Hebrew places its vowels either underneath or after the letters. It has six basic vowel sounds, plus a seventh that is usually a short 'i' but sometimes is silent (could a Hebrew speaker with more complete knowledge describe the shva better? thanks). To create vowel sounds that don't match up with a consonant, there are two silent letters. Ancient Hebrew (and its cousin Aramaic) used to be written without any vowels at all, which is not as bad as it sounds because Hebrew is a phonetic language. Modern newspapers and books are also written without vowels; it's actually quite easy to get used to, but English words written without vowels in Hebrew characters can throw you for quite a loop.
Arabic also has vowels below the letters, but I don't speak Arabic.
Hebrew actually has 12 different vowels, but some of them are duplicates and some have no difference in pronounciation. And two look the same but are pronounced differently, with one of the pronounciations being a duplicate of another vowel (there are complicated grammatical reasons for this; trust me!:-) ).
To recount, Hebrew has 7 distinct vowel sounds -- one of which (shva) sometimes does not make a sound and two of which (segol and tzeire) sometimes sound the same.
Then there's a letter (yud) that modifies the sounds of many vowels when placed after them, but we won't go there:-).
When you do that, the respective companies just close everything. At that point, a DOS attack can't even be launched, because that needs some sort of open service to be flooded.
AP Wire (9/11/00): In a surprise move today, Hasbro has sued slashdot over ownership of the game Tetris, claiming that/. has "violated our patents, trademarks, and copyrights." Opponents said that Hasbro mentioned all three because they can't tell the difference... (snip) Hasbro says the lawsuit is in response to a person, only known by the alias Evil_Way, posting an ASCII tetris game:
That patenet covers a different part of their software. You hook up a cable from your TV audio out to your soundblaster line in. When it hears the correct tone, it brings up a web page about whatever the advertiser wants.
Yes, I said advertiser. The one point of this is to bring up a web page along with the commercial. As to why anyone would install this I have no idea.
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Hebrew places its vowels either underneath or after the letters. It has six basic vowel sounds, plus a seventh that is usually a short 'i' but sometimes is silent (could a Hebrew speaker with more complete knowledge describe the shva better? thanks). To create vowel sounds that don't match up with a consonant, there are two silent letters. Ancient Hebrew (and its cousin Aramaic) used to be written without any vowels at all, which is not as bad as it sounds because Hebrew is a phonetic language. Modern newspapers and books are also written without vowels; it's actually quite easy to get used to, but English words written without vowels in Hebrew characters can throw you for quite a loop.
Arabic also has vowels below the letters, but I don't speak Arabic.
Hebrew actually has 12 different vowels, but some of them are duplicates and some have no difference in pronounciation. And two look the same but are pronounced differently, with one of the pronounciations being a duplicate of another vowel (there are complicated grammatical reasons for this; trust me!
To recount, Hebrew has 7 distinct vowel sounds -- one of which (shva) sometimes does not make a sound and two of which (segol and tzeire) sometimes sound the same.
Then there's a letter (yud) that modifies the sounds of many vowels when placed after them, but we won't go there
When you do that, the respective companies just close everything. At that point, a DOS attack can't even be launched, because that needs some sort of open service to be flooded.
AP Wire (9/11/00): In a surprise move today, Hasbro has sued slashdot over ownership of the game Tetris, claiming that /. has "violated our patents, trademarks, and copyrights." Opponents said that Hasbro mentioned all three because they can't tell the difference... (snip) Hasbro says the lawsuit is in response to a person, only known by the alias Evil_Way, posting an ASCII tetris game:
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Note to the humor-impaired: It's humor.
That patenet covers a different part of their software. You hook up a cable from your TV audio out to your soundblaster line in. When it hears the correct tone, it brings up a web page about whatever the advertiser wants.
Yes, I said advertiser. The one point of this is to bring up a web page along with the commercial. As to why anyone would install this I have no idea.
Yeah, and VDSL (don't you wish you had it!) is Very Damn Slow Line. The generic form, xDSL of course, is eXtremely Damn Slow Line.
Of course, cable Can Also Be Lagging Evily.