LOL!!!! Just reading the title made my BS-O-Meter shatter to shards!
The title of this story implies there's a human genetic basis for Japanese people easily digesting Sushi. Pure BS. I'm of 100% "Western"/Non-Asian origin and had never been outside the U.S. or even eaten sushi. Yet I moved to Japan, spent the better part of a decade there, and never once had trouble digesting (or enjoying) sushi. LOL!!! Maybe I'm evolved like the Japanese (supposedly) are.
The summary implies the same thing then contradicts itself by stating that Japanese people acquire bacteria from eating seaweed that allows them to properly digest it.
This is just plain dumb journalism.
When they invite NASA and ESA to join in, I'm confident that cooler heads will prevail. I can easily trust a decision that results from these 3 putting their heads together.
Want to find a way to avoid getting fuxed by the Verizon Wireless early termination fee to escape it's crappy service? *world map excluding United States pops up* There's a map for that!
There is a very simple and very balanced solution to all of this: Tax cars by weight! Make it a very progressive tax, only with moderate exceptions for specialized non-passenger standard road vehicles. Of course, large commercial vehicles like buses and tractor trailer rigs don't count in this.
I had absolutely no trouble transitioning from MS Office to Open Office. It's pretty much just like MS Office in the interface with just a few minor differences in language and interface. For this reason, Your argument isn't completely valid.
Besides, considering how much MS Word (in particular) tends to frustrate you by doing its own thing, I'd say transitioning to OO.o is that much more trivial when you have a lot of control and usablility to trade for your effort.
What's more, It's immeasurably easier to transition to OO.o than to transition to the MS Office "Ribbon" interface. So, again, your argument isn't well founded.
GPS tracking is a no go. It's also a stupid and rather extreme proposal. Just raise (or apply, if they don't have one) the sales tax on the purchase/lease of cars. Then charge more for tag renewal. Next, charge more for inspection stickers. Finally, charge more for the gas tax. All of these taxes but the gas tax can be varied by the weight of the vehicle to keep them fair. For even more precision, they can be varied by the MPG of the vehicle too.
I've used OO.o professionally for years. I never had a single problem transitioning to it from MS Office when I first started (in '05).
Also, I haven't had any serious problems with it except in two areas. The first is that the database component is indeed a toy. That part's useless but I don't use databases much anyway. The second is more important to me though. OOO Draw is an _extremely_ powerful graphics app. It's very easy to use and I've turned out professional quality work with it time and time again. However, it just plain stinks at exporting graphics with transparency and shading to either raster graphics or PDF's. I literally have to use cheap hacks like print screen-then paste-and-smooth to get good raster graphics out of the thing.
Overall, I give OOO a B. It covers enough bases for regular users and small businesses. It's about 80% of MS Office for 100% off the price... Not bad.
It's pretty stupid when people accuse Obama of "political theatre" when he makes trips abroad, yet they consider McCain's trips of the same type to be purposful manifestations of his supposed foreign policy prowess. They consider it "presidential" of him.
McCain and his lackies make the idiotic accusation, the media repeats it as though it has any grounds, and idiots among the masses simply parrot it.
Not necessarily so. For a single Bot to build a house in the traditional manner, it would be pretty tough from a mechanical design standpoint. For multiple Bots to build one in the traditional manner it would be pretty easy. Bots building cars has to be a lot tougher than building a house which requires a lot less precision.
Also, having Bots build a house using alternative methods like the method described here or others would make the task much, much easier.
I hate to be blasphemous at the shrine of the "Free Market" but here goes:
1) There is no such thing as a "free market" in the sense that only the products that are demanded by consumers are made and successfully sold. If that was the case, the advertising industry would be entirely different and much, much less of a cash cow. Neither would there be so much effort put into applying the principles of psychology and sociology to essentially "convince" the market that a product should be bought.
2) The "free market" is not benevolent; it does not have the best interest of the public at heart. It has good of share holders/plutocrats in mind and nothing else.
I won't go into the engineering, but electrics and series hybrids are actually less expensive to produce than standard ICE cars. That's because they're simpler to design and the components themselves are simpler (Both do away with the transmission and the electric does away with the parts-intensive and inefficient to produce ICE.) There's a lot of lying going on by corporations about electrics being "expensive" to produce. They're not. The batteries are not very expensive either, especially if they _choose_ to mass produce them. The problem they have with electrics in particular, and series hybrids is that they are not as profitable over their life times as standard cars because their parts count is lower (fewer things to break and thus fewer to sell over the life of the vehicle) and that they're so dependable that people won't change cars so readily (again, fewer parts to break). Want proof electrics are cheap to manufacture? Toyota is making a profit on the Prius at $20,000 each despite having a full ICE drive train in addition to a half electric drive train. That's in spite of having developed it as a totally new platform (as opposed to building it on an existing platform).
Our idiotic plutocratic auto company execs were too busy manipulating our government to dole out tax breaks on white elephant gas guzzling (yet highly profitable) SUV's instead of building decent quality, reliable and efficient vehicles. I hate that the workers and the public have to burn for their stupidity and so does the prestigious of our country.
I think it's interesting that we are so easily convinced that genes control every little detail of our lives. Just because they find a gene that, when modified, affects this trait or that trait; we assume that's all there is to it. It's not. Playing with the genes may be _one_ way to get a certain result. However, it is _not the only_ way to get that same result. Anyone who knows the smallest bit about psychology and sociology know there are many ways to consistantly produce children (and by extension, adults) who repeatedly make mistakes. Heck, even physical injuries to the brain can produce certain behaviors.
The road called "genes" isn't the only one that can take you to Rome. There are plenty of others. If life was like a golf green, genes would be the contour and speed of the green. Learning, society and environment would be the skill of the golfer, the putter, the wind, etc.
This is faulty logic. Any old hack can convert a gasoline vehicle like a 92 S10 truck to electric, using lead acid batteries, and get about 40 miles per charge. No Toyota engineers required. There are three main reasons this "plug-in" Prius stinks on range. 1) It's a gas-electric vehicle with all the extra weight of an engine and transmission system to carry around. 2) It uses a very small battery pack because it's primarily a gasoline vehicle, although it does have the better NiMH batteries. 3) It wasn't engineered from the start as an electric vehicle (see #2) and they've governed the maximum discharge of the batteries to extend their life. This means that it may have the potential to go 30 miles on a charge but it would be rougher on the batters because they would have to be deeply discharged (run down) to go that far.
4MW is the _capacity_ of the boilers. Chances are, they never use all that capacity. That's just the size boiler they needed to maintain a large head (charge) of steam at high output for a long time.
No, they don't have to compete with Gas/Diesel at all.
Since many households already own multiple vehicles they can use electric vehicles as main vehicles and fire up the dinosour burners when they need to go long distances.
Also, it's probably been said a thousand^1000 times by now, but the vast majority of drivers very rarely drive distances beyond the reach of even common lead-acid EV range (which stinks). This goes double for urban dwellers.
Trust me, Japanese culture is racist. If you learn the language and live in Japan long enough among Japanese people, not fellow "gaijin." you'll easily see. On TV non-Japanese are mocked for being so; in all sorts of media (manga, TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, etc.) non-Japanese are marginalized, misrepresented and made the butt of jokes.
Television and radio, including the state run stations blatantly portray problems of crime as though much of it is attributable to non-Japanese people to the point where surveys show that "gaijin" crime is a major concern of a large percentage of citizens.
I could go on...for quite a bit, but if you're curious you can check this site for one snowflake in the tip of the iceburg.
By the way, what does socialism have to do with any of this? Japan's got plenty of socialism.
As someone writing from Japan and having been in Japan for half a decade I can tell you you're close (at least for American culture) but wrong and would mod you down as "overrated" if I had mod points now.
The stereotypes from all those samurai movies and manga might make people believe that stuff. However, Japanese culture is just as much about ego as American culture is. In fact, in some aspects (depending on your disposition) it can be worse. It's not based on honor but on:
1)being viewed favorably by others regardless of absense or presence of virtue.
2)Not disturbing estabilished norms.
3)Not standing out too much.
5)How much "better" you can show yourself to be than others through credentials/seniority/position etc.
6)Violence (though notably more of the social and psyochological type than the physical type...in the end they're both just as destructive though).
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. Sony's playing its cards carefully and trying to carve a new niche. They're trying to scrub off some of DS's market but they're carefull enough not to take Nintendo head on. Instead they're working to make it appeal to a broader market in two aspects.
1)By adding features like photo viewing, movie and music playback they're trying to ring in those who otherwise wouldn't be as inclined to buy a portable game system.
2)The system's physical design (and marketing) is meant to be "mature" so as to make it more appealing to those adults who may feel a bit insecure about having and playing a "video game."
In the 80's gaming was seen exclusively a "kid's" domain so Game Gear didn't have access to the same kind of market that PSP has today.
The PSP should fly, even if it doesn't even reach the altitudes of GBA's and DS's.
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LOL!!!! Just reading the title made my BS-O-Meter shatter to shards! The title of this story implies there's a human genetic basis for Japanese people easily digesting Sushi. Pure BS. I'm of 100% "Western"/Non-Asian origin and had never been outside the U.S. or even eaten sushi. Yet I moved to Japan, spent the better part of a decade there, and never once had trouble digesting (or enjoying) sushi. LOL!!! Maybe I'm evolved like the Japanese (supposedly) are. The summary implies the same thing then contradicts itself by stating that Japanese people acquire bacteria from eating seaweed that allows them to properly digest it. This is just plain dumb journalism.
When they invite NASA and ESA to join in, I'm confident that cooler heads will prevail. I can easily trust a decision that results from these 3 putting their heads together.
Want to find a way to avoid getting fuxed by the Verizon Wireless early termination fee to escape it's crappy service? *world map excluding United States pops up* There's a map for that!
There is a very simple and very balanced solution to all of this: Tax cars by weight! Make it a very progressive tax, only with moderate exceptions for specialized non-passenger standard road vehicles. Of course, large commercial vehicles like buses and tractor trailer rigs don't count in this.
Besides, considering how much MS Word (in particular) tends to frustrate you by doing its own thing, I'd say transitioning to OO.o is that much more trivial when you have a lot of control and usablility to trade for your effort.
What's more, It's immeasurably easier to transition to OO.o than to transition to the MS Office "Ribbon" interface. So, again, your argument isn't well founded.
GPS tracking is a no go. It's also a stupid and rather extreme proposal. Just raise (or apply, if they don't have one) the sales tax on the purchase/lease of cars. Then charge more for tag renewal. Next, charge more for inspection stickers. Finally, charge more for the gas tax. All of these taxes but the gas tax can be varied by the weight of the vehicle to keep them fair. For even more precision, they can be varied by the MPG of the vehicle too.
My understanding is that they use metal wheels. Check it out Scroll down to see.
Also, I haven't had any serious problems with it except in two areas. The first is that the database component is indeed a toy. That part's useless but I don't use databases much anyway. The second is more important to me though. OOO Draw is an _extremely_ powerful graphics app. It's very easy to use and I've turned out professional quality work with it time and time again. However, it just plain stinks at exporting graphics with transparency and shading to either raster graphics or PDF's. I literally have to use cheap hacks like print screen-then paste-and-smooth to get good raster graphics out of the thing.
Overall, I give OOO a B. It covers enough bases for regular users and small businesses. It's about 80% of MS Office for 100% off the price... Not bad.
Actually, one person can keep his hydrofoil out of the water.
That's funny, I can't even install Ubuntu on my 700Mhz 256MB RAM laptop. It says I don't have enough RAM.
O.K. I'll Bite.
It's pretty stupid when people accuse Obama of "political theatre" when he makes trips abroad, yet they consider McCain's trips of the same type to be purposful manifestations of his supposed foreign policy prowess. They consider it "presidential" of him.
McCain and his lackies make the idiotic accusation, the media repeats it as though it has any grounds, and idiots among the masses simply parrot it.
Wonderful... Just wonderful.
Not necessarily so. For a single Bot to build a house in the traditional manner, it would be pretty tough from a mechanical design standpoint. For multiple Bots to build one in the traditional manner it would be pretty easy. Bots building cars has to be a lot tougher than building a house which requires a lot less precision.
Also, having Bots build a house using alternative methods like the method described here or others would make the task much, much easier.
I hate to be blasphemous at the shrine of the "Free Market" but here goes:
1) There is no such thing as a "free market" in the sense that only the products that are demanded by consumers are made and successfully sold. If that was the case, the advertising industry would be entirely different and much, much less of a cash cow. Neither would there be so much effort put into applying the principles of psychology and sociology to essentially "convince" the market that a product should be bought.
2) The "free market" is not benevolent; it does not have the best interest of the public at heart. It has good of share holders/plutocrats in mind and nothing else.
I won't go into the engineering, but electrics and series hybrids are actually less expensive to produce than standard ICE cars. That's because they're simpler to design and the components themselves are simpler (Both do away with the transmission and the electric does away with the parts-intensive and inefficient to produce ICE.) There's a lot of lying going on by corporations about electrics being "expensive" to produce. They're not. The batteries are not very expensive either, especially if they _choose_ to mass produce them. The problem they have with electrics in particular, and series hybrids is that they are not as profitable over their life times as standard cars because their parts count is lower (fewer things to break and thus fewer to sell over the life of the vehicle) and that they're so dependable that people won't change cars so readily (again, fewer parts to break). Want proof electrics are cheap to manufacture? Toyota is making a profit on the Prius at $20,000 each despite having a full ICE drive train in addition to a half electric drive train. That's in spite of having developed it as a totally new platform (as opposed to building it on an existing platform).
Our idiotic plutocratic auto company execs were too busy manipulating our government to dole out tax breaks on white elephant gas guzzling (yet highly profitable) SUV's instead of building decent quality, reliable and efficient vehicles. I hate that the workers and the public have to burn for their stupidity and so does the prestigious of our country.
Two Words: Regenerative Braking
That's the only instance in which you'd produce hydrogen while driving. The only other possibility is solar panels on the roof, hood and trunk.
The road called "genes" isn't the only one that can take you to Rome. There are plenty of others. If life was like a golf green, genes would be the contour and speed of the green. Learning, society and environment would be the skill of the golfer, the putter, the wind, etc.
This is faulty logic. Any old hack can convert a gasoline vehicle like a 92 S10 truck to electric, using lead acid batteries, and get about 40 miles per charge. No Toyota engineers required. There are three main reasons this "plug-in" Prius stinks on range. 1) It's a gas-electric vehicle with all the extra weight of an engine and transmission system to carry around. 2) It uses a very small battery pack because it's primarily a gasoline vehicle, although it does have the better NiMH batteries. 3) It wasn't engineered from the start as an electric vehicle (see #2) and they've governed the maximum discharge of the batteries to extend their life. This means that it may have the potential to go 30 miles on a charge but it would be rougher on the batters because they would have to be deeply discharged (run down) to go that far.
4MW is the _capacity_ of the boilers. Chances are, they never use all that capacity. That's just the size boiler they needed to maintain a large head (charge) of steam at high output for a long time.
The bicycle. That's right. It's the humble human powerd bicycle.
Not Funny?
That's just about the only way you'll chop up anything fine enough not to clog your throne.
The Force has you.
Since many households already own multiple vehicles they can use electric vehicles as main vehicles and fire up the dinosour burners when they need to go long distances.
Also, it's probably been said a thousand^1000 times by now, but the vast majority of drivers very rarely drive distances beyond the reach of even common lead-acid EV range (which stinks). This goes double for urban dwellers.
Trust me, Japanese culture is racist. If you learn the language and live in Japan long enough among Japanese people, not fellow "gaijin." you'll easily see. On TV non-Japanese are mocked for being so; in all sorts of media (manga, TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, etc.) non-Japanese are marginalized, misrepresented and made the butt of jokes.
Television and radio, including the state run stations blatantly portray problems of crime as though much of it is attributable to non-Japanese people to the point where surveys show that "gaijin" crime is a major concern of a large percentage of citizens.
I could go on...for quite a bit, but if you're curious you can check this site for one snowflake in the tip of the iceburg.
By the way, what does socialism have to do with any of this? Japan's got plenty of socialism.
As someone writing from Japan and having been in Japan for half a decade I can tell you you're close (at least for American culture) but wrong and would mod you down as "overrated" if I had mod points now.
The stereotypes from all those samurai movies and manga might make people believe that stuff. However, Japanese culture is just as much about ego as American culture is. In fact, in some aspects (depending on your disposition) it can be worse. It's not based on honor but on:
1)being viewed favorably by others regardless of absense or presence of virtue.
2)Not disturbing estabilished norms.
3)Not standing out too much.
5)How much "better" you can show yourself to be than others through credentials/seniority/position etc.
6)Violence (though notably more of the social and psyochological type than the physical type...in the end they're both just as destructive though).
1)By adding features like photo viewing, movie and music playback they're trying to ring in those who otherwise wouldn't be as inclined to buy a portable game system.
2)The system's physical design (and marketing) is meant to be "mature" so as to make it more appealing to those adults who may feel a bit insecure about having and playing a "video game."
In the 80's gaming was seen exclusively a "kid's" domain so Game Gear didn't have access to the same kind of market that PSP has today.
The PSP should fly, even if it doesn't even reach the altitudes of GBA's and DS's.