Imagine if you upload anime to YouTube, and it automatically includes an English subtitle.
Without the kanji, since a large number of Japanese words are homophones, I can't see this being practical in the near future. Text is different - with the kanji, it's not terribly difficult to look up the correct word and with kana grammar beside it, the task gets much easier. I can't see a machine understand a conversation in context, however.
"Clearly, the proper solution to this 'problem' is for mobile devices to have a proper web browser, rather than some half-arsed cut-down POS."
This sounds good at first blush, but it really isn't an ideal solution. I live in Japan and I have one of the latest au cell phones. It gets TV, I can use the camera to take pictures of Japanese characters and look them up in the included English/Japanese dictionary. And I can browse both normal "PC" (as the phone refers to it) websites and mobile sites.
I always, always, always use the mobile sites. Since I get charged by the packet, the mobile sites are much better because they are built to be low bandwidth (not to mention they're usually focused on the cellphone - the Final Fantasy site, for example, lets you purchase cell phone games and ring tones). I'd get killed (literally death by packets) if I browsed real web sites on the phone as the data transfer would KILL me (well sort of - the maximum I can get charged for more data is around $40).
I'm not sure if this idea originated with the GOP trying to attract Christian voters, or if it originated with religious leaders who aligned themselves with the GOP in an effort to influence public policy, or some combination of both.
If you're interested in that topic, check out The Right Nation. It's written by a couple of former writers for The Economist and while a bit of it is outdated now (it was written shortly before the 2004 election), it's really informative about the rise of conservatism in the US and the Christian's right's part in that.
"I don't know Apple's product plans for Leopard so it certainly wouldn't be appropriate for me to confirm anything. [...] There certainly have been plenty of published reports from various sources that ZFS is in Leopard, I guess we will all have to wait until it is released to see if ZFS made it as the default, or if they simply announce that it will become the default in a future release."
Barak Berkowitz, of Six Apart, Livejournal's parent company, posted a reply a little while ago. Unlike digg a few weeks ago, Berkowitz sounds both sorry and his explanations seem reasonable.
In addition to my flip remark, I would like to ask - what does everyone think of articles linking to wikipedia as a source? There's no expectation of being static so the page may be radically different after it's posted to slashdot or when someone views this slashdot page in 10 years.
This just goes to show how a well designed platform (in this case, a moderation system) can stand the test of time, and the masses.
While this maybe true, digg's voting is also very poweful (and I say this as someone who has had a slashdot account for a long time and checks it far more than digg). As mentioned in the editorial, bogus or lame stories get buried pretty quickly. Compare to slashdot's games section where Zonk's "stories," which either don't explain what he's talking about, are obviously slanted, are poor (and late) reviews or are posts in which Zonk simply didn't RTFA and flubs details remain standing. While these get corrected in comments (and if you browse with highest rated comments first, they will show up at the top) I feel that Zonk's posts would get buried quickly on digg.
I've been on OS X for three years and I never remember having to ask Apple to boot up the laptops or the copies of OS X I bought from them.
I'm all for software freedom, if you have the time and talent to debug drivers and edit semi-random config files. But let's not throw wild accusations around without any proof.
Weather effects are fine and dandy, but I'm not entirely mistaken there were some holiday effects (or, more accurately, a seperate disc bundled with some game mag, probably Gamepro or EGM) in which outside the Christmas season would look green and plant-y, but using the Saturn's clock, when Christmas time rolled around would be filled with snow, santa outfits, and the like. I'm near positive that using the Wii's weather and internal clock Nights will do something along the same lines.
I was asking myself the same question every one else is ("why use this instead of spotlight?") and while I'm not 100% convinced to move over to it, The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a good case for using it; if you're using Google homepage and Google Mail, it integrates with those (showing search results on the homepage and being able to download and search your Gmail).
As an interesting side note, the Michael Gaiman they quote is the son of author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Neverwhere, American Gods, etc.). I read the article and was surprised, because Neil mentioned his son choosing Google over Apple a month or two back on his blog. Sure enough, visited his blog after reading it and it is indeed him.
OK, so you kind of look like a grandpa, even with the games you linked to;) , and I'm not quite old enough to remember rogue in the present tense (I'm one of those Coleco/NES brats), but the roguelike has seen a lot of play in Japan with the Fushigi no Dungeon (Mysterious Dungeon) series, which has had games in the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Pokemon series. There are some other similar (more recent vintage) titles, like Dokapon Monster Hunter for the GBA. I feel like there was another rogue-ish game for the GBA that only came out in Japan but the title escapes me...
Which is all to say that, the Dragon Quest Yangus title does back up your point, that genre is still alive and kicking, but it being a PS2 game with pretty cell-shaded graphics, emphasizes it more than (what many would call, but not me) musty titles like Angband.
African Delegate: Maybe it just collapsed on its own. British Delegate: We can't take that chance! African Delegate: You always say that! I want to take a chance! Hank: "Collapsed on its own"? You sch... (takes a breath)...you got seventy-two hours. See ya.
As another poster mentioned, the third world is going to get hit hard by this. Take Bangladesh for example; through no fault of those people, their country is going to end up underwater all so you can drive your SUV. That's not humanity'f flexibility, that's par the course for the western world.
While this announcement is a little surprising, considering the massive popularity of both the DS and Dragon Quest in Japan (believe me, I was there when 8 came out plus purchased my white phat DS and DS Lite there). They're going to make a fortune on this one, as everyone and their mother has a DS for one reason or another, and we might see DQ becoming more of a Nintendo franchise (don't forget that DQ: Slime Mori Mori was a big game for the DS, DQ: Monsters Joker is also coming out for the DS and there is also a game planned for the Wii) and Final Fantasy remaining a largely (aside from the DS games and Crystal Chronicles) a Playstation affair.
I am curious to see how they evolve the art style for 9 on the DS; 8 is still sitting on my "to play" pile of games, but from what I've seen it's pretty good looking. I'd hate to see a step backwards.
The extended versions of all three movies came out to around 13 hours, if I'm not mistaken.
That is the length of the 1981 BBC Lord of the Rings radio drama. Between narration, dialogue, and action, Jackson could have fit in just as much as the radio drama (which only excluded a few things, including Bombadil).
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writing on glass things
Have you ever watched the TV show House? He writes on a glass thing. And he's fucking House! He's never wrong!
Did you translate this post on the copier?
Imagine if you upload anime to YouTube, and it automatically includes an English subtitle.
Without the kanji, since a large number of Japanese words are homophones, I can't see this being practical in the near future. Text is different - with the kanji, it's not terribly difficult to look up the correct word and with kana grammar beside it, the task gets much easier. I can't see a machine understand a conversation in context, however.
"Clearly, the proper solution to this 'problem' is for mobile devices to have a proper web browser, rather than some half-arsed cut-down POS."
This sounds good at first blush, but it really isn't an ideal solution. I live in Japan and I have one of the latest au cell phones. It gets TV, I can use the camera to take pictures of Japanese characters and look them up in the included English/Japanese dictionary. And I can browse both normal "PC" (as the phone refers to it) websites and mobile sites.
I always, always, always use the mobile sites. Since I get charged by the packet, the mobile sites are much better because they are built to be low bandwidth (not to mention they're usually focused on the cellphone - the Final Fantasy site, for example, lets you purchase cell phone games and ring tones). I'd get killed (literally death by packets) if I browsed real web sites on the phone as the data transfer would KILL me (well sort of - the maximum I can get charged for more data is around $40).
Out of curiosity, what was the topic and the positions you mentioned?
I'm not sure if this idea originated with the GOP trying to attract Christian voters, or if it originated with religious leaders who aligned themselves with the GOP in an effort to influence public policy, or some combination of both.
If you're interested in that topic, check out The Right Nation. It's written by a couple of former writers for The Economist and while a bit of it is outdated now (it was written shortly before the 2004 election), it's really informative about the rise of conservatism in the US and the Christian's right's part in that.
On my first read, I was wondered why Mark Hamil was making announcements about OS X file systems...
He's already taken it back, more or less:
"I don't know Apple's product plans for Leopard so it certainly wouldn't be appropriate for me to confirm anything. [...] There certainly have been plenty of published reports from various sources that ZFS is in Leopard, I guess we will all have to wait until it is released to see if ZFS made it as the default, or if they simply announce that it will become the default in a future release."
Barak Berkowitz, of Six Apart, Livejournal's parent company, posted a reply a little while ago. Unlike digg a few weeks ago, Berkowitz sounds both sorry and his explanations seem reasonable.
In addition to my flip remark, I would like to ask - what does everyone think of articles linking to wikipedia as a source? There's no expectation of being static so the page may be radically different after it's posted to slashdot or when someone views this slashdot page in 10 years.
Wikipedia offers a bevy of details on the series.
:)
Or it used to...
just kidding. love you wiki
This just goes to show how a well designed platform (in this case, a moderation system) can
stand the test of time, and the masses.
While this maybe true, digg's voting is also very poweful (and I say this as someone who has had a slashdot account for a long time and checks it far more than digg). As mentioned in the editorial, bogus or lame stories get buried pretty quickly. Compare to slashdot's games section where Zonk's "stories," which either don't explain what he's talking about, are obviously slanted, are poor (and late) reviews or are posts in which Zonk simply didn't RTFA and flubs details remain standing. While these get corrected in comments (and if you browse with highest rated comments first, they will show up at the top) I feel that Zonk's posts would get buried quickly on digg.
I've been on OS X for three years and I never remember having to ask Apple to boot up the laptops or the copies of OS X I bought from them.
I'm all for software freedom, if you have the time and talent to debug drivers and edit semi-random config files. But let's not throw wild accusations around without any proof.
Weather effects are fine and dandy, but I'm not entirely mistaken there were some holiday effects (or, more accurately, a seperate disc bundled with some game mag, probably Gamepro or EGM) in which outside the Christmas season would look green and plant-y, but using the Saturn's clock, when Christmas time rolled around would be filled with snow, santa outfits, and the like. I'm near positive that using the Wii's weather and internal clock Nights will do something along the same lines.
I was asking myself the same question every one else is ("why use this instead of spotlight?") and while I'm not 100% convinced to move over to it, The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a good case for using it; if you're using Google homepage and Google Mail, it integrates with those (showing search results on the homepage and being able to download and search your Gmail).
As an interesting side note, the Michael Gaiman they quote is the son of author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Neverwhere, American Gods, etc.). I read the article and was surprised, because Neil mentioned his son choosing Google over Apple a month or two back on his blog. Sure enough, visited his blog after reading it and it is indeed him.
OK, so you kind of look like a grandpa, even with the games you linked to ;) , and I'm not quite old enough to remember rogue in the present tense (I'm one of those Coleco/NES brats), but the roguelike has seen a lot of play in Japan with the Fushigi no Dungeon (Mysterious Dungeon) series, which has had games in the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Pokemon series. There are some other similar (more recent vintage) titles, like Dokapon Monster Hunter for the GBA. I feel like there was another rogue-ish game for the GBA that only came out in Japan but the title escapes me...
Which is all to say that, the Dragon Quest Yangus title does back up your point, that genre is still alive and kicking, but it being a PS2 game with pretty cell-shaded graphics, emphasizes it more than (what many would call, but not me) musty titles like Angband.
The Chinese Purification has alrady begun in Asia!!!
My Biplane dinosaurs get 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the ways I likes it?
African Delegate: Maybe it just collapsed on its own. ...you got seventy-two hours. See ya.
British Delegate: We can't take that chance!
African Delegate: You always say that! I want to take a chance!
Hank: "Collapsed on its own"? You sch... (takes a breath)
As another poster mentioned, the third world is going to get hit hard by this. Take Bangladesh for example; through no fault of those people, their country is going to end up underwater all so you can drive your SUV. That's not humanity'f flexibility, that's par the course for the western world.
While this announcement is a little surprising, considering the massive popularity of both the DS and Dragon Quest in Japan (believe me, I was there when 8 came out plus purchased my white phat DS and DS Lite there). They're going to make a fortune on this one, as everyone and their mother has a DS for one reason or another, and we might see DQ becoming more of a Nintendo franchise (don't forget that DQ: Slime Mori Mori was a big game for the DS, DQ: Monsters Joker is also coming out for the DS and there is also a game planned for the Wii) and Final Fantasy remaining a largely (aside from the DS games and Crystal Chronicles) a Playstation affair.
I am curious to see how they evolve the art style for 9 on the DS; 8 is still sitting on my "to play" pile of games, but from what I've seen it's pretty good looking. I'd hate to see a step backwards.
Hey, I'm okay with Zonk slaying.
That could only improve the sales rate of Nintendo's cash cow portable game machines.
Oh wait, no.
The extended versions of all three movies came out to around 13 hours, if I'm not mistaken.
That is the length of the 1981 BBC Lord of the Rings radio drama. Between narration, dialogue, and action, Jackson could have fit in just as much as the radio drama (which only excluded a few things, including Bombadil).