Uhm, you're oversimplifying. A lot Here's a more complicated, but still oversimplified, version.
Japanese growth in the 1980's was fueled not just by internal capital but also by foreign capital. When 1 USD was 200-300 JPY, it was extremely inexpensive to invest in Japan, coupled with the fairly high standard of technology in Japan, financial institutions both domestic and foreign poured capital into the country.
Then, a few things happened. First, because of the huge export-based economy, the value of US Dollar against the Japanese Yen dropped precipitously. From 360 JPY for every dollar in the 1980s, it dropped to below where it is now: about 90 JPY for every dollar. This makes an export-based economy much less profitable, even though the raw materials (paid for in US Dollars) is much less expensive, due to inefficiencies in the Japanese manufacturing economies, these savings were not passed down to the exporting manufacturers.
Second, the Japanese government, for various reasons, dropped or relaxed much of the foreign investment laws. Do you remember the Japanese buyout of various real estate pieces (and the Japanese love investing in real estate more than any other investment vehicles) and nonmanufacturing companies (especially entertainment, like film and music) during the late 1980's? This was the direct result of their relaxation of laws. Unfortunately, it was also a PR disaster.
Finally, America went into a bit of protectionist mode. Do you know why Camrys and Accords are now assembled in USA? The American import/export automobile export laws have changed, and now they have quotas on various vehicle classes. This made investments into Japanese manufacturing less attractive to foreign investors.
Because of these issues, foreign investments in Japan dried up considerably, and Japanese domestic financial institutions were overextended and became unable to fund the necessary amount of investments to maintain the status quo, let alone fund the huge amounts of growth. The direct result of both foreign and domestic captial loss was the real estate bubble bursting, in the very first years of the 1990's. This led to the further weakening of banks, which Japan is finally starting to crawl out of.
Japan was never an outsourcing target. They were, however, the world's Taiwan and China before those countries were ready to start exporting cheap manufactured goods.
I live in a city where the primary method of transportation are public (tokyo). It's just bloody convenient to be able to mail your buddy on his phone, to ask what his after-work plans are, and then when you're in closer proximity, to ask him where he's at using a phone.
I agree, it's not *necessary*, but it's convenient.
Not to pick a nit, but Shinagawa->Kokura was about 5 and a half hours on the Nozomi, which is significantly longer than the Hiroshima - Kokura journey you used as an illustration.
Please define "Small CCD's":) The one on Sprit is much larger than the 1/1.8" or 2/3" CCD's found on a typical consumer gear, or even the 35mm full-frame found on Canon 1Ds.
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Exactly, but I can't obtain support for that module, now, can I?:)
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Embrace and extend? Possibly, but it doesn't change the fact that it's easier-to-use for the users if your ActiveDirectory login creds are used for everything, including your corporate intranet. It's a case-by-case issue, but I'm trying to show one instance where it makes more sense to deploy IIS over Apache on the intranet.
But I do like the LED light idea - now if they could get 'em in softwhite with about as many lumens as a 100 wat bulb, that screw into a standard fixture, I'd buy 'em by the dozen.
Well, they'd also have to be as nondirectional as a standard lightbulb (since most indoor light fixtures assume nondirectionality with their design), and we'll also have to have comparitive TOC's over a given span of time. Other than that, though, I agree. CF's are a bit too huge in some instances, and their murcury vapours aren't exactly friendly to the environment.
I think one of the problems the designers faced is that an LED light, though very intense, is also very directional. You're right, it seemed odd at first, but if you had your traditional down-lighting, you'll be left with a bunch of spotlighted spots and a whole lot of darkness.
Another method they could've used was a softly glowing ceiling, but perhaps their hardware budget wasn't that high?
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Actually, as other posts have shown, majority of new deployments have been Apache, but the absolute number of IIS installations have been rather static.
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I'm quite positive. I have instances where I personally have installed IIS intranet servers. I mean what I said; don't put words in my mouth. If these IIS servers aren't providing solutions, they aren't worth counting.
There are authentication tools that IIS brings to the table that makes them really attractive in the intranet server market (like being able to obtain domain login information).
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No, that's an indicator of server quality for that purpose. If the majority of server operators didn't want virtual hosting, for example, IIS not playing well in that environment won't make a shred of a difference.
These surveys also do not count the millions of intranet-only sites that these servers serve, and given the nature of the beast, I'm going to guess IIS is rather prevalent in that market.
I have recommended IIS-based solutions before, and given the same requirements, I'll do it again.
Good god, show me a unix box *not* running one, and I'll concede your point.
I don't hate RMS, I'm quite ambivalent to what he does. However, his GNU/Linux campaign seems like a bit of disingenuity coming after he got blindsided by a open-sourced kernel.
Plus we're cogniscent of the political fallout as well as the radation fallout. The former will probably doom a president that authorises a nuclear device to be used.
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What're programs if they're not sets of instructions?
And just because you read slashdot, doesn't mean you have a sense of humour? :)
Uhm, you're oversimplifying. A lot Here's a more complicated, but still oversimplified, version.
Japanese growth in the 1980's was fueled not just by internal capital but also by foreign capital. When 1 USD was 200-300 JPY, it was extremely inexpensive to invest in Japan, coupled with the fairly high standard of technology in Japan, financial institutions both domestic and foreign poured capital into the country.
Then, a few things happened. First, because of the huge export-based economy, the value of US Dollar against the Japanese Yen dropped precipitously. From 360 JPY for every dollar in the 1980s, it dropped to below where it is now: about 90 JPY for every dollar. This makes an export-based economy much less profitable, even though the raw materials (paid for in US Dollars) is much less expensive, due to inefficiencies in the Japanese manufacturing economies, these savings were not passed down to the exporting manufacturers.
Second, the Japanese government, for various reasons, dropped or relaxed much of the foreign investment laws. Do you remember the Japanese buyout of various real estate pieces (and the Japanese love investing in real estate more than any other investment vehicles) and nonmanufacturing companies (especially entertainment, like film and music) during the late 1980's? This was the direct result of their relaxation of laws. Unfortunately, it was also a PR disaster.
Finally, America went into a bit of protectionist mode. Do you know why Camrys and Accords are now assembled in USA? The American import/export automobile export laws have changed, and now they have quotas on various vehicle classes. This made investments into Japanese manufacturing less attractive to foreign investors.
Because of these issues, foreign investments in Japan dried up considerably, and Japanese domestic financial institutions were overextended and became unable to fund the necessary amount of investments to maintain the status quo, let alone fund the huge amounts of growth. The direct result of both foreign and domestic captial loss was the real estate bubble bursting, in the very first years of the 1990's. This led to the further weakening of banks, which Japan is finally starting to crawl out of.
Japan was never an outsourcing target. They were, however, the world's Taiwan and China before those countries were ready to start exporting cheap manufactured goods.
Well yes. I did try to mention that if you just take your comment out of context, it's pretty ironic. Sorry, I wasn't quite clear on what I meant.
Ya know, that last sentence of yours is ironic when you toss it with your first :)
I don't run games, I run Adobe products. I don't need an A64, I need a mac. It's not about absolute performance, but also about how the UI *feels*.
About 20 years, if they were built in the same year the park was opened.
.jp are built and operated by different vendors than in the US.
Actually, all the rides in
Thank you. I wasn't quite aware of this.
Good god, I'm almost ashamed I made this post.
I live in a city where the primary method of transportation are public (tokyo). It's just bloody convenient to be able to mail your buddy on his phone, to ask what his after-work plans are, and then when you're in closer proximity, to ask him where he's at using a phone.
I agree, it's not *necessary*, but it's convenient.
Not to pick a nit, but Shinagawa->Kokura was about 5 and a half hours on the Nozomi, which is significantly longer than the Hiroshima - Kokura journey you used as an illustration.
Huh? They are? Can you give me sources? :)
I agree they were spun off of JNR, so you can argue they are governmentally-financed, though.
Oh yeah, the Nozomi travels faster than 300km/h too, and does so without modifications.
.us has the population density to support intercity trains, on a nationwide level, though.
I'm not a 100% sure
FWIW, TGV's 300+mi/h was done on a specially-built straight downhill stretch of the tracks.
Offtopic, but Dresden was peanuts compared to the firebombings of Tokyo and Osaka.
Please define "Small CCD's" :) The one on Sprit is much larger than the 1/1.8" or 2/3" CCD's found on a typical consumer gear, or even the 35mm full-frame found on Canon 1Ds.
Exactly, but I can't obtain support for that module, now, can I? :)
Embrace and extend? Possibly, but it doesn't change the fact that it's easier-to-use for the users if your ActiveDirectory login creds are used for everything, including your corporate intranet. It's a case-by-case issue, but I'm trying to show one instance where it makes more sense to deploy IIS over Apache on the intranet.
Well, they'd also have to be as nondirectional as a standard lightbulb (since most indoor light fixtures assume nondirectionality with their design), and we'll also have to have comparitive TOC's over a given span of time. Other than that, though, I agree. CF's are a bit too huge in some instances, and their murcury vapours aren't exactly friendly to the environment.
I think one of the problems the designers faced is that an LED light, though very intense, is also very directional. You're right, it seemed odd at first, but if you had your traditional down-lighting, you'll be left with a bunch of spotlighted spots and a whole lot of darkness.
Another method they could've used was a softly glowing ceiling, but perhaps their hardware budget wasn't that high?
Actually, as other posts have shown, majority of new deployments have been Apache, but the absolute number of IIS installations have been rather static.
I'm quite positive. I have instances where I personally have installed IIS intranet servers. I mean what I said; don't put words in my mouth. If these IIS servers aren't providing solutions, they aren't worth counting.
There are authentication tools that IIS brings to the table that makes them really attractive in the intranet server market (like being able to obtain domain login information).
No, that's an indicator of server quality for that purpose. If the majority of server operators didn't want virtual hosting, for example, IIS not playing well in that environment won't make a shred of a difference.
These surveys also do not count the millions of intranet-only sites that these servers serve, and given the nature of the beast, I'm going to guess IIS is rather prevalent in that market.
I have recommended IIS-based solutions before, and given the same requirements, I'll do it again.
Good god, show me a unix box *not* running one, and I'll concede your point.
I don't hate RMS, I'm quite ambivalent to what he does. However, his GNU/Linux campaign seems like a bit of disingenuity coming after he got blindsided by a open-sourced kernel.
Uhm, aren't you a tad bit egocentric assuming the poster uses GNU toolchain? What if I was using other compilers and other libc's? What then?
Please take your advocacy, and shove it. Thank you.
Plus we're cogniscent of the political fallout as well as the radation fallout. The former will probably doom a president that authorises a nuclear device to be used.