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by aikinai 16y ago
It's interesting if you check the link for where they're offering the service; there are only five US cities, but nine areas (some prefectures) in Japan. I wonder why the coverage is so large in Japan? It also seems a bit haphazard. Why Hyo
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Google to beef up Places, Street View with interior business photos(arstechnica.com)
7 points by aikinai 16y ago|3 comments
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by aikinai 16y ago
It's been possible to make structures that small for quite awhile actually, but the applications are just a lot harder to realize than anyone expected in the early days. Even as an undergraduate back in 2005, I was fairly easily making ~50n
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by aikinai 16y ago
I just gave the Japanese to English a quick check, and it's no better than Google or anything else I've seen. And by that I mean it completely loses the meaning of anything but the most simple sentences. I know Japanese to English is going
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by aikinai 16y ago
In 1998 (N64) Nintendo made $1.2 billion in profits, which at the time was being compared to their previous record of $1.25 billion in 1993 (SNES). There's no public information about how much of that was N64 profit and how much was Gameboy
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by aikinai 16y ago
Early admission has nothing to do with having a diploma. All undergraduate and graduate programs let you apply before you have finished the previous level because the application and acceptance process takes more than the time between schoo
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by aikinai 16y ago
Regardless of any of his other points, I almost stopped reading when I came across this artifact of the 90s, "The Japanese boast the world's most advanced cell phones, and the biggest and best high-definition television screens." Maybe we c
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by aikinai 16y ago
Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification.
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by aikinai 16y ago
LivingSocial isn't mentioned in this article at all. Why are they included in the title of the submission?
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by aikinai 16y ago
I think this might have been the original swf the Reddit one is based on: http://www.qubit.devisland.net/ga/index.html I found this one years ago and have been meaning to try copying it one day myself to learn about genetic algorithms.
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by aikinai 16y ago
From the perspective of one liver or one jurisdiction, he didn't "cut in line;" he was just one more person on the waitlist and they followed their standard procedures for deciding who gets that one liver in that one jurisdiction. If he hap
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by aikinai 16y ago
Having more Apple Stores nearby doesn't necessarily mean you can get repairs done faster. I've had Apple laptops repaired a number of times and it seems like mailing it to the repair center is always faster than leaving it at the store beca
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by aikinai 16y ago
It depends on what you mean by "not available for use." Any standard T-mobile plan that includes data (even the $5 T-Zones plan) will work with the iPhone. The only problem is that it's Edge-only.
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by aikinai 16y ago
Oh thanks, I didn't realize they were different. I wonder if Opera will try submitting Opera Mobile to the App Store. It seems like they just submitted Mini to make a point and didn't expect it to be accepted.
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by aikinai 16y ago
You can also install Opera Mobile on iOS. (I'm guessing you didn't know about that since you said "at least")
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by aikinai 16y ago
Just to confirm with empirical evidence, I didn't know about the "fail whale" meme until after seeing this, but I still thought Google's page was humorous and made sense.
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by aikinai 16y ago
I don't remember if anyone in particular gave me this advice, but it was definitely a prevailing notion around 2002 and it's probably the biggest reason I didn't study computer science in university. I didn't give up on technology entirely,
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by aikinai 16y ago
I was going to say the exact same thing as JoelSutherland, so I'm glad you posted a screenshot of your site. And now I want to say thank you so much for bringing some taste to the Japanese internet, especially the Japanese fashion/shopping
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by aikinai 16y ago
I'm also very jealous of options like Swype and now 8pen, but I'm fairly satisfied with the iPhone keyboard in terms of inputting individual letters. What I don't understand is how Apple thinks that their current auto-correction is acceptab
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by aikinai 16y ago
There are times when jailbreaking an up-to-date iPhone is not possible, but right now the latest firmware can be rooted in a few minutes with a very simple program. It does not affect your Apple ID, iTunes association or anything other apps
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by aikinai 16y ago
Mixi (the most popular social networking site in Japan) has had this feature since the beginning and it certainly changes how people use the site. Actually a year or two ago they finally added the ability to delete your tracks after viewin
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by aikinai 16y ago
Oh yeah, I'd totally forgotten about the CAVE! I got to go in there once to play around. You forgot to mention another important part, which was that one of the "wands" was actually a headset that would track the user and change the perspec
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by aikinai 16y ago
I don't think roadnottaken meant towers specifically when he said "desktop." The market data for years has been showing that physical "desktops" are all but dead with laptops taking over, but I believe roadnottaken and the grandparent were
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by aikinai 16y ago
Does Chinese not use 化 or something similar to mean "ization?" If not, how do they turn "global" into "globalization?" (I'm just curious) In Japanese, the kanji 化 is almost perfectly equivalent to the English "ization," and I think it's ver
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by aikinai 16y ago
I wouldn't really call it a superpower, I have it too and it's more of a curse. Also, the worst are cheap projectors that seem to alternate between red, green, and blue, so you see a rainbow every time you move your eyes between the project
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by aikinai 16y ago
I think you're right; I can't seem to find anything that gives them special non-profit-seeking privilege. The only thing related is the "Don't be Evil" statement in their Owners Manual for Shareholders that states: "Don't be evil. We believ
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by aikinai 16y ago
I was under the impression that Google put a special clause in their charter(?) that gave them special permission to make decisions that appear to go against their bottom line.
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by aikinai 16y ago
Below are some new gameplay videos, which showcase a wide variety of new game mechanics. Particularly the second two show a lot of new tricks they're going to be bringing to the sequel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THiN8szSKM http://w
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Soil Bacteria Might Increase Learning(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by aikinai 16y ago|0 comments