My first thought is that this could do something for infrastructures security and control. Years ago when I was in the IT department, we occasionally had rogue computers on the Intranet. I thought having an intelligent panel in each cubicle could reduce the cable-chasing in the partitions and other places.
I realize that others by now may have made products to do what I figured would be the smarter way to deal with massive amounts of wired hardware. But, since many companies and individuals are not encrypting nor using Wi-Fi out of fear of rogue waves going out anyway, does it make sense for the smart panels idea to take off again?
IF that happens, and if these Linux jacks could be sort of like nano-bot security bots, these could ensure that NO rogue wired hardware could be easily planted on the local net. Of course, I realize that someone with skills could do some sort of man-in-the-middle hijacking of packets and obtain service or illicitly move company secrets off-site, but for IT departments such dealing with less secure data, but which need to keep rogue machines at bay, would these devices make sense? (This assumes that wireless is either forbidden, jammed, or just not being used at all...)
But, will these Linux Jacks play a role in distributing and deprecating the expensive Cisco-type routers, firewalls, and switches? Not that Cisco hasn't already thought about and quietly stashed away a response plan, but isn't it inevitable that devices like these will begin to erode the market for the big, expensive companies which have a motive to push/sell large quantities of expensive iron?
Seems to me, programmable, managable things like these, provided they have few exploitable pieces of code in them, could act as very intelligent, distributed ports, monitoring, reporting, and even honey-netting and more. With a little secure wireless feature set, though, imagine all the Cat 5/Cat 6+/e/n wiring that no longer has to be purchased. I guess then Belkin and others will band with the Ciscos/Redbacks, and others.
As for students sleeping less and possibly suffering stress related to too much technology in their daily lives, refer to a link at the bottom of this piece.
(Discclaimer: Japan Today is regarded by some, even some of its readers, as a biased "expat forum". I am not an expat, but I recently visited the Tokyo area for almost 3 months.)
My personal take on the public view of students probably isn't worth much, but it is possible to see many children walking on tthe streets, alone, at 7 AM, with their books and packs, heading for the trains. Schooling (as in studying, not abuse) there borders on the brutal, and the typical US parent would scream murder if somehow the Japanese education methods were imprinted upon the US, instantanly or over a 15-year period.
Students attend "jukus", or cram courses/schools, may of which cost the attendees' parents quite a pretty yen. I've seen schools where students attend on weekends, usually Saturday for 1/2 to nearly a full study-day, but sometimes Sunday, for extra measure. (They are attending early on because they really are nationally and daily competing to get into the best schools. Going to the "wrong" pre-school can have ramifacations far into one's eventual career. I have a friend who shunned Todai and who chose a less-stressful local college (his TOEIC scores are in the 95% range of the highest score attainable in the TOEIC exams, but he is an example that could undermine much of what I am saying in this tome: Now that he is back in Japan, after being away over a year, his English skills are rapidly declining, principally because he has no one with whom to daily USE and reinforce his English. (he is also studying a European/Asian language, which he is apparently doing well with) but now that he is in a local college, studying a foreign language, he cannot even change majors. Once in program of study, it is, according to him, virtually if not completely impossible to change it, other than dropping out and losing once place in school and face in society or workforce endeavors. And, no, Todai's old reputation for letting entered students "sit on their asses for 4 years since they obviously must be the brightest people in all of Japan, if not on Earth if they managed to be accepted..." is not necesssarily true anymore. They've been working on cleaning up that albatross of a stigma. There still is some if not an unspokeen level of "Hire Todai Only" or Todai Alumnus attitude is some of the bigger corpororations, but overall, if Japanese students are smarter in the Maths and Sciences, I suspect is has to do with the complexity of the language.)
Japanese, the language, itself is literally or actually disconnected from any other written or spoken language on Earth. (But, some could say the same of Thai or the various Chinese characters.) Some considered it the "devil's curse" and other things, but, really, almost any non-romanized, glyphic/ artistic character-based written language will be hard for learners of romanized languages. Historically, some of the Japanese characters, some 2,000 of the most-used and official sets to 10,000 others, in far less use, but still needed for translating obscure or older but relevant documents and art works, are directly borrowed from Chinese language going back well over 1,000 years. But, it is quite possible to master spoken Japanese, while the written and read part is quite daunting for many foreigners. Moreover, there are plenty of Japanes who, because of disuse, gradually forget a large swath of their own written language and consult dictionaries or other help. Even a MATH teacher was fired for not knowing some or many of the LANGUAGE-related conversation words that students are required to know and master prior to their being graduated from school. Yet, a number of students and adults are of mixed opinions as to whe
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"Menses", not "Mensa".
I occasionally delve into "Spoonerisms", and my mind does it quite quickly. My stepmom is a masters or doctorate degree holder and is in mental health services. While he average person knows nothing of "Spoonerisms" and is perplexed when I whip out a few on them, some of which are not in the book on Spoonerisms, on her, she responds in great laughter, has fun, and now I've somehow "trained her", she said.
She thinks I am very intelligent (but I and we know I can go "off the deep end" into tangents, but, I dismiss it, self-deprecatingly.
In 1992, I knew a smart guy who was attempting to or was considering entering Mensa. I think he was pro-Wiccan, or something like that. I wonder what the existential or metaphysical/psycho-social makeup of Mensa members is. After all, we hear/heard of the New World Order (New Urled Worder), Skulls and Boness (bulls and Scones), and so on. I wonder how many of them read "A Sale of Two Ti..." umm, I mean "A Tale of Two Cities".
I've met some QUITE intelligent people who hold various degrees in various disciplines, yet who steadily have jokes fly RIGHT over their heads, totally dazed, as if their core program is being tampered with. It is very frightening to think that some of the so-called most enlightened people in the world are really en-darkened. They only know dollars, power, control, and suppression. They flourish only when their agenda-driven task list is steadily being tick-marked, and wretch when someone puts a damper on their activities.
Maybe that's why China and Russia purged a lot of their intellectuals some decades back (Big mistake? Y/N/MM?). Sort of like "Star Trek's" default reset button built into the script whenever the crew lives an obligatory time-travel episode.
Mensa, Menses, whatever. I supposed some or many of the Men and WOmen of MENsa (do they admit women?) would be aghast to hear that in 2001 I said over national radio as a caller, and wrote on the Interrnet on a now-defunct site, that I felt (and still feel)
rove- will get us 'roved over'
bush- will get us bushwhacked
cheney- will get us chainsawed
ashcroft- will get us ashened, due to internal insurrection if they go too far...
powell- will get us colon-ized; what ever happened to My Lai reports? Did those get straightened out. (Butt, umm, but, as it turned out, he resigned his post and turned it over to condasleeza... Hmm, maybe this is to pit her against Billary... Imagine that, the wanker up there sidelines the waffling, infidelity-oriented Powell and inserts/installs/promotes/toms-up condie so as to make sure the demicans/republicrats (both are two heads on the same draggoon's/dragon's body to me...) possible ticket female choice doesn't therminate/terminate "Ah-nohld" or cook/steam rice if she runs...
rumsfeld- is drunk on his war rum (some in the military call him Ronald DUMBSfeld; they don't like his condescending, dismissive attitude)
ridge- hmmm. couldn't think of or feel much to say about him, and to say that the ridgelines will be shorn off.... well, didn't he leave due to health reasons... They always have a medical reason to leave....
wolfowitz- the 'merikun werewolf un Baghdad (and to think this guy, a weaponeer, is to lead the world bank, sheesh; as said a world-known official in this matter, "This is not a job for amateurs..."
rice- is she brown rice or dirty rice? What's next? "Japan must open its doors to more US ric"e? In Japan, ounce for ounce, pound for pound, boneless breast of chicken costs less than beef. Who the hell does Amerika think it is pushing virtually untested beef onto a nation? Particularly when the target nation (purportedly) tests EVERY head of cattle that is under 20 months old when the US discourages testing even more three head per thousand. Some say Australian beef is better. "Beef: Australian for no-BSE BS..."
And, I referred to them, much as a talk show host did, as a "cadge" and a "cabal". We're probably in deep shit.
Before I went to Tokyo last year, I bought a 32-bit wireless cardbus adapter, model AWLC4030, made or distributed by AirLink 101. It seems to use Aetheros or drivers related. The card is a "Total 802.11 Super G (TM) Atheros 108 Mbps" card. Mandrake 10 under various kernels did not have drivers, nor did I find any, though Mandrake knows the card exists. I tried a few sites and gave up.
From a fairly small computer store in Shinjuku, I bought a Road Lanner Wave GW-NS11H 802.11b 11Mbps wireless card. The hostel at which I state offered free access via the owner's internet connection, I think Bufffalo, but I couldn't get an IP, so I resorted to Cat-5 wire connection. Whenever the lounge got to smokey, I went to the Starbux in Roppongi (not Roppongi Hills, but a little farther north and east by foot, only 6 more minutes walking), next door to McDonalds, across from Don Quixote (no, this one didn't burn, unlike one in Urawa or Saitama and other places...) and Freshness Burger.
It appears that Starbux there indeed offers wireless access, as the floor (second is more spacious) can be seen to have some 10 or more laptop users at once, spread out. I appeared to be the only one using or boasting Linux (my oval LNX sticker is readily visible on the back of the LCD/lid).
My connection was sporadic, maybe due to weak signals or too much user saturation, but when it worked, it worked. They even let you plug into the AC, unlike the Sbux in Azabu-juban, which jams anti-use plugs into the sockets.
I am not a terribly huge fan of Sbux, but in self-contradiction, i have frequented several in Oregon and California. However, I must say that the team in Roppongi seems to be A-J on the ball. They make coffee as if it were a science. Temperature guages, level checkers, kitchen timer... the works. I can't say I recall any states-side Sbux being this quality-oriented. I know there are the snivelly little "I must have my Starbucks double-latte, with a pinch of cinnamon and a tad of vanillah" types out there, but the coffee is just coffee, particularly if your shop is rampantly inconsistent in quality.
BUt, the Roppongi location where I mentioned (there is are many, many Starbux in and around Tokyo, Roppongi, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Daimon, Yokohama, and more, and I've only drank from a few, (of course, only to pay for my electricity use a seat-occupation/displacement), but I preferred the Roppongi location. Plus, the staff are fun, funny, and cool people.
There was one little expat twit who insisted on rushing upstairs, plugging in and taking 10-20 minutes before ordering a coffee or food item. Maybe he was honest and intended to buy something, but the unspoken rule which even I feel no matter WHERE I get coffee is, "They gotta pay for electricity somehow, so BUY something more than $3.00 worth". At least twice in my sittings, this guy had to be asked politely to please buy something before coming upstairs. He got pissed off and tryed to tritefully shoo them away... "I'm busy; leave me aloe, I'll come own in a few minutes... you always bug me about this... I just want to come in, check my e-mail, and settle down first..."
He finally went downstairs, but was making a big-ass scene, denigrating the staff in his snivelly english (I couldn't tell if he came from the US, UK, Australia, or Canada, or where, even tho I spent a month among those and other accents), but the guy needed his ass whipped for bad attitude, lack of consideration, and more. He acted as if they should put up a sign, in ENGLISH, and talk to him in ENGLISH, and leave him alone when he tells them to.
I told the staff, "In the US, EVERY business that has these kind of "customers" has a large sign in the door or on the wall which says, "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE"; you should tell your manager to make one and post it... But, I understand: we're in Japan, and confrontation with others is to be avoided, especially public rows."
Twit, everybody else followed the convention, but he thought he was
Seems like this robot will have to see the BlooTooh Dentist and get a blue-job right in the grater or the teeth.
I guess when the bloo-tooth mouth appliance is embedded, some nerdy engineers will stay at work frisking the prototype.
Wife/Boyfriend: You're spending a lot of hours at work lately...
Nerd: YEH! They brought in a BlooTooth robot. Once I saw it and checked it out, it bloo me away.
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Aside from that, imagine the cheese-funk or the stench coming from that robot's mouth? If there is a cooling fan installed, that bastard will have bad breath. What's the cure for robot halitosis, anyway? Robi-tossus? Or, is it....
R-O-B-O-T-U-S-S-I-N??
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OK, guys, let's not hump the robot, cuz when the next engineer figures out it CAN be humped, it will just end up being....
Humpty-Dumpty...
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Of course, withh the cheese still in mouth, you can probably take this thing to Japan and stand it along one of the ISDN and other slow phones and make a...
H-A-L-I- fax to Nova Scotia.....
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This would be the KILLER BOT for serious gamers... in the boxing ring. Just program it for a round-house kick...
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Some engineers will be looking for the bloo-bot's bolts... but others will surely be looking for its...
But, I can imagine they are doing this for other reasons. (No, no tin-foil stuff going on heree...)
Suppose they are getting hit by some warrants for echelon's/carnivore's or echevore's//carnilon's replacement. Now, this is a significant drain on their resources. Why? Because the government live wiretap was supposed to be automated. Just drop it in, plug it in, and leave the rest to us...
OTOH...
Maybe some non NatSec organs are draining AOL's time. They issue subpoenas like crazy, warrants like they're magic bullets, etc, for discovery, but the archives wanted are off-site, maybe in Cheyenne, 1,250 feet down, in some unnamed alleyway.
So, just zip it all up, encrypted, and defy the court or nosy attorney and bog down the hell out of THEM.
Actually, it's rather good that they offer back the privacy rights already accorded, but stripped by various courts and nosy lawyers or companies bringing frivolous lawsuits or engaging in fishing expeditions...
What's so hard? Because, for them, watching their SAG sag would be unbearable...
As for movies/films (not even talking about music and other performing artists activities...)
I am sure the US' SAG WILL SAG. It's just a matter of time before the Creative Commons and Open Source and Linux clustering will deflate those expensive actor/actress egos.
Maybe aspring Open Source fiction authors can help create a whole new "LinnyWood", or "HolLyx" when the cheaper software leads to immense savings and the greedy execs extend the cutting edge to their costliest staff, namely hyper-expensive actors/actresses and underperforming project directors.
Imagine Municipal Internets (huh? A time when one can sensibly say "Internets" and not "Internet", heheheh), bloggers, Instant Messaging, and Pixar-like clustering that keeps the human in the loop (tho technologically they could be dispensed with), and Creative Commons with fresh scripts, digitized and screen-realistic sets, no more expensive and space-wasting Klieg lights, generators, and the costly utility bill.
Imagine no more permits needed for cities' sidewalks (due to traffic safety issues).
Imagine no more of all the things that make movies expensive. I bet even the world's movie-making mafias (those that own production studios for various reasons, ranging from distributing non-mainstream but otherwise fairly successful productions, to the age-old money laundering...) will go in on this.
Yep, technology could make expensive-assed movie tickets ONCE AN FOR ALL a thing of the past. Imagine getting your movie over a Municipal Wi-Fi that some judge with the balls or ovaries will declare legal and safe.
Now, then watch the studios get into the telecom business, the electricity business, and others, just to keep extracting dollars from viewers' eyeballs.
How 'bout making a fan out of WAMU (Washington Mutual)? Now, THEY can have those instant banks and pop them up at lower cost (unless the states and counties charger higher property taxes....)
Para 5: "alcohol", not "alcohold" in "Maybe that's why Malt Liquor makers market their higher-alcohol-content, taller cans to unemployment-ravaged neighborhoods because the alcohold content is appealing to homeless and drug-abusing persons...)"
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Para 5, incomplete thought: The malt liquor companies all over low-income neighborhoods, selling their liquid wares in predominantly "minority-occupied/settled land". They are not there because of Santana Blow (Santana Row), but, of the Safeway and other stores in the so-called upscale area, I feel are run by some district managers who seem to be quite ignorant of or blase about telling their suppliers" to display products whose faces represent some minority buying power. Blacks spend over a BILLION DOLLARS a year in the US, many far out of proportion to their income. Imagine if all minorities (even some Asians, as not ALL Chinese and Vietnamese fit the nerd, engineer, dentist or lawyer mold some of their parents try to force them into...) saved instead of parted with that money. Now, we've got dubya running around trying to dupe the public into retirement plans that bail out the government and his cronies and YET we have not ONE program in high schools or college that is MANDATORY so that people entering the workforce and make sound, rational, informed decisions about retirement planning, insurance of other kinds, and so forth. Now THAT'S LEADERSHIP: Do as I SAY, not as you or I know would be better for you. ----
Para 7: In, "Wait, no, I guess they are a virtual human shield of sorts for all those roughshot or greedy corporations that presume it's their manifest destiny to rule the world and dope the consumer." replace "VIRTUAL" with "VIRAL"
Also, correct "nake agression" to read "naked agression".
Correct "roughshot" to read "roughshod". ----------
Para 9: "So long as he is not actively becoming a musician or music distributor or doing something that OBVIOUSLY and egregiously tries to "ride on the coattails" of John Denver's success, kraft."...he should be allowed to be addressed (or, undressed, depending upon what kind of friends he has...) as "JD", Johnny, Denvy, or whatever he wants. So long as he is not wantonly defiling or defaming the REAL John Denver or not trying to bring to light some matter of corruption, murder, or something of which the public ought to be apprised.
Para 10: neadles? umm, "needles", not neadles...
Para 12: "refund them", not "refund it"
Para 14: "Moreover, I will look at labels ", not "Moreover, I will look at lables"
Para 15: "She's no THREAT", not "She's not THREAT"
There are maybe 4 more typos, but I have to return to other (more) "pressing" matters.
So, Helga/Her Frau "Holly Hobby" is a massive threat to kraft? Well, I have a BIGGER THREAT to you, kraft.
I am wondering what effect it will have on the outcome if worldwide people get off their ASSES and vocally, actively boycott kraft (lower-casing/deprecation of your name INTENTIONAL/unrelenting; come and SUE me, kraft).
For the first time in friggin' a YEAR or two, I got off my ass to buy a box of Macaroni, the ONLY brand I stick to for macaroni and cheese since I loathed all institutionalized crap from public schools, and upon my return to the US I CRAVED like HELLL for kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Though it's no longer $0.50 for a box, I paid some $0.99 or $1.15 for each of two boxes I bought. I cooked one a few days ago, and looked forward to eating the second. Now, I'll likely just dump it in the can, not even DONATE it. I was PROUD of Kraft for having on the cover of one box a Black kid, 13 years old, and by chance, the second had a caucasian kid, 8 years old.
(As an aside, I understand that over 40% of the world's chocolate comes from Africa, the rest from elsewhere, and very little of it from the US. And...
I find it interesting that the ASIAN stores I frequent have kids of COLOR on their diaper and food products, but in certain upscale places (Santana Blow) are insensitive or blase about it. Maybe that's why Malt Liquor makers market their higher-alcohol-content, taller cans to unemployment-ravaged neighborhoods because the alcohold content is appealing to homeless and drug-abusing persons...)
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FGS, "kraft", Milka is her NAME. She is running what looks to be a Holly Hobby stitch shop, a far cry from chocolate or milk or cheese. It's NOT as if she's running a goddam EasyBake Oven shop called Milka & Fleur di Lis. Such dolt-head corporate lawyers who are pursuing this line of "nake aggression" should be reprimanded fiercely. I guess this is what happens when a country produces far more lawyers than the world can sustain. Wait, no, I guess they are a virtual human shield of sorts for all those roughshot or greedy corporations that presume it's their manifest destiny to rule the world and dope the consumer.
The typical European is probably blase about the matter and far more astute and wordly than the (hmm, I may be stepping on an "intellect/intellectual land mine" here) US-created/based/run Kraft corporation dolts in charge. (But, isn't the name Kraft orignally from Deutscheland? Many 'merkuns, after emigrating to from Europe/Ireland/Germany/etc to the US changed their names for religious-connectioon, racial, oppression, and other reasons, but it appears kraft had nothing to fear, until Granny and her needles and Holly Hobby Kit arrived on scene.)
Protecting a corporate name or brand should have limits. One set of HUMANS, fans of John Denver, named their son and placed "John Denver" as his middle name. So long as he is not actively becoming a musician or music distributor or doing something that OBVIOUSLY and egregiously tries to "ride on the coattails" of John Denver's success, kraft.
Any reasonable, sensible, astute person would NEVER confuse the granny and her neadles and threads and bolts of fabric for a cocoa, chocolate, or milk franchise.
Therefore, kraft, I will relentlessly not only NOT buy anymore kraft products, I will TAKE them to the CASH REGISTER and then JUST BEFORE purchasing... no, hmm, for greater effect, I will wait until AFTER purchasing the damned macaroni or other kraft producct, I will refund it and then tell the cashier WHY.
I'm gonna blog your ass at the register. Seems guerilla warfare is all America can respond to, so seems you need to be driven "Ape Shit".. I'll bet even the normal French, German, Swede and others will get a kick out of this.
Moreover, I will look at lables of ANYTHING I eat and exclude all products owned by or handled by kraft, except for "blogging at the cash register".
Wake up, kraft! Leave Holly Hobby alone! She's not THREAT to you or your so-s
You are correct. I neglected to mention that, maybe out of ignorance. Which seems to pervert the saying "It is better to give than to receive"... Sure, we, the consumer, "give" and they receive.
Here is what I feel about MOST of the cell phone industry:
I find it vulgar, incensing and utterly repugnant that the carriers have this adDICtion to coercing (by leaving no other choice) people into 1- or 2-year contracts subject to a penalty of $150 or more under "early termination" fee. It is NOT MY DUTY or RESPONSIBILITY to keep them alive. If they re-write they flawed, greedy, or obtuse business plans, they can get some or more of my money. Moreover, I'd like to see better interaction standards between carriers (and that means I wish that the various competing carriers in Japan would once and for all make it possible for phone callers to be able to reach a recipient whose number happens to be a cell phone, regardless of the recipient's carrier...)
WHEW, got that out of my system...
Isn't it NICE that in other countries, what we tourists find as nice is found by US-based business as ghastly or appalling or not businessworthy? (Again, it is annoying to make a call and find the pay phone denies access to a cellular number, but, OTOH, it encourages e-mailing, which can be done on the move, if you HAVE a cell; but for those on the move without a cell, this forces them to GET a cell, I guess. Maybe that is the motive in Japan?)
Truth be told, though, I more than likely got my phone at Y1 (around 1.2 to 1.75 cents) because it's likely a "loss leader". But, I didn't add all the doo-dads or bells and whistles other than having e-mail. I hope to return, and I intend to pay my Y3900 per monthy, so ethically I am not exploiting the system. Besides, I cannot use the phone outside of Japan and it has no SIM card, which is a minus, but not an unbearable minus.
I'd rather pay 50 cents a minute for making an outbound call, and in a $39.00/month plan, have ALL the free e-mails inbound calls I have time for and (almost) all the free e-mail can make. I also prefer to have an analogue TV phone rather than digital. I could care less about having all that digital content available. I spend too many hours a day surfing and researching and there are few hours left to actually achieve material advancement.
Just two nights ago, I watched, around 2AM I guess, Deutsche World:
www.dw-world.de
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=de ut sche+world+tv&spell=1
on my Sharp 402SH, sitting in San Jose. But, last Friday I browsed Fly's Erectronics (the switched R & L have nothing to do with Japanese or Asian occasional switching of those letters, but my interest in "Spoonerisms" , and I've been nicknaming FE with that switch for over a decade, anyway...) and I asked a cell phone specialist to tell me about a particular pphone that cost some $200 but streamed internet and TV. She tried to get the working model to download some sports information (of all the channels the phone seemed subscribed to, she must've assumed I would be more interested in seeing sports, but I was immediately wondering about the frame rate...)
The phone wouldn't connect, and I took the time to show her my Vodafone phone and then asked her, "That has all those channels, but they have to be downloaded, and probably are in a bunch of clips. Do they have this frame rate?" I showed her my TV. I also wondered what I'd lose when watching a live performance. Or in the case of news, would I get ALL the story and not have server issues.
I don't care to have such a digital stream chew up space on my phone. And, if I need international footage, I can get it when I get home, off the Internets... Umm, heheh, the InterneT, heheh....
The coolness factor of my phone is such that a T-Mobile sales guy offered $100 for it. I told him he could offer me $400 and I wouldn't sell it. But, I recommended the Vodafone site and suggested that if his bos
You could (if you have a reason) go to Japan. Even as novelties, some of the phones there have a coolness factor that can knock your socks off, as long as most of the phone is usable when you have to leave the country.
It can cost as low as the yen-equivalent of $25 per month to basic, to $45 for nearly unlimited send/receive e-mail, on into the hundreds if you're moving data and making LOTS of outbound calls, to have a phone connection.
But, here's the cool part: In Japan (at least on Vodofone and DoCoMo and a few others) your INBOUND call is free.
can be had for ONE YEN (one PENNY) if you are going live there and are willing to pay for a Y3900 yen monthly payment for at least 3 months. It came out only last June, and it is mainly in the Asian markets, but I understand it is going to the UK, but maybe not in the US (probably another case of "They would't APPRECIATED it, and they don't DESERVE it.")
It also has SD data storage, and 8 MB of onboard data storage. Unfortunately, what REALLY SUCKS about this phone is that neither Vodafone, nor Ericsson, or the other company that shares with Ericsson the MP4 video formatted file made the file work for Linux users. I was told by a Vodafone store that Quicktime would play back my video footage. But, I cannot succeed in Linux. Even in win98 (running in Win4Lin in Mandrake 10.0) I cannot play back these WRETCHED ".noa" extension "Nancy"/MP4 files.
But the phone has voice recording so I can save in own voice in 16- or 32-bit files for quality as many minutes as I have memory on the SD card. It has TV and radio, text file/notes, and more. Plus, the built-in tones which can be associated with a person or schedule or alarm, are addictive. Even a picture can be associated with a phone number, and so can
which right now costs about Y250 even with a plan, lets you RECORD the TV show you are "going to miss". It has other a slew of other features, and retains the swivel head. Sharp made the 402SH, and the 902SH.
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/ Analog ue TV phone:
Now, bringing this type of phone into the US will get you only a few radio stations, and those are limited to FM and only in the band of 76 MHz to 90 MHz channels, and, for TV, maybe 10 stations-- depending upon the size of your home market. But, if you're like me and could care less about having umpteen gazillion channels and only want the local news or public or foreign-language channel that switches to english from time to time (Deutsche Watch comes to mind...) AND you want fast 30fps and not that crappy digital download that costs you $10 extra per month when you probably have BETTER things to do than watch TV (ALL DAY LONG) in your hand...
http://www.wirelesswatchjapan.com/archieve_index.s html
You do pay (some 40 yen or maybe 45 cents a minute) to MAKE a call, but you can bypass that since probably anyone with a cell in Japan goes for the bells and whistles. Almost ANYbody with a cell phone on the Metro or JR Lines or even walking on the street has their phone open and are keeping income going for the phone companies.
The bad (depending on you see it) part is that sometimes your call will be dropped if it runs over two minutes. Actually that is NOT bad, since it directly or indirectly disciplines the user to mind their or their callers' minutes or not abuse the generosity. But, calls between carriers sometimes is a PITA. On the other hand, one can ride the Toei-Oedo line
I have not read the article, and my memory is hazy on this, but will Cedega/WineX help with the use of regular ms-windows-based apps? I want to run Lotus SmartSuite and others (yes, I know NeTraverse just released a new no-kernel-mod-required version of their software for under $100...), such as some CAD apps.
But, aside from NeTraverse and some kernel maintainters/developers weaving NeTraverse code into a distro-neutral kernel (and somehow still maintaining a profit stream for NeTraverse so they don't get run into the ground by shareholder fear that a "bunch of scruffy/lazy/cheapo Linux advocates will demand the thing for free...".
Even if the apps is cheap, maintainance and upgrades will cost somewhere, so "free" as in beer in (GNU)Linux/Open Source software will HAVE to for some cases defer to profit model so people get paid.
But, back to my main question: Will Cedega and companies similar to it that offer gaming environments/compatibility seamlesssly or with minor effort permit (disk) local or on-the-net support for non-games. If Lotus SmartSuite runs under that emulation or support, then it would TRULY make OpenOffice (and, particularly, SUN) wake up and speed up the feature sets that are still lacking in OO.o/SO. I think they've been too long been staring at ms office and not spending enough time looking at (or negotiating with IMB about features in) Lotus SmartSuite.
Speaking of that, does anyone know if any of IBM's patents being held but granted Open Source use/development include SmartSuite features? I know there is in Japan a company called SourceNext. I don't know if they develop or just publish, or both, but they release a product called "SuperOffice", and it is based on Lotus SmartSuite, for the Japanese market, and it's only about Y3500. If I had Japanese fonts, I could get it to install in Win98 (running in Win4Lin in my Mandrake-based laptop), so that I could see if things I do in SmartSuite in english would port easily to Japanese users. At first glancee, though, it horrendously converts dialogs, text widgets, forms, and more. So, trying to sell anything to the Japanese market probably is or would be a ludicrous attempt on my part.
I brushed up on my collection of humorus phrases when watching a Van Damme vid ("In Hell") here in Japan.
Van Damme, trying to prevent the murder of his wife by some killer, was yelling that his wife was in danger.
The subtitle read:
"My wife is DANGEROUS!"
I am sure the sub was to be read as:
"My wife is in DANGER!"
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While not a subtitle, there a bad translation of a Kill Bill DVD's movie-end title floating around...
"Kill Bell"
is at the end of the DVD. And, in the beginning, silhouettes bob and weave, reminiscent of MSFT3000.
Perhaps if the whole DVD region encoding scheme were to be stricken or banished, and movies released world-wide to many regions versus by region code (1), then piracy and shoddy translations would be reduced, maybe a lot. (Disclaimer, I at one time had only ONE non-paid DVD in my collection and it was not US-produced (and when I get the chance I WILL pay for a retail copy of it when I get the money), but ALL my others in my personal collection are paid-for, usually from Fry's Electronics or as Blockbuster or Hollywood or mom-and-pop video rental stores' used video sell-offs , and I have over the years spent HUNDREDS on over 50 DVDs and maybe 80 or more VHS cassettes (Over the past 3 years or so my foreign film uptake has increased, due to the poor scripts domestically produced by hw.). (2)
(Note 1.)
(Yes, yes, I know digital projectors run in the $100k + range, and that celluloid seems to carry better depth but with pain of on-screen scratches and blobs from time to time, and that film reels cost a lot in weight and material, thereby limiting their distribution depth at any given time. And, I realize that the whole sketchy/dodgy region encoding is intented to squeeze from markets the maximum profit for the movie industry, despite the blatant incubation of a piracy market...)
(Note 2) But, most of the non-purchased vids I watched in but didn't purchased were not worthy of my money, or time, and I am not averse to sampling a vid before going out and actually paying for it. ALL sellers and producers of movies and films should be required to permit a renter or customer preview access of the first and last 20 seconds of EACH chapter, plus 10 seconds to 30 seconds of the middle of EACH chapter before buying and being unable to return it. AND, the cover artists, if they can be called that, should be by law banned from using glitzy, glamorous art which substitutes for fake or atrocious props. I once bought a movie that advertised an Abrams M-1 tank, an AH-64 Apache helo, and I think a CH-53 and the "tank" in the shitty movie turned out to a shell, a box, with a fake interior, and a non-tank chair, big enough to serve as a small bedroom, and was so horrible I despise the people who conned the financiers and the idiots who financed it, as well as groan at myself every time I think of that worthless waste of celluloid. The only tenuous excuse was that some people might have gotten paid to work, but probably not much went to the lower-level set workerss... )
The way to kill the chimera effect would be to make a law that says, "Mrs Jones/Mr Watanabe/Mr Akbar, we have found an organ replacement for you. It comes from Chimera # 1,552,225, which was produced in a slimey, slightly-cooled, sack that incubbated for 15 months in a dark, green-goo-like-shit-filled vat. There is a 38% chance of rejection, and a 15% chance that your organs will mutate, your nails will grow, and you will dream of eating rodents..."
To the doomsayers...
Really, before I get into (more) wit or wry/lame/irreverent humor, will these "shimmery-chimera-effect" organ-makers produce "yoo-mons"? Seems like the "human experience" will turn into pure hell and a bunch of hand/claw/hind-hoof wringing if these things become more than a twinkle/shimmer in the eyes of a mad scientist (or greedy investor/shareholder...)
Dr. Carol Marcus probably never would create life from lifelessness if humans in Trek got chimeras beyond the "vats and vials of organs and organelles..."
Ferrengi have "hyoo-moon"
Scientists make "Chee-mon"... -----------
By "googling" chimera, I found:
http://monsters.monstrous.com/chimera_6.htm
(possibly the half-cousin of an uncle Bil-... umm, snip (the missing/last "l", hehe), due to risk of libel, hehehe)
Where will software development go if we have shimmery chimera software? (not talking about the real Chimera software company, but software made for Chimera Werker, 2215...)
I guess the fashion appearal industry will go to hell and back, heheh... On what kind of cross/crucifix would a chimera be crucified. A "cross-i-fix"? (hybrid)...
I guess Ford could make CUVs (Chimera Utility Vehicles...)
Legal departments will have unholy hell of making "human-friendly" "transform" or "transmute" to "'chima'-friendly"...
Imagin having a cell-mate (pun INtended and sort of not intentended...) and being banged in your cell in your cell by a chimera... shimmy-chimmy-bang-bang...
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and "life" from a chimera...hehe
http://www.syntheverse.com/
Might be useful for any of you artistic slashers... -------- Now, if only hollywierd would make a crossing-over/crossover/hybrid move:
"The Glimera Man: Glimmer Meeets Chimmer" or "AVP v. ChimmerMan"
AND, brain tissue not energized or stimulated for good things is incredibly expensive from a non-use point of view.
I know of a baby whose mom listened to trance/techno in her car during her pregnancy. After delivery, whenever trance or fast music is played around her, she kicks, smiles, and wiggles about.
So, it seems to me that if MUSIC can do this to entertain a post-delivery baby who heard loud, rhythmic, energizing music as a fetus, then it is very likely there is more credence than many will admit that audio tapes played on a mothers womb can impart knowledge, sound patterns, and higher skills to a newborn and increase that infant's competitiveness or intelligence through its life.
I suspect it even works for adults. I knew some Navy radiomen who were in IMCO school and these guys SLEPT with dit-dah-dee-dee-dahh-dahh- in their ears. I know, because I saw it on my rover/fire-watch duties. It was funny, seeing these bodies asleep, with headphones attached, and observing "dee-dee-dit-dahh.... a, b, c... x... " in the air. I am sure, though, that even if they didn't correlate the letters with the dots and dashes, their brains were at least mapping the audible patterns. Just as we consciously play foreign language tapes and watch foreign language shows to attune our brains to the speed, pitch, and intonations of foreign languages, infants do the same in the womb and in daily life when being doted with attention.
As for "multiple languages" being spoken in the home, I think that is not the only factor. It's the number of PEOPLE in the home doting and reinforcing attention and play with the toddlers. Happier, engaged, and read-to toddlers who are provided structured, intelligence-conveying TV shows are more likely to be very MUCH more intelligent than a toddler or child who is ignored, or only baby-talked. A two-year-old I knew had already formed in her mind and spoke by age 3 or so that "gay" people "are people, too, just a little different, but still people". I imagine such a child will have a fairly high IQ score that does more good for humanity than the hi-IQ types who care more about power and money.
I wish I could summon up Ichi. I'd have him take out ALL the military satellites and just "level the playing field" to see just what happens next. Governmental arrogance at that level pisses me off, and turns me into even MORE of a root-man for the underdog--or for those not wanting to be "controlled" by the US, my place of birth by happenstance.
Maybe it's time for preemptive strike on makers of destabilizing technologies. Hmm, I guess that would invite charges of sedition, treason, and such. But, the atmosphere now makes me feel that certainly, humans don't deserve to get past 240,000 miles of Earth until the/we resolve the crap going on here (war, famine, control by some certain greedy corrupt politicians and certain wealthy types...). Hmm, I guess god will continue to be an absentee landlord...
Seems to me that ANYone arrogant enough to deploy a system intent on bossing the world into submission deserves being struck (down or counter-jammed). Sounds monopolistic, imperialist, manifest destinist, conquistatorist, and more. Sounds like the very thing this country holds antithetical to freedom. Surveillance and info-gathering are one thing, but...
Now, if this is used to prevent an active, direct threat or attack UPON US satellites, it's one thing. But, to deploy and use the system just to prevent people from transmitting news from non-US soil... well, that's tantamount to declaring war upon the target, or whomever sponsors or supports the target.
It's not as if this deployment is to neutralize a bin-laden-owned satellite. But, if say, Japan, or Taiwan or France are just leasing or renting out a channel and the US decides to block it for its own convenience, then there should at a minimum be lawsuits, and at a next level some "direct action" to get the decision "undone". I dare say it's time for our so-called allies and buddies to re-think just what could happen to THEM if they run afoul of the cozy, current relationship.
Some governing and weaponeering humans have a shitload of arrogance to perpetuate conflict and claim to be engaging in "conflict resolution".
By the way, see JSA: Joint Security Area and check the reviews on IMDB. Rent it if you can, likely from your local CN/VN video outlet.
I wonder how much intel the US will pass on the Koreans in the South:
(Gene Roddenberry, from an interveiw from the late 60's or early 70's for the book "Star Trek", regarding mixed-gender deep-space assignments mixed with loneliness and physical cravings...)
Imagine if all of newborns, instead of having only their foot and hand prints taken also have a clamp put on their gumline. Of course, as they grow up, the clamp could either cause a hell of a lot of teeting, uuumm, teething pains, or the clamp could simply embed itself into the bone under the flesh/gums. This would produce one hell of a dillemma for those trying to remove the device. They could probably, however, irradiate the thing.
But, if the purpose of the clamp is not primarily to transmit or respond radio waves but instead illuminate itself as the chomper walks past an x-ray transceiver of some sort.
OTOH, imagine intel agents with these things embedded. If they grant the agent access to many sensitive areas and documents, you could say:
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My first thought is that this could do something for infrastructures security and control. Years ago when I was in the IT department, we occasionally had rogue computers on the Intranet. I thought having an intelligent panel in each cubicle could reduce the cable-chasing in the partitions and other places.
I realize that others by now may have made products to do what I figured would be the smarter way to deal with massive amounts of wired hardware. But, since many companies and individuals are not encrypting nor using Wi-Fi out of fear of rogue waves going out anyway, does it make sense for the smart panels idea to take off again?
IF that happens, and if these Linux jacks could be sort of like nano-bot security bots, these could ensure that NO rogue wired hardware could be easily planted on the local net. Of course, I realize that someone with skills could do some sort of man-in-the-middle hijacking of packets and obtain service or illicitly move company secrets off-site, but for IT departments such dealing with less secure data, but which need to keep rogue machines at bay, would these devices make sense? (This assumes that wireless is either forbidden, jammed, or just not being used at all...)
But, will these Linux Jacks play a role in distributing and deprecating the expensive Cisco-type routers, firewalls, and switches? Not that Cisco hasn't already thought about and quietly stashed away a response plan, but isn't it inevitable that devices like these will begin to erode the market for the big, expensive companies which have a motive to push/sell large quantities of expensive iron?
Seems to me, programmable, managable things like these, provided they have few exploitable pieces of code in them, could act as very intelligent, distributed ports, monitoring, reporting, and even honey-netting and more. With a little secure wireless feature set, though, imagine all the Cat 5/Cat 6+/e/n wiring that no longer has to be purchased. I guess then Belkin and others will band with the Ciscos/Redbacks, and others.
David Syes
Well, then read this... "Japanese high school students less willing to study than U.S. peers"
http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=3 30 861&page=5
As for students sleeping less and possibly suffering stress related to too much technology in their daily lives, refer to a link at the bottom of this piece.
(Discclaimer: Japan Today is regarded by some, even some of its readers, as a biased "expat forum". I am not an expat, but I recently visited the Tokyo area for almost 3 months.)
My personal take on the public view of students probably isn't worth much, but it is possible to see many children walking on tthe streets, alone, at 7 AM, with their books and packs, heading for the trains. Schooling (as in studying, not abuse) there borders on the brutal, and the typical US parent would scream murder if somehow the Japanese education methods were imprinted upon the US, instantanly or over a 15-year period.
Students attend "jukus", or cram courses/schools, may of which cost the attendees' parents quite a pretty yen. I've seen schools where students attend on weekends, usually Saturday for 1/2 to nearly a full study-day, but sometimes Sunday, for extra measure. (They are attending early on because they really are nationally and daily competing to get into the best schools. Going to the "wrong" pre-school can have ramifacations far into one's eventual career. I have a friend who shunned Todai and who chose a less-stressful local college (his TOEIC scores are in the 95% range of the highest score attainable in the TOEIC exams, but he is an example that could undermine much of what I am saying in this tome: Now that he is back in Japan, after being away over a year, his English skills are rapidly declining, principally because he has no one with whom to daily USE and reinforce his English. (he is also studying a European/Asian language, which he is apparently doing well with) but now that he is in a local college, studying a foreign language, he cannot even change majors. Once in program of study, it is, according to him, virtually if not completely impossible to change it, other than dropping out and losing once place in school and face in society or workforce endeavors. And, no, Todai's old reputation for letting entered students "sit on their asses for 4 years since they obviously must be the brightest people in all of Japan, if not on Earth if they managed to be accepted..." is not necesssarily true anymore. They've been working on cleaning up that albatross of a stigma. There still is some if not an unspokeen level of "Hire Todai Only" or Todai Alumnus attitude is some of the bigger corpororations, but overall, if Japanese students are smarter in the Maths and Sciences, I suspect is has to do with the complexity of the language.)
Japanese, the language, itself is literally or actually disconnected from any other written or spoken language on Earth. (But, some could say the same of Thai or the various Chinese characters.) Some considered it the "devil's curse" and other things, but, really, almost any non-romanized, glyphic/ artistic character-based written language will be hard for learners of romanized languages. Historically, some of the Japanese characters, some 2,000 of the most-used and official sets to 10,000 others, in far less use, but still needed for translating obscure or older but relevant documents and art works, are directly borrowed from Chinese language going back well over 1,000 years. But, it is quite possible to master spoken Japanese, while the written and read part is quite daunting for many foreigners. Moreover, there are plenty of Japanes who, because of disuse, gradually forget a large swath of their own written language and consult dictionaries or other help. Even a MATH teacher was fired for not knowing some or many of the LANGUAGE-related conversation words that students are required to know and master prior to their being graduated from school. Yet, a number of students and adults are of mixed opinions as to whe
"Menses", not "Mensa".
I occasionally delve into "Spoonerisms", and my mind does it quite quickly. My stepmom is a masters or doctorate degree holder and is in mental health services. While he average person knows nothing of "Spoonerisms" and is perplexed when I whip out a few on them, some of which are not in the book on Spoonerisms, on her, she responds in great laughter, has fun, and now I've somehow "trained her", she said.
She thinks I am very intelligent (but I and we know I can go "off the deep end" into tangents, but, I dismiss it, self-deprecatingly.
In 1992, I knew a smart guy who was attempting to or was considering entering Mensa. I think he was pro-Wiccan, or something like that. I wonder what the existential or metaphysical/psycho-social makeup of Mensa members is. After all, we hear/heard of the New World Order (New Urled Worder), Skulls and Boness (bulls and Scones), and so on. I wonder how many of them read "A Sale of Two Ti..." umm, I mean "A Tale of Two Cities".
I've met some QUITE intelligent people who hold various degrees in various disciplines, yet who steadily have jokes fly RIGHT over their heads, totally dazed, as if their core program is being tampered with. It is very frightening to think that some of the so-called most enlightened people in the world are really en-darkened. They only know dollars, power, control, and suppression. They flourish only when their agenda-driven task list is steadily being tick-marked, and wretch when someone puts a damper on their activities.
Maybe that's why China and Russia purged a lot of their intellectuals some decades back (Big mistake? Y/N/MM?). Sort of like "Star Trek's" default reset button built into the script whenever the crew lives an obligatory time-travel episode.
Mensa, Menses, whatever. I supposed some or many of the Men and WOmen of MENsa (do they admit women?) would be aghast to hear that in 2001 I said over national radio as a caller, and wrote on the Interrnet on a now-defunct site, that I felt (and still feel)
rove- will get us 'roved over'
bush- will get us bushwhacked
cheney- will get us chainsawed
ashcroft- will get us ashened, due to internal insurrection if they go too far...
powell- will get us colon-ized; what ever happened to My Lai reports? Did those get straightened out. (Butt, umm, but, as it turned out, he resigned his post and turned it over to condasleeza... Hmm, maybe this is to pit her against Billary... Imagine that, the wanker up there sidelines the waffling, infidelity-oriented Powell and inserts/installs/promotes/toms-up condie so as to make sure the demicans/republicrats (both are two heads on the same draggoon's/dragon's body to me...) possible ticket female choice doesn't therminate/terminate "Ah-nohld" or cook/steam rice if she runs...
rumsfeld- is drunk on his war rum (some in the military call him Ronald DUMBSfeld; they don't like his condescending, dismissive attitude)
ridge- hmmm. couldn't think of or feel much to say about him, and to say that the ridgelines will be shorn off.... well, didn't he leave due to health reasons... They always have a medical reason to leave....
wolfowitz- the 'merikun werewolf un Baghdad (and to think this guy, a weaponeer, is to lead the world bank, sheesh; as said a world-known official in this matter, "This is not a job for amateurs..."
rice- is she brown rice or dirty rice? What's next? "Japan must open its doors to more US ric"e? In Japan, ounce for ounce, pound for pound, boneless breast of chicken costs less than beef. Who the hell does Amerika think it is pushing virtually untested beef onto a nation? Particularly when the target nation (purportedly) tests EVERY head of cattle that is under 20 months old when the US discourages testing even more three head per thousand. Some say Australian beef is better. "Beef: Australian for no-BSE BS..."
And, I referred to them, much as a talk show host did, as a "cadge" and a "cabal". We're probably in deep shit.
Before I went to Tokyo last year, I bought a 32-bit wireless cardbus adapter, model AWLC4030, made or distributed by AirLink 101. It seems to use Aetheros or drivers related. The card is a "Total 802.11 Super G (TM) Atheros 108 Mbps" card. Mandrake 10 under various kernels did not have drivers, nor did I find any, though Mandrake knows the card exists. I tried a few sites and gave up.
From a fairly small computer store in Shinjuku, I bought a Road Lanner Wave GW-NS11H 802.11b 11Mbps wireless card. The hostel at which I state offered free access via the owner's internet connection, I think Bufffalo, but I couldn't get an IP, so I resorted to Cat-5 wire connection. Whenever the lounge got to smokey, I went to the Starbux in Roppongi (not Roppongi Hills, but a little farther north and east by foot, only 6 more minutes walking), next door to McDonalds, across from Don Quixote (no, this one didn't burn, unlike one in Urawa or Saitama and other places...) and Freshness Burger.
It appears that Starbux there indeed offers wireless access, as the floor (second is more spacious) can be seen to have some 10 or more laptop users at once, spread out. I appeared to be the only one using or boasting Linux (my oval LNX sticker is readily visible on the back of the LCD/lid).
My connection was sporadic, maybe due to weak signals or too much user saturation, but when it worked, it worked. They even let you plug into the AC, unlike the Sbux in Azabu-juban, which jams anti-use plugs into the sockets.
I am not a terribly huge fan of Sbux, but in self-contradiction, i have frequented several in Oregon and California. However, I must say that the team in Roppongi seems to be A-J on the ball. They make coffee as if it were a science. Temperature guages, level checkers, kitchen timer... the works. I can't say I recall any states-side Sbux being this quality-oriented. I know there are the snivelly little "I must have my Starbucks double-latte, with a pinch of cinnamon and a tad of vanillah" types out there, but the coffee is just coffee, particularly if your shop is rampantly inconsistent in quality.
BUt, the Roppongi location where I mentioned (there is are many, many Starbux in and around Tokyo, Roppongi, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Daimon, Yokohama, and more, and I've only drank from a few, (of course, only to pay for my electricity use a seat-occupation/displacement), but I preferred the Roppongi location. Plus, the staff are fun, funny, and cool people.
There was one little expat twit who insisted on rushing upstairs, plugging in and taking 10-20 minutes before ordering a coffee or food item. Maybe he was honest and intended to buy something, but the unspoken rule which even I feel no matter WHERE I get coffee is, "They gotta pay for electricity somehow, so BUY something more than $3.00 worth". At least twice in my sittings, this guy had to be asked politely to please buy something before coming upstairs. He got pissed off and tryed to tritefully shoo them away... "I'm busy; leave me aloe, I'll come own in a few minutes... you always bug me about this... I just want to come in, check my e-mail, and settle down first..."
He finally went downstairs, but was making a big-ass scene, denigrating the staff in his snivelly english (I couldn't tell if he came from the US, UK, Australia, or Canada, or where, even tho I spent a month among those and other accents), but the guy needed his ass whipped for bad attitude, lack of consideration, and more. He acted as if they should put up a sign, in ENGLISH, and talk to him in ENGLISH, and leave him alone when he tells them to.
I told the staff, "In the US, EVERY business that has these kind of "customers" has a large sign in the door or on the wall which says, "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE"; you should tell your manager to make one and post it... But, I understand: we're in Japan, and confrontation with others is to be avoided, especially public rows."
Twit, everybody else followed the convention, but he thought he was
Seems like this robot will have to see the BlooTooh Dentist and get a blue-job right in the grater or the teeth.
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I guess when the bloo-tooth mouth appliance is embedded, some nerdy engineers will stay at work frisking the prototype.
Wife/Boyfriend: You're spending a lot of hours at work lately...
Nerd: YEH! They brought in a BlooTooth robot. Once I saw it and checked it out, it bloo me away.
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Aside from that, imagine the cheese-funk or the stench coming from that robot's mouth? If there is a cooling fan installed, that bastard will have bad breath. What's the cure for robot halitosis, anyway? Robi-tossus? Or, is it....
R-O-B-O-T-U-S-S-I-N??
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OK, guys, let's not hump the robot, cuz when the next engineer figures out it CAN be humped, it will just end up being....
Humpty-Dumpty...
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Of course, withh the cheese still in mouth, you can probably take this thing to Japan and stand it along one of the ISDN and other slow phones and make a
H-A-L-I- fax to Nova Scotia.....
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This would be the KILLER BOT for serious gamers... in the boxing ring. Just program it for a round-house kick...
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Some engineers will be looking for the bloo-bot's bolts... but others will surely be looking for its...
nuts....
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QUICK... somebody file a patent...
Appendages Pending...
hmmmm
Who'd've thought?
But, I can imagine they are doing this for other reasons. (No, no tin-foil stuff going on heree...)
Suppose they are getting hit by some warrants for echelon's/carnivore's or echevore's//carnilon's replacement. Now, this is a significant drain on their resources. Why? Because the government live wiretap was supposed to be automated. Just drop it in, plug it in, and leave the rest to us...
OTOH...
Maybe some non NatSec organs are draining AOL's time. They issue subpoenas like crazy, warrants like they're magic bullets, etc, for discovery, but the archives wanted are off-site, maybe in Cheyenne, 1,250 feet down, in some unnamed alleyway.
So, just zip it all up, encrypted, and defy the court or nosy attorney and bog down the hell out of THEM.
Actually, it's rather good that they offer back the privacy rights already accorded, but stripped by various courts and nosy lawyers or companies bringing frivolous lawsuits or engaging in fishing expeditions...
Hmmm... Turns foil back on...
Legally, as for the likely survival of BT, I guess this will be one bit of a torrent... (drum rolls, anyone?)
David Syes
What's so hard? Because, for them, watching their SAG sag would be unbearable...
As for movies/films (not even talking about music and other performing artists activities...)
I am sure the US' SAG WILL SAG. It's just a matter of time before the Creative Commons and Open Source and Linux clustering will deflate those expensive actor/actress egos.
Maybe aspring Open Source fiction authors can help create a whole new "LinnyWood", or "HolLyx" when the cheaper software leads to immense savings and the greedy execs extend the cutting edge to their costliest staff, namely hyper-expensive actors/actresses and underperforming project directors.
Imagine Municipal Internets (huh? A time when one can sensibly say "Internets" and not "Internet", heheheh), bloggers, Instant Messaging, and Pixar-like clustering that keeps the human in the loop (tho technologically they could be dispensed with), and Creative Commons with fresh scripts, digitized and screen-realistic sets, no more expensive and space-wasting Klieg lights, generators, and the costly utility bill.
Imagine no more permits needed for cities' sidewalks (due to traffic safety issues).
Imagine no more of all the things that make movies expensive. I bet even the world's movie-making mafias (those that own production studios for various reasons, ranging from distributing non-mainstream but otherwise fairly successful productions, to the age-old money laundering...) will go in on this.
Yep, technology could make expensive-assed movie tickets ONCE AN FOR ALL a thing of the past. Imagine getting your movie over a Municipal Wi-Fi that some judge with the balls or ovaries will declare legal and safe.
Now, then watch the studios get into the telecom business, the electricity business, and others, just to keep extracting dollars from viewers' eyeballs.
Yep, things are going to become interesting.
David Syes
How 'bout making a fan out of WAMU (Washington Mutual)? Now, THEY can have those instant banks and pop them up at lower cost (unless the states and counties charger higher property taxes....)
Uggh, typos and incomplete thoughts...
...he should be allowed to be addressed (or, undressed, depending upon what kind of friends he has...) as "JD", Johnny, Denvy, or whatever he wants. So long as he is not wantonly defiling or defaming the REAL John Denver or not trying to bring to light some matter of corruption, murder, or something of which the public ought to be apprised.
Fixins' and extensions of thought...
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Para 5: "alcohol", not "alcohold" in "Maybe that's why Malt Liquor makers market their higher-alcohol-content, taller cans to unemployment-ravaged neighborhoods because the alcohold content is appealing to homeless and drug-abusing persons...)"
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Para 5, incomplete thought: The malt liquor companies all over low-income neighborhoods, selling their liquid wares in predominantly "minority-occupied/settled land". They are not there because of Santana Blow (Santana Row), but, of the Safeway and other stores in the so-called upscale area, I feel are run by some district managers who seem to be quite ignorant of or blase about telling their suppliers" to display products whose faces represent some minority buying power. Blacks spend over a BILLION DOLLARS a year in the US, many far out of proportion to their income. Imagine if all minorities (even some Asians, as not ALL Chinese and Vietnamese fit the nerd, engineer, dentist or lawyer mold some of their parents try to force them into...) saved instead of parted with that money. Now, we've got dubya running around trying to dupe the public into retirement plans that bail out the government and his cronies and YET we have not ONE program in high schools or college that is MANDATORY so that people entering the workforce and make sound, rational, informed decisions about retirement planning, insurance of other kinds, and so forth. Now THAT'S LEADERSHIP: Do as I SAY, not as you or I know would be better for you.
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Para 7: In, "Wait, no, I guess they are a virtual human shield of sorts for all those roughshot or greedy corporations that presume it's their manifest destiny to rule the world and dope the consumer." replace "VIRTUAL" with "VIRAL"
Also, correct "nake agression" to read "naked agression".
Correct "roughshot" to read "roughshod".
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Para 9: "So long as he is not actively becoming a musician or music distributor or doing something that OBVIOUSLY and egregiously tries to "ride on the coattails" of John Denver's success, kraft."
Para 10: neadles? umm, "needles", not neadles...
Para 12: "refund them", not "refund it"
Para 14: "Moreover, I will look at labels ", not "Moreover, I will look at lables"
Para 15: "She's no THREAT", not "She's not THREAT"
There are maybe 4 more typos, but I have to return to other (more) "pressing" matters.
NO! IANAL, and IANGFBAL, either.
So, Helga/Her Frau "Holly Hobby" is a massive threat to kraft? Well, I have a BIGGER THREAT to you, kraft.
I am wondering what effect it will have on the outcome if worldwide people get off their ASSES and vocally, actively boycott kraft (lower-casing/deprecation of your name INTENTIONAL/unrelenting; come and SUE me, kraft).
For the first time in friggin' a YEAR or two, I got off my ass to buy a box of Macaroni, the ONLY brand I stick to for macaroni and cheese since I loathed all institutionalized crap from public schools, and upon my return to the US I CRAVED like HELLL for kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Though it's no longer $0.50 for a box, I paid some $0.99 or $1.15 for each of two boxes I bought. I cooked one a few days ago, and looked forward to eating the second. Now, I'll likely just dump it in the can, not even DONATE it. I was PROUD of Kraft for having on the cover of one box a Black kid, 13 years old, and by chance, the second had a caucasian kid, 8 years old.
(As an aside, I understand that over 40% of the world's chocolate comes from Africa, the rest from elsewhere, and very little of it from the US. And...
I find it interesting that the ASIAN stores I frequent have kids of COLOR on their diaper and food products, but in certain upscale places (Santana Blow) are insensitive or blase about it. Maybe that's why Malt Liquor makers market their higher-alcohol-content, taller cans to unemployment-ravaged neighborhoods because the alcohold content is appealing to homeless and drug-abusing persons...)
End of Aside...
FGS, "kraft", Milka is her NAME. She is running what looks to be a Holly Hobby stitch shop, a far cry from chocolate or milk or cheese. It's NOT as if she's running a goddam EasyBake Oven shop called Milka & Fleur di Lis. Such dolt-head corporate lawyers who are pursuing this line of "nake aggression" should be reprimanded fiercely. I guess this is what happens when a country produces far more lawyers than the world can sustain. Wait, no, I guess they are a virtual human shield of sorts for all those roughshot or greedy corporations that presume it's their manifest destiny to rule the world and dope the consumer.
The typical European is probably blase about the matter and far more astute and wordly than the (hmm, I may be stepping on an "intellect/intellectual land mine" here) US-created/based/run Kraft corporation dolts in charge. (But, isn't the name Kraft orignally from Deutscheland? Many 'merkuns, after emigrating to from Europe/Ireland/Germany/etc to the US changed their names for religious-connectioon, racial, oppression, and other reasons, but it appears kraft had nothing to fear, until Granny and her needles and Holly Hobby Kit arrived on scene.)
Protecting a corporate name or brand should have limits. One set of HUMANS, fans of John Denver, named their son and placed "John Denver" as his middle name. So long as he is not actively becoming a musician or music distributor or doing something that OBVIOUSLY and egregiously tries to "ride on the coattails" of John Denver's success, kraft.
Any reasonable, sensible, astute person would NEVER confuse the granny and her neadles and threads and bolts of fabric for a cocoa, chocolate, or milk franchise.
Therefore, kraft, I will relentlessly not only NOT buy anymore kraft products, I will TAKE them to the CASH REGISTER and then JUST BEFORE purchasing... no, hmm, for greater effect, I will wait until AFTER purchasing the damned macaroni or other kraft producct, I will refund it and then tell the cashier WHY.
I'm gonna blog your ass at the register. Seems guerilla warfare is all America can respond to, so seems you need to be driven "Ape Shit".. I'll bet even the normal French, German, Swede and others will get a kick out of this.
Moreover, I will look at lables of ANYTHING I eat and exclude all products owned by or handled by kraft, except for "blogging at the cash register".
Wake up, kraft! Leave Holly Hobby alone! She's not THREAT to you or your so-s
Dogers,
You are correct. I neglected to mention that, maybe out of ignorance. Which seems to pervert the saying "It is better to give than to receive"... Sure, we, the consumer, "give" and they receive.
Here is what I feel about MOST of the cell phone industry:
I find it vulgar, incensing and utterly repugnant that the carriers have this adDICtion to coercing (by leaving no other choice) people into 1- or 2-year contracts subject to a penalty of $150 or more under "early termination" fee. It is NOT MY DUTY or RESPONSIBILITY to keep them alive. If they re-write they flawed, greedy, or obtuse business plans, they can get some or more of my money. Moreover, I'd like to see better interaction standards between carriers (and that means I wish that the various competing carriers in Japan would once and for all make it possible for phone callers to be able to reach a recipient whose number happens to be a cell phone, regardless of the recipient's carrier...)
WHEW, got that out of my system...
Isn't it NICE that in other countries, what we tourists find as nice is found by US-based business as ghastly or appalling or not businessworthy? (Again, it is annoying to make a call and find the pay phone denies access to a cellular number, but, OTOH, it encourages e-mailing, which can be done on the move, if you HAVE a cell; but for those on the move without a cell, this forces them to GET a cell, I guess. Maybe that is the motive in Japan?)
Truth be told, though, I more than likely got my phone at Y1 (around 1.2 to 1.75 cents) because it's likely a "loss leader". But, I didn't add all the doo-dads or bells and whistles other than having e-mail. I hope to return, and I intend to pay my Y3900 per monthy, so ethically I am not exploiting the system. Besides, I cannot use the phone outside of Japan and it has no SIM card, which is a minus, but not an unbearable minus.
I'd rather pay 50 cents a minute for making an outbound call, and in a $39.00/month plan, have ALL the free e-mails inbound calls I have time for and (almost) all the free e-mail can make. I also prefer to have an analogue TV phone rather than digital. I could care less about having all that digital content available. I spend too many hours a day surfing and researching and there are few hours left to actually achieve material advancement.
Just two nights ago, I watched, around 2AM I guess, Deutsche World:
www.dw-world.de
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=de ut sche+world+tv&spell=1
on my Sharp 402SH, sitting in San Jose. But, last Friday I browsed Fly's Erectronics (the switched R & L have nothing to do with Japanese or Asian occasional switching of those letters, but my interest in "Spoonerisms" , and I've been nicknaming FE with that switch for over a decade, anyway...) and I asked a cell phone specialist to tell me about a particular pphone that cost some $200 but streamed internet and TV. She tried to get the working model to download some sports information (of all the channels the phone seemed subscribed to, she must've assumed I would be more interested in seeing sports, but I was immediately wondering about the frame rate...)
The phone wouldn't connect, and I took the time to show her my Vodafone phone and then asked her, "That has all those channels, but they have to be downloaded, and probably are in a bunch of clips. Do they have this frame rate?" I showed her my TV. I also wondered what I'd lose when watching a live performance. Or in the case of news, would I get ALL the story and not have server issues.
I don't care to have such a digital stream chew up space on my phone. And, if I need international footage, I can get it when I get home, off the Internets... Umm, heheh, the InterneT, heheh....
The coolness factor of my phone is such that a T-Mobile sales guy offered $100 for it. I told him he could offer me $400 and I wouldn't sell it. But, I recommended the Vodafone site and suggested that if his bos
You could (if you have a reason) go to Japan. Even as novelties, some of the phones there have a coolness factor that can knock your socks off, as long as most of the phone is usable when you have to leave the country.
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It can cost as low as the yen-equivalent of $25 per month to basic, to $45 for nearly unlimited send/receive e-mail, on into the hundreds if you're moving data and making LOTS of outbound calls, to have a phone connection.
But, here's the cool part: In Japan (at least on Vodofone and DoCoMo and a few others) your INBOUND call is free.
THIS phone:
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/kisyu/v4 02 sh/
can be had for ONE YEN (one PENNY) if you are going live there and are willing to pay for a Y3900 yen monthly payment for at least 3 months. It came out only last June, and it is mainly in the Asian markets, but I understand it is going to the UK, but maybe not in the US (probably another case of "They would't APPRECIATED it, and they don't DESERVE it.")
It also has SD data storage, and 8 MB of onboard data storage. Unfortunately, what REALLY SUCKS about this phone is that neither Vodafone, nor Ericsson, or the other company that shares with Ericsson the MP4 video formatted file made the file work for Linux users. I was told by a Vodafone store that Quicktime would play back my video footage. But, I cannot succeed in Linux. Even in win98 (running in Win4Lin in Mandrake 10.0) I cannot play back these WRETCHED ".noa" extension "Nancy"/MP4 files.
But the phone has voice recording so I can save in own voice in 16- or 32-bit files for quality as many minutes as I have memory on the SD card. It has TV and radio, text file/notes, and more. Plus, the built-in tones which can be associated with a person or schedule or alarm, are addictive. Even a picture can be associated with a phone number, and so can
A newer model, the 902SH:
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/domestic _3 g.html
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/model_3G
which right now costs about Y250 even with a plan, lets you RECORD the TV show you are "going to miss". It has other a slew of other features, and retains the swivel head. Sharp made the 402SH, and the 902SH.
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/
Analog ue TV phone:
See these:
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/model_3G
Now, bringing this type of phone into the US will get you only a few radio stations, and those are limited to FM and only in the band of 76 MHz to 90 MHz channels, and, for TV, maybe 10 stations-- depending upon the size of your home market. But, if you're like me and could care less about having umpteen gazillion channels and only want the local news or public or foreign-language channel that switches to english from time to time (Deutsche Watch comes to mind...) AND you want fast 30fps and not that crappy digital download that costs you $10 extra per month when you probably have BETTER things to do than watch TV (ALL DAY LONG) in your hand...
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/kisyu/v6 03 t/index.html
http://www.wirelesswatchjapan.com/archieve_index
You do pay (some 40 yen or maybe 45 cents a minute) to MAKE a call, but you can bypass that since probably anyone with a cell in Japan goes for the bells and whistles. Almost ANYbody with a cell phone on the Metro or JR Lines or even walking on the street has their phone open and are keeping income going for the phone companies.
The bad (depending on you see it) part is that sometimes your call will be dropped if it runs over two minutes. Actually that is NOT bad, since it directly or indirectly disciplines the user to mind their or their callers' minutes or not abuse the generosity. But, calls between carriers sometimes is a PITA. On the other hand, one can ride the Toei-Oedo line
I thought it said "TACTICAL" Digital Assistant"...
other apps or non-gaming software.
I have not read the article, and my memory is hazy on this, but will Cedega/WineX help with the use of regular ms-windows-based apps? I want to run Lotus SmartSuite and others (yes, I know NeTraverse just released a new no-kernel-mod-required version of their software for under $100...), such as some CAD apps.
But, aside from NeTraverse and some kernel maintainters/developers weaving NeTraverse code into a distro-neutral kernel (and somehow still maintaining a profit stream for NeTraverse so they don't get run into the ground by shareholder fear that a "bunch of scruffy/lazy/cheapo Linux advocates will demand the thing for free...".
Even if the apps is cheap, maintainance and upgrades will cost somewhere, so "free" as in beer in (GNU)Linux/Open Source software will HAVE to for some cases defer to profit model so people get paid.
But, back to my main question: Will Cedega and companies similar to it that offer gaming environments/compatibility seamlesssly or with minor effort permit (disk) local or on-the-net support for non-games. If Lotus SmartSuite runs under that emulation or support, then it would TRULY make OpenOffice (and, particularly, SUN) wake up and speed up the feature sets that are still lacking in OO.o/SO. I think they've been too long been staring at ms office and not spending enough time looking at (or negotiating with IMB about features in) Lotus SmartSuite.
Speaking of that, does anyone know if any of IBM's patents being held but granted Open Source use/development include SmartSuite features? I know there is in Japan a company called SourceNext. I don't know if they develop or just publish, or both, but they release a product called "SuperOffice", and it is based on Lotus SmartSuite, for the Japanese market, and it's only about Y3500. If I had Japanese fonts, I could get it to install in Win98 (running in Win4Lin in my Mandrake-based laptop), so that I could see if things I do in SmartSuite in english would port easily to Japanese users. At first glancee, though, it horrendously converts dialogs, text widgets, forms, and more. So, trying to sell anything to the Japanese market probably is or would be a ludicrous attempt on my part.
David Syes
Better get out the Preparation H.
Is your machine leaving trails?
Break out a mop...
I brushed up on my collection of humorus phrases when watching a Van Damme vid ("In Hell") here in Japan.
Van Damme, trying to prevent the murder of his wife by some killer, was yelling that his wife was in danger.
The subtitle read:
"My wife is DANGEROUS!"
I am sure the sub was to be read as:
"My wife is in DANGER!"
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While not a subtitle, there a bad translation of a Kill Bill DVD's movie-end title floating around...
"Kill Bell"
is at the end of the DVD. And, in the beginning, silhouettes bob and weave, reminiscent of MSFT3000.
Perhaps if the whole DVD region encoding scheme were to be stricken or banished, and movies released world-wide to many regions versus by region code (1), then piracy and shoddy translations would be reduced, maybe a lot. (Disclaimer, I at one time had only ONE non-paid DVD in my collection and it was not US-produced (and when I get the chance I WILL pay for a retail copy of it when I get the money), but ALL my others in my personal collection are paid-for, usually from Fry's Electronics or as Blockbuster or Hollywood or mom-and-pop video rental stores' used video sell-offs , and I have over the years spent HUNDREDS on over 50 DVDs and maybe 80 or more VHS cassettes (Over the past 3 years or so my foreign film uptake has increased, due to the poor scripts domestically produced by hw.). (2)
(Note 1.)
(Yes, yes, I know digital projectors run in the $100k + range, and that celluloid seems to carry better depth but with pain of on-screen scratches and blobs from time to time, and that film reels cost a lot in weight and material, thereby limiting their distribution depth at any given time. And, I realize that the whole sketchy/dodgy region encoding is intented to squeeze from markets the maximum profit for the movie industry, despite the blatant incubation of a piracy market...)
(Note 2)
But, most of the non-purchased vids I watched in but didn't purchased were not worthy of my money, or time, and I am not averse to sampling a vid before going out and actually paying for it. ALL sellers and producers of movies and films should be required to permit a renter or customer preview access of the first and last 20 seconds of EACH chapter, plus 10 seconds to 30 seconds of the middle of EACH chapter before buying and being unable to return it. AND, the cover artists, if they can be called that, should be by law banned from using glitzy, glamorous art which substitutes for fake or atrocious props. I once bought a movie that advertised an Abrams M-1 tank, an AH-64 Apache helo, and I think a CH-53 and the "tank" in the shitty movie turned out to a shell, a box, with a fake interior, and a non-tank chair, big enough to serve as a small bedroom, and was so horrible I despise the people who conned the financiers and the idiots who financed it, as well as groan at myself every time I think of that worthless waste of celluloid. The only tenuous excuse was that some people might have gotten paid to work, but probably not much went to the lower-level set workerss... )
The way to kill the chimera effect would be to make a law that says, "Mrs Jones/Mr Watanabe/Mr Akbar, we have found an organ replacement for you. It comes from Chimera # 1,552,225, which was produced in a slimey, slightly-cooled, sack that incubbated for 15 months in a dark, green-goo-like-shit-filled vat. There is a 38% chance of rejection, and a 15% chance that your organs will mutate, your nails will grow, and you will dream of eating rodents..."
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To the doomsayers...
Really, before I get into (more) wit or wry/lame/irreverent humor, will these "shimmery-chimera-effect" organ-makers produce "yoo-mons"? Seems like the "human experience" will turn into pure hell and a bunch of hand/claw/hind-hoof wringing if these things become more than a twinkle/shimmer in the eyes of a mad scientist (or greedy investor/shareholder...)
Dr. Carol Marcus probably never would create life from lifelessness if humans in Trek got chimeras beyond the "vats and vials of organs and organelles..."
Ferrengi have "hyoo-moon"
Scientists make "Chee-mon"
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By "googling" chimera, I found:
http://monsters.monstrous.com/chimera_6.htm
(possibly the half-cousin of an uncle Bil-... umm, snip (the missing/last "l", hehe), due to risk of libel, hehehe)
Where will software development go if we have shimmery chimera software? (not talking about the real Chimera software company, but software made for Chimera Werker, 2215...)
I guess the fashion appearal industry will go to hell and back, heheh... On what kind of cross/crucifix would a chimera be crucified. A "cross-i-fix"? (hybrid)...
I guess Ford could make CUVs (Chimera Utility Vehicles...)
Legal departments will have unholy hell of making "human-friendly" "transform" or "transmute" to "'chima'-friendly"...
Imagin having a cell-mate (pun INtended and sort of not intentended...) and being banged in your cell in your cell by a chimera... shimmy-chimmy-bang-bang...
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and "life" from a chimera...hehe
http://www.syntheverse.com/
Might be useful for any of you artistic slashers...
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Now, if only hollywierd would make a crossing-over/crossover/hybrid move:
"The Glimera Man: Glimmer Meeets Chimmer"
or "AVP v. ChimmerMan"
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David Syes
Now, if this board is REALITY, and if it DOES kick some QWERTY ass, this could be a new form of...
"Parkinson's Disease", except for the keyboard industry, if their grip is eroded...
David Syes
If only lightning can zap the shit out of outlook. It would TRULY give a reason to rename outlook to "LOOOOK-OUUUT!!!"
When lightning strikes... RUN!
When lightning strikes TWICE...
Now, if only Lightning is built with a targetting system.... and knows how to strike repeatedly, on and around the target.
This would give a new meaning to "Electric Light Orchestra"... Turn the "song and dance" of ms' tap dance into a ZAP Dance...
DANCE! DANCE...
Anyone care to contribute to Lightning any "Dial-and-Zap" code?
(lower-casing/deprecation of ms' wearisome name intentional/perpetual with me...)
David Syes
"Weeeee kawl hur Flip-her, Flip-her... fahstur dann lihght-neng...."
hehehe
AND, brain tissue not energized or stimulated for good things is incredibly expensive from a non-use point of view.
I know of a baby whose mom listened to trance/techno in her car during her pregnancy. After delivery, whenever trance or fast music is played around her, she kicks, smiles, and wiggles about.
So, it seems to me that if MUSIC can do this to entertain a post-delivery baby who heard loud, rhythmic, energizing music as a fetus, then it is very likely there is more credence than many will admit that audio tapes played on a mothers womb can impart knowledge, sound patterns, and higher skills to a newborn and increase that infant's competitiveness or intelligence through its life.
I suspect it even works for adults. I knew some Navy radiomen who were in IMCO school and these guys SLEPT with dit-dah-dee-dee-dahh-dahh- in their ears. I know, because I saw it on my rover/fire-watch duties. It was funny, seeing these bodies asleep, with headphones attached, and observing "dee-dee-dit-dahh.... a, b, c... x... " in the air. I am sure, though, that even if they didn't correlate the letters with the dots and dashes, their brains were at least mapping the audible patterns. Just as we consciously play foreign language tapes and watch foreign language shows to attune our brains to the speed, pitch, and intonations of foreign languages, infants do the same in the womb and in daily life when being doted with attention.
As for "multiple languages" being spoken in the home, I think that is not the only factor. It's the number of PEOPLE in the home doting and reinforcing attention and play with the toddlers. Happier, engaged, and read-to toddlers who are provided structured, intelligence-conveying TV shows are more likely to be very MUCH more intelligent than a toddler or child who is ignored, or only baby-talked. A two-year-old I knew had already formed in her mind and spoke by age 3 or so that "gay" people "are people, too, just a little different, but still people". I imagine such a child will have a fairly high IQ score that does more good for humanity than the hi-IQ types who care more about power and money.
This bullshit deployment is in response to the EU deploying their alternative to the US' monopolistic GPS and data-denial choke-point.
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See:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir
I wish I could summon up Ichi. I'd have him take out ALL the military satellites and just "level the playing field" to see just what happens next. Governmental arrogance at that level pisses me off, and turns me into even MORE of a root-man for the underdog--or for those not wanting to be "controlled" by the US, my place of birth by happenstance.
Maybe it's time for preemptive strike on makers of destabilizing technologies. Hmm, I guess that would invite charges of sedition, treason, and such. But, the atmosphere now makes me feel that certainly, humans don't deserve to get past 240,000 miles of Earth until the/we resolve the crap going on here (war, famine, control by some certain greedy corrupt politicians and certain wealthy types...). Hmm, I guess god will continue to be an absentee landlord...
Seems to me that ANYone arrogant enough to deploy a system intent on bossing the world into submission deserves being struck (down or counter-jammed). Sounds monopolistic, imperialist, manifest destinist, conquistatorist, and more. Sounds like the very thing this country holds antithetical to freedom. Surveillance and info-gathering are one thing, but...
Now, if this is used to prevent an active, direct threat or attack UPON US satellites, it's one thing. But, to deploy and use the system just to prevent people from transmitting news from non-US soil... well, that's tantamount to declaring war upon the target, or whomever sponsors or supports the target.
It's not as if this deployment is to neutralize a bin-laden-owned satellite. But, if say, Japan, or Taiwan or France are just leasing or renting out a channel and the US decides to block it for its own convenience, then there should at a minimum be lawsuits, and at a next level some "direct action" to get the decision "undone". I dare say it's time for our so-called allies and buddies to re-think just what could happen to THEM if they run afoul of the cozy, current relationship.
Some governing and weaponeering humans have a shitload of arrogance to perpetuate conflict and claim to be engaging in "conflict resolution".
By the way, see JSA: Joint Security Area and check the reviews on IMDB. Rent it if you can, likely from your local CN/VN video outlet.
I wonder how much intel the US will pass on the Koreans in the South:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir
See:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/oped/index.asp
(At the national level my vote was already bought and paid for by corporations.)
Man+Woman+Time very often = babies
(Gene Roddenberry, from an interveiw from the late 60's or early 70's for the book "Star Trek", regarding mixed-gender deep-space assignments mixed with loneliness and physical cravings...)
and TEETHING PAINS!
Imagine if all of newborns, instead of having only their foot and hand prints taken also have a clamp put on their gumline. Of course, as they grow up, the clamp could either cause a hell of a lot of teeting, uuumm, teething pains, or the clamp could simply embed itself into the bone under the flesh/gums. This would produce one hell of a dillemma for those trying to remove the device. They could probably, however, irradiate the thing.
But, if the purpose of the clamp is not primarily to transmit or respond radio waves but instead illuminate itself as the chomper walks past an x-ray transceiver of some sort.
OTOH, imagine intel agents with these things embedded. If they grant the agent access to many sensitive areas and documents, you could say:
"Sink your TEETH into THAT pile of data..."