excite.co.jp tends to be better, but the site itself is in Japanese of course, so you'll have to find your way around by guessing with babelfish if you don't know the lingo. Well, not exactly perfect, but English->Japanese tends to be better. Which is useless for most/.-ers..
"Keep in mind that Dynamism charges a hefty premium for the English conversion."
No kidding man, I almost ate my tongue looking at that $849 tag. Now, in Yodobashi-kamera in Osaka you'll get the thing (in japanese) for 69800JPY (=about 516EUR/662USD). Don't know japanese? Get a new rom from the net for free!
Seriously, what does Dynamism do to warrant 28% addition to the price?
Yeah, but I've been hit by standard household current and its not that bad really.
I've also been hit by standard, 230V, household current. My eyes blacked out, and one second later I noticed that I had thankfully pulled back from the open PSU I happened to get my fingers into (not a computer PSU)..
I'd hate to experience what would happen if the current went through anything other that just my left hand.
My brain shrunk 6 cubic centimeters when I read these.
Make the hurting stop!
And tears welled up in my eyes upon reading the liberating words.
I'm not usually a grammar nazi either, I'm not even English-speaking, but there's something in that construction that makes my brain turn 180 degrees and flip over to the left out of pure dissonance with my logical circuits.
Continuing on topic, contact me again when a cluster beats a professional human go-player. Now there's a real challenge for a change!
As an American, I really have to speak out: why is it the Japanese are always made fun of for their (admittedly "creative") English? How many Americans can speak Japanese? How many Americans can speak another language even (not to mention how many can speak anything other than the German/Latin/French/Spanish poorly taught in high school)?
Anyway, if you'd taken the time to, you know, read the fucking article, you'd notice it's not hasseling the Engrish, but rather, making note that the illustrations are, in fact, quite funny.
Granted, the grandparent is barking up the wrong tree, but the point is still valid. Why general language mistakes are so funny are beyond my comprehension. Some are funny, but most are just plain, normal bad language. No need to stomp like some kind of grammar police on every ill-formulated sentence.
Ah oops, this is Slashdot.. sorry. Speaking to a wall here, I guess:)
Yes, bad translations into English are not a japanese thing, it happens on all fronts. The difference with Japanese is that it's so different from English that translating is a much, much more difficult job than, say, German to English.
Now having lived for half a year in Japan, I can't say that I have seen all that many particularly bad translations around. The few cases that I do notice tend to stick out like sore thumbs though, making for a slightly skewed picture of this Engrish thing.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not an English native speaker, so I'm probably not as sensitive anyway:)
liking analog watches isn't better than liking digital watches, just different. It's not the height of efficiency, but... efficiency is for machines, not necessarily for people.
This last line somehow caused me to stop and think. How very true...
"I think the only sector of the audience likely to feel any disappointment are those fans who adored long-jumping between bits of floating rock on Xen."
It was kind of hard to do, but still somehow neat, I think. The one letdown was that I didn't have 3d-glasses.
Second, the point is that a lot of people otherwise viewed as normal (or even exemplary) do some pretty disgusting things. You would be amazed at all of the creeps out there.
I'd say a majority of the world population are creeps one way or the other. The thing is that it's hard to come up with anything sensible to say because of the 2-metre thick steel stigma that surrounds this thing.
And while viewing child porn is disgusting, it should not be illegal (reading, viewing, etc. should never be illegal). What should be forcefully prosecuted is people who make, sell, or buy child porn because they are all involved with the actual exploitation. Some weirdo viewing it for free shouldn't be prosecuted because he has done nothing to with children being exploited.
Precisely. You may think rottem.com is disgusting, or that child porn is disgusting, the important thing is the child-abuse part of this matter. And there's a lot more to solve that connects to this matter before the cild-abuse part is solved (like economic situations), so wether or not some people view it for free is kind of irrelevant, and arguing about it is pointless. Well, at least at this stage of human evolution.
It depends on the scale you're playing in, if you're not playing in any particular key (just bashing on the keyboard) it doesn't matter which way you call the notes. The third note in a C-minor scale is E flat, and the second note in a C#-major scale is D#, and even so they're the same note. Play it on a piano and you'll see why the different names.
The artists who created the music will have no incentive to keep creating music if they know everyone is just going to steal from them.
Hum, actually, I'd say that the incentive for creating music is just that for most musicians, creating music. If not, well, I don't really care for mass-produced semi-musicians. What is being endangered is the ability to make a living on making music, not the act of making music.
Yes! Now I can read my game walk-throughs properly!
Seriously though, wouldn't this be much cheaper than a huge flatscreen, in fact? It could be placed along a wall, so the screen doesn't take up any space, you can place chairs and benches below it etc.
Also, I'm guessing that the fluttering problem would be solved if encased in clear plastic. But then you'd lose the cool walk-through, of course.
Or as my bank does (Nordea), they give you a table with about 50 single-use passwords, and some 10 confirmation passwords.
Every time you log in it asks for the next password on the list, and when it is time to confirm money trasfers, it asks for a random confirmation password.
On top of that there's the user id, which is never printed on any paper.
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excite.co.jp tends to be better, but the site itself is in Japanese of course, so you'll have to find your way around by guessing with babelfish if you don't know the lingo. Well, not exactly perfect, but English->Japanese tends to be better. Which is useless for most /.-ers..
Now, how to make this more offtopic... *thinks*
Oh, and on top of that: if you get it at Yodobashi, you'll get 13% of the price back in points that you can buy, say, a 256MB SD card with.
"Keep in mind that Dynamism charges a hefty premium for the English conversion."
No kidding man, I almost ate my tongue looking at that $849 tag. Now, in Yodobashi-kamera in Osaka you'll get the thing (in japanese) for 69800JPY (=about 516EUR/662USD). Don't know japanese? Get a new rom from the net for free!
Seriously, what does Dynamism do to warrant 28% addition to the price?
But not everyone lives in the US...
I'd hate to experience what would happen if the current went through anything other that just my left hand.
I'm not usually a grammar nazi either, I'm not even English-speaking, but there's something in that construction that makes my brain turn 180 degrees and flip over to the left out of pure dissonance with my logical circuits.
Continuing on topic, contact me again when a cluster beats a professional human go-player. Now there's a real challenge for a change!
Ah oops, this is Slashdot.. sorry. Speaking to a wall here, I guess
Yes, bad translations into English are not a japanese thing, it happens on all fronts. The difference with Japanese is that it's so different from English that translating is a much, much more difficult job than, say, German to English.
:)
Now having lived for half a year in Japan, I can't say that I have seen all that many particularly bad translations around. The few cases that I do notice tend to stick out like sore thumbs though, making for a slightly skewed picture of this Engrish thing.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not an English native speaker, so I'm probably not as sensitive anyway
liking analog watches isn't better than liking digital watches, just different. It's not the height of efficiency, ... efficiency is for machines, not necessarily for people.
but
This last line somehow caused me to stop and think.
How very true...
"I think the only sector of the audience likely to feel any disappointment are those fans who adored long-jumping between bits of floating rock on Xen."
It was kind of hard to do, but still somehow neat, I think. The one letdown was that I didn't have 3d-glasses.
Second, the point is that a lot of people otherwise viewed as normal (or even exemplary) do some pretty disgusting things. You would be amazed at all of the creeps out there.
I'd say a majority of the world population are creeps one way or the other. The thing is that it's hard to come up with anything sensible to say because of the 2-metre thick steel stigma that surrounds this thing.
And while viewing child porn is disgusting, it should not be illegal (reading, viewing, etc. should never be illegal). What should be forcefully prosecuted is people who make, sell, or buy child porn because they are all involved with the actual exploitation. Some weirdo viewing it for free shouldn't be prosecuted because he has done nothing to with children being exploited.
Precisely. You may think rottem.com is disgusting, or that child porn is disgusting, the important thing is the child-abuse part of this matter. And there's a lot more to solve that connects to this matter before the cild-abuse part is solved (like economic situations), so wether or not some people view it for free is kind of irrelevant, and arguing about it is pointless. Well, at least at this stage of human evolution.
It depends on the scale you're playing in, if you're not playing in any particular key (just bashing on the keyboard) it doesn't matter which way you call the notes. The third note in a C-minor scale is E flat, and the second note in a C#-major scale is D#, and even so they're the same note. Play it on a piano and you'll see why the different names.
The artists who created the music will have no incentive to keep creating music if they know everyone is just going to steal from them.
Hum, actually, I'd say that the incentive for creating music is just that for most musicians, creating music. If not, well, I don't really care for mass-produced semi-musicians. What is being endangered is the ability to make a living on making music, not the act of making music.
Seriously though, wouldn't this be much cheaper than a huge flatscreen, in fact? It could be placed along a wall,
so the screen doesn't take up any space, you can place chairs and benches below it etc.
Also, I'm guessing that the fluttering problem would be solved if encased in clear plastic. But then
you'd lose the cool walk-through, of course.
That depends on where in the world you live.
Huh?! So Windows users can finally revolt against Microsoft's security policies? I'd like to see some OS comparisons with this!
Or as my bank does (Nordea), they give you a table with about 50 single-use passwords, and some 10 confirmation passwords.
Every time you log in it asks for the next password on the list, and when it is time to confirm money trasfers, it asks for a random confirmation password.
On top of that there's the user id, which is never printed on any paper.