I can't wait for the bit where they get sick of the whole thing and flood the coastal areas, set fire to the rest of it and release Godzilla on Los Angeles.
Being laid off in Japan has less to do with whether you're earning your keep or not, and a whole lot more to do with whether management dabbled in real estate deals in the 80s.
Another good example is Ken Kutaragi, CEO of SCEI (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.). When he proposed that Sony get into the gaming business, he was almost laughed out of the room. Effectively, Sony succeeded with the PS and PS2 not because of corporate foresight, but because Kutaragi never let the parent company pull the rug out from under him financially.
If the PS had failed, you can bet the he would have been out on his ass in a flash, though.
OK, I'll change that... I have yet to see a bank that offers instantaneous rates to over-the-counter customers.
Either way, there is a gomi pile ain't there? I'm sure if the items had some percieved value someone would want it right?
At the end of the academic year, there were usually a fair number of usable items left on the streets around my university... and they were usually gone the next day.
] How is this any different to a McDonalds, except ] that in McDonalds the conveyer belt is hidden and ] you pay in advance? I go to kaiten-zushi ] regularly, and it's just basically the Japanese ] version of fast food.
So, essentially, what is wrong with what I said?
Your post was presumably intended to highlight some "interesting" features of Japan, including conveyer-belt sushi. I said that kaiten-zushi isn't all that different from US fast food joints. If you agree with that, you're refuting your own post...
I guess the people who are in business to provide these accomodations have made a poor investment in both space and capitol.
Well, no. There are an awful lot of middle-aged businessmen in Tokyo, after all. What I'm saying is, the capsule hotel is by no means 'normal' Japanese accommodation. It's a solution to a particular problem.
Well, that and the fact that the Japanese cellphone manufacturers were willing to produce phones to meet the requests of the phone companies, whereas in the US the phone manufacturers put out a few models and the phone companies can either take them or leave them.
This difference is one reason the Japanese phones have so many more features - the phone companies asked for them.
I think the Ring problem has more to do with the American producers blocking any release of the original in the US, and very little to do with any Japanese company...
No, the DVD Consortium organized it that way so that Japanese consumers would not be able to play cheap imports from Taiwan and Hong Kong on their Region 2 players.
Ah, I see... so what you're saying is, 'Yes, the Japanese have lots of cool technology, but since it doesn't work in the US it's completely useless, and thus this article is crap'.
You would get your check in USD and stand in front of the bank line waiting for a favorable exchange rate between USD and YEN. Then when the numbers were right, the tellers would be mobbed.
When was your friend in Japan? Banks generally give an average rate for the day, unless you happen to be a corporate investor.
There was this huge gomi pile of abandoned electronics that were almost brand new but no longer wanted; because there was a new model that just came out that had more gee wiz features.
No, it's because in Japan the manufacturers have made it so expensive to have an item out of warranty repaired that you might as well buy a new one.
If money falls on the street in Japan, it will usually lie there till it rots or is cleaned up and thrown away; he said it was beneath Japanese to pick up money or objects that have fallen on the ground.
Yeah, right. And in the US, if a penny hits the ground, everyone within a hundred-metre radius comes running. Next unsubstantiated 'fact', please...
People walk into a sushi/food bar and pick from freshly prepared items on a conveyor that moves past the patron. You pay on the way out.
How is this any different to a McDonalds, except that in McDonalds the conveyer belt is hidden and you pay in advance? I go to kaiten-zushi regularly, and it's just basically the Japanese version of fast food.
People regularly sleep in what seems like morgue cabinets. Complete with miniature amenities.
They're called capsule hotels, and in twelve years in Japan I have yet to meet anyone who's actually stayed in one. They're generally for older male businessmen that didn't make the last train home (as the trains usually finish between midnight and 1am in Tokyo).
1) ipchains is GPL'd; it was the default in 2.2. 2) The 'taint' message is meant to let you know that you can't expect any support from the kernel developers if you load a non-free module. 3) ipchains probably hasn't been updated to include the correct license markers, as iptables is the default in 2.4.
I was commenting on his statement about the one-way encryption being hard to crack. The point is, in any reasonably large system, there's bound to be a few passwords you can crack relatively easily (whether or not you've implemented password strength policies - which can actually help the cracker, because the more limits you place on the possible combinations, the less key space he has to search).
Please note that the Doctor can reincarnate a maximum of twelve times. I believe he's up to number 7 or 8 at the moment (maybe more if you count the US movie, the really old Dr. Who pilot, etc.)
Yeah! Maybe they could call the Doctor's main enemies something cool, like, I dunno...the "Axis of Evil"? And they could all speak with a heavy Middle-Eastern accent! Yeah!!!
And maybe they could give the Doctor a new nickname, something with a bit more punch - how about Doctor W?
Sorry - when you said 'know and trust' you didn't specify people that you'd met face-to-face, so I assumed it to be a possibly email-only relationship. My bad.
If all of your email you receive that you want to keep is actually solicited, then I'll be pretty impressed.
Don't you even dare try to suggest that unsolicited commercial email from scum like you is anything at all like unsolicited email from friends and family.
Even Yahoo gives you 6MB for free. And pre-sorts your bulk mail.
Well, woop-de-fucking-doo. Yahoo gives you 6MB - golly, that extra space must have been meant for storing spam!
Drive out the credible solicitor and you simply invite the abuser.
Ah, I see - you devoted every spare minute you had (when you weren't spamming people) to taking down other spammers, right?....Right?
You didn't? So how exactly did you stop all those nasty spammers (not *you, of course) from send bulk email?
So you might actually get an unsolicited mail you really want, right?
Hasn't happened yet, in twelve years on the Internet.
Thousands of people *do* want these messages, y'know.
Yeah, right. Keep on telling yourself that. How about using a medium that costs *you* money instead of me, and doesn't force me to do something to prevent you showing your 'advertising' to me?
I love the way people cry that it costs them to receive mail, but it's free to send. Lord, how our accountant used to wish it was free to send. But those server leases and high-speed connections used to add up every day.
Awww, life's tough, ain't it. I *bet* your accountant wished it was free to send.
Listen up - I don't want to see mail in my mailbox from people I don't know, that don't know me, who don't have a legitimate reason for talking to me. Is that clear enough for you, Mr. Ex-Spammer? (And no, 'I want to sell you something' doesn't count as a legitimate reason, fuckhead.)
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I can't wait for the bit where they get sick of the whole thing and flood the coastal areas, set fire to the rest of it and release Godzilla on Los Angeles.
Being laid off in Japan has less to do with whether you're earning your keep or not, and a whole lot more to do with whether management dabbled in real estate deals in the 80s.
Er... hardly. Japan's three hours (four hours in summer) behind countries like New Zealand and Fiji.
Yeah, that's really teaching them to emulate American prosperity...
Usen doesn't have a very good reputation among Japanese broadband users - but then, neither does YahooBB.
Dunno about Hi-Ho (I mean, I know the company, I just don't know anybody who's using it).
Another good example is Ken Kutaragi, CEO of SCEI (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.). When he proposed that Sony get into the gaming business, he was almost laughed out of the room.
Effectively, Sony succeeded with the PS and PS2 not because of corporate foresight, but because Kutaragi never let the parent company pull the rug out from under him financially.
If the PS had failed, you can bet the he would have been out on his ass in a flash, though.
Well, no... they're not that cheap. Quite often, a love hotel is a cheaper alternative (although quite a few turn away customers on their own).
Did you say generally?
OK, I'll change that... I have yet to see a bank that offers instantaneous rates to over-the-counter customers.
Either way, there is a gomi pile ain't there? I'm sure if the items had some percieved value someone would want it right?
At the end of the academic year, there were usually a fair number of usable items left on the streets around my university... and they were usually gone the next day.
] How is this any different to a McDonalds, except
] that in McDonalds the conveyer belt is hidden and
] you pay in advance? I go to kaiten-zushi
] regularly, and it's just basically the Japanese
] version of fast food.
So, essentially, what is wrong with what I said?
Your post was presumably intended to highlight some "interesting" features of Japan, including conveyer-belt sushi. I said that kaiten-zushi isn't all that different from US fast food joints. If you agree with that, you're refuting your own post...
I guess the people who are in business to provide these accomodations have made a poor investment in both space and capitol.
Well, no. There are an awful lot of middle-aged businessmen in Tokyo, after all. What I'm saying is, the capsule hotel is by no means 'normal' Japanese accommodation. It's a solution to a particular problem.
Well, that and the fact that the Japanese cellphone manufacturers were willing to produce phones to meet the requests of the phone companies, whereas in the US the phone manufacturers put out a few models and the phone companies can either take them or leave them.
This difference is one reason the Japanese phones have so many more features - the phone companies asked for them.
I think the Ring problem has more to do with the American producers blocking any release of the original in the US, and very little to do with any Japanese company...
No, the DVD Consortium organized it that way so that Japanese consumers would not be able to play cheap imports from Taiwan and Hong Kong on their Region 2 players.
Ahem... the Japanese taxpayer pays more to support the US bases in Japan than the US taxpayer ever did. It's part of the agreement.
Ah, I see... so what you're saying is, 'Yes, the Japanese have lots of cool technology, but since it doesn't work in the US it's completely useless, and thus this article is crap'.
Thank you so much for your unbiased opinion.
Oh, please...
You would get your check in USD and stand in front of the bank line waiting for a favorable exchange rate between USD and YEN. Then when the numbers were right, the tellers would be mobbed.
When was your friend in Japan? Banks generally give an average rate for the day, unless you happen to be a corporate investor.
There was this huge gomi pile of abandoned electronics that were almost brand new but no longer wanted; because there was a new model that just came out that had more gee wiz features.
No, it's because in Japan the manufacturers have made it so expensive to have an item out of warranty repaired that you might as well buy a new one.
If money falls on the street in Japan, it will usually lie there till it rots or is cleaned up and thrown away; he said it was beneath Japanese to pick up money or objects that have fallen on the ground.
Yeah, right. And in the US, if a penny hits the ground, everyone within a hundred-metre radius comes running. Next unsubstantiated 'fact', please...
People walk into a sushi/food bar and pick from freshly prepared items on a conveyor that moves past the patron. You pay on the way out.
How is this any different to a McDonalds, except that in McDonalds the conveyer belt is hidden and you pay in advance? I go to kaiten-zushi regularly, and it's just basically the Japanese version of fast food.
People regularly sleep in what seems like morgue cabinets. Complete with miniature amenities.
They're called capsule hotels, and in twelve years in Japan I have yet to meet anyone who's actually stayed in one. They're generally for older male businessmen that didn't make the last train home (as the trains usually finish between midnight and 1am in Tokyo).
Which utilities would those be?
1) ipchains is GPL'd; it was the default in 2.2.
2) The 'taint' message is meant to let you know that you can't expect any support from the kernel developers if you load a non-free module.
3) ipchains probably hasn't been updated to include the correct license markers, as iptables is the default in 2.4.
*Sigh*.
I was commenting on his statement about the one-way encryption being hard to crack. The point is, in any reasonably large system, there's bound to be a few passwords you can crack relatively easily (whether or not you've implemented password strength policies - which can actually help the cracker, because the more limits you place on the possible combinations, the less key space he has to search).
Regarding your #3 option - maybe they could do a whole bunch of spinoff series!
Doctor What, Doctor When, Doctor Which...
Twelve times, giving him thirteen incarnations.
Please note that the Doctor can reincarnate a maximum of twelve times. I believe he's up to number 7 or 8 at the moment (maybe more if you count the US movie, the really old Dr. Who pilot, etc.)
Yeah! Maybe they could call the Doctor's main enemies something cool, like, I dunno...the "Axis of Evil"? And they could all speak with a heavy Middle-Eastern accent! Yeah!!!
And maybe they could give the Doctor a new nickname, something with a bit more punch - how about Doctor W?
In theory, yes. In practice, I think the BBC was a little too strait-laced for gender-switching in prime time...
Sorry - when you said 'know and trust' you didn't specify people that you'd met face-to-face, so I assumed it to be a possibly email-only relationship. My bad.
Mozilla's email client also allows you to switch off images within mail.
If all of your email you receive that you want to keep is actually solicited, then I'll be pretty impressed.
....Right?
Don't you even dare try to suggest that unsolicited commercial email from scum like you is anything at all like unsolicited email from friends and family.
Even Yahoo gives you 6MB for free. And pre-sorts your bulk mail.
Well, woop-de-fucking-doo. Yahoo gives you 6MB - golly, that extra space must have been meant for storing spam!
Drive out the credible solicitor and you simply invite the abuser.
Ah, I see - you devoted every spare minute you had (when you weren't spamming people) to taking down other spammers, right?
You didn't? So how exactly did you stop all those nasty spammers (not *you, of course) from send bulk email?
So you might actually get an unsolicited mail you really want, right?
Hasn't happened yet, in twelve years on the Internet.
Thousands of people *do* want these messages, y'know.
Yeah, right. Keep on telling yourself that. How about using a medium that costs *you* money instead of me, and doesn't force me to do something to prevent you showing your 'advertising' to me?
I love the way people cry that it costs them to receive mail, but it's free to send. Lord, how our accountant used to wish it was free to send. But those server leases and high-speed connections used to add up every day.
Awww, life's tough, ain't it. I *bet* your accountant wished it was free to send.
Listen up - I don't want to see mail in my mailbox from people I don't know, that don't know me, who don't have a legitimate reason for talking to me. Is that clear enough for you, Mr. Ex-Spammer? (And no, 'I want to sell you something' doesn't count as a legitimate reason, fuckhead.)