Well yeah, but I stand out enough as a gaijin tourist weighed down by cameras- if I use a tripod too I'm going to SERIOUSLY stand out, and get in people's way too...
Thanks though, it is a good idea, but I had already dismissed it.
Hehe, I am a contradiction, actually. I am sort of racist in that I think Japan should be kept for Japanese, and I think Westernization is destroying their culture, and yet I am from England and I love to go there.
It means I walk round being a gaijin tourist with cameras and yet I see other gaijin tourists like me, and I think "Get the fuck out of my country!".
Yes, I know it's fucked up and weird but I can't help feeling like that. I try not to.
Anyway... I am a big fan of skyscrapers so I did in fact go to Roppongi Hills. Unfortunately the skyscraper (one of the 14 tallest in Japan, and one of the 200 tallest in the world) was not open yet. (It only opened on the 25th April, which was after I left).
Anyway, my fave places in Japan are probably not "the crowd's" fave places. I like skyscrapers, neon lights and gift shops, not clubs and bars and stuff like that.
Last time I went to Japan I "did" the 14 tallest skyscrapers in Japan, which required going to Osaka and Nagoya aswell as Tokyo and Yokohama.
They keep making digital cameras and camcorders smaller, but there's one thing you need big: the lens. God damn it, I need to take pictures of the neon lights in Shinjuku without using a flash.
Last time I used a miniature camera there it only had a small lens, so I had to use the flash to take pix at 1/30s. Camera -> Flash -> into oncoming traffic -> Swerve -> BIG PILE UP.
"In other words, there are NO EXPLOSIVES, just scientific instruments."
And the NASA infidels are nowhere near the moon! They claim they have the moon surrounded but in reality the moon surrounds them! They are commiting suicide in the hundreds along with their shovels.
I just read every post in this article. God, I must be bored.
On the plus side it was interesting to see the manhole problem being addressed in the same ways again and again, and the SEP field on the Mt. Fuji joke come up again and again.
It was very similar to experiencing the history of the world. The same things came up again and again after a period of time had passed. Sometimes they were the same, sometimes subtly different.
In between the same things recurring again and again were the gems that were never repeated.
How many really cool ideas in our history are forgotten?
After reading all these posts, and contributing with this insanely stupid one (at 5am ish local time) I realize I should really think about getting a job.
Looks more like a deliberately obfuscated cover they intend to use for the first issue after the press are allowed to spill the beans, and it's a drawn cover, not an in-game screenshot, and it sucks.
Wow! Having a Teenage Witch as your representative rocks! She can just use a spell to make the Super DMCA disappear!
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Re:Advertisements as ARTICLES?
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T-Shirt Cannon
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· Score: 2, Insightful
You may think that this slashdot story is just a blatant ad for the way overpriced product, blah blah, company rubs its hands together with glee, BUT the reality is that because it's so overpriced there are already lots of posts linking to instructions telling you how to build the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
End result, bad for the company.
graspee
Oral History
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· Score: 5, Interesting
The emails from pilots were very interesting, I thought; It made me remember all the "oral history" stuff with WW1 and WW2 veterans speaking of their experiences, and I realized how important it was for future generations that we almost constantly interview people about stuff and write it all down before their memories go.
Or this too anal an attitude on my part? It's like I write a diary entry every day but I hardly ever re-read old diary entries.
" I don't know if there is anybody living in the UK reading this, but I believe there to be a quirk in television license rules. Specifically, devices that are not powered by mains (e.g. by battery, even if they are charged from mains -- so long as you don't watch and charge at the same time, I guess) are exempt from the requirement of a television license."
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"You could also also call it linux with a lizard , they will understand."
I have always called it "lizardy linux".
But then I can be sickeningly cute.
graspee
Well yeah, but I stand out enough as a gaijin tourist weighed down by cameras- if I use a tripod too I'm going to SERIOUSLY stand out, and get in people's way too...
Thanks though, it is a good idea, but I had already dismissed it.
graspee
Hehe, I am a contradiction, actually. I am sort of racist in that I think Japan should be kept for Japanese, and I think Westernization is destroying their culture, and yet I am from England and I love to go there.
It means I walk round being a gaijin tourist with cameras and yet I see other gaijin tourists like me, and I think "Get the fuck out of my country!".
Yes, I know it's fucked up and weird but I can't help feeling like that. I try not to.
Anyway...
I am a big fan of skyscrapers so I did in fact go to Roppongi Hills. Unfortunately the skyscraper (one of the 14 tallest in Japan, and one of the 200 tallest in the world) was not open yet. (It only opened on the 25th April, which was after I left).
Anyway, my fave places in Japan are probably not "the crowd's" fave places. I like skyscrapers, neon lights and gift shops, not clubs and bars and stuff like that.
Last time I went to Japan I "did" the 14 tallest skyscrapers in Japan, which required going to Osaka and Nagoya aswell as Tokyo and Yokohama.
graspee
I saw them on sale in Japan a year ago.
graspee
They keep making digital cameras and camcorders smaller, but there's one thing you need big: the lens. God damn it, I need to take pictures of the neon lights in Shinjuku without using a flash.
Last time I used a miniature camera there it only had a small lens, so I had to use the flash to take pix at 1/30s. Camera -> Flash -> into oncoming traffic -> Swerve -> BIG PILE UP.
I'm not doing that again, so give me BIG LENSES!
graspee
" Does this mean that my ROT 13 phone is not the security answer I was looking for?"
Yes. "Move along".
(See also "Look Sir, encryption!").
graspee
"2) 99% of teens' love the internet for 2 reasons, the first being free music, and the second being instant messaging"
You forgot counterstrike, pr0n and battlefield 1942.
graspee
What's with the Logan's Run attitude?
graspee
What he's doing is against ebay regulations anyway since ebay doesn't let you sell anything on CDR, even if you created it yourself.
graspee
"They're NOT GOING TO BOMB THE MOON!"
"In other words, there are NO EXPLOSIVES, just scientific instruments."
And the NASA infidels are nowhere near the moon! They claim they have the moon surrounded but in reality the moon surrounds them! They are commiting suicide in the hundreds along with their shovels.
graspee
What is this "h*ll" ?
Is it where all the naughty puntuation marks go when they die?
graspee
I just read every post in this article. God, I must be bored.
On the plus side it was interesting to see the manhole problem being addressed in the same ways again and again, and the SEP field on the Mt. Fuji joke come up again and again.
It was very similar to experiencing the history of the world. The same things came up again and again after a period of time had passed. Sometimes they were the same, sometimes subtly different.
In between the same things recurring again and again were the gems that were never repeated.
How many really cool ideas in our history are forgotten?
After reading all these posts, and contributing with this insanely stupid one (at 5am ish local time) I realize I should really think about getting a job.
graspee
Looks more like a deliberately obfuscated cover they intend to use for the first issue after the press are allowed to spill the beans, and it's a drawn cover, not an in-game screenshot, and it sucks.
graspee
" You know, it might be useful to start a database of instructions to install software WITHOUT agreeing to the EULA."
Cool idea. Let's implement it in FoxPro.
graspee
"Melissa Hart
Member of Congress"
Wow! Having a Teenage Witch as your representative rocks! She can just use a spell to make the Super DMCA disappear!
graspee
You may think that this slashdot story is just a blatant ad for the way overpriced product, blah blah, company rubs its hands together with glee, BUT the reality is that because it's so overpriced there are already lots of posts linking to instructions telling you how to build the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
End result, bad for the company.
graspee
The emails from pilots were very interesting, I thought; It made me remember all the "oral history" stuff with WW1 and WW2 veterans speaking of their experiences, and I realized how important it was for future generations that we almost constantly interview people about stuff and write it all down before their memories go.
Or this too anal an attitude on my part? It's like I write a diary entry every day but I hardly ever re-read old diary entries.
graspee
In the UK parents can actually be sent to prison if their child does not attend school...
graspee
luke: I can feel the conflict within you, father! ID cards are good- Let go of your hatred!
vader: I have decided java is bad. There is no conflict.
graspee
" I don't know if there is anybody living in the UK reading this, but I believe there to be a quirk in television license rules. Specifically, devices that are not powered by mains (e.g. by battery, even if they are charged from mains -- so long as you don't watch and charge at the same time, I guess) are exempt from the requirement of a television license."
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Unfortunately not true. From
the tv licensing website
(This is in the 'Do I need a licence?' -> 'students' section)
"Your parents' licence will not cover you away from home. (Televisions powered solely by their own internal batteries being the only exception.)"
graspee
" Sad it is, that you have nothing better to do than prete nd to be someone who doesn't exist."
And even sadder that you have nothing better to do than check up on him.
graspee
"Also putting something in bold does not make it true."
Oh, but if only it did!
Windows' market share down to 5%
Bill Gates sees ray of pink light and thereafter decides to open-source Windows.
Doom 2000, Deus Ex 2 and Duke Nukem Forever to be released next week.
High spec computers to be made free for anyone who can pass a programming test.
Oh well.
graspee
"Mass-suicide. But in a peaceful way."
If this happens please be sure to have the Iraqi Information Minister comment on it- for once he could be right!
graspee
My username is my real name. I wonder how bored you had to be to insult me.
graspee
The mandatory "I thought this was a dupe but then I remembered I travelled back from next week" post.
You know, I thought at first that this story was a dupe, but then I remembered that I travelled back in time from next week...
graspee