You're most likely describing Korean input, as Hangul characters are assembled from a limited set of components.
Japanese input is nothing like that, unless you like pain and choose to enter Kanji via the "bushu" method (which nobody does unless they're looking for a Kanji that they don't know how to read).
Once you gain a good level of proficiency, take the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). If you pass the highest level, then you have just as much skills in Japanese as a native Japanese speaker, according to the test.
I don't know where you heard this, but it's bollocks. Foreign students entering Japanese universities privately (as opposed to on a government scholarship) need to take the Level 1 JLPT, but passing it doesn't guarantee anything like native proficiency.
I took the JLPT in my third year of university and passed it with a score in the low 90s, but no way would I have considered myself anywhere near "native" ability at the time.
I think the part that'll strike most people here is this:
"I wondered what's to prevent some nut using a garage door opener from pushing the right buttons to make your airplane fall apart," said Harrison. "But everything is locked down with codes, and the radio signals are scrambled, so this is fully secured against hackers."
Uh... I don't think so. If past examples are anything to go by, almost certainly he's using some bush-league obfuscation of the signal that could be cracked fairly easily by someone with the applicable knowledge.
I mean, those electronic keys used by BMW, Mercedes and the other big carmakers aren't any too secure, but this guy somehow managed to get it right first time? Uh-huh.
Summary of article: "I bought into a proprietary format which is (a) crap and (b) dying out, somebody please wave a magic wand and make things different."
I'm so very sorry you weren't able to see the mp3 player locomotive steaming straight at you. Tough luck, try again with another Sony product that will disappear in a few years (movies on UMD, anyone? No?)
No, it wouldn't. You're telling me someone who can pick up spaceships and throw around multi-tonne debris can't crush someone's head in a fraction of a second?
That's the problem with introducing telekinesis into a story - you have to ignore all the deadlier uses of it to avoid making the possesor of the power invincible.
For examples of such uses of telekinesis: blender blade inside a person's head, hole driven through their heart, needles in their eyes, twisting their head off, crushing their skull, collapsing their lungs...
However, nobody with telekinesis ever seems to think of these methods. Kind of messes with my suspension of disbelief.
There appears to be exactly one other person in the world with the same name as me (he's a golfer from Hawaii), which means that I have the dubious privelege of appearing in every single one of the first twenty links found by Google for my name.
Similar thing here - trying to cut&paste in a long Word document, Word would always crash at a certain location. Saved it, opened it in OOo, saved it again, and could now do the cut&paste without problems in Word.
Drivers for the NVidia integrated SATA-RAID controller on my mobo got me. I had to dig in my spare parts box for a floppy drive - luckily I had one still working (and the colour even matched my case;)
The Island: Got it off PirateBay, crap. Stealth: Got it off PirateBay, awful crap. Transporter 2: Got it off PirateBay, utter crap. Star Wars III: Available off PirateBay, but bought it because I wanted to. Diablo II: Got it off PirateBay, enjoyed it so much I went out and bought a 5-year-old game.
Moral? Provide good content, more people will fork over their cash for it.
That's mainly the apartment owners being cheap bastards - the initial costs are lower if they limit the power usage per apartment.
My old apartment had the same problem; the main breaker would trip if we ran an A/C, microwave and [third item like washing machine, vaccuum cleaner, etc.] at the same time.
When I moved into my new house I made damn sure the builders put in the largest breaker possible without raising my base electricity bill (that's 60amps).
I agree, it's kind of silly, but it can be interesting to see what everybody else out there has. Certainly most (all?) of us don't need those old machines, but they're a hobby. It's like guys down at the country club comparing the contents of their golf bags, except most of us use our machines for some semi-practical (if not entirely sane) purpose.
Now we've got the justifications over, here's my Big Dick list;) Just the interesting stuff, of course...
1 x Compaq ML350, PIII@1.13GHz x 2, 768MB RAM, Ultra160 SCSI 36GB x 5 in RAID-5, Fedora Core 5 x Compaq DL360, PIII@1GHz x 2, 640MB RAM, Ultra160 SCSI 18GB x 2 in RAID-1, OpenBSD 1 x Sun Ultra2, UltraSPARCII@400MHz x 2, 640MB RAM, Solaris (with an ATM155-MMF card that used to talk to one of the Compaqs) 1 x Sun Ultra80, UltraSPARCII@450MHz x 4, 4096MB RAM, Solaris 1 x Fujitsu Primepower200, SPARC64GP@400MHz x 2, 2048MB RAM, Ultra160 SCSI 18GB x 18 in RAID-5, Solaris (can't run this one too much, as it sucks about 2KW) 1 x Digital AlphaServer200 4/233, 21064A@233MHz, 64MB RAM, RedHat Linux (haven't touched this one in a while...) 1 x Digital PW-600au, 21164A@600MHz, 256MB RAM, Vine Linux 1 x Digital AlphaPC64, 21064A@275MHz, 192MB RAM, Vine Linux (built from surplus motherboard) 1 x Apple Quadra 700, 68040@25MHz, 24MB RAM, NetBSD 1 x Apple PowerMacintosh 700, PPC601@80MHz, 96MB RAM, MacOS + MkLinux 1 x Apple PowerBook520c, PPC603@132MHz? (upgraded with a PPC CPU board), 32MB RAM, MacOS (since nothing else will run on this)
Oh, those people you dropped nuclear weapons on? They're real grateful.
South Koreans, South Vietnamese
Those far-off places where the US fought their arms-length wars against Communism, which resulted in those countries being split in half? Yeah, they're real grateful too.
Philipinos
Filipinos (at least spell it right)? Yeah, they're the ones who were the US's only foreign colony (note: no democracy) - the US bought the country of the Spanish, and then fought a war against the Philippines to suppress the independence movement. Yet more grateful people there.
You might not be a Euro-centric racist, but you sure as hell are a dumbass regarding the history of your own country.
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You're most likely describing Korean input, as Hangul characters are assembled from a limited set of components.
Japanese input is nothing like that, unless you like pain and choose to enter Kanji via the "bushu" method (which nobody does unless they're looking for a Kanji that they don't know how to read).
Once you gain a good level of proficiency, take the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). If you pass the highest level, then you have just as much skills in Japanese as a native Japanese speaker, according to the test.
I don't know where you heard this, but it's bollocks. Foreign students entering Japanese universities privately (as opposed to on a government scholarship) need to take the Level 1 JLPT, but passing it doesn't guarantee anything like native proficiency.
I took the JLPT in my third year of university and passed it with a score in the low 90s, but no way would I have considered myself anywhere near "native" ability at the time.
the first desktop virtualization product to support Intel VT/Vanderpool CPU "partitioning"
Not true - Xen 3.0 has supported this for a couple of months now.
London's traffic is nothing compared to Manhattan's
I've driven in both (and also Tokyo), and London seemed considerably worse than NY.
Did you perhaps notice that they were able to catch these "extremists" WITHOUT the draconian legislative changes they're trying to introduce?
Maybe that means they've already got all the tools they need - in which case, why do they need this?
I think the part that'll strike most people here is this:
"I wondered what's to prevent some nut using a garage door opener from pushing the right buttons to make your airplane fall apart," said Harrison. "But everything is locked down with codes, and the radio signals are scrambled, so this is fully secured against hackers."
Uh... I don't think so. If past examples are anything to go by, almost certainly he's using some bush-league obfuscation of the signal that could be cracked fairly easily by someone with the applicable knowledge.
I mean, those electronic keys used by BMW, Mercedes and the other big carmakers aren't any too secure, but this guy somehow managed to get it right first time? Uh-huh.
Summary of article: "I bought into a proprietary format which is (a) crap and (b) dying out, somebody please wave a magic wand and make things different."
I'm so very sorry you weren't able to see the mp3 player locomotive steaming straight at you. Tough luck, try again with another Sony product that will disappear in a few years (movies on UMD, anyone? No?)
No, it wouldn't. You're telling me someone who can pick up spaceships and throw around multi-tonne debris can't crush someone's head in a fraction of a second?
Now explain how two lightsabers hitting each other act like solid broomsticks...
That's the problem with introducing telekinesis into a story - you have to ignore all the deadlier uses of it to avoid making the possesor of the power invincible.
For examples of such uses of telekinesis: blender blade inside a person's head, hole driven through their heart, needles in their eyes, twisting their head off, crushing their skull, collapsing their lungs...
However, nobody with telekinesis ever seems to think of these methods. Kind of messes with my suspension of disbelief.
Too true.
That mail exchange (especially the last part) made me wish deeply and fervently that the Tuttle webservers has been running on OpenBSD.
I imagine Theo's response would have been considerably less civil...
You really have something that weighs about 1.5 tons, is three or four full racks in size, and sucks down about 10KW of power just sitting around?
because most people in the world have tried it before
Uh-huh. Let me guess which country you live in... is it the one running the "War on Drugs"?
Strangely enough, in a lot of countries most people have never tried any illegal drugs.
There appears to be exactly one other person in the world with the same name as me (he's a golfer from Hawaii), which means that I have the dubious privelege of appearing in every single one of the first twenty links found by Google for my name.
And he's probably saying something like "Who is this idiot who keeps on making me look bad?!"
Sarcasm?
Similar thing here - trying to cut&paste in a long Word document, Word would always crash at a certain location. Saved it, opened it in OOo, saved it again, and could now do the cut&paste without problems in Word.
Drivers for the NVidia integrated SATA-RAID controller on my mobo got me. ;)
I had to dig in my spare parts box for a floppy drive - luckily I had one still working (and the colour even matched my case
The Island: Got it off PirateBay, crap.
Stealth: Got it off PirateBay, awful crap.
Transporter 2: Got it off PirateBay, utter crap.
Star Wars III: Available off PirateBay, but bought it because I wanted to.
Diablo II: Got it off PirateBay, enjoyed it so much I went out and bought a 5-year-old game.
Moral? Provide good content, more people will fork over their cash for it.
That's mainly the apartment owners being cheap bastards - the initial costs are lower if they limit the power usage per apartment.
My old apartment had the same problem; the main breaker would trip if we ran an A/C, microwave and [third item like washing machine, vaccuum cleaner, etc.] at the same time.
When I moved into my new house I made damn sure the builders put in the largest breaker possible without raising my base electricity bill (that's 60amps).
Dammit, knew I'd get one wrong - that's a PowerMac 7100, not 700.
I agree, it's kind of silly, but it can be interesting to see what everybody else out there has.
;)
Certainly most (all?) of us don't need those old machines, but they're a hobby.
It's like guys down at the country club comparing the contents of their golf bags, except most of us use our machines for some semi-practical (if not entirely sane) purpose.
Now we've got the justifications over, here's my Big Dick list
Just the interesting stuff, of course...
1 x Compaq ML350, PIII@1.13GHz x 2, 768MB RAM, Ultra160 SCSI 36GB x 5 in RAID-5, Fedora Core
5 x Compaq DL360, PIII@1GHz x 2, 640MB RAM, Ultra160 SCSI 18GB x 2 in RAID-1, OpenBSD
1 x Sun Ultra2, UltraSPARCII@400MHz x 2, 640MB RAM, Solaris (with an ATM155-MMF card that used to talk to one of the Compaqs)
1 x Sun Ultra80, UltraSPARCII@450MHz x 4, 4096MB RAM, Solaris
1 x Fujitsu Primepower200, SPARC64GP@400MHz x 2, 2048MB RAM, Ultra160 SCSI 18GB x 18 in RAID-5, Solaris (can't run this one too much, as it sucks about 2KW)
1 x Digital AlphaServer200 4/233, 21064A@233MHz, 64MB RAM, RedHat Linux (haven't touched this one in a while...)
1 x Digital PW-600au, 21164A@600MHz, 256MB RAM, Vine Linux
1 x Digital AlphaPC64, 21064A@275MHz, 192MB RAM, Vine Linux (built from surplus motherboard)
1 x Apple Quadra 700, 68040@25MHz, 24MB RAM, NetBSD
1 x Apple PowerMacintosh 700, PPC601@80MHz, 96MB RAM, MacOS + MkLinux
1 x Apple PowerBook520c, PPC603@132MHz? (upgraded with a PPC CPU board), 32MB RAM, MacOS (since nothing else will run on this)
1. No I wouldn't, because he said nothing to indicate that.
Which puts him one step ahead of you, because what you've said certainly indicates you're a dickhead.
the Japanese
Oh, those people you dropped nuclear weapons on? They're real grateful.
South Koreans, South Vietnamese
Those far-off places where the US fought their arms-length wars against Communism, which resulted in those countries being split in half? Yeah, they're real grateful too.
Philipinos
Filipinos (at least spell it right)? Yeah, they're the ones who were the US's only foreign colony (note: no democracy) - the US bought the country of the Spanish, and then fought a war against the Philippines to suppress the independence movement. Yet more grateful people there.
You might not be a Euro-centric racist, but you sure as hell are a dumbass regarding the history of your own country.