these are standard in asia. my apartment had at least a heated toilet seat when i moved in. while it's not something super-amazing, i can come home in the dead of winter, sit down on the toilet and not feel like i'm in a goddamn igloo. the ass-cleaning thing is in the nicer models, and it's actually rather convenient. sorry if our normal american sensibilities clash with the idea of a bidet.
quit thinking your ass is so damn special. would you consider a plate clean if all you did was rub it with a piece of paper til the paper stopped changing color? what if the plate had shit on it? (and yes, you can still use the damn toilet when the power's out)
I got moderated down from 1 as being overrated and the guy who didn't know that you were making a joke gets nothing? Sigh. Glad I don't write shit for the sake of the mods reading it... oops...
Words are important if you're going to use them. My point is, since there is no objective difference between a "planet" orbiting the Sun and generic debris, why the hell do we need a word that describes this non-scientific differentiation? It's a sliding scale from "bottle cap" to "gas giant" orbiting the Sun, and if we gotta have a word for every little imaginary tick along the way, we're gonna have to make a metric fuckton of new words. Last I checked, Hercules couldn't catch that goddamn turtle.
this is confusing on so many levels... scientists are actually checking their spelling now? word is considered to have a list of all the "important" words in the english language? we need a definition for planetoid-ish objects that take 200 years to orbit the sun? how fucking often do you talk about "plutons" other than to debate what they should be called and how to define them? does it actually merit a new word?
While it's somewhat true that small-town jocks rarely leave the town they are from, they often become quite successful in that town. I would pose that programming is a job where you are inevitably more trained than your superiors, yet make less money. Thereby, fuck this "nerd pride" bullshit we've been accumulating. It's just an opiate. There is no awesome programming gig at the end of the road. At the end of the road, your job is sent to India and you know a 5 year old program that nobody uses anymore.
I'd much rather be a jock who has confidence, drive, and a will to succeed, which is what it takes to become successful in life. Someday, we need an honest comparison of the two lifestyles to see where they lead. I'm willing to bet the whole "nerds win in the end" mantra is just there to keep people in line.
On the other hand, there are some of us who have some degree of savoir faire and are able to accomplish feats through subversive methods that would astound both the jocks and nerds. I hear we're rather hard to find though.
"Nobody has commented, though, on the seriousness of the kids' behaviour. Destruction of a tree on public land is true vandalism."
i seriously hope you were writing this as satire. breaking off limbs on a tree does not kill the tree. even if you kill a tree, a new one grows back. there is no net loss from killing a tree unless you make the dirt a new one would have grown in un-useable. if i knew you, i'd burn down your house to fix your "vandalism" of keeping trees from having a place to grow.
This was my original thought as well, but then I thought a little deeper. When we say "NEWS FOR NERDS", we mean for the people who are nerds, not for "NERDS". As nerds tend to be the better informed, not only on "nerdy" issues, it seems that a vast majority of us are interested in the global climate, and our slowly decaying rights. As a individuals, we realize that change can not be left to take place on its own. By discussing this sort of thing in an open and broad community, such as that which we represent, we may come to the same understanding on a community level, which is what is NECESSARY to enact change.
There will come a time when a few of us stand up and begin to take action. When this time comes, it will not be the actions of those few that determine the outcome, but the actions of the whole community. Thereby, I encourage the continued exhibition of violations of our rights in not only this, but all public (and hopefully objective) forums.
how was this modded "insightful"? the old alice bots could have read this and figured out he was trying to be funny, and they were just fucking call and response programs.
"Part of what is different about this is that they are using over 6,831 laptop-type lithium-ion batteries."
That's from the summary of the article on Slashdot. Even if they meant "cells", the number isn't 6,831. There aren't 6,831 of anything in the car. They just multiplied the total number of sectors times the total number of cells because they read the article incorrectly. Sorry I put "batteries" instead of "cells" in my original post, but I don't think it should have skewed my point.
Am I the only one who read this and said "bullshit"? The article says there are 11 sectors possessing of 621 batteries. The first word of the next sentence is "Each". That gives you your 6831, but only if you really think this car weighs 3 tons but manages to hit 60 in 4 seconds. gg editors.
I've never heard of anyone complain about sore feet from standing. Enough walking will do it if your shoes aren't right, but never standing. I say this as I stand on the train for hours at a time. Do you have some sort of foot problem?
We've had all this stuff in Japan for awhile now.. The guitar game hooks up with the drum game (that's a full drum set, single-pedal) which also hooks up to the DJ game (turn table + 9 buttons). There's also the Taiko Drum game, but that's wholly separate. Some of the people on the drum set are ridiculous. They bring their own sticks and bust out these crazy power songs. I can't even see the things moving on the screen, but they rack up combos in the thousands like it was nothing at all.
Note: I don't see this happening in the US. We also have Pop'N Music 10 or 11 here, which is a really popular arcade game with 9 circular "bubble" buttons that are to be hit just like any rhythm game. The thing is, the coordination and concentration that game and the drum game require is incredible. Once you get past 6 or 7 possible inputs, you might as well just learn to play an actual instrument.
i think "dupe" is the only appropriate tag, as your tag would make more sense on the previous posting of this article. apparently slashdot has never heard of "six sigma".
is to wait until this new tech bubble bursts and get Super-Amazing Data Roxors TM for a fraction of the price. Seriously. The future is going to have so much storage and computing power for so damn cheap, it makes me feel a little something funny inside. Is this what they call "Love"?
After seeing a typo in the very first sentence of the article, I was forced to look at the site around me. If the linked site were a real world location, it'd be a strip mall in a city that no longer needs them. It had that sort of dirty feel of mid-quality goods.
This is in contrast to the RIAA which feels more like a regular mall. The kids from high school come around and sit at the food court or buy crap, but the only profitable stores are the national chains like PacSun and Hot Topic.
I prefer to buy things at an independent retailer who sells things that are good enough that they can afford to be in a location disassociated with other stores and still get enough business to turn a nice profit. That's how you know something is good. When people come to it for its own sake, not because it's in a convenient location.
I guess I should just put this the easy, well-understood way. RIAA IS OBSOLETE, STORES ARE OBSOLETE, ALL HAIL THE INTERNET.
My name is Dr. Worm.
Good morning. How are you? I'm Dr. Worm.
I'm interested in things.
I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm.
I live like a worm.
I like to play the drums.
I think I'm getting good,
But I can handle criticism.
I'll show you what I know,
And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums.
I'll leave the front un-locked 'cause I can't
Hear the doorbell
When I get into it I can't tell if you are
Watching me twirling the stick.
When I give the signal, my friend
Rabbi Vole will pay the solo
Some day somebody else besides me will
Call me by my stage name, they will
Call me Dr Worm.
Good Morning how are you, I'm Dr Worm
I'm interested in things.
I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm.
I live like a worm.
I like to play the drums.
I think I'm getting good,
But I can handle criticism.
I'll show you what I know,
And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums.
I'm not a real doctor,
But they call me Dr. Worm.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Thanks for standing up for me, but there's really no reason to get into a battle with people who don't see your side of the story. He wants to stand up for Apple just for the sake of doing it. He's not affiliated with them or me. He's chosen sides for no reason, and thus no reason will sway him.
For the record, it is a design flaw in the system. I thought I pointed that out pretty well. My time is worth more than what it would take to fix it, but for 450 dollars, I could afford half a new computer, so forgive me if it seemed outrageous. Also, there was no "fix" for this problem. If you pick up and put down my model laptop enough, the cord will fall out. It's simple physics. Like how you put the head of a hammer onto the wooden handle. And, I'm no genius, but I think the reason the Mac community wasn't aware of this problem is that they're so scared to take the damn thing apart and void their warranty that they'd never discover it. Do you think Apple really wants to proclaim a flaw in their design?
Sigh. I wish I could learn to follow my own advice, but for what it's worth, the voices of pigs are so off key that it hurts my ears to hear them.
My iBook was dying last year (it was only 14 months old), but I hit it once (out of frustration, I'm weak) and the damn thing started working great. About a month later, the same thing started happening, so this time I decided to take it apart to figure out what was wrong (never try this. it's easier to open the damn box from Hellraiser). I found that all the connectors in the entire iBook are inserted parallel to their respective cards/boards. I thought this was genius, as it would keep cords from wiggling loose from picking it up and putting it down as is the constant state of a laptop. I then got to the only cable in the whole damn thing that is placed perpendicular to the motherboard: the hard drive cable. It's basically designed to come out. The cable comes up from underneath and connects to the motherboard. Obviously the engineers saw the intelligence in connecting all the other cables the way they were, so why not this one? Hell, the hard drive cable is secured with plain ol' tape. That's how bad it is. I really couldn't believe it. I figured out the reason for this design flaw when I took it to the Mac store. I explained exactly what was wrong and that I simply wanted them to take the time to take it apart and resecure the cable this time (because I just don't have the time or patience to do it again) and they quoted me 450 dollars to fix it. I tried to explain that nothing was wrong with the damn thing, but their amazing technical genius (they didn't even look at the damn thing other than to plug in a USB cord and say it seemed like they could see the drive, which is plausible) quoted their base price to fix a "broken" iBook.
Suffice to say, I'm planning on building a Linux box for my next computer. I guess it was a lesson learned. Mr. Jobs had me at "hello", but he lost me at "450 [goddamn] dollars".
i love how ethnocentric slashdot is. you'd think americans were the only ones who read it. YOUR CULTURE IS FUCKED UP AND NOT OURS, SO THERE!
on the actual topic, of this little thread, the problem with trying to put spaces into japanese text is that there is no convention for it. would it go before the particle or after the particle (that's not "participle". we don't even have sentence particles). kanji works great, and the average japanese reader can breeze through a japanese text if they know it. you'd be amazed how fast a stone-drunk businessman can read a fast karaoke song when i trip up trying to read songs i've heard on the radio all my life.
Mickey-D's and Coke aren't actually that popular over here. Coke and Pepsi have huge wars on the trains over who gets more add space, but I don't know a single person over here that drinks either one. I bet more Ripobitan D (a 100 ml energy drink) is consumed in larger quantities per year than the half-priced 500 ml Coke and Pepsi combined. And the only reason the clown is popular is because of the speed with which you can get your food and go. He's not outselling the Bentouya though, that's for sure.
Ipod is another story, but Ipod is another story the world over. Ipod was in the right place at the right time with the right design, and even a people heavily immersed in their own culture have to come up for air from time to time.
Btw, there's been all this talk about how Japan is more and more embracing American culture and shit, but obsessing over one or two bands doesn't really count. Everyone in the country knows the Backstreet Boys, but nobody here knows any of the other boy bands. And just because some people where the Misfits shirts, it doesn't mean they know who they are. (I also saw a Rival Schools shirt, which nobody in the states has even heard of outside of the video game, so I thought the guy was wearing it because of the videogame, but then I realized the videogame is called "Moero! Justice Gakuen", so how the hell did he get a Rival Schools shirt in Japan when I went to their show and didn't even have one in the states?!)
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quit thinking your ass is so damn special. would you consider a plate clean if all you did was rub it with a piece of paper til the paper stopped changing color? what if the plate had shit on it? (and yes, you can still use the damn toilet when the power's out)
Words are important if you're going to use them. My point is, since there is no objective difference between a "planet" orbiting the Sun and generic debris, why the hell do we need a word that describes this non-scientific differentiation? It's a sliding scale from "bottle cap" to "gas giant" orbiting the Sun, and if we gotta have a word for every little imaginary tick along the way, we're gonna have to make a metric fuckton of new words. Last I checked, Hercules couldn't catch that goddamn turtle.
is your world where everyone is honest and knows everything related to their position taking applications?
this is confusing on so many levels... scientists are actually checking their spelling now? word is considered to have a list of all the "important" words in the english language? we need a definition for planetoid-ish objects that take 200 years to orbit the sun? how fucking often do you talk about "plutons" other than to debate what they should be called and how to define them? does it actually merit a new word?
terrorist.
I'd much rather be a jock who has confidence, drive, and a will to succeed, which is what it takes to become successful in life. Someday, we need an honest comparison of the two lifestyles to see where they lead. I'm willing to bet the whole "nerds win in the end" mantra is just there to keep people in line.
On the other hand, there are some of us who have some degree of savoir faire and are able to accomplish feats through subversive methods that would astound both the jocks and nerds. I hear we're rather hard to find though.
And to think that's longer than you've been alive. "Woah."
i seriously hope you were writing this as satire. breaking off limbs on a tree does not kill the tree. even if you kill a tree, a new one grows back. there is no net loss from killing a tree unless you make the dirt a new one would have grown in un-useable. if i knew you, i'd burn down your house to fix your "vandalism" of keeping trees from having a place to grow.
There will come a time when a few of us stand up and begin to take action. When this time comes, it will not be the actions of those few that determine the outcome, but the actions of the whole community. Thereby, I encourage the continued exhibition of violations of our rights in not only this, but all public (and hopefully objective) forums.
how was this modded "insightful"? the old alice bots could have read this and figured out he was trying to be funny, and they were just fucking call and response programs.
That's from the summary of the article on Slashdot. Even if they meant "cells", the number isn't 6,831. There aren't 6,831 of anything in the car. They just multiplied the total number of sectors times the total number of cells because they read the article incorrectly. Sorry I put "batteries" instead of "cells" in my original post, but I don't think it should have skewed my point.
Am I the only one who read this and said "bullshit"? The article says there are 11 sectors possessing of 621 batteries. The first word of the next sentence is "Each". That gives you your 6831, but only if you really think this car weighs 3 tons but manages to hit 60 in 4 seconds. gg editors.
I've never heard of anyone complain about sore feet from standing. Enough walking will do it if your shoes aren't right, but never standing. I say this as I stand on the train for hours at a time. Do you have some sort of foot problem?
Good day.
Note: I don't see this happening in the US. We also have Pop'N Music 10 or 11 here, which is a really popular arcade game with 9 circular "bubble" buttons that are to be hit just like any rhythm game. The thing is, the coordination and concentration that game and the drum game require is incredible. Once you get past 6 or 7 possible inputs, you might as well just learn to play an actual instrument.
i think "dupe" is the only appropriate tag, as your tag would make more sense on the previous posting of this article. apparently slashdot has never heard of "six sigma".
is to wait until this new tech bubble bursts and get Super-Amazing Data Roxors TM for a fraction of the price. Seriously. The future is going to have so much storage and computing power for so damn cheap, it makes me feel a little something funny inside. Is this what they call "Love"?
This is in contrast to the RIAA which feels more like a regular mall. The kids from high school come around and sit at the food court or buy crap, but the only profitable stores are the national chains like PacSun and Hot Topic.
I prefer to buy things at an independent retailer who sells things that are good enough that they can afford to be in a location disassociated with other stores and still get enough business to turn a nice profit. That's how you know something is good. When people come to it for its own sake, not because it's in a convenient location.
I guess I should just put this the easy, well-understood way. RIAA IS OBSOLETE, STORES ARE OBSOLETE, ALL HAIL THE INTERNET.
My name is Dr. Worm. Good morning. How are you? I'm Dr. Worm. I'm interested in things. I'm not a real doctor, But I am a real worm; I am an actual worm. I live like a worm. I like to play the drums. I think I'm getting good, But I can handle criticism. I'll show you what I know, And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums. I'll leave the front un-locked 'cause I can't Hear the doorbell When I get into it I can't tell if you are Watching me twirling the stick. When I give the signal, my friend Rabbi Vole will pay the solo Some day somebody else besides me will Call me by my stage name, they will Call me Dr Worm. Good Morning how are you, I'm Dr Worm I'm interested in things. I'm not a real doctor, But I am a real worm; I am an actual worm. I live like a worm. I like to play the drums. I think I'm getting good, But I can handle criticism. I'll show you what I know, And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums. I'm not a real doctor, But they call me Dr. Worm.
Thanks for standing up for me, but there's really no reason to get into a battle with people who don't see your side of the story. He wants to stand up for Apple just for the sake of doing it. He's not affiliated with them or me. He's chosen sides for no reason, and thus no reason will sway him.
For the record, it is a design flaw in the system. I thought I pointed that out pretty well. My time is worth more than what it would take to fix it, but for 450 dollars, I could afford half a new computer, so forgive me if it seemed outrageous. Also, there was no "fix" for this problem. If you pick up and put down my model laptop enough, the cord will fall out. It's simple physics. Like how you put the head of a hammer onto the wooden handle. And, I'm no genius, but I think the reason the Mac community wasn't aware of this problem is that they're so scared to take the damn thing apart and void their warranty that they'd never discover it. Do you think Apple really wants to proclaim a flaw in their design?
Sigh. I wish I could learn to follow my own advice, but for what it's worth, the voices of pigs are so off key that it hurts my ears to hear them.
Suffice to say, I'm planning on building a Linux box for my next computer. I guess it was a lesson learned. Mr. Jobs had me at "hello", but he lost me at "450 [goddamn] dollars".
nanda omae? boke!
Do they call it Soylent Green?
on the actual topic, of this little thread, the problem with trying to put spaces into japanese text is that there is no convention for it. would it go before the particle or after the particle (that's not "participle". we don't even have sentence particles). kanji works great, and the average japanese reader can breeze through a japanese text if they know it. you'd be amazed how fast a stone-drunk businessman can read a fast karaoke song when i trip up trying to read songs i've heard on the radio all my life.
Ipod is another story, but Ipod is another story the world over. Ipod was in the right place at the right time with the right design, and even a people heavily immersed in their own culture have to come up for air from time to time.
Btw, there's been all this talk about how Japan is more and more embracing American culture and shit, but obsessing over one or two bands doesn't really count. Everyone in the country knows the Backstreet Boys, but nobody here knows any of the other boy bands. And just because some people where the Misfits shirts, it doesn't mean they know who they are. (I also saw a Rival Schools shirt, which nobody in the states has even heard of outside of the video game, so I thought the guy was wearing it because of the videogame, but then I realized the videogame is called "Moero! Justice Gakuen", so how the hell did he get a Rival Schools shirt in Japan when I went to their show and didn't even have one in the states?!)