If you're looking into wearing headphones for a long period of time, I would suggest buying a comfortable pair. Perhaps my ears are more sensitive than most, but some headphones I've worn began to hurt after about 30-60 minutes. In light of this, I would suggest the Bang & Olufsen style of headphones (A8). The headphones can be purchased for under $100 on eBay (because they cost around $80 in China/HK, about half what they retail at in the US).
However, I recently sold the B&O headphones because I found a similar style set with better sound (the A8s really lacked low-end response). If you can find them, I would highly recommend the Amadana PE-117 headphones (Amadana's a Japanese design company). I recently bought these in Japan (had to go to a few stores to find one that actually had them in stock. Bingo! Comfortable, and absolutely terrific sound! Dynamism has them in stock for $160 or so, but I paid about $110 for them in Japan.
...with Westinghouse (sorry, subscription req'd). It's pretty likely that the development will stop due to Toshiba's takeover. However, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has production rights to at least one reactor design.
Along with General Electric and Hitachi Ltd. (6501), Toshiba has built BWRs (boiling-water reactors) for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) and other Japanese power utilities. With little near-term growth expected in the domestic market, however, it needs to expand overseas.
But the fact that Toshiba does not have expertise in PWRs (pressurized-water reactors) represents a major disadvantage because this technology constitutes about 70% of the nuclear reactors operating worldwide.
By acquiring Westinghouse, Toshiba will improve its chances of winning orders because Westinghouse both designs and maintains PWRs, in addition to processing uranium.
I'm one of those sellers who only accepts PayPal, aside from more expensive items ($300-$400+). Why? It's a real hassle to get to the bank, and I'd rather spend the 30-60 minutes I would have spent depositing the MO doing other things. Money orders also mean greater turnaround time (I don't sell many things, but for those who do, turnaround time may mean a lot). If you're worried about fraud, then use a credit card through PayPal. Mail fraud cases take a long time to get sorted out. Chargebacks are relatively fully featured.
I was also surprised about this...TDM is a great game (played the PS2 version as well as the latest versions in Japanese game centers). Definitely need the physical drums...
Mail-in rebates supposedly help the customer by giving (or creating the impression of) lower prices. They help businesses because people tend to be too lazy/busy/forgetful to fill the things out, and end up paying far too much for a product (I'm guilty of this). Because I have, due to laziness/business/forgetting, not tended to fill rebates out in the past, I no longer bother with mail-in rebate products (I'd rather pay a slightly higher cost and not deal with the hassle). If more people are in the same boat as me, then this system really serves as a temporary solution on the part of the corporation (do it until the lazy consumers learn). I would, however, be willing to fill out the forms online (it's really the whole snail mail process that gets in the way), and have done so in the past (with Best Buy; it worked flawlessly and I had my check within a couple weeks). Because the online rebate forms take so much less time to fill out (they do in my exp.), failure rate due to laziness and being too busy will decrease, thus requiring Best Buy to hope people will just forget about the rebate. Therefore, we'll probably start to see slightly smaller rebates in the future.
You know, I notice a better taste with glass bottles (here in the US, we only have the tiny bottles). They're more expensive, but I rarely drink soda so it's worth the occassional expenditure for me...
I hate to be nitpicky, but while Japanese are more keen on building big public infrastructures, the population of Tokyo is far denser than LA (also, the Tokyo pop. is over 12,000,000, while L.A. has less than 4,000,000 people). Tokyo is definitely both vertically and horizontally, while L.A. is basically horizontal (Japanese land is scarce, aside from northern Hokkaido perhaps).
I just back from Japan, and I can definitely confirm that. There wasn't a single person in the XBox 360 section (at Bic Camera, a major electronics store)...
In Japan, minivans have a much better image (just as hatchbacks have a better image in Europe) than in the US. It helps that the Japanese have some pretty cool minivans that we don't.
Although, most people who have ABS probably don't know their cars have it (or know what it is, or even really think about it). I suppose the percentage that actually are actively aware of their cars' ABS would be inclined to drive more recklessly than if not, however.
They actually sell PSPs at 7-Elevens in Japan. I asked my girlfriend (who works part-time at one) about this, and she said she never sold any PSPs in 1 and half years...
Agree with the above post. Two other points: Japanese don't use computers as much as Americans do (hence, less PC gaming), and Japanese females play video games much more than American females do (that's a significant chunk of the population...).
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However, I recently sold the B&O headphones because I found a similar style set with better sound (the A8s really lacked low-end response). If you can find them, I would highly recommend the Amadana PE-117 headphones (Amadana's a Japanese design company). I recently bought these in Japan (had to go to a few stores to find one that actually had them in stock. Bingo! Comfortable, and absolutely terrific sound! Dynamism has them in stock for $160 or so, but I paid about $110 for them in Japan.
Not to mention, you won't be hearing any "warnings of imminent attack" with those.
...with Westinghouse (sorry, subscription req'd). It's pretty likely that the development will stop due to Toshiba's takeover. However, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has production rights to at least one reactor design.
This strikes me as a good move as it opens up a huge worldwide market segment for Toshiba.
Blender, check. Last I heard, they were still working on the reactor side of their product lines.
I'm one of those sellers who only accepts PayPal, aside from more expensive items ($300-$400+). Why? It's a real hassle to get to the bank, and I'd rather spend the 30-60 minutes I would have spent depositing the MO doing other things. Money orders also mean greater turnaround time (I don't sell many things, but for those who do, turnaround time may mean a lot). If you're worried about fraud, then use a credit card through PayPal. Mail fraud cases take a long time to get sorted out. Chargebacks are relatively fully featured.
I was also surprised about this...TDM is a great game (played the PS2 version as well as the latest versions in Japanese game centers). Definitely need the physical drums...
Mail-in rebates supposedly help the customer by giving (or creating the impression of) lower prices. They help businesses because people tend to be too lazy/busy/forgetful to fill the things out, and end up paying far too much for a product (I'm guilty of this). Because I have, due to laziness/business/forgetting, not tended to fill rebates out in the past, I no longer bother with mail-in rebate products (I'd rather pay a slightly higher cost and not deal with the hassle). If more people are in the same boat as me, then this system really serves as a temporary solution on the part of the corporation (do it until the lazy consumers learn). I would, however, be willing to fill out the forms online (it's really the whole snail mail process that gets in the way), and have done so in the past (with Best Buy; it worked flawlessly and I had my check within a couple weeks). Because the online rebate forms take so much less time to fill out (they do in my exp.), failure rate due to laziness and being too busy will decrease, thus requiring Best Buy to hope people will just forget about the rebate. Therefore, we'll probably start to see slightly smaller rebates in the future.
You know, I notice a better taste with glass bottles (here in the US, we only have the tiny bottles). They're more expensive, but I rarely drink soda so it's worth the occassional expenditure for me...
I hate to be nitpicky, but while Japanese are more keen on building big public infrastructures, the population of Tokyo is far denser than LA (also, the Tokyo pop. is over 12,000,000, while L.A. has less than 4,000,000 people). Tokyo is definitely both vertically and horizontally, while L.A. is basically horizontal (Japanese land is scarce, aside from northern Hokkaido perhaps).
What if the iPod is selling in another country than the US?
I just back from Japan, and I can definitely confirm that. There wasn't a single person in the XBox 360 section (at Bic Camera, a major electronics store)...
Yes, it's a small piece, but enough to play with.
...of the star in question.
What's amazing is how far out you can zoom and still see the airstrip. That's quite a beast.
I actually might pick one of these up in Japan...if only there were an easy way to convert my hard copies!!
Well, all the stuff will be public domain for your great-grandchildren...
I'm in Hawaii, you insensitive clod!!
Get on Craigslist and sell it now, before demand for first-gen HDTVs is totally gone!
In Japan, minivans have a much better image (just as hatchbacks have a better image in Europe) than in the US. It helps that the Japanese have some pretty cool minivans that we don't.
Although, most people who have ABS probably don't know their cars have it (or know what it is, or even really think about it). I suppose the percentage that actually are actively aware of their cars' ABS would be inclined to drive more recklessly than if not, however.
I had to read that a few times...
...whose senator actually voted against the Patriot Act.
They actually sell PSPs at 7-Elevens in Japan. I asked my girlfriend (who works part-time at one) about this, and she said she never sold any PSPs in 1 and half years...
Agree with the above post. Two other points: Japanese don't use computers as much as Americans do (hence, less PC gaming), and Japanese females play video games much more than American females do (that's a significant chunk of the population...).