Wow really? Who mods that a troll? Do they deny that Google has been doing translation for a heck of a lot longer than Facebook has? Do they deny that Asian languages are still a mess?
Kudos to Slashdot for stripping all the Korean characters out of the post though, really destroys the meaning of what I was writing.
Currently Google+ tries to "personalize" my news archives searches based on the fact that I created my google+ account (not google account) in Korea, and there is absolutely no way to alter it. IT refuses to search anything except Korean language papers, it won't even search the English language Korean papers, my language isn't even set to Korean.
So frankly it makes life difficult for me. Facebook lets you personalize every single thing you post down to the individual. How can you get any better than that? All circles are are lists.,
Really it won't though. Current translation tech won't give you the same thing, and if you make any errors in what you've written (spelling, casual speak, idioms, etc) the translation will fail.
Google has been at the translation game for a long time now, and it's still a mess with a lot of languages. Asian languages especially. Korean, Japanese, Chinese all come out a jumbled mess.
This is on professional, proofread sources like news paper articles. Koreans have this abbreviation habit of taken their letter based language which forms jamos (2-4 letters put together) + + = (han) but when typing casually, they'll often toss out individual characters in some places as a common meaning for words. becomes thank you when the full word is . Not to mention their words often have their prepositions added as suffixes (which confuses the computer seeing it as one word), and spacing is more of a guideline than a rule.
Automatic translation is a waste of time. I've never seen it provide anything readable on Asian languages, except in the case of a very basic sentence that I entered myself. That said, European languages, aren't terrible. I've read a few google translated things from Denmark, or Norway that were reasonable, but I've also read stuff recently that wasn't that great too.
Living in Korea, I've seen them fairly regularly. Koreans will let nationalism colour their purchases, and you can buy the tab here on a payment plan from various shops. So it's not that hard to get. The same goes for MP3 players, while I rarely saw anything but iPods in North America, at the same time that I came to Korea, an on the street estimate would have put their market share at only around 10%.
Now a lot of people are using their phones (which are often iPhones, but just as often not).
Also Samsung claims 6 million shipped, not a million shipped.
It's quite clear Lenova seems to be talking out of their ass.
Yes, Digg only did that when they were capable of doing that.. someone should do an interview with them and ask them how that big redesign worked out for them? I don't think I've ever seen a site die so fast before.
In the years that I've used Facebook, my settings have never been changed. Facebook has only "changed" settings for people who never changed their own settings in the first place. If you left everything default full open, then when they added new controls, those were also left default full open. Anyone who'd ever changed their settings never had them changed. All the people whinging and moaning last year over this were people who'd never taken the time to change their settings in the first place.
people have gotten distracted, walked into glass and died. By your logic we should all be in self-contained bubbles with proximity alarms whenever we move.
It's not actually "picking" Korean for me. It's not the language it's changing for me. It's that when I do a google news archive search, it's completely limiting my search results to Korean language papers. It just makes absolutely no sense at all. Regular news searches seem to return fine (logged in the search for frogs gives me 1748 results while logged out it's 1742, though it tells me it's still not doing identical searches, but they don't seem to be causing a huge impact, they're also slightly reordered but mostly the same)
If you click the "search for English language results only" button..it does nothing.. you see the exact same 28 results in the same layout "All results" takes me to a web search, not a news search
I've got very little patience for this forced "personalization". To be fair, Google isn't the only one who does it:
Apple has recently started doing it with Itunes/Quicktime. English OS, but a couple updates ago suddenly the update wizard is now in Korean.
Intel is a giant pain in the ass. I have my unicode fallback language set to Korean, due to some poor font issues in a few Korean programs. Intel ignores the fact that my OS is in English, and assumes because the unicode fallback language code is Korean, that I MUST want to run everything in Korean. If I want to use things in English, I need to restart the machine 3 times. Nvidia, does the same. E-mails to these companies have basically been ignored/answered with general incompetence.
Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger allows me to pick English, but if I set my location to Korea, it will change all my e-mail updates to Korean. Not my Windows Live Messenger, not my Hotmail interface, but any notification e-mails I get from the service regarding updates, newsletters, or things like. All Korean. They're completely incapable of dealing with people who may travel and move around the world.
Google news archive searches. For some reason Google has decided that because I'm in Korea (despite not being Korean, or fluent in Korean) any google news archive searches will only search Korean language news papers in Korea. It doesn't even want to search the various English language papers that exist here.
I've spent hours searching my account for anything that would indicate I want it to do that, I can find nothing. I even went through and removed every single reference to Korea in my profile, and anywhere I could find it. Never mind that I've had my google account for years, long before I came here.
Logged in, I can get nothing, logged out, the searches work just as they did before I signed up for google+ I've sent a couple of feedback reports, posted in the google support groups, nothing.
I've tried it with proxy and without proxy as well. It seems my account is permanently screwed up because I created it while I was in Korea. Google seems think that it knows best and be damned if wants it to give me anyway to alter it's decision about how it thinks I want to search.
They're going to turn around and be just like the service everyone claimed to hate, and that's why they went to google+. In the meantime, they can't get around to fixing things like broken, unchangeable "personalization" that breaks services and can only be corrected by not using google+.. Sorry, but being logged in to Facebook has never broken other services/sites for me.
That's much harder in Korea since everything is tied to the national ID system. You can't open an account with an ID that doesn't match the government system. So in order to create a fake ID you'd need to basically hack the government system since every service that users your ID generally runs it through theirs first.
They could potentially create a semi-fake ID where they use a real name/number combo but put a different photo on the card. But since everything is tied together someone is likely to quickly find out their name/number is being used.
They'd have more luck creating foreign passports and creating bank accounts as foreigners, but a lot of banks severely limit the usage of those, and a foreigner suddenly getting those kinds of deposits is likely to attract attention.
They arrested 5 people and it shouldn't be that untraceable. If they're collecting money in SK for that kind of thing, they're doing it via bank transfer. Not hard for them to find out who owns the account.
1. I shouldn't have to 2. Google remembers the login to plus and uses it across all services. This means I also have to manually log-out which also forcibly logs me out of sites like youtube. This becomes a giant inconvenience
In Korea real name verification is used as a deterrent to internet ass-hattery. Since you can only create an account on a website using your name and ID# if you get banned, you can't make a new account without risking massive fines and jail time. In addition the website usually requires an additional verification via another method to ensure you really have control of that ID number. Usually you need to provide a cell phone that is registered with the same ID/name and a text is sent out to it, or you use a bank certificate registered to the same combo as verification. The certificate requires inputting a password.
Now on all sites you can still display a pseudonym, but it seems there is far less general bullshit on Korean websites.
So long as we stay fixated on these pointless issues, We can never move forward. How about we just hire the best person for the job they're interested in and be done with it. Other than a few people with entitlement issues, does anyone really want to force themselves into a company that doesn't really want them anyway? Is that something that you'd really want to look forward to everyday?
I think the concern is more about people who will end up dismissing your legitimate problem because other people misuse the label to make excuses for themselves.
No, it suggests he realizes that Asperger's syndrome is the probably one of the most self-diagnosed mental illnesses out there, and 9 times out of 10 it's just some neckbeard trying to justify their anti-social behaviour. It ranks up there with "bisexual" teenage girls.
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Wow really? Who mods that a troll?
Do they deny that Google has been doing translation for a heck of a lot longer than Facebook has?
Do they deny that Asian languages are still a mess?
Kudos to Slashdot for stripping all the Korean characters out of the post though, really destroys the meaning of what I was writing.
Currently Google+ tries to "personalize" my news archives searches based on the fact that I created my google+ account (not google account) in Korea, and there is absolutely no way to alter it. IT refuses to search anything except Korean language papers, it won't even search the English language Korean papers, my language isn't even set to Korean.
So frankly it makes life difficult for me. Facebook lets you personalize every single thing you post down to the individual. How can you get any better than that?
All circles are are lists.,
Really it won't though. Current translation tech won't give you the same thing, and if you make any errors in what you've written (spelling, casual speak, idioms, etc) the translation will fail.
Google has been at the translation game for a long time now, and it's still a mess with a lot of languages. Asian languages especially. Korean, Japanese, Chinese all come out a jumbled mess.
This is on professional, proofread sources like news paper articles. Koreans have this abbreviation habit of taken their letter based language which forms jamos (2-4 letters put together) + + = (han) but when typing casually, they'll often toss out individual characters in some places as a common meaning for words. becomes thank you when the full word is . Not to mention their words often have their prepositions added as suffixes (which confuses the computer seeing it as one word), and spacing is more of a guideline than a rule.
Automatic translation is a waste of time. I've never seen it provide anything readable on Asian languages, except in the case of a very basic sentence that I entered myself. That said, European languages, aren't terrible. I've read a few google translated things from Denmark, or Norway that were reasonable, but I've also read stuff recently that wasn't that great too.
Living in Korea, I've seen them fairly regularly. Koreans will let nationalism colour their purchases, and you can buy the tab here on a payment plan from various shops. So it's not that hard to get. The same goes for MP3 players, while I rarely saw anything but iPods in North America, at the same time that I came to Korea, an on the street estimate would have put their market share at only around 10%.
Now a lot of people are using their phones (which are often iPhones, but just as often not).
Also Samsung claims 6 million shipped, not a million shipped.
It's quite clear Lenova seems to be talking out of their ass.
Games are not going to drive people to the service. Facebook was popular before it got apps/games
Google should spend time fixing broken stuff like their "personlized news searches" that defy all logic, instead of this crap.
It's right there:
"Who can see photos and posts in which I am tagged on my profile?"
Go to tags, and profile visibility
Yes, Digg only did that when they were capable of doing that.. someone should do an interview with them and ask them how that big redesign worked out for them? I don't think I've ever seen a site die so fast before.
In the years that I've used Facebook, my settings have never been changed. Facebook has only "changed" settings for people who never changed their own settings in the first place. If you left everything default full open, then when they added new controls, those were also left default full open.
Anyone who'd ever changed their settings never had them changed.
All the people whinging and moaning last year over this were people who'd never taken the time to change their settings in the first place.
What if a small child were near the glass? The could easily be killed as the sheets come down.
It's a very slippery slope.
people have gotten distracted, walked into glass and died.
By your logic we should all be in self-contained bubbles with proximity alarms whenever we move.
It's set to English - United States
It's not actually "picking" Korean for me. It's not the language it's changing for me. It's that when I do a google news archive search, it's completely limiting my search results to Korean language papers. It just makes absolutely no sense at all. Regular news searches seem to return fine (logged in the search for frogs gives me 1748 results while logged out it's 1742, though it tells me it's still not doing identical searches, but they don't seem to be causing a huge impact, they're also slightly reordered but mostly the same)
This is what I see in a logged in news archive search:
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9654/frogsloggedin.png
If you click the "search for English language results only" button..it does nothing.. you see the exact same 28 results in the same layout
"All results" takes me to a web search, not a news search
https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/embed/?place=forum%2Fgoogle-plus-discuss&showsearch=true&showtabs=false&hl=en&fragments=true&parenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2F%2B%2Flearnmore%2Fforum%2F#!category-topic/google-plus-discuss/settings/2el5SpYP4OQ
I've got very little patience for this forced "personalization". To be fair, Google isn't the only one who does it:
Apple has recently started doing it with Itunes/Quicktime. English OS, but a couple updates ago suddenly the update wizard is now in Korean.
Intel is a giant pain in the ass. I have my unicode fallback language set to Korean, due to some poor font issues in a few Korean programs. Intel ignores the fact that my OS is in English, and assumes because the unicode fallback language code is Korean, that I MUST want to run everything in Korean.
If I want to use things in English, I need to restart the machine 3 times. Nvidia, does the same. E-mails to these companies have basically been ignored/answered with general incompetence.
Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger allows me to pick English, but if I set my location to Korea, it will change all my e-mail updates to Korean. Not my Windows Live Messenger, not my Hotmail interface, but any notification e-mails I get from the service regarding updates, newsletters, or things like. All Korean. They're completely incapable of dealing with people who may travel and move around the world.
Google news archive searches.
For some reason Google has decided that because I'm in Korea (despite not being Korean, or fluent in Korean) any google news archive searches will only search Korean language news papers in Korea. It doesn't even want to search the various English language papers that exist here.
I've spent hours searching my account for anything that would indicate I want it to do that, I can find nothing. I even went through and removed every single reference to Korea in my profile, and anywhere I could find it. Never mind that I've had my google account for years, long before I came here.
Logged in, I can get nothing, logged out, the searches work just as they did before I signed up for google+
I've sent a couple of feedback reports, posted in the google support groups, nothing.
I've tried it with proxy and without proxy as well. It seems my account is permanently screwed up because I created it while I was in Korea. Google seems think that it knows best and be damned if wants it to give me anyway to alter it's decision about how it thinks I want to search.
They're going to turn around and be just like the service everyone claimed to hate, and that's why they went to google+. In the meantime, they can't get around to fixing things like broken, unchangeable "personalization" that breaks services and can only be corrected by not using google+..
Sorry, but being logged in to Facebook has never broken other services/sites for me.
it depends on whether or not it has spread to your lymph nodes..
That's much harder in Korea since everything is tied to the national ID system.
You can't open an account with an ID that doesn't match the government system.
So in order to create a fake ID you'd need to basically hack the government system since every service that users your ID generally runs it through theirs first.
They could potentially create a semi-fake ID where they use a real name/number combo but put a different photo on the card. But since everything is tied together someone is likely to quickly find out their name/number is being used.
They'd have more luck creating foreign passports and creating bank accounts as foreigners, but a lot of banks severely limit the usage of those, and a foreigner suddenly getting those kinds of deposits is likely to attract attention.
They arrested 5 people and it shouldn't be that untraceable. If they're collecting money in SK for that kind of thing, they're doing it via bank transfer. Not hard for them to find out who owns the account.
1. I shouldn't have to
2. Google remembers the login to plus and uses it across all services. This means I also have to manually log-out which also forcibly logs me out of sites like youtube. This becomes a giant inconvenience
Moved, google ruined it with their "personalization" I cannot do a useful news archive search logged in anymore. This means I'll no longer use it.
In Korea real name verification is used as a deterrent to internet ass-hattery. Since you can only create an account on a website using your name and ID# if you get banned, you can't make a new account without risking massive fines and jail time. In addition the website usually requires an additional verification via another method to ensure you really have control of that ID number. Usually you need to provide a cell phone that is registered with the same ID/name and a text is sent out to it, or you use a bank certificate registered to the same combo as verification. The certificate requires inputting a password.
Now on all sites you can still display a pseudonym, but it seems there is far less general bullshit on Korean websites.
So long as we stay fixated on these pointless issues, We can never move forward.
How about we just hire the best person for the job they're interested in and be done with it.
Other than a few people with entitlement issues, does anyone really want to force themselves into a company that doesn't really want them anyway? Is that something that you'd really want to look forward to everyday?
I think the concern is more about people who will end up dismissing your legitimate problem because other people misuse the label to make excuses for themselves.
and the tone of your post suggests you're a coward looking for an excuse.
No, it suggests he realizes that Asperger's syndrome is the probably one of the most self-diagnosed mental illnesses out there, and 9 times out of 10 it's just some neckbeard trying to justify their anti-social behaviour.
It ranks up there with "bisexual" teenage girls.