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In languages using latin-based alphabets, the pronunciation of every letter can change completely from country to country, so there is no point in preferring a letter over another one in order to achieve an "international" transliteration.
If you want that, you'll have to either use IPA, or define a different transliteration scheme from Japanese to each language with a latin-based alphabet.
I think you're discounting cultural training and history there. By your reasoning, gold should have never gotten to its place of prominence in the first place. It never played a role as a necessity, and it's only recently that it's had a functional purpose, as a effective conductor in electronics which doesn't corrode.
People will hold on to gold and other shiny things through hard times in the hope that things will return to "normal" and the shiny stuff is restored to its place of value. Short of nuclear-induced war, gold will retain a nominal value that is disproportionate to its functional abilities.
It is like gambling but the house is usually on your side (most of the time).
Here's a lesson from someone who has worked inside the bank^H^H^H^H house: you wish. The house is there to make money irrespective of which way the market goes, and it's very profitable being the house.
I hesitate to say because it feels too goddamn obvious but higher efficiency leads to lower cost-per-kWh, so you really should care. What you (or the manufacturer) really should be looking for is the pay-off point - where the improved efficiency matches or beats the older tech in cost-per-kWh terms.
The other point to make however is that irrespective of cost, more efficient technology can mean wider applications - where previously it would be pointless to put a solar panel because of, say, space limitations, the more efficient ones can possibly find an application.
Don't blame the caste system, blame the education system - Indian education emphasizes rote learning, while American education has an element of creative thinking to it. The problem is that many equate the ability to perform in exams with the ability to perform at work in situations that are never out of the textbook.
This can equally occur in the US, where aptitude in maths and sciences is no guarantee of methodical problem solving. Cowboy coders are good in many ways because they work out how to solve problems from first principles, not following the textbook script.
I'm anti-subsidy for luxury car manufacturers. Starting at $49,900 -- bah! How about spending a fraction of this to rip out the engine of a Chevy Aveo and put in an electric motor? How about an electric car people can actually buy? Innovation not required!
Maybe if Americans changed their definition of "luxury" prices and paid more for their damn cars like the rest of us elsewhere the world, you wouldn't be in this mess. Far be it for one of us non-Americans to criticise the bastion of capitalism, but my guess is at some point GM & Chrysler lost sight of the goal of actually making some fucking money on their cars, and the desire to always pay bottom dollar to snatch it from the hands of a worker elsewhere in the country... maybe, just maybe, leads to the current result.
Germans buy German cars, Japanese buy Japanese cars, Koreans buy Korean cars. Americans buy whatever is cheapest. Result? China and Japan together own your treasury from money you handed over to them wilfully.
You are wrong. My friend's father built an electric porche for 12k in the early 90s.
Did he get the Porsche body for free, or was that in the $12k price there? Unless you're only quoting $12k on top of original costs, in which case you'll need to make a $13k car first and then convert it. Oh but don't forget that a Porsche's aerodynamics is likely to give it far better range than anything you'll get in the low teens.
Exclude trucks and look at the list again. A couple Fords, one Chevy, and no Chrysler. Though Ford would then manage one car in the top 5. But if it wasn't for trucks (heavily protected by import regulations and legislation), Ford would be tied with GM with both in worse shape than Chrysler.
Why exclude trucks? Is it because you're discussing a nominal "car" manufacturer? "Trucks" as in the F-Series are similar enough to cars that you've got to give full credit to Ford for making some money in that market segment. GM and Chrysler could both have tried to compete in that segment, and have the same regulation and legislation protection, but obviously they failed to do so and Ford ends up being the only one standing without assistance.
By your own admission, there's still "a couple [of] Fords" in that list. Get over whatever personal vendetta you have and admit that Ford's doing business far better than the other two.
Intelligent developers would have a two-mode support - if you've got it, use it, but if you don't, fall back to the old method. It worked for Sony with the original PSX/PS1 controllers and their Dual-shock replacements with analogue sticks + rumble - by the end of the PS1's life, most games had support for analogue sticks, with fall-back to the d-pad (less ideal) for those who still had the original controllers. Helped that the dual-shock was bundled with the console shortly after its introduction too, though.
Senator Conroy's statement is a departure from the internet filtering policy Labor took into the October 2007 election to make it mandatory for ISPs to block offensive and illegal content
Labour never announced this policy beforehand, or at least not in the form it came up as. The core announcement they made was that they would abolish the former conservative government's near-useless web filter software scheme and "investigate options" for parents to choose blocking at an ISP level. (Which several ISPs already provided as a viable commercial service for those who wanted it.) It was only afterwards, when a significant majority was won in the lower house and a sway-able majority in the Senate that they pushed a policy of compulsory industry-wide filtering.
My comment about Optus/Singtel related entirely to the fact that Singtel is the Singapore government owned telco and Singapore certainly has no scruples about censorship which means that Optus participation may have a different corporate goal.
I'm not in the telecoms industry, but let's just take a look at the relationship between Optus and the Singapore government, based on public information - Optus is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel; Singtel is to Singapore what Telstra is to Australia; the majority shareholder in Singtel is Temasek Holdings, the Singapore Government's domestic investment arm/sovereign wealth fund.
Are you seriously contending that the Singapore government would reach through these many layers and order Optus' executives to censor the web for Australians? Methinks the xenophobia is strong with this one.
Far more likely is that Optus cuts a deal with Conroy to give the trial an air of legitimacy in exchange for concessions elsewhere, particularly against Telstra (c.f. recent competition rulings making further competition concessions).
If they do that without telling the user that they're going to be part of an upload network, I would be pretty damn pissed off. Say I'm on a connection which counts uploads, such as mobile (cell) broadband - I might be willing to eat the download hit, but I don't want the company to chew up my uploads.
These are big commercial companies - we pay them a lot of money to get these uploads, I don't want them stealing my bandwidth too.
True, except that will change. DX10 is still relatively new, there are a few games that use it and even fewer that use it well.
"Relatively new"? Relatively new compared to what? It's now nearly 2 and a half years old - I think Dx9 was the only previous version to go more than 2 years before an update.
On top of that, DX11 is promised with Windows 7. You can't call it "relatively new" if it's about to be replaced.
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Ed: The widely used system mentioned but unlinked above is the Hepburn system. We regret not paying attention to the preview.
In languages using latin-based alphabets, the pronunciation of every letter can change completely from country to country, so there is no point in preferring a letter over another one in order to achieve an "international" transliteration.
If you want that, you'll have to either use IPA, or define a different transliteration scheme from Japanese to each language with a latin-based alphabet.
That quite ignores the fact that there's an official ISO standard, an addendum to the ISO standard endorsed by the Japanese government and taught in Japanese schools, and a widely used defacto standard system for transliteration used outside of Japan, and even inside.
All of which specify the transliteration of the word in dispute as 'kaizen'.
It's all the more ridiculous for being inconsistent with years of C-to-K swaps used throughout KDE.
Well that'd make him the son of fucking Santa. How could that not be made of Awesome?
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You mean all those 0.92% of sales that went to Linux? I can see Microsoft lining up its lawyers now...
I think you're discounting cultural training and history there. By your reasoning, gold should have never gotten to its place of prominence in the first place. It never played a role as a necessity, and it's only recently that it's had a functional purpose, as a effective conductor in electronics which doesn't corrode.
People will hold on to gold and other shiny things through hard times in the hope that things will return to "normal" and the shiny stuff is restored to its place of value. Short of nuclear-induced war, gold will retain a nominal value that is disproportionate to its functional abilities.
a post-apocalyptic world where people are just fighting to stay alive... cigarettes or clean food and water may be worth more.
If you're just fighting to stay alive... I'm thinking cigarettes aren't at the top of your shopping list.
Also a great way of recruiting for their already massive army...
Something tells me the People's Liberation Army doesn't exactly have to do recruitment drives.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army#Conscription_and_terms_of_service)
(Oh, and "Other" must be Firefox 3.5, which just came out.)
Or Safari 4, which similarly just came out.
It is like gambling but the house is usually on your side (most of the time).
Here's a lesson from someone who has worked inside the bank^H^H^H^H house: you wish. The house is there to make money irrespective of which way the market goes, and it's very profitable being the house.
I hesitate to say because it feels too goddamn obvious but higher efficiency leads to lower cost-per-kWh, so you really should care. What you (or the manufacturer) really should be looking for is the pay-off point - where the improved efficiency matches or beats the older tech in cost-per-kWh terms.
The other point to make however is that irrespective of cost, more efficient technology can mean wider applications - where previously it would be pointless to put a solar panel because of, say, space limitations, the more efficient ones can possibly find an application.
Don't blame the caste system, blame the education system - Indian education emphasizes rote learning, while American education has an element of creative thinking to it. The problem is that many equate the ability to perform in exams with the ability to perform at work in situations that are never out of the textbook.
This can equally occur in the US, where aptitude in maths and sciences is no guarantee of methodical problem solving. Cowboy coders are good in many ways because they work out how to solve problems from first principles, not following the textbook script.
I'm anti-subsidy for luxury car manufacturers. Starting at $49,900 -- bah! How about spending a fraction of this to rip out the engine of a Chevy Aveo and put in an electric motor? How about an electric car people can actually buy? Innovation not required!
Maybe if Americans changed their definition of "luxury" prices and paid more for their damn cars like the rest of us elsewhere the world, you wouldn't be in this mess. Far be it for one of us non-Americans to criticise the bastion of capitalism, but my guess is at some point GM & Chrysler lost sight of the goal of actually making some fucking money on their cars, and the desire to always pay bottom dollar to snatch it from the hands of a worker elsewhere in the country... maybe, just maybe, leads to the current result.
Germans buy German cars, Japanese buy Japanese cars, Koreans buy Korean cars. Americans buy whatever is cheapest. Result? China and Japan together own your treasury from money you handed over to them wilfully.
You are wrong. My friend's father built an electric porche for 12k in the early 90s.
Did he get the Porsche body for free, or was that in the $12k price there? Unless you're only quoting $12k on top of original costs, in which case you'll need to make a $13k car first and then convert it. Oh but don't forget that a Porsche's aerodynamics is likely to give it far better range than anything you'll get in the low teens.
Exclude trucks and look at the list again. A couple Fords, one Chevy, and no Chrysler. Though Ford would then manage one car in the top 5. But if it wasn't for trucks (heavily protected by import regulations and legislation), Ford would be tied with GM with both in worse shape than Chrysler.
Why exclude trucks? Is it because you're discussing a nominal "car" manufacturer? "Trucks" as in the F-Series are similar enough to cars that you've got to give full credit to Ford for making some money in that market segment. GM and Chrysler could both have tried to compete in that segment, and have the same regulation and legislation protection, but obviously they failed to do so and Ford ends up being the only one standing without assistance.
By your own admission, there's still "a couple [of] Fords" in that list. Get over whatever personal vendetta you have and admit that Ford's doing business far better than the other two.
Intelligent developers would have a two-mode support - if you've got it, use it, but if you don't, fall back to the old method. It worked for Sony with the original PSX/PS1 controllers and their Dual-shock replacements with analogue sticks + rumble - by the end of the PS1's life, most games had support for analogue sticks, with fall-back to the d-pad (less ideal) for those who still had the original controllers. Helped that the dual-shock was bundled with the console shortly after its introduction too, though.
Hang on a sec!
Labour never announced this policy beforehand, or at least not in the form it came up as. The core announcement they made was that they would abolish the former conservative government's near-useless web filter software scheme and "investigate options" for parents to choose blocking at an ISP level. (Which several ISPs already provided as a viable commercial service for those who wanted it.) It was only afterwards, when a significant majority was won in the lower house and a sway-able majority in the Senate that they pushed a policy of compulsory industry-wide filtering.
My comment about Optus/Singtel related entirely to the fact that Singtel is the Singapore government owned telco and Singapore certainly has no scruples about censorship which means that Optus participation may have a different corporate goal.
I'm not in the telecoms industry, but let's just take a look at the relationship between Optus and the Singapore government, based on public information - Optus is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel; Singtel is to Singapore what Telstra is to Australia; the majority shareholder in Singtel is Temasek Holdings, the Singapore Government's domestic investment arm/sovereign wealth fund.
Are you seriously contending that the Singapore government would reach through these many layers and order Optus' executives to censor the web for Australians? Methinks the xenophobia is strong with this one.
Far more likely is that Optus cuts a deal with Conroy to give the trial an air of legitimacy in exchange for concessions elsewhere, particularly against Telstra (c.f. recent competition rulings making further competition concessions).
If they do that without telling the user that they're going to be part of an upload network, I would be pretty damn pissed off. Say I'm on a connection which counts uploads, such as mobile (cell) broadband - I might be willing to eat the download hit, but I don't want the company to chew up my uploads.
These are big commercial companies - we pay them a lot of money to get these uploads, I don't want them stealing my bandwidth too.
Who verifies the signature? Who verifies the verifiers? What stops a signature from being faked?
if you're going to be paranoid about these things, you might as well be all-the-way paranoid.
Average Joe should be still be safer so long as he's not pirating.
I don't think someone who has downloaded a pirated version is going to be particularly looking out for a signature...
well not quite - wouldn't IBM-clone entail ye olde BIOS, not EFI?
the reference is to hardware, not software.
... and no-one said Macs were trojan-proof, nor even virus-proof - just that there's a lot less attack vectors than Windows, and a lot less attackers.
Any system is going to be vulnerable to maliciously crafted & targeted code that is willingly (if unwittingly) run by the user.
True, except that will change. DX10 is still relatively new, there are a few games that use it and even fewer that use it well.
"Relatively new"? Relatively new compared to what? It's now nearly 2 and a half years old - I think Dx9 was the only previous version to go more than 2 years before an update.
On top of that, DX11 is promised with Windows 7. You can't call it "relatively new" if it's about to be replaced.