it is almost impossible to actually define what is a word in Japanese and what is only a particle, even the borders between nouns and certain adjectives are very blurry ("na"-adjectives) so the whole romaji approach tries to compare apples and oranges.
I couldn't tell but also in German the borders adjective-noun are different from say English, and they do often change rules about hyphenation.
I maybe misunderstanding German and Japanese, of course:)
Have you ever heard two Japanese involved in a technical (not necessarily technology-related) conversation? It's quite common to specify a particular term by stating which kanji it's written with.
But they can't do that on the phone. Unless you claim as the parallel comment that spoken Japanese is very different form written. I can't tell. __
Now, Microsoft gives out this closed source piece of software, under their own license which states you are not allowed to reverse engineer it.
Doing so will violate that license. Saying that reverse enginering software, even if the license it comes with states it's not allowed, is OK, is stupid, to say the least.
At least, things like C# and the.NET libraries are (going to be) submitted to standards organizations. That said Microsoft. __
Although you can in theory write every Japanese text in Hiragana (a syllable alphabet) it would be almost unreadable.
Without the Kanji you just can't be sure a) where one word ends and the next one begins and b) what most words mean, because of the endless number of homophones in Japanese.
Really? The Japanese can understand themselves on the phone. Whay couldn't they use romaji? And about the word ends, it should be easier with a Latin alphabet. They only need to decide the rules.
The Vietnamese also transitioned from ideographs to Latin. But probably Vietnamese has less homophones.
The article tells about how the Internet market is controlled by NTT and other 3 Japanese companies and about copies of IBM mainframes. But I recall form years ago that IBM was about the only case of success of a foreign company in the Japanese market, and it was because IBM Japan behaved like a Japanese company.
Can somebody comment on IBM Japan and its differences with other Japanese companies or the rest of IBM? __
I don't think the CT ruling actually banned the practice
Well, I know that CmdrTaco started Slashdot and managed it to this day, but having his rulings as law is too much. He should go before through some formal election process, just for the appearance. __
Those ship-based NT systems that are less reliable will drown while those that work will survive to breed with other ships thus improving the species....
The plant expends its energies on making pesticides, and not corn. So the yeild drops. So you need to plant more corn, clear more land, use more water, more agrichemicals...
If that's true, compare costs. Is it better to have more yield but having to dump synthetic pesticides or have a lesser yield of engineered plants?
In the comparison, mind not only dollars but also the cost of energy and not renewable resources that go in pesticide making. __
goatse.cx So it is true that there is no bad publicity.
I wonder where the Australian officials got the idea from. I guess Christmas is not a very popular place. Maybe they read too much Slashdot at -1 level.
So if you want to develop space industry in your small country, now you know how to promote it. __
If IBM still has that much of a market supporting OS2, then they should only support official OS2, and not open up the possibility of having incomplete installations to cope with, or other kinds of installations.
But IBM is offering support for some Linux distributions. They could do the same even better with their own product. __
Perhaps an independent outlet could be seen as non-threatening, and preferred over a better site on a rival conglomerate. Something like giving the Congo to the King of Belgium instead of any of the big powers.
For a moment, I thought of Jon Katz being in the judge board. Brrr. __
According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the fungus feeds on carbon and nitrogen from the polycarbonate layer and destroys the information recorded on the aluminium.
There is a Flash graphic (but I haven't seen it). __
Did the same low-quality pun get made on the show as well?
So it is a pun. I am not a native speaker of English. Can you explain it?
From memory, Mr Bean brings his girlfriend to a disco bar (a small discotheque, I'm not certain of the current English name) named "Club Foot" or "Club Phut". __
This arguably prevents someone from making a fair use of GPL'd code (for example, by taking a small line of code and incorporating it into a million line program which is part of a doctoral thesis).
There must be a point where you can't tell if a small chunk of code is derived from a specific work or just common knowledge. What is it? __
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Talking about tracking bills, check Where's George?, people tracking dolar bills by serial number on the web.
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it is almost impossible to actually define what is a word in Japanese and what is only a particle, even the borders between nouns and certain adjectives are very blurry ("na"-adjectives) so the whole romaji approach tries to compare apples and oranges.
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I couldn't tell but also in German the borders adjective-noun are different from say English, and they do often change rules about hyphenation.
I maybe misunderstanding German and Japanese, of course
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Have you ever heard two Japanese involved in a technical (not necessarily technology-related) conversation? It's quite common to specify a particular term by stating which kanji it's written with.
But they can't do that on the phone. Unless you claim as the parallel comment that spoken Japanese is very different form written. I can't tell.
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Now, Microsoft gives out this closed source piece of software, under their own license which states you are not allowed to reverse engineer it.
.NET libraries are (going to be) submitted to standards organizations. That said Microsoft.
Doing so will violate that license. Saying that reverse enginering software, even if the license it comes with states it's not allowed, is OK, is stupid, to say the least.
At least, things like C# and the
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Although you can in theory write every Japanese text in Hiragana (a syllable alphabet) it would be almost unreadable.
Without the Kanji you just can't be sure a) where one word ends and the next one begins and b) what most words mean, because of the endless number of homophones in Japanese.
Really? The Japanese can understand themselves on the phone. Whay couldn't they use romaji? And about the word ends, it should be easier with a Latin alphabet. They only need to decide the rules.
The Vietnamese also transitioned from ideographs to Latin. But probably Vietnamese has less homophones.
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The article tells about how the Internet market is controlled by NTT and other 3 Japanese companies and about copies of IBM mainframes. But I recall form years ago that IBM was about the only case of success of a foreign company in the Japanese market, and it was because IBM Japan behaved like a Japanese company.
Can somebody comment on IBM Japan and its differences with other Japanese companies or the rest of IBM?
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I don't think the CT ruling actually banned the practice
Well, I know that CmdrTaco started Slashdot and managed it to this day, but having his rulings as law is too much. He should go before through some formal election process, just for the appearance.
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Was it Campbell who said "Science-fiction is what science-fiction editors publish"?
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Those ship-based NT systems that are less reliable will drown while those that work will survive to breed with other ships thus improving the species....
Ships are all "she"s.
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The plant expends its energies on making pesticides, and not corn. So the yeild drops. So you need to plant more corn, clear more land, use more water, more agrichemicals ...
If that's true, compare costs. Is it better to have more yield but having to dump synthetic pesticides or have a lesser yield of engineered plants?
In the comparison, mind not only dollars but also the cost of energy and not renewable resources that go in pesticide making.
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A much more common experience is to wait on hold for 15-20 minutes, but I have waited on hold as long as an hour with them.
Well, in this case Slashdot was down. That can explain the instant response.
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Could this one day be used to turn my dull crud into something Fitzgerald or Hemingway or even Asimov or Heinlein might have written?
Then you could take news from say CNN and process them to be Slashdot-ready. Imagine a Jon Katz or Taco filter.
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Didn't some security or usability expert tell you that forcing multiple hard-to-remember passphrases leads to people storing them off-head insecurely?
It's a compromise. What's riskier: your one passphrase being guessed or your passphrase storage being hacked.
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goatse.cx
So it is true that there is no bad publicity.
I wonder where the Australian officials got the idea from. I guess Christmas is not a very popular place. Maybe they read too much Slashdot at -1 level.
So if you want to develop space industry in your small country, now you know how to promote it.
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when a mummy thylacine and a daddy thylacine
You are suggesting necrophillia!?
Besides it wouldn't work.
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So instead of opening the door and letting the heat in, you have a light bulb going on inside.
I wonder what is more efficient.
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It would confuse everyone
You mean as in "OS/2 is the future", "OpenDoc is the future", "NT is the future", "Java is the future", "Linux is the future",...?
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If IBM still has that much of a market supporting OS2, then they should only support official OS2, and not open up the possibility of having incomplete installations to cope with, or other kinds of installations.
But IBM is offering support for some Linux distributions. They could do the same even better with their own product.
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Perhaps an independent outlet could be seen as non-threatening, and preferred over a better site on a rival conglomerate. Something like giving the Congo to the King of Belgium instead of any of the big powers.
For a moment, I thought of Jon Katz being in the judge board. Brrr.
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I understand now. I think there's a chain of sportswear shops called "Athlete's Foot" which is another disease.
About Japanese, I suppose that when yo go beyond the elemental you will find it can be as tricky as English (or any other fully developed language).
(And I agree that the flying in "Crouching Dragon,..." was unbelievable. They should have acted it as very big jumps, not running on the air.)
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According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the fungus feeds on carbon and nitrogen from the polycarbonate layer and destroys the information recorded on the aluminium.
There is a Flash graphic (but I haven't seen it).
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Did the same low-quality pun get made on the show as well?
So it is a pun. I am not a native speaker of English. Can you explain it?
From memory, Mr Bean brings his girlfriend to a disco bar (a small discotheque, I'm not certain of the current English name) named "Club Foot" or "Club Phut".
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Now you can send costless Unsolicited Comercial Mail to Mars!
Make Martian Money Fast!
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I hope M$ decide to call the next major product they release in the UK the Club-Foot
Didn't you steal it from Mr. Bean?
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This arguably prevents someone from making a fair use of GPL'd code (for example, by taking a small line of code and incorporating it into a million line program which is part of a doctoral thesis).
There must be a point where you can't tell if a small chunk of code is derived from a specific work or just common knowledge. What is it?
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