"We intend to be the FIRST in EVERTHING: Militarily, technologically, economically.... That means we intend to be the FIRST to plant a flag on URANUS... And IFFFF somehow you beat us to URANUS, we'll play capture the f(L)ag there and viciously knock over or clip and chop down your poles mounted on URANUS..."
Yeh, we can then rewrite the Star Spangled Banner...
"Oh, say can you STREAM, by the BROWN dirty LIGHT? What so PROUDLY we ASSailed, by the tight-light that's GLEAMING....
Oh, say does that stank-pole there tattered and stained...
From the POHH-kets of deBRIS..."
Nah.. with so much potential to be lambasted and ASSaulted politically, MAYBE just MAYBE a smaller country will be allowed to be FIRST for a change...
(As a "frickin' Alien", I declare the right to ridicule ANY terran words... but, since I was deposited on this rock without a choice in birth canals, I only know (for now) THOSE flag-related tunes...)
I hope that before ms EVEN gets a chance to buy Sony that the Japanese government or someone OTHER than mshaft rights Sony's listing ship. It would be disgusting to have Sony own by ms. I also think it would be an ultimate humiliation for Japan to lose Sony this way.
Sony, please, take drastic internal measures before you let ms benefit. Cut some products, change some things, make something they don't have and might not be interested in. Stay in hardware, or more on hardware and improve your game titles. ANYthing. But, GOD, PLEASE, don't succumb to mshaft.
Sony, you might want to consider flooding the market with Linux/BSD/OS-based Sony-laptops. If you're going to go down, go down fighting! Is there any Bushido or other warrior spirit in Sony? Business may be business, but this would or should be HUMILIATING.
You can use SKIM or SCIM, if you're on Linux. I use Mozilla-Firefox to enter URLs and terms in Japanese to bypass the Romajii (Romanized Kanjii). It's nice try to learn to use the language from the keyboard the way a native does, so you can make your keyboard input it directly or by using SCIM/SKIM.
IFFF you MUST use windoze, you have some plethora of tools available. You can go to User's Side, if you're in SF or San Jose, and pick up a computer made IN Japan or made FOR Japanese daily use. This way, you have a BIOS already set for it.
If you use a windoze-based, English/US BIOS, then you still can go to Flies Erectronics (not making fun of Japanese L/R problem... I'm doing a Spoonerism here...) and pick up J-Translate. Its a speech too, dictionary, and more. But, unfortunately, depending on your Lin/win skills, there's no cutting and pasting of the characters (English works, but I can't copy/past the Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji...)
IFFFF you have money, or an employer willing to send you there on business, you might be able to finagle some comp time there, too. If you're from the US, your blue passport will be a major effing drag: 'merkuns as visitors can ONLY stay in Japan up to 90 days at a time, and then you must leave at least ONE day before reentering. You can go to Korea or the Philippines or someplace, so long as your passport shows a timely, proper departure before another arrival.
Keep in mind that these days, Japan is beaten over the head by the US to get fingerprints on most classes of humans (dignitaries and certain immigrants and certain invitees are exempt by Japanese parliamentary rules/decrees, but expect to be fingerprinted there upon arrival at Narita.)
IFFF you do go, stay in a HOSTEL, for around $29 per night. IFF you go to Tokyo, then you can cheaply rent a bunk at that price in or near Ueno, (pron "oo-ehh-nho"), or Azabu Juuban, which is a sliver of community within/next to Roppongi and Roppongi Hills where zillions of expats and hundreds of "wealthy" Japanese go or live.
Check out Guess-T-House. It's NEW, under 3 years or so old. The owners are really fantastic, nice people-- A couple under 35 or so (owner (Mano) is Japanese,; her husband (M-Jay) is non-Japanese, but he speaks Japanese), and they have lived in the US and other places, so they have a quite hospitable demeanor. 2-part Bathroom in each bedroom. The front part of bathroom has a washbowl and clothes hanging area. The inner section has another washbowl, a western-style toilet, and a deep tub/shower combo. The lounge has a computer with Internet access paid for by your rent (at least when I was there). Each bedroom is a dormer, having 12 bunks. But, on a slow season, you could be the only one or one of 4 or 5 in the room for a whole week. I had that happen several times. I stayed my entire 3 months there, but traveled the area by foot. When it's a packed house, the fun REALLY begins. It' was exhilarating to be among and interacting with people from ALL over the world. It topped virtually any other happy moment in my life. It was also humbling and sobering and more to pleasantly and sometimes in debate talk about the US. I'm heretical anyway, so I was not out of water, so to speak... You'll met everyone from PhD types, to fresh high-schoolers learning the world. And you can learn just how big the REST of the world is when you take a breather from "home". I am grateful for it.
As for the trains, you DON'T absolutely need English. Once you hang out with expats, and get an English-version of the subway map, you're much better of. The trains there put most of the US to shame. Even their buses are quiet. Some of the "kneeling" wheelchair buses in Santa Clara county piss me off with the loud-assed peiozo shrill and the high-power pneumatic hearing conservation destroying show. I wonder why VTA drivers don't weal earplugs when operating the damned things. But, in Tokyo I had my back turned at the stop wh
French, right? Hehehe... maybe they waited for the opportune time to express their inalienable right to the freedom to FRY microshaft!
(Disclaimer, I have some French blood in me, so I'm not stabbing at the French. In fact, I have 5 or more lines of blood in me, so, if I DO attack any of the countries whose blood is in me, then I'm an equal opportunity expoloiter... Reminds me of some of my ESL friends who say, "I like everybody.. I'm an equal "opportunist", heheh.... I then correct them to say they really mean to say they believe in equal opportunity...)
BTW, years ago, alcatel -after buying a small company-- went after unixguru... when his current and new employer wanted to reap his mind of knowledge (he had not yet put to paper) unrelated to his employers' field of interest. Anybody still remembering him?
See, I AM an equal opportunist... "The equation MUST be balanced", as an Alien said in a newer "Outer Limits" episode.
Anybody remember the Lotus Notes "language helper" and the EFF investigation on it? I am not totally surprised that the NSA would have total access to the backbone here, or maybe even in a few countries that would go to war if they found themselves digitally raped by the USA. But, the rules of spying mean once your ass is caught, you GET what you DESERVE, even if you simply disappear. As for fiction fans, that could apply to sneaky submarine operations, too, in my book.
Lotus Notes ships in two versions. DonUt count on much protection from the...
head of NSA, would rebuff FBI attempts to get a little help from his agency.... www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/ ?f=decrypting_puzzle_palace.article.txt - 42k - Cached - Similar pages
Lotus Notes: Information From Answers.com http://www.answers.com/topic/lotus-notes Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from Lotus that was introduced...
At one point, Lotus negotiated an agreement with the NSA that allowed export... www.answers.com/topic/lotus-notes - 51k - Cached - Similar pages
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I LIKE Lotus and some of their products, especially SmartSuite, and of them particularly Lotus Approach and Lotus Word Pro. I REALLY wish these two things would go dual-licensing/dual source. OF course S/S lacks a ton of stuff that OO.o & SO have, but they've got stuff that OO.o and SO simply lack: Lotus Approach, and Lotus Word Pro's ease of use. They probably won't have it for another 10 years.
Actually, if I remember correctly/correct, the fare was under Y900, or about $8.50 or $9.10 that night. It would have been more if the confusion weren't his fault. They have TONS of taxi drivers and cabs, and this poor guy must've been there for the first time. The horrible congestion at certain times of the day or night is the killer on the fare. Going round the block was fast since it was a small block.
But, yeh, IF you can learn the language, get a license, and fit in, you just might be able to become a taxi driver there. Sure it'll be MUCH tougher than say an expat/foreigner moving to the US or the UK or similar places (I assuming I'm leaping a bit in this statement/sentence...)
But, true, too, being dazzled by the GPS (which I forgot to mention, I think did have up and down road elevation, not just the bird's-eye-view). And, being dazzled more than made up for the fare, or any extra I might have paid.
But, you have to consider this: Japan is not NEARLY as domestically concerned about external terrorism as is the US. All major countries invite the wrath of SOMEbody out there, but to date, since the subway gassing in Tokyo (I think I went through that station a couple times, and in most of them they removed ALL the trash cans, but you CAN buy food; you dispose of your coffee cup in a special cup receiver that I think gives you back 5 yen for not littering), but in the US, anything with kick-ass resolution is banned to the normal public.
In Dec 2004 in Tokyo my taxi driver in picked me up after the limo bus dropped me off at some Hyatt Grand or similar (I can't remember the name anymore) and turned on his GPS system. I was blown away.
This think had 3D/elevation-like views. As he got closer to my destination (a hostel only about 10 minutes walk from the big hotel where the limo bus deposited me), he couldn't find the little alleyway between two narrow but longer streets. He went round and round like 4 or 5 times trying to nail the address. I didn't care. Why?
Well, as we travelled the main streets and turned here and there, his GPS system showed the (I think Tokyo Tower and some other) tall buildings. As we ambled round and up and round the block, these building's orientations changed and the 3-D wireframe gave us the feel of being a slow-moving bird going between mountain peaks (of structures). To me that just absolutely blows the doors off ANYthing I've seen US companies bragging about and the stuff selling for $800 that often is a database of sites and just red and blue lines on a yellow page.
Has anyone else seen in the US anything like the 3-D navigation in Japan? Of course, maybe they need it MORE over there with the buildings and addresses being as dense as they are. But, in SF, NYC and other similar places, I could see it being useful here, too.
In the end, it turned out that he'd been passing the hostel each time. We went RIGHT by the door. The building had only been there 2 years, but the street was there longer than that.
THAT was one HAL of a test, 3seas (u managed to link to some nip and tuck, wink wink). To-get-her was EZ. I clicked both URLs and got thru. Oh, maybe it's that the first 65 or so of us posters aren't so horny as hell as to bring down that site. They'll need to MIR-ROR HER later on, I guess...
For SOME weird-assed ("Let's be different", maybe?) reason, real estate people -- at least the ones in in commercial real estate I've talked with -- don't want to use the term "square feet". They just say, "The space you're interested in measures 600 feet."
As someone who took geometry in high school, studied drafting, and watched home go from dirt lots to move-in, this bugs the shit out of me. It just isn't logical to the lay person who might wonder lineal feet, cubic feet, 4th dimension...
I suppose some realtors are in their own little world. But then, so are electrical engineers vs mechanical engineers vs architects of other professions using similar tools and methods but deliberately twisting the terminology to suit their cliquish needs...
Maybe ms is opening this stuff up more because many companies and even governments (foreign and domestic rightfully) are giving them the middle finger or outright telling microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name iintentional/perpetual with me):
"*UCK you ms and the lame-assed horse you rode in on!"
OMG... I was joking. But, in this joke, the Cave Man just happens to have fallen into someone's uncovered, unfenced swimming pool. Then, his harried/hairy ass drowns next to the pool filtration extension.
Course, if he was leaning or listing up against the poolside, he'd be the Lis'ing Mink instead of the Missing Link...
Curious, though... I wonder if a DA would sue the pool owner for letting or facilitating the cave man's gene pool die in the swimming pool. (I'm assuming a reconstituted caveman would have SOME kind of rights, or, would he have been multi-grandfathered to get these rights we (supposedly) have today...)
image word... "octane"
(pool-preserved bar-b-qued cave man, anyone? Cave man Jerky, anyone? (Add that to the list of Alien Jerky sold in Nevado near/past Bakersfield))
(No, I don't really have a "beef" with missing links...I usually leave'm at the store cuz they cost too much to bring home that bacon...)
Any of those missing links have tufts of hair around them?
(I'm thinking of old cave man movies where the have an asssssload of hair all over the body. They'd better not reappear and then dive into anybody's swimming pool. They'll clog it up whether or NOT they get snagged by the suction tubes...)
Then again, if they drown and then the pump dies from overheating and cubic feet of natty-assed-teflon-strong hair, they'll drift away like so much flotsam....
Give me omnipotence and invincibility and that fucking company (and others like them, but ms in particular) would exist no more...
Just shows that US government has balls only to quash and spy on citizens but not actually take a significant chunk out of microsoft's (lower-casing/deprecation of their name intentional/perpetual in my book) ass. I wonder if the EU will resist ms and their dirty shit.
My next PC will be NAKED or will be piecemeal. If I walk into a store that won't sell me a naked PC, I'll visit them and pester them by asking for a barebones PC. When they decline or say they can't, I'll name a places as in "Oh, wait, I'll go to 'x company'".
I once ordered a Gateway computer years ago, and SPECIFICALLY told them NOT to ship me the ms mouse. They shipped it anyway. SO, I videotaped my torching the fucker. I told them to send me a generic mouse. I am SURE gateway had them, but the order taker must have been on a power trip.
How out of fucking control "capitalism" (and other forms of so-called smart economic/societal systems) really can get. THIS kind of sick-assed attitude of the riaa (lower-casing/deprecation intentional) ought to be the death knell of the riaa, but, sadly, they'll continue to exist.
Where are the grandstanding politicians who want us to line up behind them in a show of solidarity? Assholes aren't around for anything but money and power grabs. They ought to determine whether this student REALLY DID infringe or break some law. If she did NOT, then they ought to get involved and get her debt put into an escrow account with NO INTEREST CHARGES for her to have time to graduate and then attack the debt.
Some may say "Probably she DID do SOMEthing wrong, otherwise she wouldn't have settled..." Whether or NOT, it's not as if she committed a crime against a person' BODY. The riaa henchmen will get money and the so-called represented musicians will probably NEVER see a penny of the fine/extortion she has to pay to the riaa.
This is a situation where honest district attorneys and politicians should step in and say, "If a significant amount of the fine is not going to the actually wronged parties, then all settlement and case matters are null and void. Lawyers and executives are NOT the people who are the wronged parties-- their WRONG for being GREEDY!"
Call me what you what, but shit and jerks and bad policy make me loath ANY government, ANY system, ANY organization and they DON'T deserve my interest or support until greed is removed from the equation. I guess that means I'm just an occupant on Earth, not a "citizen" so to speak...
What I LIKE about FireFox is that it respects the Gnome code enough to let me use SCIM to input Kanji and other foreign characters into the search engine right in the browser. KDE/Konqueror WON'T let me, and it **appears** I have installed all the requisite stuff. The Gnome apps, even running in Konqueror DO let me use foreign characters. OO.o refuses to play ball, too.
What I DON'T like about Firefox is the lack of a Konqueror-like page archiver. I find myself copying or cutting the URL and pasting it into Konqueror. Also, I don't like the file browsing/saving method. I'm addicted to KDE/Konqueror's.
But, I haven't honestly USED Gnome as a workspace, though I intentionally install it because I am sure it has some framework goodies that enhance my use of KDE while I want run Gnome-based/friendly apps that supposedly have a KDE twin.
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be FIRST:
"We intend to be the FIRST in EVERTHING: Militarily, technologically, economically.... That means we intend to be the FIRST to plant a flag on URANUS... And IFFFF somehow you beat us to URANUS, we'll play capture the f(L)ag there and viciously knock over or clip and chop down your poles mounted on URANUS..."
Yeh, we can then rewrite the Star Spangled Banner...
"Oh, say can you STREAM, by the BROWN dirty LIGHT?
What so PROUDLY we ASSailed, by the tight-light that's GLEAMING....
Oh, say does that stank-pole there tattered and stained...
From the POHH-kets of deBRIS..."
Nah.. with so much potential to be lambasted and ASSaulted politically, MAYBE just MAYBE a smaller country will be allowed to be FIRST for a change...
(As a "frickin' Alien", I declare the right to ridicule ANY terran words... but, since I was deposited on this rock without a choice in birth canals, I only know (for now) THOSE flag-related tunes...)
I supposit, uumm, suppose, or posit that this could make for more than "missile-aneous reeding"...
Now, imagine the jokes if it were pronounced "urine-us"...(YOU'RE-n-USS")
(image word: "joyfully")
at bottom of page when I submitted:
...
"Death before dishonor. But neither before breakfast."
Interesting juxtaposition
I hope that before ms EVEN gets a chance to buy Sony that the Japanese government or someone OTHER than mshaft rights Sony's listing ship. It would be disgusting to have Sony own by ms. I also think it would be an ultimate humiliation for Japan to lose Sony this way.
Sony, please, take drastic internal measures before you let ms benefit. Cut some products, change some things, make something they don't have and might not be interested in. Stay in hardware, or more on hardware and improve your game titles. ANYthing. But, GOD, PLEASE, don't succumb to mshaft.
Sony, you might want to consider flooding the market with Linux/BSD/OS-based Sony-laptops. If you're going to go down, go down fighting! Is there any Bushido or other warrior spirit in Sony? Business may be business, but this would or should be HUMILIATING.
hmmm, word image "converts" (noun or verb?)
You can use SKIM or SCIM, if you're on Linux. I use Mozilla-Firefox to enter URLs and terms in Japanese to bypass the Romajii (Romanized Kanjii). It's nice try to learn to use the language from the keyboard the way a native does, so you can make your keyboard input it directly or by using SCIM/SKIM.
IFFF you MUST use windoze, you have some plethora of tools available. You can go to User's Side, if you're in SF or San Jose, and pick up a computer made IN Japan or made FOR Japanese daily use. This way, you have a BIOS already set for it.
If you use a windoze-based, English/US BIOS, then you still can go to Flies Erectronics (not making fun of Japanese L/R problem... I'm doing a Spoonerism here...) and pick up J-Translate. Its a speech too, dictionary, and more. But, unfortunately, depending on your Lin/win skills, there's no cutting and pasting of the characters (English works, but I can't copy/past the Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji...)
IFFFF you have money, or an employer willing to send you there on business, you might be able to finagle some comp time there, too. If you're from the US, your blue passport will be a major effing drag: 'merkuns as visitors can ONLY stay in Japan up to 90 days at a time, and then you must leave at least ONE day before reentering. You can go to Korea or the Philippines or someplace, so long as your passport shows a timely, proper departure before another arrival.
Keep in mind that these days, Japan is beaten over the head by the US to get fingerprints on most classes of humans (dignitaries and certain immigrants and certain invitees are exempt by Japanese parliamentary rules/decrees, but expect to be fingerprinted there upon arrival at Narita.)
IFFF you do go, stay in a HOSTEL, for around $29 per night. IFF you go to Tokyo, then you can cheaply rent a bunk at that price in or near Ueno, (pron "oo-ehh-nho"), or Azabu Juuban, which is a sliver of community within/next to Roppongi and Roppongi Hills where zillions of expats and hundreds of "wealthy" Japanese go or live.
Check out Guess-T-House. It's NEW, under 3 years or so old. The owners are really fantastic, nice people-- A couple under 35 or so (owner (Mano) is Japanese,; her husband (M-Jay) is non-Japanese, but he speaks Japanese), and they have lived in the US and other places, so they have a quite hospitable demeanor. 2-part Bathroom in each bedroom. The front part of bathroom has a washbowl and clothes hanging area. The inner section has another washbowl, a western-style toilet, and a deep tub/shower combo. The lounge has a computer with Internet access paid for by your rent (at least when I was there). Each bedroom is a dormer, having 12 bunks. But, on a slow season, you could be the only one or one of 4 or 5 in the room for a whole week. I had that happen several times. I stayed my entire 3 months there, but traveled the area by foot. When it's a packed house, the fun REALLY begins. It' was exhilarating to be among and interacting with people from ALL over the world. It topped virtually any other happy moment in my life. It was also humbling and sobering and more to pleasantly and sometimes in debate talk about the US. I'm heretical anyway, so I was not out of water, so to speak... You'll met everyone from PhD types, to fresh high-schoolers learning the world. And you can learn just how big the REST of the world is when you take a breather from "home". I am grateful for it.
http://tokyohostel.com/english.html
As for the trains, you DON'T absolutely need English. Once you hang out with expats, and get an English-version of the subway map, you're much better of. The trains there put most of the US to shame. Even their buses are quiet. Some of the "kneeling" wheelchair buses in Santa Clara county piss me off with the loud-assed peiozo shrill and the high-power pneumatic hearing conservation destroying show. I wonder why VTA drivers don't weal earplugs when operating the damned things. But, in Tokyo I had my back turned at the stop wh
then put simplicity in "booty"... Simplified conversational bot:
(in a "femme-chanical" voice)
"Oh, baby... yesss, put you finger on my but-ton. Dig-it-ize me...
Oh, yess, you turn - me - on . Zap - my- ass -embly with your damaged short-thing- probe..."
Compile your own filth to embrace and extend things here...ass u c fit...
Prevails, then would that literally make the x-box a "Hexed-Box"?
French, right? Hehehe... maybe they waited for the opportune time to express their inalienable right to the freedom to FRY microshaft!
(Disclaimer, I have some French blood in me, so I'm not stabbing at the French. In fact, I have 5 or more lines of blood in me, so, if I DO attack any of the countries whose blood is in me, then I'm an equal opportunity expoloiter... Reminds me of some of my ESL friends who say, "I like everybody.. I'm an equal "opportunist", heheh.... I then correct them to say they really mean to say they believe in equal opportunity...)
BTW, years ago, alcatel -after buying a small company-- went after unixguru... when his current and new employer wanted to reap his mind of knowledge (he had not yet put to paper) unrelated to his employers' field of interest. Anybody still remembering him?
See, I AM an equal opportunist... "The equation MUST be balanced", as an Alien said in a newer "Outer Limits" episode.
Anybody remember the Lotus Notes "language helper" and the EFF investigation on it? I am not totally surprised that the NSA would have total access to the backbone here, or maybe even in a few countries that would go to war if they found themselves digitally raped by the USA. But, the rules of spying mean once your ass is caught, you GET what you DESERVE, even if you simply disappear. As for fiction fans, that could apply to sneaky submarine operations, too, in my book.
t ing_puzzle_palace.article.txt
... ...
... ...
But, back to the "REAL" ("Matriczed") world...
EFF: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/?f=decryp
Lotus Notes ships in two versions. DonUt count on much protection from the
head of NSA, would rebuff FBI attempts to get a little help from his agency.
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Lotus Notes: Information From Answers.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/lotus-notes
Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from Lotus that was introduced
At one point, Lotus negotiated an agreement with the NSA that allowed export
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I LIKE Lotus and some of their products, especially SmartSuite, and of them particularly Lotus Approach and Lotus Word Pro. I REALLY wish these two things would go dual-licensing/dual source. OF course S/S lacks a ton of stuff that OO.o & SO have, but they've got stuff that OO.o and SO simply lack: Lotus Approach, and Lotus Word Pro's ease of use. They probably won't have it for another 10 years.
then ms "will be ass-immolated"...
It would be quite interesting if ms IS in violation. Lucent could take a SEER-ious and SERE-ious (and maybe even a serous chunk out of ms' butt.
I suppose 360 in this case isn't VISION or clarity but rather the roasting ms is probably going to face...
Actually, if I remember correctly/correct, the fare was under Y900, or about $8.50 or $9.10 that night. It would have been more if the confusion weren't his fault. They have TONS of taxi drivers and cabs, and this poor guy must've been there for the first time. The horrible congestion at certain times of the day or night is the killer on the fare. Going round the block was fast since it was a small block.
But, yeh, IF you can learn the language, get a license, and fit in, you just might be able to become a taxi driver there. Sure it'll be MUCH tougher than say an expat/foreigner moving to the US or the UK or similar places (I assuming I'm leaping a bit in this statement/sentence...)
But, true, too, being dazzled by the GPS (which I forgot to mention, I think did have up and down road elevation, not just the bird's-eye-view). And, being dazzled more than made up for the fare, or any extra I might have paid.
But, you have to consider this: Japan is not NEARLY as domestically concerned about external terrorism as is the US. All major countries invite the wrath of SOMEbody out there, but to date, since the subway gassing in Tokyo (I think I went through that station a couple times, and in most of them they removed ALL the trash cans, but you CAN buy food; you dispose of your coffee cup in a special cup receiver that I think gives you back 5 yen for not littering), but in the US, anything with kick-ass resolution is banned to the normal public.
Makes me wonder...
In Dec 2004 in Tokyo my taxi driver in picked me up after the limo bus dropped me off at some Hyatt Grand or similar (I can't remember the name anymore) and turned on his GPS system. I was blown away.
This think had 3D/elevation-like views. As he got closer to my destination (a hostel only about 10 minutes walk from the big hotel where the limo bus deposited me), he couldn't find the little alleyway between two narrow but longer streets. He went round and round like 4 or 5 times trying to nail the address. I didn't care. Why?
Well, as we travelled the main streets and turned here and there, his GPS system showed the (I think Tokyo Tower and some other) tall buildings. As we ambled round and up and round the block, these building's orientations changed and the 3-D wireframe gave us the feel of being a slow-moving bird going between mountain peaks (of structures). To me that just absolutely blows the doors off ANYthing I've seen US companies bragging about and the stuff selling for $800 that often is a database of sites and just red and blue lines on a yellow page.
Has anyone else seen in the US anything like the 3-D navigation in Japan? Of course, maybe they need it MORE over there with the buildings and addresses being as dense as they are. But, in SF, NYC and other similar places, I could see it being useful here, too.
In the end, it turned out that he'd been passing the hostel each time. We went RIGHT by the door. The building had only been there 2 years, but the street was there longer than that.
But, for other GPS uses, check this out:
http://gpss.tripoduk.com/asilinks.htm
WOW!
THAT was one HAL of a test, 3seas (u managed to link to some nip and tuck, wink wink). To-get-her was EZ. I clicked both URLs and got thru. Oh, maybe it's that the first 65 or so of us posters aren't so horny as hell as to bring down that site. They'll need to MIR-ROR HER later on, I guess...
image word: citrus
For SOME weird-assed ("Let's be different", maybe?) reason, real estate people -- at least the ones in in commercial real estate I've talked with -- don't want to use the term "square feet". They just say, "The space you're interested in measures 600 feet."
As someone who took geometry in high school, studied drafting, and watched home go from dirt lots to move-in, this bugs the shit out of me. It just isn't logical to the lay person who might wonder lineal feet, cubic feet, 4th dimension...
I suppose some realtors are in their own little world. But then, so are electrical engineers vs mechanical engineers vs architects of other professions using similar tools and methods but deliberately twisting the terminology to suit their cliquish needs...
"La Casa Nostra"... dunno why, other than some synaptic molecule flipping bits...
Later, it'll FIZZ over...
Maybe ms is opening this stuff up more because many companies and even governments (foreign and domestic rightfully) are giving them the middle finger or outright telling microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name iintentional/perpetual with me):
"*UCK you ms and the lame-assed horse you rode in on!"
Hmmm... image word: "infamous"
OMG... I was joking. But, in this joke, the Cave Man just happens to have fallen into someone's uncovered, unfenced swimming pool. Then, his harried/hairy ass drowns next to the pool filtration extension.
Course, if he was leaning or listing up against the poolside, he'd be the Lis'ing Mink instead of the Missing Link...
Curious, though... I wonder if a DA would sue the pool owner for letting or facilitating the cave man's gene pool die in the swimming pool. (I'm assuming a reconstituted caveman would have SOME kind of rights, or, would he have been multi-grandfathered to get these rights we (supposedly) have today...)
image word... "octane"
(pool-preserved bar-b-qued cave man, anyone? Cave man Jerky, anyone? (Add that to the list of Alien Jerky sold in Nevado near/past Bakersfield))
(No, I don't really have a "beef" with missing links...I usually leave'm at the store cuz they cost too much to bring home that bacon...)
For some reason, my mind saw:
"Did you save a joint"...
hehehe
If they get the urge to merge, will one of them be known as "RedTel"?
I thought IBM and RedHat had a thing going. Is IBM going to have a BM, now?
image work cometary
Any of those missing links have tufts of hair around them?
(I'm thinking of old cave man movies where the have an asssssload of hair all over the body. They'd better not reappear and then dive into anybody's swimming pool. They'll clog it up whether or NOT they get snagged by the suction tubes...)
Then again, if they drown and then the pump dies from overheating and cubic feet of natty-assed-teflon-strong hair, they'll drift away like so much flotsam....
Yeh, Doesn't have a suspicious "You're either WITH us or you're AGAINST us" theme to it? Disgusting.
Give me omnipotence and invincibility and that fucking company (and others like them, but ms in particular) would exist no more...
Just shows that US government has balls only to quash and spy on citizens but not actually take a significant chunk out of microsoft's (lower-casing/deprecation of their name intentional/perpetual in my book) ass. I wonder if the EU will resist ms and their dirty shit.
My next PC will be NAKED or will be piecemeal. If I walk into a store that won't sell me a naked PC, I'll visit them and pester them by asking for a barebones PC. When they decline or say they can't, I'll name a places as in "Oh, wait, I'll go to 'x company'".
I once ordered a Gateway computer years ago, and SPECIFICALLY told them NOT to ship me the ms mouse. They shipped it anyway. SO, I videotaped my torching the fucker. I told them to send me a generic mouse. I am SURE gateway had them, but the order taker must have been on a power trip.
How out of fucking control "capitalism" (and other forms of so-called smart economic/societal systems) really can get. THIS kind of sick-assed attitude of the riaa (lower-casing/deprecation intentional) ought to be the death knell of the riaa, but, sadly, they'll continue to exist.
Where are the grandstanding politicians who want us to line up behind them in a show of solidarity? Assholes aren't around for anything but money and power grabs. They ought to determine whether this student REALLY DID infringe or break some law. If she did NOT, then they ought to get involved and get her debt put into an escrow account with NO INTEREST CHARGES for her to have time to graduate and then attack the debt.
Some may say "Probably she DID do SOMEthing wrong, otherwise she wouldn't have settled..." Whether or NOT, it's not as if she committed a crime against a person' BODY. The riaa henchmen will get money and the so-called represented musicians will probably NEVER see a penny of the fine/extortion she has to pay to the riaa.
This is a situation where honest district attorneys and politicians should step in and say, "If a significant amount of the fine is not going to the actually wronged parties, then all settlement and case matters are null and void. Lawyers and executives are NOT the people who are the wronged parties-- their WRONG for being GREEDY!"
Call me what you what, but shit and jerks and bad policy make me loath ANY government, ANY system, ANY organization and they DON'T deserve my interest or support until greed is removed from the equation. I guess that means I'm just an occupant on Earth, not a "citizen" so to speak...
Firefox?
What I LIKE about FireFox is that it respects the Gnome code enough to let me use SCIM to input Kanji and other foreign characters into the search engine right in the browser. KDE/Konqueror WON'T let me, and it **appears** I have installed all the requisite stuff. The Gnome apps, even running in Konqueror DO let me use foreign characters. OO.o refuses to play ball, too.
What I DON'T like about Firefox is the lack of a Konqueror-like page archiver. I find myself copying or cutting the URL and pasting it into Konqueror. Also, I don't like the file browsing/saving method. I'm addicted to KDE/Konqueror's.
But, I haven't honestly USED Gnome as a workspace, though I intentionally install it because I am sure it has some framework goodies that enhance my use of KDE while I want run Gnome-based/friendly apps that supposedly have a KDE twin.
G.A.S.
Sorry, I couldn't resist...
But, gnown as Knome is REALLY one HAL of a good one... Imagine attaching Gnome to the HAL exoskeleton.... Oh, now THAT sentence was serendipitous...
Jeez... image word: chipmunk