The Japanese learn English fairly early. Americans rarely learn Japanese.
Well, you must live in another country than me then. Because most of the schools in Washington, Oregon, and California seem to have Japanese classes, as do the colleges and university.
And, since my son's taking Japanese and my brother taught German in Japan, I kind of think I might know what I'm talking about, Gaijin.
is that, as a male, you will tend to have a higher probability of wanting to bond for long-term reasons with a woman if you don't go to bed with her for a while.
I know, it's stupid, but there's a high correlation factor. So, IMHO, waiting for the third date is probably optimal, as it gives you a chance to get to know her, and increases your chance of a successful mating.
Probably related to time and resource investments, but it's fairly hard-wired into most men. Caveat: I formed long-term relationships as a result of one-night stands, and sometimes waited months, with continual flirting and escalating petting, only to have it fall apart once it became sexual.
But, as a general rule, if she doesn't want to go to bed the first time, this might make it better for you.
And an Anonymous Coward who points to the same article asks: "Whatever happened to the right of the people to be secure in their... papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures?" Good question -- what did happen to that?
Well, seizures, that's Cheney's job.
But seriously, even if he somehow got the job by bribing the executive review committee (Supreme Court), Baby Bush is our employee. So long as he's on our premises, which means at the very least the territorial boundaries of the USA and all government facilities (use of Secret Service), we own his email, notepaper, toilet paper, etc.
For that matter, his entire family loses their rights by living in the White House. But the media's too chicken to follow up on that and put the First Lady on the Spice Channel's "Red Shoe Dairies" show.
If he doesn't like it he can... oh, wait, we're Americans, we don't have a right to privacy in the workplace like the Europeans. Never mind...
And that will be, which game machine will more people buy at what profit margin per box and per game.
My bet is on Nintendo for first place, and Microsoft for the usual second place. But Microsoft will act like it has the better box, because that's what they do.
[caveat - I own shares of both MSFT and NTDOY (ADR)]
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Some of us have been around long enough that we've still got karma higher than that. My home account is at 71, for example.
But, please note, you still get to post at +1 even at that level, so the only use is the ability to say what you want without excessive fear of being modded down to where it hurts your base karma.
Just as with the dot-coms, so shall it be with Linux magazines. Those which offer use, which are supported by subscribers and not just advertisers, shall survive.
And the rest shall die like flies.
So it was with hobbyist electronics, so it was when TV became a big thing, so it was when radio (and ham radio and such) came upon the earth.
Cry not for these failed zines, for it is from their ranks that the survivors shall pick the best contributors, the article writers, the peons who publish.
Since when did that stop anyone? I mean, c'mon, didn't we all used to build rocket launchers in the woods, even though it was a fire hazard, trying to clear the treetops and parachute down to the lake?
Nope?
Um, ok, then you all must be nice law-abiding drones. Go back to watching the XFL...
Is it true the US economy is "falling off a cliff" [...] a claim which is being made in several newspapers?
Nope, but we have a number of administration officials, including Bush, who are doomsaying and doing their best to push us over it. Me, I love it - makes it cheap to buy good stocks.
I would expect S.u.S.e. cutbacks have more to do with two things:
1. sales in the US/Canada of their distro must not be high enough.
2. it's easier and cheaper to lay off US workers than German or European workers (trust me on this one)
Now, the problem is that most of us are lazy, and seem to think that Bush is a goofus, not realizing he's a vindictive bastard out to get back at us for deep-sixing his dad. So, it's highly unlikely we'll contact the US Senate Judiciary Committee and actually take our destiny in our own hands, because it's way easier just to post on/. and do nothing.
Me, I asked my two US Senators. In person.
Because the battle is not in some far off distant time, it's now. If we fight back for privacy, fight back for at least moderate appointments, Bush will be forced to back down just like Clinton was at the beginning of his first term.
Or you can just let them sell your private info to the highest bidder...
Hey, 25 percent ain't that much... c'mon America, we just selected George Bush for President, it shouldn't take us more than four years to increase from our current level to at least 40 percent of all heat production and deforestation!
All we have to do is just make sure we buy more SUVs this year, take a few extra drives, leave the windows open, and use lots of forest products which we then burn in our nice fireplaces.
And, then, noone will challenge us. Because we are the USA, and we are Number 1!
As I sit here browsing as 2+, I notice that half the posts are from katz himself...doesn't he already have enough karma? Why pull the publicity stunt, other than to see himself write.
Jon's immune to karma laws. They told us this last century. Basically, he can post at +2 and no matter how bad the comments are, we can't mod him down.
I'm not saying this is right, it's not, but that's the system we live in.
All that, though, does not excuse the fact that the only two links are for stories by Jon, not links to the movie's producers, editors, filmhouse, actors, or prior movies by any of the aforementioned.
If you're going to have a discusssion, you post relevent links. Otherwise, it's just a talking head greedfeed.
But, hey, what do I know, I'm just a lifetime member of Cinema Seattle, I probably only see 200 movies a year, it's not like anyone else knows as much about movies as Jon does.
I just was wondering. I mean, I've got 400 shares of Nokia, but I thought I'd point out that you are paying a premium for the Nokia name on the box. Not that the premium doesn't mean it isn't a quality box, just that there might be cheaper versions...
Obviously a motherboard running at 100 MHz, which means you can upgrade to a 600MHz max CPU. The RAM is probably restricted to 64 Meg, though, probably only have two slots for it.
How much of a premium are we paying for the brand name? Will this be better than something found on the street in Taiwan, or just be a slightly more expensive version with better tech support?
Seriously, the military and intelligence gathering services have been listening in on conversations, emails, and other means of transport for a long time. Technically, this is usually for reasons of counter-terrorism, anti-revolutionary, and economic reasons, but it depends on the country involved.
What has changed is that we now have the tools and the know-how in the civilian world to become aware of many of these methods.
I'm not suggesting one become paranoid, I'm just saying that privacy and even secure communications are not truly used or available for most people. If one were to use a secure transmission from a secure terminal to another secure terminal where no cache writes occurred and where the private and public keys were exchanged in a secure manner, one might attain such a level of security.
That said, 90 percent of the secret and higher message traffic is totally boring and frequently wrong, so for the average person, I really wouldn't worry about it.
Your best method of attack is to keep pushing on legislation guaranteeing our rights to privacy and the ability to request information kept about yourself, for networks, for providers, for companies (who are the worst offenders in privacy), and for government agencies.
according to my high-school French teacher, was to fall in love with someone who speaks the other language. It worked for her (she was a French war bride of a Canadian), it's worked for my sister (her husband is Irish-Mexican), it's worked for a lot of my friends.
Then get them to help you type emails on a Linux box... ok, so you hardly ever finish the letters, but man, it's really interactive....
Well, other than those virtual pieces of chalk they throw at you and...
oh, you mean the real job.
In that case, a friend of mine does that for Adobe, and he seems to like his job, so maybe it depends on which chat room it is (e.g. the Jon Katz chatroom would be my personal idea of hell, while the Britney Spears chatroom would be... oh, ok, so most of them would be pretty bad). Or which company you work for.
I recently asked someone about Internet privacy and security and got the best answer I ever did.
Privacy? Security? There isn't any, stop deluding yourself.
I used to be Acting Security Officer for a region of Canada in the Canadian Armed Forces, and I woul strongly agree with that comment.
Seriously, there is no such thing as privacy, there is no such thing as security, and you'll never be safe no matter what you'll do. You can reduce risks and make it hard for novices and most attackers, but a determined individual with moderate to high skills is always going to get through. Hence, if you use security, have zone alarms and watch for suspicious behaviour and do something about it.
Basically, MSFT exists in the non-server space between Servers (*nix) and Info Appliances (Palm,Linux). The problem for them is that they can't acheive nine nines (they advert five nines as if that's good enough) so they lose in Server space and their cost is too high to win in Info Appliance space.
When an appliance has to price lower than $300 retail, and preferably achieves $100 retail withing two years, an OS that costs more than $10 is too expensive. Hence the use of Linux in automobiles (mostly Red Hat at present), PDAs (just starting), and WebPads (various).
It's just Marketing 101. Always has been, always will be.
The threat is two-pronged. One is storage devices, servers, that kind of thing.
The other is info appliances. MSFT OS costs too much, and to get to market, you need to get below $300 and prefer to drop below $200 and hopefully achieve $100 per unit retail. The only way MSFT can achieve competition here is to "rent" the OS, requiring you to pay a low annual fee, bundled in with the service agreement. Or resell your private info the appliance processes to marketeers, and get revenue that way.
As someone who's actually made money developing games, albeit a while ago, I have these insights:
1. Linux, for the end-user/desktop client comes in two flavors - geeks and appliance installs. The easiest one to sell to are Linux appliance installs.
2. Part of the problem is distribution. What we need is someone to sell the box that has the game manual, and separate out the cheat manuals and the strategy and add-ons manuals. That's where the money is.
3. What we need is Linux games that have a single install disk, download most of the code from a website (easier to patch and handle probs), and then you can get sold on all the other things.
If you think this is bad, wait until lots of small monoliths start appearing on the island, the ghost of dead birds start appearing and you have to spend half an hour convincing your outboard motor to take you away from the island.
"Would you like me to sing you a bird song, Dave?"
"Yes, HAL, that would be very nice."
"Devo, Devo, play me your music, do.
I'm half crazy, over all the bird poo.
It won't be that monstrous light rail,
We wish we had the monorail.
But you'll look sweet, homeless on the street,
with a Monolith built for two..."
...
"Hello, Professor Gates, I'm ready for my bug fix now..."
If you venture a little further North than Volunteer Park (or even adjacent parts of Federal Avenue), for instance, you'll find some very nice / conservative houses. Likewise, if you step back away from those little clusters surrounding Broadway, particularly to the more expensive parts, you'll find a dramatic difference.
Yup, mostly owned by gays and lesbians. Who have more disposable income. I've been there.
But if you go north, that's Montlake, and that ain't Capitol Hill. And if you go east, again, you're in another neighborhood.
I've taught Junior Achievement all around there (e.g. Garfield), my son went to Lowell for some of his first year, and I've been on the PTSA there too.
If we were to take a measure, we'd say it's way more flaming than anywhere else in Seattle.
Which is maybe why some of those people like cool stuff like Monoliths. Even if they only lasted for a day.
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The Japanese learn English fairly early. Americans rarely learn Japanese.
Well, you must live in another country than me then. Because most of the schools in Washington, Oregon, and California seem to have Japanese classes, as do the colleges and university.
And, since my son's taking Japanese and my brother taught German in Japan, I kind of think I might know what I'm talking about, Gaijin.
is that, as a male, you will tend to have a higher probability of wanting to bond for long-term reasons with a woman if you don't go to bed with her for a while.
I know, it's stupid, but there's a high correlation factor. So, IMHO, waiting for the third date is probably optimal, as it gives you a chance to get to know her, and increases your chance of a successful mating.
Probably related to time and resource investments, but it's fairly hard-wired into most men. Caveat: I formed long-term relationships as a result of one-night stands, and sometimes waited months, with continual flirting and escalating petting, only to have it fall apart once it became sexual.
But, as a general rule, if she doesn't want to go to bed the first time, this might make it better for you.
And an Anonymous Coward who points to the same article asks: "Whatever happened to the right of the people to be secure in their ... papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures?" Good question -- what did happen to that?
... oh, wait, we're Americans, we don't have a right to privacy in the workplace like the Europeans. Never mind ...
Well, seizures, that's Cheney's job.
But seriously, even if he somehow got the job by bribing the executive review committee (Supreme Court), Baby Bush is our employee. So long as he's on our premises, which means at the very least the territorial boundaries of the USA and all government facilities (use of Secret Service), we own his email, notepaper, toilet paper, etc.
For that matter, his entire family loses their rights by living in the White House. But the media's too chicken to follow up on that and put the First Lady on the Spice Channel's "Red Shoe Dairies" show.
If he doesn't like it he can
And that will be, which game machine will more people buy at what profit margin per box and per game.
My bet is on Nintendo for first place, and Microsoft for the usual second place. But Microsoft will act like it has the better box, because that's what they do.
[caveat - I own shares of both MSFT and NTDOY (ADR)]
Some of us have been around long enough that we've still got karma higher than that. My home account is at 71, for example.
But, please note, you still get to post at +1 even at that level, so the only use is the ability to say what you want without excessive fear of being modded down to where it hurts your base karma.
Just as with the dot-coms, so shall it be with Linux magazines. Those which offer use, which are supported by subscribers and not just advertisers, shall survive.
And the rest shall die like flies.
So it was with hobbyist electronics, so it was when TV became a big thing, so it was when radio (and ham radio and such) came upon the earth.
Cry not for these failed zines, for it is from their ranks that the survivors shall pick the best contributors, the article writers, the peons who publish.
Since when did that stop anyone? I mean, c'mon, didn't we all used to build rocket launchers in the woods, even though it was a fire hazard, trying to clear the treetops and parachute down to the lake?
...
Nope?
Um, ok, then you all must be nice law-abiding drones. Go back to watching the XFL
Is it true the US economy is "falling off a cliff" [...] a claim which is being made in several newspapers?
Nope, but we have a number of administration officials, including Bush, who are doomsaying and doing their best to push us over it. Me, I love it - makes it cheap to buy good stocks.
I would expect S.u.S.e. cutbacks have more to do with two things:
1. sales in the US/Canada of their distro must not be high enough.
2. it's easier and cheaper to lay off US workers than German or European workers (trust me on this one)
I mean, how long does it take someone to download the main post at 56K? Good thing I've got DSL ...
/. and do nothing.
...
Basically, what Jon's saying is Ashcroft is a liar, we should phone our senators and congress members, and we should stop the right wing.
Damn, hate it when Jon's right.
Now, the problem is that most of us are lazy, and seem to think that Bush is a goofus, not realizing he's a vindictive bastard out to get back at us for deep-sixing his dad. So, it's highly unlikely we'll contact the US Senate Judiciary Committee and actually take our destiny in our own hands, because it's way easier just to post on
Me, I asked my two US Senators. In person.
Because the battle is not in some far off distant time, it's now. If we fight back for privacy, fight back for at least moderate appointments, Bush will be forced to back down just like Clinton was at the beginning of his first term.
Or you can just let them sell your private info to the highest bidder
Hey, 25 percent ain't that much ... c'mon America, we just selected George Bush for President, it shouldn't take us more than four years to increase from our current level to at least 40 percent of all heat production and deforestation!
All we have to do is just make sure we buy more SUVs this year, take a few extra drives, leave the windows open, and use lots of forest products which we then burn in our nice fireplaces.
And, then, noone will challenge us. Because we are the USA, and we are Number 1!
As I sit here browsing as 2+, I notice that half the posts are from katz himself...doesn't he already have enough karma? Why pull the publicity stunt, other than to see himself write.
Jon's immune to karma laws. They told us this last century. Basically, he can post at +2 and no matter how bad the comments are, we can't mod him down.
I'm not saying this is right, it's not, but that's the system we live in.
All that, though, does not excuse the fact that the only two links are for stories by Jon, not links to the movie's producers, editors, filmhouse, actors, or prior movies by any of the aforementioned.
If you're going to have a discusssion, you post relevent links. Otherwise, it's just a talking head greedfeed.
But, hey, what do I know, I'm just a lifetime member of Cinema Seattle, I probably only see 200 movies a year, it's not like anyone else knows as much about movies as Jon does.
The PC I'm using right now only has two slots and it has 256 megs.
Yeah, but the spec says 32 to 64 Meg, so obviously it's hardwired for 32 Meg chips.
I just was wondering. I mean, I've got 400 shares of Nokia, but I thought I'd point out that you are paying a premium for the Nokia name on the box. Not that the premium doesn't mean it isn't a quality box, just that there might be cheaper versions ...
Celeron 366 , 32 - 64 Megs of ram..
Obviously a motherboard running at 100 MHz, which means you can upgrade to a 600MHz max CPU. The RAM is probably restricted to 64 Meg, though, probably only have two slots for it.
How much of a premium are we paying for the brand name? Will this be better than something found on the street in Taiwan, or just be a slightly more expensive version with better tech support?
Seriously, the military and intelligence gathering services have been listening in on conversations, emails, and other means of transport for a long time. Technically, this is usually for reasons of counter-terrorism, anti-revolutionary, and economic reasons, but it depends on the country involved.
What has changed is that we now have the tools and the know-how in the civilian world to become aware of many of these methods.
I'm not suggesting one become paranoid, I'm just saying that privacy and even secure communications are not truly used or available for most people. If one were to use a secure transmission from a secure terminal to another secure terminal where no cache writes occurred and where the private and public keys were exchanged in a secure manner, one might attain such a level of security.
That said, 90 percent of the secret and higher message traffic is totally boring and frequently wrong, so for the average person, I really wouldn't worry about it.
Your best method of attack is to keep pushing on legislation guaranteeing our rights to privacy and the ability to request information kept about yourself, for networks, for providers, for companies (who are the worst offenders in privacy), and for government agencies.
according to my high-school French teacher, was to fall in love with someone who speaks the other language. It worked for her (she was a French war bride of a Canadian), it's worked for my sister (her husband is Irish-Mexican), it's worked for a lot of my friends.
... ok, so you hardly ever finish the letters, but man, it's really interactive ....
Then get them to help you type emails on a Linux box
Well, other than those virtual pieces of chalk they throw at you and ...
... oh, ok, so most of them would be pretty bad). Or which company you work for.
oh, you mean the real job.
In that case, a friend of mine does that for Adobe, and he seems to like his job, so maybe it depends on which chat room it is (e.g. the Jon Katz chatroom would be my personal idea of hell, while the Britney Spears chatroom would be
I recently asked someone about Internet privacy and security and got the best answer I ever did.
Privacy? Security? There isn't any, stop deluding yourself.
I used to be Acting Security Officer for a region of Canada in the Canadian Armed Forces, and I woul strongly agree with that comment.
Seriously, there is no such thing as privacy, there is no such thing as security, and you'll never be safe no matter what you'll do. You can reduce risks and make it hard for novices and most attackers, but a determined individual with moderate to high skills is always going to get through. Hence, if you use security, have zone alarms and watch for suspicious behaviour and do something about it.
Sigh.
Basically, MSFT exists in the non-server space between Servers (*nix) and Info Appliances (Palm,Linux). The problem for them is that they can't acheive nine nines (they advert five nines as if that's good enough) so they lose in Server space and their cost is too high to win in Info Appliance space.
When an appliance has to price lower than $300 retail, and preferably achieves $100 retail withing two years, an OS that costs more than $10 is too expensive. Hence the use of Linux in automobiles (mostly Red Hat at present), PDAs (just starting), and WebPads (various).
It's just Marketing 101. Always has been, always will be.
The threat is two-pronged. One is storage devices, servers, that kind of thing.
The other is info appliances. MSFT OS costs too much, and to get to market, you need to get below $300 and prefer to drop below $200 and hopefully achieve $100 per unit retail. The only way MSFT can achieve competition here is to "rent" the OS, requiring you to pay a low annual fee, bundled in with the service agreement. Or resell your private info the appliance processes to marketeers, and get revenue that way.
As someone who's actually made money developing games, albeit a while ago, I have these insights:
1. Linux, for the end-user/desktop client comes in two flavors - geeks and appliance installs. The easiest one to sell to are Linux appliance installs.
2. Part of the problem is distribution. What we need is someone to sell the box that has the game manual, and separate out the cheat manuals and the strategy and add-ons manuals. That's where the money is.
3. What we need is Linux games that have a single install disk, download most of the code from a website (easier to patch and handle probs), and then you can get sold on all the other things.
If you think this is bad, wait until lots of small monoliths start appearing on the island, the ghost of dead birds start appearing and you have to spend half an hour convincing your outboard motor to take you away from the island.
..."
..."
"Would you like me to sing you a bird song, Dave?"
"Yes, HAL, that would be very nice."
"Devo, Devo, play me your music, do.
I'm half crazy, over all the bird poo.
It won't be that monstrous light rail,
We wish we had the monorail.
But you'll look sweet, homeless on the street,
with a Monolith built for two
...
"Hello, Professor Gates, I'm ready for my bug fix now
If you venture a little further North than Volunteer Park (or even adjacent parts of Federal Avenue), for instance, you'll find some very nice / conservative houses. Likewise, if you step back away from those little clusters surrounding Broadway, particularly to the more expensive parts, you'll find a dramatic difference.
Yup, mostly owned by gays and lesbians. Who have more disposable income. I've been there.
But if you go north, that's Montlake, and that ain't Capitol Hill. And if you go east, again, you're in another neighborhood.
I've taught Junior Achievement all around there (e.g. Garfield), my son went to Lowell for some of his first year, and I've been on the PTSA there too.
If we were to take a measure, we'd say it's way more flaming than anywhere else in Seattle.
Which is maybe why some of those people like cool stuff like Monoliths. Even if they only lasted for a day.
Yes, it is gone, but here is a story (with video) on local TV channel KOMO 4 about it.
arf arf arf