1. Text messaging with KDDI (I'll use the c-mail system for a comparison. Email would be even more of a joke on their unlimited plans) cost me less than 1JPY per message.
2. Casio's screen is facing the keypad when pocketed. Japanese almost always use "peak-guards" to keep people from reading their mail. It's just a replacable plastic filter that goes over the screen.
3. Whatever. iPhone comes with a 2-year contract. Consistent with manufacturing costs? It should be much cheaper than manufacturing costs with that big 2-year subsidy.
4. GM's doing great. You're kicker is "some stuff" as if most of it is in fact made for the Japanese market XD
Not that I even care. I'm attacking US providers, and the reaction to iPhone was merely my initial source of confusion.
For AT&T's latest quarterly results, "Wireless service average revenue per user, or Arpu, rose 3.6% to $50.63"
"Japanese operator KDDI saw its operating profit rise more than 15 percent in the first quarter......at the au service and ARPU stood at JPY 6,150, up 5.6 percent year-on-year."
Get it straight. The technology is already there. GSM and CDMA networks are up and running in the states. It's not about having the latest phones. It's about what we pay for what we get here.
Would you rather:
A) Pay less for a stripped down plan and get a lexan coated clamshell
B) Pay a lot for a stripped down plan and get a lexan coated clamshell
AU sells "kantan" keitais. They are simple phones for -special- people. Grey headed? They have a phone for you. And the best part is that they are cheaper. No, you don't have to buy a BMW, but I'll guarantee you that even the Hyundais of pack are relatively expensive here.
Almost forgot. If what you say is true, it means that what's going on in the US is because of a difference in business model evolution in an environment where no providers have yet broken rank. US providers have figured out they can get away with charging for these things, and I'll bet there's some collaboration.
Great points. I can totally relate to the mass-transit-must-email-everyone-I-know phenomenon. Two hours of busses and subways a day kept me in touch with a lot of people ^_^;
Now, first I thought the poster was clueless, but then I saw some of the replies here, and jeez, guys, you're usually sharper than this. Yes. Hence I asked slashdot ^_^...okay so I'm really using/. as a mouthpiece to both vent at US telcos and inform all of the wonderful/.'ers that they should expect more for less.
Let me pause for a moment of on-topic punditry... No phone is perfect. US providers offer much less capable phones for higher prices with more conditional contracts and more expensive service. That is what I have yet to get behind.
Alright, you've sold me on the interface advantages, but the focus of my question is on the price/satisfaction ratio gap between the US and JP, not on the iPhone-W41CA comparison. Still, your arguments are noted. I will pray that iPhone results in better interfaces across the board. As for features, no, iPhone is only a quantum leap compared to the crap I'm faced with now.
Sorry I ended up making a really weak comparison, but that wasn't the purpose. However, there are a few assessments I don't agree with. Most notably, I don't consider touchscreen to be pure progress. I can type in Japanese on my keitai without looking at it. I walk around with it at my side and continue punching out an email. Japanese or English. I'm not convinced I would ever be as useful with a virtual keypad as a real keypad. The buttons on the 41CA have a very nice rooftop design that make it extremely easy to feel the keys. The Keypad on the 41CA is all I would ask for. I will admit that the Apple's touchscreen will end up being more versatile. What I'd really pay attention to is a model I saw in Akiba. It was much like the DS with a touchscreen on one side and a regular screen on the other side. It's a clamshell design, so it's probably a bit more pocket-garbage proof.
I checked out the Q-phone, and I would bet that it's actually a bit more versatile than the 41CA on the software side. Buying through AU almost guaranteed that I was locked to AU's interface. Their music player was also a bit of a pain, being DRM infested. Quickest way around that was CD rental/internet cafe's. Q-phone is a far cry south on sexiness. Spin-chassis phones are really nice. It's very good as a phone and then very good as a camera or music player.
I have to point out that my Casio cost me about $15, activation charges aside, and I can't, for love or money, come up with a comperable model in Oklahoma. Simply put, the W41CA was far from the pinnacle of keitais but trumps far more expensive models in the US. The service from AU was incredibly cheap compared to what I would pay for similar services in Japan. For what I paid, the W41CA and service from AU were amazing compared to what's getting pitched at me from kiosks in the states.
Another thing that stands out in the comparison is that we're comparing a W41CA to an iPhone. These are two models. If I want a cool phone in the states, I get an iPhone. If I want a cool phone in Japan, I have about fourty models to choose from and all come with multiple colors. Compare that to the Samsung Hue which is marketed for its changeable faceplates. Give me a break. Aftermarket faceplate swaps have been around forever. (I must admit I wouldn't have seen any ad gimmicks in Japan simply because I don't bother reading anything in Japanese unless I'm convinced I'll be more informed after reading it.)
Finally, the W41CA was cool, but it's over a year old now. There probably isn't a worn iPhone in existence yet. You really should compare it to the W53CA.
It will take years of testing to figure out whether all this darned radiation is affecting our brains...but until then, since when was anyone hurt by a tenfoil hat?!
Lol. Heard of Prometheus? I heard he invented fire. Like, whoah! Like, Slashdot on unicorn steroids! Anyway, the best remedy feeling compelled to write something like this is to realize that you've overextended a metaphor.
I'll hazard a guess that you feel rushed and pushed because in your mind you have a set of goals that have been thrust upon you by society. The obvious ones are stuff like "get a job", "get married", and the myriad of implications that ideas like those carry. We must be "successful", but measured against what the mainstream decrees that successful is.
At this point in my life, I can't say there's a damned thing society can do about me:-D Still, congratulations on not going A->B->C etc. It's too early for me to see this by far, but I suspect it takes some character to move on once you feel like you've wasted time off course? Anyway, hopefully every new experience will keep proving useful, and I'll never have to say I've wasted any...okay, never mind. There are some, but at least I know how to see them coming.
Lol. Read my response to the transhumanist. I think you'll find more than a binary argument going on. Mathematically, living in an ideological point seperates you from being able to engage with values that exist in any other number of dimensions. (I'm have yet to ever hear of negative dimensions, but if they have been defined, I don't know of their behavior, so I can't speak to them.) Where's another place I've heard this...someone find the quote from Spock in the Wrath of Khan =D
I honestly had to pull up wikipedia and do a quick overview just to get on the same page, as I have niether really studied into any transhumanist schools nor encountered enough of the opposition arguments to have much of a sense of where the argument exists. On it's face, however, I can say I don't feel the need for a complete overhaul. Just some basics. I'm not interested in being immune to death. I just wish I had more time so that I wouldn't feel like I'm limited on what I can accomplish with one brief lifetime. My argument for this is that our lives are too short, so short that a generation is only twenty years and there's neither time nor incentive to worry about a single life that's going to be so insignificant.
My initial impression of transhumanism is that it's a desire to defeat a universe that inevitably kills us. To that, I'll say there are countless ways to live forever through the echoes of your life. Make an impression you want to leave.
In response to transhumanism, I can say only this: The desire to extend the capabilities of our physical bodies is not nearly as commendible as the desire to extend the defining human characteristic and essense: will; and you can do that all by yourself.
lol...sue them. The US...FDA(?) decided that people would be too confused (after the laughable failure to convert to metric?) so they opted to drop the 'k' from kcal. It's usage is so ubiquitous that people in the states have to use the term "calorie" in place of "kcal" in order for 99% of people to know what they're talking about.
Furthermore, if suddenly the FDA decided labels should start carrying kcals, people would be confused into thinking that every meal would constitute hedonism. There would be environmentalist groups (not the respectable kind) shouting at congress to mandate the burning of fast-food for power generation following the technological advancement in the food industry that lead to a 1000X increase in energy density. You're talking about a nation that elected George Bush and Cheney...twice.
I certainly can't see the body as being something so simple that it works as if each enzyme has 1,000,000,000 uses before it breaks and only 1,000,000,000,000 such enzymes can be created. There certainly could be subtle variables that influence how things operate in the sense that some conditions could cause things to operate without breaking themselves or other machinery. Even in simple o-chem experiments, altering proportions can lead to an entirely different reactions because new pathways become favorable. For something as complex as an organism, there are undoubtedly trillions of relationships between processes that can affect the efficiency or alter the outcome of another. Isolating them is of course another matter altogether, but if nature has hardcoded in something to do that work (expirimentally determining how to tweak the machine to operate less self-destructively) can't we take advantage of it?
Something about the smoking really struck me as ironic. You could use smoking in place of eating to bump down your calory intake since smoking is effective for reducing hunger (I don't know the mechanism.) Kids in bad places do it to keep from feeling like they're starving all the time. I did it for a while in Kyoto when I was short on cash. 300yen worth of cigarettes is like 2000yen worth of food in terms of staying ahead of the hunger. Now...if only it was something other than cigarettes XD
If I could get a few more years earlier in life while I still have gobs of energy and relatively no responsibilities... Suddenly four years for a degree wouldn't seem like a huge investment. A year of study abroad in Japan wouldn't be an issue. I might have two hobbies. Long term investments would make more sense. I would take more time to learn more things, aquire more skills, and experience a broader life.
In short, I think living longer would make it a lot easier to live sensibly. As it is, if I have to weight the risks of investing time or taking something I can do now, I end up taking the most courageous and risky courses possible.
I don't think it's a relative thing either. Not in the sense that, regardless of whatever time-span I had, I would always wish, "Wow, if only I had twice as much." In an absolute sense, I just don't think I'll ever have the years to do all the things I want to. It makes it seem really pointless to invest eight years into something (for instance, undergrad + med-school) when it's such a large investment that, by the time I get done, I will have lost many opportunities of youth, but I couldn't put such a thing off because, who wants to invest eight years in something that will only pay off for twenty?
Humanity is robbed. People live crazy lives because we are going to die too soon to live fully, so life is futile. Damn whatever you recognize as the determining factor of our longevity. The light is green to research like this.
Not even SUNW is big enough to swallow AMD. You need about $14bn in cold hard cash to be able to both purchase AMD and pay off their debts significantly enough to come out as a healthy company in the end. If you have to raise debt to make that purchase, it's a lost cause. Hell, Intel almost isn't big enough to swallow DAAMIT anymore.
Alright, someone is making this judgement with a paintbrush when they should be using a calculator.
Apple doesn't have enough cash to buy AMD and currently has only $9.8bn in assets. They also have $6.4bn in long and short term debts. AMD would cost about $7.3bn to buy based on today's market cap. Apple would have to pay about a 20% premium to that at least, making it about $8.8bn. To then pay off AMD's debts, $9.4bn including the latest senior note offering, Apple would need that ammount of cash in excess (or at least enough to make a dent.)
The biggest reason an AMD buyout could make sense would be: A) Apple and AMD do business with each other, and thereby can be more tightly integrated so that the pair profit more than the parts. B) Apple has the cash to pay off AMD debts so that AMD can quit getting slaughtered on interest payments ever quarter.
Apple could do business with AMD, but its not likely to streamline any part of the production process for either company. There is the notion that an Apple halo could be beneficial for AMD (DAAMIT). There is the unlikely possibility that Apple management would bring new life into AMD and all the sudden AMD would get twice as much innovation done and all their chips would have white substrates that collect fingerprints and come with click-wheels.
You can see where I'm going with this. Apple doesn't have the cash to buy AMD and then turn around and pay off the debt significantly. The two combined companies would together still have so much debt that instead of just AMD being at risk of bankrupcty, Apple would be dragged in as well.
That said, if you're a level 75 venture capitalist with full merits and $18bn floating around, buying AMD isn't a bad idea. The gains in interest would instantly boost AMD's earnings by hundreds of millions per year, not to mention create a stonger DAAMIT to continue exploiting the natural tendency towards duopololy in this competitive, capital intensive industry.
Buy AMD. Make it healthy. Sell it back to the street for three times what you paid in ten years. Then go find something to do with $54bn dollars.
lol....I live in right next to . No, no, no...it's not that I can't get dairy. I can buy peanut butter if I work my ass off. I can even buy the attempted peanut butter from my local super. Then there's peanut cream at Lawson. It's...close.
The issue is that dairy is nowhere near as ubiquitous, and what there is isn't served up like it is in the states. No huge bricks of cheese at the super. No ordering five $5 hot-and-ready's. Milk comes in quarts at most and is usually mixed with something funky. Cereal is like 380yen a box for what I eat in one sitting. It's a far cry from when I used to go through a gallon every four-five days along with ice-cream, and cheese by the pound.
I'm sorry, but I can't have this conversation. I'm getting hungry, and it will last all day.
I looked at the article a bit more. They say fortified rice and soy beverages. I doubt soy sauce falls into that category, and I can't read enough to determine anything about the rice. The search continues. Might concede and just buy some pills. Depends on how this gets accepted. Don't want to be an early adopter and have my skin turn orange.
Sweet. I have an excuse to vedge out on sushi all day. Fish, soy, and rice. The triumvirate of awesomeness ^_^ Maybe Asian happy faces are good for health to. I really appreciate the info!
The issue is highly technical. Given the high penetrance of curry into any available sink material, foods with weak structural integrity will be overpressured by the diffusion of curry into the material with no corresponding outflow to balance the internal pressure. Many types of fish will incur multiple structual failures within the filet and, upon agitation prior to consumption, will dissintegrate, complicating consumption and lowering the throughput of nutriant flows.
Fish falls apart when you cook it. It's that simple. I use either chicken or squid because they are both available and squid is a very tough meat...at least until it's been curried. The real issue is that I use a lot of different ingredients including lots of onions, bell-peppers, or whatever else looks interesting at the supermarket as I can't tell that anything is capable of making curry unappetizing. It takes me about 30min just to get everything in the pot. When I find a fish that has decent vitamin d content and can stay in one piece (more than chicken at least, which squid doesn't seem to) I will use it in place of chicken.
Then there's the issue of making sure to add about five or six limes and boiling the shit out of it to make sure I cause any DNA strands to seperate. Wouldn't want those to survive that ultra hot 100C environment. Of course it varies depending on what types of molecular structures are present, but vitamins aren't the most complex or fragile ones in general. I could just take your word for it and die from eating nothing but cooked food...or at least I could try really hard.
You have yet to read the paper, but you do not agree that Vitamin D deficiency can be responsible for 60% of about cancers. Congratulations. You have a lifetime supply of straw man ashes.
All you did was list reasons why you're skeptical of the results, yet you haven't read the paper. Granted they are plausible reasons, someone who is capable of excercising this kind of critique could do the world a favor by reading the article to either confirm or address their skepticism and then posting their final interpretation of the article.
This post is like reading intial lab notes. I don't care what you're hunch is now if you can follow through on the data (do several hundred more experiments in the lab) and come to something more conclusive. The paper isn't a state secret. Read it.
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1. Text messaging with KDDI (I'll use the c-mail system for a comparison. Email would be even more of a joke on their unlimited plans) cost me less than 1JPY per message.
2. Casio's screen is facing the keypad when pocketed. Japanese almost always use "peak-guards" to keep people from reading their mail. It's just a replacable plastic filter that goes over the screen.
3. Whatever. iPhone comes with a 2-year contract. Consistent with manufacturing costs? It should be much cheaper than manufacturing costs with that big 2-year subsidy.
4. GM's doing great. You're kicker is "some stuff" as if most of it is in fact made for the Japanese market XD
Not that I even care. I'm attacking US providers, and the reaction to iPhone was merely my initial source of confusion.
Whatever
...at the au service and ARPU stood at JPY 6,150, up 5.6 percent year-on-year."
For AT&T's latest quarterly results, "Wireless service average revenue per user, or Arpu, rose 3.6% to $50.63"
"Japanese operator KDDI saw its operating profit rise more than 15 percent in the first quarter...
AT&T results
KDDI results
You care to try and explain this? $50.63 is almost exactly 6150¥. I was using KDDI in Japan. I was a Cingular customer back in the states. What give?
Get it straight. The technology is already there. GSM and CDMA networks are up and running in the states. It's not about having the latest phones. It's about what we pay for what we get here.
Would you rather:
A) Pay less for a stripped down plan and get a lexan coated clamshell
B) Pay a lot for a stripped down plan and get a lexan coated clamshell
AU sells "kantan" keitais. They are simple phones for -special- people. Grey headed? They have a phone for you. And the best part is that they are cheaper. No, you don't have to buy a BMW, but I'll guarantee you that even the Hyundais of pack are relatively expensive here.
Almost forgot. If what you say is true, it means that what's going on in the US is because of a difference in business model evolution in an environment where no providers have yet broken rank. US providers have figured out they can get away with charging for these things, and I'll bet there's some collaboration.
Thank you! 333
Let me pause for a moment of on-topic punditry... No phone is perfect. US providers offer much less capable phones for higher prices with more conditional contracts and more expensive service. That is what I have yet to get behind.
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Alright, you've sold me on the interface advantages, but the focus of my question is on the price/satisfaction ratio gap between the US and JP, not on the iPhone-W41CA comparison. Still, your arguments are noted. I will pray that iPhone results in better interfaces across the board. As for features, no, iPhone is only a quantum leap compared to the crap I'm faced with now.
Sorry I ended up making a really weak comparison, but that wasn't the purpose. However, there are a few assessments I don't agree with. Most notably, I don't consider touchscreen to be pure progress. I can type in Japanese on my keitai without looking at it. I walk around with it at my side and continue punching out an email. Japanese or English. I'm not convinced I would ever be as useful with a virtual keypad as a real keypad. The buttons on the 41CA have a very nice rooftop design that make it extremely easy to feel the keys. The Keypad on the 41CA is all I would ask for. I will admit that the Apple's touchscreen will end up being more versatile. What I'd really pay attention to is a model I saw in Akiba. It was much like the DS with a touchscreen on one side and a regular screen on the other side. It's a clamshell design, so it's probably a bit more pocket-garbage proof.
I checked out the Q-phone, and I would bet that it's actually a bit more versatile than the 41CA on the software side. Buying through AU almost guaranteed that I was locked to AU's interface. Their music player was also a bit of a pain, being DRM infested. Quickest way around that was CD rental/internet cafe's. Q-phone is a far cry south on sexiness. Spin-chassis phones are really nice. It's very good as a phone and then very good as a camera or music player.
I have to point out that my Casio cost me about $15, activation charges aside, and I can't, for love or money, come up with a comperable model in Oklahoma. Simply put, the W41CA was far from the pinnacle of keitais but trumps far more expensive models in the US. The service from AU was incredibly cheap compared to what I would pay for similar services in Japan. For what I paid, the W41CA and service from AU were amazing compared to what's getting pitched at me from kiosks in the states.
Another thing that stands out in the comparison is that we're comparing a W41CA to an iPhone. These are two models. If I want a cool phone in the states, I get an iPhone. If I want a cool phone in Japan, I have about fourty models to choose from and all come with multiple colors. Compare that to the Samsung Hue which is marketed for its changeable faceplates. Give me a break. Aftermarket faceplate swaps have been around forever. (I must admit I wouldn't have seen any ad gimmicks in Japan simply because I don't bother reading anything in Japanese unless I'm convinced I'll be more informed after reading it.)
Finally, the W41CA was cool, but it's over a year old now. There probably isn't a worn iPhone in existence yet. You really should compare it to the W53CA.
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/05/23/casio-w53ca-
It will take years of testing to figure out whether all this darned radiation is affecting our brains...but until then, since when was anyone hurt by a tenfoil hat?!
Lol. Heard of Prometheus? I heard he invented fire. Like, whoah! Like, Slashdot on unicorn steroids! Anyway, the best remedy feeling compelled to write something like this is to realize that you've overextended a metaphor.
At this point in my life, I can't say there's a damned thing society can do about me
Lol. Stop making up issues for me and then maybe you can tell me something I don't know.
Lol. Read my response to the transhumanist. I think you'll find more than a binary argument going on. Mathematically, living in an ideological point seperates you from being able to engage with values that exist in any other number of dimensions. (I'm have yet to ever hear of negative dimensions, but if they have been defined, I don't know of their behavior, so I can't speak to them.) Where's another place I've heard this...someone find the quote from Spock in the Wrath of Khan =D
I honestly had to pull up wikipedia and do a quick overview just to get on the same page, as I have niether really studied into any transhumanist schools nor encountered enough of the opposition arguments to have much of a sense of where the argument exists. On it's face, however, I can say I don't feel the need for a complete overhaul. Just some basics. I'm not interested in being immune to death. I just wish I had more time so that I wouldn't feel like I'm limited on what I can accomplish with one brief lifetime. My argument for this is that our lives are too short, so short that a generation is only twenty years and there's neither time nor incentive to worry about a single life that's going to be so insignificant.
My initial impression of transhumanism is that it's a desire to defeat a universe that inevitably kills us. To that, I'll say there are countless ways to live forever through the echoes of your life. Make an impression you want to leave.
In response to transhumanism, I can say only this: The desire to extend the capabilities of our physical bodies is not nearly as commendible as the desire to extend the defining human characteristic and essense: will; and you can do that all by yourself.
lol...sue them. The US...FDA(?) decided that people would be too confused (after the laughable failure to convert to metric?) so they opted to drop the 'k' from kcal. It's usage is so ubiquitous that people in the states have to use the term "calorie" in place of "kcal" in order for 99% of people to know what they're talking about.
Furthermore, if suddenly the FDA decided labels should start carrying kcals, people would be confused into thinking that every meal would constitute hedonism. There would be environmentalist groups (not the respectable kind) shouting at congress to mandate the burning of fast-food for power generation following the technological advancement in the food industry that lead to a 1000X increase in energy density. You're talking about a nation that elected George Bush and Cheney...twice.
I certainly can't see the body as being something so simple that it works as if each enzyme has 1,000,000,000 uses before it breaks and only 1,000,000,000,000 such enzymes can be created. There certainly could be subtle variables that influence how things operate in the sense that some conditions could cause things to operate without breaking themselves or other machinery. Even in simple o-chem experiments, altering proportions can lead to an entirely different reactions because new pathways become favorable. For something as complex as an organism, there are undoubtedly trillions of relationships between processes that can affect the efficiency or alter the outcome of another. Isolating them is of course another matter altogether, but if nature has hardcoded in something to do that work (expirimentally determining how to tweak the machine to operate less self-destructively) can't we take advantage of it?
Something about the smoking really struck me as ironic. You could use smoking in place of eating to bump down your calory intake since smoking is effective for reducing hunger (I don't know the mechanism.) Kids in bad places do it to keep from feeling like they're starving all the time. I did it for a while in Kyoto when I was short on cash. 300yen worth of cigarettes is like 2000yen worth of food in terms of staying ahead of the hunger. Now...if only it was something other than cigarettes XD
If I could get a few more years earlier in life while I still have gobs of energy and relatively no responsibilities... Suddenly four years for a degree wouldn't seem like a huge investment. A year of study abroad in Japan wouldn't be an issue. I might have two hobbies. Long term investments would make more sense. I would take more time to learn more things, aquire more skills, and experience a broader life.
In short, I think living longer would make it a lot easier to live sensibly. As it is, if I have to weight the risks of investing time or taking something I can do now, I end up taking the most courageous and risky courses possible.
I don't think it's a relative thing either. Not in the sense that, regardless of whatever time-span I had, I would always wish, "Wow, if only I had twice as much." In an absolute sense, I just don't think I'll ever have the years to do all the things I want to. It makes it seem really pointless to invest eight years into something (for instance, undergrad + med-school) when it's such a large investment that, by the time I get done, I will have lost many opportunities of youth, but I couldn't put such a thing off because, who wants to invest eight years in something that will only pay off for twenty?
Humanity is robbed. People live crazy lives because we are going to die too soon to live fully, so life is futile. Damn whatever you recognize as the determining factor of our longevity. The light is green to research like this.
Not even SUNW is big enough to swallow AMD. You need about $14bn in cold hard cash to be able to both purchase AMD and pay off their debts significantly enough to come out as a healthy company in the end. If you have to raise debt to make that purchase, it's a lost cause. Hell, Intel almost isn't big enough to swallow DAAMIT anymore.
Alright, someone is making this judgement with a paintbrush when they should be using a calculator.
Apple doesn't have enough cash to buy AMD and currently has only $9.8bn in assets. They also have $6.4bn in long and short term debts. AMD would cost about $7.3bn to buy based on today's market cap. Apple would have to pay about a 20% premium to that at least, making it about $8.8bn. To then pay off AMD's debts, $9.4bn including the latest senior note offering, Apple would need that ammount of cash in excess (or at least enough to make a dent.)
The biggest reason an AMD buyout could make sense would be: A) Apple and AMD do business with each other, and thereby can be more tightly integrated so that the pair profit more than the parts. B) Apple has the cash to pay off AMD debts so that AMD can quit getting slaughtered on interest payments ever quarter. Apple could do business with AMD, but its not likely to streamline any part of the production process for either company. There is the notion that an Apple halo could be beneficial for AMD (DAAMIT). There is the unlikely possibility that Apple management would bring new life into AMD and all the sudden AMD would get twice as much innovation done and all their chips would have white substrates that collect fingerprints and come with click-wheels.
You can see where I'm going with this. Apple doesn't have the cash to buy AMD and then turn around and pay off the debt significantly. The two combined companies would together still have so much debt that instead of just AMD being at risk of bankrupcty, Apple would be dragged in as well.
That said, if you're a level 75 venture capitalist with full merits and $18bn floating around, buying AMD isn't a bad idea. The gains in interest would instantly boost AMD's earnings by hundreds of millions per year, not to mention create a stonger DAAMIT to continue exploiting the natural tendency towards duopololy in this competitive, capital intensive industry.
Buy AMD. Make it healthy. Sell it back to the street for three times what you paid in ten years. Then go find something to do with $54bn dollars.
Oh the oppression! Anyway, I live in Yamashina, right next to Kyoto.
lol....I live in right next to . No, no, no...it's not that I can't get dairy. I can buy peanut butter if I work my ass off. I can even buy the attempted peanut butter from my local super. Then there's peanut cream at Lawson. It's...close.
The issue is that dairy is nowhere near as ubiquitous, and what there is isn't served up like it is in the states. No huge bricks of cheese at the super. No ordering five $5 hot-and-ready's. Milk comes in quarts at most and is usually mixed with something funky. Cereal is like 380yen a box for what I eat in one sitting. It's a far cry from when I used to go through a gallon every four-five days along with ice-cream, and cheese by the pound.
I'm sorry, but I can't have this conversation. I'm getting hungry, and it will last all day.
I looked at the article a bit more. They say fortified rice and soy beverages. I doubt soy sauce falls into that category, and I can't read enough to determine anything about the rice. The search continues. Might concede and just buy some pills. Depends on how this gets accepted. Don't want to be an early adopter and have my skin turn orange.
Sweet. I have an excuse to vedge out on sushi all day. Fish, soy, and rice. The triumvirate of awesomeness ^_^ Maybe Asian happy faces are good for health to. I really appreciate the info!
The issue is highly technical. Given the high penetrance of curry into any available sink material, foods with weak structural integrity will be overpressured by the diffusion of curry into the material with no corresponding outflow to balance the internal pressure. Many types of fish will incur multiple structual failures within the filet and, upon agitation prior to consumption, will dissintegrate, complicating consumption and lowering the throughput of nutriant flows.
Fish falls apart when you cook it. It's that simple. I use either chicken or squid because they are both available and squid is a very tough meat...at least until it's been curried. The real issue is that I use a lot of different ingredients including lots of onions, bell-peppers, or whatever else looks interesting at the supermarket as I can't tell that anything is capable of making curry unappetizing. It takes me about 30min just to get everything in the pot. When I find a fish that has decent vitamin d content and can stay in one piece (more than chicken at least, which squid doesn't seem to) I will use it in place of chicken.
Then there's the issue of making sure to add about five or six limes and boiling the shit out of it to make sure I cause any DNA strands to seperate. Wouldn't want those to survive that ultra hot 100C environment. Of course it varies depending on what types of molecular structures are present, but vitamins aren't the most complex or fragile ones in general. I could just take your word for it and die from eating nothing but cooked food...or at least I could try really hard.
You have yet to read the paper, but you do not agree that Vitamin D deficiency can be responsible for 60% of about cancers. Congratulations. You have a lifetime supply of straw man ashes.
All you did was list reasons why you're skeptical of the results, yet you haven't read the paper. Granted they are plausible reasons, someone who is capable of excercising this kind of critique could do the world a favor by reading the article to either confirm or address their skepticism and then posting their final interpretation of the article.
This post is like reading intial lab notes. I don't care what you're hunch is now if you can follow through on the data (do several hundred more experiments in the lab) and come to something more conclusive. The paper isn't a state secret. Read it.