You can tell the culture isn't dying because people have been saying stuff like that since the dawn of history.
To quote The Mikado: "Then the idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this and every country but his own."...face it, ignorance has always abounded. There's always been some kid who discovers something for the first time.
It proves that the proverb in question is a powerful one, no?
Dude... if you can't manage not to scratch something for 4 weeks, I seriously question your ability to succeed in everyday tasks, like tying your shoelaces. Seriously. I use my 60gb iPod every day (and have for almost 10 months) and have nary a single scratch.
Actually, the number on this type of thing are very well-defined, and well-established. It doesn't surprise me that someone who has built this system is very aware of these numbers.
The difference between full recovery and horrible brain damage and/or death is measured in seconds.
1. look for identical items in the pile. 2. count them accurately (if they can't count cans of cat food, wtf are they doing with a cash drawer?) 3. scan one item from the pile and enter the quantity with the keypad 4. move the stack over to be bagged.
Tell you what, you use your way, I'll use mine, we'll see who is faster? Pay attention next time you buy 6 cases of Jolt at Costco...
However, that remaining 10% is huge. I have eclectic taste (as does my wife), so our combined collection of music when we got married a few years ago was over 1k cds.
Music is all about memory to me, and I don't want to be forced to pay a fee every month or lose my memories.
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I taught for a year in Kamaishi (in Iwate), and it was a good couple of hours (by train) to the nearest large city.
The only places locally you could buy music were shops with nearly no western/euro stuff, though there were places you could rent CDs, that had an ok selection of j-pop.
This was a couple years ago, but I doubt much has changed. Of course, I relied on public transportation, so that made a service like this even more desirable.
I guess if you like the idea of renting your music.
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Wow!
So these back-street markets you speak of have a million tracks available instantly, from anywhere in the country? That's fantastic! And you can buy just the one track you want, not the whole CD? That's amazing!
Is he joking? I mean, does he seriously believe what he wrote there? For one thing, if scores have gone up at all it's because the standard has been lowered over the years. For another, kids in the US, as a whole, are far from "all right" these days. If you don't see that, you're not taking an honest look at the state of today's younger generation.
Is this based on anything but a gut-level, kids-these-days, knee-jerk reaction? Just wondering....because what I've gotten from talking to my parents, grandparents, etc. is that it's ALWAYS been like this. Welcome to old age.
Sorry, I've witnessed my fellow Americans acting like assholes overseas just a little too often. It's a perception of a large part of the world, and not entirely undeserved....and what's the phrase about lies, damn lies, and statistics?
Not that there's no truth to it, but I think the carrion-birds are hardly circling. But then, I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy.
I've heard the same doom and gloom since the '70s, and frankly, it's a little tiring.
I guess the problem I see here is that if nothing else, it will highlight the flaws in the process. Committees are extremely bad at some things. For example, almost anything creative.
One person draws something, then each person takes a turn 'fixing it.'
Right, except that Japan had a culture and socio-political structure almost perfectly designed to take advantage of advances in technology, while China has... what? A large population, (virtually) state-run businesses and rampant corruption on a local level.
Not to mention the huge cultural and political resistance to change.
Anyway, so what? So what if their GDP goes higher than ours? How does this injure us? As another poster remarked, it's not a zero-sum game.
I don't know... it seems to me that there are some very basic cultural differences that will serve to blunt any radical shift away from the current situation.
Part of the reason the US does well (historically) in fields like this is BECAUSE there's a very well-defined structure in place for personally capitalizing on new discoveries and inventions. It's the same thing (perhaps to a lesser extent) in Japan and Europe. Those people you're referring to (Indians and Chinese) are coming over here for their education, what does that tell you?
More interestingly, how many will stay? All? None? Half? Most? And if they do stay, well, good. We could use fresh blood and fresh ideas.
Personally, I would tend to keep my eye on South Korea. That's where a lot of innovation seems to be coming from.
In my own experience, it's not terribly difficult to see which direction trouble is going, and head the other way. It's a bad situation already. If it's getting ugly, get out of there.
I've been in protests that got ugly, and I've been beat up with a nightstick, and let me tell you, it isn't any fun. I knew what I was getting into, and--at the time--I was willing to take the risk.
I'm older now, (hopefully a little wiser) and I think there are better ways of getting a message across.
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So I guess that would make iTMS the Wal-Mart of the online music industry: so far ahead that it not only sets the tends, it makes the rules.
OK, I can live with that.
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You can tell the culture isn't dying because people have been saying stuff like that since the dawn of history.
...face it, ignorance has always abounded. There's always been some kid who discovers something for the first time.
To quote The Mikado:
"Then the idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this and every country but his own."
It proves that the proverb in question is a powerful one, no?
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I can't tell if this is a troll or what...
Dude... if you can't manage not to scratch something for 4 weeks, I seriously question your ability to succeed in everyday tasks, like tying your shoelaces. Seriously. I use my 60gb iPod every day (and have for almost 10 months) and have nary a single scratch.
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Actually, the number on this type of thing are very well-defined, and well-established. It doesn't surprise me that someone who has built this system is very aware of these numbers.
The difference between full recovery and horrible brain damage and/or death is measured in seconds.
Oxy deprivation is nothing to mess with.
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This probably says more about your comfort level and/or teaching skills than it does about OSX.
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Apparently you don't watch closely.
It's more like:
1. look for identical items in the pile.
2. count them accurately (if they can't count cans of cat food, wtf are they doing with a cash drawer?)
3. scan one item from the pile and enter the quantity with the keypad
4. move the stack over to be bagged.
Tell you what, you use your way, I'll use mine, we'll see who is faster? Pay attention next time you buy 6 cases of Jolt at Costco...
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I believe the accepted term is "Pastafarian."
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Heretic.
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Warren Spector has never once made a liscensed game.
You mean he hasn't shipped one. No telling how many are in the wings.
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you could then combine it with this system, and you'd have a... um... piss-powered and controlled PSP. (SFW)
More of a "pee-ess-pee", I guess.
(i like that they use a chick with a strap-on for the photos... makes the whole thing hotter, somehow)
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I would have to say the correct answer is:
6. Posting a message about the dumbness of reading the review about the book about these stupid games.
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No, my opinion is that 90% of everything is crap.
However, that remaining 10% is huge. I have eclectic taste (as does my wife), so our combined collection of music when we got married a few years ago was over 1k cds.
Music is all about memory to me, and I don't want to be forced to pay a fee every month or lose my memories.
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I taught for a year in Kamaishi (in Iwate), and it was a good couple of hours (by train) to the nearest large city.
The only places locally you could buy music were shops with nearly no western/euro stuff, though there were places you could rent CDs, that had an ok selection of j-pop.
This was a couple years ago, but I doubt much has changed. Of course, I relied on public transportation, so that made a service like this even more desirable.
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I dunno.
I guess if you like the idea of renting your music.
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Wow!
So these back-street markets you speak of have a million tracks available instantly, from anywhere in the country? That's fantastic! And you can buy just the one track you want, not the whole CD? That's amazing!
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Probably because you were younger then, and not so jaded.
I have the same problem.
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Dude, MOST high school kids are morons. Every class. Every year.
It was the same in 93, and I don't doubt it was the same in 83 and 73. Kids that age have no perspective, regardless of the year.
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Is he joking? I mean, does he seriously believe what he wrote there? For one thing, if scores have gone up at all it's because the standard has been lowered over the years. For another, kids in the US, as a whole, are far from "all right" these days. If you don't see that, you're not taking an honest look at the state of today's younger generation.
...because what I've gotten from talking to my parents, grandparents, etc. is that it's ALWAYS been like this. Welcome to old age.
Is this based on anything but a gut-level, kids-these-days, knee-jerk reaction? Just wondering.
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Sorry, I've witnessed my fellow Americans acting like assholes overseas just a little too often. It's a perception of a large part of the world, and not entirely undeserved. ...and what's the phrase about lies, damn lies, and statistics?
Not that there's no truth to it, but I think the carrion-birds are hardly circling. But then, I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy.
I've heard the same doom and gloom since the '70s, and frankly, it's a little tiring.
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I guess the problem I see here is that if nothing else, it will highlight the flaws in the process. Committees are extremely bad at some things. For example, almost anything creative.
One person draws something, then each person takes a turn 'fixing it.'
Oh, great. Sounds like loads of fun.
Remember:
None Of Us Is As Dumb As All Of Us.
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Right, except that Japan had a culture and socio-political structure almost perfectly designed to take advantage of advances in technology, while China has... what? A large population, (virtually) state-run businesses and rampant corruption on a local level.
Not to mention the huge cultural and political resistance to change.
Anyway, so what? So what if their GDP goes higher than ours? How does this injure us? As another poster remarked, it's not a zero-sum game.
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I dunno, I suspect we're hated because a lot of us act like assholes.
The reality (in this country at least) is that you don't need a Ph.D. to make a good living. Just motivation, luck and/or hard work.
Is this a problem? I'm not entirely sure it is. People always talk about how fucked up our schools are, but I just don't see any evidence of that.
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I don't know... it seems to me that there are some very basic cultural differences that will serve to blunt any radical shift away from the current situation.
Part of the reason the US does well (historically) in fields like this is BECAUSE there's a very well-defined structure in place for personally capitalizing on new discoveries and inventions. It's the same thing (perhaps to a lesser extent) in Japan and Europe. Those people you're referring to (Indians and Chinese) are coming over here for their education, what does that tell you?
More interestingly, how many will stay? All? None? Half? Most? And if they do stay, well, good. We could use fresh blood and fresh ideas.
Personally, I would tend to keep my eye on South Korea. That's where a lot of innovation seems to be coming from.
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Does this remind anyone else of the dire warnings about Japan "taking over" in the '80s and '90s.
This just reeks of fear-mongering. I half-way expect Michael Crichton to write some stupid novel about it.
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...the World Trade Center is still looming over Manhattan.
OK, I know they were panicked about Google Earth etc, but couldn't they have paid for better, more recent imagery?
Compared to Google Maps, this seems like a particularly half-assed effort.
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In my own experience, it's not terribly difficult to see which direction trouble is going, and head the other way. It's a bad situation already. If it's getting ugly, get out of there.
I've been in protests that got ugly, and I've been beat up with a nightstick, and let me tell you, it isn't any fun. I knew what I was getting into, and--at the time--I was willing to take the risk.
I'm older now, (hopefully a little wiser) and I think there are better ways of getting a message across.
Let's not make the lesson a terminal one.
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