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Comment The data is incomplete for one big reason (Score 2, Insightful) 250

by KNicolson on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:17AM (#29106083) Attached to: iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan

The company does not survey the carrier's own shops, which are major players in the Japanese cellphone market. In addition, number three, the Panasonic 830P is an almost one year old phone (last year's winter model) since superceded by two newer Panasonic phones, and the Casio W63CA is similarly an ancient (in Japanese terms) model.

Thus, to anyone who knows about the Japanese mobile phone market (such as anyone who reads my blog) the survey results are obviously biased towards bulk retailers and the people who frequent them rather than to the average Taro who frequents the carrier's own store on the High Street.

Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ISS Picture 80

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:59PM from the good-focus dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Ralf Vandebergh is an amateur astronomer, and using a simple telescope with a video camera attached to it, he took an incredibly detailed picture of the International Space Station. You can easily see the recently-installed truss and solar panels, as well as the Space Shuttle Discovery docked to the station."

Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance 255

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 19, 2009 @09:37PM from the I-seen-things dept.

KentuckyFC writes "The human eye is a good photon detector--it's sensitive enough to spot photons in handfuls. So what if you swapped a standard photon detector with a human eye in the ongoing experiments to measure spooky-action-at-a-distance? (That's the ability of entangled photons to influence each other, no matter how far apart they might be.) A team of physicists in Switzerland have worked out the details and say that in principle there is no reason why human eyes couldn't do this kind of experiment. That would be cool because it would ensure that the two human observers involved in the test would become entangled, albeit for a short period time. The team, led by Nic Gisin, a world leader on entanglement, says it is actively pursuing this goal (abstract) so we could have the first humans to experience entanglement within months."

Comment Re:So Let me get this straight (Score 2) 233

by KNicolson on Monday January 19, 2009 @02:04AM (#26513161) Attached to: Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office

My (well, not mine really, as I can't vote) Prime Minister reads manga and his ex-Defense Minister builds plastic models of battleships and fighter planes, but they are far, far, far from *AWESOME*!

Comment TPM on Android? (Score 2, Interesting) 88

by KNicolson on Saturday October 04, 2008 @11:19AM (#25256029) Attached to: Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers

HTC are using the OKL4 kernel on their phones, which is derived from the L4 kernel that provides the trusted computing base for a number of large-scale European projects based around mobile and embedded trust through the TPM.

I wonder what it all means?

Submission + - Optimal boarding for airlines: strict ordering

Submitted by electrostatic on Saturday March 01, 2008 @10:20PM

electrostatic writes: A physicist says he has solved a problem that costs airlines millions every year: what is the quickest way to get passengers aboard an aircraft? Boarding is a serious issue for airlines, particularly those operating short flights that run several times a day, yet boarding times have steadily increased for decades. Jason Steffen of the Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, who has come up with the ideal boarding sequence, says the method used by many airlines is almost the worst.

Submission + - Survey says Japan's pipes fat, mostly P2P-free (whatjapanthinks.com)

Submitted by

dids_jp

on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @10:59AM

dids_jp writes: "A couple of interesting surveys out of Japan on internet usage: over three-quarters of those online have home connections rated at over 10 Mbps, yet remarkably less than 4% admit to being file sharers. With scare stories about Japanese cops losing data through Winny, not surprisingly the risk of leaking personal data or getting a virus keeps people away. Only a quarter of non-users refuse to run the risk of infringing copyright; the fear of getting caught was not reported, however."

Submission + - :-) turns 25, but how old is (?_?) (whatjapanthinks.com) 1

Submitted by

KNicolson

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @11:38PM

KNicolson writes: "We all know that :-) turned 25 today, but what about the Japanese equivalents (?_?) Who first came up with them and how long ago? Following some research of of the Japanese side of the internet, I found the answers to my question of who invented Japanese emoticons and when. The earliest documented use is about 20 years ago, by a non-Japanese, it seems!"

Submission + - iPhone: Japan will love it, Japan will buy it (whatjapanthinks.com)

Submitted by on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @04:07AM

An anonymous reader writes: With most of the smart money being on Apple's iPhone being a generation behind what is available in Japan, here is a view going against the trend and presenting an argument for the success of the device over there, written not by a rabid fan boy but by someone grudgingly accepting the quality of Apple's product. The missing ingredients for success in the East are also described.

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