Have you seen what the latest phones in Japan can do? MP3 playback (including replacement of ring tones), external storage on MemoryStick, movie recording and playback, digital still camera with 1.3-2Mpixels, Bluetooth, two displays (one internal, one external so you can check your mail without opening it)...
I believe you can ride the Nozomi trains on a Japan Rail Pass if you're willing to pay the extra express fee (i.e. the basic fare is free, but you pay the difference).
Although it's been thirteen years since I last used one, so I couldn't say for sure;)
Well, since you went to the trouble of trying to use a Japanese term instead of the plain old English garbage, trash or rubbish, you could at least make an effort to get it right.
No, it makes you look like a moron for not knowing that there are two widely-used Romanization systems for Japanese, and 'gomie' isn't correct in either of them.
The comedy duo you're thinking of is Kyai-n. I gave up watching them when they did a late-night show where Udo Suzuki (the tall one) got fucked in the ass by a drag queen.
(Moderators: Yes, that really happened. No, this is not a troll.)
There's various solutions to this - some people (as you pointed out) rent office space for the sole purpose of getting out of the house; some people have a rule that when they enter their home office nothing short of a fire should disturb them.
Then, there's a third option: buy yourself a Playstation2, order all your groceries via the Web, and pretend the outside world doesn't exist. It might not be healthy, but after the third month, you won't care.
Ah, OK. But if you're after accuracy, go for a decent historical novel ("Moeyo Ken" by Shiba Ryotaro is a good one). Or if you don't mind manga, a list of pretty much all the Shinsengumi-related manga is available here. In particular, look out for Kurogane Hiroshi's manga - it offers quite a different perspective.
Those characters don't show up in UTF-8. It was designed that way.
In fact, the only encoding that I know of that was stupid enough to overlap with ASCII is SJIS - used by (you guessed it) Microsoft. (SJIS includes characters that contain the ASCII code for \.)
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And as far as I can tell it's been crushed into tiny little pieces by hordes of rampaging bloggers for at least the last twelve hours.
*Sigh*
The same trains are often used for both Nozomi and Hikari. The picture I posted was of a Series 700, which is indeed used for both.
No problem.
Well, Japanese for non-Japanese, anyway...
Have you seen what the latest phones in Japan can do? MP3 playback (including replacement of ring tones), external storage on MemoryStick, movie recording and playback, digital still camera with 1.3-2Mpixels, Bluetooth, two displays (one internal, one external so you can check your mail without opening it)...
Well, since I get to see them every day my jaw isn't dropping, but yes, that's a nice photo ;)
Mmf. Ah well.
/. has a list of allowable HTML tags below the submission box ;)
It means 'Hope'. ;) it gives you this among the first four images.
And if you search in Japanese
I believe you can ride the Nozomi trains on a Japan Rail Pass if you're willing to pay the extra express fee (i.e. the basic fare is free, but you pay the difference).
;)
Although it's been thirteen years since I last used one, so I couldn't say for sure
There's an exact 1-to-1 mapping between standard Romanized Japanese and the original representation.
Nice to be able to natter on about stuff you have no idea about, isn't it? Now bugger off back into your hole, troll.
Well, since you went to the trouble of trying to use a Japanese term instead of the plain old English garbage, trash or rubbish, you could at least make an effort to get it right.
No, it makes you look like a moron for not knowing that there are two widely-used Romanization systems for Japanese, and 'gomie' isn't correct in either of them.
And I like how you can't spell in English either.
...and your point is?
The word is "gomi".
So, your argument is "no-one else could possibly get DTV, because the US hasn't got it yet!"
Perhaps you should look around and see what else the US doesn't have - like full-coverage mobile phone networks and cheap and fast DSL connections.
The comedy duo you're thinking of is Kyai-n.
I gave up watching them when they did a late-night show where Udo Suzuki (the tall one) got fucked in the ass by a drag queen.
(Moderators: Yes, that really happened. No, this is not a troll.)
Are you sure that's not $400 million New Zealand dollars? (That's about $US200 million.)
Dunno, but I might cut off your head if I had a headache.
There's various solutions to this - some people (as you pointed out) rent office space for the sole purpose of getting out of the house; some people have a rule that when they enter their home office nothing short of a fire should disturb them.
Then, there's a third option: buy yourself a Playstation2, order all your groceries via the Web, and pretend the outside world doesn't exist. It might not be healthy, but after the third month, you won't care.
Ah, OK. But if you're after accuracy, go for a decent historical novel ("Moeyo Ken" by Shiba Ryotaro is a good one).
Or if you don't mind manga, a list of pretty much all the Shinsengumi-related manga is available here. In particular, look out for Kurogane Hiroshi's manga - it offers quite a different perspective.
Do what I do - read the review and *pretend* you've seen it. Certainly helps me save money.
He said something that makes sense, dude.
Those characters don't show up in UTF-8. It was designed that way.
In fact, the only encoding that I know of that was stupid enough to overlap with ASCII is SJIS - used by (you guessed it) Microsoft. (SJIS includes characters that contain the ASCII code for \.)
TV Tokyo helped fund the series; it didn't broadcast it.