Look. This is Slashdot, where no one reads the f-ing article. The only reason we click the thing is in the hopes that we can see the mushroom cloud go up when some poor bastard's server gets nuked.
So the editors figure they'll save the site the agony since no one's reading the page anyway, and you go and throw it back up on the page. Way to go, moron. I hope you're proud of yourself!
I agree. Further, APIs shouldn't bother throwing exceptions or returning error codes either. And browser implementers should feel free to deviate from W3C specs in cases where it's handy. And if users find sites or apps designed for the quirks in one particular browser or database are impossible to migrate to another RDBMS or browser... well tough luck.
Or... maybe adherance to standards and proper error handling could be useful afterall.
Let me stress that not every new orleans person is involved in looting.
I'd also like to ask a simple question that most news reports I've read fail to address. You're stranded in a city that's virtually abandonned; you have no electricity and your supply of food has run out. Is it looting to break into a supermarket to feed yourself? What about to get up batteries for your radio so you can listen for emergency broadcasts?
Sadly most of those in this situation are already living at or below the poverty line, and are now vilified for simply supporting themselves. That said, those who are truly looting -- attempting to profit at the expense of the victims of this natural disaster deserve to be vilified. That includes not only the guy robbing people on the street, but any corporates and other businesses who're taking the opportunity to price gouge.
Yahoo Japan and goo provide far better searching of Japanese sites than Google. As someone used to using nothing but google for English and French language searches, I find it pretty shocking just how bad google's Japanese results are.
True, although this addresses an entirely different point than the one I was making. By your comment, I'm guessing you don't speak Japanese, so I probably should have been more clear.
First, "Okaasan-tte?" could never be used to ask for your mother. "Okaasan" means "mother", and calling to your mum you'd use "Okaasan?"
It's the "-tte" that was the focus of what I wrote, and it cannot be translated into English; it serves a purely grammatical purpose -- indicating that the preceding clause refers to something someone said.
Japanese is full of these functional hints; it's quite possible they developed in the language to provide some sort of help in disambiguating what's being said. In Japanese, particularly in conversation, you have an almost unlimited ability to drop bits and pieces of a sentence -- subjects, verbs, objects, anything goes, but these functional particles are generally preserved (though not always in conversation).
To fill out the example I previously gave:
"Okaasan-tte?" - speaker is asking about what someone means by the word "mum"
"Okaasan wa?" - speaker is referring to a mum as a general topic, or possibly asking his own mum a question, or maybe asking someone else how the previous conversation relates to that person's mum, though not to his own mum (unless the person he's speaking to happens to be imemdiate family, otherwise he'd use "haha" instead of "okaasan").
"Okaasan ga?" - speaker is specifically asking how the previous converstation relates to 'mum' as opposed to someone else.
"Okaasan wo?" - speaker is specifically asking how the previous conversation relates to "mum" as the direct object of some verb.
etc. etc.
Every single one of these would translate literally to "mum?" in English, but have vastly different meanings -- meaning that are almost impossible to identify without the context.
Natsukashii is a good example, not so much because there isn't a word for it in English, but more because one uses it in sitations where we wouldn't say anything in English - or nothing related anyway; at best "oh man, I remember that!" or "hey check this old picture out!"
Other really simple examples are "gochisou-sama", "otsukare-sama", and "itadakimasu" (when used before eating), not to mention the entire avoidance of personal pronouns which leads to ambiguity - eg. "Nakayama-san wa dou omou?" could mean either "What does Mr. Nakayama think?" or "Mr. Nakayama, what do you think?". Course this could be shortened to either "dou omou?" or "Nakayama-san wa dou?" with the same meaning in context (but different meanings in other contexts).
Along the line of being able to drop parts of sentences almost arbitrarily, try getting a computer to translate this:
"Okaasan-tte?" Which literally means:
"Mum?"
But which could mean:
"Did you say mum?"
"Who's mum do you mean?"
"You/he/I/we/they said 'mum'?" or a plethora of other things.
Lastly - cool login:) Was in Kyoto a couple weekends ago and filled out my Lupin collection a bit at a furu-hon-matsuri near Shimogamo shrine.
Apple's pro class machines are not going Intel until '97, there could be plenty of time. The consumer machines go Intel in '96 and a Pentium M would work quite nicely.
Nicely? I know Mac users are fanatics, but I am not waiting another 92 years for the Intel upgrade.
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I'd love to know where these magical backstreet markets are where I can get songs for under 200 yen! You see, every shop I've gone to charges between 3000 and 4000 yen per CD, so a whole disc for "much less" than 2000 would be amazing.
Let me know... I'm waiting! Shibuya-ku or Meguro-ku would be ideal, but really anywhere in Tokyo would be ok.
Note: if these "backstreet markets" which I have never seen or heard of are in fact real, I'll be forever grateful;)
For those of us in Japan, we can't buy from the Canadian/American/European stores either... and the selection of non-English foreign music in the Japanese store is fairly paltry.
I'll only address the first of your points since I don't have time at the moment to address the rest, but would gladly debate them in another post later.
[...] it is based on economics: same-sex marriages cannot produce children, which is the primary reason for the tax breaks. Kids are damn expensive. Republicans aren't banning homosexuality, they are just keeping people from abusing the system to get benefits that were not designed for them.
You're talking nonsense. If that's the case then the current Administration would be pushing to remove the tax break for married couples, and give them to any couple (regardless of marital status) who has children; either that, or try to pass a constitutional amendment that bans from marriage sterile couples, and couples not planning to have children.
There is most definitely a Conservative Christian aspect to the current US Administration, whether it's simply aimed at garnering the votes of such people, or whether they are simply Christians themselves who feel a need to indoctrinate the nation. Either way, claiming this is simply based on economics is misguided.
If you've experienced crashes since you installed the update, under what conditions did they happen? What were you doing at the time? What do you mean by "hard crashes"? Application crash? The Finder giving you a SPOD? Kernel panics? If it's kernel panics, what external hardware are you using? Did it happen when you plugged-in or unplugged a camera/printer/network cable?
Saying "I've had two hard crashes since I installed this" is neither informative nor useful in debugging the issue. I'd also recommend that you file a bug with Apple so they're aware of the issue. You might also get the feedback you want that'll help you decipher whether your iMac is dying or not.
My experience has been fairly decent, with Apple getting back to me within a couple days of reporting a kernel panic due to network switching from Airport to ethernet, and textual feedback on other issues.
Raincoast books is the Canadian publisher of Harry Potter, and has nothing to do with Scholastic, the American publisher.
Speaking of which, why is it that the American versions contain different text than the ROTW (Rest of the World) version? I mean, even the title of the first book is different between the British/Canadian/Aussie version and the American edition -- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone vs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US. The Philosopher's Stone is well-known, and changing the title to The Sorcerer's Stone seems odd.
I mean, if this was a scam someone would have turned the sellers in to the cops for false advertising by now. The market takes care of this kind of thing itself.
Perhaps we should stipulate that AUDIO spam is "SMAP"
Second this. Honestly, I think I would rather spend 30 minutes listening to a supermarket "Irrashaimase! Irasshaimase! Reitou shokuhin! Reitou shokuhin!" loop tape than the equivalent amount of SMAP.
As for Yamada Denki, was just at the Jiyuugaoka store last weekend to pick up a new fan and was reminded why I hadn't been in the last 4 months.
I hope their pension plan includes therapy and straightjakets for employees who've had to suffer a lifetime of psychotically happy BGM. After even an hour in the store, I have that freaky smurf-like voice shouting "Yama-da den-KI!" in my head over and over.
Oh yeah, laugh it up funnyman; you're not living here in Tokyo like some of us. How'd you feel if an angry lizard stomped your $2000/month 30 square metre (320 square foot) apartment into the ground? Do have any idea how long it's going to take me to replace my Hello Kitty collection?
it took me a while before realising that it was just not internationalised.
To be fair, I think it is -- but it's certainly America-centric. I live in Japan, and simply entering "Tokyo" doesn't work; "Tokyo, Japan" does though. Entering the international airport code for Haneda airport also works -- you could try Heathrow and see if anything turns up. In any case, good luck.
Much faster than... pressing F12? Sorry, grabbing the weather and using world clock to find out what time it is back home on the other side of the planet are two things I do *every morning*. Under 10.3, it took 30 seconds from opening the laptop, to switching to the browser, and hitting the bookmark for the Tokyo wather page at Yahoo Japan. With dashboard it's more like 5 seconds. A few seconds doesn't seem like much, but the small convenience of having to hit one button as I'm rushing out the door in the morning and need to know whether I'll need an umbrella today or not is enough to justify it to me.
Agreed. When you look at the basic principles behind all these religions - or in fact, most religions -- for the most part you find common sense rules urging peace and respect for your fellow man.
It's when one of the spiritual "leaders" of one of these groups decides to abuse their position to promote their own twisted politics that you get genocide and abuse that goes against the basic prinicples of those religions. I suspect that a lot of people claiming to be Christians these days would make Jesus sick (if in fact he ever existed).
Why people can't simply follow the principles of their religions on their own I can't fathom, but I suspect that most people use religion as a feel-good crutch rather than because they truly researched and believe in the fundamentals that religion espouses.
In this same thread one of the posters suggested that Jews never started any wars "unless obeying your God counts" (or something to that effect - not bothering to quote directly). That's the sheep-like "I can't think for myself so I'll just believe what someone else tells me to" mentality one sees all too often from people who've been blinded by the politics of their particular faith, taking anything their leaders tell them at face value. It's as though they believe that questioning this kind of abuse is blasphemous just because it comes from a religious leader.
One can only hope that these people one day actually sit down and read their particular Bible, Torah or Koran for themselves and decide if (a) it's really what they believe and (b) it's what they've been told it is. As someone who isn't a subscriber to any of them, I still have an interest in reading all three; it's sad a lot of so-called believers don't.
Slashdot Mirror
Look. This is Slashdot, where no one reads the f-ing article. The only reason we click the thing is in the hopes that we can see the mushroom cloud go up when some poor bastard's server gets nuked.
So the editors figure they'll save the site the agony since no one's reading the page anyway, and you go and throw it back up on the page. Way to go, moron. I hope you're proud of yourself!
I agree. Further, APIs shouldn't bother throwing exceptions or returning error codes either. And browser implementers should feel free to deviate from W3C specs in cases where it's handy. And if users find sites or apps designed for the quirks in one particular browser or database are impossible to migrate to another RDBMS or browser... well tough luck.
Or... maybe adherance to standards and proper error handling could be useful afterall.
Let me stress that not every new orleans person is involved in looting.
I'd also like to ask a simple question that most news reports I've read fail to address. You're stranded in a city that's virtually abandonned; you have no electricity and your supply of food has run out. Is it looting to break into a supermarket to feed yourself? What about to get up batteries for your radio so you can listen for emergency broadcasts?
Sadly most of those in this situation are already living at or below the poverty line, and are now vilified for simply supporting themselves. That said, those who are truly looting -- attempting to profit at the expense of the victims of this natural disaster deserve to be vilified. That includes not only the guy robbing people on the street, but any corporates and other businesses who're taking the opportunity to price gouge.
Yahoo Japan and goo provide far better searching of Japanese sites than Google. As someone used to using nothing but google for English and French language searches, I find it pretty shocking just how bad google's Japanese results are.
I think you mean 30 Mbit/s minimum. Here in Tokyo, I have FTTH and get 100Mbit, but YahooBB's cheap plan is 30Mbit/s.
NewMusicCanada is run by the CBC. This is one service the government provides that I have no problem seeing my taxes go to.
Saying "Mum?" in English has the same effect.
True, although this addresses an entirely different point than the one I was making. By your comment, I'm guessing you don't speak Japanese, so I probably should have been more clear.
First, "Okaasan-tte?" could never be used to ask for your mother. "Okaasan" means "mother", and calling to your mum you'd use "Okaasan?"
It's the "-tte" that was the focus of what I wrote, and it cannot be translated into English; it serves a purely grammatical purpose -- indicating that the preceding clause refers to something someone said.
Japanese is full of these functional hints; it's quite possible they developed in the language to provide some sort of help in disambiguating what's being said. In Japanese, particularly in conversation, you have an almost unlimited ability to drop bits and pieces of a sentence -- subjects, verbs, objects, anything goes, but these functional particles are generally preserved (though not always in conversation).
To fill out the example I previously gave:
"Okaasan-tte?" - speaker is asking about what someone means by the word "mum"
"Okaasan wa?" - speaker is referring to a mum as a general topic, or possibly asking his own mum a question, or maybe asking someone else how the previous conversation relates to that person's mum, though not to his own mum (unless the person he's speaking to happens to be imemdiate family, otherwise he'd use "haha" instead of "okaasan").
"Okaasan ga?" - speaker is specifically asking how the previous converstation relates to 'mum' as opposed to someone else.
"Okaasan wo?" - speaker is specifically asking how the previous conversation relates to "mum" as the direct object of some verb.
etc. etc.
Every single one of these would translate literally to "mum?" in English, but have vastly different meanings -- meaning that are almost impossible to identify without the context.
English is very redundant compared to Japanese.
Ok, I've had it with the editors around here.
How can this tripe make the front page of slashdot, when it's quite obvious to anyone who's been here awhile that Neanderthals still roam the earth?
Natsukashii is a good example, not so much because there isn't a word for it in English, but more because one uses it in sitations where we wouldn't say anything in English - or nothing related anyway; at best "oh man, I remember that!" or "hey check this old picture out!"
:) Was in Kyoto a couple weekends ago and filled out my Lupin collection a bit at a furu-hon-matsuri near Shimogamo shrine.
Other really simple examples are "gochisou-sama", "otsukare-sama", and "itadakimasu" (when used before eating), not to mention the entire avoidance of personal pronouns which leads to ambiguity - eg. "Nakayama-san wa dou omou?" could mean either "What does Mr. Nakayama think?" or "Mr. Nakayama, what do you think?". Course this could be shortened to either "dou omou?" or "Nakayama-san wa dou?" with the same meaning in context (but different meanings in other contexts).
Along the line of being able to drop parts of sentences almost arbitrarily, try getting a computer to translate this:
"Okaasan-tte?"
Which literally means:
"Mum?"
But which could mean:
"Did you say mum?"
"Who's mum do you mean?"
"You/he/I/we/they said 'mum'?"
or a plethora of other things.
Lastly - cool login
Apple's pro class machines are not going Intel until '97, there could be plenty of time. The consumer machines go Intel in '96 and a Pentium M would work quite nicely.
Nicely? I know Mac users are fanatics, but I am not waiting another 92 years for the Intel upgrade.
I'm outta here, Steve.
Where's your Olympic* spirit my friend?
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I'd love to know where these magical backstreet markets are where I can get songs for under 200 yen! You see, every shop I've gone to charges between 3000 and 4000 yen per CD, so a whole disc for "much less" than 2000 would be amazing.
;)
Let me know... I'm waiting! Shibuya-ku or Meguro-ku would be ideal, but really anywhere in Tokyo would be ok.
Note: if these "backstreet markets" which I have never seen or heard of are in fact real, I'll be forever grateful
For those of us in Japan, we can't buy from the Canadian/American/European stores either... and the selection of non-English foreign music in the Japanese store is fairly paltry.
I'll only address the first of your points since I don't have time at the moment to address the rest, but would gladly debate them in another post later.
[...] it is based on economics: same-sex marriages cannot produce children, which is the primary reason for the tax breaks. Kids are damn expensive. Republicans aren't banning homosexuality, they are just keeping people from abusing the system to get benefits that were not designed for them.
You're talking nonsense. If that's the case then the current Administration would be pushing to remove the tax break for married couples, and give them to any couple (regardless of marital status) who has children; either that, or try to pass a constitutional amendment that bans from marriage sterile couples, and couples not planning to have children.
There is most definitely a Conservative Christian aspect to the current US Administration, whether it's simply aimed at garnering the votes of such people, or whether they are simply Christians themselves who feel a need to indoctrinate the nation. Either way, claiming this is simply based on economics is misguided.
Professor Ishiguro follows up with:
"Repliee Q1 can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying, although we obviously have a long way to go yet."
*shudder*
Español: "No me molestes!" ;)
Mexicano: "No me chingues!"
If you've experienced crashes since you installed the update, under what conditions did they happen? What were you doing at the time? What do you mean by "hard crashes"? Application crash? The Finder giving you a SPOD? Kernel panics? If it's kernel panics, what external hardware are you using? Did it happen when you plugged-in or unplugged a camera/printer/network cable?
Saying "I've had two hard crashes since I installed this" is neither informative nor useful in debugging the issue. I'd also recommend that you file a bug with Apple so they're aware of the issue. You might also get the feedback you want that'll help you decipher whether your iMac is dying or not.
My experience has been fairly decent, with Apple getting back to me within a couple days of reporting a kernel panic due to network switching from Airport to ethernet, and textual feedback on other issues.
Raincoast books is the Canadian publisher of Harry Potter, and has nothing to do with Scholastic, the American publisher.
Speaking of which, why is it that the American versions contain different text than the ROTW (Rest of the World) version? I mean, even the title of the first book is different between the British/Canadian/Aussie version and the American edition -- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone vs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US. The Philosopher's Stone is well-known, and changing the title to The Sorcerer's Stone seems odd.
Don't be so quick to deny the value of intellectual debate on zombies. There's plenty of research money to go around!
I'm sure it's real...
I mean, if this was a scam someone would have turned the sellers in to the cops for false advertising by now. The market takes care of this kind of thing itself.
*cough*
Perhaps we should stipulate that AUDIO spam is "SMAP"
:(
Second this. Honestly, I think I would rather spend 30 minutes listening to a supermarket "Irrashaimase! Irasshaimase! Reitou shokuhin! Reitou shokuhin!" loop tape than the equivalent amount of SMAP.
As for Yamada Denki, was just at the Jiyuugaoka store last weekend to pick up a new fan and was reminded why I hadn't been in the last 4 months.
I hope their pension plan includes therapy and straightjakets for employees who've had to suffer a lifetime of psychotically happy BGM. After even an hour in the store, I have that freaky smurf-like voice shouting "Yama-da den-KI!" in my head over and over.
Now it's stuck in my head... great
Oh yeah, laugh it up funnyman; you're not living here in Tokyo like some of us. How'd you feel if an angry lizard stomped your $2000/month 30 square metre (320 square foot) apartment into the ground? Do have any idea how long it's going to take me to replace my Hello Kitty collection?
it took me a while before realising that it was just not internationalised.
To be fair, I think it is -- but it's certainly America-centric. I live in Japan, and simply entering "Tokyo" doesn't work; "Tokyo, Japan" does though. Entering the international airport code for Haneda airport also works -- you could try Heathrow and see if anything turns up. In any case, good luck.
Much faster than... pressing F12? Sorry, grabbing the weather and using world clock to find out what time it is back home on the other side of the planet are two things I do *every morning*. Under 10.3, it took 30 seconds from opening the laptop, to switching to the browser, and hitting the bookmark for the Tokyo wather page at Yahoo Japan. With dashboard it's more like 5 seconds. A few seconds doesn't seem like much, but the small convenience of having to hit one button as I'm rushing out the door in the morning and need to know whether I'll need an umbrella today or not is enough to justify it to me.
Agreed. When you look at the basic principles behind all these religions - or in fact, most religions -- for the most part you find common sense rules urging peace and respect for your fellow man.
It's when one of the spiritual "leaders" of one of these groups decides to abuse their position to promote their own twisted politics that you get genocide and abuse that goes against the basic prinicples of those religions. I suspect that a lot of people claiming to be Christians these days would make Jesus sick (if in fact he ever existed).
Why people can't simply follow the principles of their religions on their own I can't fathom, but I suspect that most people use religion as a feel-good crutch rather than because they truly researched and believe in the fundamentals that religion espouses.
In this same thread one of the posters suggested that Jews never started any wars "unless obeying your God counts" (or something to that effect - not bothering to quote directly). That's the sheep-like "I can't think for myself so I'll just believe what someone else tells me to" mentality one sees all too often from people who've been blinded by the politics of their particular faith, taking anything their leaders tell them at face value. It's as though they believe that questioning this kind of abuse is blasphemous just because it comes from a religious leader.
One can only hope that these people one day actually sit down and read their particular Bible, Torah or Koran for themselves and decide if (a) it's really what they believe and (b) it's what they've been told it is. As someone who isn't a subscriber to any of them, I still have an interest in reading all three; it's sad a lot of so-called believers don't.