If MS was serious about "taking" Sony, they should lay down a billion for Square-Enix and buy off the Japanese market with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
...when the windows reach the space-time continuum threshold they collapse within themselves! Of course, why didn't I see it before! It all becomes clear!
Orkut is another example of a.NET system that is getting scaled right NOW to zillions (approx.) of users.
Granted they are hitting some bumps, but I've seen java based shopping sites with bigger problems and fewer active users. They ended up taking the site down for weeks. Not to mention the site was unusable while up.
Just goes to show that it's not the language... it's how you use it.
"you can give a man a fish, and feed him for a day, or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime."
..."or you can give him a drift-net and he can wipe out all the frickin fish in the ocean... and then complain about all the fish being gone." (probably closer to what we've got here)
Actually the Microsoft IME (Input method env) is fairly sophisticated for Japanese. It is getting competitive with ATOK. I think ATOK's market share is probably in the toilet these days. Their software is better, but not so much better that it is worth paying for. Well maybe if you have to transcribe tons of text, but certainly not necessary for the average person. Just like browsers, MS will control the IME on its own platform.
The reason MS is having trouble in China is not because their software is bad, it's because China, like Japan and Korea don't want to hand their markets to a foreign company on a platter. As a sensible publishing solution, MS is handicapped by having project leaders that hav no idea what good Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese typography look like. They want a minimum-cost conversion of a US-centric package, that's what they pay for and that's what they get.
MS is not handicapped, guess what!, they have Japanese and Chinese people working for them. They have large offices in both countries and have brought many Chinese and Japanese language experts to America to work in their research labs. They know about i18n and they know about typography. They have spent tons of money on buying people that know about it.
MS does make mistakes and does do stupid things, but they aren't quite as ignorant as you seem to make them out to be.
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What was that line about building a better idiot?
Anyway... I think it is safe to say that blaming the idiot never helps anyone.
BUT not allowing idiots to be President DOES help!
Here is the original apache video...
And another link.
Good video to watch when feeling too positive about the future of humanity.
They may have only had two words for snow... but those crazy Inuktituts probably didn't have ANY words for "cactus", now did they!
And thus we have proved that environment has an effect on language. Something not really related to this discussion... oh well.
(No more of these lists. I promise.)
After all, it's easier to replace coal burning generators than it is to replace everyone's car.
Hydrogen is a good first step because:
If MS was serious about "taking" Sony, they should lay down a billion for Square-Enix and buy off the Japanese market with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
...when the windows reach the space-time continuum threshold they collapse within themselves! Of course, why didn't I see it before! It all becomes clear!
Damn you people have modpoints ta burn eh?
I got modded -1 on Slashdot.jp for making one little joke about the XBOX taking over Japan.
Hidoi.
I seem to have missed the facts part... too.
.NET system that is getting scaled right NOW to zillions (approx.) of users.
Orkut is another example of a
Granted they are hitting some bumps, but I've seen java based shopping sites with bigger problems and fewer active users. They ended up taking the site down for weeks. Not to mention the site was unusable while up.
Just goes to show that it's not the language... it's how you use it.
"you can give a man a fish, and feed him for a day, or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime."
..."or you can give him a drift-net and he can wipe out all the frickin fish in the ocean... and then complain about all the fish being gone."
(probably closer to what we've got here)
That said I can't justify the switch. There are just too many good modules available in...
Sounds like the argument for not moving to Linux... wait I'm using Windows... but I like Python. Now I'm confused.
I'm not so sure playing video games has "ramifications for technological prowess". I think it's probably more like the next opium of the masses.
From Asahi News:
Windows Real
Looks more like that olympic speed walking than running ta me. That bot sure can throw tho.
dog-slow processor
This is insulting to dogs everywhere. Dogs can be fast...
Maybe you need another qualifying rule,
4. have content people actually want
Careful with that f word... it means something else in british english.
I'm worse off... I just remembered that Hackers movie.
They could stear the oil tanker by satellite and crash it into the Golden Gate bridge!
Is Hollywood imitating the government or the government Hollywood?
Hmmmmm...
"STAND ALONE COMPLEX" is pretty good too. Its a 26 episode TV series done in the Ghost universe, by Production IG.
It gets better as it goes along. Not as hardcore as the movie or comic though.
If you want to study Japanese, check out this site:
Yah, but adsl tech support is about the same as the rest of the world, good luck talking to a human.
$2 for an upgrade huh?
I wonder if you can buy pirate copies of WPS for $1?
Or maybe the pirates are patriotic... heh.
Actually the Microsoft IME (Input method env) is fairly sophisticated for Japanese. It is getting competitive with ATOK. I think ATOK's market share is probably in the toilet these days. Their software is better, but not so much better that it is worth paying for. Well maybe if you have to transcribe tons of text, but certainly not necessary for the average person. Just like browsers, MS will control the IME on its own platform.
The reason MS is having trouble in China is not because their software is bad, it's because China, like Japan and Korea don't want to hand their markets to a foreign company on a platter.
As a sensible publishing solution, MS is handicapped by having project leaders that hav no idea what good Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese typography look like. They want a minimum-cost conversion of a US-centric package, that's what they pay for and that's what they get.
MS is not handicapped, guess what!, they have Japanese and Chinese people working for them. They have large offices in both countries and have brought many Chinese and Japanese language experts to America to work in their research labs. They know about i18n and they know about typography. They have spent tons of money on buying people that know about it.
MS does make mistakes and does do stupid things, but they aren't quite as ignorant as you seem to make them out to be.
flavor - 2,720,000
flavour - 759,000
flavore - 404
flavar - 120
fleva - 422
flava - 166,000
flatulence - 114,000
I guess it should be "flavor".
that it is easier to stay wealthy than to become wealthy. At least the way money works these days. (as another poster pointed out)
Also it doesn't hurt that America sucks the smart people out of the rest of the world to some degree.
The bigger problem is distribution of wealth. But that's more of a global problem than an American one.
Now I can get rid of my Javascript that detects MacIE and tells them to go download Mozilla or Safari!
Awesome.