• (cs) in reply to chainletter
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不

    您的父亲是也是!

  • (cs) in reply to DWalker59
    Does flying 120 to 300 people at a time emit more CO2 than those 120 to 300 people driving to their destination?

    For trans-oceanic flights, does flying across the Atlantic or Pacific ocean emit more CO2 per person than taking a ship? (And not everyone has the time luxury of being able to cruise across an ocean.)

    Actually, having a Seven-Eleven frozen burrito for breakfast causes me to emit more greenhouse gasses than any of those cases.

    But think about it--this whole climate change warming thing didn't really crank up until the advent of hot-air hand driers in convenience store restrooms.

    Seriously, think about it. After that, stop.

  • (cs) in reply to chainletter
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不

    According to Google, this says

    A large truck, the driver will be thrown into my path on the small river, and then ran away, you see this news, I would be grateful if it is distributed to four forums, in the absence of fat, your mother in a month were killed, the father would become ill, if you follow the above done, in five days you like the people will like you because of a drug case too, I must
  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不

    您的父亲是也是!

    該答覆是經典!

  • AT (unregistered)

    The WordWeb license is a great example of the ridiculous naiveté of global warmists. It continues:

    [Whenever a user no longer meets the above requirements, and they have installed the product for more than 30 days, they must uninstall the product or purchase WordWeb Pro; otherwise it is software theft.] http://wordweb.info/free/licence.html

    Right. I'm sure all those folks raping and pillaging the bounty of the earth give a damn about software theft.

  • MrEleganza (unregistered) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    Does flying 120 to 300 people at a time emit more CO2 than those 120 to 300 people driving to their destination?

    For trans-oceanic flights, does flying across the Atlantic or Pacific ocean emit more CO2 per person than taking a ship? (And not everyone has the time luxury of being able to cruise across an ocean.)

    Or are we supposed to stay on the continent that we were born on, and never travel across an ocean?

    No, but you are supposed to do one of the following:

    a. Not go across the country more than twice a year. b. If you do go more than twice a year, pay penance for your energy-guzzling ways by paying for the software rather than continuing to use the free version. c. Stop using it altogether and use a rival application that is not at odds with your politics or sense of logic. d. Lie.

  • (cs) in reply to lw
    Someone You Know:
    ... Anyone have any thoughts on what exactly got translated into "give cones change the machine" so many times?
    I'm guessing it is something along the lines of "port configurations" or "port models" or "versions" or something like that. Then the lines would read like:

    7.5VDC/1A (5/8 port configurations) 110-220 VAC / 50-60Hz (16/24 port configurations)

  • (cs) in reply to mrprogguy
    mrprogguy:
    Someone You Know:
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不
    您的父亲是也是!
    該答覆是經典!
    这个线程是真正的跆拳道 (actually, TRWTF is that "WTF" translates to "Taekwondo")
  • (cs) in reply to Critter
    Critter:
    When you fly, you contribute to the demand that, in turn, causes planes to fly.
    Help me out with the logic behind that. Is it that if enough people cut back on their flying, the airlines will cut back on the number of flights? And that this could happen to such an extent that it would have a noticeable effect on the environment? And yet that the airlines wouldn't completely go out of business... they'd just have enough flights available for people to fly, say, twice a year?

    That's gonna happen.

    Meanwhile, I guess all of us former flyers will be driving to our destinations now. One plane, still flying its regular schedule but nearly empty now due to boycotting, plus about 100 vehicles driving across the country.

    But it's okay! They're not SUV's.

  • Look at me! I'm on the internets! (unregistered) in reply to SilverEyes
    SilverEyes:
    I'm guessing;

    "Give cones change the machine"

    Has something to do with screws or another fastener, because they're given as common measurements of inches (which, btw, is evil compared to metric).

    Maybe something like torsion screws (is that a real thing, I'm not sure?), where 'give' means how much stress they can handle, and I guess they're cone-shaped (really long pointy cones with almost no curvature lengthwise). And when do you use them? - when you need to 'change the machine' (take it apart, swear at it, try to put the give cones back, then realize its a piece of junk, smash it with a hammer, and buy a real product).

    I don't think those are inches. I think 5/8 and 16/24 refer to the 5 or 8 port and the 16 or 20 port versions of the router.

    I do like the idea of "give cones" meaning screw, it makes sense with how chinese characters are often compose from two or more seemingly unrelated words. However the word "screw" is used correctly with the "L type" (Angle Mounting Brackets).

    Looking at the text again, I see that it is always 5/8 give cones the machine or 16/24 give cones the machine.

    I think replacing "give cones the machine" with "port models" makes a lot of sense.

    This would give: -A direct curren power supply ...(Applicable to 5/8 port models) -An AC power cable (Applicable to 16/24 port models) -Six Self-adhesive rubber feet (16/24 port models) [For shelf mounting - LaMIotI] -Two L-brackets (16/24 port models) [rack mounting]

    Which actually starts to make a lot of sense.

    Other guesses Circulate the Temperature - Operating Temp. Saving Temperature - Storage Temp. Environment Temperature - Something to do with humidity 5%-95% have no coagulation - This device can be operated between 5 and 95% relative humidity provided there is no freezing.

    After that, it just gets weird.

    see: http://picasaweb.google.com/stewart54321/TranslationError/photo?authkey=FdtUB3CDsM4#5087623992942851122 for the full document

  • (cs) in reply to gl
    gl:
    Jim L. must be an American. They haven't quite discovered the environment yet.
    Don't make me resurrect Teddy Roosevelt so he can kick your ass.
  • Pol (unregistered) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    mrprogguy:
    Someone You Know:
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不
    您的父亲是也是!
    該答覆是經典!
    这个线程是真正的跆拳道 (actually, TRWTF is that "WTF" translates to "Taekwondo")

    It has always. I see kung fu of you is strong not enough to today.

  • Blackrose (unregistered) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    mrprogguy:
    Someone You Know:
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不
    您的父亲是也是!
    該答覆是經典!
    这个线程是真正的跆拳道)

    中国語が分かりません！

  • (cs)
    1. Buy a 1972 Cadillac with the 500ci V-8.
    2. Use WordWeb legally for free because a 1972 Cadillac (12 MPG) is not an SUV like a hybrid Escape (36 MPG).
    3. Laugh at the ignorant enviro-nazi.

    When you have an arbitrary agenda (against SUVs and commercial flight, instead of being for efficient cars or public transportation) it's not long before your foolishness becomes apparent.

  • Rampant Troublemaker (unregistered)

    So if I find someone who takes only 2 flights a year, I can "buy" the unused flights for, say, 10 cents each or maybe a beer, and take 6 flights a year.

  • wrp (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    Is it that if enough people cut back on their flying, the airlines will cut back on the number of flights? <snip> [The airlines would] just have enough flights available for people to fly, say, twice a year?

    That's gonna happen.

    Funny, that's one of the specific use cases for the software I write.

  • (cs) in reply to Look at me! I'm on the internets!
    Look at me! I'm on the internets!:
    5%-95% have no coagulation - This device can be operated between 5 and 95% relative humidity provided there is no freezing.
    "Coagulation" is the only one that made sense -- they mean "Condensation". More like "Can be operated 5% and 95% non-condensing relative humidity" -- you can Google "non-condensing relative humidity" and find several pages of (non-WTF) specs.

    However, if the machine is being operated in a medical environment, perhaps "coagulation" might be an issue...

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Jim L, what's confusing about choosing mass transit?
    Mass transit refuses to carry my canoe a couple hundred km into the wilderness and up washed-out logging roads to the put-in. This is very confusing.
  • Look at me! I'm on the internets! (unregistered) in reply to RobertB
    RobertB:
    Look at me! I'm on the internets!:
    5%-95% have no coagulation - This device can be operated between 5 and 95% relative humidity provided there is no freezing.
    "Coagulation" is the only one that made sense -- they mean "Condensation". More like "Can be operated 5% and 95% non-condensing relative humidity" -- you can Google "non-condensing relative humidity" and find several pages of (non-WTF) specs.

    However, if the machine is being operated in a medical environment, perhaps "coagulation" might be an issue...

    Yes, that's better. I'm still thinking in English, and Coagulation means transforming from liquid to solid, which is where I got "freezing" from. Condensation certainly makes more sense. Are coagulation and condensation the same words in Chinese?

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Andrew:
    Jim L, what's confusing about choosing mass transit?
    Mass transit refuses to carry my canoe a couple hundred km into the wilderness and up washed-out logging roads to the put-in. This is very confusing.

    What, they don't have dial-a-ride? :-)

  • Look at me! I'm on the internets! (unregistered)

    My Hong-Kong boss and I went over this.

    She can't figure out "give cones to change the machine" either.

    Although, she suggested that "to change the machine" could be a convoluted translation from "configure the device" which in a language without tenses, suffixes and prefixes could be written to mean "configuration"

    Still no help on "give cones"

    "cones" is pretty definate in meaning having six definitions, all dealing with the geometric shape. There is a v.tr., which simply means "to form into a cone", so there's not much ambiguity there to play "invisible idiot" with.

    // invisible idiot = out of sight, out of mind.

  • Look at me! I'm on the internets! (unregistered)

    My Hong-Kong boss and I went over this.

    She can't figure out "give cones to change the machine" either.

    Although, she suggested that "to change the machine" could be a convoluted translation from "configure the device" which in a language without tenses, suffixes and prefixes could be written to mean "configuration"

    Still no help on "give cones"

    "cones" is pretty definate in meaning having six definitions, all dealing with the geometric shape. There is a v.tr., which simply means "to form into a cone", so there's not much ambiguity there to play "invisible idiot" with.

    // invisible idiot = out of sight, out of mind.

  • Innocent Bystander Faking It (unregistered) in reply to Blackrose
    Blackrose:
    Random832:
    mrprogguy:
    Someone You Know:
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不
    您的父亲是也是!
    該答覆是經典!
    这个线程是真正的跆拳道)

    中国語が分かりません！

    这个真我也给四, 被撞边将会 撞死里!

  • Le Poete (unregistered)

    Welcome to the world of bad translations.

    It's pretty new to English people to have bad translations, only since most product comes from China. But for us, French Canadians, we had this translation issue since a lot longer, back in the days of "american production", from English people not knowing French just as the Chinese don't know English now. :)

    Welcome in the club :)

  • diaphanein (unregistered) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    Does flying 120 to 300 people at a time emit more CO2 than those 120 to 300 people driving to their destination?

    For trans-oceanic flights, does flying across the Atlantic or Pacific ocean emit more CO2 per person than taking a ship? (And not everyone has the time luxury of being able to cruise across an ocean.)

    Or are we supposed to stay on the continent that we were born on, and never travel across an ocean?

    Speaking of which, many researchers claim that a "well-to-wheels" (or "field-to-wheels") analysis shows that hydrogen and ethanol take more energy in their entire production, transportation, and storage lifetimes than they provide in available energy, while hydrocarbons provide more than they take.

    Strange.

    That's what sails are for, asshole! ;) But, by harnessing the wind, you're counteracting the rotation of the earth (read: coriolis effect). Such change in angular moment could destabilize the earth's orbit, sending us in a dangerous spiral towards an inevitable joint space-time with the sun. Now THAT will cause global warming.

  • (cs) in reply to wrp
    wrp:
    FredSaw:
    Is it that if enough people cut back on their flying, the airlines will cut back on the number of flights? <snip> [The airlines would] just have enough flights available for people to fly, say, twice a year?

    That's gonna happen.

    Funny, that's one of the specific use cases for the software I write.

    Now that's the kind of thing that deserve's an "owned" pic.

  • GrandmasterB (unregistered)

    haha, I love eco-whackjobs and their global warming doomsday prophesies. Back in the 1700's it was fire and brimstone preachers, now its AlGore and Leo. Same difference.

    What if we buy carbon credits from Rev. Al Gore's church? Can we use the software then?

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    Speaking of which, many researchers claim that a "well-to-wheels" (or "field-to-wheels") analysis shows that hydrogen and ethanol take more energy in their entire production, transportation, and storage lifetimes than they provide in available energy.

    Oh really? These must be the same researchers that are paid by Big Oil to deny the greenhouse effect in the first place. Probably they include the energy from sunlight in their calculations, then it's actually true (and a truism because of the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics).

    But why don't you go and tell Brazil about those findings? They have replaced 50% of their gasoline consumption by ethanol from sugar cane. And all this time they didn't realize they've been wasting energy and are actually paying more!</sarcasm>

    DWalker59:
    while hydrocarbons provide more than they take.

    Methane is a hydrocarbon and can be produced from decomposing plant matter and animal feces quite efficiently.

    And how do you think fossile fuels came about in the first place?

    Why are people so gullible?

    DWalker59:
    Strange.

    Indeed.

    Captcha: stinky (even worsethanfailure dislikes SUVs)

  • Gedoon (unregistered) in reply to Kemp

    How can you live in the UK and not understand your own language? It says: "at most 4 flights", meaning the very same as not more than 4 flights... Jeesh, what a tool!

  • bighusker (unregistered) in reply to EcoFreak
    EcoFreak:
    The WordWeb one is probably not an error. The vendor just wants people to be more eco-friendly and is willing to offer use of their software in exchange.

    It's a pretty narrow-minded and over-simplified assessment of somebody's "eco-friendliness" then. Why single out SUVs? There are hybrid SUVs like the Ford Escape and Toyota Highlander that get better gas milage than most cars. Additionally, there are plenty of non-SUVs that have horrible gas milage (older cars, big trucks, etc.) that the license agreement says nothing about.

    As for flying, I know people that frequently fly for business because their job depends on it, yet they take public transportation to work every day. Does this piddly software company expect people to quit their job so they can be in accordance with their license agreement?

    The wording in that license just reeks of somebody who knows little about the environment, but wants to seem "hip" and "cool" so they throw out a bunch of buzzwords in a foolish attempt to make themselves sound educated on a "hot topic." Probably not a WTF, but definitely Lame!

  • gl (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    gl:
    Jim L. must be an American. They haven't quite discovered the environment yet.
    Don't make me resurrect Teddy Roosevelt so he can kick your ass.

    You would have to resurrect Teddy. Your current prez couldn't find his own ass if he used both hands and a GPS locator.

  • Nomen Nescio (unregistered) in reply to Moriarty

    i think you meant to say I googled "give cones change the machine" and got this page on their site.

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Kemp

    How is "not more than" any clearer than "at most"? I realize that the US and the UK are two countries separated by a common language but I found the message perfectly understandable.

    I agree with EcoFreak -- it's probably just a semi-humorous attempt at delivering an ecological message. Sort of like a well known singer, whose name escapes me at the moment, recommending we use only one sheet of toilet paper. It was meant in jest but useful in raising consciousness.

    If I recall correctly, the license for the old modem and file transfer program kermit had a proviso in its license saying that it could be used for peaceful purposes only. Probably not enforcable but a nice little reminder.

  • AdT (unregistered)

    The WordWeb licensing reminds me of the design of the Smart car. IIRC the original gasoline version consumed 6 liters per 100km, which means 39 MPG. This isn't bad, but (back then) my trusty old VW Golf II consumed 6.5l (36 MPG) and the latter was an old five-seater built in '82, while the other was a brand-new two-seater with lower maximum velocity (around 80mph compared to 110mph).

    That made me wonder why the Smart doesn't consume 5l or less. My brother (who owned one for a time) explained it to me: The Smart had an engine displacement of 599 cubic centimeters, which is basically too small even for a car this size. So they had to add a turbo charger to get acceptable performance, which hurt the fuel efficiency (compared to a non-turbo-charged larger engine).

    Why the hell would they do this?

    Tax law!

    In Germany, owners of cars with less than 600ccm engine displacement have to pay particularily little taxes. That's why the Smart designers made the engine so small, sacrificing fuel efficiency for it. The tax law says nothing about turbo-chargers, CO2 emissions etc., just displacement.

    Now there are plenty of cases where economical considerations take precedence over ecological considerations, but this is a particularily gross case, because without this stupid tax law, this decision would have made no sense - neither ecologically nor economically.

    The good news is that German legislators did learn something and finally want to make car taxes depend on factors like CO2 emissions instead of engine displacement.

  • Sigivald (unregistered)

    give cones change the machine

    "Give cones" must be "ports" (They give out data! They're conical in the loosest possible sense of the word!).

    "Change" is obviously "switch", both from context, and because it's a synonym.

    "The machine" being the device.

    16/24 give cones change the machine :: 16/24 port switch.

    This ain't rocket surgery, people.

    (BBCode not OK. Use HTML, for god's sake.)

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to GrandmasterB
    GrandmasterB:
    haha, I love eco-whackjobs and their global warming doomsday prophesies. Back in the 1700's it was fire and brimstone preachers, now its AlGore and Leo. Same difference.

    What if we buy carbon credits from Rev. Al Gore's church? Can we use the software then?

    I wonder whether they had any eco-whackjobs on Easter Island in the 19th century cautioning the statue builders against ravaging the island's resources. If so, I'm sure there were also people like GrandmasterB laughing at the eco-whackjobs right up until the ecology failed and most of them died of starvation.
  • bw (unregistered) in reply to gl

    It'll be a cold day before I take enviro-lectures from Europeans. You continously talk about Kyoto and still don't conform. I can count the number of diesel cars I see in a day on one hand, you can't.

    Please spare us your self-righteousness.

  • nobody (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Andrew:
    Jim L, what's confusing about choosing mass transit?
    Mass transit refuses to carry my canoe a couple hundred km into the wilderness and up washed-out logging roads to the put-in. This is very confusing.

    Well, since you can't take an SUV, you'll have to go by helicopter.

  • (cs) in reply to EcoFreak
    EcoFreak:
    The WordWeb one is probably not an error. The vendor just wants people to be more eco-friendly and is willing to offer use of their software in exchange.
    My SUV is a hybrid. Am I still not allowed to use the software for free?
  • (cs) in reply to Enrique
    Enrique:
    In fact I think it can be inserted into all that dialogue:

    what happen? somebody set up us the bomb! we get signal gentlemen, all your base are belong to us you are on the way to destruction what you say! give cones change the machine! you have no chance to survive make your time take off every sig! link a fast ether lord fucking net ascending for great justice

    +5 funny

    That made my day a little better.. now I have to go write some documentation :(.

  • (cs) in reply to chainletter
    chainletter:
    大卡车撞死了，司机将我抛进路径边的小河里，然后逃走了，你看到这条消息后，请将它发给四个论坛，如果没有发，你的妈妈会在1个月被撞死，你的爸爸会得绝症，如果你照着上面做了，在5天后你喜欢的人也会喜欢你 因为这条话太毒了我不得不
    google says: A large truck, the driver will be thrown into my path on the small river, and then ran away, you see this news, I would be grateful if it is distributed to four forums, in the absence of fat, your mother in a month were killed, the father would become ill, if you follow the above done, in five days you like the people will like you because of a drug case too, I must
  • Global Warmer (unregistered)

    I recently read were Norwegian scientists found that gasses emitted, by a single moose, in a year is equivalent to a person driving 11,000 KM in their car. Years ago I remember something similar being said about cows. Cars and planes also expel gases. I see a pattern forming here, we should kill everything that expels gas, including men (not women though, everyone knows women don’t fart) When I was a youngster in the 70’s the same scientists currently crying about global warming were crying about global cooling. I wish they would make up there minds, I have a basement full of parkas and blankets and suntan oil and bathing suits. I wonder how people can be so gullible too. To think, people actually pay someone else to not expel gases or to plant a tree to expel “counter-effect” gases so they can continue to live the way they want expelling all the gases they want. I don’t see Al or Leo giving anything up, but they sure want us little people to. Seems to me, weather people can’t accurately tell the weather for tomorrow in my little town, let alone on a global scale, over decades or centuries. I think we should all do what we can to help the environment and conserve natural resources but not to the point of destroying our economy (actually I think the U.S. economy is the primary target of Kyoto) over some non-verifiable musings of some so-called scientists (despite what you have been told, all scientists do not believe the whole global warming thing).

  • (cs) in reply to gl
    gl:
    You would have to resurrect Teddy. Your current prez couldn't find his own ass if he used both hands and a GPS locator.

    I think I found it! It's seems to be this large hole in the ground.

  • knock it off... (unregistered) in reply to Sigivald

    finally! someone who simply thinks synonyms! I was just about to write something similar...

    "change (machine)" is definitely "switch (machine)" - these two are clearly synonyms: translating word-by-word and always just taking the first or an arbitrary meaning from the dictionary produces results like that.

    for "give" a thesaurus readily yields synonyms like "let out", "pass out", "hand over" etc. quite clear, I'd say.

    "cone" is the only one that's a little bit tricky, no reasonable thesaurus hits there - but I don't think it has to do with "canonical". my guess is that in chinese the word for "port" (in the sense of "connector"!) has a synonym which means "(cone shaped) hole" or something like that.

    I just have to imagine someone translating a manual like that from english into german (after all, these two share a common ancestor language, which is not the case for english/chinese...) without knowing the language and looking up each word in the dictionary: the main meaning of "port" is "hafen", which in the narrowest sense means "anchorage place for ships" - it does not have the newer meaning of "connector" in german.

    then imagine some poor sap sticking cables into the sea and wondering why that does not connect him to the network... ;o)

  • knock it off... (unregistered) in reply to knock it off...
    knock it off...:
    finally! someone who simply thinks *synonyms*! I was just about to write something similar...

    "change (machine)" is definitely "switch (machine)" - these two are clearly synonyms: translating word-by-word and always just taking the first or an arbitrary meaning from the dictionary produces results like that.

    for "give" a thesaurus readily yields synonyms like "let out", "pass out", "hand over" etc. quite clear, I'd say.

    "cone" is the only one that's a little bit tricky, no reasonable thesaurus hits there - but I don't think it has to do with "canonical". my guess is that in chinese the word for "port" (in the sense of "connector"!) has a synonym which means "(cone shaped) hole" or something like that.

    I just have to imagine someone translating a manual like that from english into german (after all, these two share a common ancestor language, which is not the case for english/chinese...) without knowing the language and looking up each word in the dictionary: the main meaning of "port" is "hafen", which in the narrowest sense means "anchorage place for ships" - it does not have the newer meaning of "connector" in german.

    then imagine some poor sap sticking cables into the sea and wondering why that does not connect him to the network... ;o)

    sorry, my above post was intended as a reply to Sigivald's post...

  • (cs) in reply to Look at me! I'm on the internets!

    [quote user="Look at me! I'm on the internets!"][quote user="SilverEyes"]I'm guessing; 5%-95% have no coagulation - This device can be operated between 5 and 95% relative humidity provided there is no freezing. [/quote]

    Condensation, not freezing

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Global Warmer
    Global Warmer:
    Seems to me, weather people can’t accurately tell the weather for tomorrow in my little town, let alone on a global scale, over decades or centuries.
    And I can't predict a single coin toss with accuracy better than fifty percent, but I can predict the statistical pattern of the next thousand coin tosses with accuracy approaching a hundred percent. The fact that your little town is less 'significant' than the whole planet doesn't mean that its one-day weather forecast is easier than plotting global climate change trends.
  • (cs) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    But why don't you go and tell Brazil about those findings? They have replaced 50% of their gasoline consumption by ethanol from sugar cane. And all this time they didn't realize they've been wasting energy and are actually paying more!</sarcasm>

    It's the difference between corn ethanol and cane ethanol. Sugarcane ethanol produces about 3 units of energy at the pump for each unit of energy used to make it. Corn ethanol produces about 0.9 units of energy at the pump for each unit of energy used to make it.

  • That's Me! (unregistered) in reply to Gedoon
    Gedoon:
    How can you live in the UK and not understand your own language? It says: "at most 4 flights", meaning the very same as not more than 4 flights... Jeesh, what a tool!
    You tell 'em Internet tough-guy! Ya! That'll show him to post based on a misunderstanding, then post again retracting it just a few posts later... the tool!

    He should kick himself off the Internets! Oh, and you should follow him off just to make sure he goes...

  • swordfishBob (unregistered) in reply to codeman38
    codeman38:
    Apparently it involves the Chinese character 干 (gan), which can mean 'to dry' or 'to do', ... same slang meaning of sexual intercourse... Still not entirely sure how that applies to fast Ethernet sentence, though. Maybe there was 'doing' somewhere else in the sentence and it somehow got transplanted in the midst of translation?
    Those with an electronics background have long referred to "mating" connectors, meaning plugging one into another. Many connector types are described as male and female, with a fairly obvious connotation.

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