Sounds totally different than any previous tv shows. Seems natural, kind of Asimovian avatarical communication and entertainment. Guess it depends on scaling and if they can bring in alot more people than current title can handle, they could have some massive opportunity. To be a big hit they need to have some incredible graphics. The more life like it is the more it might bring in some non-gamers.
Going for an all new world, without a preset story line is also a good idea for the first start. I agree if they brought in a Star Wars universe, to many people would be crying about the storyline. I can definatley see all the power gamers totaly going for it just to get their 10 mins of fame. As long as they make the computing requirement off the charts powerful than it will be good for the economy as a few million gamers upgrade their system just to try it out. How could you not try it?
Windows xp
Start>Accessories>Accessibility>on screen keyboard.
i typed this on it....
do key loggers record clicks or screen shots cause I really dont know?
I live in Japan and have a Japanese cellphone. I use it about less than 10% of the time. Perhaps, since I work out of a home office, and I am more used to the keyboard and widescreen it is a secondary device for me. But, whenever I travel it is indespenible. It has many functions that work effortlessley. Such as the train route finder. I can calaculate routes and fares on the go to any location in Japan rapidly. It has a SD card in it so I can move some data back and forth between my pc easily. I see the younger generation using cellphones extensively, and perhaps they would have more trouble typing on a qwerty keyboard. I think the Japanese Language is well suited for the evolution of language into the next medium. They use a lot of ""Smiley Icons" which match well with their Kangi Characters. I think they are adept at using the tools they have to convey subtle information in increasingly consise formats. As I am studying Japanese speaking, reading and writing. I am admiring in the linguistic simplicity and the brevity of using characters to express complex ideas efficiently. I think the same evolution in chat is hapening in the us for example. Laugh Out Loud is something that is never said in real life. But in online roll playing games. When somebody does or says something funny. People will say LOL. It is ubiquetous in the Massive Multipayer Online Role Playing Enviroment. The avatars will perform a laughing animation on screen. While language changes as our needs for it change, I think the input devices, such as cellphones effect how the change occurs. The politness of the Japanese society, precludes the use of speaking on a cellphone in crowded trains, so the users use a lot more text, images,...smileys to convey consise thoughts. I think to be really seamless the devices need to interact on much more levels. When people will be able to log into their WOW; World of Warcraft account or their SWG; Star Wars Galaxies account with their cellpphone and control their avatars, than the evolution of control and expression will evolve faster. The evolution inot a seamless form of cummunication has already occured. I admire the young Japanese business people who will, Chat on their cellphones with each other in the same room. They build consensous on a topic before they verbally present it, knowing that they already have majority support from the others in the room. I bet people have gotten married in chat in Japan on their cellphones! LOL
I am in complete agreement with the poster that this is alomst non-news. A global company is hiring people globally. How else would you have good design in different language? I sincerly doubt all the mono speaking Americans work efforts could produce products acceptable to most of the people on the world. So a thousand people to serve more than a billion people sounds pretty conservative to me. I would think that they would need tens of thousands of people to stay competitive in the Chinese market.
I am not 100% positive why cell phone use is discouraged on commuter trains. When I lived in Japan in 1996 their use on trains was ubiquitous. I think a lot of it is due to the cultural norm of respect. Perhaps, there is a generational gap and the cell phone users on the trains were most frequently the younger generations. But the regulatory power in Japan is the older generation. In fact the areas surrounding the "courtesy seating" there are signs requesting the cell phone be turned off completely. Maybe it is out of concerns for health from pacemakers? The button you touch on your cell phone when you board the train is called "manner mode." Japanese commuter trains are legendary. In the morning the trains are so tightly packed that the train employees push the people on so the doors will close. The amazing thing is on the early morning trains you can hear a pin a drop, and people are sleeping while standing. There are other social problems, due to the extremely tight conditions, such as groping. The Japanese are punishing gropers and some train lines have women only cars. The Japanese cell phones are very powerful, they are complete entertainment centers. Many models have TV's so you can watch TV over the high speed connection, music players, scheduling calendars, notepads, web access and I use mine for the online up to date route finding on the train lines. Driving and holding a cell phone is also prohibited in Japan, you can use a headphone & mic. I am amused to watch the people walk in the crowded subways. They are busy Instant Messaging and walking. I think to truly understand the profoundness of this is they are using Kanji which has 5000 characters, on a cell phone with 20 buttons. So in reality, perhaps the number of personal computers per capita is less than in the United States the usage of online systems is more because of the cell phone. I do not see how people driving in their cars in the US would be interested in typing messages in the same way Japanese people with free time on trains.
I think a lot of the growth in Japan is because the connections speeds are much faster. http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/ There are more services such as TV. Japan is already pulling fiber into the home at + 100MBS. http://www.gate01.com/. And of course the wireless 3G networks. It is not uncommon to see mini laptops on trains with 3G Wireless cards at 380KBS. Of course the majority of cellphones are just used as Instant Messaging machines. You are not allowed to talk on cell phone on the commuter trains. It seems to me that the more bandwidth offered is realated to the services that are available. I would not be surprised to see Japan sustain the high growth rates for some time. There is currently a major battle in the media. It is complicated but basically the Internet firm Livedoor is buying up the old business of Radio and TV. The internet firm Livedoor is pursuing the marriage of interactive TV. Conversely, I think the US has reached a plateau on speeds and is still trying to get "High Speed" faster than 56KBS to the consumer. Until the US populace has breeched the boring aspect of waiting for content to load, I think usage will stay flat. If the US brings Fiber to the home there will be a similar effect of high growth rates.
When I moved to Japan I had a choice of 50 Megabytes or 80 Megabytes. I took the 50 Megabytes because the Voice Over Internet Phone was integrated. You can also watch movies. Not only that Japan is rolling out 10 gigabyte to the house by 2010. If your feeling a little left out over there in generica, it is because you are! I can only imagine that the gulf will continue to worsen and more uses for the truly highspeed will happen every day here, and in generica you will still be gloating over your killer 1.5 megabytes. LOL
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Sounds totally different than any previous tv shows. Seems natural, kind of Asimovian avatarical communication and entertainment. Guess it depends on scaling and if they can bring in alot more people than current title can handle, they could have some massive opportunity. To be a big hit they need to have some incredible graphics. The more life like it is the more it might bring in some non-gamers. Going for an all new world, without a preset story line is also a good idea for the first start. I agree if they brought in a Star Wars universe, to many people would be crying about the storyline. I can definatley see all the power gamers totaly going for it just to get their 10 mins of fame. As long as they make the computing requirement off the charts powerful than it will be good for the economy as a few million gamers upgrade their system just to try it out. How could you not try it?
Windows xp Start>Accessories>Accessibility>on screen keyboard. i typed this on it.... do key loggers record clicks or screen shots cause I really dont know?
I live in Japan and have a Japanese cellphone. I use it about less than 10% of the time. Perhaps, since I work out of a home office, and I am more used to the keyboard and widescreen it is a secondary device for me. But, whenever I travel it is indespenible. It has many functions that work effortlessley. Such as the train route finder. I can calaculate routes and fares on the go to any location in Japan rapidly. It has a SD card in it so I can move some data back and forth between my pc easily. I see the younger generation using cellphones extensively, and perhaps they would have more trouble typing on a qwerty keyboard. I think the Japanese Language is well suited for the evolution of language into the next medium. They use a lot of ""Smiley Icons" which match well with their Kangi Characters. I think they are adept at using the tools they have to convey subtle information in increasingly consise formats. As I am studying Japanese speaking, reading and writing. I am admiring in the linguistic simplicity and the brevity of using characters to express complex ideas efficiently. I think the same evolution in chat is hapening in the us for example. Laugh Out Loud is something that is never said in real life. But in online roll playing games. When somebody does or says something funny. People will say LOL. It is ubiquetous in the Massive Multipayer Online Role Playing Enviroment. The avatars will perform a laughing animation on screen. While language changes as our needs for it change, I think the input devices, such as cellphones effect how the change occurs. The politness of the Japanese society, precludes the use of speaking on a cellphone in crowded trains, so the users use a lot more text, images, ...smileys to convey consise thoughts. I think to be really seamless the devices need to interact on much more levels. When people will be able to log into their WOW; World of Warcraft account or their SWG; Star Wars Galaxies account with their cellpphone and control their avatars, than the evolution of control and expression will evolve faster. The evolution inot a seamless form of cummunication has already occured. I admire the young Japanese business people who will, Chat on their cellphones with each other in the same room. They build consensous on a topic before they verbally present it, knowing that they already have majority support from the others in the room. I bet people have gotten married in chat in Japan on their cellphones! LOL
I am in complete agreement with the poster that this is alomst non-news. A global company is hiring people globally. How else would you have good design in different language? I sincerly doubt all the mono speaking Americans work efforts could produce products acceptable to most of the people on the world. So a thousand people to serve more than a billion people sounds pretty conservative to me. I would think that they would need tens of thousands of people to stay competitive in the Chinese market.
I am not 100% positive why cell phone use is discouraged on commuter trains. When I lived in Japan in 1996 their use on trains was ubiquitous. I think a lot of it is due to the cultural norm of respect. Perhaps, there is a generational gap and the cell phone users on the trains were most frequently the younger generations. But the regulatory power in Japan is the older generation. In fact the areas surrounding the "courtesy seating" there are signs requesting the cell phone be turned off completely. Maybe it is out of concerns for health from pacemakers? The button you touch on your cell phone when you board the train is called "manner mode." Japanese commuter trains are legendary. In the morning the trains are so tightly packed that the train employees push the people on so the doors will close. The amazing thing is on the early morning trains you can hear a pin a drop, and people are sleeping while standing. There are other social problems, due to the extremely tight conditions, such as groping. The Japanese are punishing gropers and some train lines have women only cars. The Japanese cell phones are very powerful, they are complete entertainment centers. Many models have TV's so you can watch TV over the high speed connection, music players, scheduling calendars, notepads, web access and I use mine for the online up to date route finding on the train lines. Driving and holding a cell phone is also prohibited in Japan, you can use a headphone & mic. I am amused to watch the people walk in the crowded subways. They are busy Instant Messaging and walking. I think to truly understand the profoundness of this is they are using Kanji which has 5000 characters, on a cell phone with 20 buttons. So in reality, perhaps the number of personal computers per capita is less than in the United States the usage of online systems is more because of the cell phone. I do not see how people driving in their cars in the US would be interested in typing messages in the same way Japanese people with free time on trains.
I think a lot of the growth in Japan is because the connections speeds are much faster. http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/ There are more services such as TV. Japan is already pulling fiber into the home at + 100MBS. http://www.gate01.com/. And of course the wireless 3G networks. It is not uncommon to see mini laptops on trains with 3G Wireless cards at 380KBS. Of course the majority of cellphones are just used as Instant Messaging machines. You are not allowed to talk on cell phone on the commuter trains. It seems to me that the more bandwidth offered is realated to the services that are available. I would not be surprised to see Japan sustain the high growth rates for some time. There is currently a major battle in the media. It is complicated but basically the Internet firm Livedoor is buying up the old business of Radio and TV. The internet firm Livedoor is pursuing the marriage of interactive TV. Conversely, I think the US has reached a plateau on speeds and is still trying to get "High Speed" faster than 56KBS to the consumer. Until the US populace has breeched the boring aspect of waiting for content to load, I think usage will stay flat. If the US brings Fiber to the home there will be a similar effect of high growth rates.
When I moved to Japan I had a choice of 50 Megabytes or 80 Megabytes. I took the 50 Megabytes because the Voice Over Internet Phone was integrated. You can also watch movies. Not only that Japan is rolling out 10 gigabyte to the house by 2010. If your feeling a little left out over there in generica, it is because you are! I can only imagine that the gulf will continue to worsen and more uses for the truly highspeed will happen every day here, and in generica you will still be gloating over your killer 1.5 megabytes. LOL