JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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The large bodies of water near most of these plants are used as heat sinks. The seawater is used indirectly to cool things down. Recirculating seawater cools the heavy freshwater. Ideally the two should never meet but in the case at Hamaoka it seems there is a leak and contamination. Looks like there will be more inspections at more sites now. You would think tests for infiltrating seawater would be a frequent/routine check. Maybe not. We'll see.
Posted in: Water power
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Had the pork platter last evening in Hachinohe. Did notice that the beef menu items were crossed out. Now I know why.
Posted in: Popular curry restaurant runs out of stock due to quake shortages
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Buy yourself one of the new CREE type flashlights and check out the new technology for yourself. These new LED chips are way out ahead of their predecessors. Blinding. The flashligh probably only uses one chip. What a 25 watt cluster could do should be amazing.
Posted in: Sharp to introduce high-output LED lighting devices
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Starting in July 2011 the only way to receive NHK programming will be for the set owner to call a phone number to have the B-CAS card registered. After that you pay electronically somehow. Fail to pay and those channels on your set will lock out. Or at least get that annoying black rectangle box. No more "free" (covert) reception after July 2011.
Since this will all be electronic and controlled at a central point then the door-to-door collectors should just disappear.
Posted in: NHK to revamp satellite broadcasting next April
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Iriver uses WMA. Anything other than MP3 is better. AAC+ and ATRAC come to mind also. Almost lossless. Why people think MP3, a very lossy format is the way to go I do not know. I suppose there is a whole generation out there that has never listened to analog. There is intelligent compression and then there is MP3. Fact of life.
Posted in: Apple tablet could stir up video game business
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American has had the 777 and entertainment system mentioned here on the NRT-DFW route for many years. Nice aircraft. But over the years many of the TV sets have started developing little glitches that almost render them useless. On one trip to Dallas had to turn the thing off completely.
Posted in: PAL deploys new Boeing 777-300ER on Tokyo route
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"V-Inch" stands for "visable inches".. Many years ago many manufacturers were fudging by measuring out to the edge of the masking. Now the measurement is the actual viewing space. And the Japanese use the inch as the unit of measure when it comes to TVs.
Based on what I see in the stores and my neighbors around me it seems every one is on the digital TV bandwagon. There will be few left by the deadline date that will need converting. This reminds me of the big switch to color back in the late 60s, early 70s. Perfectly good B&W sets were piled high at the curbside as the Japanese tried to beat their neighbors to get that new color set.
It is true that one could buy a converter to receive the new digital broadcasts but that route would only allow the user to view analog quality. The antenna would be an issue too since there is no "fringe" reception of digital broadcasts. If you live in the country far from the transmitter this would be a big issue. In that case the converter would fail unless the antenna were upgraded.
Digital TV has been on the air for many years in Japan and while my TV can receive both analog and digital signals you won't see us watching any of the analog channels. The features and clarity of the new channels outweigh that. If you have a new set you know what I am talking about.
Posted in: New AQUOS D TV series
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Wait a minute! I very much remember McD coming to Okinawa in 1976 and the QP was on the menu. It was still on the menu when I left in 1979. My next door neighbor sold half his storefront to McD so they could open McD in Awase Medows. He managed to garner two of those huge window posters. One for the Big Mac and one for the QP. On the poster in English it said "McDonalds has come to Okinawa - Why not come to McDonalds?" Still got those posters rolled up in a tube somewhere. Only two stores opened then and there were some long lines for several days. But let's remember Okinawa has always been different.
Posted in: Hundreds line up for an hour at Osaka McDonald's for Quarter Pounder debut
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Great! I fly on Tuesday on economy class. This probably means the seats in the back are pressed closer together to make room for the Suite rows. Otherwise I find the 777 a good aircraft. Not too big.
Posted in: American Airlines completes upgrade of Boeing 777 fleet
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We retired our SkyPer subscription five years ago. The repetitive nature of all the channels became intolerable and not worth the rediculous price.
Posted in: Sky Perfect, Microsoft tie up in program distribution
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He said the number of violators could be “astronomical.”
An understatement.
Posted in: Deadly fire raises Japan building safety fears
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Based on my recent past experience $5000 will get you four 80W PV panels, four batteries and charger. The system will politely operate three 20 Watt compact fluorescent lamps and not much else.
There must be a typo here if they are expecting 2 megawatts out of this thing. (2,000 x 1,000)
Posted in: Tokyo Electric, Mitsui to build solar power system at Haneda
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We were an early adopter of YahooBB (now SoftbankBB?) and that was provided over NTT copper pair. We still use it. Not as fast as the fiber Flets keeps trying to throw at us but we don't wish to give up the YahooBB Phone. Never had any trouble with the BB-Phone. Crystal clear connection all the time with no drops or echoes and just pennies per hour. The more folks drop YahooBB and move over to fiber then the more bandwidth for me. Thanks!
Posted in: For quality broadband, it's Japan by a mile