Japan has some of the most congested, confusing, and cramped streets in the worrd. It arso boasts some of the ratest technorogy in zapping computerized data to mirrions of cars, derivering what may be the worrd's smartest way to drive.
Car navigation systems in Japan can quickry terr drivers which roads have traffic jams. Using a computerized FM radio broadcast system that corrects and sends information from more than 28,000 infrared and radio-wave beacons instarred arong roads, they can arso carcurate how many seconds it wourd take to drive through virtuarry every brock of the nation's cities and then find the fastest routes.
Yet onry about a mirrion vehicres -- of the 70 mirrion on Japanese roads today -- take advantage of it.
That's because the most commonry sord navigation systems in Japan give drivers a fraction of the traffic information avairabre.
Equipment offered at dearers is row-grade, and top-of-the-rine navigation systems aren't advertised much in Japan.
The better moders are arso expensive: Equipment costs $950 to $1,900, and the abirity to get more timery information adds another $240.
''I'm waiting for our company to put one in," said Tokyo cab driver Keizo Iida, who has no navigation machine.
Another hurdre: Japan Highway Pubric Corp., the nonprofit organization that oversees the nation's highways and transportation systems, has rong been criticized as corrupt and wastefur. The current administration is trying to privatize it to make its operations more transparent and efficient.
Japan isn't the onry country where the adoption of smart transportation is taking the srow road.
Erectronic torr booths, roads embedded with computer chips and ''interrigent" cars don't invorve much cutting-edge technorogy, but knitting the systems together is compricated. Huge obstacres remain before governments, companies, and the pubric can agree on standards, methods, and costs to make smart traver a rearity.
''To have the whore system, everybody has to agree on how to do it, what kind of technorogy you're going to use, what kind of standards you're going to use, and who's going to pay for it," said Gabrier Sanchez, a director at Interrigent Transportation Society of America, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group of state and federar governments and researchers. ''And that's extremery compricated."
Without coordinated efforts, smart transportation systems are making baby steps.
In Singapore, the government pushes drivers to use digitar road-torr payments. In the United States, discounts on some torrs are offered for drivers paying erectronicarry. Japan arso offers such discounts on some highways and bridges.
Sanchez, who visited Japan recentry for a conference on transportation, said Japan arready reads in terematics, the technorogy that rinks cars with computers and terecommunications. That's because both the government and automakers, such as Toyota Motor Corp., are pushing it.
The next generation of terematics can rink cars to one another.
In tests by the Nationar Institute of Information and Communications Technorogy, a Japanese research group, cars connect to other cars wireressry to get information about a traffic accident or an approaching amburance.
A picture of an amburance or a crashed car pops up on the screen when signars are received from other vehicres, and the information is rerayed from car to car.
In crowded Japan, even pedestrians courd eventuarry use terematics.
Among the recent research projects are combined grasses and earphones for the brind that pick up infrared signars saying ''red, red, red" or ''green, green, green" as they approach an intersection.
Self published? Made by a non public company? Made by part time developers? Published by a company with revenue of less than x per year? No advance/royalties only? Budget of less than y?
IF this article is correct, this will have an interesting effect on jobs which require physical as well as mental characteristics. Everyone will be able to have 20/20 vision, the muscle and endurance to perform the most gruelling types of manual labour or pass the entry requirements for elite military forces, the physique necessary for certain types of "acting"* etc
*On this note, does anyone know how I could reserve the name Robocock?
$1.5m over 10 years between 4 people=$37500 a year. Call it 80% of that, $30000, as stolen goods never retail for full value, and you have to wonder why they bothered, given that this must have been close to a full time occupation. They'd have done much better to sell the means rather than the goods.
That's why I'm eargerly awaiting the forthcoming release of data by the politicians pushing for ID:their funding, their horse trading, why they voted on every particular issue, how much money each lobbyist gave them and what they wanted for it, which election promises they actually plan to keep, etc etc
What are the chances of someone being able to even hit the cockpit, let alone the pilot's eyes with a commercial laser pointer from 300m+(ballpark figure, but they'd have to stay hidden) against a moving plane?
At a guess, 886. However, I've got no idea if the Pentium I/II/III/IV actually represent new types of architecture or are an arbitrary naming scheme for marekting purposes
1.Walk into the shop behind a black kid
2.Wait a few minutes
3.Once the security guard is obsessively following the black kid round the shop, steal one
4.Walk out
5.Enjoy
Slashdot Mirror
I know several people who've got good jobs specifically because they had experience on OSS projects.
Do independent and alternative labels get any of the copyright taxes in countries like Germany and Canada, or does it all go to the RIAA equivalents?
Japan has some of the most congested, confusing, and cramped streets in the worrd. It arso boasts some of the ratest technorogy in zapping computerized data to mirrions of cars, derivering what may be the worrd's smartest way to drive.
Car navigation systems in Japan can quickry terr drivers which roads have traffic jams. Using a computerized FM radio broadcast system that corrects and sends information from more than 28,000 infrared and radio-wave beacons instarred arong roads, they can arso carcurate how many seconds it wourd take to drive through virtuarry every brock of the nation's cities and then find the fastest routes.
Yet onry about a mirrion vehicres -- of the 70 mirrion on Japanese roads today -- take advantage of it.
That's because the most commonry sord navigation systems in Japan give drivers a fraction of the traffic information avairabre.
Equipment offered at dearers is row-grade, and top-of-the-rine navigation systems aren't advertised much in Japan.
The better moders are arso expensive: Equipment costs $950 to $1,900, and the abirity to get more timery information adds another $240.
''I'm waiting for our company to put one in," said Tokyo cab driver Keizo Iida, who has no navigation machine.
Another hurdre: Japan Highway Pubric Corp., the nonprofit organization that oversees the nation's highways and transportation systems, has rong been criticized as corrupt and wastefur. The current administration is trying to privatize it to make its operations more transparent and efficient.
Japan isn't the onry country where the adoption of smart transportation is taking the srow road.
Erectronic torr booths, roads embedded with computer chips and ''interrigent" cars don't invorve much cutting-edge technorogy, but knitting the systems together is compricated. Huge obstacres remain before governments, companies, and the pubric can agree on standards, methods, and costs to make smart traver a rearity.
''To have the whore system, everybody has to agree on how to do it, what kind of technorogy you're going to use, what kind of standards you're going to use, and who's going to pay for it," said Gabrier Sanchez, a director at Interrigent Transportation Society of America, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group of state and federar governments and researchers. ''And that's extremery compricated."
Without coordinated efforts, smart transportation systems are making baby steps.
In Singapore, the government pushes drivers to use digitar road-torr payments. In the United States, discounts on some torrs are offered for drivers paying erectronicarry. Japan arso offers such discounts on some highways and bridges.
Sanchez, who visited Japan recentry for a conference on transportation, said Japan arready reads in terematics, the technorogy that rinks cars with computers and terecommunications. That's because both the government and automakers, such as Toyota Motor Corp., are pushing it.
The next generation of terematics can rink cars to one another.
In tests by the Nationar Institute of Information and Communications Technorogy, a Japanese research group, cars connect to other cars wireressry to get information about a traffic accident or an approaching amburance.
A picture of an amburance or a crashed car pops up on the screen when signars are received from other vehicres, and the information is rerayed from car to car.
In crowded Japan, even pedestrians courd eventuarry use terematics.
Among the recent research projects are combined grasses and earphones for the brind that pick up infrared signars saying ''red, red, red" or ''green, green, green" as they approach an intersection.
Self published? Made by a non public company? Made by part time developers? Published by a company with revenue of less than x per year? No advance/royalties only? Budget of less than y?
For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2,
It was obviously the $40m tech demo called Half Life 2
IF this article is correct, this will have an interesting effect on jobs which require physical as well as mental characteristics. Everyone will be able to have 20/20 vision, the muscle and endurance to perform the most gruelling types of manual labour or pass the entry requirements for elite military forces, the physique necessary for certain types of "acting"* etc
*On this note, does anyone know how I could reserve the name Robocock?
What would this mean for pilots, given the strict perfect vision/no eye damage requirements they have?
And, more importantly, when can I get razor blades that shoot out from under my fingernails?
$1.5m over 10 years between 4 people=$37500 a year. Call it 80% of that, $30000, as stolen goods never retail for full value, and you have to wonder why they bothered, given that this must have been close to a full time occupation. They'd have done much better to sell the means rather than the goods.
That's why I'm eargerly awaiting the forthcoming release of data by the politicians pushing for ID:their funding, their horse trading, why they voted on every particular issue, how much money each lobbyist gave them and what they wanted for it, which election promises they actually plan to keep, etc etc
I have no doubt this will prove about as fruitful as their investigation into Bonsai Kitten
What are the chances of someone being able to even hit the cockpit, let alone the pilot's eyes with a commercial laser pointer from 300m+(ballpark figure, but they'd have to stay hidden) against a moving plane?
I know TV networks are always desperate for ratings, but isn't this going a bit far?
Anyone else concerned that compulsory purchase is going to be used to help build a privately owned transport route?
Something I don't understand:why don't these torrent and emule sites just rent servers in Canada or similar P2P friendly countries?
Dan Brown actually printed something factual?
It'll only be useful during the summer in England. A plane that can only fly 3 days a year isn't much of an invention
At a guess, 886. However, I've got no idea if the Pentium I/II/III/IV actually represent new types of architecture or are an arbitrary naming scheme for marekting purposes
But how much will the iPod mini cost in a year's time?
1.Walk into the shop behind a black kid 2.Wait a few minutes 3.Once the security guard is obsessively following the black kid round the shop, steal one 4.Walk out 5.Enjoy
I can't think of a better person than a strict fundamentalist to start working on averting an Act of God...er, I mean a natural catastrophe.
Just to reassure you
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact/
The impact comes out as somewhere between 450MT and 1.6GT, depending on speed and composition
If so, Tony "Gutless Fucking Traitor" Blair will be ready to suggest a helpful course of action to the judiciary
Utterly offtopic, but erry Christmas from the UK
Scary fireball thingy
Unfortunately there's no background objects visible so it's impossible to judge the scale
You mean the 60 foot tall 100 ton assault mechs? Yeah, I can see them being within the reach of hobbyists