Hm, your social security number is irregular? Well, you're not an enemy combatant, nor a criminal. It's off to Diego Garcia with you, and if anyone - spouse, neighbour - wonders about you, there's room for them too.
What I'd really like to see if GPS that worked in buildings and underground.
We have that, sort of, in Japan. Modern mobile phones can use infro from the cell towers to trianglulate where they are and show you a map, indoors or out. It also helps the Gps-enabled phones to calibrate themselves a lot faster. Really convenient, and surprisingly accurate. Of course, it'll only work well in urban areas, but then, that's where you're most likely to need it indoor or underground anyway.
Eh? I think you have the wrong country here. It's talking about cities in the United States, not Japan...your examples are completely irrelevant!
I talked about Japanese cities since that's where I have my most recent experience of this. Rest assured that I can get lost in any city in the world, no sweat.
Yes, you can ask people, bring a map, even a compass and so on. But you can do that (and should, if you aren't following roads, Gps or not) out in the countryside as well. I didn't say things were impossible in a city without navigation aids, I just stated that they are far from useless - on the contrary, they are pretty handy devices in a dense urban area.
And with an accuracy of 40 meters, how does it even know what street you're actually on? There are plenty of places where there are streets inside of 40m from each other.
It doesn't. I fully agree that this particular system stinks, basically. Even I know where in Osaka I'm at with 40 meters accuracy (well, usually). It's singularily unhelpful to know that I'm probably within three or four block of where I'm going, maybe, if nobody has moved or messed with their wifi equipment in the area.
Your statement was about navigation systems in general, however. And good systems, like the combined Gps/celltower system in my mobile phone, is worth its weight in gold in urban areas.
Cities are the one place a positioning system is useless, so why develop it there?
You haven't tried to find a specific place in Tokyo or Osaka, have you?
Having a Gps is a life saver. You look up the place you want to go to on an online map, get the coordinates, and you're set. Without it, it's just too easy to miss the right building, mistake streets for each other or get lost in many other creative ways.
You could argue the other way round (and just as stupidly) - since there's one single highway or road in the entire area, why would you need a Gps to know which one you're on?
So if I start my own fire brigade I should demand that publicly funded fire fighing be outlawed?
You're making a fool of yourself. This isn't about fighting fires, saving lives, or preventing destruction of property.
Health care is about saving lives, and yet the US seems to accept that run as a private enterprise, no?
Libraries should be closed since booksellers are missing out on sales?
That's a local, maybe a state issue. The current issue is at the Federal level and... in that sense... you're right. The Federal Government should not have any position on or involvement with local libraries.
But should they even be _allowed_? They are competing with private enterprise, just like this molecule database, and so should not be allowed to exist, no?
Private schols certainly have a distorted market with public schools being provided.
It's really a shame that private schools, offering better overall educations, have to compete for subsidy dollars on the playing field where all the qualifications have been written to include public schools by default.
Again, are you looking for a level playing field where private alternatives can exist with public offering (which is the case now with the molecule databese), or are you looking for public schools to be outlawed?
Never throw good money after bad. Accept it as a loss, work to make sure that it doesn't happen again, and go back to conducting legitimate business.
Like pay for someone else's research in the first place, like I wrote.
Again, with this reasoning we should not pay for research or for schooling at all. That should be left to those who actually benefit - ie. the children getting an education and the companies benefitting from research or from hiring people with a school background.
Actually, in the case of farm output and the industrialized countries, it's a little more perverse than that.
Decreasing output will not lead to higher prices, just a reduction in the amont of subsidies paid out. Only after you've reached the point where the output price matches the price you actually get will normal supply-demand mechanisms kick in again.
Well, who _does_ need people when robots can do the work?
If it happens, we've been there before. About two centuries ago, the vast majority of, well, everyone was gainfully employed in agriculture. Today, in many parts, it's only part of the population - and in wealthy countries it is a small fraction. Yet agricultural output is larger than ever before, and the changing societies managed to absorb that huge pool of available work it got as a result.
I'm looking forward to the day when most menial, dangerous and physically wearing work can be automated.
Government shouldn't pay for something that the private sector is already doing. Full stop.
So if I start my own fire brigade I should demand that publicly funded fire fighing be outlawed?
Libraries should be closed since booksellers are missing out on sales?
Private schols certainly have a distorted market with public schools being provided.
Who decides what is critical for the government to provide? Would you not say that health care, for instance, falls under providing safety?
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I live in Sweden, and here there are laws prohibiting most forms of private healthcare, private transportation, etc.
Um, I'm Swedish, and that's rather an overstatement. Private health care is certainly allowed - you're not allowed to use your public health insurance for it, though, but have to pay out of your own pocket. Quite different.
And what kind of private transportation is not allowed?
I guess your government shouldn't be paying for any of the research either, then, including the research done by graduate and doctoral students. Maybe time to send a bill to every company employing one of those people?
I agree about the competition, but I would have hoped for a competitor that wasn't based in the same country. This means that both options are still subject to the whims of one country and its political and economic prticulars.
So AOL has lower rate than some others. Doesn't really matter - since they have the most zombies in absolute numbers, blocking AOL from your IP range will give the most bang for the block anyway.
The fact that the Emperor had god-like powers was a major problem with Japan, and the war would have re-surfaced if the job were left unfinished.
That is a misunderstanding of the emperor, frankly. The Emperor has always been "a god", and still is, owing to the fact that the family ostensibly are the direct heirs of Amaterasu (who is the real deal, godwise). That doesn't change by a declaration on radio.
On the other hand, while the Emperor has always been a god, so are, in a way, all Japanese once they die. Shinto is polyteistic/animistic, and being a god isn't as hugely special as it is for a monoteistic religion.
And with that godness has pretty much never followed any actual, political power. The imperial household has pretty much throughout history been a political formality - someone for people to look up to, and to rubberstamp whoever is actually wielding political power at the moment (and if you didn't want to endorse the man of the moment, well, you're not the only member of your family and accidents do happen so easily...).
The problem was not, and have never been the imperial family. The causes were really rooted in a militaristic, nationalistic tradition that valued strength at arms and national ambition over things like cooperation and peace.
well...I'd like to do it as well, but the reason not to is usually I have to sign away my copyright if I want to get something in certain journals.
That doesn't stop most other people from doing it. To put it this way: how long would a given journal survive if the publisher suddenly sues one of it's contributors for spreading their own paper?
This is a major plus for Google. Since they link to the autors' websites, it's easy to get to the paper without the bloodclot-inducing "pay a silly amount, wait six weeks, and then receive a paper you no longer have the faintest idea why you wanted in the first place".
Yes, it is (modulo spurious spelling errors:). It's pretty much the same idea - measuring surface accelleration - and adapted the scale and consequence descriptions to local conditions.
Here in Japan they have the very sensible system of reporting not only (and not even mostly) the energy released at the epicenter, but most prominently the expected effects at any area affected by the earthquake.
They have a seven-point scale, with 1 being that you only just feel the quake if you are lying down or otherwise sensitive; to 7 being that nonhardened buildings collapse, and many expected injuries and deaths. Quake reports are usually in the form of maps with this info overlayed.
For most of the public, that is the kind of info you want when an earthquake has occurred, rather than the intensity at the origin. It tells you much clearer if it's time to worry about friends and relatives or not.
I'm not using Linux to "compete with Windows and OSX". I'm not helping out Gnome to make it more competitive. I'm using Linux and Gnome because it happens to fit the way I work very well and I help the Gnome project (by translating a bit, mostly) because it is enjoyable and I get to chat with some very fun people.
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Yes, private systems sure is making US health system way better than the state-run systems in Europe.
I sure hope US soon privatises their army; that will show everybody!!!
Hm, your social security number is irregular? Well, you're not an enemy combatant, nor a criminal. It's off to Diego Garcia with you, and if anyone - spouse, neighbour - wonders about you, there's room for them too.
u do have a road map in teh car dont u?
I'll get a road map in my car the moment I get a car. I'll put it right next to my dictionary.
What I'd really like to see if GPS that worked in buildings and underground.
We have that, sort of, in Japan. Modern mobile phones can use infro from the cell towers to trianglulate where they are and show you a map, indoors or out. It also helps the Gps-enabled phones to calibrate themselves a lot faster. Really convenient, and surprisingly accurate. Of course, it'll only work well in urban areas, but then, that's where you're most likely to need it indoor or underground anyway.
Eh? I think you have the wrong country here. It's talking about cities in the United States, not Japan...your examples are completely irrelevant!
I talked about Japanese cities since that's where I have my most recent experience of this. Rest assured that I can get lost in any city in the world, no sweat.
Yes, you can ask people, bring a map, even a compass and so on. But you can do that (and should, if you aren't following roads, Gps or not) out in the countryside as well. I didn't say things were impossible in a city without navigation aids, I just stated that they are far from useless - on the contrary, they are pretty handy devices in a dense urban area.
And with an accuracy of 40 meters, how does it even know what street you're actually on? There are plenty of places where there are streets inside of 40m from each other.
It doesn't. I fully agree that this particular system stinks, basically. Even I know where in Osaka I'm at with 40 meters accuracy (well, usually). It's singularily unhelpful to know that I'm probably within three or four block of where I'm going, maybe, if nobody has moved or messed with their wifi equipment in the area.
Your statement was about navigation systems in general, however. And good systems, like the combined Gps/celltower system in my mobile phone, is worth its weight in gold in urban areas.
Cities are the one place a positioning system is useless, so why develop it there?
You haven't tried to find a specific place in Tokyo or Osaka, have you?
Having a Gps is a life saver. You look up the place you want to go to on an online map, get the coordinates, and you're set. Without it, it's just too easy to miss the right building, mistake streets for each other or get lost in many other creative ways.
You could argue the other way round (and just as stupidly) - since there's one single highway or road in the entire area, why would you need a Gps to know which one you're on?
So if I start my own fire brigade I should demand that publicly funded fire fighing be outlawed?
You're making a fool of yourself. This isn't about fighting fires, saving lives, or preventing destruction of property.
Health care is about saving lives, and yet the US seems to accept that run as a private enterprise, no?
Libraries should be closed since booksellers are missing out on sales?
That's a local, maybe a state issue. The current issue is at the Federal level and... in that sense... you're right. The Federal Government should not have any position on or involvement with local libraries.
But should they even be _allowed_? They are competing with private enterprise, just like this molecule database, and so should not be allowed to exist, no?
Private schols certainly have a distorted market with public schools being provided.
It's really a shame that private schools, offering better overall educations, have to compete for subsidy dollars on the playing field where all the qualifications have been written to include public schools by default.
Again, are you looking for a level playing field where private alternatives can exist with public offering (which is the case now with the molecule databese), or are you looking for public schools to be outlawed?
Never throw good money after bad. Accept it as a loss, work to make sure that it doesn't happen again, and go back to conducting legitimate business.
Like pay for someone else's research in the first place, like I wrote.
Again, with this reasoning we should not pay for research or for schooling at all. That should be left to those who actually benefit - ie. the children getting an education and the companies benefitting from research or from hiring people with a school background.
Actually, in the case of farm output and the industrialized countries, it's a little more perverse than that.
Decreasing output will not lead to higher prices, just a reduction in the amont of subsidies paid out. Only after you've reached the point where the output price matches the price you actually get will normal supply-demand mechanisms kick in again.
Who needs people when robots can do the work?
Well, who _does_ need people when robots can do the work?
If it happens, we've been there before. About two centuries ago, the vast majority of, well, everyone was gainfully employed in agriculture. Today, in many parts, it's only part of the population - and in wealthy countries it is a small fraction. Yet agricultural output is larger than ever before, and the changing societies managed to absorb that huge pool of available work it got as a result.
I'm looking forward to the day when most menial, dangerous and physically wearing work can be automated.
Government shouldn't pay for something that the private sector is already doing. Full stop.
So if I start my own fire brigade I should demand that publicly funded fire fighing be outlawed?
Libraries should be closed since booksellers are missing out on sales?
Private schols certainly have a distorted market with public schools being provided.
Who decides what is critical for the government to provide? Would you not say that health care, for instance, falls under providing safety?
I live in Sweden, and here there are laws prohibiting most forms of private healthcare, private transportation, etc.
Um, I'm Swedish, and that's rather an overstatement. Private health care is certainly allowed - you're not allowed to use your public health insurance for it, though, but have to pay out of your own pocket. Quite different.
And what kind of private transportation is not allowed?
I guess your government shouldn't be paying for any of the research either, then, including the research done by graduate and doctoral students. Maybe time to send a bill to every company employing one of those people?
I agree about the competition, but I would have hoped for a competitor that wasn't based in the same country. This means that both options are still subject to the whims of one country and its political and economic prticulars.
So AOL has lower rate than some others. Doesn't really matter - since they have the most zombies in absolute numbers, blocking AOL from your IP range will give the most bang for the block anyway.
The fact that the Emperor had god-like powers was a major problem with Japan, and the war would have re-surfaced if the job were left unfinished.
That is a misunderstanding of the emperor, frankly. The Emperor has always been "a god", and still is, owing to the fact that the family ostensibly are the direct heirs of Amaterasu (who is the real deal, godwise). That doesn't change by a declaration on radio.
On the other hand, while the Emperor has always been a god, so are, in a way, all Japanese once they die. Shinto is polyteistic/animistic, and being a god isn't as hugely special as it is for a monoteistic religion.
And with that godness has pretty much never followed any actual, political power. The imperial household has pretty much throughout history been a political formality - someone for people to look up to, and to rubberstamp whoever is actually wielding political power at the moment (and if you didn't want to endorse the man of the moment, well, you're not the only member of your family and accidents do happen so easily...).
The problem was not, and have never been the imperial family. The causes were really rooted in a militaristic, nationalistic tradition that valued strength at arms and national ambition over things like cooperation and peace.
And having a festival is really weird.
Why not have parties in honour of the inventions of mustard gas, sarin or suicide bombings as well?
well...I'd like to do it as well, but the reason not to is usually I have to sign away my copyright if I want to get something in certain journals.
That doesn't stop most other people from doing it. To put it this way: how long would a given journal survive if the publisher suddenly sues one of it's contributors for spreading their own paper?
This is a major plus for Google. Since they link to the autors' websites, it's easy to get to the paper without the bloodclot-inducing "pay a silly amount, wait six weeks, and then receive a paper you no longer have the faintest idea why you wanted in the first place".
Yes, it is (modulo spurious spelling errors :). It's pretty much the same idea - measuring surface accelleration - and adapted the scale and consequence descriptions to local conditions.
Here in Japan they have the very sensible system of reporting not only (and not even mostly) the energy released at the epicenter, but most prominently the expected effects at any area affected by the earthquake.
They have a seven-point scale, with 1 being that you only just feel the quake if you are lying down or otherwise sensitive; to 7 being that nonhardened buildings collapse, and many expected injuries and deaths. Quake reports are usually in the form of maps with this info overlayed.
For most of the public, that is the kind of info you want when an earthquake has occurred, rather than the intensity at the origin. It tells you much clearer if it's time to worry about friends and relatives or not.
But still no tuner, and no Ogg support. And for me at least, a radio tuner is a deal-breaker.
Okay, he has a preference. Why is this important?
Desktop developers can finally integrate xscreensaver into the Freedesktop framework without pissing him off?
Autonomous wandering lawnmowers have been for sale for years already. Here's one example:
http://www.electrolux.se/node141.asp
I just use the Evolution calendar. Simple to use, and right there on my desktop at all times.
I'm not using Linux to "compete with Windows and OSX". I'm not helping out Gnome to make it more competitive. I'm using Linux and Gnome because it happens to fit the way I work very well and I help the Gnome project (by translating a bit, mostly) because it is enjoyable and I get to chat with some very fun people.