Do you mind if I ask you where you work ? In the place I've worked before (Europe & Japan), programmers are usually quite younger. Or it may depend on the industry you're working for, I suppose mainframe programmers are over 40 on average.
I'm surprised Yahoo has a larger user base than Google. All the people I talk to have given up using Yahoo and use Google all the time, including me. As for this API, that's a nice move but too late in my opinion, unless they have some serious advantage compared to Google's but some reason I doubt it.
My CC was rejected, although I use it all the time without any problem. I tried several times, with the same result. No explanation was given, but they advise to use a fuzzy paypal-like company, charging an extra 3% in the process. No way Jose, fix your shitty payment process and I'll come back to you when it's done.
It's true they are free but frankly the reception totally sucks, at least from the models I tried. If you happen to be not too far from a TV transmitter that's alright but most of the time the picture is too grainy to be watchable. I tried one in a more rural area of central Japan and of course it couldn't receive anything.
Vodafone will certainly provide digital channels reception in the future but given the audience I wouldn't expect very interesting contents (Mini Moni anyone ?).
I'm in Japan and I got an "Access Denied" right now. Not that I want to read any of the contents of this website anyway. I don't really see why anyone would prevent someone from viewing the contents of his website though, but stupidity has no limits.
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately I suppose the hordes of Mac cults will mod you down in no time. That moronic attitude in Mac owners is actually what keeps me from buying a Mac myself.
Amen, dude. Same problem for me, except that I'll be back to Europe, some day in the future. Japan is the place to be for geeks, great communication infrastructure, always best and newest gadgets, man it will suck to get back in time...
Anyone remembering the eOne, designed by Sotec a few years ago ? Nice integrated all-in-one machine. Turned out Apple believes it has the exclusive right for designing integrated machine (evern though that was a PC !), and had used all its dirty lawyers force to shut them off. More about this here.
Now how long do you think it will take to shut those out, given the design now looks very similar to the new i-Macs ?
I'm not sure if they're the same model they talk about in the article but the ads for the latest Sony models here in Japan mention a memory stick port in front of the TV that lets you record programs that let you watch them on your cellphone for instance. You can bet they record it in some crippled format (don't expect it to be XVid), but it's cool feature to watch stuff in the train anyway (Japanese usually have very long commute times, unlike US'ers).
You must have some very weird piece of hardware then, I may just be lucky but I never had any problem with hardware support in Mandrake, everything was available out of the box, I didn't even need to recompile the kernel : scanner, printer, compact flash reader, plus all the standard ones (sound card,...).
Knoppix on the other hand has a kernel which includes practically anything so of course there are more chances that your hardware will be found. You should try recompiling the kernel of a standard distribution (Mandrake or something else) and include the hardware you have problems with.
Thanks for the info dude ! That thingie looks interesting, although a little pricey compared to the NSLU2 (26400 yen fot the 120 GB version) but it does include a HD. I will check them at my local Goodwill this week-end. Have you tried that one out ?
Oh that was humour eh, was it ? And are you stupid enough to believe that any republican wouldn't be cleared off the list right away ? Think about this next time you get an anal search at the airport dude !
A very cool application for this box would be to port Python on it so that it can run bittorrent, imagine having your bittorrent client running constantly (btlaunchmany), you simply feed it with new torrent files and collect the downloaded files a few hours or days later. Much quieter and spends much less power than a Linux PC...
Actually I'm really considering buying it if it's feasible, gotta find out if they sell them in Japan though.
Exactly, who exactly cares about yet another video codec when 99.9% of the Real contents are encoded using the windows version, which is NOT playable with helix or whatever GPL version they make tomorrow. Nice try but no, I'll just keep using mplayer (which DOES let me play what I want to see) in Linux.
Oh and yes they released a Linux version of Real Player G2 ? Man what a joke ! Did they ever run it ?
Releasing GPL codecs is only an attempt to regain confidence from the internet community after the huge crap (read players) they spread all over. Time to clean that mess up guys !
I know what you mean but come on, those guys do work hard to improve that program, how do you think they'll put bread on the table at the end of the month ?
Aren't you looking at the problem the other way around ? You first have to decide whether you develop specifically for the Windows (with VS.NET) or for the Linux platform.
I can understand when people hesitate before switching from MS Office to a Linux office suite but it doesn't imply necessarily a platform change (you can run OpenOffice on Windows for instance).
I agree that VS is quite a well designed product but there are quite nice IDEs for Linux (free or not), it just depends on what you want to do. Komodo is pretty good for Python, as well as KDevelop for C++ (among others). As for Java IDEs the choice is humongous but NetBeans is a neat one.
Sorry to nitpicking but Korean is not written from right to left, however Hebrew is, and it happens to be one of the language the bible was written in. So there.
Just called that shop just for fun, the phone number for his shop (Jean Climax barbers!) can be found on the SA thread:
Here
Here it is if you have nothing else to do: (+44)2089059244
That sounds quite useless indeed, what bothers me is that my BIOS always spend 10 s. looking for an ATA-133 drive everytime I reboot, so you would think that would be for a good reason:)
The specs says it's an ATA-100, I'm far from being a hardware expert but that looks weird to me, isn't a supposedely top-notch drive supposed to support ATA-133 ?
What kind of link do you have then, trolly ? I'm getting 178 kB/s. right now (on my 24 Mbps ADSL link), and I just began downloading 30 minutes ago. That looks quite good to me, only 3 hours to go and CDs are go !
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Do you mind if I ask you where you work ? In the place I've worked before (Europe & Japan), programmers are usually quite younger. Or it may depend on the industry you're working for, I suppose mainframe programmers are over 40 on average.
I'm surprised Yahoo has a larger user base than Google. All the people I talk to have given up using Yahoo and use Google all the time, including me.
As for this API, that's a nice move but too late in my opinion, unless they have some serious advantage compared to Google's but some reason I doubt it.
My CC was rejected, although I use it all the time without any problem. I tried several times, with the same result. No explanation was given, but they advise to use a fuzzy paypal-like company, charging an extra 3% in the process. No way Jose, fix your shitty payment process and I'll come back to you when it's done.
You might regret it when they apply the same rules to the citizens of that country as well.
Vodafone will certainly provide digital channels reception in the future but given the audience I wouldn't expect very interesting contents (Mini Moni anyone ?).
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I'm in Japan and I got an "Access Denied" right now. Not that I want to read any of the contents of this website anyway. I don't really see why anyone would prevent someone from viewing the contents of his website though, but stupidity has no limits.
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately I suppose the hordes of Mac cults will mod you down in no time. That moronic attitude in Mac owners is actually what keeps me from buying a Mac myself.
Amen, dude. Same problem for me, except that I'll be back to Europe, some day in the future. Japan is the place to be for geeks, great communication infrastructure, always best and newest gadgets, man it will suck to get back in time...
Now how long do you think it will take to shut those out, given the design now looks very similar to the new i-Macs ?
I'm not sure if they're the same model they talk about in the article but the ads for the latest Sony models here in Japan mention a memory stick port in front of the TV that lets you record programs that let you watch them on your cellphone for instance.
You can bet they record it in some crippled format (don't expect it to be XVid), but it's cool feature to watch stuff in the train anyway (Japanese usually have very long commute times, unlike US'ers).
Keywords are enabled by default in Firefox but you can easily disable them.
- Type about:config in the URL field
- Look for the keyword.enabled line and double-click it
- Replace "True" with "False"
Et voila !
You must have some very weird piece of hardware then, I may just be lucky but I never had any problem with hardware support in Mandrake, everything was available out of the box, I didn't even need to recompile the kernel : scanner, printer, compact flash reader, plus all the standard ones (sound card, ...).
Knoppix on the other hand has a kernel which includes practically anything so of course there are more chances that your hardware will be found. You should try recompiling the kernel of a standard distribution (Mandrake or something else) and include the hardware you have problems with.
Thanks for the info dude ! That thingie looks interesting, although a little pricey compared to the NSLU2 (26400 yen fot the 120 GB version) but it does include a HD. I will check them at my local Goodwill this week-end. Have you tried that one out ?
Oh that was humour eh, was it ? And are you stupid enough to believe that any republican wouldn't be cleared off the list right away ?
Think about this next time you get an anal search at the airport dude !
A very cool application for this box would be to port Python on it so that it can run bittorrent, imagine having your bittorrent client running constantly (btlaunchmany), you simply feed it with new torrent files and collect the downloaded files a few hours or days later. Much quieter and spends much less power than a Linux PC...
Actually I'm really considering buying it if it's feasible, gotta find out if they sell them in Japan though.
Exactly, who exactly cares about yet another video codec when 99.9% of the Real contents are encoded using the windows version, which is NOT playable with helix or whatever GPL version they make tomorrow. Nice try but no, I'll just keep using mplayer (which DOES let me play what I want to see) in Linux.
Oh and yes they released a Linux version of Real Player G2 ? Man what a joke ! Did they ever run it ?
Releasing GPL codecs is only an attempt to regain confidence from the internet community after the huge crap (read players) they spread all over. Time to clean that mess up guys !
I know what you mean but come on, those guys do work hard to improve that program, how do you think they'll put bread on the table at the end of the month ?
I can understand when people hesitate before switching from MS Office to a Linux office suite but it doesn't imply necessarily a platform change (you can run OpenOffice on Windows for instance).
I agree that VS is quite a well designed product but there are quite nice IDEs for Linux (free or not), it just depends on what you want to do.
Komodo is pretty good for Python, as well as KDevelop for C++ (among others). As for Java IDEs the choice is humongous but NetBeans is a neat one.
Sorry to nitpicking but Korean is not written from right to left, however Hebrew is, and it happens to be one of the language the bible was written in. So there.
Just called that shop just for fun, the phone number for his shop (Jean Climax barbers!) can be found on the SA thread: Here Here it is if you have nothing else to do: (+44)2089059244
You can have that too, you'll just have to wait for the second sweepstake where you can win all the guy's personal data, including his address :)
How about greeting him with a "Do you feel lucky, punk ?" when he opens the door ?
That sounds quite useless indeed, what bothers me is that my BIOS always spend 10 s. looking for an ATA-133 drive everytime I reboot, so you would think that would be for a good reason :)
Thanks for the explanation btw.
The specs says it's an ATA-100, I'm far from being a hardware expert but that looks weird to me, isn't a supposedely top-notch drive supposed to support ATA-133 ?
What kind of link do you have then, trolly ? I'm getting 178 kB/s. right now (on my 24 Mbps ADSL link), and I just began downloading 30 minutes ago. That looks quite good to me, only 3 hours to go and CDs are go !