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tvan
Posted on: Tech Fixes and Traditional Characters
February 16, 2009 at 2:50 AMThanks for the post, found the traditional character setting. Has the setting to "Hide/Show English translations by default" always been available or is that also a new feature? That's one I'll definitely use.
Posted on: Tech Fixes and Traditional Characters
February 15, 2009 at 7:17 PMIs traditional support available now? I fished around for it, but couldn't find it. No hurry, just curious.
Posted on: 学术抄袭
February 12, 2009 at 4:54 AMxuchen, don't know if it was technical problems, but in the case of YouTube, there is a box labelled "URL." (Don't copy the URL in the browser.) Copy the URL listed, click on the media tool (far right-hand side of the comment tool bar), and the rest is easy from there. Anyway, I've done it for you below.
Posted on: 中国崛起
February 11, 2009 at 8:55 PMzhenlijiang, on the BBC, I agree with you completely. The "rising Japanese nationalism" comment seems overblown regardless of the news source.
Posted on: 中国崛起
February 11, 2009 at 4:00 PMchangye and zhenlijiang, your observations certainly seem accurate to me today. However, as I'm sure you're well aware, Japanese nationalism seems to have been exceptionally extreme and left a region-wide scar. According to some (not all) accounts, the Japanese government lost control to the extent that extremists/nationalists actually started the Marco Polo incident without authorization. The man who led that attack, Kiyonao Ichiki, is portrayed in U.S. historical accounts as so infused with the notion of Japanese superiority that he led a charge of several hundred Imperial Marines into a fortified U.S. position held by several thousand Marines where, the man who could be considered to have started WWII, died.
I bring all this up because it points out the danger of nationalism spinning out of control. As can be seen above in yours and Henning's comments, the two countries that suffered losses from the blindness engendered by nationalism seem to have learned that lesson, perhaps too well. Hopefully others will listen... and learn.
Posted on: Funny Business -- 搞笑， 好笑， 可笑
February 9, 2009 at 3:29 AMenvirodragon, if you're going to the mainland, you're best off sticking with simplified. I don't recall ever seeing any widespread use of traditional there.
Posted on: Illegal taxis
February 9, 2009 at 1:49 AMPete, "went into a skid, and gave his life to save that bunch of kids." Is this next week's "Poems with Pete?"
Posted on: Funny Business -- 搞笑， 好笑， 可笑
February 9, 2009 at 1:40 AMwjefferys, the short answer is, "Yes." I'm glad to hear that someone else has used DeFrancis.
Posted on: Illegal taxis
February 9, 2009 at 1:27 AMBack when foreigners were restricted to 26 or so cities in China, there were no illegal taxis, but you could hitch a ride with truck drivers. I usually paid their room (really cheap, dirty dorm) and bought them a few beers. I wouldn't recommend it for a lady, but I made from Sichuan to Urumqi, for around 200 RMB.
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 8: Trimming the Fat at the Office
February 16, 2009 at 12:48 PMThis is the third site upgrade I've been through, and I have to say so it's by far the most useful, at least to me. The others seemed to change the layout of existing data and make techie improvements (??) to the back end. This is the first one that significantly improves my studies.
No more lifting my left foot off the ground while chanting the karma sutras and appending "trad" to the PDF file name (but before the file extension) to get my traditional character PDF's.