Except this is not really true. While each Chinese character was originally an idea or concept, this is not how they are generally used today, as the combination is more than just the original ideas mushed together. But it's what we tell school children to make a complex idea look simpler so that they stop asking annoying questions. In Japanese the original meaning of the Chinese character is quite often far removed from how it is actually used, because historically the characters were chosen partly for their sound as much as for the idea whereas over time the sound and meanings evolved. Much like how we can speak in English despite not knowing the original Greek or Latin root words.
And besides, Chinese characters are used to create words and communicate concepts whereas emojis are used as humorous inserts. It's a mini-game to look up and choose what emoji might work in a given situation, and a mini-game to try and decode what the sender actually intended. They have not risen to the level of language. Anyone who seems to be taking them seriously is probably just a lot more subtle about the humor than most.
But those thousands of hanzi are being used by people speaking a real language, past or present. Emojis are a different category from languages. They're not even the same category as symbols used for mathematics, economics, or other soft and hard sciences. Emojis started life as jokes, a humorous extension of the smiley face, and after some time to fully mature emojis are still jokes. Nobody really communicates with emojis, they exist only to make the readers laugh or wince or face palm themselves so hard that they are knocked out.
The solution is to get rid of emoji from unicode, put emoji into their own standard, then wait and see if that standard survives for longer than a few years before people grow tired of this fad. They're already sort of outdated, as people are using animated emojis now and the static pictures are old school and no longer cool. Meanwhile a hanzi character from a thousand years ago is still useful.
Those are symbols necessary to record a language in writing. Unicode was created to try (awkwardly) to standardize all the various written characters used in natural and artificial language, phonetic and sound markers needed to properly transcribe a language, and alternative transcriptions as necessary (braille).
An emoji is none of that. Symbols used to represent sign language would be appropriate and there may be some minimalist overlap with emojis. Emojis are not language. They may be part of communication for some people, but then so are words and yet we use dictionaries to keep track of words rather than Unicode. Emojis should be in their own damn standard. An ephemeral meme should not be standardized unless we want future anthropologists to have a good laugh at how stupid we were. Next up, an inclusion of very possible facial expression in unicode...
The question is not so much why not have a standardization of emojis. But instead why does this standard have to be Unicode? It's nonsensical because emojis are not characters and not used as characters. May as well have standardized under any random standard and screwed that up instead; add emojis to MPEG maybe.
I grew up in a smallish town, was 10,000, now 20,000. We had plenty of burglaries. The small 500 person hamlets had crime. One of the highest crime rates in California one year was from a very small rural town.
Of course, times change. When I came home from college once my parents chuckled when I automatically locked the car door. Then a decade or so later they had a burglary and got an alarm system.
But there are the problems with not being anonymous, even in a small town. If you get a rep for being a trouble maker as a kid, the police will always suspect you even when you haven't done anything. Like Dukes of Hazzard. Social life often means going over to the next town where people don't know you and you can have a beer with your date without causing gossip. Especially if that date happens to be the same sex, or is older, younger, married, of the wrong race or religion. And speaking of religion, everyone will know if you decide not to head to church, they won't approve if you decide to switch denominations, become catholic, switch religions, or become atheist. They'll figure out if you're secretly siding with the wrong political party and come up to shout at you while you're shopping. They'll know if you visited planned parenthood, the shooting range, the Sierra Club meeting, a twelve step program. In short, they'll know every time you change or don't change your underwear.
Newer games don't require the best card (never did actually), or at least you don't need the best to avoid stuttering and hitching. But system RAM helps a lot. If you have 2G video RAM then that's enough because it can be supplied from system RAM cache. For a middle of the road system, adding more system RAM or an SSD does more to help game performance for the same price than getting a new video card.
Yup. There used to be some companies that specialized in putting things together for you. You selected the parts and stuff you wanted, then they assembled.
You can build the best tools in the world but it's pointless if the user doesn't know how to use them. Encryption is hard, you can just follow a quick README to slap some on. It's like using the handle of a hammer to pound in nails.
This was the rule of thumb for the high end elitist gamers in the past. But it's not true anymore. You only need to build your own if you want the "best" (an unachievable goal as only one person in the world can have the best system). Is the goal to play games, or to deal with the headache of building a computer? A commercial computer is cheaper and still more than enough to play the games.
"Better" is the wrong goal I think. When a commercial computer gets you everything you need for top end gaming and more, why build it yourself? The only reason to build your own is when you're in the "overkill" zone that the original poster claimed to not want. Even Alienware is overkill.
Also dealing with all the parts, and the warranties, and shipping defective parts back and forth, is just not worth the effort unless your entire goal is to have a computer building hobby.
It's not necessary cheaper, and often is more expensive to build your own. What makes a good gaming computer these days is no longer the graphics card bur instead RAM and good storage, which are also commodity items for genera purpose high end computing and not just esoteric stuff for a handful of obsessive gamers. The higher end gaming oriented Dell computer will be absolutely fine for playing games from this year and next. It won't be "the best" but you will never get "the best" without overkill.
Hunger often comes from how full the stomach is rather than sensing being low on calories. There are also compulsive eaters, always nibblinb on something regardless of actual hunger.
How dare you question the infinite wisdom of Microsoft!
New CEO, new Windows VP, and yet we're still treated like children who should not be allowed to make decisions on our own. They're not going to ask if we want the applications removed or not, because we're apparently not able to make such a complicated judgement call.
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Except this is not really true. While each Chinese character was originally an idea or concept, this is not how they are generally used today, as the combination is more than just the original ideas mushed together. But it's what we tell school children to make a complex idea look simpler so that they stop asking annoying questions. In Japanese the original meaning of the Chinese character is quite often far removed from how it is actually used, because historically the characters were chosen partly for their sound as much as for the idea whereas over time the sound and meanings evolved. Much like how we can speak in English despite not knowing the original Greek or Latin root words.
And besides, Chinese characters are used to create words and communicate concepts whereas emojis are used as humorous inserts. It's a mini-game to look up and choose what emoji might work in a given situation, and a mini-game to try and decode what the sender actually intended. They have not risen to the level of language. Anyone who seems to be taking them seriously is probably just a lot more subtle about the humor than most.
Basically the excuses given are the cases of loan words. Which is why we should always spell pyjamas using a Sanscrit font.
What is "so good" that it deserves corrupting an existing standard before it has even gotten around to completing its original goal?
But those thousands of hanzi are being used by people speaking a real language, past or present. Emojis are a different category from languages. They're not even the same category as symbols used for mathematics, economics, or other soft and hard sciences. Emojis started life as jokes, a humorous extension of the smiley face, and after some time to fully mature emojis are still jokes. Nobody really communicates with emojis, they exist only to make the readers laugh or wince or face palm themselves so hard that they are knocked out.
The solution is to get rid of emoji from unicode, put emoji into their own standard, then wait and see if that standard survives for longer than a few years before people grow tired of this fad. They're already sort of outdated, as people are using animated emojis now and the static pictures are old school and no longer cool. Meanwhile a hanzi character from a thousand years ago is still useful.
Those are symbols necessary to record a language in writing. Unicode was created to try (awkwardly) to standardize all the various written characters used in natural and artificial language, phonetic and sound markers needed to properly transcribe a language, and alternative transcriptions as necessary (braille).
An emoji is none of that. Symbols used to represent sign language would be appropriate and there may be some minimalist overlap with emojis. Emojis are not language. They may be part of communication for some people, but then so are words and yet we use dictionaries to keep track of words rather than Unicode. Emojis should be in their own damn standard. An ephemeral meme should not be standardized unless we want future anthropologists to have a good laugh at how stupid we were. Next up, an inclusion of very possible facial expression in unicode...
The question is not so much why not have a standardization of emojis. But instead why does this standard have to be Unicode? It's nonsensical because emojis are not characters and not used as characters. May as well have standardized under any random standard and screwed that up instead; add emojis to MPEG maybe.
Can't show it inline because no one sane has fonts to display them all.
Makes sense, since Unicode screwed over Japanese characters, so this is their revenge.
Commanders?
The whole concept of emojis in Unicode is a stupid idea. Put emojis into their own standard, separate and distinct from fonts.
I grew up in a smallish town, was 10,000, now 20,000. We had plenty of burglaries. The small 500 person hamlets had crime. One of the highest crime rates in California one year was from a very small rural town.
Of course, times change. When I came home from college once my parents chuckled when I automatically locked the car door. Then a decade or so later they had a burglary and got an alarm system.
But there are the problems with not being anonymous, even in a small town. If you get a rep for being a trouble maker as a kid, the police will always suspect you even when you haven't done anything. Like Dukes of Hazzard. Social life often means going over to the next town where people don't know you and you can have a beer with your date without causing gossip. Especially if that date happens to be the same sex, or is older, younger, married, of the wrong race or religion. And speaking of religion, everyone will know if you decide not to head to church, they won't approve if you decide to switch denominations, become catholic, switch religions, or become atheist. They'll figure out if you're secretly siding with the wrong political party and come up to shout at you while you're shopping. They'll know if you visited planned parenthood, the shooting range, the Sierra Club meeting, a twelve step program. In short, they'll know every time you change or don't change your underwear.
Newer games don't require the best card (never did actually), or at least you don't need the best to avoid stuttering and hitching. But system RAM helps a lot. If you have 2G video RAM then that's enough because it can be supplied from system RAM cache. For a middle of the road system, adding more system RAM or an SSD does more to help game performance for the same price than getting a new video card.
Yup. There used to be some companies that specialized in putting things together for you. You selected the parts and stuff you wanted, then they assembled.
Yup, parallel ports were better for monitoring several lines than at actually transferring data.
You can build the best tools in the world but it's pointless if the user doesn't know how to use them. Encryption is hard, you can just follow a quick README to slap some on. It's like using the handle of a hammer to pound in nails.
This was the rule of thumb for the high end elitist gamers in the past. But it's not true anymore. You only need to build your own if you want the "best" (an unachievable goal as only one person in the world can have the best system). Is the goal to play games, or to deal with the headache of building a computer? A commercial computer is cheaper and still more than enough to play the games.
"Better" is the wrong goal I think. When a commercial computer gets you everything you need for top end gaming and more, why build it yourself? The only reason to build your own is when you're in the "overkill" zone that the original poster claimed to not want. Even Alienware is overkill.
Also dealing with all the parts, and the warranties, and shipping defective parts back and forth, is just not worth the effort unless your entire goal is to have a computer building hobby.
It's not necessary cheaper, and often is more expensive to build your own. What makes a good gaming computer these days is no longer the graphics card bur instead RAM and good storage, which are also commodity items for genera purpose high end computing and not just esoteric stuff for a handful of obsessive gamers. The higher end gaming oriented Dell computer will be absolutely fine for playing games from this year and next. It won't be "the best" but you will never get "the best" without overkill.
That's why I think Snowden is a hero whereas Assange is just an ass.
Hunger often comes from how full the stomach is rather than sensing being low on calories. There are also compulsive eaters, always nibblinb on something regardless of actual hunger.
It seems simple, and yet experience proves that it's hard to just eat less.
Microsoft could just ask. Most users would probably say "ya, delete it, that Catalyst Control Center sounds scary".
How dare you question the infinite wisdom of Microsoft!
New CEO, new Windows VP, and yet we're still treated like children who should not be allowed to make decisions on our own. They're not going to ask if we want the applications removed or not, because we're apparently not able to make such a complicated judgement call.
Agreed, the figure seems too low to me.