CANN's board of directors appears to favor a proposal for a new set of Internet addresses that end in.Asia, which would more easily identify Asia-focused Web sites.
Translate: They all look alike so we should give'em one domain.
Honestly, what the hell is this? It seems like this would be far more useful in Europe where most people speak another European language.
What is Asia? Is it from India to Japan? Just north-east Asia (Japan, China, Korea, and the smaller nations - which was my first guess)? South-east Asia too? Even in the limited area I can'ts eee the point: there is interest in each country in a neighboring language (I knew Korean nationals in the U.S. taking Japanese and many of the Japanese I know here in Japan know or are learning Chinese or Korean) but it's hardly wide spread.
ICANN is the king of dumb ideas and this is a solution looking for a problem.
This stupid meme pisses me off to no end. I'm here in Japan and frankly the Japanese speak far better English than we (generally) do Japanese, and we're students learning Japanese. Yes, a lot of Japanese speak poor or no English, but very, very few Americans speak another language; further speak a non-Romance or Germanic language with any real skill. Yes, English study in high school is a joke. But on the whole, the Japanese are much better at speaking to foreigners than most American are.
And frankly, I have some rspect for the people who don't speak English. Unlike us South Asians who speak English as some post-Colonial hang up, they have their language and they use it.
Finally, it's damn hard to learn a language, especially when its so different from your native one. Japanese is not the hardest language to learn (out of what I've studied that distinction would either go to Chinese or Arabic). That some people can speak any English at all is amazing.
'People can create the video and upload it to the Mozilla site. The video will then be reviewed and put on our Web site, with a link from their location.'"
Expose + Goatse, here I come!
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Are we going to (hopefully) see thousands of people throwing boxes of Microsoft products into the harbor?/i?
Uh, I haven't listened to the progam, but its probably based on the H.G. Wells book (or the radio drama by Orsen Wells, which is based on the book) not the movie, which had very little do with the actual novel.
Who mods this crap up? I think the moderators today are angry programmers replaced by H1 visa guys.
I'm American born, of Bangladeshi descent and here's the deal. Most Indian movies suck. I would not watch them until very recently. And I learned something: there are some good ones. Most of them are crap.
But most American movies suck too (Stealth, anyone? The Island? Right before I left the country there was not one good movie coming out in theatres).
Until you've seen Lagaan or Monsoon Wedding or Earth (with, like Lagaan, features Aamir Khan, India's Mifune Toshiro, and is based on Bapsi Sidwa's excellent Icecandy Man/Cracking India novel) you've got no real right to malign the entire Indian movie industry.
That's not even mentioning Sajity Roy whose Apu trilogy is a classic of world cinema, of whom my favorite director, Kurosawa Akira said:
"The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race which are characteristic of all his films, have impressed me greatly... They can be described as flowing composedly, like a big river. Mr Ray is a wonderful and respectful man. I feel that he is a 'giant' of the movie industry."
"Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon."
Let's not forget the work of Indian disporia: Bend it Like Beckham, the Sixth Sense, and other films which to varying degrees benefitted from Bollywood influence.
There's already a Japanese-English dictionary for the DS, but it's so so at best. A good handwriting system for the machine would be an incredible boon - often times I'm presented with a kanji I simply don't know the reading for (and I can't input it into my electronic dictionary's QWERTY interface). I do know enough kanji to be able to copy many down by writing them, so being able to write say a compund and having the DS spit out a list of possible readings and defintions would be amazing and would help me learn Japanese in the real world (here in Japan anyway) more easily as I could begin decoding stuff in the world witout need of my onerous New Nelson Kanji dictionary.
Living in Japan and with a little knowledge of (South) Korea, it's interesting to compare those relatively free socities to China. There are defintely internet addicts in both countries and while there might be a social stigma on that (defintely in Japan, despite the recent run of Densha Otoko a soap about an internet romance). But indidivuals are relatively free to decide how to spend their leisure time. Moreover, they have access to the wealth of information on the Net.
Whereas in China, this hole into the wide world is obviously a problem for the Chinese government.
The companies poisoning our earth, funding civil wars in Africa over stupid clear rocks, or even pilfering the pockets of employees and shareholders are far more evil.
I know this is slashdot and all, but you could try and tone done the rhetoric to "semicoherent."
I can't speak for the original Sanskrit but Bengali has the same word and the nuance is quite deep. It can mean suffering, though that's probably one of the worst translations. Dis-ease (the Buddhist scholar Thich Nhat Hanh uses this term, I believe) or shame are two other aspects of the word.
The Crusades were an offensive war AGAINST the Muslims. The Christians wanted to retake the Holy Lands (supposedly, there are a lot of other issues mixed in, including various popes wanting to flex their authority).
Furthermore, the Japanese in World War II were doing exactly what you're saying: after China fell to the British, Japan was quite scared of being the next country on the chopping block. Perry and company were the worst thing that could have happened. I'm not trying to defend the country's actions during the war, but the only non-biased judges during the Tokyo Trials (from India and the Phillipines) agree with this assesment of the war.
Nixon: Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is still as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's changed is me. I've become bitter and, lets face it, crazy over the years, and once I'm swept into office I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll break into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! Mwahahahahahaha!!
Bender: [Wearing a fly outfit] Welcome to the future, human slave. [Old man
gasps. Bender laughs] Ah, relax, chum. I'm not really a giant fly.
[Takes off the mask] I'm a horrible robot! [Makes a scary face and
advances on the man, spinning his head]
Happened to me too. I was watching the Japanese R2 release of Dodgeball (not my choice!) with some friends and there was a ton of commercials before the menus even loaded. I didn't care, but the only place I had seen that before was Disney's releases of Ghibli films in the U.S.
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One thing this reminded me of is how cool Risk is. My office is now in its 3rd round... Africa will be mine!
Jerry: "A game of world domination played by two people who can barely run their own lives!"
I kid, I kid!
CANN's board of directors appears to favor a proposal for a new set of Internet addresses that end in .Asia, which would more easily identify Asia-focused Web sites.
Translate: They all look alike so we should give'em one domain.
Honestly, what the hell is this? It seems like this would be far more useful in Europe where most people speak another European language.
What is Asia? Is it from India to Japan? Just north-east Asia (Japan, China, Korea, and the smaller nations - which was my first guess)? South-east Asia too? Even in the limited area I can'ts eee the point: there is interest in each country in a neighboring language (I knew Korean nationals in the U.S. taking Japanese and many of the Japanese I know here in Japan know or are learning Chinese or Korean) but it's hardly wide spread.
ICANN is the king of dumb ideas and this is a solution looking for a problem.
BURNS:
Could you explain your model, young man?
GRIMES:
What's to explain? He's an idiot!
LENNY:
Pipe down!
HOMER:
Well basically, I just copied the plant we have now.
BURNS:
Mm-hmm.
HOMER:
Then, I added some fins to lower wind resistance. (pointing) And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp.
God bless America where this will never happen!
And how much Japanese or Korean do you know?
This stupid meme pisses me off to no end. I'm here in Japan and frankly the Japanese speak far better English than we (generally) do Japanese, and we're students learning Japanese. Yes, a lot of Japanese speak poor or no English, but very, very few Americans speak another language; further speak a non-Romance or Germanic language with any real skill. Yes, English study in high school is a joke. But on the whole, the Japanese are much better at speaking to foreigners than most American are.
And frankly, I have some rspect for the people who don't speak English. Unlike us South Asians who speak English as some post-Colonial hang up, they have their language and they use it.
Finally, it's damn hard to learn a language, especially when its so different from your native one. Japanese is not the hardest language to learn (out of what I've studied that distinction would either go to Chinese or Arabic). That some people can speak any English at all is amazing.
'People can create the video and upload it to the Mozilla site. The video will then be reviewed and put on our Web site, with a link from their location.'"
Expose + Goatse, here I come!
Are we going to (hopefully) see thousands of people throwing boxes of Microsoft products into the harbor?/i?
Dude, no fish deserves that.
New? I saw a story about this over the summer (when I was still in the US!) on CNN!
Uh, I haven't listened to the progam, but its probably based on the H.G. Wells book (or the radio drama by Orsen Wells, which is based on the book) not the movie, which had very little do with the actual novel.
Who mods this crap up? I think the moderators today are angry programmers replaced by H1 visa guys.
I'm American born, of Bangladeshi descent and here's the deal. Most Indian movies suck. I would not watch them until very recently. And I learned something: there are some good ones. Most of them are crap.
But most American movies suck too (Stealth, anyone? The Island? Right before I left the country there was not one good movie coming out in theatres).
Until you've seen Lagaan or Monsoon Wedding or Earth (with, like Lagaan, features Aamir Khan, India's Mifune Toshiro, and is based on Bapsi Sidwa's excellent Icecandy Man/Cracking India novel) you've got no real right to malign the entire Indian movie industry.
That's not even mentioning Sajity Roy whose Apu trilogy is a classic of world cinema, of whom my favorite director, Kurosawa Akira said:
"The quiet but deep observation, understanding and love of the human race which are characteristic of all his films, have impressed me greatly... They can be described as flowing composedly, like a big river. Mr Ray is a wonderful and respectful man. I feel that he is a 'giant' of the movie industry."
"Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon."
Let's not forget the work of Indian disporia: Bend it Like Beckham, the Sixth Sense, and other films which to varying degrees benefitted from Bollywood influence.
I have a wordtank i bought at ks (the baby c30) but its easier to write in kanji then to try and look them up by radical.
There's already a Japanese-English dictionary for the DS, but it's so so at best. A good handwriting system for the machine would be an incredible boon - often times I'm presented with a kanji I simply don't know the reading for (and I can't input it into my electronic dictionary's QWERTY interface). I do know enough kanji to be able to copy many down by writing them, so being able to write say a compund and having the DS spit out a list of possible readings and defintions would be amazing and would help me learn Japanese in the real world (here in Japan anyway) more easily as I could begin decoding stuff in the world witout need of my onerous New Nelson Kanji dictionary.
Shoveling shit out the door doesn't make you a top publisher.
I haven't purchased an EA game in years.
You can use to IRC to chat? I thought it was a random quote generator!
Living in Japan and with a little knowledge of (South) Korea, it's interesting to compare those relatively free socities to China. There are defintely internet addicts in both countries and while there might be a social stigma on that (defintely in Japan, despite the recent run of Densha Otoko a soap about an internet romance). But indidivuals are relatively free to decide how to spend their leisure time. Moreover, they have access to the wealth of information on the Net.
Whereas in China, this hole into the wide world is obviously a problem for the Chinese government.
Thoughts?
Uh, step out of your basement, kiddo.
The companies poisoning our earth, funding civil wars in Africa over stupid clear rocks, or even pilfering the pockets of employees and shareholders are far more evil.
I know this is slashdot and all, but you could try and tone done the rhetoric to "semicoherent."
Uh, I never remember Neil Gaiman's stuff being called "manga" and it got by just fine.
Manga is from Japan. Even by the Japanese definition (anime, on the other hand can refer to any kind of animation).
Screw this Dell crap Has this best pickup line: "If you're the Matrix, then I'm the One" ever worked?
I can't speak for the original Sanskrit but Bengali has the same word and the nuance is quite deep. It can mean suffering, though that's probably one of the worst translations. Dis-ease (the Buddhist scholar Thich Nhat Hanh uses this term, I believe) or shame are two other aspects of the word.
Wow, you don't know history.
The Crusades were an offensive war AGAINST the Muslims. The Christians wanted to retake the Holy Lands (supposedly, there are a lot of other issues mixed in, including various popes wanting to flex their authority).
Furthermore, the Japanese in World War II were doing exactly what you're saying: after China fell to the British, Japan was quite scared of being the next country on the chopping block. Perry and company were the worst thing that could have happened. I'm not trying to defend the country's actions during the war, but the only non-biased judges during the Tokyo Trials (from India and the Phillipines) agree with this assesment of the war.
Nixon: Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is still as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's changed is me. I've become bitter and, lets face it, crazy over the years, and once I'm swept into office I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll break into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! Mwahahahahahaha!!
Oblig. Futurama quote:
Bender: [Wearing a fly outfit] Welcome to the future, human slave. [Old man
gasps. Bender laughs] Ah, relax, chum. I'm not really a giant fly.
[Takes off the mask] I'm a horrible robot! [Makes a scary face and
advances on the man, spinning his head]
Where is my flying car.
Get on it. I was promised one more than 50 years ago.
Who would want to keep their Buffy/Faye lemons...err, important business documents on someone else's server?
Happened to me too. I was watching the Japanese R2 release of Dodgeball (not my choice!) with some friends and there was a ton of commercials before the menus even loaded. I didn't care, but the only place I had seen that before was Disney's releases of Ghibli films in the U.S.
I was not happy about it.