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##13:58 Wednesday 03 January 2007

Regarding WiFi in Japan vs the US, Jesse wrote:

We already have 4G in Japan.... and it is already too slow but boasts speeds of 100mbps.

3g is only good for non-mobile systems. It only goes a max of 384kbps for mobile systems, and that is if it has a good connection...

Dude explained:

beacause the US is so concerned with "preserving the free market", our government refuses to mandate a standard. Therefore, we have competing standards and no one wants to risk buying and deploying the wrong standard. In addition, we have a state (and federal) legislature that is woefully ill-prepared for considering such issues, and they have been swindled by the telecom industry who has lobbied them to believe that making it illegal for municipalities to deploy free WiFi networks is in the public interests. It is argued that the public sector is inherently ill-equipped to handle such a high-tech utility and will ultimately result in mismanagement and excessive taxpayer expense. Of course the truth is that huge telecom copmanies like AT&T; (Formerly SBC), Verizon, Time Warner, etc. want to force people to buy WiFi and they conjure up these tortured arguments so that they can make more money at the expense of progress. The result is that Japan has 4G WiFi all over the city and in subways and other difficult areas, and that most major cities in the US have spotty cellular service for which people pay through the nose, and no free WiFi. Isn't laissez faire capitalism awesome!?!?

Flash

2:23pm JST Wednesday 3 January 2007 (day 13433)

Have a pretty good flowchart for the new version of the game. Tariq has agreed we've actually got two games here. My version (interpretation) of his game is cool, so we're going to keep it as well as make the version he meant to explain.

4:16pm JST Wednesday 3 January 2007 (day 13433)

Ah... this is interesting.

It appears I've "developed" a technique to more usefully flesh out a flash game. Not *that* amazing, but I'm just seeing how to take into consideration the frames when going from flowchart to pseudo code.

1:52am JST Thursday 4 January 2007 (day 13434)

Fucking hell if I can't find what's causing the problem with this. I'm slow-motioning through the debugger, and I just don't see what's going on. ARgh argh argh.

Warrior

12:13am JST Thursday 4 January 2007 (day 13434)

I seem to have a tendency to not speak up when someone is talking, even if they are just blabbering.

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In Shibuya on New Year's Eve, it just seemed so "beneath me" to get into the spirit; I couldn't fathom "being like them" (drinking, silly, crazy, etc)

Perhaps it's a way of dealing with old wounds. The group hurt me, so I don't want to be like the group.