verio's network backbone. (I was told that by doing so, it got around some specific restriction on offering service in the US.)
I work for a Japanese telephone company, and I'm probably not supposed to say anything about this, but the acquisition of Verio by Japan, and the heavy investment in GlobalCrossing Asia by Chinese interests is just the beginning.
American telecommunications infrastructure is just so cheap, and companies are going bankrupt so rapidly, that companies like mine would be stupid not to start buying it up wholesale.
It's not like you can do anything about it, but prepare to be invaded.
Yes, but everything you mentioned is also true of office jobs.
At least as a farmer there would be different jobs at different phases of the growing season. You don't sit in a combine for 12 hours every day all year, just when you're harvesting. (I forget, can a combine be used to plant?) So at worst you'd drive the combine for about 2 weeks twice a year.
Cow milking is over in about 45 minutes. But then you have fresh milk! Tell me that isn't rewarding.
And about the radishes... If the same thing kills them every year, I'm not going to be stupid enough to replant them every year.
Besides, it's not the same every year. Some years are good, some years are bad. I know companies are the same way, but at least as a farmer I would have some control over the outcome. And I would be outside some of the time.
I don't care, I'm going to do it anyway.
Yeah, but I live in Japan, not Sweden.
No factory farming here! Just a bunch of really old guys who work really hard.
I SHALL HAVE my dream. And I will post pictures of it on the internet for all you cubicle dwellers to look at.
What I did was buy some Japanese computer industry magazines like "Super ASCII", "Unix User" (also published by ASCII), and Nikkei Linux.
When I could read and comprehend most of the articles, I assumed I was ready and moved.
After that, it took me probably a whole year to get settled in and comfortable.
I don't think people are wired to work in companies. If you think about it, the world only became urbanized about 100 years ago.
I wonder what it would be like to be a farmer.
My only boss would be the soil and the elements.
I would get some excercise, which always improves my mood.
I imagine it's quite mentally stimulating and challenging and requires a great deal of intelligence to succeed. (what the hell is killing the radishess??)
I imagine it's very low stress.
And I imagine it's not terribly repetitive.
What's not to like?
Course I'm not a farmer, so what would I know?
I know this is about the tenth time I've said this on Slashdot, but it's true. Japan is so desperate for IT people, the government is considering "importing" about 700,000 foreigners per year to fill these jobs.
'Course at present time you need to be able to read and speak Japanese and handle your own visa, but I have yet to be turned down for a technical job here.
Heck, my department just hired a kid to work in the networking department who barely knows how to work a mouse. He'll be configuring our Cisco routers. We're desperate I tell you!
Come to think of it, in both jobs I had here no one ever asked if I could read and write before giving me the job (most Americans can't), and were suprised afterwards when I could.
See for yourself on the Japanese national job database (Hello Work).
I just did a national search for general IT jobs and turned up 294724 hits.
Just as a side note, Japan has a nation-wide government run job database called Hello Work.
I know in the US "government-run" is synonymous with "piece of crap." Not so in this case. It is detailed and very very comprehensive.
Basically, it works like this: You find a job via the website or using the touchscreen terminals in the Hello Work offices, then print out the jobs you're interested in (up to five per day).
You then take the printouts to the office and give them to the people who work there, who then call the company for you and set up an interview with two of the companies you're interested in. Then they give you a card with your info and the company's info on it.
After the interview, you give the card to the company. The neat part is, if the company doesn't want you, they have to give a good reason why not. This is to help fight job discrimination (especially against women and people over 50).
I got my current job this way. It's a very pleasant experience, not degrading at all the way I remember it being in the US.
One company tried to turn me down flat for an interview because I was non-Japanese. The wonderful public servant who was trying to set up the interview for me (Mr. Ikejiri, God bless his soul) actually got angry with the guy and browbeat them into meeting with me. Of course I didn't take that job, but it was cool having someone in your corner.
The whole concept is idiotic. How can a machine with no soul possibly perform an absolution for God? Who would visit such a confessional except for yuks?
This guy is bats I tell you!
Or how about this:
2008: Mujahideen overthrow most western-aligned governments in mideast. Oil production comes to a complete standstill. World economies collapse.
2009: Rain falls for first time on Arakkis.
2011: Americans burn sheafs of "future predictions" to keep from freezing to death.
2013: Americans all starve because robotic pets are not edible.
This prediction alone should prove that this guy is a grand-mal retard.
I've about had it with technilogical futurists. These people have been predicting the same sorts of things for over 100 years. Progress to these people is unstoppable. They predict things only because they are technically possible, and never take into account anything deeper.
I predict that the public's fascination with technology for its own sake will have seriously diminished by 2010.