Comments for The Plot Hatching Factory http://www.plothatching.com Life, tech, returning to Uni and Chinese Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:48:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Android Chinese Pinyin IME Roundup by PJ http://www.plothatching.com/2010/02/08/android-chinese-pinyin-ime-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-486 PJ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:48:04 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=168#comment-486 Regarding Google Pinyin IME, has anyone figured out what's the purpose of the 词 button? PJ Regarding Google Pinyin IME, has anyone figured out what’s the purpose of the 词 button?

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]]> Comment on Semester complete! by suzie http://www.plothatching.com/2010/06/22/semester-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-448 suzie Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:42:46 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=300#comment-448 .... i thought i would receive a notice of your reply by an email, as the email address is required when leave a reply. thanks for the explainations! Epic fail sounds familiar, but i have never used it before, is it quite common to use?? when should we actually use it?? …. i thought i would receive a notice of your reply by an email, as the email address is required when leave a reply.

thanks for the explainations!

Epic fail sounds familiar, but i have never used it before, is it quite common to use?? when should we actually use it??

]]> Comment on They need to fix the damn pen tablet service by suzie http://www.plothatching.com/2010/07/04/they-need-to-fix-the-damn-pen-tablet-service/comment-page-1/#comment-447 suzie Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:31:43 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=304#comment-447 1-shebang: a very interesting word! i cant remember if i have ever seen it before. does it mean the whole thing?? 2- i dont know about your Wacom Bamboo Pen ,but i guess sometimes the technological products are purposely designed with some small flaws, so that they can upgrate and further improve them, then they could keep receiving $$$ from their loyal customers. example such as iphone, longer battery life, pixel increases and add flash in the iphone4g!! they could had done it at once, but they didnt. 3- =( i dont get this sentence: Dreamhost has gone back to snailing 4-hah~你不看好Julia Gillard。you dont have confidence for?/on? her . or you dont trust her. 5- =D good to see you keep studying chinese in holiday~~!!! 精神可嘉(jia 1st)！(the spirit ought to be praised) are you going to take any chinese language subjects again next semester?!~ 6-suzie is now working fulltime in the fishy shop till mom come back from China. a LONG holiday to me. =/ btw, what r you doing this holiday, just staying in your cosy house?!~ you are like disappear atm lol. 1-shebang: a very interesting word! i cant remember if i have ever seen it before. does it mean the whole thing??

2- i dont know about your Wacom Bamboo Pen ,but i guess sometimes the technological products are purposely designed with some small flaws, so that they can upgrate and further improve them, then they could keep receiving $$$ from their loyal customers. example such as iphone, longer battery life, pixel increases and add flash in the iphone4g!! they could had done it at once, but they didnt.

3- =( i dont get this sentence: Dreamhost has gone back to snailing

4-hah~你不看好Julia Gillard。you dont have confidence for?/on? her . or you dont trust her.

5- =D good to see you keep studying chinese in holiday~~!!! 精神可嘉(jia 1st)！(the spirit ought to be praised) are you going to take any chinese language subjects again next semester?!~

6-suzie is now working fulltime in the fishy shop till mom come back from China. a LONG holiday to me. =/ btw, what r you doing this holiday, just staying in your cosy house?!~ you are like disappear atm lol.

]]> Comment on Semester complete! by Mat http://www.plothatching.com/2010/06/22/semester-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Mat Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:10:07 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=300#comment-445 Hey Suzie! Thanks for your kind words :) REB is a world famous examination place is it? Maybe that's why they do that, they like to take nice photos with thousands of people there. Obviously the photos are much more important than facilitating the examination process... Portfolio is most often used as a collection of your work, but it can also be a collection of responsibilities. For example: "When the minister took over the defence portfolio he was then in charge of the armed forces." You might run into it more commonly as a body of work though, like a collection of examples artwork that an artist might show a prospective employer. Home turf. Same as home ground if you like. It's a sort of sport analogy which implies that you have the advantage because the game is being played on familiar ground. I used it here to say that this was my strong area. Epic bad, you wouldn't really say that. You've heard of "epic fail" right? The whole "fail" thing is an internet meme you must have run into? Ones one of those words you can't really go doing an -ly to easily. So you can only really use it correctly by saying something like "It was an epic tale" or "that really sounded like an epic experience". Catch up with you soon! Hey Suzie!

Thanks for your kind words :) REB is a world famous examination place is it? Maybe that’s why they do that, they like to take nice photos with thousands of people there. Obviously the photos are much more important than facilitating the examination process…

Portfolio is most often used as a collection of your work, but it can also be a collection of responsibilities. For example: “When the minister took over the defence portfolio he was then in charge of the armed forces.” You might run into it more commonly as a body of work though, like a collection of examples artwork that an artist might show a prospective employer.

Home turf. Same as home ground if you like. It’s a sort of sport analogy which implies that you have the advantage because the game is being played on familiar ground. I used it here to say that this was my strong area.

Epic bad, you wouldn’t really say that. You’ve heard of “epic fail” right? The whole “fail” thing is an internet meme you must have run into? Ones one of those words you can’t really go doing an -ly to easily. So you can only really use it correctly by saying something like “It was an epic tale” or “that really sounded like an epic experience”.

Catch up with you soon!

]]> Comment on Semester complete! by suzie http://www.plothatching.com/2010/06/22/semester-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-441 suzie Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:17:58 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=300#comment-441 lol ‘bastard student’. . i dont know what i would look like if i return to Uni once again after 10,20 years... would i study harder and feel more responsible for my study.. like wat you did this semester, an excellent student! really a 榜样！ in fact, i know how to study harder, how to use time more effectively, and understand what kinda effort will bring me a sufficient result, but i just allow laziness to drive me thro. i guess i could have learned English better if i have ever tried to study it as hard as you study chinese. lol~human are interesting. "The shock for this exam was that it was held in some huge hall near the Melbourne Museum" you mean the spectacular REB?? hah, i heard that it was one of the world's famous examination places. some questions here: 1.portfolio-----i know what it means but hardly understand how to use it.. 2.home turf 我的主场？ means my advantage?? 3.epic bad : can we use this phrase in colloquialism?(colloquial language?) Thx! lol ‘bastard student’. . i dont know what i would look like if i return to Uni once again after 10,20 years… would i study harder and feel more responsible for my study.. like wat you did this semester, an excellent student! really a 榜样！ in fact, i know how to study harder, how to use time more effectively, and understand what kinda effort will bring me a sufficient result, but i just allow laziness to drive me thro. i guess i could have learned English better if i have ever tried to study it as hard as you study chinese. lol~human are interesting.

“The shock for this exam was that it was held in some huge hall near the Melbourne Museum”

you mean the spectacular REB?? hah, i heard that it was one of the world’s famous examination places.

some questions here:
1.portfolio—–i know what it means but hardly understand how to use it..
2.home turf 我的主场？ means my advantage??
3.epic bad : can we use this phrase in colloquialism?(colloquial language?)
Thx!

]]> Comment on Google Nexus One for Chinese Review by Mat http://www.plothatching.com/2010/01/21/google-nexus-one-for-chinese-review/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Mat Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:14:33 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=146#comment-419 Yes... of course that played a part of what I used to look at the battery drain. The actual power drawn and the reported data from the battery stats. Yes… of course that played a part of what I used to look at the battery drain. The actual power drawn and the reported data from the battery stats.

]]> Comment on Skritter (Flash) on Android 2.2 by Mat http://www.plothatching.com/2010/05/23/skritter-flash-on-android-2-2/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Mat Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:12:35 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=280#comment-418 As it turns out the Flash just didn't work with the plug in correctly. The developers kicked out another version which does work and it's actually pretty cool. Not really usable due to speed and screen layout issues but it wouldn't take much to make it workable. It is a cautionary tale though, mouse driven flash apps wont automatically just start working on touchscreen - they may need to be tweaked. As it turns out the Flash just didn’t work with the plug in correctly. The developers kicked out another version which does work and it’s actually pretty cool. Not really usable due to speed and screen layout issues but it wouldn’t take much to make it workable. It is a cautionary tale though, mouse driven flash apps wont automatically just start working on touchscreen – they may need to be tweaked.

]]> Comment on Skritter (Flash) on Android 2.2 by N http://www.plothatching.com/2010/05/23/skritter-flash-on-android-2-2/comment-page-1/#comment-417 N Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:18:57 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=280#comment-417 Isn't it the case that if you just double tap on the flash content that you'll be able to interact with it? So couldn't you just double tap on the part of the screen where you need to write the character in order to be able to write it? Isn’t it the case that if you just double tap on the flash content that you’ll be able to interact with it? So couldn’t you just double tap on the part of the screen where you need to write the character in order to be able to write it?

]]> Comment on Google Nexus One for Chinese Review by Ivan http://www.plothatching.com/2010/01/21/google-nexus-one-for-chinese-review/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Ivan Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:29:46 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=146#comment-416 If you want to figure out what's causing the battery drain, there's a battery application built into all(?) Android phones. Home > Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use If you want to figure out what’s causing the battery drain, there’s a battery application built into all(?) Android phones.

Home > Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use

]]> Comment on Pop-up Chinese Annotator for Chrome at last! by Chris http://www.plothatching.com/2010/04/17/pop-up-chinese-annotator-for-chrome-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Chris Thu, 06 May 2010 20:55:13 +0000 http://www.plothatching.com/?p=258#comment-399 Hi Matt, unfortunately text areas are still a problem. Chrome doesn't provide my extension with the data it needs to do the translation . This also affects other popup translators for Chrome. I'll implement this as soon as I figure out a way to do it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hi Matt, unfortunately text areas are still a problem. Chrome doesn’t provide my extension with the data it needs to do the translation . This also affects other popup translators for Chrome. I’ll implement this as soon as I figure out a way to do it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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