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WhatJapanThinks
Here's the official page with a few photos of their phones through the ages:
http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en080403-5/en080403-5.html
Posted in: Panasonic ships over 100 million terminals to phone carriers
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Ahh, Hiko, I've just seen what you mean about search engines not indexing comments. Yes, that's a problem with over-Ajaxing everything and not ensuring sites work with JavaScript turned off.
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Oh, and add comments RSS feed too, please!
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I second Hiko's complaints and suggestions.
I recommend you look at the commenting patterns for before and after, as I suspect you will find that compared to before there are less threads getting comments, but the hot threads are getting more comments, because (a) they crowd out the recent comments list, and (b) since the list is shorter, once quieter threads drop out of the recent story lists on the main page, they effectively die.
I see the old page held 50 stories, now we have less than 10.
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Oh dear...
Posted in: Mobile commerce company cells fashion, image to gadget-loving Japanese women
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Didn't recognise Sumiko Nishioka out of costume! Is she trying to escape from her S&M image?
Posted in: Cloverfield
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NorthWorst, as well as employing no air waitresses under the age of 50, also charge $5 for a drink on the Tokyo <-> LA run. You get one free drink with your meal, but all the rest have to be paid for. Last time I flew my colleague had a frequent flier miles card, so I stocked up in the lounge beforehand...
Posted in: What's your favorite airline and why?
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Uggh, that hurts my eyes! Far too much white from the plane, and what's with the white cards they are all holding?
And does such a small and blurry picture really need to be 142Kb?
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I've been playing around with a feature of Opera (perhaps FireFox has it too?) whereby you can override settings in the CSS file. At the moment I've hidden the header to give me more screen space, and the right column to get rid of that HIS ad and the rest of the rubbish. My current effort is into expanding the two columns to fill the gaps and then a few more tweaks to the layout so it doesn't take up quite so much vertical space.
Have a look at the new BBC design - they get 10 stories with thumbnails on the front page and another 17 headlines versus 2 pictures and 16 headlines on here; 50% more with the Beeb.
Oh, and comparing the two I notice that you don't have an RSS button.
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Ooops, I could have guessed it might already be fixed... Or is it smart quotes that are the problem?
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Comments seem broken now. It's not handling apostrophes correctly, treating them as
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It's also stretching it a bit to classify bagpipes as a musical instrument...
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"I hope everybody enjoys the baseball together with my song"
That sounds awfully like her statement was translated into Japanese, then retranslated back to English.
Perhaps if NTV promised to show broadcasts right to the end or showed other teams as well as the Giants it might do more than some boring MOR song to bring viewers back.
Posted in: Mariah Carey to provide theme song for NTV baseball telecasts
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jambon, thanks, and it tells me that 1.33333333 cups is 306.56 grams or so; why couldn't they just use 300 grams instead? What annoys me is that a cup is a unit of volume, so should I adjust for density? At least tablespoons are used to measure liquids and powders only.
Wikipedia tells me that US cups are 236.59 ml (which gives 315 ml), but Australian cups are 250 ml, which is 9% more than that web site if we're measuring water, but how does the density of ricotta cheese compare with water?
Posted in: Celebrity Australian chef introduces Japan to the pleasure of breakfast
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feffrey - good points. Reading what yongfook has written here and on his blog it appears very much as he designed both the back end and the front end, and while I can see his talents in the software side, the usability is awful, as there was no input from the existing readers in the design process.
I don't know why everyone gets so excited by the "instant posting" thing, as you need to reload anyway to see if anyone posted before or after you.
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Cups? That is the most annoying measure for me! Why 50 grams of butter, a nice metric figure I can understand, but 1.33333333333 cups of ricotta cheese? How do you get cheese into a cup and then back out again? A third of a cup?
I can just about cope with tablespoons and teaspoons, but I'm all at sea with cups.
Posted in: Celebrity Australian chef introduces Japan to the pleasure of breakfast
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And I forgot:
"1 Comments"
Come on, that's just basic sloppiness. You released this new design without proper (or indeed any, as far as I can see) user testing, and as perhaps the leading Japanese news site in English, I would expect more of you.
I also notice that the story about Kii Kitano and fire safety has attracted as of now absolutely zero "smokin'!", "light my fire, baby", "terrible knees", or any other comments, suggesting that the 7 mph breeze in Tokyo has extinguished any desire amongst "the regulars" to scroll past the first page.
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What is 830 tons (tonnes?) of CO2? I can't grasp what exactly that number represents; it's even more vague than the usual "enough CO2 to fill 285.38 Tokyo Domes" that we usually get.
Oh, and Yamada et al have horrendous hours; 10 am to 8 pm is one shift, you need to get in two hours early to set up and one hour after to tidy up, etc. My company sends people for front-line work experience to these shops, and they all report it's the toughest month's work they've ever done.
Posted in: Yamada Denki won't open on New Year's Day
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His hair looks remarkably well-kempt considering the wind speed is 8 mph. I can see the visibility is good, too.
Considering the photo was taken by a decent digital SLR (NIKON D70s), it's pretty poor. Too much reflection off the guitar and the skin tones are washed out.
Posted in: Samurai guitar player
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eastokyo - is windspeed the new knees?
Agree with all about the HIS ad - an obasan in a kimono and someone that looks more like the staff at an izakaya than a samurai/ninja/whatever.
Looking at the headlines down below, there has been almost zero comments overnight.
I'd love to hear the management's opinion, not Yongfook's who is a contractor, not full-time staff of JT.
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