four voices
Rice, the dominant metaphor for a social group within society, surfaces again and again in Japanese deliberations of self at crucial historical junctures. Rice has been a critical metaphor by which the Japanese have defined and re-defined themselves through interaction with other peoples throughout history
If we ask a native speaker of English how many parts there are in the word London, (s)he would be most likely to answer “two”. If we ask a native speaker of Japanese the same question, however, (s)he would probably say “four”. This difference resides in how English and Japanese speakers divide words into smaller units. Specifically, English speakers divide words into syllables while Japanese speakers divide them into morae.
Graphics cards using the SIS Xabre chipset don’t seem to have quite made it to the retail market in most of the world yet, but they’re on sale now here in Australia. I’ve checked out Triplex’s shiny XabrePRO card. It’s weird. Not just because it’s silver, in typical Triplex fashion. It’s also got weird drivers. Not bad drivers. Just… weird. And it makes a weird noise. Seriously.
Let L be a list containing distinct (non-repeating) integers. Moreover, assume L contains an odd number of values. Assume we want to define a Prolog predicate median(L,M) that is true when M is the median of L. One way to implement this predicate is to sort L and then extract the “middle” element of the sorted list. This, however, is overkill. A simpler implementation can be extracted from the definition of what it means for M to be L’s median: First: M must occur in L.Second: if M is used to partition L into two sublists, one containing values greater than M and the other containing values smaller than M, then the resulting sublists must be equal in length.
