2012-01-08, 17:15 | Link #5282 |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
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Nepotism.
Edit: whoops, seconding Haak then. Albeit, the term is not limited to family, it is used for every sort of corruption of that kind regardless of the relationship between the "patron" and the beneficiary. |
2012-01-10, 23:56 | Link #5285 | |
a.k.a. Flammenkrieg
IT Support
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Down under...
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For added security, you can turn on two-factor authentication.
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2012-01-12, 02:07 | Link #5287 |
a.k.a. Flammenkrieg
IT Support
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Down under...
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You might to hold on to that VISA card, you can also use it as a backup funding source. PayPal acts as the mediator in a transaction, so the only information that the merchant receives is your basic personal details (name, home address, phone number, etc.) and not your payment details (bank account number, credit card number, etc.).
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2012-01-14, 20:59 | Link #5288 |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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So far all the Call Of Duty games have featured legendary regiments like the SAS and Rangers, but why hadn't they featured the Gurkhas yet?
Is it because their badass level is so high that a game can never portray it well enough?
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2012-01-14, 23:00 | Link #5289 |
Senior Member
Artist
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Middle Way
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So I recently got a new pair of glasses which is for emergency use, the lense is of the same grade as what I'm using right now but for some reason it just doesn't feel like the same grade when I try to wear it, why is this?
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2012-01-14, 23:27 | Link #5290 | ||
Onee-Chan Power~!
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: In this reality (A.K.A. Colorado, U.S.A.)
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2012-01-15, 03:10 | Link #5291 |
Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 49
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Out of curiosity, does anyone here suffer from anosmia?
In my case, it is congenital, although I wasn't consciously aware of it until my late teens. It has had no adverse effect on my life, though it does often leave me wistful to know the smells that people describe. I could stand right next to a stall selling D24 durians and not smell a thing, but still enjoy the fruit all the same. I can "taste" just fine, but am probably not able to distinguish between flavours like others can (I can't be sure; after all, how am I to describe how I taste to people who taste normally?). About the only time that the condition was possibly dangerous was in my second-year in university. I had just moved into my new room and had turned on the gas heater. My housemate dropped in about an hour later and exclaimed right away about the stink — the gas was leaking, and I didn't even know. |
2012-01-15, 14:14 | Link #5292 |
Hige
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: God only knows
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Does someone know, if there is an offline version of google maps or simillar for certain countries(like Japan)?
Obviously, it doesnt need to have satelite photos. Just streets and such. Thanks a lot in advance.
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2012-01-22, 20:57 | Link #5295 | |
廉頗
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 34
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2012-01-22, 22:36 | Link #5297 | |
Uncountable rationality
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http://www.coscom.co.jp/learnjapanes...ejapanese.html
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2012-01-22, 22:58 | Link #5298 |
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Artist
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Middle Way
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I'm not sure I understand, it says that you don't need a Japanese keyboard right? Then the question of how they fit all the Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji letters still stands. Now that I think about it, this goes double for Japanese phones, how do they make everything fit?
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2012-01-23, 00:38 | Link #5299 | |
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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That's Hiragana. If I wanted to convert it to Katakana (ヒ), I follow the same procedure, but use a shortcut that converts the character to Katakana. If I type certain words (such as "anime") the system will offer to auto-convert it to Katakana. Since Katakana is used only for foreign words, it's not a big issue. How about Kanji? The system recognizes certain words and offers to convert them. For example, to get 昼ご飯 (hirugohan - lunch), I typed "hirugohan," which appeared to me as ひるごはん. The system pops up a small menu with some Kanji conversion options (which isn't a big deal for this word, but in some phonetic words there are many different Kanji selections, and the computer will generally choose the most common ones by default, requiring that you may need to choose the one you intended). I can either select it, continue typing (and if I go for long enough, it automatically converts it), or force a conversion and then continue typing. It's a pretty good system. This is all for Roman keyboards. Based on what I've seen in J-dramas, the methods I've described are used in Japan as well. I'm sure there are Japanese keyboards, too. The difference would be that their keys put out Hiragana characters with a single keystroke, as opposed to having to type out each one phonetically with Roman characters. I can't explain how it works on phone - probably similar. It is partly for this reason that people in Japan (and China) are said to be having problems with writing Kanji. It is much easier to recognize something in reading than to write it on a blank sheet of paper. With computers, people can easily write and have the computer come up with the various Kanji (so long as they know the pronunciation behind it). Writing Kanji is a very different matter...
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