Paper dictionaries usually have something called a radical index, where you find the character by its main feature and the number of additional strokes. But the best solution is to use more modern technology - various online and mobile dictionaries have a feature that lets you draw characters with your mouse, touchscreen etc and looks them up for you. The best one for Chinese is nciku.com; another dictionary with that feature is mdbg.net, but that one needs you to get the correct stroke order, which you might not be able to figure out for an unknown character. Here's one I found for Japanese: http://kanji.sljfaq.org/kanji13/draw.html - this one also seems to need correct stroke order, so there's probably something better available if you google hard enough.
If you can run Java ME apps and display Chinese characters it should run fine, but I've only tested it on my own phones (Nokia 6300 & 2610) so I can't guarantee anything. You might also want to try out http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Chinese/mphrasier.html, which is a similar program by someone else that seems to be more advanced than my own one - I can't get it to run on my phone, but it might work on yours.
The summary is somewhat misleading - what people are complaining about is that items in the 'shared items' area are now shared with all your gmail contacts (which automatically includes anyone with a gmail account that you have sent an email to), rather than having to manually add contacts as before.
Somebody mod this guy up. The submitter (and most other posters) has completly misinterpreted the patent. It's nothing to do with different language input; it's about changing the weighting of words in the predictive text dictionary depending on the location of the user.
Not to mention countries outside the US - even in China I've seen at least a dozen stores with signs advertising iPhones in stock (and two of my friends have bought them; they're not fakes), and I'm sure that Europe and Japan must be taking even more.
If they really are signing an exclusive deal with O2, 3G will be even more important. O2 never rolled out EDGE services; they jumped straight to 3G instead. If Apple don't upgrade their hardware then users will be stuck accessing the internet over GPRS, which is basically unusable for "normal" websites.
The story seems to have been distorted from all directions. Here is a translation of the relevant part of the Chinese story (page 2, the end of the first and beginning of the second paragraphs):
There was a clear change in the average order number and trade volume before and after the announcement. In the 11 days from January 19th to January 29th, an average of 15 orders were placed per day with '8864 Lianbang Software Market' for an average of 25 copies. After the announcement, an average of 33 orders were placed per day for an average of 25 copies.
('8864 Lianbang Software Market' is a distributor which the Japanese version says sold 90% of retail copies of Vista; the announcement being referred to is the official release of Windows Vista on January 30th).
The Japanese site has grossly misinterpreted the story, and is counting the number of orders as the number of copies sold even though each of these orders accounted for 25 sets of the software (not to mention that it's a little unfair to talk about first-half-month sales without mentioning that this was the half-month before the software was actually released). The US website has then misinterpreted the Japanese and assumed that retail copies == total copies of Vista, although in reality the vast majority of sales in China (like elsewhere) come pre-installed. This is a complete non-story.
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But rather how do we develop applications rapidly for use on any mobile with a web connection with/without java installed
I'd suggest dropping the "with/without java installed" requirement - it's an unnecessary handicap, because about 80% of mobile phones support Java ME and the ones that don't are almost all "voice and text only" devices that don't have internet access anyway. The only other solution that will get you reasonable compatibility is to view the charts with the inbuilt web browser.
I mentioned this on a previous story, but there is a pretty easy way to edit Wikipedia from China. The GFW apparently has 2 types of blocking, and Wikipedia uses the lesser one - all they did was remove it from the DNS servers. Adding
to your/etc/hosts file (or windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts if you're using Windows) will allow you to access WP without going through a proxy, and therefore to edit articles. Feel free to google 'wikipedia 145.97.39.155' to be sure I'm not sending you to goatse:p
The fact that they only removed it from the DNS servers and didn't actually block the IP like they have for BBC News, Google Cache etc implies that they know WP is still useful for some people.
(I am a foreigner working in Beijing, and a regular Wikipedia contributor).
through extrapolation....one can assume that "most prolific" equates to "finds the most bugs"
Almost, but not quite. Quoting from the contest FAQ:
Q. The rules weren't quite clear. What are we supposed to do in order to win?
A. Send bug reports that have not been sent by someone else. They will be rated and a score from 1 to 3 will be announced by the judges in 24h max from the bug's arrival. At the end, the person with the most points wins.
Your figures are bullshit. Sales of Half Life 2 are roughly comparable with Doom 3. Certainally not four or seven times more, which would apply if what you said was true. I never saw ID making anyone register online for a single-player game.
Search engine analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research said Google's latest innovation is likely to disappoint many people because it doesn't provide a direct link to watch the previously broadcast programming.
Google instead is displaying up to five still video images from the indexed television programs, as well as snippets from the show's narrative. The search results also will provide a breakdown on when the program aired and when an episode is scheduled to be repeated. Local programming information will be available for those who provide a ZIP code.
They changed the licence conditions too for version 8. Instead of having to buy Opera for Windows and Linux, you now buy one licence for "Opera for desktop", which allows you to install it on as many computers as you like within your own home.
Flash IS evil, but that's not the reason. The reason is that it doesn't use the browser commands. You can't go back. You can't bookmark. You can't open a list of interesting links in new tabs while you finish reading the original page.
Flash has it's uses, but making complete websites isn't one of them.
Don't forget that Opera have been living in this niche for the last ten years. Opera has been a paid alternative to free browsers ever since the mid 90s, and now they're stronger than they've ever been.
The scary thing isn't for people who don't notice the letter - it's for people who don't have the correct contact information to begin with. If you gave incorrect details when you registered the domain, it can be taken by anyone that puts their mind to it.
I don't think for a minute that they haven't considered this - it looks like a deliberate move against people who don't want to tell the world who they are. ICANN would love to force these people to list their details.
>copyright law treats one second the same as a minute or an hour of material
That's not actually true. According to the 1976 Copyright Act, as interpreted by the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives (Source):
(9) Multimedia Material: Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted motion media work may be reproduced without permission. Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an individual work), whether the musical work is embodied in copies, or in audio or audiovisual works, may be reproduced without permission.
Considering the way BitTorrent works, a possible defence might be that you're not copying more than 30 seconds of the work from any one source, so your actions are legal. Of course, this is completely against the spirit of the law and would result in further restrictions just as soon as the Government got around to passing them...
There IS a Raymond Jackson that lives at that address (except that it's in CA rather than NY, as has been previously noted) so it's not completely made up. Although, whether he's really the perpetrator or simply someone the real criminal doesn't get on with is still a matter of doubt.
In any case, all his details (including e-mail address and phone number) can be easily found from a Google search - he runs a chapter of a Historical Minatures Gaming Society in his area (HMGS West, near the bottom of the page).
In my experience, most professors don't take the job because they selflessly want to teach. They take the job because they want to do fundamental research without the product-related restrictions of industry. I'd say that, if they were given the choice between teaching classes or spending the extra time on their research, 90% of them would jump at the chance.
I'm a physicist, so I've not got firsthand knowledge of what the situation is like in Computer Science, but I'd be surprised if it was notably different.
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Paper dictionaries usually have something called a radical index, where you find the character by its main feature and the number of additional strokes. But the best solution is to use more modern technology - various online and mobile dictionaries have a feature that lets you draw characters with your mouse, touchscreen etc and looks them up for you. The best one for Chinese is nciku.com; another dictionary with that feature is mdbg.net, but that one needs you to get the correct stroke order, which you might not be able to figure out for an unknown character. Here's one I found for Japanese: http://kanji.sljfaq.org/kanji13/draw.html - this one also seems to need correct stroke order, so there's probably something better available if you google hard enough.
If you can run Java ME apps and display Chinese characters it should run fine, but I've only tested it on my own phones (Nokia 6300 & 2610) so I can't guarantee anything. You might also want to try out http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Chinese/mphrasier.html, which is a similar program by someone else that seems to be more advanced than my own one - I can't get it to run on my phone, but it might work on yours.
The AC sibling says that Baidu MP3 IP filters so you can't see anything from outside China, so here's a screenshot
What exactly did you search for - I just entered your name and your music seems to be available.
But Google doesn't set up a page with links to searches like that for the top 500 tracks (as well as other selections by genre) and link to that page from their homepage.
?Maybe the same can be said for prototype in TFA. arcing should be less common in space.
The test took place in a vacuum chamber, so it shouldn't be any more likely to arc there than in space.
The summary is somewhat misleading - what people are complaining about is that items in the 'shared items' area are now shared with all your gmail contacts (which automatically includes anyone with a gmail account that you have sent an email to), rather than having to manually add contacts as before.
Somebody mod this guy up. The submitter (and most other posters) has completly misinterpreted the patent. It's nothing to do with different language input; it's about changing the weighting of words in the predictive text dictionary depending on the location of the user.
Not to mention countries outside the US - even in China I've seen at least a dozen stores with signs advertising iPhones in stock (and two of my friends have bought them; they're not fakes), and I'm sure that Europe and Japan must be taking even more.
Investments that let him pay out interest of 70% per annum? Doesn't sound particularly likely to me.
If they really are signing an exclusive deal with O2, 3G will be even more important. O2 never rolled out EDGE services; they jumped straight to 3G instead. If Apple don't upgrade their hardware then users will be stuck accessing the internet over GPRS, which is basically unusable for "normal" websites.
The story seems to have been distorted from all directions. Here is a translation of the relevant part of the Chinese story (page 2, the end of the first and beginning of the second paragraphs):
There was a clear change in the average order number and trade volume before and after the announcement. In the 11 days from January 19th to January 29th, an average of 15 orders were placed per day with '8864 Lianbang Software Market' for an average of 25 copies. After the announcement, an average of 33 orders were placed per day for an average of 25 copies.
('8864 Lianbang Software Market' is a distributor which the Japanese version says sold 90% of retail copies of Vista; the announcement being referred to is the official release of Windows Vista on January 30th).
The Japanese site has grossly misinterpreted the story, and is counting the number of orders as the number of copies sold even though each of these orders accounted for 25 sets of the software (not to mention that it's a little unfair to talk about first-half-month sales without mentioning that this was the half-month before the software was actually released). The US website has then misinterpreted the Japanese and assumed that retail copies == total copies of Vista, although in reality the vast majority of sales in China (like elsewhere) come pre-installed. This is a complete non-story.
But rather how do we develop applications rapidly for use on any mobile with a web connection with/without java installed
I'd suggest dropping the "with/without java installed" requirement - it's an unnecessary handicap, because about 80% of mobile phones support Java ME and the ones that don't are almost all "voice and text only" devices that don't have internet access anyway. The only other solution that will get you reasonable compatibility is to view the charts with the inbuilt web browser.
I mentioned this on a previous story, but there is a pretty easy way to edit Wikipedia from China. The GFW apparently has 2 types of blocking, and Wikipedia uses the lesser one - all they did was remove it from the DNS servers. Adding
/etc/hosts file (or windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts if you're using Windows) will allow you to access WP without going through a proxy, and therefore to edit articles. Feel free to google 'wikipedia 145.97.39.155' to be sure I'm not sending you to goatse :p
145.97.39.155 en.wikipedia.org upload.wikimedia.org
to your
The fact that they only removed it from the DNS servers and didn't actually block the IP like they have for BBC News, Google Cache etc implies that they know WP is still useful for some people.
(I am a foreigner working in Beijing, and a regular Wikipedia contributor).
through extrapolation....one can assume that "most prolific" equates to "finds the most bugs"
Almost, but not quite. Quoting from the contest FAQ:
Q. The rules weren't quite clear. What are we supposed to do in order to win?
A. Send bug reports that have not been sent by someone else. They will be rated and a score from 1 to 3 will be announced by the judges in 24h max from the bug's arrival. At the end, the person with the most points wins.
Just when I start getting back into it, the guy leaves.
Don't forget that he's not leaving just yet - there's a whole 12 episodes of this season left before he finishes.
Your figures are bullshit. Sales of Half Life 2 are roughly comparable with Doom 3. Certainally not four or seven times more, which would apply if what you said was true. I never saw ID making anyone register online for a single-player game.
From the article:
Search engine analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research said Google's latest innovation is likely to disappoint many people because it doesn't provide a direct link to watch the previously broadcast programming.
Google instead is displaying up to five still video images from the indexed television programs, as well as snippets from the show's narrative. The search results also will provide a breakdown on when the program aired and when an episode is scheduled to be repeated. Local programming information will be available for those who provide a ZIP code.
They changed the licence conditions too for version 8. Instead of having to buy Opera for Windows and Linux, you now buy one licence for "Opera for desktop", which allows you to install it on as many computers as you like within your own home.
Flash IS evil, but that's not the reason. The reason is that it doesn't use the browser commands. You can't go back. You can't bookmark. You can't open a list of interesting links in new tabs while you finish reading the original page.
Flash has it's uses, but making complete websites isn't one of them.
Don't forget that Opera have been living in this niche for the last ten years. Opera has been a paid alternative to free browsers ever since the mid 90s, and now they're stronger than they've ever been.
The scary thing isn't for people who don't notice the letter - it's for people who don't have the correct contact information to begin with. If you gave incorrect details when you registered the domain, it can be taken by anyone that puts their mind to it.
I don't think for a minute that they haven't considered this - it looks like a deliberate move against people who don't want to tell the world who they are. ICANN would love to force these people to list their details.
>copyright law treats one second the same as a minute or an hour of material
That's not actually true. According to the 1976 Copyright Act, as interpreted by the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives (Source):
(9) Multimedia Material: Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted motion media work may be reproduced without permission. Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an individual work), whether the musical work is embodied in copies, or in audio or audiovisual works, may be reproduced without permission.
Considering the way BitTorrent works, a possible defence might be that you're not copying more than 30 seconds of the work from any one source, so your actions are legal. Of course, this is completely against the spirit of the law and would result in further restrictions just as soon as the Government got around to passing them...
There IS a Raymond Jackson that lives at that address (except that it's in CA rather than NY, as has been previously noted) so it's not completely made up. Although, whether he's really the perpetrator or simply someone the real criminal doesn't get on with is still a matter of doubt. In any case, all his details (including e-mail address and phone number) can be easily found from a Google search - he runs a chapter of a Historical Minatures Gaming Society in his area (HMGS West, near the bottom of the page).
In my experience, most professors don't take the job because they selflessly want to teach. They take the job because they want to do fundamental research without the product-related restrictions of industry. I'd say that, if they were given the choice between teaching classes or spending the extra time on their research, 90% of them would jump at the chance.
I'm a physicist, so I've not got firsthand knowledge of what the situation is like in Computer Science, but I'd be surprised if it was notably different.