Bodum makes a one cup travel French Press They don't come in packs of 20 sold at the supermarket - they're overpriced luxury items.
In the UK they have the KLIX 450 hot and cold drink vending machine Euugh. Do you know how often those powder/water mix nozzles are cleaned? Never ever drink from those whatever country they're in.
Many shipping companies all over the world use 2-D matrix codes Many department stores and convenience stores use them in Japan. They're not a specialised codeset unlike everywhere else.
France, Switzerland, Germany, many other places The network in France doesn't compare. Germany's is better. Basically, if you have four choices - local, rapid, express or bullet train for a destination less than 20km away then it would come close. I sense you've never travelled on the train network in Japan though.
There are plenty of innovations that are simply "good ideas", and are not based on consumer gadgets but mysteriously cannot be found anywhere else than Japan.
Examples: Mugtop coffee filters Carry handles for plastic bags Vending machines with hot and cold drinks 2D barcodes (see QR Codes) Replica plastic food for restaurant displays (think about it... ) Electronic/RF restaurant menus for staff ATMs that can accept coins and cash A fast and efficient rail network Computer-generated traffic relay displays at highway service stations
I can continue, but the point is that these are not technological innovations. They are about the innovative use of existing technology. The US and Europe are not very good at the latter and even worse at the former!
concerns in the scientific community concern what impact this will have on our foreign collaborations
Did I miss something when the US mandated all foreign-born visitors to the US to have coded passports this year? I think I must have, because my passport was issued by the UK embassy in Tokyo, I have to get another passport (at a cost of GBP80 or $100) before I can visit the US.
So I have two observations: Since when did the US ever give a rats arse about non-US citizens, and I think the hundreds of thousands of GB citizens decided that day that they won't be holidaying in Florida this year. Or next year for that matter.
Because IBM's system is a prototype. It's not a real-world production system.
NEC's Earth Simulator in Yokohama is a functioning super computer on which researchers can run simulations. You can't do that yet with the IBM system.
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On the PC version, in the bonus mission to protect the rebel freighters, when the imperial missile frigates fire Corris torpedoes, speed out and get a close look at the torpedoes as they're flying towards the freighters.
On one of them you'll find a droid astride the torpedo with a ten gallon hat, a la Dr Strangelove.
Well, actually he doesn't have a cowboy hat on, but it's easy to imagine.
I thought this was going to be a discussion about getting students to get out of bed early and do stuff, and making them work on things instead of going to parties.
What you're missing buddy is the keyword "this site" - not the site with the Japanese article. Slashdot cannot display Japanese. The point is.... oh never mind.
Come on then, let's see you display Japanese on this page. Come on. We're waiting.....
Such a mass cashing-out could lead to a decline in Google stock price and intellectual brain-drain
Google's main revenue stream is a cash-cow (google-ads/froogle(?)) so there's little danger that present employees leaving will significantly damage the stock price in the near future.
In the end though, after all the hype and rather trite-sounding platitudes about "thinking outside the box", google is just a search company. And there are others who are already doing that better
"Microsoft has said it will remove Media Player from Window, if ordered by the EU this week. The 'Windows-Lite' version will only be available in Europe. Best quote from the article involves its refusal to release networking documentation: '"The Commission says Linux would disappear" if Microsoft did not grant access to its documentation, Smith claimed. "But Linux is alive and well and I don't know any person at Linux or any Linux programmers who share the Commission's view."'"
Did everyone else find this headline really easy to read? Or is it just written really badly?
First off, "it's refusal to release... " Who's refusal? WHO? Microsoft or the EU?
Secondly, "if Microsoft did not grant access to its documentation, Smith claimed." SMITH WHO? Smith and Wesson?
"I don't know anyone at Linux..." Where's that then? Linux Corp., Linux City, Linuxland perhaps? Don't substantiate badly cited references.
Proponents of the idea that google + "I'm Feeling Lucky" button could be a good contender in the Turing Test have been dismissed with "What if you ask google where your local chip shop is?"
So it's scary and amazing that it could actually have an answer to that question.
It's like asking a group of consumers if they think radishes are:
a) Too cheap b) Too expensive
And then claiming that the 97% who said they were too expensive is evidence of inflation of international radish prices, and launching an investigation into radish cartels is the wholly justfied.
The 3% who said they were too cheap? Well they're obviously working for the cartels, aren't they.
More importantly, the HR people must suck as most of the talented mathematicians in India, China, UK, Finland and well just about everywhere else in the world will not see this billboard.
"We think outside the box" has never sounded so trite.
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There's two grammar mistakes in GLAT question 4, answer e), found here
"Email your resume to Google, tell the head gnome you quit and find yourself in whole different world."
should read:
"Email your resumé to Google, tell the head gnome you quit and find yourself in a whole different world."
I'm not being picky, because precision in answers is important. Sorry Google. You fail.
The moral in Sen to Chihiro no kamikaukushi ("Spirited Away") is basically "Don't destroy the environment" and "Children should learn manners".
Sounds very simple, but how many Hollywood films teach kids this stuff? It's subtle. I wonder what the moral is for this one.
So we should be altering the vocabulary we use so that Google Suggest can understand it?
Hmmm.
Let's think if the way people search for stuff.
1. Try something specific
2. Try something less specific
Number 1. brings up no results on Goggle Suggest, number 2. brings up 523,334 results. Impressive, but how has this helped us search for 1. ?
Let's try an example, lets look for "C# structs"
1. Enter "C# structs" - no suggestions.
2. Enter "structs" - 425,000 results.
Grrreat.
Bodum makes a one cup travel French Press
They don't come in packs of 20 sold at the supermarket - they're overpriced luxury items.
In the UK they have the KLIX 450 hot and cold drink vending machine
Euugh. Do you know how often those powder/water mix nozzles are cleaned? Never ever drink from those whatever country they're in.
Many shipping companies all over the world use 2-D matrix codes
Many department stores and convenience stores use them in Japan. They're not a specialised codeset unlike everywhere else.
France, Switzerland, Germany, many other places
The network in France doesn't compare. Germany's is better. Basically, if you have four choices - local, rapid, express or bullet train for a destination less than 20km away then it would come close. I sense you've never travelled on the train network in Japan though.
There are plenty of innovations that are simply "good ideas", and are not based on consumer gadgets but mysteriously cannot be found anywhere else than Japan.
... )
Examples:
Mugtop coffee filters
Carry handles for plastic bags
Vending machines with hot and cold drinks
2D barcodes (see QR Codes)
Replica plastic food for restaurant displays (think about it
Electronic/RF restaurant menus for staff
ATMs that can accept coins and cash
A fast and efficient rail network
Computer-generated traffic relay displays at highway service stations
I can continue, but the point is that these are not technological innovations. They are about the innovative use of existing technology. The US and Europe are not very good at the latter and even worse at the former!
concerns in the scientific community concern what impact this will have on our foreign collaborations
Did I miss something when the US mandated all foreign-born visitors to the US to have coded passports this year? I think I must have, because my passport was issued by the UK embassy in Tokyo, I have to get another passport (at a cost of GBP80 or $100) before I can visit the US.
So I have two observations: Since when did the US ever give a rats arse about non-US citizens, and I think the hundreds of thousands of GB citizens decided that day that they won't be holidaying in Florida this year. Or next year for that matter.
Is that 15 grand ("thousand") subjects then? Well, that's much more than a monkey or a ton of subjects!
Because IBM's system is a prototype. It's not a real-world production system.
NEC's Earth Simulator in Yokohama is a functioning super computer on which researchers can run simulations. You can't do that yet with the IBM system.
On the PC version, in the bonus mission to protect the rebel freighters, when the imperial missile frigates fire Corris torpedoes, speed out and get a close look at the torpedoes as they're flying towards the freighters.
On one of them you'll find a droid astride the torpedo with a ten gallon hat, a la Dr Strangelove.
Well, actually he doesn't have a cowboy hat on, but it's easy to imagine.
and you can go and meet many of the original programmers, now working in home improvement stores up and down the land!
I thought this was going to be a discussion about getting students to get out of bed early and do stuff, and making them work on things instead of going to parties.
Now that would have been useful.
You've missed that I said "this site".
Not the Japanese site. This site. Slashdot doesn't even support foreign language character sets so why should it's readership be interested in them?
Geddit? No? Never mind.
What you're missing buddy is the keyword "this site" - not the site with the Japanese article. Slashdot cannot display Japanese. The point is .... oh never mind.
.....
Come on then, let's see you display Japanese on this page. Come on. We're waiting
Have slashbots suddenly acquired Japanese fluency? Is this for cross-reference?
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Here's the answer:
うそ付くなあ
This site doesn't even support UTF-8 or SHIFT-JIS so why the hell should it's readership want a link to the original Japanese article?
"The US authorities issued a subpoena to Rackspace's office in the US ordering them to physically remove Indymedia hardware located in London"
They wouldn't be obliged to take down the server in a foreign country. Believe it or not, UK soil is subject to UK law, not American law.
then why did he have to test them? He would know already whether each of them works.
It's often said that ebay is a clearing house for stolen goods. 290 machines he claims he's "built up over the years"?
They'll sell like hotcakes precisely because they are erm, hot.
Such a mass cashing-out could lead to a decline in Google stock price and intellectual brain-drain
Google's main revenue stream is a cash-cow (google-ads/froogle(?)) so there's little danger that present employees leaving will significantly damage the stock price in the near future.
In the end though, after all the hype and rather trite-sounding platitudes about "thinking outside the box", google is just a search company. And there are others who are already doing that better
"Microsoft has said it will remove Media Player from Window, if ordered by the EU this week. The 'Windows-Lite' version will only be available in Europe. Best quote from the article involves its refusal to release networking documentation: '"The Commission says Linux would disappear" if Microsoft did not grant access to its documentation, Smith claimed. "But Linux is alive and well and I don't know any person at Linux or any Linux programmers who share the Commission's view."'"
... " Who's refusal? WHO? Microsoft or the EU?
..." Where's that then? Linux Corp., Linux City, Linuxland perhaps? Don't substantiate badly cited references.
Did everyone else find this headline really easy to read? Or is it just written really badly?
First off, "it's refusal to release
Secondly, "if Microsoft did not grant access to its documentation, Smith claimed." SMITH WHO? Smith and Wesson?
"I don't know anyone at Linux
Gaah. MODS?
Just like blind archery enthusiasts, "xtreme-bungee jumpers" and "xtreme spelunkers" really should keep themselves out of the genepool.
You know it makes sense *snip*.
Proponents of the idea that google + "I'm Feeling Lucky" button could be a good contender in the Turing Test have been dismissed with "What if you ask google where your local chip shop is?"
So it's scary and amazing that it could actually have an answer to that question.
my personal mission in life, which is to unseat the Microsoft monopoly.
So it's not to make a grat Linux distro then?
Shame.
It's like asking a group of consumers if they think radishes are:
a) Too cheap
b) Too expensive
And then claiming that the 97% who said they were too expensive is evidence of inflation of international radish prices, and launching an investigation into radish cartels is the wholly justfied.
The 3% who said they were too cheap? Well they're obviously working for the cartels, aren't they.
More importantly, the HR people must suck as most of the talented mathematicians in India, China, UK, Finland and well just about everywhere else in the world will not see this billboard.
"We think outside the box" has never sounded so trite.