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automatic translation isn't very good at japanese to english:

I compromise on the way and turn and, seems to be "a bone of a folding umbrella" at all and can see an arm of this cuttlefish, and a unique figure seems to be the result that adapted itself to the deep sea, but it is watched even if the, detailed habits don't share it, and there is much water, and a cuttlefish to finish compares, to to the deep sea because, meat is too soft and eats it that I am not delicious.

Sony seems like they're trying the lowest cost route to getting Internet Appliances to the US Market. I hope the slow showing for the eVilla won't stop Sony from trying some of their other appliances here.

One appliance that caught my eye was the AirBoard webpad (rough translation here) that broadcasts internet and TV from a base station. Now that I would buy. ; )

-= RIman001 =- --

here- I got this through the one built in to Mozilla.

As a side note, the link in the article points to The Babel Fish Corporation(TM), a whole other deal entirely.

BabelFish, though quite a interesting idea produces the most broken language I've ever read.

For those of you with mozilla, look under edit->translate. It is a link (sortof) to Gist-In time which in my opinion provides much better translations.

uh, who said anything about babelfish? Try Gist-In-Time

Not sure on release time, probably fall/winter this year. But anyway, here is a preview to get you salivating. Unfortunately it is in Japanese, but there are plenty of pretty pictures and graphs. Or you can work through the rough translation. (If you are not using Mozilla, just ignore the XUL stuff it tries to download).

Here's a link to a translation of the original Nikkei article converted from Japanese to English by the Gist guys. This is the default translator site built into Mozilla. It tries to do a good job, but it's kinda funny how some phrases go:

As the gratuitous OS quickly general/universal And you use the Linux which has been done, can use everyone freely The sea urchin it releases, can connect to the development cost reduction of the product.
Yep, that's what I always liked about Linux - the open source sea urchin :)

Onda genuine patent office
Address
Tokyo To Shibuya Ku Yoyogi 2 Chome 10th 4
Shinjuku Tsuji building 8 F pofic 151 -

Representative
Patent attorney Onda sincerity
Facilities stand
July of 1999
The number of staff members
15 people
Business cooperation office
Related system
On ? international patent office
International technical translation center

-- looks like a japanese IP law firm
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partial text:

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Here's more text from the upper right hand corner of the page:

February 16th of 2000
Reporter: on ? international patent office
American patent attorney
Charles E bell ???
Translating & decoding: Onda genuine patent office
Patent attorney Onda sincerity

39 corporations which are sued
1.GENERALMOTORSCORP.
2.HONDANORTHAMERICAINC.
3.FORDMOTORCOMPANY
4.DAIMLERCHRYSLERCORPORATION
5.NISSANNORTHAMERICAINC.
6.TOYOTAMOTORSALESUSAINC.
7.MAZDAMOTOROFAMERICAINC.
8.VOLKSWAGENOFAMERICA, inc.
9.BUDGETRENT-A-CARSYSTEMSINC.
10.AUTONATIONUSACORP.
11.THRIFTYRENT-A-CARSYSTEMINC.
12.THEHERTZCORPORATION
13.DOLLARRENTACARSYSTEMINC.
14.AVISRENTACARSYSTEMINC.
15.ADVANTAGERENT-A-CARINC.
16.THEBOEINGCOMPANY
17.EASTMANKODAKCO.
18.LUCENTTECHNOLOGIESINC.
19.NECAMERICAINC.
20.MOTOROLAINC.
21.TOSHIBAAMERICAINC.
22.AMERICATRANSAIRINC.
23.UNITEDAIRLINESINC.
24.DELTAAIRLINESINC.
25.CONTINENTALAIRLINESINC.
26.NORTHWESTAIRLINES, inc.
27.SUNCOUNTRYAIRLINESINC.
28.AMERICANAIRLINESINC.
29.AMRCORPORATION
30.MIDWESTEXPRESSAIRLINESINC.
31.MARRIOTTINTERNATIONALINC.
32.HILTONHOTELSCORPORATION
33.PROMUSHOTELSINC.
34.SHOLODGEINC.
35.STARWOODHOTELS&RESORTS
World-wideinc.
36.THEEXTENDEDSTAYINNSLIMITED Partnership
37.CHOICEHOTELSINTERNATIONAL
38.ENTERPRISERENT-A-CARCOMPANYOF Texas
39.SOUTHWESTAIRLINESCO.

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