Katana's are known to be rather brittle. I remember reading about studies conducted in Japan where they hypothesized that one katana could only cut across maximum of three human bodies before the blade needed to be re-sharpened.
I think they used a replica sword and dummies...so no animals were harmed in the experiement, I hope:)
(Here's the translation of the first link relying solely on my japanese skillz...I'm a native Japanese...):
It all started when "Ogochan" was having following conversion with the president of SCE Inc. at the party held in Tokyo 2/2001:
Ogochan: I don't like games they have on PS2. I have PS2 but I only have PS2 games (WTF? this didn't make that much sense to me either).
Da President: Then make your own, please.
Ogochan: I would like to if I could. I wish I could use Linux for development.
Mr. President (ok I admit, I can't spell his name in English): We could release Linux for PS2 tomorrow, if we wanted to. But as you know, we need some outside motivation for doing such thing because it's not guranteed to generate much money (from doing so). We might consider (releasing it) if we get lots of mails asking for it.
(Ok I'm getting tired of doing this...but here's the mailing list that's doing the pettition: http://www.media-wing.com/pslinux/). I might finish this if no1 else volunteers.
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Katana's are known to be rather brittle. I remember reading about studies conducted in Japan where they hypothesized that one katana could only cut across maximum of three human bodies before the blade needed to be re-sharpened.
:)
I think they used a replica sword and dummies...so no animals were harmed in the experiement, I hope
(Here's the translation of the first link relying solely on my japanese skillz...I'm a native Japanese...):
It all started when "Ogochan" was having following conversion with the president of SCE Inc. at the party held in Tokyo 2/2001:
Ogochan: I don't like games they have on PS2. I have PS2 but I only have PS2 games (WTF? this didn't make that much sense to me either).
Da President: Then make your own, please.
Ogochan: I would like to if I could. I wish I could use Linux for development.
Mr. President (ok I admit, I can't spell his name in English): We could release Linux for PS2 tomorrow, if we wanted to. But as you know, we need some outside motivation for doing such thing because it's not guranteed to generate much money (from doing so). We might consider (releasing it) if we get lots of mails asking for it.
(Ok I'm getting tired of doing this...but here's the mailing list that's doing the pettition: http://www.media-wing.com/pslinux/). I might finish this if no1 else volunteers.