In Japan, you don't take things home. Portions are also much smaller when compared with your average American portion. So, I don't think this problem would occur.
Also, bear in mind that in Japan it's polite to eat every last grain of rice on your plate - out of respect for the farmers that grew it. He's merely enforcing cultural standards.
Point taken. But mail is a basic function that everybody can use (and the interface is pretty straight forward). But what I was trying to elude to was these more advanced features the parent mentioned - Wifi Sharing, trackpad emulation, facial recognition etc.. who uses those? It seems like features just to have a checkbox rather than actual features that people actually use.
I dunno, my old Docomo Foma F703i had a front face camera. Could use it to do video calls etc...and this was a few years ago. Didn't really use it that often though.
In typical slashdot fashion I have yet to RTFA before I comment, but I would assume that they want something where the local weather conditions are not collected by volunteers (although I totally dig their dedication to what they are doing).
I've got a 7.2Mb/384kbit wireless card as my main internet connection in Japan for about $50/month. I am a very heavy user (a few GB/day down is not unusual (all legal, no bit torrent etc.) and haven't noticed any problems except for the some latency issues when using facebook or what not. Note that it is still plenty fast to stream youtube/dailyshow etc.. without any major problems.
It really depends on what unlimited means and the coverage in your area. Here unlimited seems to really mean unlimited. Thus at least for me, I think switching to a 3G connection as your main/only connection to the internet is completely viable.
I guess the difference is that in Japan, all phones have had push email accounts for years. Instead of being @mobileme or @yahoo.com they are @carrier.jp and are created when you purchase your phone.
Instead of being charged per message, you are charged per packet. So if you like to write very long winded messages, they will end up costing you (marginally) more.
In Japan, the push problem is solved without MMS. It just takes all the carriers to cooperate with each other for the benefit of everyone. And as a Tokyoite, I thank them.
You should also mark Japan off your list of places to go too - as of last month all foreigners (except a select few permanent residents I believe) now get finger printed upon arrival.
In Japan's case it is not wanting terrorists (of course) but also making it much more difficult to make get in with fake paperwork. More than once anyways.
Um. There is such a thing as Oceania, it covers New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and those pacific islands out there, Fiji etc. Or you know, I could have just imagined that entire portion of my geography exam...
I would have to agree. It would seem that consumerism and materialism have run their course in America. It is a sad state of affairs, and honestly is something that bothers me a lot (consumerism and materialism that is).
Luckly though, implementing updating into your application is only a few clicks and an rss feed away with Sparkle. Sparkle makes it so a developer has no excuses to not to add updating into their application - literally, zero lines of code added. Though - it would be nice to be able to hook into Software Update - just for the uniformity as a user - however I do like the current method (Sparkle enhanced) very much as well.
As someone who has switched to Firefox from Safari, Im not sure I would recommend it if you are going for the mac experience. One of the recent changes that happened (in the new security patch) was they changed the key-bindings and made the app act even less mac-like (cmd-w only closes a tab and won't close the window when you close the last tab, instead it opens a blank tab and you must press cmd-shift-w to close the window). That and it doesn't handle dual-monitors well at all (everything but the main menu can't appear on the secondary display). If only Shiira was a bit more active...
This is off topic, but the game is incredible. I imported Pearl so I could practice Japanese and play a good RPG. The new battle system is incredible. I haven't played it online yet as I want to get my pokemon a bit stronger first. I wonder if the battling will be Japanese games vs Japanese games only though...
There are three ways to right click from apple. The old fashioned ctrl-click. Going in to system preferences and turning on the option so when there are two fingers on the track pad and clicked for it to act like a right click. And of course the Mighty Mouse.
Personally, I use both the wireless mighty mouse and the two finger touch-pad click for when I am too lazy to pull out the mouse. Oddly enough - I don't find myself right clicking that often...
Allofmp3.com charges per song, but it is not a flat rate, it is per byte or kilobyte - I forget which. Which means you pay less for lower quality encodings and vise versa.
Yes, keynote can import and export powerpoint documents. I used it this past week for school and had powerpoint backup files all over the place just incase something happened. After using Keynote, it is impossible to go back to Powerpoint - it just doesn't work the way a presentation program should.
Not trying to troll, but as a southpaw, please look up the word in a dictionary before you say that they made that up. It's in both my oxford and online in webster's with being left handed as the first entry. From the Oxford American Dictionary
southpaw |?sou??pô| noun a left-handed person, esp. a boxer who leads with the right hand or a baseball pitcher . ORIGIN mid 19th cent.(denoting the left hand or a punch with the left hand): the usage in baseball is perhaps from the orientation of early baseball fields to the same points of the compass, such that the pitcher's left arm was on the "south" side of his body.
It is very scary. My problem is that I've gotten so apathetic about the state of our government. Reading Leo Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" hasn't helped the apathy at all (not bible banging, but Ghandi and King carried it with them when doing their thing). The book, which I highly recommend, basically shows how all governments are illegitimate. If you do read it, you only really need to read the last part, as the first two are historical context.
So what do we do when we don't have any input in how our government is run any longer? We do the only thing we can do: leave it. Get our citizenship somewhere else. I believe it was mentioned here a while back here as "voting with your feet". Unfortunately, the country I am going to (Japan), it is near impossible to get one's citizenship.
You aren't alone brother, we are in a heck "fun" ride, at least until we can flee this country and pursue freedom elsewhere.
With a lot of hackers and geeks now running OS X these days, it seems that most all of the cool/new apps are coming out for OS X (growl etc (though I am biased on that one)) and Linux...but the only cool windows app I can think of is PeerGuardian (slightly biased on that one too...)
funny you should mention that. My Japanese teacher was talking about the native Japanese numbers a few weeks back, and one of my classmates asked "How do we count in native Japanese over 10?". She replied that she didn't know and was unsure of any Japanese who did. I assume you *could* using the regular combos, but I still found it rather amusing. (Yes, she is Japanese, from Nagoya)
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In Japan, you don't take things home. Portions are also much smaller when compared with your average American portion. So, I don't think this problem would occur. Also, bear in mind that in Japan it's polite to eat every last grain of rice on your plate - out of respect for the farmers that grew it. He's merely enforcing cultural standards.
Point taken. But mail is a basic function that everybody can use (and the interface is pretty straight forward). But what I was trying to elude to was these more advanced features the parent mentioned - Wifi Sharing, trackpad emulation, facial recognition etc.. who uses those? It seems like features just to have a checkbox rather than actual features that people actually use.
What good are those features if you can't find (and thus can't use) them in the (mostly) horrible interface that make up Japanese cellphones?
I dunno, my old Docomo Foma F703i had a front face camera. Could use it to do video calls etc...and this was a few years ago. Didn't really use it that often though.
In typical slashdot fashion I have yet to RTFA before I comment, but I would assume that they want something where the local weather conditions are not collected by volunteers (although I totally dig their dedication to what they are doing).
I've got a 7.2Mb/384kbit wireless card as my main internet connection in Japan for about $50/month. I am a very heavy user (a few GB/day down is not unusual (all legal, no bit torrent etc.) and haven't noticed any problems except for the some latency issues when using facebook or what not. Note that it is still plenty fast to stream youtube/dailyshow etc.. without any major problems. It really depends on what unlimited means and the coverage in your area. Here unlimited seems to really mean unlimited. Thus at least for me, I think switching to a 3G connection as your main/only connection to the internet is completely viable.
I guess the difference is that in Japan, all phones have had push email accounts for years. Instead of being @mobileme or @yahoo.com they are @carrier.jp and are created when you purchase your phone. Instead of being charged per message, you are charged per packet. So if you like to write very long winded messages, they will end up costing you (marginally) more. In Japan, the push problem is solved without MMS. It just takes all the carriers to cooperate with each other for the benefit of everyone. And as a Tokyoite, I thank them.
You should also mark Japan off your list of places to go too - as of last month all foreigners (except a select few permanent residents I believe) now get finger printed upon arrival. In Japan's case it is not wanting terrorists (of course) but also making it much more difficult to make get in with fake paperwork. More than once anyways.
Um. There is such a thing as Oceania, it covers New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and those pacific islands out there, Fiji etc. Or you know, I could have just imagined that entire portion of my geography exam...
I would have to agree. It would seem that consumerism and materialism have run their course in America. It is a sad state of affairs, and honestly is something that bothers me a lot (consumerism and materialism that is).
Luckly though, implementing updating into your application is only a few clicks and an rss feed away with Sparkle. Sparkle makes it so a developer has no excuses to not to add updating into their application - literally, zero lines of code added. Though - it would be nice to be able to hook into Software Update - just for the uniformity as a user - however I do like the current method (Sparkle enhanced) very much as well.
As someone who has switched to Firefox from Safari, Im not sure I would recommend it if you are going for the mac experience. One of the recent changes that happened (in the new security patch) was they changed the key-bindings and made the app act even less mac-like (cmd-w only closes a tab and won't close the window when you close the last tab, instead it opens a blank tab and you must press cmd-shift-w to close the window). That and it doesn't handle dual-monitors well at all (everything but the main menu can't appear on the secondary display). If only Shiira was a bit more active...
The dedicated video card and back lit keyboard mainly (at least in my Core Duo (post MacBook release) Macbook Pro).
For some reason, it doesn't work in Firefox, but when I tried it in Safari, the video played just fine (I am also on a macbook pro).
This is off topic, but the game is incredible. I imported Pearl so I could practice Japanese and play a good RPG. The new battle system is incredible. I haven't played it online yet as I want to get my pokemon a bit stronger first. I wonder if the battling will be Japanese games vs Japanese games only though...
Yea - they have native OS X clients. Run quite nice too.
There are three ways to right click from apple. The old fashioned ctrl-click. Going in to system preferences and turning on the option so when there are two fingers on the track pad and clicked for it to act like a right click. And of course the Mighty Mouse. Personally, I use both the wireless mighty mouse and the two finger touch-pad click for when I am too lazy to pull out the mouse. Oddly enough - I don't find myself right clicking that often...
Allofmp3.com charges per song, but it is not a flat rate, it is per byte or kilobyte - I forget which. Which means you pay less for lower quality encodings and vise versa.
Yes, keynote can import and export powerpoint documents. I used it this past week for school and had powerpoint backup files all over the place just incase something happened. After using Keynote, it is impossible to go back to Powerpoint - it just doesn't work the way a presentation program should.
Not trying to troll, but as a southpaw, please look up the word in a dictionary before you say that they made that up. It's in both my oxford and online in webster's with being left handed as the first entry. From the Oxford American Dictionary
southpaw |?sou??pô| noun a left-handed person, esp. a boxer who leads with the right hand or a baseball pitcher . ORIGIN mid 19th cent.(denoting the left hand or a punch with the left hand): the usage in baseball is perhaps from the orientation of early baseball fields to the same points of the compass, such that the pitcher's left arm was on the "south" side of his body.
No mention of a foot...
It is very scary. My problem is that I've gotten so apathetic about the state of our government. Reading Leo Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" hasn't helped the apathy at all (not bible banging, but Ghandi and King carried it with them when doing their thing). The book, which I highly recommend, basically shows how all governments are illegitimate. If you do read it, you only really need to read the last part, as the first two are historical context. So what do we do when we don't have any input in how our government is run any longer? We do the only thing we can do: leave it. Get our citizenship somewhere else. I believe it was mentioned here a while back here as "voting with your feet". Unfortunately, the country I am going to (Japan), it is near impossible to get one's citizenship. You aren't alone brother, we are in a heck "fun" ride, at least until we can flee this country and pursue freedom elsewhere.
Thank you so much for that. You just made Finals week so much less depressing. Stockholm Syndome....
With a lot of hackers and geeks now running OS X these days, it seems that most all of the cool/new apps are coming out for OS X (growl etc (though I am biased on that one)) and Linux...but the only cool windows app I can think of is PeerGuardian (slightly biased on that one too...)
funny you should mention that. My Japanese teacher was talking about the native Japanese numbers a few weeks back, and one of my classmates asked "How do we count in native Japanese over 10?". She replied that she didn't know and was unsure of any Japanese who did. I assume you *could* using the regular combos, but I still found it rather amusing. (Yes, she is Japanese, from Nagoya)
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