There is already a official Harry Potter translation in Chinese of at least the first two books. It was issued on pale green paper to discourage the book pirates.
Chinese folk culture has a long history of wizardry, magic and such so it was not a problem. It was reportedly translated to use elements that would be familiar to Chinese children. That's one of the hard parts about translating - you have to be not only bilingual but bicultural.
From the article: "Some enterprise customers, such as Tony Scott, General Motor Corp.'s chief technology officer for Information Systems and Services, in Detroit, are already driving Web services through their companies. "One of the ways we are currently using Web services is by creating wrappers around legacy systems in our factory environment, which is allowing us to extract information from those systems and deal with the factory environment at a higher level," Scott said."
I worked on a tiny chunk of a similar project more than three years ago for a large chip manufacturer - well before.NET was announced as the latest in a long line of vaporvisionware from Microsoft. They were "wrapping" every legacy system they could with a web interface using whatever interface it needed. It was a frankensystem underneath, but if you had a password and a browser you could get to any system you needed to, from anywhere on the corporate intranet. My bit of the puzzle documented the interface that a process engineer get paged about errors, check the errors from the closest computer and either OK an override or head for the fab to fix something. It saved them hours of time.
As if my neighborhood doesn't have enough problems with gang graffitti they have to go and invent this thing.
Hoever, it being computer based, that implies that they have to be able to read and follow instructions, so maybe it's not going to lead to an explosion of mass-produced logos and cryptoc messages except in the upscale meighbporhoods where the graffitti comes from bored rich kids.
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"How exactly being in the woods with a PDA supposed to improve their understanding of ecological concerns, their causes and possible remedies?"
The last time I "did science" with a group of kids, we gathered data in the field, then analysed it in the classroom (using math of the statistical persuasion to do so). PDAs reporting back to base station are being used by scientists today, so the kids are getting a taste of the real thing.
Checking with the OED, they have a 1946 usage for a "sniffer" that was used to locate illicit radio transmissions. Its use as a name for a flow-through detector for continuous measurement of exhaust gases, contamination, etc. goes back to 1945 or earlier.
It's a generic name for a non-destructive detection device.
"they're going to convict this guy of a 15 year old killing on the basis of some extrapolated data out of a lab"
No, it's just a clue. There was a very similar case in the USA... the original suspect was closely related to the man who did the murder (brother or cousin). The DNA matching in areas where there is usually a lot of variability (the same areas used by anthropologists to trace bloodlines) was enough to get a search warrant, a blood sample, and a conviction from the DNA match on that sample.
Forget the etched glass appliques... get some "privacy" spray paint that is used on bathroom windows to make them look like frosted glass. Block off the areas you want to stay clear with tape or paper cutouts, spray a couple of layers of the paint, remove the blockers and you have "etched glass".
There is a spray adhesive available at art stores that turns paper into a giant sticky note, so you can print things, cut them out, spray them and use them to block the frosted spray
Insignificantly higher... but for how long? Unless you measure air pressure differentials you don't know what you have done to the air flow, the load on the fans, and the life expectancy of those fans. When fan motors start overheating, it all goes downhill rapidly.
In a throw-away line he mentions the "extra intake we installed at the base of the expansion bay". No mention of size, shape, or its effect on air flow.
"A small section was also placed between the bezel and the front of the case in an effort to seal up the front intake holes which I don't use, and prevent sound from escaping."
He might not be using those holes, but the air flowing into them is what replaces the air leaving through that noisy power supply fan. If he's making the fans work against higher resistance than they are designed to overcome, they will overheat, his computer will overheat, and he may be able to test the fire rating of those ceiling tiles he stuffed into the case.
I bet he's the kind of guy who would take the air filter out of his car to "improve performance".
I got a free cage-liner stopped by reminding the local paper that there was a Supreme Court decision that clearly said that "free" didn't give them the right to keep littering my yard with their product.
I don't remember the decision, but you should be able to ask Google for it.
"Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation announced the establishment of the CE Linux Forum. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones"
And in other industry news, Microsoft announced that they were replacing all the upper management for their Faithful User Department. The FUD team has often been criticised by high-ranking management for failing to produce the degree of loyalty desired in users. The high profile defections in Germany and Spain reportedly led to a confrontational meeting and a mass firing.
No. I said mailing lists and internal address directories are considered corporate confidential. Not Andy's email address. Or Craig's.
No single address is confidential. But the contents of the whole employee email address database is, as well as the org charts showing who works with and for whom. Knowing that a department is growing or shrinking would help a competitor. Knowing the names behind the role accounts would tend to lead to them being spammed by wannabe vendors.
Mailing lists, internal adsress directories, etc. are considered as "corporate confidential" information by Intel, and they do tell you that they are not for external use.
"They basically argued that if I fire someone and that person emails his friend/coworker, it is as if that person had keyed my car on the way out."
If he had stuck to emailing his friends and actual co-workers, Intel probably would not have cared. However, he emailed EVERYONE at Intel whose email address he could obtain, whether they knew him or not, he emailed them MULTIPLE times, with LENGTHY rants and diatribes about the unfairness of his getting fired.
I had never heard of the jerk until he crapped in my inbox. I was a contractor, working in a different location, but he somehow scavenged my email address and assumed I would be sympathetic to his plight. Had he shown the sort of dedication to getting a new job as he did to pissing and mpoaning about his loss of one, he would have been employed again in a few weeks. However, I heard through the rumor mill that he was as whiney in real life as he was in email.
"One thing I find really annoying about this case is that the Open Source community hasn't been able to point to a bit of code and say, look, there's the problem. Or alternatively, we've looked, and there is no problem. I mean, how hard can that be?"
... despite all the sound and fury coming out of Utah, SCO hasn't released any of the offending bits yet. They are afraid the Linux community will wipe the fingerprints off their smoking gun.
DMcB says "So as we move into discovery this will be very nice for us, because now we get to go in and talk to all their people, their customers. We get to really shake things up and find out what really is going on over there."... "In discovery you get to go in and investigate the things that relate to the case, and there are a broad range of things that relate to Linux and AIX. We will be going in with a fine-toothed comb and coming up with every detail."
He doesn't appear to realize that IBM can do the same to SCO with their discovery process. I feel like I'm watching The Birds, and Darl is heading for the door to the attic.
The series got off the ground by word of mouth from kid to kid... "When Volume I, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," was published in America in September 1998, its first printing was 35,000, with a promotional budget of $100,000." "The New York Times, for instance, did not review the first "Harry" until five months after its publication. By that time, "Sorcerer's Stone" had been on the Times's fiction best-seller list for 14 weeks".
They spent about 3.5 million in advertising for HP#5... and there was one interview with the author. Compare that with the incessant barrage of publicity, talkshow appearances by stars, and the rest of the hype accompanying The Hulk or nay other movie (including the HP ones, but they at least spare the cast the gruelling talk show circuit... that's almost a sign of a worried produciton company).
The caller ID thing is a separate regulation, not part of the do-not-call thing.
"Does the phone company have the resources to track down every instance of this so that the violation can be reported?"
Certainly: thye have to make the conneciton in their computers to route the call, so it's just like tracing spam: get the logs.
Caller ID: telemarketers are going to have to use equipment that identifies the calling number, even across state lines.
*67 (or whatever)... the phone company's way to save a number that called you.
What would be cool would be a *something number that notified the phone company, so they could record the number and the time and send you a postcard to sinhg to start the complaint process.
The phone company sells lists of phone numbers! The telespammers can guess your number, and usually use "war dialer" machines that start at one end of 555-0000 and work through to 555-9999 then do 556-0000.... etc. I can sometimes hear them working their way thourgh the office, extension by extension.
"All that they do over the phone is try and get people to accept a free demonstration of some product. "
Well, we'll find out in October, because any attempt to get me into talking distance of a sales rep is going to be reported as a violation of the law. "Free demos", "appointment setting", and "buy this and we'll give a penny to charity" are all sales spiels.
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Chinese folk culture has a long history of wizardry, magic and such so it was not a problem. It was reportedly translated to use elements that would be familiar to Chinese children. That's one of the hard parts about translating - you have to be not only bilingual but bicultural.
I worked on a tiny chunk of a similar project more than three years ago for a large chip manufacturer - well before .NET was announced as the latest in a long line of vaporvisionware from Microsoft. They were "wrapping" every legacy system they could with a web interface using whatever interface it needed. It was a frankensystem underneath, but if you had a password and a browser you could get to any system you needed to, from anywhere on the corporate intranet. My bit of the puzzle documented the interface that a process engineer get paged about errors, check the errors from the closest computer and either OK an override or head for the fab to fix something. It saved them hours of time.
Hoever, it being computer based, that implies that they have to be able to read and follow instructions, so maybe it's not going to lead to an explosion of mass-produced logos and cryptoc messages except in the upscale meighbporhoods where the graffitti comes from bored rich kids.
The last time I "did science" with a group of kids, we gathered data in the field, then analysed it in the classroom (using math of the statistical persuasion to do so). PDAs reporting back to base station are being used by scientists today, so the kids are getting a taste of the real thing.
It's a generic name for a non-destructive detection device.
No, it's just a clue. There was a very similar case in the USA ... the original suspect was closely related to the man who did the murder (brother or cousin). The DNA matching in areas where there is usually a lot of variability (the same areas used by anthropologists to trace bloodlines) was enough to get a search warrant, a blood sample, and a conviction from the DNA match on that sample.
There is a spray adhesive available at art stores that turns paper into a giant sticky note, so you can print things, cut them out, spray them and use them to block the frosted spray
In a throw-away line he mentions the "extra intake we installed at the base of the expansion bay". No mention of size, shape, or its effect on air flow.
He might not be using those holes, but the air flowing into them is what replaces the air leaving through that noisy power supply fan. If he's making the fans work against higher resistance than they are designed to overcome, they will overheat, his computer will overheat, and he may be able to test the fire rating of those ceiling tiles he stuffed into the case.
I bet he's the kind of guy who would take the air filter out of his car to "improve performance".
I got a free cage-liner stopped by reminding the local paper that there was a Supreme Court decision that clearly said that "free" didn't give them the right to keep littering my yard with their product. I don't remember the decision, but you should be able to ask Google for it.
And in other industry news, Microsoft announced that they were replacing all the upper management for their Faithful User Department. The FUD team has often been criticised by high-ranking management for failing to produce the degree of loyalty desired in users. The high profile defections in Germany and Spain reportedly led to a confrontational meeting and a mass firing.
Shouldn't legal contracts be clear? Or is eaving plenty of weasel-room a tactic by lawyers to leave room for the FUD to spread.
No single address is confidential. But the contents of the whole employee email address database is, as well as the org charts showing who works with and for whom. Knowing that a department is growing or shrinking would help a competitor. Knowing the names behind the role accounts would tend to lead to them being spammed by wannabe vendors.
Mailing lists, internal adsress directories, etc. are considered as "corporate confidential" information by Intel, and they do tell you that they are not for external use.
If he had stuck to emailing his friends and actual co-workers, Intel probably would not have cared. However, he emailed EVERYONE at Intel whose email address he could obtain, whether they knew him or not, he emailed them MULTIPLE times, with LENGTHY rants and diatribes about the unfairness of his getting fired.
I had never heard of the jerk until he crapped in my inbox. I was a contractor, working in a different location, but he somehow scavenged my email address and assumed I would be sympathetic to his plight. Had he shown the sort of dedication to getting a new job as he did to pissing and mpoaning about his loss of one, he would have been employed again in a few weeks. However, I heard through the rumor mill that he was as whiney in real life as he was in email.
He doesn't appear to realize that IBM can do the same to SCO with their discovery process. I feel like I'm watching The Birds, and Darl is heading for the door to the attic.
They spent about 3.5 million in advertising for HP#5 ... and there was one interview with the author. Compare that with the incessant barrage of publicity, talkshow appearances by stars, and the rest of the hype accompanying The Hulk or nay other movie (including the HP ones, but they at least spare the cast the gruelling talk show circuit ... that's almost a sign of a worried produciton company).
"Does the phone company have the resources to track down every instance of this so that the violation can be reported?"
Certainly: thye have to make the conneciton in their computers to route the call, so it's just like tracing spam: get the logs.
Yes ... I think there will be some "call now before it's too late" campaigns by the telemarketers to drum up business.
*67 (or whatever) ... the phone company's way to save a number that called you.
What would be cool would be a *something number that notified the phone company, so they could record the number and the time and send you a postcard to sinhg to start the complaint process.
The email addresses are junked as soon as you confirm. Thye ALREADY have the numbers.
The phone company sells lists of phone numbers! The telespammers can guess your number, and usually use "war dialer" machines that start at one end of 555-0000 and work through to 555-9999 then do 556-0000 .... etc. I can sometimes hear them working their way thourgh the office, extension by extension.
Well, we'll find out in October, because any attempt to get me into talking distance of a sales rep is going to be reported as a violation of the law. "Free demos", "appointment setting", and "buy this and we'll give a penny to charity" are all sales spiels.
Maybe we'll need a 12-step group before this is over.