The top stories were 911 conspiracies, Al Gore is an idiot, and cross-posted blog posts.
Entertainment was just as dull, with most of the stoeies being "Why I hate <insert TV show name>".
About the only interesting thing I could find to do there was to deliberately vote for the more useless stories (go the Creationism Museum!) just to make the place look even more crap than it is now.
Oh, and it's got a huge minimum page width of about 1000 pixels or so, which is a major pain for me as I run my browser in a portrait window.
A Reuters new article reports the development of the world's densest Slashdot editors at Caltech & UCLA. The editors have a dupe storage density of 100Gb/cm^2; about 100 times the density of today's Slashdot editors.
Information on how many dupes of the Library of Congress could fit into a 747-full of tubes is still awaited.
those without internet (ie. those who weren't part of the sampling frame, and those who are very unlikely to pirate) weren't even asked
Applying my vast intellect and deductive skills, I would hazard a guess that the percentage of those without an internet connection who have downloaded a movie from the internet would be a figure not terribly unadjacent to zero.
Therefore, 160 kb divided by 2000 English words, and assuming that we encode them in a 6-bit encoding, gives us over 13 letters per word, or call it 12 when allowing for punctuation.
Alternatively, assuming ASCII encoding, that still gives us exactly 10 characters per word, or call it 9 when allowing for punctuation.
Isn't it like leaving in a public place an envelope with "This envelope contains $100 that doesn't belong to you" written on the outside, but just filled with Monopoly money, then deciding to spy on/arrest/sue everyone who looked inside?
Or, given that piracy is illegal (for suitable values of "piracy" and "illegal"), it's more like catching people peeking inside the brown paper bag in the pr0n store entitled "Underage nymphos at it like knives with farmyard animals".
One thing that I don't understand every time I hear this argument, especially from a UK point of view, being a (non-resident) citizen of said country, is why are the government wanting to erode liberties and freedoms? This is a genuine question that I don't really know the answer to.
I think by choosing the career of a Flash designer you have already proven yourself morally bankrupt. I bet you also produce "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" sites.
Paper ballots are not reusable, must be printed anew each election, require human counters or at the least humans to feed ballots into a counting machine, require a minimal level of literacy, require proper disposal, and can be lost.
Here, you not only have a paper ballot, but you are also required to actually write in the name of the candidate. However, Japan still manages to get a decent turnout, and get the votes counted in a reasonably short span of time, even for local elections which had, in my local town's case last month, about 40 candidates vying for 35 seats.
Knowing the result at 10pm versus knowing it at 2am surely doesn't really make that much of a difference?
As for literacy, surely the same degree is needed when comparing ticking a box versus pushing a button or a touch-screen?
I think 90% of decisions get taken in the smoking rooms, and the networking chances are also high as everyone from the lowliest pleb to the top management drop by for a ciggie.
The other 10% of the decisions get made over drinks and more ciggies, I suspect...
I for one welcome our new hypoallergenic overlords
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I know every time I've got some pussy, I've had terrible rashes and itchiness, although I've never had to pay as much as $4,000 dollars for them.
The problems I had were (a) getting the book flat, and (b) getting the lighting right. With flash, you end up with a ring of brightness and by OCR software got very confused, as the grey newsprint outside the flash's ring was being handled as black.
If I were a whizz with Photoshop/GIMP/etc, I suppose I could have done some sort of correction to the picture, but...
I've heard how Kinko's have book scanners that will copy and bind a book for you - perhaps they also have a scanning to CD/DVD service? Would that be cheaper for you?
made me realize how thankful I am that the toilet DOES NOT depend on electricity.
Being the owner of a fancy Japanese toilet in a fancy new Japanese flat, much to my dismay I have discovered that the loo doesn't actually flush in the event of a power cut! There's a remote-control flush with a back-up handle, but if you turn the power off (as my wife did shortly after we moved in, forgetting to inform me that she had or even where the ON switch was) the flush handle no longer does anything for some reason that I am yet to figure out.
However, one time when I had a case of Farmer Giles, I found the warm wash much nicer than loo paper, but the rest of the time, it never quite dries you off correctly and you're left with a disconcerting dampness for a few minutes afterwards
The respondents seem to be taken from viewers of the show "Girls Gone Wired", which gives you a hint as to what sort of demographics the show has. Perhaps "Girl geeks are just about as geeky as guy geeks" might have been a closer to the truth, but less catchy, headline.
I can't find a more detailed breakdown than the linked article to be sure, but it smells fishy.
I'd also love to know what the "technology devices" they counted were - an iPod, mobile phone, console, digi camera or even laptop are commonplace enough; I'd be impressed by GPSs, PDAs, and Linux boxes instead.
Most of the articles I end up at are anything but concise - either trivia-bound or stubs, it seems.
The ideal Wikipedia article (these days) is a concise summary of all the information that's available on the web, with each fact linked to a footnote consisting of a link to the URL of the page the fact came from. (Quite what purpose the extra layer of indirection serves isn't clear to me.)
If that is so, then how does one know if the linked-to web site is correct? What if the referred-to page disappears or is edited?
I'm not really sure what you mean about "all-biased", unless you're getting at the need to have every point of view represented, or at least both major sides. I remember reading one on pseudo-science that had along with every clear statement about how dowsing is a load of ideomotor-based nonsense, for instance, there was also "supporters claim it works due to quantum crystal harmonic string theory".
I also remember seeing an example where a troll was vandalising, basically, a Japanese entry with totally false info (it would have been the equivalent in English of claiming "f" is not needed in the alphabet as "ph" can always be used instead) but rather than revert and ban, they added extra text to explain why "f" couldn't be replaced by "ph".
In addition, over a quarter of these gamers said they wanted DVD (or HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever) playback in their console. However, they weren't questioned about the price point for a PS3, so I don't know if they would change their tune once they saw the cost!
At least from a speaking and listening point of view, which is what you want if you are going to just watch anime. Most of the verbs and nouns are regular, the grammar is not often too complex, pronounciation is straightforward on the whole, etc. It only gets hard when you need to master reading and writing, or when you need to understand the cultural issues behind the language, which is not a thing a course is going to teach you very well.
I'm sure this thread will get lots of references to things like Tae Kim's grammar guide or Heisig's book, both of which have as many rabid fans as an average Linux distribution, although I personally don't rate either very highly.
My chosen route to polish my Japanese skills is my blog, which in fact has a related entry about why people learn Japanese, although "To understand comics and cartoons" was not one of the reasons given.
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The top stories were 911 conspiracies, Al Gore is an idiot, and cross-posted blog posts.
Entertainment was just as dull, with most of the stoeies being "Why I hate <insert TV show name>".
About the only interesting thing I could find to do there was to deliberately vote for the more useless stories (go the Creationism Museum!) just to make the place look even more crap than it is now.
Oh, and it's got a huge minimum page width of about 1000 pixels or so, which is a major pain for me as I run my browser in a portrait window.
Look at the Palace of Versailles and you can see Mickey Mouse grinning out at you, if you squint hard enough.
A Reuters new article reports the development of the world's densest Slashdot editors at Caltech & UCLA. The editors have a dupe storage density of 100Gb/cm^2; about 100 times the density of today's Slashdot editors. Information on how many dupes of the Library of Congress could fit into a 747-full of tubes is still awaited.
Therefore, 160 kb divided by 2000 English words, and assuming that we encode them in a 6-bit encoding, gives us over 13 letters per word, or call it 12 when allowing for punctuation.
Alternatively, assuming ASCII encoding, that still gives us exactly 10 characters per word, or call it 9 when allowing for punctuation.
Wikipedia claims that the average English word length is 5 plus one punctuation character.
I've just hacked up a quick plugin that adds rel nofollow to all Wikipedia links!
Isn't it like leaving in a public place an envelope with "This envelope contains $100 that doesn't belong to you" written on the outside, but just filled with Monopoly money, then deciding to spy on/arrest/sue everyone who looked inside?
Or, given that piracy is illegal (for suitable values of "piracy" and "illegal"), it's more like catching people peeking inside the brown paper bag in the pr0n store entitled "Underage nymphos at it like knives with farmyard animals".
Or something.
Only being born one sex (and one race) prepares someone for being President, following your logic.
I think by choosing the career of a Flash designer you have already proven yourself morally bankrupt. I bet you also produce "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" sites.
PS: Links to the boobies plz!
Get back to me once you've ported Linux to it.
And imagine OGG supporting a Beowolf cluster of them in Soviet Russia.
Or was Mummy dolphin swimming just a bit too close to a nuclear power plant's waste pipe?
Here, you not only have a paper ballot, but you are also required to actually write in the name of the candidate. However, Japan still manages to get a decent turnout, and get the votes counted in a reasonably short span of time, even for local elections which had, in my local town's case last month, about 40 candidates vying for 35 seats.
Knowing the result at 10pm versus knowing it at 2am surely doesn't really make that much of a difference?
As for literacy, surely the same degree is needed when comparing ticking a box versus pushing a button or a touch-screen?
The other 10% of the decisions get made over drinks and more ciggies, I suspect...
I know every time I've got some pussy, I've had terrible rashes and itchiness, although I've never had to pay as much as $4,000 dollars for them.
The problems I had were (a) getting the book flat, and (b) getting the lighting right. With flash, you end up with a ring of brightness and by OCR software got very confused, as the grey newsprint outside the flash's ring was being handled as black.
If I were a whizz with Photoshop/GIMP/etc, I suppose I could have done some sort of correction to the picture, but...
I've heard how Kinko's have book scanners that will copy and bind a book for you - perhaps they also have a scanning to CD/DVD service? Would that be cheaper for you?
Being the owner of a fancy Japanese toilet in a fancy new Japanese flat, much to my dismay I have discovered that the loo doesn't actually flush in the event of a power cut! There's a remote-control flush with a back-up handle, but if you turn the power off (as my wife did shortly after we moved in, forgetting to inform me that she had or even where the ON switch was) the flush handle no longer does anything for some reason that I am yet to figure out.
However, one time when I had a case of Farmer Giles, I found the warm wash much nicer than loo paper, but the rest of the time, it never quite dries you off correctly and you're left with a disconcerting dampness for a few minutes afterwards
The respondents seem to be taken from viewers of the show "Girls Gone Wired", which gives you a hint as to what sort of demographics the show has. Perhaps "Girl geeks are just about as geeky as guy geeks" might have been a closer to the truth, but less catchy, headline.
I can't find a more detailed breakdown than the linked article to be sure, but it smells fishy.
I'd also love to know what the "technology devices" they counted were - an iPod, mobile phone, console, digi camera or even laptop are commonplace enough; I'd be impressed by GPSs, PDAs, and Linux boxes instead.
Funnily enough, I just published an article in my blog that shows that only 3% of Japanese blog readers like watching threads crash and burn.
Oh, and my host seems to be down, so don't be surprised if that link doesn't take you anywhere.
I'm not really sure what you mean about "all-biased", unless you're getting at the need to have every point of view represented, or at least both major sides. I remember reading one on pseudo-science that had along with every clear statement about how dowsing is a load of ideomotor-based nonsense, for instance, there was also "supporters claim it works due to quantum crystal harmonic string theory".
I also remember seeing an example where a troll was vandalising, basically, a Japanese entry with totally false info (it would have been the equivalent in English of claiming "f" is not needed in the alphabet as "ph" can always be used instead) but rather than revert and ban, they added extra text to explain why "f" couldn't be replaced by "ph".
(And in another survey, grannies have the highest ownership percentage of DSes.)
In addition, over a quarter of these gamers said they wanted DVD (or HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever) playback in their console. However, they weren't questioned about the price point for a PS3, so I don't know if they would change their tune once they saw the cost!
At least from a speaking and listening point of view, which is what you want if you are going to just watch anime. Most of the verbs and nouns are regular, the grammar is not often too complex, pronounciation is straightforward on the whole, etc. It only gets hard when you need to master reading and writing, or when you need to understand the cultural issues behind the language, which is not a thing a course is going to teach you very well.
I'm sure this thread will get lots of references to things like Tae Kim's grammar guide or Heisig's book, both of which have as many rabid fans as an average Linux distribution, although I personally don't rate either very highly.
My chosen route to polish my Japanese skills is my blog, which in fact has a related entry about why people learn Japanese, although "To understand comics and cartoons" was not one of the reasons given.