You need to realize the name "football" doesn't stem from the fact that you play the ball with your feet, but from the fact that players play on foot rather than on a horse or anything else. You should read the Wikipedia article about Football (in general) and Association Football.
...and you need to read it again and realize that if there are two alternatively theories presented (hence the words "rival explanation" in your quote), then arbitrarily picking one of them and presenting it as fact, makes you look like an idiot.
As for Japan, if it says Sony, it sells regardless of what it is. Those Aibo robot dogs were a great example since they were selling those for $1000+ and still couldn't make them fast enough.
Right now, the exact opposite is happening in Japan in three of Sony's core product lines.
In mp3 players, they're being trounced by Apple
In flatscreen/HD TVs they're being trounced by Sharp
In handhelds, they're being trounced by Nintendo
I live in Japan. Right now, the only reason I would consider buying Sony is if I needed a second CRT television for the bedroom.
These types of places are also known as "sekku-hara" (a Japanese abbreviation meaning "sexual harassment"). Basically you go into a themed room (office, hospital ward, subway train) and act out your fantasy of sticking your had up a schoolgirls skirt, or whatever turns you on.
There's a certain school of thought that suggests doing this kind of thing in a club with professional working girls cuts the amount of genuine sexual abuse in society, but I don't know of any empirical data to back this up.
They've tried to re-brand them a couple of times as "boutique hotels", but the love hotel name seems to stick. They're fantastic places to visit. Often they have much larger rooms than you would find in the average Japanese hotel, and they're spotlessly clean. They often have videogame consoles, big plasma widescreen tvs, karaoke machines and multiple free movie and porn channels.
They exist for a number of reasons-one being that Japanese salarymen often have a number of girlfriends on the go in addition to their wife; another being that Japanese homes tend to have paper thin walls, so you can't have sex without half the apartment building knowing about it.
My personal favorite if you ever find yourself in the city of Sapporo, is the Egyptian-themed "Pharoah's"
Absolutely. I wish I had points to mod you up. It frequently irritates me that people continue to trot out the tired old "Japanese don't like buying American" line to explain the Xbox business failure in Japan.
One of the smartest moves Sony ever made in the console market was to buy a major stake in Square (now Square Enix) thus securing two of the uber-franchises in the Japanese gaming world -Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Whichever console maker holds the exclusive rights to those two games is virtually guaranteed success in Japan.
received the following message: "Napster's free music service is currently only available in the United States.
You can still listen to 30-second clips."
Well, they just lost 1 customer. I won't be going back.
> I reject anywhere from 20 to 40 THOUSAND emails daily, on a domain with precisely two email users.
I've often wondered how on earth this gets to happen. I've been using the 'net almost daily since 1991 and I've never yet received a single piece of unsolicited email to any of my email addresses. Yet somehow I don't feel like I am in possession of some secret that no one else knows.
I actually used to be friendly with one of leading guys in the "fake-movie-computer-interface-design" industry (they call it 'videographics' apparently). He designed many of the interfaces that have been mentioned in this debate including Mission Impossible, the last half a dozen Bond movies and quite a number of other blockbusters. He might be willing to do a Slashdot Q&A if there was any interest.
So according to the mood measurement graph, the mood of bloggers becomes more "sleepy" late at night at around the time when a large number of the population generally go to bed.
That's an amazing demonstration of how technology can reveal insightful and as yet unknown facts about humanity that we never would have been able to predict without this fantastic new tool.
Me too. He gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling of knowing that there's at least one person out there dumber than me.
I sometimes wonder whether it's really the case...
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that Japanese games companies are especially creative, or is it just that western companies have lost the ability to be so, under a deluge of sequels and licensed franchises?
Although I didn't explicitly state it, I assumed it was fairly obvious I was talking about over the counter purchase since we were talking about a comparison to a fictional beverage. But then some people need everything spelling out.
People don't like itunes because it's essentially a gateway to the itunes store
I think a lot of people (especially those with slightly older PCs) don't like it because it runs like a dog with a broken leg. Apple are one of the few companies to give Adobe a run for their money regarding the length of time their Windows apps take to initialize.
The authorities have already lost the plot in the war on drugs. What with meth anphetamine, ecstacy, LSD and any number of other lab created drugs out there, do you really think that any government is going to allow another synthetically produced substance that alters your mood in any way whatsoever? The moment it happens the meddlers and self-appointed moral guardians that prescribe what is and isn't good for us, would be calling for a ban.
Let's face it, all that used to be was page after page of people's god awful photos, bios, music and videos on garish backgrounds. It just wasn't as interconnected due to its nature as a page hosting service.
All myspace did was provide a few more content management features to tie it all together. Geocities pretty much died on its ass (well merged into Yahoo! anyway). I've no doubt myspace will go much the same way when the next fad comes along.
My comment about the length of time records extend back was indeed inaccurate - the claim was actually based information on examining natural phenomenon such as tree rings. The basic fact still holds though.
As for your rather condescending comment about the Thames, I don't disagree with you that temperatures may have been rising for some time. The point however, is that with so many hot summers falling in a such very short period of recent history (ie. 1990-2005) the warming would appear to have suddenly accelerated - something which I think we should all be concerned about.
And the [Original Poster] was not [talking about the physical size of a pixel on the ACS/HRC]. Do you understand now [that your original reply misunderstood what he was saying]?
This is potentially true, but it's going to be a fairly long-term process I believe. It also doesn't change the fact that according to a report published in 2000, 4 of the 5 hottest summers on record (in the UK) occurred in the 1990s. Then in 2003 the UK experienced the hottest summer in its 500 years of recorded history. It might eventually get colder in the UK, but it seems it's going to get a lot hotter first.
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Best post I've read in months. Nothing else. Just wanted to say that...
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Right now, the exact opposite is happening in Japan in three of Sony's core product lines.
In mp3 players, they're being trounced by Apple
In flatscreen/HD TVs they're being trounced by Sharp
In handhelds, they're being trounced by Nintendo
I live in Japan. Right now, the only reason I would consider buying Sony is if I needed a second CRT television for the bedroom.
There's a certain school of thought that suggests doing this kind of thing in a club with professional working girls cuts the amount of genuine sexual abuse in society, but I don't know of any empirical data to back this up.
They exist for a number of reasons-one being that Japanese salarymen often have a number of girlfriends on the go in addition to their wife; another being that Japanese homes tend to have paper thin walls, so you can't have sex without half the apartment building knowing about it.
My personal favorite if you ever find yourself in the city of Sapporo, is the Egyptian-themed "Pharoah's"
Well sadly for Sony it's starting to look like most of their smart moves were used up during the PSX and PS2 era.
One of the smartest moves Sony ever made in the console market was to buy a major stake in Square (now Square Enix) thus securing two of the uber-franchises in the Japanese gaming world -Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Whichever console maker holds the exclusive rights to those two games is virtually guaranteed success in Japan.
Well, they just lost 1 customer. I won't be going back.
I've often wondered how on earth this gets to happen. I've been using the 'net almost daily since 1991 and I've never yet received a single piece of unsolicited email to any of my email addresses. Yet somehow I don't feel like I am in possession of some secret that no one else knows.
I actually used to be friendly with one of leading guys in the "fake-movie-computer-interface-design" industry (they call it 'videographics' apparently). He designed many of the interfaces that have been mentioned in this debate including Mission Impossible, the last half a dozen Bond movies and quite a number of other blockbusters. He might be willing to do a Slashdot Q&A if there was any interest.
Do you really need to a$k?
That's an amazing demonstration of how technology can reveal insightful and as yet unknown facts about humanity that we never would have been able to predict without this fantastic new tool.
I can't believe how cool.... oh wait... Doh!
Me too. He gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling of knowing that there's at least one person out there dumber than me.
that Japanese games companies are especially creative, or is it just that western companies have lost the ability to be so, under a deluge of sequels and licensed franchises?
Although I didn't explicitly state it, I assumed it was fairly obvious I was talking about over the counter purchase since we were talking about a comparison to a fictional beverage. But then some people need everything spelling out.
I think a lot of people (especially those with slightly older PCs) don't like it because it runs like a dog with a broken leg. Apple are one of the few companies to give Adobe a run for their money regarding the length of time their Windows apps take to initialize.
Forgive my pedantry.
The authorities have already lost the plot in the war on drugs. What with meth anphetamine, ecstacy, LSD and any number of other lab created drugs out there, do you really think that any government is going to allow another synthetically produced substance that alters your mood in any way whatsoever? The moment it happens the meddlers and self-appointed moral guardians that prescribe what is and isn't good for us, would be calling for a ban.
Let's face it, all that used to be was page after page of people's god awful photos, bios, music and videos on garish backgrounds. It just wasn't as interconnected due to its nature as a page hosting service. All myspace did was provide a few more content management features to tie it all together. Geocities pretty much died on its ass (well merged into Yahoo! anyway). I've no doubt myspace will go much the same way when the next fad comes along.
As for your rather condescending comment about the Thames, I don't disagree with you that temperatures may have been rising for some time. The point however, is that with so many hot summers falling in a such very short period of recent history (ie. 1990-2005) the warming would appear to have suddenly accelerated - something which I think we should all be concerned about.
>>your post still doesn't make any sense
And the [Original Poster] was not [talking about the physical size of a pixel on the ACS/HRC]. Do you understand now [that your original reply misunderstood what he was saying]?
This is potentially true, but it's going to be a fairly long-term process I believe. It also doesn't change the fact that according to a report published in 2000, 4 of the 5 hottest summers on record (in the UK) occurred in the 1990s. Then in 2003 the UK experienced the hottest summer in its 500 years of recorded history. It might eventually get colder in the UK, but it seems it's going to get a lot hotter first.
Do a search on Google. You'll find it's far from localized. You just need to get out more...