It's a reasonable enough concern, most of japan is made for people who are 5'8" or less.. I've whacked my head on so many doors/ceilings it's not funny.
Thumb imput devices like this are no different to the way many westerners (Australia + Europe anyway) write text messages with mobile phones.. it's a bit of a pain, but once you get to know how many times to press a number to make a specific letter, it's not too bad.
The Japanese people really need to be respected for their approach to english. They may not know it very well, but they'll give it their best shot:)
Most Japanese people don't speak english, but studied it for years in school, so they know some words of it, and many japanese nouns for newer things, especially electronic goods are basically english, but with creative pronounciation (sylabically, close to kana syllables).
With creative pronounciation and speech, and a bit of sign language, it's quite possible to get by there as a tourist without speaking Japanese. McDonalds (Macodonarudos) in Japan caters for the foreign devils by printing menus in english, but to order say a Tufo Burger + Fries + Orange Juice, it's "tofu setu oreji juso".
Yes, but katakana is the equivalent of writing japanese words using the english alphabet.. katakana is used to write foreign words.. you'll probably find japanese already had words for those colours when the bastard admiral perry came along and introduced them to the west. (summary of the 1800s in japanese war memorial)
All I can think of is it's to make it look more exotic, or because japanese people don't like the colour white, and maybe don't even like writing the hiragana or kanji for it:)
$50 - $60 is crap pay for *nix consulting work. Factoring in the fact that you're the only person who knows where the data is and how to get it off, it's even worse. This would not be a time for charity.
I would have asked for at least $200 per hour, with a minimum of 3 hours, plus however long it takes to clean out my own data to CD-R.
My university (which I don't represent here, include stddisclaimer.h etc) has a Class B, but we actually use almost all of it..
because Australia pays so much for internet traffic, everything must be accountable for, so each student who wants internet access has a dialup with a static ip, and each desktop machine has a world routable static ip from the class B (which is in turn routed internally into class A and CIDR blocks)
And Apple uses it's 17.0.0.0/8.. it has hundreds of offices around the world thousands and thousands of machines.. CIDR is all well and nice, but if you don't know how big a given location is going to be, just assigning an appropriate number of Class C blocks to it from your class A makes things less painful.
Yes, but when you're dealing with someone who doesn't have a fricken cloo, it's helpful for getting them to understand:)
And yes, after I posted that, I remember I had got some HP printers to do funny stuff with nmap.. but it wasn't a DoS, just they started making noises for a minute or so
It's a security analysis tool. There's a difference. nmap, in and of itself, can't "hack" or even crash machines.
It doesn't send any data down the ports it connects to. It's analogous to looking at all the windows on a house. You may be doing it because you want to break into it, or you may be doing it because you're interested in architecture.. but what if you're blind? You could get someone to tell you about what's there.. but if there isn't someone who can tell you this, you would have to walk around the outside of the building and touch the windows to see where they are. Is this breaking into the building? No.
And this, mes amis, is what nmap does.
-- Someone who almost once got into a lot of trouble for using nmap for analysis of a hacked machine:P
"Riiiight.. so I hacked it and then told you about it?"
It must be all these Java "programmers" that University CS departments world wide keep churning out that couldn't write a well performing program if their life depended on it?
*looks at Limewire*
*looks at administration applets written by Sun which don't work over X11*
Video libraries are legally obliged to buy special rental-rights versions of videos an I assume DVDs, which are about 3 x the retail cost of the item. If there were low takens, all that would be needed is to increase the price of these disks.
When technology and business meet in a situation which favors the business, you can be assured consumers/the little guy will get screwed:)
You forgot the obligatory "Good luck bidding" / "God bless america" / Innapropriately placed American flags (why have you chosen to hang an american flag behind this Cisco GSR12k you're trying to flog?) / "Only bidders with positive feedback accepted" / "Member of eBay power sellers" / etc.
Yes, well mandatory sentancing was introduced by politicians to try to get around the situation we're currently in, but much hell was raised and I think it's been scrapped.
Meanwhile, our friends in the US still send people to jail for 25-to-life for three "felonies", which heck, probably includes DMCA violations. Cool eh?:)
I think the percentage of people in jail in Australia is like 0.3%.. in the US it's about 1%. Where now is the penal colony?:) and if we're talking about capital punishment, we stopped doing that in the late 1960s.
To get a-booting, set your BIOS to boot A,CDROM,C and put your favourite linux distro in the CD drive or debian rescue floppy into A drive;p
Right, but what made people settle in what became the US in the first place? Who was on the Mayflower? Puritans annoyed at the immorality of England in their day, if I recall. And yes, the founding fathers[tm] weren't puritans:)
Likewise by the time Australia got around to democracy (~1830) prisoners weren't being transported here:)
Surprisingly few australians can trace their heritage back to original convicts. I know the closest I got was some Irish relatives who came here in 1830.
Living in a country founded by criminals is a lot more fun that one founded by puritans;)
Yeah, but remember in Australia we do specialise in making laws and then not enforcing them;)
Look at the internet censorship one.. or our "dmca".. or traffic, drug, petty theft laws.. hell, you pretty much need to kill someone here to do more than 3 months jail time:)
There are AMD chips in things from Apple dating back to at least 1994.. I have a Laserwriter 16/600 with an AMD CPU in it.. I also have a 1994 BusLogic PCI SCSI card with an AMB brand 80186 on it:)
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I'm not sure which I'd choose between given "Living in Utah" or "Using Optus". I think I'd choose Utah, but it's a close call ;)
To quote no less than Alanis Morissette:
We watch movies of murder, and we censor the breast
It's a reasonable enough concern, most of japan is made for people who are 5'8" or less.. I've whacked my head on so many doors/ceilings it's not funny.
Thumb imput devices like this are no different to the way many westerners (Australia + Europe anyway) write text messages with mobile phones.. it's a bit of a pain, but once you get to know how many times to press a number to make a specific letter, it's not too bad.
The Japanese people really need to be respected for their approach to english. They may not know it very well, but they'll give it their best shot :)
:)
Most Japanese people don't speak english, but studied it for years in school, so they know some words of it, and many japanese nouns for newer things, especially electronic goods are basically english, but with creative pronounciation (sylabically, close to kana syllables).
With creative pronounciation and speech, and a bit of sign language, it's quite possible to get by there as a tourist without speaking Japanese. McDonalds (Macodonarudos) in Japan caters for the foreign devils by printing menus in english, but to order say a Tufo Burger + Fries + Orange Juice, it's "tofu setu oreji juso".
(And Tofu Burgers are actually pretty nice
Yes, but katakana is the equivalent of writing japanese words using the english alphabet.. katakana is used to write foreign words.. you'll probably find japanese already had words for those colours when the bastard admiral perry came along and introduced them to the west. (summary of the 1800s in japanese war memorial)
:)
All I can think of is it's to make it look more exotic, or because japanese people don't like the colour white, and maybe don't even like writing the hiragana or kanji for it
$50 - $60 is crap pay for *nix consulting work. Factoring in the fact that you're the only person who knows where the data is and how to get it off, it's even worse. This would not be a time for charity.
I would have asked for at least $200 per hour, with a minimum of 3 hours, plus however long it takes to clean out my own data to CD-R.
My university (which I don't represent here, include stddisclaimer.h etc) has a Class B, but we actually use almost all of it..
because Australia pays so much for internet traffic, everything must be accountable for, so each student who wants internet access has a dialup with a static ip, and each desktop machine has a world routable static ip from the class B (which is in turn routed internally into class A and CIDR blocks)
And Apple uses it's 17.0.0.0/8.. it has hundreds of offices around the world thousands and thousands of machines.. CIDR is all well and nice, but if you don't know how big a given location is going to be, just assigning an appropriate number of Class C blocks to it from your class A makes things less painful.
Eh, you know, same ole same ole ;)
Grab me on ICQ
I'm currently in Tokyo, and the addresses being handed out to machines are non routable.. all of it is routed with NAT at the cable company..
:P
The speeds are crap and there's lots of packet loss too
Yes, but when you're dealing with someone who doesn't have a fricken cloo, it's helpful for getting them to understand :)
And yes, after I posted that, I remember I had got some HP printers to do funny stuff with nmap.. but it wasn't a DoS, just they started making noises for a minute or so
It's a security analysis tool. There's a difference. nmap, in and of itself, can't "hack" or even crash machines.
:P
It doesn't send any data down the ports it connects to. It's analogous to looking at all the windows on a house. You may be doing it because you want to break into it, or you may be doing it because you're interested in architecture.. but what if you're blind? You could get someone to tell you about what's there.. but if there isn't someone who can tell you this, you would have to walk around the outside of the building and touch the windows to see where they are. Is this breaking into the building? No.
And this, mes amis, is what nmap does.
-- Someone who almost once got into a lot of trouble for using nmap for analysis of a hacked machine
"Riiiight.. so I hacked it and then told you about it?"
It must be all these Java "programmers" that University CS departments world wide keep churning out that couldn't write a well performing program if their life depended on it?
*looks at Limewire*
*looks at administration applets written by Sun which don't work over X11*
Yeah, or move out of dixie. Whatever ;)
Haha yeah :) So you hate the french government so much that you don't want its people to send you money?
Ok.. so then I guess you can understand why people say they hate america and all americans as opposed to america's government then?
Video libraries are legally obliged to buy special rental-rights versions of videos an I assume DVDs, which are about 3 x the retail cost of the item. If there were low takens, all that would be needed is to increase the price of these disks.
:)
When technology and business meet in a situation which favors the business, you can be assured consumers/the little guy will get screwed
You forgot the obligatory "Good luck bidding" / "God bless america" / Innapropriately placed American flags (why have you chosen to hang an american flag behind this Cisco GSR12k you're trying to flog?) / "Only bidders with positive feedback accepted" / "Member of eBay power sellers" / etc.
:)
eBay is teh suck
Painful to live in fear, isn't it?
Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch.
Wake up! Time to die!
Nope, see Death Penalty abolition Act, 1973 :)
Yes, well mandatory sentancing was introduced by politicians to try to get around the situation we're currently in, but much hell was raised and I think it's been scrapped.
:)
Meanwhile, our friends in the US still send people to jail for 25-to-life for three "felonies", which heck, probably includes DMCA violations. Cool eh?
I think the percentage of people in jail in Australia is like 0.3% .. in the US it's about 1%. Where now is the penal colony? :) and if we're talking about capital punishment, we stopped doing that in the late 1960s.
;p
To get a-booting, set your BIOS to boot A,CDROM,C and put your favourite linux distro in the CD drive or debian rescue floppy into A drive
Right, but what made people settle in what became the US in the first place? Who was on the Mayflower? Puritans annoyed at the immorality of England in their day, if I recall. And yes, the founding fathers[tm] weren't puritans :)
:)
Likewise by the time Australia got around to democracy (~1830) prisoners weren't being transported here
Surprisingly few australians can trace their heritage back to original convicts. I know the closest I got was some Irish relatives who came here in 1830.
;)
Living in a country founded by criminals is a lot more fun that one founded by puritans
.. if I thought that they're doing this, in part at least, to increase their revenue from CD-R levies? :)
Yeah, but remember in Australia we do specialise in making laws and then not enforcing them ;)
:)
Look at the internet censorship one.. or our "dmca".. or traffic, drug, petty theft laws.. hell, you pretty much need to kill someone here to do more than 3 months jail time
There are AMD chips in things from Apple dating back to at least 1994.. I have a Laserwriter 16/600 with an AMD CPU in it.. I also have a 1994 BusLogic PCI SCSI card with an AMB brand 80186 on it :)