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Let's standardize all of the electrical outlets first. Which one should we choose?? http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm

Translation: Let's start with a really big infrastructure project on standardization that will affect maybe 1% of the world's population instead of a smaller one that affects more than 80% of the world by some counts. Yeah, I can't imagine why they would start there, either.

Let's standardize all of the electrical outlets first. Which one should we choose?? http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm

If a movie were to be filmed and then subsequently projected at 30 or 60 fps, for example, when you watched it, you'd come back with the feeling that it's "fake" or "poorly done." This isn't actually because that's the case, but rather because, as you've become accustomed to watching certain things at 24 fps such as movies and TV shows, and other things at 30 fps such as sports or the news, your brain makes the association that 24 fps content is "film" and 30 fps content is "live." The mystique behind film itself as an art relies on combining so many different factors together to create what you eventually see at the theater or on your home television, and even something as subtle as raising the frame rate by 25% can literally be enough to ruin your ability to enjoy a film.

[citation needed]

This sounds all sciencey, but I'm going to call bullshit. After you get beyond persistence of vision rates, frame rates are arbitrary. NTSC has a frame rate of 59.94 fps because it was originally 60 fps, but had to be backed down after color television was introduced to eliminate signal interference. 60 you may remember is is also the frequency of that North American line alternating current runs at. Compare this with PAL and SECAM which run at 50 fps. What frequency does electricity run at in PAL countries? If you guessed "50 Hz", you're correct.

Film didn't even standardize on 24 fps until the 20s, and during the hand cranked film era, it would frequently waver in the middle of the film due to human error. Also, film would frequently be shot at speeds as low as 16 fps, and then played back at around 24 fps.

But let's get back to adding some cultural baggage to frame rates. There's just nothing to that. Say you watched a movie in the theater, and then at home. It doesn't suddenly "look fake" at home. Yes, it's been transferred from 25 to say 60 fps, but the imperceptible flicker is what matters. Also, fiction and nonfiction (thus the basis of the the 24 fps vs 30 fps subconconcious "tell") are shot on the same cameras. There's just no difference. Yes, back in the 50s before recording directly to video, television shows (both fiction and nonfiction) were filmed at 24 fps, then aired at 60 fps. (This is not to be confused with kinescopes.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate
http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm
http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/18_kb_2.htm

The frequency of the alternating current transmitted on high tension lines is the same as the frequency of the alternating current you get in your house. Usually, either 50 Hz or 60 Hz. Grounded chicken wire will block nearly all the radiation from a power line. Unless South Africa has some mondo chickens.

Some items you can use 2 phase or single phase, ie. a heater that has no fan.

The best way to know the power situation around the world is a list
like this one, I'd verify its accuracy elsewhere, but it gives you
a good idea of what to expect, and the different connectors.

http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm

Some places sell universal adaptors too, some auto detect.

AC frequencies around the world

But there are problems with table-based designs, first and foremost being user presentation, in the form of increased load times for the increased amount of text, AND because browsers can't render the table until the entire thing is downloaded. I have seen some website that don't come up for quite sometime because their entire 226kb layout is contained within a single outer table, so it doesn't show up on the screen until the whole page is downloaded.

There is nothing inherint in a table that prevents it from being incrementally displayed as it is arriving. You're speaking of a browser issue. I know this is the case because I've seen browsers vary in the way they handle this. I've seen many pages load their tables as they arrive. My own LinuxHomePage does, though that's hard to see because its layout table is just one row and three columns. A better example is here. Of course it helps to speed up layout if everything inside the table has a known layout size as soon as possible. That's one reason why my images in LinuxHomePage have the width and height specified explicitly in the HTML.

Instead, you need a more complicated sentence: "where can I buy an adapter so I can plug my system."

Notice that this is an issue even between Japan, China and Korea alone. Different plugs, different frequencies, different voltages. Good thing the PSP takes 100V to 240V and 50/60Hz, but that won't help you with plugs.

The standard seems to be around 220v @ 50 or 60hz AC. I'm not sure I want that kind of load on four twisted pair of cable (CAT5). Besides, being the RJ45 connection could be standard eithernet, what's to prevent your casual user from making a BIG mistake. Jokes aside, it could cause one's battery in a laptop to explode with the force of a stick of TNT.

For power ratings around the world, check out http://kropla.com/electric2.htm

1. Different countries run different power. There are quite a few countries in Africa.

2. Quite a few modern pieces of electronic equipment already contain the necessary transformers to work in different parts of the world.

3. IT'S A JOKE! WHERE THE HECK IS YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR?

Yeash. You'd think the whole explanation of GPS as a setup would have tipped people off.

Well, not quite synonymous. Different countries have a different international prefix that is dialled in place of the +. It's most frequently 00, but not always. The international code is always the same. It's explained here.

Mainly France, but I'm looking at this link and am seeing that most of Africa as well as countries south of Russia also use SECAM. As far as it relates to Asia, I'm seeing that North Korea also uses it alongside PAL (must be an eastern-bloc thing, as South Korea is NTSC).

RJ-11 Jacks, you mean. RJ-45 are the net connectors

Net connectors? Strange... at work we use these "net connectors" for lots of devices that will never see the "net". RJ-45 is just a type of plug. There are phones that take RJ-45. The most common use for RJ-45 is network cables, but it is not the only use (or anywhere near the only use). Same goes for RJ-11

From your web site: RJ-45 phone plug

RJ-11 Jacks, you mean. RJ-45 are the net connectors. Kropla.

NTSC was first standardized in 1954, before that the resolutions were below 525 horizontal lines (x60 vertical) and non-standard. The 1936 model you cite is 190 lines.

You know we have different power outlets here too? Another adaptor to buy.

As you well know, but our poster may not, the United Kingdom has different voltage, frequency, and outlets. Although almost all recent laptops come with switching power supplies which elegantly handle U.S. and all European voltages, it would be a bummer to blow a power supply (or a whole laptop) on such a thing. If your power supply is such a beast, it is probably labelled right on it "120-400V, 30-80Hz" or something of that sort.

As far as specifics go, for the UK, it's 50Hz, 230V AC. And Howstuffworks has a somewhat spiffy illustration of the plug appearance. Three flat prongs, two horizontal, one vertical for grounded plugs (which hopefully your laptop has). Two round prongs for non-grounded.

It takes a while for the Japanese games to be translated to english, and even longer for new English games to be made.

That and Nintendo probably has their factories running full tilt to just satisfy Japanese demand right now. Adding in NA might cause another Sony-Style mislaunch of the product.

Power in Japan is 100v, 60 or 50 Hz, and uses NA-style plugs. Very little would be needed to adapt it to handle our 120v system. Likely nothing would need changing at all.

Check here for all your international power questions.

accordig to this table there are very few region 4 countries with 110 V power and one region 2 country.

I *BELIEVE* that french power is 220V AC, not 240. In fact, I'm NEXT to positive....

Yes, you're totally right. this link gives a selection of power supply types, and plug designs.

It also gives a distinct impression that the entire field of human endeavour has been to find as many ways as possible to transfer power from a wall to an electrical device.