I remember there were certain tricks in the BIOS and so forth which really speeded up the whole thing, but it never beat the later 250MB internal SCSI ZIP drive I got for free from some old office stuff that was given away... Thought at that time nobody used ZIP disks anymore...
yeah, they are super strong. I got some out of an old HP SCSI disk, and boy, there are not splittable. actually they ripped themselves off from the metal plate holding them. gotta love them
well, at that time it was sort of a "live" saver. Though unbelievable slow (parallel port), having 100MB disk space was amazing at a time where harddisk weren't that big and expensive.
I used mine quite a lot, especially in school to trade around... stuff and school work.
There is a bit difference here. A demo is a demo. And it wont change anything about the actual game that both gold and silver can purchase. Or did it change that silver accounts are not allowed to play the game until a month passed since the release day?
A slashdot story is the final release, thats not a preview or a demo from the story...
btw, you could have queued always on the "japanese" side with a valid visa. I always did this. But these nice times are over... back to the pool of terrorists with me...
Although I hate to fingerprinted and the whole I idea is just dumbfuck stupid (except that they want to weed out the "people" who come in/out with a tourist visa) the machine they use, and they way they do it, seems quite efficient.
Plus there will be extra lines for the visa + re-entry permit holders.
There will be an extra line for the re-entry permit holders. So that should go pretty fast. But still... As I want to continue living here, I can just bow my head and do it...
if you use qmail "out of the box" it might be secure, but its not usable nowadays anymore. You often have to compile in so many patches that at the end there is no security there anymore.
I rather start with an up to date MTA, rather then fight with something like qmail ever (EVER) again.
Just the fact that you have a fixed layout, fixed start tools that need to be there to actually start it, etc etc makes it so horrible, that I wouldn't touch it ever again with a 100 yard pole.
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It has, but its directly integrated into TV sets, etc. Direct download of movies and so on. Most people dont care about a PC at home, because they mail through their mobile phone and browse on the TV which is sort of their "PC".
No but thats just basics. Beyond that it becomes difficult. Take Latin, dead, but used in written, etc ways. But I doubt anyone will ever know how the Romans really spoke it. Slang words, phrases, etc.
You can preserve a language only to a certain point in my opinion.
Actually I never cared about my slashdot id, but when I saw mine, it shows that I already hang out here for quite a while... Remember when my first boss introduced me to slashdot... I was such a super noob...
When a language is not spoken but only documented it never is like when it is spoken. You never can explain something like a certain words in another language. Or even better phrases. Because those evolved from culture where they are or were spoken.
So? There are tons of german words that were used just a hundred years ago and nobody uses them nowadays. Language is evolving. Right now Austrian dialect gets lot of influence from German Tv, so a lot of people use a lot of "german" german words that nobody used just 10~15 years ago.
etc etc etc. Japanese got so so so many foreign words for things they didn't had at that time, and plus use more and more English words (in katakana) because they are "cool" and therefore create new words.
I see no problem with that. Perhaps 100 Languages disappear, but seriously, if something doesn't get used, why force it to stay alive. If it is important it will get tought (like Latin), if not, its not a loss at all.
Of course the horrible grammar mangling is nothing beautiful. But English is just used by so many people who learn it as a second language that it just gets change and adapted a lot. Same with German. A lot of Aliens learned it as a second language and so there is a new sub dialect evolving...
Language is just alive and although some people love to put it down in stone, it will never stay the same. The more people communicate online, the more one language will evolve... Simple to overcome the local/remote language barrier.
Actually this input method is only used on PCs. On mobile phones you use the direct kana input method. so each key has a group of kana (a,i,u,e,o; ka,ki,ku,ke,ko; etc). Most important thing is the "remember" function, so if you write certain words often you can choose them from a list below, so it speeds up input a lot.
The total hardcore mobile users input that with two fingers. Really amazing to see that in action...
Government support might be needed sometimes. Japan & South Korea have such a high Broadband connectivity, because the Government is support the construction of high speed access. Of course the ISPs / Telcos are seperated and all private. So you get cheap-ass-high-speed-no-limit internet almost everywhere (almost, because in the countryside where only a view villages are it will be different)
talking about japanese phones of course. It was a compare to the iphone to weaken the argument "yeah but the jap phone has only 70mb and iphone has the awesome 4/8gb thingie inside"
yeah, forgot two things I use a lot daily - mobile cash at convenience store / JR tick (if I forget my suica card or its empty) - QR code reading for all those nifty small ads where you can get things
erm, ALL phones have a mini-sd card slot. I have a 512MB card inside, so well that for one point. There are several AU phones that have at least 4GB of memory inside for music (their music download service started long before itunes came to japan).
The other thing is, I love they way my phone works. I just cant imagine that a iphone would give me the same service in the same way. But hell, what do I know:)
Well, uh, great, but my phone thats more than two years old, already does all these things, and it is smaller than the iphone. It's just once you live in Japan you accept that keitais here are superior, far superior. The iphone actually more compares too Willcom devices, which are more PDA. I dont see the iphone as a phone, as it it is extremly large.
well you can change that "random letters" this is just what you get when you sign up. And Docomo can even recieve HTML messages (to a certain extent of course).
I dont eat at home, so the first thing I do is eat & while I eat I check emails. Then I reload slashdot and check the monitoring apps to see if there were any strange things in the last night.
Company X doesn't want to more than Y. US IT people want to get more, because they want to actually live. So Company X imports a truck load of indian/chinese guys who work for even less than Y. US Gov says stop, so Company X would have to hire US IT people for more money. So they just cry foul play and ship the whole stuff to the next country where they can go on.
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I remember there were certain tricks in the BIOS and so forth which really speeded up the whole thing, but it never beat the later 250MB internal SCSI ZIP drive I got for free from some old office stuff that was given away ... Thought at that time nobody used ZIP disks anymore ...
yeah, they are super strong. I got some out of an old HP SCSI disk, and boy, there are not splittable. actually they ripped themselves off from the metal plate holding them. gotta love them
Actually the bullets were not from the future. You can bring anything but yourself back in time.
well, at that time it was sort of a "live" saver. Though unbelievable slow (parallel port), having 100MB disk space was amazing at a time where harddisk weren't that big and expensive.
... stuff and school work.
I used mine quite a lot, especially in school to trade around
There is a bit difference here. A demo is a demo. And it wont change anything about the actual game that both gold and silver can purchase. Or did it change that silver accounts are not allowed to play the game until a month passed since the release day?
...
A slashdot story is the final release, thats not a preview or a demo from the story
btw, you could have queued always on the "japanese" side with a valid visa. I always did this. But these nice times are over ... back to the pool of terrorists with me ...
Although I hate to fingerprinted and the whole I idea is just dumbfuck stupid (except that they want to weed out the "people" who come in/out with a tourist visa) the machine they use, and they way they do it, seems quite efficient.
... fucking pisses me off.
Plus there will be extra lines for the visa + re-entry permit holders.
Still,
There will be an extra line for the re-entry permit holders. So that should go pretty fast. But still ... As I want to continue living here, I can just bow my head and do it ...
Thats a fact? At least for me. I gave up on qmail a long time ago ...
if you use qmail "out of the box" it might be secure, but its not usable nowadays anymore. You often have to compile in so many patches that at the end there is no security there anymore.
I rather start with an up to date MTA, rather then fight with something like qmail ever (EVER) again.
Just the fact that you have a fixed layout, fixed start tools that need to be there to actually start it, etc etc makes it so horrible, that I wouldn't touch it ever again with a 100 yard pole.
It has, but its directly integrated into TV sets, etc. Direct download of movies and so on. Most people dont care about a PC at home, because they mail through their mobile phone and browse on the TV which is sort of their "PC".
No but thats just basics. Beyond that it becomes difficult. Take Latin, dead, but used in written, etc ways. But I doubt anyone will ever know how the Romans really spoke it. Slang words, phrases, etc.
You can preserve a language only to a certain point in my opinion.
Actually I never cared about my slashdot id, but when I saw mine, it shows that I already hang out here for quite a while ... Remember when my first boss introduced me to slashdot ... I was such a super noob ...
When a language is not spoken but only documented it never is like when it is spoken. You never can explain something like a certain words in another language. Or even better phrases. Because those evolved from culture where they are or were spoken.
So? There are tons of german words that were used just a hundred years ago and nobody uses them nowadays. Language is evolving. Right now Austrian dialect gets lot of influence from German Tv, so a lot of people use a lot of "german" german words that nobody used just 10~15 years ago.
...
... Simple to overcome the local/remote language barrier.
etc etc etc. Japanese got so so so many foreign words for things they didn't had at that time, and plus use more and more English words (in katakana) because they are "cool" and therefore create new words.
I see no problem with that. Perhaps 100 Languages disappear, but seriously, if something doesn't get used, why force it to stay alive. If it is important it will get tought (like Latin), if not, its not a loss at all.
Of course the horrible grammar mangling is nothing beautiful. But English is just used by so many people who learn it as a second language that it just gets change and adapted a lot. Same with German. A lot of Aliens learned it as a second language and so there is a new sub dialect evolving
Language is just alive and although some people love to put it down in stone, it will never stay the same. The more people communicate online, the more one language will evolve
Actually this input method is only used on PCs. On mobile phones you use the direct kana input method. so each key has a group of kana (a,i,u,e,o; ka,ki,ku,ke,ko; etc). Most important thing is the "remember" function, so if you write certain words often you can choose them from a list below, so it speeds up input a lot.
...
The total hardcore mobile users input that with two fingers. Really amazing to see that in action
Government support might be needed sometimes. Japan & South Korea have such a high Broadband connectivity, because the Government is support the construction of high speed access. Of course the ISPs / Telcos are seperated and all private. So you get cheap-ass-high-speed-no-limit internet almost everywhere (almost, because in the countryside where only a view villages are it will be different)
talking about japanese phones of course. It was a compare to the iphone to weaken the argument "yeah but the jap phone has only 70mb and iphone has the awesome 4/8gb thingie inside"
yeah, forgot two things I use a lot daily
- mobile cash at convenience store / JR tick (if I forget my suica card or its empty)
- QR code reading for all those nifty small ads where you can get things
erm, ALL phones have a mini-sd card slot. I have a 512MB card inside, so well that for one point. There are several AU phones that have at least 4GB of memory inside for music (their music download service started long before itunes came to japan).
:)
The other thing is, I love they way my phone works. I just cant imagine that a iphone would give me the same service in the same way. But hell, what do I know
Well, uh, great, but my phone thats more than two years old, already does all these things, and it is smaller than the iphone. It's just once you live in Japan you accept that keitais here are superior, far superior. The iphone actually more compares too Willcom devices, which are more PDA. I dont see the iphone as a phone, as it it is extremly large.
well you can change that "random letters" this is just what you get when you sign up. And Docomo can even recieve HTML messages (to a certain extent of course).
Making Sushi at home is difficult, so its not a typical thing to eat at home. But the rest is a lot of fish and vegetables. Really great.
I dont eat at home, so the first thing I do is eat & while I eat I check emails. Then I reload slashdot and check the monitoring apps to see if there were any strange things in the last night.
Then I start my actual work.
No it works very well.
Company X doesn't want to more than Y. US IT people want to get more, because they want to actually live. So Company X imports a truck load of indian/chinese guys who work for even less than Y. US Gov says stop, so Company X would have to hire US IT people for more money. So they just cry foul play and ship the whole stuff to the next country where they can go on.