It's good to know that most - although they said "most," not all - explosives can't be made using the ethanol found in perfume. They made this big deal about not bringing liquids on board the plane and then sold my wife a bottle of perfume during flight. Of course, if the idea was to prevent bringing dangerous substances under the guise of perfumes or some other innocuous item, then it's not a big deal. I found it very enlightening that they said that the government is taking their cue from Hollywood, though.
Luckily, there is absolutely no comparison between someone asking your son to surf on the internet from the safety of his home and asking him to risk physical harm at the small hours of the morning. I think it'd be a better idea to stick with an "accidental is not the same as on purpose" analogy, which is more appropriate to your argument. For example, I'd be concerned if the government indoctrinated my son to go looking for trouble in a dark alleyway at 3am, rather than encouraging him to get home at a reasonable hour.
That being said, yeah, the excuse given by the Chinese government is pretty transparent.
There are very strong parallels between the need to study spelling and the Japnanese need to study kanji (the Chinese characters.) Interestingly, both take about six years to master (at least, when I was a kid we studied for six years, and the Japaanese do about the same.) Whereas it's a big pain when trying to teach English to Japanese kids, since you can't simply write things on the board, spelling is important for conveying meeaning, just as the different kanji are important for the same reason. The Japanese have a very functional syllabary, but the kanji actually makes reading comprehension easier, rather than more difficult (once you can actually read the damn things.)
I guess your clients also failed to mention that these work against any vehicle, not just tanks, which means instead of killing just one person at a time, they can take out civilians by the carload.
Mines are wrong no matter what the justification. A better mine is like a better mousetrap: from the point of view of the mouse, things haven't improved.
Never heard of them, and Fedora Core has superior support for Mac hardware, anyway. I respect any distro that can properly detect and configure an Japanese Apple keyboard. I tried Ubuntu first, but it just wasn't up to snuff when it came to proper hardware detection. Of course, this is Linux; your mileage may vary.
Are you sure about the "van?" If a German name is prefixed by anything, it's "von," meaning "of," and it's a lot more uncommon than you think (in my 15 year association with Germany, I've seen less than a handful.) German names with "von" in them tend towards place names, since they aren't a clan-based culture. My host family in Germany's name is simply "Fuchs," meaning "Fox." Mueller would be equivalent to the English Miller, etc. In the case of my mother's ancestors, the Hesses, they don't have a "von," because their name is the same as the old arch-dukedom.
For really fun genealogical challenges, try the Japanese. Most Japanese people didn't even have family names until the Edo period, when basically the government decided it was time to go around and figure out who was who, and gave them family names based on location. This means that you may have several sets of Ikedas, Kawatanis, or whomever who were never once related (unless you do the "1000 years ago" rigamarole.) For example, my wife's family name is "Matsumoto," meaning "from the pines," but she is only 3rd-generation Japanese, as her great-grandparents came from Korea. Also, since I'm not Japanese, I was entered into *her* family registry when we got married, which definitely feels like a bit of a role reversal (no, I didn't have to change my name, and neither did she. She just hyphenates it when necessary.)
Unfortunately, if you take the view that food doesn't grow in the supermarket, the time it's going to take to shift an entire agricultural society from America to Russia, not counting the food shortages and inflated prices, then you might view this as a little bit more of a problem. It's easy to take the long view on things as long as you assume that you're never going to be directly affected. It's easy to be fatalistic until it actually becomes your fate.
Where the heck did you come up with the idea to compare pedophelia with drinking coffee? This is hardly a case of simply trying to justify a bad habit. I think you have this confused with the American tendency to justify over-eating or something.
As far as this article goes, I'm probably in about the 120% reduction range. I keep waiting for coffee to be bad for me, but they have as yet to come up with anything. Damn my healthy lifestyle!
It's 3D no matter how you look at it; it's just at an incredibly microscopic scale. If you can say there are three circuits on top of each other, then they must logically be occupying a vertical dimension.
Actually, that's a little over simplified. What Mr. Ou's very insightful article pointed out is that you can't do an all-or-nothing policy like that without really pissing off your customers regardless. He uses a great FedEx shipping analogy with priority mail vs. ground shipping. If you pay for ground shipping and the package never arrives, then you're going to be wanting your money back very quickly. However, the problem is we need a way to get ISPs to periodically publish their service statistics, so we can see whether or not they're actuallly doing the job they promised to do.
Yeah...living within spitting distance of Kyoto (I'm in Osaka), and having developed a certain image of Kyoto conservatism, I just can't picture it. Of course, my wife, who is Japanese and has lived her all her life, was very quick to say, "Oh, yeah, they'd do it." So there you go.:)
Cheaper, yes, but better? The Mars rovers have taken three years to do something that the average person could do in a couple of days. Keeping people on staff to process that data and issue new instructions for that long isn't going to be exactly cheap, either.
That goes beyond "overly pessimistic" to just "silly pessimistic." Sure, there are challenges. However, consider something as everyday as the amazing technology that it takes to make the processor that runs inside your computer: something that sophisticated would have been impossible thirty years ago. It's so easy to take amazing things for granted.
Perhaps we'll get to the space elevator sooner once the powers-that-be realize the amazing military applications it would enable.
It couldn't be much easier than it is now; you hardly need a.xxx domain to find porn. Theoretically, it would make it easier to keep kids out because you simply tell your web browser to block everything ending in.xxx, thus segregating those sites. There are much better reasons why the.xxx domain is a bad idea. For one, there's nothing forcing the porn industry into investing in the registry, and nothing forcing them to drop their current domains. It'd be little more than a financial nuisance for those companies who felt it necessary to register their names in both. There is no clear-cut, determining factor as to what is porn and what isn't, which also makes the registry kind of useless.
However, on a recent trip to Korea, I discovered that theirs are *way* cooler, not to mention cheaper(!) Except for the truly funky smell in the stairwell leading up to it, which is probably caused precisely by those who live there all the time.
I agree. Some people seem to think that if you don't lose a pint of blood while setting up your computer, you're not using a *real* operating system.
If something as powerful as BSD can be made usable by more people, I think that would be better called "streamlining" or "making it more elegant." I find that Fedora or OSX are both good examples of OSes that allow you to just start the computer and get stuff done if that's all you need, and let you get down-and-dirty for the more demanding power user.
A good programmer can write useful software; a great programmer can make it usable.
It's a stupid name that deserves to be made fun of, just like the MacBook, for that matter. If the developers don't like it and the potential customers don't like it, you have a bomb on your hands. Rather than wasting time attempting to justify the mistake, find something that people like instead.
And by the way, people make fun of the name, "Gimp," too. It's another stupid name but everybody pretends not to notice. Of course, it's great if you want to give your detractors an easy label for when you have to explain why you don't have basic things like CMYK support, for example.
Not only that, but if you use the Edict online Japanese/English dictionary, you find that the Japanese have characters in katakana and hiragana for "wi," they're just hardly used anymore.In hiragana: In katakana:
Damned if I can figure out how to type them, though. I had to copy and paste.:)
Living in Japan for several years now, I can most definitely attest to the fact that it is very trivial for the Japanese to pronounce it. However, the kids at my school don't really think much of the name. They could have named it Revolution and the Japanese would have just shortened it to "rebo" or something. After all, "Famicom" was short for "Family Computer," so it's not like Nintendo hasn't abused the Japanese with awkward naming conventions before.
And your German is a bit off. You used the word "umziehen," which means "to move" as in the sense of changing residences. You should have used "bewegen."
No, it's unpredictable to them, too. However, it is in keepin g with Japanese humor, which is based in large part around the idea of acting outside of normal expectations. In other words, they think it's funny.
As an American living in Japan, I think that would have a very serious impact on my internet browsing. Even for people in less extreme situations than mine, just how much do you rely on foreign sites every day? (Hint: just because it's in English doesn't mean it's in the US.) How many businesses and educational institutions work internationally?
Perhaps the question isn't, "should the internet be regionalized?" but "should the US segregate its internet from the rest of the world?" It's an insanely stupid proposition, and the rest of the world would simply build an open internet without them. The only people who would get hurt would be the US.
I think it's more likely that the US would view the UK and Japan as threats if they were on equal footing, not as allies. That's military thinking for you.
One of the new "features" of the latest dynamic web page design is intelligently detecting your region and setting your language accordingly. Which means that if you're in Japan, you will see the page in Japanese, whether you like it or not. Sure, I can read some Japanese, and I need the practice, but I want the option to set it into my mother tongue. I don't think this is asking too much.
Honestly, this is an example of bad programming. You're supposed to always include an override in case (gasp!) your software should not do what the user wants (one of the dumbest places I've seen this particular practice: the Apache web server documentation. I have to change my operating system's localization settings in order to read it. Talk about inconvenient.)
Touting the numbers is called advertising, and it works. Why is that immature? I used to work for a boss who believed that the best way to promote our business was by just "being good." We were great, and also largely unemployed, since nobody knew we existed. No thanks.
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It's good to know that most - although they said "most," not all - explosives can't be made using the ethanol found in perfume. They made this big deal about not bringing liquids on board the plane and then sold my wife a bottle of perfume during flight. Of course, if the idea was to prevent bringing dangerous substances under the guise of perfumes or some other innocuous item, then it's not a big deal. I found it very enlightening that they said that the government is taking their cue from Hollywood, though.
Vote with your dollars.
I did. I took my money to another country.
Luckily, there is absolutely no comparison between someone asking your son to surf on the internet from the safety of his home and asking him to risk physical harm at the small hours of the morning. I think it'd be a better idea to stick with an "accidental is not the same as on purpose" analogy, which is more appropriate to your argument. For example, I'd be concerned if the government indoctrinated my son to go looking for trouble in a dark alleyway at 3am, rather than encouraging him to get home at a reasonable hour.
That being said, yeah, the excuse given by the Chinese government is pretty transparent.
There are very strong parallels between the need to study spelling and the Japnanese need to study kanji (the Chinese characters.) Interestingly, both take about six years to master (at least, when I was a kid we studied for six years, and the Japaanese do about the same.) Whereas it's a big pain when trying to teach English to Japanese kids, since you can't simply write things on the board, spelling is important for conveying meeaning, just as the different kanji are important for the same reason. The Japanese have a very functional syllabary, but the kanji actually makes reading comprehension easier, rather than more difficult (once you can actually read the damn things.)
I guess your clients also failed to mention that these work against any vehicle, not just tanks, which means instead of killing just one person at a time, they can take out civilians by the carload.
Mines are wrong no matter what the justification. A better mine is like a better mousetrap: from the point of view of the mouse, things haven't improved.
Never heard of them, and Fedora Core has superior support for Mac hardware, anyway. I respect any distro that can properly detect and configure an Japanese Apple keyboard. I tried Ubuntu first, but it just wasn't up to snuff when it came to proper hardware detection. Of course, this is Linux; your mileage may vary.
Are you sure about the "van?" If a German name is prefixed by anything, it's "von," meaning "of," and it's a lot more uncommon than you think (in my 15 year association with Germany, I've seen less than a handful.) German names with "von" in them tend towards place names, since they aren't a clan-based culture. My host family in Germany's name is simply "Fuchs," meaning "Fox." Mueller would be equivalent to the English Miller, etc. In the case of my mother's ancestors, the Hesses, they don't have a "von," because their name is the same as the old arch-dukedom.
For really fun genealogical challenges, try the Japanese. Most Japanese people didn't even have family names until the Edo period, when basically the government decided it was time to go around and figure out who was who, and gave them family names based on location. This means that you may have several sets of Ikedas, Kawatanis, or whomever who were never once related (unless you do the "1000 years ago" rigamarole.) For example, my wife's family name is "Matsumoto," meaning "from the pines," but she is only 3rd-generation Japanese, as her great-grandparents came from Korea. Also, since I'm not Japanese, I was entered into *her* family registry when we got married, which definitely feels like a bit of a role reversal (no, I didn't have to change my name, and neither did she. She just hyphenates it when necessary.)
Unfortunately, if you take the view that food doesn't grow in the supermarket, the time it's going to take to shift an entire agricultural society from America to Russia, not counting the food shortages and inflated prices, then you might view this as a little bit more of a problem. It's easy to take the long view on things as long as you assume that you're never going to be directly affected. It's easy to be fatalistic until it actually becomes your fate.
Where the heck did you come up with the idea to compare pedophelia with drinking coffee? This is hardly a case of simply trying to justify a bad habit. I think you have this confused with the American tendency to justify over-eating or something.
As far as this article goes, I'm probably in about the 120% reduction range. I keep waiting for coffee to be bad for me, but they have as yet to come up with anything. Damn my healthy lifestyle!
It's 3D no matter how you look at it; it's just at an incredibly microscopic scale. If you can say there are three circuits on top of each other, then they must logically be occupying a vertical dimension.
Actually, that's a little over simplified. What Mr. Ou's very insightful article pointed out is that you can't do an all-or-nothing policy like that without really pissing off your customers regardless. He uses a great FedEx shipping analogy with priority mail vs. ground shipping. If you pay for ground shipping and the package never arrives, then you're going to be wanting your money back very quickly. However, the problem is we need a way to get ISPs to periodically publish their service statistics, so we can see whether or not they're actuallly doing the job they promised to do.
Yeah...living within spitting distance of Kyoto (I'm in Osaka), and having developed a certain image of Kyoto conservatism, I just can't picture it. Of course, my wife, who is Japanese and has lived her all her life, was very quick to say, "Oh, yeah, they'd do it." So there you go. :)
Cheaper, yes, but better? The Mars rovers have taken three years to do something that the average person could do in a couple of days. Keeping people on staff to process that data and issue new instructions for that long isn't going to be exactly cheap, either.
That goes beyond "overly pessimistic" to just "silly pessimistic." Sure, there are challenges. However, consider something as everyday as the amazing technology that it takes to make the processor that runs inside your computer: something that sophisticated would have been impossible thirty years ago. It's so easy to take amazing things for granted.
Perhaps we'll get to the space elevator sooner once the powers-that-be realize the amazing military applications it would enable.
It couldn't be much easier than it is now; you hardly need a .xxx domain to find porn. Theoretically, it would make it easier to keep kids out because you simply tell your web browser to block everything ending in .xxx, thus segregating those sites. There are much better reasons why the .xxx domain is a bad idea. For one, there's nothing forcing the porn industry into investing in the registry, and nothing forcing them to drop their current domains. It'd be little more than a financial nuisance for those companies who felt it necessary to register their names in both. There is no clear-cut, determining factor as to what is porn and what isn't, which also makes the registry kind of useless.
Popeye's Media One rocks, baby.
However, on a recent trip to Korea, I discovered that theirs are *way* cooler, not to mention cheaper(!) Except for the truly funky smell in the stairwell leading up to it, which is probably caused precisely by those who live there all the time.
I agree. Some people seem to think that if you don't lose a pint of blood while setting up your computer, you're not using a *real* operating system.
If something as powerful as BSD can be made usable by more people, I think that would be better called "streamlining" or "making it more elegant." I find that Fedora or OSX are both good examples of OSes that allow you to just start the computer and get stuff done if that's all you need, and let you get down-and-dirty for the more demanding power user.
A good programmer can write useful software; a great programmer can make it usable.
It's a stupid name that deserves to be made fun of, just like the MacBook, for that matter. If the developers don't like it and the potential customers don't like it, you have a bomb on your hands. Rather than wasting time attempting to justify the mistake, find something that people like instead.
And by the way, people make fun of the name, "Gimp," too. It's another stupid name but everybody pretends not to notice. Of course, it's great if you want to give your detractors an easy label for when you have to explain why you don't have basic things like CMYK support, for example.
Not only that, but if you use the Edict online Japanese/English dictionary, you find that the Japanese have characters in katakana and hiragana for "wi," they're just hardly used anymore.In hiragana: In katakana:
:)
Damned if I can figure out how to type them, though. I had to copy and paste.
Living in Japan for several years now, I can most definitely attest to the fact that it is very trivial for the Japanese to pronounce it. However, the kids at my school don't really think much of the name. They could have named it Revolution and the Japanese would have just shortened it to "rebo" or something. After all, "Famicom" was short for "Family Computer," so it's not like Nintendo hasn't abused the Japanese with awkward naming conventions before.
And your German is a bit off. You used the word "umziehen," which means "to move" as in the sense of changing residences. You should have used "bewegen."
No, it's unpredictable to them, too. However, it is in keepin g with Japanese humor, which is based in large part around the idea of acting outside of normal expectations. In other words, they think it's funny.
As an American living in Japan, I think that would have a very serious impact on my internet browsing. Even for people in less extreme situations than mine, just how much do you rely on foreign sites every day? (Hint: just because it's in English doesn't mean it's in the US.) How many businesses and educational institutions work internationally?
Perhaps the question isn't, "should the internet be regionalized?" but "should the US segregate its internet from the rest of the world?" It's an insanely stupid proposition, and the rest of the world would simply build an open internet without them. The only people who would get hurt would be the US.
I think it's more likely that the US would view the UK and Japan as threats if they were on equal footing, not as allies. That's military thinking for you.
One of the new "features" of the latest dynamic web page design is intelligently detecting your region and setting your language accordingly. Which means that if you're in Japan, you will see the page in Japanese, whether you like it or not. Sure, I can read some Japanese, and I need the practice, but I want the option to set it into my mother tongue. I don't think this is asking too much.
Honestly, this is an example of bad programming. You're supposed to always include an override in case (gasp!) your software should not do what the user wants (one of the dumbest places I've seen this particular practice: the Apache web server documentation. I have to change my operating system's localization settings in order to read it. Talk about inconvenient.)
Touting the numbers is called advertising, and it works. Why is that immature? I used to work for a boss who believed that the best way to promote our business was by just "being good." We were great, and also largely unemployed, since nobody knew we existed. No thanks.