A lot of banks and law firms (who are most vulnerable to liability) automatically append boilerplate disclaimers to the bottom of all outgoing email. Is it irritating? Yup. Does it work? Maybe. But it certainly reminds employees that liability and responsibility are issues that they should keep in mind.
Most importantly, it may be able to save you the ugly mess of an email screen.
1) that's not what "sic" conveys (it's meant for an error acknowledged). The right puncutation for what you did is [] brackets.
2) The real "(sic)" should have come after "become" because obviously the correct word is "be". English is *already* the default language of the digital world; the question is whether it will continue to be so in the future.
First of all, Mandarin is a spoken dialect; the written language (which I presume is what we're talking about with the Web) is called "Simplified-Character Chinese", or just "Chinese". It can be read by speakers of other dialects (Cantonese, Shanghainese, Shantounese, etc).
(and yes, the poster above is confused, too. Han is a race, not a language)
Second, remember that Murdoch has a reason to suck up to the Chinese. Remember his father's remark that "satellites are an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regiemes everywhere."? Well that cost Star TV (Murdoch's Asian sat venture) access to the China market for a decade. Since then father and son have let no opportunity to make ammends pass. Consider this another brown-nose exercise.
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Given how expensive LEGO is and how simple the APIs are (pretty much raised dots spaced X on blocks shaped Y) you'd think there'd be a host of generic clone/competitors. But there aren't. MegaBlox come close, but if you've tried to mix and match LEGO and any of the look-alikes, you'll find that the substitutes don't fit well and are made from a different plastic with different surface finish and color. Kids reject these imposters every time.
Why is this? Does LEGO sue anyone who makes an exact clone? Surely any patent expired long ago (plenty of other people make raised-dot-and-hole building blocks). Can you copyright *dimensions*?
I know the brand is the big thing, but as a parent with LEGO-hungry kids (actually they're into Duplo, the toddler-size blocks, which are obscenely expensive) I'd happily buy a no-name if it worked. But there's nothing out there that does. Is this market failure or something more sinister from LEGO HQ?
Among the prototype iPaq sleeve that Compaq has shown is a gaming sleeve (sorry I can't find the link at the mo, but it was on one of the PDA news sites). It was quite large, abd basically flared out on either side of the iPaq with a joypad on one side and fire buttons on the other. Presumably Compaq will enable simultaneous button punches on that;-)
freeciv is unix-oriented, which would probably make it an easier port under iPaq Linux. But switching to Linux is a lot to ask the typical iPaq user, especially just for a game.
Has anyone had any experience with trying an freeciv port on Windows of any flavor? Any sense of how much overhead is involved in setting up the necessary internal civ servers within a Windows (PocketPC) environment?
They're only mutually exclusive simultaneously. No reason why you can't carry both sleeves in your bag: use the the CF sleeve for MP3, etc; swap with the PCMCIA sleeve for wireless connectivity.
And for regular PDA usage, use neither and have the Palm-like size and weight you're after.
I agree: FCC and congressional screw-ups have made it the US unable to move wireless forward as fast as technology and consumer demand would have it. This Economist article discusses the spectrum shortage that is the main problem.
*Disclosure* There's nothing wrong with interviewing friends, writing about companies affliated with friends, etc---as long as you tell the reader about the connection.
Really, it's a simple as that. You don't even have to clutter your copy with parenthetical disclaimers, just a link to the relevent information about the connection for those readers who care.
C'mon guys. Like it or not, you're journalists now, so play the game properly.
My boy, what you need is a Compaq iPaq 3650. Got a 200+ StrongArm, 12-bit big color LCD, 32MB, 32MB flash, stereo sound, PCMCIA/CF, same form factor as the palm and well, not a month on 2AA but a good day of use on a charge. Runs Linux (see Handhelds.org) and the PocketPC OS (WinCE 3) is finally fast and good. Bliss if you can get one.
Sadly, no Starbucks. Housing is also hellishly expensive. And there's a real shortage of good techies and real innovation; most of the "tech entrepreneurs" are expat ex-banker wannabies, local Chinese me-tooer (if I see one more portal, so help me god...) and opportunistic spin-offs from property companies trying to get on the bandwagon. Just across the border in Shenzhen, however, you're got great engineers and some of the best wireless gear firms in the world. But you've got to speak Cantonese, or at least Mandarin. To be honest, for english-speakers Singapore's a better bet.
The current IBM microdrives are practically unuseable on WinCE PDAs; they'll kill a charge in less than an hour. Power consumption is *the* key issue with any PDA peripheral.
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They see it on replies when their email is autoquoted back.
.sig by policy, they do see it in their outgoing email.
Or, if it's made part of their
A lot of banks and law firms (who are most vulnerable to liability) automatically append boilerplate disclaimers to the bottom of all outgoing email. Is it irritating? Yup. Does it work? Maybe. But it certainly reminds employees that liability and responsibility are issues that they should keep in mind.
Most importantly, it may be able to save you the ugly mess of an email screen.
Seems the review boards have been chatting about this for a few days now, but Intel didn't budge until it hit /. Now who else can we topple?
1) that's not what "sic" conveys (it's meant for an error acknowledged). The right puncutation for what you did is [] brackets.
2) The real "(sic)" should have come after "become" because obviously the correct word is "be". English is *already* the default language of the digital world; the question is whether it will continue to be so in the future.
"juice"? I got the chow hai bit, but how'd you do your post translation?
First of all, Mandarin is a spoken dialect; the written language (which I presume is what we're talking about with the Web) is called "Simplified-Character Chinese", or just "Chinese". It can be read by speakers of other dialects (Cantonese, Shanghainese, Shantounese, etc).
(and yes, the poster above is confused, too. Han is a race, not a language)
Second, remember that Murdoch has a reason to suck up to the Chinese. Remember his father's remark that "satellites are an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regiemes everywhere."? Well that cost Star TV (Murdoch's Asian sat venture) access to the China market for a decade. Since then father and son have let no opportunity to make ammends pass. Consider this another brown-nose exercise.
Given how expensive LEGO is and how simple the APIs are (pretty much raised dots spaced X on blocks shaped Y) you'd think there'd be a host of generic clone/competitors. But there aren't. MegaBlox come close, but if you've tried to mix and match LEGO and any of the look-alikes, you'll find that the substitutes don't fit well and are made from a different plastic with different surface finish and color. Kids reject these imposters every time.
Why is this? Does LEGO sue anyone who makes an exact clone? Surely any patent expired long ago (plenty of other people make raised-dot-and-hole building blocks). Can you copyright *dimensions*?
I know the brand is the big thing, but as a parent with LEGO-hungry kids (actually they're into Duplo, the toddler-size blocks, which are obscenely expensive) I'd happily buy a no-name if it worked. But there's nothing out there that does. Is this market failure or something more sinister from LEGO HQ?
Compaq is releasing a gaming sleeve. See this (about half way down)
It's about half way down this page,
Among the prototype iPaq sleeve that Compaq has shown is a gaming sleeve (sorry I can't find the link at the mo, but it was on one of the PDA news sites). It was quite large, abd basically flared out on either side of the iPaq with a joypad on one side and fire buttons on the other. Presumably Compaq will enable simultaneous button punches on that ;-)
freeciv is unix-oriented, which would probably make it an easier port under iPaq Linux. But switching to Linux is a lot to ask the typical iPaq user, especially just for a game. Has anyone had any experience with trying an freeciv port on Windows of any flavor? Any sense of how much overhead is involved in setting up the necessary internal civ servers within a Windows (PocketPC) environment?
They're only mutually exclusive simultaneously. No reason why you can't carry both sleeves in your bag: use the the CF sleeve for MP3, etc; swap with the PCMCIA sleeve for wireless connectivity. And for regular PDA usage, use neither and have the Palm-like size and weight you're after.
I agree: FCC and congressional screw-ups have made it the US unable to move wireless forward as fast as technology and consumer demand would have it. This Economist article discusses the spectrum shortage that is the main problem.
Battle of the airwaves
*Disclosure* There's nothing wrong with interviewing friends, writing about companies affliated with friends, etc---as long as you tell the reader about the connection.
Really, it's a simple as that. You don't even have to clutter your copy with parenthetical disclaimers, just a link to the relevent information about the connection for those readers who care.
C'mon guys. Like it or not, you're journalists now, so play the game properly.
My boy, what you need is a Compaq iPaq 3650. Got a 200+ StrongArm, 12-bit big color LCD, 32MB, 32MB flash, stereo sound, PCMCIA/CF, same form factor as the palm and well, not a month on 2AA but a good day of use on a charge. Runs Linux (see Handhelds.org) and the PocketPC OS (WinCE 3) is finally fast and good. Bliss if you can get one.
Argh--irony. I hate it.
That's why I said "grammer checker" not spell checker. Sheesh...
Too bad there are no Linux grammer checkers: it's "hordes", not "hoards"
It's a ghost town in the middle of a palm plantation an hour away from any kind of decent civilization. Don't even think about it.
Sadly, no Starbucks. Housing is also hellishly expensive. And there's a real shortage of good techies and real innovation; most of the "tech entrepreneurs" are expat ex-banker wannabies, local Chinese me-tooer (if I see one more portal, so help me god...) and opportunistic spin-offs from property companies trying to get on the bandwagon. Just across the border in Shenzhen, however, you're got great engineers and some of the best wireless gear firms in the world. But you've got to speak Cantonese, or at least Mandarin. To be honest, for english-speakers Singapore's a better bet.
The current IBM microdrives are practically unuseable on WinCE PDAs; they'll kill a charge in less than an hour. Power consumption is *the* key issue with any PDA peripheral.