...but users are forced to sign a seven month contract.
HGC: "So, user, you MUST sign this contract that will FORCE you to endure seven WHOLE MONTHS of low-cosy, high-speed broadband access that will allow you to download lots of illegal stuff!!"
User: "NO! NO!!! Please, God, don't force me to... hang on...YES! YES!!"
So, um... where's the problem here? I sure don't see one...
Oh, by the way, it looks like you've been bitchslapped - and after only twelve comments! A real achievement! I guess the/. editors do their jobs once in a while after all.
Guess what - when you grow up, you'll find that telling people to "go fuck themselves" when you're wrong will quickly lose you your friends and your job.
Ah, who am I kidding - you're never going to get out of your parents' basement anyway, so what difference does it make? You'll never have any friends, and the only job you could hold down is as a jumbo-size paperweight.
I used to read a lot of manga (as in four or five weekly magazines, plus buying half a dozen collated books a week, plus going to the local convenience store to check out the weekly magazines I missed), but I've stopped doing that these days. Mostly, I read computer magazines and historical novels.
Thanks, you just completed the traditional full set of replies - one saying they wished they had mod points, one commenting on the sig, and one saying the post was dumb;)
A kanji notebook is good, but I found regular refresher courses with kanji cards to be a big help when I was learning. Another way to use the cards is by spreading them out and seeing how many combinations you can make to form actual words.
Translated it myself, in about ten minutes. The way I learned Japanese is, um, by spending fifteen years doing it... sorry, no easy way (that I've found, anyway;-).
An as-yet unnamed dinosaur (Tyrannosaurus, of course - is there any other kind?) will begin roaming (rampaging) through a designated area ("Bloodbath Town") of either California Adventure or Disneyland this spring, said Marty Sklar, vice chairman of Imagineering. This will be the first test of untethered (unfettered) Audio-Animatronics and the next phase in Imagineering's quest to increase interaction (exterminate) with visitors.
Disney created Audio-Animatronic figures and has used them in attractions since 1963, beginning with birds in the Enchanted Tiki Room (and they all look like what they really are - stupid moving dolls). But this will be the first one that's not fixed to a spot (cause the engineers got sick of doing that boring shit). An unseen operator (HAHAHA!! You will NEVER catch ME!!!) will guide the dinosaur's movements, allowing it to respond (chase) to guests (and eat them).
"That's the magic," Sklar said. "When people see, hear and touch (and get fragged by) this character, it will be a real groundbreaking experience (not to mention a real blast for the guys who get to run it and stomp on all those drooling rugrats who infest the park)."
The character doesn't talk (hey, six-inch teeth - who needs to talk? Just smile!), but can respond with movements ("slam jaws together over lawyer's head"... oops, wrong movie). Some of its potential antics are eating popcorn (sorry, I meant "people"), "stealing" a guest's hat (and the head under it) and sneezing (gotta get the blood of its snout somehow, right?).
Imagineers have long dreamed about walking Animatronics, but it took technology a while to catch up with their creative minds (yeah, getting them to walk and chew at the same time is a bitch).
It looks just like a soccerball? Display of spherical PC sample has begun. Sculpting technology used to form aluminium into sphere; utilizes Mini-ITX motherboard
It seems that a shocking new type of PC is about to be released, the first for a while. This time, it's a spherical PC, named the "Sphere PC (ZxL Artemis series)".
Leading up to its release, it is on display at PC-Shop Wakamatsu (Translator's note: A shop in Akihabara that often deals in slightly unusual items) from the 20th to the 22nd.
- Formed using sculpting technology The "Sphere PC" is a product developed jointly by Rupo, a company selling PC cases and parts, and Jion, a company specializing in planning, designing and creating peripherals. The shop is displaying two types, a green model and a silver model. The silver model, in particular, bears a striking resemblance to the mysterious sphere in the movie "Sphere". If you didn't know what it is, you'd almost certainly never guess that it's a PC.
By the way, Jion is a company formed by several members of Technobird's development staff, responsible for the TB-2000 early aluminium case. They have been in charge of development and design of Lupo's other custom cases.
The sphere is made entirely of aluminium. As it is an unusual shape, it was handmade by craftsmen using "spatula squeezing" (Translator's note: Really!), a traditional Japanese method of crafting metal. The unusual shape stands out, but on top of that, the textured surface resulting from it being handmade is also unique.
- It splits into an upper and lower half
Its main specifications are: an EPIA Mini-ITX mother board made by VIA, a 40GB hard drive, and an external 200W power supply. However, these made be subject to change. It also includes a slim optical drive. Pressing a button on the side of the case causes the upper half to rise, allowing access to the drive tray.
The case contains the motherboard and hard drive in the lower half, with the optical drive located in the middle. The upper half is empty.
The price is yet to be decided, but the shop says that, as a barebone kit, it is likely to be priced at around 50,000 yen (Translator: ~$US400). It is scheduled to be shipped in January 2003.
- Gullwing PC also in development
Rupo is planning on releaseing a range of other unique products after this. An announced item is a gullwing PC containing a 400W power supply, also planned to be released in january 2003.
Just so you know, the term 'okama' refers to a flamboyantly transvestite male. I'm guessing that the South Park writers intended the name to mean something like "the Gay Gamesphere".
The word is written the same way in both Japanese and Chinese (Let's see if/. can handle it: ), but it originated in China.
The pronunciation feng-shui is itself Chinese. The Japanese pronunciation is 'fuusui'. It's been used in China for many hundreds, even thousands, of years, not only architecture, but also for city planning, room layout and decoration, landscaping, and many other situations.
I definitely don't agree with Nissan Motors' actions, but in the interests of accuracy, Datsun was the name used by a company (Kaishinsha Motors) which then was transferred to another company (Japan Motors) which changed its name to Nissan in 1934. Datsun was thereafter used as a brand name for Nissan-made cars.
"Tachikoma" doesn't mean anything; however, it appears that for the TV series, the Japanese name for the AIs was changed to tachikoma from fuchikoma, which is probably why the fansubs are using it;)
Fuchikoma is certainly not a common word (although it is a very old one); it measn something like 'dappled horse', as in a horse with a spotted or patchy coat.
Yeah, we all know you USians aren't interested in anything that happens west of California, east of New York, north of the Great Lakes and south of Texas, but guess what - there's 250 million of you, and 6 billion of us.
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Llyama?!? Is that a relative of the camyll?
I think you mean Iiyama...
...but users are forced to sign a seven month contract.
HGC: "So, user, you MUST sign this contract that will FORCE you to endure seven WHOLE MONTHS of low-cosy, high-speed broadband access that will allow you to download lots of illegal stuff!!"
User: "NO! NO!!! Please, God, don't force me to... hang on...YES! YES!!"
So, um... where's the problem here? I sure don't see one...
Oh, by the way, it looks like you've been bitchslapped - and after only twelve comments! A real achievement! I guess the /. editors do their jobs once in a while after all.
Have a nice day, chump.
Guess what - when you grow up, you'll find that telling people to "go fuck themselves" when you're wrong will quickly lose you your friends and your job.
Ah, who am I kidding - you're never going to get out of your parents' basement anyway, so what difference does it make? You'll never have any friends, and the only job you could hold down is as a jumbo-size paperweight.
Boards with two AGP slots are rumored to be coming - it is actually possible, it's just that no-one's implemented it yet.
The licensing terms on MP3 prevent redistribution under the GPL. So, no MP3. It's not a matter of money.
You most certainly don't have Nvidia source - what you have is source wrappers around a binary module.
How about you check your "facts" first?
I used to read a lot of manga (as in four or five weekly magazines, plus buying half a dozen collated books a week, plus going to the local convenience store to check out the weekly magazines I missed), but I've stopped doing that these days. Mostly, I read computer magazines and historical novels.
Thanks, you just completed the traditional full set of replies - one saying they wished they had mod points, one commenting on the sig, and one saying the post was dumb ;)
Do I get a prize?
A kanji notebook is good, but I found regular refresher courses with kanji cards to be a big help when I was learning. Another way to use the cards is by spreading them out and seeing how many combinations you can make to form actual words.
Translated it myself, in about ten minutes. The way I learned Japanese is, um, by spending fifteen years doing it... sorry, no easy way (that I've found, anyway ;-).
An as-yet unnamed dinosaur (Tyrannosaurus, of course - is there any other kind?) will begin roaming (rampaging) through a designated area ("Bloodbath Town") of either California Adventure or Disneyland this spring, said Marty Sklar, vice chairman of Imagineering. This will be the first test of untethered (unfettered) Audio-Animatronics and the next phase in Imagineering's quest to increase interaction (exterminate) with visitors.
Disney created Audio-Animatronic figures and has used them in attractions since 1963, beginning with birds in the Enchanted Tiki Room (and they all look like what they really are - stupid moving dolls). But this will be the first one that's not fixed to a spot (cause the engineers got sick of doing that boring shit). An unseen operator (HAHAHA!! You will NEVER catch ME!!!) will guide the dinosaur's movements, allowing it to respond (chase) to guests (and eat them).
"That's the magic," Sklar said. "When people see, hear and touch (and get fragged by) this character, it will be a real groundbreaking experience (not to mention a real blast for the guys who get to run it and stomp on all those drooling rugrats who infest the park)."
The character doesn't talk (hey, six-inch teeth - who needs to talk? Just smile!), but can respond with movements ("slam jaws together over lawyer's head"... oops, wrong movie). Some of its potential antics are eating popcorn (sorry, I meant "people"), "stealing" a guest's hat (and the head under it) and sneezing (gotta get the blood of its snout somehow, right?).
Imagineers have long dreamed about walking Animatronics, but it took technology a while to catch up with their creative minds (yeah, getting them to walk and chew at the same time is a bitch).
Quick translation of the link...
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It looks just like a soccerball? Display of spherical PC sample has begun.
Sculpting technology used to form aluminium into sphere; utilizes Mini-ITX motherboard
It seems that a shocking new type of PC is about to be released, the first for a while. This time, it's a spherical PC, named the "Sphere PC (ZxL Artemis series)".
Leading up to its release, it is on display at PC-Shop Wakamatsu (Translator's note: A shop in Akihabara that often deals in slightly unusual items) from the 20th to the 22nd.
- Formed using sculpting technology
The "Sphere PC" is a product developed jointly by Rupo, a company selling PC cases and parts, and Jion, a company specializing in planning, designing and creating peripherals. The shop is displaying two types, a green model and a silver model. The silver model, in particular, bears a striking resemblance to the mysterious sphere in the movie "Sphere". If you didn't know what it is, you'd almost certainly never guess that it's a PC.
By the way, Jion is a company formed by several members of Technobird's development staff, responsible for the TB-2000 early aluminium case. They have been in charge of development and design of Lupo's other custom cases.
The sphere is made entirely of aluminium. As it is an unusual shape, it was handmade by craftsmen using "spatula squeezing" (Translator's note: Really!), a traditional Japanese method of crafting metal. The unusual shape stands out, but on top of that, the textured surface resulting from it being handmade is also unique.
- It splits into an upper and lower half
Its main specifications are: an EPIA Mini-ITX mother board made by VIA, a 40GB hard drive, and an external 200W power supply. However, these made be subject to change. It also includes a slim optical drive. Pressing a button on the side of the case causes the upper half to rise, allowing access to the drive tray.
The case contains the motherboard and hard drive in the lower half, with the optical drive located in the middle. The upper half is empty.
The price is yet to be decided, but the shop says that, as a barebone kit, it is likely to be priced at around 50,000 yen (Translator: ~$US400). It is scheduled to be shipped in January 2003.
- Gullwing PC also in development
Rupo is planning on releaseing a range of other unique products after this. An announced item is a gullwing PC containing a 400W power supply, also planned to be released in january 2003.
Just so you know, the term 'okama' refers to a flamboyantly transvestite male. I'm guessing that the South Park writers intended the name to mean something like "the Gay Gamesphere".
An illegible candidate? What, he has bad handwriting or something?
Sorry, but you're full of shit.
/. can handle it: ), but it originated in China.
The word is written the same way in both Japanese and Chinese (Let's see if
The pronunciation feng-shui is itself Chinese. The Japanese pronunciation is 'fuusui'. It's been used in China for many hundreds, even thousands, of years, not only architecture, but also for city planning, room layout and decoration, landscaping, and many other situations.
Well, I'm in Japan, so the Libretto and the Fujitsu notebook are roughly on a par in price... ;)
Don't bother with the Lifebook (or its counterparts, the Loox series) - the keyboard is *crap*. Not enough plunge, terribly plasticy...
The newer Librettos are probably more what you're looking for (and slightly more Linux-friendly than the Sony sub-notebooks).
Apple switched to CUPS in Jaguar - earlier releases don't contain it.
I definitely don't agree with Nissan Motors' actions, but in the interests of accuracy, Datsun was the name used by a company (Kaishinsha Motors) which then was transferred to another company (Japan Motors) which changed its name to Nissan in 1934. Datsun was thereafter used as a brand name for Nissan-made cars.
So, you're saying that just the fact that one company is larger than another immediately gives the larger one first rights to the best domain names.
Hmmm...
The use of tachikoma appears to be correct - the TV series uses it in Japanese instead of fuchikoma (for what reason, I don't know).
"Tachikoma" doesn't mean anything; however, it appears that for the TV series, the Japanese name for the AIs was changed to tachikoma from fuchikoma, which is probably why the fansubs are using it ;)
Fuchikoma is certainly not a common word (although it is a very old one); it measn something like 'dappled horse', as in a horse with a spotted or patchy coat.
Mozilla full screen mode should work for this.
You lose, asshole. Guess where I am? JAPAN, moron.
Yeah, we all know you USians aren't interested in anything that happens west of California, east of New York, north of the Great Lakes and south of Texas, but guess what - there's 250 million of you, and 6 billion of us.