Are you saying that the current Chinese regime and the Nazi regime are equivalently evil? If you are then my answer to you is that not only IBM but the whole of the U.S.A had something to have been ashamed of during that period.
You've got bigger balls than me if you can say that to the only Congressman who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor...
You might notice that the person who made the Nazi comparison was actually a Holocaust survivor, which probably gives him a bit more insight into these things than you...
The majority of suicides in Japan are older men, peaking at 71.1 people per 100,000 for men in the 55-59 age range. This is not particularly surprising, considering the pressures on men of that age (higher chance of being made unemployed, older parents to look after, higher rate of divorce, lower chance of promotion, etc.).
Young girls don't even come close; the 15-19 year old female suicide rate is 5.6 per 100,000.
What's even more interesting - I wanted to see what the Tiananmen Square search would return when entered in Chinese, but I find that (from Japan), not only does any attempt to connect to google.cn get redirected to google.com, but google.cn doesn't even show up in Google's list of localised sites.
Don't know about the Italian wine and antifreeze, but a while back there was a problem with methyl alcohol (not ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol) being added to certain Eatern European wines. Quite a few people suffered blindness and other effects, I believe.
The "standard" set of Japanese Kanji, as taught in schools, is around 1200 (depending on which version of the various standards you're using). This is usually referred to as the Toyo Kanji or the more modern Joyo Kanji ("Everyday Chinese characters"). Everybody knows these inside-out (with the possible exception of those educated around wartime, who may have had limited access to schooling).
To be a functional adult in some kind of specialised field takes a bit more than that - 2000 kanji being about a minimum, and if you're into things like period literature or heavily technical material, that can easily be far more.
In terms of computing-related standards, the JIS level 1 and level 2 standards cover nearly 7,000 kanji, while the level 3 and 4 standards (which are admittedly rarely implemented) provide for another 4000+.
500 kanji is about end-of-primary-school level.
In any case, the reason GitS was hard to follow was not because of the kanji used - the vocabulary was fairly technical, making it difficult for those without the applicable education to follow. The kanji used were nothing particularly unusual.
They have. As an example, in Japanese it's now quite common to break down the (Cbinese) characters of a sensitive term into its component parts where possible and write them with separate characters, or write it with characters that can be read the same way but which have a different literal meaning.
This is a common fallacy, and has been addressed by people like Schneier - the amount of computing power required to break most modern symmetric encryption algorithms with a key length of 256 bits or greater by brute force alone far exceeds the total amount of computing power available on Earth by many, many orders of magnitude.
Yes. The BBC Micro was never really marketed in the US, and the Sinclair 8-bit computers were sold under the Timex-Sinclair label, but failed miserably in the market (unlike the UK where they were seen as the "working man's computer" because they were so cheap, in the States I think they were seen more as useless toys - unlike the more useful computers that were coming out at the time, in particluar the Trash-80).
It states that (a) the amount of information the CDC wants airlines to keep exceeds what they currently track and (b) that the data would be retained for 1 year.
Anybody who criticizes Goto Kazushige's Free Software credentials - he created a Linux/Alpha distribution called Stataboware, which among other things included an early version of his hand-tuned math library back in 1999 (it's now defunct, unfortunately).
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Are you saying that the current Chinese regime and the Nazi regime are equivalently evil? If you are then my answer to you is that not only IBM but the whole of the U.S.A had something to have been ashamed of during that period.
You've got bigger balls than me if you can say that to the only Congressman who also happens to be a Holocaust survivor...
You might notice that the person who made the Nazi comparison was actually a Holocaust survivor, which probably gives him a bit more insight into these things than you...
See Enron for an example of a corp that changed alignment to LE...
The USA is real good at solving these problems.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA....*wheeze*... good one.
Er, hang on, were you serious? In that case:
s/solving/causing/
To be fair, he did say "phonics" in the title, not IPA...
Something like "Weed laik too preezent the aword foa jenettikally enjeneeyad myuutant weet to..."
You just pulled that out of your ass, didn't you?
The majority of suicides in Japan are older men, peaking at 71.1 people per 100,000 for men in the 55-59 age range. This is not particularly surprising, considering the pressures on men of that age (higher chance of being made unemployed, older parents to look after, higher rate of divorce, lower chance of promotion, etc.).
Young girls don't even come close; the 15-19 year old female suicide rate is 5.6 per 100,000.
Further statistics available here.
The VCs will be so shocked to meet somebody with a vestige of ethics that you'll be able to rob them blind before they recover.
Seriously, writing a business plan for VCs is the least of your problems (the largest of your problems being the VCs themselves).
Well gee, thanks for an unbiased opinion.
Now how about we ask all those consumers that you presume to speak for whether they consider the carrier to be as important as the content?
If only there were a way to search the Internet and find a particular page, perhaps by keyword...
You never know, you might find the answer to your question!
What's even more interesting - I wanted to see what the Tiananmen Square search would return when entered in Chinese, but I find that (from Japan), not only does any attempt to connect to google.cn get redirected to google.com, but google.cn doesn't even show up in Google's list of localised sites.
Uh... of course, that should be "Eastern", not "Eatern" :(
No joke - the restaurant is Moto, in Chicago. See here for details.
Don't know about the Italian wine and antifreeze, but a while back there was a problem with methyl alcohol (not ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol) being added to certain Eatern European wines. Quite a few people suffered blindness and other effects, I believe.
Uh... nice blatant ad-hominem attack there, guy. How about replying to his arguments instead?
Easy mistake to make, I guess...
Er... bullshit on the kanji talk.
The "standard" set of Japanese Kanji, as taught in schools, is around 1200 (depending on which version of the various standards you're using). This is usually referred to as the Toyo Kanji or the more modern Joyo Kanji ("Everyday Chinese characters"). Everybody knows these inside-out (with the possible exception of those educated around wartime, who may have had limited access to schooling).
To be a functional adult in some kind of specialised field takes a bit more than that - 2000 kanji being about a minimum, and if you're into things like period literature or heavily technical material, that can easily be far more.
In terms of computing-related standards, the JIS level 1 and level 2 standards cover nearly 7,000 kanji, while the level 3 and 4 standards (which are admittedly rarely implemented) provide for another 4000+.
500 kanji is about end-of-primary-school level.
In any case, the reason GitS was hard to follow was not because of the kanji used - the vocabulary was fairly technical, making it difficult for those without the applicable education to follow. The kanji used were nothing particularly unusual.
I've seen better delivery from a UPS guy.
They have. As an example, in Japanese it's now quite common to break down the (Cbinese) characters of a sensitive term into its component parts where possible and write them with separate characters, or write it with characters that can be read the same way but which have a different literal meaning.
Copy and paste the link; it should work fine.
This is a common fallacy, and has been addressed by people like Schneier - the amount of computing power required to break most modern symmetric encryption algorithms with a key length of 256 bits or greater by brute force alone far exceeds the total amount of computing power available on Earth by many, many orders of magnitude.
Perhaps you should go and look up the definition of "free speech" again.
Yes. The BBC Micro was never really marketed in the US, and the Sinclair 8-bit computers were sold under the Timex-Sinclair label, but failed miserably in the market (unlike the UK where they were seen as the "working man's computer" because they were so cheap, in the States I think they were seen more as useless toys - unlike the more useful computers that were coming out at the time, in particluar the Trash-80).
On sale in Akihabara as of last week.
Did you read the article?
It states that (a) the amount of information the CDC wants airlines to keep exceeds what they currently track and (b) that the data would be retained for 1 year.
Anybody who criticizes Goto Kazushige's Free Software credentials - he created a Linux/Alpha distribution called Stataboware, which among other things included an early version of his hand-tuned math library back in 1999 (it's now defunct, unfortunately).