Comment Re:Chinese not Japanese. Submitter should read TFA (Score 1) 212
It is very funny that the submitter is the author of the CNET article. Go follow the link on the name of the submitter.
So, it is a screw up by the submitter as well.
Comment Re:Chinese not Japanese. Submitter should read TFA (Score 1) 212
Mod parent up. He is absolutely right.
Japan Launches 'Buddha Phone' 212
CNETNate writes "The Japanese Odin 99 handset isn't a regular video-enabled phone. It's geared, perhaps somewhat ironically, towards the Buddhist geek. Aside from regular cell phone features, a dedicated button loads a private, customizable, animated altar on the phone's screen. The idea is to allow Buddhists to perform their dedications conveniently on-the-go. You can simulate incense burning, purification rites and play music to help you meditate wherever you happen to be. The question is, does such a device somewhat negate the values a Buddhist would stand for?"
Comment Re:How does this help discrimination? (Score 1) 457
Lineage is not so much important anymore in Japan and only tiny fraction of marrying couples do use agents to check lineage of their SO.
Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library 96
f0rk writes "Spotify, a popular music streaming service, has just recently released libspotify. An official, binary-only, only for subscribers, library to 'enable and inspire you to build some really cool stuff.' The first release only has support for x86-32 Linux, the only major platform Spotify does not run on. It looks like the Spotify team is trying to be nice to the Linux community and hope someone will use their restricted binary-only library to write a Linux client."
Submission + - Finally, Sadomasochism Gets Its Own Science Study (scientificblogging.com)
TaeKwonDood writes: "You might think throwing out the occasional titillating article title is part of some grand media strategy. Discover is famous for whoring themselves out for page views with articles like Bizarre Aquatic Creatures Are Secretly Lesbian Necrophiliacs and Scientific American gets into the act with Rough Sex at 40,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which got them additionally ridiculed because that is about 30X greater than the radius of the Earth, but there are occasionally real articles that aren't all tramped up and just happen to deal with sex; some of it even kinky. All of it involving cortisol.
The difficulty? Kinky people are okay with being monitored and they don't always realize what 'control' means in a scientific context, but they sure don't like to stick within the study parameters."
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 78
I stand corrected. Yahoo is still the most popular search engine in Japan with, but saying that Google is not a strong brand in Japan is wrong. Google is the second most popular search engine with the share of 35%, and the share gap between them and Yahoo is getting smaller and smaller very quickly. Here is the source. It is reported last September, so the gap is even smaller now.
I specifically mentioned YouTube video traffic for the main reason to taking up bandwidth. Google (including YouTube) has servers located in Japan, but they are more like caching servers. Original data are stored on the servers in the U.S. where most of the computation take place. Continuous replication of data takes up bandwidth. Another example is 2 channel. Do you know where the 2 channel servers are located? They are all located in the U.S. The Japanese don't read English website much, but the traffic between the U.S. and Japan is still huge.
I specifically mentioned YouTube video traffic for the main reason to taking up bandwidth. Google (including YouTube) has servers located in Japan, but they are more like caching servers. Original data are stored on the servers in the U.S. where most of the computation take place. Continuous replication of data takes up bandwidth. Another example is 2 channel. Do you know where the 2 channel servers are located? They are all located in the U.S. The Japanese don't read English website much, but the traffic between the U.S. and Japan is still huge.
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