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Amazon Japan Offers Barcode Purchases via Camera Phone
Zode writes "Jesse James Garrett reports
that Amazon Mobile Japan customers can purchase a item with their camera phones. "Snap a photo of a product bar code using your cell phone, and Amazon Japan will give you a price check," according to Garrett, relaying from this article in Ketai Watch (Wireless Watch).
Here's the English translation from Babelfish."
woot
First post! Hah! Actually, it might be a very useful technology, e.g. when window shopping and looking for a bargain.
I got first post bitches!!!
eat it dudes
suck my cock
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Too much repetition.
Well I never Mr. apple gates blueberry spammer king
The Undead Corpse of Kelkazar waves.
A well-dressed manservant has arrived.
An elite silver guard has arrived.
Sun recently experienced an all encompassing attack on their servers and are afraid to admit the real level of damage that has been unleashed on their network worldwide. The CEO at Sun Microsystems was pooing his pants when he found out a child with the mental capacity of a dead monkey on heat, hacked their servers with a Barbie Notebook and a USB cable. Apparently an errant computer programmer brought in his four year old son and had said he could borrow his sisters Barbie Notebook, just dont drop it. He took his son into work and left him alone for approximately 12 minutes, which was long enough for the child to gain root access to the main NIS server at Sun. Needless to say, deleting the NIS database caused a few issues at Sun, especially as the child then proceeded to replicate the removed data worldwide and managed to convince the backup units they were no longer required and should reset to factory defaults and wipe all existing tapes. The Barbie Notebook in question is currently being held by detectives at the local police centre as they believe someone else has masterminded this piece of work and are not discounting outside interference from Mattel or alien life forms from a distant galaxy and are thus far stumped by the notebooks ability to serve coffee and kill flies. The child who performed this marvel of modern hacking was summarily executed and burnt to powder and the programmer is currently being electrified by the left eyeball until he confesses his sins. If you wish to read more, go to the Sun Microsystems website, where you will find nothing on this article, or alternatively do a Google search and youll likely find nothing there either, but it might be worth a laugh.
It would be strange to find japanese people in Sweden?
It would be strange to find a swede who spoke japanese? (bork-bork)
Okay, this officially is my first fan-boy post, but mod parent up and all that. Very informative, gracias!
More than mere navel gazing.
True, but why the hell do people insist on using babelfish for Japanese then!? Use WWW.EXCITE.CO.JP/WORLD, people. Here's the link from excite and as anyone can plainly notice, it makes a good translation of official text. If you want to translate an URL with Japanese, go to this page, paste in the url, select which way to translate with the radio buttons (the boxy character means japanese, the complex one is english), and Go!
Let me state it again for clarification:
Do NOT use babelfish for translating Japanese! Excite.co.jp translates cleanly, into correct and understandable English. (of course the japanese has to be correct to start with, no wild slang)
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
The CueCat is back?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Maybe the stupid (or naive) people are the ones that think you can't.
http://secretagent.textamerica.com/?r=1401078
http://secretagent.textamerica.com/?r=1402091
http://secretagent.textamerica.com/?r=1426079
It was 100% free for me. Email account was a throw-away yahoo account, so I don't even see any spam.
Who is the naive one again?
... if I stick a barcode on the sexy number in the mini-skirt that sits in the cubical opposite mine, and then take a pic of the barcode, that someone will buy her for me?
I'm buy-sexual... If I can't get it I buy it.
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In the US we have idiots who incorrectly put the verb "put" twice in a sentence.
People who speak the language, or are learning?
toresbe
You mean the two constants, 't' and 'h', usually used together.
Shouldn't that be 1th poth!? :)