I canâ(TM)t wait for AI so we can have cars using turn signals again like they were decades ago.
Iâ(TM)ve been out of the country for a while, so I didnâ(TM)t realize that American car companies stopped installing turn signals.
Will AI cars rush as fast as possible from red light to red light, just so the passengers can get home really, really fast, so they can sit on the couch and eat potato chips?
My first internet connection started in Japan in 1994. 100 Mbs fiber since 2000 and never had a virus, never had a data cap, never paid more than about US$ 60/month (now US$ 35/mo.), never had a browser hijack, never had malware, never had to reset a modem, never had less than 3 companies to choose from and only had service go out once and that was because of a massive earthquake 6 years ago.
Came back to the US and I'm loaded up with hijacks and malware every time I turn on my PC. Have to reset the modem every week or so, service is spotty. Slow and expensive.
I've got rooms of PhD developers in Beijing, all of whom make almost Silicon Valley salaries, are smart enough to understand tunneling and VPN's like most everyone except maybe hairstylists and bicycle mechanics.
There was an unspoken rule at the time that Japanese employees had to go buy new consumer products when they're released. Kind of like the ultimate corporate Ponzi scheme - tens of thousands of people buying their own products with the salary from sales of the products they're buying. Or something like that . . .;)
I was a consultant for Panasonic in Japan about 20 years ago and I can tell you that after Matsushita Konosuke (the founder) died, it has been run by idiots.
I was doing a walk through at a (now bankrupt) subsidiary that was the darling of the company at the time. I asked about trading data backup between locations in western Japan, since all of their designs and corporate history was on PCs. The vice president I was with was perplexed by the question. I asked an engineer beside us at his desk about back up, and he smugly pulled a CD-R out of his desk drawer and showed it to me with a smile.
I took the CD, then the lighter on his desk and started melting it.
Anyway, I remember the spirited discussions as they said the "Internet Refrigerator" was going to be the hit product for a decade. A housewife would look in the refrigerator, them make a shopping list on the computer built into the door of the refrigerator, then keep the list on the internet because it was the internet!
I was a heretic who said it would never replace the paper, pencil and magnet. They spent GDP of small nation on that piece of crap.
I'm not so sure it's a good idea to upgrade to something more modern and hackable so we can all get killed faster through big data, crowdsourcing, the cloud and an app (iOS and Android - $1.99).
People with even a cursory knowledge of Japan know that Japanese are voracious readers. I don't feel sorry for Amazon. They should have to pay up and chalk it up as a stupidity tax.
(seppuku) was originally a samurai ritual and there aren't any samurai left. Japan still has a very high suicide rate, but big businessmen, bankers and government minions are much more westernized now - they've turned into self-centered weasels.
No bankers are throwing themselves off of buildings. Those would be people in financial trouble, bullied kids, rejected lovers, lonely singles and people who were left with nothing. They lost their homes and livelihoods after having to evacuate from the plant area, but got virtually nothing from TEPCO.
Here are photos and an article in National Geographic from the massive quake and tsunami in the same area in 1896. Almost 27,000 people were killed and a tsunami was reported as high as 50 feet.
The excuse that the tsunami was unprecedented and a "once in a 1,000- year event" is false.
The take away for me after five years is that it was criminally incompetent to not have planned for the possibility of a similar event so recent that there are photographs of it.
The engineers involved in the construction and operation should be in prison.
Disclaimer: I have a BSME with a Nuclear option, and I should be in prison if I had anything to do with the plant. I also live within 90 miles of the plant and remember thinking that I was in serious jeopardy when I saw a helicopter dropping water onto the stored fuel rods on TV. When the helicopters come out, it's the last straw.
Japanese universities are already partners in technology development with Japanese companies, as universities around the world are partners with companies in their country.
Japan will lose a quarter of its population in about a generation from now, so the country must transform from the traditional economic engines of growth (manufacturing, services, etc.) to offset the inevitable decline that will occur in those engines.
Japan, with encouragment from the US, sees defense technology R&D, manufacturing, licensing and export as a growth industry it hasn't been a part of.
The US has encouraged Japan to do this, since the US depends on funding from Japan to maintain the large military presence it has in Japan. The US can't afford the bases in Japan by itself.
The US wants Japan to become a more "normal" nation, as the US calls it, by being proactive in the US-Japan alliance, instead of being only a self defense entity, because the US may be forced to reduce its presence in the future from US political/budget problems.
I've lived in Japan for almost 25 years. Here we go again with another new-to-Japan reporter writing about things they don't understand completely out of context. And even outright nonsense...
you'll have a hard time finding them among US kids.
The US ranks 36th in the world in math, reading and science. The top seven are all from Asia. More than 25% of the US are below the median, and only 8% are above. More than 55% of the top seven countries are above the median and only about 8% are below.
There is the problem. While you're giving everyone trophies and thinking about the racial mix of a classroom, the rest of the world is studying.
The Wired and other headlines at Drudge Report and other places are false. The "Feds" did not say he tampered with anything. They only say that he said that he did. There is no evidence that he did what he said he did.
It's ironic that he had just lost funding for his long-time project to try to prove that flight control systems could be tampered with . . .
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no one conducting the study is old enough to know that road rage and incredibly aggressive and stupid driving is not normal.
I canâ(TM)t wait for AI so we can have cars using turn signals again like they were decades ago.
Iâ(TM)ve been out of the country for a while, so I didnâ(TM)t realize that American car companies stopped installing turn signals.
Will AI cars rush as fast as possible from red light to red light, just so the passengers can get home really, really fast, so they can sit on the couch and eat potato chips?
How many Olympic-size swimming pools does this equal?
It's about as remote and out of touch as anywhere on Earth?
My first internet connection started in Japan in 1994. 100 Mbs fiber since 2000 and never had a virus, never had a data cap, never paid more than about US$ 60/month (now US$ 35/mo.), never had a browser hijack, never had malware, never had to reset a modem, never had less than 3 companies to choose from and only had service go out once and that was because of a massive earthquake 6 years ago.
Came back to the US and I'm loaded up with hijacks and malware every time I turn on my PC. Have to reset the modem every week or so, service is spotty. Slow and expensive.
It doesn't have to be that way.
I've got rooms of PhD developers in Beijing, all of whom make almost Silicon Valley salaries, are smart enough to understand tunneling and VPN's like most everyone except maybe hairstylists and bicycle mechanics.
It's so hard to tell...
There was an unspoken rule at the time that Japanese employees had to go buy new consumer products when they're released. Kind of like the ultimate corporate Ponzi scheme - tens of thousands of people buying their own products with the salary from sales of the products they're buying. Or something like that . . . ;)
I was a consultant for Panasonic in Japan about 20 years ago and I can tell you that after Matsushita Konosuke (the founder) died, it has been run by idiots.
I was doing a walk through at a (now bankrupt) subsidiary that was the darling of the company at the time. I asked about trading data backup between locations in western Japan, since all of their designs and corporate history was on PCs. The vice president I was with was perplexed by the question. I asked an engineer beside us at his desk about back up, and he smugly pulled a CD-R out of his desk drawer and showed it to me with a smile.
I took the CD, then the lighter on his desk and started melting it.
Anyway, I remember the spirited discussions as they said the "Internet Refrigerator" was going to be the hit product for a decade. A housewife would look in the refrigerator, them make a shopping list on the computer built into the door of the refrigerator, then keep the list on the internet because it was the internet!
I was a heretic who said it would never replace the paper, pencil and magnet. They spent GDP of small nation on that piece of crap.
That engineer is probably a top executive now...
I'm not so sure it's a good idea to upgrade to something more modern and hackable so we can all get killed faster through big data, crowdsourcing, the cloud and an app (iOS and Android - $1.99).
People with even a cursory knowledge of Japan know that Japanese are voracious readers. I don't feel sorry for Amazon. They should have to pay up and chalk it up as a stupidity tax.
It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.
But, how does it know?
I have a Time magazine from 1948 and the cover article said the same thing.
and make the mosquitos pay for it.
The intro says: "The problem isn't that people are idiots..."
Let's stop right there. I know for a fact that this premise is wrong.
You must tell us where you are, so the convenience police can come and put a stop to it immediately!
(seppuku) was originally a samurai ritual and there aren't any samurai left. Japan still has a very high suicide rate, but big businessmen, bankers and government minions are much more westernized now - they've turned into self-centered weasels.
No bankers are throwing themselves off of buildings. Those would be people in financial trouble, bullied kids, rejected lovers, lonely singles and people who were left with nothing. They lost their homes and livelihoods after having to evacuate from the plant area, but got virtually nothing from TEPCO.
Here are photos and an article in National Geographic from the massive quake and tsunami in the same area in 1896. Almost 27,000 people were killed and a tsunami was reported as high as 50 feet.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic....
The excuse that the tsunami was unprecedented and a "once in a 1,000- year event" is false.
The take away for me after five years is that it was criminally incompetent to not have planned for the possibility of a similar event so recent that there are photographs of it.
The engineers involved in the construction and operation should be in prison.
Disclaimer: I have a BSME with a Nuclear option, and I should be in prison if I had anything to do with the plant. I also live within 90 miles of the plant and remember thinking that I was in serious jeopardy when I saw a helicopter dropping water onto the stored fuel rods on TV. When the helicopters come out, it's the last straw.
Japanese universities are already partners in technology development with Japanese companies, as universities around the world are partners with companies in their country.
Japan will lose a quarter of its population in about a generation from now, so the country must transform from the traditional economic engines of growth (manufacturing, services, etc.) to offset the inevitable decline that will occur in those engines.
Japan, with encouragment from the US, sees defense technology R&D, manufacturing, licensing and export as a growth industry it hasn't been a part of.
The US has encouraged Japan to do this, since the US depends on funding from Japan to maintain the large military presence it has in Japan. The US can't afford the bases in Japan by itself.
The US wants Japan to become a more "normal" nation, as the US calls it, by being proactive in the US-Japan alliance, instead of being only a self defense entity, because the US may be forced to reduce its presence in the future from US political/budget problems.
The executive summary is:
War is big business.
So, it has to cause permanent blindness before it passes the Anonymous Idiot test?
How can anyone be so wrong about "not one single person..." in this age of Google?
http://www.kob.com/article/sto...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...
The list goes on and on.
I've lived in Japan for almost 25 years. Here we go again with another new-to-Japan reporter writing about things they don't understand completely out of context. And even outright nonsense...
can we get all of those rodents rounded up and sent to Washington D.C.?
you'll have a hard time finding them among US kids.
The US ranks 36th in the world in math, reading and science. The top seven are all from Asia. More than 25% of the US are below the median, and only 8% are above. More than 55% of the top seven countries are above the median and only about 8% are below.
There is the problem. While you're giving everyone trophies and thinking about the racial mix of a classroom, the rest of the world is studying.
for math, reading and science, the top seven countries are:
Shanghai China
Singapore
Hong Kong China
Chinese Taipei
Korea
Macao China
Japan
The US is 36th.
Even Vietnam is higher than the US, at 17th place.
The Wired and other headlines at Drudge Report and other places are false. The "Feds" did not say he tampered with anything. They only say that he said that he did. There is no evidence that he did what he said he did.
It's ironic that he had just lost funding for his long-time project to try to prove that flight control systems could be tampered with . . .