SMS isn't so common here in Japan, and just about ever phone comes with its own @docomo.ne.jp (or other carrier domain) email address. This is what most people use to text each other, and it lets them do the same to addresses on computers as well.
SMS does exist on the handsets, I suppose, but I don't know a single person who uses it.
Anyway, so long as SMS itself can handle Unicode text it can carry Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Thai, you name it. Beyond that it's just a matter of developing an input system that lets you use the 12-key pad to get the characters on your screen.
Since we're talking about Japan here in particular, I'll just note that there's a considerable body of legal precedence backing up the concept of shozoken, which, broadly speaking, means the right to control what gets done with images people have created of you. Given the court decisions already on the books, it isn't a huge stretch to say that Google could lose cases if it's hit by lawsuits from people whose photos were taken and published online without their consent.
You don't get away with "freedom of the press" in this country if your main purpose is to put together a website meant to sell ad impressions next to the maps and images. Google is on much thinner ice here than it may be in other markets where it's produced street-view maps.
"Smarter" isn't something you can make just by packing in enough circuits. People don't even know what "smarter" is. Probably they'll figure it out eventually. But it's already clear that "smarter" is more complicated than any technology we'll see in the next century or so.
Thank you for that. As a translator I have to chuckle when each year companies come out with new machine translation technologies or software that are "even closer to replacing human translators than ever!" They aren't.
It's possible to make machines faster and filled with more brute computing force, but that means they will be able to do the same things, faster and more at once. Unless we get down the entirely new business of studying how our brains actually work and reproducing those processes, instead of dabbling around with complex arrays of on/off circuits, we won't truly get closer to machines that can do the job of actual thinking for us.
The day may come when computers replace human translators like me. But that day will also see the replacement of airplane pilots, surgeons, software creators, soldiers, you name it. All that's left for humans is to engage in pure artistic pursuits . . . and hope that at least a few of us are still interested in growing crops so we have something to eat.
Agreed. And on the plus side, this system might actually keep some of the event tickets out of the hands of IOC-connected scalpers who sit outside the "sold out" stadium with a fistful of tickets marked up 1,000%, for your "convenience."
Sell all tickets to people who actually want to attend the events, and make sure the tickets are with the people who bought them for the price listed on the blasted things. If this is one way to do so then great.
While there is a longstanding registration system for us foreigners in Japan, what astonishes me is how the government can secretly implement such a system for its citizens, and how little concern the media and Japanese citizens in general display about the privacy implications.
This was not done at all secretly, and there was plenty of concern shown by citizens and the media before the system was first rolled out. Was the person who sent in this story even in Japan at the time?
Exactly--Human-Level AI is the new flying car. Not going to be around anytime soon, certainly not in 2029. It currently takes about 20 years of dedicated parenting and schooling to produce a human mind capable of coming up with all the wonders we see on the Internet today. Does that mean by 2049 we'll finally have trained our new computer brain to the point where it can come up with I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGAR quips to go with a given photograph? Something to look forward to!
Ah, my bad! I actually used to know my ASL, although all I remember today is the alphabet. Learned it in middle school and was assigned to interpret for deaf students in classes that I shared with them. Kind of a cool cost-saving measure my school had cobbled together: you get students thinking they're learning stuff while you save money on hiring people who get paid for this sort of thing.
The point of the story is that it doesn't matter how integrated you are; it doesn't matter if your most immediate family is Japanese; it doesn't matter if you are gainfully employed. The only thing that matters about you is that you are NOT JAPANESE, and therefore are not quite human in the eyes of the law.
Actually the point of the story is you should have bothered looking up the required documentation before wandering into the government office and asking for your status of residence extension.
Lindsay Ann Hawker's killing was a depraved act and the police are a bunch of keystone kops much of the time, but that has little to do with your failure to get your stuff together.
Mac owners? We buy Leopard because it's all new and shiny, and then we buy XP or Vista to stick on our bootcamp partition. The news here: Not only did Mac owners push 10.5 to the top of the boxed OS sales chart, they're also probably responsible for a healthy chunk of the sales of non-Mac OSs.
But there have been no more terrorist attacks on the US during that time. I know it's hard to prove that it's because we went to war, but it's just as hard to prove that it is not. The economy is better, the military is stronger and the world respects our word (all of this in contrast to the Clinton administration).
I forget how often terrorists attacked us during Bill's administration. Oh yeah--I guess he could have invaded Iraq and set up prison camps in response to Tim McVeigh's terrorism! We could have gotten a huge head start on Making America Safe. Lousy Democrat.
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SMS isn't so common here in Japan, and just about ever phone comes with its own @docomo.ne.jp (or other carrier domain) email address. This is what most people use to text each other, and it lets them do the same to addresses on computers as well.
SMS does exist on the handsets, I suppose, but I don't know a single person who uses it.
Anyway, so long as SMS itself can handle Unicode text it can carry Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Thai, you name it. Beyond that it's just a matter of developing an input system that lets you use the 12-key pad to get the characters on your screen.
Since we're talking about Japan here in particular, I'll just note that there's a considerable body of legal precedence backing up the concept of shozoken, which, broadly speaking, means the right to control what gets done with images people have created of you. Given the court decisions already on the books, it isn't a huge stretch to say that Google could lose cases if it's hit by lawsuits from people whose photos were taken and published online without their consent.
You don't get away with "freedom of the press" in this country if your main purpose is to put together a website meant to sell ad impressions next to the maps and images. Google is on much thinner ice here than it may be in other markets where it's produced street-view maps.
What does your Texas-to-Illinois flight story have to do with customs searches?
I was under the impression that Scrabble remains in production to this day. What about this trademark was "not in use"?
I'd be curious to hear what the justification is for searching laptops.
Pretty sure it's something along the lines of "Hay look Americans, we're protecting you and stuff!" Just your standard security kabuki.
Yes, but I hear USB is set to take the lead once again as soon as Denon releases its $500 cloth-wrapped premier edition cable.
Thank you for that. As a translator I have to chuckle when each year companies come out with new machine translation technologies or software that are "even closer to replacing human translators than ever!" They aren't.
It's possible to make machines faster and filled with more brute computing force, but that means they will be able to do the same things, faster and more at once. Unless we get down the entirely new business of studying how our brains actually work and reproducing those processes, instead of dabbling around with complex arrays of on/off circuits, we won't truly get closer to machines that can do the job of actual thinking for us.
The day may come when computers replace human translators like me. But that day will also see the replacement of airplane pilots, surgeons, software creators, soldiers, you name it. All that's left for humans is to engage in pure artistic pursuits . . . and hope that at least a few of us are still interested in growing crops so we have something to eat.
Agreed. And on the plus side, this system might actually keep some of the event tickets out of the hands of IOC-connected scalpers who sit outside the "sold out" stadium with a fistful of tickets marked up 1,000%, for your "convenience."
Sell all tickets to people who actually want to attend the events, and make sure the tickets are with the people who bought them for the price listed on the blasted things. If this is one way to do so then great.
But the terrorists hate your freedoms! That's why the government has got to take them away first . . . to, uh, keep them safe for you.
You seem to be saying that musicians should get full-time jobs with music publishers and get paid by the note.
a Dremel, an old VCR, a soldering iron, and a Perl script
Oddly enough, these are exactly what was required to look up the location of the nearest Apple store.
Free? Have you seen what those seven-diamond women cost per hour?!
While there is a longstanding registration system for us foreigners in Japan, what astonishes me is how the government can secretly implement such a system for its citizens, and how little concern the media and Japanese citizens in general display about the privacy implications.
This was not done at all secretly, and there was plenty of concern shown by citizens and the media before the system was first rolled out. Was the person who sent in this story even in Japan at the time?
It's been tried. I'm pretty sure that's why we recently shot that one satellite out of the sky.
I've seen rugby played, and there are no rugs involved at all. Who gave it that idiotic name?
Ah, my bad! I actually used to know my ASL, although all I remember today is the alphabet. Learned it in middle school and was assigned to interpret for deaf students in classes that I shared with them. Kind of a cool cost-saving measure my school had cobbled together: you get students thinking they're learning stuff while you save money on hiring people who get paid for this sort of thing.
I would've thought that deaf people are always out of voice range.
Before you do, note that the blasted thing will take up two USB ports on your computer, one for power.
when I flew out yesterday and pulled it out for a bit of in-flight entertainment
Now you see, this is exactly the kind of lewd behavior that the airlines want to avoid. Keep it in your pants!
Compassion? Humility? Forgiveness? Come now, this is a Christian nation, we don't want any of that. Wait, what?
The point of the story is that it doesn't matter how integrated you are; it doesn't matter if your most immediate family is Japanese; it doesn't matter if you are gainfully employed. The only thing that matters about you is that you are NOT JAPANESE, and therefore are not quite human in the eyes of the law.
Actually the point of the story is you should have bothered looking up the required documentation before wandering into the government office and asking for your status of residence extension.
Lindsay Ann Hawker's killing was a depraved act and the police are a bunch of keystone kops much of the time, but that has little to do with your failure to get your stuff together.
Who buys "boxed operating systems" these days?
Mac owners? We buy Leopard because it's all new and shiny, and then we buy XP or Vista to stick on our bootcamp partition. The news here: Not only did Mac owners push 10.5 to the top of the boxed OS sales chart, they're also probably responsible for a healthy chunk of the sales of non-Mac OSs.
But there have been no more terrorist attacks on the US during that time. I know it's hard to prove that it's because we went to war, but it's just as hard to prove that it is not. The economy is better, the military is stronger and the world respects our word (all of this in contrast to the Clinton administration).
I forget how often terrorists attacked us during Bill's administration. Oh yeah--I guess he could have invaded Iraq and set up prison camps in response to Tim McVeigh's terrorism! We could have gotten a huge head start on Making America Safe. Lousy Democrat.
I don't know if it's some deal they have with Yahoo, to try and get more people signed up with Yahoo accounts . . .
You mean the deal where Yahoo bought Flickr and owns it now?