Whats up the promo id on the url? Who is getting clickthroughs/paid/something for me clicking on this link?
its a great way to generate some revenue.. embed a clickthrough payment link and get it on slashdot... 3+ million people click, thats great cash even at a fraction of a fraction of a penny for each.
I have been studying japanese for about 5 years. I first bought an old Canon Wordtank(IDX-9600) in Den Den Mura (osaka's version of akihabara), and it served me well for my first year or two of study. Then it simply couldnt keep up. Word and Meaning only dictionaries arent great if you want to really learn a language. Some of the recently new dictionaries ($350+) range have awesome dictionaries, various word lookups methods, and great explanations/examples (in japanese/english), a thesaurus, and more, which are all extremely helpful. The 9600 has some explanations, but its poor in comparison to the newer models, like the IDF-4600 , at 45,000yen.
Another alternative is JWPce. I've been using it for about 4-5 years now and its a great quick desktop japanese dictionary. Its real basis is the word processor, which i rarely use, but the dictionary is quick and easy. It runs on a PocketPC as well. I got in the habit of using it before translation sites on the web became popular, so they might be of good use as well. WWWJDIC is very good.
There is a big catch to comparing the 9600 with some of the newer models (most available only in japan), that for a beginner, good luck using it. They are not meant for an int'l user, and are mostly in japanese. Menu's, explanations, etc are mostly in japanese. Once you get to 3rd year or so, you would probably do fine.
But the question of paper vs. electronic dictionary? I dont think you realize how time consuming large paper kanji dictionaries are. And wait til you are translating a 20,000 character essay. There will be kanji you dont know, and it will take hours and hours. Electronic lookup is your best hope.
Suggested Solution: Start off with a cheap Wordtank 9600 (or the like) and JWPce and websites. If you are always in front of a computer somewhere, you dont need to pocket dictionary. If you are travelling through japan, or are not often able to access the internet when you need to lookup something, its worth it. But for your first couple years, basic kanji lookup and word definitions is all you need to know. If you are still studying japanese in 3+ years, you will want/need an upgrade... especially if you travel there. By then, the IDF-4600 will be old and outdated, and you'll want whatever is the newest model.
Good luck learning japanese. If you are in the US, and you want to "touch-and-feel" good japanese dictionaries and cant get to japan, check if you live near a mitsuwa store, which is a huge japanese grocery store. There is usually a japanese only bookstore adjacent to it, which will have some dictionaries to look at. Expect high prices though.
Japan has always been a bit ahead of us in the cellphone business, and they have fixed this problem. No longer does your cellphone have ##########@att-mobile.net, but instead its a 20 character random string (ex: d3f65f2ks8iure0kh8b7@docomo.ne.jp), with the option of setting your own alias as well.
This doesnt entirely alievate the problem, but it does increase the time needed for a while loop to hit the entire user base. Supposedly this has helped.
The number of characters might be variable as well (not sure about this), which would increase the time needed even more.
This is an interesting pro-active approach, but isnt most mail sent through open proxies, which have absent sysadmins? If we cant get them to lock down their mail servers, how can we get them to install this?
All designs that have been around for years and years should be relooked at occasionally. I'm tired of the rectangular box. And with long Serial ATA cables, and better cooling, i hope this box style takes off. Current boxes cant be the best design, there has got to be something better. Maybe this is it. Or maybe this will light a fire for other producers to relook at their designs.
VoiceStream is the largest wireless service provider in the country operating on the GSM technology platform. GSM is the globally dominant wireless standard, which offers a strong competitive advantage in the speed at which VoiceStream can bring wireless internet and data services in the marketplace. VoiceStream will expand these services over the next 12 months, adding e-commerce functionality to the personal portal and deploying high-speed packet network data using GPRS.
And I'm not a f-ing employee, I'm just happy with their service.
I agree... during the first week or so, my email wasnt that reliable with Voicestream.
Yet, it seems that its gotten better. I have set up mail aliases for all important addresses, and i havent noticed any dropped messages. I also copy:forward all incoming messages to my real email account as well, as a backup. so if the phone is off, i'll just get it from my machine. You can set it all up on their website.
Also, VoiceStream just got bought by Deutsche Telecom (according to a Cust. Srv. Rep i spoke to), hence the little Tmobile icon everywhere..
Maybe (hopefully) this means we'll see some of the much better services in Europe and Japan.
IMHO, not everyone in the world speaks English! If you received an email in Mandarin Chinese, would you read it and reply?
What if you could get a pre-written spam abuse letter in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever... and cut, paste, fill in the blanks. That way the ISP in China might actually read your email.
If someone posted a generic (Fill in the blank) email, I could start my translating it to Japanese.
Come on! I realize this is a problem, but is the only solution to compartmentalize the world? Some of us have legitimate email exchanges with Asia for business, and otherwise.
I think SysAdmins need to realize there is life (other than spammers) off of American soil!
Find a student who is interested, together contact his/her prof, and that student may pull off getting academic credit for a "language internship". That way, he doesnt get paid in cash, but in credits. You'd write some evaluation to give to a prof, and everyone is happy. Since students arent full time translators, these projects may take a while (for 100 pages of documentation), but the job would get done.
Student translations will never be perfect, but technical documentation is much easier than poetry!
As a language student myself (japanese), the translating work I have done has been great. And if I had pulled off getting credit for it, I'd would've been psyched!
Being a student studying here in Japan, (and buying a Docomo phone while here) I've quickly learned how Docomo is doing well. They have about 56% of a market that is massive, being that the mobile market, in # of users, in larger than the land line market (consumer side). This may be due to NTT's true monopoly of the land line market (did I mention NTT owns Docomo?) and their use of expensive connection charges that makes using a cell usually cheaper per call. Also, Japan is a culture of fads (Tamaguchi, Piricula aka those tiny little pictures, etc.) which makes the desire for every person to carry a phone, from age twelve to age 70.
As for i-mode, it is currently a "closed garden" but its potential is massive. Its very quick and their micro-payment system is intelligent. For example, the i-mode service is only a few dollars/month, access to CNN daily, is a flat charge of about $4/month, for unlimited usage, but further access are just incrementally put on your bill. The adoption of 3G here (note, in Japan a year before Europe, and some say up to 3 years before the US), will make i-mode usage increase. Also, any company can get an i-mode site since there are little i-mode design firms popping up. But even though Japan's technology is always cutting edge, that is because of a few very large companies design and promote them.
The traditional Japanese company is much slower to accept new technology.
What bothers me the most, is I cant take this kick butt phone home with me! Email messaging (128 char max) for only 1 cent,.898 to be exact, which I use on a daily basis, much more than I ever dial a number! i-mode is also an "always-connected interface... I hated to have to logon/connect to services back home. Just wasted time.
If the two top e contributors work side by side, how can this do anything but help? Congrats to both you guys. Mandrake, some of us do like the Triangle Area, but you guys are at one of the few places that will pay to for great free code.
I think this may propel/. further into serving the community, and i like that. I am even more happy that you two retain full control... I've had by dealings with the blue pin stripes before, and they have a tendency to take over... to take over everything!
I'm not a fan of that happening, but i have faith it wont.. I'm a faithful reader, and keep up the good work.
I was doing RC5 for a while, but I found SETI and felt better about it. As someone else said, this science is worthwhile and may actually find something. Thanks to/.'s initial story, the numbers (at least for the/. team) spiked nicely.. I dont want to admit this, but abcnews has a bit larger of a following, and hopefully the spike will be larger..
Although, when we do find something out there.... then what?
It doesnt matter at all... just post the link on/. It'll be hit so much no one will be able to access it. yeah, its a scary idea... but shouldnt we expect these things to happen by now?
Slashdot Mirror
Whats up the promo id on the url? Who is getting clickthroughs/paid/something for me clicking on this link?
its a great way to generate some revenue.. embed a clickthrough payment link and get it on slashdot... 3+ million people click, thats great cash even at a fraction of a fraction of a penny for each.
Things that make you say... hmmm....
I have been studying japanese for about 5 years. I first bought an old Canon Wordtank(IDX-9600) in Den Den Mura (osaka's version of akihabara), and it served me well for my first year or two of study. Then it simply couldnt keep up. Word and Meaning only dictionaries arent great if you want to really learn a language. Some of the recently new dictionaries ($350+) range have awesome dictionaries, various word lookups methods, and great explanations/examples (in japanese/english), a thesaurus, and more, which are all extremely helpful. The 9600 has some explanations, but its poor in comparison to the newer models, like the IDF-4600 , at 45,000yen.
Another alternative is JWPce. I've been using it for about 4-5 years now and its a great quick desktop japanese dictionary. Its real basis is the word processor, which i rarely use, but the dictionary is quick and easy. It runs on a PocketPC as well. I got in the habit of using it before translation sites on the web became popular, so they might be of good use as well. WWWJDIC is very good.
There is a big catch to comparing the 9600 with some of the newer models (most available only in japan), that for a beginner, good luck using it. They are not meant for an int'l user, and are mostly in japanese. Menu's, explanations, etc are mostly in japanese. Once you get to 3rd year or so, you would probably do fine.
But the question of paper vs. electronic dictionary? I dont think you realize how time consuming large paper kanji dictionaries are. And wait til you are translating a 20,000 character essay. There will be kanji you dont know, and it will take hours and hours. Electronic lookup is your best hope.
Suggested Solution: Start off with a cheap Wordtank 9600 (or the like) and JWPce and websites. If you are always in front of a computer somewhere, you dont need to pocket dictionary. If you are travelling through japan, or are not often able to access the internet when you need to lookup something, its worth it. But for your first couple years, basic kanji lookup and word definitions is all you need to know. If you are still studying japanese in 3+ years, you will want/need an upgrade... especially if you travel there. By then, the IDF-4600 will be old and outdated, and you'll want whatever is the newest model.
Good luck learning japanese. If you are in the US, and you want to "touch-and-feel" good japanese dictionaries and cant get to japan, check if you live near a mitsuwa store, which is a huge japanese grocery store. There is usually a japanese only bookstore adjacent to it, which will have some dictionaries to look at. Expect high prices though.
Japan has always been a bit ahead of us in the cellphone business, and they have fixed this problem. No longer does your cellphone have ##########@att-mobile.net, but instead its a 20 character random string (ex: d3f65f2ks8iure0kh8b7@docomo.ne.jp), with the option of setting your own alias as well.
This doesnt entirely alievate the problem, but it does increase the time needed for a while loop to hit the entire user base. Supposedly this has helped.
The number of characters might be variable as well (not sure about this), which would increase the time needed even more.
This is an interesting pro-active approach, but isnt most mail sent through open proxies, which have absent sysadmins? If we cant get them to lock down their mail servers, how can we get them to install this?
All designs that have been around for years and years should be relooked at occasionally. I'm tired of the rectangular box. And with long Serial ATA cables, and better cooling, i hope this box style takes off. Current boxes cant be the best design, there has got to be something better. Maybe this is it. Or maybe this will light a fire for other producers to relook at their designs.
quote from http://www.voicestream.com/about/tech/iwireless.a
And I'm not a f-ing employee, I'm just happy with their service.
I agree... during the first week or so, my email wasnt that reliable with Voicestream.
Yet, it seems that its gotten better. I have set up mail aliases for all important addresses, and i havent noticed any dropped messages. I also copy:forward all incoming messages to my real email account as well, as a backup. so if the phone is off, i'll just get it from my machine.
You can set it all up on their website.
Also, VoiceStream just got bought by Deutsche Telecom (according to a Cust. Srv. Rep i spoke to), hence the little Tmobile icon everywhere..
Maybe (hopefully) this means we'll see some of the much better services in Europe and Japan.
I'm praying...
IMHO, not everyone in the world speaks English! If you received an email in Mandarin Chinese, would you read it and reply?
What if you could get a pre-written spam abuse letter in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever... and cut, paste, fill in the blanks. That way the ISP in China might actually read your email.
If someone posted a generic (Fill in the blank) email, I could start my translating it to Japanese.
Any takers for the other languages?
Come on! I realize this is a problem, but is the only solution to compartmentalize the world? Some of us have legitimate email exchanges with Asia for business, and otherwise.
I think SysAdmins need to realize there is life (other than spammers) off of American soil!
Find a student who is interested, together contact his/her prof, and that student may pull off getting academic credit for a "language internship". That way, he doesnt get paid in cash, but in credits. You'd write some evaluation to give to a prof, and everyone is happy. Since students arent full time translators, these projects may take a while (for 100 pages of documentation), but the job would get done.
Student translations will never be perfect, but technical documentation is much easier than poetry!
As a language student myself (japanese), the translating work I have done has been great. And if I had pulled off getting credit for it, I'd would've been psyched!
They are already being sued
I think you spoke too soon...
Are they also so stingy about anything resembling the iMac?
Even the new George Foreman(tm) grill (which I use religously) has various iMac-like coloring schemes..
I need my grilled meat!! Apple, dont take that away from me!
humor != flamebait
Being a student studying here in Japan, (and buying a Docomo phone while here) I've quickly learned how Docomo is doing well. They have about 56% of a market that is massive, being that the mobile market, in # of users, in larger than the land line market (consumer side). This may be due to NTT's true monopoly of the land line market (did I mention NTT owns Docomo?) and their use of expensive connection charges that makes using a cell usually cheaper per call. Also, Japan is a culture of fads (Tamaguchi, Piricula aka those tiny little pictures, etc.) which makes the desire for every person to carry a phone, from age twelve to age 70.
As for i-mode, it is currently a "closed garden" but its potential is massive. Its very quick and their micro-payment system is intelligent. For example, the i-mode service is only a few dollars/month, access to CNN daily, is a flat charge of about $4/month, for unlimited usage, but further access are just incrementally put on your bill. The adoption of 3G here (note, in Japan a year before Europe, and some say up to 3 years before the US), will make i-mode usage increase. Also, any company can get an i-mode site since there are little i-mode design firms popping up. But even though Japan's technology is always cutting edge, that is because of a few very large companies design and promote them.
The traditional Japanese company is much slower to accept new technology.
What bothers me the most, is I cant take this kick butt phone home with me! Email messaging (128 char max) for only 1 cent, .898 to be exact, which I use on a daily basis, much more than I ever dial a number! i-mode is also an "always-connected interface... I hated to have to logon/connect to services back home. Just wasted time.
Just my $0.02!
Here's the actual wording of the DOJ decision.
Any legal types out there want to give their opinions?
C'mon. really.
My money's on mille having never even heard of slashdot,
and you're of the 5 to Idiot age range so you post the
address to be funny.
I'm not laughing.
ok, so this may be a little far off, but is it not theoretically possible to run out of words? Then what??
www."randomtext".com
www.18sxksaw4.com
so easy to remember, huh?....
or will this cause us to just add to Webster's?
If the two top e contributors work side by side, how can this do anything but help? Congrats to both you guys. Mandrake, some of us do like the Triangle Area, but you guys are at one of the few places that will pay to for great free code.
keep it up. congrats to you both.
I think this may propel /. further into serving the community, and i like that. I am even more happy that you two retain full control... I've had by dealings with the blue pin stripes before, and they have a tendency to take over... to take over everything!
I'm not a fan of that happening, but i have faith it wont.. I'm a faithful reader, and keep up the good work.
I was doing RC5 for a while, but I found SETI and felt better about it. As someone else said, this science is worthwhile and may actually find something. Thanks to /.'s initial story, the numbers (at least for the /. team) spiked nicely.. I dont want to admit this, but abcnews has a bit larger of a following, and hopefully the spike will be larger..
Although, when we do find something out there.... then what?
It doesnt matter at all... just post the link on /. It'll be hit so much no one will be able to access it.
yeah, its a scary idea... but shouldnt we expect these things to happen by now?
Privacy? i wish.....