I'm replying to you, but this is a reply to everyone in this sub thread.
I currently work for a Japanese web design firm. Talk about a headache when writing sites, Japanse phones maybe be fast, but they're browsers are utter crap. There's almost 0 CSS support. You can't just write one site and then link to a "mobile" sheet because you can't link. You have to write a whole new page. So that's not the reason that there's so much 1.0 crap out there. (for those of you interested: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/pdf/service/imode/make/content/xhtml/HTML_XHTML_taglist.pdf A pdf of tags and atributes that you can use)
The Japanese alphabet (kana) is divided up into 10 main sounds 1 ranges the vowels A-I-U-E-O, 2 is Ka-Ki-Ku-Ke-Ko and sharp will give you the voiced Ga-Gi-Gu-Ge-Go, etc. Let's say I want to type the word for "bank" which is ginkou. I hit 2 twice, then the sharp key, then 0 3 times (fo the non-voweled n) by this time, it's shown up on the predicta-text and I chose it and I'm off to the next word. Also, since there are no capitol letters in Japanese reversing through backwards speeds things up more.
oh? But each symbol can be broken down. There's a logic to it all, unlike romance and germanic languages. In English, you have to remember the spelling of each and every word, all those funny vowels screwing things up. And in Japanese, if you can't remember a kanji, hey! you've got a 50 character alphabet to fall back on and can still be understood.
It depends, are you stealing the computer because you want info or because you want a computer?
Second, I didn't rtf but I atleast read the summary and noticed where it said "Mac". "Macs" aren't know for running DOS programs as well as the lack of being able to up grade them (ie replacing the system board)
I'm assuming, like a another poster, by meme that you mean "DVD is good-enough". I hate to tell you, but like DRM, it is. I was an early adaprter to DVD, I remember shelling out a lot of cash to replace my VHS collection and the main reason I did it wasn't because of the quality, it's because it took up less physical space and I didn't have to rewind when I was done. Audio DVDs are supirior to CDs, but they're nothing more than a neiche market, just like Bluray will be. Throughout this "war" , I asked people around me if they'd ever heard of blu-ray or HD DVD, not only had the majority not heard of them, but a lot of thought blu-ray was blue tooth. I'm back in Japan now and there's huge push for blu-ray at the electronic stores. They have two 42" HD Tvs next to each other, one plays blu-ray, the other plays "DVD". Both of them are recordings off of an HD channel. Even my wife, who has zero interest in technology walked in and said, "Wow, what super crap low quality setting did they record that DVD on?" Personally, I think it's hallarious that the supposed advantage of this stuff is for the better quality but you can by HD DVD/VHS combo players.
Years ago most doctors didn't prescribe drugs, they thought bleeding was the best cure. Hence the use of leaches. My advice is stop visiting doctors and swim in pools of stagnant water.:)
No, what's surprising is that people did complain. We're talking about a country that since the inception of it's constitution has been ruled by one party. We're talking about a country where trail by jury is barely a year old. We're talking about a country with a statute of limitation on murder.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm currently sitting in said country, not wanting to return to my own because it's so nice here. Also, I asked my wife if she'd heard of this, and she had. Also, it's not even new. All it did was take existing data and digitize it.
Exactly, It's not like the terrorist didn't have leagal and valid id! They were exactly who they said they were! There is no point! I need more exclamation points!
Ah, yes the lovely quoted contract price. Agents love it because they can get more chumps to line up, the media loves it because they can print lots of 00000000000000s. However, a good portion of that money is tied into performance. Your injured player won't see anywhere close to that 45mil. There are two numbers in contracts, the garunteed amount and the reported "amount"*. What, do you think all baseball owners act like Texas Ranger owners? The owners are definitely NOT out to take care of the players.
*Assuming all clauses are met including the ones like "Most be voted most valuble player of the World Series even though you play for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays"
compensate the artist instead I thought this was dead. I thought we all knew that the artist gets nothing from the record sale. It all goes to the record company to recoup their losses on promoting the next Jessica Spears.
If their work isn't worth paying for, don't buy it.[sic] If a tune isn't worth $.99 to you, it's obviously not worth listening to. Call me a tight ass, but there's not many songs I want to pay $1 for that I don't get a physical backup of. I don't P2P, but I don't iTMS either. $1 is well above what I'm willing to pay for a bunch of 1s and 0s. $.50 is tempting.
which the artist doesn't get paid for. Yes, they do. It's called an advance. But in return for the advance, they must pay it completely off at $.002 on the dollar before seeing any money off sales
This was discussed in an earlier article. IP is not personal property, it's "real" property as the concept of it's posession is given by the government.
I think I understand where your confusion is coming from. You're thinking that someone wants item X and they're willing to pay $P for it. To you, that P is fixed. Under no circumstance would P change. Thus if P isn't large enough to win, then they shouldn't win. What I and some other people are saying is that what a lot of people are willing to spend is not fixed. We're actually willing to spend $(P + y) where y is unknown. Y could be positive (you found out that all other X in the world got destroyed in a flood and now is really valuable) or it could be a negative (When you first bid, there was only one X and it was the first you'd seen in awhile then eBay gets flooded with X and you realized you can actually get it for half as much as you were willing to spend). Those aren't the only reasons, but I hope I've cleared things up.
One more note, you mentioned that the seller would be happy with a snipe because all of a sudden they get more money than they would have before, but if the previous winner had time to bid again, the seller would make even more money. I can't think of a situation where a long drawn out bidding war wouldn't be in the interest of the seller.
a. must deal with being batshit crazy and being constantly photographed, hounded in public for autographs, plus the drugs ain't cheap.
b. must deal with severe health problems later in life and the fact that their career will last maybe 7 seasons and have no other skills, hounded in public for autographs, plus the steroids ain't cheap.
c. Who? plus your mom's basement is pretty cheap.
Maybe I don't want to just start out and bid $1,000 on everything to make sure I win. Maybe when my $50 bid gets beat, I want to re-evaluate the situation. And on my 2400 baud modem I'm sure as hell not going to be able to beat you and your mighty broadband.
To get back on Japan, you complain about the voluntary separation in the US (I'm assuming), but in Japan, it's common to have to separate your garbage in 7 different ways. Yes, you have to. There are people that inspect it and it will not be picked up if it's sorted incorrectly. I have had my trash returned to me several times for failing inspection or not using the proper trash bag (I used a clear see-through bag for cans once after a party, but since it wasn't in the aluminum recycling bag, it was wrong). About two years ago, there was an article in the NY Times about Japan's trash. There's a town on Kyushu (don't remember the name) that has 43 different ways to separate. The article also had an interview with one of the trash inspectors and he spoke with pride about how he had an non-compliant couple evicted from their apartment because they wouldn't separate correctly.
the sunglass thing is simple. Sunglasses are worn by Yakuza. Normal people don't want to be thought of as yakuza, so the don't wear sunglasses. Also, darker colored eyes tend to be less sensitive to light. Days where I've been blinded by the sun, my wife and her family thought nothing of it. Hit Osaka up and you'll see a lot of different styles, including the now trendy big-ass sunglasses. They aren't worn because they're needed, they're worn for style.
I'm sorry I was over-dramatic with the whole "dear God" thing. However, since the Japanese government is on a parliamentary system, there aren't regular elections like in America, so the big to-dos aren't as predictable. But during election time, it's really annoying. You can't go anywhere without there being 15 different cars driving around yelling and screaming. On the plus side though, you don't see any political ads on TV. The systems are too different though. While a loser like Abe was gone quickly, we've had to deal with Bush for 8 years.
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I'm replying to you, but this is a reply to everyone in this sub thread.
I currently work for a Japanese web design firm. Talk about a headache when writing sites, Japanse phones maybe be fast, but they're browsers are utter crap. There's almost 0 CSS support. You can't just write one site and then link to a "mobile" sheet because you can't link. You have to write a whole new page. So that's not the reason that there's so much 1.0 crap out there. (for those of you interested: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/pdf/service/imode/make/content/xhtml/HTML_XHTML_taglist.pdf A pdf of tags and atributes that you can use)
The Japanese alphabet (kana) is divided up into 10 main sounds 1 ranges the vowels A-I-U-E-O, 2 is Ka-Ki-Ku-Ke-Ko and sharp will give you the voiced Ga-Gi-Gu-Ge-Go, etc.
Let's say I want to type the word for "bank" which is ginkou. I hit 2 twice, then the sharp key, then 0 3 times (fo the non-voweled n) by this time, it's shown up on the predicta-text and I chose it and I'm off to the next word. Also, since there are no capitol letters in Japanese reversing through backwards speeds things up more.
oh? But each symbol can be broken down. There's a logic to it all, unlike romance and germanic languages. In English, you have to remember the spelling of each and every word, all those funny vowels screwing things up. And in Japanese, if you can't remember a kanji, hey! you've got a 50 character alphabet to fall back on and can still be understood.
Yes, which is WHY you need rights
no,no Kansas has always been in Missouri. You had it backwards
For awhile, I thought I was on star trek and was really thursty. I kept asking my computer for "ice tea" and all I got was some hip-hop...
It depends, are you stealing the computer because you want info or because you want a computer?
Second, I didn't rtf but I atleast read the summary and noticed where it said "Mac". "Macs" aren't know for running DOS programs as well as the lack of being able to up grade them (ie replacing the system board)
Your mom gave it to me for free
Please, tell me, how? Or do you think my name really is Shoemilk?
I'm assuming, like a another poster, by meme that you mean "DVD is good-enough". I hate to tell you, but like DRM, it is. I was an early adaprter to DVD, I remember shelling out a lot of cash to replace my VHS collection and the main reason I did it wasn't because of the quality, it's because it took up less physical space and I didn't have to rewind when I was done. Audio DVDs are supirior to CDs, but they're nothing more than a neiche market, just like Bluray will be.
Throughout this "war" , I asked people around me if they'd ever heard of blu-ray or HD DVD, not only had the majority not heard of them, but a lot of thought blu-ray was blue tooth.
I'm back in Japan now and there's huge push for blu-ray at the electronic stores. They have two 42" HD Tvs next to each other, one plays blu-ray, the other plays "DVD". Both of them are recordings off of an HD channel. Even my wife, who has zero interest in technology walked in and said, "Wow, what super crap low quality setting did they record that DVD on?"
Personally, I think it's hallarious that the supposed advantage of this stuff is for the better quality but you can by HD DVD/VHS combo players.
Don't you read slashdot summaries? Water is dangerous!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/09/2121249
Years ago most doctors didn't prescribe drugs, they thought bleeding was the best cure. Hence the use of leaches. My advice is stop visiting doctors and swim in pools of stagnant water. :)
OOO a monopoly on ONE FUCKING PHONE! That's real insightful. Please, look up the definition of monopoly before modding ACs.
No, what's surprising is that people did complain. We're talking about a country that since the inception of it's constitution has been ruled by one party. We're talking about a country where trail by jury is barely a year old. We're talking about a country with a statute of limitation on murder.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm currently sitting in said country, not wanting to return to my own because it's so nice here. Also, I asked my wife if she'd heard of this, and she had. Also, it's not even new. All it did was take existing data and digitize it.
Exactly, It's not like the terrorist didn't have leagal and valid id! They were exactly who they said they were! There is no point! I need more exclamation points!
Ah, yes the lovely quoted contract price. Agents love it because they can get more chumps to line up, the media loves it because they can print lots of 00000000000000s. However, a good portion of that money is tied into performance. Your injured player won't see anywhere close to that 45mil. There are two numbers in contracts, the garunteed amount and the reported "amount"*. What, do you think all baseball owners act like Texas Ranger owners? The owners are definitely NOT out to take care of the players.
*Assuming all clauses are met including the ones like "Most be voted most valuble player of the World Series even though you play for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays"
This was discussed in an earlier article. IP is not personal property, it's "real" property as the concept of it's posession is given by the government.
I think I understand where your confusion is coming from. You're thinking that someone wants item X and they're willing to pay $P for it. To you, that P is fixed. Under no circumstance would P change. Thus if P isn't large enough to win, then they shouldn't win. What I and some other people are saying is that what a lot of people are willing to spend is not fixed. We're actually willing to spend $(P + y) where y is unknown. Y could be positive (you found out that all other X in the world got destroyed in a flood and now is really valuable) or it could be a negative (When you first bid, there was only one X and it was the first you'd seen in awhile then eBay gets flooded with X and you realized you can actually get it for half as much as you were willing to spend). Those aren't the only reasons, but I hope I've cleared things up.
One more note, you mentioned that the seller would be happy with a snipe because all of a sudden they get more money than they would have before, but if the previous winner had time to bid again, the seller would make even more money. I can't think of a situation where a long drawn out bidding war wouldn't be in the interest of the seller.
Your examples
a. must deal with being batshit crazy and being constantly photographed, hounded in public for autographs, plus the drugs ain't cheap.
b. must deal with severe health problems later in life and the fact that their career will last maybe 7 seasons and have no other skills, hounded in public for autographs, plus the steroids ain't cheap.
c. Who? plus your mom's basement is pretty cheap.
Please mod this up and me down. I forgot that Tx was open.
Maybe I don't want to just start out and bid $1,000 on everything to make sure I win. Maybe when my $50 bid gets beat, I want to re-evaluate the situation. And on my 2400 baud modem I'm sure as hell not going to be able to beat you and your mighty broadband.
D'oh! stupid texas
Ummm... You do know that you have to be registered with that party to vote in it's primaries, right?
To get back on Japan, you complain about the voluntary separation in the US (I'm assuming), but in Japan, it's common to have to separate your garbage in 7 different ways. Yes, you have to. There are people that inspect it and it will not be picked up if it's sorted incorrectly. I have had my trash returned to me several times for failing inspection or not using the proper trash bag (I used a clear see-through bag for cans once after a party, but since it wasn't in the aluminum recycling bag, it was wrong). About two years ago, there was an article in the NY Times about Japan's trash. There's a town on Kyushu (don't remember the name) that has 43 different ways to separate. The article also had an interview with one of the trash inspectors and he spoke with pride about how he had an non-compliant couple evicted from their apartment because they wouldn't separate correctly.
the sunglass thing is simple. Sunglasses are worn by Yakuza. Normal people don't want to be thought of as yakuza, so the don't wear sunglasses. Also, darker colored eyes tend to be less sensitive to light. Days where I've been blinded by the sun, my wife and her family thought nothing of it. Hit Osaka up and you'll see a lot of different styles, including the now trendy big-ass sunglasses. They aren't worn because they're needed, they're worn for style.
I'm sorry I was over-dramatic with the whole "dear God" thing. However, since the Japanese government is on a parliamentary system, there aren't regular elections like in America, so the big to-dos aren't as predictable. But during election time, it's really annoying. You can't go anywhere without there being 15 different cars driving around yelling and screaming. On the plus side though, you don't see any political ads on TV. The systems are too different though. While a loser like Abe was gone quickly, we've had to deal with Bush for 8 years.