The only reasons crap films make money is that they are out for a weekend before everyone realises that its shit.
Please explain again the law that forces you to go to see a film as soon as it opens without reading any reviews.
Please explain where you pulled that out of.
I think you could do with 10 minutes looking at how normal people go and see movies. Those who read proper reviews are considered pretentious snobs. Decisions are entirely on hearsay.
In reality, people tend to ask their friends about new release movies. Friends, in case you don't have any will generally answer with three responses.
1. The preview looks good.
2. I've heard that is good.
3. I've heard that is shit.
Responses two and three will only be cultivated amongst a large mass of people some time after the film has been available to the general public. So for shit movies, the studio's rely on the general apathy of people not to find out a film is shit before seeing it. If a bad film is leaked before release, it gives plenty of time for the word to get around that a film is horrible.
Please explain the law that forces people to read reviews before going to the cinema (lets ignore the fact that reviews are also less then honest).
All you've managed to demonstrate is that you've never done anything like going to the cinema with a group of friends, probably because they don't like as you chide them for not reading reviews.
It's a HTC Desire Z, and while it works just as well as others' Android phones, the touchscreen is overly touchy, the volume isn't all it could be for the weight of the thing, and it requires a case. You couldn't possibly just stick this in a pocket or bag and expect it to survive.
I have a HTC Desire Z and my experience is very different.
The touchscreen is not "overly touchy". Sensitivity is as good as other phones.
Not sure what you mean about volume, but the physical KB makes it bigger and heavier then a Galaxy S 2. On the plus side, You always know if it's in your pocket or not.
It does definitely not require a case. I've carried mine around in my pocket for a year.Not a scratch on the screen, most of the chrome is intact except for that around the camera. Not only has it survied, it's thrived.
Great battery life, very rugged, functional, smaller transistors on the CPU make it cooler and less energy consuming then contemporary phones. Physical keyboard makes typing fast, best yet it's very modable.
you could just throw it places without worrying too much about it.
This is your problem. Do you just "throw" your plates about then whining that your plates are broken?
BTW, I have a tendency to throw my Desire Z onto my bed, it's never been near a case. As soon as I get ICS for it, she'll be good enough until HTC/Samsung release a new decent KB Android or until GoogleRola drop their locked bootloader policy and release the Milestone 3/4.
No, it's not about HTML 5. A lot of it is about bloated content management systems and templates.
What do you think HTML5 is all about.
An all new way to deliver bloated CMS's. Why do some people think HTML5 is some kind of magic fix for all the ills of the web?
The problem is bad design and lack of care. No one gets punished for creating a crap system, bad developers get coddled, customers are coerced, sweet talked and sometimes forced into accepting bad CMS's.
HTML5 will not stop bloat, will not stop bad, bandwidth consuming ads, it wont stop anything we dont like. In fact everything we dont like (even about flash) can and likely will be transmitted by HTML5 because like Flash, HTML5 is a delivery system, not content (yes I know this was the parents point).
Another problem is as bandwidth increases, developers put less and less time into optimisation. They dont take into account customers using mobile broad band who a lot of the time get 500-ish KB that still exist.
First off, you do know that teachers dont stop working at 3:30. Most are there from 7 and sometimes even 6 AM and dont finish up until 5 PM. What are they doing, marking, preparing for class and even cleaning up that they cant do when looking after 30 unruly children. During exam/reporting time they tend to work even more hours at home. Why do they do it for such low pay, well they actually want to teach. Yes I've lived with real teachers.
I am sick and tired of every teacher givging excuses why they are home by 3:30 and have such excessive holidays.
So you see school as some sort of cheap child care.
Gubbermint, raise my chillin' for me.
Gubbermint, stop teachin' my chillin' no liberal evilution crap.
Gubbermint, gimme drugs to stop my chillin' from misbehavin'.
You are the problem, not teachers.
Here in Australia, it's idiotic parent's like you who prevent the teachers from doing their job. When precious little Johny Fucktard-Snowflake gets an F and suspension because he cant keep his hands of other students and doesn't do any classwork Mrs Fucktard-Snowflake marches her fat thighs into the principals office where she huffs and puffs and whines until the F turns into an A because little Johny is a precious snowflake and cant be treated in that fashion by a mere teacher. A teacher is not permitted to tell parents their crotchspawn is a right little shit because the parents will raise bloody hell over the mere question of their lack of parenting ability.
So if your kid's report says "Johny needs to pay more attention in class" this is teacher code for YOU ARE THE FUCKTARD because this is the most critical thing they are allowed to write to parents.
Goes to prove yet again how the "free market", that weird beast so idolized by economists, is such a fickle creature. Cause after over several months underwater, there is NO way you are gonna get a clean room facility up to snuff & speed in a matter of days. Of course, now that the excuse is over, all the hoarding speculators are trembling in fear of getting stuck with their huge stockpile and will start to desperately flood the market.
So in other words, the free market will function in exactly the way it's supposed to
This isn't the free market, this is the boom/bust cycle that has caused so much pain of late.
The free market is a dearly held delusion of those who dont understand that power concentrates and without resistance it concentrates in one place..
Data from DRAMeXchange also showed that rush orders for SSDs increased after the Thailand flooding disrupted hard disk drive supplies.
According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, rush orders for SSDs rose even as shipments of end-market products, including PCs, smartphones and tablet PCs, remained slugish because of slow economic conditions.
Despite SSDs not being an exact replacement for spinning rust, it looks like the HD shortage is indeed having the predicted effects on the SSD market.
I'd say that more then mechanical HDD availability, price reduction in SSD's are drawing in people. I can get a 256 GB SSD for A$360, first SSD that's affordable and large enough for a gaming machine. Users with less onerous storage requirements can get 128 GB for A$200 or less.
Cant say, but it will certainly take the wind out of the old and eroneous "lost sales" argument.
But anyway, here's what's going to happen
- Game X is "banned"
-/.er's who don't understand the situation scream about OMG Freedoms.
- Media shit storm in a teacup is created.
- OLFC changes its mind after one minor change.
-/.er's who haven't bothered to keep up scream about OMG Freedoms.
- original/. whingers are now cosplaying as William Wallace shouting OMG FREEEEEEDOMS.
- Game gets released on Oz.
-/.er's still whinging about Freedoms.
- Smart Australians order games from overseas regardless (thank you parallel importing).
I swear we'll still be hearing about this six months from now. I mean the article mentioned Left4Dead when it was released in Oz on November 18 2008, the same day as North America.
A blockbuster film and a 747 cost about the same in dollar amounts to make; mass piracy of a shit film before it's released has a huge impact (in this case, 10% or more) on sales.
On the conrtary for good films, pre-release piracy drums up advertisement, people will go see it, especially with friends or family. People see that Shit film is Shit and stay away from it. The only reasons crap films make money is that they are out for a weekend before everyone realises that its shit.
BTW, a B747 costs US$250 million, X-Men Origins wolverine cost US$150 million and that would be high for a movie as it involved far too much CGI. Glad I never paid to see that stinker, Saw it on TV in a Thai hotel lounge (either that or Fox News, I picked the thing that insulted my intelligence the least), I'd be pissed for wasting my bandwidth on that spectacular turd.
Biometrics are unique identifiers, but they are not secrets. You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch, and your iris patterns can be observed anywhere you look.
Authenticating with biometrics is little better than using social security numbers. They are both unique identifiers, but neither are secrets, making them better suited to user id's. Passwords, on the other hand, are secrets.
Quite true, but I can see biometrics becoming user-names rather then passwords. But I cant see that happening in the near future, definitely not in 5 years, hell we've had fingerprint scanners in laptops for most of the last 5, most people still type in their name and passwd.
The one bit of ID theft that scares me the most is the only bit of ID I have biometric data on... My passport. An Aussie passport is something quite sought after these days yet its only defences are a picture of me, a biometric chip (which an over-zealous Filipino immi officer put a stamp right on, on the page that says clearly "do not stamp this page") so I now have a valid Aussie passport with no biometric chip.
This is a question which doesn't seem to get asked much, probably because Google is an unmovable behemoth that's not really interested in the owners of devices, but only in advertisers. Nevertheless, it needs to be asked.
For years we've been saying that local users should never operate as administrator by default. Now someone is doing it, you're getting pissy? Double standards much.
Besides this Google has answered it. Root should be as simple as SU.
The enforcement of non-admin privileges is done by the Android manufacturer, they do it because the carriers demand it. Want to stop it, stop buying phones from the carriers and make sure they know.
I don't think it bodes well for Apple when nerds are running from their platform. Just read the/. comments.
Nerds have never been part of Apple's target demographic since the days of the IIe which shipped with circuit schematics. The vast majority of people are looking for a computer/phone that works like an appliance, and are never going to tinker with or tweak them in any way.
True, but this is why Android is taking off like it is. Google got the geeks on side first. Then when the average clueless luser asks for tech advice, they dont go and ask the Hipster, they ask the geek and the Geek recommends Android.
Apple has never understood the relationship between Geeks and tech adoption. For a long time it's been their biggest enemy and still is.
Yes, R&D comes off your taxes, regardless of weather anything is produced.
The point the OP was making is that Apple isn't making new technologies, they are buying companies and making patent claims not actual R&D. M$ does the same except, if you bothered to read the article, M$ spends 13% of it's revenue on R&D (they also produce some good concepts, even if 3/4 of them never make it beyond a tech demo) Whilst Apple only spends 2.2% of it's revenue on R&D.
But what irks people who understand technology is that Apple does not produce much actual technology, they produce few tech demo's and no real world technologies per year.
Most of Apple's alleged ground breaking technologies can be traced back to companies that have been bought by Apple or FOSS that has been co-opted.
OSX/IOS = Modified NetBSD with proprietary GUI.
CUPS = Purchased in early 2000
WebKit = KHTML
Interesting here would be some statistics. How many Boeings have come into serious trouble, and how many Airbuses?
Besides the GP's point about Airbus pilots being unable to override the computer being complete and utter bollocks (Airbus' still have a analouge actuator control (Electronic) in them), there have been a few near misses which if it were not possible to take manual control would have resulted in a crash such as the JetBlue landing at LAX in 05.
On the other hand, there have been incidences with Boeing aircraft which are believed would have been solved by automated systems such as AA flight 965 (Colombia 1995) where if the airbrake was automatically retracted the pilot would have been able to climb a way safely.
Here is a good post on the subject.
According to the ASTB who conducted the investigation there have only been 3 such incidents in 128 Million hours of A330 operation as of 2008. That is a damn good rate of failure wouldn't you say? Pilot error being the cause of approx 48% of all accidents, Airbus or Boeing. Modern aircraft are getting safer all the time, they see more mechanics and engineers in a week then your car will see in its entire lifetime. Everything is checked and double checked, anything suspicious gets replaced. I never think I'm in danger stepping onto an an Airbus or Boeing aircraft.
The whole Airbus Vs Boeing argument is a dick pulling contest between biased pilots. It's like a Xbox/PS3 fanboy war. Utterly senseless to third party observers (and bronzed fingered PC gamers)
Now amongst the 25 worst airlines you have a 1 in 850,000 chance of dying and I dont fly any of those airlines (1 in 9.2 million for the 25 best), hence my practice of congratulating myself at the check in counter as I've survived the most dangerous part of air travel, the drive to the airport. Compared to our road toll, our air toll is minuscule.
That's what the papers said, we all know in truth he died from rownriness.
You know the joke is that Koreans can say the 'L' sound, it is the Japanese who don't use it in their own language. Like a lot of that film is was supposed to show up the general ignorance of Americans about the world, but I suppose it was a bit too subtle and the joke whooshed over people's heads. Don't feel too bad though, most British people didn't get it either.
I got it, its just a funny part of the movie with the song and all. The whole thing is a piss take on the US, to the credit of most Americans they took it in their stride.
Yep, a lot of languages use sounds that others dont. I dont speak Japanese, but Thai does have an R and L sound, however a lot of people who mainly speak local dialects (mostly around the North where it's mixed with Lao or Khmer) transpose the R and L sounds in English as they dont use the R sound very much. They can pronounce them correctly when they try but more often then not they'll slip up because its not the language they use every day.
Westerners, English speakers or otherwise have trouble with Thai pronunciations, the "pb" sound in particular, "kh" is a bit easier but a lot of people still have trouble. By the same token Thais often have trouble with sounds like "ke" and "ve" so a word like "like" becomes "liee" (e is pronounced) or Cake becoming "cak" or "kek".
Look, don't be an idiot and make fun of Asians and their general problems speaking proper English. I'm pretty sure you'd sound like an idiot when trying to speak an Asian language.
Besides - it's just razy lacism.
Erm, its a joke from Team America, you know, that comedy movie.
As a person who speaks Thai, yes I know there are a lot of sounds that are very difficult to get, not to mention getting your head and tongue around the tonal part of the language, mai is a common word, it has five meanings depending on if it's said in high, low, mid, rising or falling tones. Compared to Thai, Korean is a very simple language so dont preach to me sunshine.
Not everybody runs out and buys a new PC every 2 years. Some of us like to get our money's worth. I'm amazed by how easily some people dismiss a 4 or 5 year old PC as a "dinosaur" when more often than not, PCs older than that work just fine, even for games.
As a gamer, a 4 yr old PC is a dinosaur.
As a sysadmin, a 2 yr old PC is a liability and a potential cost. Same with any out of warranty PC.
To my Mum, A hand me down is fine.
Different people have different needs and perspectives. My Mum for example, she currently runs a 7 yr old computer that wasn't that flash when it was new 7 years ago. I'm replacing it with a new $400 Emachines desktop (I'm pleasantly surprised at Emachines, surprisingly little crapware, the least crapware on any new computer I've seen this year).
A few years back,/. eliminated the Karma bonus for +1 funny mods so some people have substituted +1 insightful instead and just keep doing it for legacy reasons. Also +1 insightful is the first on the drop down list for lazy mods.
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But how does Thailand handle unixtime? It's already year 2555 there. That's way past 32-bit int.
Considering that Unixtime only started in 2514.
Epoch fail.
The only reasons crap films make money is that they are out for a weekend before everyone realises that its shit.
Please explain again the law that forces you to go to see a film as soon as it opens without reading any reviews.
Please explain where you pulled that out of.
I think you could do with 10 minutes looking at how normal people go and see movies. Those who read proper reviews are considered pretentious snobs. Decisions are entirely on hearsay.
In reality, people tend to ask their friends about new release movies. Friends, in case you don't have any will generally answer with three responses.
1. The preview looks good.
2. I've heard that is good.
3. I've heard that is shit.
Responses two and three will only be cultivated amongst a large mass of people some time after the film has been available to the general public. So for shit movies, the studio's rely on the general apathy of people not to find out a film is shit before seeing it. If a bad film is leaked before release, it gives plenty of time for the word to get around that a film is horrible.
Please explain the law that forces people to read reviews before going to the cinema (lets ignore the fact that reviews are also less then honest).
All you've managed to demonstrate is that you've never done anything like going to the cinema with a group of friends, probably because they don't like as you chide them for not reading reviews.
It's a HTC Desire Z, and while it works just as well as others' Android phones, the touchscreen is overly touchy, the volume isn't all it could be for the weight of the thing, and it requires a case. You couldn't possibly just stick this in a pocket or bag and expect it to survive.
I have a HTC Desire Z and my experience is very different.
The touchscreen is not "overly touchy". Sensitivity is as good as other phones.
Not sure what you mean about volume, but the physical KB makes it bigger and heavier then a Galaxy S 2. On the plus side, You always know if it's in your pocket or not.
It does definitely not require a case. I've carried mine around in my pocket for a year.Not a scratch on the screen, most of the chrome is intact except for that around the camera. Not only has it survied, it's thrived.
Great battery life, very rugged, functional, smaller transistors on the CPU make it cooler and less energy consuming then contemporary phones. Physical keyboard makes typing fast, best yet it's very modable.
This is your problem. Do you just "throw" your plates about then whining that your plates are broken?
BTW, I have a tendency to throw my Desire Z onto my bed, it's never been near a case. As soon as I get ICS for it, she'll be good enough until HTC/Samsung release a new decent KB Android or until GoogleRola drop their locked bootloader policy and release the Milestone 3/4.
What do you think HTML5 is all about.
An all new way to deliver bloated CMS's. Why do some people think HTML5 is some kind of magic fix for all the ills of the web?
The problem is bad design and lack of care. No one gets punished for creating a crap system, bad developers get coddled, customers are coerced, sweet talked and sometimes forced into accepting bad CMS's.
HTML5 will not stop bloat, will not stop bad, bandwidth consuming ads, it wont stop anything we dont like. In fact everything we dont like (even about flash) can and likely will be transmitted by HTML5 because like Flash, HTML5 is a delivery system, not content (yes I know this was the parents point).
Another problem is as bandwidth increases, developers put less and less time into optimisation. They dont take into account customers using mobile broad band who a lot of the time get 500-ish KB that still exist.
My webpage is just about 1k. But you have you watch a 30 sec. interlaced Bluray quality ad before you can see it.
All I get is a blank screen for 30 seconds.
Is the fact that it is flying out of small-arms fire somehow unusual? Why wouldn't our resupply helicopters already fly high?
Because shortly after you get out of small arms range, you get into big arms range.
So you see school as some sort of cheap child care.
Gubbermint, raise my chillin' for me.
Gubbermint, stop teachin' my chillin' no liberal evilution crap.
Gubbermint, gimme drugs to stop my chillin' from misbehavin'.
You are the problem, not teachers.
Here in Australia, it's idiotic parent's like you who prevent the teachers from doing their job. When precious little Johny Fucktard-Snowflake gets an F and suspension because he cant keep his hands of other students and doesn't do any classwork Mrs Fucktard-Snowflake marches her fat thighs into the principals office where she huffs and puffs and whines until the F turns into an A because little Johny is a precious snowflake and cant be treated in that fashion by a mere teacher. A teacher is not permitted to tell parents their crotchspawn is a right little shit because the parents will raise bloody hell over the mere question of their lack of parenting ability.
So if your kid's report says "Johny needs to pay more attention in class" this is teacher code for YOU ARE THE FUCKTARD because this is the most critical thing they are allowed to write to parents.
Goes to prove yet again how the "free market", that weird beast so idolized by economists, is such a fickle creature. Cause after over several months underwater, there is NO way you are gonna get a clean room facility up to snuff & speed in a matter of days. Of course, now that the excuse is over, all the hoarding speculators are trembling in fear of getting stuck with their huge stockpile and will start to desperately flood the market.
So in other words, the free market will function in exactly the way it's supposed to
This isn't the free market, this is the boom/bust cycle that has caused so much pain of late.
The free market is a dearly held delusion of those who dont understand that power concentrates and without resistance it concentrates in one place..
And I'm sure that others physiologically have the same urge I do.
I've been putting off upgrading my ZFS pool long enough.
When I think "Thailand" and "Urges" my ZFS pool is not the first thing that comes to mind.
From the article:
Data from DRAMeXchange also showed that rush orders for SSDs increased after the Thailand flooding disrupted hard disk drive supplies.
According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, rush orders for SSDs rose even as shipments of end-market products, including PCs, smartphones and tablet PCs, remained slugish because of slow economic conditions.
Despite SSDs not being an exact replacement for spinning rust, it looks like the HD shortage is indeed having the predicted effects on the SSD market.
I'd say that more then mechanical HDD availability, price reduction in SSD's are drawing in people. I can get a 256 GB SSD for A$360, first SSD that's affordable and large enough for a gaming machine. Users with less onerous storage requirements can get 128 GB for A$200 or less.
That makes it ok to download it then, huh?
Cant say, but it will certainly take the wind out of the old and eroneous "lost sales" argument.
/.er's who don't understand the situation scream about OMG Freedoms. /.er's who haven't bothered to keep up scream about OMG Freedoms. /. whingers are now cosplaying as William Wallace shouting OMG FREEEEEEDOMS. /.er's still whinging about Freedoms.
But anyway, here's what's going to happen
- Game X is "banned"
-
- Media shit storm in a teacup is created.
- OLFC changes its mind after one minor change.
-
- original
- Game gets released on Oz.
-
- Smart Australians order games from overseas regardless (thank you parallel importing).
I swear we'll still be hearing about this six months from now. I mean the article mentioned Left4Dead when it was released in Oz on November 18 2008, the same day as North America.
A blockbuster film and a 747 cost about the same in dollar amounts to make; mass piracy of a shit film before it's released has a huge impact (in this case, 10% or more) on sales.
On the conrtary for good films, pre-release piracy drums up advertisement, people will go see it, especially with friends or family. People see that Shit film is Shit and stay away from it. The only reasons crap films make money is that they are out for a weekend before everyone realises that its shit.
BTW, a B747 costs US$250 million, X-Men Origins wolverine cost US$150 million and that would be high for a movie as it involved far too much CGI. Glad I never paid to see that stinker, Saw it on TV in a Thai hotel lounge (either that or Fox News, I picked the thing that insulted my intelligence the least), I'd be pissed for wasting my bandwidth on that spectacular turd.
Bruce Schneier said it better than I can.
Authenticating with biometrics is little better than using social security numbers. They are both unique identifiers, but neither are secrets, making them better suited to user id's. Passwords, on the other hand, are secrets.
Quite true, but I can see biometrics becoming user-names rather then passwords. But I cant see that happening in the near future, definitely not in 5 years, hell we've had fingerprint scanners in laptops for most of the last 5, most people still type in their name and passwd.
The one bit of ID theft that scares me the most is the only bit of ID I have biometric data on... My passport. An Aussie passport is something quite sought after these days yet its only defences are a picture of me, a biometric chip (which an over-zealous Filipino immi officer put a stamp right on, on the page that says clearly "do not stamp this page") so I now have a valid Aussie passport with no biometric chip.
This is a question which doesn't seem to get asked much, probably because Google is an unmovable behemoth that's not really interested in the owners of devices, but only in advertisers. Nevertheless, it needs to be asked.
For years we've been saying that local users should never operate as administrator by default. Now someone is doing it, you're getting pissy? Double standards much.
Besides this Google has answered it. Root should be as simple as SU.
The enforcement of non-admin privileges is done by the Android manufacturer, they do it because the carriers demand it. Want to stop it, stop buying phones from the carriers and make sure they know.
I don't think it bodes well for Apple when nerds are running from their platform. Just read the /. comments.
Nerds have never been part of Apple's target demographic since the days of the IIe which shipped with circuit schematics. The vast majority of people are looking for a computer/phone that works like an appliance, and are never going to tinker with or tweak them in any way.
True, but this is why Android is taking off like it is. Google got the geeks on side first. Then when the average clueless luser asks for tech advice, they dont go and ask the Hipster, they ask the geek and the Geek recommends Android.
Apple has never understood the relationship between Geeks and tech adoption. For a long time it's been their biggest enemy and still is.
Can you say "tax dodge".
Yes, R&D comes off your taxes, regardless of weather anything is produced.
The point the OP was making is that Apple isn't making new technologies, they are buying companies and making patent claims not actual R&D. M$ does the same except, if you bothered to read the article, M$ spends 13% of it's revenue on R&D (they also produce some good concepts, even if 3/4 of them never make it beyond a tech demo) Whilst Apple only spends 2.2% of it's revenue on R&D.
But what irks people who understand technology is that Apple does not produce much actual technology, they produce few tech demo's and no real world technologies per year.
Most of Apple's alleged ground breaking technologies can be traced back to companies that have been bought by Apple or FOSS that has been co-opted.
OSX/IOS = Modified NetBSD with proprietary GUI.
CUPS = Purchased in early 2000
WebKit = KHTML
The list goes on.
What do you call somebody who is not willing tho stick to the rules he expects others to follow?
The word 'hypocrit' comes to mind.
It's spelled "hypocrite" But your point is quite good.
Interesting here would be some statistics. How many Boeings have come into serious trouble, and how many Airbuses?
Besides the GP's point about Airbus pilots being unable to override the computer being complete and utter bollocks (Airbus' still have a analouge actuator control (Electronic) in them), there have been a few near misses which if it were not possible to take manual control would have resulted in a crash such as the JetBlue landing at LAX in 05.
On the other hand, there have been incidences with Boeing aircraft which are believed would have been solved by automated systems such as AA flight 965 (Colombia 1995) where if the airbrake was automatically retracted the pilot would have been able to climb a way safely.
Here is a good post on the subject. According to the ASTB who conducted the investigation there have only been 3 such incidents in 128 Million hours of A330 operation as of 2008. That is a damn good rate of failure wouldn't you say? Pilot error being the cause of approx 48% of all accidents, Airbus or Boeing. Modern aircraft are getting safer all the time, they see more mechanics and engineers in a week then your car will see in its entire lifetime. Everything is checked and double checked, anything suspicious gets replaced. I never think I'm in danger stepping onto an an Airbus or Boeing aircraft.
The whole Airbus Vs Boeing argument is a dick pulling contest between biased pilots. It's like a Xbox/PS3 fanboy war. Utterly senseless to third party observers (and bronzed fingered PC gamers) Now amongst the 25 worst airlines you have a 1 in 850,000 chance of dying and I dont fly any of those airlines (1 in 9.2 million for the 25 best), hence my practice of congratulating myself at the check in counter as I've survived the most dangerous part of air travel, the drive to the airport. Compared to our road toll, our air toll is minuscule.
That's what the papers said, we all know in truth he died from rownriness.
You know the joke is that Koreans can say the 'L' sound, it is the Japanese who don't use it in their own language. Like a lot of that film is was supposed to show up the general ignorance of Americans about the world, but I suppose it was a bit too subtle and the joke whooshed over people's heads. Don't feel too bad though, most British people didn't get it either.
I got it, its just a funny part of the movie with the song and all. The whole thing is a piss take on the US, to the credit of most Americans they took it in their stride.
Yep, a lot of languages use sounds that others dont. I dont speak Japanese, but Thai does have an R and L sound, however a lot of people who mainly speak local dialects (mostly around the North where it's mixed with Lao or Khmer) transpose the R and L sounds in English as they dont use the R sound very much. They can pronounce them correctly when they try but more often then not they'll slip up because its not the language they use every day.
Westerners, English speakers or otherwise have trouble with Thai pronunciations, the "pb" sound in particular, "kh" is a bit easier but a lot of people still have trouble. By the same token Thais often have trouble with sounds like "ke" and "ve" so a word like "like" becomes "liee" (e is pronounced) or Cake becoming "cak" or "kek".
Look, don't be an idiot and make fun of Asians and their general problems speaking proper English. I'm pretty sure you'd sound like an idiot when trying to speak an Asian language.
Besides - it's just razy lacism.
Erm, its a joke from Team America, you know, that comedy movie.
As a person who speaks Thai, yes I know there are a lot of sounds that are very difficult to get, not to mention getting your head and tongue around the tonal part of the language, mai is a common word, it has five meanings depending on if it's said in high, low, mid, rising or falling tones. Compared to Thai, Korean is a very simple language so dont preach to me sunshine.
Oh and please stop being such a humourless git.
Causing trouble abroad is a classic way to cement power at home: "Busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels".
two foreign wars have not been enough to do this. What do they hope to gain with a third.
"Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports."
The newspaper continued... "We aren't sure which blow dart hit him but it was probably both"
That's what the papers said, we all know in truth he died from rownriness.
Not everybody runs out and buys a new PC every 2 years. Some of us like to get our money's worth. I'm amazed by how easily some people dismiss a 4 or 5 year old PC as a "dinosaur" when more often than not, PCs older than that work just fine, even for games.
As a gamer, a 4 yr old PC is a dinosaur.
As a sysadmin, a 2 yr old PC is a liability and a potential cost. Same with any out of warranty PC.
To my Mum, A hand me down is fine.
Different people have different needs and perspectives. My Mum for example, she currently runs a 7 yr old computer that wasn't that flash when it was new 7 years ago. I'm replacing it with a new $400 Emachines desktop (I'm pleasantly surprised at Emachines, surprisingly little crapware, the least crapware on any new computer I've seen this year).
>(can you imagine gaming on a PC that's half a decade old, or more?)
yes, I do it daily... TF2 still rocks.
Can you imagine playing a 16 yr old game you already own on a console.
Well no, at the very most they'll sell you a new copy regardless of previous ownership. DOSBOX FTW
Insightful? People it's supposed to be funny!
Slashdot mods don't play skyrim it seems :)
A few years back, /. eliminated the Karma bonus for +1 funny mods so some people have substituted +1 insightful instead and just keep doing it for legacy reasons. Also +1 insightful is the first on the drop down list for lazy mods.
Not that I need any more positive Karma.