OK lets get the myth out of the way - Japanese CAN pronunce Wii the way you're supposed to. Yes although there is no specific "sound" to pronunce Wii in Japanese, but they can use the hiragana 'U' in combination with a small 'i' to make this sound. As strange as it may sound to us English speaking folks, the word 'virus' is pronunced as "Ui-rusu", which begins the same way as you would pronunce 'Wii' in Japanese. So lets stop saying Nintendo is shooting themselves in the foot with Wii cos "Japanese can't even pronunce it" - that's just not true.
I've been thinking of the exact thing... when PS3 comes out, will I cave in and buy one or will I stand up and buy the alternative... XBOX 360?!?!? Well that's like jumping from one fire bit into another. Well there's always Nintendo's Revolution...
At my previous job we were interested in developing a real electro-hybrid bicycle designed for what many of you mentioned such as better for the environment and exercise option for the elderlies. But this is not what those e-bikes are all about in China. Do you know how they keep the price down? They use lead batteries. These batteries have the life time of about 6 months on everyday use, meaning users will need to buy replacement probably at least once a year. When you talk to the shops and ask them what they do with the batteries that were replaced, they show you to their back room piled to the ceiling with dead ones. Chinese electric bicycle makers have no interest in figuring out a way to recycle or at least dispose of all these dead lead acid batteries. The government doesn't know what to do with them. Lots of lead acid batteries lying around is really good for the envinonment, yea that's for sure.
And some people may think these are real hybrid bicycles? Think again. Some of these bicycles have pedals where you can, well, pedal your way around. But all of these electric bicycle all have an accelerater on the right handle bar, and you can cruise. We did interviews to ask them whether they pedal or cruise and about 80% said they use the accelerator all the time. We've tried riding these and you'll understand why most of them don't pedal - these bikes are impossible to pedal! You should call these electric scooters cos that's what they really are...
One thing I learned while spending time there is that things in China is never what it really seems.
didn't this happen in futurama once? where they were threaten by a big ball of garbage that was supposed to go into the sun, but somehow it come orbitting back into earth?
i can't remember the details cos that show aired so long ago...
and this goes to show that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. in fact you sound so much like a nazi when you talking about "weakening the gene pool".
our "gene pool" has nothing to do with what the article mentioned. the article clearly mentioned that the reason we have a problem with drug-resistant bacteria's is because of all the excessive use of anti-biotics. our gene pool is not involved at all.
as many people already mentioned, what we need is responsible use of the right drug at the right time.
genetic engineering... you're just gonna screw things up even more with that:p
what the article probably meant was the exchange in plasmids, which are small strands of DNA that is not part of the whole bacterial DNA. bacteria's commonly exchange plasmids, as it's one of their ways to "evolve" sorta speak (other than mutations for example). it's actually more like gaining new abilities, rather than evolving...
another thing, IIRC this doesn't happen with virii.
Just a thought that popped into my head while reading your comment... what if Microsoft said that they will be releasing a BSD-based Windows tomorrow. How strange would that be?
Someone working on the UI of Phoenix must use OS X on a daily basis eh? When you try to customize the toolbar, you get the "Tool Bar Configuration" pane slide down from the menu, just like the way it is in OS X! You can also add extra "flexible space" on either in the tool bar, so you can "float" the buttons in the center. (I always thought this is more efficient) I was surprised to see this sliding pane when I tried out 0.1.
Now if they can only do that with the Preference pane as well...:) Will this make it into 0.3?
(I'm only using the windows version of 0.2 right now, so I'm not sure if this applies to the linux version)
well, here's the japanese version if you can read it -> Nikkei news
my japanese is not perfect, but the news.com.au article and the nikkei article has basically the same info. regarding your comment, the japanese text mentions that "clothes and handbags also have some conductivity" which would imply that you prolly don't get the full 10mbps you do with human skin.
> Hey, don't start ragging on L33t D3ath P1zza, now. They r0x0r. h4rdk0r3. Their > latest album, "ph33r th3 t0pp1ngz" is nothing short of genius. Frankly, I'd be > surprised if they're not required listening 300 years from now, in > universities all over the solar system, as an example of the Golden Age of Music.
Is this how the story line for "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" came about???
that is so untrue. when i told japanese people that i used to watch animes while i was back in the states, they all look at me like i'm some kind of freak:p everyone may watch anime movies (such as Cowboy Bebop, which btw didn't do too well in the theaters here, and Mononoke Hime), but that doesn't equate to everyone watching the TV series.
but if you said everyone read manga's then i would more or less agree with that...
regarding the movie, it's not bad, but it's long and slow:p
CD's in the states cost $14~17, and the artist would earn less than a buck. Now japan cd's cost $25~30... i wonder how much the artist earn and how much the music executives steal per cd...
i guess they have to cover for the people that only rent the cd's to dub onto md's eh?
And the same country has newspapers reporting "First Japanese Pro Baseball player eats a hotdog!" type article should say much about the level of japanese journalism...
of course, WaiWai (the section of the newspaper in the article you mentioned) doesn't do their own reporting, but rather translate article from rumor mill magazines, thus the "fast food => nymphomaniacs" articles...
> And, especially for Slashdotters, don't use vitamin suppliments. Two studies just came out that said vitamin E > (and, to a lesser extent, vitamin C) reduce the chances of getting Alzheimers; lesions relating to free radicals > are found on most Alzheimer patients, and thus anti-oxidants are being viewed as a potential salvation. But > only if you get it from natural sources. Pills had no effect.
i wonder if this means that vitamin E and C are not the cause of the reduction in the chance of getting alzheimers, but rather it's something you take in with the food that contains vitamin E and C...
Define "ok" in "it's ok for guys to wear pink and makeup!" ?
Just take a look in the trains, high school boys playing with their own hair, face, or each others'. Take a look in the drug stores and you can find makeup for guys. Look in the book store and you can find at least 10 mens fashion magazine.
And if I take a look at all the salarymen around me, there's bound to be 1 or 2 guys wearing pink shirt.
I think it also has to do with the Japanese culture is more flexible in terms of new product concepts and new designs. Heck, it's ok for guys to wear pink and makeup!
Some of the stuff that gets released in here would be laughed out of the meeting room in a typical American company:p
I don't see how you can say Quake3 or Doom3 is "cool"... it's just a game:p OK, so I'm not a big FPS fan, but you seriously think playing Quake 3 is cool?
I think we all need to step outside at least once a day;)
Japanese cell phones arn't as great as you would think. Altho they're packed w/features, they sounds like crap. It's like talking on a HAM radio. Really, it's that bad. But given the fact that many Japanese would rather write short messages (meeru) than talk on the phone, I guess it's not that big of an issue:p
> Rhythmbox, which "takes its inspiration from Apple's iTunes application" [rhythmbox.org], > is a direct rip-off of iTunes. It's also what I point at each and every time someone mentions > open-source innovation.
Other than that list of hardware requirements, you also need to be:
1) living in japan (duh) 2) have a real email, not a "free" (not quite sure what that means) nor a keitai email. 3) Have IE5 or above browser so you can report bugs to the "Beta Site".
among other things, altho both PC and PS2 log-on to the same server, the game "world" will be different. the PC beta testers won't be able to play with PS2 owners. same applies to the Tetra-master game. there's also an mention to a game that's not available to the PC beta testers. i suspect it's mahjong...
*sigh* i would've applied for this (or when the PS2 beta testing was going on) except i can only get a 24k modem connection at where i live... oh well, i guess it's back to working on Xenosaga;)
i just like to remind everyone that Shanghai will have a running maglev from Pudong Airport to the city by the end of the year. you can read the details here. the taxi driver i talked to said the train ride will take 5 minutes. 5 minutes for a maglev train!!! how silly is that?!?
And also there are rumors that china will build a maglev connecting Beijing and Shanghai by 2008 (for the 2008 olympics). knowing how chinese love to show off, i wouldn't bet against this.
i say we wait and see how china does with their maglev... they have enough people to spare (j/k)
heck, from what i've heard, it's not even economical in japan, given their population density... supposedly all but a few of the trains operate in the red...
this is of course not to knock the mass transit idea. i personally cannot live w/o train & buses in japan, or else i would be stuck in the slowest town i've ever lived in my life! (which is Iwata btw, the home camp of japan's soccer team. whoopie doo)
my thoughts exactly. so can we go one step further? meaning we don't buy those cd's to rip then thru audio out and post it on the net? cos if we do that, we're just contributing to the problem, and they will come up with more laws & whathaveyou to restrict what's left of fair use.
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OK lets get the myth out of the way - Japanese CAN pronunce Wii the way you're supposed to. Yes although there is no specific "sound" to pronunce Wii in Japanese, but they can use the hiragana 'U' in combination with a small 'i' to make this sound. As strange as it may sound to us English speaking folks, the word 'virus' is pronunced as "Ui-rusu", which begins the same way as you would pronunce 'Wii' in Japanese. So lets stop saying Nintendo is shooting themselves in the foot with Wii cos "Japanese can't even pronunce it" - that's just not true.
I've been thinking of the exact thing... when PS3 comes out, will I cave in and buy one or will I stand up and buy the alternative... XBOX 360?!?!? Well that's like jumping from one fire bit into another. Well there's always Nintendo's Revolution...
At my previous job we were interested in developing a real electro-hybrid bicycle designed for what many of you mentioned such as better for the environment and exercise option for the elderlies. But this is not what those e-bikes are all about in China. Do you know how they keep the price down? They use lead batteries. These batteries have the life time of about 6 months on everyday use, meaning users will need to buy replacement probably at least once a year. When you talk to the shops and ask them what they do with the batteries that were replaced, they show you to their back room piled to the ceiling with dead ones. Chinese electric bicycle makers have no interest in figuring out a way to recycle or at least dispose of all these dead lead acid batteries. The government doesn't know what to do with them. Lots of lead acid batteries lying around is really good for the envinonment, yea that's for sure.
And some people may think these are real hybrid bicycles? Think again. Some of these bicycles have pedals where you can, well, pedal your way around. But all of these electric bicycle all have an accelerater on the right handle bar, and you can cruise. We did interviews to ask them whether they pedal or cruise and about 80% said they use the accelerator all the time. We've tried riding these and you'll understand why most of them don't pedal - these bikes are impossible to pedal! You should call these electric scooters cos that's what they really are...
One thing I learned while spending time there is that things in China is never what it really seems.
didn't this happen in futurama once? where they were threaten by a big ball of garbage that was supposed to go into the sun, but somehow it come orbitting back into earth?
i can't remember the details cos that show aired so long ago...
and this goes to show that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. in fact you sound so much like a nazi when you talking about "weakening the gene pool".
:p
our "gene pool" has nothing to do with what the article mentioned. the article clearly mentioned that the reason we have a problem with drug-resistant bacteria's is because of all the excessive use of anti-biotics. our gene pool is not involved at all.
as many people already mentioned, what we need is responsible use of the right drug at the right time.
genetic engineering... you're just gonna screw things up even more with that
what the article probably meant was the exchange in plasmids, which are small strands of DNA that is not part of the whole bacterial DNA. bacteria's commonly exchange plasmids, as it's one of their ways to "evolve" sorta speak (other than mutations for example). it's actually more like gaining new abilities, rather than evolving...
another thing, IIRC this doesn't happen with virii.
Just a thought that popped into my head while reading your comment... what if Microsoft said that they will be releasing a BSD-based Windows tomorrow. How strange would that be?
Someone working on the UI of Phoenix must use OS X on a daily basis eh? When you try to customize the toolbar, you get the "Tool Bar Configuration" pane slide down from the menu, just like the way it is in OS X! You can also add extra "flexible space" on either in the tool bar, so you can "float" the buttons in the center. (I always thought this is more efficient) I was surprised to see this sliding pane when I tried out 0.1.
:) Will this make it into 0.3?
Now if they can only do that with the Preference pane as well...
(I'm only using the windows version of 0.2 right now, so I'm not sure if this applies to the linux version)
my japanese is not perfect, but the news.com.au article and the nikkei article has basically the same info. regarding your comment, the japanese text mentions that "clothes and handbags also have some conductivity" which would imply that you prolly don't get the full 10mbps you do with human skin.
> Hey, don't start ragging on L33t D3ath P1zza, now. They r0x0r. h4rdk0r3. Their
> latest album, "ph33r th3 t0pp1ngz" is nothing short of genius. Frankly, I'd be
> surprised if they're not required listening 300 years from now, in
> universities all over the solar system, as an example of the Golden Age of Music.
Is this how the story line for "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" came about???
> In Japan, everyone watches anime
:p everyone may watch anime movies (such as Cowboy Bebop, which btw didn't do too well in the theaters here, and Mononoke Hime), but that doesn't equate to everyone watching the TV series.
:p
that is so untrue. when i told japanese people that i used to watch animes while i was back in the states, they all look at me like i'm some kind of freak
but if you said everyone read manga's then i would more or less agree with that...
regarding the movie, it's not bad, but it's long and slow
CD's in the states cost $14~17, and the artist would earn less than a buck. Now japan cd's cost $25~30... i wonder how much the artist earn and how much the music executives steal per cd...
:)
i guess they have to cover for the people that only rent the cd's to dub onto md's eh?
i just beam them into my ipod
And the same country has newspapers reporting "First Japanese Pro Baseball player eats a hotdog!" type article should say much about the level of japanese journalism...
of course, WaiWai (the section of the newspaper in the article you mentioned) doesn't do their own reporting, but rather translate article from rumor mill magazines, thus the "fast food => nymphomaniacs" articles...
> And, especially for Slashdotters, don't use vitamin suppliments. Two studies just came out that said vitamin E
> (and, to a lesser extent, vitamin C) reduce the chances of getting Alzheimers; lesions relating to free radicals
> are found on most Alzheimer patients, and thus anti-oxidants are being viewed as a potential salvation. But
> only if you get it from natural sources. Pills had no effect.
i wonder if this means that vitamin E and C are not the cause of the reduction in the chance of getting alzheimers,
but rather it's something you take in with the food that contains vitamin E and C...
Define "ok" in "it's ok for guys to wear pink and makeup!" ?
Just take a look in the trains, high school boys playing with their own hair, face, or each others'. Take a look in the drug stores and you can find makeup for guys. Look in the book store and you can find at least 10 mens fashion magazine.
And if I take a look at all the salarymen around me, there's bound to be 1 or 2 guys wearing pink shirt.
Is that good enough for you?
I think it also has to do with the Japanese culture is more flexible in terms of new product concepts and new designs. Heck, it's ok for guys to wear pink and makeup!
:p
Some of the stuff that gets released in here would be laughed out of the meeting room in a typical American company
I don't see how you can say Quake3 or Doom3 is "cool"... it's just a game :p OK, so I'm not a big FPS fan, but you seriously think playing Quake 3 is cool?
;)
I think we all need to step outside at least once a day
Japanese cell phones arn't as great as you would think. Altho they're packed w/features, they sounds like crap. It's like talking on a HAM radio. Really, it's that bad. But given the fact that many Japanese would rather write short messages (meeru) than talk on the phone, I guess it's not that big of an issue :p
> Rhythmbox, which "takes its inspiration from Apple's iTunes application" [rhythmbox.org],
;)
> is a direct rip-off of iTunes. It's also what I point at each and every time someone mentions
> open-source innovation.
or lack there of?
Other than that list of hardware requirements, you also need to be:
;)
1) living in japan (duh)
2) have a real email, not a "free" (not quite sure what that means) nor a keitai email.
3) Have IE5 or above browser so you can report bugs to the "Beta Site".
among other things, altho both PC and PS2 log-on to the same server, the game "world" will be different. the PC beta testers won't be able to play with PS2 owners. same applies to the Tetra-master game. there's also an mention to a game that's not available to the PC beta testers. i suspect it's mahjong...
*sigh* i would've applied for this (or when the PS2 beta testing was going on) except i can only get a 24k modem connection at where i live... oh well, i guess it's back to working on Xenosaga
i just like to remind everyone that Shanghai will have a running maglev from Pudong Airport to the city by the end of the year. you can read the details here. the taxi driver i talked to said the train ride will take 5 minutes. 5 minutes for a maglev train!!! how silly is that?!?
And also there are rumors that china will build a maglev connecting Beijing and Shanghai by 2008 (for the 2008 olympics). knowing how chinese love to show off, i wouldn't bet against this.
i say we wait and see how china does with their maglev... they have enough people to spare (j/k)
heck, from what i've heard, it's not even economical in japan, given their population density... supposedly all but a few of the trains operate in the red...
this is of course not to knock the mass transit idea. i personally cannot live w/o train & buses in japan, or else i would be stuck in the slowest town i've ever lived in my life! (which is Iwata btw, the home camp of japan's soccer team. whoopie doo)
umm they released a smaller controller just for japan. i tried it and it's pretty comfy (and i actually have big hands compared to average japanese).
the start button is kinda off place (left and below the D pad) but other than that, it was pretty easy to pick up and go from the beginning.
my thoughts exactly. so can we go one step further? meaning we don't buy those cd's to rip then thru audio out and post it on the net? cos if we do that, we're just contributing to the problem, and they will come up with more laws & whathaveyou to restrict what's left of fair use.
does this mean ebert just violated DMCA for posting info on how to "circumvent" an encryption?