Back when I used to have time to play games for obscene lengths, I dreamed of non-game events like trying to impress the girl I liked at the time but visualized in game graphics/ movements. Unfortunately, I was hooked on Pool of Radiance (the original) way back then, so these weren't exactly thrilling dreams, being that they were turn-based and looked really pixelated.
Its actually as frequent as once a month in some places on what can be loosely translated as "big rubbish" day when you put out stuff that isn't taken away on a burnable rubbish day (usually twice a week) or a recyclable rubbish day (once or twice a month). The foreign students dorm I lived in for a year had a TV and fridge for pretty much every room, almost all taken from the streets around the university. There is a great stigma towards dumpster diving, and all of the juicy stuff lining the streets is generally scavenged by us "gaijins" (foreigners) or dodgy operators of 2nd-hand shops driving around in their little utes and vans.
Oh, and its not really to symbolize prosperity, but rather due to the fact that the average Japanese consumer upgrades electronics, etc. a lot more frequently than most other countries. 10 years have past since owning my first scavenged fridge, and now I have become more of an upgrade freak than many of the Japanese people around me. It must be the water.
1. NTTwest 1.5Mbps ADSL line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 0.8 / 0.4
2. NTTwest 8Mbps ADSL line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 1.2 / 0.8
3. NTTwest 12Mbps ADSL line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 3 / 1.2
4. NTTwest 100Mbps FTTH line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 20 / 20
5. JCOM Cable (30/5) with ZAQ as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 20 / 2
1 and 2 were the same house, which was in a real old part of town and the copper was probably in pretty bad shape. The speed was noticeably better when I moved house with a similar service (3) despite the distance to the exchange going from just under 3km to around 4.5km. FTTH was disappointing, but I paid about 15USD all up over 3 months thanks to catching a marketing campaign at its peak. I later realized that it was my router limiting the speed so who knows how high it would have actually gone. The FTTH lines are shared do a degree, but nobody on my street has it and considering the average age in my neighborhood is about 70, I doubt there are many heavy users even i they are connected. Cable (5) is OK, but speed fluctuates like crazy. Sometimes its 20Mbps, others I am lucky to get a tenth of that.
My ISP promiscuity will continue as I am about to switch to the "k-opticom" FTTH service offered by the power company. We have so many choices when it comes to broadband that I could probably just switch every few months and coast on the free marketing campaigns. Broadband access is one of the things on my long list of reasons not to go back to Australia, but when I first came to Japan in about 1995, we didn't even have Internet access for students in our University. It's amazing how much things can change in just 10 years.
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NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Sorry... knee-jerk reaction.
deserves not only to be fined, but to be subjected to all sorts of "this is not torture"
Back when I used to have time to play games for obscene lengths, I dreamed of non-game events like trying to impress the girl I liked at the time but visualized in game graphics/ movements. Unfortunately, I was hooked on Pool of Radiance (the original) way back then, so these weren't exactly thrilling dreams, being that they were turn-based and looked really pixelated.
If you are gonna tax us, can we get subsidies for farming. I am prepared to move to a virtual red state if that is necessary.
And to second what half the people have been saying, I want an ounce of wahatever this woman is smoking.
Its actually as frequent as once a month in some places on what can be loosely translated as "big rubbish" day when you put out stuff that isn't taken away on a burnable rubbish day (usually twice a week) or a recyclable rubbish day (once or twice a month).
The foreign students dorm I lived in for a year had a TV and fridge for pretty much every room, almost all taken from the streets around the university. There is a great stigma towards dumpster diving, and all of the juicy stuff lining the streets is generally scavenged by us "gaijins" (foreigners) or dodgy operators of 2nd-hand shops driving around in their little utes and vans.
Oh, and its not really to symbolize prosperity, but rather due to the fact that the average Japanese consumer upgrades electronics, etc. a lot more frequently than most other countries. 10 years have past since owning my first scavenged fridge, and now I have become more of an upgrade freak than many of the Japanese people around me. It must be the water.
Gimme back my... hic... bloody car keysh... hic... and I'll show you how its done. hic.
My experience with ISPs has been varied.
1. NTTwest 1.5Mbps ADSL line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 0.8 / 0.4
2. NTTwest 8Mbps ADSL line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 1.2 / 0.8
3. NTTwest 12Mbps ADSL line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 3 / 1.2
4. NTTwest 100Mbps FTTH line with AT&T as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 20 / 20
5. JCOM Cable (30/5) with ZAQ as ISP / Osaka(jp) / 20 / 2
1 and 2 were the same house, which was in a real old part of town and the copper was probably in pretty bad shape.
The speed was noticeably better when I moved house with a similar service (3) despite the distance to the exchange going from just under 3km to around 4.5km.
FTTH was disappointing, but I paid about 15USD all up over 3 months thanks to catching a marketing campaign at its peak. I later realized that it was my router limiting the speed so who knows how high it would have actually gone. The FTTH lines are shared do a degree, but nobody on my street has it and considering the average age in my neighborhood is about 70, I doubt there are many heavy users even i they are connected.
Cable (5) is OK, but speed fluctuates like crazy. Sometimes its 20Mbps, others I am lucky to get a tenth of that.
My ISP promiscuity will continue as I am about to switch to the "k-opticom" FTTH service offered by the power company. We have so many choices when it comes to broadband that I could probably just switch every few months and coast on the free marketing campaigns.
Broadband access is one of the things on my long list of reasons not to go back to Australia, but when I first came to Japan in about 1995, we didn't even have Internet access for students in our University. It's amazing how much things can change in just 10 years.