This is what the defined goal of terrorism is, to instill terror, to make us sleep with one eye open.
Really? That sounds like propaganda to me. Personally, I was under the impression that the goal of terrorism is something more along the lines of, if you want to take down a giant, sometimes the only way is to sling a stone at his knee.
nine-times makes an excellent analogy here, IMHO. even if there are ETs out there, and even if we are trying to contact them and/or they are trying to contact us, it may just be like sending a message directed to a single person to billions of random addresses.
"Easter is the day that Jesus rose from the dead. TO FEAST ON THE FLESH OF THE LIVING! I'm just kidding. Don't tell your mom."
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard.
I am so going to start using that with my High School students (who are Japanese and since Christianity is not the dominant religion in Japan, they don't really know what Easter is).
I get the feeling that the most popular screen colour for these Japanese blogs will be blue, for some reason.
Green?;p
For those who don't get it, sometimes there is confusion between green and blue when speaking Japanese because many times they use the word aoi for both. For example: ao-zora: blue sky shingo ga aoi: greenlight (traffic signal)
English is incredibly slow to type on a phone, but Japanese can be incredibly quick and also uses less characters and button pushes.
I often find it annoying to type in English on my phone, which is probably why I don't really like mailing my non-Japanese friends from my phone. The difference is amazing. For example typing the following on my phone (the Japanese would be Japanese characters, but/. doesn't seem to like them):
Where are you now? : 18 characters (counting spaces), 41 button presses ima doko? : 4 characters (in Japanese), 16 button presses
BTW, this was with my own typing style on a DoCoMo P251iS phone (YMMV). The Japanese can be even shorter as it remembers recently used kanji and words so sometimes you can really speed through it. English however is much slower, even if you shorten it.
The problem here are crap jokes based on lame, boring stereotypes or generalizations.
However, in this case it is not a typical "lame, boring stereotype" but rather a linguistic truth. The Japanese cannot properly pronounce the English "R" or "L" without lots of training because that sound does not exist in their language.
In English, we use our tongue against the top of our mouths to make the letter L, but we do not use our tongue to make the letter R. Most Japanese can handle L pretty easily after some guidance because the Japanese sounds also use the tongue on the top of the mouth, though in more of a rolling from back to front motion. Actually, the closest sound to the Japanese sounds I have found in other languages is the Spanish single R sound.
Anyway, making light of the Japanese (language) confusion of R and L has nothing to do with race or racism. If a pasty, white boy like myself had been raised from birth in Japan with little or no English training, I wouldn't be able to make the English R sound either.
Over here in Japan, not only do we have to wait for months after the US release, but the standard movie price is 1800 yen, which is in the neighborhood of $17US.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought in order to be classified as a Trojan (Horse), there was one more requirement than just masquerading as something friendly and installing unknown software behind the user's back...
In the classical sense, I thought a Tojan Horse must not only carry an unexpected payload, but also open up a system to insecurity. I.E. the Greek warriors who hid inside of the original Trojan Horse did no real damage themselves other than slay the guards, but they did open the gates of Troy and allow the Greek army in to sack the city (forgive me if I am a little fuzzy on this as I have not seen the movie and the Iliad cuts off after the funeral of Hector).
So is not opening some kind of backdoor also a requirement of a Trojan Horse? Or does the current sense of the term not follow the classical sense of the term?
Would it be possible to get this to work over Xgrid?
At the high school I am teaching at, we have a lot of hardly used G4 eMacs and iMacs, and I would like to use them for something and perhaps even earn a little newsblurb about the school. I have been thinking about working with they SysAdmin to cluster the things and put them to good use. Xgrid seems like a good way to get them all working together, but I am very inexperienced in these sorts of things...
Any suggestions?
On a side note, it amazes me how many schools seem to have "jumped on the technology bandwagon" but after getting the equipment, really seem to have no idea what to do with it...
Well...you are the second to say "no problems", so there is a good chance that it is just me. I haven't tried moderation for awhile, so it might work now (I've since upgraded to Panther and upgraded browsers a few times)...
This is probably a PEBCAK, or it is just something funny about my system that I haven't noticed yet (a corrupt file or something...still PEBCAK IMHO)
But I just wanted to ask and see if anyone else had similar problems...
In fact this bug is happening to me right now with Firefox 0.9. I have often wondered if it is a bug with Slashdot's code or if the bug is in Gecko...
Speaking of Slashdot/gecko bugs, any of you Macintosh users users have to turn off "willing to moderate" because it locks up whenever you have mod-points?
I really want the Firefox0.8 OS X pinstripe theme back. Not to sound inflammatory, but these new buttons look like they were made by the same design team that came up with the default windows XP theme...
"I don't know what to make of it, it's unbelievable. I'm just glad no one was sitting on the couch because they just would have got absolutely crowned."
Heh...can you imagine the conversation in the emergency room?
Doctor: Whoa! What happened to you?
Patient: I got hit by a meteorite...
Doctor: Oh...sure...right...so how much have you had to drink to night?
Anyway, the article mentioned that people would be trying to buy the thing from the Archers (the family in the story). I dunno...I would be highly tempted to not sell it. It would be a great keepsake...good conversation peice...
"And this is the meteorite that fell through my rough..."
What could Linux possibly offer that OS X doesn't already do 10 times better?
Practice with Linux?
There is nothing wrong with learning a new system. It will make you more well rounded as a computer user and for those doing support and other IT jobs, it can be valuable. If I had a G5 and a few GB of disk space to spare, I would probably install this just to check it out, figure out the differences between it and OS X, etc.
Now, I imagine there is little reason to replace OS X with Linux, but there is nothing wrong with using both.
Just use your preferences for your mouse (i.e. LogiTech control center for me) to set your middle mouse button to be "command-click" and it then set your mozilla tab preferences to accept command click as open in new tab...
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Good post!
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard.
I am so going to start using that with my High School students (who are Japanese and since Christianity is not the dominant religion in Japan, they don't really know what Easter is).
For those who don't get it, sometimes there is confusion between green and blue when speaking Japanese because many times they use the word aoi for both. For example:
ao-zora: blue sky
shingo ga aoi: greenlight (traffic signal)
I often find it annoying to type in English on my phone, which is probably why I don't really like mailing my non-Japanese friends from my phone. The difference is amazing. For example typing the following on my phone (the Japanese would be Japanese characters, but /. doesn't seem to like them):
Where are you now? : 18 characters (counting spaces), 41 button presses
ima doko? : 4 characters (in Japanese), 16 button presses
BTW, this was with my own typing style on a DoCoMo P251iS phone (YMMV). The Japanese can be even shorter as it remembers recently used kanji and words so sometimes you can really speed through it. English however is much slower, even if you shorten it.
In English, we use our tongue against the top of our mouths to make the letter L, but we do not use our tongue to make the letter R. Most Japanese can handle L pretty easily after some guidance because the Japanese sounds also use the tongue on the top of the mouth, though in more of a rolling from back to front motion. Actually, the closest sound to the Japanese sounds I have found in other languages is the Spanish single R sound.
Anyway, making light of the Japanese (language) confusion of R and L has nothing to do with race or racism. If a pasty, white boy like myself had been raised from birth in Japan with little or no English training, I wouldn't be able to make the English R sound either.
I hear his switchboard is infallible. ;D
Yes, most people say "I weigh X kilograms" but they really mean that "I have a mass of X kilograms".
Perhaps "newtons/cm^2" would be a more appropriate measure here, as kg/cm^2 really doesn't make much sense.
P.S. I'm sure someone will come along and fill in the real units for pressure here. I cannot remember them off the top of my head.
So far, this would seem to be the 3rd BOINC project after Seti@Home and Predictor@Home.
must be nice to see movies at such a low price.
*British accent for no particular reason.
:-)
In the classical sense, I thought a Tojan Horse must not only carry an unexpected payload, but also open up a system to insecurity. I.E. the Greek warriors who hid inside of the original Trojan Horse did no real damage themselves other than slay the guards, but they did open the gates of Troy and allow the Greek army in to sack the city (forgive me if I am a little fuzzy on this as I have not seen the movie and the Iliad cuts off after the funeral of Hector).
So is not opening some kind of backdoor also a requirement of a Trojan Horse? Or does the current sense of the term not follow the classical sense of the term?
Would it be possible to get this to work over Xgrid?
At the high school I am teaching at, we have a lot of hardly used G4 eMacs and iMacs, and I would like to use them for something and perhaps even earn a little newsblurb about the school. I have been thinking about working with they SysAdmin to cluster the things and put them to good use. Xgrid seems like a good way to get them all working together, but I am very inexperienced in these sorts of things...
Any suggestions?
On a side note, it amazes me how many schools seem to have "jumped on the technology bandwagon" but after getting the equipment, really seem to have no idea what to do with it...
This is probably a PEBCAK, or it is just something funny about my system that I haven't noticed yet (a corrupt file or something...still PEBCAK IMHO)
But I just wanted to ask and see if anyone else had similar problems...
Cheers. :)
Speaking of Slashdot/gecko bugs, any of you Macintosh users users have to turn off "willing to moderate" because it locks up whenever you have mod-points?
any chances of it being updated to work with 0.9?
Heh...can you imagine the conversation in the emergency room?
Doctor: Whoa! What happened to you?
Patient: I got hit by a meteorite...
Doctor: Oh...sure...right...so how much have you had to drink to night?
Anyway, the article mentioned that people would be trying to buy the thing from the Archers (the family in the story). I dunno...I would be highly tempted to not sell it. It would be a great keepsake...good conversation peice...
"And this is the meteorite that fell through my rough..."
What would you do with the rock?
How about Multicultural Organization for Open and Free software...
MOOF!
;-)
I miss the dogcow...
There is nothing wrong with learning a new system. It will make you more well rounded as a computer user and for those doing support and other IT jobs, it can be valuable. If I had a G5 and a few GB of disk space to spare, I would probably install this just to check it out, figure out the differences between it and OS X, etc.
Now, I imagine there is little reason to replace OS X with Linux, but there is nothing wrong with using both.
HTH...
use it to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and store it as fuel cells...
That one has baffled linguists for centuries...
and it is said that quite a few older, bitter linguists like to drown their sorrows in "whisghian sohdahhs"...