No, that's a lie, I love being pedantic. Anyway, Mr BadAnalogyMan by name, Bad Analogy by nature, his kanji is , not , which is Mr Facing The Well, if we want to try to put an English meaning on it.
I did a search for my full name which appears on my blog, yet it couldn't find it! I tried a few other searchs and the coverage of my blog seems pretty useless all round.
It also doesn't seem to accept double-quotes to indicate phrases, which is a very important feature for me!
Japanese versus US blogs on Mutant Frog, a rather well-written but not too frequently visited, it seems, corner of the internet.
I suppose, if I were a proper blogger, I would have instead posted a link to my own web site where I wrote a short article that pointed to the one above...
According to a survey I translated a couple of months back, in Japan amongst the people surveyed (who would tend to be heavy phone users, due to the survey methodology) almost 40% played games regularly, and amongst these gamers, over 40% paid to download games, and over 40% downloaded at least one game a month.
So far, the balance of the comments seem to be in favour, or at least neutral to the idea of implementing Linux within a device that will no doubt end up killing a good few people. In contrast, should Linux ever be used for DRMs, which have, as far as I know, not killed anyone, most people here would be up in arms, if the recent story on GPL and the DRM is to be taken as a guide.
...when it comes to fine, or even poor, wine. They still get a collective stiffie when Beaujolais Day comes around, and believe chilled is not an unusual way of serving normal non-Beaujolais reds.
It really was pointless for MS to try to rush this system out for Christmas in Japan
Regardless of what the Japanese get up to over Christmas and the New Year, the start of December sees most people getting a winter bonus, with the average this year being somewhere around 850,000 yen, or around US$7,000, so it makes sense to try to get the XBox out at the start of December.
rule #1a is if you cannot get your article submitted once (or even twice...) include lots of gratuitous links to your website in any posts you might make here.
rule #1a is if you cannot get your article submitted once (or even twice...) include lots of gratuitous links to your website in any posts you might make here.
rule #2 is deliberately seeding MSN and Yahoo! (Google is immune) with keyword-laden articles - I once managed to accidentally (yeah right!) end up as the top site for "Japanese teen sex" on both these engines, but that's another story.
Commuters will swarm to it, just like they did in Japan, which also has a heck of alot of public transportation.
Well, here in Japan on my regular 1 hour commute on three different trains, I see almost no PSPs, or even DSs or GBs for that matter. I've seen one person watching video on it, and one using it as a music player, and just a handful of players. I see much, much more people (at least one per day) playing games on their mobiles. Of course, all this gaming is insignificant compared to the emailers, MD player listeners, and book and newspaper readers.
You've never been to Japan I see!
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Road naming is non-existant outside major thouroughfares; it works more by an irregular grid numbering system of blocks, not the roads in between them. House numbering is similarly vague, with no guarantee that house number 2 will be beside number 3 or 4. Block nameplates are usually pretty small and not in easy-to-predict places very often; GPS, even for pedestrians, is very useful in Japan. Even the taxi drivers haven't a clue where most places are!
...and pull out the old address books, and sell the info on to your nearest dodgy geezer?
Seriously, one of my friends in Japan just last week got a phone call on his mobile from someone who had his name but was wanting his address as he said he had a delivery but couldn't read the label, which my pal reckoned was somebody wanting to do some kind of identity fraud.
Although I get a lot of news through the 'net (both local and from my home country) I also get a real newspaper every day. For me personally, a real paper has long in-depth articles, or even just fuller versions of the same stories.
The other problem with Internet news - it may just be a problem with people in general, but exacerbated by the 'net - is that it creates tunnel vision, only tuning into the news you want to hear, that backs up your own prejudices. I cringe whenever I see people posting links from places like World Net Daily or Indy Media as if the content within is gospel truth, not heavily spun to the left or right semi-fiction.
I know of course that traditional print media also has political bias, but the spin is usually appended onto the pure reportage so both can be separated.
Interestingly, there's one aspect of TV's that any moron can understand - the visual quility. If the TV's are side by side in the store, the consumner can compare visual quality and decide the appropriate price point.
However, when I was shopping for a TV two years ago we decided to go for a 28 inch CRT widescreen, even though to the uninformed the picture quality from the 32 inch "full digital HDTV" beside it and the flat screens was vastly superior.
However, the shop was cheating - the standard model we bought was getting the feed from a low-quality DVD - free from obvious artifacts, but encoded at a low bitrate and perhaps even low resolution and maybe even some dodgy connector cable to mute the colours; on the other hand the full digital HDTVs and flatscreens had an HDTV feed (isn't that uncompressed?) and looked about a million times better.
The telly we bought has a digital input for DVD etc, and a separate box can be bought to decode HDTV should we wish, and anyway the standard analog aerial produces as good a picture as we could ever wish for!
Oops, looks like my maths are also being affected by the time dilation field - still, 14's pretty young to be marrying a fifty-five year old, give or take two years...
What will happen to his six year old daughter, Sarah? His wife of 29 years, Wende, 43, gave birth to her on April 11th, 2000.
Has Scotty been bending the time-space continuum with his dilithium crystals again? He married Sarah when she was 12 and his daughter's aging 1.5 times faster the calendar date?
That being said, does anyone have any specific prior art to overturn this with?
The very first mail-enabled mobile phone I used (c.2000?) had the "mail" button set to single push being "open mail app" and a long push being "open new mail". Every other mobile I've had since then has had even more of these single click and hold doubled-up functionality.
I would admit that the double-button-click is new to me, but the majority of the patent has prior art.
This is a much misunderstood figure. The overall crime clear-up rate is a mere 20% - ie, 80% of all reported crimes never get pinned to anyone.
The legal system in Japan differs greatly from the USA and UK (although it resembled France) - rather than going to trial on reasonable grounds of suspicion, the police have to present an almost airtight case before proceding to court. Thus, a lot of the time, either someone will confess, or the police will realise they don't have enough evidence and drop the case, rather than ever proceeding to the largely rubber-stamping of a trial. Note Japan also does not have jury trials.
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He's called RI-MAN, Robot Interacting with huMAN. No word on his pushing or shoving capabilities, vis-a-vis a stair-rich environment.
No, that's a lie, I love being pedantic. Anyway, Mr BadAnalogyMan by name, Bad Analogy by nature, his kanji is , not , which is Mr Facing The Well, if we want to try to put an English meaning on it.
Versus about 4 million yen for a real live nurse, if only Japan was more accepting of foreign labour to look after all the old folk.
I did a search for my full name which appears on my blog, yet it couldn't find it! I tried a few other searchs and the coverage of my blog seems pretty useless all round.
It also doesn't seem to accept double-quotes to indicate phrases, which is a very important feature for me!
Japanese versus US blogs on Mutant Frog, a rather well-written but not too frequently visited, it seems, corner of the internet.
I suppose, if I were a proper blogger, I would have instead posted a link to my own web site where I wrote a short article that pointed to the one above...
According to a survey I translated a couple of months back, in Japan amongst the people surveyed (who would tend to be heavy phone users, due to the survey methodology) almost 40% played games regularly, and amongst these gamers, over 40% paid to download games, and over 40% downloaded at least one game a month.
And UGV is a people disabling system.
So far, the balance of the comments seem to be in favour, or at least neutral to the idea of implementing Linux within a device that will no doubt end up killing a good few people. In contrast, should Linux ever be used for DRMs, which have, as far as I know, not killed anyone, most people here would be up in arms, if the recent story on GPL and the DRM is to be taken as a guide.
...when it comes to fine, or even poor, wine. They still get a collective stiffie when Beaujolais Day comes around, and believe chilled is not an unusual way of serving normal non-Beaujolais reds.
...to complain about not being able to see goatse.cx!
...this page
I think this is one of the very rare times that Mr Goatse is on-topic.
Regardless of what the Japanese get up to over Christmas and the New Year, the start of December sees most people getting a winter bonus, with the average this year being somewhere around 850,000 yen, or around US$7,000, so it makes sense to try to get the XBox out at the start of December.
I suppose repeating the same tactic in a second post would move me into the unethical category?
rule #1a is if you cannot get your article submitted once (or even twice...) include lots of gratuitous links to your website in any posts you might make here.
rule #2 is deliberately seeding MSN and Yahoo! (Google is immune) with keyword-laden articles - I once managed to accidentally (yeah right!) end up as the top site for "Japanese teen sex" on both these engines, but that's another story.
Well, here in Japan on my regular 1 hour commute on three different trains, I see almost no PSPs, or even DSs or GBs for that matter. I've seen one person watching video on it, and one using it as a music player, and just a handful of players. I see much, much more people (at least one per day) playing games on their mobiles. Of course, all this gaming is insignificant compared to the emailers, MD player listeners, and book and newspaper readers.
Road naming is non-existant outside major thouroughfares; it works more by an irregular grid numbering system of blocks, not the roads in between them. House numbering is similarly vague, with no guarantee that house number 2 will be beside number 3 or 4. Block nameplates are usually pretty small and not in easy-to-predict places very often; GPS, even for pedestrians, is very useful in Japan. Even the taxi drivers haven't a clue where most places are!
...and pull out the old address books, and sell the info on to your nearest dodgy geezer?
Seriously, one of my friends in Japan just last week got a phone call on his mobile from someone who had his name but was wanting his address as he said he had a delivery but couldn't read the label, which my pal reckoned was somebody wanting to do some kind of identity fraud.
Although I get a lot of news through the 'net (both local and from my home country) I also get a real newspaper every day. For me personally, a real paper has long in-depth articles, or even just fuller versions of the same stories.
The other problem with Internet news - it may just be a problem with people in general, but exacerbated by the 'net - is that it creates tunnel vision, only tuning into the news you want to hear, that backs up your own prejudices. I cringe whenever I see people posting links from places like World Net Daily or Indy Media as if the content within is gospel truth, not heavily spun to the left or right semi-fiction.
I know of course that traditional print media also has political bias, but the spin is usually appended onto the pure reportage so both can be separated.
However, when I was shopping for a TV two years ago we decided to go for a 28 inch CRT widescreen, even though to the uninformed the picture quality from the 32 inch "full digital HDTV" beside it and the flat screens was vastly superior.
However, the shop was cheating - the standard model we bought was getting the feed from a low-quality DVD - free from obvious artifacts, but encoded at a low bitrate and perhaps even low resolution and maybe even some dodgy connector cable to mute the colours; on the other hand the full digital HDTVs and flatscreens had an HDTV feed (isn't that uncompressed?) and looked about a million times better.
The telly we bought has a digital input for DVD etc, and a separate box can be bought to decode HDTV should we wish, and anyway the standard analog aerial produces as good a picture as we could ever wish for!
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Oops, looks like my maths are also being affected by the time dilation field - still, 14's pretty young to be marrying a fifty-five year old, give or take two years...
Even small convenience stores sell it here. Never seen anyone buying it, but that's a different matter!
I hope there's no -1 Pedantic moderation category...
The very first mail-enabled mobile phone I used (c.2000?) had the "mail" button set to single push being "open mail app" and a long push being "open new mail". Every other mobile I've had since then has had even more of these single click and hold doubled-up functionality.
I would admit that the double-button-click is new to me, but the majority of the patent has prior art.
This is a much misunderstood figure. The overall crime clear-up rate is a mere 20% - ie, 80% of all reported crimes never get pinned to anyone.
The legal system in Japan differs greatly from the USA and UK (although it resembled France) - rather than going to trial on reasonable grounds of suspicion, the police have to present an almost airtight case before proceding to court. Thus, a lot of the time, either someone will confess, or the police will realise they don't have enough evidence and drop the case, rather than ever proceeding to the largely rubber-stamping of a trial. Note Japan also does not have jury trials.