This is why, sometimes monopolies are something not so bad, it depends on the country where you live.
Here in Japan NTT is a virtual monopoly for landlines, but I am in a semi-rural area and I have fiber-to-home.
In Mexico Telmex is also a virtual monopoly, the prices suck and the technology as well, but you can use DSL more less in all simu-rural areas.
Same policies for all the country. In general I hate monopolies but this is one of the few good points on them.
My phone ( which I have had for more than half a year ) besides the bar code reader, has OCR of roman and japanese characters. And the most impresive use of this in the telephone is the ability to input some japanese word (yes in Kanji) directly into the dictionary. Really impresive for us non native japanese speakers.
My phone is a sanyo w32SA , in the link you can read about in the part OCR kino.
I don't like to see this images ( I dont have the courage to click on them)... but maybe , If every single person in this world were forced to see what war and bombs really causes, maybe we would have fewer conflicts... In the part of depicting accidents in this web site, I completly agree with you.
I haven't used a watch for the last 5 years, ( I have survived with my cell phone's one) , buy one week ago I saw the models from Fossil... and now Im thinking seriously in use one of those... Those displays with asteroids , minimalistic hands and those changing kanjis.... are completly geek;)
Standarize, but leave the door open when its justified... For example, if a system is going to use Microsoft tools (like active directory), leave the door open to use things like.NET tools... but in general I think is fine to set Java as a standard for legacy systems.
The reason japanese people cannot speak in english is because the japanese language is very limited in sounds, so when they try to talk something else is impossible for them. I study in a japanese university and in general people has a good grammar and vocabulary, but its really difficult for them to talk. And reading is the same story, they are used to read kanji and not letters.
Actually I have the 100 Mbit service with Optic fiber.. although I dont live in a big city (fukui , japan) I can get it for 50 usd a month
my provider.
Here in Japan I have been surprised by massification in the use of bar-codes that can be read by the cell phones( Services in phones by docomo). They put this codes basically everywhere ( posters , web pages , products ) , and people can recover information from them with their cell phones . For example, in a poster from a cinema they put a web adress in this codes and people makes use of the camera in the phone to retrieve the web adress of the cinema from it and check for the schedules of the cinema. Some telephones as well have the capabilitiy to create bar codes , that can be displayed on the LCD of the phone and read by other phones.
But, as I say , here is Japan and japanese people sometimes has trends that dont leave the island.
yeap , i have the same basic fare , but you can have extra services over it:)
You can get nice transfer rates using some peer-to-peer software , but maybe the most i have reached is just 50% or less of theorical maximum.
Originally I wanted the ADSL service, but after I made the contract , the sent me a notice telling me that there was no "metal cable" from my home to the telephone office, so my only options were fiber or cable.... I tried the fiber:). For a reference I live in a small prefecture , in a city with 40 0000 inhabitants.
I have this FTH service in japan since last month and is very nice... my only complain is that is very hard to get high transmition rates with the service... only if you are using things in japan . The cost is about 80 dollars a month and television services can be used on demand ( for a fee of course ). A link in english
to my provider .
Mexican Goverment has many web tools that must be used by tax payers , sadly this tools require M$ IExplorer to be used. The funny part is that many of this tools are written in java, and they work in part in other browsers/architechtures... but I guess they never took the time/effort to check them to work correctly but in ie.
Well if you consider that a japanese sumo fighter rarely has a weight smaller than 130 kg (285 lb) , then your asumption can be incorrect in some cases. I live in japan , and yes, and average japanese is smaller/thinner/(maybe healthier) than an average person from the USA, but if you take in account the 60kg that you can take as baggage in a flight, the difference in the proportion is smaller. And if you know the pain in the A## ( literally ) that is a trans-pacific flight , then you understand why they are doing this.
mhhhh... nihongo ha wakaru ? (Can you understand Japanese) ? If you do , you should see the news more often. It has been recently there, starting with the 28C inside offices and the no - tie campaign !
Here the shut down for the analog transmissions is in july 2011. But you can still buy analog TV sets on the shops... mmmhhh, wide plasma digital TV. But they are still quite expensive.:(
Well , actually you dont need the glasses to perceive the 3D in this kind of laptops. Once I used one of this ones, And I really didn't ejoyed it, I got a headache.... Its just to weird:P
Exactly , I dont trust them either, but this authorities already have their certificates pre-installed in all major web browsers. And that's exactly what any efford needs to be succesful.... And I dont think any organization responsible of a web browser will ever take in consideration this kind of certificates , until they are properly supported by someone they can trust in.
I think this is a nice effort but will be pretty useless. We need a known and trustable organization doing this, or a coordinated effort between many organizations. To be a success we need the certificate of the "Certification Authority" installed by default in all browsers. Without that certificate installed, we will cryptic messages appearing in all our users screens.... and we dont want that. Once a trustable CA is established, Organizations and Companies as Mozilla, Opera or Apple may be ready to install the certificate of this new organization on their browsers . And a the result would be finally a useful CA.
I have been thinking about the recently anounced cell processor and robots, I think it will be excellent to use it in them. Remember that 2 of the companies involved in the development of the cell are toshiba and sony , and those two companies are developing/sell robots. The parallelism that that the cell will provide will be excellent. Imagine an APU dealing with some pattern recognition algorithms while other deals with voice recognition and so on.... I start to see a future with home robots made by sony, industrial robots by toshiba and business equipment by IBM....
here some links
to robots
Slashdot Mirror
I said the same about the lord of the rings. It kinda s#&ks in some aspects but I like it.(/me still prefers the books ).
This is why, sometimes monopolies are something not so bad, it depends on the country where you live. Here in Japan NTT is a virtual monopoly for landlines, but I am in a semi-rural area and I have fiber-to-home.
In Mexico Telmex is also a virtual monopoly, the prices suck and the technology as well, but you can use DSL more less in all simu-rural areas.
Same policies for all the country. In general I hate monopolies but this is one of the few good points on them.
My phone ( which I have had for more than half a year ) besides the bar code reader, has OCR of roman and japanese characters. And the most impresive use of this in the telephone is the ability to input some japanese word (yes in Kanji) directly into the dictionary. Really impresive for us non native japanese speakers. My phone is a sanyo w32SA , in the link you can read about in the part OCR kino.
I don't like to see this images ( I dont have the courage to click on them)... but maybe , If every single person in this world were forced to see what war and bombs really causes, maybe we would have fewer conflicts ... In the part of depicting accidents in this web site, I completly agree with you.
And what kind of DRM are they goin to include with this? Maybe the Pr0n sites will be the early adopters of this technology ... hehehe
I pass ...
The first step in the development of Bender !!!!
An article about the same topic here . Its foccused on the repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Big news, Japan has had cell phones with VoIP support since 2004. nice technology .
I haven't used a watch for the last 5 years, ( I have survived with my cell phone's one) , buy one week ago I saw the models from Fossil... and now Im thinking seriously in use one of those... Those displays with asteroids , minimalistic hands and those changing kanjis.... are completly geek ;)
Standarize, but leave the door open when its justified ... For example, if a system is going to use Microsoft tools (like active directory), leave the door open to use things like .NET tools... but in general I think is fine to set Java as a standard for legacy systems.
here is a site with pictures of the constructio progress and a link to a coral cache of the page.
The last attacked ship I can remember was the General Belgrano during the war in the Falklands or "Malvinas" in Spanish.
The reason japanese people cannot speak in english is because the japanese language is very limited in sounds, so when they try to talk something else is impossible for them. I study in a japanese university and in general people has a good grammar and vocabulary, but its really difficult for them to talk. And reading is the same story, they are used to read kanji and not letters.
Actually I have the 100 Mbit service with Optic fiber .. although I dont live in a big city (fukui , japan) I can get it for 50 usd a month
my provider.
Here in Japan I have been surprised by massification in the use of bar-codes that can be read by the cell phones( Services in phones by docomo). They put this codes basically everywhere ( posters , web pages , products ) , and people can recover information from them with their cell phones . For example, in a poster from a cinema they put a web adress in this codes and people makes use of the camera in the phone to retrieve the web adress of the cinema from it and check for the schedules of the cinema. Some telephones as well have the capabilitiy to create bar codes , that can be displayed on the LCD of the phone and read by other phones. But, as I say , here is Japan and japanese people sometimes has trends that dont leave the island.
You can get nice transfer rates using some peer-to-peer software , but maybe the most i have reached is just 50% or less of theorical maximum.
Originally I wanted the ADSL service, but after I made the contract , the sent me a notice telling me that there was no "metal cable" from my home to the telephone office, so my only options were fiber or cable .... I tried the fiber :). For a reference I live in a small prefecture , in a city with 40 0000 inhabitants.
I have this FTH service in japan since last month and is very nice ... my only complain is that is very hard to get high transmition rates with the service... only if you are using things in japan . The cost is about 80 dollars a month and television services can be used on demand ( for a fee of course ). A link in english
to my provider .
Mexican Goverment has many web tools that must be used by tax payers , sadly this tools require M$ IExplorer to be used. The funny part is that many of this tools are written in java, and they work in part in other browsers/architechtures ... but I guess they never took the time/effort to check them to work correctly but in ie.
Well if you consider that a japanese sumo fighter rarely has a weight smaller than 130 kg (285 lb) , then your asumption can be incorrect in some cases. I live in japan , and yes, and average japanese is smaller/thinner/(maybe healthier) than an average person from the USA, but if you take in account the 60kg that you can take as baggage in a flight, the difference in the proportion is smaller. And if you know the pain in the A## ( literally ) that is a trans-pacific flight , then you understand why they are doing this.
mhhhh... nihongo ha wakaru ? (Can you understand Japanese) ? If you do , you should see the news more often. It has been recently there, starting with the 28C inside offices and the no - tie campaign !
Here the shut down for the analog transmissions is in july 2011. But you can still buy analog TV sets on the shops ... mmmhhh, wide plasma digital TV. But they are still quite expensive. :(
Well , actually you dont need the glasses to perceive the 3D in this kind of laptops. Once I used one of this ones, And I really didn't ejoyed it, I got a headache .... Its just to weird :P
Exactly , I dont trust them either, but this authorities already have their certificates pre-installed in all major web browsers. And that's exactly what any efford needs to be succesful .... And I dont think any organization responsible of a web browser will ever take in consideration this kind of certificates , until they are properly supported by someone they can trust in.
I think this is a nice effort but will be pretty useless. We need a known and trustable organization doing this, or a coordinated effort between many organizations. To be a success we need the certificate of the "Certification Authority" installed by default in all browsers. Without that certificate installed, we will cryptic messages appearing in all our users screens .... and we dont want that. Once a trustable CA is established, Organizations and Companies as Mozilla, Opera or Apple may be ready to install the certificate of this new organization on their browsers . And a the result would be finally a useful CA.
I have been thinking about the recently anounced cell processor and robots, I think it will be excellent to use it in them. Remember that 2 of the companies involved in the development of the cell are toshiba and sony , and those two companies are developing/sell robots. The parallelism that that the cell will provide will be excellent. Imagine an APU dealing with some pattern recognition algorithms while other deals with voice recognition and so on .... I start to see a future with home robots made by sony, industrial robots by toshiba and business equipment by IBM ....
here some links
to robots