Default behavior. This is also configurable in Opera, but unsupported (google "opsed" for the easy way). Another neat thing about Opera is being able to set nicknames for bookmarks; I have "slash" for this site, "sa" for somethingawful, and several other nicknames. You can also do this with folders; "com" opens up all bookmarks in my webcomics folder. Check it out. The address bar is very useful. One nitpick I had with Firefox the last time I tried it was that opening a new tab didn't immediately register my keys; I'd press ctrl-t, enter the address, press enter, and end up at "shdot.org". Another reason for sticking with Opera for me is that the page zoom feature is so essential that I hate using a browser without it, at least when using it full-screen on a monitor with 1600x1200.
That translation excludes a bit / an exact translation is "DS Brain Training for adults", and the full Japanese title is "nou wo kitaeru otona no DS training". It's, uh... it has like small excercises and stuff? Not really sure. Maybe it's in the article.
You don't know how lucky you are, what with your straight roads. I live in Norway, and all through my upbringing I've had excrutiating experiences with car trips - there are turns all the time so I get sick trying to read, play games: doing anything other than listening to music. But then, this summer we drove just over the border to the relatively flat Sweden, and wow; I was watching DVDs on my laptop, reading books, playing Mr. Driller on my DS and all kinds of stuff without any problems. Then almost as soon as we got on this side of the border it was back to narrow, winding roads. Meh.
Flamebait? Strong opinion and death threats are certainly bad, but as TFA says, "It is a social faux pas to write about yourself," according to Jimmy Wales. Despite this, he's changing the content of the articles because he disagrees with them--I've only observed first-hand the changing of "co-founder" into "founder", but others have implied even bigger changes. It's not like he corrected his birthday or fixed a typo.
It's interesting how he changed "a [[wiki]] pioneer who is best known as the co-founder and leader of [[Wikipedia]]" to "a [[wiki]] pioneer who is best known as the founder and leader of [[Wikipedia]]". That's not fact; it's opinion. He seems kinda, what can you say, arrogant. That's not just judging from this incident, but from recent news articles.
Thanks, I'm going to check that out. Looking at AMG, I noticed Loveless has a track called "Soon"; Asobi Seksu has a track called "Sooner": a tribute, perhaps? Thanks, execute indie nerd.
Yeah, the keyboardist/vocalist is Japanese. The name is actually what caught my attention in the first place. Many of the vocals are in Japanese too. I didn't link to their site in my first post, but they still have free mp3s up: http://www.asobiseksu.com/audio.php
iTunes actually has quite a few indie artists. Last year, some Slashdot poster mentioned an indie New York band called Asobi Seksu; they had a website and some free tracks, and I liked it. Now they're on iTunes, though I got their album from eMusic. Is anyone familiar with the terms for indie artists to get published on iTunes? Sounds like it could work pretty well given the low cost of distribution. Here comes the indie revolution... maybe.:)
Uh... because everyone who wants a 360 that bad already has one. Is there really such a frenzy to get one in the US? Just get one from Japanese eBay; I've heard there are plenty of leftover machines there at an affordable price.
Damn, half the posters in this thread has this mobo--including me. Great value! Only negative things I can say are that the IDE connectors are way too far down to connect most of my 5.25" drives, and that the SATA2 connector doesn't have a Linux driver. Otherwise it's great, and that's upgrading from an ASUS that was pretty expensive in 2001 (A7V266-E).
Square merged with Enix in 2003. FFII has been released abroad on both the PSX and GBA. FFIII I'm less certain about, but I think it's been released; in any case, an NDS remake is on the way. In related news, FFIV was just released for GBA.
Most DSLRs have an APS-C-sized sensor, that's about 22mm wide or something like that; same size as an APS frame. This Sony cam also has an APS-C sensor. Because of the smaller size, you need to multiply the actual focus length by 1.6 to get an equivalent of what it would be like on a camera with a 35mm film, or a 35mm sensor which Canon has on their single-digit cameras (5D, 1D etc). To compensate, some lenses (EF-S line for Canon; Nikon has a line as well I believe. The 350D comes with such a lens; 18-55mm or approx. 29-88mm equiv.) make wider zooms possible for less money because they have to cover less area. Such lenses are incompatible with 35mm cameras. 24mm equivalent shouldn't be a problem; that would only need a 15mm lens. I don't know about an EF-S lens at that exact length, but a regular EF fisheye lens would work well.
Hm. I don't have that checked, but I see file extensions on most files.. Looking around, some files don't even have extensions, such as the data files for Diablo II; looking at the Type column, however, I see it is a "Diablo II data archive". More descriptive than "MPQ", no? There's also a Diablo II Install log.html, and a Patch.txt, both with their extensions intact. The only type I've found that hides the extension is.app: executable archives. A lot of files don't have file extensions at all; my knowledge of the file system on OS X is limited, but I'm guessing the type is stored in the metadata. A pretty elegant solution, I think. Are there any extensions other than.app that are hidden? It seems no common extensions that are hidden in XP and that I would like to be able to see (such as doc rtf txt, avi mov mpeg, jpg gif tiff) are hidden.
Actually, this might be kinda nice, because all the popular crap will get expensive and you might be able to find some gems really cheaply. Still dommed to failure because of the problems you raised, though.
Using a $500 app for images taken with a $300 camera is like using a cheap lens on a high-end camera body; you're not going to get good results when the most important piece doesn't hold up. The A95 gives great pictures for the price, but spending more money on the camera and less on the software would just make more sense. Heck, the A95 doesn't even support a RAW format! This is ignoring the fact that the OP probably pirated the software in the first place.
Though I find iTunes excrutiatingly unresponsive (this is actually a strange thing - right after I reinstalled Windows last month, using the exact same iTunes library files (itl, xml, whatever else is in that directory) as before reinstalling, everything, including searching, was snappy as hell; very soon, though, the speed got heavily reduced. Wonder why.), I think it's quite nice for an audio player. As long as you have good ID3 tags, the search is an excellent way to find my music.
As for video, Media Player Classic is pretty nice. I kept true to a classic player called Sasami2k for a long time, because it had--and still has in my opinion--the best interface for a video player. There was just one window, with the video and a tiny border (1px default), and the controls were accessed by moving the mouse to the top or bottom of the window. No external window for controls, and the window showed just the video, and didn't clutter the desktop up with the controls. Unfortunately, it hasn't had a release since 2001, and doesn't support half of what's out there now, such as most subtitle formats. I really miss it, though.
Yeah, as I mentioned, even the students I went to school with had troubles actually speaking English. Pretty good at passing tests, though. On an unrelated note, could you possibly recommend a good, dual-language version of Shonagon's Pillow Book? I only have this old 70s Penguin translated edition, and though I doubt I would understand Heian period Japanese very well, it could be interesting to see something close to the original text (the foreword to the edition in my possesion mentions the unfortunate lack of a contemporary version of the document). I'm going to subscribe to your RSS feed, by the way.
One hour or two for most kids? I find that hard to believe, honestly. At the school I was an exchange student at--which admittedly was quite far up in the hierarchy of high schools in Gifu (indeed, bordering your Toyama)--they had 5 English classes every week: 3 classes of "English", which taught reading comprehension and some spoken English, and 2 classes of Writing (raitingu). So many of my classmates could actually read English to a somewhat all right level. Forget about speaking it, though; they just couldn't manage to put together anything more advanced than very simple sentences and common (and not so common) phrases, despite having impressive vocabularies.
Personally, I think the problem lies in the education style, and also the time at which they start learning the language: in junior high. Note that I don't address this post entirely to you, the parent, as you honestly might know more about the subject than I.;)
Yes, it's true. I think the racism of earlier days has been beaten, in a way. Lots of Japanese, both men and women, seem to want Korean mates. Just look at Winter Sonata and Bae Yong Jung. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bae_Yong_Jun
This is very different from how it seems to have been before. I remember reading a travelogue--Hokkaido Highway Blues I think it was called--where the author asks a guy who has been annoying him at a bar: "are you Korean?" whereupon the man answers "no, I'm not Korean! I'm Japanese!", and the author says "oh, but you look Korean". I'm typing from memory, so regard this as a paraphrase. Anyway, the man then becomes angry and storms off.
So the relationship with Korea seems to be gettingbetter. Next will have to be China, I guess. I was an exchange student, and am currently a volunteer in the same organization which I had sent me off. When I asked one Japanese exchange student why he used the word "chuugokukusai", literally "China-stinking" to describe some Chinese-like object, he replied: "oh, but all Japanese hate Chinese. They may not admit it, but they really do. The Chinese hate us too." More recently, I spoke to a Chinese exchange student, and when I mentioned I'd been an exchange student in Japan, he calmly said smething to the effect of "all Chinese hate Japanese, and all Japanese hate Chinese." Although I immediately reflected upon my earlier discussion with the Japanese student, I denied his statement, and sort of lied saying that I didn't know any Japanese people who thought anything like that. He then said that "they just don't admit it". The reason I think this is particularly astounding and sad, is that the entire mission of the exchange student organization is to build international understanding, and thus in some way to prevent war. I guess these kids who are taught by their parents to hate just don't get it.
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Actually, only the 15" and 17" models have PCMIA slots.
Default behavior. This is also configurable in Opera, but unsupported (google "opsed" for the easy way). Another neat thing about Opera is being able to set nicknames for bookmarks; I have "slash" for this site, "sa" for somethingawful, and several other nicknames. You can also do this with folders; "com" opens up all bookmarks in my webcomics folder. Check it out. The address bar is very useful. One nitpick I had with Firefox the last time I tried it was that opening a new tab didn't immediately register my keys; I'd press ctrl-t, enter the address, press enter, and end up at "shdot.org". Another reason for sticking with Opera for me is that the page zoom feature is so essential that I hate using a browser without it, at least when using it full-screen on a monitor with 1600x1200.
All of 3 results, and all are explanations of what it means. Not a very common word. Seems it's also written in katakana as "chokueganbo" though, also giving 3 results on Google: http://www.google.com/search?hs=mZk&hl=no&ie=UTF-8 &oe=UTF-8&client=opera&rls=nb&q=%22%E3%83%81%E3%83 %A7%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A8%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%2 2&btnG=S%C3%B8k&lr= All of these are the same explanation of the meaning, verbatim.
It's probably just street slang only used by a few gyaru in Harajuku. Would have expected some blogs though.
Note that the text you quoted is UTC, which IIRC is 5 hours ahead of EST.
That translation excludes a bit / an exact translation is "DS Brain Training for adults", and the full Japanese title is "nou wo kitaeru otona no DS training". It's, uh... it has like small excercises and stuff? Not really sure. Maybe it's in the article.
You don't know how lucky you are, what with your straight roads. I live in Norway, and all through my upbringing I've had excrutiating experiences with car trips - there are turns all the time so I get sick trying to read, play games: doing anything other than listening to music. But then, this summer we drove just over the border to the relatively flat Sweden, and wow; I was watching DVDs on my laptop, reading books, playing Mr. Driller on my DS and all kinds of stuff without any problems. Then almost as soon as we got on this side of the border it was back to narrow, winding roads. Meh.
Flamebait? Strong opinion and death threats are certainly bad, but as TFA says, "It is a social faux pas to write about yourself," according to Jimmy Wales. Despite this, he's changing the content of the articles because he disagrees with them--I've only observed first-hand the changing of "co-founder" into "founder", but others have implied even bigger changes. It's not like he corrected his birthday or fixed a typo.
It's interesting how he changed "a [[wiki]] pioneer who is best known as the co-founder and leader of [[Wikipedia]]" to "a [[wiki]] pioneer who is best known as the founder and leader of [[Wikipedia]]". That's not fact; it's opinion. He seems kinda, what can you say, arrogant. That's not just judging from this incident, but from recent news articles.
Thanks, I'm going to check that out. Looking at AMG, I noticed Loveless has a track called "Soon"; Asobi Seksu has a track called "Sooner": a tribute, perhaps? Thanks, execute indie nerd.
Yeah, the keyboardist/vocalist is Japanese. The name is actually what caught my attention in the first place. Many of the vocals are in Japanese too. I didn't link to their site in my first post, but they still have free mp3s up: http://www.asobiseksu.com/audio.php
iTunes actually has quite a few indie artists. Last year, some Slashdot poster mentioned an indie New York band called Asobi Seksu; they had a website and some free tracks, and I liked it. Now they're on iTunes, though I got their album from eMusic. Is anyone familiar with the terms for indie artists to get published on iTunes? Sounds like it could work pretty well given the low cost of distribution. Here comes the indie revolution... maybe. :)
Eh. I interpreted the site and piece as a right-wing libertarian constitution-thumping rant, and nothing else.
Iran's spy chief used just two words to respond to White House ridicule of last week's presidential election: "Thank you."
Uh... because everyone who wants a 360 that bad already has one. Is there really such a frenzy to get one in the US? Just get one from Japanese eBay; I've heard there are plenty of leftover machines there at an affordable price.
Damn, half the posters in this thread has this mobo--including me. Great value! Only negative things I can say are that the IDE connectors are way too far down to connect most of my 5.25" drives, and that the SATA2 connector doesn't have a Linux driver. Otherwise it's great, and that's upgrading from an ASUS that was pretty expensive in 2001 (A7V266-E).
Square merged with Enix in 2003. FFII has been released abroad on both the PSX and GBA. FFIII I'm less certain about, but I think it's been released; in any case, an NDS remake is on the way. In related news, FFIV was just released for GBA.
Most DSLRs have an APS-C-sized sensor, that's about 22mm wide or something like that; same size as an APS frame. This Sony cam also has an APS-C sensor. Because of the smaller size, you need to multiply the actual focus length by 1.6 to get an equivalent of what it would be like on a camera with a 35mm film, or a 35mm sensor which Canon has on their single-digit cameras (5D, 1D etc). To compensate, some lenses (EF-S line for Canon; Nikon has a line as well I believe. The 350D comes with such a lens; 18-55mm or approx. 29-88mm equiv.) make wider zooms possible for less money because they have to cover less area. Such lenses are incompatible with 35mm cameras. 24mm equivalent shouldn't be a problem; that would only need a 15mm lens. I don't know about an EF-S lens at that exact length, but a regular EF fisheye lens would work well.
Hm. I don't have that checked, but I see file extensions on most files.. Looking around, some files don't even have extensions, such as the data files for Diablo II; looking at the Type column, however, I see it is a "Diablo II data archive". More descriptive than "MPQ", no? There's also a Diablo II Install log.html, and a Patch.txt, both with their extensions intact. The only type I've found that hides the extension is .app: executable archives. A lot of files don't have file extensions at all; my knowledge of the file system on OS X is limited, but I'm guessing the type is stored in the metadata. A pretty elegant solution, I think. Are there any extensions other than .app that are hidden? It seems no common extensions that are hidden in XP and that I would like to be able to see (such as doc rtf txt, avi mov mpeg, jpg gif tiff) are hidden.
Actually, this might be kinda nice, because all the popular crap will get expensive and you might be able to find some gems really cheaply. Still dommed to failure because of the problems you raised, though.
You wouldn't need to connect the controller to the DS; you could just connect using Wi-Fi. Possibly awesome.
Using a $500 app for images taken with a $300 camera is like using a cheap lens on a high-end camera body; you're not going to get good results when the most important piece doesn't hold up. The A95 gives great pictures for the price, but spending more money on the camera and less on the software would just make more sense. Heck, the A95 doesn't even support a RAW format! This is ignoring the fact that the OP probably pirated the software in the first place.
As for video, Media Player Classic is pretty nice. I kept true to a classic player called Sasami2k for a long time, because it had--and still has in my opinion--the best interface for a video player. There was just one window, with the video and a tiny border (1px default), and the controls were accessed by moving the mouse to the top or bottom of the window. No external window for controls, and the window showed just the video, and didn't clutter the desktop up with the controls. Unfortunately, it hasn't had a release since 2001, and doesn't support half of what's out there now, such as most subtitle formats. I really miss it, though.
Yeah, as I mentioned, even the students I went to school with had troubles actually speaking English. Pretty good at passing tests, though. On an unrelated note, could you possibly recommend a good, dual-language version of Shonagon's Pillow Book? I only have this old 70s Penguin translated edition, and though I doubt I would understand Heian period Japanese very well, it could be interesting to see something close to the original text (the foreword to the edition in my possesion mentions the unfortunate lack of a contemporary version of the document). I'm going to subscribe to your RSS feed, by the way.
Personally, I think the problem lies in the education style, and also the time at which they start learning the language: in junior high. Note that I don't address this post entirely to you, the parent, as you honestly might know more about the subject than I. ;)
This is very different from how it seems to have been before. I remember reading a travelogue--Hokkaido Highway Blues I think it was called--where the author asks a guy who has been annoying him at a bar: "are you Korean?" whereupon the man answers "no, I'm not Korean! I'm Japanese!", and the author says "oh, but you look Korean". I'm typing from memory, so regard this as a paraphrase. Anyway, the man then becomes angry and storms off.
So the relationship with Korea seems to be gettingbetter. Next will have to be China, I guess. I was an exchange student, and am currently a volunteer in the same organization which I had sent me off. When I asked one Japanese exchange student why he used the word "chuugokukusai", literally "China-stinking" to describe some Chinese-like object, he replied: "oh, but all Japanese hate Chinese. They may not admit it, but they really do. The Chinese hate us too." More recently, I spoke to a Chinese exchange student, and when I mentioned I'd been an exchange student in Japan, he calmly said smething to the effect of "all Chinese hate Japanese, and all Japanese hate Chinese." Although I immediately reflected upon my earlier discussion with the Japanese student, I denied his statement, and sort of lied saying that I didn't know any Japanese people who thought anything like that. He then said that "they just don't admit it". The reason I think this is particularly astounding and sad, is that the entire mission of the exchange student organization is to build international understanding, and thus in some way to prevent war. I guess these kids who are taught by their parents to hate just don't get it.
Pretty offtopic, but bleh.