Now, perhaps he's just a bad teacher, or maybe it just isn't as prevalent among Japanese.
You never know, but both I and my Japanese friends use sarcasm amongst ourselves constantly. Of course, I'm ignoring that perhaps, as a rather sarcastic Canadian, they picked this nasty habit up from me...
Hmm... I live in Japan, and my primary language at home is Japanese. I'm not sure why your friend would have missed this, but the Japanese use both sarcasm and irony in their humour. Could be that in an English class they're speaking a language they're unfamiliar with and less likely to make funny comments. In a classroom environment it might be that students are apt to take their teachers literally far more than their friends.
I suspect most people are also less likely to use sarcasm with someone they're not good friends with, as it's usually intended as a humorous jab at a dumb idea, and people usually tend not to point these kinds of things out to people they aren't good friends with.
Anyway, I suspect if your friend had brought a keg of beer to class and his students relaxed a bit, he'd have seen some sarcasm.
Just move to Vancouver;) No such winter here, maybe a week of rain every now and then..
Wink wink, nudge nudge. For definitions of "now and then" equivalent to 48 out of 52 weeks per year;) Course, I live in Tokyo now so I'm a little out of the loop...
Next time, read the entire link instead of replying based on one quote I happened to pull from the document as an example. But, uh, thanks for making the token effort to contribute your opinion.
How do you figure that when you consider this treaty from the UN general assembly stating "States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner"? And to correct both your short and long answers, refer to the status of the treaty and note that the United States is listed as having ratified it.
Well, not OS X per se, but Darwin certainly does, so it wouldn't be a huge step to get the userland compiled on x86. Getting it optimised for x86 hardware is another issue, but a lot less work than getting the underlying OS code working from nothing.
To look at it from a mathematical perspective, you have the upper hand only if you ignore the time component. Take the first derivative and take a look at the slope at the current point and you most definitely do not have the upper hand.
For a more graphic analogy, imagine a guy falling off a building and yelling "hey look at me! Look how high I am above all you down there on the ground!" at the people on the street below.
Out of curiosity, where are you from? I'm just hoping it's not the US, or your comment is destined for a +5 Funny.
That said; I agree with your stance on software patents. Canada, where I'm from, thankfully doesn't yet have them (knock on wood) and Japan, where I live, has them but under the restriction that the invention to be patented must be "a creation of technical ideas utilizing a law of nature", which is probably about as fair as patents for non-software devices/processes.
No man, no! Windows want to be FREE! They don't want to be locked into some enclosing prison. Course, I would argue that the menu bar also wants to be at the top of the screen *ducks*
Actually, the only platform where Photoshop is MDI is Windows. This was a MacGimp hack and Mac's do not have a rigid enclosing MDI window; like the gimp, they have a separate floating window for each document. MDI on Windows is an awful UI paradigm, and something that Windows photoshop users bitch about incessantly.
To save everyone the pain of having to read this cliche five times under every article, I am pre-emptively posting the formula here. From now on, rather than posting it, please simply read this, filling in the template with the appropriate year and item, and keep it to yourself; we'll all be better off that way:
Yes/no leads to blind clicking of the default because the user has no cue as to what she's doing from just the buttons alone (which is all most people bother reading). Sticking verbs on actually lets the user know what they're doing, even if they do accept the default. Clicking something that says "Trust" or "Don't Trust" reinforces that there is some kind of risk involved, whereas yes/no dialogs all look the same.
Try the following google search: region x powerbook g4
maybe throw "region free" in there as well if you don't get the firmware upgrade you're looking for. You can't blame Apple for selling region-locked drives; blame the copy control decision-makers who came up with the DVD spec and licensing. Either way, the above will solve the region issues you're having.
Happy Powerbook G4 user with a Canadian Region 1 drive, who living in Region 2 (Japan).
Read up on, for example, MQSeries. If the sender or the receiver or even both go down, the message is persisted and gets delivered. If the message is halfway through being transmitted and the connection dies or either machine goes out with a crash or power failure, the message still gets delivered or you get configurable guaranteed failure notification. Designing a system like this, that handles that kind of reliability under loads of tens of thousands of messages per second is on the same level as implementing a high-end DBMS.
If indeed it is as easy as you claim, I'd encourage you to develop and sell your system. You'll be rich in no time. Wall St. relies on these systems for literally trillions of dollars in transactions a year and will pay big money for these systems.
Yahoo BB here in Japan offers ADSL in a variety of flavours from 8Mbps (¥3000-ish/mo) on the slow side to 50Mbps (¥4000-ish/mo) on the fast side, which is great for using sites within the country, but for outside of Japan connection overseas is the limiting factor, so you really don't get 50. You do have bandwidth galore for downloads though.
Whoa, hey, hey, hey. Don't blame India for doing well. Blame America for being a capitalist country, where profit is valued over its citizens livelihoods. India is doing what's right for itself and it's turned out incredibly well for them. Good for them. Perhaps America should figure out how to improve its own situation rather than blaming everyone else for the mess it's gotten itself into.
H1Bs fit very nicely into a capitalist society, where the goal is to attract talented workers from all around the world and retain the best of the best. If you can't compete with that talent, perhaps you should look at another career, move to a country with policies that better reflect your worldview, or fight to have your country's policies changed.
Note that one of the prerequisites for an H1B is that the worker is paid on par with what an American worker at the company is paid and that documentation has to go through INS review. I know this from the experience of having gone through the long, slow process of getting one to work two years in California (originally from Canada, but have worked in the US, Mexico and now live in Japan). There are obviously exceptions, but in my experience, us visa workers were paid on par with our American colleagues. Ensuring that this is the case is not the job of corporations, it's the job of the government. Have a word with them if you suspect a company of violating your country's laws.
In any case, even if companies could get away with paying lower salaries to H1B workers, you can't blame them for taking advantage of a programme that expands the pool of talent available to them, made available to them by the government. It is also the INS's job to ensure that H1Bs are only issued for positions where a qualified American worker could not be found (or didn't apply). In any case, if you don't like the H1B programme or globalization in general, I suggest you address your complaints to your local congressperson or the INS, who are responsible for this sort of thing rather than complaining on slashdot.
Actually my keitai has a barcode reader built in. I flip it open, and under the utilities section of the menus there's an option called "barcode reader". The screen goes to an ultra-magnified camera view and it beeps and displays the barcode info when it recognizes the barcode.
You can use it on any barcode btw. Soft drinks, books, websites etc. Lots of sites with the funky square barcodes encode a URL in them, and the phone will pop it up and ask if you want to open the URL in your phone's browser.
In any case, yes, sending a few bytes of data still technically costs money... I think I pay 0.04 yen per packet. At least that's what the brochure said. But fortunately it doesn't ship an entire picture off to Amazon.
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Now, perhaps he's just a bad teacher, or maybe it just isn't as prevalent among Japanese.
You never know, but both I and my Japanese friends use sarcasm amongst ourselves constantly. Of course, I'm ignoring that perhaps, as a rather sarcastic Canadian, they picked this nasty habit up from me...
That said, I'll leave you with some Rick Mercer.
Hmm... I live in Japan, and my primary language at home is Japanese. I'm not sure why your friend would have missed this, but the Japanese use both sarcasm and irony in their humour. Could be that in an English class they're speaking a language they're unfamiliar with and less likely to make funny comments. In a classroom environment it might be that students are apt to take their teachers literally far more than their friends.
I suspect most people are also less likely to use sarcasm with someone they're not good friends with, as it's usually intended as a humorous jab at a dumb idea, and people usually tend not to point these kinds of things out to people they aren't good friends with.
Anyway, I suspect if your friend had brought a keg of beer to class and his students relaxed a bit, he'd have seen some sarcasm.
Hey hey hey, let's not be so adversarial... give peas a chance.
Just move to Vancouver ;) No such winter here, maybe a week of rain every now and then..
;) Course, I live in Tokyo now so I'm a little out of the loop...
Wink wink, nudge nudge. For definitions of "now and then" equivalent to 48 out of 52 weeks per year
Next time, read the entire link instead of replying based on one quote I happened to pull from the document as an example. But, uh, thanks for making the token effort to contribute your opinion.
How do you figure that when you consider this treaty from the UN general assembly stating "States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner"? And to correct both your short and long answers, refer to the status of the treaty and note that the United States is listed as having ratified it.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes, you did.
OS X won't run on x86 hardware
Well, not OS X per se, but Darwin certainly does, so it wouldn't be a huge step to get the userland compiled on x86. Getting it optimised for x86 hardware is another issue, but a lot less work than getting the underlying OS code working from nothing.
You spelled "were" wrong.
To look at it from a mathematical perspective, you have the upper hand only if you ignore the time component. Take the first derivative and take a look at the slope at the current point and you most definitely do not have the upper hand.
For a more graphic analogy, imagine a guy falling off a building and yelling "hey look at me! Look how high I am above all you down there on the ground!" at the people on the street below.
Stop surfing slashdot and get back to work, Steve! Aren't you supposed to be writing the press release right now?
Out of curiosity, where are you from? I'm just hoping it's not the US, or your comment is destined for a +5 Funny.
That said; I agree with your stance on software patents. Canada, where I'm from, thankfully doesn't yet have them (knock on wood) and Japan, where I live, has them but under the restriction that the invention to be patented must be "a creation of technical ideas utilizing a law of nature", which is probably about as fair as patents for non-software devices/processes.
No man, no! Windows want to be FREE! They don't want to be locked into some enclosing prison. Course, I would argue that the menu bar also wants to be at the top of the screen *ducks*
Actually, the only platform where Photoshop is MDI is Windows. This was a MacGimp hack and Mac's do not have a rigid enclosing MDI window; like the gimp, they have a separate floating window for each document. MDI on Windows is an awful UI paradigm, and something that Windows photoshop users bitch about incessantly.
Yeah, I spotted it about 5ms after I hit the submit button. What's worse is that it drives me crazy totally crazy when people make that mistake.
That said, next time reply to the correct post! Mwhahahahaha!
To save everyone the pain of having to read this cliche five times under every article, I am pre-emptively posting the formula here. From now on, rather than posting it, please simply read this, filling in the template with the appropriate year and item, and keep it to yourself; we'll all be better off that way:
"YYYY called and it wants it's _____ back!"
Thank you for your attention.
How about "Trust", "Don't Trust", "More Details"?
Yes/no leads to blind clicking of the default because the user has no cue as to what she's doing from just the buttons alone (which is all most people bother reading). Sticking verbs on actually lets the user know what they're doing, even if they do accept the default. Clicking something that says "Trust" or "Don't Trust" reinforces that there is some kind of risk involved, whereas yes/no dialogs all look the same.
Come to Japan and use the internet to connect to Japanese sites and you'll see the difference. P2P is insane.
When everyone's got a >= 50Mbps connection, it does make a difference.
Isn't this more along the lines you're looking for? Then add this if you really want to get fancy.
Try the following google search: region x powerbook g4
maybe throw "region free" in there as well if you don't get the firmware upgrade you're looking for. You can't blame Apple for selling region-locked drives; blame the copy control decision-makers who came up with the DVD spec and licensing. Either way, the above will solve the region issues you're having.
Happy Powerbook G4 user with a Canadian Region 1 drive, who living in Region 2 (Japan).
My bet is that an hour ago this thing started spewing zeros like crazy...
Read up on, for example, MQSeries. If the sender or the receiver or even both go down, the message is persisted and gets delivered. If the message is halfway through being transmitted and the connection dies or either machine goes out with a crash or power failure, the message still gets delivered or you get configurable guaranteed failure notification. Designing a system like this, that handles that kind of reliability under loads of tens of thousands of messages per second is on the same level as implementing a high-end DBMS.
If indeed it is as easy as you claim, I'd encourage you to develop and sell your system. You'll be rich in no time. Wall St. relies on these systems for literally trillions of dollars in transactions a year and will pay big money for these systems.
Yahoo BB here in Japan offers ADSL in a variety of flavours from 8Mbps (¥3000-ish/mo) on the slow side to 50Mbps (¥4000-ish/mo) on the fast side, which is great for using sites within the country, but for outside of Japan connection overseas is the limiting factor, so you really don't get 50. You do have bandwidth galore for downloads though.
Whoa, hey, hey, hey. Don't blame India for doing well. Blame America for being a capitalist country, where profit is valued over its citizens livelihoods. India is doing what's right for itself and it's turned out incredibly well for them. Good for them. Perhaps America should figure out how to improve its own situation rather than blaming everyone else for the mess it's gotten itself into.
H1Bs fit very nicely into a capitalist society, where the goal is to attract talented workers from all around the world and retain the best of the best. If you can't compete with that talent, perhaps you should look at another career, move to a country with policies that better reflect your worldview, or fight to have your country's policies changed.
Note that one of the prerequisites for an H1B is that the worker is paid on par with what an American worker at the company is paid and that documentation has to go through INS review. I know this from the experience of having gone through the long, slow process of getting one to work two years in California (originally from Canada, but have worked in the US, Mexico and now live in Japan). There are obviously exceptions, but in my experience, us visa workers were paid on par with our American colleagues. Ensuring that this is the case is not the job of corporations, it's the job of the government. Have a word with them if you suspect a company of violating your country's laws.
In any case, even if companies could get away with paying lower salaries to H1B workers, you can't blame them for taking advantage of a programme that expands the pool of talent available to them, made available to them by the government. It is also the INS's job to ensure that H1Bs are only issued for positions where a qualified American worker could not be found (or didn't apply). In any case, if you don't like the H1B programme or globalization in general, I suggest you address your complaints to your local congressperson or the INS, who are responsible for this sort of thing rather than complaining on slashdot.
Is it because I'm living in Japan and out of sync with all of you?
Living in Japan... out of sync...? Nice try, robot scum -- you'll never take us alive!
Just like a goddamn robot to go for first post...
Actually my keitai has a barcode reader built in. I flip it open, and under the utilities section of the menus there's an option called "barcode reader". The screen goes to an ultra-magnified camera view and it beeps and displays the barcode info when it recognizes the barcode.
You can use it on any barcode btw. Soft drinks, books, websites etc. Lots of sites with the funky square barcodes encode a URL in them, and the phone will pop it up and ask if you want to open the URL in your phone's browser.
In any case, yes, sending a few bytes of data still technically costs money... I think I pay 0.04 yen per packet. At least that's what the brochure said. But fortunately it doesn't ship an entire picture off to Amazon.