2009-08-11, 06:26 | Link #3061 | ||
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My question is: what are the foods symbolising the seasons in the US? Every German associates Spagel (asparagus) with spring, Somen is indispansable for summer in Japan. I want to know such ones in the US case. |
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2009-08-11, 06:35 | Link #3062 | |
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Its not like I dont want to use Flash, but my course project have to be based on OOP and JAVA. |
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2009-08-11, 06:53 | Link #3063 | |
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You can of course use Java as your server side (back-end). For the animation front-end, I suggest that you use AJAX intead, it is much lighter and doesn't need any plugin, and it's open source. For easy Java RIA (Rich Internet Application) with AJAX, then you might want to look at the ICEFaces or RichFaces web appliaction framework. It has a nice look and feel for Java-based web application. The downside of those framework is, you'll need some level understanding of JSF, and probably not suitable for beginners. If you're a beginner, I highly recommend that you first learn basic JSP with EJB 3.0. Then you can move forward and choose your framework of choice, or stick with JSP & EJB. However, I really think that you should learn at least one of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) web application framework if you really serious with Java web application development. I'm personally liked the Apache Wicket framework. For your IDE of choice, you can select several good Java IDE such as NetBeans, Eclipse, IdeaJ, etc... I'm a NetBeans guy though.... Well, in other words, the answer of your question is yes. You can create any kind of website with Java. However, at some point usually you'll need to choose your path. Are you want to be a web designer (experts in creating great looking website) or a web developer (the guy who made your form works). Of course, you could do both if you have the ability to do so. Me? I'm a developer, because my web design skill is sucks and my hands already full with the back-end code... EDIT : Oh, and of course you can also create a flash-like animation applet and embed it in your website. Or maybe a full applet website (which is scary...)
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Thanks for your suggestion, it never occured to me to use AJAX before. Quote:
Anyway, thanks for sharing your knowledge, I still have much to learn regarding the frameworks. |
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2009-08-12, 21:58 | Link #3065 | |
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In the USA it will be different person to person and region to region, but from my view point. Summer - BBQ (doesn't matter what meat, just the fact that you are BBQing) I can't really think of anything else because we tend to eat all foods all year round. |
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2009-08-12, 22:16 | Link #3066 | |
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Thanks giving turkey and dressing If you have a local vegetable market you might get yellow squash mid summer and orka throughout the summer. Supermarkets have seasonal food all year, so turkey is the only thing I can really think of...
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2009-08-12, 23:56 | Link #3067 |
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Because we "globalized" our food distribution, many US people can no longer tell you what foods/produce are grown in what season.
They've got pumpkins associated with fall and turkey+dressing for the Big Shopping Holiday Period (Thanksgiving thru New Years). Easter dinner usually involves a large ham for Christians. Summer is watermelon and BBQ. After that it depends on the region and the family's historical culture. Our house believes any holiday/season involving festivals and food is worth celebrating so we not only do our historical heritages of Japanese and European stuff but pull in Mexican foods-traditions (being originally from Texas), and a few other random bits of fun. Thanksgiving involves turkey+dressing and heaps of sushi. New Years includes black-eyed peas and Ozoni.
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2009-08-13, 00:08 | Link #3068 |
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There was something I wanted to ask for a while but I kept forgetting to do so. Why do characters in anime sometimes use english words in the midst of their conversations in japanese? And the weird thing is, it's for the most ordinary words for which there must be japanese terms, not for some cool english slang that is best left untranslated.
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2009-08-13, 02:54 | Link #3069 | |
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Edit: Don't worry, there are plenty of loaned words from Japanese into English as well. I'm no expert on Japan, so I can't really tell you how much loan words are indicative of western influence - but it could very well be a matter of practicality . |
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2009-08-13, 03:11 | Link #3070 | |
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2009-08-13, 04:46 | Link #3071 | |
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English is a hodge-podge of borrowed, stolen, and blenderized words reflecting Latin and Anglo-Saxon roots buried under a dozen other fly-by language lootings. Almost any native english speaker knows what you mean by "tsunami", "arigato". "konnichiwa", etc. Try counting the number of French words in the English language. English has dozens of ways to say the same thing... at least Japanese remains a bit simpler in that regard (maybe a dozen ).
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2009-08-13, 21:24 | Link #3072 | ||
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You can't really compare the same amount of Latin influence with English to English's affect on Japanese; I think Sino-Japanese vocabulary is the equivalent of words with Latin roots in English. Quote:
Gairaigo, words taken from other languages as Vexx explained, generally have *somewhat* different meanings in Japanese compared to the original meaning. However, phonetic differences among languages are very hard to ignore by the time you're an in your late teens or are an adult, meaning that, without practice, your pool of distinguishable phonemes will remain within the scope of your language. It may *sound* like bad English, but many of those words have their own meaning among Japanese and simply carry the remnants of the original language it came from. So they're not literally 1 for 1 in Japanese and English. What you're hearing is Japanese. Here's a better way to distinguish whether or not the word is gairaigo or gaikokugo. Japanese has several "classes" of words. These are: nouns, verbal nouns, noun adjectives, adjectives, and verbs. The interesting thing is that the majority of loaned words in Japanese are placed in the noun, verbal noun, or adjective noun categories; the rest are closed categories. For example, the Sino-Japanese word 運動する (undou suru) is a verbal noun. The roots come from Chinese (yun dong), which is a noun, then has a verb attached to it (suru). Thus, it becomes "Japanese." If you notice that the words you're hearing are not among these categories, then it's likely to be "English." For example, articles don't exist in Japanese, so if you hear "the ____" (often Japan-ified as ザ・___), it's most likely meant to be English, even with a sea of Japanese around it. In comparison, the word "through" (スルーする) is often used to mean "to ignore," which is not its function in English. Just the other day, my Korean roommate was watching a video about dancing, and, although I don't know any Korean, could guess several words because they sounded like Japanese/Chinese (i.e. undou/yun dong, aka movement/exercise). It was fun. XD |
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2009-08-15, 04:05 | Link #3076 | |
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Definitions of stretcher on the Web: * a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting * a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles Definitions of gurney on the Web: * a metal stretcher with wheels wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * A gurney is the U.S. term for a type of stretcher used in modern hospitals and ambulances in ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney * A stretcher having wheeled legs en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gurney ____________________________________________ Now for my question. In anime and manga whenever someone is being interrogated, especially by the police, there is a bowl of I think some kind of pork udon. And someone is always like "Noooo! don't eat the food". It seems like if you eat it you are gonna confess. My actual questions are: 1) what is the name of the dish served 2) why is it served during interrogations and what does eating it do? Here is an F.Y.I for everyone. In the USA, and surely in other countries as well, the police will give you sodas and water during an interrogation. The reason they do this is because they want you to have to pee. It makes you nervous and uncomfortable. Therefore making it harder to lie when they ask the same question over and over because you will lose you concentration. |
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2009-08-15, 06:10 | Link #3077 | |
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Int he transformers movie they have donuts on the table
it is about being guilty and being innocent I think it was when you eat the donuts that you are innocent if you don't eat it then you suggest that you might be guilty Quote:
eating prob suggests you're more relaxed and at ease which can suggest that you have no bloody idea why you are in there also soup since it is warm can make you want to go to the bathroom sooner or perhaps straight away, this is probably why they say "Don't eat it" |
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2009-08-15, 12:58 | Link #3079 | ||
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1) The person is presented with something desirable/delicious, but if they reach for it then it will be moved away. The idea is that it's just within reach, but in order to get it they need to give the desired information. I don't believe this method is used in reality (because in order for it to work, the person under interrogation would have to be starved. That counts as torture, and if the interrogators are OK with using torture, I'm sure they'd prefer some more harsh, direct, quick methods). However, it works for comedic effect; seeing a big thug break down at the sight of a bowl of ramen is silly. That's from a western standpoint. 2) From an eastern standpoint, it may be a bit different. That is, by accepting an offering from someone, you're indebted to them. By eating food offered by the police, you are honor-bound to give them something in return. Again, this is probably not a realistic scenario, but something used for somewhat comedic effect - nobody is going to rat out their accomplices over a bowl of ramen. Quote:
Even if it were true, it matches up with the first explanation that I gave. Specifically, you need to use the bathroom, you're uncomfortable, you'll be relieved if you're allowed to urinate, and the police use that to tempt you to give the desired information. (Compared to: you're starving, you're uncomfortable, you'll be relieved if you're allowed to eat, and the police use that to tempt you to give the desired information.) Part of the reason I'm a bit doubtful that such methods are used (or at least, used commonly) is because it may amount to torture, which could get the police into very big trouble (at least in America).
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