Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.
aphro writes "Seems somebody over in japan has gotten some
ideas about comming out with a new kind of
toilets! Although
the text is in japanese, I can't tell if this is a
serious thing or not. " I pray not, but its cute...
You mean it will wipe my ass too? I wondered what all those buttons on the console were for. It looked like some kind of throne with special pushbuttons. I wonder what they all do.
More iMac tomfoolery
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Anonymous Coward
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Here's an early iMac parody from osil8. It even predicts the production of iMacs with different colors.
More about the joke/site
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Anonymous Coward
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There's a whole section of "imaginary products" on the site, most of which are parodies of common canned beverages.
The brochure version of the iNax is really funny if you read the details: references to the bidet feature, water capacity, included options like a CD-ROM. Someone should translate the whole thing.
It's serious.
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Anonymous Coward
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Japanese people are very enamoured with toilets. They have all sorts of funky toilets over there, including fully automatic toilets that do everything for you robotically. Yes that includes what you are thinking now.
Do the "green apple quickstep" . . .
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gavinhall
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Give me Unicode, yes, I agree... as a user of Chinese and Korean and Spanish characters, all simultaneously on the same computer, I yearn for the ubiquity of Unicode... but what is this about 4-byte Unicode? I've never heard of that... aren't 2 bytes enough?
Well, why would we need 4 bytes anyway? Shouldn't we be pushing for a fix in Unicode 2.0 or something like that? I think I heard that Unicode as it stands only uses up about half of the 65536 possible values you get with two bytes. Why not revise it?
Thet're an option on the last version of slackware I installed (I do a menu based installation so I select exactly what packages I select). I think they'll also be an option on RedHat too but if you select one of the standard options and don't select the files manually they may install themselves. --
I fell in love with these toilets the instant I saw them. Are you tired of the ordinary beige of the common toilet? Here is the answer to your trouble! This revolutionary product will change the way you think about toilets, it will change the way you interact with them. Other toilets are cold and unfriendly, but people actually want to sit on this one. They see it and they want to sit on it, to touch it, and admire it. What better way to show your individuality than putting one of these in your bathroom? You will stand out from the rest of the beige toilet masses, and your rear end will never be cold again!
These are some of the benefits of the iToilet:
Increased Seat Integration - The seat sits rather than hangs on the toilet! Futuristic Form Factor - Your friends will know you're cool when they see what you sit on! Really great flavors - No comment
When asked about the price of the toilets, Mr. Jobs was reported as saying, "Would you rather have tomorrows toilet for more, or yesterday's toilet for less?" As for me, I'll take tomorrows toilet any day. Long live Apple! Heil Steve!
The IE5 way is better...
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Stradivarius
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since you if you want them originally (say you know you're going to be viewing a lot of Japanese pages) then you can choose to install them when you install IE5 (or at anytime thereafter through WindowsUpdate). But if you don't know if you'll need it or not, you can just not install them (saving yourself from having extra bloat) and then IE5 will give you the option of downloading and installing the fonts when you get to a page that needs them. A good feature, IMO. The number of languages IE5 supports is pretty impressive too.
You'd consider it a bug in an environment that assuredly will never encounter the japanese language? (one where the mere appearance of the language would consistute a bug??)
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Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Re:slashdotted alraedy
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Cid+Highwind
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>What exactly does Slashdot mean? say the entire URL out loud. H-T-T-P colon slash slash slashdot dot org Word games...get it?
What the post above was referring to is the "slashdot effect" or the consequences of a huge flood of visitors linking to the site after it's URL was posted on/.
"Barium" because the grey-whitish colour of the toilet matches what comes out after you take a dose of the stuff for a stomach x-ray (believe me, I've done it...)
Yeah, but Japanese, Chinese and Korean would each require around half of the entire 2-byte Unicode character space just to contain the characters you'd find in a decent dictionary, which means that 2-byte Unicode is useless for typesetting in any of these languages.
Yeah, "everyone else" except for Japanese, Chinese and Korean users... well, that's only a potential user-base of 1.4 billion people.
The problem is that under 2-byte Unicode, the creators of the standard, in their infinite wisdom, decided that it would be OK to use the same code point for similar characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean - which means people wanting to use those languages at the same time are stuck in almost exactly the same position as they are now, i.e. dependent on the font for how a particular character will actually appear on screen. Of course, all the companies you mentioned are Western ones, so they couldn't give a shit...
The guy apparently created them as a joke. To translate selected portions: The colors are: Bluelet, Green Curry, Red Curry, Barium and Olive (I believe he's referring to different *ahem* colors of excrement...) The "Do puri2 to iNax" refers to the onomatopaeic phrase "puri-puri"; I'll leave the meaning to your imagination. He says at the bottom that the original slogan he thought up was "Shit different", but since it seemed a little rude, he decided to change it to "Sit different". The name "iNax" is a reference to Inaxx (sp?), a Japanese manufacturer of toilets, baths, etc. The last couple of links at the bottom are for a 300dpi version of a catalog for these toilets (remember, it's a joke, so don't try ordering them).
On an episode of "Beyond Tomorrow" I saw a few years ago, the show looked at a Japanese corporate restroom. It was rather amazing, and had enough furnishings in it that, if one could find space to add a bed, one would have the equivalent of a fairly good hotel room there. Soothing acquarium to look at, TV set if that's more your thing, refrigerator (IIRC), and the toilet...now that was something else.
Among other things, it had a built-in retractible bidet (check a dictionary if you don't know what that means), and hot air jets to dry off afterward. It wouldn't wipe for you...but it would let you do your business without ever having to reach down there if you so desired.
Freaky.
-- Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Anytime there's a link on Slashdot, several thousands of people go look at it at the same time, and the website crashes under the load. Then the guy running the website says "Oh shit, I got slashdotted!" It's also called the Slashdot Effect.
Jonathan Ive, the guy who designed the iMac, blue PowerMac and 20th Anniversary Mac, used to work at a european company designing faucets and other bathroom fixtures. He got the idea for frosted translucent plastic from the shower doors he worked on.
I seem to recall that the fellow who designed the iMac's packaging had previously designed a space toilet. Perhaps this is meant to highlight that fact.
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-- Some keywords for the NSA in the Lord of the Rings universe: One Ring bind find Sauron quest Nazgul freedom
Imac designed by toilet designer.
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Vertebrate
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It turns out the guy who designed the iMac actually used to design toilets and sinks. The article is here.
-- A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
Where do you want to go . . .?
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ghibli
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iNAX: Where do you want to go after you eat today?
What is it about Apple products that sparks creative juices in people? Does anyone remember similar takes on PCs? (Not simply jokes, but imaginative products incorporating beige boxes.)
Are there any household appliances that don't have inbedded chips? Are there any products that will not have chips in the future? We have already have bathroom faucets that turn on when you place your hands underneath them. What's left?
What exactly does Slashdot mean? I have just discovered this site not too long ago and I was just wondering what was meant by that. Any help for a newbie?
Maybe this was covered previously, but what I get out of this is that the color schemes are different in Japan (makes sense, since people were surveyed to pick colors)... I'd really like to get my hands on one of those smoke grey ones...
Slashdot Mirror
You mean it will wipe my ass too? I wondered what all those buttons on the console were for. It looked like some kind of throne with special pushbuttons. I wonder what they all do.
Here's an early iMac parody from osil8. It even predicts the production of iMacs with different colors.
There's a whole section of "imaginary products" on the site, most of which are parodies of common canned beverages.
The brochure version of the iNax is really funny if you read the details: references to the bidet feature, water capacity, included options like a CD-ROM. Someone should translate the whole thing.
Japanese people are very enamoured with toilets. They have all sorts of funky toilets over there, including fully automatic toilets that do everything for you robotically. Yes that includes what you are thinking now.
Posted by Cocksman:
...in a green Apple!
Posted by essell:
:)
i believe there's a windowmaker theme available from themes.org with the iMac girl too
Give me Unicode, yes, I agree... as a user of Chinese and Korean and Spanish characters, all simultaneously on the same computer, I yearn for the ubiquity of Unicode... but what is this about 4-byte Unicode? I've never heard of that... aren't 2 bytes enough?
Well, why would we need 4 bytes anyway? Shouldn't we be pushing for a fix in Unicode 2.0 or something like that? I think I heard that Unicode as it stands only uses up about half of the 65536 possible values you get with two bytes. Why not revise it?
.. but I hope it will be topped by "Samurai Fiction" move I'll see tonight..
I saw Demolition Man the other night, I'm curious to know whether or not anyone knows the answer to that....
Do not read this
Porcelain God. Core dump. It makes computing advocacy a religious experience.
Thet're an option on the last version of slackware I installed (I do a menu based installation so I select exactly what packages I select). I think they'll also be an option on RedHat too but if you select one of the standard options and don't select the files manually they may install themselves.
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I can't resist. This seems to me like the best name for these. :)
yeah, yeah, I know it's a joke page... But, it's got some good slogans to work with if they'd do it.
scottwimer
-- Beer. It's what's for breakfast.
I fell in love with these toilets the instant I saw them. Are you tired of the ordinary beige of the common toilet? Here is the answer to your trouble! This revolutionary product will change the way you think about toilets, it will change the way you interact with them. Other toilets are cold and unfriendly, but people actually want to sit on this one. They see it and they want to sit on it, to touch it, and admire it. What better way to show your individuality than putting one of these in your bathroom? You will stand out from the rest of the beige toilet masses, and your rear end will never be cold again!
These are some of the benefits of the iToilet:Increased Seat Integration - The seat sits rather than hangs on the toilet!
Futuristic Form Factor - Your friends will know you're cool when they see what you sit on!
Really great flavors - No comment
When asked about the price of the toilets, Mr. Jobs was reported as saying, "Would you rather have tomorrows toilet for more, or yesterday's toilet for less?" As for me, I'll take tomorrows toilet any day. Long live Apple! Heil Steve!
Loader of Code and of BricksIf ya filter through all the Japanese text it turns out that these were designed in Ray Dream Studio 5.
I've been to Japan, I've seen the toilets... and ya wanna know what? I wouldn't be surprised if I ever saw one of these!
--Rob
It shoulda been that, not "Sit different".
since you if you want them originally (say you know you're going to be viewing a lot of Japanese pages) then you can choose to install them when you install IE5 (or at anytime thereafter through WindowsUpdate). But if you don't know if you'll need it or not, you can just not install them (saving yourself from having extra bloat) and then IE5 will give you the option of downloading and installing the fonts when you get to a page that needs them. A good feature, IMO. The number of languages IE5 supports is pretty impressive too.
You'd consider it a bug in an environment that
assuredly will never encounter the japanese
language? (one where the mere appearance of
the language would consistute a bug??)
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
>What exactly does Slashdot mean?
/.
say the entire URL out loud.
H-T-T-P colon slash slash slashdot dot org
Word games...get it?
What the post above was referring to is the "slashdot effect" or the consequences of a huge flood of visitors linking to the site after it's URL was posted on
0 1 - just my two bits
"Barium" because the grey-whitish colour of the toilet matches what comes out after you take a dose of the stuff for a stomach x-ray (believe me, I've done it...)
Yeah, but Japanese, Chinese and Korean would each require around half of the entire 2-byte Unicode character space just to contain the characters you'd find in a decent dictionary, which means that 2-byte Unicode is useless for typesetting in any of these languages.
Yeah, "everyone else" except for Japanese, Chinese and Korean users... well, that's only a potential user-base of 1.4 billion people.
The problem is that under 2-byte Unicode, the creators of the standard, in their infinite wisdom, decided that it would be OK to use the same code point for similar characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean - which means people wanting to use those languages at the same time are stuck in almost exactly the same position as they are now, i.e. dependent on the font for how a particular character will actually appear on screen. Of course, all the companies you mentioned are Western ones, so they couldn't give a shit...
The guy apparently created them as a joke. To translate selected portions:
The colors are: Bluelet, Green Curry, Red Curry, Barium and Olive (I believe he's referring to different *ahem* colors of excrement...)
The "Do puri2 to iNax" refers to the onomatopaeic phrase "puri-puri"; I'll leave the meaning to your imagination.
He says at the bottom that the original slogan he thought up was "Shit different", but since it seemed a little rude, he decided to change it to "Sit different".
The name "iNax" is a reference to Inaxx (sp?), a Japanese manufacturer of toilets, baths, etc.
The last couple of links at the bottom are for a 300dpi version of a catalog for these toilets (remember, it's a joke, so don't try ordering them).
Internet Explorer 5 downloaded and installed the Japanese Fonts while the page loaded. That was cool.
Yum! .
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you might actually like it.
On an episode of "Beyond Tomorrow" I saw a few years ago, the show looked at a Japanese corporate restroom. It was rather amazing, and had enough furnishings in it that, if one could find space to add a bed, one would have the equivalent of a fairly good hotel room there. Soothing acquarium to look at, TV set if that's more your thing, refrigerator (IIRC), and the toilet...now that was something else.
Among other things, it had a built-in retractible bidet (check a dictionary if you don't know what that means), and hot air jets to dry off afterward. It wouldn't wipe for you...but it would let you do your business without ever having to reach down there if you so desired.
Freaky.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Anytime there's a link on Slashdot, several thousands of people go look at it at the same time, and the website crashes under the load. Then the guy running the website says "Oh shit, I got slashdotted!" It's also called the Slashdot Effect.
Jonathan Ive, the guy who designed the iMac, blue PowerMac and 20th Anniversary Mac, used to work at a european company designing faucets and other bathroom fixtures. He got the idea for frosted translucent plastic from the shower doors he worked on.
This *proves* that the iMac is full of shit ;-)
But will it run linux ppc? That's the real question. Reading your email while on the can would make very constructive use of otherwise wasted time.
Well... Think Different!
one seashell scrapes the shit off of one butt-cheek, the second scrapes it off the other, and the third one is just for fun.
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
Doesn't that constitute 'bloat' for people who will never need those fonts? Why are they automatically installed?
Nope. You have to get out the credit card and buy Office 97. ("DUH!")
I seem to recall that the fellow who designed the iMac's packaging had previously designed a space toilet. Perhaps this is meant to highlight that fact.
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Some keywords for the NSA in the Lord of the Rings universe: One Ring bind find Sauron quest Nazgul freedom
It turns out the guy who designed the iMac actually used to design toilets and sinks. The article is here.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
iNAX: Where do you want to go after you eat today?
What is it about Apple products that sparks creative juices in people? Does anyone remember similar takes on PCs? (Not simply jokes, but imaginative products incorporating beige boxes.)
Are there any household appliances that don't have inbedded chips? Are there any products that will not have chips in the future? We have already have bathroom faucets that turn on when you place your hands underneath them. What's left?
Yes i know it sounds amazing, but i got the same thought, although first after the "normal" thought. :-)
Got to get laid more often
What exactly does Slashdot mean? I have just discovered this site not too long ago and I was just wondering what was meant by that. Any help for a newbie?
Apples keep you regular! 'Nuff said.
Remember,you don't know until you find out...and you may still not.
Maybe this was covered previously, but what I get
out of this is that the color schemes are different in Japan (makes sense, since people were surveyed to pick colors)... I'd really like to get my hands on one of those smoke grey ones...