Actually, in Japan tipping isn't really insulting, it's just that absolutely no-one does it. For example, if you give try and give a tip at a restaurant in Japan and they're not wise about western tipping culture, they will simply assume that you made a mistake when trying to pay. Either way, if you tip they'll just try to give you your change back (even to the point of running down the street after you!)
The only time it might appear rude is if it could be mistaken for a bribe. This is really a pretty rare occurrence, but just in case I'll warn you not to try and tip any police officers or customs officials;) In other situations like trying to tip bellboys, etc., you will cause confusion, but no actual insult.
Not to mention the advertising, at least here in Japan. Nintendo had very high profile TV commercials showing the gameplay and the fact that people of all generations enjoyed playing it. And, of course, it was and is plastered all over video game store shelves. 3 million of those 10 million copies were sold in Japan, so they must be doing something right.
My friend was doing work experience at a factory and he got these kinds of requests all the time. The one I liked best was when they sent him to supplies to find a "long weight".
He figured that one out, though;)
I did a training course with the St. John's Ambulance in the UK back in May last year. The new guidelines had already come into effect then. The most interesting thing I found was that now the rescue breaths are now optional. Apparently, chest compressions are not only good at keeping the blood flowing round the body; the air that is displaced and replaced from the lungs by the action of the chest compressions alone is enough to have new oxygen enter the blood stream.
Of course, the best solution is to have one person do chest compressions and another do rescue breaths at the same time, as some others have mentioned already. Then you can swap over when one person gets tired - 100 compressions every minute is hard work! (Especially if the ambulance takes a long time to arrive...)
Take a look at drfuhrman.com. He has had many patients have their hypertension reversed and lose weight into the bargain through his diet plan, all while eating as much (of the right food) as they want. Nearly all patients stop previous medications as well. It's worked wonders for me, so check it out. One thing I would say is to take his advice about multivitamins seriously, otherwise you can end up deficient in vitamin B12 as well as a couple of others if you're not careful.
Reminds me of my boss, who goes by the name of John Shuttleworth. Now, he lives in a flat on the ground floor of a house which he owns. He rents the flat above to his nephew, who goes by the name of *drumroll* John Shuttleworth. We call the nephew "Junior" as a rule. Anyway, Junior went bankrupt due to some bad business decisions, and suddenly John Senior found himself not being able to use his credit cards anymore. He only managed to get them back after several heated phone calls...
They did give him £50 (I think that was the amount) when they found out they'd got the wrong guy. I can sympathise with the bank though - same name, same address, must be the same person, right?
I bought a CD from a market stall once. It cost me £5. I gave the stall owner £10 and he gave me £15 change. Upon realising the mistake, I promptly went back to the stall and explained the error, giving back the £10, at which point the stall owner became so surprised that he spilled his coffee all over me. I'm not quite sure of the moral of this story, but I can't help but feel that something, somewhere, has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
He did give me a tissue to wipe off the coffee with though.
Redundant -- Redundant posts are ones which add no new information, but instead take up sace with repeating information either in the Slashdot post, the attached links, or lots of previous comments. For instance, some posters cut and paste otherwise legitimate comments in multiple places in the same discussion; the pasted versions are Redundant.
So FF r0x0rs comments may be lame, but the first one at least is not redundant -- a fact which many moderators appear not to have grasped. One of the other moderation options should be used in this circumstance. I think that there should be a new negative moderation label so that this doesn't have to be "overrated", but I haven't convinced myself of what it should be yet.
A quick google search on "european of the year" has quite a few mentions of Florian Mueller on the first few pages, and *none* of any other candidate. Now that this Slashdot story is going to be added to that list pretty soon, and given that the poll is internet-based, I'm feeling quite confident that he's going to win. I wonder what the odds are now...? (skips off to local betting shop)
A new study online (and its long) compares online revenue streams with brick and mortar ones
Well, I hope the long in question is happy about the situation. Did it have any input into the study? Or would the odds be far too long on an abstract concept being capable of market analysis?
Beethoven and Bach didn't put any fingering in their scores, either, so you could just play their music on a different instrument anyway. If there is any fingering in these scores then it was added by the publisher. Composers writing fingering in scores only really started happening in the second half on the 19th century (think Chopin & Liszt) and then it was only for music that was so difficult that you probably couldn't play it on an instrument that wasn't the same sort of construction as the original. The same holds true today, as far as I have seen.
The best musicians are usually too busy trying to scrape a living to play in a recording for free. Even if some musicians are willing to play for nothing, there are many other costs involved. You have to hire the music, which includes a fee payable to the estate of the composer in most cases. You have to hire a recording venue with a nice acoustic. And you have to pay someone who knows what they're doing to record it. I'm sure there are lots of classical recordings that don't recoup even these costs...
Personally, I could care less who has the biggest fish.
You should use "couldn't care less" instead of "could care less". If you "could care less" it doesn't specify a particular amount that you care - "I could care less, or I could care more". If you say you "couldn't care less", however, there is no smaller amount that you could care. That's pretty low:)
Hopefully this will enable better subtitles in the features themselves. I'm a little bit of an anime fanboy, and anyone that watches a lot of anime can tell you that the fansubs (fan-made subtitled anime releases) have far superior subtitles to the dvds, as they hard-code the subtitles into their releases. These days, during the opening theme tune, every fansub has an English translation of the lyrics, a romanized Japanese version, and a version in Japanese script. The dvd version will invariably just have the English translation, or even just the romanized Japanese. The fansubs are also able to translate signs that appear in the feature, whereas dvds can't. If the professional anime releases came to approach the standard of free fansubs, I would probably buy a lot more anime dvds. Does anyone know if this will be possible, and if the HD-DVD camp has an alternative solution?
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Actually, in Japan tipping isn't really insulting, it's just that absolutely no-one does it. For example, if you give try and give a tip at a restaurant in Japan and they're not wise about western tipping culture, they will simply assume that you made a mistake when trying to pay. Either way, if you tip they'll just try to give you your change back (even to the point of running down the street after you!)
;) In other situations like trying to tip bellboys, etc., you will cause confusion, but no actual insult.
The only time it might appear rude is if it could be mistaken for a bribe. This is really a pretty rare occurrence, but just in case I'll warn you not to try and tip any police officers or customs officials
Not to mention the advertising, at least here in Japan. Nintendo had very high profile TV commercials showing the gameplay and the fact that people of all generations enjoyed playing it. And, of course, it was and is plastered all over video game store shelves. 3 million of those 10 million copies were sold in Japan, so they must be doing something right.
My friend was doing work experience at a factory and he got these kinds of requests all the time. The one I liked best was when they sent him to supplies to find a "long weight". He figured that one out, though ;)
I did a training course with the St. John's Ambulance in the UK back in May last year. The new guidelines had already come into effect then. The most interesting thing I found was that now the rescue breaths are now optional. Apparently, chest compressions are not only good at keeping the blood flowing round the body; the air that is displaced and replaced from the lungs by the action of the chest compressions alone is enough to have new oxygen enter the blood stream.
Of course, the best solution is to have one person do chest compressions and another do rescue breaths at the same time, as some others have mentioned already. Then you can swap over when one person gets tired - 100 compressions every minute is hard work! (Especially if the ambulance takes a long time to arrive...)
Take a look at drfuhrman.com. He has had many patients have their hypertension reversed and lose weight into the bargain through his diet plan, all while eating as much (of the right food) as they want. Nearly all patients stop previous medications as well. It's worked wonders for me, so check it out. One thing I would say is to take his advice about multivitamins seriously, otherwise you can end up deficient in vitamin B12 as well as a couple of others if you're not careful.
Reminds me of my boss, who goes by the name of John Shuttleworth. Now, he lives in a flat on the ground floor of a house which he owns. He rents the flat above to his nephew, who goes by the name of *drumroll* John Shuttleworth. We call the nephew "Junior" as a rule. Anyway, Junior went bankrupt due to some bad business decisions, and suddenly John Senior found himself not being able to use his credit cards anymore. He only managed to get them back after several heated phone calls...
They did give him £50 (I think that was the amount) when they found out they'd got the wrong guy. I can sympathise with the bank though - same name, same address, must be the same person, right?
I bought a CD from a market stall once. It cost me £5. I gave the stall owner £10 and he gave me £15 change. Upon realising the mistake, I promptly went back to the stall and explained the error, giving back the £10, at which point the stall owner became so surprised that he spilled his coffee all over me. I'm not quite sure of the moral of this story, but I can't help but feel that something, somewhere, has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
He did give me a tissue to wipe off the coffee with though.
One box to do it all...
And in the darkness bind it!
Or if those two don't work, just ask EA...
From the slashdot faq:
Redundant -- Redundant posts are ones which add no new information, but instead take up sace with repeating information either in the Slashdot post, the attached links, or lots of previous comments. For instance, some posters cut and paste otherwise legitimate comments in multiple places in the same discussion; the pasted versions are Redundant.
So FF r0x0rs comments may be lame, but the first one at least is not redundant -- a fact which many moderators appear not to have grasped. One of the other moderation options should be used in this circumstance. I think that there should be a new negative moderation label so that this doesn't have to be "overrated", but I haven't convinced myself of what it should be yet.
Now all we need is a +5 Ironic mod for the parent post...
A quick google search on "european of the year" has quite a few mentions of Florian Mueller on the first few pages, and *none* of any other candidate. Now that this Slashdot story is going to be added to that list pretty soon, and given that the poll is internet-based, I'm feeling quite confident that he's going to win. I wonder what the odds are now...? (skips off to local betting shop)
What on earth is an allergologist? Someone who studies allegory?
Such a device if patented, tested and mass produced could end up doing allot of good.
I had an English teacher called Mrs. Allot once. She was most definitely Allot of Bad, though...
History, doesn't teach us anything.
;)
Especially not punctuation
No earthquakes?
A new study online (and its long) compares online revenue streams with brick and mortar ones
...sorry ;)
Well, I hope the long in question is happy about the situation. Did it have any input into the study? Or would the odds be far too long on an abstract concept being capable of market analysis?
I would do, but I wouldn't be able to get the ps2 online if it was modded...
if you haven't played it the original you owe it to yourself ot try
I've never played the original, though I really wanted to - they never released it in the UK! Rah!
Walk south. You'll be able to get a bus outside of zone 1.
Beethoven and Bach didn't put any fingering in their scores, either, so you could just play their music on a different instrument anyway. If there is any fingering in these scores then it was added by the publisher. Composers writing fingering in scores only really started happening in the second half on the 19th century (think Chopin & Liszt) and then it was only for music that was so difficult that you probably couldn't play it on an instrument that wasn't the same sort of construction as the original. The same holds true today, as far as I have seen.
The best musicians are usually too busy trying to scrape a living to play in a recording for free. Even if some musicians are willing to play for nothing, there are many other costs involved. You have to hire the music, which includes a fee payable to the estate of the composer in most cases. You have to hire a recording venue with a nice acoustic. And you have to pay someone who knows what they're doing to record it. I'm sure there are lots of classical recordings that don't recoup even these costs...
I've recently seen mention that the ticket to see a new movie is around $9.00 BS on that!
Try £15 (~$30) in the West-End cinemas in London... it's cheaper to get the train to a different city to see the movie than pay that price!
Personally, I could care less who has the biggest fish.
:)
You should use "couldn't care less" instead of "could care less". If you "could care less" it doesn't specify a particular amount that you care - "I could care less, or I could care more". If you say you "couldn't care less", however, there is no smaller amount that you could care. That's pretty low
</grammar nazi> (sorry...)
Hopefully this will enable better subtitles in the features themselves. I'm a little bit of an anime fanboy, and anyone that watches a lot of anime can tell you that the fansubs (fan-made subtitled anime releases) have far superior subtitles to the dvds, as they hard-code the subtitles into their releases. These days, during the opening theme tune, every fansub has an English translation of the lyrics, a romanized Japanese version, and a version in Japanese script. The dvd version will invariably just have the English translation, or even just the romanized Japanese. The fansubs are also able to translate signs that appear in the feature, whereas dvds can't. If the professional anime releases came to approach the standard of free fansubs, I would probably buy a lot more anime dvds. Does anyone know if this will be possible, and if the HD-DVD camp has an alternative solution?