I think you're wrong. Javascript and Canvas/HTML5 have just as much functionality as Flash, if not more, and Apple openly promotes and encourages development of Javascript apps, even though they bypass the App Store.
Ugh, I hate modern corporateship. The point of forming a corporation is that the board and executives take legal and financial responsibility for the company in place of the owners (shareholders). The point is *not* to create a beast that can act without anyone taking responsibility.
Actually, rented content is the part that makes no sense when it comes to digital data. I understand renting physical media, because someone else wants to use it after me. But bytes?
I mean, what's Netflix afraid of? They think the movies they offer are so good that their customers will pay all over again to download the same bytes a second time? Are repeat viewers really the basis of their business model?
You've made many excellent observations in your post. I've thought for a long time that a one-size-fits-all court system just doesn't work well. I think the defendant in particular, in a lawsuit, should be able to have the case heard not only by a judge with expertise in the matter at hand and a track record of making fair judgments, but also in a court with procedures (rules of evidence, juried/non-juried, etc.) that are suited to the situation and profession involved.
The great thing about Japan is if you go and buy any gaming magazine from a newsstand, it's full of step-by-step instructions and screenshots on how to rip games or use bootlegs.:)
The entire point of democracy is to go vote for stuff that you want at someone else's expense. Once you figure that out, you will see why there is actually no place for liberty or a liberty-inclined party in national politics.
Unfortunately, if it's such a stupid idea even a six-year-old could point out all the flaws, there's a good chance it will receive wide-reaching bipartisan support and Obama will extol its miraculous capacity for stimulating the economy.* The intelligence of your typical politican is somewhere between that of a potted fern and a day-old pot of uneaten macaroni-and-cheese. The integrity of your typical politician is worse yet -- so much so I'm embarrassed to even attempt to quantify it here.
*Other things Obama thinks will stimulate the economy: painting stop signs green, gargling with antifreeze, and spending a trillion dollars of someone else's money on pork-barrel projects.
This reminds me of a program the police had in California to reduce guns by offering several hundred bucks, no questions asked, for each firearm turned in by a citizen. People were going out to Walmart, buying all the cheapest rifles in stock, and exchanging them for bundles of cash. I think the program went bankrupt (having burned through all the taxpayer money available) without actually reducing the number of weapons owned.
Heh, I know a bit about this because I just translated some technical documents on the subject.
Soldering was one of the last parts of the manufacturing process to be automated because of numerous technical challenges involved (and lead-free solder only makes it worse). A consortium of Japanese companies finally came up with a high-dexterity robot arm that was ideal for soldering. Although these robots are still being adopted elsewhere around the world, hand-soldering remains a specialized and well-paid profession.
There are several mysterious particles that aren't easily identified by the Standard Model. One in particular is the X(3872) particle, which was discovered by Japanese scientists and confirmed by other laboratories. It might be a tetraquark particle or even a meson molecule, but scientists are just guessing for now.
The Constitution leaves that to the states, as it should.
The real problem is that "regulation of pollution" is political code for giving companies permission to pollute up to politically-determined levels without repercussions. In an equitable system, there would be no "pollution allowance". Anyone whose person or property was damaged by pollution would have the right to demand damages from the culprit.
One of the reasons particles like neutrons are hard to stop is that they have no charge and don't react with the electromagnetic fields that bind matter together. You basically need a collision between the neutron and an atomic nucleus to stop it.
A particle that doesn't interact electromagnetically, however, is (if I'm not mistaken) less likely to interfere with electronic equipment. Which is not to say hard-to-stop radiation like neutron radiation does no damage at all, but I'd be curious to know whether it's a concern at all for satellites.
Handwriting input systems tend to rely heavily on watching the order in which you draw the strokes of various letters, and they're generally designed only to recognize letters written in a small subset of the various forms a cursive letter can actually take.
"The basic premise of the book was that the internet has evolved to the point where everyone interfaces via a direct neural interface and it's experienced as a immersive 3d world with avatars etc."
That's not quite correctÂâ" the book (actually a four-tome series) is set in the near-future, and there's no such thing as direct neutral interfaces. They just use VR goggles and body suits suspended in special tanks.
Since the book has the protagonists making there way across many completely different and unrelated MMORPGs and other virtual worlds (including a Medieval fantasy game like World of Warcraft), I have difficulty seeing how a single MMO worth playing can be made from all of this.
Generally speaking, any vowel, diphthong or on-glide that does not exist for any words in one's native language is difficult to pronounce without training. There are plenty of sounds in Japanese and other languages that English-speakers are physiologically capable of making, yet cannot without help.
Naturally Japanese has numerous words for expressing groups of people that may or may not include the speaker; but living in Japan and having seen more than enough slogans and brand names that attempt to use words like "we", I stand by my observation that it tends to mean "everyone" or "we all" when a Japanese person uses it. Likewise, "my" tends to mean "personal", as in "maikaa", meaning a vehicle for personal use.
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I think you're wrong. Javascript and Canvas/HTML5 have just as much functionality as Flash, if not more, and Apple openly promotes and encourages development of Javascript apps, even though they bypass the App Store.
"Shoot, half the time employers don't even pay citizens the US market average."
At least your grasp of the meaning of "average" isn't too far off.
The US: the cheese fondue pot of the world?
Ugh, I hate modern corporateship. The point of forming a corporation is that the board and executives take legal and financial responsibility for the company in place of the owners (shareholders). The point is *not* to create a beast that can act without anyone taking responsibility.
Obviously things didn't work out too well for them, though. Their website URL now belongs to site-squatting advertisers.
That sounds like a lot of Windows pop-up boxes.
"The program is about to do something that might corrupt your data or even damage your computer.
[ OK ] "
Actually, rented content is the part that makes no sense when it comes to digital data. I understand renting physical media, because someone else wants to use it after me. But bytes?
I mean, what's Netflix afraid of? They think the movies they offer are so good that their customers will pay all over again to download the same bytes a second time? Are repeat viewers really the basis of their business model?
You've made many excellent observations in your post. I've thought for a long time that a one-size-fits-all court system just doesn't work well. I think the defendant in particular, in a lawsuit, should be able to have the case heard not only by a judge with expertise in the matter at hand and a track record of making fair judgments, but also in a court with procedures (rules of evidence, juried/non-juried, etc.) that are suited to the situation and profession involved.
The great thing about Japan is if you go and buy any gaming magazine from a newsstand, it's full of step-by-step instructions and screenshots on how to rip games or use bootlegs. :)
I know it is common to get mixed up between the EU and Europe, but you do know that Opera is Norwegian, and Norway is not a part of the EU, right?
At any rate, comparing Steve Jobs to Steve Ballmer is like comparing apples and... lemons.
I think if Mr. Jefferson could see what kind of presidency Mr. Obama has inherited, he would have fought to have no presidency at all.
The entire point of democracy is to go vote for stuff that you want at someone else's expense. Once you figure that out, you will see why there is actually no place for liberty or a liberty-inclined party in national politics.
Unfortunately, if it's such a stupid idea even a six-year-old could point out all the flaws, there's a good chance it will receive wide-reaching bipartisan support and Obama will extol its miraculous capacity for stimulating the economy.* The intelligence of your typical politican is somewhere between that of a potted fern and a day-old pot of uneaten macaroni-and-cheese. The integrity of your typical politician is worse yet -- so much so I'm embarrassed to even attempt to quantify it here.
*Other things Obama thinks will stimulate the economy: painting stop signs green, gargling with antifreeze, and spending a trillion dollars of someone else's money on pork-barrel projects.
This reminds me of a program the police had in California to reduce guns by offering several hundred bucks, no questions asked, for each firearm turned in by a citizen. People were going out to Walmart, buying all the cheapest rifles in stock, and exchanging them for bundles of cash. I think the program went bankrupt (having burned through all the taxpayer money available) without actually reducing the number of weapons owned.
Yeah, well, in Soviet waters, squid exploration leads to oil discoveries!
Me too. For me, the math works out:
Star Trek +1
J.J. Abrams -1
Simon Pegg +1
We just make it over the movie-viewing threshold of 0.
Heh, I know a bit about this because I just translated some technical documents on the subject.
Soldering was one of the last parts of the manufacturing process to be automated because of numerous technical challenges involved (and lead-free solder only makes it worse). A consortium of Japanese companies finally came up with a high-dexterity robot arm that was ideal for soldering. Although these robots are still being adopted elsewhere around the world, hand-soldering remains a specialized and well-paid profession.
There are several mysterious particles that aren't easily identified by the Standard Model. One in particular is the X(3872) particle, which was discovered by Japanese scientists and confirmed by other laboratories. It might be a tetraquark particle or even a meson molecule, but scientists are just guessing for now.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2008/04/13/the-charming-case-of-x3872/
Also the belief that more voting can change an enormously corrupt system that relies on voting for its legitimacy.
The Constitution leaves that to the states, as it should.
The real problem is that "regulation of pollution" is political code for giving companies permission to pollute up to politically-determined levels without repercussions. In an equitable system, there would be no "pollution allowance". Anyone whose person or property was damaged by pollution would have the right to demand damages from the culprit.
One of the reasons particles like neutrons are hard to stop is that they have no charge and don't react with the electromagnetic fields that bind matter together. You basically need a collision between the neutron and an atomic nucleus to stop it.
A particle that doesn't interact electromagnetically, however, is (if I'm not mistaken) less likely to interfere with electronic equipment. Which is not to say hard-to-stop radiation like neutron radiation does no damage at all, but I'd be curious to know whether it's a concern at all for satellites.
Handwriting input systems tend to rely heavily on watching the order in which you draw the strokes of various letters, and they're generally designed only to recognize letters written in a small subset of the various forms a cursive letter can actually take.
"The basic premise of the book was that the internet has evolved to the point where everyone interfaces via a direct neural interface and it's experienced as a immersive 3d world with avatars etc."
That's not quite correctÂâ" the book (actually a four-tome series) is set in the near-future, and there's no such thing as direct neutral interfaces. They just use VR goggles and body suits suspended in special tanks.
Since the book has the protagonists making there way across many completely different and unrelated MMORPGs and other virtual worlds (including a Medieval fantasy game like World of Warcraft), I have difficulty seeing how a single MMO worth playing can be made from all of this.
Generally speaking, any vowel, diphthong or on-glide that does not exist for any words in one's native language is difficult to pronounce without training. There are plenty of sounds in Japanese and other languages that English-speakers are physiologically capable of making, yet cannot without help.
Naturally Japanese has numerous words for expressing groups of people that may or may not include the speaker; but living in Japan and having seen more than enough slogans and brand names that attempt to use words like "we", I stand by my observation that it tends to mean "everyone" or "we all" when a Japanese person uses it. Likewise, "my" tends to mean "personal", as in "maikaa", meaning a vehicle for personal use.