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Interesting.. I would bet they are playing off of the lower/repressed impulse to ignore/break the law in Japan. I once heard that in Japan, criminals expect to get caught.

Regarding Free Software in Japan.. At the Japanese bookstores in San Fran and San Jose (Kinokuniya), there are translations of the O'Rielly books available. Plenty of stuff on Linux and Unix as otherwise as well. The material is available. Perhaps not the mindshare.

I wonder what slashdot.jp has to say about all this.

slashdot.jp

That Japan has its own slashdot

you may not have to wait 10 years for the first one: Slashdot Japan

There is a great plot on this slashdot story. I find the first link most intriguing; surely such an abyss could be made? But, are such things man made or inventions of a divine nature? Possibly this might have some Q involvemnet.

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Press Release from Turbolinux Japan (in Japanese)

Another article from NikkeiBP (in Japanese)

The main points are:

• Turbolinux Inc. sold Turbolinux Japan K.K. (its Japanese subsidary) to SRA. (This is the $1 mil. transaction according to Slashdot Japan (in Japanese))
• Turbolinux Japan K.K. will become the new Turbolinux Inc.
• Turbolinux Inc. also sold all its Linux distribution business, logo, trademarks to SRA, but the price is not yet disclosed.
• SRA is also planning to buy the Chinese and Korean joint ventures between Turbolinux Inc. and local companies.
• The old Turbolinux Inc. will change its name to CenterRex and focus on software it developed like PowerCockpit or EnFusion.

Thank you, Slashdot, for completely pissing off pretty much every reader with any amount of Japanese heritage. The haiku is a Japanese art form, not Chinese. Maybe you should have checked with the folks at Slashdot.jp before posting such a stupid, blatant error.

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Thank you for your co-operation, we should have installed our new
slashcode site soon, with story repeater, john katz emulator, and
goatse.cx blocker.

CmdrTaco (Posting Anonymously because I cant remember my password)

Look at this on japaense slashdot!

2002 <year> 07 <month> 04 <day>

(where <year> is the ideogram meaning "year", etc.) They also have characters for the days of the week which can be written much faster than English words. I can't write Japanese in a slashdot post, but check out for example the "old stories" sidebar on the right on slashdot.jp to see what it looks like.

This is so neat that I wish English would adopt a similar system. If we introduced a few simple symbols that meant "year", "month" and "day" and appended them to the numbers, there would never be a problem. Unfortunately, because our writing system is so glyph-starved, and it never even occurs to anybody that characters outside our 40 or so symbols could exist, this will probably never happen.

I thought it was funny.

Japanese slashdot

Babelfish Translation

More information can be found here

Crack-smoking moderators note: The third link, a.k.a "some japanese site" is slashdot.jp. And if you want "More results from slashdot.org", you click on the damn link. Is it good that a search engine lists three million links to the same domain by default?

I understand...that wasn't the point of my post...

It would be a native language edition of a "base" site...kinda like Slashdot Japan.

Consider it done :-)

So this is the product of half a billion net users, spread far and wide across the globe? Yep, now we have cross-cultural trolling.

Modded down on two continents at once, now that is what i call trolling....

Let's just hope there's no Slashdot-Asia planned for the near future. That would REALLY take the Slashdot effect to a new level....

Erm, there is dude. Check it out, its japanese.

When we get chinese slashdot, then we really start frigging worrying.

By the way, the revolutionary part about this laptop is that it uses a mechanical pump to move the hot coolant to the radiation panel at the back of the LCD, whereas traditional cooling mechanisms uses the palmrest and/or the bottom of the laptop to dissipate heat in addition to the air fan. The idea is that

• a pump is much more reliable than a fan, because it doesn't move as fast or ingest foreign dust particles all the time; and
• 2) heating the back of the LCD affects the user experience less than with the palmrest or the bottom.

Also, before people start screaming about how big the water tanks are in the photos, the article says that the tanks were deliberately enlarged to emphasize the point of these prototypes, and they will be reduced in production models.

Check it out

Look, you can learn what 'color' and 'font' mean without knowing the rest of it. And almost all localization schemes still allow you to type in the roman space.

So while yeh, some things will be intuitive for English speakers, particularly things like APIs. while "font" might be easy javax.crypto.EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo (of course, Java does in fact allow Unicode for variable and class names, so you could have like .. as a package name).

So, for a while I think most actual coding will be done in English, but that doesn't mean most website content will be. You could always have one web guy and one content guy as well. Or, for example you could use off the self software and fill it with localized content, (for example slashdot.jp).

And lets not forget, Ruby, a programming language quickly gaining popularity was actually crated in Japan, where it's now more popular then Perl.

...how far east the internet gets, they'll always be Goatse.cx

My fellow trolls, you may not be aware but there is a Japanese language version of Slashdot. Please head on over to slashdot.jp and make sure they too have their share of first posts, goatse.cx links, trolls, and crapflooding.

If your browser can render Japanese text, so much the better. fXffVf...fhfbfgÅfgf[féÌÍAêÌ׾æ B-{"-ÉSyZ-¾I

There is a Japanese version of slashdot at slashdot.jp which is just WAITING for first posts, trolls, and crap flooding. ;-)

All the better if your browser can render Japanese and you can understand it. êÍÂàslashdot.jpÅfgf[fÄéæBSy ©çI

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HAHAH [english]

http://slashdot.jp/article.pl?sid=01/11/21/0243232

Do people in Japan just not like to post on slashdot tho? It got very few responses.

(shamelessly borrowed from Slashdot Japan)

(shamelessly borrowed from Slashdot Japan)

If MySQL isn't Unicode compliant how does this site work? Just curious.

I think this comment discusses it.