Well, Santiago is the _only_ city in Chile that I'm familiar with, and I bet that many non-Chilean readers wouldn't even know that much. Plus it's the nation's capital. So in only makes sense to use that as a geographical reference.
In addition, the country is a coastal strip 2700 miles long and only 125 miles wide, so any randomly picked town in Chile is probably a good distance from Santiago, which is right about in the middle.
Well, you can reform the Supreme Court all you want and manage to release America from the hold of the corporations, but it won't make any difference in this case.
The suit was filed in, and all parties involved are based in, FRANCE.
They already did this six months ago on Denpa Shonen, the original real-life challenge show from Japan.
They based it on a Nostradamus prediction that the world would end on 1999/7/01, so they first got two comedians (both men) and put them in an underground shelter near Tokyo Bay (they had to dig the hole and install the shelter themselves!) They ended up fighting and one of the guys escaped, so they got a woman, hoping for an Adam and Eve, but they didn't fall in love with each other so they gave up on it. I don't think the world was destroyed either.
This show also did the desert island segment, though without the competitive element of the American "Survivor" show. Just two guys on a desert island, equipped with a video camera, who have to escape.
I'm surprised, though, that there still hasn't been an American/European version of the all-time classic Nasubi segment. I'd be the first to volunteer.
>>> Josta sounds quite bad in Brazilian Portuguese, as does the Episode I character name "Captain Panaka" (something like "Captain Jerk" or "Captain Stupid"). >>>
There was an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in which there appeared an alien race from the planet Onara. I imagine they changed that for Japan (where ST:TNG was quite popular), as the word means fart in Japanese.
When the Acura Integra first came out, I remember reading a column in one of the automotive mags deriding the names. "What's next, " the author wrote, "the Masturba?"
Plus, the logo has the V and A drawn as an analog sine wave, while the I and O represent digital bits. It's probably lost on most people (I only learned about it recently), but my reaction was, "Man, that's brilliant!"
I bet Sony doesn't use lame naming companies, they've got enough creativity on their own.
Getting back to the topic, I've been a regular reader of Salon for over a year, but I still hate the name Salon. It just makes me think of snooty high-society types lounging about in fur coats sipping champagne (getting their hair done?)
It also reminds me of a hilarious (though stupid) Saturday Night Live skit years ago with Dana Carvey (I think) playing a Vidal Sassoon-type, and the whole joke was that he would always pronounce it "SAHL-lonn" with a pretentious French accent instead of "sa-LON".
Corolla is a legitimate English word; it means the petals of a flower (which, if you ask me, is a fine name for a compact car). The model's been around for probably three decades now, so I'd hardly categorize it with the contemporary lame names.
A corona can refer to any of several crown-like structures found in architecture, botany, and astronomy. The solar corona is the flare of light visible during a total solar eclipse.
The Japanese automobile manufacturers often rename their models for the foreign market; unfortunately they sometimes ditch perfectly good ones for silly contrived ones. Toyota had a domestic model called the Carina (the name of a constellation), maybe they thought it sounded too much like a Western girl's name. The Nissan Sentra is called Sunny in Japan, while the Mazda Miata is called Eunos. Yuck, on both sides of the Pacific!
In the late eighties there was a small company in Seattle - computer training, I think - called "Microft". That's got to be the lamest rip-off name of all time.
Look, smarty-pants, this isn't Jeopardy or Knowledge Bowl. You're right, technically, the United States of America is a republic, not a democracy. But the point being made is that what we have in the U.S. is (in most people's opinion) not a monarchy, not fascism, not communism, not a theocracy, but a democratically elected goverment. The Soviet Union was a union of republics, so does that mean they had the same type of government as the U.S.?
Geddy Lee's Canadian, so his ten bucks is only seven bucks.
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There is a classic essay by J.B.S. Haldane entitled "On Being The Right Size" that addresses this issue.
In the case of the micro-mini 747, the air molecules aren't scaled down so their fluid behavior would be different. Also, the molecules that make up the steel aren't scaled down either, thus their structural properties would be different.
The key is the basic fact that surface area increases by the square of linear dimensions, and volume (and thus mass) increases by the cube. That's why a real life King Kong would break his legs with every step, why rodents have to eat many times their body weight, and why flies can stick to ceilings.
The problem I see is that it's just a hodgepodge of those Japanese terms that are to some degree familiar to Westerners (or at least Japanophiles), with no coherent theme. The foods are fine, but after that, what do death-by-overworking, rice wine, and gangsters have to do with each other or anything??
You should have stuck with the food theme - there's plenty more, after all. But at least I don't see the really cheesy ones like geisha, karate, and Godzilla.
Being an aviation buff, back in college when I took a Fortran programming class, I named my program assignments after the NATO codenames for the famous Soviet MiG fighters: Fresco, Farmer, Fishbed, Flogger, Foxbat.
Yeah, it wasn't very practical and it got a not too approving reaction from the instructor, but at least it sounded cooler than 'ASSIGN1', etc.
The NATO codenames were colorful yet cryptic, and with a system behind them: B for bombers, C for cargo (transports), F for fighters, and so on, with one syllable for propeller aircraft and two for jets.
These days, if I were setting up a network I'd probably just go with Simpsons characters.
The article says the new machines "can display millions of polygons simultaneously". But a television screen doesn't even have half a million pixels! A 1280 x 1024 monitor has 1.3 million. Am I missing something here?
It ought to be eighteen, which is in line with just about every other country. To vote, to join the military, to smoke, to drink, to get married, to run for office, and ESPECIALLY to drive a car.
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Well, Santiago is the _only_ city in Chile that I'm familiar with, and I bet that many non-Chilean readers wouldn't even know that much. Plus it's the nation's capital. So in only makes sense to use that as a geographical reference.
In addition, the country is a coastal strip 2700 miles long and only 125 miles wide, so any randomly picked town in Chile is probably a good distance from Santiago, which is right about in the middle.
Well, you can reform the Supreme Court all you want and manage to release America from the hold of the corporations, but it won't make any difference in this case.
The suit was filed in, and all parties involved are based in, FRANCE.
Read the links first!
More importantly, whatever happened to original VJ Martha Quinn!? She was such a babe!
They already did this six months ago on Denpa Shonen, the original real-life challenge show from Japan.
They based it on a Nostradamus prediction that the world would end on 1999/7/01, so they first got two comedians (both men) and put them in an underground shelter near Tokyo Bay (they had to dig the hole and install the shelter themselves!) They ended up fighting and one of the guys escaped, so they got a woman, hoping for an Adam and Eve, but they didn't fall in love with each other so they gave up on it. I don't think the world was destroyed either.
This show also did the desert island segment, though without the competitive element of the American "Survivor" show. Just two guys on a desert island, equipped with a video camera, who have to escape.
I'm surprised, though, that there still hasn't been an American/European version of the all-time classic Nasubi segment. I'd be the first to volunteer.
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When we start talking of creating sentient slave races, -then- bother me.
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Aww, but that's what I'm looking forward to the most!
What they mean is, you can work at the counter bagging groceries, or you have the _option_ of working back in the _stock_ room moving boxes.
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Josta sounds quite bad in Brazilian Portuguese, as does the Episode I character name "Captain Panaka" (something like "Captain Jerk" or "Captain Stupid").
>>>
There was an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in which there appeared an alien race from the planet Onara. I imagine they changed that for Japan (where ST:TNG was quite popular), as the word means fart in Japanese.
When the Acura Integra first came out, I remember reading a column in one of the automotive mags deriding the names. "What's next, " the author wrote, "the Masturba?"
Plus, the logo has the V and A drawn as an analog sine wave, while the I and O represent digital bits. It's probably lost on most people (I only learned about it recently), but my reaction was, "Man, that's brilliant!"
I bet Sony doesn't use lame naming companies, they've got enough creativity on their own.
Getting back to the topic, I've been a regular reader of Salon for over a year, but I still hate the name Salon. It just makes me think of snooty high-society types lounging about in fur coats sipping champagne (getting their hair done?)
It also reminds me of a hilarious (though stupid) Saturday Night Live skit years ago with Dana Carvey (I think) playing a Vidal Sassoon-type, and the whole joke was that he would always pronounce it "SAHL-lonn" with a pretentious French accent instead of "sa-LON".
Corolla is a legitimate English word; it means the petals of a flower (which, if you ask me, is a fine name for a compact car). The model's been around for probably three decades now, so I'd hardly categorize it with the contemporary lame names.
A corona can refer to any of several crown-like structures found in architecture, botany, and astronomy. The solar corona is the flare of light visible during a total solar eclipse.
The Japanese automobile manufacturers often rename their models for the foreign market; unfortunately they sometimes ditch perfectly good ones for silly contrived ones. Toyota had a domestic model called the Carina (the name of a constellation), maybe they thought it sounded too much like a Western girl's name. The Nissan Sentra is called Sunny in Japan, while the Mazda Miata is called Eunos. Yuck, on both sides of the Pacific!
In the late eighties there was a small company in Seattle - computer training, I think - called "Microft". That's got to be the lamest rip-off name of all time.
Look, smarty-pants, this isn't Jeopardy or Knowledge Bowl. You're right, technically, the United States of America is a republic, not a democracy. But the point being made is that what we have in the U.S. is (in most people's opinion) not a monarchy, not fascism, not communism, not a theocracy, but a democratically elected goverment. The Soviet Union was a union of republics, so does that mean they had the same type of government as the U.S.?
Geddy Lee's Canadian, so his ten bucks is only seven bucks.
There is a classic essay by J.B.S. Haldane entitled "On Being The Right Size" that addresses this issue.
In the case of the micro-mini 747, the air molecules aren't scaled down so their fluid behavior would be different. Also, the molecules that make up the steel aren't scaled down either, thus their structural properties would be different.
The key is the basic fact that surface area increases by the square of linear dimensions, and volume (and thus mass) increases by the cube. That's why a real life King Kong would break his legs with every step, why rodents have to eat many times their body weight, and why flies can stick to ceilings.
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The problem I see is that it's just a hodgepodge of those Japanese terms that are to some degree familiar to Westerners (or at least Japanophiles), with no coherent theme. The foods are fine, but after that, what do death-by-overworking, rice wine, and gangsters have to do with each other or anything??
You should have stuck with the food theme - there's plenty more, after all. But at least I don't see the really cheesy ones like geisha, karate, and Godzilla.
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I'm currently looking for a famous Russian rocket scientist for a third.
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Is "Tsiolkovsky" too long or cumbersome to type?
The VAX has got to be Brezhnev. The last of the old-guard dinosaurs.
Being an aviation buff, back in college when I took a Fortran programming class, I named my program assignments after the NATO codenames for the famous Soviet MiG fighters: Fresco, Farmer, Fishbed, Flogger, Foxbat.
Yeah, it wasn't very practical and it got a not too approving reaction from the instructor, but at least it sounded cooler than 'ASSIGN1', etc.
The NATO codenames were colorful yet cryptic, and with a system behind them: B for bombers, C for cargo (transports), F for fighters, and so on, with one syllable for propeller aircraft and two for jets.
These days, if I were setting up a network I'd probably just go with Simpsons characters.
I just wish that they'd say it the right way, "sawn" instead of "sands". (Or better yet, not use it at all.)
It seems to me Sony most certainly _is_ targeting only bleeding-edge techies with money to burn.
Is the iMac aimed at little kids? The new Beetle?
You're confusing cuteness with childishness, and especially in Japan, they're not at all equivalent.
Perhaps something like this?
The article says the new machines "can display millions of polygons simultaneously". But a television screen doesn't even have half a million pixels! A 1280 x 1024 monitor has 1.3 million. Am I missing something here?
It ought to be eighteen, which is in line with just about every other country. To vote, to join the military, to smoke, to drink, to get married, to run for office, and ESPECIALLY to drive a car.