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  1. Re:Relationship between sound/shape? on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    I didn't know the radicals get simplified. I was about to say simplified Chinese characters are a bastardization but decided I'd leave it out.

  2. Re:Same? on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    Since English borrows from so many other languages, these exceptions are what confuse someone who is a native Chinese speaker, for example. In addition, English contains words that are spelled and sound the same but have different meanings. Chinese, not so much--lots of characters that sound the same but have different glyphs.

  3. Relationship between sound/shape? on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what is the relationship between what "A" looks like and its sound?

    The way to learn Chinese characters is through repetitive writing in addition to learning what each radical means. Each character learned/day needs to be written at least 100 times. There is also a standard way to write most characters, top-down then left-right. Prepare for sore hands and fingers. At least people outside China would probably write the characters in Latin order on a page--left-to-right then top down instead of top down, right-to-left. Writing in Latin order prevents the part of your hand that rests on the paper from getting ink/graphite smeared all over it.

    The use of radicals probably don't apply if one were to use it to learn simplified characters.

  4. Re:Good news if it results in less regulation on High-Tech Research Moving From US To China · · Score: 1

    I eagerly await the day when your job is outsourced and then you get another job working 18x6 with a salary of $3.50/hour.

  5. Re:Nice but? on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    I've written about this on slashdot on a couple of occasions. Take for example the latest version of iTunes and Quicktime on Windows. There is a lot of functionality I don't need. So instead of downloading 100MB, I uninstalled it and downloaded foobar 2000 at 3MB + some other components that totaling around 6MB.

  6. Re:Old news is VERY OLD on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    The article was last updated in 2009 http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensyps.html. Check out the link at the bottom.

  7. Re:Missing the point on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    I was kinda hoping the file size dropped to 42 as well.

  8. Re:Friends are now always public - nasty facebook. on On Social Networks, You Are Who You Know · · Score: 1

    Apparently you can set what your friends can share about you but given that Facebook changed their policy of making friends' lists public, who knows how long some of the other policies will last.

  9. Re:SFTP improvements on OpenSSH 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    # e.g. copy all non-hidden files and dirs from your home dir using protocol 2

    Couldn't you use tar (ask it to filter non-hidden files/directories) then pipe to ssh? I'm actually curious if there is an obscure reason why a script is necessary.

  10. Re:SFTP improvements on OpenSSH 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Tab-completion is not enabled if libedit is not installed. Cygwin's distribution doesn't enable it.

  11. Re:Cygwin's package was updated, too on OpenSSH 5.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think I've just seen another incantation of ssh black magic (the other being command= in authorized_keys). Thanks for the insight.

  12. Cygwin's package was updated, too on OpenSSH 5.4 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The read-only feature of sftp makes it almost a replacement for anonymous ftp. Too bad it appears to be a global setting.

  13. Re:The 13 votes on EU Parliament Rejects ACTA In a 663 To 13 Vote · · Score: 1

    Data is up now. The desenters are from the UK or Netherlands. That's not to say everyone from the UK/Netherlands voted no nor from the same group voted the same. For the most part, the EFD of which many are from the UK, most voted no or absent (from Italy).

    It's ironic "EFD" stands for Europe of Freedom and Democracy and these guys want secrecy.

  14. Will cost a little more on EU Parliament Rejects ACTA In a 663 To 13 Vote · · Score: 1

    The corporations have bought the American government. They just need to spend a little more to buy Europe.

  15. Re:Who is IPEX? on NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s · · Score: 1

    Clearly written by someone who only read the quote and not the actual post in the link.

  16. Re:Sure on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    These PBX systems ran software from a hard drive, but due to the age the system only supported drives up to (around) 200MB. Nobody made drives that small anymore, so this drive manufacturer re-wrote the firmware for them ($$) so a 120GB drive (the smallest they made at the time) would only recognize & address the first 200MB.

    What they really did was use MHDD to trim the drive's size.

  17. Re:Slashdot trolled on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    Heck, even the Apple II's floppy disk drive doesn't write in 1s and 0s to denote the same at the lowest level.

  18. Re:"The" cause on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    That and they probably didn't sit and wait until their lawyers performed a cost/benefit analysis before they sent anything to their customers.

  19. Re:Treason, and terrorism on ACTA Internet Chapter Leaked — Bad For Everyone · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure when the negotiations are over, several thousand pages of crap will be presented to the House and Senate floors an hour before they're to be voted upon. And each person will be told if they don't vote yes, hell will break loose, terrorism will ensue, and "martial law will be in effect," blah, blah, blah.

  20. Re:Google Pack not cool, Firefox Check for Updates on Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent · · Score: 1

    I would have to disagree. While Firefox's Windows updater is convenient, it will not allow an individual who only has limited user access (my parents) to a machine to update itself. Now, Apple, Adobe, etc. updaters except for Microsoft's don't work correctly either if they are run within a limited user account.

  21. Re:Bonjour on Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent · · Score: 1

    I have opted out of Safari and it doesn't get selected each time. But I have gotten tired of the tens of MB installs of iTunes/Quicktime that I've switched to Foobar 2000 and Quicktime Alternative. I stopped upgrading iTunes/Quicktime when the bundle was 70+MB but now it is 100+ which is ridiculous.

    As far as Adobe Download Manager, I have removed Acrobat Reader and replaced it with PDF XChange (Portable) Reader.

  22. Re:8 Minutes of my life on Bing Maps Wows 'Em At TED2010 · · Score: 1

    If I had a 360 and needed it serviced more than once and it's exhibiting the RROD, I'd be embarrassed about that.

  23. Re:Cmon people... on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 1

    You're the first who seem to don't mind running your car's VIN every 90 days to ensure it stays legit. You're also probably an advocate for more less privacy cuz if you're not breaking the law, you don't have anything to worry about.

  24. Re:That does not matter. on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    You don't know how rootkits work, do you?

    Yes. Rootkits return the checksum the verification app is expecting.
    So?

    Apparently you don't understand what a rootkit does to evade detection.

  25. Re:Potential cause for the blue-screens on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 1

    It's interesting how some AV products don't recognize the rootkit--I recognize Avast, and ClamAV.