There is a very clear, well-written article explaining about why we shouldn't be worried about the Fukushima Reactors.
I live about 150km from the plant and have grown tired of the fear-mongering I see in most of the media back home.
The article can be found here.
... after all, one man's trash is another man's treasure (if you believe that saying). I know of a number of people who would pay what I consider to be a fair sum of money just to own something that had been _in space_.
Joking aside, how hard would it be to double-bag a few trash bags and keep the trash outside until a convenient "recovery" mission could come around?
My guess would be the reason is because 1) "Ø" is a member of the standard Western character set on most computers and that 2) Japanese and Korean characters are not. The chance of a browser suddenly interpreting everything as garbage characters due to the inclusion of "Ø" would be rather small, whereas my Japanese OS sometimes refuses to accurately represent Japanese characters unless I manually tell it which of the three standards (Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP) it should use. While I can't speak for Korean, Japanese characters also use a two-bit encoding which often cause problems when attempting to use without the relevent language packs installed.
Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp
While rear-projection does have its own benefits, I think the main problem with it for this gaming set-up lies in its focal range. In order to be capable of projecting images the size shown in the article, the projector would need to be fairly distant from the screen. If he was using the same projector he has for a rear-image projection, then he'd need to dig a hole in the floor of his basement...
I suppose he could break out part of the ceiling and project up to a gaming table in the living room... his wife might not be so pleased with that solution, though.
When planning your house for the future, you need to have one corner in one room of the house designed to have _no_ electronic hookups at all. If possible, you should also make it into a wireless dead-spot. That way, when your future child (heck, even those might be electronic gadgets by then) needs some discipline, you can send them to the corner for an experience of life in the 20th century (also known as "back when I was your age"). On second thought, you should have as many as you plan on having children...
On a serious note, though... have you given thought to having one room without any hookups other than electric outlets? I have one room at my house that is my "escape" room. I don't have anything other than the room lights and a desk light in the room. I don't carry my cell-phone into the room. It is where I go to think, read books, practice playing music, etc... all free from the distractions of my gaming consoles by the TV, the new mail indicator flashing on the computer, etc.
Your mileage may vary, of course... but when your mother-in-law/father-in-law/mother/father/etc come for a visit, you would also have a room that would be somewhat "safe" to put them in... "safe" meaning that your house doesn't burn down when they try to figure out how to turn down the radio.
Takuryu
PS: You could help out the economy here and buy one of our fine, high-tech toilets.
Here in Japan, almost every new cellphone is equipped with a bar-code reader capable of reading "regular" bar-codes, as well as 2D "matrix" codes (QR Codes being the standard). You simply take a photo of a bar-code, and it translates it into text into the browser address bar. While not "searching" per se, but now almost every advertisement seen in a magazine, on a train, etc. has a QR code printed on it. It's much easier to snap the photo and be blitzed to a webpage than to either jot down (or try to remember) a URL like http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/aboutqr-e.html (and that URL about QR Codes is an easy one to remember).
While image search technology has its uses (identifying things without "written" landmarks), I believe advertising isn't one of them.
A good number of years ago there was a law in Japan that said that you "couldn't be held responsible for anything said/done while intoxicated." This was used as a "get out of jail free" card, so to speak, for some time. Numerous attempts to get the law changed fell on deaf ears... that is until a judge enforced the law to the letter and acquitted a person who was driving drunk hit and killed a child. There was a public outroar and the law stricken from the books.
Sometimes the best way to change a law is to insist on it being enforced.
Did anyone looking at the Space Adventures website notice the press release stating that they are currently "aggressively seeking a location" to build a spaceport?
Not only does Space Adventures accept cash payments for travel into space, they also allow you to cash in your American Express points for travel!
Apart from his fame from being the visual concept designer for the Final Fantasy series (including the logo for each of the games), Amano is a well-respected artist in the anime/sci-fi/fantasy world genres as well (Vampire Hunter D springs to mind...)
Here's my brief translation of the section mentioned in the parent, as well as some background from other parts of the official site. These are from the website as it was 3 weeks ago, though I doubt the plot will have changed. (This was a quick overview I did at a friend's request.)
Alternate future where a world war (WWII?) continued for over 50 years. The world ultimately divides into two sides: Asia and Europe, with Asia winning and forming the huge political entity of Eurasia. Still, the question lingers: with all the chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare (and ensuing damage) was victory really worth it? Does mankind just sit and wait for the end?
Is there no road to recovery?
There was one man who proposed a solution: Doctor (Professor?) Higashi (Azuma?). He believes he has discovered a way to create "neo-structure cells" which can regenerate any lost body parts... and has given lectures and presentations of his theory. He wants to test his theory so that he can cure his wife's terminal illness. However, the Ministry of Welfare will not authorize Higashi's research unless he gives them all rights to it. He declines. Soon afterward, they begin their own research for their own selfish, war-mongering desires.
Inevitably, a new lifeform, the neo-human is created... as man begins to play God.
However, the creation of neo-humans... which was supposed to rescue mankind instead begins to lead them into destruction...
Before being used as a flavoring, honey was used as a medicine. For burn victims, a salve made of honey often works as well (sometimes better) than modern medicine. The reasons are are follows:
1) The pH of raw honey is outside the range that many bacteria can live in.
2) Those bacteria that can live within that pH range find that the sugars in honey "suck out" the water in their cells... killing them.
3) A salve made from honey doesn't bond to the skin when it dries like most do. Wash it away with lukewarm water and much less scarification of the wound occurs that with most other options.
While I don't know anything about how the Inuit prepare their foods, I do know that eating fish can prevent scurvy.
The important thing to remember is that it needs to be eaten raw: baking, cooking, leaching, frying... in short, cooking fish (meat for that matter) breaks down the vitamin C in the food, rendering it useless for nutrition (and the prevention of scurvy).
Same company that made "Enryu" mentioned before
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There is a very clear, well-written article explaining about why we shouldn't be worried about the Fukushima Reactors. I live about 150km from the plant and have grown tired of the fear-mongering I see in most of the media back home. The article can be found here.
... after all, one man's trash is another man's treasure (if you believe that saying). I know of a number of people who would pay what I consider to be a fair sum of money just to own something that had been _in space_.
Joking aside, how hard would it be to double-bag a few trash bags and keep the trash outside until a convenient "recovery" mission could come around?
My guess would be the reason is because 1) "Ø" is a member of the standard Western character set on most computers and that 2) Japanese and Korean characters are not. The chance of a browser suddenly interpreting everything as garbage characters due to the inclusion of "Ø" would be rather small, whereas my Japanese OS sometimes refuses to accurately represent Japanese characters unless I manually tell it which of the three standards (Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP) it should use. While I can't speak for Korean, Japanese characters also use a two-bit encoding which often cause problems when attempting to use without the relevent language packs installed.
Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp
While rear-projection does have its own benefits, I think the main problem with it for this gaming set-up lies in its focal range. In order to be capable of projecting images the size shown in the article, the projector would need to be fairly distant from the screen. If he was using the same projector he has for a rear-image projection, then he'd need to dig a hole in the floor of his basement...
I suppose he could break out part of the ceiling and project up to a gaming table in the living room... his wife might not be so pleased with that solution, though.
When planning your house for the future, you need to have one corner in one room of the house designed to have _no_ electronic hookups at all. If possible, you should also make it into a wireless dead-spot. That way, when your future child (heck, even those might be electronic gadgets by then) needs some discipline, you can send them to the corner for an experience of life in the 20th century (also known as "back when I was your age"). On second thought, you should have as many as you plan on having children...
On a serious note, though... have you given thought to having one room without any hookups other than electric outlets? I have one room at my house that is my "escape" room. I don't have anything other than the room lights and a desk light in the room. I don't carry my cell-phone into the room. It is where I go to think, read books, practice playing music, etc... all free from the distractions of my gaming consoles by the TV, the new mail indicator flashing on the computer, etc.
Your mileage may vary, of course... but when your mother-in-law/father-in-law/mother/father/etc come for a visit, you would also have a room that would be somewhat "safe" to put them in... "safe" meaning that your house doesn't burn down when they try to figure out how to turn down the radio.
Takuryu
PS: You could help out the economy here and buy one of our fine, high-tech toilets.
Here in Japan, almost every new cellphone is equipped with a bar-code reader capable of reading "regular" bar-codes, as well as 2D "matrix" codes (QR Codes being the standard). You simply take a photo of a bar-code, and it translates it into text into the browser address bar. While not "searching" per se, but now almost every advertisement seen in a magazine, on a train, etc. has a QR code printed on it. It's much easier to snap the photo and be blitzed to a webpage than to either jot down (or try to remember) a URL like http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/aboutqr-e.html
(and that URL about QR Codes is an easy one to remember).
While image search technology has its uses (identifying things without "written" landmarks), I believe advertising isn't one of them.
We prefer the term "crash" to refer to a gathering of us... herds are so... blaise.
Congregations of other animals have different terms...
A murder of crows
A gaggle of geese
A pounce of cats
An ambush of tigers
More can be found here.
A good number of years ago there was a law in Japan that said that you "couldn't be held responsible for anything said/done while intoxicated." This was used as a "get out of jail free" card, so to speak, for some time. Numerous attempts to get the law changed fell on deaf ears... that is until a judge enforced the law to the letter and acquitted a person who was driving drunk hit and killed a child. There was a public outroar and the law stricken from the books.
Sometimes the best way to change a law is to insist on it being enforced.
Who is to say that the bacteria don't just decide to exterminate us, instead? All it takes is a single one to hitch a ride to Earth and find a host...
Regardless, I vote that we terraform the Sahara Desert first... it would be good practice and actually serves a purpose NOW as well as in the future.
Did anyone looking at the Space Adventures website notice the press release stating that they are currently "aggressively seeking a location" to build a spaceport?
Not only does Space Adventures accept cash payments for travel into space, they also allow you to cash in your American Express points for travel!
Assuming 1 ton = 2000 pounds, the orbiter for the NASA shuttle weighs in at 47.5 tons.
The lift-off weight (standard maximum payload) is 2219.6 tons.
Mir was around 135 tons.
The International Space Station is about 450 tons.
The big question, though, isn't the tonnage... it is what makes up that tonnage. That's what I'm waiting to see.
Apart from his fame from being the visual concept designer for the Final Fantasy series (including the logo for each of the games), Amano is a well-respected artist in the anime/sci-fi/fantasy world genres as well (Vampire Hunter D springs to mind...)
His website can be found at www.amanosworld.com .
I have several of his art books, some calendars, and a few prints... I feel they are all well worth the money spent on them.
Here's my brief translation of the section mentioned in the parent, as well as some background from other parts of the official site. These are from the website as it was 3 weeks ago, though I doubt the plot will have changed. (This was a quick overview I did at a friend's request.)
Alternate future where a world war (WWII?) continued for over 50 years. The world ultimately divides into two sides: Asia and Europe, with Asia winning and forming the huge political entity of Eurasia. Still, the question lingers: with all the chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare (and ensuing damage) was victory really worth it? Does mankind just sit and wait for the end?
Is there no road to recovery?
There was one man who proposed a solution: Doctor (Professor?) Higashi (Azuma?). He believes he has discovered a way to create "neo-structure cells" which can regenerate any lost body parts... and has given lectures and presentations of his theory. He wants to test his theory so that he can cure his wife's terminal illness. However, the Ministry of Welfare will not authorize Higashi's research unless he gives them all rights to it. He declines. Soon afterward, they begin their own research for their own selfish, war-mongering desires.
Inevitably, a new lifeform, the neo-human is created... as man begins to play God.
However, the creation of neo-humans... which was supposed to rescue mankind instead begins to lead them into destruction...
Before being used as a flavoring, honey was used as a medicine. For burn victims, a salve made of honey often works as well (sometimes better) than modern medicine. The reasons are are follows:
1) The pH of raw honey is outside the range that many bacteria can live in.
2) Those bacteria that can live within that pH range find that the sugars in honey "suck out" the water in their cells... killing them.
3) A salve made from honey doesn't bond to the skin when it dries like most do. Wash it away with lukewarm water and much less scarification of the wound occurs that with most other options.
While I don't know anything about how the Inuit prepare their foods, I do know that eating fish can prevent scurvy.
The important thing to remember is that it needs to be eaten raw: baking, cooking, leaching, frying... in short, cooking fish (meat for that matter) breaks down the vitamin C in the food, rendering it useless for nutrition (and the prevention of scurvy).
This is the same company that developed "Enryu" which was mentioned on /. a while back:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/11/141524 5&mode=thread