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Fix the management issues how? You are volunteering?

Do you want to see another disaster? One that could have been avoided with the appropriate management decisions? (... we can always say in hindsight.) One that is leaving behind a huge mess to clean up? That has also caused evacuations and has taken lives?

Here.

A little explanation. Check the links at the bottom of that page for more, because it wasn't just Sendai.

(I assume you will find the Japanese no problem to read?)

Oh. And if you are having a hard time finding the latest information on the nuclear power plants, look here. The IAEA also has some information, although you might find it rather cryptic.

Come to see What Oracle Japan said about this news(ja_JP)
They say "Though we are strong supporters of Linux,No such alliance are planned.Recent nikkei article is wrong"

People who follow the console wars have already abandoned ps3, by and large. I say that because for all the game forums I'm on (and most like console RPGs, which the ps2 had tons of), I have yet to find one single person excited about the ps3.

In contrast, there was a huge positive hype over Xbox 360 on all the Japanese game forums prior to release date, leaving naive viewers with no doubt who the next generation winner is going to be. Today, the 360 is dead in Japan--it has a puny <160K install base, and it will never occupy more than a Amiga-like niche. But game forums to this day are still dominated by kids gushing over Blue Odyssey or whatever the latest Great White Hope is for the 360 these days, and they will tell you the PS3 is a POS hardware that will never sell.

Conclusion: game forums are not accurate indicators of real consumer demand.

...with Westinghouse (sorry, subscription req'd). It's pretty likely that the development will stop due to Toshiba's takeover. However, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has production rights to at least one reactor design.

Along with General Electric and Hitachi Ltd. (6501), Toshiba has built BWRs (boiling-water reactors) for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) and other Japanese power utilities. With little near-term growth expected in the domestic market, however, it needs to expand overseas.

But the fact that Toshiba does not have expertise in PWRs (pressurized-water reactors) represents a major disadvantage because this technology constitutes about 70% of the nuclear reactors operating worldwide.

By acquiring Westinghouse, Toshiba will improve its chances of winning orders because Westinghouse both designs and maintains PWRs, in addition to processing uranium.

--The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tuesday Morning Edition (Nikkei)

This strikes me as a good move as it opens up a huge worldwide market segment for Toshiba.

http://release.nikkei.co.jp/detail.cfm?relID=12048 4&lindID=4 is the original press release from Toshiba Elevator, written in Japanese. They replaced only guide rails with maglev magnets for smoother feeling. You still need conventional rotating motor and cable.

Unfortunately, both The Inquirer's terse and sloppy writeup and the poster's cut 'n paste job have the newspaper in question's name misspelled: it's the Nihon Keizai Shinbun (shinbun/shimbun are alternate romanizations of the same Japanese), not Kaizai. Keizai means "economics; business; finance; economy" as per the excellent and free Jeffrey's Japanese/English Dictionary. (Kaizai, on the other hand, translates to "interposition; intervention".) The mistake changes the reading from "Japan Economic newspaper" to "Japan interposition newspaper", quite the difference...

> Anyone have a better article?

Not only could I find a better article, I couldn't find any Japanese media covering this story.

I was able to find a news article(Japanese)from a week ago that a Osaka based company called NAJ is going to offer such service starting August, but that is hardly news, because company like Dai-Nihon printing already has such prodct.

The Register article writes of a "telecom ministry" but IIRC there is no such ministry in Japan. Maybe they meant the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which does some RFID research regarding privacy issues on their own in joint with the Ministry of Public Management and Home Affairs (link Japanese).

I wonder where CNET/Register got their story.

Summerizing this Japanese article, the issue is that the OEM contracts contain a clause disallowing the filing of complaints about against Microsoft software. The main part that seems to have rankled is that Microsoft is believed to have improperly included software developed by Japanese manufactures(Fujitsu, NEC, etc). By being forced to agree to the clause in the contract however, they are unable to file a complaint against Microsoft.
This is where the monopoly bit comes in. Because Microsoft has an OS monopoly the makers have no other choice than to include the OS on their machines, which in order to do so forces them into sign the contract. All of which rubs up against various Japansese antitrust and trade laws.

I read the original japanese nikkei article. Looks like the special LCD is not on ``top'' of the regular monitor, but ``over,'' or covering the first one. I assume that those two screens can produce slightly different images producing 3D illusion.

Couldn't find anything about this at NEC site

Babelfish translation:

Merger proposition to Namco and Sega revocation

The Namco announced on the 8th, the merger proposition to Sega is withdrawn. The document which verifies the intention to merger proposition in the reply time limit was submitted, but " it continues from the Sega side and examines, but at present time it is not the circumstance which replies concretely ", there is reply of gist, it judged May 9th vis-a-vis Sega it is not the stage which advances the concrete conference of merger. Simply if in the future, from Sega there is new proposition and request in the Namco, as for the margin which is examined you say it is. Sega the same day, has announced the business integration send-off of the Namco.

It seems that Namco just announced that they are cancelling their offer for a merger with Sega.

Japanese link here.

It has a 400Mhz XScale processor, 64/32MB RAM, one SD slot, and one CF Type 2 slot. The battery is claimed to be able to support 4hrs 50 mins of active use. It's reasonably sized and weighs 225g, but the capacity to record sound is lacking.

Unfortunately, Sharp currently have no plans to release this beauty outside Japan. An alternative might be the HP Jornada 720, which has a 640*240 display and a keyboard. Its expansion options are arguably better. It has a 209MHz ARM processor, which may be good enough. However, it weighs half a kilo, it costs $1000(!) (at least officially), and Linux is still being ported. Yet another alternative might be the 640*480 HNT Exilien 00101/00201, but where or when that thing will be available beats me.

It's all very frustrating, because an SL-C700-like PDA with 128MB of RAM (instead of 64MB), somewhat better expandability (say one CF Type 2 slot and one Type 2 PC Card slot) and built-in sound-recording capability would solve all my life's problems. ;)

my japanese is not perfect, but the news.com.au article and the nikkei article has basically the same info. regarding your comment, the japanese text mentions that "clothes and handbags also have some conductivity" which would imply that you prolly don't get the full 10mbps you do with human skin.

I have a suspicion that news.au.com is getting one slipped to them. The closest Google result I could get with "NTT NoCoMo skin" is this article about a cell phone that conducts sound through bone and cartilage, enabling you to listen to the call by sticking your finger in your ear.

Maybe you could try actually reading the article? It clearly states the source of the news, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and in fact the article is right at the top of the "companies" section (link, or Fish translation).

I have a suspicion that news.au.com is getting one slipped to them. The closest Google result I could get with "NTT NoCoMo skin" is this article about a cell phone that conducts sound through bone and cartilage, enabling you to listen to the call by sticking your finger in your ear.

Maybe you could try actually reading the article? It clearly states the source of the news, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and in fact the article is right at the top of the "companies" section (link, or Fish translation).

...was me. The Nikkei article can be found here (if you can read Japanese). It says, in a nutshell, that the four companies will be using Linux as a base for "core banking functions" such as financial calculations. The 4 companies have committed 500 engineers to the project, and they plan for it to be ready for customers by 2003. One thing stated in the print version of the article is that they intend to speed up Linux-based transaction processing.

The media outlet that is the source of all this furor is here. The actual article is here. Looks like a non-free WSJ style login is required, though you can read the summary on the front page of the paper if it is still there when you check it out. Maybe somebody could post the whole article as a reply to this post???

shellac.

The media outlet that is the source of all this furor is here. The actual article is here. Looks like a non-free WSJ style login is required, though you can read the summary on the front page of the paper if it is still there when you check it out. Maybe somebody could post the whole article as a reply to this post???

shellac.