Comment Re:Been 2012 for hours. (Score 2) 161
Only one I'm aware of is the japanese
Only one I'm aware of is the japanese
It was used against rebels in Colombia. And it worked (well somewhat). Suprisingly, North Korea is scared for a valid reason.
And the trees were equipped with motion sensors so when rebels walked by it would... light up.
Sorry, this is slashdot. Only car analogies work here.
Its encrypted and it's local. So I think a larger should have *technically* picked the 5th option.
I've always thought stocking stuffers should usually provide some instant gratification.
Since you're presumably giving these to less-tech literate people, there's a decent chance they won't immediately think the USB drives are awesome and wipe the disk without too much thought. Now if you tie some candy (like a candy cane) around the drive stick on a bow and make pretty, they will treat it more specially and might actually try out the software since they've already associated the USB drive as awesome, they'll see the FOSS on it as awesome too.
Especially for non-character based writing like Chinese.
Saying it's a non-character based language doesn't seem to be the way you want to phrase it. Most kanji have a couple of main pronunciations which you can pretty consistently figure out. The big difference from the Latin writing system and the Chinese writing system is that chinese characters also have a meaning assigned to them. (And words tend to be more compact) You can still write out things fully phonetically in Chinese Characters. But with the Harry Potter books, the translators went to some lengths to not only phonetically copy the names, but to also pick the right hanji to add additional meaning to the names. Eg Voldemort's chinese name includes the character for 'evil' in it, but still sounds similar to the english name (Fudimo).
A detail look at the name translation can be seen here.
Slightly OT, but just for kicks I calculated the deaths/TWh for nuclear if you included Hiroshima and Nagasaki (~250,000 deaths). I ended up with 6 deaths/TWh from the
Is this kind of thing bad now?
Only when you want that money...
In the same vein why would RIM want WebOS when they already have QNX? Or Amazon with the Kindle's OS / Android already developed.
Oracle doesn't have much to do with tablets and already have Solaris. And I don't see why Intel would want an OS and if they did being designed for a tablet using their competitor's Quallcomm uprocessors on it, might not especially help.
Really, if this is the list of potential buyers... they probably don't have a good chance for selling it. Sorry guys, but hopefully you've updated your resumes recently...
To be fair, it does use the possessive "its" to specify that it's Oklahoma's strongest earthquake, but still probably not especially newsworthy on a tech site.
Clearly, Slashdot must be working on some psychological study on the psychological effects of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors on members a tech-oriented website community. Unfortunately, it seems that the researcher for this Slashdot study was not the one in the summary, so these grammar mistakes will still happen until we find the researcher and convince him to finish his study already.
The one I'd be worrying about would be IBM.
Google just recently got their so-so patents; Red hat might have patents, but I don't think its enough to scare Microsoft too much. But IBM is quite pro-linux and probably have a patent portfolio large enough to engage in thermonuclear patent warfare with MS if they really wanted to.
and we also protect the freedom of expression of citizens in China
I can't even come up with a response to this.
I'm pretty sure there's a quote that basically says that in Soviet Poland (?) There is freedom of speech, but in the US there is freedom after speech.
There may be something to this. Certainly if I hear someone using the terms "liver", "fava beans" and "chianti" too often in a conversation, I start to get worried.
I see that your bad keyword to sentence ratio is 150%.
Thanks for warning me not to go to your house for dinner.
Freakonomics Radio had a relevant podcast about this recently "The upside of Quitting".
But the longer you wait,the harder it'll be for you to quit, so if you're thinking of maybe quitting later, you should assume that you don't want to quit your job period.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
