Yeah, but...kunrei-shiki isn't used by anyone who cares whether native English speakers can figure it out. Just try to convince someone that "Fujitsu" should really be rendered as "Huzitu" and you'll get howls of derisive laughter in response.
In Japanese, there's a distinction between "long" and "short" vowel sounds. It's not the same as in English, where the sound changes; in Japanese, long really means long; it's the same sound, just held longer.
They have short and long consonants, too--just like Italian, where "fato" (fate) isn't the same as "fatto" (done) and singing "a cappella" (like they do in chapel) isn't the same thing as singing "a capella" (like a little goat).
Anyway--you can embarrass the heck out of yourself if you don't keep your long and short consonants and vowels straight when speaking Japanese. Jack Seward, in his delightful book Japanese in Action, gives an example of a fellow who went to work for a Japanese firm after WWII. This unfortunate man made just that mistake, and thereby told a group of Japanese visiting the firm that he was his boss's, um, sphincter rather than his boss's assistant.
All the above, of course, is a distraction so that you won't notice that I don't remember just what vowel lengthening is involved with obasan...[pause for some Googling]...ah. There's "obasan" and "obaasan"; this message explains the difference (among other things).
Depends on what flavor of transliteration you're using. It is a long "o" sound, but Japanese writing words out phonetically using kana do use the "u" kana to follow up the syllable ending in "o" to show the lengthening of the "o", so some transliterators would write "dou". Others use the "macron" (a horizontal line) over the "o" to show a long vowel sound.
Umm... doo itashimasite is roughly equivalent to "you're welcome." Shouldn't we be saying "doomo arigatoo gozaimashita" (thank you very much for a completed past action) to the Japanese instead?
Could you explain to me how giving away a browser benefitted Microsoft?
Sure. Recall how Netscape boasted that Windows would become just a collection of buggy device drivers? The idea was that applications would live atop Netscape, and then, since Netscape exists in non-Windows versions, that would destroy the proverbial "applications barrier to entry" (the Catch-22 of "Nobody uses Brand X OS because there are no apps/Nobody writes apps for Brand X OS because there are no users"). Preserving the ABtE is precisely what MS gained by giving away IE.
Sorry, but I recall the era when ZD was in the habit of buying and then destroying computer magazines, leaving a PClone-only wasteland. They bought Computer Shopper and then killed all the non-PClone coverage. The slant well predates the pontificators on zdnet.com.
Don't pay the ISP for email, pay the recipient. Then, part of the terms of the mailing list is that you pass the email charge back to the list maintainer.
No kidding. Sometimes I wonder about captioning--the nearest analogy I can think of would be if, to accomodate me as an English speaker in Japan, I got to see movies and TV shows with subtitles...in Hungarian. ASL needs a Sequoyah.
(Slaps head) Thank you! If I'd had any sense I would've remembered the "Troika" (three-horse sleigh) from Lt. Kije. Note to self: Russian really is an Indo-European language. Duh.:(
That's the big thing the apologists miss. America is expensive.
And why is that? Let's see--ah, here's part of it: 14% of your income (yes, the employer's matching amount counts) goes into the Ponzi scam that is Social Security, which, as the famous poll says, fewer young people expect to get a dime back from than expect to meet space aliens. When's Taxpayer Freedom Day this year--in April or May? If you didn't have to dump a major fraction of your income into the black hole that is government, you could be a lot more competitive costwise and still be well off.
How about Heinlein meets Ellison meets Tiptree meets Niven: "The Number of the Beast who Shouted 'Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death' at the Heart of the World of Ptaavs"?
It's good story, humour and characters that have led to success. Their hand animated flicks bombed because they were bad, not because they were 2D.
Exactly right. Lilo and Stitch won big because it was an officially-sanctioned "skunk works" type project, designed to not go through the committees and focus groups. It was the vision of its creators, and it was wonderful and made money. (The sequel was another matter...sigh.) I guess Disney didn't learn diddly squat from it.
So...I guess what I have to say to Disney is this: MEEGA NA LA KWEESTA!
I was using RH9, and I just grabbed the ISOs and did it like a normal upgrade. People tend to recommend doing a clean install, but for me the upgrade just worked. (I did, of course, back up crucial directories before doing the upgrade. As they said in one of the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad movies, "Trust in Allah---but tie your camel.")
Yeah, but...while RISC processors lack the many addressing modes of CISC processors, they all tend to have register + displacement addressing. That displacement, as you say, is necessarily less than 64 bits, but the register is not limited in that respect, so while it potentially takes an instruction or two setup to get to an arbitrary location in a 64-=bit address space, you can get there.
Except that of course, it won't be possible for computers made with that company's motherboards to get the "Designed for MS Windows [fill in the blank]" sticker, and manufacturers won't use it.
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Yeah, but...kunrei-shiki isn't used by anyone who cares whether native English speakers can figure it out. Just try to convince someone that "Fujitsu" should really be rendered as "Huzitu" and you'll get howls of derisive laughter in response.
In Japanese, there's a distinction between "long" and "short" vowel sounds. It's not the same as in English, where the sound changes; in Japanese, long really means long; it's the same sound, just held longer.
They have short and long consonants, too--just like Italian, where "fato" (fate) isn't the same as "fatto" (done) and singing "a cappella" (like they do in chapel) isn't the same thing as singing "a capella" (like a little goat).
Anyway--you can embarrass the heck out of yourself if you don't keep your long and short consonants and vowels straight when speaking Japanese. Jack Seward, in his delightful book Japanese in Action, gives an example of a fellow who went to work for a Japanese firm after WWII. This unfortunate man made just that mistake, and thereby told a group of Japanese visiting the firm that he was his boss's, um, sphincter rather than his boss's assistant.
All the above, of course, is a distraction so that you won't notice that I don't remember just what vowel lengthening is involved with obasan...[pause for some Googling]...ah. There's "obasan" and "obaasan"; this message explains the difference (among other things).
Depends on what flavor of transliteration you're using. It is a long "o" sound, but Japanese writing words out phonetically using kana do use the "u" kana to follow up the syllable ending in "o" to show the lengthening of the "o", so some transliterators would write "dou". Others use the "macron" (a horizontal line) over the "o" to show a long vowel sound.
Umm... doo itashimasite is roughly equivalent to "you're welcome." Shouldn't we be saying "doomo arigatoo gozaimashita" (thank you very much for a completed past action) to the Japanese instead?
Could you explain to me how giving away a browser benefitted Microsoft?
Sure. Recall how Netscape boasted that Windows would become just a collection of buggy device drivers? The idea was that applications would live atop Netscape, and then, since Netscape exists in non-Windows versions, that would destroy the proverbial "applications barrier to entry" (the Catch-22 of "Nobody uses Brand X OS because there are no apps/Nobody writes apps for Brand X OS because there are no users"). Preserving the ABtE is precisely what MS gained by giving away IE.
I think the writers of the Firebird BBS would have something to say about who chose a name already taken by another project.
The stunt they pulled puts them on exactly the same moral level as spammers, and I don't do business with spammers.
Sorry, but I recall the era when ZD was in the habit of buying and then destroying computer magazines, leaving a PClone-only wasteland. They bought Computer Shopper and then killed all the non-PClone coverage. The slant well predates the pontificators on zdnet.com.
But the article said the effect was cumulative, didn't it?
Wouldn't this only be a problem if you use these devices every day directly in contact with your skull?
Hmmm...I use headphones, don't you?
No. Flipping a coin would trash half of the nonspam mail; the method under discussion is claimed in the article not to suffer from false positives.
Overall, this is a solid book for an existing programmer to pick up C++ concepts.
I'm not sure what books would be good for non-existing programmers.
Don't pay the ISP for email, pay the recipient. Then, part of the terms of the mailing list is that you pass the email charge back to the list maintainer.
No kidding. Sometimes I wonder about captioning--the nearest analogy I can think of would be if, to accomodate me as an English speaker in Japan, I got to see movies and TV shows with subtitles...in Hungarian. ASL needs a Sequoyah.
(Slaps head) Thank you! If I'd had any sense I would've remembered the "Troika" (three-horse sleigh) from Lt. Kije. Note to self: Russian really is an Indo-European language. Duh. :(
That would be Setun. (I'm not up on Russian, so that may well be Russian for "trinity.")
That's the big thing the apologists miss. America is expensive.
And why is that? Let's see--ah, here's part of it: 14% of your income (yes, the employer's matching amount counts) goes into the Ponzi scam that is Social Security, which, as the famous poll says, fewer young people expect to get a dime back from than expect to meet space aliens. When's Taxpayer Freedom Day this year--in April or May? If you didn't have to dump a major fraction of your income into the black hole that is government, you could be a lot more competitive costwise and still be well off.
How about Heinlein meets Ellison meets Tiptree meets Niven: "The Number of the Beast who Shouted 'Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death' at the Heart of the World of Ptaavs"?
It's good story, humour and characters that have led to success. Their hand animated flicks bombed because they were bad, not because they were 2D.
Exactly right. Lilo and Stitch won big because it was an officially-sanctioned "skunk works" type project, designed to not go through the committees and focus groups. It was the vision of its creators, and it was wonderful and made money. (The sequel was another matter...sigh.) I guess Disney didn't learn diddly squat from it.
So...I guess what I have to say to Disney is this: MEEGA NA LA KWEESTA!
How long does it take to recharge a cell phone, or a PDA? Are you willing to stand outside in summer in a jacket to get your gadgets recharged?
I don't know about "Jover," but "Guillem" is pretty clearly cognate to Guillermo/Guillaume/Guglielgmo/Wilhelm, i.e. William, which shortens to Bill.
I was using RH9, and I just grabbed the ISOs and did it like a normal upgrade. People tend to recommend doing a clean install, but for me the upgrade just worked. (I did, of course, back up crucial directories before doing the upgrade. As they said in one of the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad movies, "Trust in Allah---but tie your camel.")
Yeah, but...while RISC processors lack the many addressing modes of CISC processors, they all tend to have register + displacement addressing. That displacement, as you say, is necessarily less than 64 bits, but the register is not limited in that respect, so while it potentially takes an instruction or two setup to get to an arbitrary location in a 64-=bit address space, you can get there.
Cool!
Except that of course, it won't be possible for computers made with that company's motherboards to get the "Designed for MS Windows [fill in the blank]" sticker, and manufacturers won't use it.