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Anyone want to take a guess at Google's motive (other than goodwill)? Better access to East Asian customers?
On a slight offtopic note, I wonder why Japanese websites are still stuck in the mid 90s to early year 2000 style. One example of this is the imageboard type of websites, which interestingly enough has caught on here in the US. I wonder if these better connectivity will bring more cross culture web designs or applications to both places.
Japanese are very egocentric and insular. There was a story on Hackaday about Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet. Those are Hackers hacking on something in a Hackerspace, people on the forefront of open minded thinking.
On a slight offtopic note, I wonder why Japanese websites are still stuck in the mid 90s to early year 2000 style. One example of this is the imageboard type of websites, which interestingly enough has caught on here in the US. I wonder if these better connectivity will bring more cross culture web designs or applications to both places.
Edit: it's also extremely unlikely for a designer with a strong vision and skills to rise in a large company. Most will turn freelance long before they get there. Most upper management seems to come from eigyo - sales. I don't think engineers (basically just troops to implement the sales guy's vision and take the blame when something goes wrong) are in a position to easily climb the ranks either.
Edit2: I don't think the feature phones argument still holds water. Most sites will redirect for feature phones on the user agent level - they have too. Many models and carriers have their own quirks (eg only tables allowed, only inline styles allowed, different emoji codes) around which a large but dwindling infrastructure exists, catering for normalizing across models using template generated html. The browser versions are separate.
On a slight offtopic note, I wonder why Japanese websites are still stuck in the mid 90s to early year 2000 style. One example of this is the imageboard type of websites, which interestingly enough has caught on here in the US. I wonder if these better connectivity will bring more cross culture web designs or applications to both places.
Japanese are very egocentric and insular. There was a story on Hackaday about Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet. Those are Hackers hacking on something in a Hackerspace, people on the forefront of open minded thinking.
I wonder what the difference is in the technology of the 3.3TB/s cable and the 60TB/c cable, just strands? (approx 20 more?)
This might be an absurd question, but I can't think of a better place to ask it. In my mind there's a huge mental disconnect between computers (servers/personal computers) and infrastructure like this. Could someone provide insight on when/how these types of high-throughput cables are used? How the process is managed, by who, and how on earth all those bits are lined up at such a high speed. I understand they're core…
Obligatory link to "Mother Earth, Motherboard" whenever submarine cables are mentioned: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html Best 50 page article you'll read this year.