This concert pianist friend of mine, whom I, literarily, JUST visited in the hospital, had surgery for the second time - different hand - for what she thought was RSI. It was becoming increasingly difficult for her to play through a whole concert, not to mention that she was unable to practice more than four or five hours a day. So, it must be that she was just tired of traveling around the world, staying at nice hotels, and mixing with people you and I only see on TV...essentially life a life most of us only dream about. Hoax, I tell you.
And the fact that there were three other people in the same room who also had surgery for the same reason... mass hysteria, I tell you.
And myself... this pain I must think I feel is...just a hoax. The fact that sometimes it gets so bad I can't even hold a pair of chopsticks properly... hoax. The fact that I sometimes wake up at night with my hands - especially the right, mousing, hand - feeling numb, it's... a hoax.
Yah, that's the ticket. It's all a hoax, I tell you.
That's a very immature way to look at a job. At a job, they pay you to do what they say. Why should you care if they use Linux or W2K or a bunch of monkeys in a box?
Intergrity???? Pride??? Refusal to be a lemming???Any number of reasons. Not to mention that in this case they are spending his and MY money.
Maybe not you, but at 200 plus MPH I certainly would be looking for some amazing "shiny side up" times... screw five nines - 99.999 - if I ride this bike I am looking for a nine nines guarantee.:-)
Grad schools want you to be fluent in Japanese, unless you can find an exchange-style program through an American university.
Errr...No?? I can't read/write Japanese at all, well almost, and I am CONSTANTLY being offered MA slots - more than one national University. It's, sadly perhaps, a matter of WHO you know.
I hacked into the school's network, and got caught. I was a ½ wannabe hacker ½ a script kiddie at the time, without a clear understanding of what I was doing, so it was easy for the, uncharacteristically, relatively cluefull admin to see my footprints.
I was aware of the consequences though, and I was ready and willing to accept them. Got caught, got suspended, got threatened with "if this happens again you'll go to jail" Ethe whole nine yards. Was I upset? You bet. Was I scared? A somewhat. Did I even think about suicide? NO WAY!
How did I react? I used my suspension time to REALLY learn what was going on, and subsequently I was never caught again. (As an aside, while I never changed any of my grades, I did help a few jocks get into college - a couple of them went on to become pros. No I don't feel bad about it. YES I'd do it again; these are really nice people, who weren't really dumb, they just had different priorities.)
Having said all that, it's a sad thing that the kid killed himself.
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, especially if you've chosen an OS - I, of course, mean Linux distribution -but how about "e-smith"? (www.e-smith.org).
It must be one of the easiest distributions to set up and administer; although if you know what you're doing you'll be a bit frustrated with always having to use the GUI.
I set a couple boxes up for total beginners, and I mean real beginners, not IIS/Windows refugees. The people I set them up for have hardly ever called me with questions. (Setting up FrontPage extensions is a PAIN though, so if one needs that c)
1. Get your dad to buy you a laptop.
2. Get your dad to buy a cell phone.
3. Get your dad to buy a PCMCIA modem.
4. Get your dad to sign you up for your own PRIVATE account with an ISP.
5. Use encryption as desired/necessary.
6. Continue enjoying life in the 21st century.
(Make sure ONLY private stuff goes through this computer.)
No problems as far as I can see; but IANAL... and I don't even play one on TV.
(Feel free to replace "Dad" with whatever person who can legally give the POTUS a gift without any legal/political implications.)
most modern Japanese cars are limited to about 110mph
Huh? Not that I have noticed - not here in Japan, nor in the US & Canada in the last 20 years or so.
As someone who REGULARLY drives on Japanese roads a speeds WAY ABOVE the posted limit, I can tell you that every Japanese car I have driven, has easily gone over 110mph - unless, of course you are talking about non-turbo "K-cars"... ("K-car" is a type of car with a 660cc engine which are quite popular in Japan, and if I remember correctly in some parts of Europe.)
Dude,
How wrong you are...
I have RIGHT NOW in front of me three boxes made by Acer that have never given me any trouble.
Oh, one "intersting" thing about these boxes is that NONE of them say Acer on the front.
They are Sony, Hitachi, and Fujitsu IDENTICAL boxes, with the ONLY difference being the front label.
I used to have "a few" IBM boxes that were also identical to the remaining three and which also never gave me any trouble.
My guess is you had bad luck...
On the modem you want to have originate the call, type:
ATX0 -- disables sensing for a dial tone
ATDT -- awaits carrier signal
On the modem that will answer, type the ususal:
ATA -- Sends the carrier
Or try (and this will tell you how long this info has been on my HD):
Modem originating the call:
28.8K Fax Modem: ATB15%P1&L1S0=0&W&W1 -- 14.4K Fax Modem: Replace B15 with B9
Modem answering the call:
28.8K Fax Modem: ATB15%P1&L1S0=1&W&W1 -- 14.4K Fax Modem: Replace B15 with B9
The difficult part might be getting the proper command to the built in modem.
If all fails, you could get a little box that simulates a phone line - the one I have is made by "MX Engineering" in Taiwan... look around for more info.
A couple things:
1. You are nowhere near as smart as you think you are - look up "delusion" in the dictionary.
2. "PRIDE" is NOT the same as arrogance.
3. Blaming others for your own shortcomings is not the best way to deal with life's problems.
In nearly every village I've seen (and even in the big cities), a large portion of the shops and restaurants had VERY prominently displayed and obvious signs stating that gaijin (foreigners) were not welcome.
You are, of course, joking right. I have been in Japan for ten years and I have yet to be told that I can't go somewhere because I am a "foreign devil" - not counting the a couple places in the "soap land" - red light district - area, where I wandered by mistake. (And even there they politely told me that I probably didn't want to go in, as I could get sex for free somewhere else, as I was a "handsome foreigner" - true on the free sex; sadly, not quite true on the handsome part. Hell, I have even gotten into places that the locals can't get in. In many of the "Onsens" - hot springs - they have signs banning people with tattoos - this is aimed mostly at keeping away the members of the Japanese organized crime, Yakuza. Much to the shock of my Japanese friends, I was only asked ONCE to cover my tattoo. Not asked to leave, not denied entry, not attacked with a cleaver, not... you get the drift.
I often go to areas frequented by the US military personnel, and while at first people look at me "funny" they soon warm up to me and treat me REALLY WELL. Being 180cm/100Kg, into sports, and having short hair, I am easily confused to one of the "drunken Marines" who seem to do their best to make a bad impression on the locals. In my "hometown" - Hiroshima - I am treated no different from any of the locals. (Actually that's not quite true, the local cops do treat me a bit differently after I trashed a group of the local bad boys - "bosozoku," young men on NOISY bikes. The cops often come to my office to tell me that my car is illegally parked, and that I will get a fine "next time" and, by the way, they have heard that I am on the "bosozoku" black list and I should be careful, and that they hope the "bosozoku" will not attack me because I could get in trouble if I end up putting any of them in the hospital again. But I digress...:)
I am NOT in any way saying the Japan is the perfect country, ask my Japanese friends and they'll tell you that they are tired of my complains, but it is by and large a much better place than the US, or even Canada - with the possible exception of Vancouver. And yes, I have lived, as opposed to "travlled to", in MANY other countries around the world.
Most of Japan is very... rural and a bit old-fashioned, you can go to towns where you are the first (blonde/redhead/italian/etc.) they have ever seen and they'll treat you a bit special as a result but you can also get the opposite reaction for the same reason.
Absolutely. But, how is this different from any other place where you are obviously different from the locals Eyour words, "blonde/redhead/italian/etc" I have been living in Japan for ten years and I love it. Is it different from, let's say, the US? You bet. But, that's what makes living here a GREAT experience.
As far as dating in the "gaijin ghetto"goes, I guess to each his, or her, own. I find that, in MY experience most of the Japanese who hang around the gaijin "infestedEareas are either looking for "cheap sex" or cheap English lessons. I don't care to offer either.
As far as the language goes, it's no more difficult than any other language that is TOTALLY different from one's mother tongue. I haven't had as much trouble with Japanese as I have had with some of the European languages - I still make more mistakes that I care to admit when I have to choose a "der" a "die" or a "das" than I have in choosing a "wa" and a "ga"
My 2 yen.
PS: If you're in it for the money, Tokyo, or even Osaka, is where you want to go. If you want to ENJOY life in this country get out in to the "boonies".
traditional Japanase borrowed Chinese ideograms but only used the ideogram for the verbalization or sound that went along with it. The actual meanings were not borrowed from the Chinese.
Almost, but... not quite. One of the things that makes Japanese so hard to learn - written Japanese, that is - is the fact that the "Kanji" can be read in several ways. At least one of the ways for many of the characters is the same, or VERY similar to Chinese. Add the ÐçÈ (Hiragana)@and fJf^fJfi(Katakana) sets, and you can understand why Japanese is a bitch to learn.:-(
A smart manager might ask, Why was this software installed and why was it so popular?
A smart manager would have made sure that the work environment is such as not to make it necessary for the employees to install gunauthorized softwareh in the first place.
No offence, but speaking "more languages" means nothing. I am fluent in five, and can "survive" in a few more - all of them "European". Does that make it easier for me to communicate? Not when everyone around me speaks Japanese.:-(
On the other hand, I have a student whose English is quite poor, but who "interprets" for people whose English is quite a lot better. Why? He can "communicate"!!
My 2 \
Here in Japan most VCR come with a "CM skip" function.
It must be non standard, as most of the times it doesn't work between brands, but is 99.9% relieble on the machine the program was recorded on. (I have actually never seen a failure on my machine, but 100% is not likely...)
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Most people do that. Me too ... when it's convenient to me. :-)
How about ethical?
You ask this on Slashdot? You must be new around here.
Finally someone is not afraid to tell the truth.
... mass hysteria, I tell you.
... this pain I must think I feel is...just a hoax. The fact that sometimes it gets so bad I can't even hold a pair of chopsticks properly ... hoax. The fact that I sometimes wake up at night with my hands - especially the right, mousing, hand - feeling numb, it's ... a hoax.
This concert pianist friend of mine, whom I, literarily, JUST visited in the hospital, had surgery for the second time - different hand - for what she thought was RSI. It was becoming increasingly difficult for her to play through a whole concert, not to mention that she was unable to practice more than four or five hours a day. So, it must be that she was just tired of traveling around the world, staying at nice hotels, and mixing with people you and I only see on TV...essentially life a life most of us only dream about. Hoax, I tell you.
And the fact that there were three other people in the same room who also had surgery for the same reason
And myself
Yah, that's the ticket. It's all a hoax, I tell you.
Intergrity???? Pride??? Refusal to be a lemming???Any number of reasons. Not to mention that in this case they are spending his and MY money.
Maybe not you, but at 200 plus MPH I certainly would be looking for some amazing "shiny side up" times ... screw five nines - 99.999 - if I ride this bike I am looking for a nine nines guarantee. :-)
Look around the auctions on "www.yahoo.cojp". The Sony Data MDs with a SCSI interface pop up every now and again.
Errr ...No?? I can't read/write Japanese at all, well almost, and I am CONSTANTLY being offered MA slots - more than one national University. It's, sadly perhaps, a matter of WHO you know.
I hacked into the school's network, and got caught. I was a ½ wannabe hacker ½ a script kiddie at the time, without a clear understanding of what I was doing, so it was easy for the, uncharacteristically, relatively cluefull admin to see my footprints.
I was aware of the consequences though, and I was ready and willing to accept them. Got caught, got suspended, got threatened with "if this happens again you'll go to jail" Ethe whole nine yards. Was I upset? You bet. Was I scared? A somewhat. Did I even think about suicide? NO WAY!
How did I react? I used my suspension time to REALLY learn what was going on, and subsequently I was never caught again. (As an aside, while I never changed any of my grades, I did help a few jocks get into college - a couple of them went on to become pros. No I don't feel bad about it. YES I'd do it again; these are really nice people, who weren't really dumb, they just had different priorities.)
Having said all that, it's a sad thing that the kid killed himself.
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, especially if you've chosen an OS - I, of course, mean Linux distribution -but how about "e-smith"? (www.e-smith.org).
It must be one of the easiest distributions to set up and administer; although if you know what you're doing you'll be a bit frustrated with always having to use the GUI.
I set a couple boxes up for total beginners, and I mean real beginners, not IIS/Windows refugees. The people I set them up for have hardly ever called me with questions. (Setting up FrontPage extensions is a PAIN though, so if one needs that c)
Dude,
... and the horse you rode in on.")
Stop trolling the kiddies.
(In case you are serious "
Err ... not quite true RJ Plus can go higher.
pony up the US$30 and upgrade to the "plus" version? (Or, scour the warez sites for a "liberated" version)
1. Get your dad to buy you a laptop.
... and I don't even play one on TV.
2. Get your dad to buy a cell phone.
3. Get your dad to buy a PCMCIA modem.
4. Get your dad to sign you up for your own PRIVATE account with an ISP.
5. Use encryption as desired/necessary.
6. Continue enjoying life in the 21st century.
(Make sure ONLY private stuff goes through this computer.)
No problems as far as I can see; but IANAL
(Feel free to replace "Dad" with whatever person who can legally give the POTUS a gift without any legal/political implications.)
Get a decent keyboard, and you don't have to do that. My keyboard has the "Ctrl" key where God has meant for it to be, next to the "A" key.
God, this is one of the times I wish I had mod points.
Huh? Not that I have noticed - not here in Japan, nor in the US & Canada in the last 20 years or so.
As someone who REGULARLY drives on Japanese roads a speeds WAY ABOVE the posted limit, I can tell you that every Japanese car I have driven, has easily gone over 110mph - unless, of course you are talking about non-turbo "K-cars"...
("K-car" is a type of car with a 660cc engine which are quite popular in Japan, and if I remember correctly in some parts of Europe.)
Dude,
How wrong you are...
I have RIGHT NOW in front of me three boxes made by Acer that have never given me any trouble.
Oh, one "intersting" thing about these boxes is that NONE of them say Acer on the front.
They are Sony, Hitachi, and Fujitsu IDENTICAL boxes, with the ONLY difference being the front label.
I used to have "a few" IBM boxes that were also identical to the remaining three and which also never gave me any trouble.
My guess is you had bad luck...
Hi ya'll,
... look around for more info.
The easy part is this:
Connect a phone cable between the 2 modems.
On the modem you want to have originate the call, type:
ATX0 -- disables sensing for a dial tone
ATDT -- awaits carrier signal
On the modem that will answer, type the ususal:
ATA -- Sends the carrier
Or try (and this will tell you how long this info has been on my HD):
Modem originating the call:
28.8K Fax Modem: ATB15%P1&L1S0=0&W&W1 -- 14.4K Fax Modem: Replace B15 with B9
Modem answering the call:
28.8K Fax Modem: ATB15%P1&L1S0=1&W&W1 -- 14.4K Fax Modem: Replace B15 with B9
The difficult part might be getting the proper command to the built in modem.
If all fails, you could get a little box that simulates a phone line - the one I have is made by "MX Engineering" in Taiwan
A couple things:
1. You are nowhere near as smart as you think you are - look up "delusion" in the dictionary.
2. "PRIDE" is NOT the same as arrogance.
3. Blaming others for your own shortcomings is not the best way to deal with life's problems.
Ah, but this is Slashdot, and EVERYBODY on Slashdot KNOWS that Apache is better. ;-)
You are, of course, joking right. I have been in Japan for ten years and I have yet to be told that I can't go somewhere because I am a "foreign devil" - not counting the a couple places in the "soap land" - red light district - area, where I wandered by mistake. (And even there they politely told me that I probably didn't want to go in, as I could get sex for free somewhere else, as I was a "handsome foreigner" - true on the free sex; sadly, not quite true on the handsome part. Hell, I have even gotten into places that the locals can't get in. In many of the "Onsens" - hot springs - they have signs banning people with tattoos - this is aimed mostly at keeping away the members of the Japanese organized crime, Yakuza. Much to the shock of my Japanese friends, I was only asked ONCE to cover my tattoo. Not asked to leave, not denied entry, not attacked with a cleaver, not ... you get the drift.
I often go to areas frequented by the US military personnel, and while at first people look at me "funny" they soon warm up to me and treat me REALLY WELL. Being 180cm /100Kg, into sports, and having short hair, I am easily confused to one of the "drunken Marines" who seem to do their best to make a bad impression on the locals. In my "hometown" - Hiroshima - I am treated no different from any of the locals. (Actually that's not quite true, the local cops do treat me a bit differently after I trashed a group of the local bad boys - "bosozoku," young men on NOISY bikes. The cops often come to my office to tell me that my car is illegally parked, and that I will get a fine "next time" and, by the way, they have heard that I am on the "bosozoku" black list and I should be careful, and that they hope the "bosozoku" will not attack me because I could get in trouble if I end up putting any of them in the hospital again. But I digress ... :)
I am NOT in any way saying the Japan is the perfect country, ask my Japanese friends and they'll tell you that they are tired of my complains, but it is by and large a much better place than the US, or even Canada - with the possible exception of Vancouver. And yes, I have lived, as opposed to "travlled to", in MANY other countries around the world.
Absolutely. But, how is this different from any other place where you are obviously different from the locals Eyour words, "blonde/redhead/italian/etc" I have been living in Japan for ten years and I love it. Is it different from, let's say, the US? You bet. But, that's what makes living here a GREAT experience.
As far as dating in the "gaijin ghetto"goes, I guess to each his, or her, own. I find that, in MY experience most of the Japanese who hang around the gaijin "infestedEareas are either looking for "cheap sex" or cheap English lessons. I don't care to offer either.
As far as the language goes, it's no more difficult than any other language that is TOTALLY different from one's mother tongue. I haven't had as much trouble with Japanese as I have had with some of the European languages - I still make more mistakes that I care to admit when I have to choose a "der" a "die" or a "das" than I have in choosing a "wa" and a "ga"
My 2 yen.
PS: If you're in it for the money, Tokyo, or even Osaka, is where you want to go. If you want to ENJOY life in this country get out in to the "boonies".
traditional Japanase borrowed Chinese ideograms but only used the ideogram for the verbalization or sound that went along with it. The actual meanings were not borrowed from the Chinese.
... not quite. One of the things that makes Japanese so hard to learn - written Japanese, that is - is the fact that the "Kanji" can be read in several ways. At least one of the ways for many of the characters is the same, or VERY similar to Chinese. Add the ÐçÈ (Hiragana)@and fJf^fJfi(Katakana) sets, and you can understand why Japanese is a bitch to learn. :-(
Almost, but
A smart manager might ask, Why was this software installed and why was it so popular?
A smart manager would have made sure that the work environment is such as not to make it necessary for the employees to install gunauthorized softwareh in the first place.
No offence, but speaking "more languages" means nothing. :-(
I am fluent in five, and can "survive" in a few more - all of them "European". Does that make it easier for me to communicate? Not when everyone around me speaks Japanese.
On the other hand, I have a student whose English is quite poor, but who "interprets" for people whose English is quite a lot better. Why? He can "communicate"!!
My 2 \
Here in Japan most VCR come with a "CM skip" function.
It must be non standard, as most of the times it doesn't work between brands, but is 99.9% relieble on the machine the program was recorded on. (I have actually never seen a failure on my machine, but 100% is not likely...)