Wouldn't a bunch of passengers on a high-speed train have the same problem?
The newer ones all have base stations in the train, so I get a rock-steady signal all the way along the line. At least most people have manners, though, and the most you usually hear is the occasional ring tone (and the tap-tap-tap of email, of course!) and almost everyone leaves the carriage to talk on the phone.
They also now have power, but still no WiFi on the newest trains, but that's another rant...
And people have much worse manners (but not as bad as the last time I was in Europe!) on local trains, but that's yet another rant...
They suggest that 7 hours is the minimum in TFA, and I get 5.5 hours on weekdays if I'm lucky. If I tried to move up to the minimum of seven that they recommend, I'd have to face a packed to the gunwales train here in Japan. Indeed, surveys show that almost half of all Japanese get less than six hours shut-eye per night, but if you add back in snoozing on the train (or at meetings, a not uncommon sight) perhaps they manage to break the seven hour barrier?
The more of you Slashdot types it keeps out the better. All the more Japanese totty for me, not that I can imagine the average reader picking up any J girls, even though your pasty-white skin from too long in your Mom's basement may be highly prized here.
...my father worked somewhere in Bletchley Park spying on the Japanese, now I'm working in Japan on cryptography-related subjects, and talking to someone working in a division of GCHQ.
more than half of IT workers say they've fallen asleep at work [...] Forty-nine percent of male techies say they've fallen asleep at work, while only 35 percent of women admitted doing so."
Err, unless 70% of all inhuman zombies in IT fall asleep, I can't see how 49% of men and 35% of women add up to over 50%!
1. Information wants to be free 2. Facts, such as survey results, cannot be copyrighted 3. I credit all my sources 4. The information I translate is all from public press release-like sources 5. Much of the information is not available anywhere else in English for free 6. I've only had one complaint from any of the companies involved, but that was to do with the style of one translation, not the appropriation
That photo is not of One Seg TV watchers, as the phones are about two year old models and they do not have TV aerials. Next "Yasuko San" - that should be "Yasuko san" most likely; San is not her surname!
Anyway, I'm just bitter that they seem to have nicked all their stats from my website without any credit!
According to a survey on PC video chat at least, the top reason for not getting into it was not liking seeing their own faces on screen! Another survey on mobile phone video calls found a similar percentage of people not keen on faces.
So as not to link whore (but karma whore instead...), here goes:
You may have heard the news that 25 years ago on the 19th of October 1982, there was the first recorded use of western smileys on usenet. However, that got me wondering as to how old horizontal Japanese emoticons were. With a little investigation, I came across this Japanese page on the evolution of smiley marks in Japan. I'll now present a summary translation of this history of the Japanese emoticon.
First up is a nuclear scientist claiming to have invented (~_~) and others round about the same time as ASCII Net (a Japanese online service) started on the first of May 1985, although he says he wasn't the first, he was just following the patterns of others.
Next up was someone claiming that when he attended Hokkaido University the first Japanese emoticon he saw was from Master Koala with (^O^) in fj.jokes, inspiring him to invent the following:
These were coined between May and July of 1988 and used on JUNET, the Japanese University Network.
Now, we get to a usenet post from January 13 1998, indirectly archived by Google Groups (but with broken encoding). In the message we can see the following marks:
Now we get a very interesting post, suggesting that the classic (^_^) was invented in Japan, but perhaps not by a Japanese. A Kim Tong Ho claims that in the first half of 1986 he signed posts to ASCII Net with the above-mentioned emoticon, with one example from 20th of June 1986. However, he doesn't have confidence to claim to be the very first person to come up with a Japanese emoticon that doesn't require head-tilting to read. Around the same time a person with the handle 'binbou' (the nuclear scientist mentioned above) used (~_~), but as to who was first, it is rather difficult to say.
So, there we have it; the Japanese emoticon is at least 21 years and a few months old, perhaps even 22 and a bit years old.
What percentage do you get? Why not separate POP versus IMAP as different types of email since it's being done for telephony? My employer, for instance, has got rid of almost all fixed line phones and replaced them with WiFi-based mobiles so drawing conclusions about almost 0% of our staff using fixed lines would be misleading.
BTW, isn't no program getting over 9% almost impossible anyway, as the percentage is based on the total number of viewers at that time on all channels, so with 6 or so private and 2 public channels, cable and satellite have to have pretty high shares to depress all the terrestrial broadcasts.
Also, I found it amusingly predictable how it didn't take long for someone to blame Soka Gakkai for it all.
I've just spent some time searching the Japanese language internet, and I cannot find a decent source for this - all the blogs seem to be quoting British sources for this. Has anyone got any hard facts?
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I've not studied the details of GPL v3, but I believe there will no new restrictions of programs built with a v3'd GCC. For example, we can still built our TiVo-ised closed source DRMed patent-encumbered for sale software without fearing the wrath of RMS, or at least no additional rwrath from him.
1. Deco Mail: most of the new phones now have HTML mail and large libraries of animated emoticons and the like - wifey's has over 1,000, plus lots more downloadable free. They can also be forwarded to PC mail clients and displayed successfully.
2. NaviTime: doesn't just tell you where to go, but copes with which exit from the subway station to get, if a taxi would be faster than trains, even which carriage to board to be closest to the exit!
3. Napster: well, maybe not.
4. iPot: mobile phone in granny's kettle so you can get an email if she doesn't use it for a day.
5. Anti-bullying kiddie phones: junior points camera at bully/perv, sounds the alarm, and parent gets a photo plus GPS coordinates, etc.
My wife's phone from three years ago had one. It also incorporated a dog game/simulator, and one of the ways to make the dog happy was to get your fingerprint swiped in order to pet the dog.
Now, what is new and interesting is the 813SH for Biz which has a remote control data destruct option, or even the slightly older P903i which comes with a wireless DES dongle that locks the phone once it gets out of range.
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I tried just "Osaka", where I am right now.
First match was an obscure album, then a few "factz" that made no sense.
Let's try again, "What is the largest city in Japan?"
Tokyo doesn't feature at all on the first page! It fairs just as badly with other countries.
It now seems to be slashdotted, so I better quit now.
Try Strapya. Round about US$24 plus $5 postage.
Hello Kittified tinfoil hats for your RFID cards.
The newer ones all have base stations in the train, so I get a rock-steady signal all the way along the line. At least most people have manners, though, and the most you usually hear is the occasional ring tone (and the tap-tap-tap of email, of course!) and almost everyone leaves the carriage to talk on the phone.
They also now have power, but still no WiFi on the newest trains, but that's another rant...
And people have much worse manners (but not as bad as the last time I was in Europe!) on local trains, but that's yet another rant...
They suggest that 7 hours is the minimum in TFA, and I get 5.5 hours on weekdays if I'm lucky. If I tried to move up to the minimum of seven that they recommend, I'd have to face a packed to the gunwales train here in Japan. Indeed, surveys show that almost half of all Japanese get less than six hours shut-eye per night, but if you add back in snoozing on the train (or at meetings, a not uncommon sight) perhaps they manage to break the seven hour barrier?
The more of you Slashdot types it keeps out the better. All the more Japanese totty for me, not that I can imagine the average reader picking up any J girls, even though your pasty-white skin from too long in your Mom's basement may be highly prized here.
...my father worked somewhere in Bletchley Park spying on the Japanese, now I'm working in Japan on cryptography-related subjects, and talking to someone working in a division of GCHQ.
I'm sure just as many people in the crowd would have reported seeing BatBoy if you asked them!
Here's a recent survey from Japan showing that elementary school kids prefer almost everything else bar the Xbox!
Err, unless 70% of all inhuman zombies in IT fall asleep, I can't see how 49% of men and 35% of women add up to over 50%!
In my defense, let me say:
1. Information wants to be free
2. Facts, such as survey results, cannot be copyrighted
3. I credit all my sources
4. The information I translate is all from public press release-like sources
5. Much of the information is not available anywhere else in English for free
6. I've only had one complaint from any of the companies involved, but that was to do with the style of one translation, not the appropriation
That photo is not of One Seg TV watchers, as the phones are about two year old models and they do not have TV aerials. Next "Yasuko San" - that should be "Yasuko san" most likely; San is not her surname!
Anyway, I'm just bitter that they seem to have nicked all their stats from my website without any credit!
According to a survey on PC video chat at least, the top reason for not getting into it was not liking seeing their own faces on screen! Another survey on mobile phone video calls found a similar percentage of people not keen on faces.
It's for stopping people bashing the bishop instead.
Sorry, I deserve to burn in hell/be reincarnated as a dung beetle for that one...
And wrote a short article in my blog:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/19/turns-25-but-how-old-are-japanese-emoticons/
So as not to link whore (but karma whore instead...), here goes:
You may have heard the news that 25 years ago on the 19th of October 1982, there was the first recorded use of western smileys on usenet. However, that got me wondering as to how old horizontal Japanese emoticons were. With a little investigation, I came across this Japanese page on the evolution of smiley marks in Japan. I'll now present a summary translation of this history of the Japanese emoticon.
First up is a nuclear scientist claiming to have invented (~_~) and others round about the same time as ASCII Net (a Japanese online service) started on the first of May 1985, although he says he wasn't the first, he was just following the patterns of others.
Next up was someone claiming that when he attended Hokkaido University the first Japanese emoticon he saw was from Master Koala with (^O^) in fj.jokes, inspiring him to invent the following:
(^.^) - laughing
(;.;) - crying
(-.-) - sleeping, shocked
(_ _) - apologising, lowering one's head
; - sweat mark, eg (^.^;)
* - red-faced, eg *^.^*
These were coined between May and July of 1988 and used on JUNET, the Japanese University Network.
Now, we get to a usenet post from January 13 1998, indirectly archived by Google Groups (but with broken encoding). In the message we can see the following marks:
(^O^) - Master Koala smiling
(-O-) - Master Koala sleeping
(*O*) - Master Koala shocked
(@O@) - Master Koala looking sideways
(=O=) - Master Koala squinting through narrowed eyes
(>O<) - Master Koala surprised
(dOb) - Master Koala neutral
Now we get a very interesting post, suggesting that the classic (^_^) was invented in Japan, but perhaps not by a Japanese. A Kim Tong Ho claims that in the first half of 1986 he signed posts to ASCII Net with the above-mentioned emoticon, with one example from 20th of June 1986. However, he doesn't have confidence to claim to be the very first person to come up with a Japanese emoticon that doesn't require head-tilting to read. Around the same time a person with the handle 'binbou' (the nuclear scientist mentioned above) used (~_~), but as to who was first, it is rather difficult to say.
So, there we have it; the Japanese emoticon is at least 21 years and a few months old, perhaps even 22 and a bit years old.
What percentage do you get? Why not separate POP versus IMAP as different types of email since it's being done for telephony? My employer, for instance, has got rid of almost all fixed line phones and replaced them with WiFi-based mobiles so drawing conclusions about almost 0% of our staff using fixed lines would be misleading.
BTW, isn't no program getting over 9% almost impossible anyway, as the percentage is based on the total number of viewers at that time on all channels, so with 6 or so private and 2 public channels, cable and satellite have to have pretty high shares to depress all the terrestrial broadcasts.
Also, I found it amusingly predictable how it didn't take long for someone to blame Soka Gakkai for it all.
I've just spent some time searching the Japanese language internet, and I cannot find a decent source for this - all the blogs seem to be quoting British sources for this. Has anyone got any hard facts?
I've not studied the details of GPL v3, but I believe there will no new restrictions of programs built with a v3'd GCC. For example, we can still built our TiVo-ised closed source DRMed patent-encumbered for sale software without fearing the wrath of RMS, or at least no additional rwrath from him.
I reported on a survey showing that the penetration of Linux in the public sector was virtually nil, and in addition two months ago office suites meant MS Office in both the private and public sectors.
A survey conducted just one month ago showed that barely one percent of public sector employees used Linux, despite the Japan Information-technology Promotion Agency spending untold millions on feasibility studies over the last two or more years.
1. Deco Mail: most of the new phones now have HTML mail and large libraries of animated emoticons and the like - wifey's has over 1,000, plus lots more downloadable free. They can also be forwarded to PC mail clients and displayed successfully.
2. NaviTime: doesn't just tell you where to go, but copes with which exit from the subway station to get, if a taxi would be faster than trains, even which carriage to board to be closest to the exit!
3. Napster: well, maybe not.
4. iPot: mobile phone in granny's kettle so you can get an email if she doesn't use it for a day.
5. Anti-bullying kiddie phones: junior points camera at bully/perv, sounds the alarm, and parent gets a photo plus GPS coordinates, etc.
My wife's phone from three years ago had one. It also incorporated a dog game/simulator, and one of the ways to make the dog happy was to get your fingerprint swiped in order to pet the dog.
Now, what is new and interesting is the 813SH for Biz which has a remote control data destruct option, or even the slightly older P903i which comes with a wireless DES dongle that locks the phone once it gets out of range.