Just came back from Tokyo and realized how much I miss riding my bicycle in Singapore. The city is just not made for bicycles. It would increase the quality of living by a wide margin since Singapore is so small.
It has been a long time since I was in Singapore, but looking back it isn't obvious why it would be bad for cycling. Obviously one wouldn't use the elevated expressways, but there are lots of other streets of varying sizes with varying amounts of traffic (like Tokyo). Is there a law against taking the lane? Perhaps there just isn't a culture of cycling, so one would be the only one on the road? Just curious...
It's road behaviour. Due to the high COE car owners feel an entitlement for the road. In addition people are driving selfish and are in general bad educated (comparing to Europe and Japan). See roads.sg for examples.
Let's not start price comparisons. Can you do photoshop on PS3? Can you edit documents ? Can you run professional applications ?
A PC will ALWAYS do more things than a console, and the better you PC config is, the better all your applications will run so it's win-win for all you do with it.
Besides, even games are cheaper and faster to buy on PC. So compare the price of a PS3 with 30 games with one of a PC with 30 games and you will see your argument is wrong.
>I build BIG financial software and we have certain audit requirements, access control requirements, data protection requirements etc and that is exactly how it should be.
Funny, I had the same argument with a colleague today. Since FB is listed and their business model is based on customer data they should follow the same legal requirements as customer finance companies.
Perhaps. But they certainly do not have the restrictions of financial audit requirements and things like Dodd Frank etc. which is overwhelming all the major banks right now and is a big way to earn money for consultants if they know ABC of audit/compliance in 2012. Anyway, the point is that fb even though not ideal in how they store/use user data (which I personally am not a fan of as well), it does not matter as much as it matters to a bank/financial institution. I say this while I work for clients that are major banks.
Ah, the bi-weekly anti QR-Code rant. QR Codes are amazing, have wonderful potential but are under-utilized at this stage. And just for the record, for everyone who still thinks Japan uses a lot of QR Codes. Just came back from 2 weeks in Singapore. Singapore > Tokyo.
