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Since no flying dogs, Security services are evaluating training birds to attack drones. https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s... Back to the drawing board Wiley Coyote. Stealth drones, disposable decoys etc... escort pigeons , sky is the limit on alternative approaches. Drones have lots of potential but more to learn on optimizing use.

Zara expanding online but still leverages retail where better able to get customer sentiment. Even Amazon testing how to utilize retail. Expect retail to continue decline overall but will also get better to offer more than online. Of course otherwise no point. Panasonic in Ginza offers beauty salon services along with gadgets which can easily buy online to so no need to carry home but retail helps the touch and try experience. https://www.google.co.jp/amp/w...

https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s... Postmates among those targeted by NLRB challenging employmee classification .

The Japanese got stripped out by slashdot. Try this to see the search results maybe
https://www.google.co.jp/searc...

How about they use bikes - https://www.google.co.jp/searc...
It works fine here. I almost never see large delivery trucks driving around residential areas, but somehow Amazon has SAME-DAY shipping in all large cities, without even having to pay extra.

Ewwwww!

Doing a two minute google search turns out the authors are an undergrad university student (according to LinkedIn) without a research background (google scholar turns empty), and a researcher with a company that develops combustion engines

Not to pull an ad-hominem here, but I'd take the paper with lots of grains of salt.

LOL, you don't think the military has figured out this frequency hopping problem yet and Homeland Security/FBI et.al. hasn't purchased the necessary hardware?

Me thinks you are bit naïve...

I'm almost finished my Masters thesis on frequency-hopping software-defined radios, so I'm pretty sure neither naivete nor ignorance is a factor. Until recently, the hardware systems involved with frequency memory and principal component analysis, especially over a high bandwidth, were neither cheap nor widespread. This is partly because there aren't too many opponents outside of national militaries who are using FHSS comm systems. The first thing the Feds have to do is realize you are using FHSS in the first place. Then allocate some of those expensive EW assets to monitor or jam your comms.
Like most forms of security, you don't expect to be invulnerable, but to force your opponent to expend a disproportionate amount of resources to compromise your operations.

Ref:
Modern Communications Jamming: Principles and Techniques especially Chapter 12

ICs weren't invented for the space industry, but it is from the space and military industries that the transistor and IC manufacturers received a lot of their initial funding. For both the space and military industries the high costs of transistors and ICs was justified by their space, weight and energy-use savings along with their heat resistance. For business and consumers the benefits didn't justify the costs.

If is wasn't for the space and military industries the development of transistors and ICs would probably have been slower.

Source: Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics

Old tech. KITT 2000 had already implemented this feature in the 1980s.

Googled for "ratiation detectors for Japan". Found this interesting link, among other things.

I was going to echo the general attitude that the fears are probably misguided, but somewhere in the Church literature (I'm "Mormon") I was reading several months back, I noted that we had sent a bunch of radiation detectors to the Touhoku area.

So they apparently are either taking the risk seriously, or they are wanting to provide our members with a way to check and avoid unnecessary worries.

But you might check with your nearest church or community group with which you have some sort of affiliation. Or, in fact, do not assume that the "government" would not send somebody by to check your gutter. Go ahead and check with your nearest yakusho (cho-yakusho -- town/subdivision -- or ku-yakusho -- ward, not the LDS kind, but the division of the large city kind). If your wife is Japanese, she should be able to find out pretty easily, if you can convince her that it's okay to ask. If not, look up the phone number of the place you go to get your gaijin registration taken care of.

Just kidding. (I hope.)

The caverns.

Hmm. Nukewatch has a map. Working Google Maps a little, I located WIPP road.

That locates it well away from the caverns, but within ten miles of Lindsey Lake.

Hmm. Of course, I don't suppose there are a lot of SSDs hanging off of serial scsi ports.

Maybe?

Please, if you plan to donate to American Red Cross to help Japanese, donate instead to Japanese Red Cross.

You can donate directly to Japanese Red Cross using Google Checkout.
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

Even if your credit card company charges you some chunk as this is a Yen transaction (though I don't know if this is actually the case), I still believe that it's much better option than sending money to American RC.

Unlike American RC, I actually trust Japanese RC for doing useful things in Japan with smaller overhead costs. I don't have any data to back "smaller overhead costs" part, but I don't remember hearing about some major scandal, and for "doing useful things" part, just look at this report from Japanese RC on 23/Mar:

http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002105.html

If you read Japanese, just read this list of donation/fundraising effort. Follow each of the link and you'll find that majority of these efforts are sending money to Japanese RC:

http://www.lifehacker.jp/2011/03/post_1701.html

First, you have to develop the film to get any kind of image at all.

Well, okay, theoretically, you could scan the film, but not with any ordinary scanner. The light from the scanner, you see, would wash the image right out.

You have to develop film to bring the image out into a form that is visible to the unaided/untrained eye. Developing also stabilizes the image so that further exposure to light doesn't wash it out.

Places to educate yourself even further (regards negative and positive process film, etc.):

kodachrome

slide filme

Oh, and search Google for kodachrome and, more interesting, perhaps, kodachrome negative. (Why interesting? It brought up, among other things, this.

First, you have to develop the film to get any kind of image at all.

Well, okay, theoretically, you could scan the film, but not with any ordinary scanner. The light from the scanner, you see, would wash the image right out.

You have to develop film to bring the image out into a form that is visible to the unaided/untrained eye. Developing also stabilizes the image so that further exposure to light doesn't wash it out.

Places to educate yourself even further (regards negative and positive process film, etc.):

kodachrome

slide filme

Oh, and search Google for kodachrome and, more interesting, perhaps, kodachrome negative. (Why interesting? It brought up, among other things, this.

"Case in point is all the dark horse instigators the left places at right-wing events with the sole intention of causing an "incident" that might reflect badly on the organizers."

I think you need a citation for that. I did a quick Googleing of your claim and came back with nothing. Even after trying to reword it in different ways in an attempt to get better results. So, I tried reversing it, and glaringly, the opposite understanding of what you're claiming seems to be the actual case.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/81376642.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701287.html

I thought about listing several of the ones I found, but it actually became overwhelming, These two are just more recent cases, sorry but I don't have time to go all the way into it, but from the looks of it, this has been going on for a really long time. You might want to revise your understanding after going over this. Here's some additional reading if you have time.

http://scholar.google.co.jp/scholar?q=police+agitators+infiltration+of+anti+war+protests&hl=ja&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

quick google search
enjoy.

Asian websites seem to reflect pictures of downtown areas of major asian cities - Tokyo, Hong Kong, parts of Beijing, Vietnam, etc. Shockingly, their major cities don't look terribly different from western megalopolises like NYC and London. Their colorful ads just happen to have asian character sets, which have a lot more lines and end up looking more busy to the western eye. Have you looked at yahoo.com/ or amazon.com lately? I mean, Yahoo has cleaned up their image some, but it's still very cluttered and messy. I can only imagine what Google News.jp or .cn looks like, or heaven forbid, the japanese translated version of Wunderground.com?? Just add some purple and yellow rounded corner rectangles in the background and it looks like every other stereotypical asian website out there.
 
Anyways, my point is, websites are driven by advertising. Websites of local languages are going to look similar to the Times Squares and Piccadilly Circuses of the world, in their local languages and alphabets. Certain color combinations might make certain alphabets stand out better. Helveltica (and all the child fonts it's spawned over the years) happens to look really good in Red, White or Blue on a White or dark colored background, which is probably why western advertising all looks the same for the most part. People tend to use more asian color schemes for party invitiations when using Comic Sans, and that font everyone loves to hate, Papyrus, tends to look best Black on white on tan.

Why not just use the localized language pages?

English http://www.google.com/intl/en/
Japanese http://www.google.co.jp/
Chinese http://www.google.cn/
Spanish http://www.google.es/
German http://www.google.de/
Swedish http://www.google.se/
Bork http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

Note: If you happen to speak swedish, the the last one is a very perverted joke.

You can easily find any other language that google offers simply by typing "google in $X" into any google search page.

I've never been redirected to another page by these links, but YMMV.
However, the default searches build into the browsers tend to redirect constantly, no matter what you language is set to.

It was so bad I had to edit the search files on my system manually.

The Japanese have been packing htem the right way for YEARS http://images.google.co.jp/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Pocari_Sweat_(Otsuka_Pharmaceutical).jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pocari_Sweat_(Otsuka_Pharmaceutical).jpg&usg=__tTIn0ZxNc7-9bECAc9-XC4pzBT8=&h=1200&w=714&sz=174&hl=ja&start=3&tbnid=fUcXtwDhbp0FjM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPocari%2Bsweat%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dja%26sa%3DG

I searched not with that exact phrase but with Sen'nichi, Dokugaku and Ichinich in kanji and found a phrase "Sen'nichi no kangaku yori ichinichi no gakusho", which seems to be the original Japanese proverb.

I searched not with that exact phrase but with Sen'nichi, Dokugaku and Ichinich in kanji and found a phrase "Sen'nichi no kangaku yori ichinichi no gakusho", which seems to be the original Japanese proverb.

I tried to find the original Japanese for this supposed proverb and found this, which Slashdot is apparently incapable of displaying correctly (even converting to HTML entities didn't work; see here and search for "Japanese proverb"):

è¦åSã--ã¦åfæ--¥çå¦ã(TM)ãããSããããå...ç"Yãã®äæ--¥ã®æ-ãOEä¾åãOEããã

The meaning is correct, but a Google search for that phrase brings up exactly two hits. A search for the English version of the proverb gives over 61,000 hits.

This sounds like a fake proverb to me. An English speaker probably made it up, thought it sounded good, and attributed it to Japanese because it fit his or her stereotype of "Asian wisdom."

(Yes, I am a Japanese speaker.)

I tried to find the original Japanese for this supposed proverb and found this, which Slashdot is apparently incapable of displaying correctly (even converting to HTML entities didn't work; see here and search for "Japanese proverb"):

è¦åSã--ã¦åfæ--¥çå¦ã(TM)ãããSããããå...ç"Yãã®äæ--¥ã®æ-ãOEä¾åãOEããã

The meaning is correct, but a Google search for that phrase brings up exactly two hits. A search for the English version of the proverb gives over 61,000 hits.

This sounds like a fake proverb to me. An English speaker probably made it up, thought it sounded good, and attributed it to Japanese because it fit his or her stereotype of "Asian wisdom."

(Yes, I am a Japanese speaker.)

PCs are cheaper than Macs. It's a fact. I don't know what the fuss is about. Why not search yourself.

As for business and productivity, to keep things simple I will just say that MS Office is the standard, and it runs better on Windows because that is its native platform. Productivity from a usability standpoint is debatable, but the benefits from standardization I would argue are not. And there are many benefits. Note, I am not saying PCs are better in every industry (like graphics, although one could argue for PCs in that area too with all the major software suites being ported to the PC with great commercial success), I am just saying for Office work.

As for schools, I stand by my Linux statement. Schools pay a premium to buy computers with all the extra bells and whistles when they really can't afford them. Linux is not only cost effective, but they make amazing educational tools. I am not talking about running proprietary CD Roms with "classes" on them. I am talking about teaching kids how to program, how to assemble their own computers, and how to manage software. Schools are where people learn, and learning curves are there to be overcome, not to be avoided, let alone avoided by paying for something more expensive. Most kids probably have PCs or Macs at home anyway, so to have raw Linux at school would be nothing but educational.

As for your other statements I have no idea where you are coming from or where you are going, so I'll be on my way.

You are rude.

For one thing I was at Perforce User's Conference last May.

I'm not a version management buff, but I can definitely tell why Perforce is so expensive (compared to free alternatives) yet so widely used.

I work for a game company and it seems that most other game companies (with a decent budget) prefer Perforce.
EA also had a lecture at that conference..

I'm not in the business of explaining why one would choose a version control system over another (surely not in a dying topic on Slashdot 8). I just wanted to make it clear that Linus Torvalds speaks for itself and while he makes many good points, also doesn't consider the world of development in a broader sense.

You got me; I made the whole thing up.

(and that's just ETS)

No, no, no! Lynx has browser ascetic. You are thinking of aesthetic

http://www.kbi-net.co.jp/KBI_Site/page01/face.jpg He is the world's worst phimosis. His cock is more stinking than anyone in the world. He is a gay. He sucks penes of an employee. As for him, ejaculation in a vagina to a woman employee is daily work. Therefore he has a large number of illegitimate children. He receives a large amount of bribe from the prefectural governor and the mayor. His clans are dependent on incest. His favorite food is a live cockroach. His close friend is Kim Jong Il and Osama bin Ladin. They conspire to annihilate a Japanese. Please fire bunker-buster into his hiding place right now. His hiding place is here. Bin Ladin is here, too. http://local.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&hl=ja&q=%E4%BB% 99%E5%8F%B0%E5%B8%82%E8%8B%A5%E6%9E%97%E5%8C%BA%E5 %85%AD%E4%B8%81%E3%81%AE%E7%9B%AE%E8%A5%BF%E7%94%B A1-41&ie=UTF8&ll=38.253061,140.931609&spn=0.004145 ,0.007231&t=k&z=17&om=1

I can connect to Google France, Google Japan, Google Germany and so forth. I used to be able to connect to Google China - you can even see it in google.com's search for Google China and the cache for it. But nowadays, it just redirects to Google.com. They don't want Westerners able to see what people can and can't search for in China. So what else is new, the corporate stooges are saying BS to the press, while in the back they are continuing to do what they do and are attempting to hide what they are doing.

I'd assume, without knowing, that that's a Firefox thing. Presumably you're referring to using the little Google search box in the upper right hand corner of the browser, and presumably you've already gone to the Google preferences page (actually, for the Japanese Google, I suppose that'd be the preferences on google.co.jp), and changed your language preferences there after making sure you accept cookies from google.co.jp (or google.com, depending).

Firefox appends a locale string to every Google search they create, it flags the search as coming from a specific version of Firefox. Specifically, on my searches, it'll add "&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official" to the search URL. Now, I haven't bothered checking if Google actually pays attention to this part of the URL for locale (I'd really hope it doesn't), but if it does, you can remove that part of the query string from the Google search plugin.

Simply (sarcasm, natch) find your Firefox install, and open searchplugins\google.xml, and remove or comment out the <Param name="rls"> element.

Alternatively, if you mean the Google Toolbar, try... um...

Actually, I'm not sure how to contact Google. I suppose I should try a web search for that.

Hope this helps, although somehow, after previewing it, I doubt it will.

That explanation is a load of malarky. Try searching for Tianamen Square (note poor spelling): you find the picture. Try searching on proper spelling: whoops, no picture. Try searching for "six four" in Chinese, which (I'm told) is as unambiguous if you're Chinese as the spoken words "nine eleven" are to an American, and you'll get... actually, I'm not sure what you'll get, because after about ten minutes of searching politically sensitive terms on Google China I now get my connection reset every time I try to connect to them. Cute, guys. OK, we'll try an anonymous proxy, here we go, that works.

Yep, as I expected, *no image search results whatsoever*. Sounds strange, given that "64" should be showing up in all sorts of documents, right? After all, its a freaking number. Search for a random two digit number and you'd expect to get scads of documents, right? 63 gets hundreds of results. 65 gets hundreds of results. 64 gets consigned to the memory hole. Don't believe me? http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=zh-CN&l r=&nojs=1&q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B to do it on Google China and http://images.google.co.jp/images?svnum=10&hl=ja&l r=&q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B to do the exact same search on Google Japan . (You'll note the image results you see are from Chinese-language sources. Japanese people don't refer to the event as 6-4 any more than they refer to 9-11 as 9-11: off the top of my head, 9-11 is the "American simultaneous terror attacks" or /bei doujihatsu tero kougeki/, don't know what they call the Tiananmen Square incident. Probably "Tiananmen Square incident".)

It requires first-order willful ignorance of the facts to conclude this behavior is the result of anything but censorship.

Sorry to bust any bubbles but I know I submitted the prior art over a year ago as an article (that was turned down) as this was and is actually an invention of a Japanese Gentleman who has been working on it most of his life. The original inventor is a Mr Kohei Minato who has a number of patents already on this motor.

Here are some links

article 1
article 2
google search

Which explains why:
GIS in AU
GIS in CA
GIS in FR
GIS in UK
GIS in RU
GIS in PL
GIS in IT
GIS in ES
GIS in JP

Are all so different, right?
That's not "cultural differences", mate. That's censorship.

It's more sophisticated that you might think:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google/
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php /1488031

Notice:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=nazi&btnG=Goog le-Suche&meta=
Ergebnisse 1 - 10 von ungefähr 28.300.000 für nazi. (0,03 Sekunden)
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&ie=ISO-8859-1&q= nazi&btnG=Rechercher&meta=
Résultats 1 - 10 sur un total d'environ 28 300 000 pour nazi. (0,05 secondes)
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en- us&q=nazi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Results 1 - 10 of about 29,900,000 for nazi [definition]. (0.04 seconds)

See the search count numbers? Don't blame it on language. Lets search for Nazi in ... Japan:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=Nazi&btnG=%CF%EE% E8%F1%EA+%E2+Google&lr=
Nazi 29,900,000 1 - 10 (0.05 )

Neat, huh?

Keep in mind, unless you specify google to focus on your language, the search results should be _exactly_ the same across local sites. Except if they tamper with the results, which both Google and Yahoo do for Germany and France.

Research on Similar experiences with china:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/

Sadly, you can't test the Chinese version from outside China. cyberlaw sometimes has a proxy running in China that will allow you to test it, but its currently down. A google filters those results based upon whether your IP block is Chinese or not.

Here's someone's test. You don't have to believe it, I guess:
http://www.dit-inc.us/report/google200409/google.h tm

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_blocked _by_search_engines_in_Mainland_China

Interestingly enough, looks like our Congress criters may be trying to change this behavior:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6026733.html

Indeed the rest of the world can set up their own DNS servers for a new TLD (say '.earth'), but they can't force anyone to contact the root server for that domain. The result will be chaos.

So how exactly would this change the way we access Web sites ?

I got asked last week to find some details for the boss on a new "digital paper" product that got debuted at the Aichi Expo. After fifteen minutes of fruitless banging away at Google with the obvious Japanese search terms (including the exact name of the product!), I found the company's press release in English on the first I'm Feeling Lucky, and then clicked the "Japanese" button at the top of their interface.

Really. Might I enquire exactly what search terms you used in Japanese?

The reason I ask is that googling for "Aichi-banpaku denshi-peepaa" (in Japanese, obviously) brings up the press release I assume you're referring to as the very first result.

There's a proverb about the appropriate allocation of blame between poor workmen and their tools, isn't there? How does it go now...

Yahoo Japan and goo provide far better searching of Japanese sites than Google. As someone used to using nothing but google for English and French language searches, I find it pretty shocking just how bad google's Japanese results are.

http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%22robo-one%20sta ir%22

Parent is correct in all respects. A Google search shows 800+ uses of the phrase in that exact sequence. You can verify that for yourself, if all the little squiggles mean anything to you ;)

Yeah. Where'd they get that wierd conversion from? Even 10 seconds with Google would have given them the right answer.

use mirrors instead:

http://www.google.co.jp/
http://www.google.fr/
http://www.google.se/
http://www.google.fi/
http://www.google.ca/

all above seem to be responsive atleast to me

That last statement is no longer true.

Maybe Seymour Cray hadn't heard of the 'Chicken Tractor' which will also fertilize and does not compact the soil like a regular tractor.

If you focus less on the orginal spelling and more on the sound, you'll arrive at either BORUMAA or BARUMAA. As "ball" is "BORU", the first is more likely. Long trailing "ah" is typical of "ar" endings.

For what it's worth, the small-TSU RU combination is very infrequent. The only example I found was "GORRU" as in crying out "Goal!" in football/soccer. At any rate, it's unnecessary since the two L's do not extend the sound so much as the phonetic change from L to M. You'll get that pause automatically by using "ru".

Finally, the Japanese have no qualms about changing the cadence of a foreign word. Compare "McDonald" to MAKUDONARUDO.

-AC (fourth year student)

By the way, since you don't seem to be the type who'll accept anybody's word but your own, let's look at Google.

Denshijiten: 300,000 links
Denshijisho: 544,000 links

Now, shut up about things you don't really know about, hmmm?

By the way, since you don't seem to be the type who'll accept anybody's word but your own, let's look at Google.

Denshijiten: 300,000 links
Denshijisho: 544,000 links

Now, shut up about things you don't really know about, hmmm?