They made a handgun that could fire one round and then be manually reloaded (but generally wasn't), added a "comic strip" of instructions and put it in a plastic bag to be dropped from aircraft in areas that were under seige.
This has been around in Japan for atleast a year. Vodafone does it and features it prominantly in their male-targeted adverts on TV. The quality is fairly good and with stereo headphones available on some handsets it's not really any worse than watching on a normal TV.
There are some quality issues if you're watching while moving though, atleast in my experience.
I live in Japan and these phones have been out for atleast 5 months. That said, I use one and it's really handy. Riding the trains is very nice since I don't have to wait in line to buy tickets any more. Untill the tech. is adopted in more convenience stores outside of the train stations though, I'll still need my change purse.
As we all know, the japanese love to use cash anyway, so I feel like a tech like this stands a better chance at becomming really really popular in the US or Europe, where credit cards are more commonly accepted. Pretty frequent to have busniess associates of mine get into jams at nice resturants because they don't have enough cash.
Sorry about posting this again, I wan't logged in before *noob*
The disease takes at least 2 years to manifest in other animals as well. It's part of the insidious nature of all BSE / Kuru related diseases.
Kuru is a human form of this disease which was researched in the 50s and 60s by Carlton Gadjusek, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine for showing that a disease can incubate in an otherwise healthy / asymptomatic animal for several years before acute onset of symptoms.
He (with collaborators) inoculated many different species with the brain tissue of dead kuru victims, and waited to see if they would develop symptoms. The study found the human form of the disease could infect chimps and that there was no sign at all of infection until the extremely rapid onset of symptoms several years after exposure to the human form.
Pretty interesting guy I might add. He was truly a genius, but had some quite odd personal habits. (Many of which I feel were picked up as he assimilated into the native new guinien culture to study this disease in that population.)
Sweet mother of... well, holy crap! that's like... umm... alot of people. It lookes like the line stretches several miles.
I've been to the Ginza store, and it's cool, yeah, but... not worth an entire day of my life to see once.
king
No, maybe we should figure out a better way to compete. The United States cannot afford to be completely devoid of manufacturing, lest we be vulerable to forign price gouging, but we should really look at our strengths as a nation and apply our efforts there.
Instead of complaining that our jobs were taken by someone else, figure out what jobs we can do better than anyone else and do those. It's a tough break for those people who consider themselves "untrainable" for a new job, but then, if you're willing to say you can't change, you don't deserve to anyway.
The world is a very small place, find your niche in the USA, or simply move to India if you liked your old job so much.
I've read many many/. posts complaining about being put out of work because their company outsourced to XYZ country.
How can you say this is a bad thing at all? All it does is reflect on the inefficency at the US site which was shut down. Think about it. A company isn't going to higher labor at 1/2 the cost if it takes 3x more time to complete the project. The developers in
The only reason they would move jobs to XYZ country is that those programers are able to create the same or better product and a lower price. aka: they are better than you at your job.
This leads me to the conclusion that tech workers or any workers for that matter should figure out how to better compete. Either with more education, more specialized skill, lower living standard etc.
The united states and it's residents have been sitting on it's laurels too long while the rest of the world was striving to become competitive. If you get laid off because you are not as good at your job as someone else, the only person you can blame is yourself.
Companies are not beholden to the country they reside in, and they shouldn't be. It is in their best interest to be trans-national. Just as it is in the best interest of the United States to have free global trade which will bring down prices of consumer goods in the US. The only problem is that the United States as a whole (not government) hasn't decided/found which things it can do better than everyone else... and that's the US as a whole's fault, not India or China or where ever.
Basically, I say to you, realize that you were bested and try harder to surpas those who bested you.
Slashdot Mirror
Informative. (though there is no citation.)
This just goes to show that occasionally... or in fact often, the Bazaar model fails due to the incompetence of the masses.
Why is this modded interesting? If you follow the link it's a bloody tripod. bah, yay for mods..
This has been around in Japan for atleast a year. Vodafone does it and features it prominantly in their male-targeted adverts on TV. The quality is fairly good and with stereo headphones available on some handsets it's not really any worse than watching on a normal TV.
There are some quality issues if you're watching while moving though, atleast in my experience.
I live in Japan and these phones have been out for atleast 5 months. That said, I use one and it's really handy. Riding the trains is very nice since I don't have to wait in line to buy tickets any more. Untill the tech. is adopted in more convenience stores outside of the train stations though, I'll still need my change purse.
As we all know, the japanese love to use cash anyway, so I feel like a tech like this stands a better chance at becomming really really popular in the US or Europe, where credit cards are more commonly accepted. Pretty frequent to have busniess associates of mine get into jams at nice resturants because they don't have enough cash.
jsking
Sorry about posting this again, I wan't logged in before *noob*
The disease takes at least 2 years to manifest in other animals as well. It's part of the insidious nature of all BSE / Kuru related diseases.
Kuru is a human form of this disease which was researched in the 50s and 60s by Carlton Gadjusek, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine for showing that a disease can incubate in an otherwise healthy / asymptomatic animal for several years before acute onset of symptoms.
He (with collaborators) inoculated many different species with the brain tissue of dead kuru victims, and waited to see if they would develop symptoms. The study found the human form of the disease could infect chimps and that there was no sign at all of infection until the extremely rapid onset of symptoms several years after exposure to the human form.
Pretty interesting guy I might add. He was truly a genius, but had some quite odd personal habits. (Many of which I feel were picked up as he assimilated into the native new guinien culture to study this disease in that population.)
Cheers, SpencerSweet mother of ... well, holy crap! that's like ... umm... alot of people. It lookes like the line stretches several miles.
I've been to the Ginza store, and it's cool, yeah, but ... not worth an entire day of my life to see once.
king
No, maybe we should figure out a better way to compete. The United States cannot afford to be completely devoid of manufacturing, lest we be vulerable to forign price gouging, but we should really look at our strengths as a nation and apply our efforts there. Instead of complaining that our jobs were taken by someone else, figure out what jobs we can do better than anyone else and do those. It's a tough break for those people who consider themselves "untrainable" for a new job, but then, if you're willing to say you can't change, you don't deserve to anyway. The world is a very small place, find your niche in the USA, or simply move to India if you liked your old job so much.
I've read many many /. posts complaining about being put out of work because their company outsourced to XYZ country.
How can you say this is a bad thing at all? All it does is reflect on the inefficency at the US site which was shut down. Think about it. A company isn't going to higher labor at 1/2 the cost if it takes 3x more time to complete the project. The developers in
The only reason they would move jobs to XYZ country is that those programers are able to create the same or better product and a lower price. aka: they are better than you at your job.
This leads me to the conclusion that tech workers or any workers for that matter should figure out how to better compete. Either with more education, more specialized skill, lower living standard etc.
The united states and it's residents have been sitting on it's laurels too long while the rest of the world was striving to become competitive. If you get laid off because you are not as good at your job as someone else, the only person you can blame is yourself.
Companies are not beholden to the country they reside in, and they shouldn't be. It is in their best interest to be trans-national. Just as it is in the best interest of the United States to have free global trade which will bring down prices of consumer goods in the US. The only problem is that the United States as a whole (not government) hasn't decided/found which things it can do better than everyone else... and that's the US as a whole's fault, not India or China or where ever.
Basically, I say to you, realize that you were bested and try harder to surpas those who bested you.