He's correct, and he's explaining how Chinese input works.
Chinese characters are written using strokes, but they are romanized. I do input Chinese and find it very convenient. It's just like what grandparent posted.
For example. in the pre-installed IME Editor, if I want to type "ni hao ma?" ("nee how mah" -- how are you), I just type "ni", and a whole list of characters which are pronounced "ni" comes up. I just pick, and usually the character I want is one of the first few.
Same goes for "hao" and "ma". In fact, it gets faster after getting used to it. Handphone input methods work the same way.
Handwritten Chinese input have been around, but I don't use them. They work pretty well (from demos I see), and if included in a tablet, Chinese won't have to figure out the pinyin (romanization) and can write very fast. Of course, the problem lies in recognition, which would be more PITA than English.
I've no idea why the difference between the freezing and boiling points of water are divided into 180 divisions, unlike the Celsius scale. To me, 100 is much more "natural"...
I never understood the Fahrenheit scale; the Celsius scale is straightforward. It's like percentages. 0 C is "cold as ice", 100 is "hot as boiling water", and negative temperatures are way too cold.
Introduce the scales to a three-year old kid. He'd probably be more used to the Celsius scale.
And obviously the thermodynamic (K) scale is too big for normal purposes....
A gun weighs x units: this system makes a LOT of sense.
In MOHAA, my brother and I realised that the player was Superman: he could carry a Thompson, a bunch of grenades, and a Panzershreck with five rockets to take out a damn tiger tank.
Or JKII multiplayer. I could have all nine weapons with me and I can still do a force jump, and slash a Jedi.
Though removing this features would make stuff less fun, but severely more challenging.
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Static electricity cannot generate volts!
Uhh why is parent modded to Score: 0?
He's correct, and he's explaining how Chinese input works.
Chinese characters are written using strokes, but they are romanized. I do input Chinese and find it very convenient. It's just like what grandparent posted.
For example. in the pre-installed IME Editor, if I want to type "ni hao ma?" ("nee how mah" -- how are you), I just type "ni", and a whole list of characters which are pronounced "ni" comes up. I just pick, and usually the character I want is one of the first few.
Same goes for "hao" and "ma". In fact, it gets faster after getting used to it. Handphone input methods work the same way.
Handwritten Chinese input have been around, but I don't use them. They work pretty well (from demos I see), and if included in a tablet, Chinese won't have to figure out the pinyin (romanization) and can write very fast. Of course, the problem lies in recognition, which would be more PITA than English.
I always knew it as "micrometer screw gauge" in Singapore.
He's not from Kansas.
I've no idea why the difference between the freezing and boiling points of water are divided into 180 divisions, unlike the Celsius scale. To me, 100 is much more "natural"...
I never understood the Fahrenheit scale; the Celsius scale is straightforward. It's like percentages. 0 C is "cold as ice", 100 is "hot as boiling water", and negative temperatures are way too cold.
Introduce the scales to a three-year old kid. He'd probably be more used to the Celsius scale.
And obviously the thermodynamic (K) scale is too big for normal purposes....
Maybe one day they realise that it plays a scary piece of music when the painting is put in a gramophone.
Seriously, these people think of everything!
Why not? It's no use using the method to derive the roots of a function without understanding how it works.
Why do you need to sufficient iterations? Why do you need to find the derivative of the function?
Deriving the method means understanding how it came about, how it works, and why it works. You'll be a happier maths student.
Does it run Doom?
The extra space effectively reduces the amount of information we can see at a time.
Sucks. I was used to reading comments happily, until now. The mod scores, the mod scores! My eyes! My eyes!
A gun weighs x units: this system makes a LOT of sense.
In MOHAA, my brother and I realised that the player was Superman: he could carry a Thompson, a bunch of grenades, and a Panzershreck with five rockets to take out a damn tiger tank.
Or JKII multiplayer. I could have all nine weapons with me and I can still do a force jump, and slash a Jedi.
Though removing this features would make stuff less fun, but severely more challenging.
They're Wii-ners if they're Wii-ling to accept that name, that is.
My blog post on this matter. Lazy to paste it here anyway. Anyway I'm a kid myself, so pardon my n00bness in anyway displayed.
"Service Unavailable" Should apply some anti-Slashdot-effect systems, them. And I can't watch that film anymore!!!1
Well...hard to see, the future is.
Let's give it a speed boost.
What if Google had released such a thing?