JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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electric2004
There once was a sketch by the "Rurtal-trio" (a group of 2 persons) who created a fictive company called top-job. After they hired top graders they noticed that again some kind of gaussian distribution of the skills of the persons appeared. It is 101 in management: You can not only have top players or leaders. You also need normal people to do the normal office work.
Posted in: 5 steps to topgrade your company
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About GE: they were probably not responsible for the choice of location, I agree, but they did provide part of the cooling system. And if I understood correctly, the 2 other reactors had cooling systems that still worked for some even after the power was completely lost.
I think the many persons affected in Fukushima might not give a top grade ranking to the companies including GE, who constructed these reactors.
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If GE is a topgraded company, this does not fit well being the maker of one of the Fukushima plants.
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While claiming "lower sales of flat-panel TVs", SONY should find out, why it takes more than 2 months between ordering a flat-panel TV in a denki-shop and the actual availability. E.g. the shops are offering SONY models, also at competitive prices, but there is no stock.
Posted in: Sony posts quarterly Y15.5 billion loss after quake, online security breach
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electric2004
Sounds to me like the mayor wants to say something like "being the victim of a nuclear bomb is not nice". And then being the victim of the home made nuclear disaster in Fukushima is also not so nice.
Posted in: Nagasaki mayor to refer to Fukushima accident in peace declaration
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electric2004
I expect that some "customers" might be not so happy, as these navigation systems were mostly designed not for digital TV broadcast. So the TV function in most cases (unless an upgrade is possible) became useless. Now, if one wants to upgrade, the registration information becomes handy, and this is the point where the buyers of stolen goods might trip.
Posted in: 42 gang members arrested over theft of car navigation systems
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Jerome: Cesium and then strontium are the problems. Same for Fukushima as for Chernobyl.
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Then crash landing back to earth.
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Meanwhile the red cross society in Japan is spending part of the collected donations from overseas to provide more than 50000 households in the Tsunami affected areas with brandnew 32 inch flat-screen TV sets as a gift. This is something, JapanToday should report about. (It was reported in the daily Yomiuri).
Posted in: Consumers, who were forced to replace their TVs won’t likely have a motivation to buy another one for a while.
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electric2004
There is a century-old radioactive hot rock spring in the town of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture.
Yawaragi no Yu is an onsen, or hot spring inn, located in the mountains of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture.
Its claim to fame are the rejuvenatory waters which bubble out from red-hot volcanic rocks beneath the earth's surface, carrying with them trace amounts of the radioactive element Radium.
At Yawaragi no Yu, in addition to more typical hot water pools and baths, locally sourced pea gravel is raked over hot rocks providing spa visitors with a unique "dry bath" of heat and radiation!
Concentrations of Uranium and Radium happen to be above average in the rocks around Yawaragi no Yu, and in the years after the spa opened in 1914 some association was made between the radiation and the reports of improved health relayed back from visitors who stayed at the onsen. Radiation levels are monitored regularly by onsen staff, it should be said, to ensure they fall within government-set safety standards.
This place has some experience with radioactivity and maybe they have hungry customers.
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electric2004
This sounds like starting a cartel to reduce competition. Probably only good for the companies, but never for the customer.
Posted in: 20 firms plan tie-ups for solar power bids
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Maybe the tea party should drink the grass leaves they have boiled instead of smoking it.
Posted in: Obama: Halt '3-ring-circus' of debt-limit debate
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Dear Moderators and editors:
How can a reading of
be regarded as high, when
"the radiation level had dropped by about half, to around 5 microseiverts an hour"?
5 is NOT half of 3.83, but approximately 50 percent more.
And, by the way, it is not "5 microseiverts" but 5 microsieverts. (change the position of "i" and "e").
Thank you for your understanding.
Posted in: Fukushima mobilizes 3,900 to help decontaminate 'hot spots'
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electric2004
How about educating older pedestrians and younger bicycle riders walking and driving on the road in the first place?
Posted in: Toyota's pre-crash technology takes control of steering
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NetNinja:
Sorry, it seems these are engines designed for the American market, which I have not seen on the smaller Ford models sold in Germany. So I have to agree, I don't know about these engines.
If driving the Ford Focus at a speed of less than 100km/h on the highway, the rpm of the engine are not so high, and I assume the consumption is lower. However, I was driving in between 120 and 130 km/h on the highway, a quite normal speed in Germany and even in highest gear I got the feeling the rpm of the engine is unnecessary high. And this was confirmed at the gas station.
Talking about BMW. I had no idea about a 335. I thought the biggest engine for the 3-series is the 328. But might be again, that models for the American market are different than models for the European or German market.
The BMW 320 I was riding had 170 hp power written in the operating license. Actually same as my Mazda Capella I am riding in Japan. Also 2 Liter engine, 170 hp.
Fuel consumption of the Mazda Capella is not so good, but acceptable. When driving no highways, only local roads, then approximately 10 liter / 100 km. When using highways, consumption drops to 8 liters / 100 km.
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electric2004
About Kotoba: I forget to write the exclamation mark.
So the full name is "Kotoba!". My mistake.
It still exists in the store:
http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/kotoba-japanese-dictionary/id288499125?mt=8
About the networking rules: No problem to connect a standard Mac with OS-X to the network - as long as antivirus software is installed. And the company provides the most recent versions of antivirus software for both Mac and PC.
In the beginning, when the first iPad was available, some colleagues found it is a very nice tool to show presentations (which they made before on a "normal" Mac).
But because of the lacking anti-virus software the usage of iPad connected to the network was no longer allowed. At least from one colleague I know, he then was allowed to get a Mac Book Air at work instead.
The place where I work, although "independent" in its name has to follow the rules and Japanese Government set standards.
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johninnaha:
There is a Kanji Dictionary application (Kotoba) for both iPod touch and iPad (If I spell it that way I get red underlines at "iPad"). After using to look up more than 20 times, it seems to stop being able to access its database. Then I have to leave and restart the program.
And no - so far I did not do strange things with iPad or iPod touch.
About jail-breaking - I understand the idea, but this is definitely not recommended, if one wants to use the apple store.
I am using Linux at work for particle dynamics simulations and I try to keep the programs in way that they can compile on Linux, but also on PC with Cygwin, and (partially) on a Intel-CPU based Mini-Mac and a PowerPC based Notebook. This helps to decide, if some strange results are related to the compiler, to the program itself, or the computer environment (system libraries).
But, as the iPod or iPad don't have antivirus software, we are not allowed to connect them to the network at work. We have been explicitly warned. So basically its good for entertainment at home.
Yes, I am new to the iPad, but I have longer time experience with a simple iPod with 6GB Harddisk and about 1 year experience with iPod touch. So I have been through many Apple Quicktime and iTunes updates, which where sometimes flawed, e.g. there were versions that could make a Windows computer unstable.
So, sometimes Apple products even if they look and feel good are not always perfect.
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Miyagidad:
It is 50 Hz (Kanto) and 60 Hz (Kansai), not MHz. And it is not transformers, which are connecting the 2 different frequency grids (transformers can not change the frequency), but there are power stations, which have so-called inverters that can do the trick. Although quite some effort.
Posted in: Gov't asks Kansai to cut energy consumption by 10%
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So it is time for Kan to resign.
Posted in: Efforts to stabilize nuclear crisis on track, say gov't, TEPCO
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johninnaha:
Sorry to correct you. We own both Ipod and Ipad, and I have experience that the I-pod e-mail client can crash, when a mail has more than one big attachment (for example some attached photos). Other than this, apps on Ipod and Ipad can crash. You will notice, when you connect to I-tunes on the PC and I-tunes asks if it is allowed to send the crash-reports to apple. The biggest difference between a real computer and an Ipod or Ipad is, that it is hard to program oneself. If one wants to try, one needs another computer (a normal mac) as cross development platform.
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