JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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sf2k
Yes, the Big3 are a lost cause. They have to be allowed to fail. Pick up the pieces of what works and continue. Take all the unemployed affected workers and get them making the windmills, solar panels, batteries and electric cars that will make up the next economy. USA uses 23% of the world's oil but is less than 3% of the worlds population. This isn't sustainable. It's got to get it's house in order.
This is the opportunity of a generation. Don't waste it on loser companies who will never change, especially when there are new green jobs to take their place for fun and profit.
Posted in: Is Chrysler a lost cause?
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sf2k
One observation as a former Windows user is that Windows is a piracy magnet. Spyware, bots, all kinds of weirdness known and unknown built up over time looking at your email or online activities. I was doing tech support and I fixed one elderly person's computer and found 18 viruses and 3 trojans! Truly amazing.
Most Windows users use pirated software, are constantly losing credit card data, supporting criminals, and victimized by lots of personal identity theft (USA especially). Anyone can use various tools to defeat Windows or software for all kinds of reasons.
Linux and Mac much less so. Bug fixes and security updates are quick and routine. They're too secure and not worth the criminal effort. Most of the luser base is Windows, so that's where the crime is focused.
Linux, it's free so nobody has motivation to defeat it or steal it. The licencing structure allows me to use it as long as I don't take credit. All software for it as well follows similar licenses. Hence oddly enough all your software is completely 100% legal.
Windows is a virus laden piracy magnet that because of their closed business and licence models invites more viruses and pirates. As businesses are increasingly over the Internet they're going to not want to risk connections with Windows. As China begins to lower it's China Firewall I pity every Windows user who will be inundated with more severe attacks or corporate spying.
It's an uphill battle but with Mac already there and Linux improving it visual interface, at some point Windows will lose or just implode.
If you're happy with Windows, that's fine. But as time goes on the other options will surpass it and you'll wonder why you wasted all this time.
Please go now and update all your anti-virus, anti-spybot, firewall, email blah blah blah...
Posted in: Windows 7 beta available worldwide
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sf2k
1-windows3.0 (yes I used this one on a 286 running in standard mode back in the day)
2-windows3.1
3-windows3.11 (precursor to NT)
4-windows-NT
5-windows95
6-windows98
7-windows98se (most successful)
8-windowsME (worst version prior to Vista)
9-windows2000 (merger of NT and 9x versions, stable! shock)
10-windowsXP (best ever and better than 2000)
11-windowsVista (ridiculous popups still occuring somewhere in a dimension onto itself)
Not including service packs as that's not a version number.
So...if I can add then Windows 7 is actually the 12th version.
If Windows doesn't even know where Windows is, good luck with that. Even so anything other than Vista will be better.
Mac/Windows are the kiddie picture books of the computer world, while with Linux I learned how to read. I wouldn't recommend Linux unless you know what a computer is doing. Otherwise just go Mac. Windows is done and done. Given the economy why keep investing in poor computers?
Posted in: Windows 7 beta available worldwide
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sf2k
You could compare Vista to a cheese sandwich and the cheese sandwich would win.
Posted in: Windows 7 beta available worldwide
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sf2k
Stop being sheep. Skip windows, other options exist. If you're a computer pleab, get a mac, if your technical go Linux. (Same thing; they're both a version of Unix under the hood, Mac has a better interface of course)
I've been a full-time Linux for two years now, have never looked back. I'm using an old P3 laptop but running the latest software from Ubuntu Linux. I've upgraded my computer 6 times now? Not one windows computer can handle two updates. If/when I update my hardware it will be a separate consideration. Oh, and no viruses haha.
I don't expect a huge Linux uptick, but seriously just get a mac and forget all the headaches. You'll wonder why you waited so long.
Vista was such a disaster like Windows ME. Why give these idiots your money AGAIN?
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sf2k
the reprint is more expensive because it lacks craft. It also seems to have to overcome legitimacy of why they remade it and can't just redo a movie. Casablanca was made in 44 days! beat that for craft! we lack the skills today to make anything of value without copy/paste.
this was the result of the studio system of the past. they had all the talent in a bottle to churn out a classic (or not). We don't lack talent, just the will to use it. Accountants are not artists.
Posted in: Why are Hollywood remakes of classic films, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" being a recent example, generally inferior to the originals?
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sf2k
drama and writing were crafts before 1980 hence since then movies have crumbled. You do get a hit once in a while but only when a studio takes a risk. Matrix for example was great, the sequel, meh. the sequels' sequel, no. all gone in a few years. Any copy of a copy runs out of ink so to speak. Original craft always outperforms for its shear creativity and grace. Without craft it cannot be considered a classic. FX is not craft.
unless the public demands more we have no reason to complain.
Posted in: Why are Hollywood remakes of classic films, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" being a recent example, generally inferior to the originals?
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sf2k
didn't musashi commit suicide + Japan has a high rate of suicide, = a really bad idea, to put inspiration to the people who don't need it. How about a movie NOT about suicide during this depression? Basically, why is this movie coming out now, at such a time?
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sf2k
not a great location when the battery catches fire
Posted in: Sony type P
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sf2k
if they really had a clue what to do, it wouldn't be giving money away. Rather it would be investing in a Post Carbon Japan, high on (real) recycling and electricity, geo thermal, stirling engines and insulation. As Japan imports all its fossil fuels and will be rendered inoperable more so than any other country.
the prospect of disaster management from this or any gov't does not look promising.
Posted in: What do you think of the government's plan to give a Y12,000 cash handout to members of the public in an effort to stimulate the economy?
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sf2k
bar Japanese whalers more like. Why else are Japanese trawlers travelling further and further away... no fish, they've vacummed it all. The tuna is from the Med sea. Weird. Has anyone told Japanese that they're running out of fish? What else will feed people? Or maybe like the rest of the economy, just ignore it.
Posted in: Japan wants anti-whalers barred from Australian, NZ and Chile ports
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sf2k
asking questions is always good film making and I hope this has success in Japan when its released. However with a society conditioned to just take it, it might rankle those who maintain this curtain. I also hope it makes its way to the Toronto Film Festival. Good luck Soda-san.
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sf2k
oh, nice classic one there! Can never get my mind around that
Posted in: Ask why: American states seek efficiency via Japanese way
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sf2k
yes, anytime you have a management style that cannot accept commentary even if it improves the company cannot use the Deming model (kaizen). Banks are a good bad example. Pick any game company in the world and that would also suck. But management itself is nothing to appreciate. What worker in the world would accept longer unpaid hours doing nothing of value while pining for contact with your family?
There is good and bad to compare anywhere, but sacrificing your life to the company was one thing I'm glad we missed. This has taught self reliance and entrepreneurialship instead of those who feel that suicide is an option. Work balance also needs kaizen, but I think the term can be seen as making drones, not people. Any thoughts on what to exchange the -zen kanji for?
Posted in: Ask why: American states seek efficiency via Japanese way
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sf2k
The Deming Prize is broadcast every year on Japanese television. Continuous quality improvement is actually based on this American's ideas in the 1950s which Japan whole heartedly adopted and used to become the powerhouse it is. He developed a 16 step model for continuous improvement, yet oddly it was not used in the USA becaused it ruffled the management style then and now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.EdwardsDeming
"""He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death."""
Now then, taking this article from this standpoint would be sweet poetic irony and vindication of an American model finally being used in America. The word IRONY needs serious translation into Japanese, clearly it's missing. Without it the real feeling of this article is lost on the reader, but not on history.
Posted in: Ask why: American states seek efficiency via Japanese way
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sf2k
another definition of Conservation of Value; commodifying savings rather than debt.
Posted in: Japanese recession: A time for panic or change?
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sf2k
@mikechar;
on the flip side of making money from debt, a Conservation of Debt if you will, would be to make money from value. That way it has direct meaning to our communities. This is best handled via energy credits; thus those that save energy have more credits and can sell them to those who need more. Poor people have the most credits since they use the least energy and wealthy the fewest credits. As each become more efficient and use energy in their lives a balance occurs so that we're not so poor, and wealth is met with efficiencies. Being wealthy then takes on a different meaning than today. The pressure on the energy credit market is that energy is depleting at a 6.7% rate per year (IEA World Report Nov 2008) therefore more energy credit savings are needed per year, thus increasing efficiencies. I like to call this the Conservation of Value.
All this reduces our pollution which would finally be accounted for. There are a couple of small towns that use local currencies but not energy credits. How does this type of credit system grab you?
Posted in: Japanese recession: A time for panic or change?
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sf2k
Love snow! Not many sandy beaches in Canada but snow we got. Using umbrellas though isn't common here unless it's more like rain or wet snow. The first snow is always the prettiest. Funny but back when I was in Japan it was winter at the time and I was surprised that I missed it. I found the Japanese winter drab without it.
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sf2k
if sails have worked forever and work because you know where the wind is, then why not use windmills and sails? that would help propulsion directly and also make electricity. Since sailboats actually move ships, this would be far in excess of this useless 0.2%. Also whatever happened to those automated sails from ten years ago? There are the ones that work much like airplane wings but on their sides. The right Tech has applications but this is clearly not one of them.
Posted in: Japan launches first solar cargo ship
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sf2k
whatever happened to a blackboard with chalk? People like to stand when they think, not sleep in their seats. Somewhere in Waterloo Canada, beside the University there the owner of Blackberry build a building for physicists and it's mostly a modern art blackboard for free thinking.
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