Care to elaborate on why? I had considered purchasing a MX1000 when my 700's buttons started wearing out and not registering all clicks. Went with a 510 instead because 1) It was dirt cheap compared to a mx1000, and 2) It's widely considered every bit as good as the 700, without recharging.
I can (and do) grip my logitech MX1000 in a way that looks like what they're trying to accomplish... Fingers bent a bit, hand relaxed over the top arch. Its buttons extend quite far along the body of the mouse, it's very comfortable.
Funny enough, this sort of comfortable 'loose grip' on the mouse is great in FPS games. You'd be surprised the amount of control gained from the standard and limiting flopping the hand on the mouse. It works well enough for me with my mx510 and mx700.
Go is a great suggestion, and yes, please never use "mod me down" again.:) I dispute your "any decent player" claim with computers though. Depends on how you define "decent".
I'm a beginner, decent against humans, but I still get whooped by a computer. I recommend you look into GNUGo and use Jago as a GUI. Jago will let you play games against your friends online with a very, very nice GUI, and by plugging in the GnuGO binary, Jago will connect to it and you can vs a very good, and free, computer. Available for Linux and Windows, not sure about Mac.
You can get Jago here:
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/
Details on GnuGo use with Jago, and the.exe:
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/Documentation/Gn uGo.html
By the way:
I have mod points, and frequently do, but I'll opt out of modding this thread to reply. I, and others that I've seen, usually don't waste mod points modding people off-topic or troll unless need be. The Slashdot guides specifically say to focus on modding up, not down. Following this thread and wasting mod points on modding down every reply would be worthless.
Personally, I feel some of the more interesting and entertaining thoughts come out of off topic threads. The only time I'd waste a vote on "offtopic" would be say, if someone was troll-ish and shouted "Doom 3 RULES!" or something like "My computer crashed, what does this error mean?"
It's amazing how badly Firefox screwed up extension versioning. This procedure is an apt demonstration.
I have to agree with you there, especially when using nightlies. There's really no excuse for the silly maxversion tag which rarely means anything at all. For awhile, old perfectly working extensions wouldn't even show, hence the 'Show Old Extension' extension! That's messed up. If an extension isn't broke, and chances are it isn't, it should simply work.
There are other 'normal' ways to upgrade the version number, including over the update system, but obviously that relies on the original author doing something about it... which isn't something you want to bank on. It certainly should have been done much differently.
I'm really not sure why authors insist on setting their maxversion so low, especially when they don't plan to 1) put out a new version before the next release, or 2) support their extension later. If you're going to just release it and forget it, you'd think you'd at least bump the version number way up. Perhaps it's an "to get listed at update.mozilla.org" thing. Just a guess.
This was also a chance for them to finally prove their update system works with 1.0.1. Instead, we're all redownloading the.exe or.zip again. I love Firefox as a surfer and as a web guy, but for a browser that claims to really pay attention to the user and usability, they're missing the obvious: automation.
No sweat, glad it worked for you. I messed the application dir up a bit trying to cut my data out of it, and Slashdot took a bit out... just to clarify it should be soemthing like:
(No space, Slashdot does that.) Also, for new downloads... you can save an extension to your hard drive, rename the.xpi to.zip (or.rar if I'm wrong), unzip it, find the file with the same maxversion line, and edit that higher. Then just rezip the folders and rename it.xpi again. Instant bumped version.
I installed 1.0.1, then reinstalled 1.0 because I like the Textzoom extension. This hasn't been officially updated to 1.0, but extensionsmirror has a link to a version patched for 1.0 installs.
Since it's not being maintained, I'll probably eventually have to give it up, but I won't for such a minor Firefox update.
Actually, no you don't. Changing extension maxlimits is trival.
- First, find your profile.
In Explorer find: %appdata%\Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\extensions
- Second, open Extensions.rdf with notepad, metapad, etc.
- Third, find and replace any of: em:maxVersion="1.0"
With
em:maxVersion="5.0"
And you're good to go. You can put any number you want, but I like 5.0 just to make it easier, especially with nightlies in the past. You could also use about:config to lower your version number, but that could have other side effects. Now, if doing this makes your extension not work because of code changes (rarely) or somehow borks your profile (highly doubtful), use at your own risk.:)
And Extensionsmirror.nl is a great place to find prebumped extensions.
Quick and easy geekdom quiz for your 'friends': "Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora"
The above statement is about: A) Fashion B) Design C) A former Linux favorite trying to please the early supporters they've left in the dust in favor of enterprise money.
Re:X-Play: the only thing worth watching on G4.
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G4 Drops TechTV Name
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X-Play was indeed the one and only reason I was keeping G4 in my cable lineup. I finally said enough and dumped the channel about a week ago. I will, however, miss X-Play. They had great preview coverage, downright funny reviews, and constant in-jokes for the gaming crowd.
Which isn't to say Adam acting dim didn't get on my nerves more than a few times.
G4 buying Tech TV was the worst thing to happen in ages.
For me it's been pretty swell. I picked up a new digital cable about a month or two before the merge. Sure, I liked Tech TV, and I liked some of G4... but after the merge both became unwatchable. Good thing, since that was really the only reason I had that particular package.
I've since switched it over to another package for the same price that includes a whole bunch of discovery channels, stuff like the Science channel and international channel, the gameshow channel, and some other interesting stuff like Fit TV. I should thank G4 for making both stations so utterly unwatchable that I could switch the lineup without guilt.
First the WoW non-story, then the Grrl Gamer non-story, now this complete and utter non-story. Seriously, Slashdot may be the news for Nerds... but it's certainly no Blue's News. Can't we just leave the gaming news stories to someone who can actually cover it?
"functional beauty in combat." It turns out that Nina's bikini and catsuit are more than just eye candy. "The outfit designs were based on ease of movement and variation in appearance," states Sakagami. "Depending on whether an attack connects with bare or clothed skin, the resulting damage differs."
So it's the classic "spellcasters need to wear light clothing" argument, basically. Still hardly amounts, to me, to what the blurb was implying. Why does anyone pay attention to these silly blurbs anyway? Do guys care about the suit's backstory in some generic fighter? Hardly. Leave it to a woman to nitpick such details.;)
And ya know, one thing rarely touched on is the fact that it's not at all surprising nearly everyone in say, Soul Calibur 2, looks great. Gee, you think maybe if you spend your life doing extreme training across the globe and becoming a master fighter you'll get a good figure doing it? I've never seen fat ninja.
Will Nina's low-cut shorts and thigh-high boots allow her to deliver a more powerful blow in Death by Degrees? The developer wants you to believe so.
Hmm, I haven't played "Death by Degrees", but I somehow doubt there's a blurb in it that amounts to sexy outfit = power fighter. What the heck is wrong with sexy outfit = sexy outfit?
Beyond Good & Evil's Jade bucked the trend of buxom and deadly heroines; the game was critically acclaimed, but sales proved disappointing
Riiight... Beyond Good and Evil's low sales was due soely the to fact that the lead girl wasn't hot enough. Why, I sure know that's why I didn't play it! How about the fact that it was a niche adventure game with decidedly average scores across all the genres? Nah, couldn't be that.
This ain't news, this is just someone on a rant. And for crying out loud, will the "grrlgamers" out there STOP using Lara Croft as an example? Nobody has cared less what Lara Croft does for ages now. Nobody cares less what Bloodrayne does either, it's a sub-par slasher barely worth bargin bin prices.
Maybe I should have been offended when playing through Prince of Persia, that game was obviously sexist! Why didn't the female lead lose clothes throughout the adventure as well?
Oh, sure, NASA says it's on a collision course, they say it's going to hit no later than Jan 15th... but the odds will keep going up, and up (1:1, 1:1 confirmed by a lot of people, 1:1 confirmed by tons of penguins looking at it...) , and then poof... 1 in a billion.
Why is this so hard for you? I recommend it based on the research I've done on it and other cards. If you don't like it, fine, so be it. As I said in the start, do your own research, draw your own conclusions. I never claimed to be reviewing the card.
Recommend:
To praise or commend (one) to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse:
Some of us actually do research about a product before purchasing. It's been out for what, a good month or more now? You really think there's a shortage of information?
At any rate, no real worry. You've still got real SLI, meaning you can use two 6800GT's, or two of whatever comes along in the future. As others are saying, this runs slightly less than a 6800GT and has disadvantages.
maybe a firefox extention to change windose, winblows and windoze to Microsoft Windows(TM).
You may be on to something... like adblock in cleaning up the web, but for text. M$ becomes MS, etc etc. While we're at it, we can just de-1337 (get it?) the whole web and improve the intelligence overall.
u = you
r = are
LOL = "That's a knee-slapper!"
OMGWTF! = "I say, ol' chap!"
Of course, for the people who actually find that kind of thing funny, there awaits much amusement as well in reverse. There's a lot of talk for filters like this (intended for profanity, go figure...) but little has actually been done. Perhaps with a 3rd party filter app (Proxomitron?) though.
Thief: "A laptop? Man... I wanted a pizza!"
Brain: "A fenced laptop can buy many pizzas."
Thief: "Explain how."
Brain: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services... and vice versa."
Thief: "Woohoo!"
"Again, if a person has the mental discipline to ignore other interruptions or re-priorotize the distractions, it's not too much of a problem."
If anything, I'd say this is what many people with "problems" multitasking lack. Simple common sense and a bit of discipline. Don't leave your dang IMs on 24/7. For that matter, if you can't manage to carry a decent conversation and watch TV at the same time, don't bug me by sending 1 line emails or IMs at random intervals, I'll ignore them... and eventually, the sender.
As you say, this has existed long before technology. I hate when people call me on the phone and eat, or watch TV, or do chores. Not because I mind they're doing something productive, but because they can't manage to carry a decent conversation and are simply wasting my time. Same way with people who take non-imporant cellphone calls at resturaunts. Hang up the phone, turn it off, and focus. It's not hard. There's no problems with mutlitasking, just problems with people who have never been able to focus. This is why we get people who come up with the brilliant multitasking ideas of cell phone SUV drivers and fastfood-eating drivers.
Multitasking these days is easier than ever, as more and more of the things I do can take care of things in the background without my interaction. Computer software is getting great at background work, home electronics are buzzing with activity these days, and the end result is everything is ready and working when I need it.
"I think i should change my profession and start bullshitting my way into some real money."
Well, I think you hit the nail on the head... but that last line worries me that's simply what you want me to think.
I certainly wouldn't call Japanese the world's most complex language. I merely said instant learning via immersion is a myth. I'd have a much harder time mastering Mandarin or Cantonese, really. As a student of Japanese for several years, I'd say that the language is indeed easier than it's made out to be. For that matter, so are the Kanji once you break the seemingly meaningless jumble of strokes into rhyme and reason.
But like any language, to say the grammar is easy is also misleading. It's easy to jump in and learn a thing or two, but to really master the language is far from simple. Particles can be a real headache for any foreign student, the sentence structure is almost reverse from ours, and verbs have many, many conjugations. Sure, the first few base forms, the -masu forms, and etc are easy as pie, but I've yet to see the student who hasn't had to put serious time into learning the -te forums, for example.
This doesn't even begin to get into the polite vs plain speak, the social issues of when and where to use which, or for that matter actual conversation, which like English in actual conversion, tends to throw most of the rulebook out the window. I believe one other factor that contributes greatly to the perceived difficulty Japanese is that compared to English, Japanese is a very implied language. Subjects, actions, places, and much more are completely dropped from sentences if they're assumed to be known. Basically, one has to actually pay attention to what's said in a conversation and extrapolate... something many people lack practice at.
"More or less, it's pretty much the human nature to question certain things, and I understand that we Americans are also quite xenophobic, so it isn't as if I'm pointing fingers for the sake of doing so.:-) But on the same note, it isn't something to say does not exist."
When did I say it didn't exist or that Japan is "neutral in nearly everything"? I merely said that this thread so far as been a collection of extremes. Yes, Japan does have some folks who don't take kindly to foreigners... but as you say, so do we. I'd say so do most countries.
With Japan's history, especially with the US no less, I'd say they've come a very long way in a very short time. Taking steps like this to encourage tourism is just another example that they're at least trying.
Slashdot Mirror
'How do you get bought by Yahoo and then scream "Woohoo?"'
Indeed... I'd shout "Cha-CHING!"
Care to elaborate on why? I had considered purchasing a MX1000 when my 700's buttons started wearing out and not registering all clicks. Went with a 510 instead because 1) It was dirt cheap compared to a mx1000, and 2) It's widely considered every bit as good as the 700, without recharging.
I can (and do) grip my logitech MX1000 in a way that looks like what they're trying to accomplish... Fingers bent a bit, hand relaxed over the top arch. Its buttons extend quite far along the body of the mouse, it's very comfortable.
Funny enough, this sort of comfortable 'loose grip' on the mouse is great in FPS games. You'd be surprised the amount of control gained from the standard and limiting flopping the hand on the mouse. It works well enough for me with my mx510 and mx700.
Go is a great suggestion, and yes, please never use "mod me down" again. :) I dispute your "any decent player" claim with computers though. Depends on how you define "decent".
.exe:n uGo.html
I'm a beginner, decent against humans, but I still get whooped by a computer. I recommend you look into GNUGo and use Jago as a GUI. Jago will let you play games against your friends online with a very, very nice GUI, and by plugging in the GnuGO binary, Jago will connect to it and you can vs a very good, and free, computer. Available for Linux and Windows, not sure about Mac.
You can get Jago here:
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/
Details on GnuGo use with Jago, and the
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/Documentation/G
By the way:
I have mod points, and frequently do, but I'll opt out of modding this thread to reply. I, and others that I've seen, usually don't waste mod points modding people off-topic or troll unless need be. The Slashdot guides specifically say to focus on modding up, not down. Following this thread and wasting mod points on modding down every reply would be worthless.
Personally, I feel some of the more interesting and entertaining thoughts come out of off topic threads. The only time I'd waste a vote on "offtopic" would be say, if someone was troll-ish and shouted "Doom 3 RULES!" or something like "My computer crashed, what does this error mean?"
It's amazing how badly Firefox screwed up extension versioning. This procedure is an apt demonstration.
.exe or .zip again. I love Firefox as a surfer and as a web guy, but for a browser that claims to really pay attention to the user and usability, they're missing the obvious: automation.
I have to agree with you there, especially when using nightlies. There's really no excuse for the silly maxversion tag which rarely means anything at all. For awhile, old perfectly working extensions wouldn't even show, hence the 'Show Old Extension' extension! That's messed up. If an extension isn't broke, and chances are it isn't, it should simply work.
There are other 'normal' ways to upgrade the version number, including over the update system, but obviously that relies on the original author doing something about it... which isn't something you want to bank on. It certainly should have been done much differently.
I'm really not sure why authors insist on setting their maxversion so low, especially when they don't plan to 1) put out a new version before the next release, or 2) support their extension later. If you're going to just release it and forget it, you'd think you'd at least bump the version number way up. Perhaps it's an "to get listed at update.mozilla.org" thing. Just a guess.
This was also a chance for them to finally prove their update system works with 1.0.1. Instead, we're all redownloading the
No sweat, glad it worked for you. I messed the application dir up a bit trying to cut my data out of it, and Slashdot took a bit out... just to clarify it should be soemthing like:
s ions
.xpi to .zip (or .rar if I'm wrong), unzip it, find the file with the same maxversion line, and edit that higher. Then just rezip the folders and rename it .xpi again. Instant bumped version.
%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(random)\exten
(No space, Slashdot does that.) Also, for new downloads... you can save an extension to your hard drive, rename the
I installed 1.0.1, then reinstalled 1.0 because I like the Textzoom extension. This hasn't been officially updated to 1.0, but extensionsmirror has a link to a version patched for 1.0 installs.
:)
Since it's not being maintained, I'll probably eventually have to give it up, but I won't for such a minor Firefox update.
Actually, no you don't. Changing extension maxlimits is trival.
- First, find your profile. In Explorer find: %appdata%\Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\extensions
- Second, open Extensions.rdf with notepad, metapad, etc.
- Third, find and replace any of:
em:maxVersion="1.0"
With em:maxVersion="5.0"
And you're good to go. You can put any number you want, but I like 5.0 just to make it easier, especially with nightlies in the past. You could also use about:config to lower your version number, but that could have other side effects. Now, if doing this makes your extension not work because of code changes (rarely) or somehow borks your profile (highly doubtful), use at your own risk.
And Extensionsmirror.nl is a great place to find prebumped extensions.
Quick and easy geekdom quiz for your 'friends':
"Red Hat Promises A More Vibrant Fedora"
The above statement is about:
A) Fashion
B) Design
C) A former Linux favorite trying to please the early supporters they've left in the dust in favor of enterprise money.
...Coming soon to G4. "We CAN make it worse!"
That's one 1 down...
And a massive cheer was heard across the land...
X-Play was indeed the one and only reason I was keeping G4 in my cable lineup. I finally said enough and dumped the channel about a week ago. I will, however, miss X-Play. They had great preview coverage, downright funny reviews, and constant in-jokes for the gaming crowd.
Which isn't to say Adam acting dim didn't get on my nerves more than a few times.
G4 buying Tech TV was the worst thing to happen in ages.
For me it's been pretty swell. I picked up a new digital cable about a month or two before the merge. Sure, I liked Tech TV, and I liked some of G4... but after the merge both became unwatchable. Good thing, since that was really the only reason I had that particular package.
I've since switched it over to another package for the same price that includes a whole bunch of discovery channels, stuff like the Science channel and international channel, the gameshow channel, and some other interesting stuff like Fit TV. I should thank G4 for making both stations so utterly unwatchable that I could switch the lineup without guilt.
First the WoW non-story, then the Grrl Gamer non-story, now this complete and utter non-story. Seriously, Slashdot may be the news for Nerds... but it's certainly no Blue's News. Can't we just leave the gaming news stories to someone who can actually cover it?
More on Death By Degrees... as TFA states:
;)
"functional beauty in combat." It turns out that Nina's bikini and catsuit are more than just eye candy. "The outfit designs were based on ease of movement and variation in appearance," states Sakagami. "Depending on whether an attack connects with bare or clothed skin, the resulting damage differs."
So it's the classic "spellcasters need to wear light clothing" argument, basically. Still hardly amounts, to me, to what the blurb was implying. Why does anyone pay attention to these silly blurbs anyway? Do guys care about the suit's backstory in some generic fighter? Hardly. Leave it to a woman to nitpick such details.
And ya know, one thing rarely touched on is the fact that it's not at all surprising nearly everyone in say, Soul Calibur 2, looks great. Gee, you think maybe if you spend your life doing extreme training across the globe and becoming a master fighter you'll get a good figure doing it? I've never seen fat ninja.
Will Nina's low-cut shorts and thigh-high boots allow her to deliver a more powerful blow in Death by Degrees? The developer wants you to believe so.
Hmm, I haven't played "Death by Degrees", but I somehow doubt there's a blurb in it that amounts to sexy outfit = power fighter. What the heck is wrong with sexy outfit = sexy outfit?
Beyond Good & Evil's Jade bucked the trend of buxom and deadly heroines; the game was critically acclaimed, but sales proved disappointing
Riiight... Beyond Good and Evil's low sales was due soely the to fact that the lead girl wasn't hot enough. Why, I sure know that's why I didn't play it! How about the fact that it was a niche adventure game with decidedly average scores across all the genres? Nah, couldn't be that.
This ain't news, this is just someone on a rant. And for crying out loud, will the "grrlgamers" out there STOP using Lara Croft as an example? Nobody has cared less what Lara Croft does for ages now. Nobody cares less what Bloodrayne does either, it's a sub-par slasher barely worth bargin bin prices.
Maybe I should have been offended when playing through Prince of Persia, that game was obviously sexist! Why didn't the female lead lose clothes throughout the adventure as well?
Somewhere in Antarctica:
Oh, sure, NASA says it's on a collision course, they say it's going to hit no later than Jan 15th... but the odds will keep going up, and up (1:1, 1:1 confirmed by a lot of people, 1:1 confirmed by tons of penguins looking at it...) , and then poof... 1 in a billion.
I'm not falling for that one again!
The last Slashdot post by McFrostyGuy1131.
Why is this so hard for you? I recommend it based on the research I've done on it and other cards. If you don't like it, fine, so be it. As I said in the start, do your own research, draw your own conclusions. I never claimed to be reviewing the card.
Recommend:
To praise or commend (one) to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse:
Some of us actually do research about a product before purchasing. It's been out for what, a good month or more now? You really think there's a shortage of information?
How the heck is the above post redundant?
At any rate, no real worry. You've still got real SLI, meaning you can use two 6800GT's, or two of whatever comes along in the future. As others are saying, this runs slightly less than a 6800GT and has disadvantages.
I'll be getting a 6600GT any day now, and fully recommed it.
Quite simply, look at the benchmarks and decide for yourself.
maybe a firefox extention to change windose, winblows and windoze to Microsoft Windows(TM).
You may be on to something... like adblock in cleaning up the web, but for text. M$ becomes MS, etc etc. While we're at it, we can just de-1337 (get it?) the whole web and improve the intelligence overall.
u = you
r = are
LOL = "That's a knee-slapper!"
OMGWTF! = "I say, ol' chap!"
Of course, for the people who actually find that kind of thing funny, there awaits much amusement as well in reverse. There's a lot of talk for filters like this (intended for profanity, go figure...) but little has actually been done. Perhaps with a 3rd party filter app (Proxomitron?) though.
Thief: "A laptop? Man... I wanted a pizza!"
Brain: "A fenced laptop can buy many pizzas."
Thief: "Explain how."
Brain: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services... and vice versa."
Thief: "Woohoo!"
"Again, if a person has the mental discipline to ignore other interruptions or re-priorotize the distractions, it's not too much of a problem."
If anything, I'd say this is what many people with "problems" multitasking lack. Simple common sense and a bit of discipline. Don't leave your dang IMs on 24/7. For that matter, if you can't manage to carry a decent conversation and watch TV at the same time, don't bug me by sending 1 line emails or IMs at random intervals, I'll ignore them... and eventually, the sender.
As you say, this has existed long before technology. I hate when people call me on the phone and eat, or watch TV, or do chores. Not because I mind they're doing something productive, but because they can't manage to carry a decent conversation and are simply wasting my time. Same way with people who take non-imporant cellphone calls at resturaunts. Hang up the phone, turn it off, and focus. It's not hard. There's no problems with mutlitasking, just problems with people who have never been able to focus. This is why we get people who come up with the brilliant multitasking ideas of cell phone SUV drivers and fastfood-eating drivers.
Multitasking these days is easier than ever, as more and more of the things I do can take care of things in the background without my interaction. Computer software is getting great at background work, home electronics are buzzing with activity these days, and the end result is everything is ready and working when I need it.
"I think i should change my profession and start bullshitting my way into some real money."
Well, I think you hit the nail on the head... but that last line worries me that's simply what you want me to think.
I certainly wouldn't call Japanese the world's most complex language. I merely said instant learning via immersion is a myth. I'd have a much harder time mastering Mandarin or Cantonese, really. As a student of Japanese for several years, I'd say that the language is indeed easier than it's made out to be. For that matter, so are the Kanji once you break the seemingly meaningless jumble of strokes into rhyme and reason.
But like any language, to say the grammar is easy is also misleading. It's easy to jump in and learn a thing or two, but to really master the language is far from simple. Particles can be a real headache for any foreign student, the sentence structure is almost reverse from ours, and verbs have many, many conjugations. Sure, the first few base forms, the -masu forms, and etc are easy as pie, but I've yet to see the student who hasn't had to put serious time into learning the -te forums, for example.
This doesn't even begin to get into the polite vs plain speak, the social issues of when and where to use which, or for that matter actual conversation, which like English in actual conversion, tends to throw most of the rulebook out the window. I believe one other factor that contributes greatly to the perceived difficulty Japanese is that compared to English, Japanese is a very implied language. Subjects, actions, places, and much more are completely dropped from sentences if they're assumed to be known. Basically, one has to actually pay attention to what's said in a conversation and extrapolate... something many people lack practice at.
"More or less, it's pretty much the human nature to question certain things, and I understand that we Americans are also quite xenophobic, so it isn't as if I'm pointing fingers for the sake of doing so. :-) But on the same note, it isn't something to say does not exist."
When did I say it didn't exist or that Japan is "neutral in nearly everything"? I merely said that this thread so far as been a collection of extremes. Yes, Japan does have some folks who don't take kindly to foreigners... but as you say, so do we. I'd say so do most countries.
With Japan's history, especially with the US no less, I'd say they've come a very long way in a very short time. Taking steps like this to encourage tourism is just another example that they're at least trying.