Off-topic, I know, but traditionally in Japan, the crappy worker that they want to get rid of gets a nice window view. Now they just fire them like the rest of the world
XBox360 Premium on the other side can be found in bundles these days for 400EUR, including a game (50EUR), 1 year XBoxLive (50EUR) and 50EUR rebate, which puts the XBox360 Premium(!) at 250EUR and unlike the Wii, the XBox360 is full of shiny new technology. 400 EUR - 50 EUR Rebate = 350 EUR
One of the reasons I want to by a Wii is because I want to play the NES games. I played lots of Halo on the first Xbox, but I fell asleep while playing Halo 2 (granted I was jet-lagged, having flown in from Japan 3 days prior). Just because a system can do next-gen graphics doesn't turn it into a good thing (Grammar Nazi warning: watch the comma splices).
You are complainging about a $50 increase but forgetting that the Wii comes with a game. What game did the launch N64 come with again? What game came with the launch Gamecube?
You are well with in your right to prioritize graphics over all else. Personally, I'm going to buy a console for the first time since the N64 beacuse of the controller and the fact that I could probably get people (meaning my family and girlfriend) to actually play.
Yes, the teacher was wrong in not answering your question, but do not blame your own failure on the same teacher. How can a math teacher make sure you fail? There is no subjectivity in math. "You wrote your 5 wrong! -10!"
Dude, what minimum wage are you looking at? Please, introduce me to these Corvette-driving minimum-wagers that are all over the place. Also, by "oversuppliment" are you refering to welfare (Japan has it [seikatuhogo]) or minimum wage (once again, Japan has it [saiteichingin])? Last I heard, most people working minimum wage barely got by on two jobs ($5.15/hr comes to $10,712/year working fifty-two 40 hour weeks).
Anti-intellectual sentiments run rampid in America and they are different from anti-educational sentiments, which are what your points are about.
If neighborhoods paid for their own schooling, rich ones would have the best schools and poor ones the worst. What are the smart kids from the poor schools supposed to do? Should the get a loan to go to elementary school, middle school, high school, and college? Why should they bother when they can become crack dealers and shoot you and take your Corvette?
I have to agree with maxume. Teaching in public schools in Japan, I have a pretty good feel what the average Japanese student is like; they're pretty much the same as the average American student. You've got bright kids and kids that you can see will drop out at the first instant they can. It's just that in Japan, high school isn't required (and there are still a large number of drop outs from them).
At any rate, the average Japanese person does not know more about American history than the average American knows. I'm also sick of reading and hearing about how crappy American schools are. They aren't.
It's pretty common here (in Japan), but in recent years it's kind of gone out of style. However, even the hardest stuff is censored (read big blur over anything of interest outside of breasts). I've even seen gay porn here and it was censored. It is illegal to distribute un-censored porn in Japan. (there was a cops-esque show on one night and the perp they were after was dealing un-censored porn and they caught him with 300 uncensored DVDs! oh the horrors!) But the perv on the train can read his big tit manga with the girl with hot air ballons tacked on her chest is covered in cum so long as there's nothing drawn down there...
The Zune, imho, will already be a better device than the crApple iPod to begin with
Please explain, your humble opinion confuses me. The "crApple" iPod is smaller dimensionally, can be used as a hard drive, and comes in multiple styles. The Zune's benefits are a wi-fi sharing devise that has little appeal and uses an hour of battery life just to turn on, it's got an irrelevantly larger screen at the same resolution, and comes in brown.
I'm not about to say that the iPod is the best mp3 player out there, however, I have read nothing that convinces me that the Zune is anything close to worth having. I'm going to assume by your use of a derogatory term of Apple that you just despise all things Apple, which is fine, to each his own. </niceness>
Dude! Are you getting the brown one? I hear the chicks dig it.
I just want to know how government works in your world. Your well thoughtout comments on the free market aside, how would things be done without the theft you are so derisive of? Take the police, who would pay them? Should they all be rent a cops (or thugs)? Government and public services are not sustainable without taxes.
Personally, I'd like it so that we would have a say as to where our personal taxes go. When we filed them there'd be choices, like "I want 45% to go to education (grants, teachers' salaries), 30% to general public funds (road maintenence, parks, etc), 1% to military (hate it, but gotta have it) and the rest to the poor sobs that have to figure out where everyone's money goes."
.... Everyone is entitled to my opinion and thier own. Please forgive me if i spelled anything wrong, I jsut type and let my mind speak... ehh... unlike some people here who seem to be English Professors that revise thier work ten times and change what they want to say so it can impress someone, some people need to try that ever so often jsut speak..
There's nothing wrong with just typing and letting your mind speak, so to say. Just as there's nothing wrong with after typing it, taking five seconds to go through and making "jsut" "just". No one says that you have to revise your ideas, but we will respect them more if you type them properly. You say you don't want to impress anybody, so why bother to post in the first place? Even in this post, I'm trying to impress upon you the need for a five second review of your post. Slashdot even helps, there's a preview button. You don't even have to do that, just go re-read what you wrote in the textbox even. No one will chide you for mis-spelling "chrysantium" but many people won't even bother reading your post if you can't bother to fix some typos, "jsut"->"just" "thier"->"their"
Also, one needs to remember that it was never illegal to have more than one child, it was just finanically and socially impractical. Also, said sanctions have been lifted. As ungood as China is, it's never quite reached the Orwellian 1984 levels, which I think is double plus good, don't you commrad?
Are you Irish or an American living in Ireland? Japan's iTMS is the same way as Ireland's (much smaller selection, 200yen (about US$1.90) per song, no movies of free singles), but as an American with my American credit card, I can't buy anything from Japan's iTMS anyway (unless I applied for a Japanese card or bought a gift card from a store). Personally, I would have thought that the PAL-NTCS thing would have been a bigger issue (borrowing DVDs from my UK friends here (region 2 PAL) won't play on my normal DVD player (region 2 NTCS)).
Apple laptops are much harder to region unlock
Yes, I do have a mac laptop and desktop. But why should I have to resort to methods that void my warrantee? Why should I have to do that 2 minute search on the internet in the first place? Why should the people that write those firmware patch have to write them? (btw, apple drives aren't harder, it can't be done with anything released in the last two and a half years, there is no firmware patch for it (guy writing them got tired of it and the money it required) and VLC doesn't work. If anyone does know where to get a patch for the matsushita drives, please please please let me know)
While private schools operate with significantly smaller overhead costs and administrative staffs, the cost differential is mostly due to lower pay and benefits for their teachers. On average, public school teachers make 50 percent more than private school teachers. http://www.calnews.com/Archives/1YB_II_sal.htm
My favorite private schools are the ones that grade with smiley faces.
Someone with moderating powers, please troll both of these posts
Ronald Regan used "Born in the USA" for his 1984 campaign, but stopped when the copy right holder, Bruce Springsteen (a Mondale supporter), asked the campaign to stop.
I find the "region" thing much more annoying than having to authorize a machine, as I am a fan of international movies
I highly agree with you. Everyone sits around and complains about DRM but no one seems to care about region codes. I don't think there's anything less ethical than region codes. Why should I be punished for being an American living in Japan? Why should I have to buy a seperate DVD player for my American DVDs? Why can I only change the region on my laptop's drive 5 times? I want to play my LEGALLY purchased DVDs anywhere I want. So far, that's the only benefit I see from the iTMS movies; there's no region.
The point of the post is still valid, the point isn't about its back-up-ability, but about the re-sale-ability.
Would you like to get a film for $15 and re-sell it used for $8 when you are done, or pay $13 plus about another dollar for a disk to back it up on that you can't sell?
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Off-topic, I know, but traditionally in Japan, the crappy worker that they want to get rid of gets a nice window view. Now they just fire them like the rest of the world
Actually that's 400+50+50-50= 450
One of the reasons I want to by a Wii is because I want to play the NES games. I played lots of Halo on the first Xbox, but I fell asleep while playing Halo 2 (granted I was jet-lagged, having flown in from Japan 3 days prior). Just because a system can do next-gen graphics doesn't turn it into a good thing (Grammar Nazi warning: watch the comma splices).
You are complainging about a $50 increase but forgetting that the Wii comes with a game. What game did the launch N64 come with again? What game came with the launch Gamecube?
You are well with in your right to prioritize graphics over all else. Personally, I'm going to buy a console for the first time since the N64 beacuse of the controller and the fact that I could probably get people (meaning my family and girlfriend) to actually play.
Yes, the teacher was wrong in not answering your question, but do not blame your own failure on the same teacher. How can a math teacher make sure you fail? There is no subjectivity in math. "You wrote your 5 wrong! -10!"
Dude, what minimum wage are you looking at? Please, introduce me to these Corvette-driving minimum-wagers that are all over the place. Also, by "oversuppliment" are you refering to welfare (Japan has it [seikatuhogo]) or minimum wage (once again, Japan has it [saiteichingin])? Last I heard, most people working minimum wage barely got by on two jobs ($5.15/hr comes to $10,712/year working fifty-two 40 hour weeks).
Anti-intellectual sentiments run rampid in America and they are different from anti-educational sentiments, which are what your points are about.
If neighborhoods paid for their own schooling, rich ones would have the best schools and poor ones the worst. What are the smart kids from the poor schools supposed to do? Should the get a loan to go to elementary school, middle school, high school, and college? Why should they bother when they can become crack dealers and shoot you and take your Corvette?
I have to agree with maxume. Teaching in public schools in Japan, I have a pretty good feel what the average Japanese student is like; they're pretty much the same as the average American student. You've got bright kids and kids that you can see will drop out at the first instant they can. It's just that in Japan, high school isn't required (and there are still a large number of drop outs from them).
At any rate, the average Japanese person does not know more about American history than the average American knows. I'm also sick of reading and hearing about how crappy American schools are. They aren't.
It's pretty common here (in Japan), but in recent years it's kind of gone out of style. However, even the hardest stuff is censored (read big blur over anything of interest outside of breasts). I've even seen gay porn here and it was censored. It is illegal to distribute un-censored porn in Japan. (there was a cops-esque show on one night and the perp they were after was dealing un-censored porn and they caught him with 300 uncensored DVDs! oh the horrors!) But the perv on the train can read his big tit manga with the girl with hot air ballons tacked on her chest is covered in cum so long as there's nothing drawn down there...
The Zune, imho, will already be a better device than the crApple iPod to begin with
Please explain, your humble opinion confuses me. The "crApple" iPod is smaller dimensionally, can be used as a hard drive, and comes in multiple styles. The Zune's benefits are a wi-fi sharing devise that has little appeal and uses an hour of battery life just to turn on, it's got an irrelevantly larger screen at the same resolution, and comes in brown.
I'm not about to say that the iPod is the best mp3 player out there, however, I have read nothing that convinces me that the Zune is anything close to worth having. I'm going to assume by your use of a derogatory term of Apple that you just despise all things Apple, which is fine, to each his own. </niceness>
Dude! Are you getting the brown one? I hear the chicks dig it.
and many people like it, what's your point?
I hate to say it, but there is satilite
I just want to know how government works in your world. Your well thoughtout comments on the free market aside, how would things be done without the theft you are so derisive of? Take the police, who would pay them? Should they all be rent a cops (or thugs)? Government and public services are not sustainable without taxes.
Personally, I'd like it so that we would have a say as to where our personal taxes go. When we filed them there'd be choices, like "I want 45% to go to education (grants, teachers' salaries), 30% to general public funds (road maintenence, parks, etc), 1% to military (hate it, but gotta have it) and the rest to the poor sobs that have to figure out where everyone's money goes."
.... Everyone is entitled to my opinion and thier own. Please forgive me if i spelled anything wrong, I jsut type and let my mind speak... ehh... unlike some people here who seem to be English Professors that revise thier work ten times and change what they want to say so it can impress someone, some people need to try that ever so often jsut speak..
There's nothing wrong with just typing and letting your mind speak, so to say. Just as there's nothing wrong with after typing it, taking five seconds to go through and making "jsut" "just". No one says that you have to revise your ideas, but we will respect them more if you type them properly. You say you don't want to impress anybody, so why bother to post in the first place? Even in this post, I'm trying to impress upon you the need for a five second review of your post. Slashdot even helps, there's a preview button. You don't even have to do that, just go re-read what you wrote in the textbox even. No one will chide you for mis-spelling "chrysantium" but many people won't even bother reading your post if you can't bother to fix some typos, "jsut"->"just" "thier"->"their"
Also, one needs to remember that it was never illegal to have more than one child, it was just finanically and socially impractical. Also, said sanctions have been lifted. As ungood as China is, it's never quite reached the Orwellian 1984 levels, which I think is double plus good, don't you commrad?
Liar! http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5001/5001_01.a sp
Because we know the Bible doesn't contradict itself.
Speed, that's why. While your sitting around for your wireless device to download the music, I'm already out the door.
Are you Irish or an American living in Ireland? Japan's iTMS is the same way as Ireland's (much smaller selection, 200yen (about US$1.90) per song, no movies of free singles), but as an American with my American credit card, I can't buy anything from Japan's iTMS anyway (unless I applied for a Japanese card or bought a gift card from a store). Personally, I would have thought that the PAL-NTCS thing would have been a bigger issue (borrowing DVDs from my UK friends here (region 2 PAL) won't play on my normal DVD player (region 2 NTCS)).
Apple laptops are much harder to region unlock
Yes, I do have a mac laptop and desktop. But why should I have to resort to methods that void my warrantee? Why should I have to do that 2 minute search on the internet in the first place? Why should the people that write those firmware patch have to write them? (btw, apple drives aren't harder, it can't be done with anything released in the last two and a half years, there is no firmware patch for it (guy writing them got tired of it and the money it required) and VLC doesn't work. If anyone does know where to get a patch for the matsushita drives, please please please let me know)
Private university or private grade school?
While private schools operate with significantly smaller overhead costs and administrative staffs, the cost differential is mostly due to lower pay and benefits for their teachers. On average, public school teachers make 50 percent more than private school teachers. http://www.calnews.com/Archives/1YB_II_sal.htm
My favorite private schools are the ones that grade with smiley faces.
Someone with moderating powers, please troll both of these posts
Ronald Regan used "Born in the USA" for his 1984 campaign, but stopped when the copy right holder, Bruce Springsteen (a Mondale supporter), asked the campaign to stop.
I highly agree with you. Everyone sits around and complains about DRM but no one seems to care about region codes. I don't think there's anything less ethical than region codes. Why should I be punished for being an American living in Japan? Why should I have to buy a seperate DVD player for my American DVDs? Why can I only change the region on my laptop's drive 5 times? I want to play my LEGALLY purchased DVDs anywhere I want. So far, that's the only benefit I see from the iTMS movies; there's no region.
The point of the post is still valid, the point isn't about its back-up-ability, but about the re-sale-ability. Would you like to get a film for $15 and re-sell it used for $8 when you are done, or pay $13 plus about another dollar for a disk to back it up on that you can't sell? btw I love you sig
American or not, the point is still valid