"I was riding the MTR (last month when I visited), and I saw an 85 year old man speaking on a Motorola Startac. He appeared very comfortable with the technology and deftly switched off the phone when he was done with the call. Students in Hong Kong also have pagers and cell phones and often use them to keep in touch."
I was coming home from work on the MTR last night, when this old granny hobbled in, sat down and started playing tetris on a GameBoy.
"Cell phone use in Hong Kong is much greater compared to the United States. Most likely, Hong Kong has one of the greatest percentages of cell phone use in the population. (I have no stats, anyone?)"
about 70%
dave
Re:Another one bites the du5t.
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Kuro5hin Update
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Italy is very democratic - they keep changing their government.
As for La Ciccolina, being elected on the strength of your naked body doesn't seem much different from the USAn proactive of electing someone with good hair, good TV presence and a firm handshake.
dave
The is an official way to translate Mandarin (or "Putonghua") to roman characters. However, there are four accents required to represent the four basic tones. This written system is called Pinyin.
The four tones are descending, rising, high and falling-and-rising. A different tone can completely change the meaning of a word.
(For comparison, Cantonese has nine distinct tones.)
dave
Mandarin is "Putonghua" - means common tongue. It's the native language of Beijinbg and surrounds and is used as the official language. Also the official language of Taiwan. Many Chinese will speak their own local dialect, as well as Mandarin. Near Hong Kong, for example, people will have a local dialect, Cantonese (the language of Canton Province) and Mandarin. As many of them will never have had any contact with Foreigners, English is kinda rare, but it taught in some schools.
xie xie,
dave / da wei
You need to set the system variables ftp_proxy and http_proxy before using wget through a proxy.
I use (in NT):
set http_proxy=a.b.c.d:80
wget http://foo.bar.baz/wibble.nerf
I don't think they could do this. The DOS layer only provides file access and some limited hardware access. You can't even address all of the memory. All of the networking, most of the device access for ports, sounds, etc is handled by the Win32 layer in the GUI. Under Linux, all of this is handled by the kernel *at the DOS-equivalent layer*.
To rewrite Windows so that all of the device drivers, the networking and the hardware access must now happen right down at the kernel level would be a complete paradigm change and IMHO a waste of time.
Far better for MSFT to port the GUI to X, or even provide a display system which isn't X but which sits on top of the kernel in a similar way with the Win32API built in to it.
Hmmm, that sounds more plausible.
There were television broadcasts in the mid to late twenties and the BBC was started around this time.
Television in the USA got started after WWII, around 47-ish (I think) but didn't really take off until the early fifties.
Bonnet (or hood) mounted rear-view mirrors mean that you don't have to take your eyes off the road ahead very much to see behind you. You also don't alter the focus range of your eyes, so you can flick from one to the other quicker than with the more recent door mounted ones.
dave
Re:If Slashdot/Linux people had Mutant Powers?
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Jon Katz would have the mutant power of irritating everyone who reads his writing.
Katz has got Magneto so wrong. He is *not* some cardboard evil villian. He's a complex and tragic figure defending his vision of a world without persecution. His dream of a world where mutants are free from persecution is similar to Xavier's, differing only in that means to the end. Xavier wants grudging acceptance, Magneto wants control.
Your ISP signs up to DUL and RBL to *reduce* the amount of crap they have to deal with. Also to get a heads up on spammers or open relays they need to ignore as bein irresponsible netizens.
It is *not* censorship, as they are all private organisations who are free to do as they widh with *their* networks.
Slashdot Mirror
"I was riding the MTR (last month when I visited), and I saw an 85 year old man speaking on a Motorola Startac. He appeared very comfortable with the technology and deftly switched off the phone when he was done with the call. Students in Hong Kong also have pagers and cell phones and often use them to keep in touch."
I was coming home from work on the MTR last night, when this old granny hobbled in, sat down and started playing tetris on a GameBoy.
"Cell phone use in Hong Kong is much greater compared to the United States. Most likely, Hong Kong has one of the greatest percentages of cell phone use in the population. (I have no stats, anyone?)"
about 70%
dave
Man with chip on shoulder spotted on /.!
Film @ 11
No, use attoparsecs per microfortnight like everyone else.
dave
Italy is very democratic - they keep changing their government.
As for La Ciccolina, being elected on the strength of your naked body doesn't seem much different from the USAn proactive of electing someone with good hair, good TV presence and a firm handshake.
dave
The is an official way to translate Mandarin (or "Putonghua") to roman characters. However, there are four accents required to represent the four basic tones. This written system is called Pinyin.
The four tones are descending, rising, high and falling-and-rising. A different tone can completely change the meaning of a word.
(For comparison, Cantonese has nine distinct tones.)
dave
The official language of the US was *never* intended to be german.
see the ULRP for details.
dave
Mandarin is "Putonghua" - means common tongue. It's the native language of Beijinbg and surrounds and is used as the official language. Also the official language of Taiwan. Many Chinese will speak their own local dialect, as well as Mandarin. Near Hong Kong, for example, people will have a local dialect, Cantonese (the language of Canton Province) and Mandarin. As many of them will never have had any contact with Foreigners, English is kinda rare, but it taught in some schools.
xie xie,
dave / da wei
You need to set the system variables ftp_proxy and http_proxy before using wget through a proxy.
I use (in NT):
set http_proxy=a.b.c.d:80
wget http://foo.bar.baz/wibble.nerf
HTH,
dave
Edit defaults\pref\all.js, goto line ~277, set network.proxy.type to 1, then put your proxy details in the lines following.
Works for me!
dave
'Revenge' was changed to 'Return' as revenge was not a Jedi concept.
dave
I don't think they could do this. The DOS layer only provides file access and some limited hardware access. You can't even address all of the memory. All of the networking, most of the device access for ports, sounds, etc is handled by the Win32 layer in the GUI. Under Linux, all of this is handled by the kernel *at the DOS-equivalent layer*.
To rewrite Windows so that all of the device drivers, the networking and the hardware access must now happen right down at the kernel level would be a complete paradigm change and IMHO a waste of time.
Far better for MSFT to port the GUI to X, or even provide a display system which isn't X but which sits on top of the kernel in a similar way with the Win32API built in to it.
Hmmm, that sounds more plausible.
dave
Water in Chinese (well, cantonese) is 'Shui'. I'm not getting much wah there.
dave
This experiment sounds like the disk is create some kind of turbulence in the air which is uplifting the weight slightly.
dave
All television after Roswell? I think not.
There were television broadcasts in the mid to late twenties and the BBC was started around this time.
Television in the USA got started after WWII, around 47-ish (I think) but didn't really take off until the early fifties.
dave
OpenBSD's default install has sendmail enabled. Step 2 is rather important...
dave
We're about to colonise Mars?!
When did that happen?
dave
Not a profit? That's a shame, I though this was a very fine game indeed.
It certainly kept me amused for a good few weeks.
dave
Yeah, m00se can be very nasty.
A m00se bit my sister 0nce...
dave "sorry"
Not a jeep, get a Landrover.
Get the SWB version and retrofit a Rangerover V8 into it.
Heh, heh.
dave "and you'll need a winch, too"
Bonnet (or hood) mounted rear-view mirrors mean that you don't have to take your eyes off the road ahead very much to see behind you. You also don't alter the focus range of your eyes, so you can flick from one to the other quicker than with the more recent door mounted ones.
dave
Jon Katz would have the mutant power of irritating everyone who reads his writing.
Oh wait...
dave
Katz has got Magneto so wrong. He is *not* some cardboard evil villian. He's a complex and tragic figure defending his vision of a world without persecution. His dream of a world where mutants are free from persecution is similar to Xavier's, differing only in that means to the end. Xavier wants grudging acceptance, Magneto wants control.
dave "well, in the comics anyway"
I no have an image of a woman in seductive lingerie with the slogan 'microsoft, where do you want to go today?'
dave "I wanna go *there*, baby!"
Complete and utter bollocks.
Your ISP signs up to DUL and RBL to *reduce* the amount of crap they have to deal with. Also to get a heads up on spammers or open relays they need to ignore as bein irresponsible netizens.
It is *not* censorship, as they are all private organisations who are free to do as they widh with *their* networks.
dave
More ISPs should have liability clauses in their AUP.
'You cost us money to clean your shit up, you pay for it.'
dave