I agree that lot of Korean words borrow from Chinese words. But that doesn't make chinese a parent language of korean. Just because we say tofu, anime, sushi, karaoke, otaku, manga etc. in English, that doesn't make Japanese a parent language of English. That was my point.
As for legal documents, yeah, it pisses me off too. Korean gov't tends to use chinese vocab over pure korean when it comes to "official" documents. It's like using latin instead of english to sound sophisticated... eh...
Oh and lot of younger generation do not know the "basic" chinese and do fine with newspaper in korea.
errr... what makes you think that Chinese is the parent language of Korean?
Chinese is Sino-Tibetan language. Where as Korean is considered to be unclassified, or Altaic language or language isolate.
I hate ignorant people...
Any word on PNG support on this thing? None of the review talk about it. It's the second most important thing to me when it come to browser; first being CSS support.
Even if an applicant's claim for an invention is novel (i.e. not taught by a single prior art reference), a patent can still be denied to the applicant if the claimed subject matter would have been obvious to someone else skilled in the technical field of the invention. The purpose of forbidding patents on obvious technologies is to prevent a person from obtaining exclusive rights to what is effectively already in the possession of the public, even if documentation of the exact form of the applicant's embodiment happens to be lacking.
it goes one stating the following
The standard of obviousness and its application are more subjective and controversial than that of novelty. If the requirements are set very high, virtually nothing is patentable. Similarly if the requirements are very low, all kinds of trivial inventions can receive patents.
what do I think? I think the idea of petent is a selfish act. And every selfish act should be discouraged. So yeah... I dont like patents... Only way to truly own anything is to give it away. But enough of my dogma... I just hope nintendo would revitalize the industry... One can hope... right? ^^;;
They do want to get rid of the "bad MS", perhaps by replacing it with a "good MS".
I gotta agree with that. I doubt that MS will ever go away, at least not anytime soon. But I'm sure their dominance in this industry will crumble soon, at least in my life time (hopefully).
The PS2 wasn't such a big deal in North America because we mostly owned DVD players when it came out.
Was DVD players really widely spread on October of 2000? From my memory, I dont believe so.
Not so in Asia where DVD penetration was very low before the PS2.
I'm not sure what you mean by Asian households.
In Japan, PS2 came out in March of 2000. In Korea, Sony released PS2 in February of 2002. And lastly, in China, it was released in January of 2004. (Simple google search will direct you to these information)
Yeah, maybe in Japan in year 2000, DVD wasn't that popular. But Korea and China in year 2002 and 2004? I believe, DVD was popular enough by then. I don't think DVD function in PS2 really played a factor.
Why this rant?
I'm sorry if I sound anal...but I just hate it when people think Asia = Japan.
I think the dead pixel issue makes sense for the price that you pay. Since SONY doesn't offer a no-dead-pixel guarantee or anything like that, SONY is able to sell their game/music/web/picture/video player for $250.
Well.. I dont have $250 to burn... so i'll go back to playing my gameboy color... sigh...
Actually, that website is a very popular (in korea that is) personal homepage of a famous linux lover, Juksu. Sarang.net is the hosting company in which his homepage resides. If you care for a commercial korean linux distro go here (it's in korean).
If you want to check out a great Korean linux community site check out the Korean Linux Documentation Project (KLDP).
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If you don't like flash here's another view of the Federal IT Budget:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/vue-it/index.html
I'm not sure if it's the same data but it let you have the raw data too.
We do have our own distro.
I agree that lot of Korean words borrow from Chinese words. But that doesn't make chinese a parent language of korean. Just because we say tofu, anime, sushi, karaoke, otaku, manga etc. in English, that doesn't make Japanese a parent language of English. That was my point.
As for legal documents, yeah, it pisses me off too. Korean gov't tends to use chinese vocab over pure korean when it comes to "official" documents. It's like using latin instead of english to sound sophisticated... eh...
Oh and lot of younger generation do not know the "basic" chinese and do fine with newspaper in korea.
its parent language, Chinese
errr... what makes you think that Chinese is the parent language of Korean? Chinese is Sino-Tibetan language. Where as Korean is considered to be unclassified, or Altaic language or language isolate.
I hate ignorant people...
Could this ever happen?
no.
RTFA to myself... it does support PNG transparency ^^;;; YAY!!!
Thanks for the link!! But for PNG... is it full PNG support? With alpha transparency?
Any word on PNG support on this thing? None of the review talk about it. It's the second most important thing to me when it come to browser; first being CSS support.
He sounds like Bush.
.. blah blah... Freedom!!!"
"Blah blah Freedom! Blah Blah peace! Blah democracy
Just replace key words with innovation.
I think it's gcnaddict who's smoking. Not CowboyNeil.
it goes one stating the following
what do I think? I think the idea of petent is a selfish act. And every selfish act should be discouraged. So yeah... I dont like patents... Only way to truly own anything is to give it away. But enough of my dogma... I just hope nintendo would revitalize the industry... One can hope... right? ^^;;
They do want to get rid of the "bad MS", perhaps by replacing it with a "good MS".
I gotta agree with that. I doubt that MS will ever go away, at least not anytime soon. But I'm sure their dominance in this industry will crumble soon, at least in my life time (hopefully).
The best swan song for a system was Donkey Kong Country for SNES... oh wait or Conker's for N64... --;;
The PS2 wasn't such a big deal in North America because we mostly owned DVD players when it came out.
Was DVD players really widely spread on October of 2000? From my memory, I dont believe so.
Not so in Asia where DVD penetration was very low before the PS2.
I'm not sure what you mean by Asian households.
In Japan, PS2 came out in March of 2000. In Korea, Sony released PS2 in February of 2002. And lastly, in China, it was released in January of 2004. (Simple google search will direct you to these information)
Yeah, maybe in Japan in year 2000, DVD wasn't that popular. But Korea and China in year 2002 and 2004? I believe, DVD was popular enough by then. I don't think DVD function in PS2 really played a factor.
Why this rant?
I'm sorry if I sound anal...but I just hate it when people think Asia = Japan.
I think the dead pixel issue makes sense for the price that you pay. Since SONY doesn't offer a no-dead-pixel guarantee or anything like that, SONY is able to sell their game/music/web/picture/video player for $250.
Well.. I dont have $250 to burn... so i'll go back to playing my gameboy color... sigh...
Actually, that website is a very popular (in korea that is) personal homepage of a famous linux lover, Juksu. Sarang.net is the hosting company in which his homepage resides. If you care for a commercial korean linux distro go here (it's in korean). If you want to check out a great Korean linux community site check out the Korean Linux Documentation Project (KLDP).