Um, ever hear of John Scopes? He spent some time in prison for committing the "crime" of teaching things in violation of "Christian principles", and that was not too long ago. And don't think for a second the Christian fascists, erm I mean republican party isn't drooling all over themselves waiting to arrest any and all that refuse their religion.
complaint is that it's an SUV, then it is a complaint without merit
No, it is a complaint with a lot of merit. The very VERY small percentage of people that actually NEED SUVs(vs. the ones with fat asses and tiny penises, i.e. 99% of SUV owners out there) will not be served well at all with an electric vehicle as in offroad/wilderness situations places to recharge are few and far between. In those situations it's a hell of a lot easier to bring a can of gas or two than it is to bring fully loaded batteries.
How is it "not true at all"? A candy bar can be had for less than half the cost of an apple(I've never seen one for less than 100 yen). Most people have neither the time or connections to get apples from afar, so whether or not you can get them from a friend is irrelevant. Even the cheapest vegetables are more expensive than cup ramen(30 yen a carrot, 40 for an onion, even more for broccoli and cauliflower etc, and don't even get started on red and yellow peppers). Meanwhile in Germany the above list can be bought for a euro.
Thank in no small part to their agricultural policies as well. While the exact reasons and mechanisms differ, the end result is that like in the US, in Japan healthy food is MUCH more expensive than the cheap garbage. If you are a person trying to get by and a bowl of instant ramen with high caloric content and very little nutritional value can be had for 100 yen, but a lunch of vegetable soup(esp. if you buy fresh) and an apple will easily cost you at least 3x that amount. Which do you think people will prefer? And to make things worse, their ag policy doesn't put tariffs on sugar, so junk food is incredibly cheap, in fact a candy bar can be had for less than half the price of an apple. This is just like the states where crap food is subsidized to hell and fruits and vegetables get almost nothing.
I have lived in the US, Germany, and Japan and I can say without hesitation that although German ag policies are far from perfect, they are easily the best of the 3. Crap food is still cheap, but so are fruits and vegetables(I miss getting the vegetable soup pack they sold at my local Netto, everything you need to make a good fresh vegetable soup for little more than a Euro).
Thats a hard question to give a definitive answer to. A big part of it depends on how you use it. A very significant portion of cellular modem power consumption is how long it is in the "excited" state(i.e. sending, receiving, or waiting for data). So if you have a lot of periodic low bandwidth traffic(checking email for instance), 3g will probably consume less power than 4g as the latency is dominated by how long it takes the radio to transmit the data to the carrier, and since 4g doesn't really improve on that the latencies tend to be very similar.
For longer downloads it's also a mixed bag. If the bottleneck is your modem, and not your carrier or the remote client then 4g will probably not differ considerably from 3g as the 4g modem stays active for a much shorter period of time. However if thats not the case, then 3g will probably get a much better battery life than 4g. (This is also why the same phone doing the same stuff may get wildly different battery life numbers, when using a carrier with a high latency/drop rate, the modem has to stay active and consuming power even when it's only waiting for an ack/timeout, the same phone on a good network can wake up, communicate, then go back into a lower power state.)
And of course before that pretty much any console could be "upgraded" on a per-game basis with add-on chips, SuperFX probably being the most famous, though not the only one. Even back in the NES days some games would add extra chips to their game carts. Unfortunately the advent of the disc and downloads pretty much ended that era.
You are forgetting the other benefit of such a power brick, if a puma were to attack, you could use the power supply as sort of a makeshift mace, but instead of spikes piercing the puma, the intense heat melts its face off. Home security at its finest!
So I guess then by their logic Anne Boleyn should remain "guilty" for all eternity as well, after all she should have known better than to not bear a son.
For what it's worth, entrapment usually involves not only originating the idea, but also use of coercion(force, blackmail etc) to get someone to commit a crime. Otherwise those pointless drug and prostitution busts wouldn't be possible, and the police could save a lot of taxpayer money by not busting people who aren't criminals:P
Here is their secret recipe, are you ready? You mask the fact that you use the cheapest ingredients and are unwilling to pay real chefs to make the food by loading it with calories(if you put enough calories in something it will taste good, not necessarily great mind you, but good) and if that still isn't enough you mask the fact that you processed the food to the point where it's flavor only vaguely resembles what it is supposed to be by using a massive amount of spice. There, I just gave you the "trade secrets" of almost every chain restaurant in the US, and I didn't have to hack anything, just used the most basic reverse engineering techniques, I.e. I ate there.
Ultimately though it does depend on the size of your organization. If you only have a few IT people you need jack of all trades people who can handle a variety of challenges. Furthermore they don't need to be huge "experts" in any particular area as "experts" can be rented, either by buying commodity products that do the job or by contracting out stuff. However on the other hand if you are part of a huge organization then you almost have to be a specialist in some area as thats the only way you can really create every more complex and cutting-edge systems.
Kutaragi seemed to not appreciate the difficulty of programming the Cell processor
No, he failed to realize one data point does not a trend make. Part of what made the PS2 so popular was the DVD player, as DVD movies offered a lot more functionality over their VHS counterparts, so naturally they were quite popular and being able to get a console and DVD player in one was a no-brainer for a lot of people.
However, Sony(and we can assume Kutaragi) assumed that people will want to upgrade to whatever the newest format is, as long as you bundle it with your console. Thus they pushed Blu-Ray despite the fact that Blu-Ray added a lot of extra cost to the unit for very little benefit. Unlike the VHS to DVD transition, where pretty much every single genre of video benefitted, only a select few movies truly benefitted from the HD format, and only then you had to have an HD TV to get any real benefit from it(whereas DVD worked with any old TV). So in the end Sony's decision to include blu-ray in the PS3 delayed it's release, added considerable cost to the unit, and in general gave Microsoft a golden opportunity. Had Sony stuck with a DVD for the ps3 and released it considerably earlier at a much lower price point(the blu-ray was the major hinderance) their dominance in the home console market would probably have continued for this generation and beyond.....thats why execs need to know some basic statistical principles I guess:P
That 4.3% is an absolute lie and the Japanese know it is. First off they consider anyone working even an hour a week as "employed", secondly the number masks the massive number of people(mostly middle aged older men who used to work in factories or were middle managers) they hire to do absolutely pointless shit. In a country with one of the lowest crime levels in the world, they have an awfully large number of security guards. And then there are the guys they hire to go around putting "tickets" on bikes, and the guys they hire to hold signs telling people not to use their cell phones while driving, and the guys they hire to man crosswalks with perfectly valid signals(the list can go on for days), not to mention the massive over-construction and not counting a large number of women as being "unemployed" because they "voluntarily" quit work to have kids. The real Japanese unemployment number is easily over 10%, probably closer to 15%. The US number isn't perfect, but it is a much more accurate reflection of the true unemployment rate than the Japanese number is.
No, China does not own 70% of Japan's debt, I don't know where you got that number, but it's not even close to being correct. an overview of Japan(and other countries') debts as compiled by the CIA. Japan's total debt to gdp ratio is about 200% of it's $5.5 trillion GDP, or roughly $11 trillion dollars. The foreign held debt is about 2.4 trillion, or only about 22% or so, so there is no way China could hold 70% of Japan's debts. Even if it held 70% of the foreign-owned debt, thats only about 16% of the total, a non-trivial amount to be sure, but nowhere near 70%
Just for the record, living in Japan doesn't give you any sort of special insight into this stuff, and if you are going to correct people, please make sure you are even remotely correct before doing so, otherwise it makes you look like an idiot English teacher.
Not only that, it's probably that "professional" stuff that is more comedy than anything erotic, if you really want free porn, there are a massive number of free youtube-like porn sites out there.
And you really think they won't go the next step and remove that as well? Furthermore, do they explain what "withheld" means? I doubt anyone not familiar with Twitter will realize what that means(not to mention doing so is probably worse than just deleting it, as it essentially marks the poster as a 'troublemaker')
No, it is very relevant. Besides the fact that not everyone knows about proxies(and they are still not trivial to use on mobile devices, which is what many protesters use), you also have the fact that this is very much a "silent" form of censorship. Unlike less "refined" methods of censorship(for instance the "great firewall of China" where whole sites are blocked), you may not even realize that something had been censored. I doubt there are a significant number of people so paranoid that they constantly connect via a proxy just to check their twitter, esp. since proxies can often introduce a non-trivial amount of latency.
You don't even need to go that far, the US has one of the highest infant mortality rates on the planet, not just among rich countries, but in the world, and a big part of that is very little access to pre and post-natal care for women and their infants. And yet among pro-lifers you will find the most vociferous opponents of any sort of health assistance for those "leaches" who don't have enough money to get proper care. Lovely people.
Of course Microsoft must be incompatible for the sake of being incompatible, for instance the only one of the "big 3" OSs that doesn't support pthreads(and thus a whole bunch of otherwise cross platform C code) is....drumroll please....Microsoft!
Now that C support in Android is getting better and better, it is completely possible to write the bulk of your program in cross platform C/C++, and only have to add in the UI hooks for the individual platforms. Of course this leaves out WP7, but really, with a comically low market share, who gives a shit out that ugly, buggy pile of puke? (i.e. a Microsoft product)
About 90 percent of the scientists agreed with the first question and 82 percent the second.
If your reading comprehension is that poor that you cannot even understand what that means, it's not even worth talking to you, much like other anti global warmers, you lack the necessary cognitive functions to understand basic science.
Um, your analogy is flawed, this would be akin to Rosa Parks beating the shit out of the bus driver after telling her to sit in the back of the bus. Somehow I doubt that would have evoked the same reaction as her protest did
How many DECADES have reporters been saying that losing the edge has been "right around the corner". This is just another example of a reporter who is too lazy to do a real story drumming up some sensationalism to get page views. Next.
A lot of the hype comes from the researchers/builders of the printers themselves, partly because they want to sell stuff, partly because they want 3d printing to be "sexy", and thus want to target the more "sexier" areas, building houses, spaceships etc. But as you say, those things are really hard to print, and the sacrifices that must be made often outweigh the benefits.
However, 3d printing WILL revolutionize some industries, but for those industries aren't very "sexy". One of those things is retail, or at least certain segments of the retail industry, namely those low-volume, low-margin products that most stores have to sell in order to be able to sell higher volume, higher margin items.
One such example is the lowly spatula. How many spatulas do most people have, one? two at most. Spatulas are also pretty "commodity" and thus have really low margins. And since most stores are not Spatula City and do not specialize in spatulas, they cannot get discounts in bulk. Now most stores would love just to not sell them, but if they do they risk alienating customers who want "one-stop shopping" for their kitchen needs. So the store has to maintain a whole logistical chain just to supply spatulas, and have to tie up capital in having large #s of spatulas sit on their shelves. Now enter 3d printing, all you have to do is maintain the supply chain for your 3d printer ink, and since there are tons of items in any given department store, you end up with a vastly reduced supply chain. And since you can link the printer in to the stores inventory system so you only make these items when you absolutely need them, reducing the amount of capital you have tied up in them.
However, saying you are "revolutionizing the spatula industry" isn't likely to impress a lot of chicks, so most 3d printer enthusiasts focus on much bigger, if impractical, applications....
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Um, ever hear of John Scopes? He spent some time in prison for committing the "crime" of teaching things in violation of "Christian principles", and that was not too long ago. And don't think for a second the Christian fascists, erm I mean republican party isn't drooling all over themselves waiting to arrest any and all that refuse their religion.
complaint is that it's an SUV, then it is a complaint without merit
No, it is a complaint with a lot of merit. The very VERY small percentage of people that actually NEED SUVs(vs. the ones with fat asses and tiny penises, i.e. 99% of SUV owners out there) will not be served well at all with an electric vehicle as in offroad/wilderness situations places to recharge are few and far between. In those situations it's a hell of a lot easier to bring a can of gas or two than it is to bring fully loaded batteries.
How is it "not true at all"? A candy bar can be had for less than half the cost of an apple(I've never seen one for less than 100 yen). Most people have neither the time or connections to get apples from afar, so whether or not you can get them from a friend is irrelevant. Even the cheapest vegetables are more expensive than cup ramen(30 yen a carrot, 40 for an onion, even more for broccoli and cauliflower etc, and don't even get started on red and yellow peppers). Meanwhile in Germany the above list can be bought for a euro.
Thank in no small part to their agricultural policies as well. While the exact reasons and mechanisms differ, the end result is that like in the US, in Japan healthy food is MUCH more expensive than the cheap garbage. If you are a person trying to get by and a bowl of instant ramen with high caloric content and very little nutritional value can be had for 100 yen, but a lunch of vegetable soup(esp. if you buy fresh) and an apple will easily cost you at least 3x that amount. Which do you think people will prefer? And to make things worse, their ag policy doesn't put tariffs on sugar, so junk food is incredibly cheap, in fact a candy bar can be had for less than half the price of an apple. This is just like the states where crap food is subsidized to hell and fruits and vegetables get almost nothing.
I have lived in the US, Germany, and Japan and I can say without hesitation that although German ag policies are far from perfect, they are easily the best of the 3. Crap food is still cheap, but so are fruits and vegetables(I miss getting the vegetable soup pack they sold at my local Netto, everything you need to make a good fresh vegetable soup for little more than a Euro).
Thats a hard question to give a definitive answer to. A big part of it depends on how you use it. A very significant portion of cellular modem power consumption is how long it is in the "excited" state(i.e. sending, receiving, or waiting for data). So if you have a lot of periodic low bandwidth traffic(checking email for instance), 3g will probably consume less power than 4g as the latency is dominated by how long it takes the radio to transmit the data to the carrier, and since 4g doesn't really improve on that the latencies tend to be very similar.
For longer downloads it's also a mixed bag. If the bottleneck is your modem, and not your carrier or the remote client then 4g will probably not differ considerably from 3g as the 4g modem stays active for a much shorter period of time. However if thats not the case, then 3g will probably get a much better battery life than 4g. (This is also why the same phone doing the same stuff may get wildly different battery life numbers, when using a carrier with a high latency/drop rate, the modem has to stay active and consuming power even when it's only waiting for an ack/timeout, the same phone on a good network can wake up, communicate, then go back into a lower power state.)
And of course before that pretty much any console could be "upgraded" on a per-game basis with add-on chips, SuperFX probably being the most famous, though not the only one. Even back in the NES days some games would add extra chips to their game carts. Unfortunately the advent of the disc and downloads pretty much ended that era.
You are forgetting the other benefit of such a power brick, if a puma were to attack, you could use the power supply as sort of a makeshift mace, but instead of spikes piercing the puma, the intense heat melts its face off. Home security at its finest!
So I guess then by their logic Anne Boleyn should remain "guilty" for all eternity as well, after all she should have known better than to not bear a son.
For what it's worth, entrapment usually involves not only originating the idea, but also use of coercion(force, blackmail etc) to get someone to commit a crime. Otherwise those pointless drug and prostitution busts wouldn't be possible, and the police could save a lot of taxpayer money by not busting people who aren't criminals :P
Here is their secret recipe, are you ready? You mask the fact that you use the cheapest ingredients and are unwilling to pay real chefs to make the food by loading it with calories(if you put enough calories in something it will taste good, not necessarily great mind you, but good) and if that still isn't enough you mask the fact that you processed the food to the point where it's flavor only vaguely resembles what it is supposed to be by using a massive amount of spice. There, I just gave you the "trade secrets" of almost every chain restaurant in the US, and I didn't have to hack anything, just used the most basic reverse engineering techniques, I.e. I ate there.
Ultimately though it does depend on the size of your organization. If you only have a few IT people you need jack of all trades people who can handle a variety of challenges. Furthermore they don't need to be huge "experts" in any particular area as "experts" can be rented, either by buying commodity products that do the job or by contracting out stuff. However on the other hand if you are part of a huge organization then you almost have to be a specialist in some area as thats the only way you can really create every more complex and cutting-edge systems.
Kutaragi seemed to not appreciate the difficulty of programming the Cell processor
:P
No, he failed to realize one data point does not a trend make. Part of what made the PS2 so popular was the DVD player, as DVD movies offered a lot more functionality over their VHS counterparts, so naturally they were quite popular and being able to get a console and DVD player in one was a no-brainer for a lot of people.
However, Sony(and we can assume Kutaragi) assumed that people will want to upgrade to whatever the newest format is, as long as you bundle it with your console. Thus they pushed Blu-Ray despite the fact that Blu-Ray added a lot of extra cost to the unit for very little benefit. Unlike the VHS to DVD transition, where pretty much every single genre of video benefitted, only a select few movies truly benefitted from the HD format, and only then you had to have an HD TV to get any real benefit from it(whereas DVD worked with any old TV). So in the end Sony's decision to include blu-ray in the PS3 delayed it's release, added considerable cost to the unit, and in general gave Microsoft a golden opportunity. Had Sony stuck with a DVD for the ps3 and released it considerably earlier at a much lower price point(the blu-ray was the major hinderance) their dominance in the home console market would probably have continued for this generation and beyond.....thats why execs need to know some basic statistical principles I guess
That 4.3% is an absolute lie and the Japanese know it is. First off they consider anyone working even an hour a week as "employed", secondly the number masks the massive number of people(mostly middle aged older men who used to work in factories or were middle managers) they hire to do absolutely pointless shit. In a country with one of the lowest crime levels in the world, they have an awfully large number of security guards. And then there are the guys they hire to go around putting "tickets" on bikes, and the guys they hire to hold signs telling people not to use their cell phones while driving, and the guys they hire to man crosswalks with perfectly valid signals(the list can go on for days), not to mention the massive over-construction and not counting a large number of women as being "unemployed" because they "voluntarily" quit work to have kids. The real Japanese unemployment number is easily over 10%, probably closer to 15%. The US number isn't perfect, but it is a much more accurate reflection of the true unemployment rate than the Japanese number is.
No, China does not own 70% of Japan's debt, I don't know where you got that number, but it's not even close to being correct. an overview of Japan(and other countries') debts as compiled by the CIA. Japan's total debt to gdp ratio is about 200% of it's $5.5 trillion GDP, or roughly $11 trillion dollars. The foreign held debt is about 2.4 trillion, or only about 22% or so, so there is no way China could hold 70% of Japan's debts. Even if it held 70% of the foreign-owned debt, thats only about 16% of the total, a non-trivial amount to be sure, but nowhere near 70%
Just for the record, living in Japan doesn't give you any sort of special insight into this stuff, and if you are going to correct people, please make sure you are even remotely correct before doing so, otherwise it makes you look like an idiot English teacher.
Not only that, it's probably that "professional" stuff that is more comedy than anything erotic, if you really want free porn, there are a massive number of free youtube-like porn sites out there.
And you really think they won't go the next step and remove that as well? Furthermore, do they explain what "withheld" means? I doubt anyone not familiar with Twitter will realize what that means(not to mention doing so is probably worse than just deleting it, as it essentially marks the poster as a 'troublemaker')
No, it is very relevant. Besides the fact that not everyone knows about proxies(and they are still not trivial to use on mobile devices, which is what many protesters use), you also have the fact that this is very much a "silent" form of censorship. Unlike less "refined" methods of censorship(for instance the "great firewall of China" where whole sites are blocked), you may not even realize that something had been censored. I doubt there are a significant number of people so paranoid that they constantly connect via a proxy just to check their twitter, esp. since proxies can often introduce a non-trivial amount of latency.
You don't even need to go that far, the US has one of the highest infant mortality rates on the planet, not just among rich countries, but in the world, and a big part of that is very little access to pre and post-natal care for women and their infants. And yet among pro-lifers you will find the most vociferous opponents of any sort of health assistance for those "leaches" who don't have enough money to get proper care. Lovely people.
Of course Microsoft must be incompatible for the sake of being incompatible, for instance the only one of the "big 3" OSs that doesn't support pthreads(and thus a whole bunch of otherwise cross platform C code) is....drumroll please....Microsoft!
Now that C support in Android is getting better and better, it is completely possible to write the bulk of your program in cross platform C/C++, and only have to add in the UI hooks for the individual platforms. Of course this leaves out WP7, but really, with a comically low market share, who gives a shit out that ugly, buggy pile of puke? (i.e. a Microsoft product)
About 90 percent of the scientists agreed with the first question and 82 percent the second.
If your reading comprehension is that poor that you cannot even understand what that means, it's not even worth talking to you, much like other anti global warmers, you lack the necessary cognitive functions to understand basic science.
Um, your analogy is flawed, this would be akin to Rosa Parks beating the shit out of the bus driver after telling her to sit in the back of the bus. Somehow I doubt that would have evoked the same reaction as her protest did
How many DECADES have reporters been saying that losing the edge has been "right around the corner". This is just another example of a reporter who is too lazy to do a real story drumming up some sensationalism to get page views. Next.
Ok, so it's only 90% with shills for the oil industry being the biggest doubters.
A lot of the hype comes from the researchers/builders of the printers themselves, partly because they want to sell stuff, partly because they want 3d printing to be "sexy", and thus want to target the more "sexier" areas, building houses, spaceships etc. But as you say, those things are really hard to print, and the sacrifices that must be made often outweigh the benefits.
However, 3d printing WILL revolutionize some industries, but for those industries aren't very "sexy". One of those things is retail, or at least certain segments of the retail industry, namely those low-volume, low-margin products that most stores have to sell in order to be able to sell higher volume, higher margin items.
One such example is the lowly spatula. How many spatulas do most people have, one? two at most. Spatulas are also pretty "commodity" and thus have really low margins. And since most stores are not Spatula City and do not specialize in spatulas, they cannot get discounts in bulk. Now most stores would love just to not sell them, but if they do they risk alienating customers who want "one-stop shopping" for their kitchen needs. So the store has to maintain a whole logistical chain just to supply spatulas, and have to tie up capital in having large #s of spatulas sit on their shelves. Now enter 3d printing, all you have to do is maintain the supply chain for your 3d printer ink, and since there are tons of items in any given department store, you end up with a vastly reduced supply chain. And since you can link the printer in to the stores inventory system so you only make these items when you absolutely need them, reducing the amount of capital you have tied up in them.
However, saying you are "revolutionizing the spatula industry" isn't likely to impress a lot of chicks, so most 3d printer enthusiasts focus on much bigger, if impractical, applications....
Are they sure it wasn't just a penny rounding scheme gone terribly awry?