Actually...we don't. They are actually bottles. The link another poster submitted is substantially different from those used in Japan. Call me crazy, but I don't drink the whole can in one sitting usually while the rest goes to waste. Being able to close it is nice.
And man would I kill for some real Sugar in my Coke too. The HFC crap they use instead tastes like garbage. Only took one trip to Japan with REAL Coke with sugar in it makes the stuff we have in the US impossible to drink now.
You've learned a valuable lesson then. DRM is nothing more than punishment for paying customers. I've worked in the industry, and among my colleagues we believe for the most part thats the truth. It's great buying a game, then downloading the torrented crack of it because you don't have a burning anal itch for the bullshit. The greatest part of it I was told that first by one of the guys where I used to work that helped apply the DRM to the games.
I call their grill a waste of energy, and masturbation at beast. Engineering demands my ass. We learned how to cook with high efficiency like what that crackpot is going on about in the video. It's called a coffee can (or similar size). You simply take some tin snips to it. But then again, it doesn't take someone with a PHD to come up with something like that. I like how at the end they mentioned the stoves cost $20 a piece (vs a couple bucks at best with a coffee can), and the families that got them, had to buy them.
Funny, many other phones have done that for ages. My N95 has done that since day 1 via SIP, and Skype via Fring shortly after. T-Mobile at least has the sense to get on board after the ship has already sailed on VOIP via cellphones. The other providers just refuse to be bothered with carrying phones that can do that outside of WM phones which, is kind of saddening.
Your shitting me right? Even if the first taser hit could be excused, how do you explain the multiple times they taser him for not getting up? You can't resist very well, nor comply to such commands as, "stand up" once hit by a taser immediately after. They even continued to taser the student AFTER he was handcuffed. For fucks sake, when asked by a student for his badge number the officer threatens a student with being tasered. You seriously think thats seriously within an officers power to say that in response? Thats illegal! Hell, just for shits & giggles, the student was on his way out when the police got there as reported by MANY eye witnesses. Their own intervention is what set the problem off. All that because the guy forgot his student, fucking, ID.
Plain and simple, the cops were abusing their power (and it's just once instance where it was caught on video!). Incidents like that make students such as myself very apprehensive of police on campus, and in general. The rent a cop security guards on campus are one thing. They do stupid shit with a student, and they can be fired quite easily. Cops on the other hand, at worst get told to use the taser only once, "next" time. Once the damage is already done, and news of their transgressions has circled the globe, twice.
Others on here go on about the Florida incident. I go on about the UCLA student. THAT was a PRIME example of, "do what we say or be tasered". They didn't even try to get physical, said no, don't touch me, and surprise! Taser! Repeatedly no less.After one hit from a police issue taser your pretty much unable to resist, let alone stand up which is why they continued to taser him. He was flatly unable to do so. Go forth, and check Youtube. I'm surprised people have already forgotten about that one, and it was a bit more egregious then the Florida one.
I could understand your previous post, sir. Hence my response. 10 years in the country supposedly, and yet your Japanese is stiffer than the average Japanese housewife. It's to expected of the average American in Japan though. I applaud you at least for learning as much as you have. It's tough work to learn another language while remaining ignorant.
None of that is coming close to admitting a mistake. Rumble was because they wern't allowed to, and now they can because they are finally licencing the tech from Imersion. Or do Sony fanboys really have the memory of a goldfish, and bought their BS?
Changing SKUs is the name of the game, it's common-place. Nothing even close to admitting a mistake though. Sony just doesn't know what they are doing. $600 was far too much to ask for a videogame system, $500 is still asking too much, and $400 certainly still is. Coming of course from the guy that just picked up an Elite 360 a month before the price drop. The hardcore will go for insane prices (I take off to foreign countrys randomly, I have money to burn), but the mass market won't give a toy like that an inch until is hits something far closer to Nintendo's offerings.
Oh wow, you know basic Japanese. You must get all the chicks sir. Gabtene? One day you'll figure out a less stick up your ass...errr stiff way to speak.
Now seriously, go keep with your commitment to kick/. over 2 years ago. Funny how your actually one of many here responsible for the decline in quality discussion, and yet, you bitch about that fact.
Not to mention thats a normal battery failure if the battery shorts from abuse. Which shockingly most iPods are subjected to because people don't take care of them (hell I'm replacing my screen right now because of a moment of not being careful). The BIG Li-Ion battery meltdowns like what he is exaggerating occur when charging only, and your talking 30-70+watts going into the battery + a fully charged hulking laptop battery. iPod batteries have a lower energy potential than one of my rechargeable AAs. This guy is seriously full of shit. Should just take the replacement Apple doesn't have to provide him with (two years old w/o the extended warranty I'm betting), and be happy.
I was unaware the Wii needed to be pulled out of it's base to play GC games. Unless of course you have it in the base UPSIDE DOWN. The easiest route though is just to pickup wireless GC controllers from Gamestop. I picked up two Wavebirds for 40 bucks. Cords are so last gen =P
Yeah, I know that dumbass. Still extremely basic, and I'm sure all you could muster from the hundreds of anime that use that phrase. I wouldn't have been backpacking through Japan if it weren't for a fairly rabid desire to know what goes on with that country, and the language. Damn ancient/. cave troll here apparently.
Oh wow, I got called a bad name in overly basic nihongo by some 3 digit UID on/. Grow up man.
I know they have a military, hell I was in Japan for a month backpacking it over the Summer (nicest/most helpful damn police in the world). Their constitution was drafted in a way to limit their military because of their defeat in WWII. Many want to change that, and others, well they know the military posturing, and money it will require is just not worth it. The only real offensive military might they honestly need is sitting in their many nuclear reactors. And guess what? The US really is in the shittier. Look at the massive deficits, and failing economy in the US. China isn't exactly up there either. The majority of the country is living in poverty or just close enough to where they can be controlled eaisily. May not be the shittier, but it's not good. Without a massive pointless military Japan can, and is in the middle of a depression/recession (they seem to flip flop between the two), and doing substantially better than everyone else.
It's pretty obvious why they don't have a military. They about usurped our asses out of the Pacific over WWII. Now that they've been told no big military for you they know something the rest of us don't. Senseless waste of cash on military posturing. It's why Japan is one of the top economies right now.
Forgot to add my cavet. 2 hour minimum. Makes driving worth it at least (especially in an emergency during rush hour). Anything less than $80 doesn't make it worth it. The reason places like Geek Squad charge a flat fee is so clients don't watch the clock, and try to rush them, and then they still rush! I have clients here & there that do that, but I tell the clock watchers upfront I can do something right the first time, or I'll be seeing them in a few weeks because we didn't cover everything. Does make people relax a bit at least. Rarely have to say that though given I mainly get calls from business owners, and real estate agents. Plenty of money to burn, and absolutely no wish to understand what I'm doing. They just want to play online poker, or get their real estate listings up.
Since you bring up the guarantees though, I've never really thought about that. Never had a client that asked about it. Parts I pickup always carry a 1 year minimum from the manufacturer, and if I fuck up I'm a gentleman about it. Happened twice in all the time I've done this. Was me being a dimwit, and not plugging something back in too. An hour of my life wasted each time, but worth it when you do that without some guarantee. Which makes their premium not worth much imo. Figure if I ever get to where I'm desperate, and unemployed one day I'll just go loiter in front of a Best Buy every couple days, and watch for people with PCs. Least what I'd be doing is a bit more honest than what they do.
Hah, if only being a nice geek paid the bills. I do mini side jobs for friends and old clients. Usually I get a warm meal out of it (hey, if your dropping by for dinner...) and a check. Just don't make the prices crazy. $40 an hour seems to be a happy medium to me. I make more than that hourly on my day-job, but it's enough to make it worth the time. It keeps people from treating you like a safety blanket, and just cheap enough to where they will call you when really needed.
Mandarin is on the rise in MAINLAND China. They kinda need it to be on the ride when they have different dialects for different major cities. Cantonese is whats spoken in the southern part of China nearest Hong Kong. Which is where most of the nock offs filter through, and are subsequently where a very large percentage of US immigrants of Chinese decent hail from. Hong Kong people tend to not be a fan of mainlanders, and their language. I can certainly understand their attitude too after my trip to China & Hong Kong.
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Jones does not use "real" sugar. It's close, but not quite. Few Americans have had real sugar in their soda in in the past decade.
Actually...we don't. They are actually bottles. The link another poster submitted is substantially different from those used in Japan. Call me crazy, but I don't drink the whole can in one sitting usually while the rest goes to waste. Being able to close it is nice.
http://www.rogerwendell.com/images/japan/japan_drinks_lemon_hawaii_pepsi_welches_coke_fanta.jpg
And man would I kill for some real Sugar in my Coke too. The HFC crap they use instead tastes like garbage. Only took one trip to Japan with REAL Coke with sugar in it makes the stuff we have in the US impossible to drink now.
You've learned a valuable lesson then. DRM is nothing more than punishment for paying customers. I've worked in the industry, and among my colleagues we believe for the most part thats the truth. It's great buying a game, then downloading the torrented crack of it because you don't have a burning anal itch for the bullshit. The greatest part of it I was told that first by one of the guys where I used to work that helped apply the DRM to the games.
I call their grill a waste of energy, and masturbation at beast. Engineering demands my ass. We learned how to cook with high efficiency like what that crackpot is going on about in the video. It's called a coffee can (or similar size). You simply take some tin snips to it. But then again, it doesn't take someone with a PHD to come up with something like that. I like how at the end they mentioned the stoves cost $20 a piece (vs a couple bucks at best with a coffee can), and the families that got them, had to buy them.
Ummm... BioWare (KOTOR) didn't do Bioshock. 2K Games did.
More like name me a Nintendo release the shipped on time, or even the 3rd or 4th release date.
Pick yourself up a Nokia N95. Best cellphone camera I've ever had the pleasure of owning. 5MP Carl Zeis inside.
Funny, many other phones have done that for ages. My N95 has done that since day 1 via SIP, and Skype via Fring shortly after. T-Mobile at least has the sense to get on board after the ship has already sailed on VOIP via cellphones. The other providers just refuse to be bothered with carrying phones that can do that outside of WM phones which, is kind of saddening.
Your shitting me right? Even if the first taser hit could be excused, how do you explain the multiple times they taser him for not getting up? You can't resist very well, nor comply to such commands as, "stand up" once hit by a taser immediately after. They even continued to taser the student AFTER he was handcuffed. For fucks sake, when asked by a student for his badge number the officer threatens a student with being tasered. You seriously think thats seriously within an officers power to say that in response? Thats illegal! Hell, just for shits & giggles, the student was on his way out when the police got there as reported by MANY eye witnesses. Their own intervention is what set the problem off. All that because the guy forgot his student, fucking, ID.
Plain and simple, the cops were abusing their power (and it's just once instance where it was caught on video!). Incidents like that make students such as myself very apprehensive of police on campus, and in general. The rent a cop security guards on campus are one thing. They do stupid shit with a student, and they can be fired quite easily. Cops on the other hand, at worst get told to use the taser only once, "next" time. Once the damage is already done, and news of their transgressions has circled the globe, twice.
Others on here go on about the Florida incident. I go on about the UCLA student. THAT was a PRIME example of, "do what we say or be tasered". They didn't even try to get physical, said no, don't touch me, and surprise! Taser! Repeatedly no less.After one hit from a police issue taser your pretty much unable to resist, let alone stand up which is why they continued to taser him. He was flatly unable to do so. Go forth, and check Youtube. I'm surprised people have already forgotten about that one, and it was a bit more egregious then the Florida one.
I could understand your previous post, sir. Hence my response. 10 years in the country supposedly, and yet your Japanese is stiffer than the average Japanese housewife. It's to expected of the average American in Japan though. I applaud you at least for learning as much as you have. It's tough work to learn another language while remaining ignorant.
Nothing cheap cable extenders can't fix. Set ya back maybe $10 going through a bargain bin, but hey, to each their own...
None of that is coming close to admitting a mistake. Rumble was because they wern't allowed to, and now they can because they are finally licencing the tech from Imersion. Or do Sony fanboys really have the memory of a goldfish, and bought their BS?
Changing SKUs is the name of the game, it's common-place. Nothing even close to admitting a mistake though. Sony just doesn't know what they are doing. $600 was far too much to ask for a videogame system, $500 is still asking too much, and $400 certainly still is. Coming of course from the guy that just picked up an Elite 360 a month before the price drop. The hardcore will go for insane prices (I take off to foreign countrys randomly, I have money to burn), but the mass market won't give a toy like that an inch until is hits something far closer to Nintendo's offerings.
Oh wow, you know basic Japanese. You must get all the chicks sir. Gabtene? One day you'll figure out a less stick up your ass...errr stiff way to speak.
/. over 2 years ago. Funny how your actually one of many here responsible for the decline in quality discussion, and yet, you bitch about that fact.
Now seriously, go keep with your commitment to kick
Not to mention thats a normal battery failure if the battery shorts from abuse. Which shockingly most iPods are subjected to because people don't take care of them (hell I'm replacing my screen right now because of a moment of not being careful). The BIG Li-Ion battery meltdowns like what he is exaggerating occur when charging only, and your talking 30-70+watts going into the battery + a fully charged hulking laptop battery. iPod batteries have a lower energy potential than one of my rechargeable AAs. This guy is seriously full of shit. Should just take the replacement Apple doesn't have to provide him with (two years old w/o the extended warranty I'm betting), and be happy.
I was unaware the Wii needed to be pulled out of it's base to play GC games. Unless of course you have it in the base UPSIDE DOWN. The easiest route though is just to pickup wireless GC controllers from Gamestop. I picked up two Wavebirds for 40 bucks. Cords are so last gen =P
Name ONE time Sony has ever admitted publicly they were wrong, and reversed a decision? BC is gone, period.
Yeah, I know that dumbass. Still extremely basic, and I'm sure all you could muster from the hundreds of anime that use that phrase. I wouldn't have been backpacking through Japan if it weren't for a fairly rabid desire to know what goes on with that country, and the language. Damn ancient /. cave troll here apparently.
jikaihanasu mae kangaeru
Oh wow, I got called a bad name in overly basic nihongo by some 3 digit UID on /. Grow up man.
I know they have a military, hell I was in Japan for a month backpacking it over the Summer (nicest/most helpful damn police in the world). Their constitution was drafted in a way to limit their military because of their defeat in WWII. Many want to change that, and others, well they know the military posturing, and money it will require is just not worth it. The only real offensive military might they honestly need is sitting in their many nuclear reactors. And guess what? The US really is in the shittier. Look at the massive deficits, and failing economy in the US. China isn't exactly up there either. The majority of the country is living in poverty or just close enough to where they can be controlled eaisily. May not be the shittier, but it's not good. Without a massive pointless military Japan can, and is in the middle of a depression/recession (they seem to flip flop between the two), and doing substantially better than everyone else.
As these guys have demonstrated. The Otaku Ministry.
It's pretty obvious why they don't have a military. They about usurped our asses out of the Pacific over WWII. Now that they've been told no big military for you they know something the rest of us don't. Senseless waste of cash on military posturing. It's why Japan is one of the top economies right now.
Forgot to add my cavet. 2 hour minimum. Makes driving worth it at least (especially in an emergency during rush hour). Anything less than $80 doesn't make it worth it. The reason places like Geek Squad charge a flat fee is so clients don't watch the clock, and try to rush them, and then they still rush! I have clients here & there that do that, but I tell the clock watchers upfront I can do something right the first time, or I'll be seeing them in a few weeks because we didn't cover everything. Does make people relax a bit at least. Rarely have to say that though given I mainly get calls from business owners, and real estate agents. Plenty of money to burn, and absolutely no wish to understand what I'm doing. They just want to play online poker, or get their real estate listings up.
Since you bring up the guarantees though, I've never really thought about that. Never had a client that asked about it. Parts I pickup always carry a 1 year minimum from the manufacturer, and if I fuck up I'm a gentleman about it. Happened twice in all the time I've done this. Was me being a dimwit, and not plugging something back in too. An hour of my life wasted each time, but worth it when you do that without some guarantee. Which makes their premium not worth much imo. Figure if I ever get to where I'm desperate, and unemployed one day I'll just go loiter in front of a Best Buy every couple days, and watch for people with PCs. Least what I'd be doing is a bit more honest than what they do.
Hah, if only being a nice geek paid the bills. I do mini side jobs for friends and old clients. Usually I get a warm meal out of it (hey, if your dropping by for dinner...) and a check. Just don't make the prices crazy. $40 an hour seems to be a happy medium to me. I make more than that hourly on my day-job, but it's enough to make it worth the time. It keeps people from treating you like a safety blanket, and just cheap enough to where they will call you when really needed.
Mandarin is on the rise in MAINLAND China. They kinda need it to be on the ride when they have different dialects for different major cities. Cantonese is whats spoken in the southern part of China nearest Hong Kong. Which is where most of the nock offs filter through, and are subsequently where a very large percentage of US immigrants of Chinese decent hail from. Hong Kong people tend to not be a fan of mainlanders, and their language. I can certainly understand their attitude too after my trip to China & Hong Kong.