Honestly just go to a store when you get there.. The good ones are unfortunately san-man en ijou.. I didn't have 30,000 yen available for spending, so I had to make do without. Most of the japanese people I knew went to the same uni (kansai gaikoku go daigaku) and were studying english, so they had varying qualities of denshi jishou on them at most times. They laughed when I pulled out my paper dictionaries, but sometimes I beat them at finding the proper definitions, jsut because they had a hard time spelling the english words;)
Jeffrey's is a really good online dictionary that I believe uses the same dictionaries. I have quick searches set up in firebird to make it even easier, for single word translations e->j and j->e, as well as skip code lookups.
Just type j-e oyasumi in to my location bar and up comes a translation.. meccha benri na..;)
Bzzt, both wrong, they're denshi jisho, at least in the osaka area. Trust me, btoh the foreigners and the japanese people called them this. Also, jisho is the word I've always been taught and heard for any kind of dictionary. I never heard jiten in 9 months of being in Japan.
Any proper education methods should have ingrained in you the radicals and proper concepts of stroke order such that you should be able to copy any kanji by halfway through second year of uni. I know most people were doing it properly with characters that they saw only already assembled after their first semester. That being said, while I draw my kanji correctly, my hiragana and katakana orders are always messed up;)
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that'd certainly group by extension/domain, but not sort (At least, not the way people usually want things sorted)
Odd, I never noticed it, but it's rather true. Interesting how cabinets are more sophisticated in Japan (networked play for several games, like the gundam game that's rather popular over there) tends to draw people to the game centers [arcades]. But yeah, I tried to think of games at the american arcades and did only see ones that couldn't be played at home (gun based shooters, bemani games, golf, etc.).
That being said, DDR is great, and for 50c I can get 5 songs out of the machine at my local arcade. Much cheaper than anywhere else, and more enjoyable than playing at home (you get the fact that you're performing in front of people, plus the pads are usually much better quality.)
The cost of the second choice is prohibitive, for the likelihood that you'd actually be subpoena'd for that information.
The likelihood of the first happening is quite low as well. Certain institutions will, of course, do this. Libraries are a good example of ones that have and will. But if I'm Big Company X, what benefit is it to me to risk ANYTHING by collecting LESS information? More information on customers == good for most businesses, they can tailor their advertising, products, etc. Aggregate numbers don't always work for these purposes. Why would they care if the government gets a copy of their oracle database of customer info, as long as it's not the same one that has their plans to take over the world?
No, because there's a clear winner there. Windows ME was the worst version of windows I've ever used, and I've used every one since 3.1 extensively. (Well, except ME.)
I agree with the other statement, but the analogy is flawed. There's no clear better choice in the bipartisan system, since they're basically either the exact same (corrupt), or the exact opposite (because they're not the other party, which is evil).
I wish you'd not posted AC, so I could hope to get a response, but ignoring that..
I said most 'artists' now sound so much different/'better' because of the studio work after they're done recording. Not all, but a lot. Why wouldn't they though? What makes the concerts go beyond what they can capture in a studio? If they played covers at live shows, that's one thing.. if they rehash what is already on a cd, I don't necessarily see why it would sound better then, when they otherwise get multiple chances to do it right, and editing equipment to fix the parts they didn't.
You could always argue that the mistakes/human quality of the live shows might make it better, and I'll give you that.
I'll ignore 2, I dunno why I figured mic recording, mostly because that's what I've seen around on the internet. They had some decent stuff, but it was still just someone in the crowd, I think.
3) why are those better than just the individual studio songs? Not seeing the benefit of chances to mess up and not correct yourself.. You could claim they did it perfectly, but then.. why not just have put THAT on the original album instead?
Yeah, cuz I want to listen to a mic recording of a live performance without the benefit of any post production studio work. Live shows are good beacuse they're LIVE. I can maybe see listening to one I went to, or if they significantly change the shows or something, but if all they do is play songs you can get on the cd, what's the point of getting a mic rip of them not doing their 'best' (read: most edited, in the case of most 'artists') at it?
why don't they make square wafers then? I'm seriously not being a troll, I assume that the wafer isn't being rolled around or spun, at least after being manufactured.. so why not use a square wafer, or recycle the silicon that's wasted?
I'll admit I know nothing of the production of silicon wafers, but it doesn't seem like it'd be harder to get square ones than round ones, or that it'd be impossible to make round ones, chop off the edges to make it square, ship that to AMD, and then melt the edges down in to another wafer.
I'm sure someone will mention Go, just because it's always said that it's much harder to get a computer to do. But I don't see the point of playing games against computers anyway, what does it really prove? It proves that the data fed in to it (from hundreds of sources) and the (several) programmers are better at logically defeating a game than ONE person is. I'm amazed he won two games, this says far more about him than it does about anything else.
What exactly are these contests trying to prove anyway? When the computers gain a clear victory over the humans, what have we learned?
I'm rather fond of my Altec Lansing ADA 890's. I paid a bit too much for them when I could have gotten some klipsch's for just a little bit more, but they serve my purpose. I can turn them all the way up, hear my music from across the field outside my room, and still not hear much (if any) distortion. A couple physical problems with them (the main control knob doesn't work properly.. it changes settings inbetween clicks of the knob, so I have to get it in jsut the right spot.. and the headphone jack on the left is slightly borked so that I only get one channel most of the time), but as far as sound quality.. they're quite nice. Dolby digital input too, which I like.
*shrug* It has only an emulated center channel, as opposed to having a separate speaker, which is mildly odd, but the emulation works decent enough that I don't mind.
Do you really think that a government agency in the netherlands is the WORLD'S most prolific phone tapper? I kinda doubt the NSA is either, but still, I'd think SOME US agency would be doing it more than any NL agency would be.
:) I've had that same problem (people asking me where I'm from). Upstate New York doesn't seem to sit well with most people who bother to ask the question. Most don't think I spek with an accent, but around some people I slip in to one. I also notice that as I get turned on, I slip in to an accent too.. I really don't understand it, but the person I was with commented on it.. I can usually get OUT of an accent that I've slipped in to just by thinking about it, but it wouldn't go away that time.
Weird too, cuz most everyone has the same accent as me, so it's not like I'm adopting theirs. And when I was in Japan, I didn't adopt any of the accents of the people I lived with (English, Dutch, Australian, French.. pretty much everywhere:)) (around them, at least).. soo.. *shrug*
I can skip to any place I want in the disc in a few seconds, and no rewind charges when I forget to hit that button and wait 2 minutes for it to fully rewind before returning it to the rental place. There's also the benefit of being smaller, easier to carry/store, and being able to play them on my computer. A lot of people don't like the last, but as a college student, I much rather prefer to have a dvd drive in my computer than need a separate box that'll plug in to my tv card (in my computer) that just sits around most of the time. Space is a premium in this one room that I can call my own. I don't own a tv because of it, there's no room (and no need on spending the extra money, in my mind. DVD drive: $30. Decent set-top player: $100+. Decent TV adds on to that. TV card + dvd drive: much cheaper (since I already have the computer anyway, the cost of the other parts needed dont come in to play)
We'll ignore the fact that my speakers are also better by far than 95% of the ones I've seen people use for 'home entertainment' systems. Digital convergence is nice at times.
Yea, I was stuck with a 14.4 until I got cable because when I went to buy a modem to upgrade the 2400, the guy told me that a 28.8 would be too fast for my 386sx/33 to handle.
And I believed him, wow I was ignorant back then.:)
ah yeah, cuz we know that little tiny pellets flying through the air at high velocities never hurt anyone.
And I hope you realize that under driving conditions there is NO WAY you could get anything in your car to impact with you at a velocity of 400mph relative to yourself? You would either have to change directions extremely fast (a head on collision with both vehicles doing over 200mph and the other 10x more massive than you), or be going 150mph faster than any street legal vehicle could manage. Either way, the G forces on such an impact would be as lethal as this mysterious flying tank from the middle of nowhere. Read: completely.
i saw it in the imax in rochester on the imax opening day. it wasn't full. we bought our tickets right there, went in about 10 minutes before it started, and found 8 decent seats in a row for us all to sit in..
I'd avoided seeing it up until then, I'm glad I did.. I liked it. Not as good as the first, but it was still decent. I think revolutions will prolly be better, though..
I'd be more interested in finding out whe dressing up became the norm. I don't see why what I look like matters as much as my ability to do the job and do it well.
dear god, why redhat? The only thing going for it is slightly better 3rd party support. Installing packages is easier in other distros, the desktop is nicer in other distros.. you name it, it's prolly better in other distros.
Of course, I'm just one of those anti-redhat people, so this is all just my opinion.. but I can't see why people like it.
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Honestly just go to a store when you get there.. The good ones are unfortunately san-man en ijou.. I didn't have 30,000 yen available for spending, so I had to make do without. Most of the japanese people I knew went to the same uni (kansai gaikoku go daigaku) and were studying english, so they had varying qualities of denshi jishou on them at most times. They laughed when I pulled out my paper dictionaries, but sometimes I beat them at finding the proper definitions, jsut because they had a hard time spelling the english words ;)
Jeffrey's is a really good online dictionary that I believe uses the same dictionaries. I have quick searches set up in firebird to make it even easier, for single word translations e->j and j->e, as well as skip code lookups.
;)
Just type j-e oyasumi in to my location bar and up comes a translation.. meccha benri na..
Bzzt, both wrong, they're denshi jisho, at least in the osaka area. Trust me, btoh the foreigners and the japanese people called them this. Also, jisho is the word I've always been taught and heard for any kind of dictionary. I never heard jiten in 9 months of being in Japan.
;)
Any proper education methods should have ingrained in you the radicals and proper concepts of stroke order such that you should be able to copy any kanji by halfway through second year of uni. I know most people were doing it properly with characters that they saw only already assembled after their first semester. That being said, while I draw my kanji correctly, my hiragana and katakana orders are always messed up
that'd certainly group by extension/domain, but not sort (At least, not the way people usually want things sorted)
g hamton.edu
a hgnib
p gnihtemos
g positive.net
t hingpositive.net
address_list:
microsoft.com
slashdot.org
bin
somethingpositive.net
reverse:
moc.tfosorcim
gro.todhsals
ude.notm
ten.evitisopgnihtemos
sort:
gro.todhsals
moc.tfosorcim
ten.evitiso
ude.notmahgnib
reverse:
slashdot.org
microsoft.com
somethin
binghamton.edu
a proper sort (not group) by domain/extension would be (ascending):
microsoft.com
binghamton.edu
some
slashdot.org
it's useful, but your examples need work.
Odd, I never noticed it, but it's rather true. Interesting how cabinets are more sophisticated in Japan (networked play for several games, like the gundam game that's rather popular over there) tends to draw people to the game centers [arcades]. But yeah, I tried to think of games at the american arcades and did only see ones that couldn't be played at home (gun based shooters, bemani games, golf, etc.).
That being said, DDR is great, and for 50c I can get 5 songs out of the machine at my local arcade. Much cheaper than anywhere else, and more enjoyable than playing at home (you get the fact that you're performing in front of people, plus the pads are usually much better quality.)
The cost of the second choice is prohibitive, for the likelihood that you'd actually be subpoena'd for that information.
The likelihood of the first happening is quite low as well. Certain institutions will, of course, do this. Libraries are a good example of ones that have and will. But if I'm Big Company X, what benefit is it to me to risk ANYTHING by collecting LESS information? More information on customers == good for most businesses, they can tailor their advertising, products, etc. Aggregate numbers don't always work for these purposes. Why would they care if the government gets a copy of their oracle database of customer info, as long as it's not the same one that has their plans to take over the world?
No, because there's a clear winner there. Windows ME was the worst version of windows I've ever used, and I've used every one since 3.1 extensively. (Well, except ME.)
I agree with the other statement, but the analogy is flawed. There's no clear better choice in the bipartisan system, since they're basically either the exact same (corrupt), or the exact opposite (because they're not the other party, which is evil).
I wish you'd not posted AC, so I could hope to get a response, but ignoring that..
I said most 'artists' now sound so much different/'better' because of the studio work after they're done recording. Not all, but a lot. Why wouldn't they though? What makes the concerts go beyond what they can capture in a studio? If they played covers at live shows, that's one thing.. if they rehash what is already on a cd, I don't necessarily see why it would sound better then, when they otherwise get multiple chances to do it right, and editing equipment to fix the parts they didn't.
You could always argue that the mistakes/human quality of the live shows might make it better, and I'll give you that.
I'll ignore 2, I dunno why I figured mic recording, mostly because that's what I've seen around on the internet. They had some decent stuff, but it was still just someone in the crowd, I think.
3) why are those better than just the individual studio songs? Not seeing the benefit of chances to mess up and not correct yourself.. You could claim they did it perfectly, but then.. why not just have put THAT on the original album instead?
uhm, is there such a key? Considering I have to agree to get the windows update v4 control on my system..
Yeah, cuz I want to listen to a mic recording of a live performance without the benefit of any post production studio work. Live shows are good beacuse they're LIVE. I can maybe see listening to one I went to, or if they significantly change the shows or something, but if all they do is play songs you can get on the cd, what's the point of getting a mic rip of them not doing their 'best' (read: most edited, in the case of most 'artists') at it?
why don't they make square wafers then? I'm seriously not being a troll, I assume that the wafer isn't being rolled around or spun, at least after being manufactured.. so why not use a square wafer, or recycle the silicon that's wasted?
I'll admit I know nothing of the production of silicon wafers, but it doesn't seem like it'd be harder to get square ones than round ones, or that it'd be impossible to make round ones, chop off the edges to make it square, ship that to AMD, and then melt the edges down in to another wafer.
And hence, I ask.
I'm sure someone will mention Go, just because it's always said that it's much harder to get a computer to do. But I don't see the point of playing games against computers anyway, what does it really prove? It proves that the data fed in to it (from hundreds of sources) and the (several) programmers are better at logically defeating a game than ONE person is. I'm amazed he won two games, this says far more about him than it does about anything else.
What exactly are these contests trying to prove anyway? When the computers gain a clear victory over the humans, what have we learned?
Your comment was more appropriate than you think. 'The other owner', since at that cost there prolly will only be two..
I'm rather fond of my Altec Lansing ADA 890's. I paid a bit too much for them when I could have gotten some klipsch's for just a little bit more, but they serve my purpose. I can turn them all the way up, hear my music from across the field outside my room, and still not hear much (if any) distortion. A couple physical problems with them (the main control knob doesn't work properly.. it changes settings inbetween clicks of the knob, so I have to get it in jsut the right spot.. and the headphone jack on the left is slightly borked so that I only get one channel most of the time), but as far as sound quality.. they're quite nice. Dolby digital input too, which I like.
*shrug* It has only an emulated center channel, as opposed to having a separate speaker, which is mildly odd, but the emulation works decent enough that I don't mind.
Do you really think that a government agency in the netherlands is the WORLD'S most prolific phone tapper? I kinda doubt the NSA is either, but still, I'd think SOME US agency would be doing it more than any NL agency would be.
:) I've had that same problem (people asking me where I'm from). Upstate New York doesn't seem to sit well with most people who bother to ask the question. Most don't think I spek with an accent, but around some people I slip in to one. I also notice that as I get turned on, I slip in to an accent too.. I really don't understand it, but the person I was with commented on it.. I can usually get OUT of an accent that I've slipped in to just by thinking about it, but it wouldn't go away that time.
:)) (around them, at least).. soo.. *shrug*
Weird too, cuz most everyone has the same accent as me, so it's not like I'm adopting theirs. And when I was in Japan, I didn't adopt any of the accents of the people I lived with (English, Dutch, Australian, French.. pretty much everywhere
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I can skip to any place I want in the disc in a few seconds, and no rewind charges when I forget to hit that button and wait 2 minutes for it to fully rewind before returning it to the rental place. There's also the benefit of being smaller, easier to carry/store, and being able to play them on my computer. A lot of people don't like the last, but as a college student, I much rather prefer to have a dvd drive in my computer than need a separate box that'll plug in to my tv card (in my computer) that just sits around most of the time. Space is a premium in this one room that I can call my own. I don't own a tv because of it, there's no room (and no need on spending the extra money, in my mind. DVD drive: $30. Decent set-top player: $100+. Decent TV adds on to that. TV card + dvd drive: much cheaper (since I already have the computer anyway, the cost of the other parts needed dont come in to play)
We'll ignore the fact that my speakers are also better by far than 95% of the ones I've seen people use for 'home entertainment' systems. Digital convergence is nice at times.
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Yea, I was stuck with a 14.4 until I got cable because when I went to buy a modem to upgrade the 2400, the guy told me that a 28.8 would be too fast for my 386sx/33 to handle.
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And I believed him, wow I was ignorant back then.
So wait, if a bit is a Binary digit, what would a Trinary digit be? No wonder us geeks never got computers to third base ;)
And after writing that I think the horrible puns and misnomers have made me suicidal. So long slashdot!
i had read the thread from the beginning, but in stages.. so I'd forgotten the original point. I feel rather dumb now. :)
ah yeah, cuz we know that little tiny pellets flying through the air at high velocities never hurt anyone.
And I hope you realize that under driving conditions there is NO WAY you could get anything in your car to impact with you at a velocity of 400mph relative to yourself? You would either have to change directions extremely fast (a head on collision with both vehicles doing over 200mph and the other 10x more massive than you), or be going 150mph faster than any street legal vehicle could manage. Either way, the G forces on such an impact would be as lethal as this mysterious flying tank from the middle of nowhere. Read: completely.
i saw it in the imax in rochester on the imax opening day. it wasn't full. we bought our tickets right there, went in about 10 minutes before it started, and found 8 decent seats in a row for us all to sit in..
I'd avoided seeing it up until then, I'm glad I did.. I liked it. Not as good as the first, but it was still decent. I think revolutions will prolly be better, though..
I'd be more interested in finding out whe dressing up became the norm. I don't see why what I look like matters as much as my ability to do the job and do it well.
dear god, why redhat? The only thing going for it is slightly better 3rd party support. Installing packages is easier in other distros, the desktop is nicer in other distros.. you name it, it's prolly better in other distros.
Of course, I'm just one of those anti-redhat people, so this is all just my opinion.. but I can't see why people like it.