Some well known products in the US have vastly different names because translating the product name into the native dialect creates an insulting or embarassing name. I wish I could think of some offhand.
Well, I'll help you out on that count...
Clairol introduced the Mist Stick curling iron in Germany, only to find out that mist is slang in German for "manure".
In France, Colgate marketed a toothpaste called Cue without knowing that Cue was also the name of a raunchy pr0n magazine.
In China, Coca Cola originally was pronounced "Ke-kou-ke-la", meaning either "Bite the wax tadpole" or "Female horse stuffed with wax", depending on the dialect.
And finally, I leave the best for last: Frank Perdue's chicken slogan "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken," was translated into Spanish as "It takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."
Ok, I'll admit that I am still in high school, and I am actually going to be taking AP CS next year (10th grade).
Ok, with that out of the way, I would like to say this: teach them more than one language. I know that at my school, due to the small number of students interested in CS, they only have one small AP CS class that teaches only C++. Now, granted, C++ is a great language, but it would be cool to also know something like Python (for jobs that don't need all the speed and efficiency of C++), or Java, which I hear is very similar in concept to C++. But maybe I am misinformed.
Anyway, here is the link to my school's curricula for the AP Comp Sci course.
I've had even worse problems, and it is definitely NOT coming from my cable connection. After giving up on reloading the home page (that's after about 10 tries!) I went over to Yahoo to see if it WAS my connection, and guess what? Yahoo loaded in about 2 seconds.
I don't think I can really blame the RIAA for filing suit with Napster and all the other internet startups that distribute music in the Napster fashion (i.e. through a central server indexing all of the users' files). I mean, really, these companies are out there to make money, and they are making money off of other people's copyrighted work.
Wouldn't any Slashdotter be pissed if their favorite GPL software was downloaded by Microsoft, "extended", and released as a proprietary product, without the sourcecode or anything?
Maybe that is an imperfect analogy, but I can't think of a better one right now.
What's the point of 41,500 virtual machines other than to prove that you have a lot of time on your hands? Actually, what's the point of running several VMs at once other than being able to address all of a mainframe's memory?
Free web-based e-mail? Damn, I wish I'd thought of that, I mean, NO ONE does that now. I bet they will get bought out by Microsoft, seeing how innovative they are.
Looks like they are going the way of Redhat...
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...and splitting their distribution into a "Professional Edition" aimed toward IT professionals, and a "Home Edition" aimed at the home users who are new to Linux. I hear the professional edition is going to be expensive as hell, too (something like 41 pound sterling, which is like about $85.).
In any event, I think I'll just get the whole thing for free off the FTP site.
ON THE HIGH END?? You must be kidding. Out of the narrow selection of AMD motherboards, they all have stability problems, and their performance over Pentiums is negligible.
Umm... it crashes all the time?? You must not be using a real OS. I'm using Windows 98, for christssakes, and with my 96meg of RAM and 4meg video card, the thing never crashes.
why he didn't blow away IRIX on that box and go with linux, which is, IMNSHO a signifigantly better OS than IRIX
Yeah, Linux is WAAAAY better than IRIX, unless, of course, you have half-way decent or better SGI hardware. IRIX scales a lot better with multiple processors, going all the way up to about 512, where as Linux, on a good day, can handle 8.
And that's why graphics professionals still use IRIX...
is it like sorta like going out with too many guys or something?
No, I think that's more akin to what a packet sniffer does. But close!
I can't wait to get a monitor made of these!
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That would be truely awesome. If I wanted to take it somewhere, I could just roll it up and put a rubber band around it. Or, if I wanted to use it, I could just put it on a frame (ala projector style). I wonder when they will get around to doing this?
Does anyone else remember when Apple sued eMachines over eMachines' "iMac lookalike"? This is just hilarious! They deserve it!
Greetings, I've decided to check out your world...
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...where the concept of intellectual property has absolutely no meaning! Wow, what a refreshing change from Reality, where things like distributing pirated software or (there seems to be a similarity here...) distributing copyrighted music are *gasp* illegal! What fun it must be to live in a dream world where everything that isn't already under the GPL is deemed immoral, and therefore ripe for the pirating! </sarcasm>
Honestly, though, I can't feel the least bit sorry for Napster, as they are not only providing a means of distributing pirated music (already kinda morally iffy), they are actually MAKING MONEY off of it! If I were the RIAA, I would be pissed too! I can't imagine how the court managed to justify allowing outright piracy to continue in such a flagrant fashion.
Why doesn't Slashdot (the supposed champion of free speech) post more stories about MPAA vs. 2600? Now THAT is actually a worthy cause! It is about the right to link to controversial material that, while large corporations may not like it, is absolutely NOT violating any copyright laws. Its about protest, and free speech, in the name of standing up to the tyrannical region codes in DVDs, and in the name of protesting crappy encryption schemes.
But wait... DeCSS is free... and 2600 is unlikely to go public anytime soon... hmmm... What do you think Rob Malda and company stand to gain from publicizing Napster?
(Moderators: this is not a troll, just because you don't agree with a post doesn't mean that it should be modded to oblivion...)
LOL! You are by far my favorite troll. Constant alarmist posts aren't the most effective way to whore for karma, but they sure provoke some flame posts. They are hilarious too:-).
Now I know what Mudge of the L0pht was talking about when he said that the L0pht could paralyse the internet in a day or so. I believe he talked about it in an old/. interview in Dec. '98.
Why would anyone want to buy a full-sized notebook with handwriting recognition? The only reason that I can see for PDAs like the Palm Pilot having handwriting recognition is that they are too small for a keyboard. I like keyboards, they are a LOT faster than handwriting recognition.
I think the Mac has a good chance of attracting a sizable crop of new adherents with X
Minor correction: it won't be running X. There is no need for silly things like remote display to be built into the window system, there are plenty of programs that do that.
An eMachine costs around $ 450, plus a $ 120 monitor is $570. $799 is still a far cry from that, especially with the dearth of dealer discounts I've noticed in Mac-land.
Yes, an eMachines is cheaper than an iMac, but when was the last time you heard about an iMac breaking itself or outright failing? Also, I am writing this on an eMachines monitor, and if the damn 15-incher was any more curved, I think it would puncture one of my eyes.
What does anyone stand to gain by taking down K5? It's not like they make huge boasts about their security, or, god forbid, actually make money for what they do. Even trying to look from a cracker's point of view, I can't see where the thrill is. Honestly, go after more interesting and more evil targets, like eToys, or something like that.
Now that I think about it, the person(s) who did this seem a lot like school yard bullies, who have to pick on the weakest to make themselves feel better. It is very pathetic.
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Well, I'll help you out on that count...
Clairol introduced the Mist Stick curling iron in Germany, only to find out that mist is slang in German for "manure".
In France, Colgate marketed a toothpaste called Cue without knowing that Cue was also the name of a raunchy pr0n magazine.
In China, Coca Cola originally was pronounced "Ke-kou-ke-la", meaning either "Bite the wax tadpole" or "Female horse stuffed with wax", depending on the dialect.
And finally, I leave the best for last: Frank Perdue's chicken slogan "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken," was translated into Spanish as "It takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."
Ok, I'll admit that I am still in high school, and I am actually going to be taking AP CS next year (10th grade).
Ok, with that out of the way, I would like to say this: teach them more than one language. I know that at my school, due to the small number of students interested in CS, they only have one small AP CS class that teaches only C++. Now, granted, C++ is a great language, but it would be cool to also know something like Python (for jobs that don't need all the speed and efficiency of C++), or Java, which I hear is very similar in concept to C++. But maybe I am misinformed.
Anyway, here is the link to my school's curricula for the AP Comp Sci course.
You think you got problems? My NIC has genital herpes!
That's the last time I leave tcpdump running...
I've had even worse problems, and it is definitely NOT coming from my cable connection. After giving up on reloading the home page (that's after about 10 tries!) I went over to Yahoo to see if it WAS my connection, and guess what? Yahoo loaded in about 2 seconds.
Go figure...
...it is beggining to look almost as spotty as Slashdot!
I don't think I can really blame the RIAA for filing suit with Napster and all the other internet startups that distribute music in the Napster fashion (i.e. through a central server indexing all of the users' files). I mean, really, these companies are out there to make money, and they are making money off of other people's copyrighted work.
Wouldn't any Slashdotter be pissed if their favorite GPL software was downloaded by Microsoft, "extended", and released as a proprietary product, without the sourcecode or anything?
Maybe that is an imperfect analogy, but I can't think of a better one right now.
What's the point of 41,500 virtual machines other than to prove that you have a lot of time on your hands? Actually, what's the point of running several VMs at once other than being able to address all of a mainframe's memory?
And do you think electrons have it easy? Show a little consistency.
Free web-based e-mail? Damn, I wish I'd thought of that, I mean, NO ONE does that now. I bet they will get bought out by Microsoft, seeing how innovative they are.
...and splitting their distribution into a "Professional Edition" aimed toward IT professionals, and a "Home Edition" aimed at the home users who are new to Linux. I hear the professional edition is going to be expensive as hell, too (something like 41 pound sterling, which is like about $85.).
In any event, I think I'll just get the whole thing for free off the FTP site.
ON THE HIGH END?? You must be kidding. Out of the narrow selection of AMD motherboards, they all have stability problems, and their performance over Pentiums is negligible.
Umm... it crashes all the time?? You must not be using a real OS. I'm using Windows 98, for christssakes, and with my 96meg of RAM and 4meg video card, the thing never crashes.
Yeah, Linux is WAAAAY better than IRIX, unless, of course, you have half-way decent or better SGI hardware. IRIX scales a lot better with multiple processors, going all the way up to about 512, where as Linux, on a good day, can handle 8.
And that's why graphics professionals still use IRIX...
No, I think that's more akin to what a packet sniffer does. But close!
That would be truely awesome. If I wanted to take it somewhere, I could just roll it up and put a rubber band around it. Or, if I wanted to use it, I could just put it on a frame (ala projector style). I wonder when they will get around to doing this?
Does anyone else remember when Apple sued eMachines over eMachines' "iMac lookalike"? This is just hilarious! They deserve it!
...where the concept of intellectual property has absolutely no meaning! Wow, what a refreshing change from Reality, where things like distributing pirated software or (there seems to be a similarity here...) distributing copyrighted music are *gasp* illegal! What fun it must be to live in a dream world where everything that isn't already under the GPL is deemed immoral, and therefore ripe for the pirating!
</sarcasm>
Honestly, though, I can't feel the least bit sorry for Napster, as they are not only providing a means of distributing pirated music (already kinda morally iffy), they are actually MAKING MONEY off of it! If I were the RIAA, I would be pissed too! I can't imagine how the court managed to justify allowing outright piracy to continue in such a flagrant fashion.
Why doesn't Slashdot (the supposed champion of free speech) post more stories about MPAA vs. 2600? Now THAT is actually a worthy cause! It is about the right to link to controversial material that, while large corporations may not like it, is absolutely NOT violating any copyright laws. Its about protest, and free speech, in the name of standing up to the tyrannical region codes in DVDs, and in the name of protesting crappy encryption schemes.
But wait... DeCSS is free... and 2600 is unlikely to go public anytime soon... hmmm... What do you think Rob Malda and company stand to gain from publicizing Napster?
(Moderators: this is not a troll, just because you don't agree with a post doesn't mean that it should be modded to oblivion...)
LOL! You are by far my favorite troll. Constant alarmist posts aren't the most effective way to whore for karma, but they sure provoke some flame posts. They are hilarious too:-).
Now I know what Mudge of the L0pht was talking about when he said that the L0pht could paralyse the internet in a day or so. I believe he talked about it in an old /. interview in Dec. '98.
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Why would anyone want to buy a full-sized notebook with handwriting recognition? The only reason that I can see for PDAs like the Palm Pilot having handwriting recognition is that they are too small for a keyboard. I like keyboards, they are a LOT faster than handwriting recognition.
actually, they can solve the DOS issues by upgrading(?) to Windows. DoS issues might be trickier.
Don't worry, this guy is just a troll. Remember, NPO stands for Natalie Portman Obsessives.
Don't Feed The Trolls.
Minor correction: it won't be running X. There is no need for silly things like remote display to be built into the window system, there are plenty of programs that do that.
An eMachine costs around $ 450, plus a $ 120 monitor is $570. $799 is still a far cry from that, especially with the dearth of dealer discounts I've noticed in Mac-land.Yes, an eMachines is cheaper than an iMac, but when was the last time you heard about an iMac breaking itself or outright failing? Also, I am writing this on an eMachines monitor, and if the damn 15-incher was any more curved, I think it would puncture one of my eyes.
What does anyone stand to gain by taking down K5? It's not like they make huge boasts about their security, or, god forbid, actually make money for what they do. Even trying to look from a cracker's point of view, I can't see where the thrill is. Honestly, go after more interesting and more evil targets, like eToys, or something like that.
Now that I think about it, the person(s) who did this seem a lot like school yard bullies, who have to pick on the weakest to make themselves feel better. It is very pathetic.