I've noticed that changing the locale settings of the PC can affect what ads are displayed. I'm in the US but I run my Mac in Japanese mode and I regularly see adds for things in Japan. (At least, Adult Friend Finder thinks I'm in Japan... I didn't know there were so many hot foreign women living there!) I haven't tested on Windows, but I think running a different language browser (for example, Japanese Firefox on an English Windows) will also cause this problem. I'm guessing some sites look at the user agent of the browser for language settings.
Maybe you could do something like this video? Unfortunately, I cannot access the site from work but the link description is "Video of old computer hardware playing Radiohead song," and the author uses a bunch of old harddrives as a type of primitive speaker.
Not on my phone. Using T9 entry, you have to type out the entire word and select it from the list. On a Japanese phone, all you need is just the starting character and the phone will start displaying words it thinks you want. It would be like me hitting the 4 key twice to get an "h" and having the phone display "hello" automatically. On my current phone, using T9, in order to enter "hello" I would have to enter the entire word using the following sequence: 43556. On Japanese phones, it is not necessary to enter the entire word, just the beginning.
Simply put, you don't have to type out the whole word. As you enter characters, the phone will display a list of words it thinks you want. All you have to do is enter the first few characters, then pick the word from the list. If it is a word you use often, it will appear at the top of the list. This makes entering common phrases a snap.
(The following assumes some basic knowledge of the Japanese language. I'm not a linguist so I may be wrong on some of the terms used below, but I hope it helps with the basic idea).
How do you enter text on a Japanese cell phone? For starters, here's is a close up of a Japanese cell phone's key board: http://www.from-ni.org/junks/keitai2/01190005L.JPG.
The keys correspond to the sounds within the language. For example, on keys 1, 2, 3, you can enter the sound "a", "ka", and "sa" respectively. Repeatedly pressing the same key will cycle through the different sounds. For example, repeatedly pressing 1 will give you "a", "i", "u", "e", "o"; repeatedly pressing 2 will give you "ka", "ki", "ku", "ke", "ko", etc.
Let's say you wanted to enter the word "keitai", which means "cell phone". You would start by pressing the 2 key 4 times to get "ke". After doing that, the phone will display a list of words that start with "ke" that it thinks you mean. At this point, you could probably scroll through the list and try to find the word you want, but it might be kind of difficult. (Unless you type "keitai" a lot and then it will appear near the type). Let's say you don't see "keitai" in the first few entries, so you press the 1 key 2 times to get "i". The screen will show "kei" and the list of words will be filtered. Again, if you don't see the word, you could continue by pressing the 4 key 1 time to enter "ta". You now have "keita" and the phone will probably display "keitai" in the list of words now. Now you just select it and move on to the next word.
The beauty of the system is that words that are used a lot are moved up in the list. This makes it possible to enter whole sentences just by entering the first character of each word.
I love entering text this way. I'm actually faster entering text in Japanese than I am in English (and I'm a tall white guy who's only studied Japanese for a few years).
For me, instead of minimizing, I just hide the application. CMD+h will hide the application and all of its windows. Then, when you use CMD+TAB and tab back to the application, all of the windows will reapear.
If you want to be able to tab through windows, I highly recommend Peter Maurer's "Witch" software. You can customize it but I believe the default is OPT+TAB and it will pop-up a window where you can tab through all open/minimized windows. X11 applications don't work with this, however.
I'm not exactly sure what "visible from space" means, but I know that Mattel (the toy maker) owns a building near where I work and you can see their logo from pretty far away. Look up a satellite image of 333 Continental Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245 (the logo is behind the Address window that Google pops-up).
I must not be geeky enough. At work, right now I have 3 windows open and 3 tabs in Firefox. I'm not a programmer right now, but when I was I would probably have maybe, 5-6 windows open (but within those windows there would be multiple tabs open).
I can't imagine having 25 separate windows open... even spread over virtual desktops, that's just too much clutter for me.
By far, System Shock 2 was the scariest game I have ever played. It go to the point where I could only play it during the day because at night it was just too scary. The atmosphere in that game was incredible, however, I think it was the sounds that really did it. Walking around the ship and hearing the mutated crewmembers moaning and yelling stuff... that was just creepy. And the monkeys! Those damn psionic monkeys! I remember walking around levels and hearing the little monkey noises off in the distance but not being able to find them until it was too late... Man, that was a scary game.
Anybody remember the par times for each level in games like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D? I think if I actually got par or under the game wouldn't even last 40 minutes.
I've been using Sightspeed for quite a while now to talk with my girlfriend in Japan (I'm in the US) and I think the video quality is excellent. I haven't mesaured, but I'm pretty sure I get at least 20fps, and even if I make it full screen (on a 24'' widescreen LCD), the quality is still impressive. I'm using an iSight connected to an Intel MacMini, and my girlfriend has some generic Logitec webcam connected to her Windows laptop.
I live in LA and I would love to ride the train to work, but 1) it actually takes longer than driving in my car and 2) at least in LA, no one really knows how to ride the train.
About point 1, to get to work from where I live, I have to take ALL 4 lines in LA and it takes almost 2 hours. In my car, even with traffic, it takes about an hour. I'm going to choose the car.
About point 2, since people in LA haven't grown up with trains, no one really knows how to ride them. Simple things like not blocking the doors by standing directly in front of them at the stations, and generally being rude and obnoxious. I don't want to deal with stuff like this so I drive.
Also, I think the designers of the train system in LA forgot that people only ride public transit when a) they have no other choice or b) it's convenient. Since I have another choice, I will only ride the trains if it's convenient, and right now it's not. Maybe if they created some more express trains I would consider riding them again.
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Maybe I'm getting old, but when did "dumping ... to ..." become a valid phrase?
TFA says "offering schools/colleges $199 Surface RT Tablets"... how does one turn "offering" into "dumping"?
I've noticed that changing the locale settings of the PC can affect what ads are displayed. I'm in the US but I run my Mac in Japanese mode and I regularly see adds for things in Japan. (At least, Adult Friend Finder thinks I'm in Japan... I didn't know there were so many hot foreign women living there!) I haven't tested on Windows, but I think running a different language browser (for example, Japanese Firefox on an English Windows) will also cause this problem. I'm guessing some sites look at the user agent of the browser for language settings.
Maybe you could do something like this video? Unfortunately, I cannot access the site from work but the link description is "Video of old computer hardware playing Radiohead song," and the author uses a bunch of old harddrives as a type of primitive speaker.
Not on my phone. Using T9 entry, you have to type out the entire word and select it from the list. On a Japanese phone, all you need is just the starting character and the phone will start displaying words it thinks you want. It would be like me hitting the 4 key twice to get an "h" and having the phone display "hello" automatically. On my current phone, using T9, in order to enter "hello" I would have to enter the entire word using the following sequence: 43556. On Japanese phones, it is not necessary to enter the entire word, just the beginning.
Simply put, you don't have to type out the whole word. As you enter characters, the phone will display a list of words it thinks you want. All you have to do is enter the first few characters, then pick the word from the list. If it is a word you use often, it will appear at the top of the list. This makes entering common phrases a snap.
(The following assumes some basic knowledge of the Japanese language. I'm not a linguist so I may be wrong on some of the terms used below, but I hope it helps with the basic idea).
How do you enter text on a Japanese cell phone? For starters, here's is a close up of a Japanese cell phone's key board: http://www.from-ni.org/junks/keitai2/01190005L.JPG. The keys correspond to the sounds within the language. For example, on keys 1, 2, 3, you can enter the sound "a", "ka", and "sa" respectively. Repeatedly pressing the same key will cycle through the different sounds. For example, repeatedly pressing 1 will give you "a", "i", "u", "e", "o"; repeatedly pressing 2 will give you "ka", "ki", "ku", "ke", "ko", etc.
Let's say you wanted to enter the word "keitai", which means "cell phone". You would start by pressing the 2 key 4 times to get "ke". After doing that, the phone will display a list of words that start with "ke" that it thinks you mean. At this point, you could probably scroll through the list and try to find the word you want, but it might be kind of difficult. (Unless you type "keitai" a lot and then it will appear near the type). Let's say you don't see "keitai" in the first few entries, so you press the 1 key 2 times to get "i". The screen will show "kei" and the list of words will be filtered. Again, if you don't see the word, you could continue by pressing the 4 key 1 time to enter "ta". You now have "keita" and the phone will probably display "keitai" in the list of words now. Now you just select it and move on to the next word.
The beauty of the system is that words that are used a lot are moved up in the list. This makes it possible to enter whole sentences just by entering the first character of each word.
I love entering text this way. I'm actually faster entering text in Japanese than I am in English (and I'm a tall white guy who's only studied Japanese for a few years).
For me, instead of minimizing, I just hide the application. CMD+h will hide the application and all of its windows. Then, when you use CMD+TAB and tab back to the application, all of the windows will reapear.
If you want to be able to tab through windows, I highly recommend Peter Maurer's "Witch" software. You can customize it but I believe the default is OPT+TAB and it will pop-up a window where you can tab through all open/minimized windows. X11 applications don't work with this, however.
Anyone else read the headline as "Wii, DS, Not Cannabis"? I really think I need a siesta after lunch; my brain just stops working.
I'm not exactly sure what "visible from space" means, but I know that Mattel (the toy maker) owns a building near where I work and you can see their logo from pretty far away. Look up a satellite image of 333 Continental Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245 (the logo is behind the Address window that Google pops-up).
I must not be geeky enough. At work, right now I have 3 windows open and 3 tabs in Firefox. I'm not a programmer right now, but when I was I would probably have maybe, 5-6 windows open (but within those windows there would be multiple tabs open).
I can't imagine having 25 separate windows open... even spread over virtual desktops, that's just too much clutter for me.
By far, System Shock 2 was the scariest game I have ever played. It go to the point where I could only play it during the day because at night it was just too scary. The atmosphere in that game was incredible, however, I think it was the sounds that really did it. Walking around the ship and hearing the mutated crewmembers moaning and yelling stuff... that was just creepy. And the monkeys! Those damn psionic monkeys! I remember walking around levels and hearing the little monkey noises off in the distance but not being able to find them until it was too late... Man, that was a scary game.
Anybody remember the par times for each level in games like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D? I think if I actually got par or under the game wouldn't even last 40 minutes.
I've been using Sightspeed for quite a while now to talk with my girlfriend in Japan (I'm in the US) and I think the video quality is excellent. I haven't mesaured, but I'm pretty sure I get at least 20fps, and even if I make it full screen (on a 24'' widescreen LCD), the quality is still impressive. I'm using an iSight connected to an Intel MacMini, and my girlfriend has some generic Logitec webcam connected to her Windows laptop.
I live in LA and I would love to ride the train to work, but 1) it actually takes longer than driving in my car and 2) at least in LA, no one really knows how to ride the train.
About point 1, to get to work from where I live, I have to take ALL 4 lines in LA and it takes almost 2 hours. In my car, even with traffic, it takes about an hour. I'm going to choose the car.
About point 2, since people in LA haven't grown up with trains, no one really knows how to ride them. Simple things like not blocking the doors by standing directly in front of them at the stations, and generally being rude and obnoxious. I don't want to deal with stuff like this so I drive.
Also, I think the designers of the train system in LA forgot that people only ride public transit when a) they have no other choice or b) it's convenient. Since I have another choice, I will only ride the trains if it's convenient, and right now it's not. Maybe if they created some more express trains I would consider riding them again.