well that was insightful. Or maybe we need to elect presidents who can see into the future since that is the only way anyone would have known how Iraq would turn out and that NK would do this.
When Bush first started his "crusade" he named three countries that he was going to deal with, you know, the axis of evil (Iran, Iraq, N. Korea). He has done what he planned all along with Iraq. He is preparing to do the same to Iran, and I'm sure N. Korea isn't far removed.
It is quite possible that N. Korea is seeing the writing on the wall finally and, as a defensive move, they are just claiming to have Nuclear Capabilities. They may not - but if you were President how willing would you be to call their bluff?
It's one thing to invade Iraq and piss people off. Its entirely different when you knowingly attack a country that is willing to start a Nuclear war.
The kicker, of course, will be that if we attack N. Korea and they do have Nukes - we will be blamed for the Nuclear devastation and not N. Korea even if they are the only ones to launch.
I think it could be useful. First off I like the fact that you get the little popup div inline with what your reading so you can quickly determine if any of the search results will really help you with what your reading.
Secondly, I can see alot of blogs using this - I already added it to mine. I discuss alot of technical topics that not everyone who visits might know about - but they might want to learn more about. I don't go into any great detail on most of the topics so the inline search might help my family figure out what I'm talking about when I post a "geek" entry.
So now I have google and yahoo search integrated into my site. Theres nothing wrong with options.
wierd. I think when online banking was first introduced my bank charged me $3 but they dropped that quite a while ago.
And unlike the other replier we don't have to maintain a minimum balance. We also get free overdraft protection (into our savings acct).
overall I am actually pretty happy with all the services our bank offers for free. I don't know if it is near you but we use Huntington Banks. I used to use Wasington Mutual before moving and they always provided me with high quality services for free too - of course this was in 1996 so online banking wasn't an option yet so I don't know how they are about that.
boy I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought either culture hateful. Stubborn sure, but hateful no.
I think both groups have people have had to deal with an inordinate amount of crap and levels of unfairness that I can't fully imagine.
Finally, while there may have never been a "nation-state" of Palestine all of those Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 did live there - just living their lives before they suddenly had new rulers.
Nowadays, thanks in large part to the incessant violence of the region, the understandable mistrust of the Israeli government, and who knows what else the Palestinians are defianatly second class citizens.
I find the whole situation both tragic and sad; and as I said before far too complex for me to imagine a solution for.
While the US is probably certainly partially to blame for the incindiary conditions in the middle east regarding Israel I think it is far more complex than just the US involvment.
Imagine, if you will, the year 1948 - the year Isreal was once again a nation state. In the couple thousand years before that the Jewish nation suffered a diaspora that is truely tragic.
However, in 1948 the table was turned. All of the current residents of Palestine were suddenly uprooted. Their nation was destroyed in an effort to "make up" to the Jews.
How could the Palestinians not be upset? Their land was just ripped from them just as it had to the Jewish people 2,000 years earlier.
In the end neither nation got a fair deal. The Jewish nation was placed back in their holy land but in the middle of millions of people who didn't want them there for understandable reasons.
Did giving the land back to the Jews really make up for the eons of persecution? Hell no.
Were talking about the most holy land, anywhere, to two vastly different religions. Judism is a closed religion (ie. its not easy to join) while Islam is an expansionist religion (like christianity). Unfortunately neither group really wants to share the Holy Lands. Instead, since pretty much every major relgion in the world is exclusive - you can't share.
Sure, the US stirs the pot - but you can't blame it all on them. If anything, blame the thousands of years of persecution for Isreal being such a violent nation. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. I can't say that it is a great idea - but if I were Israel I might feel the same way. I mean, you can only take so much shit.
Of course, If I were Palestinian I would probably be out there fighting alongside the PLO and others to get my nations land back. The checkpoints, the curfews, the restricted rights, and the general third class citizenship that Palestinians have to face is abhorrent.
In the end, regardless of your background, just be glad you don't live there. It is a muddy, nasty scenario that has no easy solution - and no easy goat to blame for it all.
I doubt if they offer the kind of salary you are used to, we live in West Virginia after all, but my company is a very tight-knit place with very low turnover, In fact of the 10 or so software engineers currently employeed I could see at least five staying here until they retire. Myself included.
The ownership/management is great to work with. The comraderie is unsurpassed. And the work is varied so we don't get bored too often.
you can check out our ugly webpage at http://www.sbcs.com
When I first heard of the sticker controversy I was pretty suprised. The sticker seemed innocous enough and had a valid point - think critically about the theory of evolution
But the Judges ruling makes sense too. Why single out just one theory? The sticker should be more generic.
This textbook presents some theories that are widely accepted, but NOT proven fact. When you encounter theories in this, or any book, you should think critically about the theory and any opposing viewpoints.
I think this would not only serve the purpose of the religious folks who wanted the first sticker but maybe it would actually lead to one or two students to THINK about things.
Don't forget the contracter (and subsequent subcontractor) they will hire simultaneously to document their business processes to make sure the requirements of the system map to the way they currently do things
and the fact that neither the requirements analysts nor the business process analysts will be able to talk to each other - and if they could at least one will be reluctant to communicate with the other since, in all actuality, both are competitors hoping to get the final contract of software implementation.
My first memory is our Commodore 64 and some BASIC magazine my older brother subscribed too. It had huge, hundreds:O) of lines of code, programs that you could enter in to play games. The first game I had the patience to type all in was some kind of "meteor" game that had a stick figure who ran from side to side and caught dots that fell from the sky. The more you caught the faster they fell. I think the dots were only limited in speed by the computer and I don't think the game could be beat.
I now have a 3 year old daughter who found her own interest in our home PC. She just started messing with the mouse a little over a year ago and within a month or so she was adoing everything she wanted to do with it. She could find the icons (win xp) in the program menu and launch her games, play them, and shut them down. She can also launch the browser (firefox) and navigate to her favorite websites and play games there as well. She does all of this without any direct adult intervention - we basically just make sure she doesn't end up somewhere on the web by accident.
She can't write yet (she is only 3 after all, sorry, no Einsteins here) so we aren't too worried about chatting/online predators or anything - so she is pretty much free to explore the computer to her hearts content.
It probably doesn't hurt that both my wife and I use our computers fairly regularly in front of her and even when she was only 1 we would take her to different websites to see her favorite characters.
Depending on the age I don't think you need any special software to spark a kids interest in computers.
However, my three much younger brothers all pretty much ignore computers except to maybe send an email on occassion or to chat (and 2 MUD pretty fervently.) none of the three really has much interest in them any more than that.
becuase, unfortunately, the world is full of people who are both stupid and lazy.
People have enough trouble telling time on an analog watch - how could the possibly manage addition and subtraction along with it.
When I first joined the Army (and actually for the majority of the time I was in) I met plenty of people who had no idea what time 2200hrs was, or hell even 1400hrs (typically incorrect response was 4:00pm).
If folks can't even convert back and forth between 12 and 24 hour clocks how do you expect them to do that and add/subtract another modifier for their geographic position?
lets see, its 1700 GMT which is, I think uh, 7pm and I am at five hours before that so its 2pm. Oh wait. Uh.. mm 1700-5 is 1200 which is 12. Uh oh. Well, mm 2 or 12.. shit I'll just have lunch and figure it out later. I've probably done more work than my union wants me to during the past hour anyway.
I keep my 'wired remote" plugged in most of the time. Granted, not very useful for finding songs - but is great for quick volumne changes, skipping songs, etc. When walking (ie crossing the street) it may be a good option for you - it also effectively extends your headphone cord which, in some cases, my be a good thing.
No, not all movies are more serious than games - however, some Movies have had a much more powerful impact on me than any game ever has - that being NO game has ever had an emotional impact on me.
For instance I consider the following movies to be quite powerful: Schindlers List Saving Private Ryan Higher Learning
I saw each at different times in my life and each had a very different impact. All three, however, were far more srious than any Game I have ever come across.
If you are unaware what these movies are about; here is a very, very brief synopsis:
Schindlers List is about a Mans exceptionally brave effort to aid Jews during WW2
Saving Private Ryan is about a small group of WW2 soldiers efforts to reach a comrade whose brothers had all died in combat
Higher Learning deals with racial tensions at a major university looking at the situation from mostly a black perspective but also touches on the viewpoint of a lonely, misfit white guy.
As a veteran who has spent a small amount of time in a combat zone Saving Private Ryan was particularly poignagnt (especailly as my Older brother was also in the combat zone with me). It also opened an entirely new communcation channel between myself and my father (a Vietnam vet). I don't imagine any game will ever be able to match that type of emotional impact on my life.
So, some people might not consider movies more serious than games - but I do.
wow, how dare someone crit. the game you love. the gall of such people. We all know that only sure path to improvement of a product (be it free or not) is via pure adoration and no contrary opinions allowed.
In my experience with many open source projects it is exactly this kind of attitude from its current base that cause it problems with wider adoption.
Sure, this game may not want/need wider adoption - but attacking anyone who doesn't love the project seems pretty symptomatic of 90% of all Open source projects.
Its too bad. Sad really.
oh, and the graphics do suck and weather you agree or not - alot of games are judged by their pretty pictures before someone will go through to trouble of trying it. If the graphics don't shine - people will whine.
Im replying to parent because a couple of its children touched on this subject.
Parent here was kind of critisized for saying he lived with his parents (cause he was spending all of his money on games) and that if he had not been he could have adjusted his priorities and lived on his own.
Now, I'm not an expert on japanese (or any Asian) culture - however, my limited experience with a family that immigrated to the USA from Taiwan showed me one thing that was vastly different than traditional American families - they lived together.
And this isn't a poor immigrant family, they are exceoptionally wealthy and successful. However, having grandma living at home,and adult children living in the house as well wasn't frowned on. The sense of responsibility to family was a bit different than I have seen in other homes.
Maybe they were an anomoly, but the article makes me think that this isn't so.
Not only is real estate more expensive in Japan - but perhaps living at home with Mom and Dad isn't viewed in the same negative "slacker" connotation that it is here. Just like the desire for cooler gadgetry is a cultural thing so too, it would seem, is the accepatability of living with mom/dad even after you are capable of living on your own.
What strikes me about the article is that the Kids aren't helping with the cost of rent/mortgage. Now, I doubt that all adult children who are living with their parents in Japan are stiffing their parents for the bill. But the fact that it was mentioned this way makes me think that it maybe the norm.
I know in my family the level of family responsibility goes both ways. Once I turned 18 - if I spent any time living with my parents (which I did for about 6 months) I paid a fair rent equitable to the cost of a 1 bedroom studio in the area I lived in. Plus I forked over cash for groceries if I ate any.
Maybe I'm just whacked - but the sense of responsibility to family (providing free shelter for adult, money earning, children) and the lack of same by the children seems as important to the gadget craze success in Japan as teenage school girls.
javascript popup windows, in my experience of web application development, are analagous to dialog boxes in any other non-web based application.
letting people change settings/prefereces/what ever without having to make them refresh their main view into the application (unless the changes set in the dialog effect the current window state) is pretty nice - from both a usability and performance perspective.
in your model no matter what the user would have to load a new window to get to the preferences/settings screen, then reload the window they were already at.
using a popup window for the same functionality the user only has to load one window (the popup) then when they hit submit (or whatever) the action is executed on the server, the popup is automatically closed, and the user is presented with their initial window without having to wait for it to reload.
I have encountered many times where this type of behaviour is not only what the client wants, but what is also best for the client.
popups, as most casual web consumers have come to know them are not what popups were intended to be. But a metaphorical representation of a dialog box, imho, is.
I wonder how the complaintent would react if Google just dropped their domains from the search index. When new traffic suddenly died off from that avenue I wonder if they would sue again for being ignored.
That is a pretty typical problem with most of my fellow Americans who talk about Canada - they seem to think "the grass is greener" as far as what the government is doing for you.
They assume socialized medicine provides the exact same levels of care (and availability of care) as does privitized medicine. An example was the lack of MRI technology in Canada until the early 90s - ultrasound was (is?) often used in its place (1993 was the first pediatric hospital to offer MRI in Canada) where it had been available in the US since the early 1980s (the first commercial MRI was installed Helsinki Finland in 1982)
They assume that the pharmaceuticals in Canada went through the exact same regulatory process as it did in America but that it's just cheaper there because of Government Intervention (when it is more due to less government intervention). They also seem to think there will be an endless bounty of Drugs to import from Canada. WHen actually the US Is responsible for over 50% of the worlds consumption of pharmaceuticals whereas Canada is responsible for only 2% - if the US authorized the importation of drugs from Canada either Canada would prohibit the export OR they would run out of Drugs and then both Canadian and US drugs would cost alot (instead of just the in the US).
No country does everything right and in fact it seems few do much right when you boil it all down.
Now, I don't know about the proper roadways in Canada but I do know that the main Canadian road we took from Buffalo to Toronto was in suprisingly excellent shape (1999) considering what roads in upstate NY are often like due to the harsh winters.
Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of Cryptonomicon in a small way.
If I remember correctly in Cryptonomicon when Waterhouse first goes to the Pacific rim they are talking about providing messaging back to mainland asia from small terminals in stores very much like 7-11s using a broadband connection laid under the ocean. So 7-11 was bringing connectivity to part of Asia
Now in this story 7-11 (well, the holders of 7-11 in Taipei) are buildiing a wi-fi grid all over Taipei bringing connectivity to part of Asia.
Sure, the connection is thin but as soon as I read the story blurb here on/. it made me think of Cryptonomicon.
wow, how does it feel to be so completely clueless. 30 years ago isn't that long ago - definatly not long enough for some scars to heal; particularly the mental ones.
did you read the entire article or did you just latch onto that one setence and decide to jump to crazy conclusions?
The US should be concerend with its Sovereignty - but that isn't really the point of why pointed to that article.
"A study last year from a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado found that perfect compliance with the Kyoto Protocol would be worth a three-tenths of one degree warming reduction by 2100, an amount so small that "the influence of the Protocol will be undetectable for many decades."
I had hoped that people who followed the link would read it in the context that I linked to it in. I guess I was hoping for too much.
Don't presume to judge me or my view on anyone - because all you ended up doing is making yourself look like an ass.
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well that was insightful. Or maybe we need to elect presidents who can see into the future since that is the only way anyone would have known how Iraq would turn out and that NK would do this.
When Bush first started his "crusade" he named three countries that he was going to deal with, you know, the axis of evil (Iran, Iraq, N. Korea). He has done what he planned all along with Iraq. He is preparing to do the same to Iran, and I'm sure N. Korea isn't far removed.
It is quite possible that N. Korea is seeing the writing on the wall finally and, as a defensive move, they are just claiming to have Nuclear Capabilities. They may not - but if you were President how willing would you be to call their bluff?
It's one thing to invade Iraq and piss people off. Its entirely different when you knowingly attack a country that is willing to start a Nuclear war.
The kicker, of course, will be that if we attack N. Korea and they do have Nukes - we will be blamed for the Nuclear devastation and not N. Korea even if they are the only ones to launch.
I wonder if Kim likes to play poker?
I think it could be useful. First off I like the fact that you get the little popup div inline with what your reading so you can quickly determine if any of the search results will really help you with what your reading.
Secondly, I can see alot of blogs using this - I already added it to mine. I discuss alot of technical topics that not everyone who visits might know about - but they might want to learn more about. I don't go into any great detail on most of the topics so the inline search might help my family figure out what I'm talking about when I post a "geek" entry.
So now I have google and yahoo search integrated into my site. Theres nothing wrong with options.
wierd. I think when online banking was first introduced my bank charged me $3 but they dropped that quite a while ago.
And unlike the other replier we don't have to maintain a minimum balance. We also get free overdraft protection (into our savings acct).
overall I am actually pretty happy with all the services our bank offers for free. I don't know if it is near you but we use Huntington Banks. I used to use Wasington Mutual before moving and they always provided me with high quality services for free too - of course this was in 1996 so online banking wasn't an option yet so I don't know how they are about that.
boy I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought either culture hateful. Stubborn sure, but hateful no.
I think both groups have people have had to deal with an inordinate amount of crap and levels of unfairness that I can't fully imagine.
Finally, while there may have never been a "nation-state" of Palestine all of those Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 did live there - just living their lives before they suddenly had new rulers.
Nowadays, thanks in large part to the incessant violence of the region, the understandable mistrust of the Israeli government, and who knows what else the Palestinians are defianatly second class citizens.
I find the whole situation both tragic and sad; and as I said before far too complex for me to imagine a solution for.
$6 a month seems kind of steep - maybe you need a new bank. the bank I use provides FREE online banking/bill pay.
what gives with that $6 month?
While the US is probably certainly partially to blame for the incindiary conditions in the middle east regarding Israel I think it is far more complex than just the US involvment.
Imagine, if you will, the year 1948 - the year Isreal was once again a nation state. In the couple thousand years before that the Jewish nation suffered a diaspora that is truely tragic.
However, in 1948 the table was turned. All of the current residents of Palestine were suddenly uprooted. Their nation was destroyed in an effort to "make up" to the Jews.
How could the Palestinians not be upset? Their land was just ripped from them just as it had to the Jewish people 2,000 years earlier.
In the end neither nation got a fair deal. The Jewish nation was placed back in their holy land but in the middle of millions of people who didn't want them there for understandable reasons.
Did giving the land back to the Jews really make up for the eons of persecution? Hell no.
Were talking about the most holy land, anywhere, to two vastly different religions. Judism is a closed religion (ie. its not easy to join) while Islam is an expansionist religion (like christianity). Unfortunately neither group really wants to share the Holy Lands. Instead, since pretty much every major relgion in the world is exclusive - you can't share.
Sure, the US stirs the pot - but you can't blame it all on them. If anything, blame the thousands of years of persecution for Isreal being such a violent nation. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. I can't say that it is a great idea - but if I were Israel I might feel the same way. I mean, you can only take so much shit.
Of course, If I were Palestinian I would probably be out there fighting alongside the PLO and others to get my nations land back. The checkpoints, the curfews, the restricted rights, and the general third class citizenship that Palestinians have to face is abhorrent.
In the end, regardless of your background, just be glad you don't live there. It is a muddy, nasty scenario that has no easy solution - and no easy goat to blame for it all.
"Royale with cheese, I like that. Why do they call it a Royale with cheese?"
"Cause they got the metric system; they wouldn't know what the hell a quarterpounder is."
"So, whadda they call a whopper?"
"I dunno, I didn't go into burger king"
I doubt if they offer the kind of salary you are used to, we live in West Virginia after all, but my company is a very tight-knit place with very low turnover, In fact of the 10 or so software engineers currently employeed I could see at least five staying here until they retire. Myself included.
The ownership/management is great to work with. The comraderie is unsurpassed. And the work is varied so we don't get bored too often.
you can check out our ugly webpage at http://www.sbcs.com
thats hilarious. If i had mod points I'd definatly gives this a +1.
When I first heard of the sticker controversy I was pretty suprised. The sticker seemed innocous enough and had a valid point - think critically about the theory of evolution
But the Judges ruling makes sense too. Why single out just one theory? The sticker should be more generic.
This textbook presents some theories that are widely accepted, but NOT proven fact. When you encounter theories in this, or any book, you should think critically about the theory and any opposing viewpoints.
I think this would not only serve the purpose of the religious folks who wanted the first sticker but maybe it would actually lead to one or two students to THINK about things.
Don't forget the contracter (and subsequent subcontractor) they will hire simultaneously to document their business processes to make sure the requirements of the system map to the way they currently do things
and the fact that neither the requirements analysts nor the business process analysts will be able to talk to each other - and if they could at least one will be reluctant to communicate with the other since, in all actuality, both are competitors hoping to get the final contract of software implementation.
in fact these have been available on Amazon since at least early last month - engadget even reviewed them over a month ago.
My first memory is our Commodore 64 and some BASIC magazine my older brother subscribed too. It had huge, hundreds :O) of lines of code, programs that you could enter in to play games. The first game I had the patience to type all in was some kind of "meteor" game that had a stick figure who ran from side to side and caught dots that fell from the sky. The more you caught the faster they fell. I think the dots were only limited in speed by the computer and I don't think the game could be beat.
I now have a 3 year old daughter who found her own interest in our home PC. She just started messing with the mouse a little over a year ago and within a month or so she was adoing everything she wanted to do with it. She could find the icons (win xp) in the program menu and launch her games, play them, and shut them down. She can also launch the browser (firefox) and navigate to her favorite websites and play games there as well. She does all of this without any direct adult intervention - we basically just make sure she doesn't end up somewhere on the web by accident.
She can't write yet (she is only 3 after all, sorry, no Einsteins here) so we aren't too worried about chatting/online predators or anything - so she is pretty much free to explore the computer to her hearts content.
It probably doesn't hurt that both my wife and I use our computers fairly regularly in front of her and even when she was only 1 we would take her to different websites to see her favorite characters.
Depending on the age I don't think you need any special software to spark a kids interest in computers.
However, my three much younger brothers all pretty much ignore computers except to maybe send an email on occassion or to chat (and 2 MUD pretty fervently.) none of the three really has much interest in them any more than that.
I believe the image url you meant is this:l c06-black.jpg
http://www.pcalchemy.com/images/silverstone/lc06/
the url you provided is a dead link.
becuase, unfortunately, the world is full of people who are both stupid and lazy.
.. shit I'll just have lunch and figure it out later. I've probably done more work than my union wants me to during the past hour anyway.
People have enough trouble telling time on an analog watch - how could the possibly manage addition and subtraction along with it.
When I first joined the Army (and actually for the majority of the time I was in) I met plenty of people who had no idea what time 2200hrs was, or hell even 1400hrs (typically incorrect response was 4:00pm).
If folks can't even convert back and forth between 12 and 24 hour clocks how do you expect them to do that and add/subtract another modifier for their geographic position?
lets see, its 1700 GMT which is, I think uh, 7pm and I am at five hours before that so its 2pm. Oh wait. Uh.. mm 1700-5 is 1200 which is 12. Uh oh. Well, mm 2 or 12
I keep my 'wired remote" plugged in most of the time. Granted, not very useful for finding songs - but is great for quick volumne changes, skipping songs, etc. When walking (ie crossing the street) it may be a good option for you - it also effectively extends your headphone cord which, in some cases, my be a good thing.
No, not all movies are more serious than games - however, some Movies have had a much more powerful impact on me than any game ever has - that being NO game has ever had an emotional impact on me.
For instance I consider the following movies to be quite powerful:
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Higher Learning
I saw each at different times in my life and each had a very different impact. All three, however, were far more srious than any Game I have ever come across.
If you are unaware what these movies are about; here is a very, very brief synopsis:
Schindlers List is about a Mans exceptionally brave effort to aid Jews during WW2
Saving Private Ryan is about a small group of WW2 soldiers efforts to reach a comrade whose brothers had all died in combat
Higher Learning deals with racial tensions at a major university looking at the situation from mostly a black perspective but also touches on the viewpoint of a lonely, misfit white guy.
As a veteran who has spent a small amount of time in a combat zone Saving Private Ryan was particularly poignagnt (especailly as my Older brother was also in the combat zone with me). It also opened an entirely new communcation channel between myself and my father (a Vietnam vet). I don't imagine any game will ever be able to match that type of emotional impact on my life.
So, some people might not consider movies more serious than games - but I do.
wow, how dare someone crit. the game you love. the gall of such people. We all know that only sure path to improvement of a product (be it free or not) is via pure adoration and no contrary opinions allowed.
In my experience with many open source projects it is exactly this kind of attitude from its current base that cause it problems with wider adoption.
Sure, this game may not want/need wider adoption - but attacking anyone who doesn't love the project seems pretty symptomatic of 90% of all Open source projects.
Its too bad. Sad really.
oh, and the graphics do suck and weather you agree or not - alot of games are judged by their pretty pictures before someone will go through to trouble of trying it. If the graphics don't shine - people will whine.
Im replying to parent because a couple of its children touched on this subject.
Parent here was kind of critisized for saying he lived with his parents (cause he was spending all of his money on games) and that if he had not been he could have adjusted his priorities and lived on his own.
Now, I'm not an expert on japanese (or any Asian) culture - however, my limited experience with a family that immigrated to the USA from Taiwan showed me one thing that was vastly different than traditional American families - they lived together.
And this isn't a poor immigrant family, they are exceoptionally wealthy and successful. However, having grandma living at home,and adult children living in the house as well wasn't frowned on. The sense of responsibility to family was a bit different than I have seen in other homes.
Maybe they were an anomoly, but the article makes me think that this isn't so.
Not only is real estate more expensive in Japan - but perhaps living at home with Mom and Dad isn't viewed in the same negative "slacker" connotation that it is here. Just like the desire for cooler gadgetry is a cultural thing so too, it would seem, is the accepatability of living with mom/dad even after you are capable of living on your own.
What strikes me about the article is that the Kids aren't helping with the cost of rent/mortgage. Now, I doubt that all adult children who are living with their parents in Japan are stiffing their parents for the bill. But the fact that it was mentioned this way makes me think that it maybe the norm.
I know in my family the level of family responsibility goes both ways. Once I turned 18 - if I spent any time living with my parents (which I did for about 6 months) I paid a fair rent equitable to the cost of a 1 bedroom studio in the area I lived in. Plus I forked over cash for groceries if I ate any.
Maybe I'm just whacked - but the sense of responsibility to family (providing free shelter for adult, money earning, children) and the lack of same by the children seems as important to the gadget craze success in Japan as teenage school girls.
javascript popup windows, in my experience of web application development, are analagous to dialog boxes in any other non-web based application.
letting people change settings/prefereces/what ever without having to make them refresh their main view into the application (unless the changes set in the dialog effect the current window state) is pretty nice - from both a usability and performance perspective.
in your model no matter what the user would have to load a new window to get to the preferences/settings screen, then reload the window they were already at.
using a popup window for the same functionality the user only has to load one window (the popup) then when they hit submit (or whatever) the action is executed on the server, the popup is automatically closed, and the user is presented with their initial window without having to wait for it to reload.
I have encountered many times where this type of behaviour is not only what the client wants, but what is also best for the client.
popups, as most casual web consumers have come to know them are not what popups were intended to be. But a metaphorical representation of a dialog box, imho, is.
I wonder how the complaintent would react if Google just dropped their domains from the search index. When new traffic suddenly died off from that avenue I wonder if they would sue again for being ignored.
what whiners.
That is a pretty typical problem with most of my fellow Americans who talk about Canada - they seem to think "the grass is greener" as far as what the government is doing for you.
They assume socialized medicine provides the exact same levels of care (and availability of care) as does privitized medicine. An example was the lack of MRI technology in Canada until the early 90s - ultrasound was (is?) often used in its place (1993 was the first pediatric hospital to offer MRI in Canada) where it had been available in the US since the early 1980s (the first commercial MRI was installed Helsinki Finland in 1982)
They assume that the pharmaceuticals in Canada went through the exact same regulatory process as it did in America but that it's just cheaper there because of Government Intervention (when it is more due to less government intervention). They also seem to think there will be an endless bounty of Drugs to import from Canada. WHen actually the US Is responsible for over 50% of the worlds consumption of pharmaceuticals whereas Canada is responsible for only 2% - if the US authorized the importation of drugs from Canada either Canada would prohibit the export OR they would run out of Drugs and then both Canadian and US drugs would cost alot (instead of just the in the US).
No country does everything right and in fact it seems few do much right when you boil it all down.
Now, I don't know about the proper roadways in Canada but I do know that the main Canadian road we took from Buffalo to Toronto was in suprisingly excellent shape (1999) considering what roads in upstate NY are often like due to the harsh winters.
Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of Cryptonomicon in a small way.
/. it made me think of Cryptonomicon.
If I remember correctly in Cryptonomicon when Waterhouse first goes to the Pacific rim they are talking about providing messaging back to mainland asia from small terminals in stores very much like 7-11s using a broadband connection laid under the ocean. So 7-11 was bringing connectivity to part of Asia
Now in this story 7-11 (well, the holders of 7-11 in Taipei) are buildiing a wi-fi grid all over Taipei bringing connectivity to part of Asia.
Sure, the connection is thin but as soon as I read the story blurb here on
wow, how does it feel to be so completely clueless. 30 years ago isn't that long ago - definatly not long enough for some scars to heal; particularly the mental ones.
Be glad you have no idea what war is like.
did you read the entire article or did you just latch onto that one setence and decide to jump to crazy conclusions?
The US should be concerend with its Sovereignty - but that isn't really the point of why pointed to that article.
I had hoped that people who followed the link would read it in the context that I linked to it in. I guess I was hoping for too much.
Don't presume to judge me or my view on anyone - because all you ended up doing is making yourself look like an ass.