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If anyone's interested, here's a babelfish'd link to a Japanese page with some pictures of the unit and more information. Looks pretty cool to me.

the japanese site provides a little bit more detail - essentially there's a microfine light grill in front of the lcd display bending the perceived light between the left and right eye creating a stereoscopic view much like 3d glasses. i've created a link to the sites through babelfish for those of you who can't read japanese. (the translation isn't perfect, but it's enough to get the gyst of things)

Sharp's News Release : http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/020927.html

Impress Press Release : http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0927/s harp.htm

the japanese site provides a little bit more detail - essentially there's a microfine light grill in front of the lcd display bending the perceived light between the left and right eye creating a stereoscopic view much like 3d glasses. i've created a link to the sites through babelfish for those of you who can't read japanese. (the translation isn't perfect, but it's enough to get the gyst of things)

Sharp's News Release : http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/020927.html

Impress Press Release : http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0927/s harp.htm

Of course no one really new about this because no one uses AltaVista anymore (at least not their news area). The only reason I knew about it was because Matt Drudge occasionally uses links from there on his page.

And, I guess with Google News you can get any NYT article without registering.

Glad they didn't block Altavista..

A babelfish English transtaltion can be found here.

"Besides the fact that 2 tuners are loaded, the 10Base-T it has". Use the force, Luke.
from the bablefish translation.

whats the 2nd best search engine?

try altavista and metacrawler. They're both reasonable.

Just to offer more clarification on the issue, since I attended the event. On August 28, the Venezuelan government approved a resolution requiring Open Standards for all govermnent data storage, Open Source Software solutions for all new developments, and Free Software throughout. The announcement was made at a public event attended by local developers (and some Microsoft representatives!). The initiative is a joint effort of the several Ministries: Planning & Development, Science & Technology, Production & Commerce, the National Center for Information Technologies (CNTI), and the local Telecomunications comptroller, CONATEL. The local head of the Autonomous Intellectual Property System (SAPI) was also present, and spoke about how it ACTUALLY the policy is defending property and copyright issues. All sites are spanish-only, so use Babel. No press releases have been forthcoming from the venezuelan Ministry of Planning and Development yet, whose head, Felipe Perez-Marti (Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1985), is a known advocate of the OSS model. Perez-Marti was borrowed from the prestigious IESA (Institute for Higher Management Studies), and is believed to be the only cabinet minister in the Americas (including the U.S. !!!) to use open source software on daily basis from his Linux laptop. He even reads Slashdot everyday !!!. Several key public universities (USB, UCV, ULA) are offering technical know-how, with the help of local developers and the venezuelan linux user group, VELUG. All licences (GPL, BSD, LGPL, etc.) are allowable for software use in this model, but GPL will be the norm for all software developed and paid for the venezuelan govenment.

The catchy slogan for this resolution is "Free software where possible, propietary solutions where unavoidable". As sign that new thinking is in the way, it was also announced at the event that SIGECOFF, the state-owned financial and accounting system used by all public entities, will be open-sourced, in an effort to bolster government transparency and developer support.

Local license resellers are fuming, since they think themselves as an "Industry" (?) and not as importers. Most of the market IS NOT the government, but the oil company PDVSA (second in the world), who is the largest software buyer in the country. The resolution only applies to government contracted software, and does not regulate the private sector. An army of high level Microsoft executives is expected to arrive at the country next week, with an expected Per-like offer donation (or, at has been cynically suggested, join another Coup d'Etat attempt against President Hugo Chavez.)

IBM demo'ed collaborative work it was doing with the German white goods manufacturer Miele at the CeBit show in 2001. There is some information (in German) here. (If you don't do German, try a Babelfish translation.)

This isn't new information. We've known the MP3 codec was proprietary and yet most of us continued to use it. If you want a real alternative, then I suggest looking at Ogg Vorbis. It's free as in beer and speech. It's also better!

Use JAP (translation), a German government-subsidized still-free Internet Anonymizer service. It makes it virtually impossible to track you.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3 A%2F%2Fwww3.csi-msp.com%2Fbbsite%2Fweb%2Fnote%2For derRule.jsp%3Ftype%3Dbba&lp=ja_en&tt=url

Everybody in Japan want to connect to broadband for this voip thingy. It is proven to be the killer app of broadband.

here is the translated page: yahoo! bb

how much is this yahoo!bb cost? about 22 bucks/month for 12Mbps?

I really wish that article submitters would not put ambiguous links in the
article.

Seriously, though, would it be too much effort to say "three Kahn titles: Title 1, Title 2, and Title 3"? As it is, it's annoying because you have no idea where each of the three links points. Come on, editors, you can do better than this.

I couldn't agree more -- Resin is fantastic (faster than Apache for static files in my tests). I use it exclusively for all of my servlet application deployments. altavista.com is running it, which is a pretty strong endorsement.

Innovatek doesn't have online ordering yet. You can get a retailer list by mail.

All the 'text' in the linked articles seem to be graphics, so the 'fish can't do anything...
They have an English section, but I could find no mention of the articles....

Link to this article, no registration required.

Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds

This technology was used in 1998 in Berlin. Short films and commercials were shown on the tunnel walls. They used sensors to measure the speed of the subway and installed computer controlled projectors to make sure the clips ran at an even speed, independent of the speed of the train.
Article from 1998 (German)
Babelfish translation

Why not babelfish it?

>it's probably a compound word about 60 letters long

I know what you mean. According to babelfish, a donut is a "Schaumgummiring". Doesn't sound too appetizing to my german speaking friends.

babel.altavista.com

-nerd solutions-

When I was at school we needed to use the proxy to be able to gain access to external networks, but I still managed to browse naughty websites by just using Altavista's Translator, and translating pages from Korean (or some other language) to English.

The translator couldn't find any Korean words, so the web page was just served in unspoilt English. :)

TIP: This works well on RM networks in the UK, if anyone is using one. :)

babelfish it

cool (ha) but I still like the graphics of the fujitsu mobile H.

He doesn't talk about technology specifically, but he makes some interesting observations about what 9/11 has done to accelerate our progression toward a 1984-like totalitarian state. That was a forbidden topic in rally-'round-the-flag media at the time. It has since been published in edited form in several different languages -- most recently in Spain's El Pais about two weeks ago (untranslated version).

He's the kind of author whose opinion is so highly valued that the networks will fly out to Italy to solicit it, but they pull the plug on him in mid-sentence when he says something "unpopular" on live television. If the name sounds familiar, here are some helpful tidbits:

• You may remember his cameo in Gattaca -- he played the murderous director ("Jerome? Is this... the approach path we discussed? Quite right.")
• He's Al Gore's cousin (their grandfather was the first Senator of Oklahoma)
• He ran for Congress against JFK (and lost), but through some cosmic irony his mother later married Jackie Kennedy's stepfather

So use Babelfish or similar.

The corporation optical wear the 1TB (the tera- byte) announced the optical disk technology " tera- byte optical disk system " whose it is possible to write capacity, to the disk of 12cm CD size in the comprehensive exhibition " InterOpto'02 " of optical industrial technology.

Babelfish translation of the article

I bet that you couldnt do better if you had to write a page in a foreign language.
Because English is not a prerequisite for employment, a sizeable proportion of todays community are not fluent in English and many residents still converse in their native tongue.
Link - http://www.christmas.net.au/culture.htm
Go and read about Christmas Island. There's your English lesson for today.

I've probably missed something out, but that was just a quick sweep over your text. You *really* need to have more English lessons. If you can't afford English lessons, try using babelfish - it can construct better sentences than you have done so far.

Babelfish translation of the second link here

somebody's playing with the fish today?

Here's Jon Katz from this article which is as clear as anything I've seen him write, even though it's translated from French. I definitely see the Spike Lee resemblance.

Ok, here's my moment to shine, I am a slashdot reader and I am moderately fluent in Italian. But why not use Babel Fish for your translations? It might give you a few literal translations in the literary or proper Italian form of the language. What it does fail to account for are the thousands of dialects that prevail in Italy as of yet today. Go ahead and type in Pig Madonna and see what results it may give you. Some other variations on that curse are I believe are much like "Porca la Miseria" Pig the Misery? Mind you this again is a literal translation. It more or less means Damn the misery. A dialect variant on that is "Per la Miseria" being "for the misery, or Pella Miserria. Go ahead and replace Misery with Madonna. I know that as a child when mimicking my family in the same curses, my parents were quick to correct and discipline me for cursing in Italian.

Like those indoor used cordless (aka wireless) phone here and here (all in Japanese, you will need the fish to translate for you), don't be scared away with the numbers of buttons on the key pad. Most of them have step-by-step voice and text prompts and the buttons you would mostly pressed following the prompt will either flash or show in a different color. Those buttons that are not related to this particular function will not lit and function at all.

There it becomes a simple task to follow these "instructions" to setup the phone, set the morning call time, use the telephone answering system, forward a voice mail to another phone number, etc.

One doesn't even have to look into to manual for these features but if you do want to, the manual is clear, precise, well organized, step by step with illustrations (especially on do and don't) and mostly, is fun to read and easy to follow.

And I have seen sentence like this on the mobile phone manual: Please consider not to use this mobile phone in restaurants because it could disturb other diners. Nice, isn't it?

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Sic? What sic?

How would I know when I have been defamed (or slandered, libeled, etc.)?

Do I have to Google myself?
I've lived a full life, so far. Attended college. Worked at a number of high-tech companies. Participated in several civic organizations. Traveled in Europe. Though I've tried not to, I'm sure I've ticked some people off along the way.

Now let's imagine that one of my former acquaintences gets a computer, creates a personal web page, and still holding a grudge, defames me on their web site.

My name is relatively uncommon, yet Google found well over 600 pages with my name on it (I didn't even know I'd been to Antarctica! =)... and that's for just one form of my name (First name, Last Name); I'm sure there'd be more if I searched for other variants (e.g. "Marty" instead of "Martin", include middle name, common misspellings of my last name, etc.) I would need to examine every one of these pages to see if any defamatory material had been published.

• How often would I need to repeat this task? Monthly?
• What if it were not indexed by Google, but WAS indexed by AltaVista?
• How many different search engines must I search to make sure I didn't miss anything?
• What if my name were "John Smith"? (Google reports about 336,000 matches!)
• What if the attack were in a language in which I am not fluent? (e.g.: Spanish, Russian, or Hebrew.)
• What if the attack appeared on Usenet instead of the world wide web?
• What if the attack were presented as a GIF image whose "contents" were text."

Consider, too, what happens if my career path changes so that I came to have a highly-visibile role as, say, a CEO, Senator, recognized industry expert, or talk-show host? Far more references to my name that I'd have to search for defamation. Ditto if I were a witness to a gruesome crime or accident.

In the past, publication was difficult and required relatively large amounts of money (for the printing press, book binding machine, etc.) and specialized expertise (e.g. typesetting). That is no longer the case. The first liberating step was desktop publishing; now there's the World Wide Web. What will another 10 or 20 years bring? Consider a groundswell of interest in weblogs facilitated by text-to-speech web publishing using a cell phone for input.

IMHO, I think the court ruled as best they could in light of the circumstances of this particular case, but I can't help but think there's a far larger problem here that needs to be adressed.

It's simply amazing that this got them in trouble.

Google Search Engine

Yahoo has blocked the search of DeCSS

Lycos

Altavista

MetaCrawler

Go. Now Overture. Owned By Disney/ABC

CNet (Search.com)

Add Any I left out :-)

• The guy is Colombian. In fact he is from Pereira, a city not far away from Parque de los Nevados ("Park of the snow Topped Mountains", a region with several...errr... permanently snow topped mountains). The weather conditions there vary wildly, it is by no means easy to predict it. You can get into a heavy blizzard half an hour after walking in a bright and clear sky. In fact, at night he was able to see the lights of several cities.
• He was lost in Nevado del Ruiz, the third highest mountain in Colombia. Where he got lost, the snow was knee-deep.
• He was traveling with several other people. It is reasonable to suppose that others did have maps and GPS. He got stranded because the blizzard gave them a visibility of under 2 meters (and probably also impaired their hearing). Anyway up in those mountains there are basically no signs, the blizzard probably hid all the trail signs and recognizing landmarks is far more difficult than you may think.
• He also had purchased an additional cell phone card, but was stupid enough to forget it in the camp site that day. He should have also packed an extra battery, of course.
• There is EXCELLENT cell phone coverage in the Parque de los Nevados (I've been there although I didn't get to perpetual snow). As other posters said, that's because there's line of sight with antennas in towns at either side of the mountain chain. By the way Bellsouth does provide cell phone service in Colombia, after they bought a provider called Celumovil.
• This post explains why it may be a good idea to take small amounts of brandy in the freezing cold (basically, to prevent frostbite, and also for the sugar content). Also, don't undermine the psychological effect of feeling warmth when you are about to freeze to death.
• He did have a sleeping bag and a small tent. Maybe they weren't adequate for the conditions he was in, though.
• Finally, although a search party was on its way, he was actually found by some French tourists who spotted his tent.

So, the guy is no expert and he made several mistakes, but he is not as dumb as you imply.

Elsewhere on the page, there's a link with "Linux" in the text, which brings up this page (with even more amusing Fish-isms) which appears to be the same device with better pictures.
Anyone have any well-translated info on this?

From: Nomen Nescio ( nobody@dizum.com )
Subject: Small manual for the handicap of rail transport of all kinds
Newsgroup: de.soc.zensur
View: Complete Thread (18 articles) | original format
DATE: 2002-04-18 13:20:28 PST

SMALL MANUAL FOR the HANDICAP OF RAIL TRANSPORT of ALL KINDS

simply, economically, frequently repeatable

In front: The trackage of the course is gespickt with Apperaturen, which are to guarantee safe and as smooth a flow of traffic as possible. Our attention applied for such plants, whose do not endanger sabotage the security of humans, but nevertheless as much as possible friction in the flow of traffic to cause - and we would have something found!

To better understanding small little course customer:

In the railway company the track distances are divided into individual successive distance sections, which are supervised and secured. Only in each case one course may be in a section!

The security managed over signals and the monitoring runs over electronic signalling equipment (sensors).

* If a course is in a distance section (we call it A), then the associated hauptsignal red shows; that means: Distance section A is occupied, no other course may into this section bring in. FIG. 1 (comes still..... sometime) * to the hauptsignal belongs a pilot signal. It indicates the same, like the hauptsignal due to it. (Haupts.=gruen/Vors.=gruen; Haupts.=rot/Vors.=gelb) and stands for 0,6 to 1 km before this.

If a course a yellow passes pilot signal showing, Zugfuehrer/die course guide must introduce a braking to come the before the red hauptsignal showing to a halt.

* An electronic determines the current condition of a distance section (occupy-free) Achs /Radzaehleinrichtung. It is directly at the track and counts, how many wheels (and thus axles) at it by-rush. * In the age of the HighTec signals are served naturally not by push of a button from the signal tower, but by electronics. Different safeguard and control systems are used (whereby the description is limited to those aspects, which are here for us from interest): + A) independent streckenblock (block/close) with this system is manufactured technical circuiting a dependence of the individual safeguard and control devices among themselves. Example: Course brings in in distance section A; Signal A switches to red = section A is occupied; Axle counter A counts 18 axles; Course approaches to distance section B, signal B shows green, course can in section B bring in; Axle counter B counts 18 axles = course is in section B brought in = section A left; A is again free, signal A cut off switches to green; Course approaches... the basic position of the signals to section C is green. Only if the section concerned is occupied, the signal red shows. + b) Central block with this system is the basic position of the signals red (even if the section concerned is free). If a course section A approaches, by means of an axle counter with the computer of the responsible signal tower green for signal A is requested; this examines whether somewhat it opposes that and gives if necessary section A freely (signal A switches to green); with the entry of the course into the section signal switches A to red; Course approaches section B; Inquiry; Examination;... By observing the signals humans can determine, after which system the distance is secured. (so e.g. a signal switching to green can communicate to you that immediately thereafter a course will come.) * In or if several oh counting devices fail, thereby Elektronik/dem computer information about the distance condition is lost. The signals concerned switch first times to red and are only by special instruction to be induced to give this switching status up again. That has the travel the consequence that the respective courses must hold first times before the signal, after consultation with the signal tower responsible for the distance section slowly and with increased watchfulness to continue and only in the next distance section - so far this does not announce problems - the normal travel speed marriages. * Usually are the oh counting devices for both mechanisms in the same place. There is a multiplicity of further mechanisms for the safeguard/monitoring of the trackage. We are limited to two types of oh counting devices , with their function we here made ourselves familiar and their sabotage we tested (fig. 2, 3) FIG. 2.3 (comes still... sometime)

In view of the risk, which a pannekoepfiges, thoughtless Herumfummeln at course-technical mechanisms catastrophic consequences can have, we guess/advise dringendst: Devices, whose regulation/function does not admit exactly is, are taboo!

In addition e.g. the INDUSO for us (inductive strain-relief counts; Fig. 4), which with security with the search for axle counters will discover you. They are to be differentiated optically easily from these to; obvious characteristics are i.e. an even, rectangular surface and its positioning at the track, at the exterior of the rail with some cm air between rail and equipment.

FIG. 4 (comes still... sometime)

So, with this little basic knowledge can make you for it on the search for your axle counter. Ideal discovery sites are the environment of signals on free distance. With bored view from the compartment window during a course travel fall now and then describe up, which knows it similarly from motorway departures: Barks, with 1,2 and 3 diagonal bar. They indicate the distance to the pilot signal.

Thus you (probably) the at the beginning of a distance section sighted. Pays attention to the oberleitungsmasten; they have continuously sequential numbering, facilitate the later finding of the place.

A stepping out of the course, the way back and crawling by the unterholz we leave blank times and accept, it stand with dornenzerkratzten hands and tannennadeln in the hair at the clearing race in the proximity of your place. Take something time to you, a good place and provides there a feeling for the environment and the traffic conditions looks for you - whereby it is helpful to have clock and timetable. Then the search begins. With the bored view from the window, mentioned above, it must have noticed to you in addition that at the edge of the railway track boxes (fig. 5) with yellow bases (in the GDR often still grey) are - so also, where you stand now. They mostly sit on short tubing stubs rising up out of the earth.

FIG. 5 (comes still... sometime)

Checks, what in the height such box at the track is. As orientation a quite thick line (sturdy tank hose serves; see fig. 2+5), which leads from the box to the track. It flows into equipment, which is installed to the rail directly. (that like that, continues your investigation is not with the next box - there several must be.)

Regard to you the equipment exactly (however long braking distances have caution with the Rumturnen on the tracks, courses!)

The two types of oh counting devices, which we present here, are quite simple to identify. They see - draufgeguckt from above - from like trapezoidal steel blocks and are * as unique piece at the inside (fig. 3), or * as doubles at the interior and exterior the same rail (fig. 2)

fastened.

Thus are you at the goal of your search!

Now again turns you to the box, because around it it goes. * Boxes, which belong to a double trapezoid, are full-plugged with electronics (slide-in printed-circuit board; Fig. 6 + 7) FIG. 6 + 7 * If the box belongs to a single trapezoid (fig. 5), in a strip is on which the arriving and outgoing cables are connected.

Which employs it with contents of the respective box, is left to your fantasy, the pallet is enough from cable by pinching (natural with isolated tools) to total loss.

Still a few thoughts in the end: If the whole is to go beyond a purely symbolic act, are both the time and the range of the putting out of operation of importance. If it concerns a completely determined course, which is important to you, the time should be selected in such a way that the course cannot be rerouted before on another distance.

To be rerouted it knows also in principle on the Gegengleis to umfahren the the problem zone - thus: both directions sabotage.

In addition applies; massive the losses on a distance, ever, are, the lamely creep the course its goal against.

And us sometime times to ears that the marketing department of the railways puzzles about the cause of a rapidly rising demand for Bahncards, those should come to observe is in the apron of recruit collection dates, pushing away transportation with deserters from ex Yugoslavia and refugees at all, peace goods transportation, Castor transports and other ekliges more - if happens, then we make happy enormous and drink ourselves one on it (at least).

Sometimes I wish that Google had additional advanced search capabilities such as regular expressions or an Altavista-like NEAR boolean (preferably one that lets me specify my own value for the 'nearness'). In fact I'd be prepared to pay for "advanced googler" status, even just to have those two available (say, $10/year at least).

Do you have any thoughts about the technical feasability of these ideas? And what about the business case; doesn't Google need just such a revenue stream from the people who actually use its service?

• hit list clustering (e.g.: Vivissimo),
• text Summarization (e.g. Copernic Summarizer),
• translation (e.g.: Babelfish,
• Question answering (e.g.: TREC)..

we are the best, we are the champions, one goes botter the bottom of the americains

(ps, the lameness filter doesn't like the CAPS)

Google:
Republican Scandal 108,000 hits
Democratic Scandal 162,000 hits

Google:
Republican Scandal 108,000 hits
Democratic Scandal 162,000 hits

I managed to grab a slightly better translation from here. Cheers.

Since google doesn't support Japanese yet, then I think this link might be useful...

AltaVista's Translation.

• AllTheWeb
• Google
• Teoma
• WiseNut
• AltaVista

Thank you, Babelfish

Google is my favourite search engine, even now, its ads are unobtrusive and don't pollute the search results. They've been good net citizens and they've done substantial research into how to better search. There results are typically the best as well.

In this case their search results were very broken however, at least for the purposes of my search. What I'd like to see is google, or an engine as effective as google, add in the ability to constrain your search to subject areas. In this instance I'd constrain my search to historical sites and would have received mostly uncorrupted hits. This is different than a web directory. Web directories don't classify sites based on there quality. Google does in a round about fashion, it lists sites with more people linking to it higher than sites with less links.

I'm not sure how the details of this would work, self-nomination would not necessarily work. Porn companies would gladly pollute the keywords on the off chance that somebody looking for history would buy a membership to their site. Letting individuals vote a site into or out of a keyword might work, though you'd be in danger of concerted efforts to say vote out anti-Scientologist information and vote in pro-Scientologist information when both actually could be under a religious keyword.

Anyway, linking to more sites isn't necessarily helpful in my opinion. What I'd prefer is the ability to narrow the focus of my searches.

Expect a slow AltaVista response from this, but here's the easier way to click directly to a translated version of the specs page:
Translation