And with what right did the Americans back then forced the Japanese to open up their country to foreigners. How dare they asked for this.
Sometimes cultural change is brought in from outside. And a lot of culture changed here since the reformation back in Meiji area.
Samurai and cast system gone, people wearing mostly western cloths, or do you think a suit is a japanese invention, or the car, or the cell phone.
Plus I still doubt there is much privacy invasion as said before. just look at my flickr stream, I have tons and tons of backstreet photos from japanese places. Never ever I was stopped by a cop, never ever. Nor did any one else stop me.
Plus the pictures in street view are anyway so old. A friend found his car, which broke down 1/2 a year ago in front of his house.
Actually all japanese people I know are totally happy with street view. You should have seen us at office on the release day when we all looked around if we could find our homes, office, etc...
you the funny thing is. I forgot my old phone numbers back in my old country. But my freaking ICQ number which I never see, and never give out I still remember.
and hell yeah, I still use ICQ:) thought 99.9% is just to talk to one person.
As long as you go through the web interface. Once you use another client (Mail.app, Thunderbird, outlook, whatever other) then you are lost through contacts...
Plus it is not really easy to group and order. Folders are just so easy to order, hirachy and stuff...
I have mails that go directly into "labels" and don't stay in the inbox. Just say "archive" (or flag it, if you use a rule).
I see no problem.
I personally love & hate labels.
I love them because I can have certain mails very visible tagged with labels. Once don I select them and say "Archive" and they disappear from my inbox.
I hate labels because I also need a folder structure. Although this is doable with labels (/) it is not visible in gmail itself. If I have "Administration/Servers/Exter/Server A" I just see "Administration" and if I have 20 folders its a nightmare. I wish it would be more visible like Administration
Servers
Extern
Server A
and I can open/close certain groups. That would be kick ass.
Ever tried to put corporate mail into gmail? People have hundreds of folders, subfolders, etc. By customer, and sub folder with contact name, etc etc etc.
gmail is nice, but until they can do "groups" of labels, eg if I have Customer A/Contact A and I can then see a visible "sub" for the / (as the / is a subfolder in google anyway), its kinda not visible.
Especially with long labels you see nothing... just all the same beginning...
I was too very obsesses with folders and nested folders and so forth.
Until I actually _used_ gmail and labels are great. Not perfect, I'd love to have the automatic split between a "/" so I can open and close a whole "group".
But besides that labels do fully replace folders in the traditional way, especially multi tagging is an amazing thing.
Plus if you use a normal client labels are folders.
What the article completely fails to mention is that Japan has (by tomorrow) switched completely to an age verification check on all outside Vending machines.
The system is called Taspo and gradually started all over Japan, Tokyo is the last place that will switch tomorrow (2008/7/1).
From then on without a taspo card, which you can apply for free, you cannot buy cigarettes at the outside vending machines.
Taspo is "Tabako Passport", you need a valid ID card (driving licensee, passwort, etc) + passport image to actually get one. You can even charge Taspo with money, which is cool.
Because of the tight restrictions I doubt it will merge with mobile phone, thought that would be kick ass...
Well, from tomorrow on not anymore. All Japan now uses Taspo (Tabak passport) system. So if you want to buy cigarettes from a street vending machine and you don't have a taspo card you are out of look.
I haven't seen any of the face recognition type machines anywhere near my place...
* quick move a window to a different space. I use this all the time in KDE. I really miss this, because using the f8 + drag & drop is really time consuming.
* stick a window to all space. Another one I dearly miss. I have pidgin and one console visible on all virtual desktops in KDE. I can't do that in Spaces, so its a real real pain to work with them...
Yeah, I was actually looking forward for a way to change stacks back to the Tiger way. But still nothing:( makes it unusable, as most stuff I have has subfolders, why click there if you land in a finder window again... really idiotic design
Perhaps I got to spoiled here in Japan. I am sorry. I remember back, 5 years ago in Austria we had 4GB limit and if you download the 10.5.3 update (as a delta to 10.5.2) your need to get 198MB...
Only option would be to download it somewhere and make a CD...
yeah, me too. Until all apps work, plugins are updated and os bugs are solved it's best to wait. I have now 10.5.2 running at office and it works nice, but for home I will wait for 10.5.3...
Go to the next starbucks and do it there... Seriously, where in the more or less developed world where people can afford Macs do you still have a per megabyte limited internet.
And if you use your mobile phone for dial up, there are much cheaper alternatives, even for minimal daily browsing...
Yeah sure, next year, the year of the Linux Desktop all will be better.
I am waiting for a real usable Desktop Linux stuff since 1999, and no, no way it will ever come... Just getting eg japanese input running can be a pain in the ass, same with other things.
Forget the free desktop thing... That will never pick up, ever.
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And with what right did the Americans back then forced the Japanese to open up their country to foreigners. How dare they asked for this.
Sometimes cultural change is brought in from outside. And a lot of culture changed here since the reformation back in Meiji area.
Samurai and cast system gone, people wearing mostly western cloths, or do you think a suit is a japanese invention, or the car, or the cell phone.
Plus I still doubt there is much privacy invasion as said before. just look at my flickr stream, I have tons and tons of backstreet photos from japanese places. Never ever I was stopped by a cop, never ever. Nor did any one else stop me.
Plus the pictures in street view are anyway so old. A friend found his car, which broke down 1/2 a year ago in front of his house.
Actually all japanese people I know are totally happy with street view. You should have seen us at office on the release day when we all looked around if we could find our homes, office, etc ...
If you want it, you can pry it from my dead cold hands!
It depends what level you buy. But the simplest one you get in a view seconds ...
That's wrong. I spend almost 0 time on our windows deployments. Because I know how to deploy it and how to keep it patched and how to keep it secure.
And this is something that counts for every OS. You can screw up OS X & Linux the same way you can screw up Windows.
You fought wars over that :)
Plus who wouldn't want to see some bouncy big titts, have a big mac in your hand swallow the whole shit down with some coke.
Makes sure the whole world will be as fat as America.
Americans assume the same thing, but they're usually right.
Americans thing they are right with things being popular everywhere else, but they wrong about that.
you the funny thing is. I forgot my old phone numbers back in my old country. But my freaking ICQ number which I never see, and never give out I still remember.
and hell yeah, I still use ICQ :) thought 99.9% is just to talk to one person.
You might find more than you want. eg, if you have folders per project.
As long as you go through the web interface. Once you use another client (Mail.app, Thunderbird, outlook, whatever other) then you are lost through contacts ...
Plus it is not really easy to group and order. Folders are just so easy to order, hirachy and stuff ...
hmm, that sounds so easy. I wished in real world it would be that easy ... but most time it is not so.
I have mails that go directly into "labels" and don't stay in the inbox. Just say "archive" (or flag it, if you use a rule).
I see no problem.
I personally love & hate labels.
I love them because I can have certain mails very visible tagged with labels. Once don I select them and say "Archive" and they disappear from my inbox.
I hate labels because I also need a folder structure. Although this is doable with labels (/) it is not visible in gmail itself. If I have "Administration/Servers/Exter/Server A" I just see "Administration" and if I have 20 folders its a nightmare. I wish it would be more visible like
Administration
Servers
Extern
Server A
and I can open/close certain groups. That would be kick ass.
Ever tried to put corporate mail into gmail? People have hundreds of folders, subfolders, etc. By customer, and sub folder with contact name, etc etc etc.
gmail is nice, but until they can do "groups" of labels, eg if I have Customer A/Contact A and I can then see a visible "sub" for the / (as the / is a subfolder in google anyway), its kinda not visible.
Especially with long labels you see nothing ... just all the same beginning ...
labels are good, but not perfect.
I was too very obsesses with folders and nested folders and so forth.
Until I actually _used_ gmail and labels are great. Not perfect, I'd love to have the automatic split between a "/" so I can open and close a whole "group".
But besides that labels do fully replace folders in the traditional way, especially multi tagging is an amazing thing.
Plus if you use a normal client labels are folders.
Almost no one has? I haven't met anyone who has no driving license. Although I guess 90% are paper drivers ...
What the article completely fails to mention is that Japan has (by tomorrow) switched completely to an age verification check on all outside Vending machines.
The system is called Taspo and gradually started all over Japan, Tokyo is the last place that will switch tomorrow (2008/7/1).
From then on without a taspo card, which you can apply for free, you cannot buy cigarettes at the outside vending machines.
Taspo is "Tabako Passport", you need a valid ID card (driving licensee, passwort, etc) + passport image to actually get one. You can even charge Taspo with money, which is cool.
Because of the tight restrictions I doubt it will merge with mobile phone, thought that would be kick ass ...
see more here: www.taspo.jp (in japanese)
Well, from tomorrow on not anymore. All Japan now uses Taspo (Tabak passport) system. So if you want to buy cigarettes from a street vending machine and you don't have a taspo card you are out of look.
I haven't seen any of the face recognition type machines anywhere near my place ...
unless someone disables javascript ... or uses a browser that cannot do it ... I'll stick with SSL
Thanks a lot, that helps :)
What I miss most are two things.
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* quick move a window to a different space. I use this all the time in KDE. I really miss this, because using the f8 + drag & drop is really time consuming.
* stick a window to all space. Another one I dearly miss. I have pidgin and one console visible on all virtual desktops in KDE. I can't do that in Spaces, so its a real real pain to work with them
Yeah, I was actually looking forward for a way to change stacks back to the Tiger way. But still nothing :( makes it unusable, as most stuff I have has subfolders, why click there if you land in a finder window again ... really idiotic design
Perhaps I got to spoiled here in Japan. I am sorry. I remember back, 5 years ago in Austria we had 4GB limit and if you download the 10.5.3 update (as a delta to 10.5.2) your need to get 198MB ...
...
Only option would be to download it somewhere and make a CD
yeah, me too. Until all apps work, plugins are updated and os bugs are solved it's best to wait. I have now 10.5.2 running at office and it works nice, but for home I will wait for 10.5.3 ...
Go to the next starbucks and do it there ... Seriously, where in the more or less developed world where people can afford Macs do you still have a per megabyte limited internet.
...
And if you use your mobile phone for dial up, there are much cheaper alternatives, even for minimal daily browsing
Yeah sure, next year, the year of the Linux Desktop all will be better.
... Just getting eg japanese input running can be a pain in the ass, same with other things.
... That will never pick up, ever.
I am waiting for a real usable Desktop Linux stuff since 1999, and no, no way it will ever come
Forget the free desktop thing
500 Gigabyte is not 500 Gigabit. a bit is 1, a byte is 8 bit, thats why we have the 1024 rule.
so 500 gigabyte is not 500.000.000.000 bytes but 500 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 536.870.912.000
Thats why I don't get this whole strange sudden change from 1024 to 1000 not at all. It just does not make sense.