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Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels 269

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @05:34PM from the living-in-the-hive dept.

afabbro writes "Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 once offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home. Now with Japan enduring its worst recession since World War II, it is becoming an affordable option for people with nowhere else to go. The Hotel 510’s capsules are only 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. Guests must keep possessions, like shirts and shaving cream, in lockers outside of the capsules. Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas says, 'It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep. You get used to it.'”

Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops 50

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @02:31PM from the get-your-mobility-on dept.

superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."

Submission + - Toshiba laptop batteries recalled,pose fire hazard

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Monday August 13, 2007 @12:21PM

DMandPenfold writes: Toshiba has recalled more defective laptop batteries, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said last week, the latest move in a long-running problem with lithium-ion batteries made by Sony. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/hardware /laptops/news/index.cfm?newsid=4558

Submission + - Sales gap closing between HD DVD & Blu-ray (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by

DaMan1970

on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:27AM

DaMan1970 writes: "Some consumer electronics retailers are reporting a sales gap closing between stand-alone HD DVD players & Blu-ray Disc players as the 2 formats have come closer in price.

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/content/view/119/1/

Toshiba's 2nd-generation players are still the best-selling individual models, but collectively, Blu-ray players have been outselling HD DVD Toshiba models in recent weeks. At the end of May, Toshiba offered a round of promotional price cuts on its players. Toshiba will release its 3rd-generation HD DVD players in September & October, like reported before http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hd-video-formats/toshi ba-to-launch-3rd-generation-hd-dvd-players.html
with all 3 players at less than 500 Euros."

Submission + - HD discs outsell VHS tapes this year (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by

DaMan1970

on Monday August 13, 2007 @02:38AM

DaMan1970 writes: "The combined sales of both HD-DVD & Blu-ray discs was greater than the sales of VHS cassettes sold in the 1st half of this year.

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hd-video-formats/hd-di scs-outsell-vhs-tapes-this-year.html

Although HD sales are definitely growing, especially after Warner Video sold 250,000 copies of 300 in the last month, like reported a week ago http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hd-video-formats/300-i s-highest-selling-hd-disc-ever.html the numbers are still comparatively low for early adoption figures."

iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long 369

Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 12, 2007 @03:28PM from the make-the-trees-stop-crying dept.

PoliTech writes "iPhone bills are surprisingly large - 'Xbox Large', according to Ars technica: 'AT&T's iPhone bills are quite impressive in their own right. We're starting to get bills for the iPhone here at Ars, and while many of us have had smartphones for some time, we've never seen a bill like this. One of our bills is a whopping 52 pages long, and my own bill is 34 pages long. They're printed on both sides, too. What gives? The AT&T bill itemizes your data usage whenever you surf the Internet via EDGE, even if you're signed up for the unlimited data plan. AT&T also goes into an incredible amount of detail to tell you; well, almost nothing. For instance, I know that on July 27 at 3:21 p.m. I had some data use that, under the To/From heading, AT&T has helpfully listed as Data Transfer. The Type of file? Data. My total charge? $0.00. This mind-numbing detail goes on for 52 double-sided pages (for 104 printed pages!) with absolutely no variance except the size of the files.' You would think that a data company would have a more efficient billing process."

Submission + - How long will your photos last?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12, 2007 @01:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Have you ever wondered how long your home photo prints will last? If you expect them to look as good in a year as they did when you printed them, you may be disappointed. This article examines ink jet photo prints that have been sitting in a window for three months. Some of them still look great but others look terrible. It seems that using good ink makes all the difference! http://www.trustedreviews.com/printers/review/2007 /08/12/The-Inkjet-Investigation-Part-2/p1

Submission + - Cluster Computer Built from PS3's

Submitted by jbcage on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:49AM

jbcage writes: A professor at North Carolina State University has built a cluster computer using 8 PlayStation 3's running Linux. "His cluster of eight PS3 machines — the first such academic cluster in the world — packs the power of a small supercomputer, but at a total cost of about $5,000, it costs less than some desktop computers that have only a fraction of the computing power."

Submission + - Do Not Talk About Polar Bears!

Submitted by eldavojohn on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:39AM

eldavojohn writes: Scientific American has an article on a memo for foreign travelers on U.S. government business says that requests for foreign travel

"involving or potentially involving climate change, sea ice, and/or polar bears" require special handling, including notice of who will be the official spokesman for the trip. The Fish and Wildlife Service top officials need assurance that the spokesman, "the one responding to questions on these issues, particularly polar bears" understands the administration's position on these topics."
Sounds like a good policy. I'm sure that the problem will just fix itself.

Submission + - How Open Source projects survive poisonous people

Submitted by

CoolVibe

on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:38AM

CoolVibe writes: "Two Subversion developers talk at google about how to keep pests and malcontents out of your open source projects. From the abstract: "Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences""

Submission + - The Battle for Wireless Broadband

Submitted by Bill_McNeal on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:34AM

Bill_McNeal writes: At a panel in Washington DC this week, Skype outlined the full details of its plan to transform the wireless industry through federal legislation. Prof. Timothy Wu lashed out against the carriers for crippling their phones and networks while the CTIA defended the big four. Does Skype have a chance of opening up wireless broadband networks? Read more at http://www.dailytechrag.com/node/5075

Making Sense of Census Data With Google Earth 65

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:25AM from the GIS-for-everyman dept.

mikemuch writes "Imran Haque has developed a mashup of Google Earth with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, called gCensus. The app uses the XML format known as KML (Keyhole Markup Language), which can create shapes and colors on the maps displayed by GE. Haque had to build custom code libraries (which he's made available as open source) that could generate KML for the project. He also had to extract the relevant data from the highly counter-intuitive Census Bureau files and store them in a database that could handle geographic data. gCensus lets you do stuff like create colorful overlays on maps showing population ages, race, and family size distributions."

Submission + - Impact from DST?

Submitted by

Lokatana

on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:24AM

Lokatana writes: "Managing the email environment for a large financial institution, I've spent the last month and a half working to prepare for the adjustments to Daylight Saving Time. There has been a large amount of effort communicating to users, upgrading old blackberries, and patching servers and workstations. Now that we're here, and the changes have been made, the silence so far has been deafening.

Is this another Y2K, and the hype has been overstated, or have all of our preparations paid off? What are others in the community experiencing in their workplaces? Is there anyone out there who did not prepare for DST, and if so, what kind of impact are you seeing today?"

Submission + - Duke detects depression

Submitted by

Matthew Sparkes

on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:21AM

Matthew Sparkes writes: "Duke Nukem is helping scientists detect and quantify depression. Depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, a part of the brain that also plays a role in spatial memory, so scientists created a test where people had to navigate to as many in-game landmarks as possible within a set amount of time. Depressed people found their way to an average of 2.4 locations compared with 3.8 locations for healthy controls."

Submission + - How do you score the One Job?

Submitted by

dmayle

on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:21AM

dmayle writes: "We all know how to look for a new job. Polish up your resume, look at the job boards, beg your old college roommate, etc., it's not easy, but it eventually works. What do you do, however, when you want a specific job? How do you go about making the contacts necessary and getting through the recruiting process for your dream job? What if your dream job is in another town, or another state?"

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