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You can't throw that out there without doing a two way translation or at the very least tell us what it'd be equivalent to in English!

The idiom does not exist. If you translate it word for word, people take it literally.

Just for you, here's an example: "Nincsen rózsa tövis nélkül", lit. "There are no roses without thorns". Translated as "every bean has its black". Just knowing all the words in the sentence does not give you the full meaning.

Excercise 1: decode the following:
"Don't look at the teeth of a gift horse."/"If the horse is a gift, don't look at the teeth."
"He has slipped on a banana-peel."
"It's below the bottom of a frog."
"He issues a certificate of poverty of himself."
"It's like peas thrown against the wall." (The word itself is an archaic form of "throw", in modern .hu, it means "vomit".)
"The hoar-frost is still to come for the dog."
"I shall teach you to pipe into gloves." (Should be "in gloves", but pronounced it's not so clear.)

And my favorite: "They are as far apart as Makó (in Hungary) is from Jerusalem." This is actually mistranslated, Makó was a person who got lost and thought he arrived in Jerusalem, but there's a town called Makó now, so people get confused.

So. Which one do you think can be translated algorithmically?

Go is not yet as well-automated as chess, but it appears that go-playing software is rapidly advancing:

"Two Hungarian scientists have now come up with an algorithm that helps computers pick the right move in Go, played by millions around the world, in which players must capture spaces by placing black and white marbles on a board in turn.

"On a nine by nine board we are not far from reaching the level of a professional Go player," said Levente Kocsis at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' computing lab SZTAKI.

The 19 by 19 board which top players use is still hard for a machine, but the new method is promising because it makes better use of the growing power of computers than earlier Go software."

Link

See also:

http://zaphod.aml.sztaki.hu/papers/ecml06.pdf

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/vanderwerf03solving.ht ml

http://www.primidi.com/2007/02/26.html

-kgj

Yep, that would be correct. I've also seen "minden jót" used but that's more of "have a nice day"

Apparently, according to sztaki, pölö means "nerd". I'm not a native speaker (started learning a few months ago and am almost fluent), but I can certainly tell you that this is someone translating "Good Luck Nerd Charles" word-for-word in an attempt to sound "cultural"

Ha! Haha! Hahahahahaa! No :( It's too goddamn complicated, and completely unrelated to most Indo-European languages, being a Finno-Ugric language :( http://dict.sztaki.hu/ provides a good dictionary with lots of phrases in, but that's all I've found.

whether "nekked" or "nekkid" was more commonly used...

neked is ;-P

Here in hungary there was some big news about the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences linking 50-60 PCs into what they called a supercomputer. I looked on their site, but couldn't find out what OS these 'client' PCs actually run. Linux is popular, especially at universities, so they could be running that... They have a 'visual programming environment' that aids development of applications taking advantage of the distributed & parallel system. Quote: "It is aimed at creating a professional graphical programming environment for supporting the development cycle of parallel and distributed programs." I myself am not familiar with distributed systems, so I don't know know how advanced it is, but I like seeing things like this in Hungary!

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Here in hungary there was some big news about the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences linking 50-60 PCs into what they called a supercomputer. I looked on their site, but couldn't find out what OS these 'client' PCs actually run. Linux is popular, especially at universities, so they could be running that... They have a 'visual programming environment' that aids development of applications taking advantage of the distributed & parallel system. Quote: "It is aimed at creating a professional graphical programming environment for supporting the development cycle of parallel and distributed programs." I myself am not familiar with distributed systems, so I don't know know how advanced it is, but I like seeing things like this in Hungary!

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