Very few speak more than few words of English. Of course you are very likely to meet one who does, but trying to communicate with a random (business) person on the street is futile unless you are very lucky.
This is *partially* because they think they do not speak "good enough" and are rather quiet, but only partially.
You are, of course right. My exaggeration was maybe a bit too strong.
To my knowledge even hiragana is used for some loan words (I remember there was a word which was written sometimes in hiragana and sometimes in katakana but have forgotten which one it was - "old" loan anyway).
Romaji is not used by Japanese people at all. It is only used by foreigners trying to learn Japanese.
As a native German you should know how to translate the example to German, with at least same amount of "foreign" words. Words get their gender ("der Computer") easily, it seem to be of no hindrance (in Swedish either).
Finnish has one of the most complex (cumbersome?) declension there is, still we get loan words (which bend in every way there is). If necessary the word will be "mutilated" to be usable, e.g. "concert" -> "konsertti"[1]. Or "paso-kon" in Japanese. Same in German, but you know it better than I do.
[1] we do not "like" letter 'c' nor words ending in a consonant.
English will better adapt to include Portuguese words than say German or Russian.
No.
What on earth makes you think German, etc. do not have loan words? Why do you think the French made an (idiotic) law to prohibit loan words?
Japanese has even separate alphabet (katakana) for loanwords, for fucks sake! (Romaji is not Japanese, btw). There are huge number of loanwords in Japanese (mostly from English), e.g. "paso-kon" (personal computer), "toile", "pan" (bread).
How do these web-mails work at repeated login attempts? "Kill" the account? Kill attempts from that IP? Kill attempts for a limited time? What about if the attempts come from several different IPs (but more or less at the same time)?
If designed well even easy-to-remember-but-not-totally-trivial passwords can be very hard to crack.
I agree the security questions are a bad idea, unless they have much faster "kill switch".
Listen, every time I point out the advantages of stable ABI I will be modded to hell (I really do not care at all about the "karma" thingie).
Second, there already ARE penguins in some boxes (not to mention mac logos) so manufacturers DO care. Making stable ABI would definitely help them hugely. No doubt about that.
Third: stable ABI would probably help FOSS drivers the most. Now, a FOSS driver, before it gets to kernel tree (which can take infinitely long), is a major PITA. Installing a security update to the kernel means you have to recompile the driver.
BTW OpenSolaris (and its clones) does not have any of the problems we have mentioned. You really should ask yourself the question: "why Linux does".
But you miss one thing: The ever changing ABI is royal PITA even if you do have source code (and the source is not in the kernel tree).
You need to recompile the device driver for every security patch. And those are plenty, for example for Ubuntu LTS (8.04) there have been one per month this year.
Peracom USB Ethernet adapter stopped working while in the kernel. This is because the device driver writers could not test it, and most likely "did not give a flying fuck". Apparently "No one seemed to mind".
Windows kernel ABI changes in every major release - i.e. every few years. Linux ABI changes in every minor-minor release, i.e. every month. This is especially painful for out-of-distro FOSS devices.
And last but not least: there is no good way to get a driver into the kernel tree. There are webcam drivers for which the chip maker has helped to create drivers - still not in the kernel. New laptop (e.g. EeePC) - no way to get the drivers to the kernel tree a month after launch and obviously cannot put in before launch.
1. Boycott AMCtv because it is not using "open" alternatives like, uh, Vorbis? 2. Change distribution to X? 3. Try under Wine? 4. Change community attitude towards non-free software? 5. Bitch to everyone who does not 100% agree with "FOSS is the only one" and "all information must be free"? 6. Convert to "iPhone for everyhting"?
Oh, did you know that most of the places which gets snow is so north that there is practically no solar energy whatsoever so the panels cannot melt the snow.
if a law is found by the courts to violate the Constitution or contradict it, that law is null and void
Same here.
We do take the constitution seriously too, and any changes will be looked with suspicion. Changing the constitutional laws is much harder than "normal" laws, but not impossible.
I have nothing against guarding the laws, as long as they are still good.
You mentioned the "right to bear arms". IMHO, and I mean very humble, it might not be "the best possible" today. But trust me, there is absolutely nothing I am willing to do in order change that, it is none of my business.
Our independence came a bit differently though I am certain they did feel their rights being violated. However, the constitution was written afterwards.
I have not read it and therefore I am not keen to point out anything.
I have just seen some very good changes to Finnish constitution. As it is much younger I have a feeling that the USA constitution might have outdated laws (or what you call them).
Anyway I cannot understand why it is held in such a high value. Why not change the constitution if a better is found?
I mean it is 200 years old document, some of it is hardly relevant today. We (Finns) have had several changes to constitution as we see the world change.
Every time I hear argument "it is against constitution" it does sound very, very much like a religious argument. Like now, going down to an interpretation of a single word on it, just like reading the bible. Sharia comes to mind (law based on some, sometimes strict, interpretation of the koran).
If you do relate it like to a religious writing I must apologise, I intend no offence.
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Yes, than God it does not affect Linux!
https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/tcp-vulnerabilities.html
Oops ... well, at least Linux fixed it promptly!
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-18730
"Due to upstream's decision not to release updates, Red Hat do not plan to release updates to resolve these issues"
Oops ... well, anyway Windows suck!
Very few speak more than few words of English. Of course you are very likely to meet one who does, but trying to communicate with a random (business) person on the street is futile unless you are very lucky.
This is *partially* because they think they do not speak "good enough" and are rather quiet, but only partially.
This is getting better all the time, though.
You are, of course right. My exaggeration was maybe a bit too strong.
To my knowledge even hiragana is used for some loan words (I remember there was a word which was written sometimes in hiragana and sometimes in katakana but have forgotten which one it was - "old" loan anyway).
Romaji is not used by Japanese people at all. It is only used by foreigners trying to learn Japanese.
As a native German you should know how to translate the example to German, with at least same amount of "foreign" words. Words get their gender ("der Computer") easily, it seem to be of no hindrance (in Swedish either).
Finnish has one of the most complex (cumbersome?) declension there is, still we get loan words (which bend in every way there is). If necessary the word will be "mutilated" to be usable, e.g. "concert" -> "konsertti"[1]. Or "paso-kon" in Japanese. Same in German, but you know it better than I do.
[1] we do not "like" letter 'c' nor words ending in a consonant.
English will better adapt to include Portuguese words than say German or Russian.
No.
What on earth makes you think German, etc. do not have loan words? Why do you think the French made an (idiotic) law to prohibit loan words?
Japanese has even separate alphabet (katakana) for loanwords, for fucks sake! (Romaji is not Japanese, btw). There are huge number of loanwords in Japanese (mostly from English), e.g. "paso-kon" (personal computer), "toile", "pan" (bread).
Most Japanese businessmen already speak adequate English.
No.
How do these web-mails work at repeated login attempts?
"Kill" the account?
Kill attempts from that IP?
Kill attempts for a limited time?
What about if the attempts come from several different IPs (but more or less at the same time)?
If designed well even easy-to-remember-but-not-totally-trivial passwords can be very hard to crack.
I agree the security questions are a bad idea, unless they have much faster "kill switch".
She is going to update and perhaps even upgrade it.
Someone else might, under more favourable circumstances, install it for her.
Listen, every time I point out the advantages of stable ABI I will be modded to hell (I really do not care at all about the "karma" thingie).
Second, there already ARE penguins in some boxes (not to mention mac logos) so manufacturers DO care. Making stable ABI would definitely help them hugely. No doubt about that.
Third: stable ABI would probably help FOSS drivers the most. Now, a FOSS driver, before it gets to kernel tree (which can take infinitely long), is a major PITA. Installing a security update to the kernel means you have to recompile the driver.
BTW OpenSolaris (and its clones) does not have any of the problems we have mentioned. You really should ask yourself the question: "why Linux does".
You are so right it hurts.
But you miss one thing: The ever changing ABI is royal PITA even if you do have source code (and the source is not in the kernel tree).
You need to recompile the device driver for every security patch. And those are plenty, for example for Ubuntu LTS (8.04) there have been one per month this year.
BULLSHIT!
MPT008 was dropped when moving from 2.4 to 2.6.
Peracom USB Ethernet adapter stopped working while in the kernel. This is because the device driver writers could not test it, and most likely "did not give a flying fuck". Apparently "No one seemed to mind".
Windows kernel ABI changes in every major release - i.e. every few years. Linux ABI changes in every minor-minor release, i.e. every month. This is especially painful for out-of-distro FOSS devices.
And last but not least: there is no good way to get a driver into the kernel tree. There are webcam drivers for which the chip maker has helped to create drivers - still not in the kernel. New laptop (e.g. EeePC) - no way to get the drivers to the kernel tree a month after launch and obviously cannot put in before launch.
Sorry, those are only for un-encrypted content.
1. Boycott AMCtv because it is not using "open" alternatives like, uh, Vorbis?
2. Change distribution to X?
3. Try under Wine?
4. Change community attitude towards non-free software?
5. Bitch to everyone who does not 100% agree with "FOSS is the only one" and "all information must be free"?
6. Convert to "iPhone for everyhting"?
Is that enough or you need more trolling? :-)
The laser itself has two mirrors ...
Sure, just send some composers.
It also makes submarine patents too easy "let's show this new idea on the news and hope someone implements and starts selling it - then patent it".
A gas bill is trivial to counterfeit, it proves absolutely nothing.
If I had to choose two cars where the other cannot show ID ...
The car is not the worst example, a lot worse is bank. They are willing to give all your money to anyone with "your" latest gas bill.
Let face the truth, sometimes the ID is really, really good.
Sure, it can be used for bad things, but at least in Finland those fears are completely bogus.
I cannot understand the fear of the ID - nobody is going to make compulsory ID checks on street corners. Bloody hell, there is no need to carry one!
Because scammers do exist?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1355315&cid=29283001
When I buy something expensive from you, like a car, I definitely want to know you own it.
"Latest gas bill" is, well, not good enough.
Or snow?
Oh, did you know that most of the places which gets snow is so north that there is practically no solar energy whatsoever so the panels cannot melt the snow.
I did not want to imply you should ignore it.
We do have a constitution ourselves and we are not going to let the government to ignore it.
But we are willing to change it (we do not feel such a hatred or fear towards government as you probably do).
We think the government, or rather the people in the government, are to serve us in friendly terms, not some enemy we must fight against.
Well, there are politicians so you can estimate how well the government serves people and how well themselves :-)
if a law is found by the courts to violate the Constitution or contradict it, that law is null and void
Same here.
We do take the constitution seriously too, and any changes will be looked with suspicion. Changing the constitutional laws is much harder than "normal" laws, but not impossible.
I have nothing against guarding the laws, as long as they are still good.
You mentioned the "right to bear arms". IMHO, and I mean very humble, it might not be "the best possible" today. But trust me, there is absolutely nothing I am willing to do in order change that, it is none of my business.
Our independence came a bit differently though I am certain they did feel their rights being violated. However, the constitution was written afterwards.
I have not read it and therefore I am not keen to point out anything.
I have just seen some very good changes to Finnish constitution. As it is much younger I have a feeling that the USA constitution might have outdated laws (or what you call them).
Anyway I cannot understand why it is held in such a high value. Why not change the constitution if a better is found?
I re-read it periodically
Why?
I mean it is 200 years old document, some of it is hardly relevant today. We (Finns) have had several changes to constitution as we see the world change.
Every time I hear argument "it is against constitution" it does sound very, very much like a religious argument. Like now, going down to an interpretation of a single word on it, just like reading the bible. Sharia comes to mind (law based on some, sometimes strict, interpretation of the koran).
If you do relate it like to a religious writing I must apologise, I intend no offence.