Maybe because quality of life includes other factors besides the weather. And Seattle has ranked at the top in terms of quality of life for a long time. The bay area however isn't much further down the list.
Seattle has extremely mild weather year round that rarely causes enough discomfort that proper clothing can't fix. At worst its just cloudy too many days of the year. If you think that's the even remotely close to the worst you really should leave your bedroom sometime. 1 month in Tokyo during the rainy season will show you what messed up weather really is. A down poor at 80 degrees with extreme humidity in June is a lot worse than 60 degrees with overcast. A monsoon interrupting 100 degree whether is messed up, especially when you aren't surrounded by palm trees and coconuts.
Most of the places (all of them in Japan)that I have rented have included utilities and internet service in the rent. Maybe this is a new phenomenon. I'm not sure but it seems fairly common to me.
I think a lot of people who like their jobs still consider money the high point because ultimately they find things outside of work even more pleasurable. If they have a family then the money might be a high point for things like food and vacation. Or maybe theres a local hooker they like just a bit more than testing software.
"Trust me - if the email admins noticed you, Joe Low-Level Employee, shuffling encrypted emails back and forth, you'd be frog-marched out of the corp faster than you can say "WTF?"
I disagree with this point. In large companies there are often legitimate reasons for low level employees to encrypt emails. I have even seen it as policy for certain tasks that contractors had to do. So sending encrypted emails is not grounds for termination.
There was a very popular drama, novel and movie (just forget about the movie version) that was based on some events that took place on those forums. Just look up Densha Otoko.
Consider that Google is a willing participant in situations like this around the world. They have chosen to be a big part of the problem and of all parties involved they have the least justification. Discussing it and feeling bad about it doesn't not change anything if they made the wrong decision in the end. And like you said, they want to make money so they are capitalizing on the situation. Money isn't an exception for doing good. I'm sorry but sitting around hugging each other then cashing in on the very thing you claim to be against does not mean they care it means they are fake.
The Chinese and the Americans are both hypocrites. That does not mean that it is okay to make excuses for the human rights abuses coming from either nation. That being said I find it somewhat alarming and suspect that you can capture the sentiment of the Chinese point of view with a single opinion that covers so many issues and is 100% one sided. Coming from an individual that is fine but it is completely irresponsible as a general sentiment. Calling someone a hypocrite is fine but there is an important component to that which is to critically assess your own standing in that situation.
Is this the time to encourage Chinese citizens to make excuses and turn their backs on their wrong doings? Hell no. The crap they do needs to be made clear and the same goes for the US. If anything needs to change its that the people pointing this out need to set a better example. I have been exposed to plenty of Americans that are trying to do this. What would be more interesting would be to hear from the Chinese citizens that are doing the same.
People from many different walks of life listen to rap music. Are you trying to imply that successful people only listen music that is morally inspiring? Are you trying to suggest that game devs only listen to music that is wholesome and pure? Since we are on the subject of game devs what kind of music do you think they listen to? I wouldn't be surprised if half of them knew the lyrics to "nothin but a g thang". Blacks in America were in the same situation before rap music and BET. Are you going to blame Marvin Gaye for that? I'm not a game dev but my company has plenty and they tend to be more into this type of material than anyone else in the company. Whenever I go into one of their offices I feel like I'm in a teenagers bedroom, not that its a bad thing.
If you are trying to suggest that Japanese citizens from Nigeria, Brazil, Korea, China or the US are not separated into ethnic groups in Japan for example then your statement couldn't be any further from the truth. They idea that any of these people would be called Japanese is laughable and yes there are populations of Korean, Nigerians etc in Japan.
He was comparing it to a Macbook pro so his facts are straight. After stating that he just referred to is as a Macbook which may have confused you. If you think a different comparison should be made thats fine.
1) Certain types of games do better on the console such as RTS and World of Warcraft. Those games don't have the high hardware requirements. Since thats out of the way they have an advantage in platform penetration because most gamers have a PC capable of playing WoW or and RTS game even if they don't do PC gaming.
2) And they still use their PC for more important things like work, paying bills and trying to meet girls despite compatibility issues.
3) This does not matter if you are paying for a subscription to a game you bought 2 years ago and still pay for expansions. Nobody is going to give up on an MMORPG because its buggy on release. In fact a PC gamer is more likely to go for updates. A console gamer who might not even have an X-Box live subscription will have to eat it if their new game is buggy.
4) Yes and the consoles that had the big improvements in performance (PS3) have had the worst sales. Cutting edge consoles have taken a major blow while mediocre performance is what is selling the best. In the meantime PC hardware has improved, especially in notebooks and is even more common in machines that aren't used for much more than reading email and watching porn. Even the expensive gaming PCs will live on because they are very good at doing other things that are in demand such as entertainment, graphics, ripping dvd porn when a full blown workstation is not necessary. A lot of people who buy Alienware and Dell XPS don't even play games. Midranged notebooks are starting to get good graphics cards anyways.
Another thing to note is that entertainment devices in general are becoming more and more reliant on PCs (phones, mp3 players, handheld gaming systems etc). There's even a lot of consoles being hooked up to computer monitors instead of TVs. Eventually it may be the console that becomes redundant or at least becomes a full blown PC itself.
My mom, no not really. Installing a new OS would be easier than teaching her to do anything. Installing a browser like Firefox is quick and easy. My mom has a bad memory, she is clumsy and her eye sight isn't even that good. Using the address bar would just send her to the wrong place. She would type the wrong address. She wouldn't even know how to tell if the url in address bar is the right one or not. And she would quickly dismiss the idea out of frustration in the unlikely even that she agreed to try it in the first place.
1) You don't need to be a professional to think you need industry standard software.
2) Many people insist on using industry standard software even if they know they don't need it.
3) Photoshop is one of the most heavily pirated software titles out there so there are plenty who don't find it a hassle to pirate.
3) Most college campus's install photoshop in computer labs so thats another place where large amounts of non-pros get used to it.
I wouldn't say Photoshop is the reason but that software titles in general are a reason and Photoshop tends to be near the top of the list of desirable titles for noobs and pros. I also don't think your example indicates percentages or tendencies because you aren't exactly describing yourself as a commoner.
Thats all great but as a customer I pay much less for my service in Tokyo than my service in Seattle, the service is much faster and I have yet to experience any downtime or slowdowns. Population density isn't the issue either because I can still get better service in much of the countryside in Japan than I can in New York City. The funny thing is cell phone data plans in the US are much cheaper than in Japan but they use those services far more in Japan.
60GB is only a lot if you are downloading low quality content. But if you aren't downloading the crappiest YouTube videos you can find thats about 7 dvd porn images(not hd) or 7 video games not including the bandwidth you used to upload. The idea with Bittorent is that you have to upload content during and after your download is finished until you get a decent sharing ratio which is around twice what you used to download the material. So a 60GB limit does not mean you can download 60GB of content. On Bittorent that could be as low as 20GB of downloaded material if your client doesn't download any junk with it. With the crappy service in the US it does not take much to be in a situation where BT is running all day at low speeds that aren't worth mentioning.
Disc image downloads are very common. Do I actually have to explain where you put it? Burn it to dvd. Have you seen the size of hard drives these days? You wouldn't exactly be filling 1TB or more of drive space anytime soon.
Whats funny is these morons actually think that consumer ignorance would blind the consumer to the point where they don't notice they are getting less free porn and entertainment. Good luck with that.
Unless you build a number of reactors over fault lines, try to hide that discovery from the public and get caught when a minor earthquake does major damage to your nuclear plant, starts fires and releases radioactive material into the surrounding community. Luckily it was a minor quake and the reactors were shut down in time. Happened this summer in Japan and I witnessed the quake. The local train that went by my apartment every 5 minutes was much more disturbing. There are plenty of worries that have nothing to do with the oil industry and it has its pimps that doing the same type of dirt. Its not the oil industry brainwashing these people, its the fact that their densely populated community is in an earthquake prone area and the government hasn't always put their safety over that of the industry's. Things like Hanford and Chernobyl aren't common but they don't need to be, when something does happen the area is fuc***. I'm not saying don't use the stuff but being wary of it is perfectly acceptable and not limited to oil industry propaganda.
Seriously. This is like working at Starbucks. It is not a good way to concetrate or focus. I recently got my own office and things are much better. In my last position I worked in a similar environment and it is not easy to work with code while the hyper active tech editor wouldn't stop talking about selling her house and asking you to fix her computer when it isn't broken. As strange as it sounds we still didn't end up collaborating until meetings even though we all sat next to each other and listened to all our bio noises after lunch. Headphones are great for hearing your own noise but after a while I get tired of hearing my own music. Yea it was great. Management crap that sounds ok but is horrible in practice.
People take the chairs and put them in their office. They always leave one swivel chair so they can say they just took the extras. The offices generally have a swivel chair and a normal one that they replace the stolen swivel chair with. Then you get emails saying where is my swivel chair. I got it really bad once. Both of my swivel chairs were taken and replaced with fixed wooden chairs that were old and had would looked like booger stains on them.
I understand that there is no alternative to the overpriced and underpowered service here in the states so I can't recommend a good alternative to Comcast. They are all horrible. That being said this is no time to praise Comcast. Before I came back to the states I was paying about $40 for a 100mb connection and my uploads speeds were many times that of Comcasts. Plus I didn't need to pay for basic cable or a lan line. When confronted with this information our dear providers reply that we don't need those kind of speeds right now and that the services in Japan etc aren't actually as fast as advertised. What they don't tell you is that at 100mb they could be 1/5th of the speeds advertised and still blow Comcast's services away. Also if we didn't need those higher speeds they would not be throttling P2P traffic in the first place.
I don't remember what they are really called but all the art students carry them around. Its basically a really big clipboard. I use it with a 17 inch laptop and a mouse to play games without getting off my bed. Works great.
Wrong! That's not an advantage, that's insane. At least, I can't remember the last time I was looking at my cellphone thinking, "Damn, I wish right now I could open up a Word document!", not even if one was attached to an e-mail.
Its an advantage for people who use that feature. Obviously you aren't one of those people but to make a blanket statement like that almost amounts to saying that your habits and preferences are everyone elses. Yes I do use the feature and I appreciate it because it keeps me from having to carry a laptop at all times, especially on the train. Its especially good when your trying to look busy. Where I live people put a lot of effort into pretending to look busy when they aren't. Reading old text messages and pretend you just got them gets boring after a while.
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Maybe because quality of life includes other factors besides the weather. And Seattle has ranked at the top in terms of quality of life for a long time. The bay area however isn't much further down the list.
Seattle has extremely mild weather year round that rarely causes enough discomfort that proper clothing can't fix. At worst its just cloudy too many days of the year. If you think that's the even remotely close to the worst you really should leave your bedroom sometime. 1 month in Tokyo during the rainy season will show you what messed up weather really is. A down poor at 80 degrees with extreme humidity in June is a lot worse than 60 degrees with overcast. A monsoon interrupting 100 degree whether is messed up, especially when you aren't surrounded by palm trees and coconuts.
Most of the places (all of them in Japan)that I have rented have included utilities and internet service in the rent. Maybe this is a new phenomenon. I'm not sure but it seems fairly common to me.
I think a lot of people who like their jobs still consider money the high point because ultimately they find things outside of work even more pleasurable. If they have a family then the money might be a high point for things like food and vacation. Or maybe theres a local hooker they like just a bit more than testing software.
"Trust me - if the email admins noticed you, Joe Low-Level Employee, shuffling encrypted emails back and forth, you'd be frog-marched out of the corp faster than you can say "WTF?"
I disagree with this point. In large companies there are often legitimate reasons for low level employees to encrypt emails. I have even seen it as policy for certain tasks that contractors had to do. So sending encrypted emails is not grounds for termination.
There was a very popular drama, novel and movie (just forget about the movie version) that was based on some events that took place on those forums. Just look up Densha Otoko.
Consider that Google is a willing participant in situations like this around the world. They have chosen to be a big part of the problem and of all parties involved they have the least justification. Discussing it and feeling bad about it doesn't not change anything if they made the wrong decision in the end. And like you said, they want to make money so they are capitalizing on the situation. Money isn't an exception for doing good. I'm sorry but sitting around hugging each other then cashing in on the very thing you claim to be against does not mean they care it means they are fake.
The Chinese and the Americans are both hypocrites. That does not mean that it is okay to make excuses for the human rights abuses coming from either nation. That being said I find it somewhat alarming and suspect that you can capture the sentiment of the Chinese point of view with a single opinion that covers so many issues and is 100% one sided. Coming from an individual that is fine but it is completely irresponsible as a general sentiment. Calling someone a hypocrite is fine but there is an important component to that which is to critically assess your own standing in that situation.
Is this the time to encourage Chinese citizens to make excuses and turn their backs on their wrong doings? Hell no. The crap they do needs to be made clear and the same goes for the US. If anything needs to change its that the people pointing this out need to set a better example. I have been exposed to plenty of Americans that are trying to do this. What would be more interesting would be to hear from the Chinese citizens that are doing the same.
People from many different walks of life listen to rap music. Are you trying to imply that successful people only listen music that is morally inspiring? Are you trying to suggest that game devs only listen to music that is wholesome and pure? Since we are on the subject of game devs what kind of music do you think they listen to? I wouldn't be surprised if half of them knew the lyrics to "nothin but a g thang". Blacks in America were in the same situation before rap music and BET. Are you going to blame Marvin Gaye for that? I'm not a game dev but my company has plenty and they tend to be more into this type of material than anyone else in the company. Whenever I go into one of their offices I feel like I'm in a teenagers bedroom, not that its a bad thing.
If you are trying to suggest that Japanese citizens from Nigeria, Brazil, Korea, China or the US are not separated into ethnic groups in Japan for example then your statement couldn't be any further from the truth. They idea that any of these people would be called Japanese is laughable and yes there are populations of Korean, Nigerians etc in Japan.
I don't understand how you can come up this conclusion when Leopard is cheaper than Vista.
He was comparing it to a Macbook pro so his facts are straight. After stating that he just referred to is as a Macbook which may have confused you. If you think a different comparison should be made thats fine.
"That said I find it hilarious that you compared it to the macbook pro. So I think you should really go compare them. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&node=home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro"
2) And they still use their PC for more important things like work, paying bills and trying to meet girls despite compatibility issues.
3) This does not matter if you are paying for a subscription to a game you bought 2 years ago and still pay for expansions. Nobody is going to give up on an MMORPG because its buggy on release. In fact a PC gamer is more likely to go for updates. A console gamer who might not even have an X-Box live subscription will have to eat it if their new game is buggy.
4) Yes and the consoles that had the big improvements in performance (PS3) have had the worst sales. Cutting edge consoles have taken a major blow while mediocre performance is what is selling the best. In the meantime PC hardware has improved, especially in notebooks and is even more common in machines that aren't used for much more than reading email and watching porn. Even the expensive gaming PCs will live on because they are very good at doing other things that are in demand such as entertainment, graphics, ripping dvd porn when a full blown workstation is not necessary. A lot of people who buy Alienware and Dell XPS don't even play games. Midranged notebooks are starting to get good graphics cards anyways.
Another thing to note is that entertainment devices in general are becoming more and more reliant on PCs (phones, mp3 players, handheld gaming systems etc). There's even a lot of consoles being hooked up to computer monitors instead of TVs. Eventually it may be the console that becomes redundant or at least becomes a full blown PC itself.
My mom, no not really. Installing a new OS would be easier than teaching her to do anything. Installing a browser like Firefox is quick and easy. My mom has a bad memory, she is clumsy and her eye sight isn't even that good. Using the address bar would just send her to the wrong place. She would type the wrong address. She wouldn't even know how to tell if the url in address bar is the right one or not. And she would quickly dismiss the idea out of frustration in the unlikely even that she agreed to try it in the first place.
2) Many people insist on using industry standard software even if they know they don't need it.
3) Photoshop is one of the most heavily pirated software titles out there so there are plenty who don't find it a hassle to pirate.
3) Most college campus's install photoshop in computer labs so thats another place where large amounts of non-pros get used to it.
I wouldn't say Photoshop is the reason but that software titles in general are a reason and Photoshop tends to be near the top of the list of desirable titles for noobs and pros. I also don't think your example indicates percentages or tendencies because you aren't exactly describing yourself as a commoner.
60GB is only a lot if you are downloading low quality content. But if you aren't downloading the crappiest YouTube videos you can find thats about 7 dvd porn images(not hd) or 7 video games not including the bandwidth you used to upload. The idea with Bittorent is that you have to upload content during and after your download is finished until you get a decent sharing ratio which is around twice what you used to download the material. So a 60GB limit does not mean you can download 60GB of content. On Bittorent that could be as low as 20GB of downloaded material if your client doesn't download any junk with it. With the crappy service in the US it does not take much to be in a situation where BT is running all day at low speeds that aren't worth mentioning.
Disc image downloads are very common. Do I actually have to explain where you put it? Burn it to dvd. Have you seen the size of hard drives these days? You wouldn't exactly be filling 1TB or more of drive space anytime soon.
I'm so jealous right now I'm just going to go with my knee-jerk reaction and say nerf Sweden. Nerf it to hell!
Whats funny is these morons actually think that consumer ignorance would blind the consumer to the point where they don't notice they are getting less free porn and entertainment. Good luck with that.
Unless you build a number of reactors over fault lines, try to hide that discovery from the public and get caught when a minor earthquake does major damage to your nuclear plant, starts fires and releases radioactive material into the surrounding community. Luckily it was a minor quake and the reactors were shut down in time. Happened this summer in Japan and I witnessed the quake. The local train that went by my apartment every 5 minutes was much more disturbing. There are plenty of worries that have nothing to do with the oil industry and it has its pimps that doing the same type of dirt. Its not the oil industry brainwashing these people, its the fact that their densely populated community is in an earthquake prone area and the government hasn't always put their safety over that of the industry's. Things like Hanford and Chernobyl aren't common but they don't need to be, when something does happen the area is fuc***. I'm not saying don't use the stuff but being wary of it is perfectly acceptable and not limited to oil industry propaganda.
Seriously. This is like working at Starbucks. It is not a good way to concetrate or focus. I recently got my own office and things are much better. In my last position I worked in a similar environment and it is not easy to work with code while the hyper active tech editor wouldn't stop talking about selling her house and asking you to fix her computer when it isn't broken. As strange as it sounds we still didn't end up collaborating until meetings even though we all sat next to each other and listened to all our bio noises after lunch. Headphones are great for hearing your own noise but after a while I get tired of hearing my own music. Yea it was great. Management crap that sounds ok but is horrible in practice.
People take the chairs and put them in their office. They always leave one swivel chair so they can say they just took the extras. The offices generally have a swivel chair and a normal one that they replace the stolen swivel chair with. Then you get emails saying where is my swivel chair. I got it really bad once. Both of my swivel chairs were taken and replaced with fixed wooden chairs that were old and had would looked like booger stains on them.
Seriously how could they be so cheap. 5k??? Thats only one night at the hostess bar.
I understand that there is no alternative to the overpriced and underpowered service here in the states so I can't recommend a good alternative to Comcast. They are all horrible. That being said this is no time to praise Comcast. Before I came back to the states I was paying about $40 for a 100mb connection and my uploads speeds were many times that of Comcasts. Plus I didn't need to pay for basic cable or a lan line. When confronted with this information our dear providers reply that we don't need those kind of speeds right now and that the services in Japan etc aren't actually as fast as advertised. What they don't tell you is that at 100mb they could be 1/5th of the speeds advertised and still blow Comcast's services away. Also if we didn't need those higher speeds they would not be throttling P2P traffic in the first place.
I don't remember what they are really called but all the art students carry them around. Its basically a really big clipboard. I use it with a 17 inch laptop and a mouse to play games without getting off my bed. Works great.
Wrong! That's not an advantage, that's insane. At least, I can't remember the last time I was looking at my cellphone thinking, "Damn, I wish right now I could open up a Word document!", not even if one was attached to an e-mail.
Its an advantage for people who use that feature. Obviously you aren't one of those people but to make a blanket statement like that almost amounts to saying that your habits and preferences are everyone elses. Yes I do use the feature and I appreciate it because it keeps me from having to carry a laptop at all times, especially on the train. Its especially good when your trying to look busy. Where I live people put a lot of effort into pretending to look busy when they aren't. Reading old text messages and pretend you just got them gets boring after a while.
Geeks please go to boot camp so they don't be takin my internets.