Regarding the original poster's question: yes, the two characters do say "Dai Katana" (japanese for big/large knife/sword). According to my little mandarin Chinese translation book, it's "Dai Dao" or "Da Dao" or whatever the spelling is. I'm guessing that they don't really differentiate knife from sword, though blade could also be used as a catch-all phrase.
As for BitwizeGHC stating "it was a serious misfeature to use the Chinese alphabet into the Japanese language", correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the language of advanced civilizations usually get somewhat adopted/incorporated into neighboring civ/cultures (considering the time when Japan first encountered China). For example, Greek civilization had a huge impact on Roman civilization (ie the alphabet). So, in a sense, it kinda had to be expected that you'd see Chinese characters used in written Japanese.
I wholeheartedly agree that Intel shouldn't cripple it to 66 MHz. I personally believe that people will eventually get around this and post results on overclocking via higher FSB, though. I've read about the Celeron2 elsewhere that they'll be fabbed on machines that also fab CuMines, therefore they'll be identical to each other. The only difference is that Intel will resolder/remove/etc. a few areas on the chips to disable (read 'not remove') 128KB of cache and other similar stuff. Someone will eventually find a workaround, someday. Hopefully soon, cuz I'm starting to look for an upgrade.
Ok, I remember distinctly that the Jaguar was capable of rendering 3D objects and such, yet was still limited due to the fact that it wasn't a PC. What I'm wondering is how the game is able to support multiple players. The web page stated that it can support up to 32 players, yet I don't remember Atari ever having modem or serial link capabilities to the system. Also, considering that I didn't get a clear look at all the images, is the game rendered in 3D or in sprites (I think the game Iron Soldier was in 3D, yet kinda ran slowly)?
There's a town named Dubois (pronounced "Do Boys") and yes, there is a gay joke associated with it. Realistically, the name is French for "of the woods", but of course, having the word "wood" may associate it with more immature jokes.
A lot was left unexplained, without even a lame explanation. Why did Mulder disappear? Why did the computer babe come to life in the first place?
Not to mention how come they couldn't locate Mulder while he was still "in the game", how a bunch of pixels could possibly cause physical harm to a human being, how Mulder managed to wield the digital sword, how code from one computer could find its way into another w/out it being a virus, why the military didn't just claim the software/facility as theirs and keep it under wraps, how...
OK, I admit to not knowing everything involving the UCITA issue, but, from what I remember, sometime ago some politician/gov't employee mentioned that since most of the Internet passes through Fairfax, Virginia, they could press charges on anyone for violating Virginia law, even if he's in, say, Egypt.
My question is this: If the governor of Virginia signs UCITA into law, could that same law be used to prosecute non-Virginians?
btw, you have my permission to moderate this down for redundency if it is redundant.
Hey, remember a short while ago Slashdot.org posted an article describing how Ford forced a webpage to shut down because it contained company secrets (i.e. memos, drawings, etc.) on their new model cars? So, does anyone remember what happened since?
I guess this would file under "newbie question", but I was wondering how WINE handles the registry that WIN9X uses. Does it create its own or is the registry totally irrelevent to having programs actually run?
Your post reminded me of how the US pretty much made GM and Ford its national champions. The extent of the favortism extended as far as how there was some rumor that some CIA agents were asked to commit espionage against the Japanese auto industry. Funny thing is that the spies refused to spy for companies. Of course, the US auto industry had to take a serious hit economically before they finally improved the quality of their cars (not to mention that one Asian (Chinese?) kid was killed/murdered because a bunch of idiots thought he was Japanese).
So, you're implying that it's worse to kill your own people than it is to murder someone else's people? I'll make no excuses for Mao, but the "Great Leap Forward" was about industrial progress, IIRC, and the Cultural Rev. was the one responsible for the murders/killings (note that most deaths occured due to the famine that took place whereas the murders were against the wealthy/intellectuals. So, whereas Hitler intended to murder 10 million people, Mao only intended to murder those with the power (very concentrated pop.) to overthrow him.
Eh, considering that the original poster does seem to have the facts somewhat backwards, I'd have to give him a little credit w/ regards to the KMT gov't. You'd probably never read this in American textbooks (due to political reasons), the KMT did commit some attrocities on those Taiwanese who were on the island before they arrived. Often these involved the military abducting civilians opposed to Nationalist rule and some were never to be heard from again. Quite sad. What's even sadder is that the US never confronted the KMT about it (much like the US w/ Japan's activities, both toward neighboring Asian nations as well as American soldiers).
Pride is dangerous. It makes people do stupid, irrational things.
Case in point, Pat Buchannan(sp?) has his whole campaign based around national pride (ala Hitler) because "those Yellow @#$$es keep shoving their chopsticks down our throats." First of all, I believe the US produces quite a bit of chopsticks for the foreign market w/ ashwood leftover from deforestation projects. Second, he forgets the exports others consume (airliners, chip-making machinery/equipment, grains, McDonald's/KFC/etc., Hollywood movies, and a whole lot more). But then again, I never expected these Fire-eaters to actually get any attention/votes (unfortunately, I also forgot about the condition of the American education system).
No country I know of is afraid to criticize US trade policy when it's heavy-handed or unfair. Do you have an example in mind?
In fact, I do. A short while ago [read: months ago], Micron (and a few others, I believe) began dumping some of their excess PC100/PC133 chips into Taiwan's economy, thus *really* screwing w/ the low prices there. Taiwan, in turn, turned to either the US's Trade Dept. or WTO for a judgement on the RAM dumping practice. Since then, I haven't heard anything about the outcome.
Is China willing to throw lives away just for prestige and pride? You bet. It seems necessary to ask just how many men China will kill for the sake of national pride or whatever "communal utopian" goal they have in mind.
Good point. But you must remember that the US also has a history of [unwittingly] throwing lives away for the sake of beating the Soviets to the moon. Just look at all the footage of US-made rockets exploding just before launch (I think they were the early Apollo/Mercury? rockets).
Btw, my user name has nothing to do with Communism. My explanation is posted somewhere else..
IIRC, back some time ago in history, Communist *were* deemed as a separate race (I think they called them Bolsheviks or something). Anyway, when the "Red scare" occured, many people (such as ethnic Slavs) were persecuted and Democracy was thrown out the window. So, yes, some people my associate anti-commy sentiment w/ racism.
As a geek, one of the driving motivators for me in working my ass off academically was to prove those jock jackasses wrong, that I *will* prevail in becoming successful. The fact that China is constantly mocked as being "incapable" of manned space missions (as well as many other things) will only encourage them to work even harder to accomplish this goal. And before we know it, they'll be *way* ahead of us (again) due to our own ignorance.
Btw, my user name has nothing to do w/ Communism, but rather the condition my eyes are in currently.
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Regarding the original poster's question: yes, the two characters do say "Dai Katana" (japanese for big/large knife/sword). According to my little mandarin Chinese translation book, it's "Dai Dao" or "Da Dao" or whatever the spelling is. I'm guessing that they don't really differentiate knife from sword, though blade could also be used as a catch-all phrase.
As for BitwizeGHC stating "it was a serious misfeature to use the Chinese alphabet into the Japanese language", correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the language of advanced civilizations usually get somewhat adopted/incorporated into neighboring civ/cultures (considering the time when Japan first encountered China). For example, Greek civilization had a huge impact on Roman civilization (ie the alphabet). So, in a sense, it kinda had to be expected that you'd see Chinese characters used in written Japanese.
I wholeheartedly agree that Intel shouldn't cripple it to 66 MHz. I personally believe that people will eventually get around this and post results on overclocking via higher FSB, though. I've read about the Celeron2 elsewhere that they'll be fabbed on machines that also fab CuMines, therefore they'll be identical to each other. The only difference is that Intel will resolder/remove/etc. a few areas on the chips to disable (read 'not remove') 128KB of cache and other similar stuff. Someone will eventually find a workaround, someday. Hopefully soon, cuz I'm starting to look for an upgrade.
Ok, I remember distinctly that the Jaguar was capable of rendering 3D objects and such, yet was still limited due to the fact that it wasn't a PC. What I'm wondering is how the game is able to support multiple players. The web page stated that it can support up to 32 players, yet I don't remember Atari ever having modem or serial link capabilities to the system. Also, considering that I didn't get a clear look at all the images, is the game rendered in 3D or in sprites (I think the game Iron Soldier was in 3D, yet kinda ran slowly)?
There's a town named Dubois (pronounced "Do Boys") and yes, there is a gay joke associated with it. Realistically, the name is French for "of the woods", but of course, having the word "wood" may associate it with more immature jokes.
You're forgeting that the local radio station somewhat recently changed its name from "Bee 103" to "Beaver 103". And the mascot's name is "Bucky".
A lot was left unexplained, without even a lame explanation. Why did Mulder disappear? Why did the computer babe come to life in the first place?
Not to mention how come they couldn't locate Mulder while he was still "in the game", how a bunch of pixels could possibly cause physical harm to a human being, how Mulder managed to wield the digital sword, how code from one computer could find its way into another w/out it being a virus, why the military didn't just claim the software/facility as theirs and keep it under wraps, how ...
OK, I admit to not knowing everything involving the UCITA issue, but, from what I remember, sometime ago some politician/gov't employee mentioned that since most of the Internet passes through Fairfax, Virginia, they could press charges on anyone for violating Virginia law, even if he's in, say, Egypt.
My question is this: If the governor of Virginia signs UCITA into law, could that same law be used to prosecute non-Virginians?
btw, you have my permission to moderate this down for redundency if it is redundant.
Hey, remember a short while ago Slashdot.org posted an article describing how Ford forced a webpage to shut down because it contained company secrets (i.e. memos, drawings, etc.) on their new model cars? So, does anyone remember what happened since?
I guess this would file under "newbie question", but I was wondering how WINE handles the registry that WIN9X uses. Does it create its own or is the registry totally irrelevent to having programs actually run?
Your post reminded me of how the US pretty much made GM and Ford its national champions. The extent of the favortism extended as far as how there was some rumor that some CIA agents were asked to commit espionage against the Japanese auto industry. Funny thing is that the spies refused to spy for companies. Of course, the US auto industry had to take a serious hit economically before they finally improved the quality of their cars (not to mention that one Asian (Chinese?) kid was killed/murdered because a bunch of idiots thought he was Japanese).
Mao made Hitler look like a humanitarian.
So, you're implying that it's worse to kill your own people than it is to murder someone else's people? I'll make no excuses for Mao, but the "Great Leap Forward" was about industrial progress, IIRC, and the Cultural Rev. was the one responsible for the murders/killings (note that most deaths occured due to the famine that took place whereas the murders were against the wealthy/intellectuals. So, whereas Hitler intended to murder 10 million people, Mao only intended to murder those with the power (very concentrated pop.) to overthrow him.
Eh, considering that the original poster does seem to have the facts somewhat backwards, I'd have to give him a little credit w/ regards to the KMT gov't. You'd probably never read this in American textbooks (due to political reasons), the KMT did commit some attrocities on those Taiwanese who were on the island before they arrived. Often these involved the military abducting civilians opposed to Nationalist rule and some were never to be heard from again. Quite sad. What's even sadder is that the US never confronted the KMT about it (much like the US w/ Japan's activities, both toward neighboring Asian nations as well as American soldiers).
Pride is dangerous. It makes people do stupid, irrational things.
Case in point, Pat Buchannan(sp?) has his whole campaign based around national pride (ala Hitler) because "those Yellow @#$$es keep shoving their chopsticks down our throats." First of all, I believe the US produces quite a bit of chopsticks for the foreign market w/ ashwood leftover from deforestation projects. Second, he forgets the exports others consume (airliners, chip-making machinery/equipment, grains, McDonald's/KFC/etc., Hollywood movies, and a whole lot more). But then again, I never expected these Fire-eaters to actually get any attention/votes (unfortunately, I also forgot about the condition of the American education system).
No country I know of is afraid to criticize US trade policy when it's heavy-handed or unfair. Do you have an example in mind?
In fact, I do. A short while ago [read: months ago], Micron (and a few others, I believe) began dumping some of their excess PC100/PC133 chips into Taiwan's economy, thus *really* screwing w/ the low prices there. Taiwan, in turn, turned to either the US's Trade Dept. or WTO for a judgement on the RAM dumping practice. Since then, I haven't heard anything about the outcome.
Is China willing to throw lives away just for prestige and pride? You bet. It seems necessary to ask just how many men China will kill for the sake of national pride or whatever "communal utopian" goal they have in mind.
Good point. But you must remember that the US also has a history of [unwittingly] throwing lives away for the sake of beating the Soviets to the moon. Just look at all the footage of US-made rockets exploding just before launch (I think they were the early Apollo/Mercury? rockets).
Btw, my user name has nothing to do with Communism. My explanation is posted somewhere else..
IIRC, back some time ago in history, Communist *were* deemed as a separate race (I think they called them Bolsheviks or something). Anyway, when the "Red scare" occured, many people (such as ethnic Slavs) were persecuted and Democracy was thrown out the window. So, yes, some people my associate anti-commy sentiment w/ racism.
As a geek, one of the driving motivators for me in working my ass off academically was to prove those jock jackasses wrong, that I *will* prevail in becoming successful. The fact that China is constantly mocked as being "incapable" of manned space missions (as well as many other things) will only encourage them to work even harder to accomplish this goal. And before we know it, they'll be *way* ahead of us (again) due to our own ignorance.
Btw, my user name has nothing to do w/ Communism, but rather the condition my eyes are in currently.