One of the things that really prevents internet time becoming large in Japan is simply because the cost of electricity is astronomical. People with laptops will literally go to the library to charge it just so they don't have to pay to power it. That is also why in a country that is nominally so rich(2nd biggest economy in the world) a large number of people only use their cell phone for internet access....
Actually, Google news is still in "beta" and it has been for a long time, so they don't actually sell ads. People speculate that one of the reasons that Google news has been in beta for so long is they don't know how they would work the copyright issue if they were a commercial service.....
It's the ignorant, lazy parents who give their kids gobs of money then drop them off at the mall alone for the day and don't really care what they get there, as long as they aren't complaining.
I think the biggest problem in American education today is that kids expected to be handed everything, they don't want to work for anything. I paid my own way through college, and 30+ hour weeks of work while doing 18 credits of CS and engineering really blew, but I am glad that I did it. It REALLY imprinted on me the value of education and hard work. I see a lot of rich kids who go totally crazy in college and end up dropping out/dying/getting a girl pregnant etc. and having to live off mommy and daddy the rest of their lives......
Here is my question, who wouldn't say they would buy the game if it wasn't available for free? Thats kind of a meaningless question. I mean, if I pirated games and was answering their survey, why wouldn't I say that I wouldn't say, "yeah, I would buy the game" even if outiside factors would really prevent me from doing so.
No, it would NOT be stupid if the whole thing was in Japanese/German/whatever. If you would have actually READ the comment you would see that I think it is a GOOD idea for people to learn foriegn languages. I am relatively proficient in japanese and I am learning Chinese. HOWEVER inserting random words of a language into a conversation where you are primarily speaking another language bothers me. And it seems to happen overwhelmingly(though not exclusively) with Japanese.
But that is the thing, Japanese cell phones(much to the chagrin of/. fanboys I'm sure) are not unlike American cell phones. They have a few more gadgets and faster network speed(if you cough over the dough of course) but that is pretty much it. You still talk on them, you still can use them to send messages. There is no justification for calling them Keitai if speaking in English.
I agree that people should learn foriegn languages, but much like my absurd example(Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, German and Spanish all rolled into 2 sentences) inserting random foriegn words in English conversation WHEN there is an English equivalent(There are Japanese loanwords into English, like kendo for example)is just plain dumb, and IMO is just an example of someone trying to sound cooler than they actually are.
I lived in Japan, what better insight into Japanese culture do I need? I really don't need to say random Japanese phrases to people who don't speak Japanese. I know people here thinks it makes you look cool, but to me it's just plain stupid. I don't need it to pick up women either.....
Why do people insisit on pretending to be cool by inserting random Japanese words in English conversations? Yes, the Japanese word for cellular phone is "Keitai Denwa", I should know, I worked for KDDI for 6 months. But you know what, I use the word "Keitai Denwa" only when I am speaking JAPANESE to people who understand JAPANESE. I don't need to pretend I am so cool by inserting the words into English conversations.
And why does it only happen with the Japanese language, why not other ones:
So Je am sitting ici in meiguo but I am moving to Deutschland. Demo I no hablas Deutsch.
Doesn't seem so cool after all.....
Pennsylvania. The state sales tax is 6% but you don't pay taxes on groceries(and I think clothes as well, but don't quote me on that one). But you still do pay taxes on things like pop because they are considered "non-essential"
Heh, note that most(note NOT all) of the people who trully did get rich from the gold rush were the people who actually sold the supplies to speculators, not the gold rushers themselves...
Plus there is the whole topic of indemnity. Even though the EULA probably covers there asses, if TurboTax fucks up, chances are they will cover their ass and help you out. If OSS screws up, well all you can say is sometimes you get what you pay for....
To a certain extent, he's somewhat right. It would substantially lower the bar and you'd have far more impulse buys (and drunk song-buying binges wouldn't hurt as much. Fear the drunken one-click shopping spree!)
Which is why Apple really needs to make iKaraoke. Imagine being able to drunkenly buy KARAOKE songs on demand in the comfort of your own home.
I would buy it, till of course I wake up one morning after a binge to find that my music collection is now full of Ace of Base.....
Um, no there isn't. The original poster made no restrictions on whether or not the product is open source. The little open source comment is outside the italics so it was made by the editor. IE this is/., so the words open source have to be thrown around everywhere, even when they don't matter.
Seriously, the best way to play Risk is drunk at the all you can eat all night buffet and places like Eat 'N Park(I don't know if they have places like that were you are). There is nothing like cold sausage, pancakes, and the randomly belligerent strategies that you come up with while drunk. Classic....or maybe I'm just a dork that doesn't go and get laid when drunk:P
From TFA: The greater challenge is that the new techniques never stop coming. It's possible spammers will eventually run out of tricks, but it definitely hasn't happened yet. Most techniques backfire fairly in the long run, and make it more obvious that a message is spam.
You gotta wonder if there is a spam "bubble" that will burst pretty much like every other bubble. It started the same way, a few scammers got the idea of sending out scams via email and were quite successful, and everyone else started to jump on board. But soon enough(hopefully) people will learn their lesson and spam will slow....maybe I'm putting too much faith in people.
But it is interesting to see how many "me too" trends there are in spam. Up until about 2 years ago, I never received a 419 scam, but now I get at least one a week. Up until about a year ago, I never received a rolex email(typically the domain of brick and mortar(ok, urine soaked streetcorner) drifters), but now I get a few a day.
Heh, I'm a mac fan, but for starters the page you linked to obviously compares the performance of G5s vs Intels offerings, and the mac mini is a g4....
Heh, I think you hit on the biggest linux security threat there is: People who believe Linux's security to be infallible and thus do nothing to protect their machine. I wonder what it will take to knock the complacency out of people.
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um, look at the logo in the upper left and please read the word it says to the right of the lower case g. Thank you and please troll again.
One of the things that really prevents internet time becoming large in Japan is simply because the cost of electricity is astronomical. People with laptops will literally go to the library to charge it just so they don't have to pay to power it. That is also why in a country that is nominally so rich(2nd biggest economy in the world) a large number of people only use their cell phone for internet access....
Actually, Google news is still in "beta" and it has been for a long time, so they don't actually sell ads. People speculate that one of the reasons that Google news has been in beta for so long is they don't know how they would work the copyright issue if they were a commercial service.....
It's the ignorant, lazy parents who give their kids gobs of money then drop them off at the mall alone for the day and don't really care what they get there, as long as they aren't complaining.
I think the biggest problem in American education today is that kids expected to be handed everything, they don't want to work for anything. I paid my own way through college, and 30+ hour weeks of work while doing 18 credits of CS and engineering really blew, but I am glad that I did it. It REALLY imprinted on me the value of education and hard work. I see a lot of rich kids who go totally crazy in college and end up dropping out/dying/getting a girl pregnant etc. and having to live off mommy and daddy the rest of their lives......
Here is my question, who wouldn't say they would buy the game if it wasn't available for free? Thats kind of a meaningless question. I mean, if I pirated games and was answering their survey, why wouldn't I say that I wouldn't say, "yeah, I would buy the game" even if outiside factors would really prevent me from doing so.
Now if only we could turn "Ask Slashdot" into "Ask Google" we would be set!
Just make sure your VR has a low latency. If people in a VR world turn but the world does not turn fast enough, a lot of them will vomit.
No, it would NOT be stupid if the whole thing was in Japanese/German/whatever. If you would have actually READ the comment you would see that I think it is a GOOD idea for people to learn foriegn languages. I am relatively proficient in japanese and I am learning Chinese. HOWEVER inserting random words of a language into a conversation where you are primarily speaking another language bothers me. And it seems to happen overwhelmingly(though not exclusively) with Japanese.
But that is the thing, Japanese cell phones(much to the chagrin of /. fanboys I'm sure) are not unlike American cell phones. They have a few more gadgets and faster network speed(if you cough over the dough of course) but that is pretty much it. You still talk on them, you still can use them to send messages. There is no justification for calling them Keitai if speaking in English.
I agree that people should learn foriegn languages, but much like my absurd example(Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, German and Spanish all rolled into 2 sentences) inserting random foriegn words in English conversation WHEN there is an English equivalent(There are Japanese loanwords into English, like kendo for example)is just plain dumb, and IMO is just an example of someone trying to sound cooler than they actually are.
I lived in Japan, what better insight into Japanese culture do I need? I really don't need to say random Japanese phrases to people who don't speak Japanese. I know people here thinks it makes you look cool, but to me it's just plain stupid. I don't need it to pick up women either.....
Why do people insisit on pretending to be cool by inserting random Japanese words in English conversations? Yes, the Japanese word for cellular phone is "Keitai Denwa", I should know, I worked for KDDI for 6 months. But you know what, I use the word "Keitai Denwa" only when I am speaking JAPANESE to people who understand JAPANESE. I don't need to pretend I am so cool by inserting the words into English conversations.
And why does it only happen with the Japanese language, why not other ones:
So Je am sitting ici in meiguo but I am moving to Deutschland. Demo I no hablas Deutsch.
Doesn't seem so cool after all.....
Only if you buy it after the OFFICIAL announcement from Apple, and even then, "free" is $19(or at least it was last time)
Pennsylvania. The state sales tax is 6% but you don't pay taxes on groceries(and I think clothes as well, but don't quote me on that one). But you still do pay taxes on things like pop because they are considered "non-essential"
Heh, note that most(note NOT all) of the people who trully did get rich from the gold rush were the people who actually sold the supplies to speculators, not the gold rushers themselves...
Plus there is the whole topic of indemnity. Even though the EULA probably covers there asses, if TurboTax fucks up, chances are they will cover their ass and help you out. If OSS screws up, well all you can say is sometimes you get what you pay for....
To a certain extent, he's somewhat right. It would substantially lower the bar and you'd have far more impulse buys (and drunk song-buying binges wouldn't hurt as much. Fear the drunken one-click shopping spree!)
Which is why Apple really needs to make iKaraoke. Imagine being able to drunkenly buy KARAOKE songs on demand in the comfort of your own home.
I would buy it, till of course I wake up one morning after a binge to find that my music collection is now full of Ace of Base.....
Um, no there isn't. The original poster made no restrictions on whether or not the product is open source. The little open source comment is outside the italics so it was made by the editor. IE this is /., so the words open source have to be thrown around everywhere, even when they don't matter.
Seriously, the best way to play Risk is drunk at the all you can eat all night buffet and places like Eat 'N Park(I don't know if they have places like that were you are). There is nothing like cold sausage, pancakes, and the randomly belligerent strategies that you come up with while drunk. Classic....or maybe I'm just a dork that doesn't go and get laid when drunk :P
From TFA:
The greater challenge is that the new techniques never stop coming. It's possible spammers will eventually run out of tricks, but it definitely hasn't happened yet. Most techniques backfire fairly in the long run, and make it more obvious that a message is spam.
You gotta wonder if there is a spam "bubble" that will burst pretty much like every other bubble. It started the same way, a few scammers got the idea of sending out scams via email and were quite successful, and everyone else started to jump on board. But soon enough(hopefully) people will learn their lesson and spam will slow....maybe I'm putting too much faith in people.
But it is interesting to see how many "me too" trends there are in spam. Up until about 2 years ago, I never received a 419 scam, but now I get at least one a week. Up until about a year ago, I never received a rolex email(typically the domain of brick and mortar(ok, urine soaked streetcorner) drifters), but now I get a few a day.
stabbed, hitchiking is great way to...
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No, I don't want to see that
save on fuel and potentially meet...
I don't think you should be doing that while driving
sorry, where was I, oh yeah, meet interesting people who will even let you use their cell phone to connect to the
OH GOD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY HAND?!?!
internet while driving.....is there a scream tag on
Heh, I'm a mac fan, but for starters the page you linked to obviously compares the performance of G5s vs Intels offerings, and the mac mini is a g4....
feh, I'm more interested in "Paster Processors" than faster processors myself.
Heh, I think you hit on the biggest linux security threat there is: People who believe Linux's security to be infallible and thus do nothing to protect their machine. I wonder what it will take to knock the complacency out of people.
I don't really want to see a "goatse" constellation up in space.....
is still someone calling you up at 3 am screaming at you that the network is down and yelling at you to get your ass in there asap. Works every time!