>Most Japanese cell phones have a Yahoo! button on them (not a google button)
Actually, that's just Softbank cell phones, and although Softbank has been getting the most new users every month for over a year now, it is hardly the largest carrier, and thus there is no way 'most Japanese cell phones...' can be a proper statement.
And only reason Yahoo! can be found on Softbank phones is the CEO of Softbank originally started out running Yahoo's operations in Japan. au uses Google for their searches while DoCoMo uses Goo, NTT Communications own search engine.
>This would be a benefit to people who already have one Apple machine, but want another but don't want to pay premium price. They already have the OS disks.
Using the same disk to install on multiple computers is piracy is it not (unless we're talking about a family license which doesn't come pre-packaged with any Macs).
Sure if one's willing to resort to stealing, anything is possible. I've always wanted a yacht, I think I may have found the way.
You joke, but that's one of the reasons I bought a Mac when I went to college. Until then I used to build my own PC's and spend all of my waking hours fixing their little hiccups in my Mom's basement. Now I work in a law office in a major world market. Even if everything that could have gone well did go well with messing around with computers did go well, I still am in a better financial position than I could have been.
This is hardly some official event where China has a veto vote, so I see no real need to appease the Chinese warlords on this issue and avoid calling Taiwan Taiwan. Unless of course the team wants to take the stance of Taiwan is part of China, in which case they should just count it as part of China and make no distinction.
This trying to make both sides happy stuff is just silly because the 'right answer' is neither China, or Taiwan, but will never be 'Chinese Taipei'.
I have an older PowerBook and had to get he hard-disk replaced out of warrantee after I dropped my PowerBook off the table.
When I turned it in at the Apple store for service they gave me the standard warning that my data may be lost (may be? the drive is being replaced). I said I just wanted the drive, and that I would get the data off it myself which they promptly refused. I asked why, since I paid for the drive when I bought the computer, it's mine, not theirs. He said that's the way we do things, and I told him that's the way a criminal does things and started to pack up my stuff to go somewhere else for service. Wait, he says, I'll see if we can lend you the drive after service is done, but I won't know until you come back to get it. Fine.
I go back to get my computer with a new drive in it when they tell me it's done, and immediately asked about the drive. They had it ready for me in a nice box and everything. They never said anything about me having to give it back, and I've never received a call for it back over a year later today.
I still haven't dissected the drive to try and get the data off, but I was glad in principle that I got the drive back.
I also like how these people below are so quick to assume that you're a NOVA teacher, when at the same time getting pissed about the finger print thing.
I personally wont be leaving this country until I have no intension of ever coming back, I think the fingerprinting of residents should be just as illegal as fingerprinting a traditional Japanese national.
Do they do it to green card holders in the states too or just tourists?
ust try playing a XviD movie on a stock PC with Windows Media Player. Oh, yeah, I remember, Windows tells me it needs to find the codec, then it fails to do so. And this is easier for a novice user because....?
No novice user is going to every try and play an XviD video because they will never come across it during their daily 'novice users' usage, meaning web and email. So that's really not a good comparison.
Windows plays DVD's out of the box. No linux distro does. Windows doesn't do it for free, but the end user doesn't think about that. That's what makes Windows Consumer/Mainstream, and linux not.
From reading the comment, it's very obvious that the parent was referring to the US government as the clowns.
We indeed do have more nukes than anyone else, but does it really matter? After a certain point it becomes overkill and anything beyond that is just a deterent. It only takes 1 to take out an entire city and while 200 is a comparatively small number, it's more than enough to destroy the entire world.
You do realize that only 11% of Japanese land is arable don't you? There are a lot of mountains in Japan. Perhaps it would not be possible to achieve such great millage driving through the Rockies in the US or the Minami-Alps in Japan, but the Rockies are only a small portion of the US, and everything between the Rockies and Appalachian is essentially flat.
Heck, all the land speed records are set in America for a reason, completely flat and no resistance.
I watch live TV through the internet, legally. Of course since my ISP is providing my TVoIP service, they certainly aren't going to be limiting it. However with the potential of further XXoIP services, 5GB a month could be a big problem.
However the same could be said about Firefox. All these people could be downloading Firefox just incase they need it someday, but actually using IE the whole time. (Or in my case I have Firefox just incase I need it, but I prefer to use Safari a majority of the time.)
As you say, site statistics are definitely the way to go for determining usage, download stats only tell of downloads.
Dude, forget the whole bittorrent part, I'd donate just so I can get citizenship. That'd be a sweet novelty item, a Sealand Passport! Just as long as they don't have laws against dual citizenship that is;)
What about VectorWorks? No need for fancy emulation software when it runs native;) However I don't know how great it's mechanical face is, I only use it for Architecture.
> But yeah, it sucks what the indexer starts at really bad times. Like if you plug in a Firewire drive.
It used to do that all the time for me too for my USB drive, but when I reformatted it with Mac OS X Journaling file system, the problems went away (just indexed once, and then updated as necessary.) It seems as though the indexing system doesn't really work to well with FAT32 file systems, so if you only use your drive on your Mac, you might benefit from reformatting it to a Mac file system.
However if you already do have a Mac file system on the drive, and it still indexes all the time, then I'm sorry but I don't have any more suggestions.:/
Spoken like a true Korean? Just as long as they won't be attacking me, I don't care what they do. Jee, I sure hope the US and Japan don't do anything about North Korea starving it's citizens, putting them in concentration camps, hijacking planes and killing all on board, abducting citizens and using them to train spies to.. hijack more planes. No, I certainly hope neither the US or Japan do anything to stop one of the worst human beings in the history of time, because as of right now I'm not suffering, regardless of how many others are.
So actually, you're the one that cares about no one but yourself, cares not about what is right and what is wrong, but what is best for you and you alone. I hope you're the next person abducted and taken to the 'workers paradise'. Perhaps you'll find yourself in a concentration camp soon enough.
I'm currently a dirty rotten hippy mac user, but I did a live boot off of a CD of Ubuntu not long ago, and it seemed interesting enough. Now I see this new one from Novell, and personally I think it looks even better. So my question, what's the difference between the Enterprise version that costs $50 and the regular freely downloadable version? I'm thinking I'll get a cheap PC and play with stuff on it.
Now this means Microsoft has to come up with something else similar to PDF to fulfill it's needs. End result, the release of Vista will mean the end of PDF. Well, it probably wont happen that smoothly, but it is in Adobe's best interests to have as much of the market share as possible. With MS's huge market share, having MS on your side means you have 85% of the market by default, not having MS on your side means you're limited to no more then 85% of the market. I'm sure Adobe is counting on people making a DL from them for just a reader, but whenever I used windows I intentionally avoided PDF's because the Adobe reader is a huge bloated piece of crap. It would be great for everyone if PDF was integrated into the system like it is on Macs.
Well I agree that gas in America is half to 1/3 the price of gas of gas in Europe/Japan, I don't think just raising the price of gas would fix the problem. The reason gas prices are kept low is the same reason American internet it sucks when compared to Europe/S. Korea/Japan.. Everything is so spread out. Each state is essentially a country if it were Europe, but with much much less population. I grew up in Wisconsin, Madison until High School. To go from one side of the town to the other by car was a 15min ordeal, however by bus, we're talking 2 hours. Things aren't organized or planed at all in America, they just do it. As a result, you have to go all over the place to get simple daily things done. Where as here in Japan, just walk down the street and you've got everything you need. The bus doesn't just go from one side of town to the other, it goes through every little nook and cranny along the way. I would like to see lots of changes in America, however most just are not possible until the American population multiples by at least 100 times. And considering how few Americans there are now compared to how much every in the world seems to hate all of them/us, think how much everyone would hate America if there where 100 times more of them/us.
So if China is doing so well that they can start a space exploration program, I guess they wont be need 50billion dollars a year form Japan in aid money any more then will they? Oh wait, no, see, that money they're supposed to use to feed their people is what's feeding their space program. Japan threatened to pull the aid, and the people ran to the streets destroying anything Japanese they can find. Somehow I think the people that are actually paying for China's space program will soon be pulling the plug, and China will collapse on-top of itself when the fact that it's been spending other people's money for the last 60 years catches up with them.
you can get FujiTV on satalite in the USA.. But, last time I checked, all of the real good mini-series are on TV-Tokyo.. but maybe you can get that too. I don't have cable in Japan, and am not really one for anime, so I couldn't tell you waht channel you want.. but if i go back to the states, i want to get fuji tv for sure.. i like their variety shows..
creationism is also just a theory, not a fact. not saying it isn't true eitherway, but it's impossible to prove wrong, or correct. so it will remain a theory forever...
Yet, I can't send some perfume to my girlfriend in Japan for christmas because after 9-11 you can't send liquids via the post office anymore on planes.. i have to send it on a boat.. meaning it will take over 1 month!! grr.....
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>Most Japanese cell phones have a Yahoo! button on them (not a google button)
Actually, that's just Softbank cell phones, and although Softbank has been getting the most new users every month for over a year now, it is hardly the largest carrier, and thus there is no way 'most Japanese cell phones...' can be a proper statement.
And only reason Yahoo! can be found on Softbank phones is the CEO of Softbank originally started out running Yahoo's operations in Japan. au uses Google for their searches while DoCoMo uses Goo, NTT Communications own search engine.
>This would be a benefit to people who already have one Apple machine, but want another but don't want to pay premium price. They already have the OS disks.
Using the same disk to install on multiple computers is piracy is it not (unless we're talking about a family license which doesn't come pre-packaged with any Macs).
Sure if one's willing to resort to stealing, anything is possible. I've always wanted a yacht, I think I may have found the way.
Please God, I pray to thee, don't let some idiot make this in to yet another iPod Bible App.
You joke, but that's one of the reasons I bought a Mac when I went to college. Until then I used to build my own PC's and spend all of my waking hours fixing their little hiccups in my Mom's basement.
Now I work in a law office in a major world market. Even if everything that could have gone well did go well with messing around with computers did go well, I still am in a better financial position than I could have been.
Wow, they changed that real fast. Glad I got a screenshot of it otherwise I'd look like I was just making stuff up.
:)
Now I can go back to using Firefox
http://zooomr.com/photos/darin/4957470/
This is hardly some official event where China has a veto vote, so I see no real need to appease the Chinese warlords on this issue and avoid calling Taiwan Taiwan. Unless of course the team wants to take the stance of Taiwan is part of China, in which case they should just count it as part of China and make no distinction.
This trying to make both sides happy stuff is just silly because the 'right answer' is neither China, or Taiwan, but will never be 'Chinese Taipei'.
I have an older PowerBook and had to get he hard-disk replaced out of warrantee after I dropped my PowerBook off the table.
When I turned it in at the Apple store for service they gave me the standard warning that my data may be lost (may be? the drive is being replaced). I said I just wanted the drive, and that I would get the data off it myself which they promptly refused. I asked why, since I paid for the drive when I bought the computer, it's mine, not theirs. He said that's the way we do things, and I told him that's the way a criminal does things and started to pack up my stuff to go somewhere else for service. Wait, he says, I'll see if we can lend you the drive after service is done, but I won't know until you come back to get it. Fine.
I go back to get my computer with a new drive in it when they tell me it's done, and immediately asked about the drive. They had it ready for me in a nice box and everything. They never said anything about me having to give it back, and I've never received a call for it back over a year later today.
I still haven't dissected the drive to try and get the data off, but I was glad in principle that I got the drive back.
Oh man I love it Ken, right now.
I also like how these people below are so quick to assume that you're a NOVA teacher, when at the same time getting pissed about the finger print thing.
I personally wont be leaving this country until I have no intension of ever coming back, I think the fingerprinting of residents should be just as illegal as fingerprinting a traditional Japanese national.
Do they do it to green card holders in the states too or just tourists?
No novice user is going to every try and play an XviD video because they will never come across it during their daily 'novice users' usage, meaning web and email. So that's really not a good comparison.
Windows plays DVD's out of the box. No linux distro does. Windows doesn't do it for free, but the end user doesn't think about that. That's what makes Windows Consumer/Mainstream, and linux not.
From reading the comment, it's very obvious that the parent was referring to the US government as the clowns.
We indeed do have more nukes than anyone else, but does it really matter? After a certain point it becomes overkill and anything beyond that is just a deterent. It only takes 1 to take out an entire city and while 200 is a comparatively small number, it's more than enough to destroy the entire world.
You do realize that only 11% of Japanese land is arable don't you? There are a lot of mountains in Japan. Perhaps it would not be possible to achieve such great millage driving through the Rockies in the US or the Minami-Alps in Japan, but the Rockies are only a small portion of the US, and everything between the Rockies and Appalachian is essentially flat.
Heck, all the land speed records are set in America for a reason, completely flat and no resistance.
I watch live TV through the internet, legally. Of course since my ISP is providing my TVoIP service, they certainly aren't going to be limiting it. However with the potential of further XXoIP services, 5GB a month could be a big problem.
I think you're confusing Liberal Arts with Art.
Take a look at the undergraduate majors:
http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/143.asp
Accounting, Air & Space Studies being the first two on the list...
However the same could be said about Firefox. All these people could be downloading Firefox just incase they need it someday, but actually using IE the whole time. (Or in my case I have Firefox just incase I need it, but I prefer to use Safari a majority of the time.)
As you say, site statistics are definitely the way to go for determining usage, download stats only tell of downloads.
Dude, forget the whole bittorrent part, I'd donate just so I can get citizenship. That'd be a sweet novelty item, a Sealand Passport! Just as long as they don't have laws against dual citizenship that is ;)
What about VectorWorks? No need for fancy emulation software when it runs native ;) However I don't know how great it's mechanical face is, I only use it for Architecture.
> But yeah, it sucks what the indexer starts at really bad times. Like if you plug in a Firewire drive.
:/
It used to do that all the time for me too for my USB drive, but when I reformatted it with Mac OS X Journaling file system, the problems went away (just indexed once, and then updated as necessary.) It seems as though the indexing system doesn't really work to well with FAT32 file systems, so if you only use your drive on your Mac, you might benefit from reformatting it to a Mac file system.
However if you already do have a Mac file system on the drive, and it still indexes all the time, then I'm sorry but I don't have any more suggestions.
Spoken like a true Korean? Just as long as they won't be attacking me, I don't care what they do. Jee, I sure hope the US and Japan don't do anything about North Korea starving it's citizens, putting them in concentration camps, hijacking planes and killing all on board, abducting citizens and using them to train spies to.. hijack more planes. No, I certainly hope neither the US or Japan do anything to stop one of the worst human beings in the history of time, because as of right now I'm not suffering, regardless of how many others are.
So actually, you're the one that cares about no one but yourself, cares not about what is right and what is wrong, but what is best for you and you alone. I hope you're the next person abducted and taken to the 'workers paradise'. Perhaps you'll find yourself in a concentration camp soon enough.
I'm currently a dirty rotten hippy mac user, but I did a live boot off of a CD of Ubuntu not long ago, and it seemed interesting enough. Now I see this new one from Novell, and personally I think it looks even better. So my question, what's the difference between the Enterprise version that costs $50 and the regular freely downloadable version? I'm thinking I'll get a cheap PC and play with stuff on it.
Or would I be best to just use Ubuntu?
Now this means Microsoft has to come up with something else similar to PDF to fulfill it's needs. End result, the release of Vista will mean the end of PDF. Well, it probably wont happen that smoothly, but it is in Adobe's best interests to have as much of the market share as possible. With MS's huge market share, having MS on your side means you have 85% of the market by default, not having MS on your side means you're limited to no more then 85% of the market.
I'm sure Adobe is counting on people making a DL from them for just a reader, but whenever I used windows I intentionally avoided PDF's because the Adobe reader is a huge bloated piece of crap. It would be great for everyone if PDF was integrated into the system like it is on Macs.
Well I agree that gas in America is half to 1/3 the price of gas of gas in Europe/Japan, I don't think just raising the price of gas would fix the problem.
The reason gas prices are kept low is the same reason American internet it sucks when compared to Europe/S. Korea/Japan.. Everything is so spread out. Each state is essentially a country if it were Europe, but with much much less population. I grew up in Wisconsin, Madison until High School. To go from one side of the town to the other by car was a 15min ordeal, however by bus, we're talking 2 hours. Things aren't organized or planed at all in America, they just do it. As a result, you have to go all over the place to get simple daily things done. Where as here in Japan, just walk down the street and you've got everything you need. The bus doesn't just go from one side of town to the other, it goes through every little nook and cranny along the way.
I would like to see lots of changes in America, however most just are not possible until the American population multiples by at least 100 times. And considering how few Americans there are now compared to how much every in the world seems to hate all of them/us, think how much everyone would hate America if there where 100 times more of them/us.
So if China is doing so well that they can start a space exploration program, I guess they wont be need 50billion dollars a year form Japan in aid money any more then will they?
Oh wait, no, see, that money they're supposed to use to feed their people is what's feeding their space program. Japan threatened to pull the aid, and the people ran to the streets destroying anything Japanese they can find.
Somehow I think the people that are actually paying for China's space program will soon be pulling the plug, and China will collapse on-top of itself when the fact that it's been spending other people's money for the last 60 years catches up with them.
you can get FujiTV on satalite in the USA.. But, last time I checked, all of the real good mini-series are on TV-Tokyo.. but maybe you can get that too. I don't have cable in Japan, and am not really one for anime, so I couldn't tell you waht channel you want.. but if i go back to the states, i want to get fuji tv for sure.. i like their variety shows..
creationism is also just a theory, not a fact. not saying it isn't true eitherway, but it's impossible to prove wrong, or correct. so it will remain a theory forever...
Yet, I can't send some perfume to my girlfriend in Japan for christmas because after 9-11 you can't send liquids via the post office anymore on planes.. i have to send it on a boat.. meaning it will take over 1 month!!
grr.....