The plan, eventually, is that AT&T Wireless is going to be the only US provider of 3G data over GSM systems, which means they'll be able to use the same amazingly cool phones and features the rest of the world uses, and be a good citizen of the world to sell phones that can do global roaming etc.
I have AT&T GSM service, aside from it sucking my left nut outside of any metro area, I get global roaming. I'm pretty sure I'd get better service in Hong Kong than I do here.
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In this "prank", not only did they climb around in an ACTIVE elevator shaft, they filled the elevator with objects that would deliberately pour out upon an unsuspecting user of the elevator in order to scare them. Climbing around in an elevator shaft that is OPERATIONAL is exceptionally stupid. They are very fortunate nobody was injured or KILLED. Most of the story reads like the beginning of a Darwin Award entry.
It's not like Mission Impossible where spikes come out of the ceiling. It's an elevator shaft. It isn't something that has big teeths, moves with the speed of the cheetah, and spits venom.
It's a piece of machine. Yeah, it's dangerous, but not stupid as long as you know what you are doing. Yes, I have climbed in an active elevator shaft. No, it wasn't for a stunt, more of an emergency. It is not a dangerous act in and of itself.
i saw real genius in the theatres (yes, i am *that* old) and loved it.
You can't say "i am *that* old" when it just came out in 85. I mean seriously, you could be no older than 25 and say that you saw it in the theaters and it wouldn't be wrong.
They are mutually exclusive. You are bypassing simple logic, blinded by your conviction that your pet term for "drivers of falsely enhanced cars" is worth fighting for. No, they aren't. It's not my conviction, nor my pet term, it's my opinion. In my opinion rice boy isn't racist, because it does not deal with race in anyway. You are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine. If you don't understand this, you are a fucking moron. End of story.
Your attempts at personal and racial attacks against me go along with the rest of your demonstrated ethic. It's offensive, you know it, and yet you will continue to use it. I'm not attacking you, I'm labeling you as I perceive you. And what racial attacks against you have I made? Now you are just making stuff up. I said you are a moron, and a dumbass. I stand by that because you are also illiterate apparently, as you completely ignore what it is that I am saying.
Happy New Year. How can it be happy when people like you, who attempt to oppose your belief and opinions on others, live and breath? Do me a favor, either open your fucking little mind, or die.
My mind is open, I know people get offended, but I don't care. I do not find it offensive, if you do, so what. Your mind is closed. You don't understand that many people don't find it offensive. You are in the minority, so again, fuck off.
Consider that a major political leader was just ousted from his position because of his comments. Uhm, yeah, a white American surrounded by other white Americans.. Gee, you sure proved me wrong. And there is a huge difference between supporting segregation and calling someone a Rice Boy or a car a Rice Rocket. See.. one is about people, the other is about a car. Go back to elementary school and try to finish the reading courses.
All I need to prove my point ("rice" is offensive) is to find one person that it offends. Each of those links had at least one person that was offended, generally accompanied by debate from both sides. The fact that there is a public debate about the issue proves that it is offensive to some. If nobody found it offensive, there would be no links or discussion about it. Being "outnumbered" does not apply.
Your point is that a small collection of white people who have no idea what the term means finds it offensive. Big fucking deal.
Besides, you've clearly stated that you don't care who you offend. Which is it now, it's not offensive, or you don't care? They aren't mutually exclusive, dumbass. It's not offensive, and if you take offense I don't care. Outside of the rural US, pretty much only white Americans are worried about being racist these days, so deal with it.
Oh, did you actually read the greenspun list? Most of the people were agreeing with me on there. You are outnumbered on this one. Rice boy isn't offensive except to a select group of mostly white people who don't understand it. Neither does the "goingfaster.com" link say anything. And oh wait, off-road.com is filled with, you guessed it, white guys saying it's bad! Then metafilter says it's not racially derogatory. You just provided evidence for my case. Apparently you didn't actually read anything that google spit out at you. You have 2 negative things about the term, both posted by non-Asians, and one board discussion where most people say it's a-ok and not a racial term.
Now go crawl in your closed-minded, everything-is-racist hole, and pry your head out of your ass.
I don't give a fuck what your or my national origin is; that's immaterial to the argument. The term is offensive to some people, and has offensive roots. The fact that you know a few people that are not offended by the term does not scale to everyone.
Just as I don't give a fuck about what you find offensive. If you find it offensive, it's your problem, not mine.
As for your argument that you only use the term in the company of people that you know aren't offended by it . . . do you carefully check with each person within range before saying it? Including the vast hordes of Slashdot readers that may or may not have been reading our little discussion?
As many people who do read what I write know, I don't give a damn about offending people. Not in real life, not on the internet. If I offend you, it means you don't know me. If words can be offensive, than you need to open your damn eyes. If words can make you feel hated, or feel oppressed, you need to grow a spine.
To reiterate, I don't believe there is anything wrong with me calling someone a Rice Boy, or calling a car a Rice Rocket. If you find it offensive, I don't give a fuck.
Glad you have an opinion, keep it up. But don't expect me to listen to and respect your opinion if you don't respect mine. That's the beauty of being human, of having a unique mind that is the same as everyone else.
I never said I only use the term in company of people I know aren't offended by it. I said that everyone I have verbally said it to has not taken offense. It's not your fight to determine what is racist and what isn't.
Besides, it seems only white people find racial jokes "wrong" these days. Go ask every Asian-American male you run into if they find the term Rice Boy offensive. Most of them will tell you it has absolutely nothing to do with race. It's another case of the uneducated throwing a little fit over what is an innocent term that unrelated people believe has racist roots.
This point isn't even worth arguing. Wow, hello Mr. Illiterate-Troll. I was agreeing with you that most racial slurs do not have any negative origin as far as the actual word goes. Only the human-use of them.
Precisely how many people need to be offended before you begin to care? Give me a number. How many people's feelings equate to your need to use a mildly humorous term?
Simple, I'm not racist. Especially against Asians, double so for Japanese. If you think I'm racist, than that is your problem. Maybe you just need to lighten up, maybe someone who gets offended by the term "Rice Rocket" or "Rice Boy" needs to lighten up.
The term "rice-burner" refers to a car built by Asian people. Wrong, rice-burner is actually the old term used by Harley riders to label Japanese Motorcycles. Some people do use it to refer to a car, but very rarely (and some would argue incorrectly).
The point is, using "rice" in any way as a reference to Asians or Asian culture is a generalization that many find offensive.
Let me guess, you are white? Besides, rice in this way doesn't reference Asians, it references Japanese. So unless you are Japanese, why are you arguing this?
However, it is offensive, and if you use it, you demonstrate that you don't care if you offend. That's your choice. I don't care if I offend, because if I offend someone with the term "Rice Boy" than they are a fucking nimrod. End of story.
Even if you're using the term to refer to a white boy in a Mustang, the term still has its roots in racism. It may be watered down, but it's still poison. Riiight, it's poison to the dozens of people I say it to. Sure thing, why don't you ask them, I can get you in touch with them because they are my friends.
Maybe you don't intend to be racist, but man does it sound racist, at least to the average ear. It sounds like the sort of thing an embittered auto-worker might mutter while revving his muscle-car. Considering it's extremely common slang amongst any racers, whether it be drag, autocrossing, or any other form of car racing, I think it's like hackers amongst the media being a "bad thing" where as amongst/.ers it's not.
So however you mean it, you should understand that to many people, it's going to make you look like a bigot.
I've yet to meet someone who doesn't understand that a Rice Rocket means a souped up Japanese car. If you know of someone, please, educate them otherwise.
[Actually the `rice' kanji used in the various Japanese names for America (kome) is not the same as that used in `gohan' (meshi).] Well, no, but kome is read a few different ways too. But it still is Rice.:)
Wrong. Most racist slang has innocent roots. If it's offensive to the target group, and you know it, and you use it anyway, you are a bigot for using it.
It's not racist slang. Looking at other slangs, lets say, nigger, rooted from negro, meaning black isn't even offensive. The problem is the hateful white-people-yelling-it-to-black-people-while-hang ing-them is still a fresh memory.
I don't think to date, anyone has lynched someone driving a rice-car while screaming "Rice Boy!" because, being called a Rice Boy means little more than the fact they are driving a Japanese car. A country that has a primary food staple of... you guessed it, rice.
There are also Kraut-Rockets, for german cars, but do you go up in arms against that? Do germans find any offense to that? None that I know. I think the reason why there are no names for American cars like that is because "Big Mac and Fries Rocket" doesn't sound like something that belongs outside a toilet.
Your google reference is completely lacking, because only one page on the initial list supports it as a Racist term. The other relevent searches say it isn't. So you are missing out on that one a bit.
Be aware of this if you choose to continue using it. Who am I going to offend, exactly? Are you asian? Do you own a rice-rocket? Will it make you feel better if I tell you I'll be calling Japan in a few hours, after driving home from work in a Toyota?
Besides, Rice Boy is someone who drives a Rice Rocket. You can't be racist against a car that comes from Japan. Racism only works against people not cars.
Exactly. Back when racism against Asians was commonplace, 1) because of WWII, then 2) because American industry workers feared the loss of their jobs because of lower-priced Asian imports.
Saying that a car is a rice-rocket, or he is a Rice boy is not racist. If you ask anybody in the world what area produces and consumes the most rice, they would say Asia.
Granted, not Japan, but Asia. If you think saying Rice Rocket, or Rice Boy is racist, you seriously need to lighten up. None of them mean anything derogatory towards Asians or Japanese, specifically. In order for something to be racist, it has to mean something other than a slang label.
It's a lot easier to say someone is a Rice boy than "He's a guy who drives a honda civic that has chrome rims, a 12" spoiler, and neon lights pulsing with NOS stickers all over"
Ironically, in Japan, the kanji for the US is gohan. Which is rice...
I got about 3 paragraphs into that article and was yawning. Whoever wrote it was rather mundane. It read like an monotonous news ticker.
Good translation though. I've always found reading to be easier than speaking or listening. Then again, I'm used to Castillan and I live in the US and have a hard time understanding Mexicans.
My post was a joke! Yes I have actually said this to cashiers and they laugh, because its funny. You should laugh to. Don't be a robot.
Just because you intend it as a joke doesn't mean it's funny. It's obvious that you don't mean that, and if you did you have much worse problems in life. What may not be obvious to you that it is just a plain stupid joke, and as someone else pointed out.. laughing at, not with.
Every time I get asked if I have one of their cards for "saving", I just say "Sorry, I don't join cults"!
I can understand saying no, that's perfectly reasonable. But a cult remark just makes you look like a psycho-dumbass. No offense to you at all, but if I was a grocery store clerk and someone said that I'd definitely mark them as being a complete sociopath.
That's utterly absurd. You're assuming that anyone who was unemployed for longer didn't have the technical and/or interpersonal skills to get a position. Do you know how many great candidates you'd be eliminating with this requirement?
From a hiring point of view, you want someone with interpersonal skills and the experience in the industry to maintain their employment. If they lack technical or interpersonal skills to maintain employment, they lack requirements for me to hire them.
The number of good candidates I might pass over is probably a fraction of the bad ones I automatically scrap.
IMO, the surges in the industry attract a bunch of riff raff, which get purged when times get tough.
Agreed, and my additional opinion:
From a hiring point of view, I'd ask, "From 1998 to 2003 what was the longest you were unemployed" -- if they answered more than 3 months I wouldn't hire them.
Good engineers network with their skills, and they get taken care of.
Blackbox 4 windows [sourceforge.net] an alternative to litestep.
That is the worst website I have seen in a long time. There is no information about it, there is no information about where to download, how to install. The home page is a news stream and a chatterbox.
Translated it myself, in about ten minutes. The way I learned Japanese is, um, by spending fifteen years doing it... sorry, no easy way (that I've found, anyway;-).
No kidding. I can read/write hiragana/katakana just fine. I wasn't expecting an easy way, just someone to help with kanji memorization. I can understand a whole helluva lot (being friends with a plethora of Japanese people helps that.. yay for emersion) but can't speak well at all. Kanji still kicks my ass, too many look so similar (especially on a computer with small font). The way I do it is have a kanji notebook that I write down all the kanjis I learn.
Just curious, did you translate that yourself or did you use software. That was way too good to come out of babelfish.
If you did it by hand, nice job. I'm learning Japanese right now, and having a helluva time getting all the kanji embedded in my head. If you are non-native Japanese, what was your learning mechanism?
Alrighty, enough off topicness: The silver one actually looks cool. I wonder how hard of a time it would be to bring one back through customs.
"What is this, sir?" "It's a computer." "Right... I need you to follow me." "Ok, but why did you just hand me vaseline?"
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The plan, eventually, is that AT&T Wireless is going to be the only US provider of 3G data over GSM systems, which means they'll be able to use the same amazingly cool phones and features the rest of the world uses, and be a good citizen of the world to sell phones that can do global roaming etc.
I have AT&T GSM service, aside from it sucking my left nut outside of any metro area, I get global roaming. I'm pretty sure I'd get better service in Hong Kong than I do here.
In this "prank", not only did they climb around in an ACTIVE elevator shaft, they filled the elevator with objects that would deliberately pour out upon an unsuspecting user of the elevator in order to scare them. Climbing around in an elevator shaft that is OPERATIONAL is exceptionally stupid. They are very fortunate nobody was injured or KILLED. Most of the story reads like the beginning of a Darwin Award entry.
It's not like Mission Impossible where spikes come out of the ceiling. It's an elevator shaft. It isn't something that has big teeths, moves with the speed of the cheetah, and spits venom.
It's a piece of machine. Yeah, it's dangerous, but not stupid as long as you know what you are doing. Yes, I have climbed in an active elevator shaft. No, it wasn't for a stunt, more of an emergency. It is not a dangerous act in and of itself.
i saw real genius in the theatres (yes, i am *that* old) and loved it.
You can't say "i am *that* old" when it just came out in 85. I mean seriously, you could be no older than 25 and say that you saw it in the theaters and it wouldn't be wrong.
The true irony of this is that you don't even see the irony.
Riiiiight, I love when I don't have an argument, or anything further to say so I prove my own stupidity, don't you?
They are mutually exclusive. You are bypassing simple logic, blinded by your conviction that your pet term for "drivers of falsely enhanced cars" is worth fighting for.
No, they aren't. It's not my conviction, nor my pet term, it's my opinion. In my opinion rice boy isn't racist, because it does not deal with race in anyway. You are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine. If you don't understand this, you are a fucking moron. End of story.
Your attempts at personal and racial attacks against me go along with the rest of your demonstrated ethic. It's offensive, you know it, and yet you will continue to use it.
I'm not attacking you, I'm labeling you as I perceive you. And what racial attacks against you have I made? Now you are just making stuff up. I said you are a moron, and a dumbass. I stand by that because you are also illiterate apparently, as you completely ignore what it is that I am saying.
Happy New Year.
How can it be happy when people like you, who attempt to oppose your belief and opinions on others, live and breath? Do me a favor, either open your fucking little mind, or die.
My mind is open, I know people get offended, but I don't care. I do not find it offensive, if you do, so what. Your mind is closed. You don't understand that many people don't find it offensive. You are in the minority, so again, fuck off.
Consider that a major political leader was just ousted from his position because of his comments.
Uhm, yeah, a white American surrounded by other white Americans.. Gee, you sure proved me wrong. And there is a huge difference between supporting segregation and calling someone a Rice Boy or a car a Rice Rocket. See.. one is about people, the other is about a car. Go back to elementary school and try to finish the reading courses.
I'm pretty sure that he noticed it considering he said the same exact thing in his post.
That was the most exceedingly redundant thing I have ever seen on slashdot.
All I need to prove my point ("rice" is offensive) is to find one person that it offends. Each of those links had at least one person that was offended, generally accompanied by debate from both sides. The fact that there is a public debate about the issue proves that it is offensive to some. If nobody found it offensive, there would be no links or discussion about it. Being "outnumbered" does not apply.
Your point is that a small collection of white people who have no idea what the term means finds it offensive. Big fucking deal.
Besides, you've clearly stated that you don't care who you offend. Which is it now, it's not offensive, or you don't care?
They aren't mutually exclusive, dumbass. It's not offensive, and if you take offense I don't care. Outside of the rural US, pretty much only white Americans are worried about being racist these days, so deal with it.
Oh, did you actually read the greenspun list? Most of the people were agreeing with me on there. You are outnumbered on this one. Rice boy isn't offensive except to a select group of mostly white people who don't understand it. Neither does the "goingfaster.com" link say anything. And oh wait, off-road.com is filled with, you guessed it, white guys saying it's bad! Then metafilter says it's not racially derogatory. You just provided evidence for my case. Apparently you didn't actually read anything that google spit out at you. You have 2 negative things about the term, both posted by non-Asians, and one board discussion where most people say it's a-ok and not a racial term.
Now go crawl in your closed-minded, everything-is-racist hole, and pry your head out of your ass.
I don't give a fuck what your or my national origin is; that's immaterial to the argument. The term is offensive to some people, and has offensive roots. The fact that you know a few people that are not offended by the term does not scale to everyone.
Just as I don't give a fuck about what you find offensive. If you find it offensive, it's your problem, not mine.
As for your argument that you only use the term in the company of people that you know aren't offended by it . . . do you carefully check with each person within range before saying it? Including the vast hordes of Slashdot readers that may or may not have been reading our little discussion?
As many people who do read what I write know, I don't give a damn about offending people. Not in real life, not on the internet. If I offend you, it means you don't know me. If words can be offensive, than you need to open your damn eyes. If words can make you feel hated, or feel oppressed, you need to grow a spine.
To reiterate, I don't believe there is anything wrong with me calling someone a Rice Boy, or calling a car a Rice Rocket. If you find it offensive, I don't give a fuck.
Glad you have an opinion, keep it up. But don't expect me to listen to and respect your opinion if you don't respect mine. That's the beauty of being human, of having a unique mind that is the same as everyone else.
I never said I only use the term in company of people I know aren't offended by it. I said that everyone I have verbally said it to has not taken offense. It's not your fight to determine what is racist and what isn't.
Besides, it seems only white people find racial jokes "wrong" these days. Go ask every Asian-American male you run into if they find the term Rice Boy offensive. Most of them will tell you it has absolutely nothing to do with race. It's another case of the uneducated throwing a little fit over what is an innocent term that unrelated people believe has racist roots.
So, go fuck yourself.
This point isn't even worth arguing.
Wow, hello Mr. Illiterate-Troll. I was agreeing with you that most racial slurs do not have any negative origin as far as the actual word goes. Only the human-use of them.
Precisely how many people need to be offended before you begin to care? Give me a number. How many people's feelings equate to your need to use a mildly humorous term?
Simple, I'm not racist. Especially against Asians, double so for Japanese. If you think I'm racist, than that is your problem. Maybe you just need to lighten up, maybe someone who gets offended by the term "Rice Rocket" or "Rice Boy" needs to lighten up.
The term "rice-burner" refers to a car built by Asian people.
Wrong, rice-burner is actually the old term used by Harley riders to label Japanese Motorcycles. Some people do use it to refer to a car, but very rarely (and some would argue incorrectly).
The point is, using "rice" in any way as a reference to Asians or Asian culture is a generalization that many find offensive.
Let me guess, you are white? Besides, rice in this way doesn't reference Asians, it references Japanese. So unless you are Japanese, why are you arguing this?
However, it is offensive, and if you use it, you demonstrate that you don't care if you offend. That's your choice.
I don't care if I offend, because if I offend someone with the term "Rice Boy" than they are a fucking nimrod. End of story.
Even if you're using the term to refer to a white boy in a Mustang, the term still has its roots in racism. It may be watered down, but it's still poison.
Riiight, it's poison to the dozens of people I say it to. Sure thing, why don't you ask them, I can get you in touch with them because they are my friends.
anatoha aho.
Maybe you don't intend to be racist, but man does it sound racist, at least to the average ear. It sounds like the sort of thing an embittered auto-worker might mutter while revving his muscle-car. /.ers it's not.
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Considering it's extremely common slang amongst any racers, whether it be drag, autocrossing, or any other form of car racing, I think it's like hackers amongst the media being a "bad thing" where as amongst
So however you mean it, you should understand that to many people, it's going to make you look like a bigot.
I've yet to meet someone who doesn't understand that a Rice Rocket means a souped up Japanese car. If you know of someone, please, educate them otherwise.
[Actually the `rice' kanji used in the various Japanese names for America (kome) is not the same as that used in `gohan' (meshi).]
Well, no, but kome is read a few different ways too. But it still is Rice.
Wrong. Most racist slang has innocent roots. If it's offensive to the target group, and you know it, and you use it anyway, you are a bigot for using it.
g ing-them is still a fresh memory.
It's not racist slang. Looking at other slangs, lets say, nigger, rooted from negro, meaning black isn't even offensive. The problem is the hateful white-people-yelling-it-to-black-people-while-han
I don't think to date, anyone has lynched someone driving a rice-car while screaming "Rice Boy!" because, being called a Rice Boy means little more than the fact they are driving a Japanese car. A country that has a primary food staple of... you guessed it, rice.
There are also Kraut-Rockets, for german cars, but do you go up in arms against that? Do germans find any offense to that? None that I know. I think the reason why there are no names for American cars like that is because "Big Mac and Fries Rocket" doesn't sound like something that belongs outside a toilet.
Your google reference is completely lacking, because only one page on the initial list supports it as a Racist term. The other relevent searches say it isn't. So you are missing out on that one a bit.
Be aware of this if you choose to continue using it.
Who am I going to offend, exactly? Are you asian? Do you own a rice-rocket? Will it make you feel better if I tell you I'll be calling Japan in a few hours, after driving home from work in a Toyota?
Besides, Rice Boy is someone who drives a Rice Rocket. You can't be racist against a car that comes from Japan. Racism only works against people not cars.
Exactly. Back when racism against Asians was commonplace, 1) because of WWII, then 2) because American industry workers feared the loss of their jobs because of lower-priced Asian imports.
Saying that a car is a rice-rocket, or he is a Rice boy is not racist. If you ask anybody in the world what area produces and consumes the most rice, they would say Asia.
Granted, not Japan, but Asia. If you think saying Rice Rocket, or Rice Boy is racist, you seriously need to lighten up. None of them mean anything derogatory towards Asians or Japanese, specifically. In order for something to be racist, it has to mean something other than a slang label.
It's a lot easier to say someone is a Rice boy than "He's a guy who drives a honda civic that has chrome rims, a 12" spoiler, and neon lights pulsing with NOS stickers all over"
Ironically, in Japan, the kanji for the US is gohan. Which is rice...
You are more far more perseverent than I.
I got about 3 paragraphs into that article and was yawning. Whoever wrote it was rather mundane. It read like an monotonous news ticker.
Good translation though. I've always found reading to be easier than speaking or listening. Then again, I'm used to Castillan and I live in the US and have a hard time understanding Mexicans.
Because they actually wrote documentation, and it apparently helps people.
As far as I can see, that's the only thing that is going against the open source spirit.
Everquest is a game full of people who want to "win" and "be the best" at any cost.
Because they can't be in real life. Yay for delusions of grandeur!
My post was a joke! Yes I have actually said this to cashiers and they laugh, because its funny. You should laugh to. Don't be a robot.
Just because you intend it as a joke doesn't mean it's funny. It's obvious that you don't mean that, and if you did you have much worse problems in life. What may not be obvious to you that it is just a plain stupid joke, and as someone else pointed out.. laughing at, not with.
Actually they always laugh, because unlike some people they can get a freakin joke.
Good to know the grocery clerks in your area have no sense of humor as well...
Every time I get asked if I have one of their cards for "saving", I just say "Sorry, I don't join cults"!
I can understand saying no, that's perfectly reasonable. But a cult remark just makes you look like a psycho-dumbass. No offense to you at all, but if I was a grocery store clerk and someone said that I'd definitely mark them as being a complete sociopath.
Just an outsider point of view...
That's utterly absurd. You're assuming that anyone who was unemployed for longer didn't have the technical and/or interpersonal skills to get a position. Do you know how many great candidates you'd be eliminating with this requirement?
From a hiring point of view, you want someone with interpersonal skills and the experience in the industry to maintain their employment. If they lack technical or interpersonal skills to maintain employment, they lack requirements for me to hire them.
The number of good candidates I might pass over is probably a fraction of the bad ones I automatically scrap.
IMO, the surges in the industry attract a bunch of riff raff, which get purged when times get tough.
Agreed, and my additional opinion:
From a hiring point of view, I'd ask, "From 1998 to 2003 what was the longest you were unemployed" -- if they answered more than 3 months I wouldn't hire them.
Good engineers network with their skills, and they get taken care of.
Blackbox 4 windows [sourceforge.net] an alternative to litestep.
That is the worst website I have seen in a long time. There is no information about it, there is no information about where to download, how to install. The home page is a news stream and a chatterbox.
I'm going to go kick a small dog.
Translated it myself, in about ten minutes. The way I learned Japanese is, um, by spending fifteen years doing it... sorry, no easy way (that I've found, anyway ;-).
No kidding. I can read/write hiragana/katakana just fine. I wasn't expecting an easy way, just someone to help with kanji memorization. I can understand a whole helluva lot (being friends with a plethora of Japanese people helps that.. yay for emersion) but can't speak well at all. Kanji still kicks my ass, too many look so similar (especially on a computer with small font). The way I do it is have a kanji notebook that I write down all the kanjis I learn.
Good job with the translation again.
I usually use vi to code some html ...
Please, Please, never, ever, say that again.
You don't code HTML. There is no coding there.
Just curious, did you translate that yourself or did you use software. That was way too good to come out of babelfish.
If you did it by hand, nice job. I'm learning Japanese right now, and having a helluva time getting all the kanji embedded in my head. If you are non-native Japanese, what was your learning mechanism?
Alrighty, enough off topicness:
The silver one actually looks cool. I wonder how hard of a time it would be to bring one back through customs.
"What is this, sir?"
"It's a computer."
"Right... I need you to follow me."
"Ok, but why did you just hand me vaseline?"