I was actually expecting to get moderated funny instead of interesting...but there is still time. I suppose my post had shown even more thought than I had even thought it did. Choosing the number 60 was a bit extreme and random, but I was trying to emphasize what I am aiming for. It's called shooting for the stars and landing on the moon. I don't know how many words the language would come out to be if/when I start creating it.
One thing that I didn't expect was the stream of very informative posts. Thanks to the people who replied with constructive comments! 118 word toki pona shows that you can do a lot with a little. Simpleton is a bit more extreme than I was aiming for though. (laugh) You don't have to have a concept for everything in a language. Klingon is a language whose words tend to relate to war. Toki pona focuses on "the good things in life."
The idea for a language where one word can have a lot of meanings actually came from studying Japanese. Here are some examples from the Japanese English edict dictionary on Jim Breen's site:
yaru (v5r,vt) (uk) (col) to do; to have sexual intercourse; to kill; to give (to inferiors, animals, etc.); to dispatch (a letter); to despatch; to send; to study; to perform; to play (sports, game); to have (eat, drink, smoke); to row (a boat); to run or operate (a restaurant); (P)
I have been thinking about creating a new language with about 60 or so words. The idea is that you don't need a lot of words when you can figure out the meaning by context. Strong points are that the language would be very easy to pick up, and you would get that invigorating feeling of talking like a primitive cave man.
As an example of the concept, we have the words walk and run. They are a bit too similar to be worth wasting one of our precious few 60 words. Effectively, one could be dropped with have the other taking on a broader meaning without any real repercussions. The words sit and shit are also fairly similar. When you have a guest over, you can say something like, "Please, shit down." Because of context, it would be all okay. Just remember, there is a difference between shitting on the toilet and shitting in the toilet.
I had thought the women were leaving because the nerdy pick-up lines are _that_ horrible. I suppose I will have to think of better metaphors than hard drives and computer racks.
You have a good post. But I wonder if the IE bashing is a mix of being in style AND cynicism. First, you realize that the PC monoculture caused by "laziness" directly impact the number of people who come to you asking how to fix their machine, even if you haven't touched Windows in years.
Tic.
Then you realize that since everyone uses Internet Explorer, you can't get any support for other OSes because they don't have that one program. "What, you don't have the interet? It's the big blue e!"
Tic.
You go online to check your email and find that 30% of your spam comes from your revatives. They keep managing to get their machines turned into spam bots even with antivirus software.
Unless you are told/informed/read other wise, a network is NOT public. It's no different than seeing an unlocked door. You wouldn't just walk in and look around would you? Well there damned signal is coming in my front door.
Thank you. You pretty much echoed my thoughts. I wrote an essay a few years ago for a scholarship to go on exchange to Japan. The topic was restricted to the problems of guns. This was because the scholarship was given by a family that had their son die when on exchange to America. The boy was shot when going to a party because he knocked on the door of the wrong house.
If you go and ask people who have strict gun control in their country about their thoughts on guns, more often then not they talk about how much more dangerous other countries appear to be because they have guns. They don't rue not being able to hunt or show off their great new gun rack.
In the end, guns were just one step towards nuclear weapons. You can make same arguments at different levels for knives, swords, guns, bombs etc. It's all the same. Draw your line where you want, but I know where I'll be drawing mine.
I agree with you except on Viewtiful Joe. The sequel was released for the PS2 first, which hurt the sales of the GameCube version when later released. The ironic thing was that the GameCube sales were still larger than the PS2 sales.
Disclaimer: I may be wrong on any and all points. This information is second hand.
My home computer is a Macintosh. I use Windows computers at school. My Macintosh has been setup to use Dvorak for a while. I find it interesting that my fingers trip if I try to type on a Mac in QWERTY or a PC in Dvorak. Something about the OS theme makes my muscle memory choose one or the other like the machines have nothing in common.
Oops, my bad on the wq thing. I'm not as awake as I had thought I was.
I have a feeling the last sentence of my post is probably costing me mode points....
(If there was some way to do DVORAK for normal typing and switch back to QWERTY when control/alt/command are held down, then that would probably be cool. I don't know of any way to do that though) You can on Mac OS X. It's called Dvorak (Command Qwerty)
I have been using Dvorak for years. It has been an interesting mental exercise...but I would not say it is more productive. It's just different.
Some things you should consider before taking the plunge:
Dvorak seems to be worse for Japanese. There a lot of words only using one hand. Not to mention it's a pain setting the default layout for Japanese to Dvorak on some OSs.
VIM isn't as much fun in Dvorak when you have to switch randomly to QWERTY. For one thing, ":wq" is all done with on one hand.
The curly braces feel too far in Dvorak when coding
You will need to keep your qwerty skill up. Especially during the learning period.
I also had some unforeseen side-effects occur using Dvorak. When I had first started becoming proficient in it, my QWERTY skill practically disappeared from lack of use. When I had gotten my first web design job, my boss thought I was a computer newbie at first because I was typing so slow and with so little confidence. I didn't want to go mucking changing his keyboard layout so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Thank God keyboards have the QWERTY letters on them. (I never thought I would say that.)
On the other hand, my computer is an impenetrable fortress of solitude nowadays. I run a desktop with no icons, Dvorak keyboard layout, Left handed mouse setup, all on top of Japanese Linux. You just try and touch my computer. I recommend you use a 6 foot stick.
To wrap up, I want to say you're a sissy if you actually buy a Dvorak keyboard or dare rearrange the keys. Thank you.
The article is talking about the next generation audio format war which incidently may just deficate on itself in the end. You can compare these formats against mp3, but that is beside the point.
ogg>aac>wmp
Is mp3 still patent encumbered? I get the feeling that aac is in spirit the same as mp3 when it first came out. A codec you have to pay for, but at least it isn't linked to a specific platform.
- Use acid free CD-markers when marking - Do not use as a coaster like your America Online CDs - Do not play Frisbee outside with your CDs (Exposes to direct sunlight) - Chewing reduces durability
If Blackboard is half as horrible as Webct is...agh. I could deal with webct until it was upgraded to webct Vista. When the program learned about the concepts of popups and browser sniffing, it crossed the line of being more annoying than useful. Do educational institutions even try out the computer software they are buying?
My webct sessions usually go something like this: Dammit! I just want to press the back button. Why can't I press the back button!?
I'll be back in 5 minutes. But feel free to leave a message.
P.S. Mary, I love you.;-D lol1!111
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I started using green around a year ago for my background images. It felt so right started to wonder if my favorite color was actually green and not blue. It doesn't hurt my eyes like white. It isn't cold like blue. It isn't depressing like black. It's very lively and gives you energy.
I use an e17 metacity theme to get some brown in there to mix up the look. After all, brown and green are complimentary colors and using one color for everything is a bit monotonous.
With the release of GNOME 2.18, it appears there has been a change in the playing field. In order to be considered to a full fledged modern OS, a Three-Dee Chess program must be included with every new operating system. The Release of Mac OS X seems to have started this trend. Microsoft soon followed suit with Windows Vista. Now there is Gnome. Will KDE be pulled into this madness, or will it fall behind into oblivion?!
With CDs you can make a copy. So once the package is opened, it's understandable not being able to return it. But with DRMed music files, your right to view the file is taken away with returning the file. You can't make copies. Music, unlike movies, tends to be played over and over which makes the whole returning thing work.
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That is probably exactly the reason why Microsoft doesn't pull out of Europe. Their biggest fear would come true: Linux would become mainstream. Ack!
I was actually expecting to get moderated funny instead of interesting...but there is still time. I suppose my post had shown even more thought than I had even thought it did. Choosing the number 60 was a bit extreme and random, but I was trying to emphasize what I am aiming for. It's called shooting for the stars and landing on the moon. I don't know how many words the language would come out to be if/when I start creating it.
One thing that I didn't expect was the stream of very informative posts. Thanks to the people who replied with constructive comments! 118 word toki pona shows that you can do a lot with a little. Simpleton is a bit more extreme than I was aiming for though. (laugh) You don't have to have a concept for everything in a language. Klingon is a language whose words tend to relate to war. Toki pona focuses on "the good things in life."
The idea for a language where one word can have a lot of meanings actually came from studying Japanese. Here are some examples from the Japanese English edict dictionary on Jim Breen's site:
I have been thinking about creating a new language with about 60 or so words. The idea is that you don't need a lot of words when you can figure out the meaning by context. Strong points are that the language would be very easy to pick up, and you would get that invigorating feeling of talking like a primitive cave man.
As an example of the concept, we have the words walk and run. They are a bit too similar to be worth wasting one of our precious few 60 words. Effectively, one could be dropped with have the other taking on a broader meaning without any real repercussions. The words sit and shit are also fairly similar. When you have a guest over, you can say something like, "Please, shit down." Because of context, it would be all okay. Just remember, there is a difference between shitting on the toilet and shitting in the toilet.
I had thought the women were leaving because the nerdy pick-up lines are _that_ horrible. I suppose I will have to think of better metaphors than hard drives and computer racks.
You have a good post. But I wonder if the IE bashing is a mix of being in style AND cynicism. First, you realize that the PC monoculture caused by "laziness" directly impact the number of people who come to you asking how to fix their machine, even if you haven't touched Windows in years.
Tic.
Then you realize that since everyone uses Internet Explorer, you can't get any support for other OSes because they don't have that one program. "What, you don't have the interet? It's the big blue e!"
Tic.
You go online to check your email and find that 30% of your spam comes from your revatives. They keep managing to get their machines turned into spam bots even with antivirus software.
Tic. Boom!
Thank you. You pretty much echoed my thoughts. I wrote an essay a few years ago for a scholarship to go on exchange to Japan. The topic was restricted to the problems of guns. This was because the scholarship was given by a family that had their son die when on exchange to America. The boy was shot when going to a party because he knocked on the door of the wrong house. If you go and ask people who have strict gun control in their country about their thoughts on guns, more often then not they talk about how much more dangerous other countries appear to be because they have guns. They don't rue not being able to hunt or show off their great new gun rack. In the end, guns were just one step towards nuclear weapons. You can make same arguments at different levels for knives, swords, guns, bombs etc. It's all the same. Draw your line where you want, but I know where I'll be drawing mine.
I agree with you except on Viewtiful Joe. The sequel was released for the PS2 first, which hurt the sales of the GameCube version when later released. The ironic thing was that the GameCube sales were still larger than the PS2 sales. Disclaimer: I may be wrong on any and all points. This information is second hand.
Yes, this is the perfect chance for wine to become mainstream and pick up loads of developers to hack those rare apps into working.
My home computer is a Macintosh. I use Windows computers at school. My Macintosh has been setup to use Dvorak for a while. I find it interesting that my fingers trip if I try to type on a Mac in QWERTY or a PC in Dvorak. Something about the OS theme makes my muscle memory choose one or the other like the machines have nothing in common.
Oops, my bad on the wq thing. I'm not as awake as I had thought I was. I have a feeling the last sentence of my post is probably costing me mode points....
I have been using Dvorak for years. It has been an interesting mental exercise...but I would not say it is more productive. It's just different.
Some things you should consider before taking the plunge:I also had some unforeseen side-effects occur using Dvorak. When I had first started becoming proficient in it, my QWERTY skill practically disappeared from lack of use. When I had gotten my first web design job, my boss thought I was a computer newbie at first because I was typing so slow and with so little confidence. I didn't want to go mucking changing his keyboard layout so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Thank God keyboards have the QWERTY letters on them. (I never thought I would say that.)
On the other hand, my computer is an impenetrable fortress of solitude nowadays. I run a desktop with no icons, Dvorak keyboard layout, Left handed mouse setup, all on top of Japanese Linux. You just try and touch my computer. I recommend you use a 6 foot stick.
To wrap up, I want to say you're a sissy if you actually buy a Dvorak keyboard or dare rearrange the keys. Thank you.
Aren't Rhesus Monkeys the kind with peanut butter in the middle? (You know, instead of chocolate.)
I hope this isn't the start of the end for apple.
The article is talking about the next generation audio format war which incidently may just deficate on itself in the end. You can compare these formats against mp3, but that is beside the point.
ogg>aac>wmp
Is mp3 still patent encumbered? I get the feeling that aac is in spirit the same as mp3 when it first came out. A codec you have to pay for, but at least it isn't linked to a specific platform.
Other tips for longativity:
- Use acid free CD-markers when marking
- Do not use as a coaster like your America Online CDs
- Do not play Frisbee outside with your CDs (Exposes to direct sunlight)
- Chewing reduces durability
!@#$, I just finished emerging OpenOffice 2.1!
Main Computer: PII, 128ram, running Gentoo. (I have a large hard drive)
If Blackboard is half as horrible as Webct is ...agh. I could deal with webct until it was upgraded to webct Vista. When the program learned about the concepts of popups and browser sniffing, it crossed the line of being more annoying than useful. Do educational institutions even try out the computer software they are buying?
My webct sessions usually go something like this: Dammit! I just want to press the back button. Why can't I press the back button!?
I'll be back in 5 minutes. But feel free to leave a message.
;-D lol1!111
P.S. Mary, I love you.
I started using green around a year ago for my background images. It felt so right started to wonder if my favorite color was actually green and not blue. It doesn't hurt my eyes like white. It isn't cold like blue. It isn't depressing like black. It's very lively and gives you energy.
I use an e17 metacity theme to get some brown in there to mix up the look. After all, brown and green are complimentary colors and using one color for everything is a bit monotonous.
With the release of GNOME 2.18, it appears there has been a change in the playing field. In order to be considered to a full fledged modern OS, a Three-Dee Chess program must be included with every new operating system. The Release of Mac OS X seems to have started this trend. Microsoft soon followed suit with Windows Vista. Now there is Gnome. Will KDE be pulled into this madness, or will it fall behind into oblivion?!
Apple Chess
Windows Chess
GNOME Chess
Feel free to flog me now.
The Linux community then proceeded to complain about there being no choice of chocolate, strawberry, cafe-mocha, or cowboyneal.
With CDs you can make a copy. So once the package is opened, it's understandable not being able to return it. But with DRMed music files, your right to view the file is taken away with returning the file. You can't make copies. Music, unlike movies, tends to be played over and over which makes the whole returning thing work.
I am in no way encouraging DRM.