When I was 15 or so, I helped a friend set up her family's ADSL connection. They'd chosen an ISP which I wouldn't have recommended myself, so I innocently inquired why they'd chosen it. The mother says, "Oh, I work for them, so we get a pretty good price", upon which I ask "Oh really? What do you do there?" "I'm in tech support."... "Oh..." She must have sensed what I was thinking, because she blurted out "Uhm, you see, we haven't gotten the scripts for this yet." Kinda says something about the tech support when the people who are supposed to tell you how to do something can't even do it themselves.
So why can't they live with it? Several towns sufficiently far from the equator don't get any sunshine in winter, and the people there aren't complaining.
One issue is that I read somewhere, and obviously this information may very well be bullshit, but I read that nukes do significantly more damage when detonated a certain distance over the ground than when detonated on the ground itself. Of course, depending on the size of the weapon and local security, taking it to the highest allowed story of the empire state building might be a feasible idea. But IANAT.
Canon have some annoying driver policies too... I have a Canon printer connected to my Windows machine, and had trouble accessing it from Macs over the network. The OS couldn't find drivers, even when I tried getting them from the CD. Was really quite annoying, because it's not an old printer (ip5000). Googling around, though, I did found this howto for how to pipe it through a virtual printer: http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinte r/. And it works, I guess. Overall it's a pretty good printer, and looks better than the ip5200 in the article.
Deca is not D; it's "da". Hardly ever used in common communications anyway, as it's simpler just to say 10 of something. An SI prefix is upper case if it's >10^3,
Yes, it's surprising how that is actually used. I've never set any language preferences in Google, but after making queries in Norwegian and Japanese, it's giving me Norwegian and Japanese results when searching for something I'm expecting an English result for. And I'm not getting French and German results, even though both German and French sites are more common according to some statistics I read the other day.
How do you really know this is the case? I've been wondering about this bit of popular wisdom lately, but am wondering if it's not really just bullshit. What studies exist that actually prove that languages are particularly easy to learn at a young age? It actually takes quite a while for children to express themselves in even the most basic ways. One thing I do believe, however--based upon personal experience--is that people who haven't learned a language from early on might not understand nuances between different sounds of the language in question.
Well, I'll throw my experience in, and I just don't dare trying to play it in anything other than a perfect environment. That means putting it down on a table. That game is so hard; and at the same time it's rewarding.
I predict someone releasing a PVR dock, which you connect to the TV signal and then it encodes what you want to watch in a compatible format. Then the iPod can grab it through the dock connector. Voila! Price it at $129? People would buy it.
Case closed. ALL of you are 99% wrong. The most common words were "aibo" meaning "love; attachment; adoration", or another "aibo" meaning "cherish the memory of; yearn for". Of course individual people might call their aibos aibous or love robots.
"Rather than paying for time spent on the game itself as most other MMORPG business models apply, Yulgang sells valued-added virtual merchandise and services from its online game shop. This revenue model allows users to enjoy a high degree of game playing flexibility. This distinctive model pioneered by China.com, while having proven successful in Korea, is a breakthrough in China."
Wow. Massachusets is a developing country now too? Of course, they won't be sold openly, but all the articles except the InformationWeek one mention that MA will buy them.
Bah. My ISP has no caps. Not awesome speed, but acceptable: 3000/600 kbps or something like that. Upload is actually a theoretical 768 so real performance can go a little above 600. I use maybe 100 GB a month. The only other ISP here that ever had download caps had to remove them because of bad publicity and user feedback.
I agree about typing on Japanese phones being very convenient, and I also usually sent mails in Japanese rather than English even to other foreign friends for convenience. Of course, this was more because of the lack of English T9 on the Japanese phones. To write "hello" on an English phone with T9 you'd press "43556", but to write "konnnitiha" (konnichiwa) on a Japanese phone you'd press "2222200055446" (I think, don't have anything to look at). Of course, the phone will probably guess at what you're typing and let you scroll down to choose it already after "2222000". Obviously T9 is limited by the vocabulary that it knows, but this can usually be expanded by the user easily. Works great. I'd assume most people here would be familiar with it though.
Most of those they get paid for, yes. That's why editing search.ini to add your own search engines is not an officially supported feature even though it's easy to do. There's even a standalone program to do it. Where's the Firefox extension that does this, and also lets me search from the address bar by adding a short name as a prefix to the search word (for example, "i britney spears" will open a Google Image Search for Britney Spears, or "je bukkorosu" will search for the word "bukkorosu" in a Japanese-English online dictionary). Hm. Someone should code that extension if it doesn't exist.
Really? Since 2001 I've been using Opera 100% of the time on Windows despite having tried to use Firefox 4 times (spending lots of time installing and fiddling with extensions; thought it was a PITA but I figured it'd be worth it), but still can't bring myself to like Opera on my iBook. Last I tried it was slow, and of course gestures didn't work with a one-button touchpad. I use Safari all the time. Are you saying Opera has improved? I might have to give it a shot in that case.
Well, I bet it'll take max two days for a fansub group to release subs. Especially if they have the Japanese subs, which will help tremendously. Shit, I could do it if I wasn't so lazy. The subtitles thing, it's really true. When I was in Japan, I often found it easier to watch for example a Korean movie with Japanese subs than to watch a Japanese movie without any subs.
Welcome to the English-speaking internet. It's American. I've never played Madden, or even seen a box for the game; I don't think they even sell it here. I agree I think that Winning Eleven (or Pro Evolution Soccer as it's called outside Japan) internationally has probably moved significantly more copies than Madden has in the limited market that is the USA. It's also not exclusively a PS title; it's also being released for Xbox, PC, PSP, DS and arcade. The article sucked. Ocarina of Time deserves the first place.
"Just buy a new one?" My iPod had a broken hard disk last week, so I submitted a repair request. The next day UPS called me and after I asked them to, they came to my school to pick it up. 6 days later (including a weekend, so 4 working days) UPS called again and came to school to give me a new one. Pretty smooth service, and took no effort at all on my part other than spending five minutes describing the problem in the online form. Only disappointment was that they didn't replace my 40 GB iPod, which has been off the market for half a year now, with a 60 GB photo model.
You can use the "Shuffle by album" setting, which means it selects an album by random and plays it from beginning to end. I also prefer listening to complete albums on my iPod.
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When I was 15 or so, I helped a friend set up her family's ADSL connection. They'd chosen an ISP which I wouldn't have recommended myself, so I innocently inquired why they'd chosen it. The mother says, "Oh, I work for them, so we get a pretty good price", upon which I ask "Oh really? What do you do there?" "I'm in tech support." ... "Oh..." She must have sensed what I was thinking, because she blurted out "Uhm, you see, we haven't gotten the scripts for this yet." Kinda says something about the tech support when the people who are supposed to tell you how to do something can't even do it themselves.
So why can't they live with it? Several towns sufficiently far from the equator don't get any sunshine in winter, and the people there aren't complaining.
Yep... Amazon now says: "Only 1 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."
One issue is that I read somewhere, and obviously this information may very well be bullshit, but I read that nukes do significantly more damage when detonated a certain distance over the ground than when detonated on the ground itself. Of course, depending on the size of the weapon and local security, taking it to the highest allowed story of the empire state building might be a feasible idea. But IANAT.
Canon have some annoying driver policies too... I have a Canon printer connected to my Windows machine, and had trouble accessing it from Macs over the network. The OS couldn't find drivers, even when I tried getting them from the CD. Was really quite annoying, because it's not an old printer (ip5000). Googling around, though, I did found this howto for how to pipe it through a virtual printer: http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinte r/. And it works, I guess. Overall it's a pretty good printer, and looks better than the ip5200 in the article.
Deca is not D; it's "da". Hardly ever used in common communications anyway, as it's simpler just to say 10 of something. An SI prefix is upper case if it's >10^3,
And "Kg" looks waaaay weird.
Yes, it's surprising how that is actually used. I've never set any language preferences in Google, but after making queries in Norwegian and Japanese, it's giving me Norwegian and Japanese results when searching for something I'm expecting an English result for. And I'm not getting French and German results, even though both German and French sites are more common according to some statistics I read the other day.
How do you really know this is the case? I've been wondering about this bit of popular wisdom lately, but am wondering if it's not really just bullshit. What studies exist that actually prove that languages are particularly easy to learn at a young age? It actually takes quite a while for children to express themselves in even the most basic ways. One thing I do believe, however--based upon personal experience--is that people who haven't learned a language from early on might not understand nuances between different sounds of the language in question.
Well, I'll throw my experience in, and I just don't dare trying to play it in anything other than a perfect environment. That means putting it down on a table. That game is so hard; and at the same time it's rewarding.
Yes it does. Copying is allowed under fair use; distrubuting is not.
And "Toyota Corolla" isn't?
But do you watch 30 shows a week on the BBC? Just pointing out a small flaw there...
I predict someone releasing a PVR dock, which you connect to the TV signal and then it encodes what you want to watch in a compatible format. Then the iPod can grab it through the dock connector. Voila! Price it at $129? People would buy it.
Ok... looking at all the different theories here, let's let Google solve this.
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http://www.google.com/search?hs=VSh&hl=en&lr=&saf
http://www.google.com/search?hs=SUh&hl=en&lr=&saf
http://www.google.com/search?hs=nA2&hl=en&lr=&saf
http://www.google.com/search?hs=upM&hl=en&lr=&saf
Case closed. ALL of you are 99% wrong. The most common words were "aibo" meaning "love; attachment; adoration", or another "aibo" meaning "cherish the memory of; yearn for". Of course individual people might call their aibos aibous or love robots.
"Rather than paying for time spent on the game itself as most other MMORPG
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business models apply, Yulgang sells valued-added virtual merchandise and
services from its online game shop. This revenue model allows users to enjoy a
high degree of game playing flexibility. This distinctive model pioneered by
China.com, while having proven successful in Korea, is a breakthrough in
China."
Taken from http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
Meh. That sounds like Project Entropia. Anyway, it might be fun. Wonder if it's open to international players.
Wow. Massachusets is a developing country now too? Of course, they won't be sold openly, but all the articles except the InformationWeek one mention that MA will buy them.
Bah. My ISP has no caps. Not awesome speed, but acceptable: 3000/600 kbps or something like that. Upload is actually a theoretical 768 so real performance can go a little above 600. I use maybe 100 GB a month. The only other ISP here that ever had download caps had to remove them because of bad publicity and user feedback.
I agree about typing on Japanese phones being very convenient, and I also usually sent mails in Japanese rather than English even to other foreign friends for convenience. Of course, this was more because of the lack of English T9 on the Japanese phones. To write "hello" on an English phone with T9 you'd press "43556", but to write "konnnitiha" (konnichiwa) on a Japanese phone you'd press "2222200055446" (I think, don't have anything to look at). Of course, the phone will probably guess at what you're typing and let you scroll down to choose it already after "2222000". Obviously T9 is limited by the vocabulary that it knows, but this can usually be expanded by the user easily. Works great. I'd assume most people here would be familiar with it though.
Most of those they get paid for, yes. That's why editing search.ini to add your own search engines is not an officially supported feature even though it's easy to do. There's even a standalone program to do it. Where's the Firefox extension that does this, and also lets me search from the address bar by adding a short name as a prefix to the search word (for example, "i britney spears" will open a Google Image Search for Britney Spears, or "je bukkorosu" will search for the word "bukkorosu" in a Japanese-English online dictionary). Hm. Someone should code that extension if it doesn't exist.
Really? Since 2001 I've been using Opera 100% of the time on Windows despite having tried to use Firefox 4 times (spending lots of time installing and fiddling with extensions; thought it was a PITA but I figured it'd be worth it), but still can't bring myself to like Opera on my iBook. Last I tried it was slow, and of course gestures didn't work with a one-button touchpad. I use Safari all the time. Are you saying Opera has improved? I might have to give it a shot in that case.
Well, I bet it'll take max two days for a fansub group to release subs. Especially if they have the Japanese subs, which will help tremendously. Shit, I could do it if I wasn't so lazy. The subtitles thing, it's really true. When I was in Japan, I often found it easier to watch for example a Korean movie with Japanese subs than to watch a Japanese movie without any subs.
Welcome to the English-speaking internet. It's American. I've never played Madden, or even seen a box for the game; I don't think they even sell it here. I agree I think that Winning Eleven (or Pro Evolution Soccer as it's called outside Japan) internationally has probably moved significantly more copies than Madden has in the limited market that is the USA. It's also not exclusively a PS title; it's also being released for Xbox, PC, PSP, DS and arcade. The article sucked. Ocarina of Time deserves the first place.
"Just buy a new one?" My iPod had a broken hard disk last week, so I submitted a repair request. The next day UPS called me and after I asked them to, they came to my school to pick it up. 6 days later (including a weekend, so 4 working days) UPS called again and came to school to give me a new one. Pretty smooth service, and took no effort at all on my part other than spending five minutes describing the problem in the online form. Only disappointment was that they didn't replace my 40 GB iPod, which has been off the market for half a year now, with a 60 GB photo model.
You can use the "Shuffle by album" setting, which means it selects an album by random and plays it from beginning to end. I also prefer listening to complete albums on my iPod.
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