Um, seriously, check out the glut of Japanese games about fuedal Japan. There is a reason the Japanese tend not to make games about WWII, they lost, and most Japanese seem to want to forget the whole thing ever happened. However, games about th e wars of the Shogun and Daimyo etc are very popular, because it's easy to glorify that type of war.
Gah, people like you almost make Sean Hannity look sane.......almost
I really think that the video/tv functionality would be fantastic for someone who commutes to work on a bus or ferry every day.
Heh, that is probably the only real market for it(that and for parents who want to keep their kids silent on long trips). Is this a big enough audience to make a profit on? Music only devices appeal to a much broader range of people. You can listen to music while walking around town, or in your car. Let's hope people aren't watching video while doing either of these activities(or the person watching video in their car is likely to hit someone walking across the street watching video)
Some characters have more then 1 pronounciations,
Read the post, I said that there are some characters that have more than one pronounciation! and most characters carry more then 1 meaning, depending on context.
Yeah, but wouldn't you use the same reasoning to figure out it's meaning in conversation as you would when you are reading it? I was trying to draw the paralell between conversation and reading, both you would determine the word's meaning by context.
True, true.
Nuclear power is great(I'm a liberal, but I cringe when the hippies start protesting about it), but it's not an end all to all of our energy problems. THe world really needs to diversify, that way if something happens to one source of energy, there will still be other sources to tide humanity over till more alternatives are found.
I thought there was supposed to be a huge stash near the N pole?
There actually is a lot more oil in the world than the grandparent let on, however the problem is it's not CHEAP oil. One of the reasons that mid east oil is so attractive is that it is very easy to get from the ground, thus can be sold cheaply. It's a lot harder, and thus a lot more expensive to get oil from the North Pole. Oil has yet to reach a price where drilling would be a profitable venture. Oil has to go up a lot more before someone begins to try to get a lot of that oil, and by that time most of the world would have hopefully moved on to better sources.
The problem is nuclear fuel is somewhat limited as well. Some people predict it will run out in about 50 years, which by then China will have it's new nuclear reactors up and running.... here is an interesting book on the subject.
France probably does know what it's doing when it comes to nuclear energy(they have nuclear subs etc), but I don't really think Japan is that advanced in nuclear research. They only generate about 20% of their power from nuclear power plants(compared to about 80% or so in France and even the US is at about 30%), and they have a pretty spotty safety record in the plants they do have.
France is at par or above the US in terms of nuclear technology, but Japan currently is pretty far behind. It will not stay that way forever, but the Japanese government has bigger fish to fry than it's space program right now. After a line of rather large failures, a ballooning debt, an economy that is still on shaky ground, and with neighboor China beating Japan to the punch when it came to manned flight missions, Japan is seriously reconsidering the aims of it's space programs.
But this is changing very quickly. Now the largest mass migration in human history is occuring as a lot of Chinese are flocking to the cities looking for jobs. However, there just aren't any jobs to be found. Chinese unemployment is much worse than that of the US....
I wish they would have expounded on what they meant. Because the "sound" of a word in Chinese is pretty much the same as it's meaning. Yes, the characters do have meanings, but in Chinese(for the most part, there are some exceptions) each character only has 1 sound. The sound is exactly how you would pronounce the word if you were speaking, so I'm not sure what they mean by saying that children process the sound and the meaning seperately. Or maybe it's the difference between how a person understands a language when it is being taught as a 2nd language vs. a native one.
It gets a bit different for Japanese though. In Chinese(once again, for the most part) you can process character by character and read the sentence. However, because Japan had to force the Chinese character system to it's language(and also borrowed readings, then newer readings without changing the old ones) each character has usually 2 readings, some only 1, some much more. How you read the character depends on the characters around it. To a certain extent it's like English, you really cannot read it character for character phonetically, you have to process blocks. I wonder if the Japanese reader uses the same parts of the brain as the English reader, or Chinese reader, or both.
Where is your source for this? I ask because I am interested(trying to learn Chinese and improve upon my Japanese right now), do people who say speak English as their native language who learn Chinese as a 2nd language also process Chinese in that part of the brain(well, those that learn it later in life, I would guess it's different for children who tend to be much more adept at learning languages than adults) or do they try to process it with the same part of the brain that they use to read English?
And his vice president owned more than 80 pairs of pants, and changed them many times a day, sorry, just couldn't resist a Chester Alan Arthur reference.
that they are suing over this, but have given their blessings to The Digital Archive Project which encodes and shares the shows that were not released commerically on DVD.
I remember a quote from Kevin Murphy(one of the few founding members of the show to stay with it the whole time) "Ideas are free my friend"
So the guy selling pies on the side of a busy highway(yes, this actually happened to me in Philly) can now get a website and people can buy pies from the comfort of their car and have them delivered when they pass through.
Wow, this will attract more professionals, the pie guy will need a web developer.
You seem to be missing my point. It doesn't matter if htey are evil or not, the voting is still insecure. All you are doing by pushing that quote is steadying the eresolve of the Republicans to use this system even if it may not be in their best interest(Much like the Jeb Bush memo sent out to Republicans in Florida telling them to vote absentee). It gets in the way of real productive arguments on the merits of e-voting. It is something that needs discussed, but the urgent need is to get the public to realize that regardless of who wins, if the vote is suspect then the confidence of the American people in their system of government will be lost(well, damaged further anyway)
And judging from the VERY poor way that these machines perform, there is nothing to say that they won't fuck up in the favor of Kerry without anyone doing anything malicious. And honestly, given all the various security holes, there is nothing to say that Nader or Badnarick won't be our new president.
Yeah, I'm a Kerry supporter so I'm not happy about the statements made by the man, but remember, they are more incompetent than they are evil.
That is why it is probably best to put away all this conspiracy theory stuff. Whether or not it's true, I don't know, it doesn't matter. Electronic voting has shown it is insecure and innaccurate. Even without tampering a lot of the machines have failed. It shows a real lack of planning more than anything else on Diebold's part. My best guess is that they are more incompetent than corrupt. They severly underestimated the issues involved and just rushed something out before the 2002 election in order to take advantage of the 2000 fiasco while it was still fresh in people's minds.
If Diebold was really evil, than they would have put much more thought into the machines. If they were evil, then they would have a very small numbers of difficult to find exploits, while producing a seemingly reliable machine. There are problems even with the basic protocol of going into the booth.
They are incompetent. They may be sinister, but it's not important to the argument, their incompetence should mean that the machines should not be used for elections. When people bring up the conspiracy theories, it just solidifies the resolve of the other side to use the machines.
If you explain to people that regardless of the vote and tampering that Bobo the Clown could end up governor of Neveda, then we may be able to have productive discussions.
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And will spend millions of dollars on "age defying switches"
Ironically, my Japanese phone also supported cryillic. I don't think it was to actually use it(the input method was clunky), but to do physics. It had double integral signs, set theory symbols, and even a line integral. Nothing beats calculus on the train!
I thought one of the reasons that HP was selling the iPod was so that they could sell it in "HP blue", which would have given at least 1 reason to buy it from them(I don't use HP products, so I could care less but)
"When the electro-magnetic suspsension system is a buzzin'
Don't come a knockin'"
Just doesn't have the same ring.
Oh well, at least I can still whip out my catchphrase, "When the caskets a rockin', dont't come a knockin'"
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Um, seriously, check out the glut of Japanese games about fuedal Japan. There is a reason the Japanese tend not to make games about WWII, they lost, and most Japanese seem to want to forget the whole thing ever happened. However, games about th e wars of the Shogun and Daimyo etc are very popular, because it's easy to glorify that type of war.
Gah, people like you almost make Sean Hannity look sane.......almost
I really think that the video/tv functionality would be fantastic for someone who commutes to work on a bus or ferry every day.
Heh, that is probably the only real market for it(that and for parents who want to keep their kids silent on long trips). Is this a big enough audience to make a profit on? Music only devices appeal to a much broader range of people. You can listen to music while walking around town, or in your car. Let's hope people aren't watching video while doing either of these activities(or the person watching video in their car is likely to hit someone walking across the street watching video)
Some characters have more then 1 pronounciations,
Read the post, I said that there are some characters that have more than one pronounciation!
and most characters carry more then 1 meaning, depending on context.
Yeah, but wouldn't you use the same reasoning to figure out it's meaning in conversation as you would when you are reading it? I was trying to draw the paralell between conversation and reading, both you would determine the word's meaning by context.
True, true.
Nuclear power is great(I'm a liberal, but I cringe when the hippies start protesting about it), but it's not an end all to all of our energy problems. THe world really needs to diversify, that way if something happens to one source of energy, there will still be other sources to tide humanity over till more alternatives are found.
I thought there was supposed to be a huge stash near the N pole?
There actually is a lot more oil in the world than the grandparent let on, however the problem is it's not CHEAP oil. One of the reasons that mid east oil is so attractive is that it is very easy to get from the ground, thus can be sold cheaply. It's a lot harder, and thus a lot more expensive to get oil from the North Pole. Oil has yet to reach a price where drilling would be a profitable venture. Oil has to go up a lot more before someone begins to try to get a lot of that oil, and by that time most of the world would have hopefully moved on to better sources.
The problem is nuclear fuel is somewhat limited as well. Some people predict it will run out in about 50 years, which by then China will have it's new nuclear reactors up and running....
here is an interesting book on the subject.
As per your sig, it's spelled, "Cheney" not "Chenny", please don't embarass us liberals with poor spelling!
France probably does know what it's doing when it comes to nuclear energy(they have nuclear subs etc), but I don't really think Japan is that advanced in nuclear research. They only generate about 20% of their power from nuclear power plants(compared to about 80% or so in France and even the US is at about 30%), and they have a pretty spotty safety record in the plants they do have.
France is at par or above the US in terms of nuclear technology, but Japan currently is pretty far behind. It will not stay that way forever, but the Japanese government has bigger fish to fry than it's space program right now. After a line of rather large failures, a ballooning debt, an economy that is still on shaky ground, and with neighboor China beating Japan to the punch when it came to manned flight missions, Japan is seriously reconsidering the aims of it's space programs.
But this is changing very quickly. Now the largest mass migration in human history is occuring as a lot of Chinese are flocking to the cities looking for jobs. However, there just aren't any jobs to be found. Chinese unemployment is much worse than that of the US....
that contains all the information you need to know to stop this problem
I wish they would have expounded on what they meant. Because the "sound" of a word in Chinese is pretty much the same as it's meaning. Yes, the characters do have meanings, but in Chinese(for the most part, there are some exceptions) each character only has 1 sound. The sound is exactly how you would pronounce the word if you were speaking, so I'm not sure what they mean by saying that children process the sound and the meaning seperately. Or maybe it's the difference between how a person understands a language when it is being taught as a 2nd language vs. a native one.
It gets a bit different for Japanese though. In Chinese(once again, for the most part) you can process character by character and read the sentence. However, because Japan had to force the Chinese character system to it's language(and also borrowed readings, then newer readings without changing the old ones) each character has usually 2 readings, some only 1, some much more. How you read the character depends on the characters around it. To a certain extent it's like English, you really cannot read it character for character phonetically, you have to process blocks. I wonder if the Japanese reader uses the same parts of the brain as the English reader, or Chinese reader, or both.
Where is your source for this? I ask because I am interested(trying to learn Chinese and improve upon my Japanese right now), do people who say speak English as their native language who learn Chinese as a 2nd language also process Chinese in that part of the brain(well, those that learn it later in life, I would guess it's different for children who tend to be much more adept at learning languages than adults) or do they try to process it with the same part of the brain that they use to read English?
And his vice president owned more than 80 pairs of pants, and changed them many times a day, sorry, just couldn't resist a Chester Alan Arthur reference.
Call yourself the SCO group, SCO standing for Suckers, Corprate-whores and Onlookers
that they are suing over this, but have given their blessings to The Digital Archive Project which encodes and shares the shows that were not released commerically on DVD.
I remember a quote from Kevin Murphy(one of the few founding members of the show to stay with it the whole time) "Ideas are free my friend"
So the guy selling pies on the side of a busy highway(yes, this actually happened to me in Philly) can now get a website and people can buy pies from the comfort of their car and have them delivered when they pass through.
Wow, this will attract more professionals, the pie guy will need a web developer.
It would be better if it were also edible.
You seem to be missing my point. It doesn't matter if htey are evil or not, the voting is still insecure. All you are doing by pushing that quote is steadying the eresolve of the Republicans to use this system even if it may not be in their best interest(Much like the Jeb Bush memo sent out to Republicans in Florida telling them to vote absentee). It gets in the way of real productive arguments on the merits of e-voting. It is something that needs discussed, but the urgent need is to get the public to realize that regardless of who wins, if the vote is suspect then the confidence of the American people in their system of government will be lost(well, damaged further anyway)
And judging from the VERY poor way that these machines perform, there is nothing to say that they won't fuck up in the favor of Kerry without anyone doing anything malicious. And honestly, given all the various security holes, there is nothing to say that Nader or Badnarick won't be our new president.
Yeah, I'm a Kerry supporter so I'm not happy about the statements made by the man, but remember, they are more incompetent than they are evil.
That is why it is probably best to put away all this conspiracy theory stuff. Whether or not it's true, I don't know, it doesn't matter. Electronic voting has shown it is insecure and innaccurate. Even without tampering a lot of the machines have failed. It shows a real lack of planning more than anything else on Diebold's part. My best guess is that they are more incompetent than corrupt. They severly underestimated the issues involved and just rushed something out before the 2002 election in order to take advantage of the 2000 fiasco while it was still fresh in people's minds.
If Diebold was really evil, than they would have put much more thought into the machines. If they were evil, then they would have a very small numbers of difficult to find exploits, while producing a seemingly reliable machine. There are problems even with the basic protocol of going into the booth.
They are incompetent. They may be sinister, but it's not important to the argument, their incompetence should mean that the machines should not be used for elections. When people bring up the conspiracy theories, it just solidifies the resolve of the other side to use the machines.
If you explain to people that regardless of the vote and tampering that Bobo the Clown could end up governor of Neveda, then we may be able to have productive discussions.
And will spend millions of dollars on "age defying switches"
Ironically, my Japanese phone also supported cryillic. I don't think it was to actually use it(the input method was clunky), but to do physics. It had double integral signs, set theory symbols, and even a line integral. Nothing beats calculus on the train!
to install Leisure Suit Larry. The leisure suit jokes alone should make your hard drive spin faster than you ever thought possible.
I thought one of the reasons that HP was selling the iPod was so that they could sell it in "HP blue", which would have given at least 1 reason to buy it from them(I don't use HP products, so I could care less but)
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"When the electro-magnetic suspsension system is a buzzin'
Don't come a knockin'"
Just doesn't have the same ring.
Oh well, at least I can still whip out my catchphrase, "When the caskets a rockin', dont't come a knockin'"