They're already using fire trucks and pumps in an attempt to cool it down, but they need more.
It's not a fire. They need enough water to emerse the reactor faster than the evaporation rate, and they may need additional equipment from both the Japanese Self Defense Force and the US DoD to accomplish that.
I have one of the G-Shock cell phones from Casio myself. It's water and shock resistant, but its also extremely responsive (at least for the std phone, web and email features), and its been my primary/. reading device for the past year or so.
It seems that the Japanese telecommunications industry are under fierce competition between each other, but its also very heavily regulated. There are three primary cellular carriers, and the antitrust department seems to apply additional restrictions when one of them gets too powerful. Some of the practices that I've heard are normal in the States (such as huge fines for cancellations) have been ruled to be illegal (antitrust and consumer protection laws). Even if you sign up for an annual contract, the carriers cannot charge you much for the cancellation fee (about $30 fee for yearly contracts). Even if you buy a phone for 1 yen (less than 1 cent) with a 3M pixel camera, etc., you can still cancel the service on the next day. You may be charged apx $30 to cancel the discount options if you signed up for them, and you'll still be charged the initial registration fee (about $25), but the cancellation fee itself is free unless it changed recently.
Another big difference that I noticed is the attitude. The Japanese carriers seem to be willing to do everything in their power to make their existing and potential WANT to use their service. When I bought a phone in the US (Verizon), the retailer was nice (obviously to sell me a phone), but the carrier made it sound like they were doing me a favor for letting me have the privilege to use their service...
Even the error codes were the same (at least in the earlier versions). I used to use the OS/2 help command to figure out what some SYS errors NT spit out meant.
It's definitely come a long way from the time where you could crash an entire NT subnet by hooking up a workstation with an incorrect IP config, but I still think the NT 4.0 SP6 was the most stable release of Windows...
I'm a METI/ITA/JITEC certified Systems Administrator, and they've always been vendor neutral in their exams and included question about opensource for many years. The shortest
exams are still 5 hours long, and are available in the spring and autumn. Even if they are mostly standards centric, you can see a preference towards open source. They even require knowledge of the GPL in their recent exams.
I've had a GPS phone from AU, and it has proven useful. Especially for those days that I've been drinking and don't know where I am the next morning.
Sending Coordinates through Email
I don't know how the DoCoMo phones are going to be like, but the AU (CDMA-1x?) phones are capable of sending the coordinates to Docomo i-mode, other AU phones, J-Phone/Vodafone, and even PC's. If it has a camera, you can also take a picture or a video of a landmark or something and send it with the coordinates (along with vCard or vCalendar files) if the recepients can accept them (DoCoMo doesn't accept any).
Applications
Other than just sending it through email, the phone I've used also included a Java applet to give me directions. I was also able to use a few websites to give me the train schedule for the nearest train station, the weather for my location, and nearby restaurants and attractions. As with most GPS navigation systems, there isn't much of a need for one if you don't go out exploring.;-)
If the software stored the data, then it had a database. It does not matter if it was human readable or not.
A database does not necessarily have to be a RDBMS. A database, in its most generic term, is just something that stores data. A simple database can be a single plain text file (also called a flat database at times), and if you have multiple text files, you can even have a simplified relational database, as long as you have identifying fields in the files and you join using it (don't do this if the database engine does it...). I don't know if the claims specified a type of database (relational, object, flat).
Personally, I may use the term database to mean RDBMS. IANAL but I assume that the term database in the claims refers to the dictionary meaning and not the idealistic meaning.
Webster definition of a database:
a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer).
Its made by Shinco in China or at least that is what it looks like.
The component version has the same features as one of their newer Shinco DVD players and the portable one looks exactly the same as the portable Shinco DVD player. Shinco seems deal mostly with OEMs outside of China (and Hong Kong). According to them, they supply parts to Sony for their DVD players.
I was recently spammed by these guys before they changed their website to show Dulux as a "brand name". I think I'll stay away from these guys and buy it somewhere else...
While were on the topic of Amazon's No Click Shopping.
A system and method to give members a list of automatically selected items and to automatically pay for the selected items.
The system will automatically select items based on predefined criteria and automatically pays for the items using the customer's financial records. All purchases will be done in the background if the financial records are available. The customer will have no choice in the purchase and will be automatically buy anything. The enforcement of such a scheme will be done through changes to law and an obscure and vague purchase contract, possibly through affiliates with no apparent direct connection.
The items will be automatically selected based on:
Previous purchasing habits.
Someone else's purchasing habits.
Pre-defined selection to maximize profits.
Any other criteria to screw^H^H^H^Hupport the customer.
Payments will be automatic (optional):
If the credit card number is on record, the card will be automatically credited.
If there is no card on record, an attempt will be made to search affiliate sites and local files for financial records containing details that can be used for the purchase.
Else, the system will prompt for a credit card and not allow a cancel.
M[*]ft, I[*]M, D[*]J, US[*], Sl[*]dot, and the planet Earth are licensees and will enforce this through new laws and violence. Birth on this planet automatically enters you into the.NCS (No Choice Shopping) platform EULA. You have no choice, MuaHaHaha.
I already have a cell phone that does 64Kbps by itself... I guess I would have a wireless T-1 if I had 16 of these. I also have another cell phone that does real HTML, not the fake stuff.
Within a few years, with the next generation cell phones comming out, we should be able to get about 2.5Mbps pushed through a cell phone using W-CDMA. Using CDMA2000, it should be able to get over 512Kbps.
If you look at the hardware.txt from the original Windows 95, it states that Micronics motherboards, and Micron/Zeos systems would get their BIOS overwritten. It really helps when it tells you about it after the thing is installed...
I remember reading that it still happens with Win98 and Win2k, but I'm too lazy to check the Microsoft knowledge-base now.
At one point, I was working as a contractor with the Air Force. I was getting married and I went the their legal office ("free advice"). I was told my wife needed a 3 month background check because she was a foreign national. I basically told them "HELL NO!" and went to the embassy and was married within a few days.
The funny thing is that even though I was the lead administrator for all the servers, I don't have any sort of security clearance that I know of and far as they know I could have been a convicted felon and a terrorist since I was never asked questions when I was hired.
It also seems as if the contract itself was done and maintained ilegally (personal service contracts are not permitted).
That being said, I see no difference between that case and this one. Only this time, the judge is letting the "bad guys" (and I really think that they are the bad guys) get away with it. Usually in NDAs for software development systems and end-user licenses there are clauses which state something to the effect of "you may not reverse engineer this product." Just on that merit, I would think that they broke the license agreement, let alone stealing technology.
Placing clauses in a license agreement does not override law. Most licenses also include a clause which states "where law permits". In many countries, a license is invalidated if you cannot prove the person read and understood it prior to use.
The Playstation retails for just under $100 now. Along comes upstart Connectix, offering all of those PC and Mac owners a chance to play Playstation games on their existing hardware for about half the cost of the real playstation. Money that Sony gets off the Playstation consoles now is likely to be just gravy now, since no real development on the PS1 hardware has taken place in a few years. This cuts into Sony's pocketbook.
The Mac retails somewhere between 10 a 50 times the cost of a real Playstation. The price of a Playstation would be pocket change. I wouldn't be supprised if the vast majority of the "Virtual Playstation" owners also owned a real one.
The Playstation hardware was never meant to make money for Sony. It is the licensing fees and the disk printing fees that they charge the ISV's along with their own software sales which make them a profit. At some times, the Playstation was priced so low, they actually lost money manufacturing it.
BTW, when was the last time you signed into a legally binding license to use a piece of hardware?
I have seen widescreen NTSC TV'S in Japan from a few hundred to a few thousand US$. They have small low res ones (17"?) to large HDTV high res ones. The one I liked was the progressive scan interleaving versions. It is nice when you can watch a high resolution picture with low resolution pictures.
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They're already using fire trucks and pumps in an attempt to cool it down, but they need more.
It's not a fire. They need enough water to emerse the reactor faster than the evaporation rate, and they may need additional equipment from both the Japanese Self Defense Force and the US DoD to accomplish that.
I have one of the G-Shock cell phones from Casio myself. It's water and shock resistant, but its also extremely responsive (at least for the std phone, web and email features), and its been my primary /. reading device for the past year or so.
It seems that the Japanese telecommunications industry are under fierce competition between each other, but its also very heavily regulated. There are three primary cellular carriers, and the antitrust department seems to apply additional restrictions when one of them gets too powerful. Some of the practices that I've heard are normal in the States (such as huge fines for cancellations) have been ruled to be illegal (antitrust and consumer protection laws). Even if you sign up for an annual contract, the carriers cannot charge you much for the cancellation fee (about $30 fee for yearly contracts). Even if you buy a phone for 1 yen (less than 1 cent) with a 3M pixel camera, etc., you can still cancel the service on the next day. You may be charged apx $30 to cancel the discount options if you signed up for them, and you'll still be charged the initial registration fee (about $25), but the cancellation fee itself is free unless it changed recently.
Another big difference that I noticed is the attitude. The Japanese carriers seem to be willing to do everything in their power to make their existing and potential WANT to use their service. When I bought a phone in the US (Verizon), the retailer was nice (obviously to sell me a phone), but the carrier made it sound like they were doing me a favor for letting me have the privilege to use their service...
Even the error codes were the same (at least in the earlier versions). I used to use the OS/2 help command to figure out what some SYS errors NT spit out meant.
It's definitely come a long way from the time where you could crash an entire NT subnet by hooking up a workstation with an incorrect IP config, but I still think the NT 4.0 SP6 was the most stable release of Windows...
I'm a METI/ITA/JITEC certified Systems Administrator, and they've always been vendor neutral in their exams and included question about opensource for many years. The shortest
exams are still 5 hours long, and are available in the spring and autumn.
Even if they are mostly standards centric, you can see a preference towards open source. They even require knowledge of the GPL in their recent exams.
I've had a GPS phone from AU, and it has proven useful. Especially for those days that I've been drinking and don't know where I am the next morning.
Sending Coordinates through Email I don't know how the DoCoMo phones are going to be like, but the AU (CDMA-1x?) phones are capable of sending the coordinates to Docomo i-mode, other AU phones, J-Phone/Vodafone, and even PC's. If it has a camera, you can also take a picture or a video of a landmark or something and send it with the coordinates (along with vCard or vCalendar files) if the recepients can accept them (DoCoMo doesn't accept any). Applications Other than just sending it through email, the phone I've used also included a Java applet to give me directions. I was also able to use a few websites to give me the train schedule for the nearest train station, the weather for my location, and nearby restaurants and attractions. As with most GPS navigation systems, there isn't much of a need for one if you don't go out exploring.If the software stored the data, then it had a database. It does not matter if it was human readable or not.
A database does not necessarily have to be a RDBMS. A database, in its most generic term, is just something that stores data. A simple database can be a single plain text file (also called a flat database at times), and if you have multiple text files, you can even have a simplified relational database, as long as you have identifying fields in the files and you join using it (don't do this if the database engine does it...). I don't know if the claims specified a type of database (relational, object, flat).
Personally, I may use the term database to mean RDBMS. IANAL but I assume that the term database in the claims refers to the dictionary meaning and not the idealistic meaning.
Webster definition of a database: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer).Its made by Shinco in China or at least that is what it looks like.
The component version has the same features as one of their newer Shinco DVD players and the portable one looks exactly the same as the portable Shinco DVD player. Shinco seems deal mostly with OEMs outside of China (and Hong Kong). According to them, they supply parts to Sony for their DVD players.
I was recently spammed by these guys before they changed their website to show Dulux as a "brand name". I think I'll stay away from these guys and buy it somewhere else...
Chinese and Japanese OCR exists.
It may not be used that frequently, but just do a search on Chinese OCR and you will find some.
While were on the topic of Amazon's No Click Shopping.
A system and method to give members a list of automatically selected items and to automatically pay for the selected items.
M[*]ft, I[*]M, D[*]J, US[*], Sl[*]dot, and the planet Earth are licensees and will enforce this through new laws and violence. Birth on this planet automatically enters you into theI already have a cell phone that does 64Kbps by itself... I guess I would have a wireless T-1 if I had 16 of these. I also have another cell phone that does real HTML, not the fake stuff.
Within a few years, with the next generation cell phones comming out, we should be able to get about 2.5Mbps pushed through a cell phone using W-CDMA. Using CDMA2000, it should be able to get over 512Kbps.
If you look at the hardware.txt from the original Windows 95, it states that Micronics motherboards, and Micron/Zeos systems would get their BIOS overwritten. It really helps when it tells you about it after the thing is installed...
I remember reading that it still happens with Win98 and Win2k, but I'm too lazy to check the Microsoft knowledge-base now.
At one point, I was working as a contractor with the Air Force. I was getting married and I went the their legal office ("free advice"). I was told my wife needed a 3 month background check because she was a foreign national. I basically told them "HELL NO!" and went to the embassy and was married within a few days.
The funny thing is that even though I was the lead administrator for all the servers, I don't have any sort of security clearance that I know of and far as they know I could have been a convicted felon and a terrorist since I was never asked questions when I was hired.
It also seems as if the contract itself was done and maintained ilegally (personal service contracts are not permitted).
Placing clauses in a license agreement does not override law. Most licenses also include a clause which states "where law permits". In many countries, a license is invalidated if you cannot prove the person read and understood it prior to use.
The Mac retails somewhere between 10 a 50 times the cost of a real Playstation. The price of a Playstation would be pocket change. I wouldn't be supprised if the vast majority of the "Virtual Playstation" owners also owned a real one.
The Playstation hardware was never meant to make money for Sony. It is the licensing fees and the disk printing fees that they charge the ISV's along with their own software sales which make them a profit. At some times, the Playstation was priced so low, they actually lost money manufacturing it.
BTW, when was the last time you signed into a legally binding license to use a piece of hardware?
I have seen widescreen NTSC TV'S in Japan from a few hundred to a few thousand US$. They have small low res ones (17"?) to large HDTV high res ones. The one I liked was the progressive scan interleaving versions. It is nice when you can watch a high resolution picture with low resolution pictures.