MGmaps (not Mobile Google Maps, but Mobile Gmaps. a free (as in beer) 3rd party client) does exactly this. One big issue is the filesystem: individual tiles are small but they end up taking tons of space once you put them on a FAT32 SD card.
It's usable but you have to fine tune what zoom levels you store (= get the zoomed in tiles only for dense urban areas).
Mgmaps has supported locally stored google (and other vendors) maps for years. Works on (almost?) any phone that lets you install java applications. There are tools to automatically download selected areas at whatever zoom levels you want to.
Last time I tried, Google didn't mind spidering the maps, but they'd ban you if you went for the satellite data. I believe the download programs have good proxy support to circumvent this, though.
What good is the internet if they don't have the right to a private connection? blah blah blah Echelon
Look, I've run into that filter exactly once, which caused me to shrug and move on. It blocks child porn, some regular porn that looks like it might be child porn, and some guy's blog that contains a list of everything that is blocked. Yes, there is an ideological problem there, and yes, Finland isn't perfect. But are you seriously raising the question over whether having a broadband connection is any good if you can't access, what, a few hundred non-free porn sites and a single whiny blog?
You do realize US spends more, way more, on health care per capita than Finland does, right?
3.5mm stereo plug is what Nokia has used for it in the past.
Nintendo DS. iPhone is utterly insignificant next to that. Also, to generalize a bit, American games tend not to be so hot in Japan. And even if they were, Civ has been on the DS for ages.
Nokia is not a Japanese company. In fact, Nokia recently abandoned the Japanese market completely due to their continuing dismal sales there.
...or Japan, who've used push email instead of SMS & MMS for years.
My wife had been diagnosed with depression before our marriage, so I knew there'd probably be some rough times ahead, and of course there have been. If she needs me to be a rock, I am. My objection was specifically to manufactured bullshit tests, not genuine issues.
Your case, as you describe it, sounds a bit different to me: either he didn't realize you needed him, in which case you failed to communicate, or he purposefully ignored you, in which case he's an asshole. Maybe it was both, I can't know, of course. If my wife developed a habit of needing me to solve little crises all the time, that would be something we'd have to discuss, but I wouldn't dream of simply ignoring her like that.
You're stating opinions. That in itself I have no problem with. What does somewhat concern me is that your perspective seems to be that your own way of looking at some of these things is the only possible way...and with all due respect, it isn't.
So, you're using a truthism that happens to apply to you and your relatives as a basis for saying Kokuyo does not know how his relationship works, that his relationship is doomed because he doesn't live like your stereotype says he should. Are you for real? That level of arrogance is unusual even for
As a half of a geek couple just entering into our fourth year, I found myself really nodding along while reading your third paragraph. By all means be nice and be a good partner, but don't forget to tell your SO what he/she needs to do in order to be nice and a good partner to you. Otherwise you may end up harboring resentments because you think your partner isn't putting as much effort into being nice as you are.
The last paragraph, I didn't care so much for: one of the things that brought us together was our inability to play social games (like "testing your husband"). Takes all kinds I guess, but treating the relationship as a game is not something you necessarily have to put up with. YMMV.
Couples that don't argue never last
This is a silly meme; the amount of arguments does not correlate with succesful marriages. That said, do try to find a solution (together!) to any conflicts that you will encounter. Couples that suffer in silence don't last.
Well argued. However, there's an inherent problem when it comes to biodiversity, which you mentioned as a point in the favour of organic food. Growing "organic food" means less yield per acre, so in order to produce the same amount of food as can be done by... inorganic(?) farming, you'd need more fields. And fields are the antithesis of biodiversity.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.004449,135.769166&spn=0.003168,0.005788&z=18
You'll probably recognize the golden arcs and the reassuring smile of col. Sanders. The other icons represent Japanese hamburger fast food chains and convenience store chains. It's like this everywhere in Japan (I haven't used Google Maps elsewhere).
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
