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http://www.honco.net/japanese/05/page4.html

I'm sure everyone here but Joe already knows this to some degree, but damn. Trying to input text by using some other language's glyphs as a code for the shape of my alphabet (the Wubizixing method for Chinese) is messed up.

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Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.honco.net/japanese/05/page4.html

I'm sure everyone here but Joe already knows this to some degree, but damn. Trying to input text by using some other language's glyphs as a code for the shape of my alphabet (the Wubizixing method for Chinese) is messed up.
Damn you. I was happy in my ignorance. Well, at least I'm still happy that I'm not asian! Damn that looks complicated. Please tell me that it's really not that bad. Well, while I'm damning things, I'll damn the river some more. Damn you to hell, river!
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The input methods by sound are pretty easy as long as you speak the language, they just take longer.

The ones by shape, you have to memorize another keyboard layout, but are faster. You also have to be more literate I think. With the input by sound I can kind of guess which characters represent what I'm thinking, but with by shape I have to already know what the character is or at least looks like.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo
Inspired by student-activists nationwide, members of the MEChA organization in California sought to find a day of celebration that highlighted their largely Mexican ancestry. "El Dieciséis de septiembre" (September 16) seemed like an obvious choice; however, this day proved too early in the school-year for college students to effectively organize rallies and celebrations.

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http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention.

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Your choice of form factor:

http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN25P.asp - 12.6 in x 8.3 in x 8.7 in
http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html - 6.5 in x 6.5 in x 2.0 in
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000423042091/ - 12.75 in x 7.75 in x 4.25 in

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I recently did some SFF research for my sister. I have to say the SN25P sounds extremely good.

I especially like the case changes for airflow, noise, hard drive placement, pre-wiring, tool-less, design, etc. Definitely worth the minor increase in size.



Some reviews:

HardOCP
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzYxLDE=

AnandTech
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2372

ClubOverclocker
http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/ ... xpc_sn25p/

NewEgg
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... 6856101468

HotHardware
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle. ... icleid=665

HardcoreWare
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-275-1.htm

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Dwindlehop wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo
Inspired by student-activists nationwide, members of the MEChA organization in California sought to find a day of celebration that highlighted their largely Mexican ancestry. "El Dieciséis de septiembre" (September 16) seemed like an obvious choice; however, this day proved too early in the school-year for college students to effectively organize rallies and celebrations.
Yeah one of my friends is Mexican and she said they never celebrate it where she's from.
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Moo1 > Moo2 > Moo3

I did like Ascendency tho, Stars! was only for lewzors!
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Heh, the author was pretty harsh on Ascendancy. I had it myself. Didn't think it was that bad, but the real-time aspects made it intractable for multiplayer. There was no way to design decent ships without pausing.

Stars! 2.0 was hardcore. You could design ships with 7 movement that could jump anywhere on the battle board and the fuel weighed kT instead of mg. Then it got all wussified for 2.5. :)

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,12 ... tw=rss.TOP
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/06/vt ... the_b.html

Hot damn. The broadcast flag was thrown out because a judge ruled the FCC has no authority to tell people what to do with the signals they receive. Sadly, we'll probably see a bill before Congress to revive it, but still this is a good thing.

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http://webaccelerator.google.com/

http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/Googl ... EQ70.xhtml

I was gonna post about this yesterday when I stumbled across it when looking through google labs for the link to their suggest beta. I'm not really sure that it has really saved any time... Also, it messes up the recent posts feature for bboards, so if you try it, tell it not to cache bboard sites you visit.
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Web-Accelerator-for-Broadband
Does anyone here actually have performance issues with surfing on a broadband connection? Cuz I don't. I could use more bandwidth for downloads and lower latency for games, but HTML loads just fine, thank you.

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http://www.unrealid.com/

Tomorrow the Senate votes on a National ID card. It's a rider in a military budget bill that will almost certainly be passed. It's also a meaningless gesture towards "security" that makes no one more secure.

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2 ... al_id.html

A little bit more analysis from our friend Bruce Schneier. An important point: machine-readable ID makes identify theft easier.

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http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Another test, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, we might have already done this one.

I am INTJ

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I AM INTC

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Dwindlehop wrote:I AM INTC
no you are not, stop lying.

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