I don't know about other countries, but every movie I saw in Japan was not dubbed, but subtitled (well, except for movies made in Japan. It would have been dumb to subtitle those. They were dubbed).
Even if they re-rendered everything for each language, there are cultural themes and humor in movies that just don't translate very well, so whole scenes would have to be re-worked I think.
In my opinion it is much better to simply add subtitles.
Well, as one who has tested out both QWERTY and Dvorak, I can tell you that Dvorak is MUCH easier on the hands. I haven't noticed any speed increase, but I think that it because I think about the words and code I'm typing at the same speed I always have. If I were a secretary staring and a page and typing things without really thinking about them, I might be faster, I don't know.
Bottom line is, urban legend or not, Dvorak is much more comfortable to type with than QWERTY. I wish people would wait until they are proficient at both before spouting of their "knowledge" on the subject.
It seemed to me that most of the article was Microsoft's press standard of white-lying until it becomes true (at least in the minds of the masses). For example, mentioning the security issue with BIND. What they failed to mention is that there is already an update available. Microsoft's security issues are usually fixed after a long, pig-headed stage of denial.
Another comment is regarding the joining of Turbolinux and LinuxCare. I personally think this will be a great thing for Turbolinux. The only complaints I ever had with their distribution was their lack of web based support (well, that and they aren't Debian based).
Finally, Microsoft bemoaned the lack of support for Linux. I am running Debian (who offers no support), but I have been able to find answers to every question I have had so far on sites like www.debianhelp.org.
Microsoft is a large huddle of technical inferiority and pompas poltroons.
Java is good for more than applications/applets. Servlets are great even if you are using a modem on a slow machine.
As far as Java applications and applets being slow, Microsoft programmers can't write a simple "hello world" program in under 400,000 lines of code, so I doubt this.NET java clone will be any better. Most likely a whole lot worse.
Microsoft isn't discriminating against these people, when I worked there they treated everyone like that. It doesn't matter what race you are, or even what skills you have, if you are a pompous ass you can go anywhere you want in that company.
This part of my post is off topic, but I won't be around to thank him/her later since I'm leaving for the day. I would like to thank the bigoted Anonymous Coward who pays copious amounts of admiration to my "pansy ass" on everything I post. I always thought it was more of a daffodil-ass, but since I can't see back there that well I'll take your word for it.
Well, I see that you indeed are still a coward. It also looks to me that your inability to create a Slashdot account is not related to monetary impotence, but has more to do with your brainfs inability to conjure up your own name, let alone an alias. You seem like the sort of hick who, to satisfy your penchant for alcohol, could successfully shoplift a can of beer colored floor cleaner from a store only to be thwarted by the intricate workings of the front door.
I never said I would kill you for invading Japan. I said Ifd have to kill you to avoid the embarrassment of having the whole world believe a cretin such as yourself was the best my race could come up with for representation. Now that you mention attacking Japan, considering the grandiose mental prowess you have displayed here (and on other of my posts), I think they have nothing to worry about. A Ford F-150 will go many places, but unfortunately the ocean isnft one of them.
I donft know why youfre thanking me for showing you the light. The only thing I said was that you are a rube, a coward and an idiot. If thatfs the light you sought after your whole life in vain and you are finally able to have peace knowing that this is what you are, Ifm glad I could help.
Ifm not Canadian, but Ifm happy for you that you have the skills to detect those bastard Moose. Good for you.
Ifm not French either, but in another effort to keep you from looking foolish, thatfs a hat their wearing, not the shape of their heads.
Ifm not German, but congratulations on a spirited effort in spelling KRAUT correctly.
Also, since wefre talking about spelling, if you insist on contracting words like drinking, fucking, tipping, and other common, easy-to-spell words ending in gingh in order to avoid that elusive letter gGh that seems to trip you up so much, at least spell the parts you CAN type correctly. Adding the apostrophe would be a nice touch too. Ifve included the gcorrecth contractions for you to help you at least look like the town clod instead of the town fool. Here they are. Ifm typing slowly for you so you can keep up. Drinkinf, fuckinf, tippinf, and so on. Of course, you realize these arenft really words when you do this, but at least people will know what you are attempting to say.
Finally, congratulations on your commendable progress with gHooked on Phonicsh I could almost make out some of what you were trying unsuccessfully to say. Also, thank you so much for the copious amounts of appreciation you have shown my ass throughout all of Slashdot. I hope your hunting buddies wonft mind.
You obviously have the intellect of a douche bag you rube coward. Just like ALL bigots I have ever heard on the Internet, you are afraid to make yourself known and you consistently prove yourself a half-wit.
Take your post for example. The Japanese language doesnft have gingh, stand alone ggh, and glh sounds in it. Also, the people of Japan donft eat dogs (besides, donft knock it until youfve tried it. I hear dogs taste great). Japan creates most of the best video games for morons such as yourself to lust after since you canft attain a job willing to pay you enough to afford one of these games. Let alone the systems to play them on. So, if you are going to make fun of someone's culture, try to at least know what you're talking about first so you don't prove to everyone reading your tripe that you are a fool.
As for starting a war with Japan, I think not. If a group of town idiots such as yourself gathered together to war against other races to defend the Caucasian race, I would have to kill you myself to avoid the embarrassment of having the rest of the world think that you were the best we could come up with as representatives.
So, my final request to you is this: Make yourself known coward, or shut the hell up!!!
I can understand Sun's reactions in a way. It seems to me that Solaris and Linux could be veiwed as quite similar. The main differences being one is free and one is not. Sun relies on Solaris, at least to some degree, for their survival. I can see why they don't want to support Linux as much as everyone wishes they would.
It seems to me, however, that if you discard a language because you don't like it's creator you are shooting yourself in the foot. For example, if I thought Bjarne Stroustrup was an arrogant jerk (which I don't since I don't know him. This is just hypothetical) and refused to use the technology he developed, that would be nobody's loss but my own.
I don't believe Java has been reduced to just another bussword any more than C/C++ has. I can currently make a lot more money programming in Java than I can C++. If that is the result of it being a buzzword, then being a buzzword is GREAT!!!
If you say that Netscape's Java support sucks I would agree wholeheartedly. However, If you avoid using Netscape's built in Java support, Java works great. Most of responses I have read seem to be focused on client side applets. I think people should not overlook the power of Java Servlets. Java servlets are superior to CGI programming in almost every way, even on Linux.
The greatest thing about Java in my opinion is its methods for doing internationalization and localization. I just can't deliver the same timely, quality solutions in an international market using Perl, C/C++, Python, or anything else.
For me and my needs, Java is simply the best. Most of the Java-bashers I have talked with have changed their opinions concerning Java when they see some of the amazing things you can do with it, even on Linux.
I have seen the ballots that they are referring to. First of all, you would have to be pretty blind to mess this up. Secondly, Pat shows up right between Gore and Bush. It is just as likely that all those poor, blind, forgetful people (I say this in mockery of the Democratic party, not elderly people) meant to vote for Bush and not Gore anyway. Another possibility (farfetched as it sounds) could be that THEY ACTUALLY VOTED CORRECTLY FOR PAT!!!
How did all these old people know they mistakenly voted anyway? I thought this was supposed to be a closed ballot. Any change here reeks of tampering. If these old people are allowed to re-vote and Gore wins, then I want to revote as well so that I can vote Nader and help get the Green party the 5% that it needs for the next election.
The thing about all this that makes me sick is all the media stories siding with Gore in a large political orgy-like frenzy that will have to be put in a lockbox during the next four years and used again in 2004's election.
Another thing that sickens me about this whole circus is that we have spent the last 8 years being lied to by a president who doesn't even know the meaning of the word "is" (and yet you chide Bush for his speaking). Clinton and Gore both have blamed, accused, dodged and everything else to get out of accepting responsibility for their actions. "It" is always someone else's fault (usually a Republican of some kind). Now, the election is going the way it is in Florida because Republicans are cheating. Republicans are coercing poor people, who left their wills at home, to vote for Bush. We all know that if they had their wills with them they would have voted for Gore. Gore is a farce, the media are political sluts and the Democratic Party is a bunch of rubes.
I have a mini disc player that I bought in Japan. I think it is great. It records fast, erases fast, is quite durable and hold as much (and sometimes more) than a CD-ROM. I hate floppy disks and if someone would replace them with something like the mini disc I would be very happy.
It's like I've always said. The two things you need in order to run a perfectly good company into the dirt is first a powerful human resources department, and secondly, someone with an MBA in charge.
"But then you don't have seven years experience in web design, or five years experience in Java..."
I remember a classified add I read in the newspaper back in 1996 which was requiring for their company's open position someone with 7 years of Java experience.
Are you implying that someone who has taken the time and effort to train himself (or herself) to be qualified for a high paying tech job are hopelessly unable to train themself in history, literature, art, philosophy, and so on?
I personally, as one who has finished college (simply by saying I'd had enough), disagree. For some people the classroom is the way to go. For me college moves too slow. I want information at my pace, not someone else's.
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I don't know about other countries, but every movie I saw in Japan was not dubbed, but subtitled (well, except for movies made in Japan. It would have been dumb to subtitle those. They were dubbed).
Even if they re-rendered everything for each language, there are cultural themes and humor in movies that just don't translate very well, so whole scenes would have to be re-worked I think.
In my opinion it is much better to simply add subtitles.
Well, as one who has tested out both QWERTY and Dvorak, I can tell you that Dvorak is MUCH easier on the hands. I haven't noticed any speed increase, but I think that it because I think about the words and code I'm typing at the same speed I always have. If I were a secretary staring and a page and typing things without really thinking about them, I might be faster, I don't know.
Bottom line is, urban legend or not, Dvorak is much more comfortable to type with than QWERTY. I wish people would wait until they are proficient at both before spouting of their "knowledge" on the subject.
The only advancement to Commecial air travel in the last 20 years has been Delta Airlines' get-it-yourself, bottled water and banana "Sky Deli".
It seemed to me that most of the article was Microsoft's press standard of white-lying until it becomes true (at least in the minds of the masses). For example, mentioning the security issue with BIND. What they failed to mention is that there is already an update available. Microsoft's security issues are usually fixed after a long, pig-headed stage of denial.
Another comment is regarding the joining of Turbolinux and LinuxCare. I personally think this will be a great thing for Turbolinux. The only complaints I ever had with their distribution was their lack of web based support (well, that and they aren't Debian based).
Finally, Microsoft bemoaned the lack of support for Linux. I am running Debian (who offers no support), but I have been able to find answers to every question I have had so far on sites like www.debianhelp.org.
Microsoft is a large huddle of technical inferiority and pompas poltroons.
Java is good for more than applications/applets. Servlets are great even if you are using a modem on a slow machine. As far as Java applications and applets being slow, Microsoft programmers can't write a simple "hello world" program in under 400,000 lines of code, so I doubt this .NET java clone will be any better. Most likely a whole lot worse.
Microsoft isn't discriminating against these people, when I worked there they treated everyone like that. It doesn't matter what race you are, or even what skills you have, if you are a pompous ass you can go anywhere you want in that company.
This part of my post is off topic, but I won't be around to thank him/her later since I'm leaving for the day. I would like to thank the bigoted Anonymous Coward who pays copious amounts of admiration to my "pansy ass" on everything I post. I always thought it was more of a daffodil-ass, but since I can't see back there that well I'll take your word for it.
Well, I see that you indeed are still a coward. It also looks to me that your inability to create a Slashdot account is not related to monetary impotence, but has more to do with your brainfs inability to conjure up your own name, let alone an alias. You seem like the sort of hick who, to satisfy your penchant for alcohol, could successfully shoplift a can of beer colored floor cleaner from a store only to be thwarted by the intricate workings of the front door.
I never said I would kill you for invading Japan. I said Ifd have to kill you to avoid the embarrassment of having the whole world believe a cretin such as yourself was the best my race could come up with for representation. Now that you mention attacking Japan, considering the grandiose mental prowess you have displayed here (and on other of my posts), I think they have nothing to worry about. A Ford F-150 will go many places, but unfortunately the ocean isnft one of them.
I donft know why youfre thanking me for showing you the light. The only thing I said was that you are a rube, a coward and an idiot. If thatfs the light you sought after your whole life in vain and you are finally able to have peace knowing that this is what you are, Ifm glad I could help.
Ifm not Canadian, but Ifm happy for you that you have the skills to detect those bastard Moose. Good for you.
Ifm not French either, but in another effort to keep you from looking foolish, thatfs a hat their wearing, not the shape of their heads.
Ifm not German, but congratulations on a spirited effort in spelling KRAUT correctly.
Also, since wefre talking about spelling, if you insist on contracting words like drinking, fucking, tipping, and other common, easy-to-spell words ending in gingh in order to avoid that elusive letter gGh that seems to trip you up so much, at least spell the parts you CAN type correctly. Adding the apostrophe would be a nice touch too. Ifve included the gcorrecth contractions for you to help you at least look like the town clod instead of the town fool. Here they are. Ifm typing slowly for you so you can keep up. Drinkinf, fuckinf, tippinf, and so on. Of course, you realize these arenft really words when you do this, but at least people will know what you are attempting to say.
Finally, congratulations on your commendable progress with gHooked on Phonicsh I could almost make out some of what you were trying unsuccessfully to say. Also, thank you so much for the copious amounts of appreciation you have shown my ass throughout all of Slashdot. I hope your hunting buddies wonft mind.
Thanks for tagging along on all my posts shlong lover coward.
It is Ruprict. Thanks for noticing.
You obviously have the intellect of a douche bag you rube coward. Just like ALL bigots I have ever heard on the Internet, you are afraid to make yourself known and you consistently prove yourself a half-wit.
Take your post for example. The Japanese language doesnft have gingh, stand alone ggh, and glh sounds in it. Also, the people of Japan donft eat dogs (besides, donft knock it until youfve tried it. I hear dogs taste great). Japan creates most of the best video games for morons such as yourself to lust after since you canft attain a job willing to pay you enough to afford one of these games. Let alone the systems to play them on. So, if you are going to make fun of someone's culture, try to at least know what you're talking about first so you don't prove to everyone reading your tripe that you are a fool.
As for starting a war with Japan, I think not. If a group of town idiots such as yourself gathered together to war against other races to defend the Caucasian race, I would have to kill you myself to avoid the embarrassment of having the rest of the world think that you were the best we could come up with as representatives.
So, my final request to you is this: Make yourself known coward, or shut the hell up!!!
That was very nice.
I like the new rubik's cube interface.
I agree!!! Apple is a bunch of reddish purples!!!
I can understand Sun's reactions in a way. It seems to me that Solaris and Linux could be veiwed as quite similar. The main differences being one is free and one is not. Sun relies on Solaris, at least to some degree, for their survival. I can see why they don't want to support Linux as much as everyone wishes they would.
It seems to me, however, that if you discard a language because you don't like it's creator you are shooting yourself in the foot. For example, if I thought Bjarne Stroustrup was an arrogant jerk (which I don't since I don't know him. This is just hypothetical) and refused to use the technology he developed, that would be nobody's loss but my own.
I don't believe Java has been reduced to just another bussword any more than C/C++ has. I can currently make a lot more money programming in Java than I can C++. If that is the result of it being a buzzword, then being a buzzword is GREAT!!!
If you say that Netscape's Java support sucks I would agree wholeheartedly. However, If you avoid using Netscape's built in Java support, Java works great. Most of responses I have read seem to be focused on client side applets. I think people should not overlook the power of Java Servlets. Java servlets are superior to CGI programming in almost every way, even on Linux.
The greatest thing about Java in my opinion is its methods for doing internationalization and localization. I just can't deliver the same timely, quality solutions in an international market using Perl, C/C++, Python, or anything else.
For me and my needs, Java is simply the best. Most of the Java-bashers I have talked with have changed their opinions concerning Java when they see some of the amazing things you can do with it, even on Linux.
Chevy Chase and Gregory Hines were selling these planes back in the 80's during the deal of the century.
I have seen the ballots that they are referring to. First of all, you would have to be pretty blind to mess this up. Secondly, Pat shows up right between Gore and Bush. It is just as likely that all those poor, blind, forgetful people (I say this in mockery of the Democratic party, not elderly people) meant to vote for Bush and not Gore anyway. Another possibility (farfetched as it sounds) could be that THEY ACTUALLY VOTED CORRECTLY FOR PAT!!!
How did all these old people know they mistakenly voted anyway? I thought this was supposed to be a closed ballot. Any change here reeks of tampering. If these old people are allowed to re-vote and Gore wins, then I want to revote as well so that I can vote Nader and help get the Green party the 5% that it needs for the next election.
The thing about all this that makes me sick is all the media stories siding with Gore in a large political orgy-like frenzy that will have to be put in a lockbox during the next four years and used again in 2004's election.
Another thing that sickens me about this whole circus is that we have spent the last 8 years being lied to by a president who doesn't even know the meaning of the word "is" (and yet you chide Bush for his speaking). Clinton and Gore both have blamed, accused, dodged and everything else to get out of accepting responsibility for their actions. "It" is always someone else's fault (usually a Republican of some kind). Now, the election is going the way it is in Florida because Republicans are cheating. Republicans are coercing poor people, who left their wills at home, to vote for Bush. We all know that if they had their wills with them they would have voted for Gore. Gore is a farce, the media are political sluts and the Democratic Party is a bunch of rubes.
Not true. Everyone I know that runs Athlons do it for performance/price reasons.
I have a mini disc player that I bought in Japan. I think it is great. It records fast, erases fast, is quite durable and hold as much (and sometimes more) than a CD-ROM. I hate floppy disks and if someone would replace them with something like the mini disc I would be very happy.
I thought Al Gore was responsible for this! My government has lied to me! Double bastard!
It's like I've always said. The two things you need in order to run a perfectly good company into the dirt is first a powerful human resources department, and secondly, someone with an MBA in charge.
"But then you don't have seven years experience in web design, or five years experience in Java..."
I remember a classified add I read in the newspaper back in 1996 which was requiring for their company's open position someone with 7 years of Java experience.
I hope they got the right person.
Are you implying that someone who has taken the time and effort to train himself (or herself) to be qualified for a high paying tech job are hopelessly unable to train themself in history, literature, art, philosophy, and so on?
I personally, as one who has finished college (simply by saying I'd had enough), disagree. For some people the classroom is the way to go. For me college moves too slow. I want information at my pace, not someone else's.
Robert Llewelyn plays Kryten on Red Dwarf. Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca.
From the article:
[Concerning the hard drive]...it will hold an astounding terabyte (1 trillion bytes) of data, just a tad more than we get today--1,000 times more.
Great!!! That should be just enough to install Windows 2010