Could you explain what that means to your mother (assuming your mother does not have a technical background)?
What in the world are our kids going to say when they are our age (mid 30's) since by then, nearly everyone will have a technical background.
"Could you explain how a database works to your...."
This is easy. Pick up a Japanese wireless router. They come with channels 12, 13, and 14. Get yourself off of everyone else's frequencies and you'll be good to go.
Alternatively, you could set up a small linux box with a wireless card and set it up as an AP on channel 13. Assuming you are using a linux desktop, you should be able to take any buffalo card and drop it onto channel 13 with no problems.
For a windows box... install the japanese drivers and you will be fine.
Almost all buffalo products have japanese equiv. models. Grab the japanese firmware and re-flash your firmware...
Yah, my timing was off when I wrote that... I started it about 8pm. Woke up at 6am, went to work, came back about 7pm. So I guess that's more like what... 24 hours I guess... I wasn't counting my sleeping time...
If it's any consolation to anyone, I have a 100Mb fiber optic link (full duplex) at my house.
Never been hit for any extra charges, probablly do a couple hundred Gigs of data transfer a month on average up and down.
No torrents here.. way to slow.
Way back when suprnova was up, I grabbed a torrent of some new game to try out. I left it running overnight for the download only to find that, after I got home from work the next day, I had transfered over 1Tb in the space of about 10 hours. (I have to order all my games via amazon so for me, testing before waiting a week or so to receive something I might not ever play again is worth the risk).
Anyways, bandwidth isn't a problem here in Japan...
"Folks, this is your captain speaking. I have turned off the fasten seatbelt light, so feel free to move around the cabin".
*Stands up, grabs laptop from overhead bin, pushes power button*
Windows: New bluetooth device found
Windows has detected a new bluetooth device:
Boeing 777 300a
Allow Windows to communicate with this device?
Accept Cancel
who has a problem with bacteria knowing about general relativity? We should watch what we teach these things or we might have a revolution on our hands (and in our dirt)...;p
I always thought that it would be a good idea to reverse the OK/Yes and Cancel/No buttons on security oriented dialogs.
This way, the user will default to Cancel/No when these kind of things show up, forcing the user (for a while at least) to pay attention.
The down side of this is alot of people won't realize they just clicked Cancel instead of OK and will sit and stare at their desktop waiting for something to happen...
would just love to see a program that I wrote appear on warez sites. Means that people actually find it usefull. Besides, there is usually only a black market for an item that is popular in the first place.
Having my sofware released in the warez scene would be a compliment to me...
I will not try to force my views on someone else. Everyone is entitled to thier opinions and beliefs. I am also not saying which opinion is right or wrong.
This whole conversation started (for me at least) with people coming to my door and soliciting god to me.
Nobody should EVER try to force (or coerce) thier beliefs (or lack thereof) on someone else. Simply present the facts as you see them, if asked for, and leave the decision up to them.
This goes double for physical things like government, but that's a different discussion all together.
I honestly believe that if I don't believe in god then it won't bother with me.
We are not talking about something physical here. It's not like I'm saying if I don't believe in mosquitoes then they won't bother me. Remember, we are talking about something of which there is not one scrap of evidence. The bible was written BY men, FOR men, to CONTROL (wo)men.
I really do have a hard time believing that "god" chose to manifest itself only during a few years like 2000 years ago. Something change between then and now? People are still people. Only technology has changed. The techonology we have now allows us to explain alot of the stuff that people of 2000 years ago didn't understand, hence they needed to look elsewhere for an explination.
The bible is A good book. Not THE good book. It makes for some interesting reading, as nearly any collection of short stories does if you are interested in the genere of the collection.
I am not saying that there aren't some good morals to be learned from the bible, but then again, there are alot of good things to learn from the Brothers Grimm as well.
If there IS a god, and it chose to show itself to a few thousand people a couple of thousand years ago, then I believe that the choice has already been made. Obviously "modern" man isn't worth the trouble to this "god".
If I die, and there DOES turn out to be a hell, I would welcome it, because it means that my conciousness lives on. The only thing that I fear about death is the cessation of concious thought. The thought that my memories, achievements, ideas, etc... just *poof* dissappear bothers the heck out of me.
I will not, however, entertain any notion that after death, my conciousness "lives on". I call BS.
Better than religion: Let's figure out a way to stop people from dying.
You forgot to mention that the train is invisible and the very existance of the train itself is in question.
YOU believe that there is a train, I believe that there is no train.
To me, no amount of talking, or evangelating (is that even a word?) will convince me otherwise.
If I am happy on the tracks, and I have NEVER (nor has anyone else) seen anyone get run down, then when you walk up and tell me "LOOK OUT! Here comes a train!", I will, of course, say "Where?". Your reply to this would be, "You have to believe it is there, then you can see it".
So, in conclusion, if I believe there is a train, then it MIGHT run me down.
Sounds like not believing in the train (so no threat to myself exists) is the way to go for me.
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What in the world are our kids going to say when they are our age (mid 30's) since by then, nearly everyone will have a technical background.
"Could you explain how a database works to your
like 8 years ago. Mozilla was working on a netscape "explorer" replacement or some such...
Appearantly people seem to think that I'm talking about some other channel 12/13/14.
Here is the list (mean freq):
Channel ID FCC ETSI France Japan
1 2412 2412 - 2412
2 2417 2417 - 2417
3 2422 2422 - 2422
4 2427 2427 - 2427
5 2432 2432 - 2432
6 2437 2437 - 2437
7 2442 2442 - 2442
8 2447 2447 - 2447
9 2452 2452 - 2452
10 2457 2457 2457 2457
11 2462 2462 2462 2462
12 - 2467 2467 2467
13 - 2472 2472 2472
14 - - - 2484
Sorry about the formatting...
This is easy. Pick up a Japanese wireless router. They come with channels 12, 13, and 14. Get yourself off of everyone else's frequencies and you'll be good to go.
Alternatively, you could set up a small linux box with a wireless card and set it up as an AP on channel 13. Assuming you are using a linux desktop, you should be able to take any buffalo card and drop it onto channel 13 with no problems.
For a windows box... install the japanese drivers and you will be fine.
Almost all buffalo products have japanese equiv. models. Grab the japanese firmware and re-flash your firmware...
Another good reason to start smoking now!
:)
Get your lungs and body used to breathing the stuff and you'll be ready to go when the big day comes
Yah, my timing was off when I wrote that... I started it about 8pm. Woke up at 6am, went to work, came back about 7pm. So I guess that's more like what... 24 hours I guess... I wasn't counting my sleeping time...
Oh, did I mention it only costs about Y2500 ($30USD) a month?
If it's any consolation to anyone, I have a 100Mb fiber optic link (full duplex) at my house.
Never been hit for any extra charges, probablly do a couple hundred Gigs of data transfer a month on average up and down.
No torrents here.. way to slow.
Way back when suprnova was up, I grabbed a torrent of some new game to try out. I left it running overnight for the download only to find that, after I got home from work the next day, I had transfered over 1Tb in the space of about 10 hours. (I have to order all my games via amazon so for me, testing before waiting a week or so to receive something I might not ever play again is worth the risk).
Anyways, bandwidth isn't a problem here in Japan...
"Folks, this is your captain speaking. I have turned off the fasten seatbelt light, so feel free to move around the cabin".
*Stands up, grabs laptop from overhead bin, pushes power button*
Windows: New bluetooth device found
Windows has detected a new bluetooth device:
Boeing 777 300a
Allow Windows to communicate with this device?
Accept Cancel
"Um... flight attendant?"
I've been using Evolution on windows for a few months now and it works fine. Slow, but fully functional...
who has a problem with bacteria knowing about general relativity? We should watch what we teach these things or we might have a revolution on our hands (and in our dirt)... ;p
I always thought that it would be a good idea to reverse the OK/Yes and Cancel/No buttons on security oriented dialogs.
This way, the user will default to Cancel/No when these kind of things show up, forcing the user (for a while at least) to pay attention.
The down side of this is alot of people won't realize they just clicked Cancel instead of OK and will sit and stare at their desktop waiting for something to happen...
I was actually expecting being moderated as Insightful...
would just love to see a program that I wrote appear on warez sites. Means that people actually find it usefull. Besides, there is usually only a black market for an item that is popular in the first place.
Having my sofware released in the warez scene would be a compliment to me...
so Some GNUz, IS good gnuz....
I would rather see them make peace...
Then they can show their human-like qualities and break it
www.squidse.cx
hahaha your voice mail is going to get slashdotted.... ;)
Wow, 5 entire copies of TFA in the comments so far... Do you people not browse the comments before you post?
Carefull, this may encourage people to actually RTFA...
My open source developer could beat up your open source developer.
My contractor could beat up your contractor.
No harm, no foul.
I will not try to force my views on someone else. Everyone is entitled to thier opinions and beliefs. I am also not saying which opinion is right or wrong.
This whole conversation started (for me at least) with people coming to my door and soliciting god to me.
Nobody should EVER try to force (or coerce) thier beliefs (or lack thereof) on someone else. Simply present the facts as you see them, if asked for, and leave the decision up to them.
This goes double for physical things like government, but that's a different discussion all together.
Yes,
I honestly believe that if I don't believe in god then it won't bother with me.
We are not talking about something physical here. It's not like I'm saying if I don't believe in mosquitoes then they won't bother me. Remember, we are talking about something of which there is not one scrap of evidence. The bible was written BY men, FOR men, to CONTROL (wo)men.
I really do have a hard time believing that "god" chose to manifest itself only during a few years like 2000 years ago. Something change between then and now? People are still people. Only technology has changed. The techonology we have now allows us to explain alot of the stuff that people of 2000 years ago didn't understand, hence they needed to look elsewhere for an explination.
The bible is A good book. Not THE good book. It makes for some interesting reading, as nearly any collection of short stories does if you are interested in the genere of the collection.
I am not saying that there aren't some good morals to be learned from the bible, but then again, there are alot of good things to learn from the Brothers Grimm as well.
If there IS a god, and it chose to show itself to a few thousand people a couple of thousand years ago, then I believe that the choice has already been made. Obviously "modern" man isn't worth the trouble to this "god".
If I die, and there DOES turn out to be a hell, I would welcome it, because it means that my conciousness lives on. The only thing that I fear about death is the cessation of concious thought. The thought that my memories, achievements, ideas, etc... just *poof* dissappear bothers the heck out of me.
I will not, however, entertain any notion that after death, my conciousness "lives on". I call BS.
Better than religion: Let's figure out a way to stop people from dying.
You forgot to mention that the train is invisible and the very existance of the train itself is in question.
YOU believe that there is a train, I believe that there is no train.
To me, no amount of talking, or evangelating (is that even a word?) will convince me otherwise.
If I am happy on the tracks, and I have NEVER (nor has anyone else) seen anyone get run down, then when you walk up and tell me "LOOK OUT! Here comes a train!", I will, of course, say "Where?". Your reply to this would be, "You have to believe it is there, then you can see it".
So, in conclusion, if I believe there is a train, then it MIGHT run me down.
Sounds like not believing in the train (so no threat to myself exists) is the way to go for me.
Internet Society for Utilitarian Choices for Kids: I.S.U.C.K.
Nothing Our Group of American Mothers Envision Sacred: N.O.G.A.M.E.S.
Thompson's Internet Mothers for the Eradication Of Unreal Tournament: T.I.M.E.O.U.T.