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Google translate isn't very good with Japanese anyway. So far I have only had success with technical documents and not really with anything where gender of people would matter. For such a purpose Atlas does a much better job at translating from Japanese to English. It's based on a dictionary lookup, meaning it has awareness of grammar and a whole different kind of context awareness than Google translate. This means you can actually teach it new words and by selecting grammar rules (name of male person or adjective or whatever) it will try to use it correctly.

The pitfall with Atlas is if you spend a year or two perfecting the dictionary, how much Japanese would you have learned in the same time? However keep in mind that untweaked Atlas is often much better than Google translate.

There are multiple tools where hovering over a word will look it up in a dictionary, tell how it's pronounced etc. Spend the time on those instead and study some grammar and it won't take ages before you can fight Google translate for translation quality. Good will take years, but machine translation quality is doable within reasonable time. Unlike machine translations, if you do it yourself, you can always improve.

Last but not least, you need to figure out if it's worth your time, like how much Japanese will you read in the future? I got a hunch that having the experience of an individual switching gender multiple times in Google translate could point toward reading some story based, like visual novels. Those are usually not worth reading unless you at least try to aim for a human translation.

There has been multiple tests where people read the same with machine translation and in actual Japanese (not the same people) and with the language used in fictional story telling like that, they end up with entirely different stories. Machine translations sort of comes up with a story, but it's not the same as the original and differently tweaked translators can also come up with different stories. In the best internet style, this is the culprit in a lot of fights where people can't agree which titles are good or bad.

I wish they kept developing the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C .. I imagine it with the most power efficient intel chips, legacy bios, hdmi and a pair of usb(one for charging), battery that makes the phone twice as thick... oh man... No need for V1agra tonight.

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/...

Actually, Linux needs competition or it will start to run out of reasons to make it better. In future, it looks like the BSD family will be pretty much it.

Thanks, Sun/Oracle for erecting barriers around DTrace, thus motivating even better tracing in Linux. Thanks also for doing the same to ZFS, thus saving the rest of us from that sprawling abomination.

Actually, Solaris was de facto a single platform OS - namely for SPARCs. Sun did have that experiment w/ OpenSolaris, but once Oracle sabotaged it, and even surviving forks like OpenIndiana were x86 only, it was a lost cause.

I would like to see SPARC survive, though, w/ either Linux or *BSD on it. It would however be nice if it weren't something available only from Oracle

You can still get SPARC systems from Fujitsu.

But frankly, the only thing SPARC ever had going for it was everything around it. SPARC succeeded despite SPARC, not because of it. Consider:

- SUN produced some awesome workstations and servers.
- Everything used to be open standards (covering SPARC, SBUS, OpenFirmware etc.)
- Solaris stabilized into a nice enough UNIX.
- Lots of Open Source implementations available (Linux, *BSD).

But consider the downsides:
- SUN was swallowed by Oracle.
- SPARC is a nasty RISC architecture. Register windows were really a mistake, and most architectures eschew them as a result. Ditto for delay slots.
- SPARC lagged behind all the other major RISC architectures save for perhaps ARM (which was aimed at low pwoer anyway) in performance.

While SPARC lacked in RISC firepower, it still beasted contemporary x86 CPUs until the Pentium II era (christ, that was 20 years ago!). Since then though, it's just sucked SUN resources as they struggled to keep up with other CPU vendors. They only stayed on top while they could scale up to 64 CPUs when other vendors could not. Once Windows and Linux had caught up with that scaling, and x86 could be reasonable scaled to 16 or more CPUs economically, the writing was on the wall.

The only biometric signature hardware that I've seen that I would consider seriously difficult to spoof would be the deep-vein reader:

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/solu...
http://www.m2sys.com/palm-vein...

They use "Palm Vein Authentication" and this seems like it would be really, really tough to trick. I think it would be very hard to recreate the sensor signature, probably harder than a retinal scan.

Is this out of your budget? Buy one, sell it on eBay it when you're done. Anything else, you'll just be wasting huge amounts of your time.

The Fujitsu SV600 is low res compared to a modern flatbed scanner. He'd be better off using a high quality 10MP+ digital camera to take the scans and post-processing them using software that's dedicated to that kind of thing.

Is this out of your budget? Buy one, sell it on eBay it when you're done. Anything else, you'll just be wasting huge amounts of your time.

Yes Fujitsu Cobol.NET is a real product that has existed for many years and is used by many large companies:

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/...

I also agree that a daily work tool should be of highest quality and totally worth the investment. For coding, Happy Hacking Pro2 keyboard is perfect http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/hhk... You can maybe order it here http://www.elitekeyboards.com/... (I got my own from jp). Slightly expensive but TOTALLY WORTH IT. There is also a silent version (Type S). Youtube it to see the difference. They keys are a mechanical/capacitive hybrid that feels godly to type on, been using mine for 5y+ now. For gaming it is not so well suited though due to the layout. (Function keys need two hands). You can get an el-cheapo gaming keyboard for that (there are good ones with anti-ghosting, etc for 20USD).

Well, if you consider a 5-year public SPARC roadmap from both Oracle and Fujitsu "committed" then clearly they appear fully committed to SPARC. I doubt either company would put their reputations on the line publicly if they didn’t have serious investments to back it up. Could you imagine the repercussions should they not release what they state in here? http://www.oracle.com/us/produ... http://www.fujitsu.com/global/... And of course, theres many other SPARC developers still developing: www.SPARC.org, many of which are based on OpenSPARC http://www.oracle.com/technetw... Intel never released a long term public roadmap for Itanium and once HP stopped/slowed down paying Intel, was just a matter of time before it died off.

I've never been a big fan of flash memory, given that it has a finite number of write cycles before a memory bit fails (varying between 1 and 100million write cycles). The probability may be low that an individual bit may need to flip so many times in it's lifetime, but it's still an issue.. A lot of care must be taken by the firmware engineer to handle this. There are a lot of job postings for firmware engineers that understand flash..

I'm a huge fan of FRAM. It has a lifecycle limit that is quoted at being 10 trillion write cycles (some mention at it being infinite). The memory density is lower, but is a lot more reliable. It's biggest issue is that the density is lower. For a spacecraft, I'd much rather have a board of these 2Mbit FRAMS then a large flash chip. They use these things in smart meters, etc. In embedded systems, you have to be really careful not to write to the flash too often out of risk of damaging the flash. Most fast SD cards have their own dedicated microcontroller (ARM9, etc) to do what they can to extend the life of the flash..

A datasheet of an FRAM device: http://www.fujitsu.com/downloa...

One question I have is how FRAM compares to NAND-flash in a harsh radiation environment, and what are the radiation differences on mars vs the earth. How many vendors offer rad-hard processes for FRAM, and how do they perform?

Here is one link I could find on FRAM, but the report from 2011 is not clear:

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs...

So what your saying is you have specialized hardware that you had issues with.

I have had no issues tethering my GS4, my only streaming issues are sites that use silverlight, and plenty of steam games for fun.

Oh and BTW it looks like your complains about the Fuji(tsu)? scanner and Wacom tablet are overblown. It looks like there is some support for both, although it is not handled by the manufacturers. Both manufacturers linked to these sites so I am assuming they should be at least partially functional.

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.... http://www.fujitsu.com/emea/pr...

Note: I cannot even find a Fuji scanner, so I am guessing you dont even know what hardware you are using, which might explain your difficulty in installing the hardware.

Are they using florescent lamps? I thought I read somewhere they were using LEDs. LEDs typically contain no mercury.

The actual Fujitsu link is almost a year old original press release and has about as much information.

I'm not sure where I got the LED reference from, though, as looking back I don't see it in either the release or the article. Maybe I skimmed it in a previous comment.

>Why is capacitive touch so important

Because most resistive screens sucked, that's why. I worked with quite a number of them, and yeah, sometimes they worked with a thumbnail, and sometimes they didn't. Not acceptable for use.

We had these and a number of other tablets. If you wanted to actually get anything done, you used a stylus.

http://www.fujitsu.com/hk/news...

Sony Viao L-series all-in-one desktops PCs.

http://www.sony.co.uk/product/...

Fujitsu (no longer Fujitsu-Siemens) Esprimo desktop PCs.

http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/prod...

Panasonic tablet-based PCs running Windows 8.1

http://www.panasonic.com/busin...

The Fujitsu press release is light on detail too.

Unless you pay for Evernote (which I do), all your transfers between your device(s) and Evernote are unencrypted. So, unless you pay $6 per month, or whatever it is, you're sending all of your financial data unencrypted over the internet.

Furthermore, even if you ARE paying for Evernote, all your data is stored in plaintext on their servers. If their server is ever compromised, or they have a rogue employee, you could be in serious trouble. If you choose to encrypt your data before putting it into Evernote, that reduces it to the point of uselessness.

A year or two ago, I bought a Fujitsu ScanSap S1500M scanner. While it's possible to mess this scanner up with extremely long or ripped up receipts, it takes almost anything I throw at it. It feeds pages of different sizes, auto duplexes when necessary, does colour or black & white automatically, does OCR, and comes with a version of Adobe Acrobat. This product really has exceeded my expectations.

DEVONThink Pro is good, but I suppose one mark against it is that I haven't used it to its full capacity yet. By this I mean that if it was better, perhaps I'd be using more than just a general store. On the other hand, I can always find a receipt in there if I need it.

The biggest problem is that despite all this, I haven't really been able to go paperless. According to my accountant, Revenue Canada still wants hard copies, so if I'm ever audited (which seems to be almost every year for some reason or another), paper copies must be produced. Plus, if I hand in 30% of my receipts in electronic format, and the other 70% in paper format, someone has to go through each of those and ensure that all the data is there, and weed out the duplicates. This means that despite me scanning all my receipts, I still have to hand in the paper versions, and I still have to go through my electronic receipts and sort out which ones are duplicates of paper ones, and which ones are strictly electronic. Then I imagine that the person going through all this at the accountant's office is probably just printing it all out anyway to save time. Going through a stack of paper receipts is still just easier for most people than a directory of PDFs. Therefore, if they aren't printing it out, I'm paying for the extra hours to cover their reduced efficiency.

The end version is, you can go to a lot of effort and implement all the technology you want to go paperless, but it's very hard and may not even be possible. I think it's still worth trying, though.

Depends on which stylistic. Currently, I can only see the Q550 and that comes with an Intel GMA 600 graphics chip, which carries technology licensed from Imagination Technologies (like the GMA 500). The Linux drivers for the latter contains a binary blob and seem to be a mess and it also seems unlikely that we get FOSS drivers for the GMA 600.

"Your trying to browse 3000 web sites at once and you expect your browser NOT to crash?"

As MurukeshM said, that is 30 windows with 100 tabs total. Many of those tabs are on the same web site. For example, try to compare Fujitsu scanners with scanners from other companies. Check the support options, the cost of accessories and supplies. Check the user reviews on Amazon.

Can anyone recommend a fast large-format flatbed scanner? *grin* We've already did the sheet-fed research and got a good sheet-feed scanner.

iSuppli
http://www.isuppli.com/MEMS-and-Sensors/News/Pages/Japans-Digital-Compass-Makers-Work-to-Maintain-Supply-Amid-Earthquake-Aftermath.aspx

MGC
http://www.mgc.co.jp/eng/news/2011/pdf/110318-2_e.pdf

Shin-Etsu
http://www.shinetsu.co.jp/e/news/s20110322.shtml

Renesas
http://am.renesas.com/press/notices/notice20110322.html

MEMC
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/memc-update-following-japan-earthquake-118003244.html

Hitachi
http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/f_110317h.pdf

Fujitsu
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2011/20110314-01.html

Actually I think they are using the same semiconductor for both Seebeck and photovoltaic power conversion, as the Fujitsu press release seems to indicate. TFA is a nonsense clearly written by someone who read the press release without having even any clue of what is a semiconductor and therefore got it all wrong. I mean, did they even look at the schematic they copied? I wonder how this ended up linked here on /. instead of the original press release...

It's a sad day when most know so little about architectures that PPC and Sparc are re-flagged as mere 'alternatives' rather than being recognized for the areas they excel in. The Wintel ideal is a ratio of worse that 2:1 of hardware to services. Each box burning tens if not hundreds of watts. Sparc is an open architecture and handles many threads per core, so for most things you should be able to replace a rack of Wintel boxes with a single Sparc. We'll see how long Oracle allows you to access that Sun paper.

Fujitsu also provides info sparc architecture because it also sells server hardware.

1. It scans both the front and back of a page in 2 seconds, in one pass. If the back is blank, the back is ignored.
2. It automatically feeds oddly sized pages intermixed with standard pages.
3. The software supplied accurately OCRs the scanned pages and makes a searchable PDF file.
4. It is possible to select words and sentences in the PDF file and copy them to the clipboard.
5. It is very small. It doesn't take much desk space.

The bad:

1. It does not use TWAIN drivers. It uses proprietary drivers.
2. It does not have a flat glass copying surface. Everything to be copied must be a thin sheet.
3. The sheet feeder takes a maximum of maybe 50 pages.
4. The supplied software is copy protected. If the sofware company decides to stop supporting the supplied version, it is possible to force additional payment. Or maybe force the purchase of new hardware. That is our understanding.
5. The scanner cost us $400.

Yes.

You read this post in the thread? And read this link from that post?

This one? http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1579924&cid=31451930

I worked at Target, and spent some time being the label printer/sticker-onner guy. Even at slightly-above-minimum-wage it would have been a giant cost savings if we only used it for 2 months out of the year - November and December. Automatic pricing updates are one thing, but removing those stickers is a pain, and the cost of putting the sticker under the wrong product results in lost profit (see footnote). Getting the correct prices updated quickly and especially accurately throughout an entire store where daily sales are around $100k (Christmas sales, not all year long) - that would pay for itself right there.

I believe that is sufficient evidence that the cost/benefit analysis favors these things, with customer resistance being ignored. The shoes department at Kohl's already use these, have used it for at least 5 years in my area, I believe.

In addition to that, my point about altering prices stands. You're not gouging twenty cents on a gallon of milk - you're gouging on thousands of gallons of milk. It is the ultimate cost maximization tool. Uncle Bub's corner grocery isn't going to do this stuff - think Wal-Mart instead. The sheer volume of customers makes a single-penny adjustment to a single product for 1 day across all their stores a very lucrative proposition.

Knowing this, I'll fight back by keeping my UPC database synchronized and carrying around a barcode-reading camera-equipped cell phone to tell me what the prices have been on products, alerting me when this is in use so I can skip buying.

Footnote: Not theoretical lost profits like "lost sales due to piracy" lost. Customer sees the receipt or register show a price that didn't match the label, you hold up the line for a price check, some people in a hurry may drop their purchase altogether, you lose the difference between the marked and actual price. And the worst part is when a savvy customer knows the usual price and sees it marked lower, and buys more than they otherwise would have because a physical price tag gives them the right to claim false advertising or bait-and-switch pricing. I've been a backup cashier at the same Target, and as little as I got called to go run a register I saw this happen all the time. I was authorized to take the customer's word for small differences. I talked K-Mart into giving me a $35 item for $25 based on poorly labeled goods, that's a significant discount not including the manager's time.

So yeah, just get a part time job in a high-volume grocery or big box store and it will be pretty obvious very soon.

what if you could use the lighting that already exists in your house to do this? kinda like internet over power lines?

Retailers already use this technology to change the display tags on shelves. After hours, they send a series of codes to modulate the fluorescent lighting in such a way that it sends new data to smart shelf tags. The shelf tags display a product name and a price. Changing the prices on those shelf tags are a major operational cost of grocery retailers.

Fujitsu is one of the firms offering this. Here's Fujitsu's system.

It's interesting that in the Canadian Apple Stores, the sales assistants use the Fujitsu iPad http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/downloads/retail/DS_IPAD.pdf if you wish to pay by credit card and have your receipt e-mailed to you (you don't need to line up at a cashier)

Now this will become an interesting legal fight.

Fujitsu iPAD (scroll down)
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/retailing/technology/hardware/?navid=608#

1984 being recalled?
DRM?
Not supporting other ebook types so you can purchase where you want?
Charging a 40% premium in the UK?

Shit, even the RIAA has learned that DRM is a no-no!

Amazon surely is behind the times...

Me? I am waiting between 1 and 2 years for the color screens to be affordable, or bigger screens .

Mainly, I will wait until a Chinese company produces a "barebones" SD-card pdf-ebook reader (no wifi, no 3G) which allows me to read ebooks and is cheap.

We run 40Gbps rings in a metro area network. That's one wavelength. There's also a 10Gbps wavelength and several 1Gbps rings as well. We still have 62 wavelengths (theoretically, although maybe not supported by our equipment) available.

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/fnc_20090608.html

AM fiber is capable of sending all RF spectrum from 50MHz to 870MHz over one fiber. Next generation transmitters and receivers will run up to 1GHz or more.

Also, those scanners are VERY expensive. Using a camera would be MUCH better, if the problems can be solved. It doesn't matter how big the camera images are, since the ABBYY FineReader PDF-making software we use OCRs the image and makes searchable PDFs.

The Fujitsu fi-6230 Sheet-Fed and Flatbed Scanner gets good reviews and the flatbed scanner is fast, but it costs $1,200, and the sheet-fed and flatbed scanners are weirdly and unnecessarily connected.

Less expensive Fujitsu scanners lack TWAIN or ISIS driver support. Fujitsu uses proprietary drivers for the less expensive scanners, meaning that it can make them obsolete for some future operating system merely by not providing drivers.

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner is excellent for what it does, we have one, but it doesn't do books, of course.

Also, those scanners are VERY expensive. Using a camera would be MUCH better, if the problems can be solved. It doesn't matter how big the camera images are, since the ABBYY FineReader PDF-making software we use OCRs the image and makes searchable PDFs.

The Fujitsu fi-6230 Sheet-Fed and Flatbed Scanner gets good reviews and the flatbed scanner is fast, but it costs $1,200, and the sheet-fed and flatbed scanners are weirdly and unnecessarily connected.

Less expensive Fujitsu scanners lack TWAIN or ISIS driver support. Fujitsu uses proprietary drivers for the less expensive scanners, meaning that it can make them obsolete for some future operating system merely by not providing drivers.

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner is excellent for what it does, we have one, but it doesn't do books, of course.

Check out the FLEPia... (japanese link) $1000. COLOR eink, Touchscreen, Wifi, Bluetooth. http://www.frontech.fujitsu.com/services/products/paper/flepia/specifications/

We've done considerable research on the problem of scanning documents, also, and came to the same conclusion: The new Fujitsu fi-6130 seems excellent, although we haven't tried it. That model and the 6230 are new, and there is some evidence that waiting for the second version of those models would be a good idea.

The big attraction of the fi-6130 is its speed: 40 pages per minute.

If you are interested, I suggest you download the manual. (PDF)

The manual talks about a connection for an "imprinter", which sounds as though it is a printer that works only with that particular Fujitsu scanner. That causes me to doubt whether buying from Fujitsu would be a good idea; we don't want to get involved with corporate marketing drone foolishness. Everything else, however, looks quite good.

The scanner comes with OCR software. I suppose and hope that Fujitsu did a lot of work and found the best OCR software.

The scanner software makes a PDF. The OCR software tries to recognize the words, so that the software can make a searchable PDF. Even if the OCR recognition isn't perfect, it can be very useful.

It seems to me that the Fujitsu fi-6230, suggested in the parent comment, is a poor design. It combines an automatic sheetfed scanner with a flatbed scanner for a lot more money. That doesn't make sense, since the attractive feature of the sheetfed scanner is its speed. Speed is important with a flatbed scanner, but not as important, since the operation will always be manual. It seems to me that it would be better to have a flatbed scanner that is a separate piece of equipment, rather than two pieces seemingly glued together, without any logical connection, since apparently the 6250 has two imaging elements.

Be careful about using Windows Search, as suggested in the parent comment. The Windows XP version is buggy, and sometimes won't look into files that are there. We use VCOM's PowerDesk pdfind.exe program, a older version of which is free. We also use Funduc Software's Search and Replace program.

Most scanners are quite slow, don't have automatic document feeders that allow scanning of papers of widely different sizes, and don't build OCR'd indexes inside the PDF files.

2 years? ago I bought for my small business a fujitu f1-5120c duplex scanner--it came with adobe acrobat
I scan every bill, correspondence, notice, and everything to pdf- then I throw it the hell away.

the version of acrobat included does OCR-I open acrobat, choose create pdf from scanner, and scan away.
I can mix a scan job up between B&W & color or duplex or simplex within one job
I can open an existing PDF and append to it

I save everything to an infrant nas box.

I can go to windows search, type in 1179.21 (actually did this one once)
set to look INSIDE the files of that directory and get results that include
a soda delievery notice, a soda invoice, and my bank statement where I paid it off

they have other model scanners that combine sheetfed+flatbed...

here is a beauty
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/workgroup/fi-6230.html

I'm more interested in what IBM will do with the SPARC processor and Solaris, and how that affects Fujitsu.

The memory controller is onchip of course, and it has a bandwidth of about 50-60GB/s I believe

Which is in fact, around the amount of memory bandwidth Niagara systems have, with 6 memory controllers per socket.

I use ScanSnap

FWIW, I assume the PTO is run by pretty clever people

I assume it's run by government employees, take that as you will. As for the office itself, it gets paid when you file a patent, paid when they grant a patent, and paid when someone wants to challenge the patent they granted: follow the money and you'll see that the entire thing is set up to not reject bullshit.

Take a look at the linked list patent posted by an AC in the firehose. It's a bit old news, it was granted in 2006, but it's very straight forward, there's no mystery as to what the patent does, and it covers anyone who doubly links their list in a sorted order, because apparently this company invented the idea of combining a linked list with a sort algorithm sometime around 2001 (a year before they submitted the patent in 2002). If I looked through the big box of floppies hard enough, I'd be able to find my highschool CS homework where I created a linked list of peoples names sorted in last name and first name orders, using ^.nextfn and ^.nextln in turbo pascal in '95 or so. That's the level of this patent: high school homework.

Next up comes the "flip camera" patent: Read this and tell me HOW to implement compression and decompression on a single chip. You can't, can you? Funny, that was the POINT of patents: to force inventors to reveal their innermost secrets in exchange for years of protection, so that everyone else could learn from their genius. Maybe you can tell me what's so special about doing this using only one chip? Do you not think that in the past 4 decades of miniturization, that it would not be "obvious" to a "person having ordinary skill in the art" of electronics that two chips could be combined together? Remember, we've been getting entire Systems on A Chip for years now, the time for inventing "... on one chip" was well over a decade ago (in fact, the system on a chip "first appeared in the LSI market 12 years ago" in 2006, making the idea (which, face it: the idea is the only thing worth mentioning in this patent) at least 3 years older than the 1997 filing date on that patent).

So, as the old saying goes, it's better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone assume you're an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it. Based on the junk coming out of the patent office's "mouth", how do you support the "pretty clever" assumption you have made?

1. Full of ads
2. Limited information
3. NO LINKS TO MORE PRODUCT INFORMATION
4. One link to ANOTHER story on that site

Gee, I wonder if "anonymous coward" is also the recipient of those Google adsense checks.

C'mon, Slashdot, don't let this stuff through.

Here is the official press release and here is the official product page. You're welcome.

1. Full of ads
2. Limited information
3. NO LINKS TO MORE PRODUCT INFORMATION
4. One link to ANOTHER story on that site

Gee, I wonder if "anonymous coward" is also the recipient of those Google adsense checks.

C'mon, Slashdot, don't let this stuff through.

Here is the official press release and here is the official product page. You're welcome.

What it sounds like is that the CNET author didn't know what he was talking about.

Fujitsu says it uses an ATA password so it's most likely using the password to generate the key.

They don't want to tell you, but here's what information they made available: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2008/20080421-01.html

"The conventional response to this problem has been the use of BIOS passwords(4) and software-based encryption. Seeking a more robust form of data security, Fujitsu has now developed 2.5" hard disk drives with hardware-based AES encryption using industry-leading 256-bit key.

The built-in AES automatically encrypts all data when storing it on the hard disk drive and decrypts the data when read. Unlike software-based encryption, the key does not reside in the computer's memory. This makes it more resistant to attack and imposes no processing overhead on the CPU, optimizing system performance. "

Let the guesswork begin?

Looks it's fully in hardware.

My biggest worry is that things like this will be seen as a panacea and used irresponsibly. Sure, this type of setup is great for people who actually know what they're doing. But unfortunately, many could be lead into a false sense of security.

Dept. Health/Human Services: Look, we can let Tom carry around the database now, no problems.

Sure, until it gets stolen and the password sticky is found in the side pocket of the laptop bag. Of course, this is in no way the hardware's fault. But from the page above, Fujitsu is at least somewhat marketing this to larger organizations. Organizations which would do well to keep their organizational data on their own servers, only being remotely accessible through secure, non-persistent means.

The key used to encrypt and decrypt data is cryptographically regenerated only when the correct password is received at power-on, and is unattainable when the system is powered off

The advanced secure erase feature immediately invalidates every piece of data just by changing the in-drive encryption key, making the stored data completely indecipherable.

You'd have to seriously hurt yourself to disable this biometric:
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/casestudies/WWW2_casestudy_BTM.html

c'mon man? only two cores? and you are trying to run vista on it, and besides that, trying to play mp3s?
It's time for you to get a real computer man, if you want to run a real OS like vista(TM).
Try these:
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/scalableservers/superdome/
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/mainframe/products/gs600/

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/mon th/2005/20050713-01.html

I think this came first.

MOD = Magneto Optical Disk.

Link e.g. here: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/s torage/mo/

It's hard to take someone seriously when they claim that their drives have a 100+ year MTBF, especially since precious few are still functional after 1/10th of that much use.

You're misinterpreting MTBF. A 100 year MTBF does not mean the drive will last 100 years, it means that 1/100 drives will fail each year. There will be another spec somewhere which specifies the design lifetime. For the Fujitsu MHT2060ATdrive which was in my laptop the MTBF is 300 000 hours, but the component life is a crappy 20 000 hours or 3 years - 93% of drives should make it that far given the MTBF. After the end of the design lifetime, all bets are off.

The article only shows an excerpt of the photo so we can't really judge the quality of the processed photo. Here's the full picture (and original PR in Japanese).

In my opinion, the processed image looks too much blueish for a good quality photo.