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Based on fact or not, this article has reasonably solid-backing -- this story was run a couple day ago in the Yomiuri Shinbun, which is not only a major newspaper in Japan, but it has the highest newspaper circulation in the world.

Here's the original article for those that read Japanese:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/net/news/20080529nt05.htm

Here's a translated article for those that don't:
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/?wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2&wb_url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/net/news/20080529nt05.htm

Another thing that's knid of surprising, Excite is still a very popular search engine in Japan. A surprising number of people here who have never even heard of google use it every day.

Here's a translation by something that isn't a toy.

For sensible translations from japanese:

1. Go here
2. Select the second radio button (ja->en)
3. Click big button
4. ???
5. Best autotranslation on the web.

Here's a translation by something that isn't a toy.

For sensible translations from japanese:

1. Go here
2. Select the second radio button (ja->en)
3. Click big button
4. ???
5. Best autotranslation on the web.

Stop reporting this every 0.5 increase in damn fox share.

How many times are we going to report till end of year? Not that I believe fox is going to take over world anytime soon.

Btw, by the look of usability, there are bunch of good IE wrappers works more convenient than fox, yes I know about fox extention, but even with them, I'm sure Sleipnir can't be beaten by far.

Excite (http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/) disagrees:

"The left side Shotgun type(6)"

Excite (http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/) disagrees:

"The left side Shotgun type(6)"

True, but why the hell do people insist on using babelfish for Japanese then!? Use WWW.EXCITE.CO.JP/WORLD, people. Here's the link from excite and as anyone can plainly notice, it makes a good translation of official text. If you want to translate an URL with Japanese, go to this page, paste in the url, select which way to translate with the radio buttons (the boxy character means japanese, the complex one is english), and Go!

Let me state it again for clarification:

Do NOT use babelfish for translating Japanese! Excite.co.jp translates cleanly, into correct and understandable English. (of course the japanese has to be correct to start with, no wild slang)

True, but why the hell do people insist on using babelfish for Japanese then!? Use WWW.EXCITE.CO.JP/WORLD, people. Here's the link from excite and as anyone can plainly notice, it makes a good translation of official text. If you want to translate an URL with Japanese, go to this page, paste in the url, select which way to translate with the radio buttons (the boxy character means japanese, the complex one is english), and Go!

Let me state it again for clarification:

Do NOT use babelfish for translating Japanese! Excite.co.jp translates cleanly, into correct and understandable English. (of course the japanese has to be correct to start with, no wild slang)

The Linkstation from Buffalo seems to be a decent NAS. My supervisor and I have been drooling over them ever since we found out about them (and the NSLU2). Right now Buffalo is offering a $50 rebate and it seems the price is around $200 (w/o rebate) for 120GB version.

In Japan, there's another company that sells basically a rebranded Linkstation sans HD and it goes for about $140. It's a decent deal considering the 120GB Linkstation is $260.

And just if you're wondering, it does run Linux with ext3 formatted HD. I believe it runs 2.4.18 out of box on a PowerPC.

This guy's page ("English" here) explains how he hacks the box to do almost everything. You should be able to follow what's going on even though the machine translation sucks.

There's a tons of links to everything this guy has done, but the interesting one would be the hardware breakdown. The middle column is the NAS sans HD model and the last one is GigE version of the Linkstation. I don't think the gigabit version is out in the US yet, but it is in Japan.

I'm just waiting until payday so I can buy one of these...

- David

Well, I have to go check what NECs LaViE S laptop smells like. It's the first laptop produced using safe flameretardants.

Here's the original japanese pressrelease, and a excite.co.jp translated version.

The fish sucks for japanese, use excite.co.jp instead:

excite translation

Though that video is tremendously entertaining, in the interest of full disclosure, it should be pointed out that it is cheated. This was not a deliberate hoax perpetrated by the creator, as he stated this on his web site (in Japanese, which is probably why noone read it).

Yes, the last one was shown to be a hoax. The author himself came forward and admitted that it was never intended to be taken at face value.

See this poor, but understandable translation of the guy's webpage.

page 1 (translation)
page 2 (translation)
page 3 (translation)

page 1 (translation)
page 2 (translation)
page 3 (translation)

page 1 (translation)
page 2 (translation)
page 3 (translation)

You can read the translated Japanese site here.

If you're going to post machine translations, at least use a decent translator. (J2E is the option.)

Later.

"At present, Cell is "being still in a development stage" (the public-relations person in charge of a S C E rice corporation, Mr. MORI Smith)."

A translator-program did this?? Ah come on, you've got to be joking!

Speking of translation, i did a search for the fsv-pgx1 and found quite a number of quasi translated japanese pages. as usual, there were some interesting mis-translations on those pages, the best being "Windows Embedded for developers Under an early receptionist"

On printing a popular character on a skeleton body, SmartMedia is again born on a media card with familiarity. By this character SmartMedia, deployment of the limited article with which a media card is connected with a character to contents is created. Moreover, the possibility as a promotion youth of institutional advertising or an event is also investigated.

Don't look at the Planet Gamecube's abstract. In original article it said (emphasis mine):

The software for reproduction, codec technology, etc. are included in a media [ not an adapter but ] side. If the animation for about 24 minutes is recordable on 32MB of SmartMedia Although the codec of an animation corresponds to ARM-7 CPU carried in GBA, the details of the formats, such as the bit rate, are not clarified.

Planet GameCube just take whatever am3 announced without digesting it. The original article stated clearly that there are some missing information.

B: MP3 players for the original Game Boy have been available for many years, and never sold particularly well. This was probably due to the decompression being done in hardware, driving prices up. 40 dollars for an MP3 player isn't bad.

C: The article mentions Museum tours and Manga as potential content to be distributed on this system, none of which compete in any way with the IPod.

D: The article says you will be able to get 5 hours of audio on a 32 MB smartmedia card. Either this means the compression level will be rediculously high and the output quite, quite bad, or they are using MIDI / Mod techniques, or (and this is my personal opinion), Planet GameCube just doesn't have a factchecker on staff.

DMCA Pandering? Competition for the 20GB gee-I-sound-and-look-sleek Ipod? Are people throwing random buzzwords into stories theses days in order to get them posted? What does this even have to do with PDAs?

Come on Filmsmith and Timothy... Justify yourselves. What do you know that we don't?

P.S. The article that this article is based upon can be found, with pictures, here.

link to the original article directly? Planet Gamecube's just point to that link with rubblish abstract.

Hello, I'm Japanese guy.

I read this news in the Asahi news paper.
This news was not a small news, but the top news of the paper.
Why don't you check the source on Asahi.com?
You can see the translation here.

I was looking at the Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040 for some time, which also has the 800 Mhz Transmeta processor. Here are some benchmarks for it:

http://www.leog.net/_fujp/00000040.htm

and there's a Japanese site as well:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/DS1/LOOX/index.html

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/body?wb_url=http %3A%2F%2Fhomepage2.nifty.com%2FDS1%2FLOOX%2F003.ht ml&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2 (translated version)

Basically, it's roughly equivalent to a 600 Mhz PIII laptop. Enough processing power to view fairly high bitrate DIVX encodes and to software DVD playback. The Code Morphing is roughly analagous to Java's JITC - my firsthand experience on the Fujitsu is that the initial loading of apps is slow, but once they start going they run fine.

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