Endangered sharks are hunted by scientists for scientific purposes, yet Switzerland isn't concerned like when Japan hunts for non-endangered whale species for the same purpose, because nobody cares about non-cute animals. Most of the whale meat eaten in Japan come from illegal south korean whaling anyway. So why does it matter that Japan is actually concerned about the survival of the whale species?
Yeah, IE takes time to load on my PC. Since I use GeoShell as an explorer shell replacement, my computer doesn't automatically pre-load IE. It's annoying to mis-type a directory path in the file browser because it becomes unresponsive for a while as it loads IE to display the couldn't-resolve-location page.
That's pretty easy problem to solve: show only one passport at a time. When leaving NZ, show the NZ passport. When entering US, show the US passport. They'll never bother you.
Hmm, when I read the article summary, I also thought that this product might be based on sexism that women are less technologically proficient, but on second thought, I can see where they are actually coming from. It reminds me of bikes that were designed for women. Women have different bodies, so the bike proportions also need to be different. (The woman that started this business has made a fortune, btw.) The bikes weren't designed for stupids, it was designed for a different category of people.
I think all technology should become easier to use no matter which gender one is selling to (without impeding on performance/ability, of course). I think this printer is designed for the living room, and the handle and the portability allows it to easily be transported and stored away when cleaning up a room. In that sense, it's designed for people who would use the product differntly. Printers usually take up too much space for something that isn't used frequently. Especially I'd assume photo printers are less frequently used. So it makes sense that it's designed to be easily stowed away like a vacuum cleaner. Especially because the team that designed it were completely by women, it's harder to claim the product would be offensive to women. I think Epson's being misunderstood in the press. It's taylored to women, but technological ease-of-use isn't the main feature that makes it so.
A two-legged robot that can play at home will be sold at the end of the year at 500,000 yen (less than $5,000) per robot. Robot development venture ZMP and Sportswear maker Mizuno jointly developed "nuvo" -- released on March 2.
Among two-legged robots, Sony's QRIO and Honda's ASIMO are popular. Howver, they are mostly rented out, and serve purposes of advertisement -- not aimed at sale to the general public.
nuvo is 39 cm tall, 2.5 kg. It can walk in all four directions, and when it falls in either direction, it can get up with its own strength. It can be taught 1,000 words for daily colloquial speech. It can also do such things as bowing and dancing upon being instructed.
The face has a built-in camera. Using a 3G cell phone, images viewed by the robot can be confirmed, and remote operation can be practiced, making it a surveilance robot.
Joints, which are costly to develop, were minimized to lower its price. The companies look forward to selling 3,000 items by the beginning of next year.
Instead of using NiMH or Alkaline AA battery pairs, Li-ion batteries are fantastic too. A comparison with 2xAA batteries and CR-V3 batteries show that CR-V3 battery charges last longer and have a longer lifespan.
MiniDisc players don't play MP3, AFAIK. That's unfortunate. I assumed that Apple's 8 hour claim was an underestimate, but if your claims are true for all iPods, I'll have second thoughts on purchasing one.
If Japan were as outrageously biased as that, the WTO would threaten Japan with a huge penalty. I can't believe this post is being moderated as (+5, Interesting). It should be (-1, watched too many sensationalist anti-Japanese movies). Did MS leash their legion of astroturfing moderators today?
How on Earth did this get moderated to +5? Just because the moderator knows little about patent enforcement in Japan doesn't mean Anonymous Cowards' words are gospel.
This idea intrigues me. In Japan I've seen a handheld scanner + OCR + dictionary in one device. If the device had wireless internet access, then a Google search button would become a reality (although an actual dedicated button would probably not happen because real estate is expensive on handhelds). We already have cellphones with cameras - all we need is OCR and a nice software interface for web searching.
Actually, the US implemented an oil embargo against Japan, cutting off aprox. 80% of Japan's oil supply. Doesn't sound like a very "neutral" country to me. One of the major reasons why Japan invaded South east Asia and to Indochina was for the oil fields that were there.
It would be easier and cheeper to just buy the song online instead, although paying $1 per song isn't good for Apple because of credit card transaction costs.
Actually, it is a lot cheaper to use petroleum over plants as a source for ethanol.
And you have a good point too. Quoth the Wikipedia:
Some studies have found that the total energy needed to produce one gallon of ethanol by fermentation (fertilizing, fuel for farm tractors, harvesting and transporting the grain, building and operating an ethanol plant, the natural gas used to distill corn sugars into alcohol) exceeds the energy content of that gallon of ethanol.
Regarding GUI... well, the look and feel of Java prior to Java2 did stink, but it has continued to improve greatly since then. Check this out from the J2SE 1.5b1 what's new page:
With the 1.4.2 release we provided two new look and feels for Swing: XP and GTK. Rather than taking a break, in 1.5 we're providing two more look and feels: Synth, a skinnable look and feel, and Ocean, a new theme for Metal.
Also LimeWire, made with Java, has been boasting several skins.
Although the reviewer could have said "He seems to be ____" instead of "He is ____" and gotten away with it, I suppose it was clear from context that the review was supposed to be taken figuratively. The student's opinion suppressed here is: "I don't recommend you to take his courses." Nobody should read anonymous sources on the internet without a grain of salt. Should the architect of a building be forced to bring down the building because it provided wall space where people can write lies on it?
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Endangered sharks are hunted by scientists for scientific purposes, yet Switzerland isn't concerned like when Japan hunts for non-endangered whale species for the same purpose, because nobody cares about non-cute animals. Most of the whale meat eaten in Japan come from illegal south korean whaling anyway. So why does it matter that Japan is actually concerned about the survival of the whale species?
Yeah, IE takes time to load on my PC. Since I use GeoShell as an explorer shell replacement, my computer doesn't automatically pre-load IE. It's annoying to mis-type a directory path in the file browser because it becomes unresponsive for a while as it loads IE to display the couldn't-resolve-location page.
This is silly. I can just as easily call the argument for fingerprinting all citizens weak and emotional, too, you know.
That's pretty easy problem to solve: show only one passport at a time. When leaving NZ, show the NZ passport. When entering US, show the US passport. They'll never bother you.
WOW, this is a duplicate post, but you're still getting modded up. You must have a lot of friends that are moderators! Nice way to beat the system!
Hmm, when I read the article summary, I also thought that this product might be based on sexism that women are less technologically proficient, but on second thought, I can see where they are actually coming from. It reminds me of bikes that were designed for women. Women have different bodies, so the bike proportions also need to be different. (The woman that started this business has made a fortune, btw.) The bikes weren't designed for stupids, it was designed for a different category of people.
I think all technology should become easier to use no matter which gender one is selling to (without impeding on performance/ability, of course). I think this printer is designed for the living room, and the handle and the portability allows it to easily be transported and stored away when cleaning up a room. In that sense, it's designed for people who would use the product differntly. Printers usually take up too much space for something that isn't used frequently. Especially I'd assume photo printers are less frequently used. So it makes sense that it's designed to be easily stowed away like a vacuum cleaner. Especially because the team that designed it were completely by women, it's harder to claim the product would be offensive to women. I think Epson's being misunderstood in the press. It's taylored to women, but technological ease-of-use isn't the main feature that makes it so.
A google news link.
A two-legged robot that can play at home will be sold at the end of the year at 500,000 yen (less than $5,000) per robot. Robot development venture ZMP and Sportswear maker Mizuno jointly developed "nuvo" -- released on March 2.
Among two-legged robots, Sony's QRIO and Honda's ASIMO are popular. Howver, they are mostly rented out, and serve purposes of advertisement -- not aimed at sale to the general public.
nuvo is 39 cm tall, 2.5 kg. It can walk in all four directions, and when it falls in either direction, it can get up with its own strength. It can be taught 1,000 words for daily colloquial speech. It can also do such things as bowing and dancing upon being instructed.
The face has a built-in camera. Using a 3G cell phone, images viewed by the robot can be confirmed, and remote operation can be practiced, making it a surveilance robot.
Joints, which are costly to develop, were minimized to lower its price. The companies look forward to selling 3,000 items by the beginning of next year.
Instead of using NiMH or Alkaline AA battery pairs, Li-ion batteries are fantastic too. A comparison with 2xAA batteries and CR-V3 batteries show that CR-V3 battery charges last longer and have a longer lifespan.
MiniDisc players don't play MP3, AFAIK. That's unfortunate. I assumed that Apple's 8 hour claim was an underestimate, but if your claims are true for all iPods, I'll have second thoughts on purchasing one.
If Japan were as outrageously biased as that, the WTO would threaten Japan with a huge penalty. I can't believe this post is being moderated as (+5, Interesting). It should be (-1, watched too many sensationalist anti-Japanese movies). Did MS leash their legion of astroturfing moderators today?
That changed while Japan was under US occupation.
How on Earth did this get moderated to +5? Just because the moderator knows little about patent enforcement in Japan doesn't mean Anonymous Cowards' words are gospel.
This idea intrigues me. In Japan I've seen a handheld scanner + OCR + dictionary in one device. If the device had wireless internet access, then a Google search button would become a reality (although an actual dedicated button would probably not happen because real estate is expensive on handhelds). We already have cellphones with cameras - all we need is OCR and a nice software interface for web searching.
Thus the money previously paid for licensing would be directed into the local IT workforce...
And then tax the workforce! I can see why a tax office would want to support Linux now...
I've noticed from my University experience that astronomers are quite mad. Other acronyms they've come up with:
WIMP = Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
MACHO = MAssive Compact Halo Object
Yeah, but first she'll have to figure out what to do with her "dead" condition...
Actually, the US implemented an oil embargo against Japan, cutting off aprox. 80% of Japan's oil supply. Doesn't sound like a very "neutral" country to me. One of the major reasons why Japan invaded South east Asia and to Indochina was for the oil fields that were there.
Yeah, so you meant one thing but said something else. nothing to fuss about.
Maybe you meant to say that, but you didn't.
keep the cap, toss the Pepsi.
It would be easier and cheeper to just buy the song online instead, although paying $1 per song isn't good for Apple because of credit card transaction costs.
Actually, it is a lot cheaper to use petroleum over plants as a source for ethanol.
And you have a good point too. Quoth the Wikipedia:
Some studies have found that the total energy needed to produce one gallon of ethanol by fermentation (fertilizing, fuel for farm tractors, harvesting and transporting the grain, building and operating an ethanol plant, the natural gas used to distill corn sugars into alcohol) exceeds the energy content of that gallon of ethanol.
Also LimeWire, made with Java, has been boasting several skins.
The beeb reports.
Although the reviewer could have said "He seems to be ____" instead of "He is ____" and gotten away with it, I suppose it was clear from context that the review was supposed to be taken figuratively. The student's opinion suppressed here is: "I don't recommend you to take his courses." Nobody should read anonymous sources on the internet without a grain of salt. Should the architect of a building be forced to bring down the building because it provided wall space where people can write lies on it?