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  1. Re:Lost a customer on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    I have never had that work well save for KVM and that more or less lets the guest directly attached to the graphics card. I have not tried in VirtualBox, but I just have not had that need.

    Direct access to 3d hardware is a huge security risk for a tiny gain. Since that means that guest can write to a device that has DMA. Using something in between instead sounds like a performance hit.

  2. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    I think if I lived in a foreign country I would quickly learn that language too. Immersion is a quick teacher.

    I live in the south for 8 years, Alabama and Georgia. I still have trouble with southern accents. Sure they are not another language, but in some cases they might as well be.

  3. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 2

    It is most assuredly not modern German any more than it is Dutch. It is low German, which is not what your typical German speaks or understands.

  4. Re: Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 2

    I get that. I was merely complaining about the GPs claim.

    I should have made that more clear. I have relatives by marriage that are Chinese. One attempted to speak to me in one language, when I did not understand he became louder and spoke in another Chinese language, at that point his wife laughed at him and translated to English.

  5. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    Dropping the S from specific does not sound at all like pacific, any more than any other two rhyming words. It was a simple example. For me the worst is when they run all their words together. Old northerners in Germany often sound like they are doing that too.

    When something becomes a dialect vs another language seems a bit like selecting where colors change in a rainbow.

  6. Re:Lost a customer on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    In what way does stuff not work with virtualbox?
    I run windows and linux in Virtualbox all the time on an OSX machine. Work provided.

    Windows runs fine in KVM. If you are running linux under linux, containers are a better way.

  7. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I lived there 4 years and during that time learned some small amount of it. I can understand some of it, like those translations I listed. Knowing 50% of the words in a sentence does not always mean you can understand a sentence.

    I speak more than one language, and am aware of what you mean. Switching between them takes work. No amount of work so far has let me understand some southern accents.

  8. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    I lived there for 4 years in my youth, this was after living for 4 years in Alabama. Even then I regularly ran across people who I simply could not understand.

    Last year I was speaking to dell tech support about a server that needed some parts and as I could not understand the CSR I asked for a native english speaker. He then slightly more clearly yelled something about Georgia, I am assuming he was in that state. He did eventually transfer me to someone I could understand.

  9. Re:Make it easier on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 0

    Which is not what I said at all. I merely suggested there were objective measures. You can for yourself decide how to define better.

  10. Re:Oops on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    In English the word american means someone from the USA. What language are we conversing in?

    If we were speaking in Portuguese you might have a point.

  11. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    Pacific and Specific do not even start with the same letters. Well and whale is easy compared to some changes.

    I understand that fine, German my first language is like that. I cannot understand some old northerners.
    Bavarian German has whole other words, as another example.

  12. Re:In the US on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    It is not a sad truth and not all of China wants to convert to one language or this article would not exist.

    The USA is great because it is a melting pot, not because we are uniform and unbending.

  13. Re:Why don't they just learn English? on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because even God does not trust those bastards in the dark.

  14. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    There are some southern accents with no amount of effort can I understand. Deep Georgia is one. They say specific as pacific, well becomes whale and on and on it goes. It would take as long as learning a new language for me to learn that.

    To the rest of you comment, I have no idea. I don't how to say much of anything in any Chinese language.

  15. Re:Oops on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 3

    Why would you use quotes for that?
    Do you not consider non-English speakers to be American? I do not believe citizenship requires it. Immigrants must pass a test that I bet you would not.

  16. Re:Make it easier on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    You think there is no objective way to compare written languages? Really?

  17. Re:Empire on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 2

    Yes, I would. American Samoa uses English as does Hawaii and most of the other locations we took over via imperialist type stuff. The only one I can think of that does not would be Puerto Rico. All major countries could be considered empires.

  18. Re:Cantonese is superior to mandarin on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who has not realized that this is pretty common in the USA. Often a person will not be hired for a job that involves lots of client facing interaction if his accent is too bad. A rather famous tv personality Alton Brown had to learn to speak without an accent to be able to do his geek cooking show.

  19. Re:kph, do you speak it? on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 1

    Multiply by 1.6. You are on the internet third grade math should not be unknown to you.

  20. Re:why not in the USA or Russia on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 1

    No worse than airplanes and some trains actually have decent bars. Just try ordering a cocktail with more than two ingredients in the cattle class of an airplane.

  21. Re:A me too case? on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does everything have to make a profit?
    Can nothing be done for national pride or to push forward the cutting edge?

  22. Re: Invisible text in the first amendment on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 2

    If that is how you want to look at it fine, then that is what happened here. He was free to advise people to lie about faking the test and he then was charged for it.

  23. Re:Criminal conduct my ass. on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    They are not admissible in courts. This is for a job, you can just not get those jobs. For example I don't use drugs, but I don't take drug tests. So I have opted not to take jobs that required them.

    People are not rioting because they know life is full of choices and working for a 3 letter agency is not likely want they want to do.

  24. Re:Invisible text in the first amendment on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    Do that and you abuses will come from feudal/corporate lords. Those you don't even get to vote for.

  25. Re:Hell hath no fury .. on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    No, that sensor is reading something known which is pressure, the polygraph does the same but the pseudoscience part is the interpretation. You don't just put oil in if that light comes on, you check the dipstick. With the polygraph you can't do that. Instead they have someone make a very subjective analysis and pretend it is any better than phrenology.