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  1. Re:Yep.... Still dead. on The 360's Japanese Status Revisited · · Score: 1

    No need for that. Those are all foreigners. I saw _ONE_ japanese guy buy Burnout for xbox, but perhaps he lived half is life in the US. The rest are foreigners (like me) who take advantage of the cheap xbox price in Japan and the fact the hong kong ordered games in english are damn cheap.

  2. There is no xBox in Japan on The 360's Japanese Status Revisited · · Score: 1

    Let's take Yodobashi Camera in Kawaski. TV Gemu Floor. Xbox. Tow little shelves, filled with a lot of space and some games. No xbox game on the "new release table" in ages.

    PS2. Well at least more than half of the area. PSP, DS, Game Cube take rest. Tip of the hot game. On PSP and DS the top sellers are brain train games. I don't know for the PS2, but I guess some RPG. xbox 360, nobody cares.

    And know someting completly different. Get Loco Roco, that game kicks ass (PSP)

  3. Re:I switched as well on Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    1) Why do you want to run a MAC machine wthout the GUI? Its a desktop Computer.
    2) Why the hell do you want to customize your kernel? Perhaps you are still young and think its cool. But at some point you don't give a rats ass about customizing kernel and you just want to browse your pr0n!

  4. Distance to Telefone connection on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    ADSL speed depends where you are and how far away you are from the next telephone "hub". I have 50mbit ADSL and I get full speed. Inside Japan I even exceed the 50mbit regulary.

    A friend of mine had also 50mbit but he never got more than 10mbit and a lot of disconnects. so he downgraded and now he is fine.

    ADSL is very flaky crap.

  5. Re:5 years ago this wouldn't have worked on DirectX 10 Only On Vista · · Score: 1

    But, how many of them are Mac? And when they developed did they say "Yeah lets make a Mac version always take 100% care that it works on a Mac because so many sales go to a Mac". I doubt that.

  6. Re:I am not really a Microsoft fan, at all, on DirectX 10 Only On Vista · · Score: 1

    Unless Direct X 10 becomes like core graphics an integral part of the OS its still just an add-on. MS just tries to Bundle it to avoid a "nobody buys XP" disaster.

    So I guess a lot of gamers will upgrade to Vista when they upgrade their graphics card to a Direct X 10.

    The rest on the other hand? But gamers _are_ a huge crowd noadays, aren't they?

  7. Re:5 years ago this wouldn't have worked on DirectX 10 Only On Vista · · Score: 1

    PC gaming is already a locked down Platform called Windows. And it was never different. The amount of games not developed with direct X is minimal. The amount of games developed with something else than Windows in mind is not existent.

    PC is mainly Windows, Gaming on a PC _is_ Windows.

  8. Re:Prepared Queries on PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Released to Plug Injection Hole · · Score: 1

    so, I even prepare those queries. Whats wrong with that. You are the programmer, you have to know what can come in and how to protect the system from wrong input.

    Weak excuses for not doing it right.

  9. Re:chinese, japanese, it's all the same on Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods · · Score: 1

    I am supporting your role. I haven't stupied japanese history at the University, but what I gathered together I can fully spport the fact how Hiragana and Katakana was created (manga remark: ramnas words are written in Hirgana when he is a girl to support).
    Same with the Katakana. They where created by monks.

  10. Re:Zabbix on Server Monitoring With Munin And Monit · · Score: 1

    Zabbix is crap IMHO. I tried to get something out, following the Step by Step guide, but I could see nothing. On the other hand munin I had immediate success. Even Cacti is easier to use than Zabbix.

  11. So ... what? on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    One user is not allowed to block ads, the owner. But all the visitors, perhaps hundreds or thousends of people all block the ads? Makes no sense to me ...

  12. Re:Tokyo Metropolitan Police has Pipo-kun ... on Japanese National Police Investigating Games · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they all got their icon figures. It's just amazing.

  13. Re:Not really. I didn't mention it deliberately. on Japanese National Police Investigating Games · · Score: 1

    Well, I might add that I live here in Japan for more than three years and I tride the train to work everyday. I live in an average area, which means I have all the average japanese people around me and manga is treated equal. Nobody will look strange if someone is reading it. Yes its true, that the manga readers are more younger people (20ish) and more lower educated people (eg not working as "salery man"). But they are there, and they are not so little.

    True is, that most japanese people read normal books. I would say good 70% to 75% are doing this. The rest is reading any kind of newspaper or Manga. You see newspaper readers mostly in the morning, journals mostly in the evening, but you see that rare. Most manga readers in the morning are young salery man. In the evening I can't say, I see less, but going home is different than going to work.

    But let me tell you, it might be _very_ different depending where people live. If someone stayes in Roppongi or similar areas, you will see none, or almost no manga readers at all. If you live more outside, where the average japanese person is living, this whole thing is very different. Thats just my guess to that.

  14. Re:Anime, maybe, but you forget Manga on Japanese National Police Investigating Games · · Score: 1

    well, to be honest, thats not true. I ride every morning the train to work, and those people in my train do not play with their cell phones. Thats for school kids & students. Most older people read books & newspapers (newspapers mostly in the morning) and of course manga. And yes I see at least 1/4th of them reading Manga. I am not blind, thought I am reading myself in the train too.

  15. Tokyo Metropolitan Police has Pipo-kun ... on Japanese National Police Investigating Games · · Score: 1

    ... I really can't take them so serious anymore. [warning, freaky midi music, official goverment page] http://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/sikumi/pipo/pi po.htm

  16. Anime, maybe, but you forget Manga on Japanese National Police Investigating Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Everyday millions of Manga Comics are sold. On 20 people, 15 are reading and at least 5 of those are reading Mangas. Thats an everyday thing. And those Mangas reach from ... to ... (put in your own ideas). So it can happen that the guy next to you reads a nice tentakel manga. Quite funny actually (from a western point of view).

  17. Re:Maybe... on Lowering the Odds of Being Outsourced · · Score: 1

    It's both as horrible ... They can do harm in both areas ... But I think an IT guy that has no idea about management can do almost more harm than an management guy that has no idea about IT.

  18. oh great on Lowering the Odds of Being Outsourced · · Score: 1

    not that we have enought manager who think they can manage but have absolutly no management skill. Now tons of IT people who also have no management skill are forced to manage too. Oh holy manage-o-runi!

  19. Nono, good reference on Solving the Home Library Problem? · · Score: 1

    Both are like dictators, and both wouldn't have been able to be like this without their henchman. Or do you really think all that is Bushes work alone?

  20. Re:missing alternate indexes on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    I run vacuum analyze every night, to keep the stats, planner, etc up to date. I run vacuum full once every two weeks, because I rarely delete data or do big updates.

    Every six months the data gets a big roll around, after that I run a full vacuum of course. So I never saw a big slow down, as I am not using full vacuum all the time

  21. Re:missing alternate indexes on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Well I never ever had any kind of issue with vacuum. On none of my live databases. I do not use auto-vacuum as it is only from 8.1 and I do not have 8.1 in production

  22. Re:Gentoo? on Should You Pre-Compile Binaries or Roll Your Own? · · Score: 1

    well, safe. There is a plan to have a similar thing for security patches like in stable, but to be honest, I have no idea how far it is. The gnupg update was in testing ~4 days after the public announcment.

    But I never ever had any kind of security issue. Perhaps because I have enought firewalls and other security system in place to net come it that fare that one of my servers gets hacked ...

    I just prefer to be more up to date and so not run into any kind of dependency hell than being "perhaps" 100% secure.

  23. Why I use it! Re:Why I'd rather not use PostgreSQL on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Sorry sir, but I think you should try it again. When 7.0.0 came out, it was a super huge step forward from 6, and made it way more usable, but it was still not perfect. I use here 7.4 on several production enviroments, and one of it runs since more than 3 years with only one postgres hickup, which I could fix very fast - was some db transactino corruption, which was fixable very easy.
    I have also a lot writes to the db for logging, updates, etc data, and I run vacumm every night and I enver had any issue with it.

    I have not yet tried any 8 version in production, because I am not able to update those production boxes easily. But 7.4 is very solid and I have no issues at all.

  24. missing alternate indexes on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    missing alternate indexes, no optimization run can bring down both DBs to the knees. After a lot of inserts, to bring the indexes up to date and have them actually usable you need to run vacuum for postgres. I haven't used mysql on such huge data, but from even simple 100.000 - 100.000 table joins I know that with some good alternate indexes you can speed up things enormously.

  25. Re:Gentoo? on Should You Pre-Compile Binaries or Roll Your Own? · · Score: 1

    > It is not that different, except maybe that Debian does not change as quickly as Gentoo.

    It depends what kind of Debian you follow. Stable never changes, because its stable. Testing is the best for a Desktop system, not as "flakey" as unstable but gets updated very fast - most of the time, except firefox 1.5 thats still not in testing. But with apt-pinning you can easly install one or two small packages from unstable in testing. Its similar to the gentoo feature where you can tag which packages can come from their "gentoo testing branch"