If you put conditions on the comparison, such as the computers are all housed at the same location and the money came from the same place, then the comparison works fine. Donations don't have to be counted, because that's up to each institution's discretion and individual efforts to collect.
I have the new Foma 900iT, and it has the biometric finger print scanner. It works great most of the time, but is sometimes really cantankerous about the fingerprint match-up. Also, the biometric feature is only useful if the security software gives you a decent set of options. Despite umpteen different choices, the only reliable way to lock people out of my phone's functions is to do a full lock.
On the bright side, this phone is designed to download system software updates from Docomo, so perhaps I can go offer some suggestions and actually see it get updated in the future.
One of the other great features that Docomo offers is a special bar code scanning feature for use with advertising. If you want to know more about something, you can point your phone's camera at a special bar code and it downloads additional information from the internet. Very cool.
Actually, if you can speak French, Japanese, and English fluently, you count as trilingual.;)
I have had the same problem with Japanese and German. I have to ramp up to German now before I can call my friends in Germany, or I keep having bits in Japanese pop out. They think it's all very funny. Also, when I can't find a word in Japanese, my brain helpfully fills in with German.
The worst part is, many of the borrowed words in Japanese are either English or German. While I have a great head-start on my Japanese that way, sometimes I get tripped up because I can't decide if a word should be pronounced the German way or the English way (for example, "allergy," which is the same in all three languages, but pronounced differently in English.)
I started studying German at the age of 16 through immersion, and after going back for another year, getting a college degree and continuing to speak it for 12+ years, I am a native speaker in the language (right down to dialect.) I have now been living in Japan for the last two years, and I have noticed several interesting things while I've been learning Japanese:
1. My brain doesn't distinguish between German and Japanese, it merely rates them as "not English." For example, watching a Japanese program teaching German, I find that when they jump from German to Japanese, it takes a second for my brain to register, "Oh, wait, comprehension just dropped from 100% to 30%."
When you're speaking a language, the best technique involves ignoring that it's a foreign language at all (yeah, it's a Zen thing.) Think of it like a computer: running natively always works better than emulation. Therefore, there's no flag that pops up saying, "They are now speaking German," etc. You either can understand it or you can't.
2. I find that Japanese is easy to master from a phonetic and mannerism standpoint, because I already overcame the mental hurdles once with German. It's easier to divorce myself from my original language and cultural frame of reference in order to allow me to accept the differences of Japanese language and culture at face value, rather than digging my heels in and saying, "This is strange, this is weird, this is hard."
3. There definitely is a phonotactic structure to every language that one learns. (I recently figured this out; good to know there's a name for it.) Basically, I can see a word and say, "That can't be a Japanese word," or "That can't be German," just like I can do in my own native English. This particular knack doesn't even require that high a level of mastery of grammar or vocabulary; it seems to work on a sub-conscious level as the brain accumulates experience and cross-references it against everything else you've learned so far.
Basically, take a page out of the baby's book. I think it's definitely the blank canvas and the lack of conditioned structure that allows them to adapt so flexibly to learning language. Even as adults, if we can allow ourselves to relax and accept a foreign language without mentally pausing every other word to register that it's foreign, mastering a new one isn't as bad as you think.
But that's what the St. Pauli girl wears on the beer brand's logo.
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Not to mention, what happens when you get on your own nerves? I hope the original me will know how to turn off the robot before I rip my head off. Hopefully, I can use my dislike of the sight of blood against me. I don't know about you, but when it comes down to me or me, I know whose side I'm on.
Actually, we can already emulate 2D with 3D easily. The software is there, and has been for many, many years. It's finding talented animators (as in any situation, including 2D.)
If you have actually done any animation, you would know that creating 2D cel-shaded style cartoons in 3D is far faster and far cheaper than the traditional, 2D style. The best part is, you can easily go back and change things without having to painstakingly redraw everything.
This is a Japan-only product, so catering to the plenty of businesses that offer wi-fi in America probably doesn't fit well into their business strategy. However, it does fit well into the Japanese way of life, where you are probably going to want to use this to take care of business while killing time riding on the train. Also, while wi-fi is nice, most laptops still come equipped with an IR port, making it an ideal method for syncing data quickly without having to whip out the SD card.
As for the ergonomic aspect, I'd wager it's ultimately designed to be held, because rush hour on the train can be killer when it's wall-to-wall people. Also, with the way people message on their cell phones nowadays, the thumb-typing aspect sounds pretty reasonable.
I'm going to have to go down to Den Den Town come November 10 and take a look at this bad boy. Looks pretty sweet.
Pity that Walmarts that open in rural areas drive local businesses out of business, putting many people out of work and destroying a significant part of the local culture. Wal-Mart doesn't offer anything that the previous shops didn't - it simply does it in a fashion that allows no competition.
Just a tip: small towns are much more convenient than big cities, by dint of being small. You can actually get out and walk to where you want to go, and the prices will probably be a lot cheaper than in the city, too.
I live in Osaka and have Yahoo! BB, which, at its worst, gives me 12Mbps DSL. I'm 4km from the nearest hub, so that's as fast as it gets (downloads are 200Kbps or so. Terrible, isn't it?)
I also can call home to the US for hours on end using my regular phone and it costs me 8 yen per minute (conversion: really, really cheap.) If I call another Yahoo! BB user, it's free, no matter where in Japan they are. Regular long distance is cheaper, too. My regular phone bill is now less than the base rate I was paying in the US, and I just don't worry about my long distance anymore.
VoIP. It's a wonderful thing, and the best part is, I don't even have to think about it anymore.
As mass goes up, the ratio to surface area is reduced proportionally. This is why sawdust catches fire more easily than a log of wood: a proportionally high amount of surface area for a small amount of mass.
It says, "My boss makes me use XP whether I want to or not, and that's okay because I don't believe my company should get to use my personal computer for business purposes for free."
Perhaps, but again, it's not like wind is a limited resource. The only thing really stopping us is available geography to put the windmills on. Technology will, as it tends to do, probably out-develop the need for wind power as a means of creating free hydrogen, but in the meantime, if you wanted to stop the massive pollution represented by automobiles overnight (which was the point of the entire "zero emmissions" goal that BMW was trying to reach), it would seem that the windmill provides the more viable solution.
The electrical grid is powered mostly by the burning of fossil fuels; however, these are in a scattering of power plants whose emissions could be contained much more easily than the hundreds of thousands of cars polluting the world today. Therefore, in terms of environmental impact, the windmill-as-hydrogen-converter has greater environmental potential overall.
Of course, to the casual observer all really cold substances are solid if they follow these three rules: they're hard; if you have enough of it, you can walk on it; and if you have a ball of it, it really hurts if you throw it at people.:)
Let me see...wind costs us nothing. All you have to do is build the turbine and let it go. If you then use that as the energy to drive the process for producing the hydrogen, then although you're wasting so much energy (gasp!), it doesn't matter, because it's free.
We aren't going to start getting billed for all that wasted wind, are we? If that's the case, then reading Slashdot must be costing me a fortune.;)
1) She needs to have some pores in the skin. The closeups of the face and nose don't show any pores at all.
Pores are usually not necessary for 95% of character animation work and would mean some major memory usage. The textures were damn good, but yeah, could use some work. (The goose bumps on the thighs were a bit overdone in the knee close-up, but that's just me.)
2) Tiny jaw. Nobody has a jaw that small.
Plenty of people do. With 6 billion people on the planet, can you really claim that with any sort of authority? For example, living in Japan, I see women with jaws like that every day.
3) Real tatties sag just a little.
Again, living in Japan, I have been blessed by the company of a woman whose "tatties" don't sag. Asian women tend to have perky breasts, and they're not as tiny as people would have you think.
4) A nice touch was the subtle camel toe. Problem with that is the contours of the bathing suit fabric overlying the camel toe. Not enough wrinkles in the right places. I'm an expert.
Depends on the material the bathing suit is made out of. I agree that the wrinkles aren't correct for your typical bathing suit spandex; this suit would appear to be made out of a thicker, velveteen fabric. A lot of the responsibility for this would be on the cloth-body dynamics software included in the animation package, not necessarily the animator himself. Fabric is hard to do. He did a good job in terms of getting it to flex believably over the model (note the strap over the collar bone.)
5) Hair - too perfect.
Hair is hard to do. Actually, my complaint would be that the hair is not perfect enough.:) However, it is masterful, considering how often most people botch it.
6) Skin on chest - some effort went into that to make it look like a real chest, but the freckles just had the appearance of being placed on a chest in an effort to look natural.
This comment is so subjective there's not much to say. Damn fine skin-texturing, attention to detail and believable bump-mapping and specularity. Also seems to have used some good environment maps to render the lighting (radiosity, perhaps), and possibly some sub-surface scattering (if not, then some very sophisticated light rigs.)
As the saying goes, come back when you can do better. This is very high-end stuff.
I liked it enough to see it twice, and that was with only understanding about 20% of the dialog. If you can watch a movie with the sound turned down and find it interesting, then it's probably a good movie.:)
Yeah, but our minimum speed right now is 12Mb/sec. Really, the wind blasting past our faces as we surf the net at blazing speeds dries away the tears. The maximum is already 54Mb/s.
The PSX was designed for the Japanese market, and designed well in that respect. It meets two important consumer demands:
1. There are no Tivo-type boxes here as of yet. The PSX is in a wide-open market.
2. Japan is not known for its incredible, wide-open spaces, especially in the home. You *want* a convergence device, because you simply don't have enough room to put everything. Why do you think the PS2 was designed to sit on its side the way it does?
The Japanese are also willing to pay through the nose for what they perceive as quality. I guess Sony dropped the ball on this one when they thought they'd be able to charge the same price in America as they were in Japan.
This isn't a new standard, it's just an after effect applied to existing signals.
How can an RGB signal be modified to carry the additional information without being a new standard? Also, this effect cannot be an "after effect applied to existing signals." You can't make something out of nothing. No, I think it's safe to say that this will require something other than the current RGB standard.
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Live in a country where your daily commute is an hour-and-a-half train ride one way, and perhaps you'll begin to see the justification.
If you put conditions on the comparison, such as the computers are all housed at the same location and the money came from the same place, then the comparison works fine. Donations don't have to be counted, because that's up to each institution's discretion and individual efforts to collect.
I throw a disc away every time a burn fails. If it's ruined, there's not much else you can do with it.
I have the new Foma 900iT, and it has the biometric finger print scanner. It works great most of the time, but is sometimes really cantankerous about the fingerprint match-up. Also, the biometric feature is only useful if the security software gives you a decent set of options. Despite umpteen different choices, the only reliable way to lock people out of my phone's functions is to do a full lock.
On the bright side, this phone is designed to download system software updates from Docomo, so perhaps I can go offer some suggestions and actually see it get updated in the future.
One of the other great features that Docomo offers is a special bar code scanning feature for use with advertising. If you want to know more about something, you can point your phone's camera at a special bar code and it downloads additional information from the internet. Very cool.
Actually, if you can speak French, Japanese, and English fluently, you count as trilingual. ;)
I have had the same problem with Japanese and German. I have to ramp up to German now before I can call my friends in Germany, or I keep having bits in Japanese pop out. They think it's all very funny. Also, when I can't find a word in Japanese, my brain helpfully fills in with German.
The worst part is, many of the borrowed words in Japanese are either English or German. While I have a great head-start on my Japanese that way, sometimes I get tripped up because I can't decide if a word should be pronounced the German way or the English way (for example, "allergy," which is the same in all three languages, but pronounced differently in English.)
Pity that DoubleStuff was already taken.
I started studying German at the age of 16 through immersion, and after going back for another year, getting a college degree and continuing to speak it for 12+ years, I am a native speaker in the language (right down to dialect.) I have now been living in Japan for the last two years, and I have noticed several interesting things while I've been learning Japanese:
1. My brain doesn't distinguish between German and Japanese, it merely rates them as "not English." For example, watching a Japanese program teaching German, I find that when they jump from German to Japanese, it takes a second for my brain to register, "Oh, wait, comprehension just dropped from 100% to 30%."
When you're speaking a language, the best technique involves ignoring that it's a foreign language at all (yeah, it's a Zen thing.) Think of it like a computer: running natively always works better than emulation. Therefore, there's no flag that pops up saying, "They are now speaking German," etc. You either can understand it or you can't.
2. I find that Japanese is easy to master from a phonetic and mannerism standpoint, because I already overcame the mental hurdles once with German. It's easier to divorce myself from my original language and cultural frame of reference in order to allow me to accept the differences of Japanese language and culture at face value, rather than digging my heels in and saying, "This is strange, this is weird, this is hard."
3. There definitely is a phonotactic structure to every language that one learns. (I recently figured this out; good to know there's a name for it.) Basically, I can see a word and say, "That can't be a Japanese word," or "That can't be German," just like I can do in my own native English. This particular knack doesn't even require that high a level of mastery of grammar or vocabulary; it seems to work on a sub-conscious level as the brain accumulates experience and cross-references it against everything else you've learned so far.
Basically, take a page out of the baby's book. I think it's definitely the blank canvas and the lack of conditioned structure that allows them to adapt so flexibly to learning language. Even as adults, if we can allow ourselves to relax and accept a foreign language without mentally pausing every other word to register that it's foreign, mastering a new one isn't as bad as you think.
But that's what the St. Pauli girl wears on the beer brand's logo.
Not to mention, what happens when you get on your own nerves? I hope the original me will know how to turn off the robot before I rip my head off. Hopefully, I can use my dislike of the sight of blood against me. I don't know about you, but when it comes down to me or me, I know whose side I'm on.
Actually, we can already emulate 2D with 3D easily. The software is there, and has been for many, many years. It's finding talented animators (as in any situation, including 2D.)
If you have actually done any animation, you would know that creating 2D cel-shaded style cartoons in 3D is far faster and far cheaper than the traditional, 2D style. The best part is, you can easily go back and change things without having to painstakingly redraw everything.
This is a Japan-only product, so catering to the plenty of businesses that offer wi-fi in America probably doesn't fit well into their business strategy. However, it does fit well into the Japanese way of life, where you are probably going to want to use this to take care of business while killing time riding on the train. Also, while wi-fi is nice, most laptops still come equipped with an IR port, making it an ideal method for syncing data quickly without having to whip out the SD card.
As for the ergonomic aspect, I'd wager it's ultimately designed to be held, because rush hour on the train can be killer when it's wall-to-wall people. Also, with the way people message on their cell phones nowadays, the thumb-typing aspect sounds pretty reasonable.
I'm going to have to go down to Den Den Town come November 10 and take a look at this bad boy. Looks pretty sweet.
The example you're using is a directory, not a file. According to your logic, Apple's Quicktime plugin is also installed insecurely.
Pity that Walmarts that open in rural areas drive local businesses out of business, putting many people out of work and destroying a significant part of the local culture. Wal-Mart doesn't offer anything that the previous shops didn't - it simply does it in a fashion that allows no competition.
Just a tip: small towns are much more convenient than big cities, by dint of being small. You can actually get out and walk to where you want to go, and the prices will probably be a lot cheaper than in the city, too.
I live in Osaka and have Yahoo! BB, which, at its worst, gives me 12Mbps DSL. I'm 4km from the nearest hub, so that's as fast as it gets (downloads are 200Kbps or so. Terrible, isn't it?)
I also can call home to the US for hours on end using my regular phone and it costs me 8 yen per minute (conversion: really, really cheap.) If I call another Yahoo! BB user, it's free, no matter where in Japan they are. Regular long distance is cheaper, too. My regular phone bill is now less than the base rate I was paying in the US, and I just don't worry about my long distance anymore.
VoIP. It's a wonderful thing, and the best part is, I don't even have to think about it anymore.
As mass goes up, the ratio to surface area is reduced proportionally. This is why sawdust catches fire more easily than a log of wood: a proportionally high amount of surface area for a small amount of mass.
It says, "My boss makes me use XP whether I want to or not, and that's okay because I don't believe my company should get to use my personal computer for business purposes for free."
Perhaps, but again, it's not like wind is a limited resource. The only thing really stopping us is available geography to put the windmills on. Technology will, as it tends to do, probably out-develop the need for wind power as a means of creating free hydrogen, but in the meantime, if you wanted to stop the massive pollution represented by automobiles overnight (which was the point of the entire "zero emmissions" goal that BMW was trying to reach), it would seem that the windmill provides the more viable solution.
The electrical grid is powered mostly by the burning of fossil fuels; however, these are in a scattering of power plants whose emissions could be contained much more easily than the hundreds of thousands of cars polluting the world today. Therefore, in terms of environmental impact, the windmill-as-hydrogen-converter has greater environmental potential overall.
Of course, to the casual observer all really cold substances are solid if they follow these three rules: they're hard; if you have enough of it, you can walk on it; and if you have a ball of it, it really hurts if you throw it at people. :)
Let me see...wind costs us nothing. All you have to do is build the turbine and let it go. If you then use that as the energy to drive the process for producing the hydrogen, then although you're wasting so much energy (gasp!), it doesn't matter, because it's free.
;)
We aren't going to start getting billed for all that wasted wind, are we? If that's the case, then reading Slashdot must be costing me a fortune.
1) She needs to have some pores in the skin. The closeups of the face and nose don't show any pores at all.
:) However, it is masterful, considering how often most people botch it.
Pores are usually not necessary for 95% of character animation work and would mean some major memory usage. The textures were damn good, but yeah, could use some work. (The goose bumps on the thighs were a bit overdone in the knee close-up, but that's just me.)
2) Tiny jaw. Nobody has a jaw that small.
Plenty of people do. With 6 billion people on the planet, can you really claim that with any sort of authority? For example, living in Japan, I see women with jaws like that every day.
3) Real tatties sag just a little.
Again, living in Japan, I have been blessed by the company of a woman whose "tatties" don't sag. Asian women tend to have perky breasts, and they're not as tiny as people would have you think.
4) A nice touch was the subtle camel toe. Problem with that is the contours of the bathing suit fabric overlying the camel toe. Not enough wrinkles in the right places. I'm an expert.
Depends on the material the bathing suit is made out of. I agree that the wrinkles aren't correct for your typical bathing suit spandex; this suit would appear to be made out of a thicker, velveteen fabric. A lot of the responsibility for this would be on the cloth-body dynamics software included in the animation package, not necessarily the animator himself. Fabric is hard to do. He did a good job in terms of getting it to flex believably over the model (note the strap over the collar bone.)
5) Hair - too perfect.
Hair is hard to do. Actually, my complaint would be that the hair is not perfect enough.
6) Skin on chest - some effort went into that to make it look like a real chest, but the freckles just had the appearance of being placed on a chest in an effort to look natural.
This comment is so subjective there's not much to say. Damn fine skin-texturing, attention to detail and believable bump-mapping and specularity. Also seems to have used some good environment maps to render the lighting (radiosity, perhaps), and possibly some sub-surface scattering (if not, then some very sophisticated light rigs.)
As the saying goes, come back when you can do better. This is very high-end stuff.
I liked it enough to see it twice, and that was with only understanding about 20% of the dialog. If you can watch a movie with the sound turned down and find it interesting, then it's probably a good movie. :)
You mean "bremstrahlung," as in braking, not "brenstrahlung," as in burning, right?
Yeah, but our minimum speed right now is 12Mb/sec. Really, the wind blasting past our faces as we surf the net at blazing speeds dries away the tears. The maximum is already 54Mb/s.
The PSX was designed for the Japanese market, and designed well in that respect. It meets two important consumer demands:
1. There are no Tivo-type boxes here as of yet. The PSX is in a wide-open market.
2. Japan is not known for its incredible, wide-open spaces, especially in the home. You *want* a convergence device, because you simply don't have enough room to put everything. Why do you think the PS2 was designed to sit on its side the way it does?
The Japanese are also willing to pay through the nose for what they perceive as quality. I guess Sony dropped the ball on this one when they thought they'd be able to charge the same price in America as they were in Japan.
This isn't a new standard, it's just an after effect applied to existing signals.
How can an RGB signal be modified to carry the additional information without being a new standard? Also, this effect cannot be an "after effect applied to existing signals." You can't make something out of nothing. No, I think it's safe to say that this will require something other than the current RGB standard.