"One of the reasons is because the sea-bordered nations have *natural* borders, thus they can spend less of their time in border-defense or neighbour-conquests and more of their time in other pursuits."
How come I always get raided by boat driving barbarians in Civilization then?
And Princess Leah was menstruating while swinging over the canyon in the death star with Luke. Pause the Laser Disc sometime during that swing. There is blood...:p
psDooM is a process monitor and manager for *nix systems. It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps', 'renice', and 'kill' commands. psDooM is based on XDoom, which is based on id Software's 'Doom'.
Actually, take a walk through the Tokyo train station some time. about 90% of the people there are swiping their phone over the turnstiles to pay for their ticket. Also, you can walk up to a vending machine and touch your phone to it and your item is paid for. The TV and radio feature in japanese phones is due to the train rides that everybody deals with. You'll see probablly 90% of the people on trains (that aren't sleeping anyways) are listening to something via headphones attached to their cell phone.
Here in Japan, your cellphone is your laptop, music player, tv, radio, business card swapper, credit card, train ticket, spare change, book reader, book writer, little black book, job finder, digital camera, bar code scanner, web browser, stopwatch, regular watch, audio note taker, status symbol, etc... oh, and you can call people with it too.
hence why all phones here have so many features. take a cell phone away from your average japanese person and they would be a lost, clueless, introverted mess.
Also, it needs to be noted that the iPhone is only offered by SoftBank, which is the 3rd smallest carrier in Japan. The iPhone's sales are still dwarfed by phones offered by the 2 largest, NTT Docomo and KDDI's au.
Also, here in Japan, softbank coverage is absolutely the worst ever. No building penetration, dead spots inside of major cities, etc...
If it wasn't locked to SoftBank, I might pick one up myself, but the phone is to make calls, and if I can't do that, then the phone, by association, sucks.
Where this gets hard is in the non-game arena. Dialogs and buttons and menu options originally designed for Japanese, will not normally scale well when you have to translate 2 kanji into a few words. That stretches things, which makes it overlap other items which, when not programmed correctly from the start with translation in mind, makes things a major headache.
A lot of Japanese programs I use have very compact interfaces since, in Japanese, you can compress an entire sentence or meaning into just a few characters, whereas with English this would take an entire sentence. It's really a pain in the arse.
Sounds like my reasoning.
I would invest in a solar power system simply to be able to regularize my power bill. Right now, it fluctuates between $100 a month and $300 a month. I would trade that all for a stead, calculable flat rate payment. Who cares about ROR. For the next 30 years, my power bill could be $120 a month. Makes planning a budget around a mortgage, 5 kids, and a spend happy wife a bit easier...
For those who haven't seen the new Star Trek reboot yet, that is the reason that McCoy from Star Trek is called "Bones". It's something McCoy says to Kirk.
May I kindly introduce you all to Slopsbox which is provided by our friends at TPB.
From their page:
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why not just factor encryption keys in like base 7 or something? All the keys I've heard discussed so far seem to be base 2 based...
"One of the reasons is because the sea-bordered nations have *natural* borders, thus they can spend less of their time in border-defense or neighbour-conquests and more of their time in other pursuits."
How come I always get raided by boat driving barbarians in Civilization then?
no, i meant put them in a line
Making jokes for this OS should be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel...
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Thank you, i was just about to post nearly the exact same thing...
squirrel!
"and hey! who stole the frozen banana guacamoli?!"
And Princess Leah was menstruating while swinging over the canyon in the death star with Luke. Pause the Laser Disc sometime during that swing. There is blood... :p
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
I think he was referring to the "vacuum" of space. Why not just take the glass off the outside and save some weight?
Hope they don't try anything over bittorrent.. that could add a bit of latency
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
psDooM is a process monitor and manager for *nix systems. It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps', 'renice', and 'kill' commands. psDooM is based on XDoom, which is based on id Software's 'Doom'.
See Also: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
Actually, take a walk through the Tokyo train station some time. about 90% of the people there are swiping their phone over the turnstiles to pay for their ticket. Also, you can walk up to a vending machine and touch your phone to it and your item is paid for. The TV and radio feature in japanese phones is due to the train rides that everybody deals with. You'll see probablly 90% of the people on trains (that aren't sleeping anyways) are listening to something via headphones attached to their cell phone.
Here in Japan, your cellphone is your laptop, music player, tv, radio, business card swapper, credit card, train ticket, spare change, book reader, book writer, little black book, job finder, digital camera, bar code scanner, web browser, stopwatch, regular watch, audio note taker, status symbol, etc... oh, and you can call people with it too.
hence why all phones here have so many features. take a cell phone away from your average japanese person and they would be a lost, clueless, introverted mess.
Also, it needs to be noted that the iPhone is only offered by SoftBank, which is the 3rd smallest carrier in Japan. The iPhone's sales are still dwarfed by phones offered by the 2 largest, NTT Docomo and KDDI's au.
Also, here in Japan, softbank coverage is absolutely the worst ever. No building penetration, dead spots inside of major cities, etc...
If it wasn't locked to SoftBank, I might pick one up myself, but the phone is to make calls, and if I can't do that, then the phone, by association, sucks.
I think you would like my favorite quote (duplicated here since most people have signatures turned off):
"Freedom in the United States is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability do stop others from doing what THEY want." - A. Anderson
Where this gets hard is in the non-game arena. Dialogs and buttons and menu options originally designed for Japanese, will not normally scale well when you have to translate 2 kanji into a few words. That stretches things, which makes it overlap other items which, when not programmed correctly from the start with translation in mind, makes things a major headache.
A lot of Japanese programs I use have very compact interfaces since, in Japanese, you can compress an entire sentence or meaning into just a few characters, whereas with English this would take an entire sentence. It's really a pain in the arse.
Here's a collection of the pictures I took of the eclipse: http://owh.net/?YEYnRRguJY
It's my first time photographing an eclipse so the pictures aren't "Professional Quality" but they're not awful either.
Apparently you are not "clicking" enough if you cannot find it (aren't double puns wonderful)
Not in MY soup they can't. (the clams)
s/stead/steady/
s/ROR/ROI/
Sounds like my reasoning. I would invest in a solar power system simply to be able to regularize my power bill. Right now, it fluctuates between $100 a month and $300 a month. I would trade that all for a stead, calculable flat rate payment. Who cares about ROR. For the next 30 years, my power bill could be $120 a month. Makes planning a budget around a mortgage, 5 kids, and a spend happy wife a bit easier...
For those who haven't seen the new Star Trek reboot yet, that is the reason that McCoy from Star Trek is called "Bones". It's something McCoy says to Kirk.
Yah, but what do they call a quarter pounder with cheese?
From their page:
Slopsbox is your temporary mailbox, the e-mail address you use to register for random services. It's a long-finger up the butt to spammers who wants your real e-mail. Slopsboxâ is the inbox you don't care about. But Slopsboxâ cares about you, your privacy and we want your spam, because we think it's tasty!