As far as American law goes, you are very wrong with regards to when deadly force may be used. Generally, it's okay to respond with force that is likely to cause death or serious injury when the same is imminent to/upon a person being attacked, or when one of several forcible felonies are being committed upon a person (murder, rape, sexual assault/battery, arson, treason, car-jacking, robbery, planting bombs, etc.). Vigilantism this is not, as the use of force is explicitly authorized by the law.
I guess we Americans place a lower value on the lives those who initiate violence.
Lock me in a room with a tatami mat. You think I'm joking? Keep your manuals, reports, etc. spread about the floor. No distractions, no plants or desks to maintain. I have to go to work soon... more on this later.
Agreed! ZSH is very nifty stuff, especially the customizable/programmable completion. For those that don't know, you can have zsh call different completion functions depending on the context in which the completion was requested. For example, zsh could fill in a command line like this: ssh -l {[TAB]->fill in a username} {[TAB]->fill in hostname}.
It's not only Lin-nucks in English. In Japanese "Linux" is pronounced thusly: "Ri(n)nakusu" (where "ri" comes out like a combination of the English) ree/lee/dee; and you don't really pronounce the "u"s). The other possibility is "Rainukusu," ("rai" = English "rye"), but I've never heard it pronounced like that. Anyhoo... at least it had some mention on the show.
Packard Bell just gave me an all-around bad feeling about everything! Anyone remember those little stickers that, when ripped off, would read "VOID"?! And that's just when you open the case! I'm not at all sad to see Packard Bell go. They made some of the most difficult and crappy computers ever. I certainly hope Dell (a loyal customer for 5 years, now) keeps their standards high and never sinks to the low that PB did.
Okay, so it's not a real representation. But think about it. All those scrolling green lines look just like code to the unitiated. A big chunk of the manipulation happens with one guy at a keyboard (or six).
Actually, to more than 177 million people it looks like backwards katakana:-)
I find that a mix of nothing more than Tool, Primus, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and Cake makes for excellent programming music... All of these groups have heavy basslines, but their styles are different enough so that I don't get bored.
about needing japanese version of windows--no, you don't. i downloaded some program (i can't find it now, and i'm not at my home computer, but it also lets you view japanese characters on webpages), installed it, and could immediately write to a lot of apps including notepad.
Arg! That's right... I forgot all about those! Might you be talking about AsianSuite or AsianPack?
There would probably need to be some sort of conversion engine [library] that programs could link against. Then, the same core functionality (converting kana to kanji) can be handled by the library, but the application (or even another add-on library) could handle displaying the candidate list, etc... Maybe GNU readline could be modified to do this. As far as X goes, I don't even know where to start! There are too many widget sets out there, and if the IME were a part of X, it would probably feel awkward. The kernel shouldn't really be involved because it needn't be tied to X.
it seems that a lot of people have the idea that internationalization means language translation: certainly it does not.
I didn't make any reference(s) to translation.
i have used a japanese language input methods in windows, and it works uniformly in word, on netscape forms, and even in notepad, IIRC.
That's great, but it's too bad you need a Japanese version of Windows just to input those characters into Notepad! You can only use the IMEs in non-CJK editions of Windows with programs that host IE's edit controls (a slight oversimplification).
I simply think that you should be able to input text into *any* program in *any* language -- it should be transparent to the application. I guess that means reworking X a bit (?). It would seem rather silly for each particular widget set to support an IME on its own.
It's only unfortunate because this is one of the few areas Linux (and Unix in general) is particularly weak in. I'd hate to think that the only reason people who otherwise despise Windows would continue using it is because an excellent alternative operating system lacks even decent support for their native language; that's all.
I just wish it was the Unix community who had this problem solved first.:)
Good idea! The support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages just doesn't cut it. Sure, the programs can display text, but I've had a miserable time trying to enter text and get appropriate conversions. The only reason I use Windows is so that I can email or write documents in Japanese with OE5 and Word 2000 -- all on an English version of Win98. Unfortunately, I think MS has definitely seen the way: if people who communicate in non-latin based languages can't input characters, they're not gonna use your software! And that right there was enough to make me dump Netscape...
I sure wish someone would decribe exactly (and legally) what constitutes child pornography.
1) I've seen a few pictures of myself right after being born with my bright-red, freshly snipped pecker.
2) Is that child porn? Should my parents be arrested for having the picture? What about me mailing the picture to my fiancee in some other state? Have I distributed child pornography?
3) Now, what about getting circumcised at the age of 13 -- the doctors take before and after pictures and give them to my family. See point #2. Suppose somehow these two pictures are distributed (either accidentally or on purpose) separately, and no one knows that they're to show the results of a medical procedure. Are those two pictures considered pornographic?
I guess what I'm asking here is, how to you figure the "purpose" of a picture? Where is the line between child pornography and documentation?
Just give me my Tekken {4, Tag}! That's all I bought the original PlayStation for. The FMV is quite impressive and the gameplay beats all other fighting games.
Call me silly, but I'd like to see (at least for a short while) some system that gives registered users a single moderation point for each AC post. That way, we could quickly bury trolls and the like. Perhaps this would work well in combination with Rob's "Karma" system and the randomization of top-level posts.
Of course, it's not a perfect solution, but I see it as one step above eliminating AC posts completely.
I have an Olympus Camedia C-840L that uses SmartMedia... it's a little plastic (8MB) card that slides into a PCMCIA (PC Card) card. Linux treats it as a IDE device, so it works perfectly. If you don't have a laptop, Olympus sells a floppy adapter (!), presumably allowing you to mount the floppy disk as normal.
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I guess we Americans place a lower value on the lives those who initiate violence.
Lock me in a room with a tatami mat. You think I'm joking? Keep your manuals, reports, etc. spread about the floor. No distractions, no plants or desks to maintain. I have to go to work soon... more on this later.
(Let's try this again, only in short form). In Japanese, the number four is pronounced "shi" -- as is the word "death." :)
Agreed! ZSH is very nifty stuff, especially the customizable/programmable completion. For those that don't know, you can have zsh call different completion functions depending on the context in which the completion was requested. For example, zsh could fill in a command line like this: ssh -l {[TAB]->fill in a username} {[TAB]->fill in hostname}.
It's not only Lin-nucks in English. In Japanese "Linux" is pronounced thusly: "Ri(n)nakusu" (where "ri" comes out like a combination of the English) ree/lee/dee; and you don't really pronounce the "u"s). The other possibility is "Rainukusu," ("rai" = English "rye"), but I've never heard it pronounced like that. Anyhoo... at least it had some mention on the show.
eff seck!
Packard Bell just gave me an all-around bad feeling about everything! Anyone remember those little stickers that, when ripped off, would read "VOID"?! And that's just when you open the case! I'm not at all sad to see Packard Bell go. They made some of the most difficult and crappy computers ever. I certainly hope Dell (a loyal customer for 5 years, now) keeps their standards high and never sinks to the low that PB did.
Ugh! I know! Geez! They don't even have tank dealerships around here. What a load of BS!
... and I can go to war, carrying a certain sidearm (a pistol), yet I cannot buy one until I'm 21... (I seek not to start a gun debate).
I find that a mix of nothing more than Tool, Primus, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and Cake makes for excellent programming music... All of these groups have heavy basslines, but their styles are different enough so that I don't get bored.
Arg! That's right... I forgot all about those! Might you be talking about AsianSuite or AsianPack?
There would probably need to be some sort of conversion engine [library] that programs could link against. Then, the same core functionality (converting kana to kanji) can be handled by the library, but the application (or even another add-on library) could handle displaying the candidate list, etc... Maybe GNU readline could be modified to do this. As far as X goes, I don't even know where to start! There are too many widget sets out there, and if the IME were a part of X, it would probably feel awkward. The kernel shouldn't really be involved because it needn't be tied to X.
Admittedly, I'm short on ideas about this. :)
I simply think that you should be able to input text into *any* program in *any* language -- it should be transparent to the application. I guess that means reworking X a bit (?). It would seem rather silly for each particular widget set to support an IME on its own.
I just wish it was the Unix community who had this problem solved first.
Good idea! The support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages just doesn't cut it. Sure, the programs can display text, but I've had a miserable time trying to enter text and get appropriate conversions. The only reason I use Windows is so that I can email or write documents in Japanese with OE5 and Word 2000 -- all on an English version of Win98. Unfortunately, I think MS has definitely seen the way: if people who communicate in non-latin based languages can't input characters, they're not gonna use your software! And that right there was enough to make me dump Netscape...
Long live Surashidotto!
MS IE 5 doesn't run under Linux, and probably never will. Not a ringing endorsement, if you have to install a second OS, just to run a web browser.
WTF?! At least you can get to the license agreement dialog under Solaris. That's one better than M10!
I would happily pay $50 for a Linux version of Internet Explorer.
I shall go one further and trademark int, char, and the phrase, ".h".
Aye! I've rolled off into the sea! Retrieve me!
(Seriously... is that what they meant?)
Erm, it could have something to do with the subject. I'll probably get shit just for pointing it out. :(
I sure wish someone would decribe exactly (and legally) what constitutes child pornography.
1) I've seen a few pictures of myself right after being born with my bright-red, freshly snipped pecker.
2) Is that child porn? Should my parents be arrested for having the picture? What about me mailing the picture to my fiancee in some other state? Have I distributed child pornography?
3) Now, what about getting circumcised at the age of 13 -- the doctors take before and after pictures and give them to my family. See point #2. Suppose somehow these two pictures are distributed (either accidentally or on purpose) separately, and no one knows that they're to show the results of a medical procedure. Are those two pictures considered pornographic?
I guess what I'm asking here is, how to you figure the "purpose" of a picture? Where is the line between child pornography and documentation?
Just give me my Tekken {4, Tag}! That's all I bought the original PlayStation for. The FMV is quite impressive and the gameplay beats all other fighting games.
Call me silly, but I'd like to see (at least for a short while) some system that gives registered users a single moderation point for each AC post. That way, we could quickly bury trolls and the like. Perhaps this would work well in combination with Rob's "Karma" system and the randomization of top-level posts.
Of course, it's not a perfect solution, but I see it as one step above eliminating AC posts completely.
Just my US$0.02...
I have an Olympus Camedia C-840L that uses SmartMedia... it's a little plastic (8MB) card that slides into a PCMCIA (PC Card) card. Linux treats it as a IDE device, so it works perfectly. If you don't have a laptop, Olympus sells a floppy adapter (!), presumably allowing you to mount the floppy disk as normal.