Comparing the two, the U.S. theater version did not look too good. The colors were so washed out I felt like I was watching something along the lines of an old version of "Frosty the Snowman."
Granted, the less than state-of-the-art theater in Austin, TX had a disadvantage to the new theatre in Shinjuku, Tokyo, but still...
What happened to me was truly a PayPal horror story. I sell somewhat expensive electronic equipment and here's what happened...
1. Person buys new equipment from me (via ebay)
2. He sends payment via PayPal paid via credit card
3. After equipment arrives, buyer says it's broke (I ship ALOT of equipment and pack it extremely well to avoid such problems)
4. I say fine, send the machine back and we'll repair it or replace it.
5. Buyers says no, he needs the equipment and will look around to get it repaired.
6. Buyer sends email saying he had it repaired and wants me to send him $400 via PayPal
7. I respond saying fine, but let me know where you got it repaired (this problem could not be repaired at any shop near the buyer it just so happens)
8. Buyer sends email with name of shop.
9. I hunt down the shop and find out that it is a used camera shop which would not be able to do such a repair.
10. Buyer seems surprised, then says it was a friend who repaired the equipment.
11. Warning bells are going off, but at the same time, I don't want to make an enemy of a customer.
I say I'll consider sending him some other instead of $400.
12. Buyer says okay and we leave it at that.
13. A few weeks later, my wife has an emergency appendectomy and I am with her in the hospital for
about 48 hours.
14. After things calmed down and back to business, I check my email and get a message from PayPal saying they need details on the previous transaction within 72 hours or will charge the amount back to my account.
15. By the time I receive the email, the 72 hours are already up. All of this happened when my wife was in the hospital.
16. In a few days, PayPal deducts $1800 from my account so that I am running a negative balance.
17. Angry, I send PayPal emails but get no response.
18. I call numerous times and I ask a PayPal representative what about the equipment I sent. When will that be returned? PayPal tells me that is my responsibility and that I should talk to the buyer. I say that they buyer is unlikely to return equipment after they already get their money back. PayPal tells me that is my problem and that fraud is a part of doing business.
19. As the weeks pass, I tell PayPal that I at least expect the buyer to be kicked out of PayPal, but get no response.
20. Months later after lots of badgering, PayPal emails me and says that they are returning my machine.
21. The machine arrives and it is a $30 piece of junk, not the high-end equipment that I sent.
22. In the end, I'm out the money, the expensive machine, and a lot of time and effort.
The machine sounds like a great gadget, but notice all the extras you need to purchase to make it fully functional -- such as the $200 recording card, another digital camera card ($200), video camera software ($40), another flash card to use the gadget as a phone, modem cards, LAN cards, PC link cables, PC link kits...
which sounds a bit much
The device itself goes for about $450 I believe.
By the way, the web site (with an English section) for NOA, the creators of Nancy is here.
Telephone system: general assessment: very limited telephone and telegraph service
domestic: in 1997, telecommunications links were established between Mazar-e Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Kabul through satellite and microwave systems
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) linked only to Iran and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); commercial satellite telephone center in Ghazni
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Excellent! This is like those "winning" lottery tickets mailed out to the wanted criminals. They all show up to collect their prize and guess who's waiting.
When people realize that you have to pay to play, maybe the dot-com economy will change.
Reminds me of all the nice restaurants I would like to go -- if only I had the money. Not just dotcoms, but all businesses that attract some sort of paying customers or clients fail (unless they have deep pockets).
A testament to how well the system works -- that no individual is more important than the system -- even if that individual is the President of the United States
what's preventing that someone from painting you as a terrorist, now that they have a monopoly on truth and information?
There is nothing preventing "them" from painting "you" any way they like. That is the andvantage/disadvantage right of a free media. To restrain that right would be censorship. Even Bush, Clinton and others have regularly been portrayed as terrorists in various media. However, there is no monopoly on truth or information in this country. And who is the "they" you are referring to?
"discrepancy" merely describes being at variance or disagreeing which can at times coexist to create a paradox.
Where is the discrepancy?
The discrepancy lies in wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
"We have the right to demand accountability from our government."
Yes we do. But our government is not an abstract concept. It is made up of us, the citizenry, people like you and me. It is not equally acceptable that the citizenry can expect some meager form of accountability from a citizen who wants access to potentially sensitive information?
That's not what you said, nor was it what I was referring to. You were talking about people who demand information from their government but dislike providing information to others, as if they were hypocritical for doing so. I merely pointed out that that is not the case.
I misunderstood. I thought your disagreement was substantive, not semantical.
"discrepancy" merely describes being at variance or disagreeing which can at times coexist to create a paradox.
We have the right to demand accountability from our government.
Yes we do. But our government is not an abstract concept. It is made up of us, the citizenry, people like you and me. It is not equally acceptable that the citizenry can expect some meager form of accountability from a citizen who wants access to potentially sensitive information? Would it not be irresponsible of those serving us to not even consider it?
Can the interests of the majority of citizens never prevail agains the interests of one citizen?
But it's called the "Q" and it will only be available in Japan. The idea is that the Americans would be too confused if there was a DVD capable GameCube and one that was not...
It's kind of weird. The end of the first weekend it went on sale the GameCube was supposed to sell out. I went to a major retailer in Ikebukuro late Sunday evening and there was huge stack of the machines still available. Even weirder, only a few people were even bothering to look. Go figure. GameBoy Advance was hugely popular, however.
With the Cube, there were only three titles available as well.
Someone should tell that to the Japanese
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Americans and Europeans tend to be very laisez faire (sp), but an unbelievable number of superior Western products fail in Japan because of one reason: NATIONALISM.
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The writer seems that he can barely conceal his disgust of all things American/Western and plays to typical racist stereotypes of Westerners/Americans. It's typical of what is increasingly seen throughout Asia.
The Western/American stereotype is as he describes Microsoft's Steve Balmer: arrogant, obnoxious, fat ("big-thigh bravado"), dirty ("soaked armpits") loud (he "roars" and "screeches"), unintelligent, lazy, slovenly, and worships money.
The Japanese on the other hand are industrious, creative, intelligent, hardworking, modest, artistic, but you get the picture. Check out the description of Asians: "unflappable Sony Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi or revered Nintendo developer Shigero Miyamoto elegantly groomed, unassuming men who modestly offer their wares with only a hint of boyish twinkle, as if they were toymakers to the emperor's children.
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I've never heard so much moaning about competition.
There's an article on The Register where Kunitake Ando of Sony pretty much admits XBox dusts PS2 and that Sony is already (reluctantly) looking into PS3.
Here is Japan the feeling is that the Japanese own the console gaming industry and that U.S. software (and hardware) companies are lame, lame, lame, and just don't get it. Of course, they said the same thing about Korean LCD makers a year before Samsung and friends took over the LCD industry (previously dominated by the Japanese).
At least the X-box gives the U.S. software gaming industry new impetus for some fresh gaming start-ups. Why cede the gaming industry to Japan?
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Comparing the two, the U.S. theater version did not look too good. The colors were so washed out I felt like I was watching something along the lines of an old version of "Frosty the Snowman." Granted, the less than state-of-the-art theater in Austin, TX had a disadvantage to the new theatre in Shinjuku, Tokyo, but still...
Sony has its hands in just about everything.
If I slap down 1500 clams for this system you can be damn sure I WILL hear the difference.
1. Person buys new equipment from me (via ebay)
2. He sends payment via PayPal paid via credit card
3. After equipment arrives, buyer says it's broke (I ship ALOT of equipment and pack it extremely well to avoid such problems)
4. I say fine, send the machine back and we'll repair it or replace it.
5. Buyers says no, he needs the equipment and will look around to get it repaired.
6. Buyer sends email saying he had it repaired and wants me to send him $400 via PayPal
7. I respond saying fine, but let me know where you got it repaired (this problem could not be repaired at any shop near the buyer it just so happens)
8. Buyer sends email with name of shop.
9. I hunt down the shop and find out that it is a used camera shop which would not be able to do such a repair.
10. Buyer seems surprised, then says it was a friend who repaired the equipment.
11. Warning bells are going off, but at the same time, I don't want to make an enemy of a customer. I say I'll consider sending him some other instead of $400.
12. Buyer says okay and we leave it at that.
13. A few weeks later, my wife has an emergency appendectomy and I am with her in the hospital for about 48 hours.
14. After things calmed down and back to business, I check my email and get a message from PayPal saying they need details on the previous transaction within 72 hours or will charge the amount back to my account.
15. By the time I receive the email, the 72 hours are already up. All of this happened when my wife was in the hospital.
16. In a few days, PayPal deducts $1800 from my account so that I am running a negative balance.
17. Angry, I send PayPal emails but get no response.
18. I call numerous times and I ask a PayPal representative what about the equipment I sent. When will that be returned? PayPal tells me that is my responsibility and that I should talk to the buyer. I say that they buyer is unlikely to return equipment after they already get their money back. PayPal tells me that is my problem and that fraud is a part of doing business.
19. As the weeks pass, I tell PayPal that I at least expect the buyer to be kicked out of PayPal, but get no response.
20. Months later after lots of badgering, PayPal emails me and says that they are returning my machine.
21. The machine arrives and it is a $30 piece of junk, not the high-end equipment that I sent.
22. In the end, I'm out the money, the expensive machine, and a lot of time and effort.
The machine sounds like a great gadget, but notice all the extras you need to purchase to make it fully functional -- such as the $200 recording card, another digital camera card ($200), video camera software ($40), another flash card to use the gadget as a phone, modem cards, LAN cards, PC link cables, PC link kits...
which sounds a bit much
The device itself goes for about $450 I believe.
By the way, the web site (with an English section) for NOA, the creators of Nancy is here.
According to CIA factbook...
1 The number of ISPs in Afghanistan (as of 2000)
NA The number of Internet users
10 The number of TV stations
100,000 The total number of TVs
14.7% The infant mortality rate
31% Literacy rate
$800 GDP per capita in 2000 (estimate)
Telephone system: general assessment: very limited telephone and telegraph service
domestic: in 1997, telecommunications links were established between Mazar-e Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Kabul through satellite and microwave systems
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) linked only to Iran and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); commercial satellite telephone center in Ghazni
Didn't he invent the Internet?
Hey, even terrorists want their email.
Excellent! This is like those "winning" lottery tickets mailed out to the wanted criminals. They all show up to collect their prize and guess who's waiting.
When people realize that you have to pay to play, maybe the dot-com economy will change.
Reminds me of all the nice restaurants I would like to go -- if only I had the money. Not just dotcoms, but all businesses that attract some sort of paying customers or clients fail (unless they have deep pockets).
You know what Watergate is, right?
A testament to how well the system works -- that no individual is more important than the system -- even if that individual is the President of the United States
what's preventing that someone from painting you as a terrorist, now that they have a monopoly on truth and information? There is nothing preventing "them" from painting "you" any way they like. That is the andvantage/disadvantage right of a free media. To restrain that right would be censorship. Even Bush, Clinton and others have regularly been portrayed as terrorists in various media. However, there is no monopoly on truth or information in this country. And who is the "they" you are referring to?
"discrepancy" merely describes being at variance or disagreeing which can at times coexist to create a paradox.
Where is the discrepancy?
The discrepancy lies in wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
"We have the right to demand accountability from our government."
Yes we do. But our government is not an abstract concept. It is made up of us, the citizenry, people like you and me. It is not equally acceptable that the citizenry can expect some meager form of accountability from a citizen who wants access to potentially sensitive information?
That's not what you said, nor was it what I was referring to. You were talking about people who demand information from their government but dislike providing information to others, as if they were hypocritical for doing so. I merely pointed out that that is not the case.
I misunderstood. I thought your disagreement was substantive, not semantical.
"discrepancy" merely describes being at variance or disagreeing which can at times coexist to create a paradox. We have the right to demand accountability from our government.
Yes we do. But our government is not an abstract concept. It is made up of us, the citizenry, people like you and me. It is not equally acceptable that the citizenry can expect some meager form of accountability from a citizen who wants access to potentially sensitive information? Would it not be irresponsible of those serving us to not even consider it?
Can the interests of the majority of citizens never prevail agains the interests of one citizen?
1) Demands access to nearby water treatment procedures and the core architecture to the local thermonuclear reactor
2) Yet cries foul when asked to produce even the vaguest form of identifications such as a SS#, driver's license, non-web based email address?
Just a question...
But it's called the "Q" and it will only be available in Japan. The idea is that the Americans would be too confused if there was a DVD capable GameCube and one that was not...
Thanks Nintendo! Doh!
It's kind of weird. The end of the first weekend it went on sale the GameCube was supposed to sell out. I went to a major retailer in Ikebukuro late Sunday evening and there was huge stack of the machines still available. Even weirder, only a few people were even bothering to look. Go figure. GameBoy Advance was hugely popular, however.
With the Cube, there were only three titles available as well.
Americans and Europeans tend to be very laisez faire (sp), but an unbelievable number of superior Western products fail in Japan because of one reason: NATIONALISM.
The writer seems that he can barely conceal his disgust of all things American/Western and plays to typical racist stereotypes of Westerners/Americans. It's typical of what is increasingly seen throughout Asia.
The Western/American stereotype is as he describes Microsoft's Steve Balmer: arrogant, obnoxious, fat ("big-thigh bravado"), dirty ("soaked armpits") loud (he "roars" and "screeches"), unintelligent, lazy, slovenly, and worships money.
The Japanese on the other hand are industrious, creative, intelligent, hardworking, modest, artistic, but you get the picture. Check out the description of Asians: "unflappable Sony Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi or revered Nintendo developer Shigero Miyamoto elegantly groomed, unassuming men who modestly offer their wares with only a hint of boyish twinkle, as if they were toymakers to the emperor's children.
I've never heard so much moaning about competition. There's an article on The Register where Kunitake Ando of Sony pretty much admits XBox dusts PS2 and that Sony is already (reluctantly) looking into PS3. Here is Japan the feeling is that the Japanese own the console gaming industry and that U.S. software (and hardware) companies are lame, lame, lame, and just don't get it. Of course, they said the same thing about Korean LCD makers a year before Samsung and friends took over the LCD industry (previously dominated by the Japanese). At least the X-box gives the U.S. software gaming industry new impetus for some fresh gaming start-ups. Why cede the gaming industry to Japan?