Nitpick: It's Asahi ShiNbun.
There is no stand alone M in Japanese.
Of course not... Japanese doesn't use the Latin alphabet; they have their own set of squiggles. However, Europeans have come up with various ways of trying to represent the Japanese language using the Latin alphabet, and in one of the more common ones, "n" changes to "m" in front of "p", "b", and "m," since that's pretty much how it's pronounced. In the same vein, "ti" changes to "chi," "tu" changes to "tsu," "wo" changes to "o," etc...
Besides, Asahi Shimbun disagrees with you--see the bottom of their webpage: "Copyright 2004 Asahi Shimbun"
Except that the IA-64 is a completely different architecutre, and in no way shape or form a desktop browser.
WTH?? What do browsers have to do with anything? Can you name any processor architecture that is any way, shape, or form a desktop browser?
Anyways, while it's nice that IA-64 is completely different from x86-64, the claim was that "the 64-bit demo of Windows XP came out only supporting AMD Chips," when in fact a 64-bit version of XP has been out before AMD even had a 64-bit chip.
Maybe my survival instincts aren't the best, but if a material eats through the protective gloves I'm wearing, there's no way on Earth, Mars, Venus, or your choice of any 6 other planets that I'm going to touch it with my bare hands!
The term "eat through" makes it sound like some highly corrosive stuff was involved, but substances don't have to be very corrosive to dissolve other things. If I made gloves out of, say, rice paper, water would eat right through them. And while water is a bit corrosive, I'd swim in giant vats of the stuff:). Acetone will dissolve or soften many types of plastic, but it's not horrible stuff to handle with your bare hands. It's used as nail polish remover, for example. However, I'd avoid swimming in giant vats of acetone.
seeing if I can find a better deal for stuff on Amazon.com when I get sticker shock at CompUSA
How do you do that? Amazon US's mobile interface isn't WAP, but HDML, which my phone (Siemens M46) doesn't support. I looked around a bit, and couldn't find a WAP inteface, so I ended up throwing together a quickie PHP script that queries Amazon's XML interface and returns the results as WAP/WML.
Too bad you can't install IE 6.0 on NT 4.0, no matter what service pack you have.
Why can't I? I've done it before... is MS going to DMCA me now or something? No, their system requirements page even says it's supported on NT 4.0 SP6a.
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I'm assuming that the average size of a person is 50cm by 30cm (~1 foot 8 inches by 1 foot)
Hey, how's life down there in Flatland? *sticks fingers through wrmrxxx's plane to mess with him*
In my universe, people are three dimensional; it's like having another degree of freedom!
The theory is that an automatic defibrillator will take EKG readings to determine whether the person needs defibrillation or not, and refuse to operate if not.
You've got it backwards... make sure you get a "hi speed" reader, since 2.0 doesn't imply 480Mbps--it's just a version number. However, "hi speed" does imply 2.0, since USB 1.x didn't support 480Mbps transfer rates. See the USB Implementor's Forum's article on nomenclature.
Tonal doesn't mean complex, it just means you have to learn to distinguish the tones. In general, Thai doesn't seem particularly complex to me. Straightforward grammar, and not too difficult to read. Spelling's a bit tricky (lots of consonants with the same sound; you have to know the correct one to use), but probably no worse than English (which is also a bit tricky--see Slashdot for examples:).
I am failing to see how that would be "much more accurate" than using a watch. Like one of the parent comments said, sure, you can get an approximation that way, but a watch is more accurate. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But if it's not rising or setting, it'll be somewhere in between east and west--it's not like the suns sits around due east in the morning and suddenly jumps due west when the clock strikes 12. It's southeast-ish in the morning, due south at noon, and southwest-ish in the afternoon (assuming northern hemisphere).
It would be much more accurate to take a stick, plunge it upright in the ground, and use it as a sundial. Draw the east-west line of the sun
How do you do that if you don't know what time it is? With a watch, you know what time it is, and also have a convenient conversion of that time into an angle. You can still put a stick in the ground, but you need the watch in any case.
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And showing the wrong icon is not a bug? Get a clue: that's part of the whole "hiding the extension" bug! You could "unhide" the extensions by drawing the correct icon for the extension.
Well, I'm not wondering how stupid you can be--I already know: very stupid. EXE files have whatever icon the EXE file author puts in there. If some worm writer puts the Word Document icon into their EXE, the Word doc icon would be the correct icon to display.
It's an analog universe (at least until you get to the quantum level:). So while it may be a digital signal, it's also an analog signal and is limited by the electronics and wiring. Just as you're not going to get 1000Mbps out of 2 pairs of a Cat 3 cable, you're not going to get 40000x30000x24bpp@100Hz out of DVI. There's a limit, although I don't know what that limit is off the top of my head (it is higher than 1600x1200 though).
I don't think you know what UTF-7 is. It's not a character set; it's an encoding of the Unicode character set. All Unicode characters can be represented in UTF-7; the copyright symbol is +AKk.
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There is no stand alone M in Japanese.
Of course not... Japanese doesn't use the Latin alphabet; they have their own set of squiggles. However, Europeans have come up with various ways of trying to represent the Japanese language using the Latin alphabet, and in one of the more common ones, "n" changes to "m" in front of "p", "b", and "m," since that's pretty much how it's pronounced. In the same vein, "ti" changes to "chi," "tu" changes to "tsu," "wo" changes to "o," etc...
Besides, Asahi Shimbun disagrees with you--see the bottom of their webpage: "Copyright 2004 Asahi Shimbun"
WTH?? What do browsers have to do with anything? Can you name any processor architecture that is any way, shape, or form a desktop browser?
Anyways, while it's nice that IA-64 is completely different from x86-64, the claim was that "the 64-bit demo of Windows XP came out only supporting AMD Chips," when in fact a 64-bit version of XP has been out before AMD even had a 64-bit chip.
The term "eat through" makes it sound like some highly corrosive stuff was involved, but substances don't have to be very corrosive to dissolve other things. If I made gloves out of, say, rice paper, water would eat right through them. And while water is a bit corrosive, I'd swim in giant vats of the stuff :). Acetone will dissolve or soften many types of plastic, but it's not horrible stuff to handle with your bare hands. It's used as nail polish remover, for example. However, I'd avoid swimming in giant vats of acetone.
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How do you do that? Amazon US's mobile interface isn't WAP, but HDML, which my phone (Siemens M46) doesn't support. I looked around a bit, and couldn't find a WAP inteface, so I ended up throwing together a quickie PHP script that queries Amazon's XML interface and returns the results as WAP/WML.
Good attempt at backpedaling, but not good enough. Actually, no, it wasn't a good attempt at all.
Sure it does... It's not enabled by default, and as far as I know, there's no GUI to enable it, but it certainly comes with telnetd preinstalled:
greyfox ~% uname -a /usr/libexec/telnetd /usr/libexec/telnetd* /etc/inetd.conf /usr/libexec/tcpd telnetd
Darwin greyfox.azeotrope.org 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10 15:20:55PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
greyfox ~% ls -l
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50012 Jan 18 02:05
greyfox ~% grep telnet
#telnet stream tcp nowait root
I seem to remember that Mirabilis's various tech support contacts had repeating 5-digit ICQ numbers, like 55555 and 77777.
You may use Windows XP, but your keyboard must be running Linux, if it's always having to run fsck.
Why can't I? I've done it before... is MS going to DMCA me now or something? No, their system requirements page even says it's supported on NT 4.0 SP6a.
Hey, how's life down there in Flatland? *sticks fingers through wrmrxxx's plane to mess with him*
In my universe, people are three dimensional; it's like having another degree of freedom!
The theory is that an automatic defibrillator will take EKG readings to determine whether the person needs defibrillation or not, and refuse to operate if not.
Well, if you want GS/OS, you can still get it.
You've got it backwards... make sure you get a "hi speed" reader, since 2.0 doesn't imply 480Mbps--it's just a version number. However, "hi speed" does imply 2.0, since USB 1.x didn't support 480Mbps transfer rates. See the USB Implementor's Forum's article on nomenclature.
It's certainly the only reason I downloaded it... fox==yiff. Oh, a firefox isn't a fox? Never mind then... *uninstalls*
Using the soc.culture.thai transcription:
maai^ mai' mai" mai" - new wood doesn't burn.
maai^ mai' mai" mai+(often pronounced mai^) - does new wood burn?
mai+ mai' mai" mai" - new silk doesn't burn.
mai+ mai' mai" mai+(or mai^) - does new silk burn?
So where's the misspelling? Or perhaps it is you who needs to learn how to spell?
I am failing to see how that would be "much more accurate" than using a watch. Like one of the parent comments said, sure, you can get an approximation that way, but a watch is more accurate. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But if it's not rising or setting, it'll be somewhere in between east and west--it's not like the suns sits around due east in the morning and suddenly jumps due west when the clock strikes 12. It's southeast-ish in the morning, due south at noon, and southwest-ish in the afternoon (assuming northern hemisphere).
How do you do that if you don't know what time it is? With a watch, you know what time it is, and also have a convenient conversion of that time into an angle. You can still put a stick in the ground, but you need the watch in any case.
Well, I'm not wondering how stupid you can be--I already know: very stupid. EXE files have whatever icon the EXE file author puts in there. If some worm writer puts the Word Document icon into their EXE, the Word doc icon would be the correct icon to display.
It's an analog universe (at least until you get to the quantum level :). So while it may be a digital signal, it's also an analog signal and is limited by the electronics and wiring. Just as you're not going to get 1000Mbps out of 2 pairs of a Cat 3 cable, you're not going to get 40000x30000x24bpp@100Hz out of DVI. There's a limit, although I don't know what that limit is off the top of my head (it is higher than 1600x1200 though).
If you liked DONKEY.BAS, try the all new Donkey .NET!
The whole thing (also available in Greek)
Heh, I've wanted the same thing... there's NetLSD, but they never produced anything. I'd give it a shot if I had some spare time :)
I don't think you know what UTF-7 is. It's not a character set; it's an encoding of the Unicode character set. All Unicode characters can be represented in UTF-7; the copyright symbol is +AKk.