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It's basic HTML people, and it's not that hard!

Right here.

And of course if you only want to see the new carts.

It's basic HTML people, and it's not that hard!

How many artists would be able to afford to produce quality music without the recording industries willing to take the plunge and invest in them based on a tape of an amateur recording?

This is no longer true. Technology has gotten to the point where it is getting easier and cheaper to self-record with 'proffesional' sound quality.
Besides which, record labels don't just give bands the money to record. It's a loan. The label sets them up with a quality studio and a hot show producer, and the band pays for it out of their royalties.
For a lot less money, anyone can buy an imac and an Mbox (or if you're loaded, a digi002). ProTools (screenshot) is a pretty intuitive program, and it's powerful (all we need now is a free, open source equivilent)!
There is still a good deal of skill involved in recording, but it gives the artisits more control over their music.

More pics:

big product picture: http://premium.uploadit.org/dsn2000/ps25.JPG

four views: http://img63.exs.cx/img63/2233/7178.jpg

another big picture: http://www.playfrance.com/news/images/7,7958379/zo om/4645.jpg

what's included: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ sce03.jpg

size reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/0409/21/litenps22. jpg

fliptop open: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej24.jpg

circuit board top: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej29.jpg

circuit board bottom: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej31.jpg

cover removed: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej30.jpg

These are all from Gaming Age Forums:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=1535 1&page=1

More pics:

big product picture: http://premium.uploadit.org/dsn2000/ps25.JPG

four views: http://img63.exs.cx/img63/2233/7178.jpg

another big picture: http://www.playfrance.com/news/images/7,7958379/zo om/4645.jpg

what's included: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ sce03.jpg

size reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/0409/21/litenps22. jpg

fliptop open: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej24.jpg

circuit board top: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej29.jpg

circuit board bottom: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej31.jpg

cover removed: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej30.jpg

These are all from Gaming Age Forums:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=1535 1&page=1

More pics:

big product picture: http://premium.uploadit.org/dsn2000/ps25.JPG

four views: http://img63.exs.cx/img63/2233/7178.jpg

another big picture: http://www.playfrance.com/news/images/7,7958379/zo om/4645.jpg

what's included: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ sce03.jpg

size reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/0409/21/litenps22. jpg

fliptop open: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej24.jpg

circuit board top: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej29.jpg

circuit board bottom: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej31.jpg

cover removed: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej30.jpg

These are all from Gaming Age Forums:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=1535 1&page=1

More pics:

big product picture: http://premium.uploadit.org/dsn2000/ps25.JPG

four views: http://img63.exs.cx/img63/2233/7178.jpg

another big picture: http://www.playfrance.com/news/images/7,7958379/zo om/4645.jpg

what's included: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ sce03.jpg

size reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/0409/21/litenps22. jpg

fliptop open: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej24.jpg

circuit board top: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej29.jpg

circuit board bottom: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej31.jpg

cover removed: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej30.jpg

These are all from Gaming Age Forums:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=1535 1&page=1

More pics:

big product picture: http://premium.uploadit.org/dsn2000/ps25.JPG

four views: http://img63.exs.cx/img63/2233/7178.jpg

another big picture: http://www.playfrance.com/news/images/7,7958379/zo om/4645.jpg

what's included: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ sce03.jpg

size reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/spela/0409/21/litenps22. jpg

fliptop open: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej24.jpg

circuit board top: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej29.jpg

circuit board bottom: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej31.jpg

cover removed: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040921/ scej30.jpg

These are all from Gaming Age Forums:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=1535 1&page=1

The new Muramasa has been out in Japan since January. It has had some nice reviews and keeps up well with Pentium-M modells of similar clock speed (see this Japanese review). And it is much cheaper. ws

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 757.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 766.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 788.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson .htm

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 757.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 766.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 788.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson .htm

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 757.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 766.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 788.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson .htm

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 757.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 766.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson 788.mpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0819/epson .htm

Fighting robots makes perfect sense, especially in Japan.

Have a search in google for Shin Gettar, Mazinger Z and Gundam (NOT Gundam Wing, the bastard child of Gundam not shown in Japan) or just have a go at some of the "Super Robot Wars" series of video games. The Japanese had transforming, fighting robots before we had Transformers. The first Gundam Series, made in the late 70's, dealt with robots in wars and even had a protagonist that didn't want to use a robot for war.

Most of the robots I saw at the impress.co.jp website were copied from Anime, especially the yellow Gundam robot and Mazinger Z .

If only Anime of higher quality, that is, not Zoids or Gundam Wing, could reach the Western world without being savaged by poor translation and horrible voice acting.

One can only dream. Or watch Fansubs.

Fighting robots makes perfect sense, especially in Japan.

Have a search in google for Shin Gettar, Mazinger Z and Gundam (NOT Gundam Wing, the bastard child of Gundam not shown in Japan) or just have a go at some of the "Super Robot Wars" series of video games. The Japanese had transforming, fighting robots before we had Transformers. The first Gundam Series, made in the late 70's, dealt with robots in wars and even had a protagonist that didn't want to use a robot for war.

Most of the robots I saw at the impress.co.jp website were copied from Anime, especially the yellow Gundam robot and Mazinger Z .

If only Anime of higher quality, that is, not Zoids or Gundam Wing, could reach the Western world without being savaged by poor translation and horrible voice acting.

One can only dream. Or watch Fansubs.

Fighting robots makes perfect sense, especially in Japan. Have a search in google for Shin Gettar, Mazinger Z and Gundam (NOT Gundam Wing, the bastard child of Gundam not shown in Japan) or just have a go at some of the "Super Robot Wars" series of video games. The Japanese had transforming, fighting robots before we had Transformers. The first Gundam Series, made in the late 70's, dealt with robots in wars and even had a protagonist that didn't want to use a robot for such purposes. Most of the robots I saw at the impress.co.jp website were copied from Anime, especially the yellow Gundam robot and Mazinger Z . If only Anime of higher quality, that is, not Zoids or Gundam Wing, could reach the Western Countries without being savaged by poor translation and horrible voice acting. One can only dream. Or watch Fansubs.

I was pretty unimpressed till I saw how cool they are in action

I can't read japanese, does anyone know if they are remote controlled or autonomous?

I can't possibly think they're autonomous.

Nice trophy girls!

Reminds you of Voltron, no? Gotta love the Japanese.

Robotic combat has always been about rulesets. Even battle bots had a no-projectiles no-flames no-EMP type ruleset. Otherwise, robotic combat in a small enclosed space would be a contest as to whom could fire their 30-mm recoilless rifle first when the contest started:

Announcer: GO (boom)
Announcer: And it looks like team Alphabot managed to fire first, team Betabot is a gigantic smoking hole in the ground! Exciting!

So, I have to say that limiting robots to a humanoid form and blunt impact weapons is a damned fine ruleset idea. Probably the most important part of this ruleset (besides being enourmously entertaining) is that instead of generating research into the best four wheeled dense flip-arm frisbee robot, it will generate research into highly articulated humaniform robots. Which would be, like, way more cool.

And stuff.

If you like a smallish keyboard, do yourself a favor and buy a happy hacking keyboard.

Also, people are right that in the SPEC results the 3.4 Ghz chip has a 2 MB level-3 cache and the 3.6 Ghz does not.

FYI, here is a rough translation about photographs on this page from top to bottom. I think you could find some more interesting stuff from them.

• 1. Flowers that made loudest sound. They explained the one which has large area and dried surface like a cone paper can make good sound.
• 2. A diaphragm with magnet and coil. Unlike normal driver unit, this generates wave only to vibrate plants.
• 3. Inserting flowers into a plastic pipe on the diaphragm to pass vibration throughout plants.
• 4. Putting more flowers, impacting them into the tube and spleading leaves make sound louder.
• 5. You're able to feel plants' fine vibration by touching them.
• 6. Standard model using a diaphragm and an acrylic plastic tube.
• 7,8. This model has an amp, FM tuner, and power source.
• 9. This one is with illuminations.
• 10. Flower vase based model.
• 11. This planter model was using gum tree as speakers.
• 12. Attaching stems to a poll to drive vibration.
• 13,14,15. Monkey dish model. It looks like normal thing, but actually has speaker jacks at the back. It uses a bamboo pipe instead of an acrylic tube to save its appearance.

They also mentioning. "So far, there isn't accurate data about biological effects on plants. But in our experience, it seems vabration revitalizes plants and expands their lives."

To avoid further confusion, I'll just post the url:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20040716/mb ird.htm

Also, here is Let's Corp.'s official page about the
Flower Speaker Amplifier...

http://www.lets-co.co.jp/fsp/fsp.htm

That's in Japanese as well, sorry Slashdot.

.......hmmmm, it seems that even wrapping it in the "URL tag" doesn't remove that space from the filename in the topmost URL. A bug in the new Slashcode maybe? Or is that supposed to happen(???)

This player uses Atrac3Plus as its primary format, with support for other Atrac formats. It's default format isn't the one used in this comparison

So the comparison isn't really valid, or up to date.

In fact, Watch Impress a respectable Japanese news site reviewed the Atrac3Plus recently, a more technical review and less subjective than blind listening test. The review was largely positive, with the 256kbps Atrac3plus competiting favorably against WAV (CD-Quality).

Watchimpress Atrac3Plus Comparison in Japanese

They also have an article with pictures of the this walkman device;

This player uses Atrac3Plus as its primary format, with support for other Atrac formats. It's default format isn't the one used in this comparison

So the comparison isn't really valid, or up to date.

In fact, Watch Impress a respectable Japanese news site reviewed the Atrac3Plus recently, a more technical review and less subjective than blind listening test. The review was largely positive, with the 256kbps Atrac3plus competiting favorably against WAV (CD-Quality).

Watchimpress Atrac3Plus Comparison in Japanese

They also have an article with pictures of the this walkman device;

If you like humanoid robots, you should check out HRP-2.

This robot can apparently, as far as I can tell from these pictures, climb stairs, bend over without falling, get on its hands and knees to crawl under something, and climb into and crawl through a tunnel or shaft.

There is even a video showing it installing a plywood panel to a wall.

Neat stuff.

Here's the updated screenshot of the updated UI in the PSX. Seems to have a transparent menus over the TV show you're watching, and these screens show the customizable backgrounds for the menus.

Screenshot

Screenshot

PSX Official Site(in Japanese)

Here's the updated screenshot of the updated UI in the PSX. Seems to have a transparent menus over the TV show you're watching, and these screens show the customizable backgrounds for the menus.

Screenshot

Screenshot

PSX Official Site(in Japanese)

Here's the updated screenshot of the updated UI in the PSX. Seems to have a transparent menus over the TV show you're watching, and these screens show the customizable backgrounds for the menus.

Screenshot

Screenshot

PSX Official Site(in Japanese)

Here are four, from 3D Mark 2003:

One
Two
Three
Four

I'd say those are pretty darn close to POV-Rray quality. And done at insane numbers of frames per second, too. (The second one is my personal favorite.)

Here are four, from 3D Mark 2003:

One
Two
Three
Four

I'd say those are pretty darn close to POV-Rray quality. And done at insane numbers of frames per second, too. (The second one is my personal favorite.)

Here are four, from 3D Mark 2003:

One
Two
Three
Four

I'd say those are pretty darn close to POV-Rray quality. And done at insane numbers of frames per second, too. (The second one is my personal favorite.)

Here are four, from 3D Mark 2003:

One
Two
Three
Four

I'd say those are pretty darn close to POV-Rray quality. And done at insane numbers of frames per second, too. (The second one is my personal favorite.)

AFAIK, the USB toothbrush doesn't require any drivers because it only uses the port for running/recharging.

Honestly, I thought you had to be kidding with that one...

It may actually do well, judging by that brief 2nd shot (picturing the obviously 6-inch-tall woman) as the GUI looks beautiful from that one shot.

I was just about ready to throw down and write my own GUI controller to manage all my media, given the likes of the unspeakably overpriced yet gorgeous interface of Kaleidascape .

*holds breath until American release date and pricing press-release is issued*

-VolVE

fuck me! it's Tiny!!

by Western sizes, the unit can't be much bigger than a thumb-nail.

Yes this device does video. . .
to be more specific there are two models:

One that plays only music and displays JPEGs and another that plays video

Picture of the interface if anyone's interested

Link to main article in Japanese

Yes this device does video. . .
to be more specific there are two models:

One that plays only music and displays JPEGs and another that plays video

Picture of the interface if anyone's interested

Link to main article in Japanese

Yes this device does video. . .
to be more specific there are two models:

One that plays only music and displays JPEGs and another that plays video

Picture of the interface if anyone's interested

Link to main article in Japanese

Yes this device does video. . .
to be more specific there are two models:

One that plays only music and displays JPEGs and another that plays video

Picture of the interface if anyone's interested

Link to main article in Japanese

For those of you interested about the user interface:
Here& Here

More picture of "Type X":
Link
Link 2

Thing also seems to have a DVD-burner: Pictured Here

More links (in Japanese)
Watch Impress Japan

For those of you interested about the user interface:
Here& Here

More picture of "Type X":
Link
Link 2

Thing also seems to have a DVD-burner: Pictured Here

More links (in Japanese)
Watch Impress Japan

For those of you interested about the user interface:
Here& Here

More picture of "Type X":
Link
Link 2

Thing also seems to have a DVD-burner: Pictured Here

More links (in Japanese)
Watch Impress Japan

For those of you interested about the user interface:
Here& Here

More picture of "Type X":
Link
Link 2

Thing also seems to have a DVD-burner: Pictured Here

More links (in Japanese)
Watch Impress Japan

For those of you interested about the user interface:
Here& Here

More picture of "Type X":
Link
Link 2

Thing also seems to have a DVD-burner: Pictured Here

More links (in Japanese)
Watch Impress Japan

Some pictures for scaling purposes:

here

According to this Japanese article reporting on a Mitsubishi R&D event back that I translated back in February, Mitsubishi's dish can download at 20Mbps and 1Mbps.
There's a couple assumptions that go along with my statement though - first of all, this assumes Lufthansa is actually using the Mitsubishi dish for the Connexion service. It also assumes that the actual connection speed is going to be the same as the experimental connection speed, because that's the only figures Mitsubishi provided. Either way, 20Mbps for a plane full of people probably won't be too fast. And I'm sure the pilot won't hesitate to turn it off if there are conditions in which the plane may need power redirected to other systems.

This is actually much bigger than you think. . . in fact it's much
bigger than Sony or portables

This Sony Connect actually fits into a larger distro called AnyMusic available in Japan that was
created by a cooperation of Japanese consumer electronic firms including Sony. AnyMusic

Sony, Kenwood, Pioneer, Sharp, Onkyo, Marantz, Denon, JVC, and Yamaha
plan on creating consumer electronic devices beyond portables that will
be comptable with the online distro (using Atrac3 and OpenMG X/Label
Gate); also likely the Sony PSP/PS3 will also be compatible as well as
other non-sony devices.

Here are some devices that support the format:

Pioneer
X-AM1

Kenwood

Sony
NetJuke (40GB HDD)

Demos:

Corporate

CE
screenshot

This is actually much bigger than you think. . . in fact it's much
bigger than Sony or portables

This Sony Connect actually fits into a larger distro called AnyMusic available in Japan that was
created by a cooperation of Japanese consumer electronic firms including Sony. AnyMusic

Sony, Kenwood, Pioneer, Sharp, Onkyo, Marantz, Denon, JVC, and Yamaha
plan on creating consumer electronic devices beyond portables that will
be comptable with the online distro (using Atrac3 and OpenMG X/Label
Gate); also likely the Sony PSP/PS3 will also be compatible as well as
other non-sony devices.

Here are some devices that support the format:

Pioneer
X-AM1

Kenwood

Sony
NetJuke (40GB HDD)

Demos:

Corporate

CE
screenshot