While I admittedly have never applied for a job in Japan, I find it very hard to believe that employers would base their hiring decisions on the attendance policy of the school, rather than technical drilling of the applicant. I realize that it's a very difficult thing to cite, but do you have any sort of evidence to back that up?

If you're really interested in the subject, I recommend this book:

The Japanese Mind

I've been living in Japan for over 7 years now, and this book has been really useful in helping me understand some of the weird behaviour that I have to deal with on a daily basis. It's a collection of articles written by Japanese students on several topics related to Japanese culture.

i before e, except after c.

WTF are you talking about? There's nothing wrong on his post.

What else?

The article says that it's a Chinese phone. And the smaller print in the box is indeed Chinese, not Japanese.

The title of the CNET Japan's article clearly states that the phone comes from China. The whole review is written in a "WTF?" undertone. You would think that the CNET UK writer would have gotten in touch with his Japanese colleague in order to confirm the source of the device.

And yes, I live in Japan and can read the original article.

So while the leadership of North Korea is at it's weakest, it beats it's chest with it's weapons

FFS, its!

How do you dare to quote Sun Tzu after that?

Before you say "well drive a car", well if I could find a car for someone my size I would easily drive a car. I cannot find a car that fits someone of my height and girth, thus I HAVE to drive an SUV.

Or you could also, like, exercise a bit from time to time and eat healthier.

Not, like the article implied (it's a general public article, after all) WoW with a single shard, but something different. EvE shows it's possible[...]

It's possible on EvE because the place is basically empty. A space station here, an asteroid belt or two there, a couple planets... In the end, it's just a bunch of generic models thrown around in what otherwise is a lot of empty space.

Now imagine doing the same on a WoW-style game. You would have to do a huge work of world design. Surely there are algorithms that can generate assloads of terrain, cities, etc, but your designers still have to tweak things in the gameworld to make it interesting.

Not to mention the amount of disk space that would be required for the data files making up this non-empty gameworld.

They we're doing it for a gradiate thesis. At least Neuroph was built for a thesis. What conventional method for image recognition do you think would be faster?

I think you meant "they were" instead of "they we are".

I recommend providing links to sources and avoiding grammer nazisms.

Grammar

But I am! :(

Not to mention they're.

Or, maybe, their grammer nazi hamsters....

That's grammar!

The milestone has also prompted speculation about when, if ever, Gmail will lose its beta status, and Ars Technica recently sat down with Todd Jackson, Gmail's Project Manager, to discuss the reasoning behind that nagging beta label.

Whatever the reason, it certainly is making people talk about it.

"The romans they go to the house"?

Maybe you meant "its data".

Oil is there bread and butter.

their