There are plenty of other cartoon shows that involve similar themes so why single out Pokemon? Because its the most popular? Because its owned by someone big (Nintendo)?
The obvious question is why doesn't anyone in the US sell a smaller more fuel efficient pickup truck.
Lots of people need trucks for work or DIY or towing a boat or camping or whatever. But I bet a whole bunch of those people could get by with something that isn't anywhere near as large (or as gas guzzling) as the full-size trucks.
Some companies make "smaller" trucks (e.g. Chevrolet Colorado) but they are almost as big, almost as gas guzzling and almost as expensive as the full-size trucks.
No reason why a truck similar to the current Australian-model Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi Triton or similar couldn't sell in the US if it had the right range of models, the right engines and the right marketing.
I was at a display the other day and there was someone promoting imported-and-converted trucks from the US including Chevrolet Silverados, GMC Sierras and Ford F-Series. It surprised me just how BIG those things are compared to the normal pickups I see on the road (Toyota Hilux, Holden Rodeo/Colorado, Mitsubishi Triton etc etc)
To your suggested curriculum, I would add "How to use the internet" and "basic computer and internet security".
Far too many people dont know the first thing about how to stay safe online and if kids are taught it in primary school, maybe those kids will be better at online security than their parents are.
Topics that should be covered include: 1.How to stay safe from viruses and malware 2.How to identify scams and fraud (e.g. Nigerian scams, "you have won money in a lottery even though you never entered" scans, phishing scams, viruses-disguised-as-fake-software-updates etc) 3.How to identify spam (no that email you got offering "cheap drugs" is probably NOT legitimate) 4.Identity theft and how to avoid being caught by it (not posting home addresses, phone numbers, pictures of yourself etc online, what is and isn't safe to post to social networking sites) 5.How to keep your computer and home network secure (run a good anti-virus program, keep Windows, Office, Flash and other software up to date, don't connect your computer to the outside world without a good router/firewall) 6.General online security (how to recognize that a site is secure via the SSL information, how to pick a good password, how to recognize and respond to security warnings etc) 7.Cyberbullying, what it is, what to do if you are a victim, what is and isn't acceptable behavior (no, posting that cellphone video you took of your best friend in an embarrassing situation to YouTube without their permission is NOT ok) etc.
My school had an Apple QuickTake too. Back then I knew nothing about the ways of the world (or the ways of the web) so I stupidly put a picture of myself (taken with said QuickTake) on my first web page (hosted on the school servers no less). I can still picture in my mind some of the things other kids did to that picture in Photoshop...
Memories of deleting the "At Ease" security program on the school Macs using the "delete a file" option in Excel. Memories of getting busted for trying to pirate Visual Basic 4.0 from the school PCs. Memories of the school being hooked up to the Internet for the first time (via a 64k ISDN line no less) Memories of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Still cant touch type in the way that program teaches you but I can type pretty fast:) Memories of design technology classes that had PCs so old they featured CD-ROM drives with caddies. Memories of programming classes learning Pascal and later Visual Basic and always being ahead of the class. Memories of being allowed to do tests and exams and things on computer because my writing is as good as unreadable.
The problem in the USA is that the caps that companies like Comcast are talking about are specifically set so low as to make using the internet as a primary source of video entertainment impossible.
The #1 goal of the cable companies is to make sure that replacing broadcast cable as a source of entertainment with content from the internet is impossible (or if not impossible, at least so expensive as to be unviable for most people)
Looking at this example of a bottom-of-the-barrel phone and saying "hey, how come fancy smartphones cost so much" is like looking at the cheapest of Chinese-made cars and saying "how come that BMW over there costs so much"
As a software engineer by profession and a geek by personality, there are 2 big reasons I wont buy an iPhone, iPod or iPad. The first is that I do not want to buy a device where I have to pay someone money if I want to write my own personal software for the device. The second is that I refuse to give money to a company that is using the patent system to try and take out their biggest competitor instead of trying to beat them with a superior product.
I have seen local arcades here in Australia running (and clearly profiting from) xxx-in-one "classic arcade machines" where its obvious that there is no way they have a license for the games on the thing, Why aren't companies like Nintendo, Namco and others going after those who are directly profiting from these copyright violations?
I have had a number of CFLs break in the past without any issues. (and without the need to call in the hazmat team) Most recently I had 2 dead bulbs with me intending to go to the shop to buy matching replacements and then find a suitable disposal bin to dispose of the CFLs in and one of the bulbs I had fell off the supermarket checkout counter and onto the floor and smashed. The supermarket people just cleaned up the mess like it was any other broken glass and moved on.
The main thing with CFLs is to make sure that (where possible) they get properly disposed of and dont end up in landfill because whilst they contain very small amounts of mercury individually, the amount of mercury that would be released when a whole bunch of bulbs are crushed by landfill crushers is enough to be an issue.
My bathroom currently has a Phillips CFL in one socket and some sort of incandescent bulb in the other socket. Both sockets are controlled by the one switch. When I turn the lights on, I observe no noticeable difference in the time it takes for the CFL to warm up to usable level vs the incandescent bulb.
Anyone who complains that CFLs take too long to warm up is either buying the wrong sort of CFLs (e.g. really cheap junk ones) or has some other issue with their setup. (or maybe its just something caused because the US electricity supply operates on a lower voltage to the supply here in Australia)
If they are that worried about proliferation from nuclear fuel reprocessing, they could just require the same levels of security on any material that might be usable for a weapon of some sort as they currently do on the 1000s of nuclear warheads that already exist in the USA.
America has been making weapons-grade nuclear material for somewhere near 70 years now so I am sure they know how to keep it safe and out of the hands of the bad guys.
The answer to that is to have password protection on the PCs in the house (which is a good idea anyway) and to not leave them logged in when someone you dont know very well comes over. And to set some rules about what babysitters (and the kids they are babysitting) are allowed to do.
As someone who is currently watching Telstra upgrade the infrastructure (pits etc) on my street in preparation for the NBN roll-out in my area, I can say that the NBN is most definatly NOT a fail (not compared to the Liberal alternative of fiber-to-the-node or the current situation of ADSL if you are lucky, overpriced 3G if you are not)
I suspect one of the biggest reasons why Twitter keeps changing their rules/policies/etc to block these "new ways to make Twitter useful" is because all these alternative ways to consume tweets dont put their "promoted tweets" and other forms of revenue raising front-and-center like the official approved methods do.
Actually, given that the Google data is produced by the transit agency and submitted to Google, I would trust it to be just as accurate as a dedicated app also written by that transit agency.
Half the time its not that the app wont work on anything other than IE6, its that the company or developers that made the app has SAID it wont work on anything other than IE6 and that's all that matters to the PHBs who run things.
They should introduce a very small tax (not sure exactly what rate would work) on every trade. Not just on shares but on bonds, commodities and any other financial instrument that's bought and sold on these markets.
People doing high-frequency-trading will have to slow down or stop because it will quickly become too expensive but the tax amount that would be paid by regular people buying and selling these instruments (e.g. to invest retirement money in) would be so small that it wouldn't be an impost.
Around here the only way to get a job of any sort in software development is to have a few years of commercial experience in whatever technology they are using.
From what I can tell (based on what Mozilla and others have said), the root issue is basically that apps written for Metro dont get access to the Windows APIs they need and that developers on ARM get access to even less.
Will Microsoft actually FIX the problem and allow Metro (and ARM) apps to access the APIs necessary to do JIT compilation of Javascript, spawn plugins in separate processes and the other things a modern web browser (like Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) needs to do? Or will they claim that doing so would open up the Windows Store to "undesirable" applications (malware etc)?
If I was in charge at AT&T, I would spend whatever money it took to improve the 2G/3G coverage of AT&T to the point where its better than Verizon. Lots of people have made "I hate Verizon but dont get coverage from anyone else so I have no choice" complaints, if AT&T fixed that, more people would switch over from Verizon and could move towards making AT&T the #1 carrier in America.
The last EA game I played was Command & Conquer 4 and I got that for free. Even then, I played it for a while and gave up. It just wasn't FUN in the way every previous C&C title was.
Lately I have been replaying the Ghostbusters video game and the Tron 2.0 game (both of which provide a FUN experience) and may well pick up my Diablo 2 character (Like EA, Blizzard took the good stuff out of Diablo 3 when they decided to make it into essentially an MMO without the persistent world) I have considered continuing my play-through of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (another great game) but it feels too much like a console port shoehorned onto a PC and I just haven't been able to get into playing it:)
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There are plenty of other cartoon shows that involve similar themes so why single out Pokemon? Because its the most popular? Because its owned by someone big (Nintendo)?
The obvious question is why doesn't anyone in the US sell a smaller more fuel efficient pickup truck.
Lots of people need trucks for work or DIY or towing a boat or camping or whatever. But I bet a whole bunch of those people could get by with something that isn't anywhere near as large (or as gas guzzling) as the full-size trucks.
Some companies make "smaller" trucks (e.g. Chevrolet Colorado) but they are almost as big, almost as gas guzzling and almost as expensive as the full-size trucks.
No reason why a truck similar to the current Australian-model Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi Triton or similar couldn't sell in the US if it had the right range of models, the right engines and the right marketing.
I was at a display the other day and there was someone promoting imported-and-converted trucks from the US including Chevrolet Silverados, GMC Sierras and Ford F-Series. It surprised me just how BIG those things are compared to the normal pickups I see on the road (Toyota Hilux, Holden Rodeo/Colorado, Mitsubishi Triton etc etc)
To your suggested curriculum, I would add "How to use the internet" and "basic computer and internet security".
Far too many people dont know the first thing about how to stay safe online and if kids are taught it in primary school, maybe those kids will be better at online security than their parents are.
Topics that should be covered include:
1.How to stay safe from viruses and malware
2.How to identify scams and fraud (e.g. Nigerian scams, "you have won money in a lottery even though you never entered" scans, phishing scams, viruses-disguised-as-fake-software-updates etc)
3.How to identify spam (no that email you got offering "cheap drugs" is probably NOT legitimate)
4.Identity theft and how to avoid being caught by it (not posting home addresses, phone numbers, pictures of yourself etc online, what is and isn't safe to post to social networking sites)
5.How to keep your computer and home network secure (run a good anti-virus program, keep Windows, Office, Flash and other software up to date, don't connect your computer to the outside world without a good router/firewall)
6.General online security (how to recognize that a site is secure via the SSL information, how to pick a good password, how to recognize and respond to security warnings etc)
7.Cyberbullying, what it is, what to do if you are a victim, what is and isn't acceptable behavior (no, posting that cellphone video you took of your best friend in an embarrassing situation to YouTube without their permission is NOT ok) etc.
My school had an Apple QuickTake too. Back then I knew nothing about the ways of the world (or the ways of the web) so I stupidly put a picture of myself (taken with said QuickTake) on my first web page (hosted on the school servers no less). I can still picture in my mind some of the things other kids did to that picture in Photoshop...
Memories of deleting the "At Ease" security program on the school Macs using the "delete a file" option in Excel. :)
Memories of getting busted for trying to pirate Visual Basic 4.0 from the school PCs.
Memories of the school being hooked up to the Internet for the first time (via a 64k ISDN line no less)
Memories of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Still cant touch type in the way that program teaches you but I can type pretty fast
Memories of design technology classes that had PCs so old they featured CD-ROM drives with caddies.
Memories of programming classes learning Pascal and later Visual Basic and always being ahead of the class.
Memories of being allowed to do tests and exams and things on computer because my writing is as good as unreadable.
The problem in the USA is that the caps that companies like Comcast are talking about are specifically set so low as to make using the internet as a primary source of video entertainment impossible.
The #1 goal of the cable companies is to make sure that replacing broadcast cable as a source of entertainment with content from the internet is impossible (or if not impossible, at least so expensive as to be unviable for most people)
Looking at this example of a bottom-of-the-barrel phone and saying "hey, how come fancy smartphones cost so much" is like looking at the cheapest of Chinese-made cars and saying "how come that BMW over there costs so much"
As a software engineer by profession and a geek by personality, there are 2 big reasons I wont buy an iPhone, iPod or iPad.
The first is that I do not want to buy a device where I have to pay someone money if I want to write my own personal software for the device. The second is that I refuse to give money to a company that is using the patent system to try and take out their biggest competitor instead of trying to beat them with a superior product.
I have seen local arcades here in Australia running (and clearly profiting from) xxx-in-one "classic arcade machines" where its obvious that there is no way they have a license for the games on the thing, Why aren't companies like Nintendo, Namco and others going after those who are directly profiting from these copyright violations?
I have had a number of CFLs break in the past without any issues. (and without the need to call in the hazmat team) Most recently I had 2 dead bulbs with me intending to go to the shop to buy matching replacements and then find a suitable disposal bin to dispose of the CFLs in and one of the bulbs I had fell off the supermarket checkout counter and onto the floor and smashed. The supermarket people just cleaned up the mess like it was any other broken glass and moved on.
The main thing with CFLs is to make sure that (where possible) they get properly disposed of and dont end up in landfill because whilst they contain very small amounts of mercury individually, the amount of mercury that would be released when a whole bunch of bulbs are crushed by landfill crushers is enough to be an issue.
My bathroom currently has a Phillips CFL in one socket and some sort of incandescent bulb in the other socket. Both sockets are controlled by the one switch. When I turn the lights on, I observe no noticeable difference in the time it takes for the CFL to warm up to usable level vs the incandescent bulb.
Anyone who complains that CFLs take too long to warm up is either buying the wrong sort of CFLs (e.g. really cheap junk ones) or has some other issue with their setup. (or maybe its just something caused because the US electricity supply operates on a lower voltage to the supply here in Australia)
If they are that worried about proliferation from nuclear fuel reprocessing, they could just require the same levels of security on any material that might be usable for a weapon of some sort as they currently do on the 1000s of nuclear warheads that already exist in the USA.
America has been making weapons-grade nuclear material for somewhere near 70 years now so I am sure they know how to keep it safe and out of the hands of the bad guys.
The answer to that is to have password protection on the PCs in the house (which is a good idea anyway) and to not leave them logged in when someone you dont know very well comes over.
And to set some rules about what babysitters (and the kids they are babysitting) are allowed to do.
As someone who is currently watching Telstra upgrade the infrastructure (pits etc) on my street in preparation for the NBN roll-out in my area, I can say that the NBN is most definatly NOT a fail (not compared to the Liberal alternative of fiber-to-the-node or the current situation of ADSL if you are lucky, overpriced 3G if you are not)
I suspect one of the biggest reasons why Twitter keeps changing their rules/policies/etc to block these "new ways to make Twitter useful" is because all these alternative ways to consume tweets dont put their "promoted tweets" and other forms of revenue raising front-and-center like the official approved methods do.
Actually, given that the Google data is produced by the transit agency and submitted to Google, I would trust it to be just as accurate as a dedicated app also written by that transit agency.
Half the time its not that the app wont work on anything other than IE6, its that the company or developers that made the app has SAID it wont work on anything other than IE6 and that's all that matters to the PHBs who run things.
I still have the Casio CFX-9850G I used in high school (although I haven't used it in years)
They should introduce a very small tax (not sure exactly what rate would work) on every trade. Not just on shares but on bonds, commodities and any other financial instrument that's bought and sold on these markets.
People doing high-frequency-trading will have to slow down or stop because it will quickly become too expensive but the tax amount that would be paid by regular people buying and selling these instruments (e.g. to invest retirement money in) would be so small that it wouldn't be an impost.
Around here the only way to get a job of any sort in software development is to have a few years of commercial experience in whatever technology they are using.
From what I can tell (based on what Mozilla and others have said), the root issue is basically that apps written for Metro dont get access to the Windows APIs they need and that developers on ARM get access to even less.
Will Microsoft actually FIX the problem and allow Metro (and ARM) apps to access the APIs necessary to do JIT compilation of Javascript, spawn plugins in separate processes and the other things a modern web browser (like Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) needs to do?
Or will they claim that doing so would open up the Windows Store to "undesirable" applications (malware etc)?
If I was in charge at AT&T, I would spend whatever money it took to improve the 2G/3G coverage of AT&T to the point where its better than Verizon. Lots of people have made "I hate Verizon but dont get coverage from anyone else so I have no choice" complaints, if AT&T fixed that, more people would switch over from Verizon and could move towards making AT&T the #1 carrier in America.
One big reason Apple doesn't use USB is that the dock connector does more than just USB.
The last EA game I played was Command & Conquer 4 and I got that for free. Even then, I played it for a while and gave up.
It just wasn't FUN in the way every previous C&C title was.
Lately I have been replaying the Ghostbusters video game and the Tron 2.0 game (both of which provide a FUN experience) and may well pick up my Diablo 2 character (Like EA, Blizzard took the good stuff out of Diablo 3 when they decided to make it into essentially an MMO without the persistent world) :)
I have considered continuing my play-through of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (another great game) but it feels too much like a console port shoehorned onto a PC and I just haven't been able to get into playing it