Yah yah, water conservation, yadda yadda yadda. Like many things, flushless urinals seem good in theory, but WOW do they ever STINK in practice. Literally.
Sure, gravity pulls down the urine. But it certainly leaves a coating on the urinal. Combine constantly urine-coated urinals with warm air.... They make you wretch. The whole bathroom reeks.
You're missing a key point here: MySQL likes the publicity they get by trumpeting the GPL, but they do not wish to completely comply with the GPL. This is why some (becoming many) people have problems with MySQL as a company. This is a valid concern and can not be pushed off with "They are giving you something for free so don't complain." types of arguments.
My first reply poked some fun, but I don't think I have been condescending.
I'm not sure where you are getting the $3 books from unless they are used, "stripped", review copies, or unauthorized print runs. In any of those cases the author is not getting a cut. "Lonesome Dove" is $7.99 on Amazon + shipping.
I support authors as well -- I certainly buy (more than) my share of books. I print some too though, mostly because of the need to get the information immediately. If the book is particularly good and I feel I will need it again I will usually pass the printed copy along to someone else and buy a copy for myself. I rarely read fiction these days -- non-fiction is far more important to consume during my limited available time.
To each their own. As I said before, my geographic location plays a part in my choices too. There are many excellent points about life in Japan (especially if you are not a teacher here), but the easily availability of non-fiction English books is not one of them.
I do see your points as well, and definitely there will be demand for commercially produced books for some time to come.
However, what I described does not require any folding and binding takes all of about 10 seconds. I've done this more than a few times and it does work out well.
I have a Brother laser printer that cost about US$300. I bought this printer for other reasons, but it is a great book printer too. (Has a duplexer, supports both PCL6 and PS3, built-in standard 10/100 LAN port. Basically it will work on any OS that supports PS or PCL6.)
Anyway, it prints duplexed pages at about 16ppm and the toner is cheap. The Windows driver also lets me easily (one click) print two pages onto one side of a sheet. The result of all this is that I can print a 300 page book perfectly in under 5 minutes using only 75 sheets of A4 paper. I then apply two of those triangular binding clips (the ones with the fold in handles), and it's done!
Total cost of around US$1 including the clips, and total time of about 5 minutes. It's not as pretty as a bound paperback but I'm willing to trade that off for the instant availability and the ability to reprint again any time if needed.
(The fact that I live in Japan definitely plays some role in my choice. English books here are very expensive and only available from major downtown bookstores -- and even then selection is pretty limited. Ordering from Amazon Japan (or US/UK) is possible, but the shipping increases the prices and takes time. A $1 five minute book is a dream!)
There is this great new invention called a printer! You can use it to turn on-screen documents into printed hard copy!
But wait, there's more! There are even ones that will print on both sides of the paper, and will automatically print two pages onto one side! So you can get 4 pages onto one A4 sheet, thus having text about the same size as a paperback! Put a couple of binding clips on one side and you have an instant book.
More seriously though... Besides the fact that it is both cheaper and nearly instant, you can easily replace the book if it is lost or damaged, and you can just give it away to someone who expresses interest and later print yourself another copy. Plus you still have the electronic version on your computer, so if you want to search for a certain passage you can do this instantly without having to flip pages.
Sure, the movies this year might not be any worse than the ones last year, but that is not saying much at all -- both years sucked! The public has just been a little slow to catch on and stop wasting their money.
When I first read the title my mind added an "R" in there. Talk about disappointment when I discovered is was just some bizarre Monopoly publicity stunt!:(
AC Wrote:Oh for fuck's sake, like Linux is any better. As soon as you install KDE or GNOME, plus a selection of apps necessary to get close to the functionality of XP, it takes up just as much memory. Maybe more, as I hear XP will comfortably run on 64MB RAM - would KDE even fit into this amount of RAM?
I know you're just a troll, but have you ever tried to run XP (or 2K for that matter) on 64MB?
"Painful" doesn't even begin to describe the experience. It's so agonizingly slow as to be useless.
I think they may be facing CC fraud issues... With so many international Skype users it seems more than likely.
Since they will probably be responsible for any fraudulent use (ie they get no money for SkypeOut usage but still have to pay fees to the telcos) it would cost them a lot of money. So they are cutting off cards rather than deal with it.:(
Personally I think that the credit card companies themselves should be held responsible for *all* fraudulent use of cards, not the merchants. Or maybe a 60/40 or 80/20 split. We would soon see much better anti-fraud measures from the CC companies.
I've been using Skype on Windows for some time now. It works really well overall, and especially the PC2PC sound quality is excellent. Usually as good or better than a local landline call.
I have also been using SkypeOut, their 1.7 Euro cent/minute (2.2 US cents). SkypeOut has saved me a lot of cash, both in international calls from home and when making calls from hotels when traveling. Yep, Skype gets out of the usually heavily blocked hotel networks! So instead of being stuck paying exorbitant hotel long distance rates I pay the standard SkypeOut rate. Awesome!
Except.... Skype now refuses to take my credit card to buy more pre-paid SkypeOut credit. I've tried 3 different cards, all of which work on Amazon US and Japan as well as various other sites. No go.:( I contacted their "live support" chat option but was told that Skype is having issues with their card approval company.
Man, that sucks. That's much worse than the USA holding hundreds of prisoners in a concentration camp in Cuba, without trial, charge, or even being told what it is they're accused of. I'm so glad I live in a bastion of human rights and equality, and not a nasty undemocratic place like Japan.
Oh, wait.
Japan would do *exactly* the same thing if they could get away with it like the US does.
If Japan thought they could get away with it they'd invade North Korea in a second...
Ah yes, Japan... A bastion of human rights and equality.
Technically Japan is a free democracy. But human rights? Equality? They are given lip service at best.
Don't believe me? Ask the two Kurdish Turks just deported even though the UN had declared them refugees.
Or perhaps the nurse who was denied a promotion because she does not have Japanese citizenship. She was BORN in Japan! She *only* speaks Japanese! Her mother was Japanese, her father Korean, and this is the source of her problem. At the time she was born having a Japanese mother did *not* get you Japanese citizenship. (Having a Japanese father would have though.) So her passport says "Korea", and thus she is denied a promotion. The kicker? This decision was just *upheld* by the Japanese Supreme Court!
Yep, Japan... A bastion of human rights and equality.
AC:What I hate most about the evangelist moron wing of the christian faith is that they cant be bothered to even understand their own faith
Couldn't agree more. The only thing I'd like to add is that extremists from other religions are the same -- Islam is not a violent religion like the extremist nutcases make out to be either.
danila (69889):But there is no reason to care about 10000 dead, because this is not news at all. Especially since most of the people killed are probably uneducated simple-minded folks, who lived in shitty houses.
It has been said by many that the character of a man can be most easily understood by how he treats those who he considers beneath himself.
It's true.
I hope you can overcome your apparent sociopathic illness and learn compassion.
danila (69889):OK, so 10000 people died. Big fucking deal.
It's not just the death toll, which seems likely to rise beyond 100,000. It's the total destruction of infrastructure and housing, the injuries, the loss of livelihood, the diseases that will follow with so many dead. The deaths are a tragedy, but the survivors are the ones who must now go through hell.
To be succinct: You're a fucked in the head sociopathic asshole. Seek help.
Not a lake by far, compare this pic to the other ones posted by the GPP, as it does look like a liqiud of some kind to me,
It depends on the scale of this image... If the little round "pebbles" are actually big boulders, then that's a decent sized pond or small lake.
due to the fact that if you look at the puddle's right side, it seems as if the surface disappears with lessening visibility under the puddle's surface. Also the shadow overlaying part of the puddle is a lot darker than the surroundings. This is the same kind of behaviour you would expect on Earth.
Yes, these are the same things that made me consider it to be a liquid too. It could be something else though -- photography doesn't always show reality. It sure does look like water though...
More content means specifically I won't find anything I like? I find that logic baffling, but maybe it's because every season I catch at least one new interesting show.
Did I say that? Here's a hint: I didn't say that.
What I did say is that the addition of more crap won't "improve your chances of finding something you like."
I stand by my original post: 99.9% of TV programming blows chunks. Unless something changes drastically this isn't going to improve. Most TV is aimed at the lowest common denominator, and sadly that is very low indeed.
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The Club is worthless, and every time I see one on a car or in a store I laugh.
Sure, it is made out of steel and is probably fairly tough to cut through. But what is your steering wheel made out of? Plastic.
Cut the wheel. Two seconds.
If someone wants your car then a steering wheel lock is not going to stop them. It won't even slow them down.
In fact, the only thing it might do is say to a thief, "Have a look at this car, the owner seems to think it's worth steeling."
Yah yah, water conservation, yadda yadda yadda. Like many things, flushless urinals seem good in theory, but WOW do they ever STINK in practice. Literally.
Sure, gravity pulls down the urine. But it certainly leaves a coating on the urinal. Combine constantly urine-coated urinals with warm air.... They make you wretch. The whole bathroom reeks.
Baaaaad bad idea.
Man, is it April 1st already?
You're missing a key point here: MySQL likes the publicity they get by trumpeting the GPL, but they do not wish to completely comply with the GPL. This is why some (becoming many) people have problems with MySQL as a company. This is a valid concern and can not be pushed off with "They are giving you something for free so don't complain." types of arguments.
My first reply poked some fun, but I don't think I have been condescending.
I'm not sure where you are getting the $3 books from unless they are used, "stripped", review copies, or unauthorized print runs. In any of those cases the author is not getting a cut. "Lonesome Dove" is $7.99 on Amazon + shipping.
I support authors as well -- I certainly buy (more than) my share of books. I print some too though, mostly because of the need to get the information immediately. If the book is particularly good and I feel I will need it again I will usually pass the printed copy along to someone else and buy a copy for myself. I rarely read fiction these days -- non-fiction is far more important to consume during my limited available time.
To each their own. As I said before, my geographic location plays a part in my choices too. There are many excellent points about life in Japan (especially if you are not a teacher here), but the easily availability of non-fiction English books is not one of them.
I do see your points as well, and definitely there will be demand for commercially produced books for some time to come.
However, what I described does not require any folding and binding takes all of about 10 seconds. I've done this more than a few times and it does work out well.
I have a Brother laser printer that cost about US$300. I bought this printer for other reasons, but it is a great book printer too. (Has a duplexer, supports both PCL6 and PS3, built-in standard 10/100 LAN port. Basically it will work on any OS that supports PS or PCL6.)
Anyway, it prints duplexed pages at about 16ppm and the toner is cheap. The Windows driver also lets me easily (one click) print two pages onto one side of a sheet. The result of all this is that I can print a 300 page book perfectly in under 5 minutes using only 75 sheets of A4 paper. I then apply two of those triangular binding clips (the ones with the fold in handles), and it's done!
Total cost of around US$1 including the clips, and total time of about 5 minutes. It's not as pretty as a bound paperback but I'm willing to trade that off for the instant availability and the ability to reprint again any time if needed.
(The fact that I live in Japan definitely plays some role in my choice. English books here are very expensive and only available from major downtown bookstores -- and even then selection is pretty limited. Ordering from Amazon Japan (or US/UK) is possible, but the shipping increases the prices and takes time. A $1 five minute book is a dream!)
There is this great new invention called a printer! You can use it to turn on-screen documents into printed hard copy!
But wait, there's more! There are even ones that will print on both sides of the paper, and will automatically print two pages onto one side! So you can get 4 pages onto one A4 sheet, thus having text about the same size as a paperback! Put a couple of binding clips on one side and you have an instant book.
More seriously though... Besides the fact that it is both cheaper and nearly instant, you can easily replace the book if it is lost or damaged, and you can just give it away to someone who expresses interest and later print yourself another copy. Plus you still have the electronic version on your computer, so if you want to search for a certain passage you can do this instantly without having to flip pages.
Sure, the movies this year might not be any worse than the ones last year, but that is not saying much at all -- both years sucked! The public has just been a little slow to catch on and stop wasting their money.
When I first read the title my mind added an "R" in there. Talk about disappointment when I discovered is was just some bizarre Monopoly publicity stunt! :(
I would have been a swordsmith, no doubt about it. What cooler tech could there have been in times long since past?
And why is this a problem on a small corporate network?
The network is sitting behind a NAT router. Email is Thunderbird (or maybe Notes), browser is Firefox or other non-IE browser.
In such a situation Win2K is good for many years to come.
AC Wrote: Oh for fuck's sake, like Linux is any better. As soon as you install KDE or GNOME, plus a selection of apps necessary to get close to the functionality of XP, it takes up just as much memory. Maybe more, as I hear XP will comfortably run on 64MB RAM - would KDE even fit into this amount of RAM?
I know you're just a troll, but have you ever tried to run XP (or 2K for that matter) on 64MB?
"Painful" doesn't even begin to describe the experience. It's so agonizingly slow as to be useless.
You're going to have to calibrate each monitor separately using the same calibrator.
Repeat once a month or so.
I don't envy you having to do this!
I think they may be facing CC fraud issues... With so many international Skype users it seems more than likely.
:(
Since they will probably be responsible for any fraudulent use (ie they get no money for SkypeOut usage but still have to pay fees to the telcos) it would cost them a lot of money. So they are cutting off cards rather than deal with it.
Personally I think that the credit card companies themselves should be held responsible for *all* fraudulent use of cards, not the merchants. Or maybe a 60/40 or 80/20 split. We would soon see much better anti-fraud measures from the CC companies.
Thanks for that.
:(
I'm also a Canadian, but now living in Japan. My Royal Bank Visa was rejected by Skype, as were both Japan-issued cards I have.
I'll try again later with the Canadian card!! If it goes through I'll buy a bunch at once and hope to not have to go through this again for a while...
I've been using Skype on Windows for some time now. It works really well overall, and especially the PC2PC sound quality is excellent. Usually as good or better than a local landline call.
:( I contacted their "live support" chat option but was told that Skype is having issues with their card approval company.
I have also been using SkypeOut, their 1.7 Euro cent/minute (2.2 US cents). SkypeOut has saved me a lot of cash, both in international calls from home and when making calls from hotels when traveling. Yep, Skype gets out of the usually heavily blocked hotel networks! So instead of being stuck paying exorbitant hotel long distance rates I pay the standard SkypeOut rate. Awesome!
Except.... Skype now refuses to take my credit card to buy more pre-paid SkypeOut credit. I've tried 3 different cards, all of which work on Amazon US and Japan as well as various other sites. No go.
Anyone else have the same problems?
It depends on where you are.
In some places you have to inform all other parties that you are recording.
In some places you actually have to get the explicit consent of all other parties.
In yet others you can do what you suggest -- freely record any conversation you are directly involved in.
As for if Skype will implement recording or not, it doesn't really matter. There are lots of 3rd party apps that will record any audio stream.
Man, that sucks. That's much worse than the USA holding hundreds of prisoners in a concentration camp in Cuba, without trial, charge, or even being told what it is they're accused of. I'm so glad I live in a bastion of human rights and equality, and not a nasty undemocratic place like Japan.
Oh, wait.
Japan would do *exactly* the same thing if they could get away with it like the US does.
If Japan thought they could get away with it they'd invade North Korea in a second...
Ah yes, Japan... A bastion of human rights and equality.
Technically Japan is a free democracy. But human rights? Equality? They are given lip service at best.
Don't believe me? Ask the two Kurdish Turks just deported even though the UN had declared them refugees.
Or perhaps the nurse who was denied a promotion because she does not have Japanese citizenship. She was BORN in Japan! She *only* speaks Japanese! Her mother was Japanese, her father Korean, and this is the source of her problem. At the time she was born having a Japanese mother did *not* get you Japanese citizenship. (Having a Japanese father would have though.) So her passport says "Korea", and thus she is denied a promotion. The kicker? This decision was just *upheld* by the Japanese Supreme Court!
Yep, Japan... A bastion of human rights and equality.
AC: What I hate most about the evangelist moron wing of the christian faith is that they cant be bothered to even understand their own faith
Couldn't agree more. The only thing I'd like to add is that extremists from other religions are the same -- Islam is not a violent religion like the extremist nutcases make out to be either.
danila (69889): But there is no reason to care about 10000 dead, because this is not news at all. Especially since most of the people killed are probably uneducated simple-minded folks, who lived in shitty houses.
It has been said by many that the character of a man can be most easily understood by how he treats those who he considers beneath himself.
It's true.
I hope you can overcome your apparent sociopathic illness and learn compassion.
danila (69889): OK, so 10000 people died. Big fucking deal.
It's not just the death toll, which seems likely to rise beyond 100,000. It's the total destruction of infrastructure and housing, the injuries, the loss of livelihood, the diseases that will follow with so many dead. The deaths are a tragedy, but the survivors are the ones who must now go through hell.
To be succinct: You're a fucked in the head sociopathic asshole. Seek help.
Not a lake by far, compare this pic to the other ones posted by the GPP, as it does look like a liqiud of some kind to me,
It depends on the scale of this image... If the little round "pebbles" are actually big boulders, then that's a decent sized pond or small lake.
due to the fact that if you look at the puddle's right side, it seems as if the surface disappears with lessening visibility under the puddle's surface. Also the shadow overlaying part of the puddle is a lot darker than the surroundings. This is the same kind of behaviour you would expect on Earth.
Yes, these are the same things that made me consider it to be a liquid too. It could be something else though -- photography doesn't always show reality. It sure does look like water though...
Cool image.
Even more than ice, it really looks like a lake in the bottom right of the photo.
Thanks for sharing.
More content means specifically I won't find anything I like? I find that logic baffling, but maybe it's because every season I catch at least one new interesting show.
Did I say that? Here's a hint: I didn't say that.
What I did say is that the addition of more crap won't "improve your chances of finding something you like."
I stand by my original post: 99.9% of TV programming blows chunks. Unless something changes drastically this isn't going to improve. Most TV is aimed at the lowest common denominator, and sadly that is very low indeed.