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二進制的說明-an explanation of binary

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http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%8C%E8%BF%9B%E5%88%B6

世上只有10种人，懂二进制的和不懂二进制的。

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Bazza, actually there are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Maybe someone wants to translate this to chinese !?

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John, I'll probably come round on Tuesday 23rd as I arrive in Shanghai Monday evening.

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John

That's interesting; I didn't know Ephesus was in Turkey; I thought it was in Israel. Cappadocia has the appearance of what I imagine the Holy Land would look like. I read somewhere that the Ark is thought to be buried on a mountain in Turkey somewhere. It'd be cool if someone finds it one day!

AZERDocMom,

Cappadocia is a region of central Turkey. I went there over the October holiday.

Actually, many places in Turkey are mentioned in the New Testament. For example, when you read the book of Ephesians, you're reading letters to Christians in Ephesus, a city on the western coast of Turkey (now called Efes).

Oh, and Noah's Ark landed in Turkey. :)

sputnik,

Cool! Great day to come; Jenny and Ken will both be there for sure. Amber might not be :(, but she'll be in later in the week.

@excuter, thanks for making it easier to see John's pix

@John, those are great pix to help us improve our hanzi; where is Capadocia? it sounds like a city in the Bible

John, coming Monday afternoon (Oct.15)

As for escalators, the most common way to refer to them is 电梯 (diàntī), which is the same word for "elevator." Yes, it can possibly cause confusion, but the Chinese people persist in doing it this way, and society has yet to crumble.

I don't know the official terms (sorry!) but I do sometimes hear 扶手电梯 (fúshǒu diàntī) for escalator.

Bazza,

Not bad, but I would go with this:

世上只有三种人，会数的和不会数的。

Word choice aside, the addition of 的 makes it sound better. (The 的 implies "的人.") Note that the verb is "shǔ" (although the same character is also read "shù" at times).

sputnik,

It's the ChinesePod Office! You'll see when you come...

When are you coming, anyway??

Cpodict says 电动扶梯 and 自动楼梯, 扶梯 could be an abbreviation.

is escalator not 自动扶梯 （zìdòng fútī）？

Do you think 扶梯 can also mean escalator? As in a helping staircase and they've translated it as elevator?

Is "世上只有三种人，能计算和不能计算。" grammatically correct?

in.. the office? what kind of office is this?

:-)

hmm...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524987784/

perhaps

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524985814/

it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524985176/

works

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524116543/

this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524982038/

way

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524980776/

maybe

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524983388/

not

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/1524118279/

here's a few pics for hanzi practice. First one is from the airport, you'll appreciate the translation (see transcript and vocab below). Next two are the menu of a little restaurant North of the Suzhou river. Useful to review your basic food vocab before ordering :-) 注意安全 请勿将身体伸出扶梯外 注意 zhùyì pay attention to 安全 ānquán n. security; safety 请勿 qǐngwù please don't 将 jiāng (I guess it's similar to 把) 身体 shēntǐ body 伸出 shēnchū reach out 扶梯 fútī staircase with balustrade 外 wài outside

Yeah, in the original post you have to define all the links properly, I usually forget to.

I once toyed with the idea of having a Flickr group for ChinesePod vocabulary items... anyone up for helping me revive it?

Argh, I thought they would be converted to links! I guess that only works for comments?

Well, alternatively, you could just go here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/

That's a lot of copying and pasting. ;)