When did a US service man accidently run over someone? You're thinking of South Korea.
If it's so bad why do most Japanese still like Americans and appreciate the fact that the military is here?
Sure, all my young friends over here. I hate to rain on your parade, but I work here in Tokyo translating TV shows from English to Japanese. Start hanging out on the west side of the Yamanote and you'll hear it used that way a lot, or check out MTV Japan. Translation dictionaries will only get you so far.
No kakko ii means cool. Kakko means appearence so transliterated it would mean good appearence, but it's used in the same way Americans use the word "cool."
Sugoi is used more like amazing. It's a stronger word than kakko ii.
Nice use of a dictionary though.
If they live in North America, learn the language. It pisses me off to no end when there are immigrants in this country who live in packs who talk in their native language, who have no intention of ever learning one of our national languages.
Which language? Spanish, French or English? Maybe you should move out from mom's basement to another country and see how far you get if you can't speak the language. Why don't you come here to Japan, I show you a whole host of foreigners who run around with their foreigner friends and have no intention of ever learning the language. When you see how hard it is not being able to get around because you can't read the signs or ask for directions maybe you'll have more respect for those immigrants who hang out with their own groups to help them function in daily life. No one wants to be isolated from the rest of the world. I'm guessing you don't have the stones for anything quite so challenging.
If his coworkers are so tech illiterate that they've never heard of FireFox, or Firewalls even, maybe they won't recongnize the fact that Apple = Macintosh? Would they really notice that much if you gave them "Apple" computers with MS products loaded on?
Good luck with that man! I started a web design/development company in late '97. It took my seven years, but by the time I (mostly) closed shop and left for Japan I was pulling in about $50k annually, after expenses and taxes. It was really hard at first and I really took it on the chin financially, but I managed to pay off all my loans for undergrad plus all but $5,000 for grad school. Just keep pluggin away and things will look up for you.
No, I'm just getting screwed. My annual salary is 3,000,000¥ so that's roughly $30,000US. Actually a little less.
It sounds like they sponsored you to come to Japan and work. If you can get that then they usually include subsidized housing (transportation is always included) which is a huge deal in this city. A simple 6'x10' room can easily cost you $800+ if you're within 30 minutes of the city's main train line.
You have to keep in mind too that you're working for NTT. In the US that's like working for AT&T or Verison or maybe Time Warner. It's a huge frigg'n company that pays well. If you work for a smaller company you'll make less. For example many small companies don't give the summer and winter bonuses anymore because the economy isn't that great.
Instead of getting sponsored, I closed up shop in the States and hopped a plane over here. If you do that you're a lot less likely to find a decent paying job.
P.S. The reason for the bonus is so that the company get's an interest free loan from the employees by dividing your yearly payments into 14 parts as opposed to 12.
Well I know this is a national survey and all, but I'll give you a little perspective from Tokyo. Yes, that Tokyo, the once consistantly voted the most expensive place on Earth.
I'm American so when I first got here I got a job teaching English. After 8 months of kids trying to stick their fingers up my ass (it's called "kancho") I decided to get back into design/lite programming/project management. Before I left the US in 2004 I was probably make about $50k/year living in the upper midwest. Pretty good dosh for the area and I was probably working an everage of 2-3 weeks a month.
So getting back to Tokyo, having pretty rough Japanese skills made it tough to find a job, but I finally found my current gig. Basically I'm the technology guy. My title is Director of Internet Development and project management. Sweet huh? Basically I'm making a dynamic catalogue site using PHP and Flash as well as setting up a server and internal network.
How much do I make? About the equivalent of $30,000 US. Basically I'm going into the local convient store at the end of the month with a bag full of 1¥ coins to buy some food. It sucks ass. This is pretty standard for my age, 28, in Japan though. It's assumed that since everyone lives with their parents they don't need to make as much money when they're younger. I got an interview next Monday though, so now that I can speak Japanese I expect to make a better salary.
At the Rochester Institute of Technology they have a pretty good system going. There's a coffee house connected to the library. Students are allowed to bring any magazines or books from the library at any time and there are some laptops available to borrow.
It's one of the few good ideas the school had for making students' lives enjoyable
True, but the market for music buying in Japan is with the teens and the 25-35 crowd. Most of them make crap wages, and only survive by living with their parents until they get married, which in Japan, is getting later and later.
Also there is a general policy that most companies follow, that forces employees to retire when they're 60. People will often find a new job to work for a few more years to help build on the nest egg but they're hired at a very low salary relative to their previous position. How do I know? I live here and had many seniors as students back in my eigo sensi days and listened to them complain about it.
The pay is higher??? HAH HAH HAH! Clearly you don't live here. The average salary until you're well into your mid 30's is only about 3,000,000¥ a year or a bit less than $30,000/year, this is in a technical profession with a university degree too. In Japan pay and benifits are based on senority. Once you're about retirement age you may earn about $45-$50,000/year. This stinks. Why do you think people take the train two hours to work every day? They have to live some place cheaper and their company buys him/her the train tickets.
This is great news for Yahoo lovers. Konfabulator was a super easy for non-programmers to make great little apps for the Mac. I'd love to to see what these things can do if you're able to hook them into the full range of Yahoo information/services.
I wonder if this is at the urging of Yahoo Japan? Here Yahoo is the most popular portal and search engine. I've heard Mac sales, not including the iPod, are way up so maybe there's some pressure to make things more cross platform?
A better question is where would you go? Most Mac users absolutely cringe at the thought of using a Windows box. I have to use one at work from time to time and I'm ready to punch the damn thing after five minutes of all the pop-ups.
Linux is much better. Most Mac people can't figure out how to install everything, plus you're missing most of the Adobe and Macromedia products as well as Final Cut Pro, Shake and MS Office.
Yeah people will stick around for sure. They have no other choice.
Yeah Apple could do it no problem, but what about all the software vendors? If they used both chips it's most likely many companies would just develop for the Intel based platform instead of going for both. The only time you'd really see both platforms being developed for is in some high-end applications like Shake, Maya or Renderman.
You can find a lot of nice 3D software on a Mac. First let me ask, are you doing professional work or are you just looking for something to play with? If you just want more practice you can always download the
Maya Personal Learning Edition.
Slashdot Mirror
When did a US service man accidently run over someone? You're thinking of South Korea. If it's so bad why do most Japanese still like Americans and appreciate the fact that the military is here?
Sure, all my young friends over here. I hate to rain on your parade, but I work here in Tokyo translating TV shows from English to Japanese. Start hanging out on the west side of the Yamanote and you'll hear it used that way a lot, or check out MTV Japan. Translation dictionaries will only get you so far.
No kakko ii means cool. Kakko means appearence so transliterated it would mean good appearence, but it's used in the same way Americans use the word "cool." Sugoi is used more like amazing. It's a stronger word than kakko ii. Nice use of a dictionary though.
I don't know about that. It sounds like one of those mistakes someone who learns some Japanese through anime would make.
kawaii = cute
kakoii = cool
Which language? Spanish, French or English? Maybe you should move out from mom's basement to another country and see how far you get if you can't speak the language. Why don't you come here to Japan, I show you a whole host of foreigners who run around with their foreigner friends and have no intention of ever learning the language. When you see how hard it is not being able to get around because you can't read the signs or ask for directions maybe you'll have more respect for those immigrants who hang out with their own groups to help them function in daily life. No one wants to be isolated from the rest of the world. I'm guessing you don't have the stones for anything quite so challenging.
Yes, all the large crows around Tokyo really freak them out.
Doesn't this remind you of the times you had to drive your dad somewhere and all he did was complain about how loud your music was?
Hasn't Linux for the desktop been 5 years away for the last 10 years?
If his coworkers are so tech illiterate that they've never heard of FireFox, or Firewalls even, maybe they won't recongnize the fact that Apple = Macintosh? Would they really notice that much if you gave them "Apple" computers with MS products loaded on?
Good luck with that man! I started a web design/development company in late '97. It took my seven years, but by the time I (mostly) closed shop and left for Japan I was pulling in about $50k annually, after expenses and taxes. It was really hard at first and I really took it on the chin financially, but I managed to pay off all my loans for undergrad plus all but $5,000 for grad school. Just keep pluggin away and things will look up for you.
It sounds like they sponsored you to come to Japan and work. If you can get that then they usually include subsidized housing (transportation is always included) which is a huge deal in this city. A simple 6'x10' room can easily cost you $800+ if you're within 30 minutes of the city's main train line.
You have to keep in mind too that you're working for NTT. In the US that's like working for AT&T or Verison or maybe Time Warner. It's a huge frigg'n company that pays well. If you work for a smaller company you'll make less. For example many small companies don't give the summer and winter bonuses anymore because the economy isn't that great.
Instead of getting sponsored, I closed up shop in the States and hopped a plane over here. If you do that you're a lot less likely to find a decent paying job.
P.S. The reason for the bonus is so that the company get's an interest free loan from the employees by dividing your yearly payments into 14 parts as opposed to 12.
I'm American so when I first got here I got a job teaching English. After 8 months of kids trying to stick their fingers up my ass (it's called "kancho") I decided to get back into design/lite programming/project management. Before I left the US in 2004 I was probably make about $50k/year living in the upper midwest. Pretty good dosh for the area and I was probably working an everage of 2-3 weeks a month.
So getting back to Tokyo, having pretty rough Japanese skills made it tough to find a job, but I finally found my current gig. Basically I'm the technology guy. My title is Director of Internet Development and project management. Sweet huh? Basically I'm making a dynamic catalogue site using PHP and Flash as well as setting up a server and internal network.
How much do I make? About the equivalent of $30,000 US. Basically I'm going into the local convient store at the end of the month with a bag full of 1¥ coins to buy some food. It sucks ass. This is pretty standard for my age, 28, in Japan though. It's assumed that since everyone lives with their parents they don't need to make as much money when they're younger. I got an interview next Monday though, so now that I can speak Japanese I expect to make a better salary.
It's one of the few good ideas the school had for making students' lives enjoyable
Also there is a general policy that most companies follow, that forces employees to retire when they're 60. People will often find a new job to work for a few more years to help build on the nest egg but they're hired at a very low salary relative to their previous position. How do I know? I live here and had many seniors as students back in my eigo sensi days and listened to them complain about it.
The pay is higher??? HAH HAH HAH! Clearly you don't live here. The average salary until you're well into your mid 30's is only about 3,000,000¥ a year or a bit less than $30,000/year, this is in a technical profession with a university degree too. In Japan pay and benifits are based on senority. Once you're about retirement age you may earn about $45-$50,000/year. This stinks. Why do you think people take the train two hours to work every day? They have to live some place cheaper and their company buys him/her the train tickets.
Well my father likes to listen to German radio over the net while watching the weather chanel all night, now he can turn off the TV.
I wonder if this is at the urging of Yahoo Japan? Here Yahoo is the most popular portal and search engine. I've heard Mac sales, not including the iPod, are way up so maybe there's some pressure to make things more cross platform?
A better question is where would you go? Most Mac users absolutely cringe at the thought of using a Windows box. I have to use one at work from time to time and I'm ready to punch the damn thing after five minutes of all the pop-ups.
Linux is much better. Most Mac people can't figure out how to install everything, plus you're missing most of the Adobe and Macromedia products as well as Final Cut Pro, Shake and MS Office.
Yeah people will stick around for sure. They have no other choice.
Maybe not so helpful in your case, but if you all had Macs you could just use iCal and sync everything up with a .mac account.
Yeah Apple could do it no problem, but what about all the software vendors? If they used both chips it's most likely many companies would just develop for the Intel based platform instead of going for both. The only time you'd really see both platforms being developed for is in some high-end applications like Shake, Maya or Renderman.
You've got it backward, "Those who replace liberty with security deserve neither," and it was Jefferson.
Other good programs are Light Wave, Cinema 4D, and Modo.
All of these programs can be used at the professional level and are relatively cheap.
Does anyone know if either service is planning to have international maps? I'd love to use it for my company here in Japan.
Works for me. I've been in Tokyo about 2 years and it's never been a problem for me.