I don't know if the police can use 47's comments on 2ch as evidence against him. As Hiroyuki already mentioned, there was no access logs left for 47's comments.
The first paragraph of the English page is an opinion of the translater and not included in the origial Japanese article. No, I don't think any Japanese would consider $650 as "surprisingly affordable." We Japanese are crazy about those electric gadgets, I know, but we are not THAT crazy!
Well, then "imasenka" should be "irimasenka," even though the resulting sentence sounds rather funny to native speakers like me. Also, I think the visa he holds is no longer valid once he loses the current job, but I might be wrong on that one.
My interpretation was that this guy is an American engineer who is desperate enougth to search for a job in Japan and looking for somebody who can inform him as to how easy it is to get a visa in this country, but who knows... I just wish him good luck.
(1) Females are strongly preferred.
(2) Weight limits of 35kg (77lbs) and 50kg (100lbs)
(3) Age limits of 20 and 35
(4) Two pictures: one which shows the face and another which shows the whole body.
Sounds more like an audition for a movie or something...
Somebody please for God's sake mod the parent up to 5, Insightful.
I can't believe the grandparent, who obviously doesn't get that with power comes responsibility, is modded as insightful. I don't understand why there are so many Americans like the poster of the grandparent, whose sole interest is to make themselves rich by any possible means without any considerations whatsoever about others. As a Japanese I used to be very pro-American before I came to the U.S., but the more I know about this country, the less favorable my opinions about it became. No wonder the U.S. is alienating itself further and further away from the international community.
Almost exactly one month out of warranty, I started having problems.
This is what we call the Sony Timer (TM) in Japan. Engineers at Sony are so skilled that they can design their products to break right after the warranty expires so that people will buy their products again. Everybody in this country knows about this. I am very glad as a Japanese to see that Sony is using its famous technology to give themselves a competitive edge in the international market.
Since Winny is pretty much unknown outside Japan, here is some background information for slashdot readers:
Winny is a P2P file sharing program created by a Japanese programmer, who still remains anonymous to this day. It came out two years ago as an attempt to share copyright-protected materials "safely" when somebody was arrested for using another P2P program (WinMX). Since the application was extremely well designed and almost anything is available on its network, from movies to software, it has become immensely popular in Japan, so much so that there are a dozen book available on how to use it and network traffic in the country was down 20% after the news of the arrest broke.
As for the reasons why the police was able to identify those two people who were arrested, they used an extra bulletin board feature, which does not guarantee anonymity unlike its file transfer feature, to distribute a list of warez videos. Therefore, I don't think this news has anything to do with the validity of Freenet's technology, or with that of Winny's for that matter.
See, the thing is, most people in Japan do not have cable and the reception of TV signals can be really crappy.
I used to live in a major Japanese city. There were only 7 channels available in my apartment, and the reception of two of them were so bad that I cannot record any programs on my VCR.
I would have enjoyed more channels if I had installed a sattellite dish, of course, but even with that the quality of the reception would have been dependent on the local weather since the analog signals of sattelite broadcast is more susceptible to transmission errors than digital ones.
This is probably the Japanese site you are talking about.
The site is run by a dentist who is famous for taking apart every single new Mac as soon as he gets his hands on them. A lot of nice pics inside the iMac.
I think you missed an important point; if you do not update to Panther, you will no longer be able to benefit from bug fixes and security updates in Panther and future software updates.
The main reason I ordered Panther is that Jaguar's samba support is far from sufficient. Connections constantly get lost when I am dealing with large files, and the whole system hangs quite often upon resume.
I do agree with you in that we should pay for new features, but I don't think it is fair to shell out $130 because of defects in the orginal product.
Everyone here seems to have missed the main point. This alliance only means that Microsoft will create a version of Windows CE.NET that runs on the T-Engine platform.
T-Engine is a collection of standards for embedded hardware, realtime operating system and middlewares, and for the T-Engine platform Windows CE.NET will be just one of the middlewares. This news is not even about Microsoft taking over TRON or MS vs Java; in fact, there are T-Java and T-Linux under development, by Sun and Montavista, respectively, and other GUI middlewares on sale, which were originally part of BTRON, the TRON desktop OS. Most information about T-Engine is available only in Japanese at this point, but you can find some in English here.
As a sidenote, the main thrust of the T-Engine platform is high portabilty of middlewares across various embedded emvironments with different CPUs. This portabilty is made possible by a standard opensource kernel, which is based on micro-ITRON 3.0, and standalization of hardware. Dr. Sakamura even said he is going to fix the specification of the realtime kernel by the end of year and it will not be changed for the next HUNDRED years for the sake of comatibilty of middlewares. Moreover, there are rumors that a subsidary of Panasonic is developing a desktop operating system based on T-Engine. This is a very exciting year for the TRON project indeed.
...and it's dirt cheap. My family lives in Japan, I live in the US, and they pay only 7 cents for three minutes when they call me. I used to pay over $1 per minute to AT&T for international calls a while back. A huge difference.
This new 3D display differs from traditional 3D devices in two important ways:
(1) This display does not require special googles, which is a good thing because they can be very cumbersome.
(2) With this device, the 2D and 3D modes can be toggled electronically, as mentioned in the original press release. 3D images do put strain on your eyes, but if you don't like that, you can always go back to the traditional 2D mode.
As a side note, we usually do not share the screen of a laptop computer, so the last problem you mentioned is not a big issue in this case.
I, for one, am very excited by this news, being a big fan of 3D movies. I cannot wait until the prices of these displays go down and I can actually get my hands on one of them....
If you have a mac and a PC running XP, try Remote Desktop Connection. Whenever I need to do something on my PC, I just run RDC on my Powerbook to log on to XP. It feels like I am directly running XP on my mac.
This is a much better solution than VPC, IMHO, considering that you can buy a really cheap Windows box and every application runs natively this way.
I found this remark offensive, too. There are people whose weak eyesight is not correctible with glasses. I have a friend who was born prematurely and his retina was permanently damaged as a result due to the lack of oxygen supply to it. He can bearly see things, and when he uses his computer he has to bring his face so close to the monitor that his face literally touches it. For those with a problem similar to that of the submitter, this joke is not funny at all.
You can download come code off this Japanese page. Just click the first link in the right column.
TOPPERS is a GPL implementation of the ITRON (Industrial TRON) specifiction for embedded computers. You can find more information about it in this paper.
Ancient people like Hebrews and Egyptians actually omitted vowels in writing, which makes it next to impossible for archaeologists to find out the actual pronunciations of words. In fact, all the names of Egyptiaon pharaos are creations of Egyptologists, with vowels added for the sake of their convenience. I am pretty sure saving expensive materials like sheep leather and papyrus is an important factor to this convention.
Why did this post modded insightful when his argument is not based on accurate information?
Eastern values brought Opium dens and drug abuse to America in the 1920's and hasn't stopped pumping the world with Heroin and other drugs (remember, Afghanistan is technically an EASTERN nation and has Opium as it's most profitable export).
Opium was first brought to the East by Westerners. British people exchanged it with silk produced in China back in 19c despite the prohibition of opium trade by the Chinese government.
Radical elements in Eastern relgions (Radical Islamic Jihadists) brought death to over 5,000 innocent people from many nations in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. Radical Islamic Jihadists want an Islamic World - if needed, by force or extermination of "infidels".
Well, Islam is considered as a Western religion by the academia, since it shares its root with the Judeo-Christian religions, or so I learned in a college religion course.
This is just a mockup, but this one actually works. According to this article (in Japanese), the latter weighs 2kg and runs for 5 hours on 300ml of 10% methanol.
They are called
the Self Defence Forces. They have 250,000 members and over 6% of the national budget is spent on them. In fact, the nation's military budget is one of the biggest in the world.
IMO, the success of Japan in the technological industry has to do with crafsmanship and work ethic that were developed during a relatively stable period prior to the introduction of Western cultures in the 19th century.
I was born and grew up in the country and I must tell you the work ethic of people there is just incredible. I have a friend who got a master's degree from a prestigious university and works for a well-known company as a hardware engineer. He works from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. 6 days a week and gets crappy $25000 a year without getting paid for overtime. He stays in the job just because he loves what he is doing and takes pride in things he creates.
He is just one of the great, hard-working engineers who make Japan such a technologically advanced country, those who truly love technology and who cannot care less about what they get in return. This is what makes Japan so unique. It is most definitely not about money. (I smell something very American in your post.) Otherwise, how can you explain the fact that Japan was such a poor country after WW2 and is now one of the biggest economic powers in the world?
You completely missed the point. Apple's DRM is more like equipping a gun with a mechanism that would only allow the owner to fire it, so that the gun cannot be used illegally. I think this kind of mechanism would work really well, along with stricter background check of people who purchase them.
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I don't know if the police can use 47's comments on 2ch as evidence against him. As Hiroyuki already mentioned, there was no access logs left for 47's comments.
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The first paragraph of the English page is an opinion of the translater and not included in the origial Japanese article. No, I don't think any Japanese would consider $650 as "surprisingly affordable." We Japanese are crazy about those electric gadgets, I know, but we are not THAT crazy!
The original sentence is neither gramatically correct nor his word choice appropriate, though. He still needs a lot of work to improve his Japanese.
My interpretation was that this guy is an American engineer who is desperate enougth to search for a job in Japan and looking for somebody who can inform him as to how easy it is to get a visa in this country, but who knows... I just wish him good luck.
I feel very sorry for this guy...
(1) Females are strongly preferred.
(2) Weight limits of 35kg (77lbs) and 50kg (100lbs)
(3) Age limits of 20 and 35
(4) Two pictures: one which shows the face and another which shows the whole body.
Sounds more like an audition for a movie or something...
Somebody please for God's sake mod the parent up to 5, Insightful. I can't believe the grandparent, who obviously doesn't get that with power comes responsibility, is modded as insightful. I don't understand why there are so many Americans like the poster of the grandparent, whose sole interest is to make themselves rich by any possible means without any considerations whatsoever about others. As a Japanese I used to be very pro-American before I came to the U.S., but the more I know about this country, the less favorable my opinions about it became. No wonder the U.S. is alienating itself further and further away from the international community.
This is what we call the Sony Timer (TM) in Japan. Engineers at Sony are so skilled that they can design their products to break right after the warranty expires so that people will buy their products again. Everybody in this country knows about this. I am very glad as a Japanese to see that Sony is using its famous technology to give themselves a competitive edge in the international market.
Since Winny is pretty much unknown outside Japan, here is some background information for slashdot readers: Winny is a P2P file sharing program created by a Japanese programmer, who still remains anonymous to this day. It came out two years ago as an attempt to share copyright-protected materials "safely" when somebody was arrested for using another P2P program (WinMX). Since the application was extremely well designed and almost anything is available on its network, from movies to software, it has become immensely popular in Japan, so much so that there are a dozen book available on how to use it and network traffic in the country was down 20% after the news of the arrest broke. As for the reasons why the police was able to identify those two people who were arrested, they used an extra bulletin board feature, which does not guarantee anonymity unlike its file transfer feature, to distribute a list of warez videos. Therefore, I don't think this news has anything to do with the validity of Freenet's technology, or with that of Winny's for that matter.
I used to live in a major Japanese city. There were only 7 channels available in my apartment, and the reception of two of them were so bad that I cannot record any programs on my VCR.
I would have enjoyed more channels if I had installed a sattellite dish, of course, but even with that the quality of the reception would have been dependent on the local weather since the analog signals of sattelite broadcast is more susceptible to transmission errors than digital ones.
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The main reason I ordered Panther is that Jaguar's samba support is far from sufficient. Connections constantly get lost when I am dealing with large files, and the whole system hangs quite often upon resume.
I do agree with you in that we should pay for new features, but I don't think it is fair to shell out $130 because of defects in the orginal product.
As a sidenote, the main thrust of the T-Engine platform is high portabilty of middlewares across various embedded emvironments with different CPUs. This portabilty is made possible by a standard opensource kernel, which is based on micro-ITRON 3.0, and standalization of hardware. Dr. Sakamura even said he is going to fix the specification of the realtime kernel by the end of year and it will not be changed for the next HUNDRED years for the sake of comatibilty of middlewares. Moreover, there are rumors that a subsidary of Panasonic is developing a desktop operating system based on T-Engine. This is a very exciting year for the TRON project indeed.
...and it's dirt cheap. My family lives in Japan, I live in the US, and they pay only 7 cents for three minutes when they call me. I used to pay over $1 per minute to AT&T for international calls a while back. A huge difference.
(1) This display does not require special googles, which is a good thing because they can be very cumbersome.
(2) With this device, the 2D and 3D modes can be toggled electronically, as mentioned in the original press release. 3D images do put strain on your eyes, but if you don't like that, you can always go back to the traditional 2D mode.
As a side note, we usually do not share the screen of a laptop computer, so the last problem you mentioned is not a big issue in this case.
I, for one, am very excited by this news, being a big fan of 3D movies. I cannot wait until the prices of these displays go down and I can actually get my hands on one of them....
This is a much better solution than VPC, IMHO, considering that you can buy a really cheap Windows box and every application runs natively this way.
I found this remark offensive, too. There are people whose weak eyesight is not correctible with glasses. I have a friend who was born prematurely and his retina was permanently damaged as a result due to the lack of oxygen supply to it. He can bearly see things, and when he uses his computer he has to bring his face so close to the monitor that his face literally touches it. For those with a problem similar to that of the submitter, this joke is not funny at all.
You can download come code off this Japanese page. Just click the first link in the right column.
TOPPERS is a GPL implementation of the ITRON (Industrial TRON) specifiction for embedded computers. You can find more information about it in this paper.
Ancient people like Hebrews and Egyptians actually omitted vowels in writing, which makes it next to impossible for archaeologists to find out the actual pronunciations of words. In fact, all the names of Egyptiaon pharaos are creations of Egyptologists, with vowels added for the sake of their convenience. I am pretty sure saving expensive materials like sheep leather and papyrus is an important factor to this convention.
Why did this post modded insightful when his argument is not based on accurate information?
Eastern values brought Opium dens and drug abuse to America in the 1920's and hasn't stopped pumping the world with Heroin and other drugs (remember, Afghanistan is technically an EASTERN nation and has Opium as it's most profitable export).
Opium was first brought to the East by Westerners. British people exchanged it with silk produced in China back in 19c despite the prohibition of opium trade by the Chinese government.
Radical elements in Eastern relgions (Radical Islamic Jihadists) brought death to over 5,000 innocent people from many nations in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. Radical Islamic Jihadists want an Islamic World - if needed, by force or extermination of "infidels".
Well, Islam is considered as a Western religion by the academia, since it shares its root with the Judeo-Christian religions, or so I learned in a college religion course.
This is just a mockup, but this one actually works. According to this article (in Japanese), the latter weighs 2kg and runs for 5 hours on 300ml of 10% methanol.
IMO, the success of Japan in the technological industry has to do with crafsmanship and work ethic that were developed during a relatively stable period prior to the introduction of Western cultures in the 19th century.
I was born and grew up in the country and I must tell you the work ethic of people there is just incredible. I have a friend who got a master's degree from a prestigious university and works for a well-known company as a hardware engineer. He works from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. 6 days a week and gets crappy $25000 a year without getting paid for overtime. He stays in the job just because he loves what he is doing and takes pride in things he creates.
He is just one of the great, hard-working engineers who make Japan such a technologically advanced country, those who truly love technology and who cannot care less about what they get in return. This is what makes Japan so unique. It is most definitely not about money. (I smell something very American in your post.) Otherwise, how can you explain the fact that Japan was such a poor country after WW2 and is now one of the biggest economic powers in the world?
You completely missed the point. Apple's DRM is more like equipping a gun with a mechanism that would only allow the owner to fire it, so that the gun cannot be used illegally. I think this kind of mechanism would work really well, along with stricter background check of people who purchase them.