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Comment Re:Chinese puns (Score 1) 272

by Echnin (#27190043) Attached to: Chinese Subvert Censorship With a Popular Pun
You've got it turned on the head. Old Chinese has a lot more phonemes than any modern dialect of Chinese, so it's wrong to say that characters evolved because of a lack of phonemes. Rather, the argument goes that modern Chinese lacks the phonemic variety to be written in a phonetic script. The website you link to, however, disagress with this conclusion.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Amazon asserts right to adjust prices after sale

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An anonymous reader writes: On December 23, Amazon advertised a "buy one get one free" sale on DVD boxsets, but did not test the promotion before going live. When anyone placed two boxsets in their cart, the website gave a double discount — so the "grand total" shown (before order submission) was $0.00 or something very small. Despite terms stating that Amazon checks order prices before shipping, Amazon shipped the vast majority of orders. Five days later (December 28), after orders had been received and presumably opened, Amazon emailed customers advising them to return the boxsets unopened or customers' credit cards would be charged an additional amount. (You can read more threads about this here and here.) Starting yesterday, Amazon has been (re)charging credit cards, often without authorization. On Amazon's side, they didn't advertise any double discount, and the free or nearly-free boxsets must have cost them a mint. But with Amazon continually giving unadvertised discounts that seem to be errors, is "return the merchandise or be charged" the new way that price glitches will be handled?
Worms

Submission + - Teacher to be jailed for spyware porn incident

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BabyGotMac-com writes: "A substitute teacher who was given orders to not shut down a computer has been charged and tried and is about to be sentenced to up to 40 years. The system was exposed to malware, and popped up porn banners and sites, exposing a classroom of children to them. Computer experts have vouched for the likelihood of spyware being the cause, but the woman was prosecuted and is scheduled to be sentenced March 2nd. This highlights the lack of technology training in the education arena, both on the administrative side and that of the teacher, who was evidently not even able to turn off the monitor or understand how to deal with the popups. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/13/teacher.porn.ap/ index.html"
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Submission + - Is your software ready for 80-core chip?

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prostoalex writes: "Dr. Dobbs' Journal is reporting on Intel getting ready to demo an 80-core chip: "That's right: Not an 8-core; this is an 80-core chip. The microprocessor manufacturer has jumped way ahead of the expected progression from dual-core to quad-core to 8-core, etc., to delve into different ways to make something as complicated as an 80-core chip actually work.""

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