You don't have to put bumps etc on the notes. In Australia each note is 3-4mm longer than another of lower denomination, but they are all the same width. That way, it's easy to handle with vending machines (width) and easy for blind to sort out (length. And they stay nicely. They are also polymer-based, almost indestructible and carry vastly more electronic counter-measures than the old US currency.
Don't re-invent the wheel, just check out what other countries have come up with (after countless iterations).
Ok, I live in Tokyo and have had real honest e-mail push capability (not SMS, not MMS) on my mobile for some years. My phone is old. Newer 3G and i-mode phones have many more features. The network spans the whole world (well, the bits that have 3G) and is not proprietry.
So, what is it about Blackberry that makes it "Crackberry"? What does it do that makes it so popular over there? Surely it's not just about having a keyboard...
For what it's worth, I work for one of the big J-companies making new i-mode mobiles here in Japan.
Excuse me? China has had that capability for some time. Launching ballistic ICBMs and launching men into stable orbits are different things.
So, how does this new knowledge sit with you?
Excuse me?. China can already do that, and has had that capability for a while. Sending ICBMs and sending men into orbit are completely different things.
So, how does this new knowledge make you feel, huh?
Hopefully it won't result in the immediate retaliatory destruction of the USA by the nations of the world whom this attack will anger.
Actually, you can almost guarantee that that will happen. A US that lobs nukes with no provocation, and at the whim of insane leadership cannot be tolerated.
Because, dude, it would be the last bomb that your country ever dropped.
You're on notice, and will be labelled a Rouge Nation in an instant.
Remember, the other guys have more nukes than you do and EVERYONE will breathe easier after the US (the most disruptive agent at the moment) is gone.
Oh I'm sorry you have missed the point. The Soviets still have their nukes and despite what you may have heard they world just fine.
This is the way it will go.
1. US Nukes Iran.
2. Russia, China, UK, France, Sth Africa, and maybe Israel nuke the US, having now proven itself to be a rouge nation.
3. MAD. They other guys have more nukes than you do.
It's not about supporting Saddam, or whatever you use to justify this war to your self, but about the use of nukes to resolve conflict. Any conflict. The implication of the parent post that the whole city and its populace is of no value was disgusting.
As you're probably over 12 yourself, I am sure you see that 1.) It wouldn't stop terrorism anyway and 2.) Your next terror attack would make 911 look trivial.
People modded this UP?
Dude, minutes after Baghdad was made a "smooth, glassy, parking lot", you own home towns would have been rendered likewise. Please remember that OTHER people collectively own many more nukes that you do, and they would not tolerate such use.
Pipe dreams for Rednecks, I think.
You may have also seen aluminium egg rings fired off older rail-gun devices. The actual material doesn't have to be magnetic, it moves forward because of its own magnetic field induced by current flowing through it. Aluminim is a GREAT conductor of electricity and so makes a similarly great magnetic field. This field, when interacting with the rail gun's, makes it move, NOT the fact that the material itself has (unenergized) magnetic properties.
Pretty simple really.
Japanese phones have had video for over three years. Video to flash memory, video e-mails, and audio/video realtime conversations. And yes, when used as a Video Camera they have the full resolution you would expect. These are not toys.
Oh man, here we go again. Sony has had an iPod-killer for well over a year now but they don't sell it outside Japan. It plays unobfuscated MP3s directly, but more importantly plays videos from its 20Gb HDD on a screen much like that of the PSP. I bought one when they were released and watch downloaded TV on it on the train every day.
So basically, it does everything an iPod can do - squared. No idea why it has NO visibility outside Japan though. What's funny is that it *doesn't* support ATRAC...
Check it out --> http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/HMP/
OK, fair enough. But consider this final impression.
Here in Japan, the TV commercials for the DS feature people playing games like clicking on the touchscreen to zap 2D charging bulls coming at you, AND believe it or not a game showing a young girl waving a DS around while watching a 2D visualisation of a human bowel - the goal being to direct the um, waste out the um, exit. I am serious. Fun for all the family.
The PSP ads however show Ridge Racer.
I'm a FPS and racing simulator fan. You can have the charging bulls, digestive games and um, GBA library.
As the original poster what I was trying to explain the view of the TARGET MARKET. The Sony PSP has "Home Market" printed all over it. SO, as a home market potential purchaser it appeals to me.
I believe the majority of Slashdotters believe that Nintendo and Sony make gaming gear aimed at them. Sorry guys, but they don't. They are tailored specifically for the home market, then sold overseas if they think there is a market.
Again, I really have no bias to any one manufacturer so I go on specs alone. To me it's a no-brainer. I have not seen any reviews listing "clear strengths" outside the battery life. Have I missed something?
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Hi, I live and commute in Tokyo. I travel for about 2.5 hours on the train each day. Recently I bought one of the oh-so-cool Sony HMP-A1 HDD multi players. Same size as an i-pod but plays 4 hours of video on a gorgeous screen. It also takes MP3s directly (no Sony proprietry format). It completely rocks. When I get to work, I can charge it via its USB port. The USB port is REALLY USB2.0 and so is extremely fast. From the derision you guys level at Sony, I can only assume that Sony AMerica is a very different beast to Sony Japan. The HMP-A1 has had three firmware and software upgrades since I bought it. Not bug-fixes, upgrades - mostly based on user feedback.
I want to buy the PSP. Have you even seen a DS?. It looks like a toy, it is marketed as a toy here. The PSP is not in the same class. The only similarity is that they are both portable. Even if Ridge Racers (the first game I would buy) does only last 90 minutes, that's enough to get me to work. And that, friends, is what it's made for. Really. It is not made for anything else. If you can't use it for your weekend camping trip where you forgot your charger. Tough bikkies.
Sony sold 200,000 units (all of them) more or less instantaneously. I went out last night to buy one and was told they don't even know when the next batch will come in. The DS however, was looking very lonely and I might add, already discounted.
The PSP is a marvel. If you lust for a DS, you may just be a Nintendo fan. Hey, I own a Nintendo 64 myself and have never owned a Playstation but I find myself unblinkered when appraising new hardware. The PSP vastly outclasses the DS. But you know, if dinky gaming consoles do it for you, and if you like retro games then I guess the DS is for you.
Almost a year using our IP Phone and we love it. We just bought a standard phone with cordless handpiece and it plugs into the router. Nothing to do with the PC.
The building has an optical fibre connection and so we have never had any trouble with data dropouts, voice clarity.
There is however, one BIG problem. The telcos here (Tokyo, Japan) have no setup to redirect calls from outside the country to IP phones. We can call out, just no-one can call us. We figure they just can't work out how to make money out of it yet.
Woah I bought one of these ages ago - shortly after they were released here in Tokyo. I am surprised they are only just leaking into the US market.
Anyway, I was in the same boat as this reviewer in that we had a baby on the way and wanted a tapeless (i.e. fully digital) video camera.
Now listen closely slashdotters... people like him and me DONT want to video hours of mind-numbingly boring footage. What I want is something to take short clips of my kid that rarely exceed one minute. How much can this wonder toy hold? Well as you imagine it depends on your selected resolution. I choose to record in High-res (640x480 at 60fps) and so it chews memory even compressed to MP4. I get about 15 minutes duration with a 256M SD card so you'd get an hour with 1Gb. I have NEVER filled up the card.
I have no issues with transfer speed, but like the reviewer suspect its not full speed USB2.0. My only complaint is that it kind sucks as a still camera. It has a nice lens and good resolution but either mine's broken, or the light metering for its flash is wrong. Close ups tend to be washed out.
From a geek perspective its extremely cool. It has synthesised speech in a number of languages, is very easy to use - MUCH smaller than you think it is, and functions as a small, rugged video camera brilliantly.
It is NOT the thing you'd elect to use to make a feature film with - so you purists can keep your comments to yourselves. It is just meant to capture hi-res digital video clips.
Dude, it is the second flight, if it was the first it would be the MAIDEN flight, it's called Spaceship One and being suborbital it cannot burn up on re-entry.
Read up.
Yeah it's pretty (typically) parochial that the World's fastest computer that was primarily built for weather-related study and therefore is almost certainly going to run rings around the compters listed there - is forgotten...
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You don't have to put bumps etc on the notes. In Australia each note is 3-4mm longer than another of lower denomination, but they are all the same width. That way, it's easy to handle with vending machines (width) and easy for blind to sort out (length. And they stay nicely. They are also polymer-based, almost indestructible and carry vastly more electronic counter-measures than the old US currency. Don't re-invent the wheel, just check out what other countries have come up with (after countless iterations).
So, what is it about Blackberry that makes it "Crackberry"? What does it do that makes it so popular over there? Surely it's not just about having a keyboard...
For what it's worth, I work for one of the big J-companies making new i-mode mobiles here in Japan.
And here I was thinking that the "rediculous" thing was a /. in-joke. Sorry, but ingrained spelling errors *are* a big deal.
Gasoline + even less fire = bang. ...your point?
...telling me it failed. Should've used copy and paste too...
Excuse me? China has had that capability for some time. Launching ballistic ICBMs and launching men into stable orbits are different things. So, how does this new knowledge sit with you?
Excuse me?. China can already do that, and has had that capability for a while. Sending ICBMs and sending men into orbit are completely different things. So, how does this new knowledge make you feel, huh?
Looks like they have made it up! Good for them.
Hopefully it won't result in the immediate retaliatory destruction of the USA by the nations of the world whom this attack will anger.
Actually, you can almost guarantee that that will happen. A US that lobs nukes with no provocation, and at the whim of insane leadership cannot be tolerated.
Besides, the other guys have more nukes.
Because, dude, it would be the last bomb that your country ever dropped.
You're on notice, and will be labelled a Rouge Nation in an instant.
Remember, the other guys have more nukes than you do and EVERYONE will breathe easier after the US (the most disruptive agent at the moment) is gone.
Oh I'm sorry you have missed the point.
The Soviets still have their nukes and despite what you may have heard they world just fine.
This is the way it will go.
1. US Nukes Iran.
2. Russia, China, UK, France, Sth Africa, and maybe Israel nuke the US, having now proven itself to be a rouge nation.
3. MAD. They other guys have more nukes than you do.
It's not about supporting Saddam, or whatever you use to justify this war to your self, but about the use of nukes to resolve conflict. Any conflict. The implication of the parent post that the whole city and its populace is of no value was disgusting. As you're probably over 12 yourself, I am sure you see that 1.) It wouldn't stop terrorism anyway and 2.) Your next terror attack would make 911 look trivial.
People modded this UP? Dude, minutes after Baghdad was made a "smooth, glassy, parking lot", you own home towns would have been rendered likewise. Please remember that OTHER people collectively own many more nukes that you do, and they would not tolerate such use. Pipe dreams for Rednecks, I think.
You may have also seen aluminium egg rings fired off older rail-gun devices. The actual material doesn't have to be magnetic, it moves forward because of its own magnetic field induced by current flowing through it. Aluminim is a GREAT conductor of electricity and so makes a similarly great magnetic field. This field, when interacting with the rail gun's, makes it move, NOT the fact that the material itself has (unenergized) magnetic properties. Pretty simple really.
Oh COME ON!
Japanese phones have had video for over three years. Video to flash memory, video e-mails, and audio/video realtime conversations. And yes, when used as a Video Camera they have the full resolution you would expect. These are not toys.
Years people, years.
I agree. I feel sorry for the people that did the SFX - excellent work let down by ordinary yobs as actors and NO STORY.
Oh man, here we go again. Sony has had an iPod-killer for well over a year now but they don't sell it outside Japan. It plays unobfuscated MP3s directly, but more importantly plays videos from its 20Gb HDD on a screen much like that of the PSP. I bought one when they were released and watch downloaded TV on it on the train every day. So basically, it does everything an iPod can do - squared. No idea why it has NO visibility outside Japan though. What's funny is that it *doesn't* support ATRAC... Check it out --> http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/HMP/
Here in Japan, the TV commercials for the DS feature people playing games like clicking on the touchscreen to zap 2D charging bulls coming at you, AND believe it or not a game showing a young girl waving a DS around while watching a 2D visualisation of a human bowel - the goal being to direct the um, waste out the um, exit. I am serious. Fun for all the family.
The PSP ads however show Ridge Racer.
I'm a FPS and racing simulator fan. You can have the charging bulls, digestive games and um, GBA library.
Thanks for your views.
I believe the majority of Slashdotters believe that Nintendo and Sony make gaming gear aimed at them. Sorry guys, but they don't. They are tailored specifically for the home market, then sold overseas if they think there is a market.
Again, I really have no bias to any one manufacturer so I go on specs alone. To me it's a no-brainer. I have not seen any reviews listing "clear strengths" outside the battery life. Have I missed something?
I want to buy the PSP. Have you even seen a DS?. It looks like a toy, it is marketed as a toy here. The PSP is not in the same class. The only similarity is that they are both portable. Even if Ridge Racers (the first game I would buy) does only last 90 minutes, that's enough to get me to work. And that, friends, is what it's made for. Really. It is not made for anything else. If you can't use it for your weekend camping trip where you forgot your charger. Tough bikkies.
Sony sold 200,000 units (all of them) more or less instantaneously. I went out last night to buy one and was told they don't even know when the next batch will come in. The DS however, was looking very lonely and I might add, already discounted.
The PSP is a marvel. If you lust for a DS, you may just be a Nintendo fan. Hey, I own a Nintendo 64 myself and have never owned a Playstation but I find myself unblinkered when appraising new hardware. The PSP vastly outclasses the DS. But you know, if dinky gaming consoles do it for you, and if you like retro games then I guess the DS is for you.
Almost a year using our IP Phone and we love it. We just bought a standard phone with cordless handpiece and it plugs into the router. Nothing to do with the PC. The building has an optical fibre connection and so we have never had any trouble with data dropouts, voice clarity. There is however, one BIG problem. The telcos here (Tokyo, Japan) have no setup to redirect calls from outside the country to IP phones. We can call out, just no-one can call us. We figure they just can't work out how to make money out of it yet.
Woah I bought one of these ages ago - shortly after they were released here in Tokyo. I am surprised they are only just leaking into the US market. Anyway, I was in the same boat as this reviewer in that we had a baby on the way and wanted a tapeless (i.e. fully digital) video camera. Now listen closely slashdotters... people like him and me DONT want to video hours of mind-numbingly boring footage. What I want is something to take short clips of my kid that rarely exceed one minute. How much can this wonder toy hold? Well as you imagine it depends on your selected resolution. I choose to record in High-res (640x480 at 60fps) and so it chews memory even compressed to MP4. I get about 15 minutes duration with a 256M SD card so you'd get an hour with 1Gb. I have NEVER filled up the card. I have no issues with transfer speed, but like the reviewer suspect its not full speed USB2.0. My only complaint is that it kind sucks as a still camera. It has a nice lens and good resolution but either mine's broken, or the light metering for its flash is wrong. Close ups tend to be washed out. From a geek perspective its extremely cool. It has synthesised speech in a number of languages, is very easy to use - MUCH smaller than you think it is, and functions as a small, rugged video camera brilliantly. It is NOT the thing you'd elect to use to make a feature film with - so you purists can keep your comments to yourselves. It is just meant to capture hi-res digital video clips.
Very hard to glide smoothly outside the atmosphere dude. You would have noticed that the tumbling settled down once back in the atmosphere.
Dude, it is the second flight, if it was the first it would be the MAIDEN flight, it's called Spaceship One and being suborbital it cannot burn up on re-entry. Read up.
Yeah it's pretty (typically) parochial that the World's fastest computer that was primarily built for weather-related study and therefore is almost certainly going to run rings around the compters listed there - is forgotten...