I made a vow to myself to achieve a level of literacy in Japanese to at least be able to read my favorite Murakami novels. That was in 1995 when I was 17...
Only now can I honestly say I've attained that goal, after having finally passed the JLPT Level 1 (the much-feared "ikkyuu") and reading "Hituji wo meguru bouken" right-to-left twice.
Murakami's prose is abstract and intense, even in translation. However, in my estimation it is well worth giving his works a shot in the original Japanese, if you're up to the challenge. If you can honestly say you've read his novels, then you're well-prepared to use Japanese in most any professional situation.
Do a little homework. The MIPS64 architecture was designed in the early 1990's and the first implementation, the MIPS R4000, was fabbed in 1991 (I have a MIPS Magnum computer, designed to run Windows NT for MIPS, and an SGI Indy with an R4600 that are both examples of 64-bit MIPS chips released before 1994).
It is INTEL that is the newcomer here; 64-bit RISC architectures have been around for more than a decade.
As someone who has studied Japanese language and culture for 8 years and has visited Japan, I can say that the perception that Japan adopts new technology more quickly than North America is incorrect. In fact, because of intransigence and resistance to change on the part of large organizations in Japan (such as NTT, the phone monopoly there), the spread of Internet use in Japan has been crippled for at least seven years. And that's just 1 example. Japan has a reputation for allowing winning technologies to prove themselves elsewhere before the corporate culture there will adopt it; then they play catchup and, usually, do a very good job of improving the state of the art once they do. But they are very rarely the ones to promote a new paradigm, and instead take the route of conservativism.
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I made a vow to myself to achieve a level of literacy in Japanese to at least be able to read my favorite Murakami novels. That was in 1995 when I was 17...
Only now can I honestly say I've attained that goal, after having finally passed the JLPT Level 1 (the much-feared "ikkyuu") and reading "Hituji wo meguru bouken" right-to-left twice.
Murakami's prose is abstract and intense, even in translation. However, in my estimation it is well worth giving his works a shot in the original Japanese, if you're up to the challenge. If you can honestly say you've read his novels, then you're well-prepared to use Japanese in most any professional situation.
Do a little homework. The MIPS64 architecture was designed in the early 1990's and the first implementation, the MIPS R4000, was fabbed in 1991 (I have a MIPS Magnum computer, designed to run Windows NT for MIPS, and an SGI Indy with an R4600 that are both examples of 64-bit MIPS chips released before 1994).
It is INTEL that is the newcomer here; 64-bit RISC architectures have been around for more than a decade.
I have based many open source projects on libraries implementing his format.
As someone who has studied Japanese language and culture for 8 years and has visited Japan, I can say that the perception that Japan adopts new technology more quickly than North America is incorrect. In fact, because of intransigence and resistance to change on the part of large organizations in Japan (such as NTT, the phone monopoly there), the spread of Internet use in Japan has been crippled for at least seven years. And that's just 1 example. Japan has a reputation for allowing winning technologies to prove themselves elsewhere before the corporate culture there will adopt it; then they play catchup and, usually, do a very good job of improving the state of the art once they do. But they are very rarely the ones to promote a new paradigm, and instead take the route of conservativism.