If the dev team's products to date haven't included some sort of method for rolling back your phone to its factory state, they've done a piss-poor job.
Except Ford doesn't send out the representative. You take your racing car into the Ford shop, plug it into the diagnostic tools that they just warned you might harm your vehicle that hasn't been used in the way they expected, and flip the switch yourself.
Don't take the car in for servicing. Continue racing all you want. What is the problem?
No, these kinds of mindless tasks are best suited to computing. It's the really complex stuff, like, you know, translating from one language to another, that has to be done by a human being if you want it done well.
But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken.
The above quote seems to be proven wrong by the third word in it.
What is this tendency that I have observed over the last few years whereby people start to think that the plural of any "difficult" word must end in "-ii"?
I, too, am tired of constantly seeing these mistakii.
If you go take a look at auctions.yahoo.co.jp right now and search for PS3, you'll find lots of auctions being bid up to astronomical amounts. Millions, hundreds of millions, even billions of yen. There are some threads on 2channel (this monster BBS where loonies get together and plot mayhem) filled with people urging each other to set up new yahoo.co.jp accounts in order to go ruin the bidding on the PS3 units.
The seller has the ability to delete or ignore these obviously false bids, apparently, but it's an interesting reaction from people who aren't too happy with the whole "free market, charge what it will bear" approach shown by the flippers who buy these things in bulk through their homeless minions and turn right around around to make some yen off of the things.
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We both came to the New World to form a new identity, we just think you did it wrongly.
By wiping out most of the native population through willful malice and massively racist policies? Yeah, we screwed up. Sometime you guys will have to give us some pointers on how you went about it.
An interesting thing to point out, except you seem to have forgotten that people* don't go out and buy "the 4GB one" or "the 30GB one." They get the white one with the big screen, or the small one in black.
* who aren't geeks poring over specs sheets on the Internet
You're taking this brief explanation of one form of manga/Internet cafe and extrapolating an awful lot of doom and gloom from it. This is not "how people get away," or "how people interact." It's a store that offers a bunch of services. That's all. You're likely to see 20 or 30 customers pop in for an hour to check email for every single maladjusted otaku with an unhealthy focus on online existence.
Probably 95% of all Japanese people will never set foot in a manga kissa or an Internet cafe. Stop writing pop sociology screeds until you figure out the difference between "description of a nation" and "description of a type of shop used by a few people in one subset of that nation."
I agree with this. Getting one-on-one feedback is the best way to improve your writing. It might not be an option if this is a big class, though.
The Elements of Style is a good place to start. Hammer on the basics: use the active voice, say the same thing in fewer words when you can. If these people are going to be engineers, and codified rules make them comfortable, point them toward The Chicago Manual of Style or something similar and help them make their writing consistent.
Well, yeah, but it's safer that way. Or do you want to be the guy who offers to increment some teenager's meat, and then have to wear one of those ankle bracelets that beeps when you try to leave home for the next five years?
Their products are beautiful and wonderful, but they never can get over that hump that other big companies surmount to being able to mass-produce a product while maintaining its greatness.
I was wondering why the iPod never really took off . . . That was a neat little music player. Such a shame.
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A wafer-thin OLED screen that has a brick at the bottom is a great idea, assuming that brick is a MacBook Pro or Thinkpad or something.
If the dev team's products to date haven't included some sort of method for rolling back your phone to its factory state, they've done a piss-poor job.
Except Ford doesn't send out the representative. You take your racing car into the Ford shop, plug it into the diagnostic tools that they just warned you might harm your vehicle that hasn't been used in the way they expected, and flip the switch yourself.
Don't take the car in for servicing. Continue racing all you want. What is the problem?
No, these kinds of mindless tasks are best suited to computing. It's the really complex stuff, like, you know, translating from one language to another, that has to be done by a human being if you want it done well.
I suggest staying away. Ziggurats are bad for your health.
Well, according to my email in-box, 70% of Internet users want to sell me \/1@gr@ . . .
But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken.
The above quote seems to be proven wrong by the third word in it.
I forget which beer though.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repe--Hey, any more Coors in the fridge?
And then monkeys flew out of his butt.
I believe the correct Zune terminology is "monkeys squirted out his butt."
What is this tendency that I have observed over the last few years whereby people start to think that the plural of any "difficult" word must end in "-ii"?
I, too, am tired of constantly seeing these mistakii.
Whoever heard of a blood sucking frog?!
There's one pictured here.
The *traditional* method is to toss in a virgin
Hey, they're scientists, where are they going to come up with a virgin?
The difference between fairplay and playsforsure is that fairplay *only* supports ipod
And computers running OS X, and computers running Win XP/2K. Pity there aren't any of those out there for consumers to use with the iTMS, huh.
Why would the RIAA, a cartel, lower prices?
Because Putin threatened to take them out for polonium and sushi?
If you go take a look at auctions.yahoo.co.jp right now and search for PS3, you'll find lots of auctions being bid up to astronomical amounts. Millions, hundreds of millions, even billions of yen. There are some threads on 2channel (this monster BBS where loonies get together and plot mayhem) filled with people urging each other to set up new yahoo.co.jp accounts in order to go ruin the bidding on the PS3 units.
The seller has the ability to delete or ignore these obviously false bids, apparently, but it's an interesting reaction from people who aren't too happy with the whole "free market, charge what it will bear" approach shown by the flippers who buy these things in bulk through their homeless minions and turn right around around to make some yen off of the things.
Good point . . . Hell, Ars Technica pays a couple iPod killers to write reviews of the things, for that matter.
Wow, that's grout!
We both came to the New World to form a new identity, we just think you did it wrongly.
By wiping out most of the native population through willful malice and massively racist policies? Yeah, we screwed up. Sometime you guys will have to give us some pointers on how you went about it.
Of course, that's assuming some other mechanism isn't in the pipeline to circumvent that.
Poster 1: "They're probably plotting something! Maybe! You never know!"
Posters 2 through 10: "Wow, how insightful!"
An interesting thing to point out, except you seem to have forgotten that people* don't go out and buy "the 4GB one" or "the 30GB one." They get the white one with the big screen, or the small one in black.
* who aren't geeks poring over specs sheets on the Internet
You're taking this brief explanation of one form of manga/Internet cafe and extrapolating an awful lot of doom and gloom from it. This is not "how people get away," or "how people interact." It's a store that offers a bunch of services. That's all. You're likely to see 20 or 30 customers pop in for an hour to check email for every single maladjusted otaku with an unhealthy focus on online existence.
Probably 95% of all Japanese people will never set foot in a manga kissa or an Internet cafe. Stop writing pop sociology screeds until you figure out the difference between "description of a nation" and "description of a type of shop used by a few people in one subset of that nation."
I agree with this. Getting one-on-one feedback is the best way to improve your writing. It might not be an option if this is a big class, though.
The Elements of Style is a good place to start. Hammer on the basics: use the active voice, say the same thing in fewer words when you can. If these people are going to be engineers, and codified rules make them comfortable, point them toward The Chicago Manual of Style or something similar and help them make their writing consistent.
Well, yeah, but it's safer that way. Or do you want to be the guy who offers to increment some teenager's meat, and then have to wear one of those ankle bracelets that beeps when you try to leave home for the next five years?
No way, not after Bob went with Nintendo instead of Xbox for the console release.
Their products are beautiful and wonderful, but they never can get over that hump that other big companies surmount to being able to mass-produce a product while maintaining its greatness.
I was wondering why the iPod never really took off . . . That was a neat little music player. Such a shame.