I swear, during the Windows install of Real Player 7 you have to uncheck about 5 boxes on 3 different screens to keep them from pushing you crap.
Then they put icons in your browser in your quick launch bar, your systray, your browser, your desktop, and your start menu even when you told the installation not to.
Also the "opt-out" clauses on the page before you download the player are phrased in such a way as to trick someone into agreeing to spam mail when they really don't want it.
Not like it matters, because even if you do opt out they send you their crap anyway.
To better capture the feeling in English of how silly it sounds, you should take a word for "big" that comes from Greek or Latin that is only used in English only in compound words.
Every Japanese character has at least two pronunciations: the native Japanese reading, and the Chinese/Japanese reading which is used in compounds.
In the case of dai+katana ('å"), "katana" is a Japanese word, and "dai" is from Chinese. To make a real word, they would both have to be one or the other: "ookatana" or "daitou".
"Daitou" is a real word, but far more common (and nicely archaic-sounding) would be "tachi" ('¾"), or "thick sword".
Gun makers arent indirectly responsible at all, unless they are agressively marketing their product using violence to attract buyers or something.
This false connection between guns and crime is silly. In the US the relationship is purely incidental. In Switzerland citizens are allowed to own guns, but in England they are not. Yet England has a far higher crime and murder rate than Switzerland. In Egypt, you are not even allowed to carry knives. So what to criminals do? Stab people with screwdrivers!
One must accept the logic that it is not the availability of any particular sort of weapon that makes people want to kill other people.
Unfortunately most Americans don't give a damn about what the reasons are, and aren't willing to share whatever part of the blame might be theirs. They just want someone (the government) to *fix* the problem for them, but leave them out of it.
That has been a popular way to go, but it's not a democratic or a constitutional way to go. Benito Moussolini swore that, if in power, he would "make the trains run on time", and he did. And the people rejoiced.
Then the people stopped rejoicing because they realised that, though the trains did in fact now "run on time", the governmental system that had the power to bring about such a marvelous change didn't feel like moving on to another project now that their contract was finished.
Soon every political and social problem began to resemble a messy train schedule, and the rest is history.
Remeber that all domain names technically end in '.' (e.g., www.whitehouse.gov.), where '.' represents the "top level" domain under which domains like 'com', 'org', et al are registered.
So if someone were to create a 'slash' domain on the same level as 'com', the URL:
slash.
could be a perfectly legal and workable address, assuming your browser accepted it.
This is effectively how it has been in Japan all along.
Whether or not Japan's ISP's had been operating under some sort of consent decree or something I couldn't say, but I have never found anything containing copyrighted material or pictures of human genetalia on any server with a.jp extention.
.hk servers on the other hand are another matter entirely:)
They are not modems they are routers. Or if you prefer, bridges. They are all digital straight through, and no MOulation or DEModulation is required. Mine is a Cisco 675 that has to be put into transparent bridging mode to work. (Talk about a waste of power...) If we're going to follow the phone companies and call these "modems", I propose we also start calling our cases our "CPU's", 3.5 floppy disks "hard disks", and recognise Al Gore and Bill Gates as the creators of the internet.
Only on the lame-ass zaurii you can get in the US. The newer high-end models in Japan feature as part of the unit:
+ 10 MB RAM + Pen interface (which understands real cursive Japanese handwriting, none o' that lame Plam graffiti crap) + *Windowed* Color GUI + Digital camera + Digital audio recorder + Full internet functionality (they can be connected to your Do-co-mo wireless phone.) + A Photoshop-like app that will do neat filters like 'emboss' on the digital pictures you just took. +
I suppose the idea is that every tourist wants to be able to take pictures of themselves, photoshop them, and email them to friends within the space of 4 minutes.
You can also file pictures of people along with their info in your address book.
That model (MI-610) is at http://www.sharp.co.jp/sc/eihon/mi610/text/index.h tml
Honestly, it's been a long time (if ever) since Caldera gave Good Gifts back to the Linux community in return for getting their entire product line for free. I'm sick of companies that do nothing but take, and then complain that they can't take more.
I don't care if they are from Provo, I'm distinctly unimpressed with their attitude.
This is a really proud day for me. Really proud. I'm proud of all of us. Thanks to/.'s unique capacity to obnoxiously overreact to such violations, the GPL has maintained it's integrity yet one more day. Thanks to/., we no-life geeks have commanded the immediate attention of Apple, Be, People magazine, Microsoft, LinuxOne, and the sattelite company that was going to yank Serbia's internet access about this time last year. (did I miss anyone?) Can you imagine any organization of that size scrambling that quick to appease any other group of people, short of the Justice Dept? Damn, thats power. That's power the likes of which I never feel when I *vote*, that's for sure. If only people had "irrational" love for the constitution like they do for thr GPL, this would be a loud yet great country!!
In 1987, the Nasdaq lost about 11% of its total value.
Friday the Nasdaq lost 24%, or nearly a full quarter of its value. So says CNBC anyway.
Realise though that this is the Nasdaq we're talking about. These stocks aren't exactly time-tested performers. I wouldn't be suprised if LinuxOne is part of their index.
Up until about 2 weeks ago when the DJIA (whose stocks *are* time-tested) was making some long overdue corrections and the Nasdaq was still rocketing up to increasingly unsustainable numbers, the news media actually started to ignore the DJIA as an indicator and focused mainly on the happy happy Nasdaq.
At least we won't have to put up with *that* nonsense anymore.
Honestly, I think intentionally compromising 21% (hell, they'd like it to have been 100%!!) of internet infrastructure goes a little beyond "criminal".
What some people won't do for a game... I remember back when I DM'd AD&D games in high school, one of my friends bought 20,000 experience points from me for $40. I took the money, and put a "2" in pencil in front of his experience point total pn his character sheet. Easiest $40 I ever made. I think that was the day I decided people who get into AD&D are a little to wierd for my liking.
Great preview! That said, isn't everyone just a little tired of the "Mason" typeface they use in their title? I personally file Mason right under Exocet (Diablo, Tazo, "Man in the Iron Mask", etc.) in the annoyingly overused category.
Duh, I don't like work for Microsoft, I just bought their dumb stock.
Maybe you've heard of the Stock Market? It's a place they have only in America where people take their money, and it makes *more* money. And then you do it again and again.
I'm going to write a strongly-worded letter to those stock people. This "stock going down" business was not in the brochure. Someone is just not doing their job, and I'm going to put a stop to it. I don't care who gets fired!
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I swear, during the Windows install of Real Player 7 you have to uncheck about 5 boxes on 3 different screens to keep them from pushing you crap.
Then they put icons in your browser in your quick launch bar, your systray, your browser, your desktop, and your start menu even when you told the installation not to.
Also the "opt-out" clauses on the page before you download the player are phrased in such a way as to trick someone into agreeing to spam mail when they really don't want it.
Not like it matters, because even if you do opt out they send you their crap anyway.
Hee hee...
To better capture the feeling in English of how silly it sounds, you should take a word for "big" that comes from Greek or Latin that is only used in English only in compound words.
Some candidates:
I will strike you with my:
a. Maximussword (Latin)
b. Amplussword (Latin)
c. Majorsword (Latin)
d. Megasword (Greek)
e. Megalosword (Greek)
Every Japanese character has at least two pronunciations: the native Japanese reading, and the Chinese/Japanese reading which is used in compounds.
In the case of dai+katana ('å"), "katana" is a Japanese word, and "dai" is from Chinese. To make a real word, they would both have to be one or the other: "ookatana" or "daitou".
"Daitou" is a real word, but far more common (and nicely archaic-sounding) would be "tachi" ('¾"), or "thick sword".
If "Daikatana" was a real, or even a *possible* Japanese word.
Gun makers arent indirectly responsible at all, unless they are agressively marketing their product using violence to attract buyers or something.
This false connection between guns and crime is silly. In the US the relationship is purely incidental.
In Switzerland citizens are allowed to own guns, but in England they are not. Yet England has a far higher crime and murder rate than Switzerland.
In Egypt, you are not even allowed to carry knives. So what to criminals do? Stab people with screwdrivers!
One must accept the logic that it is not the availability of any particular sort of weapon that makes people want to kill other people.
Unfortunately most Americans don't give a damn about what the reasons are, and aren't willing to share whatever part of the blame might be theirs. They just want someone (the government) to *fix* the problem for them, but leave them out of it.
That has been a popular way to go, but it's not a democratic or a constitutional way to go. Benito Moussolini swore that, if in power, he would "make the trains run on time", and he did. And the people rejoiced.
Then the people stopped rejoicing because they realised that, though the trains did in fact now "run on time", the governmental system that had the power to bring about such a marvelous change didn't feel like moving on to another project now that their contract was finished.
Soon every political and social problem began to resemble a messy train schedule, and the rest is history.
Remeber that all domain names technically end in '.' (e.g., www.whitehouse.gov.), where '.' represents the "top level" domain under which domains like 'com', 'org', et al are registered.
So if someone were to create a 'slash' domain on the same level as 'com', the URL:
slash.
could be a perfectly legal and workable address, assuming your browser accepted it.
So God is responsible for my raping spree!
Whee! Everything I do is someone elses fault!
Ain't America grand?
The WTO will strike Japan's law down as an unecessary hindrance to porn-producing economies like California and Hong Kong.
Thank God for the WTO, eh?
Napster in trouble from Japan?
Japan doesn't even represent 5% of the worlds internet users. Napster will be fine.
This is effectively how it has been in Japan all along.
.jp extention.
:)
Whether or not Japan's ISP's had been operating under some sort of consent decree or something I couldn't say, but I have never found anything containing copyrighted material or pictures of human genetalia on any server with a
.hk servers on the other hand are another matter entirely
They are not modems they are routers. Or if you prefer, bridges. They are all digital straight through, and no MOulation or DEModulation is required. Mine is a Cisco 675 that has to be put into transparent bridging mode to work. (Talk about a waste of power...) If we're going to follow the phone companies and call these "modems", I propose we also start calling our cases our "CPU's", 3.5 floppy disks "hard disks", and recognise Al Gore and Bill Gates as the creators of the internet.
Only on the lame-ass zaurii you can get in the US. The newer high-end models in Japan feature as part of the unit:
h tml
:)
+ 10 MB RAM
+ Pen interface (which understands real cursive Japanese handwriting, none o' that lame Plam graffiti crap)
+ *Windowed* Color GUI
+ Digital camera
+ Digital audio recorder
+ Full internet functionality (they can be connected to your Do-co-mo wireless phone.)
+ A Photoshop-like app that will do neat filters like 'emboss' on the digital pictures you just took.
+
I suppose the idea is that every tourist wants to be able to take pictures of themselves, photoshop them, and email them to friends within the space of 4 minutes.
You can also file pictures of people along with their info in your address book.
That model (MI-610) is at http://www.sharp.co.jp/sc/eihon/mi610/text/index.
And only $1300!
What if they did, and reading via the net became so cheap, easy, and pleasurable that making more books stopped being profitable.
Then many years later someone introduces a nasty worm into the internet. *Poof* Western Civilization dissappears in a puff of logic.
Honestly, it's been a long time (if ever) since Caldera gave Good Gifts back to the Linux community in return for getting their entire product line for free. I'm sick of companies that do nothing but take, and then complain that they can't take more.
I don't care if they are from Provo, I'm distinctly unimpressed with their attitude.
This is a really proud day for me. Really proud. I'm proud of all of us. Thanks to /.'s unique capacity to obnoxiously overreact to such violations, the GPL has maintained it's integrity yet one more day. Thanks to /., we no-life geeks have commanded the immediate attention of Apple, Be, People magazine, Microsoft, LinuxOne, and the sattelite company that was going to yank Serbia's internet access about this time last year. (did I miss anyone?) Can you imagine any organization of that size scrambling that quick to appease any other group of people, short of the Justice Dept? Damn, thats power. That's power the likes of which I never feel when I *vote*, that's for sure. If only people had "irrational" love for the constitution like they do for thr GPL, this would be a loud yet great country!!
In 1987, the Nasdaq lost about 11% of its total value.
Friday the Nasdaq lost 24%, or nearly a full quarter of its value. So says CNBC anyway.
Realise though that this is the Nasdaq we're talking about. These stocks aren't exactly time-tested performers. I wouldn't be suprised if LinuxOne is part of their index.
Up until about 2 weeks ago when the DJIA (whose stocks *are* time-tested) was making some long overdue corrections and the Nasdaq was still rocketing up to increasingly unsustainable numbers, the news media actually started to ignore the DJIA as an indicator and focused mainly on the happy happy Nasdaq.
At least we won't have to put up with *that* nonsense anymore.
Honestly, I think intentionally compromising 21% (hell, they'd like it to have been 100%!!) of internet infrastructure goes a little beyond "criminal".
What some people won't do for a game... I remember back when I DM'd AD&D games in high school, one of my friends bought 20,000 experience points from me for $40. I took the money, and put a "2" in pencil in front of his experience point total pn his character sheet. Easiest $40 I ever made. I think that was the day I decided people who get into AD&D are a little to wierd for my liking.
Wow, what a great new term! Short, non-offensive, descriptive, not overly corny... I'll try to use use it in conversation at least 3 times today.
Actually, am I one of these? I've been clicking on pictures of chicks for a good 7 years now.
This is Tolkein after all, what about something that loogs even vaguely Tengwar?
Great preview! That said, isn't everyone just a little tired of the "Mason" typeface they use in their title? I personally file Mason right under Exocet (Diablo, Tazo, "Man in the Iron Mask", etc.) in the annoyingly overused category.
Clueful indeed.
/. and 86 the Katz? His book, comparatively speaking, sucked.
Can we make these guys regular columnists on
I need to work on sense of humor, it didn't seem to communicate the way I thought it would.
They will require a new judge that had not have Windows crash on them to try the case.
Do they allow judges from Afghanistan to preside over appeal cases here in the US?
Duh, I don't like work for Microsoft, I just bought their dumb stock.
Maybe you've heard of the Stock Market? It's a place they have only in America where people take their money, and it makes *more* money. And then you do it again and again.
I'm going to write a strongly-worded letter to those stock people. This "stock going down" business was not in the brochure. Someone is just not doing their job, and I'm going to put a stop to it. I don't care who gets fired!