Um, ever heared of subtitles?
Subtitling as a practice
In several countries or regions nearly all foreign language TV programs are subtitled, instead of dubbed, notably in:
* Albania
* Arabic countries (In Lebanon both Arabic and French show at the same time)
* Argentina
* Australia
* Belgium (Subtitles in Dutch in Flanders, dubbed into French in Wallonia, sometimes bilingual (Dutch-French) subtitles in movie theaters)
* Bolivia - Spanish
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Brazil (cable/satellite TV only)
* Bulgaria
* Colombia (cable/satellite TV only)
* Cuba
* Costa Rica (cable/satellite TV, and in some national channels like Channel 7)
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* Greece
* Hong Kong (Dubbing in Cantonese often happens, but subtitling is also common, since these foreign programs are often broadcast in multiple languages.)
* Iceland
* Indonesia
* Israel
* Ireland
* Japan (live-action only)
* Macedonia
* Malaysia (Subtitles programming of various languages to Malay, as well as various Malay-language live action programs to English. Usually, animation programming (i.e. cartoons and anime) are exempted from subtitling. Indian and Chinese movies usually have subs of more than one languages).
* Montenegro
* The Netherlands
* Norway
* Peru (in Aymara and Quechua)
* Portugal
* Romania
* Serbia
* Slovenia
* Singapore
* South Africa (in Afrikaans, Sesotho, Xhosa and Zulu)
* South Korea
* Sweden
* Taiwan
* Ukraine (TV shows in Russian are often shown with Ukrainian subtitles)
* United Kingdom
* Uruguay (cable/satellite TV only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitles#Subtitling_as_a_practice
You are quite right: The SP started as a maoistic party in 1971.
However you fail to mention that the party has evolved quite a bit since then.
Sure it is still on the far left in dutch politics, and i don't agree with them (i'd never vote for them), they are not some maoistic communist party which should be feared.
I think these tools are useful. There are not many people who read the full election programmes. Some of them are 106 pages!
Suppose you're an average informed voter and you're planning to vote for party A.
You take the tests at stemwijzer and kieskompas, and then you find out that you that you don't agree with a lot of the party's views. That gives you something to think about right? I think these tests stimulate people to think more about the views held by various political parties.
Voters end up more informed after using them, how is that bad?
Personally I already knew which party i was going to vote on before i used both sites: party X.
Remarkably the results from both sites were right on, both showed that i had very high similarity with party X
BTW, i think the headline is way off, "Web-Based Assistant Changes the Face of Dutch Politics" is a gross exaggeration. Sure, there will always be group of people who base their vote solely on the tests, and that is regrettable, but i really don't think that it had much influence on the outcome of this election.
No, it isn't what they are selling. In the small-print of every ISP I've looked at, they say that the peak throughput is not guaranteed.
Yes, that's what the small print says.
Based on that no costumer should expect peak throughput 24 hours a day.
Yet when i watch an ad from my local ISP it's telling me that i'll have a superfast connection, and how i'll be able to download movies and music at the speed of light 24 hours a day, with no download limits. *
Though technically they are not promising it, in my opinion they are implying that i'll have peak throughput 24 hours a day, even though they know they can't give me that.
And i think that's what most other consumers come to expect too after seeing those ads.
I think that's the problem with selling broadband, a problem for which ISP's are mostly to blame. (Of course the costumer is to blame too, for not reading the small print.)
To date I've been using a ChatBot to collaborate and record the conversations. This would free me to just record all my conversations, then move the interesting parts to the wiki as necessary.
Recently Adam Curry was caught changing the Wikipedia article about 'podcasting'. (You know, the amazing technology which allows you to download audio from the internet and then listen to it!!!!)
Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.
Seriously, I don't expect we'll ever see those, but Google was always known for its clean interface, are they goin to mess it up?
The interface was actually the reason why I started to use Google a couple of years ago.
But now compare Google to Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/ and MSN Search http://search.msn.com/ , there's really not a big difference anymore.
I wonder if Google will lose visitors because of this, especially to Yahoo!
(They propably won't lose to many to MSN, MSN's search results are pretty crappy compared to Google and Yahoo, at least that's my experience.)
Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 18, @11:47PM
from the who-needs-ie-anyway dept.
RandomMacUser writes "A while ago, Microsoft stopped updating IE for Mac, freezing it at version 5. But according to this Microsoft webpage, all support will cease December 31, 2005, and any official distribution with cease January 31, 2006. Also, the webpage suggests 'that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari.'"
"My question to them is simple," Briggs said. "Don't you think you have a right to see which IP addresses you were charged for?"
Well they do have a point.
Google has this data, why not make it available?
If i were an advertiser I would want to be able to to verify that the bills Google sends me are indeed correct. Right now it seems that advertisers have no way of doing that?
But I can see why Google is reluctant, providing this data incurs more costs, and I can imagine that there will be a lot of advertisers who are going to argue with them about their bills.
The United States form a large country in Northern America with a population of around 295 million. Internet penetration is around 68% and software piracy rate is rampant.
Well let's hope they'll never become the 'ultimate storage and information source' (that we'll all depend upon) because that would propably mean they'd start charging you to access that information.
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Um, ever heared of subtitles? Subtitling as a practice In several countries or regions nearly all foreign language TV programs are subtitled, instead of dubbed, notably in: * Albania * Arabic countries (In Lebanon both Arabic and French show at the same time) * Argentina * Australia * Belgium (Subtitles in Dutch in Flanders, dubbed into French in Wallonia, sometimes bilingual (Dutch-French) subtitles in movie theaters) * Bolivia - Spanish * Bosnia and Herzegovina * Brazil (cable/satellite TV only) * Bulgaria * Colombia (cable/satellite TV only) * Cuba * Costa Rica (cable/satellite TV, and in some national channels like Channel 7) * Croatia * Cyprus * Denmark * Estonia * Finland * Greece * Hong Kong (Dubbing in Cantonese often happens, but subtitling is also common, since these foreign programs are often broadcast in multiple languages.) * Iceland * Indonesia * Israel * Ireland * Japan (live-action only) * Macedonia * Malaysia (Subtitles programming of various languages to Malay, as well as various Malay-language live action programs to English. Usually, animation programming (i.e. cartoons and anime) are exempted from subtitling. Indian and Chinese movies usually have subs of more than one languages). * Montenegro * The Netherlands * Norway * Peru (in Aymara and Quechua) * Portugal * Romania * Serbia * Slovenia * Singapore * South Africa (in Afrikaans, Sesotho, Xhosa and Zulu) * South Korea * Sweden * Taiwan * Ukraine (TV shows in Russian are often shown with Ukrainian subtitles) * United Kingdom * Uruguay (cable/satellite TV only) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitles#Subtitling_as_a_practice
The freeway collapse in San Francisco showed very thin concrete and poor adhesion, in my opinion.
Hmmm, the 4/29 Truth Movement could use an expert like you to prove that the 4/29 freeway collapse was the result of a controlled demolition...
Or you can just download IE3 / IE4 / IE5 /IE6 here, and run it without the need to install anything.
I have no idea if this is legal or anything, but i do know that it's a very simple solution that works...
You are quite right: The SP started as a maoistic party in 1971.
However you fail to mention that the party has evolved quite a bit since then.
Sure it is still on the far left in dutch politics, and i don't agree with them (i'd never vote for them), they are not some maoistic communist party which should be feared.
I think these tools are useful. There are not many people who read the full election programmes. Some of them are 106 pages!
Suppose you're an average informed voter and you're planning to vote for party A.
You take the tests at stemwijzer and kieskompas, and then you find out that you that you don't agree with a lot of the party's views. That gives you something to think about right? I think these tests stimulate people to think more about the views held by various political parties.
Voters end up more informed after using them, how is that bad?
Personally I already knew which party i was going to vote on before i used both sites: party X.
Remarkably the results from both sites were right on, both showed that i had very high similarity with party X
BTW, i think the headline is way off, "Web-Based Assistant Changes the Face of Dutch Politics" is a gross exaggeration.
Sure, there will always be group of people who base their vote solely on the tests, and that is regrettable, but i really don't think that it had much influence on the outcome of this election.
My site, about music:
Explorer 67.38%
Firefox 15.35%
Other 6.59%
Safari 4.45%
AOL 3.19%
Opera 1.09%
Netscape 0.51%
This is for september.
For the past year or so i've seen firefox grow from 10% to 15% now.
No, it isn't what they are selling. In the small-print of every ISP I've looked at, they say that the peak throughput is not guaranteed.
Yes, that's what the small print says.
Based on that no costumer should expect peak throughput 24 hours a day.
Yet when i watch an ad from my local ISP it's telling me that i'll have a superfast connection, and how i'll be able to download movies and music at the speed of light 24 hours a day, with no download limits. *
Though technically they are not promising it, in my opinion they are implying that i'll have peak throughput 24 hours a day, even though they know they can't give me that.
And i think that's what most other consumers come to expect too after seeing those ads.
I think that's the problem with selling broadband, a problem for which ISP's are mostly to blame. (Of course the costumer is to blame too, for not reading the small print.)
* There's a 'fair use policy' in the small print.
The basic problem here is the expectation that domestic broadband should be able to run at peak throughput, 24/7, for an attractive flat-rate price.
But that's exactly what the ISP's are selling right?
If the ISP is unable to offer this then maybe they shouldn't have sold it to their customers in the first place?
They just assumed that not all costumers would use their full bandwith, they estimated the avarage bandwith use.
When is turns out that their estimate is wrong then that's their problem, not mine.
The interesting part about all of this is that, according to the article, the founder is only fifteen years old and created it in under a month."
Yes, and MySpace was created and founded by that nice guy called Tom.
This sounds like marketing bullcrap to me.
If i wanted a desktop experience i wouldn't be using webmail. Duh!
To date I've been using a ChatBot to collaborate and record the conversations. This would free me to just record all my conversations, then move the interesting parts to the wiki as necessary.
Wow, i'm suprised you date at all!
It doesn't freak out the girls?
(Just curious!)
I'm not suprised Bono needs tech support to get his Xbox to work...
;)
After all, he doesn't even even know how a U2 ipod works.
Recently Adam Curry was caught changing the Wikipedia article about 'podcasting'. (You know, the amazing technology which allows you to download audio from the internet and then listen to it!!!!)
Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.
http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2818
Pop-up ads on google.com?
Seriously, I don't expect we'll ever see those, but Google was always known for its clean interface, are they goin to mess it up?
The interface was actually the reason why I started to use Google a couple of years ago.
But now compare Google to Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/ and MSN Search http://search.msn.com/ , there's really not a big difference anymore.
I wonder if Google will lose visitors because of this, especially to Yahoo!
(They propably won't lose to many to MSN, MSN's search results are pretty crappy compared to Google and Yahoo, at least that's my experience.)
Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 18, @11:47PM
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from the who-needs-ie-anyway dept.
RandomMacUser writes "A while ago, Microsoft stopped updating IE for Mac, freezing it at version 5. But according to this Microsoft webpage, all support will cease December 31, 2005, and any official distribution with cease January 31, 2006. Also, the webpage suggests 'that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari.'"
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/18
"My question to them is simple," Briggs said. "Don't you think you have a right to see which IP addresses you were charged for?"
Well they do have a point.
Google has this data, why not make it available?
If i were an advertiser I would want to be able to to verify that the bills Google sends me are indeed correct. Right now it seems that advertisers have no way of doing that?
But I can see why Google is reluctant, providing this data incurs more costs, and I can imagine that there will be a lot of advertisers who are going to argue with them about their bills.
The United States form a large country in Northern America with a population of around 295 million. Internet penetration is around 68% and software piracy rate is rampant.
Of course, Google contends that this is a flaw with IE, and not their search software.
And why shouldn't they?
I've read TFA, according to the article it's a design flaw in IE. No one seems to be blaming Google anyway?
(Well at least not yet.)
Well let's hope they'll never become the 'ultimate storage and information source' (that we'll all depend upon) because that would propably mean they'd start charging you to access that information.
When can we expect the final release? I'm tired of constantly updating, i'll just wait for the final if it won't take too long...